I'm still running my ASUS 1000HE eeepc as my everyday computing device. I chose it because it was the first EEEPC that really was completely Linux-compatible, needing no proprietary drivers at all. It's easy to carry around, it runs fast enough for most of what I want to do, and I run Debian testing on it. I've never had a problem with its battery life, and am glad that ASUS emphasized good battery life instead of overpowering it with hyper-fast processors and graphics -- mostly unnecessary for what I do. Yes, there's still a Windows lurking in a small corner on the hard drive, used only for running Adobe Digital Editions because Adobe broke their promise to implement it for Linux once the publishing industry standardised on it.
I'm not sure I want much changed about it, except maybe a bigger hard drive. But I do use sshfs to access a bulk storage machine in my basement, and that seems to take care of that. sshfs works even when I'm in a coffee shop.
I use it mostly for writing English text and for software development. It's the machine I wrote and debugged my Pixel cup Challenge game on last summer. It contains my working monotone and git repositories and a variety of programming language implementations.
I could use a larger screen, but only if the larger screen fits into the same form factor for carrying around in my backpack. Looking at a 18-inch screen can be good, but lugging it around isn't. I do a fair amount of writing and programming in coffee shops.
If I were to have to replace it, I'd want another like it. Too bad if they're disappearing from the market.
Does the Plasma Active distro play nicely with Android? Will it install cleanly and still dual-boot with Android? Or does it even have the necessay kernel mods so it can actually run Android and plasma active together?
If we're going all historical, wasn't the original common second language in that area Sanskrit? And isn't the important Sanskrit literature pretty well all stuff that was written when it was primarily a common second language rather than anyone's native language?
Actually, the royal family gets revenue from holdings and possessions that used to be owned by the state, not the crown. Technically, most of their wealth has been stolen from the people. There's also a long history of monarchs selling the crown jewels which are owned by the state, and the state having to pay for replacements....
Going back a few hundred years, didn't the monarch actually *be* the state? So as the roles diverged, it's hard to say who took from whom.
My Toyota has only lasted 7 years, and it just runs. I'd have to wait a long time before I could say it has been runnung for 35 years, and then Voyager will probably have been running even longer.
If I were an American nerd, I could just argue that running the exit node is my patriotic duty. After all, the NSA wants there to be a lot of tor traffic so it can send its state secrets securely.
You don't see lots of people saying they use PostgreSQL online, because, no one has to bitch about it. It works, it works great, and its documentation is astounding.
Everyone uses it, you just don't realize it, again, because no one bitches about it.
I'll never touch MySQL after having used it for a product, what a POS
Dick Grune's law: Producing correct software considered harmful to one's career.
I've gone epub because I have no more room for books in my house. If there wee some simple, cheap metthod of replacing my 5000-odd books with electronic equivalents I'd like to hear about it.
I still like to go to bookstores to browse, to look at the books, to read passages in them, to leaf trough them to see if they're at a sufficient technical level, and so forth. The electronic online stores really don't make this properly available.
That's a service the brick-and-mortar bookstores still excell in.
But I wish I wish I could, after I find the book I want, I could take it to the cash register, pay my money, and have them download it onto my sd card instead of making me carry the paper home. That would be a service well worth paying for.
Indeed. If the merge screws up the curly brackets, a developer can usually fix it up -- because the developer works at the level of abstraction where curly brackets are routinely handled. Not so the average word-processor user, whose word-processor is likely to barf on the input, rendering it useless.
The crucial thing is not that the merge be correct, but that it permit further work, to fix it if necessary.
The XML approach to text is to wrap stuff in brackets (such as start and end of paragraph). Large-scale brackets are tough on revision merging. The affordable algorithms don't guarantee that brackets remain matched, which can render XML hopelessly invalid. Using separators (like marks between paragraphs) makes it a lot easier to preserve the validity of structure.
There's Rivelli's book, Quantum Gravity, where he quantized the gravitational field and gets space-time to emerge as the eigenstates of the relevant operators. Warning: the subject matter is deep both conceptually and mathematically. Not for easy casual reading.
Right. When I buy an ebook, all I get is a so-called fulfillment token, which I have to provide to Adobe's application on my WIndows system. It proceeds to contact an Adobe server over the net. The Adobe server fetches the actual text of the book, custom-encrypts it for me, and sends it down the pipe.
After that, I can break the encryption and read it on Linux. For now, anyway. The law is about to change in Canada.
It's not games that keep Windows as a dual boot on my computer. It's Adobe's DRM for ebooks. When the publishers adopted it, Adobe promised to implement it on the major platforms, including Linux. But the Linux one never materialized. Anyone know why?
Publishers like TOR and Baen have a significant advantage when they're trying to sell me ebooks -- I don't have to reboot to Windows to buy them.
Software was routinely distributed in source form by user groups for particular machine system way back in the 60's, when I started computing. No one complained if someone took some of that software and improved and changed it.
It was like the garden of Eden before the Fall, which happened when people started selling software instead of giving it away.
And a lot of the stimulus money was in the form of loans to banks so they's have the liquidity needed to pay their depositors when they needed their money, thus preventing an even more drastic destruction of the money supply.
If I recall correctly, most of that money has since been repaid with interest, so the government eventually made some kind of a profit on the whole deal.
Slashdot Mirror
See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/montreal-dawson-college-hack-hamed-al-khabaz.html to see what happened after this report.
School still pig-headed; IT supplier less so.
-- hendrik
When can I guide one to the grocery store to get some milk when the sidewalks are too icy for me to go out?
What if they play Eve online? Then they'll understand about banking cartels and sharp trading and all that stuff.
I'm still running my ASUS 1000HE eeepc as my everyday computing device. I chose it because it was the first EEEPC that really was completely Linux-compatible, needing no proprietary drivers at all. It's easy to carry around, it runs fast enough for most of what I want to do, and I run Debian testing on it. I've never had a problem with its battery life, and am glad that ASUS emphasized good battery life instead of overpowering it with hyper-fast processors and graphics -- mostly unnecessary for what I do. Yes, there's still a Windows lurking in a small corner on the hard drive, used only for running Adobe Digital Editions because Adobe broke their promise to implement it for Linux once the publishing industry standardised on it.
I'm not sure I want much changed about it, except maybe a bigger hard drive. But I do use sshfs to access a bulk storage machine in my basement, and that seems to take care of that. sshfs works even when I'm in a coffee shop.
I use it mostly for writing English text and for software development. It's the machine I wrote and debugged my Pixel cup Challenge game on last summer. It contains my working monotone and git repositories and a variety of programming language implementations.
I could use a larger screen, but only if the larger screen fits into the same form factor for carrying around in my backpack. Looking at a 18-inch screen can be good, but lugging it around isn't. I do a fair amount of writing and programming in coffee shops.
If I were to have to replace it, I'd want another like it. Too bad if they're disappearing from the market.
It's wonderful little machine.
Does the Plasma Active distro play nicely with Android? Will it install cleanly and still dual-boot with Android? Or does it even have the necessay kernel mods so it can actually run Android and plasma active together?
For all you know, he may need all those consultants to sell your project to *his* boss.
If we're going all historical, wasn't the original common second language in that area Sanskrit? And isn't the important Sanskrit literature pretty well all stuff that was written when it was primarily a common second language rather than anyone's native language?
Actually, the royal family gets revenue from holdings and possessions that used to be owned by the state, not the crown. Technically, most of their wealth has been stolen from the people. There's also a long history of monarchs selling the crown jewels which are owned by the state, and the state having to pay for replacements....
Going back a few hundred years, didn't the monarch actually *be* the state? So as the roles diverged, it's hard to say who took from whom.
My Toyota has only lasted 7 years, and it just runs. I'd have to wait a long time before I could say it has been runnung for 35 years, and then Voyager will probably have been running even longer.
If I were an American nerd, I could just argue that running the exit node is my patriotic duty. After all, the NSA wants there to be a lot of tor traffic so it can send its state secrets securely.
+1
You don't see lots of people saying they use PostgreSQL online, because, no one has to bitch about it. It works, it works great, and its documentation is astounding.
Everyone uses it, you just don't realize it, again, because no one bitches about it.
I'll never touch MySQL after having used it for a product, what a POS
Dick Grune's law: Producing correct software considered harmful to one's career.
-- hendrik
I've gone epub because I have no more room for books in my house. If there wee some simple, cheap metthod of replacing my 5000-odd books with electronic equivalents I'd like to hear about it.
I still like to go to bookstores to browse, to look at the books, to read passages in them, to leaf trough them to see if they're at a sufficient technical level, and so forth. The electronic online stores really don't make this properly available.
That's a service the brick-and-mortar bookstores still excell in.
But I wish I wish I could, after I find the book I want, I could take it to the cash register, pay my money, and have them download it onto my sd card instead of making me carry the paper home. That would be a service well worth paying for.
-- hendrik
Indeed. If the merge screws up the curly brackets, a developer can usually fix it up -- because the developer works at the level of abstraction where curly brackets are routinely handled. Not so the average word-processor user, whose word-processor is likely to barf on the input, rendering it useless.
The crucial thing is not that the merge be correct, but that it permit further work, to fix it if necessary.
The XML approach to text is to wrap stuff in brackets (such as start and end of paragraph). Large-scale brackets are tough on revision merging. The affordable algorithms don't guarantee that brackets remain matched, which can render XML hopelessly invalid. Using separators (like marks between paragraphs) makes it a lot easier to preserve the validity of structure.
There's Rivelli's book, Quantum Gravity, where he quantized the gravitational field and gets space-time to emerge as the eigenstates of the relevant operators. Warning: the subject matter is deep both conceptually and mathematically. Not for easy casual reading.
-- hendrik
Right. When I buy an ebook, all I get is a so-called fulfillment token, which I have to provide to Adobe's application on my WIndows system. It proceeds to contact an Adobe server over the net. The Adobe server fetches the actual text of the book, custom-encrypts it for me, and sends it down the pipe.
After that, I can break the encryption and read it on Linux. For now, anyway. The law is about to change in Canada.
-- hendrik
It's not games that keep Windows as a dual boot on my computer. It's Adobe's DRM for ebooks. When the publishers adopted it, Adobe promised to implement it on the major platforms, including Linux. But the Linux one never materialized. Anyone know why?
Publishers like TOR and Baen have a significant advantage when they're trying to sell me ebooks -- I don't have to reboot to Windows to buy them.
Any chance of an NFS or sshfs client on the horizon?
Schneier has said many times that the most effective way to secure airplanes is to eliminate the reasons why people want to blow them up.
Software was routinely distributed in source form by user groups for particular machine system way back in the 60's, when I started computing. No one complained if someone took some of that software and improved and changed it.
It was like the garden of Eden before the Fall, which happened when people started selling software instead of giving it away.
The FOSS licences became necessary after that.
-- hendrik
oh, that is such a relief to the parents of abducted children
I'm sure the parents of children killed in traffic accidents could use some relief, too.
It's damned hard to get into IIT.
And a lot of the stimulus money was in the form of loans to banks so they's have the liquidity needed to pay their depositors when they needed their money, thus preventing an even more drastic destruction of the money supply.
If I recall correctly, most of that money has since been repaid with interest, so the government eventually made some kind of a profit on the whole deal.
you might as well hire students. That's how most students live.
It's smoke and mirrors.
Smoke and mirrors all the way down. (You only need one turtle).
And it's even fake smoke.
And don't get me started on the mirrors.