Let's see: 1. it would probably be more expensive, since it would need a layer of plastic and glue in addition to the special etchable layer 2. it's easier when the layer is already on the disc 3. no problems with balance... labels that aren't positioned exactly in the middle will cause unbalance and lots vibration.
Let's suppose someone around here knows people who host porn sites. If porn sites mention words like XFree86 (I can't imagine why they would), why not let them mention some nice terms people are familiar with, like: windows, MS-office, microsoft, visio, excel, MS-access, MS-word,...
It would really be nice to see MS blocking those search resulte:-)
Same with Google. I don't care what MS produces, because I'll happily ignore it and use something else.
Me on the other hand, I'll use the best thing I can find for the job, and at the moment that means google for searching, and mozilla/firefox for browsing, but as soon as a better search engine pops up, I'll start using that one too...
I'm not so much against MS that I won't use their product if it is better (which at the moment, it isn't for what I'm searching for).
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Hmm, and when the demand exceeds the supply... what do you think they will do ??? Come to earth and incinerate a few humans for the ashes of course. I can already see the number of abduction stories increasing rapidly:-)
Well, I also didn't see a whole lot of useful comments in response to your question, but you may also want to consider security. I see you're thinking about putting some 802.11b stuff there (probably without support for WPA, but I've seen some with WPA implementations - strange...) which isn't the best way to go for a secure network (unless of course you want to make everybody use VPN). With that amount of cash to spend you may consider 802.11g (which may improver performance too) and setting up a radius server. That shouldn't raise the costs too much... Also... Is there really a need for high end solutions? the over the counter crap as you call it could very well be sufficient for your needs (e.g. DLink DI624 router/wireless AP which supports WPA with a raduis server, or WPA-PSK).
In fact (from magnatune website): All songs are available in MP3, CD-quality WAV, OGG, FLAC and MP3-VBR
This means that they aren't even the first to provide HQ MP3.
I like the fact however that this kind of thing actually seems to work. If you look at magnatune you'll see quite a lot of artists listed, which means that there is at least moderate interest from artists (albeit mostly artists unknown to me). I didn't immediately see any famous artists, but hey, you've got to start somewhere...
I wonder what would happen when a famous end-of-contract artist suddenly decided to switch to a record company like magnatune...
Nah, if you hate windows THAT much, why not just pressing the reset button? Then you might have another argument against it when it starts complaining on the next reboot. Not that you'll see that of course, but the owner will:-)
I can't really say whether they will be smaller or not (having read the article), since you have a point here about the power supplies not containing transformers...
They are saying that heat won't be an issue, as it is with current laptops, so we can conclude from that that the conversion will be more efficient than the current power supplies.
On the other hand the article mentions laptops that typically use only 15 watts of power. While these may exist (not sure about that), I think these will be quite rare. The laptop (AMD XP-M 2500+) I'm now typing this on mentions 20V - 6A as it's specs, which is almost 10 times what they say.
Another thing they are forgetting is that the power supplies aren't only used to power the laptop, but also to charge the battery, even when the laptop is powered on.
If secure IM is your point the Gaim approach is more secure than trillian secureIM. Also check out JAJC (Just Another Jabber Client) which has PGP support, or Psi (or was it psy) which has GPG support. Good luck trying to be a man in the middle there (as long as you use a safe way to exchange the keys, same as for Gaim).
Both are jabber clients, so you'll have to choose whether you find security or sticking to the current protocol the most important, but I like both of these clients (prefer jajc though, more and nicer functionality).
I don't undferstand this... most people in here like the GPL, and some even advise the OP to create a new app and make it GPL.
But, what about just taking the GPL app that most closely fits your needs, and then make some changes so it exactly fits your needs... that's what GPL apps are all about, right?
Wait until some spammer starts including links to certain legitimate sites (say... whitehouse.gov, microsoft.com, your site,...) in their mails. I guess they would love to be DDoSsed. Sure you could make whitelists, but that's not going them to stop adding new addresses to the spams their sending...
I wouldn't... it would be a totally different story if MS was in the business of designing macs and he would have posted a picture of a design that hasn't been made public yet, but this is just a heap of cardboard boxes. This is just ridiculous.
I can post pictures of my work, I just can't post sensitive information, and that is just common sense. I can hardly call some boxes with macs in them a company secret, or sensitive information...
That's what did the trick for me... inform her about the nice features in mozilla: - popup killer - image filter - tabbed browsing - mouse gestures Anyway... she really likes it now, and even uses it as the default browser at work (where I don't control the default settings - yeah, she uses my windows profile at home;-) It also makes it a lot easier to make the transition to linux... Main applications are mozilla and openoffice, and both are the same on windows and linux.
Since his email server allows anything@his.domain as an emailaddress... nothing really. But I don't think that will happen very soon, unless his system would be widely adopted of course. In that case it may not be effective for a long time anymore.
I guess that your approach would work well, and allows you to use random email addresses whenever you post it online.
My method has the advantage that you don't have to create the procmail filter every time the address is harvested (don't know if it really happens that often). Furthermore, the aliases would be created and removed automatically by a cron script, so you don't have to worry about that either. That way you get a fully automated system. Putting the date and time in the address is a good idea however (e.g.: validity of the email address)
I'll put some info about my method on my (rather outdated) website as soon as I've thought it over again, and as soon as there's a working system, I'll make it available there also.
You can always combine these two methods of course to tailor the entire process to your needs.
I have yet another idea... It has a major drawback however: it has to be implemented on every web server where you want to use it.
The idea is that you create randomly generated temporary email aliases (2 per e-mail adres to ensure that an address is valid for at least 12 hours after being shown on the website). When a user visits the page he sees an email address like g3t37db236j@domain.com and can click it like any normal e-mail link. The catch is that he has to send an email to that address before the address expires (which should be at least 6 hours IMHO). This email is then automatically forwarded to your real e-mail address. Of course you need to notify the user that the address is only valid for a limited time.
When you get the e-mail and answer it, the correspondent automatically has your real e-mail address.
This won't stop harvesters from getting your temporary email address, but it will keep your real email address from showing up in their databases (unless you're as stupid as to answer one of their mails of course;-). I think the harvested email addresses won't be used immediately after harvesting, but at least a couple of hours will pass. You may still get an occasional spam message on your temporary addresses, but I don't think that will happen often.
And since when is a wireless network better for educational purposes than a wired network (which is faster and more reliable).
I really don't understand why you make that link. Saying that these parents are trying to deprive their children of educational tools is just ridiculous.
On the other hand I think that the radiation of these devices is pretty harmless indeed. I hope the court comes to a decision based on some decent study (which would probably mean that these wifi networks can continue to exist).
I think it would be perfectly possible to allow access to visually impaired people too. You just need to generate an audio file with a piece text-to-speech software which reads out a few letters and numbers. The visitor can then type these letters & numbers in the same kind of textboxes as with this system, and he's on the witelist too.
And why should the government have to regulate on this. Just buy a router/configure your linux box to block internet access for some PC's during specific hours, and you get the same result, without the government's 'help'. This way adults who want to play a game online are the victims too.
Nothing wrong with a good curfew, but don't let it be imposed by the government. Children need good parents...
True, but if that would be a reason to attack a country, there would be a lot of countries that should be frightened, and the US is one of them (who else has about the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons), together with many other countries.
I think the main problem with Sadam is that his country has a lot of oil... (thought Korea was suspected of creating atom bombs too, but I don't hear so much fuss about that one).
The difference between MS and Hussein is that MS can be guided in the right direction.
Indeed... that might be a little bit difficult with Sadam. Although MS will also consider economical consequenses first, which is quite logical to me (which again, doesn't mean that I like their way of doing things)
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LOL, vibrations can be fun indeed... but I prefer them OUTSIDE my computer most of the time :-)
like my force-feedback joystick for example.
Let's see:
1. it would probably be more expensive, since it would need a layer of plastic and glue in addition to the special etchable layer
2. it's easier when the layer is already on the disc
3. no problems with balance... labels that aren't positioned exactly in the middle will cause unbalance and lots vibration.
Good enough?
And not to forget... Most of us (especially the flemish population) speak english quite well...
Let's suppose someone around here knows people who host porn sites. If porn sites mention words like XFree86 (I can't imagine why they would), why not let them mention some nice terms people are familiar with, like: ...
:-)
windows, MS-office, microsoft, visio, excel, MS-access, MS-word,
It would really be nice to see MS blocking those search resulte
Same with Google. I don't care what MS produces, because I'll happily ignore it and use something else.
Me on the other hand, I'll use the best thing I can find for the job, and at the moment that means google for searching, and mozilla/firefox for browsing, but as soon as a better search engine pops up, I'll start using that one too...
I'm not so much against MS that I won't use their product if it is better (which at the moment, it isn't for what I'm searching for).
Hmm, and when the demand exceeds the supply... what do you think they will do ??? :-)
Come to earth and incinerate a few humans for the ashes of course. I can already see the number of abduction stories increasing rapidly
Well, I also didn't see a whole lot of useful comments in response to your question, but you may also want to consider security. I see you're thinking about putting some 802.11b stuff there (probably without support for WPA, but I've seen some with WPA implementations - strange...) which isn't the best way to go for a secure network (unless of course you want to make everybody use VPN).
With that amount of cash to spend you may consider 802.11g (which may improver performance too) and setting up a radius server. That shouldn't raise the costs too much...
Also... Is there really a need for high end solutions? the over the counter crap as you call it could very well be sufficient for your needs (e.g. DLink DI624 router/wireless AP which supports WPA with a raduis server, or WPA-PSK).
In fact (from magnatune website): All songs are available in MP3, CD-quality WAV, OGG, FLAC and MP3-VBR
This means that they aren't even the first to provide HQ MP3.
I like the fact however that this kind of thing actually seems to work. If you look at magnatune you'll see quite a lot of artists listed, which means that there is at least moderate interest from artists (albeit mostly artists unknown to me). I didn't immediately see any famous artists, but hey, you've got to start somewhere...
I wonder what would happen when a famous end-of-contract artist suddenly decided to switch to a record company like magnatune...
Nah, if you hate windows THAT much, why not just pressing the reset button? Then you might have another argument against it when it starts complaining on the next reboot. Not that you'll see that of course, but the owner will :-)
I can't really say whether they will be smaller or not (having read the article), since you have a point here about the power supplies not containing transformers...
They are saying that heat won't be an issue, as it is with current laptops, so we can conclude from that that the conversion will be more efficient than the current power supplies.
On the other hand the article mentions laptops that typically use only 15 watts of power. While these may exist (not sure about that), I think these will be quite rare. The laptop (AMD XP-M 2500+) I'm now typing this on mentions 20V - 6A as it's specs, which is almost 10 times what they say.
Another thing they are forgetting is that the power supplies aren't only used to power the laptop, but also to charge the battery, even when the laptop is powered on.
Anyway... that's just my humble opinion.
If secure IM is your point the Gaim approach is more secure than trillian secureIM. Also check out JAJC (Just Another Jabber Client) which has PGP support, or Psi (or was it psy) which has GPG support. Good luck trying to be a man in the middle there (as long as you use a safe way to exchange the keys, same as for Gaim).
Both are jabber clients, so you'll have to choose whether you find security or sticking to the current protocol the most important, but I like both of these clients (prefer jajc though, more and nicer functionality).
I don't undferstand this... most people in here like the GPL, and some even advise the OP to create a new app and make it GPL.
But, what about just taking the GPL app that most closely fits your needs, and then make some changes so it exactly fits your needs... that's what GPL apps are all about, right?
Wait until some spammer starts including links to certain legitimate sites (say... whitehouse.gov, microsoft.com, your site, ...) in their mails. I guess they would love to be DDoSsed. Sure you could make whitelists, but that's not going them to stop adding new addresses to the spams their sending...
I wouldn't... it would be a totally different story if MS was in the business of designing macs and he would have posted a picture of a design that hasn't been made public yet, but this is just a heap of cardboard boxes. This is just ridiculous.
I can post pictures of my work, I just can't post sensitive information, and that is just common sense. I can hardly call some boxes with macs in them a company secret, or sensitive information...
That's what did the trick for me... inform her about the nice features in mozilla: ;-)
- popup killer
- image filter
- tabbed browsing
- mouse gestures
Anyway... she really likes it now, and even uses it as the default browser at work (where I don't control the default settings - yeah, she uses my windows profile at home
It also makes it a lot easier to make the transition to linux... Main applications are mozilla and openoffice, and both are the same on windows and linux.
Indeed, first run them through the shredder, and then throw them into the popcorn machine...
yummie... Red Hat Popcorn(TM)
Since his email server allows anything@his.domain as an emailaddress... nothing really.
But I don't think that will happen very soon, unless his system would be widely adopted of course.
In that case it may not be effective for a long time anymore.
I guess that your approach would work well, and allows you to use random email addresses whenever you post it online.
My method has the advantage that you don't have to create the procmail filter every time the address is harvested (don't know if it really happens that often). Furthermore, the aliases would be created and removed automatically by a cron script, so you don't have to worry about that either. That way you get a fully automated system.
Putting the date and time in the address is a good idea however (e.g.: validity of the email address)
I'll put some info about my method on my (rather outdated) website as soon as I've thought it over again, and as soon as there's a working system, I'll make it available there also.
You can always combine these two methods of course to tailor the entire process to your needs.
I have yet another idea...
;-). I think the harvested email addresses won't be used immediately after harvesting, but at least a couple of hours will pass. You may still get an occasional spam message on your temporary addresses, but I don't think that will happen often.
It has a major drawback however: it has to be implemented on every web server where you want to use it.
The idea is that you create randomly generated temporary email aliases (2 per e-mail adres to ensure that an address is valid for at least 12 hours after being shown on the website). When a user visits the page he sees an email address like g3t37db236j@domain.com and can click it like any normal e-mail link.
The catch is that he has to send an email to that address before the address expires (which should be at least 6 hours IMHO). This email is then automatically forwarded to your real e-mail address. Of course you need to notify the user that the address is only valid for a limited time.
When you get the e-mail and answer it, the correspondent automatically has your real e-mail address.
This won't stop harvesters from getting your temporary email address, but it will keep your real email address from showing up in their databases (unless you're as stupid as to answer one of their mails of course
And since when is a wireless network better for educational purposes than a wired network (which is faster and more reliable).
I really don't understand why you make that link. Saying that these parents are trying to deprive their children of educational tools is just ridiculous.
On the other hand I think that the radiation of these devices is pretty harmless indeed. I hope the court comes to a decision based on some decent study (which would probably mean that these wifi networks can continue to exist).
I think it would be perfectly possible to allow access to visually impaired people too. You just need to generate an audio file with a piece text-to-speech software which reads out a few letters and numbers.
The visitor can then type these letters & numbers in the same kind of textboxes as with this system, and he's on the witelist too.
simple solution...
;-)
don't underestimate what a simple flame can do to a credit card
And why should the government have to regulate on this. Just buy a router/configure your linux box to block internet access for some PC's during specific hours, and you get the same result, without the government's 'help'. This way adults who want to play a game online are the victims too.
Nothing wrong with a good curfew, but don't let it be imposed by the government. Children need good parents...
but he's interested in nasty weapons.
True, but if that would be a reason to attack a country, there would be a lot of countries that should be frightened, and the US is one of them (who else has about the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons), together with many other countries.
I think the main problem with Sadam is that his country has a lot of oil... (thought Korea was suspected of creating atom bombs too, but I don't hear so much fuss about that one).
The difference between MS and Hussein is that MS can be guided in the right direction.
Indeed... that might be a little bit difficult with Sadam. Although MS will also consider economical consequenses first, which is quite logical to me (which again, doesn't mean that I like their way of doing things)
Hmm... you mean the 2nd window that hotmail opens with msn in it? well... just use mozilla and disable unrequested popup windows.
No need to hit stop anymore.