The lupo is a small standard car, with 4 seats. It might not have room for american size children age 10, but it does have room for 4 person in Europe. Even 4 grownups (with 2 sitting uncomfortable).
It is a real car. They stopped production because it was expensive to make, and it did not get the tax discount they expected to help sell it. I think relatively many was sold in Denmark where we have 180% tax on cars, but a yearly fee that is determined by fuel consumption.
I see the Lupo 3L on the street a few times per week. I also see the version with the cheaper engine that uses more fuel.
One thing about the Lupo is the electronics. If the car is waiting more than 30 seconds at a traffic light, the engine is turned off. So there is software helping cut down everyday fuel usage. And the Lupo is a diesel car.
They do. If people moves to Apple, then they will also start buying OS-X apps, and thus the Windows market will get smaller. In time they might even drop parallels. And they for sure will not buy the big Windows. They will buy the Windows Vista Minimalistic. They just need it for a few apps.
And MS makes lots of money on server products. If more people are on OS-X desktops, then the servers will soon fall as well.
Remember, pure software patents are not awarded in Europe. The things that would make it patentable is if it would be a new complete product.
In Denmark, it has been discussed if software for making a chicken in an oven perfect is patentable. And I think the discussion ended with a no. But an oven that uses the software to make perfect chickens are patentable.
We run lots of thin clients. We started with some HP/Compaq units, running a Windows CE version. But we are replacing them with a Linux based TC from Neoware. The neoware advantage is centralized management, and an OK easy way to push new software out. Look for a client management software as oart of the solution
Currently the workstations runs a Citrix Client and in many locations a 3270 terminal emulation software.
The Citrix servers needs all the RAM they can get, this is usually the bottleneck for number of users
As the ISP said an effective block of allofmp3 would cost in excess of $15 mio, court actually listed a series of acceptable solutions to the problem.
So Tele2 has now implemented one court suggestion, blocking www.allofmp3.com in DNS. They know, and IFPI knows, that it can easily be bypassed (hosts file, using DNS at another ISP, TOR etc).
The judgement can have implications for all of EU, since the case has been run as en EU law case. So if the ISP loses the appeal, IFPI will use this to go to other countries to have ISPs shut down allofmp3.
The most bad about all this is, that the content of allofmp3.com is not illegal in Russia where it is hosted, so you could say it is censorship.
Only advantage over citrix is, that each user can be allowed to screw up his daily copy of the vmware machine. Otherwise Citrix and thin clients are probably better. Well, thin clients would always be better, also for this. Then you just revert to OK snapshot for the user every day. No copying.
Patching would be difficult, as you would have to patch x VMs rather than x/30 citrix servers
Risk and profit goes hand in hand. It is a nature law. If one investment has better risk/profit ratio than others, all people will invest there, until it has no advantage. Only exception are small market, and secrets. But this in itself is a risk, as you might not be able to sell the papers when you want to get out.
Short term bonds is the sure bet.
Personally, I have some money in eastern europe stocks (fund with risk spread, run by major bank. That gave me 71.6% profits last year, but it is up 10% this year (but down 11% the last 3 months). So this is the bigger risk = longer term. But it is worth it, unless you need the money when the price is low.
We use it a lot. Linux and WinCE based. They work with very little problems against Citrix Server. We have hundreds of these, mostly in remote locations and on small lines (64-256kbit/s).
The main gain (compared to PCs locked down) is much lower service fee for hardware, as well as for software, as it is only on the citrix farm we do most patching.
Most advanced courses here in Europe now have lots of material to read. As an example, I am currently taking the CISSP training. The company pay for the course and examn. But I am expected to read about 150 pages per day before going to the course.
The same when I went on an AD course. So it is becoming the norm that you will have to spend some of your own time to get a certification. But it will also increase your market value.
I know of nobody or almost nobody who has that amount of time left over at work, so they study at home or while commuting.
I agree. It is a problem. When the handle on the Louis Vuitton bag breaks, you can lose way more than a cell phone. Maybe your digital camera, video camera, and $2000 laptop all dies.
There is a reason to buy quality, and to be aware that a brand name does not necessarily mean quality.
In Denmark we had a case. A supermarket was selling "counterfeit" Puma shoes. The only difference between the cheap Puma and the full price Puma was, that the manufacturer had lost his Puma contract, but was still producing the same shoes.
Go for quality rather than brand names.
The best color you can buy is usually last year's:)
The effect of the meltdown is Chernobyl was a few dead employees and firefigthers. Just like any other factory/powerplant accident. There has been no increase in birth defects in the region, or other of the left wing FUD effects.
Compared to accident at any other plant, the only extra effect of chernobyl is, that an areas was evacuated, and can not be used for some years to come.
Waste storage is solved. Make holes deep into the ground, and dump it where it came from. In Denmark we have salt deposits that are very suited to this. Yet we have no nuclear power (apart from research reactors currently in the shutdown phase). We buy nuclear power from Sweden/Germany though. And Sweeden has been friendly enough to place a nuclear powerplant less than 5 miles from our capital, Copenhagen.
People are hysteric when it comes to nuclear power.
Sinclair ZX-81 (SInclair/Times if you live on the wrong side of the sea) Sinclair QL XBox (Yes, this is a PC) AMD based PC, running Linux (mail, web etc) Intel Dual Core PC for gaming and a few other apps Mac Mini for all the useful stuff.
Then of course I have a Linksys WRT54G (this is a Linux box), a Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage device, running Linux.
I have a few drives in a big box of old equipment.
Maybe I should get busted as an 8-computer geek ?
The right way to share movies would be to use the NSLU2 with an encrypted filesystem (not Samba shared) to do it. They would never find things there.
On the other hand, if you share files, you have the originals somewhere.
On my PC, I do not have anti-virus software or anti-spyware software running. Neither do I run a firewall to give false security (I am behind a NAT router though).
I would fail the test, but still never be a victim, like most of the people with the crap installed. I have installed common sense in the user of the machine (myself), and it is the best defence, and it even works against most zer0-day exploits.
Around 1980 when I read The Hobbit and LotR for the first time, it was only the geeks who read it. Later when I saw the first LotR movie (the mixed movie/comics thing, that ran out of budget) it was also the geeks that went there. They were the only people to know the book.
The Hobbit and LotR are both large geek books.
I also miss Ringworld. Lary Niven is big in science fiction.
There are multiple reasons for having your own printer and printing yourself:
1. Lifetime of home printed is better than chemistry online. 2. Large formats like 8x10" / DIN A4 etc is much cheaper at home (especially with refill inks) 3. You can get way better colors at home with a Scanner, an IT-8 target, and some software (I use ProfilePrism). I have custom profiles for different ink/paper combos, and I get way better colors than the sRGB crap used online.
I agree that 10x15cm / 4x6" are cheaper online, but that is all in their advantage.
I also think it is out of the question to make special exceptions from the law because some users are government employees. Everybody is equal for the law.
DESIGN. My crappy Muvo2 has buttons that feels like crap, and the design is not good looking. Why can it be so difficult to get a nice clean design ? Should be easier than the crap the are pushing out now.
I agree that VMWare is at least a generation in front of the competitors.
Even though Microsoft Virtual PC is much cheaper than VMWare, you will usually see VMWare used at presentations, even at MS presentations. It is by far the best product out there for x86 on x86. But since it is not a CPU emulator, you can not run x86_64 on a plain x86 CPU like with Bochs.
Virtual PC / Virtual Server comes from the CPU emulation world (still runs on MacOS on PowerPC). Supposedly, it will be built into Windows Vista, and it supports Windows, Windows and will soon support Linux.
VMWare runs happily with multiple VMs. It is a dog on the MS product.
I also agree that this is trying to sell their enterprise versions. We have virtualized a few non-critical servers. But it is difficult to sell the virtualization message unless people have tried it. So opening up so many more people's eyes to virtualization will drive their enterprise market.
If you use real VoIP, for which there is a provider on every corner, and ones like Sipphone.com, Vonage etc operates in the USA, there IP wireless phones has been around forever. And with voipbuster.com european phone calls to real telephone is free.
And if you like most people using VoIP is having an adapter box, you can talk even when the computer is turned off, and you can use a standard $20 DECT telephone with the box. And I had the "skype in" equivalent from before skype announced it.
I do not understand this wow about skype. It is bloatware (requires the PC to be on), quality supposedly sucks etc. I looked at it, and dismissed it as a closed network of old technology. But again, I want things that works, is cheap, and I do not care if 15 year olds can use if for filesharing.
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The lupo is a small standard car, with 4 seats. It might not have room for american size children age 10, but it does have room for 4 person in Europe. Even 4 grownups (with 2 sitting uncomfortable).
It is a real car. They stopped production because it was expensive to make, and it did not get the tax discount they expected to help sell it. I think relatively many was sold in Denmark where we have 180% tax on cars, but a yearly fee that is determined by fuel consumption.
I see the Lupo 3L on the street a few times per week. I also see the version with the cheaper engine that uses more fuel.
One thing about the Lupo is the electronics. If the car is waiting more than 30 seconds at a traffic light, the engine is turned off. So there is software helping cut down everyday fuel usage. And the Lupo is a diesel car.
They do. If people moves to Apple, then they will also start buying OS-X apps, and thus the Windows market will get smaller. In time they might even drop parallels. And they for sure will not buy the big Windows. They will buy the Windows Vista Minimalistic. They just need it for a few apps.
And MS makes lots of money on server products. If more people are on OS-X desktops, then the servers will soon fall as well.
Remember, pure software patents are not awarded in Europe. The things that would make it patentable is if it would be a new complete product.
In Denmark, it has been discussed if software for making a chicken in an oven perfect is patentable. And I think the discussion ended with a no. But an oven that uses the software to make perfect chickens are patentable.
We run lots of thin clients. We started with some HP/Compaq units, running a Windows CE version. But we are replacing them with a Linux based TC from Neoware. The neoware advantage is centralized management, and an OK easy way to push new software out. Look for a client management software as oart of the solution
Currently the workstations runs a Citrix Client and in many locations a 3270 terminal emulation software.
The Citrix servers needs all the RAM they can get, this is usually the bottleneck for number of users
Please see here:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1809
MS Cluster Service will not work without ICS running, it is used for internal NAT handling.
So the problem is much more widespread than small LANs using ICS.
As the ISP said an effective block of allofmp3 would cost in excess of $15 mio, court actually listed a series of acceptable solutions to the problem.
So Tele2 has now implemented one court suggestion, blocking www.allofmp3.com in DNS. They know, and IFPI knows, that it can easily be bypassed (hosts file, using DNS at another ISP, TOR etc).
The judgement can have implications for all of EU, since the case has been run as en EU law case. So if the ISP loses the appeal, IFPI will use this to go to other countries to have ISPs shut down allofmp3.
The most bad about all this is, that the content of allofmp3.com is not illegal in Russia where it is hosted, so you could say it is censorship.
Only advantage over citrix is, that each user can be allowed to screw up his daily copy of the vmware machine.
Otherwise Citrix and thin clients are probably better. Well, thin clients would always be better, also for this.
Then you just revert to OK snapshot for the user every day. No copying.
Patching would be difficult, as you would have to patch x VMs rather than x/30 citrix servers
Risk and profit goes hand in hand. It is a nature law. If one investment has better risk/profit ratio than others, all people will invest there, until it has no advantage. Only exception are small market, and secrets. But this in itself is a risk, as you might not be able to sell the papers when you want to get out.
Short term bonds is the sure bet.
Personally, I have some money in eastern europe stocks (fund with risk spread, run by major bank. That gave me 71.6% profits last year, but it is up 10% this year (but down 11% the last 3 months). So this is the bigger risk = longer term. But it is worth it, unless you need the money when the price is low.
We use it a lot. Linux and WinCE based.
They work with very little problems against Citrix Server. We have hundreds of these, mostly in remote locations and on small lines (64-256kbit/s).
The main gain (compared to PCs locked down) is much lower service fee for hardware, as well as for software, as it is only on the citrix farm we do most patching.
Most advanced courses here in Europe now have lots of material to read. As an example, I am currently taking the CISSP training. The company pay for the course and examn. But I am expected to read about 150 pages per day before going to the course.
The same when I went on an AD course. So it is becoming the norm that you will have to spend some of your own time to get a certification. But it will also increase your market value.
I know of nobody or almost nobody who has that amount of time left over at work, so they study at home or while commuting.
I agree. It is a problem. When the handle on the Louis Vuitton bag breaks, you can lose way more than a cell phone. Maybe your digital camera, video camera, and $2000 laptop all dies.
:)
There is a reason to buy quality, and to be aware that a brand name does not necessarily mean quality.
In Denmark we had a case. A supermarket was selling "counterfeit" Puma shoes. The only difference between the cheap Puma and the full price Puma was, that the manufacturer had lost his Puma contract, but was still producing the same shoes.
Go for quality rather than brand names.
The best color you can buy is usually last year's
The effect of the meltdown is Chernobyl was a few dead employees and firefigthers. Just like any other factory/powerplant accident. There has been no increase in birth defects in the region, or other of the left wing FUD effects.
Compared to accident at any other plant, the only extra effect of chernobyl is, that an areas was evacuated, and can not be used for some years to come.
Waste storage is solved. Make holes deep into the ground, and dump it where it came from. In Denmark we have salt deposits that are very suited to this. Yet we have no nuclear power (apart from research reactors currently in the shutdown phase). We buy nuclear power from Sweden/Germany though. And Sweeden has been friendly enough to place a nuclear powerplant less than 5 miles from our capital, Copenhagen.
People are hysteric when it comes to nuclear power.
You need to teach him goog manners.
http://www.411eater.com/
I have currently:
Sinclair ZX-81 (SInclair/Times if you live on the wrong side of the sea)
Sinclair QL
XBox (Yes, this is a PC)
AMD based PC, running Linux (mail, web etc)
Intel Dual Core PC for gaming and a few other apps
Mac Mini for all the useful stuff.
Then of course I have a Linksys WRT54G (this is a Linux box), a Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage device, running Linux.
I have a few drives in a big box of old equipment.
Maybe I should get busted as an 8-computer geek ?
The right way to share movies would be to use the NSLU2 with an encrypted filesystem (not Samba shared) to do it. They would never find things there.
On the other hand, if you share files, you have the originals somewhere.
On my PC, I do not have anti-virus software or anti-spyware software running. Neither do I run a firewall to give false security (I am behind a NAT router though).
I would fail the test, but still never be a victim, like most of the people with the crap installed. I have installed common sense in the user of the machine (myself), and it is the best defence, and it even works against most zer0-day exploits.
Unless it works with the 3G video phones all kids between 15 and 25 years old are buying these day, then it is just 15 year old tech in new cans.
Full skype-in / skype-out to 3G phone would be the ting to move it to the next level.
(I live in Denmark)
TPC says:
Your facsimile job to +18883756700 is delayed in the scheduling queues because:
Blocked by concurrent calls
What you are saying is, that companies selling PCs are actually complicit in the act of pirating and sharing music ?
Or that gunmanufacturers are murderers ? Or car manufacturers...
If I use my knife for cutting bread, or people is not the responsibility of the knife manufacturer.
Around 1980 when I read The Hobbit and LotR for the first time, it was only the geeks who read it. Later when I saw the first LotR movie (the mixed movie/comics thing, that ran out of budget) it was also the geeks that went there. They were the only people to know the book.
The Hobbit and LotR are both large geek books.
I also miss Ringworld. Lary Niven is big in science fiction.
There are multiple reasons for having your own printer and printing yourself:
1. Lifetime of home printed is better than chemistry online.
2. Large formats like 8x10" / DIN A4 etc is much cheaper at home (especially with refill inks)
3. You can get way better colors at home with a Scanner, an IT-8 target, and some software (I use ProfilePrism). I have custom profiles for different ink/paper combos, and I get way better colors than the sRGB crap used online.
I agree that 10x15cm / 4x6" are cheaper online, but that is all in their advantage.
Remove the software license crap.
I also think it is out of the question to make special exceptions from the law because some users are government employees. Everybody is equal for the law.
DESIGN. My crappy Muvo2 has buttons that feels like crap, and the design is not good looking. Why can it be so difficult to get a nice clean design ? Should be easier than the crap the are pushing out now.
The MacMini is also great design.
I agree that VMWare is at least a generation in front of the competitors.
Even though Microsoft Virtual PC is much cheaper than VMWare, you will usually see VMWare used at presentations, even at MS presentations. It is by far the best product out there for x86 on x86. But since it is not a CPU emulator, you can not run x86_64 on a plain x86 CPU like with Bochs.
Virtual PC / Virtual Server comes from the CPU emulation world (still runs on MacOS on PowerPC). Supposedly, it will be built into Windows Vista, and it supports Windows, Windows and will soon support Linux.
VMWare runs happily with multiple VMs. It is a dog on the MS product.
I also agree that this is trying to sell their enterprise versions. We have virtualized a few non-critical servers. But it is difficult to sell the virtualization message unless people have tried it. So opening up so many more people's eyes to virtualization will drive their enterprise market.
I heard that with Winown 95 (or was it 2000), Windows had become usable, Bill switched over.
Remember, Word, Excell and the other bloatware from MS started out as Macintosh appications, and was ported to Windows.
If you use real VoIP, for which there is a provider on every corner, and ones like Sipphone.com, Vonage etc operates in the USA, there IP wireless phones has been around forever. And with voipbuster.com european phone calls to real telephone is free.
And if you like most people using VoIP is having an adapter box, you can talk even when the computer is turned off, and you can use a standard $20 DECT telephone with the box. And I had the "skype in" equivalent from before skype announced it.
I do not understand this wow about skype. It is bloatware (requires the PC to be on), quality supposedly sucks etc. I looked at it, and dismissed it as a closed network of old technology. But again, I want things that works, is cheap, and I do not care if 15 year olds can use if for filesharing.