I think you are trolling. I wish I had mod points to mod you down. Nice tactic to get your gripe against Roland thru, by adding some links, and getting a +5 Interesting. Way to go moderators.
It seems that you posted other posts as well again Roland Piquepaille, as an AC.
You have a point that Roland gets more air time here on Slashdot than most.
But he does not plagiarize any more than any news site who relies on various news sources. He collects the info and provides links to the source with some commentary. Just like Slashdot, Engadget, and a million other sites out there.
I am not in the market for a cell phone, nor an LCD monitor.
But I would be very interested if this lowered the prices for laptops.
However, laptop prices depend on many other things (being a business tool for managers and such, rather than a consumer one, other expensive components, the aura of commanding a premium on the price,...etc.)
They do, as most web sites. However, Google -- IIRC -- keeps them forever, while other sites may keep several months' worth or a year. Also, Google is a search site, not just articles. So, if you searched for something today that may be found in retrospect to be sinister at a later date, then you can easly become a suspect.
Not something that respects visitors' privacy.
this rumor started from a CYOA provision in the gmail TOS agreement
Yes. I was mistaken about that. I read that explanation by them at a later time, and they clarified it. My bad.
I think he raises valid concerns, perhaps not very well articulated though.
His concern is that Google, under Schmidt, will 'diversify' and try to be everything for everybody, and stretch too thin for their own good.
Another concern is their approach to privacy. They log every search tied to the IP address forever. The same in Gmail, where they don't delete messages. These things were covered in the media as concerns from users, but there was no satisfactory response.
Don't get me wrong. I love Google as a search engine. I could not live without it. However, as I said before companies change, and are driven by pragmatism, not ethics. Google is now a publicly traded company. Will they be the next evil Microsoft? Maybe. I hope not though.
However, it does not work this way in every part of the world. In third world countries, antibiotics are not as regulated as they are in G8 countries.
Pharmacists there dispense antibiotics freely without prescription, since many poor people go to the pharmacist for a cure, without having to pay the doctor's fee. This may not be purely legal, but everyone does it.
This causes more and more strains to be resistant to antibiotics, and many of the new ones become ineffective quickly.
This is why we see some almost eradicated diseases (e.g. TB in this case) revitalize and become more virulent.
That schmoe's account that the extortionist got via phishing has to transfer the money somewhere else (to the extortionist). It will be detected once the shmoe finds out and complains.
So, it may make detection harder or may take longer to detect, but eventually he will be caught.
Unless he withdraws cash from Citibank, but yet again, the cameras at the bank has his picture.
I agree it is an American problem. Most of the statistics says so.
For those who say it comes from outside the US, like China or Korea, please thing about it for a moment: What are they advertizing?
Even if the messages are coming from overseas IP Addresses, the content advertizes US-centric products, for example, cheap mortgage will not help somebody in France, or Egypt or India, even if they wanted to. Yet, they have to pay to get SPAM because unlike North America, their slow dialup connections are metered by the minute.
The same goes for cheap prescription drugs, or free laptop offers, and most of the SPAM going around these days.
So it is a US centric problem, since Spammers are targeting that market. The rest of the world suffers as collateral damage or something....
Every time someone mentions Company X as a FLOSS friendly, or Company Y as the evil enemy of FLOSS, the same type of responses come. Some are for, some are against, and the various reasons are listed and debates ensue...
Think about these points:
Companies are Pragmatic. They will do whatever suits them best in the market for their own benefit and their shareholders benefit. If this be with open source, then so be it. If it is against open source, then so be it as well. Companies are not driven by 'code of conduct' or ethics. It is pure pragmatism that drives them. They are not our enemies nor our friends.
Technologies change over time. Whatever is hot today will not be hot tomorrow. Whatever is nascent today may be tomorrow hot technology. Ask Sun about NFS for example.
Companies change over time. Much like individuals, societies and countries, companies change over time. The enemy of today may be the friend of tomorrow, and vice versa. Eric S. Raymond was seen favorably by the/. crowd when he wrote the Cathedral and the Bazaar and the Halloween Documents. Now he is not seen with favor here (whatever the reasons are, whatever they are real or not is not the point, perception of him is the point). The same goes for IBM. They were the company who invented FUD, and were very aggressive in the market, often ruining other companies and pushing customers aside arrogantly. Sun was the darling of geeks for a long time. Even Microsoft was seen as a counterculture to IBM in the 1980s. Same for Red Hat, they were our darlings, and now they are not seen as open source friendly anymore (after they ended the shrink wrapped and consumer markets). The USA was seen favorably in most of the world prior to the fall of the USSR, and it has been down hill since then for their image. These things happen. Google may be the enemy of tomorrow, or Yahoo, or whomever. Such is life.
So let us get over this bickering and know that this is happening and is going to happen for the forseable future.
Look at this photo. It is the author's Kyocera mobile phone with a web page showing the temperatures, memory usage and free disk space. Says battery temperature is -34.5 (is that C or F?)
Sorry for that 'wretched' thing, a memory slip. You said 'miserable', and I confused it. It was not a lie, but a mistake. Believe it or not, up to you.
Easy for you to characterize people who are interfered with, and invaded, and meddled with as simply blaming others, and easy for you to tell people to fix their problems.
I am sad to see that among educated professionals who are in a position to know better, there is this neo-con mentality of the a "white man's burden" to 'civilize the savages' or 'save the heathen'.
Anyway, the discussion is over, as you said. Sad...
I also email web sites that have a problem with FireFox, but not MS IE. I make them short and to the point, and stress portability as the major point of the web.
For Al Jazeera for example, I emailed both Al Jazeera themselves, and the company that built the web site for them.
Problem is, I have not gotten a single answer from anyone that sent this too. Even worse, some sites return an email error (mailbox overflow). So they even did not set them up to be read by a human!
I hope I can share your optimism that a) the ignorant/lazy are few, and b) they will die out.
Thanks. I know about the security issue. It is the shell: thing, isn't it?
I assume you mean 0.9.3.
I would assume that the menus would work on Al Jazeera if I do upgrade to 0.9.3 even under Windows, since the rendering engine is the same (or better) as 0.9.1 under Linux. Right?
So that is what happened to my daughter the other day! She was Neopets or some of its 'faeries' affiliate web sites, and suddenly there were all these countless minimized little Konqueror windows.
However, as good as Gecko is, I find that there are sites that are so Microsoft specific (brain dead developers) that they would not render correctly in FireFox. However, some of those same sites render better in Konquerer than in Gecko.
If you open in MS IE, all is well, because the developers wrote it with only MS IE in mind. If you try it with Firefox (I am using 0.9), then you get a blank blue space on the right, with no menus in it at all, and no menus on the left side too.
If you open it in Konqueror (the one that ships with Mandrake 10.0 Final), then the menus are visible. There are still some quirks (e.g. just moving the mouse over an article heading will trigger a download dialog), but it is way ahead of KDE's Gecko.
Incidentally, Al Jazeera's English web site is developed by a different company and does not suffer form these problems.
I have seen a few other sites with this problem (incorrect rendering in FireFox), and they are always.asp web pages, pointing to a Microsoft centric mentality of the developers.
I currently use a Fuji too. It is 2 MP as well. Probably the same as yours, the FinePix 2400 Zoom.
It is an OK camera, given that I purchased it 3.5 years ago, and it is still ticking. It has a good lens. The Megapixel thing is not an issue. Its pictures are nice and sharp. It also has great macro capability.
The problem I have with it is low light performance. It can't focus and the pictures are grainy. Flash pictures are really crappy too.
I found that this is a common problem with consumer digital cameras. A relative of mine has bought a high end prosumer camera, the Nikon 5700. It suffers from the same problems of low light performance as well. He also made a mistake of using a microdrive Compact Flash card, and writing to it is very slow.
I have been thinking of my next camera, and find the following choices to be suitable for my need:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20. Here is a overview of it, and here is the info from the Panasonic web site. This camera has the greatest optical zoom you can find, 12X. The lens is made by Leica, known to be great always. It has an optical image stabilizers. The drawbacks are a proprietary battery (need to buy a spare for more $$$$), and the LCD does not swivel. The price has come down dramatically since they introduced the 2 Megapixel model. This one is 599$ MSRP.
Canon S1 IS. This one has it all, a good lens, a swivel LCD, image stabilizer, Canon quality, AA batteries (cheap rechargables),...etc. The problem is that it is only a 3 megapixel camera, and for this day and age, this is a bit low. It takes great pictures for sure. Check the gallery in the above link.
Of course, you can take the removable lens DSLR route, but that is too expensive for a general user like me.
Regarding your question, here are some suggestions:
1. If you can, attend the offsite training. You will get to concentrate away from daily phones/emails/pagers on a topic for a few days. This will get you a jump start. You can later go for an on line course for practice and such.
2. Hands on is the best thing you can do. Get a cheap used P2 in the office or at home, and play with it. Install Linux, then try to configure things manually and see how they work (e.g. NFS exports, autofs/automount, NIS+ or LDAP,/etc/init.d scripts, Samba, Apache,...etc.) Do things from the GUI interface provided by the distro first (e.g. adding users,...etc.) then do them manually from the command line (useradd command,...etc.)
3. If your company has decided on a distro, then install that distro first and play with it. Then install another to see how things are done differently, and how others remain the same.
4. Learn to use the shell. Bash is good. others use zsh or tcsh or whatever.
5. Go to the Usenet group (a.k.a Google Groups) for your distro, and other Linux groups, and see what questions are asked.
There is a lot to learn, and the learning never ceases. Do not be discouraged by that. Once you gain a basic set of understanding, then the rest will come easily, or never come at all. It doesn't matter, since there is more than one way to do things in Unix/Linux.
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I think you are trolling. I wish I had mod points to mod you down. Nice tactic to get your gripe against Roland thru, by adding some links, and getting a +5 Interesting. Way to go moderators.
It seems that you posted other posts as well again Roland Piquepaille, as an AC.
You have a point that Roland gets more air time here on Slashdot than most.
But he does not plagiarize any more than any news site who relies on various news sources. He collects the info and provides links to the source with some commentary. Just like Slashdot, Engadget, and a million other sites out there.
Seems proper to me.
And the steering wheel! That was never in any computer, business or home.
Looks suspect alright.
I am not in the market for a cell phone, nor an LCD monitor.
But I would be very interested if this lowered the prices for laptops.
However, laptop prices depend on many other things (being a business tool for managers and such, rather than a consumer one, other expensive components, the aura of commanding a premium on the price, ...etc.)
Someone with a lot of time on their hands wrote a comic titled: Greedo Shoots First Comic.
Greedo's mother sues Han Solo because he shot first, with Palpatine as the judge, and C3PO as an attorney.
Read it yourself!
(Some people really need to work on their acceptance of reality ... It's just a movie...
They do, as most web sites. However, Google -- IIRC -- keeps them forever, while other sites may keep several months' worth or a year. Also, Google is a search site, not just articles. So, if you searched for something today that may be found in retrospect to be sinister at a later date, then you can easly become a suspect.
Not something that respects visitors' privacy.
this rumor started from a CYOA provision in the gmail TOS agreement Yes. I was mistaken about that. I read that explanation by them at a later time, and they clarified it. My bad.
You are right. I forget that they clarified the TOS to state what they really mean.
I think he raises valid concerns, perhaps not very well articulated though.
His concern is that Google, under Schmidt, will 'diversify' and try to be everything for everybody, and stretch too thin for their own good.
Another concern is their approach to privacy. They log every search tied to the IP address forever. The same in Gmail, where they don't delete messages. These things were covered in the media as concerns from users, but there was no satisfactory response.
Don't get me wrong. I love Google as a search engine. I could not live without it. However, as I said before companies change, and are driven by pragmatism, not ethics. Google is now a publicly traded company. Will they be the next evil Microsoft? Maybe. I hope not though.
Excellent advice.
However, it does not work this way in every part of the world. In third world countries, antibiotics are not as regulated as they are in G8 countries.
Pharmacists there dispense antibiotics freely without prescription, since many poor people go to the pharmacist for a cure, without having to pay the doctor's fee. This may not be purely legal, but everyone does it.
This causes more and more strains to be resistant to antibiotics, and many of the new ones become ineffective quickly.
This is why we see some almost eradicated diseases (e.g. TB in this case) revitalize and become more virulent.
Not that simple.
That schmoe's account that the extortionist got via phishing has to transfer the money somewhere else (to the extortionist). It will be detected once the shmoe finds out and complains.
So, it may make detection harder or may take longer to detect, but eventually he will be caught.
Unless he withdraws cash from Citibank, but yet again, the cameras at the bank has his picture.
I agree it is an American problem. Most of the statistics says so.
For those who say it comes from outside the US, like China or Korea, please thing about it for a moment: What are they advertizing?
Even if the messages are coming from overseas IP Addresses, the content advertizes US-centric products, for example, cheap mortgage will not help somebody in France, or Egypt or India, even if they wanted to. Yet, they have to pay to get SPAM because unlike North America, their slow dialup connections are metered by the minute.
The same goes for cheap prescription drugs, or free laptop offers, and most of the SPAM going around these days.
So it is a US centric problem, since Spammers are targeting that market. The rest of the world suffers as collateral damage or something ....
Every time someone mentions Company X as a FLOSS friendly, or Company Y as the evil enemy of FLOSS, the same type of responses come. Some are for, some are against, and the various reasons are listed and debates ensue ...
Think about these points:
So let us get over this bickering and know that this is happening and is going to happen for the forseable future.
How about the NSLU2?
It has been covered before on Slashdot and is hackable just like the router you mentioned.
And of course, they run Linux too, just like the guys in Antarctica did.
Iridium? Didn't they go out of business a few years ago?
Or have they switched to niche markets like in this case?
Look at this photo. It is the author's Kyocera mobile phone with a web page showing the temperatures, memory usage and free disk space. Says battery temperature is -34.5 (is that C or F?)
The page linked to from Web 2.0 does not say that he works for Amazon.
Here is a page by him that says so.
Sorry for that 'wretched' thing, a memory slip. You said 'miserable', and I confused it. It was not a lie, but a mistake. Believe it or not, up to you.
Easy for you to characterize people who are interfered with, and invaded, and meddled with as simply blaming others, and easy for you to tell people to fix their problems.
I am sad to see that among educated professionals who are in a position to know better, there is this neo-con mentality of the a "white man's burden" to 'civilize the savages' or 'save the heathen'.
Anyway, the discussion is over, as you said. Sad ...
I also email web sites that have a problem with FireFox, but not MS IE. I make them short and to the point, and stress portability as the major point of the web.
For Al Jazeera for example, I emailed both Al Jazeera themselves, and the company that built the web site for them.
Problem is, I have not gotten a single answer from anyone that sent this too. Even worse, some sites return an email error (mailbox overflow). So they even did not set them up to be read by a human!
I hope I can share your optimism that a) the ignorant/lazy are few, and b) they will die out.
OK, I upgraded from FireFox 0.9 to 0.9.3 (latest Windows release) and the menus are still not visible.
Here is the version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
This is about 10 or so days behind the version you have on Linux, and not working.
Is this Windows specific, or just a fix in this 10 day difference?
Thanks. I know about the security issue. It is the shell: thing, isn't it?
I assume you mean 0.9.3.
I would assume that the menus would work on Al Jazeera if I do upgrade to 0.9.3 even under Windows, since the rendering engine is the same (or better) as 0.9.1 under Linux. Right?
Seems that you are using 0.9.1 (on Linux). I am using just 0.9 (on Windows at present).
When you say it works, can you see the menus on the left and right? Are the menus collapsible?
So that is what happened to my daughter the other day! She was Neopets or some of its 'faeries' affiliate web sites, and suddenly there were all these countless minimized little Konqueror windows.
Thanks for the clue.
Nice job! Only in four days! That is great.
However, as good as Gecko is, I find that there are sites that are so Microsoft specific (brain dead developers) that they would not render correctly in FireFox. However, some of those same sites render better in Konquerer than in Gecko.
An example is the Arabic Al Jazeera web site.
If you open in MS IE, all is well, because the developers wrote it with only MS IE in mind. If you try it with Firefox (I am using 0.9), then you get a blank blue space on the right, with no menus in it at all, and no menus on the left side too.
If you open it in Konqueror (the one that ships with Mandrake 10.0 Final), then the menus are visible. There are still some quirks (e.g. just moving the mouse over an article heading will trigger a download dialog), but it is way ahead of KDE's Gecko.
Incidentally, Al Jazeera's English web site is developed by a different company and does not suffer form these problems.
I have seen a few other sites with this problem (incorrect rendering in FireFox), and they are always .asp web pages, pointing to a Microsoft centric mentality of the developers.
I currently use a Fuji too. It is 2 MP as well. Probably the same as yours, the FinePix 2400 Zoom.
It is an OK camera, given that I purchased it 3.5 years ago, and it is still ticking. It has a good lens. The Megapixel thing is not an issue. Its pictures are nice and sharp. It also has great macro capability.
The problem I have with it is low light performance. It can't focus and the pictures are grainy. Flash pictures are really crappy too.
I found that this is a common problem with consumer digital cameras. A relative of mine has bought a high end prosumer camera, the Nikon 5700. It suffers from the same problems of low light performance as well. He also made a mistake of using a microdrive Compact Flash card, and writing to it is very slow.
I have been thinking of my next camera, and find the following choices to be suitable for my need:
Of course, you can take the removable lens DSLR route, but that is too expensive for a general user like me.
Regarding your question, here are some suggestions:
/etc/init.d scripts, Samba, Apache, ...etc.) Do things from the GUI interface provided by the distro first (e.g. adding users, ...etc.) then do them manually from the command line (useradd command, ...etc.)
1. If you can, attend the offsite training. You will get to concentrate away from daily phones/emails/pagers on a topic for a few days. This will get you a jump start. You can later go for an on line course for practice and such.
2. Hands on is the best thing you can do. Get a cheap used P2 in the office or at home, and play with it. Install Linux, then try to configure things manually and see how they work (e.g. NFS exports, autofs/automount, NIS+ or LDAP,
3. If your company has decided on a distro, then install that distro first and play with it. Then install another to see how things are done differently, and how others remain the same.
4. Learn to use the shell. Bash is good. others use zsh or tcsh or whatever.
5. Go to the Usenet group (a.k.a Google Groups) for your distro, and other Linux groups, and see what questions are asked.
There is a lot to learn, and the learning never ceases. Do not be discouraged by that. Once you gain a basic set of understanding, then the rest will come easily, or never come at all. It doesn't matter, since there is more than one way to do things in Unix/Linux.