The whole point of XP on XO is that Microsoft cannot stand up commercially if it ever becomes generally accepted knowledge that there are other O/Ss for small computers which work just as well, if not better than Microsoft products. This is what really gives Bill Gates and Steve Balmer serious laundry problems during the day and horrendous dreams at night. They just cannot allow that to happen.
Where the OLPC people are really in la-la land is thinking that the pupils and their teachers are going to be able to produce the course/learning software modules for themselves. The first world has failed spectacularly in that department, I'd really love to think the third world is going to be able to show up the first world as a bunch of ninnies in this regard, but I fear not.
After watching my son's schools futzing around with both desktop and laptop machines, in my not so humble opinion, laptops in primary schools are a complete waste of time, money and effort, and of very questionable value in secondary ones. Useful for teachers to keep records and to produce teaching materials, but for the pupil's use, no.
It matters not one jot who wrote either the GUI or the underlying O/S, because that's al hidden under the course-ware, which is what counts.
Without doubt, I caught a nasty virus at the 2006 linux.conf.au.
It was a norovirus and put me and about 50% of the delegates in recovery mode for about 4 days.
During the recent Hans Reiser trial it was absolutely obvious that the "expert" examiner was completely lost when it came to discovering what was in Hans's Reiser4 file-system. All for want of a boot disk costing $0.89, and the ability to use the mount, find, and grep commands.
It's laughable, and it's told be never ever to set foot in that jurisdiction as long as I live.
Plus the facts that he had one of Nina's credit cards in the fanny pack, and that the dumpster is on the way to Lake Chabot, where I suspect the errant car seat and Nina's corpse remain. Those are the two facts which make me agree with the prosecution.
Just learnt about one of the oldest sales gimmicks in the book.
It's called 'bait and switch'. The vendor introduces the cheap version and then sells the still somewhat confused purchaser the (much - in these cases, infinitely) more expensive model. For these two vendors it makes sense because the free software moves the lever to open the door to generate the hardware sale.
Meanwhile, national governments in the path of the fungus are telling folks that there is nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile the breadbaskets of the world with econo-military axes to grind are rubbing their hands in unabashed glee. Winning the bio-economic war without even having to launch a single missile! This must be a first. Oh dear! I forget the story about smallpox infected blankets.
That you can avoid all the insane inconveniences of airports and aeroplanes by travelling on a train. Tiny carbon footprint in comparison too. Perhaps it's time for the airport security industry to be taught that lesson.
You'd probably be better off developing most of whatever you want to develop in a normal development environment, and then move over to an XO environment emulated on your normal machine. Use a physical XO for the final testing.
Hans won't be executed because the prosecution are not calling for a death sentence penalty, presumably because they know that to get that to stick they need to have a 'smoking gun' or some similarly water-tight evidence, which they have not got in this case.
In many jurisdictions Nina's behaviour prior to the event would be grounds for invoking either a 'diminished responsibility' or a 'provocation' defence. Is either available in California?
And yes, Nina could well have just skipped off to a port, and jumped on a ship heading across the Pacific to Russia. The possibilities are more or less virtually endless. We just don't know exactly what happened, and probably never will.
A disclaimer: I am not a US citizen and live thousands of miles away, but thanks to Wired, SFGate.com and Jay Gaskill, I have kept myself as well informed about this sad state of affairs as it is possible to do with out actually being in the Court.
The whole trouble with this case is that the evidence we have seen so far allows one to mentally conjour up so many equally valid scenarios. To wit - all equal possibilities, ranked in seriousness:-
A nasty, skilled, pre-meditated killing.
Evidence for the prosecution:
Hans knew that Beverly Palmer was going to be away for the whole week-end.
Hans arranged for Nina to come to the empty house in the middle of a long holiday, when few of the neighbours would be around.
Missing Evidence:-
No 'Smoking Gun', or actual witness.
A crime of passion. Nina's previous behavour had so sensitized Hans that he struck out in an uncontrolled, mindless rage and killed her in a few seconds using a Judo chop of some kind.
For:
Han's behavour immediately after Nina's disappearance.
Against:
Rory said his mother gave him a hug and left the house.
Nina left the house, and proceeded to a 'Professional Appointment' with Sturgeon. She died, possibly accidentally, during the 'treatment'. Hans may or may not have been involved with the disposal of the body.
For:
It's happened before in other Jurisdictions.
Sturgeon has confessed to having been involved with many deaths.
Against:
None.
Nina, a pleasant looking chick, and alone in her car, got hijacked, dragged off to some unknown place, gang raped, killed, and dumped in the sea to be eaten by sharks. For:
Judging by what I read about the Oakland neighbourhood, this is no more a fanciful scenario than any of the others.
This whole parody of a trial seems to me to be something straight out of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. The defendant and his parents are all as mad as the Hatter. The forensic DNA technician is incompetent. The prosecution has spent 3 whole months spouting a cloud of largely irrelevant waffle. While they have demonstrated that Hans could have done the deed, and that he had a degree of motive, there has been not one jot of independent expert evidence that, at the time of the alleged crime, he was sufficiently sane to form the intent to murder, that he was fit to plead, or that he actually did the deed. This is the sort of crime, and resultant investigation, which cries out for a "Not Proven" verdict,
For folks who cannot remember passwords I use two methods.
'Keyboard Character Runs': e.g. '0okmju76tfc'
For children a mix of their name and birthday, e.g. '23Pen2001', Assuming the sister's name is Penny, and she was born on the 23rd. of some month in 2001.
OK Neither is exactly secure, Ophcrack will do it's deed in minutes, but it's for a child's account for goodness sake. Mum or Dad will, correctly, always have access the account because they will have either a boot CD or the root password. For my piece of mind, I'd probably protect and monitor Internet access for a child of 7 with both ntop and Dan's Guardian on the firewall. 'Penny' should be made aware of those facts because "That's the deal".
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The whole point of XP on XO is that Microsoft cannot stand up commercially if it ever becomes generally accepted knowledge that there are other O/Ss for small computers which work just as well, if not better than Microsoft products. This is what really gives Bill Gates and Steve Balmer serious laundry problems during the day and horrendous dreams at night. They just cannot allow that to happen.
Where the OLPC people are really in la-la land is thinking that the pupils and their teachers are going to be able to produce the course/learning software modules for themselves. The first world has failed spectacularly in that department, I'd really love to think the third world is going to be able to show up the first world as a bunch of ninnies in this regard, but I fear not.
After watching my son's schools futzing around with both desktop and laptop machines, in my not so humble opinion, laptops in primary schools are a complete waste of time, money and effort, and of very questionable value in secondary ones. Useful for teachers to keep records and to produce teaching materials, but for the pupil's use, no.
It matters not one jot who wrote either the GUI or the underlying O/S, because that's al hidden under the course-ware, which is what counts.
Perhaps the concept of having you host on Sealand is not quite so idiotic after all.
Without doubt, I caught a nasty virus at the 2006 linux.conf.au. It was a norovirus and put me and about 50% of the delegates in recovery mode for about 4 days.
1.6 kilometers under ideal conditions.
The mods have overdosed on jingoism and xenophobia, and are in a coma as a result
During the recent Hans Reiser trial it was absolutely obvious that the "expert" examiner was completely lost when it came to discovering what was in Hans's Reiser4 file-system. All for want of a boot disk costing $0.89, and the ability to use the mount, find, and grep commands. It's laughable, and it's told be never ever to set foot in that jurisdiction as long as I live.
Plus the facts that he had one of Nina's credit cards in the fanny pack, and that the dumpster is on the way to Lake Chabot, where I suspect the errant car seat and Nina's corpse remain. Those are the two facts which make me agree with the prosecution.
No, she does not. Russia has a policy of _never_ extraditing its citizens to another country. End of sentence.
It's Here
But I fear it got annihilated by one of those pesky little black holes they make there.
Just learnt about one of the oldest sales gimmicks in the book.
It's called 'bait and switch'. The vendor introduces the cheap version and then sells the still somewhat confused purchaser the (much - in these cases, infinitely) more expensive model. For these two vendors it makes sense because the free software moves the lever to open the door to generate the hardware sale.
I'm amazed they didn't think of it earlier.
That you can avoid all the insane inconveniences of airports and aeroplanes by travelling on a train. Tiny carbon footprint in comparison too. Perhaps it's time for the airport security industry to be taught that lesson.
You'd probably be better off developing most of whatever you want to develop in a normal development environment, and then move over to an XO environment emulated on your normal machine. Use a physical XO for the final testing.
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
It works
Thanks to The Guardian
Hans won't be executed because the prosecution are not calling for a death sentence penalty, presumably because they know that to get that to stick they need to have a 'smoking gun' or some similarly water-tight evidence, which they have not got in this case.
In many jurisdictions Nina's behaviour prior to the event would be grounds for invoking either a 'diminished responsibility' or a 'provocation' defence. Is either available in California?
And yes, Nina could well have just skipped off to a port, and jumped on a ship heading across the Pacific to Russia. The possibilities are more or less virtually endless. We just don't know exactly what happened, and probably never will.
http://www.linuxcanada.com/
It's rather a strange user interface, but it's all OpenSource so you can change it.
They could have done the support community bit somewhat better, and you do need to be a middle-rank guru to set it up.
The whole trouble with this case is that the evidence we have seen so far allows one to mentally conjour up so many equally valid scenarios. To wit - all equal possibilities, ranked in seriousness:-
- A nasty, skilled, pre-meditated killing.
- No 'Smoking Gun', or actual witness.
- A crime of passion. Nina's previous behavour had so sensitized Hans that he struck out in an uncontrolled, mindless rage and killed her in a few seconds using a Judo chop of some kind.
- Rory said his mother gave him a hug and left the house.
- Nina left the house, and proceeded to a 'Professional Appointment' with Sturgeon. She died, possibly accidentally, during the 'treatment'. Hans may or may not have been involved with the disposal of the body.
- None.
- Nina, a pleasant looking chick, and alone in her car, got hijacked, dragged off to some unknown place, gang raped, killed, and dumped in the sea to be eaten by sharks.
- Judging by what I read about the Oakland neighbourhood, this is no more a fanciful scenario than any of the others.
This whole parody of a trial seems to me to be something straight out of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. The defendant and his parents are all as mad as the Hatter. The forensic DNA technician is incompetent. The prosecution has spent 3 whole months spouting a cloud of largely irrelevant waffle. While they have demonstrated that Hans could have done the deed, and that he had a degree of motive, there has been not one jot of independent expert evidence that, at the time of the alleged crime, he was sufficiently sane to form the intent to murder, that he was fit to plead, or that he actually did the deed. This is the sort of crime, and resultant investigation, which cries out for a "Not Proven" verdict,Evidence for the prosecution:
- Hans knew that Beverly Palmer was going to be away for the whole week-end.
- Hans arranged for Nina to come to the empty house in the middle of a long holiday, when few of the neighbours would be around.
Missing Evidence:-For:
- Han's behavour immediately after Nina's disappearance.
Against:For:
- It's happened before in other Jurisdictions.
- Sturgeon has confessed to having been involved with many deaths.
Against:For:
Linus is actually the most modest person, who has actually done something really worth while, I have ever had the privilege to meet.
- 'Keyboard Character Runs': e.g. '0okmju76tfc'
- For children a mix of their name and birthday, e.g. '23Pen2001', Assuming the sister's name is Penny, and she was born on the 23rd. of some month in 2001.
OK Neither is exactly secure, Ophcrack will do it's deed in minutes, but it's for a child's account for goodness sake. Mum or Dad will, correctly, always have access the account because they will have either a boot CD or the root password. For my piece of mind, I'd probably protect and monitor Internet access for a child of 7 with both ntop and Dan's Guardian on the firewall. 'Penny' should be made aware of those facts because "That's the deal".He can't find his girl's TrackPoint!?! - ergo a /. reader. :-)
- MBA -> Neuter
- X300 -> Female
I'd much prefer a girl on my lap.And, btw, yes the 'TrackPoint' really is a superior way to move the cursor.
That must be an obsolete skill because the spellchecker doesn't even know about papertape or a bootloader.