But I actually prefer a stack of index cards. I work at too many locations and at too many different kinds of computers and my home is too rural for me to count on Internet access too much.
I also don't limit my "todo" tasks to technical stuff -- I have plenty of other projects to keep track of.
Keep a stack of index cards. Write a title/category across the top. Keep a day card. At the end of the day, what you didn't get done off the day card gets written somewhere else (this is a little Franklin-Planner-esque).
It's my favorite method. Index cards + binder clip.
My spam rates aren't nearly as bad as most, and it might also have something to do with an additional step I take:
I use multiple email address. I use [name]@[domain] for my main email. I haven't had to change it in years. If I sign-up anywhere online, I use [name]2@, and if I buy anything online, I use [name]3@, and if I post a resume, I use [name]4@. I've had this in place for about 5 years now (mostly to manage my sanity), but I haven't even had to increment the numbers yet.
I was too kind, and too brief. It's a useless review.
I know that YAST has its merits, but other distros have pretty good hardware detection these days.
I personally find that KDE theme unviewable. People are always saying the SUSE is beautiful, but I don't see it. I prefer KDE's native Plastic, Mandrakes Galaxy (though, KDE's look has begun grating on me) and the latest Fedora themes. I just installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 after a year of not using any RH/Fedora, and I have to admit I'm quite impressed.
It seems particularly stupid to use a commercial distribution if your life is Thunderbird, Firebird, IM and XChat. Practically ANY distro updated in the last 6 months is a suitable candidate for a new install if that's all you need.
I can barely stand to visit website that have that narrow a static web page width design. Those graphics look worse than more Monster Template graphics.
1 17.82% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 2 12.73% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1 3 5.68% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 4 3.45% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;.NET CLR 1 5 3.14% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) 6 2.60% Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi 7 2.38% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko 8 2.21% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko 9 2.01% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) 10 1.95% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031 11 1.65% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) 12 1.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98;.NET CLR 1.1.4 13 1.37% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/2003100 14 1.17% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) 15 0.95% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProd
Joke (because yes, I know what's affecting these stats): It's a good thing I use Linux myself and visit my own site regulary, otherwise I'm not sure I'd have any Linux user agents in this list.
I live out in the middle of nowhere, and I go on a lot of road trips. For us, here at home, XM Radio has been a lifesaver. I'm listening to Fred right now, they're running the top 1600 alternative tracks of all time. How can that be bad?
I wish they would add NPR (I know the competition has it.. I'm not likely to switch now).. or at least KCRW in LA (I miss Nick Harcourt.. I stream occasionally, but it's not the same). I use streamripper to grab what I can and make lots of mix CDs.
If I moved to the city tomorrow I'd keep XM. I might even consider adding Sirius. It's not that expensive, and since I don't watch television and don't pay for cable/satellite, satellite radio captures all my discretionary subscription dollars.
That, Shoutcast and Netscape Radio keep me awfully happy. Live 365 too. Yeah!
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They need more pictures.
I can remember lusting after the Atari ST. There was an Apple vendor and an Atari vendor a few doors apart near where I lived. I never could quite get the Apple lust back then, but the Atari ST really excited me.
I made do with a Sinclair QL, instead. It was all I could afford. Those little tape drives were an utter nightmare and completed failed to sustain the machine, but the QL came with really nice software and had a great word processing application. They keyboard was quirky enough to sustain charm.
When I was still into CP/M the Commodore 128 caught my eye. I think it even got good reviews.. it was such a clever move, but totally failed to sustain them. Who would have thought to ship two entirely different, incompatible CPUs in one box?
...and through the Osborne Users Group I met a friend I've had ever since.
That 300 baud modem was so slick the way it fit into the floppy storage tray. My amber monochrome monitor was so beautiful. I spent all my allowance / grass-cutting money on those 5.25" floppies, and so much time with the hole puncher making them doublesided. What a boon!
My friend had a Kaypro.
Then I migrated to a Northstar Horizon and I discovered ZCPR/3. That was slick. The hard drive in the Northstar would occasionally honk like a train and require a quick smack to set it straight.
..a "start-up" again, I just want my own business(es).
As it is right now, I have 4-5 (another is launching) small virtual businesses of my own, each of which contributes a nice solid chunk of money to my bottom line every month. You add them all up, and I'm doing as well as I ever did.
I may have to take on 2 people soon, and that's fine. It's all within my cashflow. My wife and a friend are look at a real-world, bricks-and-mortar (sorry) business, so that will be another thing on my to-do list.
I'll leave the gamesmanship to others. There's plenty of work and money around. The money people screwed me (and plenty of you) the first time around; I won't let it happen again.
[And no, I had nothing to do with it -- I was the CTO at a company that got taken down when the CEO took up with investment bankers. We were otherwise cashflow positive then, too.]
Maybe they don't LIKE the idea of being a MS company..? It's nice to see someone with a semblance of principals.
Besides, who here believes that Google doesn't have interesting things lined up for the future? I doubt they'd go public and insist that their whole future is consumer search and text ads.
Slashdot Mirror
..can be had for $5 at reliable hosts. For that, you not only get shell, you also get root.
The interface is really fast. A lot of functions don't require real page re-loads.
I do need to check POP mail (IMAP would be grand), but I realize they're probably holding off on that until the real release.
I'm glad someone values keyboard commands again.
I suppose if you really wanted to use software I would recommend:
Tasks by Alex King.
But I actually prefer a stack of index cards. I work at too many locations and at too many different kinds of computers and my home is too rural for me to count on Internet access too much.
I also don't limit my "todo" tasks to technical stuff -- I have plenty of other projects to keep track of.
Keep a stack of index cards. Write a title/category across the top. Keep a day card. At the end of the day, what you didn't get done off the day card gets written somewhere else (this is a little Franklin-Planner-esque).
It's my favorite method. Index cards + binder clip.
I'll say this: If their workers had any convictions, SCO wouldn't have to lay anyone off because they would have been gone first.
Really, who the hell is still there? Maybe only those who've been looking for the last 6 mos and couldn't get a job anywhere else...?
Anyone with hardline skills should have found work a while ago and walked.
Doesn't really sound like there's much danger of that, now does it?
My spam rates aren't nearly as bad as most, and it might also have something to do with an additional step I take:
I use multiple email address. I use [name]@[domain] for my main email. I haven't had to change it in years. If I sign-up anywhere online, I use [name]2@, and if I buy anything online, I use [name]3@, and if I post a resume, I use [name]4@. I've had this in place for about 5 years now (mostly to manage my sanity), but I haven't even had to increment the numbers yet.
Works pretty well, in additional to SpamAssassin.
..songs on the radio that one might not know the name of?
Will they be able to identify songs played on, say, KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic?
Will it work if I'm streaming that show over the internet and hold my phone up to the computer speaker?
Broken in Firefox.
..Lucas do?
I was too kind, and too brief. It's a useless review.
I know that YAST has its merits, but other distros have pretty good hardware detection these days.
I personally find that KDE theme unviewable. People are always saying the SUSE is beautiful, but I don't see it. I prefer KDE's native Plastic, Mandrakes Galaxy (though, KDE's look has begun grating on me) and the latest Fedora themes. I just installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 after a year of not using any RH/Fedora, and I have to admit I'm quite impressed.
It seems particularly stupid to use a commercial distribution if your life is Thunderbird, Firebird, IM and XChat. Practically ANY distro updated in the last 6 months is a suitable candidate for a new install if that's all you need.
..doesn't bother to explicate what makes SUSE any different from any other distro. Why not Fedora, or Mandrake? What makes SUSE, well, SUSE?
He never says.
One ugly site.
I can barely stand to visit website that have that narrow a static web page width design. Those graphics look worse than more Monster Template graphics.
..common to PDAs?
Will it be feedable by an RSS aggregator?
Can I download my emails to it?
Can I read word / text documents on it?
Will I be able to read Gutenberg titles on it?
If the answer's "yes" to most of those questions, I can see everyone in NYC carrying one.
Will Palm license this display technology for their phones?
1 17.82% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) .NET CLR 1 .NET CLR 1 .NET CLR 1.1.4
2 12.73% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
3 5.68% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
4 3.45% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;
5 3.14% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
6 2.60% Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi
7 2.38% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko
8 2.21% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko
9 2.01% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
10 1.95% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031
11 1.65% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
12 1.49% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98;
13 1.37% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/2003100
14 1.17% Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
15 0.95% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProd
Joke (because yes, I know what's affecting these stats): It's a good thing I use Linux myself and visit my own site regulary, otherwise I'm not sure I'd have any Linux user agents in this list.
on my ACPI-non-compliant notebook.
..stable session and development environment. everything runs off the OQO and you can connect from any, and i mean any, client.
that'd be nice. looks too expensive though.
I had this same problem. My 2 year old laptop came up with a broken hinge screw, it snapped off a chunk of the plastic backing on my LCD.
Pretty useless now.
It took about 3 weeks, but someone ended up offering up exactly the piece I needed, for $20.
I had them ship the piece to the repair center in SLC and then I got my laptop back.
Now, if only I could get the same kind of service for my blacklisted ACPI bios....
Oh wait. You meant tivo for radio. My bad. Streamripper has nothing to do with that.
Why is google so hard for /. readers to use?
http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/index.php
I live out in the middle of nowhere, and I go on a lot of road trips. For us, here at home, XM Radio has been a lifesaver. I'm listening to Fred right now, they're running the top 1600 alternative tracks of all time. How can that be bad?
.. I'm not likely to switch now) .. or at least KCRW in LA (I miss Nick Harcourt.. I stream occasionally, but it's not the same). I use streamripper to grab what I can and make lots of mix CDs.
I wish they would add NPR (I know the competition has it
If I moved to the city tomorrow I'd keep XM. I might even consider adding Sirius. It's not that expensive, and since I don't watch television and don't pay for cable/satellite, satellite radio captures all my discretionary subscription dollars.
That, Shoutcast and Netscape Radio keep me awfully happy. Live 365 too. Yeah!
They need more pictures.
I can remember lusting after the Atari ST. There was an Apple vendor and an Atari vendor a few doors apart near where I lived. I never could quite get the Apple lust back then, but the Atari ST really excited me.
I made do with a Sinclair QL, instead. It was all I could afford. Those little tape drives were an utter nightmare and completed failed to sustain the machine, but the QL came with really nice software and had a great word processing application. They keyboard was quirky enough to sustain charm.
When I was still into CP/M the Commodore 128 caught my eye. I think it even got good reviews.. it was such a clever move, but totally failed to sustain them. Who would have thought to ship two entirely different, incompatible CPUs in one box?
...and through the Osborne Users Group I met a friend I've had ever since.
That 300 baud modem was so slick the way it fit into the floppy storage tray. My amber monochrome monitor was so beautiful. I spent all my allowance / grass-cutting money on those 5.25" floppies, and so much time with the hole puncher making them doublesided. What a boon!
My friend had a Kaypro.
Then I migrated to a Northstar Horizon and I discovered ZCPR/3. That was slick. The hard drive in the Northstar would occasionally honk like a train and require a quick smack to set it straight.
Anyone remember "pip"?
..a "start-up" again, I just want my own business(es).
As it is right now, I have 4-5 (another is launching) small virtual businesses of my own, each of which contributes a nice solid chunk of money to my bottom line every month. You add them all up, and I'm doing as well as I ever did.
I may have to take on 2 people soon, and that's fine. It's all within my cashflow. My wife and a friend are look at a real-world, bricks-and-mortar (sorry) business, so that will be another thing on my to-do list.
I'll leave the gamesmanship to others. There's plenty of work and money around. The money people screwed me (and plenty of you) the first time around; I won't let it happen again.
[And no, I had nothing to do with it -- I was the CTO at a company that got taken down when the CEO took up with investment bankers. We were otherwise cashflow positive then, too.]
So even if he concieved it on a weekend at 3am, he is still an employee at Apple.
That sounds so much like ownership.
Why is it okay for the company to intrude on an employee's life, but not for the employee to draw a line?
Why is the corporation above the worker?
Maybe they don't LIKE the idea of being a MS company..? It's nice to see someone with a semblance of principals.
Besides, who here believes that Google doesn't have interesting things lined up for the future? I doubt they'd go public and insist that their whole future is consumer search and text ads.