> You can smear Jobs, but he's given more than you ever will
And
> Do you have his tax records or something?
In the same post, with only a short numbered list separating the two. If you're gonna feed the trolls, at least *try* to be reasonable.
A quick google search for "steve jobs charitable contributions" comes up with a bunch of stuff indicating that Jobs doesn't donate much or anything. Here's the Wired article that's first on that list: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/01/70072 FTA: "Giving USA Foundation, a philanthropy research group which publishes an annual charity survey, said Jobs does not appear on lists of gifts of $5 million or more over the last four years. Nor is his name on a list of gifts of $1 million or more compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy.
Jobs' wife is also absent from these philanthropic lists, although she has made dozens of political donations totaling tens of thousands of dollars to the Democrats, according to the Open Secrets database."
Personally, I could not care less about Steve Jobs' personal or professional life. But apparently others do care, for some reason. This is for them.:)
A "privately owned" business is not the same as "private property". A business is considered a public place if people don't have to meet any special criteria to enter, basically. A retail store is a public place. A theater is a public place, even though you have to buy tickets. A club where people purchase membership is not neccesarily a public place. Etc.
If you're looking for snapshotted backups, Im partial to BackupPC (for home-style use). It does the rsync (or tar over ssh, or smbtar, or an arbitrary program), exposed over a web interface. And it's in the Ubuntu repositories, among others.
The big win, IMHO, is the way it stores files. It essentially keeps the files - compressed - as checksums in a pool, with hardlinks from the daily backup into that pool. Therefore, duplicated files on a single system or across multiple systems are only stored once. It's reasonably fast, too, though that largely depends on your filesystem (ReiserFS or XFS for the win). I've currently got just under 600GB of full backups and daily snapshots - about a month worth - stored in 85GB on one machine. My videos and music (and some other similar very large, static things) are backed up elsewhere, but it works awesome across the 8 Linux machines and 2 Windows boxes on my home network - and one Linux-based VPS over the Interwebs. Due to the duplicate file detection, I don't even bother excluding/home (which is NFS / Samba shared).
It doesn't solve the OP's problem, but it's cool for home or small office backups.:) Add network block devices or iSCSI or similar, and you've pretty quicly got an off-site backup duplication solution as well (coming soon to my house).
I live in a town of about three hundred people, about 15 miles from the nearest city with cable. There's littel chance that "they" will run cable out here or that DSL service will be made available. So, I use a Sprint data card as my primary connection. I may run a T1 out later on, but the line is still prohibitively expensive (data's not expensive, though) - even if I can get a few neighbors to split the cost.
Most any cell phone that costs more than $0 can do that. The Sanyo in my pocket (which I don't recommend to anyone because it's otherwise a POS) is set up to do that right now, in fact, and cost me about $25...
So, why haven't you fired your Dr. yet? He's working for you, not the other way around. If he's not providing you with acceptable service, find another one. You understand that you'd be fired if you did as poorly for your customers...
Most of the cars you'll see from the 40's had a cowl vent to circulate air.:)
"Newer" cars usually draw air from the cowl (that low-pressure area just below the windshield) when the vent is on (rather than the A/C) as well, so if you just run the fan on vent mode (not all cars can even turn the A/C off now) and just crack the rear windows, you get some ventilation through the car without the drag of having the windows fully opened.
That's odd - I can't find that at all after extensive searches. All I see is "unlimited data" (and that's what my contract reads). Then again, my area doesn't show the option to limit to just mobile broadband plans. Maybe it's just wherever you live - or maybe they figure that, if I have the patience to download that much in my 1xRTT (~160KBps) coverage area, I'm welcome to it.:)
Data Usage Limitation (Mobile Broadband Cards, USB Modems, Embedded Modems and Phone-As-Modem): The amount of data transmitted over our network is measured in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB). Sprint reserves the right to limit throughput speeds or amount of data transferred; and to deny, terminate, modify, disconnect or suspend service if usage either exceeds (a.) 5GB/month in total, unless specified otherwise or (b.) 300MB/month while off-network roaming. 1024KB equal 1MB. 1024MB equal 1GB.
Where did you find Sprint's "over 5 GB" price documented? I've got a Sprint 3G card as my primary connection (I don't live in town), and I've ocasionally moved over 30GB for a few months in a row. It costs the same as when I move under 1GB.
Same with my phone - it's a $99/month plan with unlimited text, data, and voice (well, unlimited after 7PM, on weekends, and when I call other Sprint users). I tether my laptop via bluetooth when I travel with a laptop, and it works pretty well. Verizon sucks, as does Cingular - but I'm pretty happy with Sprint's deal.
It's my "cell phone". I pay Sprint about $100/month for their simply unlimited plan. In addition to unlimited (theoretically) bandwidth - which, for the math-challenged, is a whole lot more than 250MB - I also have unlimted text, unlimited picture mail, and more minutes than I need. Best of all, since I already carry a phone around with me, I don't need another device.
Sure, it's not wifi - it's bluetooth (you know, the short-range wireless technology designed for exactly this kind of thing). But luckily, my eeepc supports both. So I can get on the Interwebz with my miniature laptop by just firing up wvdial (pair the bluetooth stuff, set up bluetooth serial, and dial #777). Bang - I'm online. If I get a phone call, I can answer it, and as soon as I hang up, the web's back. If I want people around me to share my bandwidth, I can click a couple of buttons and the eeepc is a wireless access point (with real iptables, which can do pretty much anything). Usually I don't want everyone around me to use my connection, though.:)
If I don't have my eeepc, I can use the browser and email client on the phone.
So, this device costs more than my phone (a random Samsung flip), has way less bandwidth, can't do anything but provide Internet access, and the plan costs more + provides less than any phone data plan. I'm supposed to trade that off for 802.11? Who doesn't have Bluetooth in a device now/and/ doesn't have a USB port for one of those miniature $10 bluetooth dongles?
Never mind that Verizon is the undisputed Great Satan of telephony...
Whether or not I could've fixed the problems isn't the point. The point is that there were no problems to fix. I bought a Linux machine, and out of the box, it does the simple things people want to do. There's a phone number in the box someone could call for help if they really needed it; but just clicking "web", "email", "spreadsheet", or "documents" is about as simple as it gets...
I bought an EEEPC, turned it on, selected my wireless network, and proceeded to complete an online course at my local University - including typing papers - with 0 changes to the computer. That EEEPC runs Linux. Firefox was the browser (which several online programs will complain about right off the bat) and Open Office was the word processor. I exported the documents as PDFs, but the exported word documents would've worked just as well. Ok, I technically did install wireshark and tcpdump, since it was a network security course and I needed to use those, but I'm fairly confident that this woman wasn't attempting to take a graduate-level network security course. And it was easier to install those on Linux than Windows...
I've recently installed EEEBuntu on the machine, and like it better - but even that, with the similar easy interface, uses the same programs to do the same things. This woman was clearly unable to learn things, and would've had the same problems with Windows. For example, a new computer often comes with a new MS Office, and new MS Office formats often don't open in older MS Office setups (like a University may well have). My wife was in an online course a year or so ago where there were students having troubles through the semester because their MS Word/PowerPoint versions were newer than the school's version, and documents wouldn't open. Open Office would not have had that issue, as it doesn't usually export to the latest format...
It/is/ hacking - and cracking. Just not the hard kind that requires significant knowledge or gains you the respect of your peers.:) Here in the US, that's "gaining access to data you aren't supposed to access". As an analogy, if you found that I left my car doors unlocked, and I found you sitting in my car, I'd probably proceed to issue you a beatdown whether you actually stole anything or not. I'd probably thank you if you just mentioned that you saw them to be unlocked. This is pretty much the same thing.
Responsibility's a good thing. If I didn't have a family member with a fairly rare (and thus minimally researched), debilitating genetic disorder that has no cure nor effective treatment, I'd probably be using a savings account in combination with a large umbrella policy to protect against catastrophic events that the US's litigation-happy population could potentially foist upon me.:) As it stands, the participating provider discounts and drug plan bring the costs down to about where they should be in fair market, IMHO. If there's any place the government should intervene due to price gouging, it's in this area - until then, I don't personally have an alternative available.
This is an old post, but I feel compelled to note that setting up a savings account for emergency needs *is* insurance. It's self-insurance where you accept the entire risk yourself, rather than distributing the risk across a wide population.
No - eating healthy keeps your children from falling out of trees. It also prevents dumbass drivers with no assets and state-minimum (or no) insurance from plowing into you when their busted-up jalopy's brakes fail as they approach the intersection. So I've heard.
All the crown victorias around here (midwest) get decommissioned somewhere in the 150-200K mile mark, as the frames rust trhough. They still run fine, but when your car breaks in half, you're not chasing down perps any more...
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Have you heard the Charlie Daniels song? The Devil *did* win, IMHO. The band of demons really adds to his particular work. :)
> You can smear Jobs, but he's given more than you ever will
And
> Do you have his tax records or something?
In the same post, with only a short numbered list separating the two. If you're gonna feed the trolls, at least *try* to be reasonable.
A quick google search for "steve jobs charitable contributions" comes up with a bunch of stuff indicating that Jobs doesn't donate much or anything. Here's the Wired article that's first on that list: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/01/70072 FTA:
"Giving USA Foundation, a philanthropy research group which publishes an annual charity survey, said Jobs does not appear on lists of gifts of $5 million or more over the last four years. Nor is his name on a list of gifts of $1 million or more compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy.
Jobs' wife is also absent from these philanthropic lists, although she has made dozens of political donations totaling tens of thousands of dollars to the Democrats, according to the Open Secrets database."
Personally, I could not care less about Steve Jobs' personal or professional life. But apparently others do care, for some reason. This is for them. :)
Is it really that hard to directly test the microwaves they're interested in, rather than just testing with whatever equipment they had laying around?
I'm not sure there are many students at schools with uniforms who also have a job where they're on-call 24x7...
A quick web search revelas this handy URL: http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-place/
A "privately owned" business is not the same as "private property". A business is considered a public place if people don't have to meet any special criteria to enter, basically. A retail store is a public place. A theater is a public place, even though you have to buy tickets. A club where people purchase membership is not neccesarily a public place. Etc.
I think you've confused "Florida" with "the USA", since IBM's moved a tremendous chunk of their workorce over to southern Asia.
If you're looking for snapshotted backups, Im partial to BackupPC (for home-style use). It does the rsync (or tar over ssh, or smbtar, or an arbitrary program), exposed over a web interface. And it's in the Ubuntu repositories, among others.
The big win, IMHO, is the way it stores files. It essentially keeps the files - compressed - as checksums in a pool, with hardlinks from the daily backup into that pool. Therefore, duplicated files on a single system or across multiple systems are only stored once. It's reasonably fast, too, though that largely depends on your filesystem (ReiserFS or XFS for the win). I've currently got just under 600GB of full backups and daily snapshots - about a month worth - stored in 85GB on one machine. My videos and music (and some other similar very large, static things) are backed up elsewhere, but it works awesome across the 8 Linux machines and 2 Windows boxes on my home network - and one Linux-based VPS over the Interwebs. Due to the duplicate file detection, I don't even bother excluding /home (which is NFS / Samba shared).
It doesn't solve the OP's problem, but it's cool for home or small office backups. :) Add network block devices or iSCSI or similar, and you've pretty quicly got an off-site backup duplication solution as well (coming soon to my house).
I live in a town of about three hundred people, about 15 miles from the nearest city with cable. There's littel chance that "they" will run cable out here or that DSL service will be made available. So, I use a Sprint data card as my primary connection. I may run a T1 out later on, but the line is still prohibitively expensive (data's not expensive, though) - even if I can get a few neighbors to split the cost.
Most any cell phone that costs more than $0 can do that. The Sanyo in my pocket (which I don't recommend to anyone because it's otherwise a POS) is set up to do that right now, in fact, and cost me about $25...
So, why haven't you fired your Dr. yet? He's working for you, not the other way around. If he's not providing you with acceptable service, find another one. You understand that you'd be fired if you did as poorly for your customers...
I guess you've gotta get down into the 5-digit range to handle both copy/paste and spelling... ;)
Most of the cars you'll see from the 40's had a cowl vent to circulate air. :)
"Newer" cars usually draw air from the cowl (that low-pressure area just below the windshield) when the vent is on (rather than the A/C) as well, so if you just run the fan on vent mode (not all cars can even turn the A/C off now) and just crack the rear windows, you get some ventilation through the car without the drag of having the windows fully opened.
That's odd - I can't find that at all after extensive searches. All I see is "unlimited data" (and that's what my contract reads). Then again, my area doesn't show the option to limit to just mobile broadband plans. Maybe it's just wherever you live - or maybe they figure that, if I have the patience to download that much in my 1xRTT (~160KBps) coverage area, I'm welcome to it. :)
I did find this, though, on http://nextelonline.nextel.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml
Where did you find Sprint's "over 5 GB" price documented? I've got a Sprint 3G card as my primary connection (I don't live in town), and I've ocasionally moved over 30GB for a few months in a row. It costs the same as when I move under 1GB.
Same with my phone - it's a $99/month plan with unlimited text, data, and voice (well, unlimited after 7PM, on weekends, and when I call other Sprint users). I tether my laptop via bluetooth when I travel with a laptop, and it works pretty well. Verizon sucks, as does Cingular - but I'm pretty happy with Sprint's deal.
It's my "cell phone". I pay Sprint about $100/month for their simply unlimited plan. In addition to unlimited (theoretically) bandwidth - which, for the math-challenged, is a whole lot more than 250MB - I also have unlimted text, unlimited picture mail, and more minutes than I need. Best of all, since I already carry a phone around with me, I don't need another device.
Sure, it's not wifi - it's bluetooth (you know, the short-range wireless technology designed for exactly this kind of thing). But luckily, my eeepc supports both. So I can get on the Interwebz with my miniature laptop by just firing up wvdial (pair the bluetooth stuff, set up bluetooth serial, and dial #777). Bang - I'm online. If I get a phone call, I can answer it, and as soon as I hang up, the web's back. If I want people around me to share my bandwidth, I can click a couple of buttons and the eeepc is a wireless access point (with real iptables, which can do pretty much anything). Usually I don't want everyone around me to use my connection, though. :)
If I don't have my eeepc, I can use the browser and email client on the phone.
So, this device costs more than my phone (a random Samsung flip), has way less bandwidth, can't do anything but provide Internet access, and the plan costs more + provides less than any phone data plan. I'm supposed to trade that off for 802.11? Who doesn't have Bluetooth in a device now /and/ doesn't have a USB port for one of those miniature $10 bluetooth dongles?
Never mind that Verizon is the undisputed Great Satan of telephony...
Other than "why do you have a filename which contains a space" and "what's in that file"? :)
Whether or not I could've fixed the problems isn't the point. The point is that there were no problems to fix. I bought a Linux machine, and out of the box, it does the simple things people want to do. There's a phone number in the box someone could call for help if they really needed it; but just clicking "web", "email", "spreadsheet", or "documents" is about as simple as it gets...
I bought an EEEPC, turned it on, selected my wireless network, and proceeded to complete an online course at my local University - including typing papers - with 0 changes to the computer. That EEEPC runs Linux. Firefox was the browser (which several online programs will complain about right off the bat) and Open Office was the word processor. I exported the documents as PDFs, but the exported word documents would've worked just as well. Ok, I technically did install wireshark and tcpdump, since it was a network security course and I needed to use those, but I'm fairly confident that this woman wasn't attempting to take a graduate-level network security course. And it was easier to install those on Linux than Windows...
I've recently installed EEEBuntu on the machine, and like it better - but even that, with the similar easy interface, uses the same programs to do the same things. This woman was clearly unable to learn things, and would've had the same problems with Windows. For example, a new computer often comes with a new MS Office, and new MS Office formats often don't open in older MS Office setups (like a University may well have). My wife was in an online course a year or so ago where there were students having troubles through the semester because their MS Word/PowerPoint versions were newer than the school's version, and documents wouldn't open. Open Office would not have had that issue, as it doesn't usually export to the latest format...
It /is/ hacking - and cracking. Just not the hard kind that requires significant knowledge or gains you the respect of your peers. :) Here in the US, that's "gaining access to data you aren't supposed to access". As an analogy, if you found that I left my car doors unlocked, and I found you sitting in my car, I'd probably proceed to issue you a beatdown whether you actually stole anything or not. I'd probably thank you if you just mentioned that you saw them to be unlocked. This is pretty much the same thing.
Responsibility's a good thing. If I didn't have a family member with a fairly rare (and thus minimally researched), debilitating genetic disorder that has no cure nor effective treatment, I'd probably be using a savings account in combination with a large umbrella policy to protect against catastrophic events that the US's litigation-happy population could potentially foist upon me. :) As it stands, the participating provider discounts and drug plan bring the costs down to about where they should be in fair market, IMHO. If there's any place the government should intervene due to price gouging, it's in this area - until then, I don't personally have an alternative available.
This is an old post, but I feel compelled to note that setting up a savings account for emergency needs *is* insurance. It's self-insurance where you accept the entire risk yourself, rather than distributing the risk across a wide population.
No - eating healthy keeps your children from falling out of trees. It also prevents dumbass drivers with no assets and state-minimum (or no) insurance from plowing into you when their busted-up jalopy's brakes fail as they approach the intersection. So I've heard.
All the crown victorias around here (midwest) get decommissioned somewhere in the 150-200K mile mark, as the frames rust trhough. They still run fine, but when your car breaks in half, you're not chasing down perps any more...
But yeah, I like my retired cop cars. :)
I set root to use an empty password, too, because it drives me mad typing a password every time I log directly in as root to run a web browser.