So, what did they change from the normal Ubuntu release? I don't see any page on the wiki explaining to me what is special about that flavor! Even more so, the wiki mainly seems to be full of hints how to tweak your (Eee?) Ubuntu. One would think that those tweaks could/should already be implemented.
Mod parent up! They didn't just track employees and board members, they tracked hundred thousands of customers, monitoring many journalists that happened to have a T-Mobile phone.
"Here's a compilation of screen shots and descriptions that make it appear to be the case" I honestly don't get it. Those screenshots and descriptions do not have no connection to the summary. The summary makes no sense. What's the point of this story really?
According to the press release, there's a password of sorts. I do not know how the drive receives it at boot time. I'd hope that there's a public key on the drive and one somehow supplies the private key, everything else is just senseless. Still, I fail to see how one could go about that.
From the release:
The key used to encrypt and decrypt data is cryptographically regenerated only when the correct password is received at power-on, and is unattainable when the system is powered off
The advanced secure erase feature immediately invalidates every piece of data just by changing the in-drive encryption key, making the stored data completely indecipherable.
Third, modern fuel has a lower octane rating than older fuel, and so must use a lower compression ratio - which means lower efficiency, as you find out in basic thermodynamics.
Say what? Here in Germany, they kept raising the price of "normal" gasoline to the price of Super (which afaik is 95 octane) and will eventually stop supplying it, because there's absolutely no reason to use lower-octane gasoline, if you get higher-octane gas for the same price. And then pretty much every gas station has something like Shell's V-Power, which essentially is 98 octane gasoline. So, I think you're just mistaken there. Octane numbers keep going up, not down.
Gee, if I were you, I'd just bring two pens and a bit of paper. That'll be lighter, people won't steal it from you, and it's more convenient too. On that kind of trip I'd rather have to type my journal AFTER the trip instead of risking the hassle of losing everything in the middle of nowhere. To be safe, you might take pictures of the pages you've written and then upload them together with all the other pictures you took at your nearest Internet Café. You could even go for your idea of burning DVDs there, most Cafés will probably offer that.
But you would need the ability to restart the host pc and maybe even change boot settings in the BIOS. Plus, my recently purchased laptop can't boot from USB sticks, which is a bad joke:(
After Opera crashed on me for the first time as I was searching for "Firefox" (must not have much self-esteem), I installed the FF beta and proceeded to read the comments to this and the other firefox-related story. Wondering about some sluggishness, I fired up the task manager and was surprised to see a 99% cpu consumption and a memory consumption that was rising by megabytes per second... while the beta wasn't doing a thing but displaying two slashdot stories with comments. Not even the fancy new comment system. I killed it at around 900 mb. The uninstall procedure is nice, though.
I like the imagery, but I believe Toyota's system only turns your steering wheel and tells you to accelerate/brake. And maybe, just maybe, after it parked your car twenty times, you'll notice how parallel parking works and might even be able to do it yourself some day. But seriously, when parking spaces are tight (not talking America here), it'd much prefer a system that tells me "Yes, you can park there" and then basically does the parking for me instead of just some video cameras that leave the judging up to me.
I wonder how well Nissan's system works in the dark.
I wouldn't overestimate the advantages of such a system. It only seems to cover one or two meters around your vehicle, so for it to be advantageous, you and whatever you're trying to avoid would need to be moving quite slowly. Firstly, because you'd need time to pay attention to the screen. And secondly, because you're not going to see that cyclist on your screen before he's right in your windshield, too. So I think that system might help you to not hit grandma walking behind you on Walmarts parking lot, or not hit that low bumper at the end of the parking spot, but it's definitely not going to help the cyclist who's right-of-way you just cut.
You can always "enqueue" instead of "Play in foobar". Or, if that's not what you're looking for, you can easily create additional playlist and/or specify the playlist to which the files will be sent. Then again, I like to keep my music organized by folders and don't have this one-playslist-contains-all many people seem to like. Should still be easily possible, though. Things get fancier with ColumnsUI, which gives you a nicer interface. And then there's albumlist, which enables you to go trough your music, iTunes-style. What I like most about foobar is that it opens instantaneously. Right-click, "Play in foobar", music starts playing. Winamp or the evil WMP always add a certain lag to that, especially under heavy load.
Foobar2k! Best audio player for Windows ever. http://foobar2000.org/ Quite minimalistic, but highly configurable. Very low memory footprint and plays basically everything.
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Holy Cow! 16 out of 19 comments modded +5 are also modded Funny.
Thank you.
So, what did they change from the normal Ubuntu release? I don't see any page on the wiki explaining to me what is special about that flavor! Even more so, the wiki mainly seems to be full of hints how to tweak your (Eee?) Ubuntu. One would think that those tweaks could/should already be implemented.
I know, I know, I must be new here. But I'd really like to RTFA!
Check out the BMW C1. Amazing concept, just ahead of its time.
So, urbandictionary says it might not be the best name to choose.
But seriously, if one atleast could telnet to their server or something, it'd be useful for something!
Mod parent up! They didn't just track employees and board members, they tracked hundred thousands of customers, monitoring many journalists that happened to have a T-Mobile phone.
You must be new here.
From the release:
Say what? Here in Germany, they kept raising the price of "normal" gasoline to the price of Super (which afaik is 95 octane) and will eventually stop supplying it, because there's absolutely no reason to use lower-octane gasoline, if you get higher-octane gas for the same price. And then pretty much every gas station has something like Shell's V-Power, which essentially is 98 octane gasoline.
So, I think you're just mistaken there. Octane numbers keep going up, not down.
OTOH, I don't know nothin' about burning cats.
I really hope they get rid of this cancer-inducing theme. Aaah. My eyes hurt already!
Other than that, it seems a bit snappier than Beta 2 and it broke my customized toolbar layout, but hey, it's a beta. Everything is good now.
Off to finding a new theme.
Gee, if I were you, I'd just bring two pens and a bit of paper. That'll be lighter, people won't steal it from you, and it's more convenient too. On that kind of trip I'd rather have to type my journal AFTER the trip instead of risking the hassle of losing everything in the middle of nowhere. To be safe, you might take pictures of the pages you've written and then upload them together with all the other pictures you took at your nearest Internet Café. You could even go for your idea of burning DVDs there, most Cafés will probably offer that.
Have a great trip.
You can already improve your mileage on the interstate (or autobahn) by using your cruise control.
I know. The cruise control on my Porsche only works up to 190 km/h.
But you would need the ability to restart the host pc and maybe even change boot settings in the BIOS. Plus, my recently purchased laptop can't boot from USB sticks, which is a bad joke :(
After Opera crashed on me for the first time as I was searching for "Firefox" (must not have much self-esteem), I installed the FF beta and proceeded to read the comments to this and the other firefox-related story. Wondering about some sluggishness, I fired up the task manager and was surprised to see a 99% cpu consumption and a memory consumption that was rising by megabytes per second... while the beta wasn't doing a thing but displaying two slashdot stories with comments. Not even the fancy new comment system. I killed it at around 900 mb. The uninstall procedure is nice, though.
Whine as much as you want. I think they're sexy. I want one... bad.
I like the imagery, but I believe Toyota's system only turns your steering wheel and tells you to accelerate/brake. And maybe, just maybe, after it parked your car twenty times, you'll notice how parallel parking works and might even be able to do it yourself some day.
But seriously, when parking spaces are tight (not talking America here), it'd much prefer a system that tells me "Yes, you can park there" and then basically does the parking for me instead of just some video cameras that leave the judging up to me.
I wonder how well Nissan's system works in the dark.
I wouldn't overestimate the advantages of such a system. It only seems to cover one or two meters around your vehicle, so for it to be advantageous, you and whatever you're trying to avoid would need to be moving quite slowly. Firstly, because you'd need time to pay attention to the screen. And secondly, because you're not going to see that cyclist on your screen before he's right in your windshield, too. So I think that system might help you to not hit grandma walking behind you on Walmarts parking lot, or not hit that low bumper at the end of the parking spot, but it's definitely not going to help the cyclist who's right-of-way you just cut.
You can always "enqueue" instead of "Play in foobar". Or, if that's not what you're looking for, you can easily create additional playlist and/or specify the playlist to which the files will be sent. Then again, I like to keep my music organized by folders and don't have this one-playslist-contains-all many people seem to like. Should still be easily possible, though.
Things get fancier with ColumnsUI, which gives you a nicer interface. And then there's albumlist, which enables you to go trough your music, iTunes-style.
What I like most about foobar is that it opens instantaneously. Right-click, "Play in foobar", music starts playing. Winamp or the evil WMP always add a certain lag to that, especially under heavy load.
Foobar2k! Best audio player for Windows ever. http://foobar2000.org/ Quite minimalistic, but highly configurable. Very low memory footprint and plays basically everything.