Finally canonical is showing it's evil side. Building revenue from selling support probarly does not cover the costs and datamining does. So expect this "feature" to be beafed up to collect (anonymous) statisctical data..
But hey, if you are savvy enough to install ubuntu, you can remove the package...
1. Go geocaching. http://www.geocaching.com/ (be geeky outdoors).. Outdoors, in nature, no books, no pc just you, your spouse and a gps. This will force you to interact, solve problems together which will teach you to solve YOUR problems together..
2. Do "the mariage course" http://relationshipcentral.org/ It almost ended my marriage but made it stronger in the long run. It is very practical because it is adapted to your needs. there are common theme nights where a subject is explained and then you discuss it together. every couple in our course enjoyed and had benefits from different subjects.
there was this instructable cable organiser http://www.instructables.com/id/The-IKEA-charging-box---no-more-cable-mess!-Very-e/ (a closed plastic box containing powersockets and had a few holes in it so you have a dust-proof container with just a few small adapter plugs coming out. The only problem i have with a solution like that is that you cannot individually switch te adapters on and off. But, if you build your own set of powersockets and add a powerswitch for every socket ( by british example ). you can save clutter and money (and heat for that matter)
When i move i am planning to build a cabletree inside a PVC pipe (sewer / rainpipe)
Tanenbaum (the creator of Minix, the main inspiration of Linus) is dutch..
In Amsterdam he is teaching in the CS department of the VU (Free (as in speech) university)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/sec/index.php
You can take a course here and travel europe in the same time. Dutch people speak english (as opposed to the french or german people) and spain is a 12 hour drive or a 2 hour flight. The UK is next doors..
on the other hand.. we only have one (1) starbucks in the entire country...
the first black US president.. The rest of the world is ok with coloured people in office for centuries now..
A dutch Poet / commedian said this morning:
Africa congratualtes America with their first black president.. The have had many black presidents.. now all they need is food..
But ot react to what it will mean for the nation.. I say "what nation" My country is not really affected. McCains and Obama's foreign policy will not be very different from each other..
I hope Obama understands that with great power comes great responsibillity.. And as the president of the most infoluencial country in the world he should know that his responsibility does not end at the border OR at the Oil wells...
I've read about india's rural area's. If only one person "escapes" from poverty the entire village benefits of it. It was a news story a few months ago about a preteen girl that turned tricks and by her first trick she was able to build her family a brick house..(how regrettable it is that she chose prostitution as a way out it WAS a way out and she chose to do so herself) But there are numerous stories. If one "peasant" starts working as a clerk for an multinational he does not only funds his village school but also inspires his neighbours to escape from poverty. India and China are the world fastest growing economies..
And about that flamebait rating.. No flamebait intended..
A sad truth but the United States of America is now reaching for mars while millions in the nation are still dying from hunger and live in seriously abject poverty. And I mean real poverty.
India is not / no longer part of the third world.
Wake up and smell the coffee. It is Asia that is going to rule the world this century. China and India are both in a race into space, both large players in the world economy (outsourcing of technical staff to india, industry to China). Besides, India and China have 1 billion+ innhabitants each so a third of the world population is living there..
Where America fails to deliver payload to the ISS (where Russia is succeeding) Asia is quickly catching up.
The whole world should turn their economy towards renewable energy and towards Asia instead of Oil and America. As european i don't understand where the american arrogance (and ignorance) comes from..
No flamebait intended
And he (or she) was almost right.
Feyenoord used to be a small village mext to rotterdam which was aglomerated by Rotterdam but still seen as it's own little village (Rotterdam-North inhabitants call inhabitants of the southern parts of Rotterdam Farmers)
The football club Feyenoord was started as a small socker team for the dockworkers living in Rotterdam and is currently the most succesfull soccerteam from rotterdam (ciiaw) and the onlyone left in the highest dutch league..
This image was encountered as early as 1999 (if i recall correctly) so the little boy must be old enough to read slashdot..
Oh my goodness.. that last guy asks for it: "Get rid of me"... The question is.. What did he post? And he is mentioning "his dad's lawyer" that makes him just a kid...
About the trolls.. Troll is used in both ways: fishing with bait and troll as in fairytail creature (don't feed the troll)
to add to the theology fun: in icelandic native creation story (a little bit mixed up with the christian version) the trolls are the unwashed children of adam and eve.. God showed up to see about adam and eve's wellbeing and asked "are these all your children and eve, hiding the unwashed children, answered yes.. God punished eve and hid the children for peoples eyes...
am i this bored that i end up in idle.slashdot.. it must be " komkommertijd" *
*dutch literal: cucumbertime.; summer period (when cucumbers are harvested, when there is not enough interesting news)
You would think that, with the world wide web the world would have changed into a global village where you buy your goods at cheapest option.. In some cases you cannot. You cannot buy software / hardware from the US and have it shipped overseas.. You have to order it at a local reseller or a local version of the shop..
Even before the cheap dollar this was the case. " the Man " asks the high prices because he can.. Stick it to the man and stop using m$ and adobe products..
As for hardware, buy it at a reseller in the US and have it shipped to you. Shipping and VAT / Import taxes do not weigh up to a more than double price.
i ordered my GPS from a US store and it costed 40$ shipping and taxes and still it was cheaper (and faster) to order it in the US.. For dutch speaking people english software / hardware (e.g. GPS / Audio-video eq.) is not an issue.. why bother to translate..
in the grey circuit you can buy Paralell imported goods and it is actually legal. Imported from third world countries you can get state of the art hardware and software that is "just" one model behind bleeding edge for half the price.
There could be a nice open source Outlook/Exchange replacement. There is Scalix. the only TRUE Exchange replacement. And nowadays Mozilla can use its features aswell.
It wouldn't be inherently hard to build, but it seems that nobody is interested in doing it. Most of the stuff that gets a lot of attention is the stuff that developers are interested in building. I guess it WAS hard to build because the two exchange alternatives (openexchange and Zimbra) can not keep up. The development was started @HP.. then sold to samsung (the both sold it because M$ pressured into dropping development) and now is owned by xandros...
I second that
AND you get a Bloatwareless/crapless pc.
If you calculate what you cost (per hour) times the time it costs removing the Redmond OS and installing Linux = cheaper to have Linux preinstalled..
But you do the math
which allows users to install and uninstall Ubuntu like any other Windows application.
Since when is Ubuntu a windows application? It isn't even an application.. It is a Linux distribution. If Wubi get's out into the world as "the way to install Ubuntu" noob users will assume they need Windows to install a Linux distro..
why is no one creating an app to turn it around?
You can convert your Windows partition to a VMware disk and save it to an USB disk or network store..
Install a Linux distro,
install a Virtual Machine player (Innotek virtualbox, VMware)
put the disk back and load windows from within Linux..
And install and uninstall windows like any other Linux distribution software package
Across the pond, in the Netherlands (guess where i live) it is illegal to use another computer sytem or network that is not yours and you do not have consent to use... It has been so since september 2006..
So far no arrests yet.. cops here don't understand they have to impound your machine to prove you used a wireless network that is not yours...
The discussion here was about how you can prove someone gave consent to let you use his or her network.. Well you have Fon and stuff but if you do not secure your wireless network you can not specify who you give access. In a perfect world every WAP is secured by default and you are nagged for a password...
in a perfect world...maranatha
In the Netherlands Analog tv is already dead. Protest could not help it.. All users with campervans and caravans have to buy a satelite dish ore digital receiver..
Governement claims it saves millions a year. I beg to differ.
the cheapest solution now is to buy an 80 buck digital reciever just to get your free-to-air channels... ANd you have to have an recent tv (with scart) otherwise: no sigar!
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Next time better ask the question at www.iccm.org or just refrain from mentioning your faith.. apparantly it brings out the worst in some people
Finally canonical is showing it's evil side. Building revenue from selling support probarly does not cover the costs and datamining does. So expect this "feature" to be beafed up to collect (anonymous) statisctical data.. But hey, if you are savvy enough to install ubuntu, you can remove the package...
according to Bill Gates you need 640k maximum ..
1. Go geocaching. http://www.geocaching.com/ (be geeky outdoors) .. Outdoors, in nature, no books, no pc just you, your spouse and a gps. This will force you to interact, solve problems together which will teach you to solve YOUR problems together..
2. Do "the mariage course" http://relationshipcentral.org/ It almost ended my marriage but made it stronger in the long run. It is very practical because it is adapted to your needs. there are common theme nights where a subject is explained and then you discuss it together. every couple in our course enjoyed and had benefits from different subjects.
there was this instructable cable organiser http://www.instructables.com/id/The-IKEA-charging-box---no-more-cable-mess!-Very-e/ (a closed plastic box containing powersockets and had a few holes in it so you have a dust-proof container with just a few small adapter plugs coming out. The only problem i have with a solution like that is that you cannot individually switch te adapters on and off. But, if you build your own set of powersockets and add a powerswitch for every socket ( by british example ). you can save clutter and money (and heat for that matter) When i move i am planning to build a cabletree inside a PVC pipe (sewer / rainpipe)
Tanenbaum (the creator of Minix, the main inspiration of Linus) is dutch.. In Amsterdam he is teaching in the CS department of the VU (Free (as in speech) university) http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/sec/index.php You can take a course here and travel europe in the same time. Dutch people speak english (as opposed to the french or german people) and spain is a 12 hour drive or a 2 hour flight. The UK is next doors.. on the other hand.. we only have one (1) starbucks in the entire country...
the first black US president.. The rest of the world is ok with coloured people in office for centuries now.. A dutch Poet / commedian said this morning: Africa congratualtes America with their first black president.. The have had many black presidents.. now all they need is food.. But ot react to what it will mean for the nation.. I say "what nation" My country is not really affected. McCains and Obama's foreign policy will not be very different from each other.. I hope Obama understands that with great power comes great responsibillity.. And as the president of the most infoluencial country in the world he should know that his responsibility does not end at the border OR at the Oil wells...
I've read about india's rural area's. If only one person "escapes" from poverty the entire village benefits of it. It was a news story a few months ago about a preteen girl that turned tricks and by her first trick she was able to build her family a brick house..(how regrettable it is that she chose prostitution as a way out it WAS a way out and she chose to do so herself) But there are numerous stories. If one "peasant" starts working as a clerk for an multinational he does not only funds his village school but also inspires his neighbours to escape from poverty. India and China are the world fastest growing economies.. And about that flamebait rating.. No flamebait intended..
A sad truth but the United States of America is now reaching for mars while millions in the nation are still dying from hunger and live in seriously abject poverty. And I mean real poverty.
India is not / no longer part of the third world. Wake up and smell the coffee. It is Asia that is going to rule the world this century. China and India are both in a race into space, both large players in the world economy (outsourcing of technical staff to india, industry to China). Besides, India and China have 1 billion+ innhabitants each so a third of the world population is living there.. Where America fails to deliver payload to the ISS (where Russia is succeeding) Asia is quickly catching up. The whole world should turn their economy towards renewable energy and towards Asia instead of Oil and America. As european i don't understand where the american arrogance (and ignorance) comes from.. No flamebait intended
Was it back up before the bell rang and did the Micro$oft stock plumit? in a dutch dialect dot-net translates into "doesn't work" ;-)
And he (or she) was almost right. Feyenoord used to be a small village mext to rotterdam which was aglomerated by Rotterdam but still seen as it's own little village (Rotterdam-North inhabitants call inhabitants of the southern parts of Rotterdam Farmers) The football club Feyenoord was started as a small socker team for the dockworkers living in Rotterdam and is currently the most succesfull soccerteam from rotterdam (ciiaw) and the onlyone left in the highest dutch league.. This image was encountered as early as 1999 (if i recall correctly) so the little boy must be old enough to read slashdot..
Oh my goodness.. that last guy asks for it: "Get rid of me"... The question is.. What did he post? And he is mentioning "his dad's lawyer" that makes him just a kid... About the trolls.. Troll is used in both ways: fishing with bait and troll as in fairytail creature (don't feed the troll) to add to the theology fun: in icelandic native creation story (a little bit mixed up with the christian version) the trolls are the unwashed children of adam and eve.. God showed up to see about adam and eve's wellbeing and asked "are these all your children and eve, hiding the unwashed children, answered yes.. God punished eve and hid the children for peoples eyes... am i this bored that i end up in idle.slashdot .. it must be " komkommertijd" *
*dutch literal: cucumbertime.; summer period (when cucumbers are harvested, when there is not enough interesting news)
You would think that, with the world wide web the world would have changed into a global village where you buy your goods at cheapest option.. In some cases you cannot. You cannot buy software / hardware from the US and have it shipped overseas.. You have to order it at a local reseller or a local version of the shop.. Even before the cheap dollar this was the case. " the Man " asks the high prices because he can.. Stick it to the man and stop using m$ and adobe products.. As for hardware, buy it at a reseller in the US and have it shipped to you. Shipping and VAT / Import taxes do not weigh up to a more than double price. i ordered my GPS from a US store and it costed 40$ shipping and taxes and still it was cheaper (and faster) to order it in the US.. For dutch speaking people english software / hardware (e.g. GPS / Audio-video eq.) is not an issue.. why bother to translate.. in the grey circuit you can buy Paralell imported goods and it is actually legal. Imported from third world countries you can get state of the art hardware and software that is "just" one model behind bleeding edge for half the price.
I second that AND you get a Bloatwareless/crapless pc. If you calculate what you cost (per hour) times the time it costs removing the Redmond OS and installing Linux = cheaper to have Linux preinstalled.. But you do the math
Across the pond, in the Netherlands (guess where i live) it is illegal to use another computer sytem or network that is not yours and you do not have consent to use... It has been so since september 2006.. So far no arrests yet.. cops here don't understand they have to impound your machine to prove you used a wireless network that is not yours... The discussion here was about how you can prove someone gave consent to let you use his or her network.. Well you have Fon and stuff but if you do not secure your wireless network you can not specify who you give access. In a perfect world every WAP is secured by default and you are nagged for a password ...
in a perfect world...maranatha
In the Netherlands Analog tv is already dead. Protest could not help it.. All users with campervans and caravans have to buy a satelite dish ore digital receiver.. Governement claims it saves millions a year. I beg to differ. the cheapest solution now is to buy an 80 buck digital reciever just to get your free-to-air channels... ANd you have to have an recent tv (with scart) otherwise: no sigar!