You are there for vacation. Buy a couple of 8 gig SD cards from one of the online retailers where you can get them cheap, and if you have the need for the internet or something, drop into an internet cafe. Do some research before you go to know where they are (when I went a few years back, the big one I used was a block or two away from Buckingham Palace) and how much they cost. Some may even have memory card readers where, if you feel absolutely necessary to post your pics immediately, you can do it. You will probably spend about as much in your entire two weeks on a cheap internet cafe as you would buying your adaptors, and you do not have to worry about security going through your laptop.
Also, if you are there for two weeks, take some time and get out of London. Its great for three or four days, but take some time, go see Bath, Edensbourough (I can't spell), Blackpool, etc. You will be doing yourself a favor - London is an expensive city, and the countryside is absolutely beautiful (although you are going in December - pack WARM - I went in April and was feezing).
Also, if you got a camera that has a good video mode, may want to ditch the video camera as well. Less to carry around.
Besides, if you do take your laptop, do you plan to carry it around London with you all day, or leave it in your hotel / hostel? Just do yourself a favor, leave it, and enjoy yourself
Because it just recently started being build into the majority of trackers. Also, you cannot do authentication, so sites that require registration and control upload / download rations no longer work. In fact, DHT will probably make registration sites obsolete, unless you want to be sure to release something to a very select group of individuals. I think the main reason for sites taht required registration is to prevent overload on their trackers.
However, didn't recently TPB move outside of the EU? Most of the people running the site are also outside of the EU. I think the only one still living in Sweeden is Pete Brokeup (so I can't spell and am too lazy to look it up), and his twitter post gave the impression that he was just as surprised about this as anyone else, which says to me that he is no longer involved with the site.
Refreash your tracker list, I have been seeding for days. I think the tracker server may be overloaded with all these slashdot people hitting us. The original seeder should really have enabled DHT on this torrent.
Will have to look this one up when I get home. I enjoy CCTV9, and its, um, interesting take on international events. Plus, I just get tickled watching any international commercials! And their learn chinese language shows are actually pretty good.
The diminishing use of IE6 may be thanks to the deminishing use of XP (although I have no facts to show this). Vista has IE7 and Windows 7 has IE8. Also, for those on IE6 on xp, ie8 is now considered a critical update (not so if you are on ie7, ie8 is a recommended update). So, Microsoft themselves is trying to kill IE6. Now, what would be interesting is if the numbers show an actual increase in Firefox users, or just an increse in IE7 & IE8 with a decrease in IE6. While I am sure Firefox may have gained a few points, I am willing to bet the decrease in IE6 is due mostly to MS trying to kill it, and not to users jumping off the MS bandwagon and embracing Firefox.
I am glad someone else said this. Many people (I was like this myself at one time) think that HDTV is 1k, as its generally defined as 1080i. However, its closer to 2k, 2k is defined as the width of the picture, not the height. 2k refrence resolution is 2048×1536 and 4k refence resolution is 4096×3072 (I guess this is a 4x3 resolution). The lower resolutions others have stated (4096x2160) are widescreen digital cinema, so you are NOT experiencing the full 4k standard. What would be smart would be for filmakers to use an anamorphic lense (like they do with film) to film at the full resolution of 4096x3072, and use an anamophic lense to play it back, as you would retain more information that way, but most filmmakers and theaters prefer to simply crop the picture.
That said, most visual effects for films this day and age are only rendered at 2k anyways, and the majority of post is done at 2k, unless the studio really wants to spend high dollar on CGI.
Key word is "supposed to be". No I agree, you are supposed to get most of the bugs released in the alpha and beta stages. However, there are times that bugs are found in the RC stage. Well, truthfully, bugs are found after an actual release as well, but I think my point is, a week is a little short to see if bugs are in there. I mean, in a week, you wouldn't really have time to fix anything, should it arise, in the final release, so at taht point, it kind of negates the whole purpose of having an RC. Granted, I don't think they need to go on for months like Microsoft, but you should give yourself at least a few weeks to fix any issue should it arise.
I am all for the patent system. It CAN help drive innovation. I remember back in business ethincs class in college, I learned that the guy who invented the first photo copier said he never would have invested all the time and money into it if he did not know that he was going to have exclusive rights to make it for, what is it, 18 years?
That being said, there really needs to be better patent review. There is a difference between patenting something that you spent years of R&D on, versus being a patent troll. However, how it should be reformed, I am not the person to offer proper arguments either way.
Isn't the point of a release candidate to give people enough time time to make sure a product is stable and ready for prime time release, and to fix issues should they arise? Wouldn't an OS, with a whole slew of apps, require a bit mroe than a week for this? I mean, a release of Firefox is usually in RC for several weeks, if not months, before it goes from RC to official release.
Microsoft has been shipping out the party packs for a while now. My neighbors installed the signature edition this last weekend. And it has been available for months on Microsoft Volume Licensing Sites.
Um, yeah, but in its defense, there is quite a bit in Linux you cannot do unless you do an su or log in as root. Go ahead and try installing a video driver or something in Linux as a standard user, and see what happens.
Also, it takes a whole 15 seconds to turn UAC off, so that is a poor argument.
I am glad someone other than me asked. I generally read slashdot at work, and generally cannot pull up the links that are posted in slashdot. As such, I was also thinking "how the heck was this not seen before"
Have you priced decent telescopes? I am sure these probably are not too much better than the $50 ones at Wal-Mart, but shoot, I would be willing to plop down $100 to get me one and buy 4 kids one. That is something cheap and practical, and as other people mentioned, in poorer countries with less light polution, this is like the perfect gift. Well, that and food, but I already sponser hungry children and bag food.
This could be true, but most I have seen are due more to user error. Win9x systems were really not that scalable. I know that 98 topped out at 192 meg of RAM, cannot remember what 95 was. That was the main reason I upgraded to 2000, and later XP, Vista, and now running Windows 7 RC - RAM limitations (well, at least up to Vista - Windows 7 is just much more, well, better, than Vista, and XP x64 is a nightmare to work with).
Now, with the older 9x machines, many I have seen with issues are due to viruses. This is due to them either not having a virus software, or having one that has not been updated in years. Another big issue seems to be failing Harddrives. People seem to think that the cheapest harddrive on the shelf is going to last forever. Chkdsk usually reveals otherwise, and it is usually not until you have a complete harddrive failure that these people will listen, and then usually just end up buying a new PC at that point, as it is usually cheaper to go buy a cheap PC than to fix one that is 10+ years old.
That being said, I still see some Windows 3.1, NT 3.5, NT4 and Win95 POS machines around, and they run fine. It all has to do with the maintanance you do with the machine, how much it is used to get online, etc
So the help desk may not be able to help her out. Truthfully, I have not even heard of a campus that used VPN and remote printing. In fact, they probably won't even need a login to access the campus network (ask about that - most just let you plug in to the ethernet or give you a WEP key, and setup DHCP on the thing). I mean, I went to a small Christian University, and they could care less what OS you used, and it was the same with the two other universities in town. Shoot, we had LUG meetings that we held at a different college campus every month. Never had any issues. In fact, I would be shocked if not somewhere in any university she chooses that they do not have at least a couple of Linux machines - CS majors tend to love them.
As for your classroom portals, worse case scenario, set her up a Windows session in a virtual machine. She probably won't need it, but in case she does, she will have it.
Main thing is, just make sure if the univeristy requires a login to use the network in the dorms. If not, assume she can use her Linux laptop there. Shoot, may even want to take it with you and see if you can plug into the ethernet in the dorm and see if you can get on.
The concept of international patents, trademarks and copyright makes a lot of sense. Apply just once, instead of having to understand the rules in each and every country. Not that I support this decision - I hate anything that stiffles innovation and electronic freedoms, but if I were a large corporation, I would deffiantely be pushing for something like this
I actually tried installing Linux on my PS3 when I first got it. Got all the way to the configuration screen and it would not detect any of my USB keyboards. So could not complete the isntall. The bad thing is, rebooting booted back into Linux and to the setup screen. I called Sony and asked them how to get back to the PS3 OS, and they said that when I shut down Linux, there was an option to boot back into the PS3. I was like, um, yeah, but the Linux installation was not successful. They were like, oh, um, return the unit to the store and we hope you got the extended warrenty, otherwise they may not take it back.
Truthfully, no big loss. Those who I know who did successfully get Linux installed on there did it mainly for geek reasons - I cannot think of anyone who actually USED it for anything. My understanding is they crippled the hardware in Linux anyways.
Truthfully, though, you are ranting against Sony? I am not a Sony fan boy, but, truthfully, as far as gaming platforms go, there is only one even remotely in the same league, and then you will have the Microsoft bashers on you. And last I checked, you could not install Linux on it either.
I normally do not know the names of half the songs I like anyways, so Pandora is great for me. Even better - its free. Then I can use my iPhone for what is important - APPS!!!!!
Well that was part of the point - a charge from 20 or 30 years ago with no additional charges versus a serious charge from a year or two ago. And my experience has been most professional jobs do background checks to begin with.
I mean, I am sorry, but if you are a sexual offender, you are not getting a job as a teacher, minister or cleaning carpets in most areas, and you shouldn't expect to. However, it shouldn't prevent you from getting a job as, say, a welder or construction worker. I mean, all this information is already publicly available, there is nothing new that won't be shown by a criminal background check, you are just pretty much linking databases.
Am I the only person who thinks this is a brilliant idea? I mean, if you are going to have a national ID program, yes, by all means, link it to the criminal database. Gosh, think of the money saved on criminal background checks alone! And I am sorry, but if you do have a criminal background, you should be discouraged against. I mean, I think most people are going to be able to see that if you got picked up for speeding in 1977 does not make you subject to not get hired, where a molestation charge in 2006 or something may make them think twice about hiring you as a teacher or someone who is going to be going into people's homes.
The only thing about it is, there needs to be a program where citizens can see what is on their record, and dispute stuff mistakenly entered by inept data entry clerks.
I agree. Most of the things listed here are insane. And how does the OPERATING SYSTEM abuse ODF? I am running OpenOffice quite happily in the RC of Windows 7 and it supports ODF just fine. I use programs such as Adobe Premiere, Audacity, VirtualDub, Photoshop, GIMP, and others, and never once has Windows 7 magically inserted DRM into my files or prevented me from making copies of them. I am happily running Firefox, Chrome and Pidgin. While I am not a huge fan of Microsoft, this really is nothing more than a smear campaign.
What gets me even more is that on the overclocker's page, no one seems to see any issues with this (at least on the first page of posts), yet the Slashdot page is filled with warnings.
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You are there for vacation. Buy a couple of 8 gig SD cards from one of the online retailers where you can get them cheap, and if you have the need for the internet or something, drop into an internet cafe. Do some research before you go to know where they are (when I went a few years back, the big one I used was a block or two away from Buckingham Palace) and how much they cost. Some may even have memory card readers where, if you feel absolutely necessary to post your pics immediately, you can do it. You will probably spend about as much in your entire two weeks on a cheap internet cafe as you would buying your adaptors, and you do not have to worry about security going through your laptop.
Also, if you are there for two weeks, take some time and get out of London. Its great for three or four days, but take some time, go see Bath, Edensbourough (I can't spell), Blackpool, etc. You will be doing yourself a favor - London is an expensive city, and the countryside is absolutely beautiful (although you are going in December - pack WARM - I went in April and was feezing).
Also, if you got a camera that has a good video mode, may want to ditch the video camera as well. Less to carry around.
Besides, if you do take your laptop, do you plan to carry it around London with you all day, or leave it in your hotel / hostel? Just do yourself a favor, leave it, and enjoy yourself
Sorry, to the majority of clients. I should really proofread before I hit Submit.
Because it just recently started being build into the majority of trackers. Also, you cannot do authentication, so sites that require registration and control upload / download rations no longer work. In fact, DHT will probably make registration sites obsolete, unless you want to be sure to release something to a very select group of individuals. I think the main reason for sites taht required registration is to prevent overload on their trackers.
However, didn't recently TPB move outside of the EU? Most of the people running the site are also outside of the EU. I think the only one still living in Sweeden is Pete Brokeup (so I can't spell and am too lazy to look it up), and his twitter post gave the impression that he was just as surprised about this as anyone else, which says to me that he is no longer involved with the site.
Refreash your tracker list, I have been seeding for days. I think the tracker server may be overloaded with all these slashdot people hitting us. The original seeder should really have enabled DHT on this torrent.
Will have to look this one up when I get home. I enjoy CCTV9, and its, um, interesting take on international events. Plus, I just get tickled watching any international commercials! And their learn chinese language shows are actually pretty good.
The diminishing use of IE6 may be thanks to the deminishing use of XP (although I have no facts to show this). Vista has IE7 and Windows 7 has IE8. Also, for those on IE6 on xp, ie8 is now considered a critical update (not so if you are on ie7, ie8 is a recommended update). So, Microsoft themselves is trying to kill IE6. Now, what would be interesting is if the numbers show an actual increase in Firefox users, or just an increse in IE7 & IE8 with a decrease in IE6. While I am sure Firefox may have gained a few points, I am willing to bet the decrease in IE6 is due mostly to MS trying to kill it, and not to users jumping off the MS bandwagon and embracing Firefox.
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I am glad someone else said this. Many people (I was like this myself at one time) think that HDTV is 1k, as its generally defined as 1080i. However, its closer to 2k, 2k is defined as the width of the picture, not the height. 2k refrence resolution is 2048×1536 and 4k refence resolution is 4096×3072 (I guess this is a 4x3 resolution). The lower resolutions others have stated (4096x2160) are widescreen digital cinema, so you are NOT experiencing the full 4k standard. What would be smart would be for filmakers to use an anamorphic lense (like they do with film) to film at the full resolution of 4096x3072, and use an anamophic lense to play it back, as you would retain more information that way, but most filmmakers and theaters prefer to simply crop the picture.
That said, most visual effects for films this day and age are only rendered at 2k anyways, and the majority of post is done at 2k, unless the studio really wants to spend high dollar on CGI.
Key word is "supposed to be". No I agree, you are supposed to get most of the bugs released in the alpha and beta stages. However, there are times that bugs are found in the RC stage. Well, truthfully, bugs are found after an actual release as well, but I think my point is, a week is a little short to see if bugs are in there. I mean, in a week, you wouldn't really have time to fix anything, should it arise, in the final release, so at taht point, it kind of negates the whole purpose of having an RC. Granted, I don't think they need to go on for months like Microsoft, but you should give yourself at least a few weeks to fix any issue should it arise.
I am all for the patent system. It CAN help drive innovation. I remember back in business ethincs class in college, I learned that the guy who invented the first photo copier said he never would have invested all the time and money into it if he did not know that he was going to have exclusive rights to make it for, what is it, 18 years?
That being said, there really needs to be better patent review. There is a difference between patenting something that you spent years of R&D on, versus being a patent troll. However, how it should be reformed, I am not the person to offer proper arguments either way.
Isn't the point of a release candidate to give people enough time time to make sure a product is stable and ready for prime time release, and to fix issues should they arise? Wouldn't an OS, with a whole slew of apps, require a bit mroe than a week for this? I mean, a release of Firefox is usually in RC for several weeks, if not months, before it goes from RC to official release.
Microsoft has been shipping out the party packs for a while now. My neighbors installed the signature edition this last weekend. And it has been available for months on Microsoft Volume Licensing Sites.
Um, yeah, but in its defense, there is quite a bit in Linux you cannot do unless you do an su or log in as root. Go ahead and try installing a video driver or something in Linux as a standard user, and see what happens.
Also, it takes a whole 15 seconds to turn UAC off, so that is a poor argument.
I am glad someone other than me asked. I generally read slashdot at work, and generally cannot pull up the links that are posted in slashdot. As such, I was also thinking "how the heck was this not seen before"
Have you priced decent telescopes? I am sure these probably are not too much better than the $50 ones at Wal-Mart, but shoot, I would be willing to plop down $100 to get me one and buy 4 kids one. That is something cheap and practical, and as other people mentioned, in poorer countries with less light polution, this is like the perfect gift. Well, that and food, but I already sponser hungry children and bag food.
This could be true, but most I have seen are due more to user error. Win9x systems were really not that scalable. I know that 98 topped out at 192 meg of RAM, cannot remember what 95 was. That was the main reason I upgraded to 2000, and later XP, Vista, and now running Windows 7 RC - RAM limitations (well, at least up to Vista - Windows 7 is just much more, well, better, than Vista, and XP x64 is a nightmare to work with).
Now, with the older 9x machines, many I have seen with issues are due to viruses. This is due to them either not having a virus software, or having one that has not been updated in years. Another big issue seems to be failing Harddrives. People seem to think that the cheapest harddrive on the shelf is going to last forever. Chkdsk usually reveals otherwise, and it is usually not until you have a complete harddrive failure that these people will listen, and then usually just end up buying a new PC at that point, as it is usually cheaper to go buy a cheap PC than to fix one that is 10+ years old.
That being said, I still see some Windows 3.1, NT 3.5, NT4 and Win95 POS machines around, and they run fine. It all has to do with the maintanance you do with the machine, how much it is used to get online, etc
So the help desk may not be able to help her out. Truthfully, I have not even heard of a campus that used VPN and remote printing. In fact, they probably won't even need a login to access the campus network (ask about that - most just let you plug in to the ethernet or give you a WEP key, and setup DHCP on the thing). I mean, I went to a small Christian University, and they could care less what OS you used, and it was the same with the two other universities in town. Shoot, we had LUG meetings that we held at a different college campus every month. Never had any issues. In fact, I would be shocked if not somewhere in any university she chooses that they do not have at least a couple of Linux machines - CS majors tend to love them.
As for your classroom portals, worse case scenario, set her up a Windows session in a virtual machine. She probably won't need it, but in case she does, she will have it.
Main thing is, just make sure if the univeristy requires a login to use the network in the dorms. If not, assume she can use her Linux laptop there. Shoot, may even want to take it with you and see if you can plug into the ethernet in the dorm and see if you can get on.
The concept of international patents, trademarks and copyright makes a lot of sense. Apply just once, instead of having to understand the rules in each and every country. Not that I support this decision - I hate anything that stiffles innovation and electronic freedoms, but if I were a large corporation, I would deffiantely be pushing for something like this
I actually tried installing Linux on my PS3 when I first got it. Got all the way to the configuration screen and it would not detect any of my USB keyboards. So could not complete the isntall. The bad thing is, rebooting booted back into Linux and to the setup screen. I called Sony and asked them how to get back to the PS3 OS, and they said that when I shut down Linux, there was an option to boot back into the PS3. I was like, um, yeah, but the Linux installation was not successful. They were like, oh, um, return the unit to the store and we hope you got the extended warrenty, otherwise they may not take it back.
Truthfully, no big loss. Those who I know who did successfully get Linux installed on there did it mainly for geek reasons - I cannot think of anyone who actually USED it for anything. My understanding is they crippled the hardware in Linux anyways.
Truthfully, though, you are ranting against Sony? I am not a Sony fan boy, but, truthfully, as far as gaming platforms go, there is only one even remotely in the same league, and then you will have the Microsoft bashers on you. And last I checked, you could not install Linux on it either.
I normally do not know the names of half the songs I like anyways, so Pandora is great for me. Even better - its free. Then I can use my iPhone for what is important - APPS!!!!!
Well that was part of the point - a charge from 20 or 30 years ago with no additional charges versus a serious charge from a year or two ago. And my experience has been most professional jobs do background checks to begin with.
I mean, I am sorry, but if you are a sexual offender, you are not getting a job as a teacher, minister or cleaning carpets in most areas, and you shouldn't expect to. However, it shouldn't prevent you from getting a job as, say, a welder or construction worker. I mean, all this information is already publicly available, there is nothing new that won't be shown by a criminal background check, you are just pretty much linking databases.
Am I the only person who thinks this is a brilliant idea? I mean, if you are going to have a national ID program, yes, by all means, link it to the criminal database. Gosh, think of the money saved on criminal background checks alone! And I am sorry, but if you do have a criminal background, you should be discouraged against. I mean, I think most people are going to be able to see that if you got picked up for speeding in 1977 does not make you subject to not get hired, where a molestation charge in 2006 or something may make them think twice about hiring you as a teacher or someone who is going to be going into people's homes.
The only thing about it is, there needs to be a program where citizens can see what is on their record, and dispute stuff mistakenly entered by inept data entry clerks.
I agree. Most of the things listed here are insane. And how does the OPERATING SYSTEM abuse ODF? I am running OpenOffice quite happily in the RC of Windows 7 and it supports ODF just fine. I use programs such as Adobe Premiere, Audacity, VirtualDub, Photoshop, GIMP, and others, and never once has Windows 7 magically inserted DRM into my files or prevented me from making copies of them. I am happily running Firefox, Chrome and Pidgin. While I am not a huge fan of Microsoft, this really is nothing more than a smear campaign.
What gets me even more is that on the overclocker's page, no one seems to see any issues with this (at least on the first page of posts), yet the Slashdot page is filled with warnings.