I like Levengers bottled ink. Flows well, dries on the page quickly, doesn't clog the nibs of my (US$5) Cross fountain pens after months of non-use. Great colors, bold without getting deeper when lines cross. I like Namiki bottled ink for my daily use pens, it dries even faster on the page (as a lefty, this is important to me) and is a nice deep black.
Sure you can. and they even do the hard work of converting it to English for you. And they have a warranty.
However, I'd like to put in a plug for Fujitsu's US models, especially the S and P2000 series. Very small (4 and 3.4 pounds, respectively), with the S series having the edge in raw horsepower. Both have builtin DVD/CD-RW drives, and the P2K gets over 12 hours on battery with it's Transmeta CPU.
I have an older S series, and it's brilliant. With RH Linux 7.1 on it, the performance is more than adequate. It's been as durable as I've needed it to be (fell off the desk once, crashed to the floor and wasn't damaged). The only real problem I've had is that the pain on the left side of the palmrest is wearing off, and it picked up some scratches on the top lid when I had it loose in my backpack. I still get comments on how sexy it is on a regular basis.
OTOH, if she's an OS X fan, that's probably the way to go. Despite some comments to the contrary, the screen on the 15" iBook is wonderful. It's viewable from all angles, which is very unusual for an LCD.
You're right, there isn't. And as the original author, I'm *horrified* that anyone thought otherwise, or that I was attempting to bait flames. I was simply reflecting on the people that I saw left facing a tough trip home, having just seen colleagues killed, and looking down from a long way away. No, there is absolutely nothing funny here.
When's the last time your alarm clock broke? Or your wristwatch? Solid-state electronics is a lot more reliable than you give it credit for being.
I can think of two relevant times where my watch broke. Last week, I fell and the impact shattered the (mineral glass) crystal. The impact just hit the wrong way, and it broke.
The other time, I took a blow from a rattan "sword" (think baseball bat) on a sheild. It was a light sheild, so most of the force of the blow continued on into my arm. The watch just stopped, dead.
Why are these relevant? Because one of the things that happens in combat is that you get hit. Both you and your critical equipment *must* continue to function. I'm as certain as I can be that my Glock would survive either circumstance.
And the alarm clock? Well, there's a reason I have two...
Besides, this is a gun we're talking about. There's a nonzero chance that the gun itself is going to fail when you pull the trigger. Does anybody spend a lot of time worrying about that?
Actually, yes. I've spent a few thousand dollars, many hours, and an amazing amount of ammunition making absolutely certain that the combination of ammo, firearm and shooter work together, every time. Any serious defensive shooter does the same.
Responsible parents need to accept the liabilities associated with gun ownership, and lock up their firearms as appropriate, when there are children in the environment..
By that logic, we should take the seat belts out of all the cars. If people would just accept the liabilities associated with car ownership, and drive carefully, there would be no car crashes. Right?
Wrong. I know when children, or adults I don't entirely trust with a gun, are going to be in my home, and secure my weapons and other dangerous substances (cleaners, for example) appropriately. I can not know when an car accident will happen, and cannot take the time when it does to secure myself.
I like the other poster's analogy that it's more like securing the keys, so they kids don't take off joyriding.
This new NJ mess is more like mandating that only I can drive my car. What happens when my girlfriend needs to drive? What happens when someone's life depends on her ability to drive that car?
It's suprisingly good for talking. Dialing is another matter, but just flip it closed before you hit send (press the wheel). Navigating phone trees, on the other hand...
The 20mm projectiles the aircraft's cannon fires at a very high rate also remain lethal for some distance. Also, where a laser will only hit the Earth if it's fired in that direction, with projectiles, what goes up will come down.
OK, your a narcasistic neo-Luddite, for putting the safety, well-being and convenience of others behind your own convenience, and for blaming the technology for what is clearly a social problem.
*Hey* don't look at me like that! You *said* to put you down for "A"!;)
I can't speak to Sprint's network, but I use Verizon's Express Network with a Kyocera 2235 and a laptop running Linux. It works fine, just like a dialup modem. You send it a funny init string (AT$QCMDR=3) then dial (ATDT#777) having configured your username(@vzw3g.com) and password (vzw) in pap-secrets, and enjoy wireless surfing goodness.
My "wow, that was cool" 3G experience was recently while traveling I got stuck overnight, and needed a car & hotel, and would be arriving too late to arrange those things comfortably when I got there. So, I just hooked my mobile to my laptop, and used Travelocity just like I was at home. The equivilent 2G experience would have been making a dozen calls to check availability and rates at different hotels and car rental places, not to mention the hassel of finding out what was close to the airport in an unfamiliar town.
FWIW, I think you're better off getting a media format that will play nicely with your other gear, but if it's a matter of getting the right camerea with the wrong media or the wrong camera with the right media, I'll take the wrong media every time.
On the other hand, they've done very well by me, and several of my friends. Their C/S reps have gone well above and beyond when necessary, and their technical people usually have a clue. This is in contrast to my experience with Cingular who did not, last I checked, even have 24 hour support, where no one seems to have a clue about data. Also contrast against Metrocall, who's operators can't be arsed to pick up the phone, and who's C/S reps will tell you they are fixing any bogus thing to get you off the phone, without apparently accomplishing enything. My experience with Verizon puts them well ahead of the pack.
Kyocera sells the serial and USB cables, a belt clip, cable to go directly to a Palm III or V (not the newer Palms:( ) software to sync the address book (and maybe other stuff, I don't have it yet) and some other useful accessories from their online store. Thesupplynet.com is working on a cable to go from this phone to the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (oh, the joy!).
Using the serial cable and a supported USB-serial adapter it works fine for me under Linux. These are the settings you need: init string = AT$QCMDR=3 serial speed = 115200 phone number = #777 username = @vzw3g.com password = vzw
The real benefit only comes when you have a device capable of displaying something more than small amounts of text (although getting your WAP page in 50 seconds vice 65 and thus only being billed one minute instead of two is an advantage. If you do that a lot, you might even notice.:)
If you can hook up your phone to your laptop or handheld (or are patient and get a smartphone with 3G abilities) then you can do essentially what you do from your desk, from anywhere. Some people do not care about that, which is fine, but for others, it's a worthwhile advantage (I *LIKE* working from wherever I am, and yes, I've done it).
For the pure voice user, calls will be clearer (the phone will at least have a shot at getting a retransmitted voice packet before it's needed, thus lowering the occurance of drop outs), capacity will be used more efficiently (packet switched vice circuit switched means multiple calls can share the same chunk of spectrum) and batteries will last longer (I have no idea why, but that's what they tell me).
I actually have one of these, the Kyocera 2235, that I'm using with a serial cable to do dial-up with the Verizon supplied ISP under Linux. My perception is that it is perhaps marginally faster than landline dialup. I'm pretty happy with it, actually.
I consider the combination of this with the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 to be an excellent mobile data solution. Not perfect, but excellent.
By employing a "defense in depth" outlook to anticipate possible future exploits and developing means to defeat them.
An example of why this matters would be a "file exposure" vulnerability in one of your cgi scripts. This might allow an attacker the capability to view/etc/passwd. If you used shadow passwords grabbing the encrypted passwords would not be possible if you didn't run the web server as root (you don't, do you?). This would limit the usefulness of the file exposure exploit without you even knowing it exists.
Defense-in-depth is the process of tying up those niggling not-really-exploitable problems, and employing all reasonable security measures on a "why not?" basis. It will save you when the impossible happens. It's shutting off NTP even though for twenty years it hasn't been a problem and you look like a god when on some rainy Friday afternoon someone publishes a remote root-access exploit for it.
The problem is that "fair use" is not something you are guaranteed. If you are acting within your "fair use rights" you cannot be prosecuted for copyright infringement, however, there is no law requiring either the content producers or media player manufacturers to provide you with a means to exercise those "rights."
So if you find a way to circumvent the copy protection on a CD, for example, and do so for your personal use only (for example, to put the content on an MP3 player to use while jogging) you cannot be successfully prosecuted for copyright infringement (DMCA is another matter) in a sane court. However, if you cannot find a way to circumvent said copy protection, you cannot sue to have a means provided for you.
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In the US too, buddy. Count on it.
I like Levengers bottled ink. Flows well, dries on the page quickly, doesn't clog the nibs of my (US$5) Cross fountain pens after months of non-use. Great colors, bold without getting deeper when lines cross. I like Namiki bottled ink for my daily use pens, it dries even faster on the page (as a lefty, this is important to me) and is a nice deep black.
Sure you can. and they even do the hard work of converting it to English for you. And they have a warranty.
However, I'd like to put in a plug for Fujitsu's US models, especially the S and P2000 series. Very small (4 and 3.4 pounds, respectively), with the S series having the edge in raw horsepower. Both have builtin DVD/CD-RW drives, and the P2K gets over 12 hours on battery with it's Transmeta CPU.
I have an older S series, and it's brilliant. With RH Linux 7.1 on it, the performance is more than adequate. It's been as durable as I've needed it to be (fell off the desk once, crashed to the floor and wasn't damaged). The only real problem I've had is that the pain on the left side of the palmrest is wearing off, and it picked up some scratches on the top lid when I had it loose in my backpack. I still get comments on how sexy it is on a regular basis.
OTOH, if she's an OS X fan, that's probably the way to go. Despite some comments to the contrary, the screen on the 15" iBook is wonderful. It's viewable from all angles, which is very unusual for an LCD.
You're right, there isn't. And as the original author, I'm *horrified* that anyone thought otherwise, or that I was attempting to bait flames. I was simply reflecting on the people that I saw left facing a tough trip home, having just seen colleagues killed, and looking down from a long way away. No, there is absolutely nothing funny here.
Imagine the horror for the people still on ISS.
When's the last time your alarm clock broke? Or your wristwatch? Solid-state electronics is a lot more reliable than you give it credit for being.
I can think of two relevant times where my watch broke. Last week, I fell and the impact shattered the (mineral glass) crystal. The impact just hit the wrong way, and it broke.
The other time, I took a blow from a rattan "sword" (think baseball bat) on a sheild. It was a light sheild, so most of the force of the blow continued on into my arm. The watch just stopped, dead.
Why are these relevant? Because one of the things that happens in combat is that you get hit. Both you and your critical equipment *must* continue to function. I'm as certain as I can be that my Glock would survive either circumstance.
And the alarm clock? Well, there's a reason I have two...
Besides, this is a gun we're talking about. There's a nonzero chance that the gun itself is going to fail when you pull the trigger. Does anybody spend a lot of time worrying about that?
Actually, yes. I've spent a few thousand dollars, many hours, and an amazing amount of ammunition making absolutely certain that the combination of ammo, firearm and shooter work together, every time. Any serious defensive shooter does the same.
Responsible parents need to accept the liabilities associated with gun ownership, and lock up their firearms as appropriate, when there are children in the environment..
By that logic, we should take the seat belts out of all the cars. If people would just accept the liabilities associated with car ownership, and drive carefully, there would be no car crashes. Right?
Wrong. I know when children, or adults I don't entirely trust with a gun, are going to be in my home, and secure my weapons and other dangerous substances (cleaners, for example) appropriately. I can not know when an car accident will happen, and cannot take the time when it does to secure myself.
I like the other poster's analogy that it's more like securing the keys, so they kids don't take off joyriding.
This new NJ mess is more like mandating that only I can drive my car. What happens when my girlfriend needs to drive? What happens when someone's life depends on her ability to drive that car?
It's suprisingly good for talking. Dialing is another matter, but just flip it closed before you hit send (press the wheel). Navigating phone trees, on the other hand...
Which is why the 5.56 is designed to wound more often than kill. Not that it isn't still plenty deadly.
The 20mm projectiles the aircraft's cannon fires at a very high rate also remain lethal for some distance. Also, where a laser will only hit the Earth if it's fired in that direction, with projectiles, what goes up will come down.
OK, your a narcasistic neo-Luddite, for putting the safety, well-being and convenience of others behind your own convenience, and for blaming the technology for what is clearly a social problem.
;)
*Hey* don't look at me like that! You *said* to put you down for "A"!
I can't speak to Sprint's network, but I use Verizon's Express Network with a Kyocera 2235 and a laptop running Linux. It works fine, just like a dialup modem. You send it a funny init string (AT$QCMDR=3) then dial (ATDT#777) having configured your username(@vzw3g.com) and password (vzw) in pap-secrets, and enjoy wireless surfing goodness.
My "wow, that was cool" 3G experience was recently while traveling I got stuck overnight, and needed a car & hotel, and would be arriving too late to arrange those things comfortably when I got there. So, I just hooked my mobile to my laptop, and used Travelocity just like I was at home. The equivilent 2G experience would have been making a dozen calls to check availability and rates at different hotels and car rental places, not to mention the hassel of finding out what was close to the airport in an unfamiliar town.
Lifesaving? No. Sanity saving? You bet.
Famous? Perhaps not. But influential beyond what you can possibly understand.
In the US, Ritz Camera can get them.
FWIW, I think you're better off getting a media format that will play nicely with your other gear, but if it's a matter of getting the right camerea with the wrong media or the wrong camera with the right media, I'll take the wrong media every time.
Hrmph. I have two Olys and they both work fine, after significant abuse.
...Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!
Daddy's roommate is God Almighty? Wow! And I thought my SO was cool!
On the other hand, they've done very well by me, and several of my friends. Their C/S reps have gone well above and beyond when necessary, and their technical people usually have a clue. This is in contrast to my experience with Cingular who did not, last I checked, even have 24 hour support, where no one seems to have a clue about data. Also contrast against Metrocall, who's operators can't be arsed to pick up the phone, and who's C/S reps will tell you they are fixing any bogus thing to get you off the phone, without apparently accomplishing enything. My experience with Verizon puts them well ahead of the pack.
Kyocera sells the serial and USB cables, a belt clip, cable to go directly to a Palm III or V (not the newer Palms :( ) software to sync the address book (and maybe other stuff, I don't have it yet) and some other useful accessories from their online store. Thesupplynet.com is working on a cable to go from this phone to the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (oh, the joy!).
Using the serial cable and a supported USB-serial adapter it works fine for me under Linux. These are the settings you need:
init string = AT$QCMDR=3
serial speed = 115200
phone number = #777
username = @vzw3g.com
password = vzw
The real benefit only comes when you have a device capable of displaying something more than small amounts of text (although getting your WAP page in 50 seconds vice 65 and thus only being billed one minute instead of two is an advantage. If you do that a lot, you might even notice. :)
If you can hook up your phone to your laptop or handheld (or are patient and get a smartphone with 3G abilities) then you can do essentially what you do from your desk, from anywhere. Some people do not care about that, which is fine, but for others, it's a worthwhile advantage (I *LIKE* working from wherever I am, and yes, I've done it).
For the pure voice user, calls will be clearer (the phone will at least have a shot at getting a retransmitted voice packet before it's needed, thus lowering the occurance of drop outs), capacity will be used more efficiently (packet switched vice circuit switched means multiple calls can share the same chunk of spectrum) and batteries will last longer (I have no idea why, but that's what they tell me).
I actually have one of these, the Kyocera 2235, that I'm using with a serial cable to do dial-up with the Verizon supplied ISP under Linux. My perception is that it is perhaps marginally faster than landline dialup. I'm pretty happy with it, actually.
I consider the combination of this with the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 to be an excellent mobile data solution. Not perfect, but excellent.
Although the ILEC Verizon owns a controlling interest in Verizon Wireless, they are seperate companies. A fact for which I'm eternally grateful.
No, no you don't.
By employing a "defense in depth" outlook to anticipate possible future exploits and developing means to defeat them.
/etc/passwd. If you used shadow passwords grabbing the encrypted passwords would not be possible if you didn't run the web server as root (you don't, do you?). This would limit the usefulness of the file exposure exploit without you even knowing it exists.
An example of why this matters would be a "file exposure" vulnerability in one of your cgi scripts. This might allow an attacker the capability to view
Defense-in-depth is the process of tying up those niggling not-really-exploitable problems, and employing all reasonable security measures on a "why not?" basis. It will save you when the impossible happens. It's shutting off NTP even though for twenty years it hasn't been a problem and you look like a god when on some rainy Friday afternoon someone publishes a remote root-access exploit for it.
It is not a true statement that the smoothwall developers write all of the code themselves. They use the Linux kernel, pppd, etc.
The problem is that "fair use" is not something you are guaranteed. If you are acting within your "fair use rights" you cannot be prosecuted for copyright infringement, however, there is no law requiring either the content producers or media player manufacturers to provide you with a means to exercise those "rights."
So if you find a way to circumvent the copy protection on a CD, for example, and do so for your personal use only (for example, to put the content on an MP3 player to use while jogging) you cannot be successfully prosecuted for copyright infringement (DMCA is another matter) in a sane court. However, if you cannot find a way to circumvent said copy protection, you cannot sue to have a means provided for you.