I've started travelling extensively the last year, and my 17" MacBook Pro became a pain to drag around. Apple didn't have a notebook that I found suitable (small & light) for my needs, so I bought a 12", 1.5kg Dell Latitude D420 with built in cellular modem. I still use a Mac at home for the photos, music etc. However for work the Windows machine will suffice. In fact at the moment I have no music/photos etc on my work notebook. I think the Dell hardware is pretty cool. Vista however is driving me a bit nuts. You never know after sleep which device will wake up and which not, my wireless constantly drops and I miss the elegance of OS X.
How right you are. I recently moved to Windows after 5 years on the Mac, and thought I'd easily find a IM multi-protocol client on Windows. However, nothing comes close to Adium (I miss you my little ducky!).
Whatever your thought on Exchange was, install 2007 and then know why you should shut up. I used to resist Exchange because of bad experiences with 5.5 - however they've moved on quite a bit since then. So should you.
No-no, you got that wrong, being a geek is increasing in appeal. Sex appeal, that is. You see sex appeal = lots of sex = kids (unless you try to hack the reproductive system, which can also fail... believe me, I know!:-)
in about 1997 or so, me and my colleague were synical unix admins, who laughed at most microsoft products. (for what it is worth, i don't belittle them out of principle any more). in any case, we ran linux on our desktops. my friend got a new mouse - a microsoft mouse. no matter what we tried, we could not get it to work under linux. dead as dead. so as a joke, my colleague used tippex (same as wite-out and liquid paper) to remove the microsoft name from the mouse and with a pen wrote 'hyundai' or something similarly stupid on the mouse. he plugged it back in - and suddenly it worked. i kid you not.
I have a 1 year old son (second one coming soon), a busy job and in the evenings study further part time. Needless to say I have to be wise about how I get and spend my energy. Although there's always room for improvement, I think I'm pretty happy with a couple of simple "tricks" I've learned through experimentation and time.
The so called energy drinks might give you a high for a short while but you'll be crashing down soon enough. I've recently switched my usual carb loaded lunch with a glass of whey protein. It is amazing how much more energy I have late afternoons, where I used to feel tired and peckish. Other than that, eat a high fibre breakfast cereal and a multivitamin in the mornings, a fresh, healthy dinner (no instant meals) early in the evenings (at least 3 hours before bed time).
And get regular excercise - even on a busy schedule, 30 minutes before or after work is not that much compared to how much you'll get back out of it!
Cutting costs to satisfy short term profit/cash flow to the detrement of long term profits is a management strategy called harvesting. It's usually a sign of a company in serious decline. Now you know where HP's heading.
While the idea of OpenSUSE certainly sounds good, I have to wonder out loud if it will also go down the ugly, almost-dead, stagnant route that the Hula project went. As you might remember, in February Novell also open sourced the Novell NetMail product and called it Hula. They promised Hula would be "the apache of collaboration software". In reality the Hula web site has not been updated since then, and the FAQ still has phrases like "We will be providing instructions for doing this sometime soon, watch this space!" and it also says it is not production ready - the same as in February. Really Novell, as much good as you've done, you've got to put some muscle behid the OSS projects you toss out in the wild, like Sun has done with OpenOffice.org
The interview was fairly interesting, until this choice quote: "Transparency is not necessarily the only way you achieve security. For example, part of the encryption algorithms are not typically made available to the open source community, because you don't want people discovering flaws in the encryption."
All good encryption algorithms are made public and transparent so that you and the top cryptographers in the world can inspect it, try to break it and eventually trust it. Encryption who's strength is based on secrecy and security through obscurity will never gain trust, because it could contain backdoors etc. You want people to uncover flaws in the algorithms, either so to you can fix it, or know to stay the fuck away from it.
The only "secret" part of good encryption is the private key, anything else is public, especially the algorithms (math).
This kind of soured the interview for me. How much else that he said is just pulled randomly from his ass?
Now I use SyncBack [2brightsparks.com] which is a freeware program with all these features that I need (and more! like FTP and compression to Zip, etc.). QED.
rsync is an open source program that can do all that, and is smart about the way it syncs files. It only syncs the actual changes in the file, and doesn't copy the whole file from scratch. So if you changed 100 bytes of a 50MB document, it will only write the 100 bytes of changes. Really an amazing program written by some of the samba guys.
Nice to see OSDL acknowledging Andrew's valuable contributions in this manner. On the SMB/CIFS front, I wonder how relevant it will be in a year or 3. With sharepoint becomming all the more popular, will people be using traditional file servers in a couple of years?
My, quite similar, pet-peeve is the phrase "in terms of". Especially well liked by South African government employees. For example "we have seen very good growth in terms of the economy" - WTF? "We've seen good economic growth" seems so much better.
I say don't drink and drive You might spill your drink Before you get behind the wheel, just stop & think You can take your chances But there's so much to lose Another bumpy road, There's so much wasted booze
I'm not so worried About how many I kill I'm much more concerned With how much beer I spill 35% of accidents Are cause by pixilated The other 65% are not Alcohol related What does this tell us About the drunk drivers They seem to have a Better record than the sober team
I'm not so worried About how many I kill I'm much more concerned With how much beer I spill With how much beer I spill With how much beer I spill
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Mr. Jack Bauer
Care to tell why you switched?
I've started travelling extensively the last year, and my 17" MacBook Pro became a pain to drag around. Apple didn't have a notebook that I found suitable (small & light) for my needs, so I bought a 12", 1.5kg Dell Latitude D420 with built in cellular modem. I still use a Mac at home for the photos, music etc. However for work the Windows machine will suffice. In fact at the moment I have no music/photos etc on my work notebook. I think the Dell hardware is pretty cool. Vista however is driving me a bit nuts. You never know after sleep which device will wake up and which not, my wireless constantly drops and I miss the elegance of OS X.
How right you are. I recently moved to Windows after 5 years on the Mac, and thought I'd easily find a IM multi-protocol client on Windows. However, nothing comes close to Adium (I miss you my little ducky!).
Whatever your thought on Exchange was, install 2007 and then know why you should shut up. I used to resist Exchange because of bad experiences with 5.5 - however they've moved on quite a bit since then. So should you.
being a geek is losing its appeal
:-)
No-no, you got that wrong, being a geek is increasing in appeal. Sex appeal, that is. You see sex appeal = lots of sex = kids (unless you try to hack the reproductive system, which can also fail... believe me, I know!
It is called a 2 year old.
true story.
in about 1997 or so, me and my colleague were synical unix admins, who laughed at most microsoft products. (for what it is worth, i don't belittle them out of principle any more). in any case, we ran linux on our desktops. my friend got a new mouse - a microsoft mouse. no matter what we tried, we could not get it to work under linux. dead as dead. so as a joke, my colleague used tippex (same as wite-out and liquid paper) to remove the microsoft name from the mouse and with a pen wrote 'hyundai' or something similarly stupid on the mouse. he plugged it back in - and suddenly it worked. i kid you not.
I have a 1 year old son (second one coming soon), a busy job and in the evenings study further part time. Needless to say I have to be wise about how I get and spend my energy. Although there's always room for improvement, I think I'm pretty happy with a couple of simple "tricks" I've learned through experimentation and time.
The so called energy drinks might give you a high for a short while but you'll be crashing down soon enough. I've recently switched my usual carb loaded lunch with a glass of whey protein. It is amazing how much more energy I have late afternoons, where I used to feel tired and peckish. Other than that, eat a high fibre breakfast cereal and a multivitamin in the mornings, a fresh, healthy dinner (no instant meals) early in the evenings (at least 3 hours before bed time).
And get regular excercise - even on a busy schedule, 30 minutes before or after work is not that much compared to how much you'll get back out of it!
XGL is about rendering a 2D desktop using OpenGL
Thanks for the explanation. They should've made that part of the summary.
Cutting costs to satisfy short term profit/cash flow to the detrement of long term profits is a management strategy called harvesting. It's usually a sign of a company in serious decline. Now you know where HP's heading.
http://groupmedia.media.mit.edu/jk.php
But Hula is a server, Evolution just a mail client? I can't see how the one could possibly replace the other.
While the idea of OpenSUSE certainly sounds good, I have to wonder out loud if it will also go down the ugly, almost-dead, stagnant route that the Hula project went. As you might remember, in February Novell also open sourced the Novell NetMail product and called it Hula. They promised Hula would be "the apache of collaboration software". In reality the Hula web site has not been updated since then, and the FAQ still has phrases like "We will be providing instructions for doing this sometime soon, watch this space!" and it also says it is not production ready - the same as in February. Really Novell, as much good as you've done, you've got to put some muscle behid the OSS projects you toss out in the wild, like Sun has done with OpenOffice.org
Good point, in general, but in this case specifically, anyone can get the "first hand information" right there on ebay's site.
What makes a South African website inherently worse than a US site? You high opinion of US media quality is, I daresay, a bit misplaced.
Yes, South Africa does use the rand, thanks for asking. And unlike the USA it is still backed by gold.
Philip Glass' lawyers are said to be preparing a new case file...
The interview was fairly interesting, until this choice quote:
"Transparency is not necessarily the only way you achieve security. For example, part of the encryption algorithms are not typically made available to the open source community, because you don't want people discovering flaws in the encryption."
All good encryption algorithms are made public and transparent so that you and the top cryptographers in the world can inspect it, try to break it and eventually trust it. Encryption who's strength is based on secrecy and security through obscurity will never gain trust, because it could contain backdoors etc. You want people to uncover flaws in the algorithms, either so to you can fix it, or know to stay the fuck away from it.
The only "secret" part of good encryption is the private key, anything else is public, especially the algorithms (math).
This kind of soured the interview for me. How much else that he said is just pulled randomly from his ass?
Now I use SyncBack [2brightsparks.com] which is a freeware program with all these features that I need (and more! like FTP and compression to Zip, etc.). QED.
rsync is an open source program that can do all that, and is smart about the way it syncs files. It only syncs the actual changes in the file, and doesn't copy the whole file from scratch. So if you changed 100 bytes of a 50MB document, it will only write the 100 bytes of changes. Really an amazing program written by some of the samba guys.
nat friedman said on the linux link tech show that suse wil move to gnome... it was in an interview that was linked to slashdot about a week or 2 ago.
I was the only onsite tech support person for two sites with a total of 250 users, with 99% of those being windows.
What did the other two-and-a-half users use?
Nice to see OSDL acknowledging Andrew's valuable contributions in this manner. On the SMB/CIFS front, I wonder how relevant it will be in a year or 3. With sharepoint becomming all the more popular, will people be using traditional file servers in a couple of years?
My, quite similar, pet-peeve is the phrase "in terms of". Especially well liked by South African government employees. For example "we have seen very good growth in terms of the economy" - WTF? "We've seen good economic growth" seems so much better.
NOFX LYRICS
"You Drink You Drive You Spill"
I say don't drink and drive
You might spill your drink
Before you get behind the wheel, just stop & think
You can take your chances
But there's so much to lose
Another bumpy road,
There's so much wasted booze
I'm not so worried
About how many I kill
I'm much more concerned
With how much beer I spill
35% of accidents
Are cause by pixilated
The other 65% are not
Alcohol related
What does this tell us
About the drunk drivers
They seem to have a
Better record than
the sober team
I'm not so worried
About how many I kill
I'm much more concerned
With how much beer I spill
With how much beer I spill
With how much beer I spill
Microsoft's enterprise support agreements *always* entitles you to the latest release of the software you're subscribed to.
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