Have you ever worked in a military environment? The basic fact of the matter is if an employee has access to something, that employee can steal it and give it away. Security only goes as far as you can trust your employees. Why do you think people who are fired get armed escorts off the job site?
It's easier today than ever to use a Mac in a Windows world and to share information. This is true partly because the Internet and e-mail don't distinguish between computing platforms.
With a USB keyboard (i suggest Keytronic), USB mouse (Microsoft Optical Trackball), and a 17 inch or greater monitor (Apple Studio Display 17) you get a kick ass desktop and a kick ass laptop.
dude, buy a new eMac, iMac, or iBook. Preference from least desirable to most. I picked my iBook up for about 1K. It is the coolest. Powermax is the place to look. Install OS 9.2, OS X, Fink, and OroborOSX.
This is what you need to make your machines and new OS a killer. A native OS X X server. (heh, can you call parse that sentence?). Having to start XDarwin (I use the front end OroborOSX) to run my X apps is a pain, and destroys the desktop continuity. Create those crazy bindings so I can compile my X (not X) apps natively, and you will have a beautiful unix based machine with thousands of applications at your fingertips, retaining the good ol look and feel of your OS.
I'm really thinking about buying an mp3 player for my car. I can put hours of music on it. No commercials, no interruptions, no repeats in the course of my drive. Yeah.
Um, you have your facts slightly wrong. Time Warner itself thought that "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" was too dark; too much of a risk. After was shelved Tweedy et. al. went looking for a new label to publish it. The found the label Nonesuch was willing to take it and run. I'll give you three guesses as to what major media conglomerate owns Nonesuch. That's right, Time Warner.
However, it does point out how foolish big corporations have become. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is nothing short of brilliant, and it has hit the charts because it is good, and dark, and lyrical. That so much time and energy had to be wasted because Time Warner is run by stiffs is an indication of how sick the industry is.
As another example, if you're a Dave Matthews fan, try to find a bootleg of "The Lillywhite Sessions," an album that was shelved because it was decided that it didn't have mass market appeal. I'm not a huge Dave Matthews fan, but those recordings are good.
Powermax is an Apple dealer. They've been accepting trade-ins for quite a while. I recently sent them a Blue and White G3 in trade for a refurbished iBook. I essentially upgraded all the components on my machine (memory, CPU, ports), retained compatibility with the system I traded in, and gained the portability of a laptop for about $400 out of pocket.
The only problem with the deal is that it takes about a month to have the computer examined and the credit applied to your credit card.
At one point I tried to install and use GNUCash as my personal finance manager. The first problem that I ran in to was dependency hell. The program relies on tens of libraries. I went through quite a few./configure --> download dependency --> install dependency -->./configure until I was able to finally produce a build.
Now, GNUCash works on a double entry accounting system. That means every time you take money away from one account it goes into another, and vice versa. In some sense, it depends upon the idea that money just can appear out of nowhere, and it just can't disappear into the void. Supposedly it is a very powerful system of accounting. However, the problem that I ran in to was setting my accounts up. I have several different debts (student loans), and several different investments (401K, personal investments), as well as the balances in my checking and savings accounts. I just couldn't figure out how to reasonably set up my initial finances, let alone creating special accounts for things like payroll and taxes. I have a degree in Mathematics, but GNUCash tries to be a serious accounting program. Quicken and the like are different, and single entry accounting is much easier for a beginner to use. Apparently it is much easier to lie, cheat, and make mistakes with single accounting systems.
I finally settled on just keeping a sort of ledger. Pen and paper. I track spending in my budget with it, my current checking account levels, and I update the value of my savings and investments from time to time. It serves me well and keeps my finances on track, which is all I really need. It is also very portable, which makes it easier to account for things like grocery bills and ATM withdrawls.
What GNUCash really needs is a _good_ step by step tutorial on how to set the software up, and I'm not refering to the./configure dependency hell.
Machines to automate the code breaking process were developed, but most were mechanical and operated by humans who cranked away until one of them broke the code for the day. Sometimes the code fell quickly, other times it never was. Computers were developed during this time to aid in the cracking of the code, and Turing did play a large role in this.
For the most part, once the mechanics of Enigma were established (for the early Enigma codes, mostly the work of the Poles), cracking German codes was done by brute force.
Enigma broken without him? That might be a bit of a stretch. You can thank the Poles for doing most of the tough work. They spent a lot of time breaking Enigma codes before they were invaded, while France and Britian sat on their thumbs and looked worried.
I was curious to know how much the recording industry cares about small stations. Do you think that the Recording Industry Association of America is going to come after these tiny internet broadcasters, some of which are run out of someone's bedroom, and actually try to enforce this legislation? Given the bandwidth small stations operate on, their lack of mainstream exposure, and the tiny bang for the (litigious) buck, it seems that the record industry can spend their resources elsewhere with greater effect.
Remember that scene from Silence of the Lambs, where Lector is wearing the chewed off face of this dude, and is being transported in the back of an ambulance to a hospital? He killed the paramedics in the ambulance, and later it is discovered that his EKG reading never varied from calm and normal.
This was a great movie, with the classic ending line: "Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?" (said by a character with a gun pointed at his head)
I installed SuSE 8.0 on my PII Celeron 333. KDE3 rocks on it. I installed Mosfet's Liquid theme (http://www.mosfet.org/liquid) and I just love it. Snappy, fun, all that. Like having Aqua without the need for expensive hardware. Yummy.
It's a lot of money, but for a book junkie/collecter, there's nothing quite so satisfying as an uncreased, undamaged book sitting on the shelf that you know will be there for years.
I used to feel the same way. Then I found that I had more enjoyment from reading books when I worried about the content rather than the presentation. My favorite books have broken spines, dog eared pages, and stains all over them. They look that way because I use them. I read them and enjoy them.
A library full of uncut books just seems like such a waste to me.
Granted, there are exceptions. By dumb blind luck I won a gold copy of Cryptonomicon signed by Stephenson. Seems like a good thing to take care of.
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Have you ever worked in a military environment? The basic fact of the matter is if an employee has access to something, that employee can steal it and give it away. Security only goes as far as you can trust your employees. Why do you think people who are fired get armed escorts off the job site?
It's easier today than ever to use a Mac in a Windows world and to share information. This is true partly because the Internet and e-mail don't distinguish between computing platforms.
Except with respect to VB scripting worms.
With a USB keyboard (i suggest Keytronic), USB mouse (Microsoft Optical Trackball), and a 17 inch or greater monitor (Apple Studio Display 17) you get a kick ass desktop and a kick ass laptop.
dude, buy a new eMac, iMac, or iBook. Preference from least desirable to most. I picked my iBook up for about 1K. It is the coolest. Powermax is the place to look. Install OS 9.2, OS X, Fink, and OroborOSX.
Naw, Congress forced NPR to become beholden to commercial interests long ago. Remember the Gingrich era?
Installation involves copying exactly one file into your applications folder (or wherever else you want it).
Omni Web needs tabbed browsing. Only then will it become The One, True Browser for OS X.
I originally thought that a "breeder reactor" was a Mormon singles ward event.
It's worse than you think. Liquid audio is ceratinly of lower quality than CD audio. This means that liquid -> wav -> mp3 = shitty sound quality.
Gaming is the only thing on your list that would be difficult for anyone to argue.
No problems here. Nethack kicks ass on my iBook.
This is what you need to make your machines and new OS a killer. A native OS X X server. (heh, can you call parse that sentence?). Having to start XDarwin (I use the front end OroborOSX) to run my X apps is a pain, and destroys the desktop continuity. Create those crazy bindings so I can compile my X (not X) apps natively, and you will have a beautiful unix based machine with thousands of applications at your fingertips, retaining the good ol look and feel of your OS.
No, you've been wasting money on those snake oil herpes cures.
I'm really thinking about buying an mp3 player for my car. I can put hours of music on it. No commercials, no interruptions, no repeats in the course of my drive. Yeah.
Um, you have your facts slightly wrong. Time Warner itself thought that "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" was too dark; too much of a risk. After was shelved Tweedy et. al. went looking for a new label to publish it. The found the label Nonesuch was willing to take it and run. I'll give you three guesses as to what major media conglomerate owns Nonesuch. That's right, Time Warner.
However, it does point out how foolish big corporations have become. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is nothing short of brilliant, and it has hit the charts because it is good, and dark, and lyrical. That so much time and energy had to be wasted because Time Warner is run by stiffs is an indication of how sick the industry is.
As another example, if you're a Dave Matthews fan, try to find a bootleg of "The Lillywhite Sessions," an album that was shelved because it was decided that it didn't have mass market appeal. I'm not a huge Dave Matthews fan, but those recordings are good.
Powermax is an Apple dealer. They've been accepting trade-ins for quite a while. I recently sent them a Blue and White G3 in trade for a refurbished iBook. I essentially upgraded all the components on my machine (memory, CPU, ports), retained compatibility with the system I traded in, and gained the portability of a laptop for about $400 out of pocket.
The only problem with the deal is that it takes about a month to have the computer examined and the credit applied to your credit card.
At one point I tried to install and use GNUCash as my personal finance manager. The first problem that I ran in to was dependency hell. The program relies on tens of libraries. I went through quite a few ./configure --> download dependency --> install dependency --> ./configure until I was able to finally produce a build.
./configure dependency hell.
Now, GNUCash works on a double entry accounting system. That means every time you take money away from one account it goes into another, and vice versa. In some sense, it depends upon the idea that money just can appear out of nowhere, and it just can't disappear into the void. Supposedly it is a very powerful system of accounting. However, the problem that I ran in to was setting my accounts up. I have several different debts (student loans), and several different investments (401K, personal investments), as well as the balances in my checking and savings accounts. I just couldn't figure out how to reasonably set up my initial finances, let alone creating special accounts for things like payroll and taxes. I have a degree in Mathematics, but GNUCash tries to be a serious accounting program. Quicken and the like are different, and single entry accounting is much easier for a beginner to use. Apparently it is much easier to lie, cheat, and make mistakes with single accounting systems.
I finally settled on just keeping a sort of ledger. Pen and paper. I track spending in my budget with it, my current checking account levels, and I update the value of my savings and investments from time to time. It serves me well and keeps my finances on track, which is all I really need. It is also very portable, which makes it easier to account for things like grocery bills and ATM withdrawls.
What GNUCash really needs is a _good_ step by step tutorial on how to set the software up, and I'm not refering to the
Machines to automate the code breaking process were developed, but most were mechanical and operated by humans who cranked away until one of them broke the code for the day. Sometimes the code fell quickly, other times it never was. Computers were developed during this time to aid in the cracking of the code, and Turing did play a large role in this.
For the most part, once the mechanics of Enigma were established (for the early Enigma codes, mostly the work of the Poles), cracking German codes was done by brute force.
Enigma broken without him? That might be a bit of a stretch. You can thank the Poles for doing most of the tough work. They spent a lot of time breaking Enigma codes before they were invaded, while France and Britian sat on their thumbs and looked worried.
I was curious to know how much the recording industry cares about small stations. Do you think that the Recording Industry Association of America is going to come after these tiny internet broadcasters, some of which are run out of someone's bedroom, and actually try to enforce this legislation? Given the bandwidth small stations operate on, their lack of mainstream exposure, and the tiny bang for the (litigious) buck, it seems that the record industry can spend their resources elsewhere with greater effect.
Check out the story further down on the apple.slashdot.org main page, in particular this link . Are the Apple people assholes or what?
Hah. Youcan turn the launch feedback off, but you can't turn trolls like him off.
Remember that scene from Silence of the Lambs, where Lector is wearing the chewed off face of this dude, and is being transported in the back of an ambulance to a hospital? He killed the paramedics in the ambulance, and later it is discovered that his EKG reading never varied from calm and normal.
This was a great movie, with the classic ending line: "Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?" (said by a character with a gun pointed at his head)
I installed SuSE 8.0 on my PII Celeron 333. KDE3 rocks on it. I installed Mosfet's Liquid theme (http://www.mosfet.org/liquid) and I just love it. Snappy, fun, all that. Like having Aqua without the need for expensive hardware. Yummy.
I used to feel the same way. Then I found that I had more enjoyment from reading books when I worried about the content rather than the presentation. My favorite books have broken spines, dog eared pages, and stains all over them. They look that way because I use them. I read them and enjoy them.
A library full of uncut books just seems like such a waste to me.
Granted, there are exceptions. By dumb blind luck I won a gold copy of Cryptonomicon signed by Stephenson. Seems like a good thing to take care of.