First, the good part: Congrats on the Oo.org team for getting 2.4 out the door with so many new features.
Second, the bad part: Why no 64-bit Linux version? The 32-bit versions don't run, and the installer codedumps. Even the.deb packages fail to install, because they're made for a 32-bit i386 arch. Ugh.
You knew that if you invested in accessories for a T40 those accessories would work with the T41, T42, T43, etc. until the number increments to T50 you were guaranteed your accessories would be forward compatible making the investment worthwhile for the 3/4 year life cycle your organization has planned for those devices.
...except batteries, docking stations, RAM and keyboards, of course.
The T40 is not compatible with the T41, nor the T42 and so on with any of those components. In fact, the T42 and the T42p for example, don't even share compatible components.
When you delete a file, the blocks that were used by the file are marked as free. To recover the data, just read those blocks back (finding which blocks those are is left as an exercise for the reader).
Again, impossible with SSHD, because those blocks are reallocated by the physical hardware once the data is confirmed to be deleted. AFAIK, there's nothing the OS on top of that hardware can do to stop the hardware from doing what it does "electronically" by design.
I'll give you one major downside... no disk platters, no data recovery. Want to undelete some files you accidentally deleted before you overwrite the data sectors? Bzzt... SSHD makes that impossible.
Sure, backups make that a lot easier, but not a lot of people do backups between the time they had the files, and when they deleted the files they wanted to keep.
Riddle me this... I have a 15" T42p (1600x1200 resolution) which has been used no less than 20+ hours/day for the last 3-4 years, solidly. I'm still typing on it right now as I compose this.
I've been eyeing the T61p as a replacement to my T42p, with all of the goodies (WUXGA screen, bluetooth, WWAN, etc.). When you say it has a "smaller footprint", what do you mean?
When I worked for IBM, my "work machine" was a T60, and it was an acceptable machine, but seemed somewhat lacking when compared against my T42p (size, power, screen, etc.) for what I expected from it.
I'd love to hear your comments (either here, or direct email, whichever works for you). Thanks!
As for your argument about money & following the peoples wishes, well, perhaps if the government hadn't lost $1B in cash in Iraq, we could afford to actually fund the school projects that are already mandated.
The correct figure is actually $9 billion, not $1 billion.
While I am a staunch privacy advocate (just read my blog for more examples going back 7+ years), I have to object to the statement you said here:
and then missed call logs deleted for the time in question.
If they are taking the phone and removing the SIM card, copying it with a SIM duplicator, and then analyzing the contents of the phone itself, it is ENTIRELY possible (and probably likely the reason) that there ARE no "missed call" logs on the phone, because the phone was not turned on when it was being analyzed.
If I turn off my phone and 20 people attempt to call me, they'll get my voice mail. When I turn the phone back on, those "missed calls" aren't automatically appended to my call log... since my phone never received them. I will, however, receive the voicemail notification, which I can then check and review.
Maybe he missed that whole impeachment thing at orientation...
Impeachment would be pointless and irrelevant at this point anyway. It would be FAR too costly (to already over-burdoned Americans living in squalor and strife due to the horrible economic status), and it would take a lot longer for them to appoint a committee, schedule hearings and so on.
By the time that happens, President Bush's term will have already expired (that is, unless he suspends the elections in 2008 due to the "War in Iran" that we're building now; nobody with THIS much unchecked power just gets up and walks away at the end of their term).
Point is, impeachment would waste a lot more time and money than just letting Bush's term expire of its own accord.
Although most of your post is just a mindless rant, I will point out that I have plenty of experience selling on ebay and I also have 100% positive feedback.
So where is YOUR eBay ID then? You can't sit here and rant about how he's not posting his to an AC, then reply that you've got 100% feedback also, while YOU post as an AC and not include your own eBay ID.
According to this link, if you took all the Linux and Apple users and put them into a single group, it STILL wouldn't be as many people who are using Vista by a good size chunk (let alone XP), so let's not repeat that lie again.
Two words: Market Share
Now explain to me how Linux compares in that scope. Red Hat sales? Oracle "Unbreakable Linux" sales? What else is there? Not much.
Also, let's not forget you literally CAN NOT get a Windows XP preinstall on any PC you purchase in a store these days. BestBuy? Nope. EB? Nope. CompUSA? Nope. Radio Shack? Nope.
So anyone that upgraded or purchased a new machine as of Christmas (i.e. quite a lot), would be getting Vista by default, even if they didn't choose it. If those same machines were preinstalled with XP, do you think they'd want to spend the extra $300+ to "upgrade" them to Vista? They wouldn't.
Don't believe the hype, it's all voodoo and manufactured numbers.
On the good side of things, Linux market share is up 0.20% from 3 months ago!:D
Hit record, toss it in a pocket, and have the "I have to work O/T this week, how would you like me to enter my time code?" question ready. If he answers "work it but don't book it" then you have a nice case against them and can sue them so you never have to work again.
You won't ever have to work again... outside the prison walls, that is.
Remember that recording someone without their prior knowledge in the US, is wire fraud. If you are not part of an ongoing criminal investigation AND have a warrant that specifically allows said recording, you are violation of the two-party recording laws of your state.
If you want to keep your job AND stay out of prison, don't record someone without their knowledge, period.
We have to call our lazy, complacent congressmembers and insist they impeach these criminal retards, instead of just easily running against them this year and inheriting all their catastrophic tyrannical powers.
Bad move. It would be much more costly and take a LOT longer to achieve that vs. just letting their terms expire. Let them run their time out, and learn from the experience.
Attempting to break the law is not against the law, unless there is specifically a law that makes it a crime for you to attempt to break the law (and convict you even if you don't succeed).
What is stopping them from downloading it, and printing it themselves? Or giving it to an intern who runs off ten copies instead of having to open up just one from the regular post mail?
Have we really solved anything? Now, if the budget was in a PDF that prevented printing, NOW we'd be somewhere...
Is there anyone out there that imagines there is such a thing as a "license to read"? That when you buy a book what you're actually buying a "license to read"?
I know you have other replies, but I wanted to add my own... yes, there IS a license to read, if you're comparing digital bits on a plastic medium to a digital reproduction of a written work. Have you read the serious license and restrictions which bind the Amazon Kindle device?
Basically you're only allowed to read a certain number of work in a given time (i.e. you can't read faster than your license allows), and if you violate that, your ENTIRE Amazon account is irrevokably terminated. This means all of the digital books you've already purchased the right-to-read in their online library, are no longer available to you, forever.
So yes, if you're comparing digital apples to digital oranges, there is a "right-to-read" out there, and its becoming more and more common every day.
They told her it was a liquid and would have to be confiscated. As she picked up the rest of her belongings the TSA employee put it in her purse.
And here's the other part of that scam: There's no way to turn around, go back to the check-in counter and ship the about-to-be "confiscated" item(s) using standard baggage, the DHL kiosks or any other means. Once you're in the line, and they go through your carry-on and determine there are "contraband" items, you're screwed.
The fact that another poster said that the TSA resells these "confiscated" items in bulk auctions further reinforces that you should immediately break or contaminate the item about to be confiscated.
If it is expensive conditioner, then put it all over your hands and arms, and begin rubbing it in.. or if you can't do that, open the container and spit in it. If it is a battery, put it on the ground and stomp on it as hard as you can, to crack the battery casing, rendering it useless.
Now if your argument is not based on how much cargo could fit into the the plane, but reduced capacity due to added weight, then that is merely a reduced profit margin for the airlines. Those 2 observations are really one and the same. Every pound added to the plane that is not paid for is profit reduced, and operating costs increased.
Well, with the new regulations that prohibit any single bag from weighing more than 60lbs, that should be significantly easier to swallow. You're now allowed to travel with 2 bags maximum, and neither of them can weigh more than 60lbs each (or you pay $5.00/pound for the overage). I've been stung by this several times, since they lowered the weight from the 70lbs that it used to be.
If you figure that maybe 10-15 passengers' checked bags will fit into the standard shipping container.. you're already saving 100+ lbs per-container, assuming that those passengers packed their bags right up to the 50lb weight limit.
I don't think I can make this any simpler: Stop Buying Music from RIAA Members. Its easy, they don't seem to want you to buy their product anyway.
It still doesn't matter, because those blank CDs you buy, that DVD player you buy, that DVR recorder under your television set... all carries a tariff levied by the RIAA/MPAA, to go to those "starving artists" (they're starving because the RIAA made them that way, more on that in a moment).
Even when you don't buy music from RIAA bands or movies from the MPAA, you're still paying them money they used to sue you and fight their own artists.
You want to burn some Linux ISO images onto recordable DVD or CD media? You just paid the RIAA a tariff because you're a pirate (in their eyes).
You want to burn your favorite indy band's music onto CD? You just paid Usher and Britney and other artists for that "right".
NASA is a private institution, they are not a government entity, and Congress banning "humans" on Mars is flat-out silly for one simple reason:
NOT ALL HUMANS ARE AMERICAN!
So once again, we put ourselves last in the space race, as countries like China, India and others decide to create, explore, and potentially colonize planets that we have forbidden ourselves from exploring.
Thank you Congress, for making yet another braindead decision that further places the United States towards 2nd world and 3rd world country status.
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First, the good part: Congrats on the Oo.org team for getting 2.4 out the door with so many new features. Second, the bad part: Why no 64-bit Linux version? The 32-bit versions don't run, and the installer codedumps. Even the .deb packages fail to install, because they're made for a 32-bit i386 arch. Ugh.
...except batteries, docking stations, RAM and keyboards, of course.
The T40 is not compatible with the T41, nor the T42 and so on with any of those components. In fact, the T42 and the T42p for example, don't even share compatible components.
Rain-X also makes wiper blades themselves...
Again, impossible with SSHD, because those blocks are reallocated by the physical hardware once the data is confirmed to be deleted. AFAIK, there's nothing the OS on top of that hardware can do to stop the hardware from doing what it does "electronically" by design.
I'll give you one major downside... no disk platters, no data recovery. Want to undelete some files you accidentally deleted before you overwrite the data sectors? Bzzt... SSHD makes that impossible.
Sure, backups make that a lot easier, but not a lot of people do backups between the time they had the files, and when they deleted the files they wanted to keep.
Riddle me this... I have a 15" T42p (1600x1200 resolution) which has been used no less than 20+ hours/day for the last 3-4 years, solidly. I'm still typing on it right now as I compose this.
I've been eyeing the T61p as a replacement to my T42p, with all of the goodies (WUXGA screen, bluetooth, WWAN, etc.). When you say it has a "smaller footprint", what do you mean?
When I worked for IBM, my "work machine" was a T60, and it was an acceptable machine, but seemed somewhat lacking when compared against my T42p (size, power, screen, etc.) for what I expected from it.
I'd love to hear your comments (either here, or direct email, whichever works for you). Thanks!
The correct figure is actually $9 billion, not $1 billion.
While I am a staunch privacy advocate (just read my blog for more examples going back 7+ years), I have to object to the statement you said here:
If they are taking the phone and removing the SIM card, copying it with a SIM duplicator, and then analyzing the contents of the phone itself, it is ENTIRELY possible (and probably likely the reason) that there ARE no "missed call" logs on the phone, because the phone was not turned on when it was being analyzed.
If I turn off my phone and 20 people attempt to call me, they'll get my voice mail. When I turn the phone back on, those "missed calls" aren't automatically appended to my call log... since my phone never received them. I will, however, receive the voicemail notification, which I can then check and review.
Impeachment would be pointless and irrelevant at this point anyway. It would be FAR too costly (to already over-burdoned Americans living in squalor and strife due to the horrible economic status), and it would take a lot longer for them to appoint a committee, schedule hearings and so on.
By the time that happens, President Bush's term will have already expired (that is, unless he suspends the elections in 2008 due to the "War in Iran" that we're building now; nobody with THIS much unchecked power just gets up and walks away at the end of their term).
Point is, impeachment would waste a lot more time and money than just letting Bush's term expire of its own accord.
So where is YOUR eBay ID then? You can't sit here and rant about how he's not posting his to an AC, then reply that you've got 100% feedback also, while YOU post as an AC and not include your own eBay ID.
And the other side.. "Man Can't Be Forced to Divulge Encryption Passphrase"
Two words: Market Share
Now explain to me how Linux compares in that scope. Red Hat sales? Oracle "Unbreakable Linux" sales? What else is there? Not much.
Also, let's not forget you literally CAN NOT get a Windows XP preinstall on any PC you purchase in a store these days. BestBuy? Nope. EB? Nope. CompUSA? Nope. Radio Shack? Nope.
So anyone that upgraded or purchased a new machine as of Christmas (i.e. quite a lot), would be getting Vista by default, even if they didn't choose it. If those same machines were preinstalled with XP, do you think they'd want to spend the extra $300+ to "upgrade" them to Vista? They wouldn't.
Don't believe the hype, it's all voodoo and manufactured numbers.
On the good side of things, Linux market share is up 0.20% from 3 months ago! :D
You won't ever have to work again... outside the prison walls, that is.
Remember that recording someone without their prior knowledge in the US, is wire fraud. If you are not part of an ongoing criminal investigation AND have a warrant that specifically allows said recording, you are violation of the two-party recording laws of your state.
If you want to keep your job AND stay out of prison, don't record someone without their knowledge, period.
Bad move. It would be much more costly and take a LOT longer to achieve that vs. just letting their terms expire. Let them run their time out, and learn from the experience.
By all means, let them read...
...as long as they have my public key, and
...as long as I've signed their public key...
They're welcome to read as much as they want.
Besides, using gpg is one way to authenticate the sender of said emails. Encryption isn't just to "hide things".
I'll give you one example: Suicide
There's always Pixel... for $38.00, you get:
What is stopping them from downloading it, and printing it themselves? Or giving it to an intern who runs off ten copies instead of having to open up just one from the regular post mail?
Have we really solved anything? Now, if the budget was in a PDF that prevented printing, NOW we'd be somewhere...
And we'll make Gimp suck less than Photoshop when users begin donating dollars, time or patches to support that enormous porting effort.
This is FLOSS... If you want something you have three choices:
How many of these items have YOU donated to the Gimp project to assist in that effort?
I know you have other replies, but I wanted to add my own... yes, there IS a license to read, if you're comparing digital bits on a plastic medium to a digital reproduction of a written work. Have you read the serious license and restrictions which bind the Amazon Kindle device?
Basically you're only allowed to read a certain number of work in a given time (i.e. you can't read faster than your license allows), and if you violate that, your ENTIRE Amazon account is irrevokably terminated. This means all of the digital books you've already purchased the right-to-read in their online library, are no longer available to you, forever.
So yes, if you're comparing digital apples to digital oranges, there is a "right-to-read" out there, and its becoming more and more common every day.
And here's the other part of that scam: There's no way to turn around, go back to the check-in counter and ship the about-to-be "confiscated" item(s) using standard baggage, the DHL kiosks or any other means. Once you're in the line, and they go through your carry-on and determine there are "contraband" items, you're screwed.
The fact that another poster said that the TSA resells these "confiscated" items in bulk auctions further reinforces that you should immediately break or contaminate the item about to be confiscated.
If it is expensive conditioner, then put it all over your hands and arms, and begin rubbing it in.. or if you can't do that, open the container and spit in it. If it is a battery, put it on the ground and stomp on it as hard as you can, to crack the battery casing, rendering it useless.
Don't you worry... once we're done screwing up Iran, we'll be walking North to find you too.
Let me introduce you to the Amero, the proposed national currency of the North American Union, of which your country and Mexico are a part.
Well, with the new regulations that prohibit any single bag from weighing more than 60lbs, that should be significantly easier to swallow. You're now allowed to travel with 2 bags maximum, and neither of them can weigh more than 60lbs each (or you pay $5.00/pound for the overage). I've been stung by this several times, since they lowered the weight from the 70lbs that it used to be.
If you figure that maybe 10-15 passengers' checked bags will fit into the standard shipping container.. you're already saving 100+ lbs per-container, assuming that those passengers packed their bags right up to the 50lb weight limit.
It still doesn't matter, because those blank CDs you buy, that DVD player you buy, that DVR recorder under your television set... all carries a tariff levied by the RIAA/MPAA, to go to those "starving artists" (they're starving because the RIAA made them that way, more on that in a moment).
Even when you don't buy music from RIAA bands or movies from the MPAA, you're still paying them money they used to sue you and fight their own artists.
You want to burn some Linux ISO images onto recordable DVD or CD media? You just paid the RIAA a tariff because you're a pirate (in their eyes).
You want to burn your favorite indy band's music onto CD? You just paid Usher and Britney and other artists for that "right".
If you haven't read it yet, PLEASE read Courtney Does the Math; a real eye-opener.
NASA is a private institution, they are not a government entity, and Congress banning "humans" on Mars is flat-out silly for one simple reason:
NOT ALL HUMANS ARE AMERICAN!
So once again, we put ourselves last in the space race, as countries like China, India and others decide to create, explore, and potentially colonize planets that we have forbidden ourselves from exploring.
Thank you Congress, for making yet another braindead decision that further places the United States towards 2nd world and 3rd world country status.