It's funny that many people now are trying so hard to get one - and lucky for those that have one and can sell that little thingy for 6 times the initial price on ebay.
And for those who haven't heard that's called capitalism - supply low, demand high = prices high and the ebay sellers get theirs sold!
The first reviews and comments on the PiZero were like: "unusable" "only one USB-Port". And then the complaints about the missing ethernet or wlan.
And some even judged that the Zero would not sell at all, because of its short commings despite the price.
After the "tinkerers" started to get interested and played around with this "fail" and then the demand took off straight.
And no, the Raspberry PI Zero demand doesn't hurt other competitors, because I don't see similar priced clones of that size.
If you need you can get an A+ that will work for your project, you then also only have one usable USB-Port, to make it smaller you need to desolder the GPIO-pins.
Solution to ageing: Then propose a different solution, like yeah, people from Germany or people from the Netherlands or people from Poland or people from Slovakia should immigrate to Denmark out of their own ageing countries.
Look around you. Yours and also mine favourite cultural heritage is decreasing in every european country.
But france has positive ageing.. yeah because of that "unwanted" cultural heritage population.
Another hurdle to take is also the danish nationalism, which is also hostile towards the not so complete polar opposite of the western values.
(When I spit north I get more likely problems with a danish cop, than a german, and my car radio receives more danish channels than german ones.. ok to be fair there are more danish channels, and when I'm not carefull my cellphone roams into denmark.)
And about the "taxes", those where riduculusly high even during the 90s but yes the funding of the wellfare state is extreme and a burden to its funding.
Well, looking at the facts would change that view on denmark (in schweden your use case could possibly apply)
Numbers for Denmark Refuges 2,000 (2014) 14,000 (2015)
on a Population ~5,650,000 (for decimal weak people ~5,65 Million - 5,65*10^6)
which would mean for 2015 a huge 0,25% refugee intake ratio on the population.
Current Situation: The right wing government with their anti-immigrant action increases the hostility towards imigrants and a bad climate for "progress" in general.
The ageing danes are entering a form of a "solid state society", which is simply wishful thinking because ageing is the progress that breaks the solid state.
People started leaving Denmark(since arround 2010) not because of the many (0,25%) refugees but because of the hostile right wing environment.
(I know nordic nordish danes that now live in germany that simply state: current danish society = narrow minded society = no fun, no progress, no interest in new things)
And the immigrants/refugees in denmark are faced with exclusion and right out xenophobia, leading to a big dependence on wellfare.
Thus generating a negative impact on forgeign investment into the country, now having an impact on the economy. The growing impact on the danish economy is the ageing of the population and with a hostility towards immigrants that won't change - and no the danish people won't start procreating "just because".
Conclusion: Get a rightwing government and your economy pays the bill. Education isn't the prime directive for a rightwing government, but for a prospering country it is essential.
Literally, because exactly this is the problem here,
As a person visiting a web-site your communication with the webserver is actually comming from the localhost, leaving no way to distinguish for the webserver between a sysadmin and a normal visitor.
Chuck Norris did some push ups so aggressivly that in contrast to his normal work out he liftet his body upwards and did not push the earth down, thus generated a gravitational wave hitting the gps satellite.
The other explanation is: It is a black hole and we all are doomed.
SARCASM_ON: Because it tells you where to find the leaning tower of pisa, therefore you do now know how to damage the itallian economy by demolishing that building.
Threat cleared: I call for a ban on all travel maps therefore nobody will be able to find these places.
More Threats I call for a ban on teaching geography! The maps show industrial buildings, transport infrastruture and natural resources!
SARCASM_OFF:
OSINT, INTINT, TINTINTIN So long for calling public accessable information and teaching material OSINT, I call bull shit on this try to infiltrate the common language with this intelligence "cool" style new speak!
this is slashdot a news-site for nerds that mostly have a basic understanding of the "cracking" processes
And btw. the softpedia page is full of marketing speech shit.
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact?
A: There must be a security hole. (the term outdated hints that there are -known- sec holes in older devices)
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact? another way
A: The user connects to an access point with/out any or weak encryption and the eMail app does not know of any current encryption
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact? another nother way
A: The user connects to an access point I control and I tell their eMail app that I'm from turk-trust and naserbajew-trust and that I'm Vladimir Putin the most trustworthy entity only followed by the NSA.
Ok, not at first, because it's a war of the minds of engineers. = Tension!
But that is not what the majority of people want to see. We could test that for example if someone fires up his/her FEA Application and introduces people to the painstaking art of stress&weight optimization of a critical design.
I would watch that for hours, but I bet any of my neighbours would.
Also with control optimization for such driverless cars - to operate near the tipping point when rolling friction tipps to sliding friction.
That would simply be their secret and in consequence kept secret.
Simple Example: When rolling friction tipps to sliding friction = you hit the brake of a pre ABS-car and your wheels are stopped from rolling and then they only slide.
So where is the fun. The fun in a car race is the human factor or the human failiure!
actually I use Win7, classic theme (win2k/xp), and take back my menubar everytime I freshly install firefox on a new system, along with deactivating trimming of urls (I like to be informed by a string if I'm http https or ftp) along with deactivating pdfjs because I think it's a big hole somebody wants to exploit.
And sorry there is no group icon, except that I found it when I selected the "adjust UI" feature then I saw it.
1.) Grouping Tabs in Opera12 (Grab Tab, move it over the other Tab you like to put together to a group, Drop Tab)
= works great easy to use, even my mother could use it (and mourned the downfall of Opera12, so let's just say when my mother could use it, the usability design was great)
2.) Grouping Tabs in Firefox (Press CTRL + Shift +E) Everybody would knew that And now you get an overloaded preview of all open Tabs
I can only say I didn't knew that FF had tab support either.
And my critisism is: Mozilla should really axe this feature because of usability issues and POCKET too(->plugins) many people don't use it either but are pestered with it's existence which is because it's prominently placed!
And we could also think about Opera12's visual start page with icons and the way Mozilla implemented it. (with the idea of making money)
Data is the gold of the 21st century let's do some alchemy and turn gold into dirt!
SARKASM To demonstrate to one the difference between the meaningful kill potential of an assault rifle and encryption would be a crime! And from your POV it would be two!
And I hope that you have read the news that the french/belgium ISIS-terrorists used unencrypted communication to execute their plan.
Using your rational unencrypted communication would therefore also constitute as a crime. Because of no meaningful difference.
I hope you somehow begin to understand the real differences between things and come down from your extremist views.
And btw: "bring 2 water melons, 10 eggs and a pack of peanuts"
is a chiffre that translates to: - two bombs - 10 hand granades - and 5000 shots AK47 amunition
Beware of Granny Uncanny! She brings water melons and terror.
Where you really need to look at: All these three letter acronyms can search billions of messages but fail to find the real important ones.
Often also ignoring real crime like illegal arms and explosives trade.
Terrorism is really nothing virtual, it needs the physical factor and especially the french government(Holande & Sarko) watched it happen.
But they did nothing about the many illegal automatic and semi-automatic weapons that were and are in the hands of criminals in many suburbs of french cities.
When their policemen cried for help because they are fired uppon with automatic weapons and also being outnumbered they did some "action" but without a strategy everything is deemd to be useless actionism and quickly forgotten.
They even did not increase the policeforce to put the law back into rule, but they reduced the policeforce.
And Mr. Sarko is known for this kind of two sided behaviour.
The suburbs of france' and belgium's big cities are the place where those weapons came from.
ok, saying PM will fix it is cheap but that's really the core task of project management "to devise a plan"
But a specific plan with goals needs to be based on an analysis of the environment you are actually in and you did the first steps, you tried to describe the environment.
medium-sized enterprise, UK Ok, you're in the UK and have access to a solid workers pool of skilled IT, also available by contract workers.
Think about getting an aide, nothing is worse than a project manager that looses oversight!
They claimed to be an advocate of open-source. But everything contradicts that, don't cling onto open source, don't waste energy to educate people that don't understand. It's useless, and open source is only one solution, that can work but also can fail. Especially if you have people with no skill!
The job was advertised as a Linux sys-admin. I've been in the role a short while and the systems right across the business are end-of-life: lots of XP and 2003 servers, a handful of LAMP web servers,
Do you have an overview, are all the systems accounted and cataloged with "Machine Power"/"Electric Power"/IP/MAC/Remoteinstall/config etc.. possiblities.
Because this actually looks like those who hired you did not have such an oversight.
and a large IT department with almost no skills in the technologies on site.
First you don't need a training plan you need a Maintainance&FIXIT plan = nothing is worse than systems failling, when you grab resources for training. because you will be blamed for, your oppinion will lose worth you will lose resources.
Idea: Have a fix-it task force at hand. Only selected few who really can "fix it". (Think about high skilled contract workers.)
Most boxes have the default password still.
That could be getting fixed by a task force.
As a senior techie, I've been tasked with helping bring the skillset of the rest of the staff up.
Good luck with that.
Where would you start, given that most of the kit is EoL? Make a plan based on the current equipment(what can still run and what is really dead) and the demand of the market. ("priorities")
older thinkpads actually older thinkpads core2duo 1,8ghz / T61 / 14,1" 1280x800 / 160gbyte / 2gbyte / intelgraphics NO NVIDIA = buggy but you dont know if
you can get these for down to 60 - 90â (1$ = 0,89â) sometimes along with the docking station or even with a 15,4" / 1650x1080 TFT
Even considering it's age it's decent machine, the keyboard quality is unmatched.
Apply an unofficial SATA2 patch install a solidstate drive and you have a boost.
x86-netbooks atoms, atoms and atoms, and celerons not as powerfull as the thinkpads but they mostly have a decent battery life.
If the kids(boys) can live with it the pink ones are ultra cheap (unwanted)
Example: compaq 311 & pavilion (hint!), samsung some crazy letter combination, dell, etc..
running win7 (sometimes only 32bit) no problem
The keyb, sucks often.
This text was typed on a win7-64bit machine 3gb / 128gbyte ssd with a celeron netbook processor (hp pavilion looks like compaq311 no nvidia ion) gotten for ~40â on ebay (cracked tft), decent keyb, superb battery life (7,5hrs. considering an 4 yr. old battery), hdmi, vga, SIM-slot and un2420 umts card.
Replaced the tft for 40â within 1,5 hrs. (the hardware maintainance manual is perfect for figuring out which tft to buy)
And I'm not poor but I'm very stingy!
arm-netbooks A little less powerful than the x86-netbooks but better battery life, but only for the macguyver style kids.
example: eeepc
Hint: decent & known manufactureres have mostly the more satisfying outcome than some strange chinese brand.
just buy a mini pci express WLAN card from ebay (cheap cheaper extreme cheap) - hopefully it's not a stolen one!
Replace "mini pci express" card and do what you like with your old card.
And you have a new mac adress.
Bad people could throw these in the garbage or the electronics dumps, or sell them at flea markets, so you should not dumpster dive and flea market for those cheap cards there!
Simply a wonderfull car, except for the fuel consumption, On that car you can virtually do everything by your own - small amount of tools needed - it's plain & simple.
But semiconductors are on board it has a stunning 6 diodes on board - not counting the radio!
If you choose a real Suzuki Samurai with spray injection from 88 you additionally get one with a cathalysator.
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It's funny that many people now are trying so hard to get one - and lucky for those that have one and can sell that little thingy for 6 times the initial price on ebay.
And for those who haven't heard that's called capitalism -
supply low, demand high = prices high and the ebay sellers get theirs sold!
The first reviews and comments on the PiZero were like: "unusable" "only one USB-Port". And then the complaints about the missing ethernet or wlan.
And some even judged that the Zero would not sell at all, because of its short commings despite the price.
After the "tinkerers" started to get interested and played around with this "fail" and then the demand took off straight.
And no, the Raspberry PI Zero demand doesn't hurt other competitors, because I don't see similar priced clones of that size.
If you need you can get an A+ that will work for your project, you then also only have one usable USB-Port,
to make it smaller you need to desolder the GPIO-pins.
Solution to ageing:
Then propose a different solution, like yeah, people from Germany or people from the Netherlands or people from Poland or people from Slovakia should immigrate to Denmark out of their own ageing countries.
Look around you. Yours and also mine favourite cultural heritage is decreasing in every european country.
But france has positive ageing .. yeah because of that "unwanted" cultural heritage population.
Another hurdle to take is also the danish nationalism,
which is also hostile towards the not so complete polar opposite of the western values.
(When I spit north I get more likely problems with a danish cop, than a german, and my car radio receives more danish channels than german ones .. ok to be fair there are more danish channels, and when I'm not carefull my cellphone roams into denmark.)
And about the "taxes", those where riduculusly high even during the 90s but yes the funding of the wellfare state is extreme and a burden to its funding.
Well, looking at the facts would change that view on denmark (in schweden your use case could possibly apply)
Numbers for Denmark
Refuges
2,000 (2014)
14,000 (2015)
on a
Population ~5,650,000 (for decimal weak people ~5,65 Million - 5,65*10^6)
which would mean for 2015 a huge 0,25% refugee intake ratio on the population.
Current Situation:
The right wing government with their anti-immigrant action increases the hostility towards imigrants and a bad climate for "progress" in general.
The ageing danes are entering a form of a "solid state society", which is simply wishful thinking because ageing is the progress that breaks the solid state.
People started leaving Denmark(since arround 2010) not because of the many (0,25%) refugees but because of the hostile right wing environment.
(I know nordic nordish danes that now live in germany that simply state: current danish society = narrow minded society = no fun, no progress, no interest in new things)
And the immigrants/refugees in denmark are faced with exclusion and right out xenophobia, leading to a big dependence on wellfare.
Thus generating a negative impact on forgeign investment into the country, now having an impact on the economy. The growing impact on the danish economy is the ageing of the population and with a hostility towards immigrants that won't change - and no the danish people won't start procreating "just because".
Conclusion:
Get a rightwing government and your economy pays the bill. Education isn't the prime directive for a rightwing government, but for a prospering country it is essential.
Actually!
They did, only poor Timothy was left to run the big slashdotanic through the ice berg infested atlantic ocean of information.
..vice, your communication is actually comming from localhost ..
You Sir, should be part of the "compress" interface!
Literally, because exactly this is the problem here,
As a person visiting a web-site your communication with the webserver is actually comming from the localhost, leaving no way to distinguish for the webserver between a sysadmin and a normal visitor.
Chuck Norris did some push ups so aggressivly that in contrast to his normal work out he liftet his body upwards and did not push the earth down,
thus generated a gravitational wave hitting the gps satellite.
The other explanation is:
It is a black hole and we all are doomed.
SARCASM_ON:
Because it tells you where to find the leaning tower of pisa, therefore you do now know how to damage the itallian economy by demolishing that building.
Threat cleared:
I call for a ban on all travel maps therefore nobody will be able to find these places.
More Threats
I call for a ban on teaching geography!
The maps show industrial buildings, transport infrastruture and natural resources!
SARCASM_OFF:
OSINT, INTINT, TINTINTIN
So long for calling public accessable information and teaching material OSINT, I call bull shit on this try to infiltrate the common language with this intelligence "cool" style new speak!
Hey slashdot.editors,
this is slashdot a news-site for nerds that mostly have a basic understanding of the "cracking" processes
And btw. the softpedia page is full of marketing speech shit.
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact?
A: There must be a security hole.
(the term outdated hints that there are -known- sec holes in older devices)
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact? another way
A: The user connects to an access point with/out any or weak encryption and the eMail app does not know of any current encryption
Q: How can I "enter" a smartphone without physical contact? another nother way
A: The user connects to an access point I control and I tell their eMail app that I'm from turk-trust and naserbajew-trust and that I'm Vladimir Putin the most trustworthy entity only followed by the NSA.
(Man in the middle attack)
Ok, not at first, because it's a war of the minds of engineers. = Tension!
But that is not what the majority of people want to see. We could test that for example if someone fires up his/her FEA Application and introduces people to the painstaking art of stress&weight optimization of a critical design.
I would watch that for hours, but I bet any of my neighbours would.
Also with control optimization for such driverless cars - to operate near the tipping point when rolling friction tipps to sliding friction.
That would simply be their secret and in consequence kept secret.
Simple Example:
When rolling friction tipps to sliding friction = you hit the brake of a pre ABS-car and your wheels are stopped from rolling and then they only slide.
So where is the fun. The fun in a car race is the human factor or the human failiure!
Hi,
actually I use Win7, classic theme (win2k/xp), and take back my menubar everytime I freshly install firefox on a new system, along with deactivating trimming of urls
(I like to be informed by a string if I'm http https or ftp)
along with deactivating pdfjs because I think it's a big hole somebody wants to exploit.
And sorry there is no group icon, except that I found it when I selected the "adjust UI" feature then I saw it.
Perhaps it has something to do with my setup o.O
Goto the FF settings page selected extended
and look FF has you opted in to gather metrics, that's
how.
Let me explain:
1.) Grouping Tabs in Opera12
(Grab Tab, move it over the other Tab you like to put together to a group, Drop Tab)
= works great easy to use, even my mother could use it (and mourned the downfall of Opera12, so let's just say when my mother could use it, the usability design was great)
2.) Grouping Tabs in Firefox
(Press CTRL + Shift +E) Everybody would knew that
And now you get an overloaded preview of all open Tabs
I can only say I didn't knew that FF had tab support either.
And my critisism is:
Mozilla should really axe this feature because of usability issues and POCKET too(->plugins) many people don't use it either but are pestered with it's existence which is because it's prominently placed!
And we could also think about Opera12's visual start page with icons and the way Mozilla implemented it.
(with the idea of making money)
Data is the gold of the 21st century let's do some alchemy and turn gold into dirt!
SARKASM
To demonstrate to one the difference between the meaningful kill potential of an assault rifle and encryption would be a crime! And from your POV it would be two!
And I hope that you have read the news that the french/belgium ISIS-terrorists used unencrypted communication to execute their plan.
Using your rational unencrypted communication would therefore also constitute as a crime. Because of no meaningful difference.
I hope you somehow begin to understand the real differences between things and come down from your extremist views.
And btw:
"bring 2 water melons, 10 eggs and a pack of peanuts"
is a chiffre that translates to:
- two bombs
- 10 hand granades
- and 5000 shots AK47 amunition
Beware of Granny Uncanny! She brings water melons and terror.
Where you really need to look at:
All these three letter acronyms can search billions of messages but fail to find the real important ones.
Often also ignoring real crime like illegal arms and explosives trade.
Terrorism is really nothing virtual, it needs the physical factor and especially the french government(Holande & Sarko) watched it happen.
But they did nothing about the many illegal automatic and semi-automatic weapons that were and are in the hands of criminals in many suburbs of french cities.
When their policemen cried for help because they are fired uppon with automatic weapons and also being outnumbered they did some "action" but without a strategy everything is deemd to be useless actionism and quickly forgotten.
They even did not increase the policeforce to put the law back into rule, but they reduced the policeforce.
And Mr. Sarko is known for this kind of two sided behaviour.
The suburbs of france' and belgium's big cities are the place where those weapons came from.
Just search the news for Marseille and suburbs.
Can you deal with the details, now ?
Because it has gotten a name.
Or is "Bad Coffee" better?
Carnerib has certainly not forgotten that he's in the UK.
That kind of "gift" comes with a catch:
Pull the live of more people into the internet, where you can easily observe them because they just share.
I just fear for those that do not accept this fundamental gift!
Who would run Windows 10 on a computer?
Nobody!
And that is why you have your Windows10 update malware.
If you can't win them, catch them all!
And you will get a free update offer for Windows11!
And once it's not free anymore we will force it onto you!
Sensorinformation Privacy "Sharing" E.U.L.A.
You hereby transfering all your sensory data from the PI to the microsoft cloud.
ok, saying PM will fix it is cheap but that's really the core task of project management "to devise a plan"
But a specific plan with goals needs to be based on an analysis of the environment you are actually in and you did the first steps, you tried to describe the environment.
medium-sized enterprise, UK
Ok, you're in the UK and have access to a solid workers pool of skilled IT, also available by contract workers.
Think about getting an aide, nothing is worse than a project manager that looses oversight!
They claimed to be an advocate of open-source.
But everything contradicts that, don't cling onto open source, don't waste energy to educate people that don't understand. It's useless, and open source is only one solution, that can work but also can fail. Especially if you have people with no skill!
The job was advertised as a Linux sys-admin. I've been in the role a short while and the systems right across the business are end-of-life: lots of XP and 2003 servers, a handful of LAMP web servers,
Do you have an overview, are all the systems accounted and cataloged with "Machine Power"/"Electric Power"/IP/MAC/Remoteinstall/config etc.. possiblities.
Because this actually looks like those who hired you did not have such an oversight.
and a large IT department with almost no skills in the technologies on site.
First you don't need a training plan you need a Maintainance&FIXIT plan = nothing is worse than systems failling, when you grab resources for training. because you will be blamed for, your oppinion will lose worth you will lose resources.
Idea: Have a fix-it task force at hand. Only selected few who really can "fix it".
(Think about high skilled contract workers.)
Most boxes have the default password still.
That could be getting fixed by a task force.
As a senior techie, I've been tasked with helping bring the skillset of the rest of the staff up.
Good luck with that.
Where would you start, given that most of the kit is EoL?
Make a plan based on the current equipment(what can still run and what is really dead) and the demand of the market. ("priorities")
That's the way to break arrogance!
Hi,
older thinkpads
actually older thinkpads core2duo 1,8ghz / T61 / 14,1" 1280x800 / 160gbyte / 2gbyte / intelgraphics NO NVIDIA = buggy but you dont know if
you can get these for down to 60 - 90â (1$ = 0,89â)
sometimes along with the docking station or even with a 15,4" / 1650x1080 TFT
Even considering it's age it's decent machine, the keyboard quality is unmatched.
Apply an unofficial SATA2 patch install a solidstate drive and you have a boost.
x86-netbooks
atoms, atoms and atoms, and celerons
not as powerfull as the thinkpads but they mostly have a decent battery life.
If the kids(boys) can live with it the pink ones are ultra
cheap (unwanted)
Example: compaq 311 & pavilion (hint!), samsung some crazy letter combination, dell, etc..
running win7 (sometimes only 32bit) no problem
The keyb, sucks often.
This text was typed on a win7-64bit machine 3gb / 128gbyte ssd with a celeron netbook processor (hp pavilion looks like compaq311 no nvidia ion) gotten for ~40â on ebay (cracked tft), decent keyb, superb battery life (7,5hrs. considering an 4 yr. old battery), hdmi, vga, SIM-slot and un2420 umts card.
Replaced the tft for 40â within 1,5 hrs. (the hardware maintainance manual is perfect for figuring out which tft to buy)
And I'm not poor but I'm very stingy!
arm-netbooks
A little less powerful than the x86-netbooks but better battery life, but only for the macguyver style kids.
example: eeepc
Hint:
decent & known manufactureres have mostly the more satisfying outcome than some strange chinese brand.
just buy a mini pci express WLAN card from ebay (cheap cheaper extreme cheap) - hopefully it's not a stolen one!
Replace "mini pci express" card and do what you like with your old card.
And you have a new mac adress.
Bad people could throw these in the garbage or the electronics dumps, or sell them at flea markets, so you should not dumpster dive and flea market for those cheap cards there!
Hey get real,
yes "they" could,
but "they" would get caught .. afterwards(like any terrorist)
Also because they are leaving a serialnumber nightmare behind themselves,
- turn your notebook on the back, mac + serialnumber
- buy a gsm modem, IMEI .. ok there are some very few gsm/edge-modems where there is software out in the open to spoof the IMEI.
But yes a disposable phone .. paid with a credit card for .. and videotaped your face on the survailiance cam.
Simply a wonderfull car, except for the fuel consumption,
On that car you can virtually do everything by your own - small amount of tools needed - it's plain & simple.
But semiconductors are on board it has a stunning 6 diodes on board - not counting the radio!
If you choose a real Suzuki Samurai with spray injection from 88 you additionally get one with a cathalysator.