Quote from the fact sheet: "Simplified task management. With Windows XP Starter Edition, first-time home PC users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes setting a maximum display resolution of 1024x768 and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC."
I do believe Apple and Microsoft are not direct competitors, because Apple is selling computers and Microsoft is selling software. And many people even run Microsoft Windows on Apple computers. The only thing Apple does not do is sell computers preinstalled with Microsoft Windows like the other companies that build PCs.
Since Apple is not planning on licensing their os to other computer manufacturers (they did this and the company almost went bancrupt, but was saved by Microsoft) the only os that does compete with Microsoft for coming preinstalled is Linux. If you think of all the companies that sell PCs.
Actually for music production under Linux, Reaper (http://www.reaper.fm/) is currently the recommened application. It is the closest alternative to digital audio workstation DAW products like Cubase on Linux. The other two programs would be Rosegarden and Ardour. Both don't cut it yet. Ardour is closer than Rosegarden, but I heard that the developement is more a one man show and the developer uses outdated concepts.
So for music production this is not obscure at all.
There was (still is) a possibility to set a password for hdds. It was in the news, because it was not possible to get to the data if you couldn't remember the pw. So it was advised to set it or disable it. Because if a malware got to it first they could set some random password and you would have no access anymore.
TV can maybe illustrate moral issues. Human morality can be explained using simple examples. For example if a man could fall off a bridge if not saved by you he would stop a train running below it and it would save three people that are trapped on the tracks a little off. Most people would say they would not stop that man from falling and save the other three. Now what if you had to push that person? Active vs. passive is an interesting theme that can be easily explored in a 45 minutes storyline. What is right, what is wrong morally? What is good or evil?
But current political stuggles are far more complex. For example most (if not all) interrogation situations where torture is involved to gain intel from terror suspects the possiblity of saving human lives is far, far remote. The intel gained could, much further down the line maybe help in finding people that might plan a terror attack that could be discovered by other means as well. The chances for that intel to be crucial is (in reality, not in movies) so remote, that you could question or torture some random people taken off the streets and have the same chance. And in many cases the people held in Gitmo are just that. Random people that were grabbed off the streets of some town in Afghanistan during the invasion. But many people watch 24 with Jack Bauer and believe that things work like that in real live. I chose 24 here, because it is a much better (or worse) example. In that series the people tortured are withholding crucial intel that could save many thousand lives directly. The chances for such a situation in reality is zero.
As far as politics and political issues involving morality go TV series like BSG are not teaching us anything. They actually cloud things up. They mislead. Some of them are good for entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was wondering one thing. I got two Seagate Deskstar USB drives last year. I don't have them here to check them, but I believe there is no way to check for or update firmware through USB. Or is there? What are the plans for external enclosures?
I use Linux, so I can't use the Windows updating software. I know that there is a boot floppy image available. But I don't have a floppy drive anymore. I guess Seagate won't be making any firmware upgrading software for Linux soon. But a USB stick boot image with FreeDOS or sth. would be nice.
The bug occurs only if you spin up the drive. And even then very rarely. Usually datacenters don't spin down their drives anyways. Does yours? Apart from that if you use cheap desktop drives instead of server drives you should at least spread the raid out across different kinds of hardware. Exactly for this kind of problem. And especially with cheap hardware.
Please don't use cheap desktop hardware and then whine about it not being server grade. bad web hosting company, bad!
Since I had not heard of massive numbers of Seagate drives failing I already suspected that this is a rare occasion in which the drives would not spin up. I was wondering why Seagate announced this bug berfore they have a fix ready. Looks like they announced at very early. Maybe they also should have put more emphasis on the fact that it is a very rare bug.
It was announced. And people were freaking out about a bug from Seagate without a fix ready. What happens when customers freak? Right: Tons of pressure on getting a fix ASAP. I thought the chance of a bad firmware would be much higher with that much pressure and upgrading the drives would pose a more severe risk than just doing nothing. So I think I will keep doing that for another couple days at least.
The sad part about that story is that companies will be more reluctant to be open about bugs in the future.
Pros: MS Office 2000 more similar to OOo than MS Office 2007 Backwards compatibilty: For some reason OOo is better with older MS Word documents than recent MS Office versions Cross platform: If you ever were to move to a different os, you are already half way there with OOo deployed
Cons: If you exchange complex documents with other (MS Office) companies they can get screwed up.
I have several FreeAgent Desktop drives running at a customer. Does the Firmware update even work through USB?
I also happen to have purchased an eSATA drives for my (older) subnotebook. It neither has eSATA nor floppy nor cd-rom. I equipped it with a PC-Card (one single slot) eSATA adaptor. And it only runs Linux. All my other machines don't have SATA. How am I supposed to run the testing app, let alone the update app?
You switched from LTS to normal. I also installed 8.10 for my dad, because I wanted OpenOffice 3. Now I have some strage problems as well. The Xserver resolution is all messed up at the login. I can't even read anything on the login screen. It was easy enough to change screen resolution on the desktop. But for some reason Ubuntu 8.10 does not apply that resolution to the login.
To make a long story short: I got OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.10 even though I only have 8.10 sources in my sources list. Crappy, isn't it?
That insects (like ants for example) are much healthier than meat is old news. That they don't crap as much is even older news. But why silk worms? The silk needs to be processed to become edible. Why not other worms?
I worked with an early version of Scribus a couple years ago and was very impressed by it. Since then Scribus evolved a lot. Maybe you should give the Windows version a try: http://www.scribus.net/?q=taxonomy/term/36
I have not heard of a program for autistic children, but Klaus Knopper, one of the popular Linux engineers over here in Germany (if not the most popular for Knoppix) works on Linux for blind people. His wife is blind. There might be more Linux people out there that are handicapped themsleves or have close relatives that are. That can be a very high incentive to create useful tools.
Why not just extend the specs and put a little power connector at the side or on top? A power connector would be easier to implement than a whole new standard (USB3).
I do believe this to be different. They did some CT scans of the head while exposing low doses of EM and found effects. And many radio clocks that are powered by 110 or 220 V instead of batteries do give off enough to have an effect at close range.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4
Trusted Computing? Yes or No
There you see one of the other reasons why Flash schould be free (as in Gnash for example).
The main reason is still that it is the platform with the single largest installer base.
Quote from the fact sheet:
"Simplified task management. With Windows XP Starter Edition, first-time home PC users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes setting a maximum display resolution of 1024x768 and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/WinXPStarterFS.mspx
This will not work, because terrorists could dig those things out and make dirty bombs. In the coming ten to twenty years that threat is very real.
I do believe Apple and Microsoft are not direct competitors, because Apple is selling computers and Microsoft is selling software. And many people even run Microsoft Windows on Apple computers. The only thing Apple does not do is sell computers preinstalled with Microsoft Windows like the other companies that build PCs.
Since Apple is not planning on licensing their os to other computer manufacturers (they did this and the company almost went bancrupt, but was saved by Microsoft) the only os that does compete with Microsoft for coming preinstalled is Linux. If you think of all the companies that sell PCs.
You lied in the treaty of Prüm you want to rule over all of Europe, don't you?
-- A trench-digging German
Actually for music production under Linux, Reaper (http://www.reaper.fm/) is currently the recommened application. It is the closest alternative to digital audio workstation DAW products like Cubase on Linux.
The other two programs would be Rosegarden and Ardour. Both don't cut it yet. Ardour is closer than Rosegarden, but I heard that the developement is more a one man show and the developer uses outdated concepts.
So for music production this is not obscure at all.
Lately I heard lots of things about not wanting to be in an American prision. Thai might be even worse, but do you really know for sure?
There was (still is) a possibility to set a password for hdds. It was in the news, because it was not possible to get to the data if you couldn't remember the pw. So it was advised to set it or disable it. Because if a malware got to it first they could set some random password and you would have no access anymore.
This has been done along time ago. It was even covered on /.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/21/1947222
TV can maybe illustrate moral issues. Human morality can be explained using simple examples. For example if a man could fall off a bridge if not saved by you he would stop a train running below it and it would save three people that are trapped on the tracks a little off. Most people would say they would not stop that man from falling and save the other three.
Now what if you had to push that person?
Active vs. passive is an interesting theme that can be easily explored in a 45 minutes storyline. What is right, what is wrong morally? What is good or evil?
But current political stuggles are far more complex. For example most (if not all) interrogation situations where torture is involved to gain intel from terror suspects the possiblity of saving human lives is far, far remote. The intel gained could, much further down the line maybe help in finding people that might plan a terror attack that could be discovered by other means as well. The chances for that intel to be crucial is (in reality, not in movies) so remote, that you could question or torture some random people taken off the streets and have the same chance. And in many cases the people held in Gitmo are just that. Random people that were grabbed off the streets of some town in Afghanistan during the invasion.
But many people watch 24 with Jack Bauer and believe that things work like that in real live. I chose 24 here, because it is a much better (or worse) example. In that series the people tortured are withholding crucial intel that could save many thousand lives directly. The chances for such a situation in reality is zero.
As far as politics and political issues involving morality go TV series like BSG are not teaching us anything. They actually cloud things up. They mislead.
Some of them are good for entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was wondering one thing. I got two Seagate Deskstar USB drives last year. I don't have them here to check them, but I believe there is no way to check for or update firmware through USB. Or is there? What are the plans for external enclosures?
I use Linux, so I can't use the Windows updating software. I know that there is a boot floppy image available. But I don't have a floppy drive anymore. I guess Seagate won't be making any firmware upgrading software for Linux soon. But a USB stick boot image with FreeDOS or sth. would be nice.
The bug occurs only if you spin up the drive. And even then very rarely. Usually datacenters don't spin down their drives anyways. Does yours? Apart from that if you use cheap desktop drives instead of server drives you should at least spread the raid out across different kinds of hardware. Exactly for this kind of problem. And especially with cheap hardware.
Please don't use cheap desktop hardware and then whine about it not being server grade.
bad web hosting company, bad!
Since I had not heard of massive numbers of Seagate drives failing I already suspected that this is a rare occasion in which the drives would not spin up. I was wondering why Seagate announced this bug berfore they have a fix ready. Looks like they announced at very early. Maybe they also should have put more emphasis on the fact that it is a very rare bug.
It was announced. And people were freaking out about a bug from Seagate without a fix ready. What happens when customers freak? Right: Tons of pressure on getting a fix ASAP. I thought the chance of a bad firmware would be much higher with that much pressure and upgrading the drives would pose a more severe risk than just doing nothing. So I think I will keep doing that for another couple days at least.
The sad part about that story is that companies will be more reluctant to be open about bugs in the future.
Pros:
MS Office 2000 more similar to OOo than MS Office 2007
Backwards compatibilty: For some reason OOo is better with older MS Word documents than recent MS Office versions
Cross platform: If you ever were to move to a different os, you are already half way there with OOo deployed
Cons:
If you exchange complex documents with other (MS Office) companies they can get screwed up.
I have several FreeAgent Desktop drives running at a customer. Does the Firmware update even work through USB?
I also happen to have purchased an eSATA drives for my (older) subnotebook. It neither has eSATA nor floppy nor cd-rom. I equipped it with a PC-Card (one single slot) eSATA adaptor. And it only runs Linux. All my other machines don't have SATA. How am I supposed to run the testing app, let alone the update app?
I think that comment sums it up pretty nicely. Mod parent insightful please.
You switched from LTS to normal. I also installed 8.10 for my dad, because I wanted OpenOffice 3. Now I have some strage problems as well. The Xserver resolution is all messed up at the login. I can't even read anything on the login screen. It was easy enough to change screen resolution on the desktop. But for some reason Ubuntu 8.10 does not apply that resolution to the login.
To make a long story short: I got OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.10 even though I only have 8.10 sources in my sources list. Crappy, isn't it?
That insects (like ants for example) are much healthier than meat is old news. That they don't crap as much is even older news. But why silk worms? The silk needs to be processed to become edible. Why not other worms?
I worked with an early version of Scribus a couple years ago and was very impressed by it. Since then Scribus evolved a lot. Maybe you should give the Windows version a try:
http://www.scribus.net/?q=taxonomy/term/36
Or just do apt-get install scribus
I have not heard of a program for autistic children, but Klaus Knopper, one of the popular Linux engineers over here in Germany (if not the most popular for Knoppix) works on Linux for blind people. His wife is blind. There might be more Linux people out there that are handicapped themsleves or have close relatives that are. That can be a very high incentive to create useful tools.
Why not just extend the specs and put a little power connector at the side or on top? A power connector would be easier to implement than a whole new standard (USB3).
I was wondering the same thing. Why not just use eSATA? Can MP3-Players and Digital Cameras get this Chip? And why no eSATA flash memory modules?
I do believe this to be different. They did some CT scans of the head while exposing low doses of EM and found effects. And many radio clocks that are powered by 110 or 220 V instead of batteries do give off enough to have an effect at close range.