If you are submitting documents electronically, I highly recommend using OpenOffice and submitting.pdf's. I use Linux pretty much exclusively here at home, but my school is rabid-MS-only, so I print all of my OpenOffice docs as PostScript (there is a little checkbox in the print menu), then pop open a terminal and type 'ps2pdf (document)'. OpenOffice doesn't seem to make working pdf's automagically at the moment, which is why I use the two step process, but I'm told the latest rev of OpenOffice (643 or whatever) has native pdf working. After all, pretty much everyone, everywhere, has a pdf reader...looks prettier too!
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...uh....Discovery and Sci-Fi are in the cheapest, most basic package Dish Network offers, which is $24/month including taxes. $24 a month won't even get you basic cable around here, much less Discovery and Sci-Fi:)
The real problem is getting local broadcast channels like Fox. If you don't live in one of their broadcast markets, they are legally prohibited from giving you the local package. The local Fox station where I used to live turned down my waiver request three times. The third time I called them myself and offered to give them $10, which is more then they will ever make off of me in advertising...like I am going to put up some analog wire when I have a nice digital satellite dish to recieve TV from space.
Where'd you get a l33t 3Mhz PC? I think you might want to try running your "Leaked Stragy [sic] Document" on something a little more robust than a graphing calculator...
I prefer the branding. I had heard about Evolution. People said it was great. So I tried it. Ten seconds later it was "Oh my God it's installing all of GNOME! Stop stop stop! I didn't want GNOME! Aaargh!"
Hah...that's EXACTLY the reaction I had:) Luckily I have a large & mainly empty hard drive and a fast internet connection...otherwise I would have just given up on Evolution. It would be nice if they would include a little disclaimer along the lines of "Warning! Installing this program will install virtually ALL of the *other* desktop manager!" Of course, calling it gEvolution would be even MORE annoying...Gevolution? Gnomvolution? Evolome? (Nice sound to that last one...)
I certainly have no problem distinguishing between the services....Dish (which I have) is $24/month (including taxes), whereas DirecTV starts at $31/month plus tax:) That is a big deal if you watch as little TV as we do and have a tight budget. The only thing that sucks is that we can't get Fox, as we are not in a rebroadcast area, and our local Fox station denied our waiver request (which would have allowed us to get Fox from Dish...note that this did NOT make me want to get an antenna and patronize them:).
Also, on the cost of installation posts, we got our equipment this summer on a "free equipment" deal. We walked into a local retailer, asked for a kit, they asked if we wanted self-install or free pro install (I installed it myself), they handed us the box and the install kit, and we went home. They never even asked our names. I seriously considered going back a few times to get more sets & selling them on eBay, but decided not to. Subscribing to service was a 3-minute phone call away, and required no credit card or minumum subscription length. A friend who went with the pro install had essentially the same experience. On a side note, compare these prices ($24+free) to local cable, which is $53/month plus taxes for expanded basic (analog, digital is another $2/month) plus a $70 "installation fee" (for our prewired townhouse), plus another $30 if you get digital, plus $10/month extra for each digital box, which you must get from the cable company. No thanks.
The fallacy with this argument is that it advocated transforming the Internet from its original design is a host-to-host network to a client-server architecture. Are you a consumer of media, or a participating member of internet culture? The great part of this is that media companies can be assured that you are reading *their* content from *their* servers advocating *their* opinions on whatever the issue is, instead of people that might have dissenting opinions. I have high hopes for applications liek Freenet, which allows secure, encrypted, distributed content, provided by anyone. THAT is the wave of the future, not MSNBC.com. On a side note, I run a bunch of servers, all of which are legal under my AUP, and frankly if you don't want me sharing videos of my wife's ultrasound with my parents, then you can go to any number of unpleasantly fiery locations.
Bleh...I'm really glad you don't live anywhere near me (I assume). I download very little music (a few mp3's a month) and no videos of any kind, and loathe streaming video, yet I manage to keep my 512bps/256kbps DSL line pretty well saturated, all the time.
First off, there are two gamers in the household (my wife and I), which doesn't seem to be illegal. Second, I run a few servers on a machine sitting in the closet that consumes the rest of my bandwidth. The server runs Apache (I run a small blog that lets us keep our extended families up to date on what is going on in our lives, as well as serving pictures of family activities), Freenet (let's hear it for censorship-free, distributed content providing systems), a mp3-streaming program so that I can listen to my music in the lab (note that I do *not* allow other people to use this, hence it is secured via password and SSL), a FTP site to allow me access to my stored files while at the university, and a bunch of other little stuff like ntpd.
A quick glance at my router shows that I average 40kB down and 19kB up over a 30 day period. I'm pretty lucky that my DSL provider lets me do whatever I want with the bandwidth I pay for, and I certainly hope that people like you don't prevent me from using my line for my own purposes, none of which are illegal.
This is true...of course, it's important to recognize that you can't simply pick up a multimillion (or billion) dollar plant and move it somewhere else once you have built it. Many companies (US and otherwise) have significant capital invested in Taiwan. I imagine that they'd be annoyed if their assets were seized by the PRC:)
So...by "[need] faster performance (its starting to get fragmented", I assume you are unaware of the tremendous speed increases of the 2.5.x series? The VM layer and IDE subsystem have both been completely reworked, as well as a huge list of other performance tweaks in the next kernel point release, such as the new scheduler, etc. 2.6 should be fun.
That's not good thinking. Joe User installing Linux would most likely install Apache, wu-ftpd (which is swiss cheese), sendmail (good for spammers) and all sorts of other goodies.
You, sir, are misinformed. Unless Joe User goes and hunts down a really old version of any common distro, or deliberately selects a "Server" installation (which is the equivalent of Joe User installing Win2K Adv Server with default settings), neither apache nor sendmail would be installed, and *especially* not wu-ftpd. The default desktop installs of even not-very-recent versions of Red Had, Mandrake, and Suse do not install these services.
I agree completely. As Bob Cringely noted, the *second* thing that people used the Internet for was buying & selling goods, the first of course being looking for sex. The problems started to arise, IMHO, when people started poking around the Internet that really didn't understand exactly what they were getting into, then having massive heart failure because the Good Clean Internet Full Of The Total Sum Of Human Understanding turned out to be a lot of porn sites and humor columns. So it goes. Amusingly enough, having a.sex or.xxx TLD would be great; makes it easy to filter for your kids (NOT other people's kids, and NOT in public libraries) as well as easing your search time.
Well, 4000km is about 1800 miles (for those of us who can't use SI units bigger than a meter easily), and at a normal highway speed of about 65 mph you are looking at about 27.6 hours of travel time. With the right amount of caffeine, it could be done in exactly 1.15 days, plus or minus gas station time and speeding.:)
The safety concerns of alternative fuels are highly overrated. Contrary to popular belief, hydrogen is NOT explosive except in some pretty odd geometries, which you are never going to attain in any type of fuel cell, nor in the environment around it, should the hydrogen leak out. It is indeed flammable, but much less dangerous than, say, gasoline, or lighter fluid. Before someone makes some lame crack about hydrogen-filled zeppelins, it is extremely important to note that it was NOT the hydrogen that exploded/burned in disasters such as the Hindenberg, but rather the magnesium-based paint that was coating the hydrogen envelope. Methanol is a bit more exciting, but still a perfectly safe chemical to use with the proper safegaurds. You would think that your laptop would cease to be a useful computational device long before you subjected it to enough force to crack open a high impact plastic shell intended to contain flammable materials.
Well, I dug around a bit trying to figure out how to rebind tab switching...needing to use the mouse (or let go of the mouse to hit CONTROL+PGUP, which is worse) is my one and only gripe with tabbed browsing. It looks like someday they might make a frontend for rebinding keys, but, after reading the docs listed above, I have no idea whatsoever how to rebind tab switching at the moment. Free candy to anyone who tells me how....:)
I have anonymous blocking on my phone line, but the current scam is to just "lose" the caller ID signal as it travels from telecom company to telecom company. I started getting 2-3 telemarketers per day that were simply coming up "Unavailable" (which I also get from my grandparents who live out in the middle of nowhere in the Rockies), and when I called the phone company to bitch, they told me that caller ID is still a "work in progress", and that it is common for caller ID signals to get "lost." I, of course, went off on them, questioning how I could have caller ID for 10 years and still only get numbers from 50% of my callers, but they didn't care. I imagine that "technical difficulties" would also prevent junk fax numbers from getting blocked.
Your point is taken, although the parent poster is making a perfectly valid point. Your email doesn't take 2 minutes each to transfer, typing up 100% of your bandwidth, but faxes do. Unless, of course, you are still using a 300 baud modem...
On the subject of lockpicks, I don't believe that they are illegal to posess in the US...I bought a set about a year and a half ago, and no one hassled me or asked me if I was a locksmith. Neither my friend (who also owns a set) nor I make a bit deal out of owning lockpicking tools, as people tend to assume that you are a criminal, but I use it fairly often to let people into their (own) houses, dorm rooms, cars (if possible), and so on. The laws in your state may vary, but I don't think this is the case in Wisconsin. You are correct, though; very soon all audio/visual equipment (at the consumer and prosumer level, at least) is going to have severe DRM hardware, at least according to current trends.
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If you are submitting documents electronically, I highly recommend using OpenOffice and submitting .pdf's. I use Linux pretty much exclusively here at home, but my school is rabid-MS-only, so I print all of my OpenOffice docs as PostScript (there is a little checkbox in the print menu), then pop open a terminal and type 'ps2pdf (document)'. OpenOffice doesn't seem to make working pdf's automagically at the moment, which is why I use the two step process, but I'm told the latest rev of OpenOffice (643 or whatever) has native pdf working. After all, pretty much everyone, everywhere, has a pdf reader...looks prettier too!
"You know, we've never had a completely sucessful test..."
...uh....Discovery and Sci-Fi are in the cheapest, most basic package Dish Network offers, which is $24/month including taxes. $24 a month won't even get you basic cable around here, much less Discovery and Sci-Fi :)
The real problem is getting local broadcast channels like Fox. If you don't live in one of their broadcast markets, they are legally prohibited from giving you the local package. The local Fox station where I used to live turned down my waiver request three times. The third time I called them myself and offered to give them $10, which is more then they will ever make off of me in advertising...like I am going to put up some analog wire when I have a nice digital satellite dish to recieve TV from space.
Where'd you get a l33t 3Mhz PC? I think you might want to try running your "Leaked Stragy [sic] Document" on something a little more robust than a graphing calculator...
I prefer the branding. I had heard about Evolution. People said it was great. So I tried it. Ten seconds later it was "Oh my God it's installing all of GNOME! Stop stop stop! I didn't want GNOME! Aaargh!"
:) Luckily I have a large & mainly empty hard drive and a fast internet connection...otherwise I would have just given up on Evolution. It would be nice if they would include a little disclaimer along the lines of "Warning! Installing this program will install virtually ALL of the *other* desktop manager!" Of course, calling it gEvolution would be even MORE annoying...Gevolution? Gnomvolution? Evolome? (Nice sound to that last one...)
Hah...that's EXACTLY the reaction I had
I certainly have no problem distinguishing between the services....Dish (which I have) is $24/month (including taxes), whereas DirecTV starts at $31/month plus tax :) That is a big deal if you watch as little TV as we do and have a tight budget. The only thing that sucks is that we can't get Fox, as we are not in a rebroadcast area, and our local Fox station denied our waiver request (which would have allowed us to get Fox from Dish...note that this did NOT make me want to get an antenna and patronize them :).
Also, on the cost of installation posts, we got our equipment this summer on a "free equipment" deal. We walked into a local retailer, asked for a kit, they asked if we wanted self-install or free pro install (I installed it myself), they handed us the box and the install kit, and we went home. They never even asked our names. I seriously considered going back a few times to get more sets & selling them on eBay, but decided not to. Subscribing to service was a 3-minute phone call away, and required no credit card or minumum subscription length. A friend who went with the pro install had essentially the same experience. On a side note, compare these prices ($24+free) to local cable, which is $53/month plus taxes for expanded basic (analog, digital is another $2/month) plus a $70 "installation fee" (for our prewired townhouse), plus another $30 if you get digital, plus $10/month extra for each digital box, which you must get from the cable company. No thanks.
The fallacy with this argument is that it advocated transforming the Internet from its original design is a host-to-host network to a client-server architecture. Are you a consumer of media, or a participating member of internet culture? The great part of this is that media companies can be assured that you are reading *their* content from *their* servers advocating *their* opinions on whatever the issue is, instead of people that might have dissenting opinions. I have high hopes for applications liek Freenet, which allows secure, encrypted, distributed content, provided by anyone. THAT is the wave of the future, not MSNBC.com. On a side note, I run a bunch of servers, all of which are legal under my AUP, and frankly if you don't want me sharing videos of my wife's ultrasound with my parents, then you can go to any number of unpleasantly fiery locations.
Bleh...I'm really glad you don't live anywhere near me (I assume). I download very little music (a few mp3's a month) and no videos of any kind, and loathe streaming video, yet I manage to keep my 512bps/256kbps DSL line pretty well saturated, all the time.
First off, there are two gamers in the household (my wife and I), which doesn't seem to be illegal. Second, I run a few servers on a machine sitting in the closet that consumes the rest of my bandwidth. The server runs Apache (I run a small blog that lets us keep our extended families up to date on what is going on in our lives, as well as serving pictures of family activities), Freenet (let's hear it for censorship-free, distributed content providing systems), a mp3-streaming program so that I can listen to my music in the lab (note that I do *not* allow other people to use this, hence it is secured via password and SSL), a FTP site to allow me access to my stored files while at the university, and a bunch of other little stuff like ntpd.
A quick glance at my router shows that I average 40kB down and 19kB up over a 30 day period. I'm pretty lucky that my DSL provider lets me do whatever I want with the bandwidth I pay for, and I certainly hope that people like you don't prevent me from using my line for my own purposes, none of which are illegal.
This is true...of course, it's important to recognize that you can't simply pick up a multimillion (or billion) dollar plant and move it somewhere else once you have built it. Many companies (US and otherwise) have significant capital invested in Taiwan. I imagine that they'd be annoyed if their assets were seized by the PRC :)
So...by "[need] faster performance (its starting to get fragmented", I assume you are unaware of the tremendous speed increases of the 2.5.x series? The VM layer and IDE subsystem have both been completely reworked, as well as a huge list of other performance tweaks in the next kernel point release, such as the new scheduler, etc. 2.6 should be fun.
That's not good thinking. Joe User installing Linux would most likely install Apache, wu-ftpd (which is swiss cheese), sendmail (good for spammers) and all sorts of other goodies.
You, sir, are misinformed. Unless Joe User goes and hunts down a really old version of any common distro, or deliberately selects a "Server" installation (which is the equivalent of Joe User installing Win2K Adv Server with default settings), neither apache nor sendmail would be installed, and *especially* not wu-ftpd. The default desktop installs of even not-very-recent versions of Red Had, Mandrake, and Suse do not install these services.
Certainly, everytime I see the prefixes "cyber-", "e-", or "i-" anything, it makes me want to claw my eyes out. Perhaps with a spoon.
I agree completely. As Bob Cringely noted, the *second* thing that people used the Internet for was buying & selling goods, the first of course being looking for sex. The problems started to arise, IMHO, when people started poking around the Internet that really didn't understand exactly what they were getting into, then having massive heart failure because the Good Clean Internet Full Of The Total Sum Of Human Understanding turned out to be a lot of porn sites and humor columns. So it goes. Amusingly enough, having a .sex or .xxx TLD would be great; makes it easy to filter for your kids (NOT other people's kids, and NOT in public libraries) as well as easing your search time.
I'll certainly take some off of your hands. Drop me an email and I'm sure we can set something up.
Offtopic, but......
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Shouldn't your
"Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a post if you are modded '-1, Troll'?"
Exactly which cab file are the fonts in? I'm not especially interested in digging through all of them...
what, you mean the oxygen?
Well, 4000km is about 1800 miles (for those of us who can't use SI units bigger than a meter easily), and at a normal highway speed of about 65 mph you are looking at about 27.6 hours of travel time. With the right amount of caffeine, it could be done in exactly 1.15 days, plus or minus gas station time and speeding. :)
The safety concerns of alternative fuels are highly overrated. Contrary to popular belief, hydrogen is NOT explosive except in some pretty odd geometries, which you are never going to attain in any type of fuel cell, nor in the environment around it, should the hydrogen leak out. It is indeed flammable, but much less dangerous than, say, gasoline, or lighter fluid. Before someone makes some lame crack about hydrogen-filled zeppelins, it is extremely important to note that it was NOT the hydrogen that exploded/burned in disasters such as the Hindenberg, but rather the magnesium-based paint that was coating the hydrogen envelope. Methanol is a bit more exciting, but still a perfectly safe chemical to use with the proper safegaurds. You would think that your laptop would cease to be a useful computational device long before you subjected it to enough force to crack open a high impact plastic shell intended to contain flammable materials.
Well, I dug around a bit trying to figure out how to rebind tab switching...needing to use the mouse (or let go of the mouse to hit CONTROL+PGUP, which is worse) is my one and only gripe with tabbed browsing. It looks like someday they might make a frontend for rebinding keys, but, after reading the docs listed above, I have no idea whatsoever how to rebind tab switching at the moment. Free candy to anyone who tells me how.... :)
I have anonymous blocking on my phone line, but the current scam is to just "lose" the caller ID signal as it travels from telecom company to telecom company. I started getting 2-3 telemarketers per day that were simply coming up "Unavailable" (which I also get from my grandparents who live out in the middle of nowhere in the Rockies), and when I called the phone company to bitch, they told me that caller ID is still a "work in progress", and that it is common for caller ID signals to get "lost." I, of course, went off on them, questioning how I could have caller ID for 10 years and still only get numbers from 50% of my callers, but they didn't care. I imagine that "technical difficulties" would also prevent junk fax numbers from getting blocked.
Your point is taken, although the parent poster is making a perfectly valid point. Your email doesn't take 2 minutes each to transfer, typing up 100% of your bandwidth, but faxes do. Unless, of course, you are still using a 300 baud modem...
I, for one, plan to have friends in Taiwan and Europe purchase and ship me equipment, come the day when all I can purchase is crippled DRM crap.
On the subject of lockpicks, I don't believe that they are illegal to posess in the US...I bought a set about a year and a half ago, and no one hassled me or asked me if I was a locksmith. Neither my friend (who also owns a set) nor I make a bit deal out of owning lockpicking tools, as people tend to assume that you are a criminal, but I use it fairly often to let people into their (own) houses, dorm rooms, cars (if possible), and so on. The laws in your state may vary, but I don't think this is the case in Wisconsin. You are correct, though; very soon all audio/visual equipment (at the consumer and prosumer level, at least) is going to have severe DRM hardware, at least according to current trends.
(time for anohter obligatory...)
You didn't read the article, did you?
The data is already encrypted on the hard drive, and only a cached portion is decrypted into RAM while the key is nearby.