I didn't see any mention of where they would film in Canada if this plan is actually implimented. If it's in Vancouver, BC it's not that cold. Coming from warmer and usually dryer LA-area I guess the cooler/damper weather of Vancouver might be difficult for some people to handle.
I don't recall the timeframe of the Microsoft lawsuit but it might have been during the boom times when the stock price was really high. Imagine being a contractor working there for years doing the same work as the fulltimers. Now the fulltimers get their stock options and BOOM they're now millionares. The contractor isn't a millionare even through he/she worked there for years and contributed to the success of the company along with all of the fulltimers.
Does your GF have service into Verizon's network? I do believe that most ISP's block thier SMTP service unless you happen to have an IP in thier network address space and you may have to authenticate into the SMTP servers as well. I have this issue with Comcast alot when I travel as I can download email using secure-POP but I had a heck of a time send outgoing email via SMTP even with authentication.
My solution was to become a member at Fastmail:
http://www.fastmail.fm/
To become a member required a one time payment of $14.95USD. Now I have access to an SSMTP server which I use for all of my outgoing emails regardless of whether I'm at home on Comcast's network or if I'm traveling and am outside of Comcast's network.
I have a 20GB iPod and I need the FireWire cable if I want to charge my iPod using the included charger unit. The charger socket only accepts the FireWire cable. My iPod can also be charged through the USB cable when connected to my laptop but sometimes I want to travel light and so I only take the iPod charger and leave my laptop at home.
Interesting as Microsoft used to be very good about breaking other vendor's software with their products. I still remember the old quote about DOS 3: "It's not done till Lotus won't run." And then there way they modified Windows 3.x so DR DOS couldn't be used with it.
I couldn't tell from the pictures of the bar if they had seat belts or not in that area. Anyone that has logged any trans-pacific flights can tell you that the CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) can be quite bad and so sitting at a bar without a seatbelt would be very dangerous IMHO. I haven't seen the maximum altitude specs for the A380 but my guess is that's not able to higher than most of the existing wide bodies aircraft there (around 40-42K feet?). I tried to find it on Airbus's website but I didn't see it. Unless a aircraft can fly very high it never gets can get completely out of CAT.
I've flown from the U.S. Westcoast to HK and Tokyo and let me tell you, depending the prevailing weather I've been on 747's that get tossed around like a ragdoll. It's so rough that even the flight attendants are forced to run to take their seats sometimes. One time I was on a 777 in business class and we where about an hour off of the coast of BC, Canada and we had turblence so bad during meal service that dishes started to get tossed around and stuff was spilling all over and we were told that the turbulance might even get worse.
It would be great to be able walk around and have a bar or game room or other spacous areas on a large aircraft like the A380 but it sounds real dangerous unless they have a way to detect and avoid CAT when flying at cruise altitude.
I had a chance to visit the British Airways Concorde at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, WA and I don't know if I'd call those seats first class other than there are only two seats on each side of the plane. To protect the seats they've covered each side of the interior over with curved pieces of plexi-glass and the remaing isle is very narrow. In looking at the seat size it looks smaller than a first class or even business class seat on a widebody jet but since I could only look at the seats and not try them out I can't do a real comparison. I guess it would be tolerable though given the much short travel time in flying on the Concorde.
The other thing that struck me about the Concorde was how small the interior is and the door is quite low going into the plane. I had to duck as I entered the plane to keep from hitting my head on the doorway.
While I agree that Boeing did some bad things during the 1990s I can't help but notice that they did build the 777 wide body during that time and that airliner has sold very well and has had a good amount of backlog at their factory. It completed very well against Airbus' widebody twinjet the A330 and to some extent to A340. If Boeing hadn't built the 777 then Airbus would have gotten alot more widebody twinjet orders than they did.
For a few years now SuSE Linux has only supported their Personal and Professional level products for around 2 years. It wasn't actually two years initially but they would provide support for the last 4 releases of SuSE Linux. Since they did releases about every 6 months it worked out to be about 2 years worth of support for a given version. If you want longer term support you need to go with an Enterprise version of SuSE or Red Hat as that provides something like 5 years of support.
That's what I want to know as I wonder how robust of a package a drive this small will have. I expect it to be used in MP3 players and maybe cell phones or something but if I drop the device the drive is in do I crash the thing? Will the device include a "brace for impact" detection system so the drive knows to park itself since the unit is being dropped?
Another thought...Not directed at this post's parent:
It's funny to see so many Java proponents dis C/C++ and yet Java owes its very existence to C/C++. My favorite question to people that extoll the virtues of Java is "What language do think is used for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)?" I've done Java programming rather freqeuently for the nearly 8 years now and can appreciate what Java does for me. But in certain cases where I've needed near realtime performance and some serious scalibility for the projects I've been working on I'm using C/C++ in those cases.
One company that is right here in Seattle that publishes a Linux oriented magazing is Specialized System Consultants (SSC) that publishes Linux Journal.
Sadly I've found that the quality of a Starbuck's cup of coffee can greatly vary. I live in Seattle and there are coffee houses pracitically everywhere and generally Starbuck's is OK although I prefer Tully's, or one of the smaller stands around town like Monorail Espresso. I generally don't go to Starbuck's unless I have no other choice. When I've travelled outside of Seattle I had the chance to visit a Starbuck's in downtown Chicago and the coffee was awful! It was a cold morning with a windchill warning of -20F and I would have liked a good cup coffee that morning. That's not to say that Chicago doesn't have good coffee available it was just my luck of the Starbuck's draw that day that I went to a store that sucked.
As someone that lives in the greater Seattle area this isn't unheard of the Seattle Times. They are the conservatiev newpaper here as I believe they supported Bush for president and the war in Iraq. Seattle is quite liberal though and so you can easily find liberal Republicans here as well. One always thinks of conservative papers supporting big business no matter what but over the years but the Times doesn't always follow that sort of mantra.
While it's easy to find someone that either works or has worked at Microsoft not everyone has good things to say about Microsoft here in Seattle. I worked at one small company in Bellevue (On the eastside of Lake Washington from Seattle) and there were rumours going around that Microsoft was looking at us as a potential acquisition and I heard more than one ex-Microsoft person say that they wouldn't be continuing with the company if Microsoft bought us.
Keep in mind that we have a few large companies here in Seattle that use other operating systems besides Windows. Amazon.com is here and they're a big user of Linux now and Boeing is still rather large here and they've always had a lot of large Unix servers so it's not a Windows only world around here. I can safely say I can wear my Tux hat and walk around the streets of Seattle and not get jumped by roving bands of pro-Microsoft thugs. I'm also rather suprised about how many people recognize Tux these days. I've even had several people that work in a few of the various coffee houses I frequent around Seattle immediately recognize Tux and they've related to me how they're running Linux at home now.
I've made a number of trips to Singapore over the last 10 years and English is the language of business over there so I don't think you'll have much trouble communicating. I think most people are at least bilingual there as I've met people that speak Mandarin or Malay as well as English. Leave you're chewing gum at home or on the airplane if you bring any as it's against the law to import and chew gum in Singapore. People would drop gum on the sidewalk or stick it under seats and so the government got fed up and banned it because of the mess it makes.
I would hope that the Magnuson Moss Act of 1975 would help protect consumers from this sort of behavior. One of the provisions of the MM Act was to protect customers from "Tie-in Sales". A "tie-in" was where a company or seller would force the buyer of a warranted item to buy products or services from a particular vendor otherwise it voided their product warranty. This would be like Ford Motor Company telling anyone that buys a Ford vehicle that they could only use Motorcraft brand lubrication products in their vehicle otherwise it would void their warranty.
These naming problems happen in different parts of the world. Anyone remember the Chevy Nova and why it had to be renamed in the Spanish speaking world? For those that don't know a little Spanish "No Va" means "no go" and so who in their right mind is going to buy a car with a name that says it "doesn't go".
The thing to keep in mind through is that AT&T was appropriating BSD Unix code by removing the Regents of California copyright notice and using the code in their own Unix code. It may well be that major portions of System VR4 owes its existence to BSD.
I find TWM much too Spartan. For systems lacking CPU horsepower I find that WindowMaker isn't too bad and is much nicer than TWM. At least with WindowMaker you can resize a window by dragging on the bottom corners. TWM is too much work since you have to select "Resize" from the WM menu first and click on the window to resize it. Too much work IMHO.
I've found WindowMaker is also available for the Cywin/Xfree86 port and I've found it to be a reasonable replacement for the rather expensive Hummingbird Exceed product for Windows.
If I was going to use a dedicated firewall appliance I think I would consider one of SnapGear's Linux-based appliances. For a medium solution it costs less than the $600.00 I spent some years ago to get a dedicated Pentium class that I use as a NAT'ing firewall box. I work in a small office for for the time being we've been using a Netgear FVS318 firewall/VPN appliance. It aleast does SFI (Stateful Firewall Inspection) and is quite easy to configure. I've been spoiled after using both Linux and OpenBSD for a firewall and so I want an appliance with more flexibility that what the smaller appliances offer.
Slashdot Mirror
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkant
I didn't see any mention of where they would film in Canada if this plan is actually implimented. If it's in Vancouver, BC it's not that cold. Coming from warmer and usually dryer LA-area I guess the cooler/damper weather of Vancouver might be difficult for some people to handle.
I don't recall the timeframe of the Microsoft lawsuit but it might have been during the boom times when the stock price was really high. Imagine being a contractor working there for years doing the same work as the fulltimers. Now the fulltimers get their stock options and BOOM they're now millionares. The contractor isn't a millionare even through he/she worked there for years and contributed to the success of the company along with all of the fulltimers.
So every Linux distro will be including a free flack vest with each boxed CD/DVD set?
Does your GF have service into Verizon's network? I do believe that most ISP's block thier SMTP service unless you happen to have an IP in thier network address space and you may have to authenticate into the SMTP servers as well. I have this issue with Comcast alot when I travel as I can download email using secure-POP but I had a heck of a time send outgoing email via SMTP even with authentication.
My solution was to become a member at Fastmail:
http://www.fastmail.fm/
To become a member required a one time payment of $14.95USD. Now I have access to an SSMTP server which I use for all of my outgoing emails regardless of whether I'm at home on Comcast's network or if I'm traveling and am outside of Comcast's network.
Oh I hope it's not like that teddy bear that the Peter Weller character throws into the spaceship pod with him in the movie "Screamers"...
I have a 20GB iPod and I need the FireWire cable if I want to charge my iPod using the included charger unit. The charger socket only accepts the FireWire cable. My iPod can also be charged through the USB cable when connected to my laptop but sometimes I want to travel light and so I only take the iPod charger and leave my laptop at home.
Interesting as Microsoft used to be very good about breaking other vendor's software with their products. I still remember the old quote about DOS 3: "It's not done till Lotus won't run." And then there way they modified Windows 3.x so DR DOS couldn't be used with it.
I couldn't tell from the pictures of the bar if they had seat belts or not in that area. Anyone that has logged any trans-pacific flights can tell you that the CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) can be quite bad and so sitting at a bar without a seatbelt would be very dangerous IMHO. I haven't seen the maximum altitude specs for the A380 but my guess is that's not able to higher than most of the existing wide bodies aircraft there (around 40-42K feet?). I tried to find it on Airbus's website but I didn't see it. Unless a aircraft can fly very high it never gets can get completely out of CAT.
I've flown from the U.S. Westcoast to HK and Tokyo and let me tell you, depending the prevailing weather I've been on 747's that get tossed around like a ragdoll. It's so rough that even the flight attendants are forced to run to take their seats sometimes. One time I was on a 777 in business class and we where about an hour off of the coast of BC, Canada and we had turblence so bad during meal service that dishes started to get tossed around and stuff was spilling all over and we were told that the turbulance might even get worse.
It would be great to be able walk around and have a bar or game room or other spacous areas on a large aircraft like the A380 but it sounds real dangerous unless they have a way to detect and avoid CAT when flying at cruise altitude.
I had a chance to visit the British Airways Concorde at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, WA and I don't know if I'd call those seats first class other than there are only two seats on each side of the plane. To protect the seats they've covered each side of the interior over with curved pieces of plexi-glass and the remaing isle is very narrow. In looking at the seat size it looks smaller than a first class or even business class seat on a widebody jet but since I could only look at the seats and not try them out I can't do a real comparison. I guess it would be tolerable though given the much short travel time in flying on the Concorde.
The other thing that struck me about the Concorde was how small the interior is and the door is quite low going into the plane. I had to duck as I entered the plane to keep from hitting my head on the doorway.
While I agree that Boeing did some bad things during the 1990s I can't help but notice that they did build the 777 wide body during that time and that airliner has sold very well and has had a good amount of backlog at their factory. It completed very well against Airbus' widebody twinjet the A330 and to some extent to A340. If Boeing hadn't built the 777 then Airbus would have gotten alot more widebody twinjet orders than they did.
They do when you get them going fast enough down an ice covered mountain slope:
TuxRacer
For a few years now SuSE Linux has only supported their Personal and Professional level products for around 2 years. It wasn't actually two years initially but they would provide support for the last 4 releases of SuSE Linux. Since they did releases about every 6 months it worked out to be about 2 years worth of support for a given version. If you want longer term support you need to go with an Enterprise version of SuSE or Red Hat as that provides something like 5 years of support.
That's what I want to know as I wonder how robust of a package a drive this small will have. I expect it to be used in MP3 players and maybe cell phones or something but if I drop the device the drive is in do I crash the thing? Will the device include a "brace for impact" detection system so the drive knows to park itself since the unit is being dropped?
Another thought...Not directed at this post's parent:
It's funny to see so many Java proponents dis C/C++ and yet Java owes its very existence to C/C++. My favorite question to people that extoll the virtues of Java is "What language do think is used for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)?" I've done Java programming rather freqeuently for the nearly 8 years now and can appreciate what Java does for me. But in certain cases where I've needed near realtime performance and some serious scalibility for the projects I've been working on I'm using C/C++ in those cases.
One company that is right here in Seattle that publishes a Linux oriented magazing is Specialized System Consultants (SSC) that publishes Linux Journal.
SSC Website
Sadly I've found that the quality of a Starbuck's cup of coffee can greatly vary. I live in Seattle and there are coffee houses pracitically everywhere and generally Starbuck's is OK although I prefer Tully's, or one of the smaller stands around town like Monorail Espresso. I generally don't go to Starbuck's unless I have no other choice. When I've travelled outside of Seattle I had the chance to visit a Starbuck's in downtown Chicago and the coffee was awful! It was a cold morning with a windchill warning of -20F and I would have liked a good cup coffee that morning. That's not to say that Chicago doesn't have good coffee available it was just my luck of the Starbuck's draw that day that I went to a store that sucked.
As someone that lives in the greater Seattle area this isn't unheard of the Seattle Times. They are the conservatiev newpaper here as I believe they supported Bush for president and the war in Iraq. Seattle is quite liberal though and so you can easily find liberal Republicans here as well. One always thinks of conservative papers supporting big business no matter what but over the years but the Times doesn't always follow that sort of mantra.
While it's easy to find someone that either works or has worked at Microsoft not everyone has good things to say about Microsoft here in Seattle. I worked at one small company in Bellevue (On the eastside of Lake Washington from Seattle) and there were rumours going around that Microsoft was looking at us as a potential acquisition and I heard more than one ex-Microsoft person say that they wouldn't be continuing with the company if Microsoft bought us.
Keep in mind that we have a few large companies here in Seattle that use other operating systems besides Windows. Amazon.com is here and they're a big user of Linux now and Boeing is still rather large here and they've always had a lot of large Unix servers so it's not a Windows only world around here. I can safely say I can wear my Tux hat and walk around the streets of Seattle and not get jumped by roving bands of pro-Microsoft thugs. I'm also rather suprised about how many people recognize Tux these days. I've even had several people that work in a few of the various coffee houses I frequent around Seattle immediately recognize Tux and they've related to me how they're running Linux at home now.
I've made a number of trips to Singapore over the last 10 years and English is the language of business over there so I don't think you'll have much trouble communicating. I think most people are at least bilingual there as I've met people that speak Mandarin or Malay as well as English. Leave you're chewing gum at home or on the airplane if you bring any as it's against the law to import and chew gum in Singapore. People would drop gum on the sidewalk or stick it under seats and so the government got fed up and banned it because of the mess it makes.
I would hope that the Magnuson Moss Act of 1975 would help protect consumers from this sort of behavior. One of the provisions of the MM Act was to protect customers from "Tie-in Sales". A "tie-in" was where a company or seller would force the buyer of a warranted item to buy products or services from a particular vendor otherwise it voided their product warranty. This would be like Ford Motor Company telling anyone that buys a Ford vehicle that they could only use Motorcraft brand lubrication products in their vehicle otherwise it would void their warranty.
Understanding the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act
These naming problems happen in different parts of the world. Anyone remember the Chevy Nova and why it had to be renamed in the Spanish speaking world? For those that don't know a little Spanish "No Va" means "no go" and so who in their right mind is going to buy a car with a name that says it "doesn't go".
The thing to keep in mind through is that AT&T was appropriating BSD Unix code by removing the Regents of California copyright notice and using the code in their own Unix code. It may well be that major portions of System VR4 owes its existence to BSD.
IIRC, CP/M the 8 bit operating system was called CP/M-80 although most people simply called it CP/M.
I find TWM much too Spartan. For systems lacking CPU horsepower I find that WindowMaker isn't too bad and is much nicer than TWM. At least with WindowMaker you can resize a window by dragging on the bottom corners. TWM is too much work since you have to select "Resize" from the WM menu first and click on the window to resize it. Too much work IMHO.
I've found WindowMaker is also available for the Cywin/Xfree86 port and I've found it to be a reasonable replacement for the rather expensive Hummingbird Exceed product for Windows.
If I was going to use a dedicated firewall appliance I think I would consider one of SnapGear's Linux-based appliances. For a medium solution it costs less than the $600.00 I spent some years ago to get a dedicated Pentium class that I use as a NAT'ing firewall box. I work in a small office for for the time being we've been using a Netgear FVS318 firewall/VPN appliance. It aleast does SFI (Stateful Firewall Inspection) and is quite easy to configure. I've been spoiled after using both Linux and OpenBSD for a firewall and so I want an appliance with more flexibility that what the smaller appliances offer.
SnapGear Embedded Linux Security