as I was trying to figure out how to actually see the video and clicking on the link like an idiot just to get back to the same place, I figured out that a large blank space below the text is where the video is supposed to be. Since it seems it is slashdotted I cannot see it. It would be better if you could just give the link in the text so I can save it and look later and/or at least say that the video is below.
I am considering going to live and work in Australia next year. Seems really a very cool place. But recent news about internet censorship and now this today are not very encouraging. Can someone tell me if these are just weird cases or is there a trend here?
I use flash to see videos on cnn and youtube all the time and never had a crash. I have Mandriva, Firefox and flash player 9. Perhaps there is something else wrong with the poster's install.
you can get a Linksys 3102 voip adapter. You plug in the land line and network cable to the adapter and connect with a softphone like X-Lite from the PC to the adapter to get the calls.
In any case it is normal for people from other countries to bring part of their culture and tradition with them. Are you opposing all kind of immigration or is just againts muslims? Why not jews , christians or some other religions? When you say "their goal", who is they? Muslims? Al Qaeda? It is not the same thing you know.
The only invasion I have heard of recently was done by force by the US and I am not sure they had a good reason to do it.
I would expect a Web 2.0 application to run in the browser. Any browser. For instace the Firefox on Linux I am using. If WWT does not run here then it is just a Windows application.
some quotes from the Wikipedia entry on web 2.0:
"In the opening talk of the first Web 2.0 conference, O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized what they saw as the themes of Web 2.0. They argued that the web had become a platform, with software above the level of a single device"
"According to Best the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Three further characteristics that Best did not mention about web 2.0: openness, freedom and collective intelligence by way of user participation - all should be viewed as essential attributes of Web 2.0."
Can someone tell me what I as a consumer am supposed to think when I see the label? I know one should do some research but what is the gist of it? Should I prefer or avoid the clones? Are the clones supposed to be cheaper or more expensive? Do I really care?
As "leaders of the free world" and "worlds 1st superpower", shouldn't the US set an example and be held to a higher standard?. If not then who do we little undeveloped countries have to look up to? I live in Costa Rica and yes at some point years ago many people here thought the US was good and special.
2 weeks ago I bought a router and after using it 2 days I noted that the network was slow. I checked the linksys page and I found out that there was a big notice asking people to upgrade to a new firmware which suposedly would fix speed problems. Ok so I try to upgrade the firmware and the router goes dead. I speant 2 hours with linksys customer support. Then I went to the store to retun it, they would give cash back so I got another router, again with old firmware. This one upgraded ok. I think the store should sell the routers with the latest firmware, specially if there is a big advisory about it.
I agree. If your business needs a particular feature that Linux does not have, then why not invest in developing that feaure and then you can switch to linux and continue to save a lot of money each year from then on. Or you might keep investing in development. Makes sense to pay to get a better OS, which might not be the the case with vista.
I happen to use OOO on my laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and I do not have a problem with the speed. It sure takes a few seconds to start but I don't mind. We use it at work since 2004, with no problems.
I have not seen any indication that DRM would be applied to songs ripped from CDs that do not already have some kind of copy protection. Where did you read about this?
I lived in Spain for some months and had to get a landline from the only provider, Telefonica. When I was ready to come back and wanted to cancel the service I had to make several attempts. When calling first you had to go through about 30 seconds of commercials about their new offers, finally you got to a recording asking one to say what the inquiry was about, I guess I was not saying the right keyword because it kept going into different voice menus asking me to say other stuff and pretty soon I was 3 levels deep into a menu that had nothing to do with my inquiry and the worst thing is that there was no way to go back to the top menu, well besides hanging up and having to go thru another round of commercials. The first time I thought it was funny, and laughed at how the machine did not understand a word I say and randomly picked menu options for me. But after 3 tries I started to get annoyed. In the end what I did was mess around with pressing numbers and not answering the questions and finally I guess it gaved up and passed me to an operator.
What they need to improve is marketing. No browser will be relevant for me as a developer if nobody uses it. Most developers still do not care if their pages work in Firefox even with its considerable user base.
This reminds me of the time when my cousin and his girlfriend announced that they were going to get married in 3 years. And I was like, Why are you telling us this now? If you want to get married go get married now. If you think it might be years before the time is right, then keep it to yourselves and wait and see how it goes and let us know later on.
For like 3 years I had not spent a dime on music. I just think it is too expensive, and I do have other things to spend on. However the other day I found out about allofmp3 and guess what, I have spend money on music again. I just felt the price was fair and happened to have $10 available and off they went to rusia. If the US companies don't want to do fair business with me, well that's their loss. I have mixed feelings about the artists but if Pearl Jam was selling their CD on their own website at this price they would probably make more money and I would have bought directly from them...
I have a Tecra M2 that works very well. There are decent drivers for everything. However I recently bought an HP and then found out that there are no drivers in the kernel for it. I went looking for them at different sources and eventually gave up. So most of the special buttons don't work, wifi and modem don't work, I can't adjust the screen brightness and due to ACPI problems KLaptop the power management program does not work. So it is barely useable.
Perhaps you should have hired someone with more experience to set it up for you. Unless you are broke it makes no sense to spend 40 hours attempting to do something that I could have set up for you in a couple of hours. I have friends that would be happy to do this for you for less than $30/hour. For an additional hour or couple of hours a month you might be cruising effortlessly using Linux and having everything work however you want it to.
Also, you didn't mention which distribution of Linux you tried, perhaps you picked something that was not right for you. Again, just get someone who has already endured the pain of learning to help you out.
assuming that they would actually do what you are saying, have a shorter cycle and try new things, the same argument could be used to say that they have good stuff coming and that perhaps one of those new things will happen to be something you want. There is too much speculation and too little comparison of actual products. If someone checked out an HP and a Lonovo and liked the HP that's cool, but that's not what I am reading.
assuming that you are serious, there's a problem. You forget that there are actually good patents, if maybe we don't hear about them very often but I'm sure there are at least a few cases where someone somwhere invented somthing really new and neat and they need to get it patented before maybe a big corporation steals their idea. I'm sure you would want some protection from someone stealing your idea. It's just the bad patents that fuck it up for everybody.
I bougth this http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_U3_feature.p hp and I'm very pleased. The FM reception is not that great but all the rest is very good. Plays ogg, supports firmware upgrades, works fine in Linux. Very cool.
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I have no statistics of how many spams I get each year because I don't care to count them. However I can recall how much annoyed I have felt, and I can tell you that I am similarly annoyed with spam this year than last one. The only recent development worth metioning is that local spam houses have popped up here in my country (Costa Rica), but they are not particularly annoying.
Another way to measure it is the compexity of the anti-spam infrastructure. That has centainly increased for me since last year. I manage a dedicated server, and if I had to reinstall all the spam software that I have running today it will take me a lot more time than it would have taken last year. I now not only have spamassassin, but now I have to take measures regarding secondary MX and also now I have an antivirus running. I'm sure it will only get more complicated with time.
a moment ago I was happilly coding and now I am downloading pics of male actors to check out their bulges? something went horribly wrong with the news today.
I did want to bother with mod_dav so what I did was setup the PUT method on Apache, which involves uploading a script that saves files when PUT by a client. So that basically allows the KOrganized to put the calendars back on the server. Then I made it ask for a password so that only authorized users would be able to get the calendar in the first place.
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as I was trying to figure out how to actually see the video and clicking on the link like an idiot just to get back to the same place, I figured out that a large blank space below the text is where the video is supposed to be. Since it seems it is slashdotted I cannot see it. It would be better if you could just give the link in the text so I can save it and look later and/or at least say that the video is below.
I am considering going to live and work in Australia next year. Seems really a very cool place. But recent news about internet censorship and now this today are not very encouraging. Can someone tell me if these are just weird cases or is there a trend here?
I use flash to see videos on cnn and youtube all the time and never had a crash. I have Mandriva, Firefox and flash player 9. Perhaps there is something else wrong with the poster's install.
you can get a Linksys 3102 voip adapter. You plug in the land line and network cable to the adapter and connect with a softphone like X-Lite from the PC to the adapter to get the calls.
I would be interested in those references.
In any case it is normal for people from other countries to bring part of their culture and tradition with them. Are you opposing all kind of immigration or is just againts muslims? Why not jews , christians or some other religions? When you say "their goal", who is they? Muslims? Al Qaeda? It is not the same thing you know.
The only invasion I have heard of recently was done by force by the US and I am not sure they had a good reason to do it.
I would expect a Web 2.0 application to run in the browser. Any browser. For instace the Firefox on Linux I am using. If WWT does not run here then it is just a Windows application.
some quotes from the Wikipedia entry on web 2.0:
"In the opening talk of the first Web 2.0 conference, O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized what they saw as the themes of Web 2.0. They argued that the web had become a platform, with software above the level of a single device"
"According to Best the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Three further characteristics that Best did not mention about web 2.0: openness, freedom and collective intelligence by way of user participation - all should be viewed as essential attributes of Web 2.0."
Can someone tell me what I as a consumer am supposed to think when I see the label? I know one should do some research but what is the gist of it? Should I prefer or avoid the clones? Are the clones supposed to be cheaper or more expensive? Do I really care?
As "leaders of the free world" and "worlds 1st superpower", shouldn't the US set an example and be held to a higher standard?. If not then who do we little undeveloped countries have to look up to? I live in Costa Rica and yes at some point years ago many people here thought the US was good and special.
2 weeks ago I bought a router and after using it 2 days I noted that the network was slow. I checked the linksys page and I found out that there was a big notice asking people to upgrade to a new firmware which suposedly would fix speed problems. Ok so I try to upgrade the firmware and the router goes dead. I speant 2 hours with linksys customer support. Then I went to the store to retun it, they would give cash back so I got another router, again with old firmware. This one upgraded ok. I think the store should sell the routers with the latest firmware, specially if there is a big advisory about it.
I agree. If your business needs a particular feature that Linux does not have, then why not invest in developing that feaure and then you can switch to linux and continue to save a lot of money each year from then on. Or you might keep investing in development. Makes sense to pay to get a better OS, which might not be the the case with vista.
I happen to use OOO on my laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and I do not have a problem with the speed. It sure takes a few seconds to start but I don't mind. We use it at work since 2004, with no problems.
Well there could be helicopters armed and guarding the vecinity of the airport or something like that.
I have not seen any indication that DRM would be applied to songs ripped from CDs that do not already have some kind of copy protection. Where did you read about this?
I lived in Spain for some months and had to get a landline from the only provider, Telefonica. When I was ready to come back and wanted to cancel the service I had to make several attempts. When calling first you had to go through about 30 seconds of commercials about their new offers, finally you got to a recording asking one to say what the inquiry was about, I guess I was not saying the right keyword because it kept going into different voice menus asking me to say other stuff and pretty soon I was 3 levels deep into a menu that had nothing to do with my inquiry and the worst thing is that there was no way to go back to the top menu, well besides hanging up and having to go thru another round of commercials. The first time I thought it was funny, and laughed at how the machine did not understand a word I say and randomly picked menu options for me. But after 3 tries I started to get annoyed. In the end what I did was mess around with pressing numbers and not answering the questions and finally I guess it gaved up and passed me to an operator.
What they need to improve is marketing. No browser will be relevant for me as a developer if nobody uses it. Most developers still do not care if their pages work in Firefox even with its considerable user base.
This reminds me of the time when my cousin and his girlfriend announced that they were going to get married in 3 years. And I was like, Why are you telling us this now? If you want to get married go get married now. If you think it might be years before the time is right, then keep it to yourselves and wait and see how it goes and let us know later on.
For like 3 years I had not spent a dime on music. I just think it is too expensive, and I do have other things to spend on. However the other day I found out about allofmp3 and guess what, I have spend money on music again. I just felt the price was fair and happened to have $10 available and off they went to rusia. If the US companies don't want to do fair business with me, well that's their loss. I have mixed feelings about the artists but if Pearl Jam was selling their CD on their own website at this price they would probably make more money and I would have bought directly from them...
I have a Tecra M2 that works very well. There are decent drivers for everything. However I recently bought an HP and then found out that there are no drivers in the kernel for it. I went looking for them at different sources and eventually gave up. So most of the special buttons don't work, wifi and modem don't work, I can't adjust the screen brightness and due to ACPI problems KLaptop the power management program does not work. So it is barely useable.
Perhaps you should have hired someone with more experience to set it up for you. Unless you are broke it makes no sense to spend 40 hours attempting to do something that I could have set up for you in a couple of hours. I have friends that would be happy to do this for you for less than $30/hour. For an additional hour or couple of hours a month you might be cruising effortlessly using Linux and having everything work however you want it to.
Also, you didn't mention which distribution of Linux you tried, perhaps you picked something that was not right for you. Again, just get someone who has already endured the pain of learning to help you out.
assuming that they would actually do what you are saying, have a shorter cycle and try new things, the same argument could be used to say that they have good stuff coming and that perhaps one of those new things will happen to be something you want. There is too much speculation and too little comparison of actual products. If someone checked out an HP and a Lonovo and liked the HP that's cool, but that's not what I am reading.
assuming that you are serious, there's a problem. You forget that there are actually good patents, if maybe we don't hear about them very often but I'm sure there are at least a few cases where someone somwhere invented somthing really new and neat and they need to get it patented before maybe a big corporation steals their idea. I'm sure you would want some protection from someone stealing your idea. It's just the bad patents that fuck it up for everybody.
I bougth this http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_U3_feature.p hp and I'm very pleased. The FM reception is not that great but all the rest is very good. Plays ogg, supports firmware upgrades, works fine in Linux. Very cool.
I have no statistics of how many spams I get each year because I don't care to count them. However I can recall how much annoyed I have felt, and I can tell you that I am similarly annoyed with spam this year than last one. The only recent development worth metioning is that local spam houses have popped up here in my country (Costa Rica), but they are not particularly annoying.
Another way to measure it is the compexity of the anti-spam infrastructure. That has centainly increased for me since last year. I manage a dedicated server, and if I had to reinstall all the spam software that I have running today it will take me a lot more time than it would have taken last year. I now not only have spamassassin, but now I have to take measures regarding secondary MX and also now I have an antivirus running. I'm sure it will only get more complicated with time.
a moment ago I was happilly coding and now I am downloading pics of male actors to check out their bulges? something went horribly wrong with the news today.
I did want to bother with mod_dav so what I did was setup the PUT method on Apache, which involves uploading a script that saves files when PUT by a client. So that basically allows the KOrganized to put the calendars back on the server. Then I made it ask for a password so that only authorized users would be able to get the calendar in the first place.
/www/passwd/cal.pw
Require valid-user
AuthName "calendarios"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile
It works perfectly. I used to use Sunbird too and worked fine, but didn't like it much.