1. Add a firewall if you don't have one. IPCop on an old Pentium will work (and be less hassle hardware-wise than the 386 or 486 it could also run on), which you can probably get for free by asking around.
2. Encrypt the data on your hard-drive. DriveCrypt looks pretty good for that and can encrypt the entire drive as well as specific directories.
3. PGP/GPG-sign your email. Thunderbird does this with a simple plugin (takes about 15 minutes to set up). The commercial PGP works with Outlook if that's what you use and won't change.
4. Get rid of Outlook and Outlook Express. These two email programs are major security holes. There is little that Thunderbird can't do for email, and for scheduling use something like the old Lotus Approach or Microsoft Schedule+.
5. Use DVD-RAM for data backups to give you the reliability you need when you have to cover your back.
You're thinking of CLV vs CAV - Constant Linear Velocity vs Constant Angular Velocity. This is a physical hardware issue involving how fast the drive spins at different points on the disc, kinda like how old Mac floppy disks. The problem is that you can damage both the media and the drives if you mix them the wrong way. Sucks, huh!
The famed "Curse of Amiga" seems to have more to do with having idiots in charge than anything. Commodore had one of the most powerful computing platforms ever conceived of in the mid 80's, but instead of focusing on it and making it better (eg releasing the AAA chipset in the late 80's as originally was planned) they decided to enter the PC market. Duh. Then Escom had its own problems and went belly up. Next up, Viscorp's cheerleaders / board of directors decided to pull out at the last minute (so the people who thought up the buyout went on to start Genesi). When Gateway bought out the IP they were only looking to fend off a possible buyout by having a larger amount of IP in their vault. The current Amino / Amiga Inc crew originally wanted _nothing_ to do with the "classic" platform, they wanted to use the name to sell PDA games, changed their minds after the community rebelled, and in the end back-stabbed everyone the worked with and are about to go bankrupt.
If only... if only Viscorp's directors hadn't pulled out... if only C='s management had realized what they had and not gone stupid. Bah.
I really liked Gloom on the Amiga (not Gloom Deluxe, which sucked) as it was _extremely_ atmospheric, with some levels giving me cold sweats, especially the ones with ghosts. Its cooperative multiplayer support was also very well done.
Use PHP for your report generation and use its PDFlib support to output the final result to a PDF file, which you then shuffle off to the user. Et voila!
I think the idea of this is to grab a random PC on the network and use it for testing, like Mary Thesecretary's P4/3ghz that is used for daily reports and word processing. I don't really think they want you to take down the core servers to run tests, if you do that then you don't have anything to test against.
Get an external Firewire bay and a $150 4G DVD-RAM drive and burn DVDs to your heart's content. Of course it'll be an external drive vs a nice built-in one, but it'll be much more affordable than what Apple will offer. And as a bonus you'll get the most compatible DVD standard (DVD-R) _and_ the most reliable backup standard in one shot (DVD-RAM).
My father-in-law is moving to Long Island, NY, and is interested in a new ISP. He's already paying for Prodigy but if there was a cheal broadband service in the area he'd consider it. Any suggestions?
While working at a public community college in Florida one thing I noticed was that in some departments the managers and directors had better equipment to type up their letters, email and hot-sync their Palm organizers than the labs did. Nothing quite like making the most use of equipment...
Get two of those $200 PCs from Walmart (or comparable), network them, upgrade them with some more memory, and set one up as a hot-swapable replacement should the other die. With only 250 email accounts and a hundred-ish web sites you'd be flying.
My wife and I love playing all the Diablo games, she usually plays an archer of some sort and I'm either a thug (ugh, ugh, slash, slash) or magician. It works well, she throws in the hired grunt into the middle of combat while she sits back and shoots arrows over my head. Except in Diablo 1 where you can hit the other person, which isn't fun in-game but is good for a laugh out-of-game ("ouch, that hurt! Here's some popcorn on your head!".
Too bad they didn't decide to just use the existing industry-standard high-speed PCI replacement, PCI-X. Then again, Intel didn't make PCI-X, so it can't be any good, right? Just like Firewire.
I don't think extended / directors-cut editions of movies are bad, in fact for the most-part I like them, but I don't agree with _only_ releasing alternative cuts of movies and not the original.
Seriously though, I'll enjoy being able to show my forthcoming children (first due in the Fall) the different edits of the movie, how they all fit together, contrasts between them, etc. Kinda like how I'm annoyed they refuse to release the original version of Star Wars as we saw it as children, its all repackaged Ewoks-with-walkie-talkies fluff.
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A few things:
1. Add a firewall if you don't have one. IPCop on an old Pentium will work (and be less hassle hardware-wise than the 386 or 486 it could also run on), which you can probably get for free by asking around.
2. Encrypt the data on your hard-drive. DriveCrypt looks pretty good for that and can encrypt the entire drive as well as specific directories.
3. PGP/GPG-sign your email. Thunderbird does this with a simple plugin (takes about 15 minutes to set up). The commercial PGP works with Outlook if that's what you use and won't change.
4. Get rid of Outlook and Outlook Express. These two email programs are major security holes. There is little that Thunderbird can't do for email, and for scheduling use something like the old Lotus Approach or Microsoft Schedule+.
5. Use DVD-RAM for data backups to give you the reliability you need when you have to cover your back.
Damien
You're thinking of CLV vs CAV - Constant Linear Velocity vs Constant Angular Velocity. This is a physical hardware issue involving how fast the drive spins at different points on the disc, kinda like how old Mac floppy disks. The problem is that you can damage both the media and the drives if you mix them the wrong way. Sucks, huh!
I'm expecting Microsoft to next try using their US politicians to cause problems for the EU over this.
I want a special TLD called ".idiot", with a special discount for politicians of all sorts and anyone involved in ICANN getting a free account.
<sigh>
The famed "Curse of Amiga" seems to have more to do with having idiots in charge than anything. Commodore had one of the most powerful computing platforms ever conceived of in the mid 80's, but instead of focusing on it and making it better (eg releasing the AAA chipset in the late 80's as originally was planned) they decided to enter the PC market. Duh. Then Escom had its own problems and went belly up. Next up, Viscorp's cheerleaders / board of directors decided to pull out at the last minute (so the people who thought up the buyout went on to start Genesi). When Gateway bought out the IP they were only looking to fend off a possible buyout by having a larger amount of IP in their vault. The current Amino / Amiga Inc crew originally wanted _nothing_ to do with the "classic" platform, they wanted to use the name to sell PDA games, changed their minds after the community rebelled, and in the end back-stabbed everyone the worked with and are about to go bankrupt.
If only... if only Viscorp's directors hadn't pulled out... if only C='s management had realized what they had and not gone stupid. Bah.
Damien
I really liked Gloom on the Amiga (not Gloom Deluxe, which sucked) as it was _extremely_ atmospheric, with some levels giving me cold sweats, especially the ones with ghosts. Its cooperative multiplayer support was also very well done.
Now _That_ is expensive!
I saw something similar in a store in Sacramento for about $15.
Damien
I thought Tom's Hardware was a pro-Intel shop? Their reviews and commentaries over the past few years have read as such.
Use PHP for your report generation and use its PDFlib support to output the final result to a PDF file, which you then shuffle off to the user. Et voila!
Damien
Are the screenshots gone? I don't see them there now.
I'd love to attend his tour but he isn't coming to Florida :-(
Boring boring boring. Didn't stop it getting almost perfect scores in reviews, though.
Actually its "baling twine", they don't use wire for it as the wire would cut through the materials being bound. And twine is cheaper.
I think the idea of this is to grab a random PC on the network and use it for testing, like Mary Thesecretary's P4/3ghz that is used for daily reports and word processing. I don't really think they want you to take down the core servers to run tests, if you do that then you don't have anything to test against.
Kiss my /dev/null!
Get an external Firewire bay and a $150 4G DVD-RAM drive and burn DVDs to your heart's content. Of course it'll be an external drive vs a nice built-in one, but it'll be much more affordable than what Apple will offer. And as a bonus you'll get the most compatible DVD standard (DVD-R) _and_ the most reliable backup standard in one shot (DVD-RAM).
My father-in-law is moving to Long Island, NY, and is interested in a new ISP. He's already paying for Prodigy but if there was a cheal broadband service in the area he'd consider it. Any suggestions?
While working at a public community college in Florida one thing I noticed was that in some departments the managers and directors had better equipment to type up their letters, email and hot-sync their Palm organizers than the labs did. Nothing quite like making the most use of equipment...
"show known events in a new, fantasy light."
I thought it was all a fantasy anyway?
Get two of those $200 PCs from Walmart (or comparable), network them, upgrade them with some more memory, and set one up as a hot-swapable replacement should the other die. With only 250 email accounts and a hundred-ish web sites you'd be flying.
My wife and I love playing all the Diablo games, she usually plays an archer of some sort and I'm either a thug (ugh, ugh, slash, slash) or magician. It works well, she throws in the hired grunt into the middle of combat while she sits back and shoots arrows over my head. Except in Diablo 1 where you can hit the other person, which isn't fun in-game but is good for a laugh out-of-game ("ouch, that hurt! Here's some popcorn on your head!".
Too bad they didn't decide to just use the existing industry-standard high-speed PCI replacement, PCI-X. Then again, Intel didn't make PCI-X, so it can't be any good, right? Just like Firewire.
You must have misread what he said. 2.4.20-rc7 was a release candidate for the 2.4.20 release, not the 2.4.21 release.
.. then you'll understand my comment.
I don't think extended / directors-cut editions of movies are bad, in fact for the most-part I like them, but I don't agree with _only_ releasing alternative cuts of movies and not the original.
Me too!
Seriously though, I'll enjoy being able to show my forthcoming children (first due in the Fall) the different edits of the movie, how they all fit together, contrasts between them, etc. Kinda like how I'm annoyed they refuse to release the original version of Star Wars as we saw it as children, its all repackaged Ewoks-with-walkie-talkies fluff.