And it also demonstrated that those 2-3 hours a day aren't enough for even the environmental hippies.
But actually it was! They got to check their hotmail accounts and were pretty damn chuffed about it too!
Depending how much fuel you had the diesel generator could obviously have run 24x7.
But the problem is that you're in the middle of a green festival in the middle of the country and you can't use your car to get more diesel to feed the generator, and you've removed one of the wheels from your bicycle to power your laptop! Oh the connumdrum, perhaps you should just go and enjoy the festival and sod the Internet and hence not run into a dilema about the power generation in the first place.
But had you run it (using soybean oil) to generate enough energy for 5-6 hours, you likely would have created less pollution than the bicycle generator.
Seriously though, do you have any hard facts to back this up?, sounds interesting. Is that the corporately controlled, modified by genetic engineering, then sold back to the third world and tree-hugging hippies everywhere type of soya oil?
I sure hope not, because it's a step backward.
I'm sorry but the bicycle was neither going forwards nor backwards, it was standing still and powering the laptop.
BTW. I was involved in this. I think it demonstrated this: using solely solar cells and batteries we were able to run the net access for 2-3 hours a day (given that, as per usual for England, it was pretty overcast most of the time). When we used the bicycle generator, we were able to run for 5-6 hours, which effectively doubled the amount of access we could give. Had we run with a diesel generator, then we might have done 12 hours a day and obviously mains would have given us 24x7.
So it's to do with how much you need to consume and how many resources you need in order to maintain your perception of your need to consume. Everything has a price and an environmental impact - yes of course, even the empty beer cans produced from the need to 'power' the peddlers! - and the important thing in my mind is to be aware of what this impact is with respect to what you consume.
Last thing, we're not saying that this IS the way forward at all, of course there a lots of issues to do with both its feasiblity and its impact on people and the environment, not least satellite and wireless radio interference, but it was an experiment to see if it was possible, and it was.
Please do not ruin this excellent story and serial like you have so many other foreign and US scripts. Please please please. Isn't LOTRs enough for starters. Keep Hollywood cash out of your culture, and especially out of my fucking culture.
Ditch those heavy weight windows.
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I came to X using a Sun Workstation running whatever it was called then. The I used Motif, I always loved Motif. Then under Linux OpenLook, then Motif, then WindowMaker, then GNOME and KDE. For the last few years I've been using KDE and occasionally GNOME.
Last week having discovered the joy (best word for it) of running OS X on an iBook (best computing experience for about 12 years!), I decided on FVWM2. It is clean, fast and nice looking, and does everything a window manager should do: manage windows, be clean and fast and look nice. A friend has just switched to twm - we're amazed at how we fogot about how great X is and how great these window managers are.
My point? Ditch these heavyweight Windoze look alike window managers and all this gimicky Linux Desktop stuff and get back to the using lightweight, efficient WMs and using X as a distributed windowing environment. Stop restricting X, free yourself!
Hi, we have a GPLd content management and web administrator application development toolkit written in Perl and running under Apache/MySQL, try that. Visit the site at www.changingpages.org and contact us for a download.
We're looking for volunteers to work on this project as we never seem to find the time to get the next release out. Hopefully a CVS will be available very soon. Anyone interested? Again visit the site and let us know.
I hate this bollox. Call me a standards freak. But there is some sense in country domains names. We're becoming (the World) too damn fucking commercial. And it's all the fault of those libertarians, especially the Yankees. Some twat tried to sell a mate of mine.uk.co the other day..co is Columbia, this sucks. The net is turning into a load of Bollox!
What a pointless article! That is so silly, as others have expressed: why do people buy BMWs, Mercedes over Honda Civics? why do people like to eat in good restaurants rather than McDonalds? why do some self-respecting technical people prefer to use UNICES over Windows? Why would I buy a Dell rather than a Gateway or no-name brand? Why buy a new iMac rather than another Wintel PC?
It's a question of taste, whether you have it, what you have it for and whether or not you're a sheep!
Me = Flat-screen-iMac+OSX+GNU = ideal machine
Consumer market = BAAAA!
Just thought I'd mention that on www.microsoft.es the counter is ready about 15 mins to go until the launch of Windows XP on 25th October 2001. It's now a quarter to nine in the evening - seems very peculiar that M$ would choose to launch XP here at 10 O'Clock at night, after the shops shut! Still Bill and Steve move in mysterious ways I guess!
Hi my business partener and I both have had Inspiron 7000s for about two and a half years, have lugged them about all over the place, got them covered in Coca cola, beer, ash, even mud and have never had a single problem with the hinges.
I have had problems with the CD drive, dodgy connection. I bought the latop in the UK and lugged it to Spain, it went wrong and I phoned Dell in Spain and the next day a guy came out and replaced the dual CD-Floppy unit - he even had a handle on Linux too!
The CD has gone wrong again, and this time it was out of guarantee, so I was f****d! However some jiggery-pokery and a bit of cleaning sorted it out.
Other than this, professionally I always use Dell kit as I've generally found their tech support to be excellent, their kit pretty reliable and their hardware configurations to be pretty damn compatible, both with NT and Linux. I've probably purchase hundreds of Dells, from desktops, laptops to high-end 6500 series Power Edge servers and generally (when compared to Compaq for example) have had only about 5 really fail in any disastorous way.
I'm a incurable Dell fan and that's all there is to it. And thankyouverymuch, I'll do my own Linux laptop installs. - actually there's a gripe, their Red Hat Linux 7.x installs a god awful from my experience! Installing GNOME on a 1U rack-mount web appliance with all services fully on - I mean honestly!
Well I live in Europe and I didn't get to vote for that crazy $$$ Bush. And now with congress' carte blanche, he's the most dangerous man in the world, with the most powerful and at this time angry nation in the world wanting someone's head. I feel that what happened is an utter trajedy, but I fear more the tradgedy that could follow with people acting in rage rather than rational thought.
I agree that RMS shouldn't take cheap political pot-shots, but it's a fair enough comment as the eligiability of Bush was and still is very, very questionable.
And if we can't discuss politically the most important event in recent world history on this site, it really isn't worth squat!
Didn't know anything about this until I read the article and noticed that the word 'poker' in the article above this one was highlighted in yellow. Running C:\Program Files\Ezula\UNINSTAL.EXE (or something like that) did the trick.
The term 'obscure' is pretty obvious really, MySQL AB are just trying to belittle NuSphere.
I agree with what MySQL AB have to say, it is obviously their trademark and product and name and someone registering a.ORG site for apparently commercial reasons, without the permission of MySQL AB certainly aren't behaving with honour or honesty. I can't belive the two parties haven't discussed this before, nor that MySQL AB didn't already own mysql.org. However, the actions of NuSphere almost definitely seem either illegal or at least "not cricket" as we English might have said about fifty years ago.
My NINTENDO Game and Watch Mario Brothers is horizontal alignment and that's what? Circa 1983 ish isn't it? Batteries lasted years - and it had a handy watch and alarm on it. What a ridiculous discussion, they were badly research, who cares???
M$ Access is okay for doing crappy little jobs, but it's in no way a real database front end, it is seriously and honestly not the thing to use. Your boss must not have a good handle at all on IT and has fallen for the 'Well Access comes with office and I can make myself a contacts list easy and so therefore we must use this' - that is very common in organisations and very ill-informed.
You could write it using VBA and M$ Excel as well for example. That would be stupid too.
If you do have to go down this route, then just stick to NT is my advice. I know loads would disagree with my, but it'd probably better not to complicate your life with the two platforms. Get MySQL for NT (or better still AbriaSoft's distribution) and perhaps consider using Allaire's ColdFusion, it's pretty good.
I'm completely against using NT for this solution, *NIX would be far more better.
But if you're going down this road and your misguided boss must go M$, then at least make him pay for a decent web-db database development tool to do it with, and ColdFusion should be just the job.
Access is a waste of space for anything serious.
BTW. IF you're going the other way, Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC Bridge is pretty good.
What about viruses?
We as humans are constantly the prey to the ever pesistant predator in the form of viruses. It is generally accepted (perhaps wrongly??) that genetic diversity is what helps human kind to keep ahead of the game. As viruses mutate, so we mutate, so they mutate, etc.
Those who live in western society already exist in a higly santitised, over pharmaceutacised world that makes them vulnerable to bacteria and viruses when they go abroad - malaria tablets and the lot.
Will we not simply be producing clones of people fed on anti-bacterial impregnated chopping boards with little or no defences to the onslaught of what nature has to throw at us. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD - THIS IS BAD!! WE ARE NOT CLEVERER THAN NATURE. Honestly.
I think that anybody who thinks this is a good idea has seriously let their ego get the better of them, and a society supporting this has really lost it's way. Perhaps we should all turn of our computers and televisions and think seriously for once what the implications of this are for everyone, not just comsumerist westerners, but the whole of human kind.
Two things pmancini...
1) Language: When you say you can get by in Italian, what do you mean? Asking for coffees? Intermediate (renting a flat, opening a bank account), Advanced (possibly working in the language everyday) or Fluent?
My basic point is that yes Italian and French are both latin languages, but they are very different in many ways. Two months is nowhere near enough time even if you were Italian and spoke fluent Italian. I live in Spain, am English and having been learning Spanish for over 2 years, I'm nowhere near it yet... I've studied damn hard and I'm just about Advanced-ish. I know Italian people here learning Spanish (a lot more similar to Italian, than French), they've been studying for a few years and they're not near it yet.
The saving grace is that the IT world speak English, but only when they feel like it and not everybody. You need to remember the following:
a) if you've got desirable specialist skills then you're in for a better chance.
b) the French (excuse any French readers for the generalisation of you) are very proud of their language and will not necessarily either speak English or be willing to speak English to you!
For example, I know for a fact that a lot of French companies employ those from Quebec when looking for North American IT people.
2) Secondly, bear in mind that as a US citezen, you do not qualify for a work visa in France (or any other EC country for that matter). The only way you'll do it is either by working illegally, by getting sponsorship from a French company contracting you for your special skills or by an internal company transfer by a multi-national.
Not trying to put you off or anything, far from it. I wholeheartedly encourage you to go for it (the steamed mussles and fries are wonderful... and the pave au poive, c'est manafique!). But it'll be difficult, so get prepared. You might find Holland easier as they do business in English... but if you can't get in legally, then some 'under-the-table' bar work might be in order!
Not encouraging anything honest:-)
Cheers,
Mike.
As an 'Internet Solutions Provider', we've been running servers and developing under RedHat for years now. And it's a great, stable, mature distro. Yes, it's got more newbie oriented and yes RedHat have made a lot of money, but it's still a damn reliable, stable server envrionment and a perfectly adequate Linux development environment. All this is going to happen anyway, you can't tout something to the entire world without expecting people to actually want to use it. And you can't expect everyone to have a degree in computer science just to be able to use a computer. RedHat have done a great job with Linux and have helped raise it's profile immensely - it's relations with Oracle, Dell, IBM etc. show this. I like SuSE, Debian and Caldera too.. and Corel's alright for a turn-key desktop. Yes there are too many distributions and I do wish these companies would stop jumping on bandwagons by releasing, yet another linux distro - how about doing somethign useful, like writing some decent applications guys? Knocking this distribution and that desktop environment is not constructive for the development of Linux. Let's stop wasting our collective breaths and continue to promote it (in whatever form) and produce some more applications.
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And it also demonstrated that those 2-3 hours a day aren't enough for even the environmental hippies.
But actually it was! They got to check their hotmail accounts and were pretty damn chuffed about it too!
Depending how much fuel you had the diesel generator could obviously have run 24x7.
But the problem is that you're in the middle of a green festival in the middle of the country and you can't use your car to get more diesel to feed the generator, and you've removed one of the wheels from your bicycle to power your laptop! Oh the connumdrum, perhaps you should just go and enjoy the festival and sod the Internet and hence not run into a dilema about the power generation in the first place.
But had you run it (using soybean oil) to generate enough energy for 5-6 hours, you likely would have created less pollution than the bicycle generator.
Seriously though, do you have any hard facts to back this up?, sounds interesting. Is that the corporately controlled, modified by genetic engineering, then sold back to the third world and tree-hugging hippies everywhere type of soya oil?
I sure hope not, because it's a step backward.
I'm sorry but the bicycle was neither going forwards nor backwards, it was standing still and powering the laptop.
BTW. I was involved in this. I think it demonstrated this: using solely solar cells and batteries we were able to run the net access for 2-3 hours a day (given that, as per usual for England, it was pretty overcast most of the time). When we used the bicycle generator, we were able to run for 5-6 hours, which effectively doubled the amount of access we could give. Had we run with a diesel generator, then we might have done 12 hours a day and obviously mains would have given us 24x7.
So it's to do with how much you need to consume and how many resources you need in order to maintain your perception of your need to consume. Everything has a price and an environmental impact - yes of course, even the empty beer cans produced from the need to 'power' the peddlers! - and the important thing in my mind is to be aware of what this impact is with respect to what you consume.
Last thing, we're not saying that this IS the way forward at all, of course there a lots of issues to do with both its feasiblity and its impact on people and the environment, not least satellite and wireless radio interference, but it was an experiment to see if it was possible, and it was.
thanks for that, made the correction to Betzdorf and the proof-reader has been officially sacked!
thank you!
Another mirror of this to be found here.
Please do not ruin this excellent story and serial like you have so many other foreign and US scripts. Please please please. Isn't LOTRs enough for starters. Keep Hollywood cash out of your culture, and especially out of my fucking culture.
I came to X using a Sun Workstation running whatever it was called then. The I used Motif, I always loved Motif. Then under Linux OpenLook, then Motif, then WindowMaker, then GNOME and KDE. For the last few years I've been using KDE and occasionally GNOME.
Last week having discovered the joy (best word for it) of running OS X on an iBook (best computing experience for about 12 years!), I decided on FVWM2. It is clean, fast and nice looking, and does everything a window manager should do: manage windows, be clean and fast and look nice. A friend has just switched to twm - we're amazed at how we fogot about how great X is and how great these window managers are.
My point? Ditch these heavyweight Windoze look alike window managers and all this gimicky Linux Desktop stuff and get back to the using lightweight, efficient WMs and using X as a distributed windowing environment. Stop restricting X, free yourself!
Hi, we have a GPLd content management and web administrator application development toolkit written in Perl and running under Apache/MySQL, try that. Visit the site at www.changingpages.org and contact us for a download.
We're looking for volunteers to work on this project as we never seem to find the time to get the next release out. Hopefully a CVS will be available very soon. Anyone interested? Again visit the site and let us know.
I hate this bollox. Call me a standards freak. But there is some sense in country domains names. We're becoming (the World) too damn fucking commercial. And it's all the fault of those libertarians, especially the Yankees. Some twat tried to sell a mate of mine .uk.co the other day. .co is Columbia, this sucks. The net is turning into a load of Bollox!
(End of intelligent use of the English Language)
What a pointless article! That is so silly, as others have expressed: why do people buy BMWs, Mercedes over Honda Civics? why do people like to eat in good restaurants rather than McDonalds? why do some self-respecting technical people prefer to use UNICES over Windows? Why would I buy a Dell rather than a Gateway or no-name brand? Why buy a new iMac rather than another Wintel PC?
It's a question of taste, whether you have it, what you have it for and whether or not you're a sheep!
Me = Flat-screen-iMac+OSX+GNU = ideal machine
Consumer market = BAAAA!
Mike
Sad bastard I am answering my own postings!
........ nothing happened! shucks!
Anyway, the counter reached zero and
Just thought I'd mention that on www.microsoft.es the counter is ready about 15 mins to go until the launch of Windows XP on 25th October 2001. It's now a quarter to nine in the evening - seems very peculiar that M$ would choose to launch XP here at 10 O'Clock at night, after the shops shut! Still Bill and Steve move in mysterious ways I guess!
Hi my business partener and I both have had Inspiron 7000s for about two and a half years, have lugged them about all over the place, got them covered in Coca cola, beer, ash, even mud and have never had a single problem with the hinges.
I have had problems with the CD drive, dodgy connection. I bought the latop in the UK and lugged it to Spain, it went wrong and I phoned Dell in Spain and the next day a guy came out and replaced the dual CD-Floppy unit - he even had a handle on Linux too!
The CD has gone wrong again, and this time it was out of guarantee, so I was f****d! However some jiggery-pokery and a bit of cleaning sorted it out.
Other than this, professionally I always use Dell kit as I've generally found their tech support to be excellent, their kit pretty reliable and their hardware configurations to be pretty damn compatible, both with NT and Linux. I've probably purchase hundreds of Dells, from desktops, laptops to high-end 6500 series Power Edge servers and generally (when compared to Compaq for example) have had only about 5 really fail in any disastorous way.
I'm a incurable Dell fan and that's all there is to it. And thankyouverymuch, I'll do my own Linux laptop installs. - actually there's a gripe, their Red Hat Linux 7.x installs a god awful from my experience! Installing GNOME on a 1U rack-mount web appliance with all services fully on - I mean honestly!
Well I live in Europe and I didn't get to vote for that crazy $$$ Bush. And now with congress' carte blanche, he's the most dangerous man in the world, with the most powerful and at this time angry nation in the world wanting someone's head. I feel that what happened is an utter trajedy, but I fear more the tradgedy that could follow with people acting in rage rather than rational thought.
I agree that RMS shouldn't take cheap political pot-shots, but it's a fair enough comment as the eligiability of Bush was and still is very, very questionable.
And if we can't discuss politically the most important event in recent world history on this site, it really isn't worth squat!
Didn't know anything about this until I read the article and noticed that the word 'poker' in the article above this one was highlighted in yellow. Running C:\Program Files\Ezula\UNINSTAL.EXE (or something like that) did the trick.
The term 'obscure' is pretty obvious really, MySQL AB are just trying to belittle NuSphere. I agree with what MySQL AB have to say, it is obviously their trademark and product and name and someone registering a .ORG site for apparently commercial reasons, without the permission of MySQL AB certainly aren't behaving with honour or honesty. I can't belive the two parties haven't discussed this before, nor that MySQL AB didn't already own mysql.org. However, the actions of NuSphere almost definitely seem either illegal or at least "not cricket" as we English might have said about fifty years ago.
My NINTENDO Game and Watch Mario Brothers is horizontal alignment and that's what? Circa 1983 ish isn't it? Batteries lasted years - and it had a handy watch and alarm on it. What a ridiculous discussion, they were badly research, who cares???
Don't do it!!!
M$ Access is okay for doing crappy little jobs, but it's in no way a real database front end, it is seriously and honestly not the thing to use. Your boss must not have a good handle at all on IT and has fallen for the 'Well Access comes with office and I can make myself a contacts list easy and so therefore we must use this' - that is very common in organisations and very ill-informed.
You could write it using VBA and M$ Excel as well for example. That would be stupid too.
If you do have to go down this route, then just stick to NT is my advice. I know loads would disagree with my, but it'd probably better not to complicate your life with the two platforms. Get MySQL for NT (or better still AbriaSoft's distribution) and perhaps consider using Allaire's ColdFusion, it's pretty good.
I'm completely against using NT for this solution, *NIX would be far more better.
But if you're going down this road and your misguided boss must go M$, then at least make him pay for a decent web-db database development tool to do it with, and ColdFusion should be just the job.
Access is a waste of space for anything serious.
BTW. IF you're going the other way, Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC Bridge is pretty good.
http://www.easysoft.com/products/oob/main.phtml
What about viruses? We as humans are constantly the prey to the ever pesistant predator in the form of viruses. It is generally accepted (perhaps wrongly??) that genetic diversity is what helps human kind to keep ahead of the game. As viruses mutate, so we mutate, so they mutate, etc. Those who live in western society already exist in a higly santitised, over pharmaceutacised world that makes them vulnerable to bacteria and viruses when they go abroad - malaria tablets and the lot. Will we not simply be producing clones of people fed on anti-bacterial impregnated chopping boards with little or no defences to the onslaught of what nature has to throw at us. PEOPLE OF THE WORLD - THIS IS BAD!! WE ARE NOT CLEVERER THAN NATURE. Honestly. I think that anybody who thinks this is a good idea has seriously let their ego get the better of them, and a society supporting this has really lost it's way. Perhaps we should all turn of our computers and televisions and think seriously for once what the implications of this are for everyone, not just comsumerist westerners, but the whole of human kind.
Two things pmancini ...
1) Language: When you say you can get by in Italian, what do you mean? Asking for coffees? Intermediate (renting a flat, opening a bank account), Advanced (possibly working in the language everyday) or Fluent?
My basic point is that yes Italian and French are both latin languages, but they are very different in many ways. Two months is nowhere near enough time even if you were Italian and spoke fluent Italian. I live in Spain, am English and having been learning Spanish for over 2 years, I'm nowhere near it yet ... I've studied damn hard and I'm just about Advanced-ish. I know Italian people here learning Spanish (a lot more similar to Italian, than French), they've been studying for a few years and they're not near it yet.
The saving grace is that the IT world speak English, but only when they feel like it and not everybody. You need to remember the following:
a) if you've got desirable specialist skills then you're in for a better chance.
b) the French (excuse any French readers for the generalisation of you) are very proud of their language and will not necessarily either speak English or be willing to speak English to you!
For example, I know for a fact that a lot of French companies employ those from Quebec when looking for North American IT people.
2) Secondly, bear in mind that as a US citezen, you do not qualify for a work visa in France (or any other EC country for that matter). The only way you'll do it is either by working illegally, by getting sponsorship from a French company contracting you for your special skills or by an internal company transfer by a multi-national.
Not trying to put you off or anything, far from it. I wholeheartedly encourage you to go for it (the steamed mussles and fries are wonderful ... and the pave au poive, c'est manafique!). But it'll be difficult, so get prepared. You might find Holland easier as they do business in English... but if you can't get in legally, then some 'under-the-table' bar work might be in order!
Not encouraging anything honest :-)
Cheers,
Mike.
As an 'Internet Solutions Provider', we've been running servers and developing under RedHat for years now. And it's a great, stable, mature distro. Yes, it's got more newbie oriented and yes RedHat have made a lot of money, but it's still a damn reliable, stable server envrionment and a perfectly adequate Linux development environment. All this is going to happen anyway, you can't tout something to the entire world without expecting people to actually want to use it. And you can't expect everyone to have a degree in computer science just to be able to use a computer. RedHat have done a great job with Linux and have helped raise it's profile immensely - it's relations with Oracle, Dell, IBM etc. show this. I like SuSE, Debian and Caldera too .. and Corel's alright for a turn-key desktop. Yes there are too many distributions and I do wish these companies would stop jumping on bandwagons by releasing, yet another linux distro - how about doing somethign useful, like writing some decent applications guys? Knocking this distribution and that desktop environment is not constructive for the development of Linux. Let's stop wasting our collective breaths and continue to promote it (in whatever form) and produce some more applications.