Do the tools wiggle around after a lot of use? Not if you buy from a company that has been making good knives for a long time...
Victorinox is probably the right company to stay with...They are one of only 2 companies that make genuine swiss army knives (Wenger is the other)...They have a good selection of tools...their Spirit is a good choice for a general multitool...
I personally own a CyberTool (according to Victorinox, official equipment for NASA space shuttle crews)...but I carry a Signature....
The real answer is to pick the right tool for the job...if you want something you plan to carry with you all the time, go for one of the pocket tools...if you are going to be doing lots of computer work with it, you may want to go with the CyberTool...if you want something to stick in a backpack, then a multitool is probably a good choice...but remember to choose a tool from someone that's been doing high quality knives for a long time...
I think the problem with Enterprise is that the Star Trek universe has become uninteresting. The shows just don't inspire a sense of adventure. Trek should really be put on hiatus. Let the whole thing sit for a few years and if after 6 or 7 years (minimum) there is still support for the franchise, then they should probably try spending some money on a new movie...
Trek is no longer the creative playground it once was...it has become a box that stifles creativity.
What he failed to mention in his post his how this differs from recording the show (this was about TV Series) on your Tivo or even your VHS. Some of the shows you download may have commercials cut out, but I don't know many who watch commercials on VHS or Tivo...just hit the fast forward...some may argue that you are still seeing the commercials (even at 4x the speed), but there is rarely enough information for you to catch more than a blur and maybe the name of the company...that doesn't really sell a product, does it...
Not at all. These kinds of anomalies simply need to be explained before I will belive the numbers...I'm sure a post to a Firefox forum should turn up some helpful results.
What should really be questioned is why Linux seems to lag behind Windoze in every app...is it window manager? Should a faster window manager have been used? KDE was used for most of the tests on Linux...this is widely known to be one of the most processor intensive UIs for Linux...or maybe it's the video driver...
Umh, his Moox tests are obviously off for some reason. His test reports that Moox was actually slower which defies logic. It has to be a problem with the M2 build, because the Moox builds are definately faster on all the Windoze boxes I've seen them on...and he also failed to mention Linux optimized builds...
So, I did read the article, but his numbers must be off...
No, legal departments shouldnt have to be "on the ball"... They don't like using something that may even be percieved as illegal.
In most circumstances, taking a product and redistributing it with your name would not be legal. Even if the EULA allows for that and even if RedHat is fine with that, most legal departments aren't...
No company (unless they are SCO, M$, or IBM) wants to be in the middle of a lawsuit over the product they are using...
And besides, WhiteBox's own page states that...
There may be remaining packaging problems and other odd bugs. These are solely the responsibility of the White Box Linux effort and should not in any shape, manner or form reflect on the quality of Red Hat's commercial product. In fact, if you need a fully tested and supported OS you probably should go buy their box set.
So, you have it right from their site...it is essentially telling you NOT to use this for a production environment.
As for my not mentioning CentOS or TaosLinux, I can only say that from my experience, WhiteBox is the most well known...
But, doing such would remove any symbolance of legality that bittorrent had. This would also open the developers to everything that was seen with Napster/Kazaa. Not a possition they would want to be in...or a position we would want to see open source put into.
I used to own a Palm III and still own a IIIxe...the my xe hasn't even been used in over 2 years.
Now, don't get me wrong. There are some kewl things that can be done with a palm (or more specifically a Zaurus), but I (like most) have a cell phone that does almost everything I could want in a PDA.
The applications are done in Java (ok, maybe it's a cut down version, but at least it's a fairly open standard)...
There are all kind of games available for it, a good selection of applications, voice recorder, scheduler, memos, todo list, email, pager, cell phone, browser, etc....and all in a package smaller than a Palm.
And it's not even a new phone!!!
I know some phones run PalmOS, but those are generally over $400 and generally don't perform either job particularly well (too big for a phone, to awkward for a PDA)...
Bluetooth makes syncing with the scheduler, todo list, and memo much easier.
It's really hard for me to see a future where stand alone PDAs serve much more than a niche market...
But will the new company take over all of the leased buildings that IBM has in RTP...what about all the contractors (IBM's workforce is made up of about 80-90% contractors)...what about IGS...IGS currently does work for PSG (specifically on the web site front...most of that has moved to IBM India now...but Lenovo will obviously have their own web team...
Think of it this way...another company has just bought your division...are you going to tell all of your employees that their jobs may be in jeopardy and potentially loose the deal by having a mass exodus of talent as well as all of the bad press it would generate...
And IBM being made up of mostly contractors is exactly how this will pan out. In the news, IBM won't be laying off thousands of employees, it will be companies like Ciber and CTG...And it won't even be that way...IBM and Lenovo will simply not renew contracts...contracts are all temporary...regardless of anything that anyone at IBM would have you belive...
There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???
The soviets even had a military space station with a modified AA canon that was tested for its effectiveness in destroying satelites.
When it was being built, the space shuttle played a signifigant role in US military planning, but as it became more cost effective to launch satelites with conventional rockets, the military dropped the shuttle as a launch platform...
I have 2 of em...but here's the problems I've found with them.
I know at least 4 people that had theirs die after only 6 months of use.
And then we get to the idea of size...the size doesn't worry me...it's the fact that the plastic "lip" around the usb connector makes it too big to fit into about half of the USB slots I've ran into (so that it puts undue pressure on the port)...
The 6 months thing I may be able to live with, but the connector problem is bad...
The Sony Microvault (also available at most Wal-Marts) fixes this by extending the connector...because of this, the microvault will be the next USB flash drive that I buy.
While writing a regex for most ppl here isn't a problem, it isn't easy for the majority of the general public. The point is that making AdBlock easier to use would make it an option for more mainstream users.
Try the filters listed here. They block most ads for most people and very little else. The only one I've found a problem with is IMP...it has a "redirect.php" script that it runs on login which triggers one of the filters. I think there should be an adblock exclution list. It's actually interesting how popular adblock has remained even though there hasn't been a major update since at least Firefox 0.7...
I would think someone would have designed a new extention with more bells and whistles.
You might feel that way, but look at what schools see when the RIAA comes knocking. The RIAA calls the CTO and says "IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, belonging to you is sharing our copyrighted material. Remove it or be held accountable." Now, administrators don't really want to "rock the boat", so they will try to track down the culprit.
Now, here's where the problem begins. Most schools have a very limited number of IP Addresses...few certainly have enough IP Addresses to give every dorm room, every wireless access point, and every lab computer its own IP...so, they use NAT. The problem with NAT is that they can now only say that it's coming from a specific dormitory, floor, or wireless access point.
So, most schools have decided to block unwanted protocols (Kazaa, Gnutella, BitTorrent, WinMX, etc) from their NAT firewalls or even at the core switch. This will make students extremely PO'd...so this is their way of fixing the problem.
The school doesn't want to be open to law suits, yet they want to provide a service that the students obviously want...you will probably see this most among private schools (Yale, Duke, GWU, etc) as they are more vulnerable to law suits than state colleges and universities.
This is the same thing that Cflix is offering. Only, it leverages the gigabit networks installed on most campuses. They use a Linux box located on site to provide video-on-demand, music-on-demand, music downloads, campus video libaries, and student films.
The advantage of the Cflix service is that popular movies/tracks don't eat up expensive internet bandwidth and are stored on-site.
One other advantage to the Cflix service is that it can be seen as a teaching aid (with the online campus library) instead of a purely entertainment oriented solution.
I don't really see the advantage of Napster/iTunes over the Cflix service...besides brand recognition.
The DoD (If by DoD you mean "Department of Defense") doesn't even bother to format the drives...they simply shred them...don't know about the highest levels, but they probably melt those down too...
The US Gov't takes the whole drive (screws and all) and tosses it into a shredder. They have special shredders that will cut the whole drive to bits (no pun intended)...
The police can recover a drive after it has had zeros written to the drive up to 7 times, and the higher levels of the gov't probably can recover data after it's even further gone. Not only that, but they can recover CeeDees... even those that have been shattered (just need enough of the pieces...
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The problem with an all games network is that there's just not enough that happens in a given day to fill up 6 or 7 full time shows.
What you get are about 5 "review" shows with pretty much the same content...a couple "lets watch people play games" shows and some "filler" (Anime Unleashed and Thunderbirds...while I don't mind either, neither has a place on a tech oriented channel..I know these came from TechTV, but noone's perfect)...
X-Play was ok, but it seems that ComCast is just sucking the soul out of what was TechTV...
Most of the shows on the new channel just feel like a badly done public access show. These people obviously don't know anything about the technology and I've caught more than a few of them with the "deer in headlights" look...Don't get me wrong, TechTV had its share of "Pretty Boys", but there seemed to be an attempt at putting someone who was "dumb" with someone that knew their stuff (Leo and Cat on CFH for instance)...
Of course I think Comcast would be best to look at why Leo Laporte was such a good host...he had radio experience and knew when guests were getting "boring" and would change the direction toward a more interesting subject...
Leo was probably one of the most tech savy folks on TechTV. He also seems to be the only regular that really embraced Linux...
For those that don't know, there's been a lot of discussion about the cancelation of CFH on Leo Laporte's forums. Here's the link to Leo's Comments.
Basically, Leo is still doing his 90 second segments on TSS, but he is working on some new projects...one of these will be Leoville.TV...he says that he is going to be getting some of the old TechTV folks to work with him. He also says that there are offers coming in from other channels, but he probably won't be back on TV on a regular basis until some time in the Fall.
Watch on these, I see from some other posts that the new units don't even have the CF drives in them...
However, that's not what I was going to mention...
Look at this image from one of the linked articles...
The Hitachi drives are CF Type II, not Type I...Most consumer and even some "prosumer" digital cameras only take CF Type I cards. This is also the big difference between the 12GB CF card and the 4GB drives...
The article isn't really clear, but from the picture in the article, it looks like it will be a CF Type I device....
I assume that if you are seroiusly considering this that you have some experience doing this kind of work...if not, trust me, you're better off not doing it...but if you must, here are some things to consider...
You will want a way to get easy access to the cable. You will need to replace cable from time to time for what ever reason and you need some way to get in there. What you will need to do is run some kind of conduit (2 or 3 inch PVC pipe should work)...and you will need junctions to access broken connections and perform upgrades/maintenence (about one every 100 feet should work). These junctions should be big enough that you can get a hand through or stick a vaccum/blower into...the conduit will fill with water even if it is capped...
You will also need to decide what kind of cable to use...if you use Cat-5, prepare for major maintenence costs...lightning and shorts DO happen and although it will happen with anything that is in the ground, it will happen even more with copper...if you lay copper, there's some real expense here...you also have to design your conduit so that there are no sharp turns (I think about 20 degrees is the max angle that you are supposed to go with fibre)...this means that you will have to really think about your layout...lay string where you plan to dig and decide where switches will be located for each home...you will have to miss gas, water, sewer, and underground power lines when you design the network. The things to keep in mind are that string is cheap and you want a good way of maintaining the physical network or all of the money spent goes to waste.
The other concern with laying physical cable on someone's property is that while everyone might be friends now, it takes one bad neighbor to skrew your network. If someone moves into your neighbor's house and says you can't run cable on his property, then you have to redesign that portion of the network...
Now, if I've scared you away from the idea of laying physical cable, you have one more option...wireless (802.11a is probably a good technology to look into...not as many consumer electronics are using 802.11a frequencies), but you have to realize that there are limitations and repeaters are not cheap. Each house would probably need a repeater...With wireless, you also have to make sure that you follow your local laws regarding the particular technology you plan to use. Meaning that if you get a neighbor that complains that your network is interfering with their radio/TV reception, they could shut down the network. The other problem with wireless is that you get terible latency on the edges of your network...
If you live in a US city, SalesCircular.com can also be a valuable resource. They scrounge the weekly sales circulars for all of the major retail outlets. Retail outlets can offer some advantages that online stores don't and can sometimes offer extermely low prices on products...
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Do the tools wiggle around after a lot of use?
Not if you buy from a company that has been making good knives for a long time...
Victorinox is probably the right company to stay with...They are one of only 2 companies that make genuine swiss army knives (Wenger is the other)...They have a good selection of tools...their Spirit is a good choice for a general multitool...
I personally own a CyberTool (according to Victorinox, official equipment for NASA space shuttle crews)...but I carry a Signature....
The real answer is to pick the right tool for the job...if you want something you plan to carry with you all the time, go for one of the pocket tools...if you are going to be doing lots of computer work with it, you may want to go with the CyberTool...if you want something to stick in a backpack, then a multitool is probably a good choice...but remember to choose a tool from someone that's been doing high quality knives for a long time...
I think the problem with Enterprise is that the Star Trek universe has become uninteresting. The shows just don't inspire a sense of adventure. Trek should really be put on hiatus. Let the whole thing sit for a few years and if after 6 or 7 years (minimum) there is still support for the franchise, then they should probably try spending some money on a new movie...
Trek is no longer the creative playground it once was...it has become a box that stifles creativity.
What he failed to mention in his post his how this differs from recording the show (this was about TV Series) on your Tivo or even your VHS. Some of the shows you download may have commercials cut out, but I don't know many who watch commercials on VHS or Tivo...just hit the fast forward...some may argue that you are still seeing the commercials (even at 4x the speed), but there is rarely enough information for you to catch more than a blur and maybe the name of the company...that doesn't really sell a product, does it...
Not at all. These kinds of anomalies simply need to be explained before I will belive the numbers...I'm sure a post to a Firefox forum should turn up some helpful results.
What should really be questioned is why Linux seems to lag behind Windoze in every app...is it window manager? Should a faster window manager have been used? KDE was used for most of the tests on Linux...this is widely known to be one of the most processor intensive UIs for Linux...or maybe it's the video driver...
Umh, his Moox tests are obviously off for some reason. His test reports that Moox was actually slower which defies logic. It has to be a problem with the M2 build, because the Moox builds are definately faster on all the Windoze boxes I've seen them on...and he also failed to mention Linux optimized builds...
So, I did read the article, but his numbers must be off...
No, legal departments shouldnt have to be "on the ball"... They don't like using something that may even be percieved as illegal.
In most circumstances, taking a product and redistributing it with your name would not be legal. Even if the EULA allows for that and even if RedHat is fine with that, most legal departments aren't...
No company (unless they are SCO, M$, or IBM) wants to be in the middle of a lawsuit over the product they are using...
And besides, WhiteBox's own page states that...
There may be remaining packaging problems and other odd bugs. These are solely the responsibility of the White Box Linux effort and should not in any shape, manner or form reflect on the quality of Red Hat's commercial product. In fact, if you need a fully tested and supported OS you probably should go buy their box set.
So, you have it right from their site...it is essentially telling you NOT to use this for a production environment.
As for my not mentioning CentOS or TaosLinux, I can only say that from my experience, WhiteBox is the most well known...
But, doing such would remove any symbolance of legality that bittorrent had. This would also open the developers to everything that was seen with Napster/Kazaa. Not a possition they would want to be in...or a position we would want to see open source put into.
The big question that needs to be asked is why???
I used to own a Palm III and still own a IIIxe...the my xe hasn't even been used in over 2 years.
Now, don't get me wrong. There are some kewl things that can be done with a palm (or more specifically a Zaurus), but I (like most) have a cell phone that does almost everything I could want in a PDA.
The applications are done in Java (ok, maybe it's a cut down version, but at least it's a fairly open standard)...
There are all kind of games available for it, a good selection of applications, voice recorder, scheduler, memos, todo list, email, pager, cell phone, browser, etc....and all in a package smaller than a Palm.
And it's not even a new phone!!!
I know some phones run PalmOS, but those are generally over $400 and generally don't perform either job particularly well (too big for a phone, to awkward for a PDA)...
Bluetooth makes syncing with the scheduler, todo list, and memo much easier.
It's really hard for me to see a future where stand alone PDAs serve much more than a niche market...
But will the new company take over all of the leased buildings that IBM has in RTP...what about all the contractors (IBM's workforce is made up of about 80-90% contractors)...what about IGS...IGS currently does work for PSG (specifically on the web site front...most of that has moved to IBM India now...but Lenovo will obviously have their own web team...
Think of it this way...another company has just bought your division...are you going to tell all of your employees that their jobs may be in jeopardy and potentially loose the deal by having a mass exodus of talent as well as all of the bad press it would generate...
And IBM being made up of mostly contractors is exactly how this will pan out. In the news, IBM won't be laying off thousands of employees, it will be companies like Ciber and CTG...And it won't even be that way...IBM and Lenovo will simply not renew contracts...contracts are all temporary...regardless of anything that anyone at IBM would have you belive...
try Simply Mepis. It's a live CD that installs into 4GB of space. The install is the easiest Linux install I've seen...
And the distro is based on Debian, snd has KPackage available following the install...So you get all of Debian's stability and apt functionality.
There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???
They've worked on it before...
Encyclopedia Astronautica has some good info on both the US and Soviet military space programs.
The soviets even had a military space station with a modified AA canon that was tested for its effectiveness in destroying satelites.
When it was being built, the space shuttle played a signifigant role in US military planning, but as it became more cost effective to launch satelites with conventional rockets, the military dropped the shuttle as a launch platform...
I have 2 of em...but here's the problems I've found with them.
I know at least 4 people that had theirs die after only 6 months of use.
And then we get to the idea of size...the size doesn't worry me...it's the fact that the plastic "lip" around the usb connector makes it too big to fit into about half of the USB slots I've ran into (so that it puts undue pressure on the port)...
The 6 months thing I may be able to live with, but the connector problem is bad...
The Sony Microvault (also available at most Wal-Marts) fixes this by extending the connector...because of this, the microvault will be the next USB flash drive that I buy.
While writing a regex for most ppl here isn't a problem, it isn't easy for the majority of the general public. The point is that making AdBlock easier to use would make it an option for more mainstream users.
Try the filters listed here. They block most ads for most people and very little else. The only one I've found a problem with is IMP...it has a "redirect.php" script that it runs on login which triggers one of the filters. I think there should be an adblock exclution list. It's actually interesting how popular adblock has remained even though there hasn't been a major update since at least Firefox 0.7...
I would think someone would have designed a new extention with more bells and whistles.
You might feel that way, but look at what schools see when the RIAA comes knocking. The RIAA calls the CTO and says "IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, belonging to you is sharing our copyrighted material. Remove it or be held accountable." Now, administrators don't really want to "rock the boat", so they will try to track down the culprit.
Now, here's where the problem begins. Most schools have a very limited number of IP Addresses...few certainly have enough IP Addresses to give every dorm room, every wireless access point, and every lab computer its own IP...so, they use NAT. The problem with NAT is that they can now only say that it's coming from a specific dormitory, floor, or wireless access point.
So, most schools have decided to block unwanted protocols (Kazaa, Gnutella, BitTorrent, WinMX, etc) from their NAT firewalls or even at the core switch. This will make students extremely PO'd...so this is their way of fixing the problem.
The school doesn't want to be open to law suits, yet they want to provide a service that the students obviously want...you will probably see this most among private schools (Yale, Duke, GWU, etc) as they are more vulnerable to law suits than state colleges and universities.
This is the same thing that Cflix is offering. Only, it leverages the gigabit networks installed on most campuses. They use a Linux box located on site to provide video-on-demand, music-on-demand, music downloads, campus video libaries, and student films.
The advantage of the Cflix service is that popular movies/tracks don't eat up expensive internet bandwidth and are stored on-site.
One other advantage to the Cflix service is that it can be seen as a teaching aid (with the online campus library) instead of a purely entertainment oriented solution.
I don't really see the advantage of Napster/iTunes over the Cflix service...besides brand recognition.
The DoD (If by DoD you mean "Department of Defense") doesn't even bother to format the drives...they simply shred them...don't know about the highest levels, but they probably melt those down too...
The US Gov't takes the whole drive (screws and all) and tosses it into a shredder. They have special shredders that will cut the whole drive to bits (no pun intended)...
... even those that have been shattered (just need enough of the pieces...
The police can recover a drive after it has had zeros written to the drive up to 7 times, and the higher levels of the gov't probably can recover data after it's even further gone. Not only that, but they can recover CeeDees
The problem with an all games network is that there's just not enough that happens in a given day to fill up 6 or 7 full time shows.
What you get are about 5 "review" shows with pretty much the same content...a couple "lets watch people play games" shows and some "filler" (Anime Unleashed and Thunderbirds...while I don't mind either, neither has a place on a tech oriented channel..I know these came from TechTV, but noone's perfect)...
X-Play was ok, but it seems that ComCast is just sucking the soul out of what was TechTV...
Most of the shows on the new channel just feel like a badly done public access show. These people obviously don't know anything about the technology and I've caught more than a few of them with the "deer in headlights" look...Don't get me wrong, TechTV had its share of "Pretty Boys", but there seemed to be an attempt at putting someone who was "dumb" with someone that knew their stuff (Leo and Cat on CFH for instance)...
Of course I think Comcast would be best to look at why Leo Laporte was such a good host...he had radio experience and knew when guests were getting "boring" and would change the direction toward a more interesting subject...
Leo was probably one of the most tech savy folks on TechTV. He also seems to be the only regular that really embraced Linux...
For those that don't know, there's been a lot of discussion about the cancelation of CFH on Leo Laporte's forums. Here's the link to Leo's Comments.
Basically, Leo is still doing his 90 second segments on TSS, but he is working on some new projects...one of these will be Leoville.TV...he says that he is going to be getting some of the old TechTV folks to work with him. He also says that there are offers coming in from other channels, but he probably won't be back on TV on a regular basis until some time in the Fall.
Until then, there's always his radio show on KFI...
Watch on these, I see from some other posts that the new units don't even have the CF drives in them...
However, that's not what I was going to mention...
Look at this image from one of the linked articles...
The Hitachi drives are CF Type II, not Type I...Most consumer and even some "prosumer" digital cameras only take CF Type I cards. This is also the big difference between the 12GB CF card and the 4GB drives...
The article isn't really clear, but from the picture in the article, it looks like it will be a CF Type I device....
I assume that if you are seroiusly considering this that you have some experience doing this kind of work...if not, trust me, you're better off not doing it...but if you must, here are some things to consider...
You will want a way to get easy access to the cable. You will need to replace cable from time to time for what ever reason and you need some way to get in there. What you will need to do is run some kind of conduit (2 or 3 inch PVC pipe should work)...and you will need junctions to access broken connections and perform upgrades/maintenence (about one every 100 feet should work). These junctions should be big enough that you can get a hand through or stick a vaccum/blower into...the conduit will fill with water even if it is capped...
You will also need to decide what kind of cable to use...if you use Cat-5, prepare for major maintenence costs...lightning and shorts DO happen and although it will happen with anything that is in the ground, it will happen even more with copper...if you lay copper, there's some real expense here...you also have to design your conduit so that there are no sharp turns (I think about 20 degrees is the max angle that you are supposed to go with fibre)...this means that you will have to really think about your layout...lay string where you plan to dig and decide where switches will be located for each home...you will have to miss gas, water, sewer, and underground power lines when you design the network. The things to keep in mind are that string is cheap and you want a good way of maintaining the physical network or all of the money spent goes to waste.
The other concern with laying physical cable on someone's property is that while everyone might be friends now, it takes one bad neighbor to skrew your network. If someone moves into your neighbor's house and says you can't run cable on his property, then you have to redesign that portion of the network...
Now, if I've scared you away from the idea of laying physical cable, you have one more option...wireless (802.11a is probably a good technology to look into...not as many consumer electronics are using 802.11a frequencies), but you have to realize that there are limitations and repeaters are not cheap. Each house would probably need a repeater...With wireless, you also have to make sure that you follow your local laws regarding the particular technology you plan to use. Meaning that if you get a neighbor that complains that your network is interfering with their radio/TV reception, they could shut down the network. The other problem with wireless is that you get terible latency on the edges of your network...
If you live in a US city, SalesCircular.com can also be a valuable resource. They scrounge the weekly sales circulars for all of the major retail outlets. Retail outlets can offer some advantages that online stores don't and can sometimes offer extermely low prices on products...
DOSEmu works with both FreeDOS and M$-DOS. I haven't seen much that it won't actually run...