get an eepc and install glubble on firefox (not tried that yet mind you). It is as full a powered pc as you want it to be, and comes out of the box with a bunch of easy to use and educational games - suitable for challenging all ages!! Bets of all - it is about as child proof as a computer gets (without opting for the barbie model) and is cheap. Also, if you feel the need, it is all you need to take on a trip for everyone's use.
I was planning to buy my daughter (8) one, but I cannot find any linux models in Singapore sadly - forget the windows model! - i suppose that comes with minesweeper & solitaire at least! My eepc has Tuxmath - yeehar!
the sad reality is (at least in Singapore) is that the stores only stock Windows models. I bought my Linux eee pc in Jakarta, when I wanted to buy a second one in Singapore I found that none of the stores were stocking the linux model, just lots of Windows models that weren't selling, as they competed against major branded models. So, I stuck with my one linux model and am waiting for apple to ship a nice portable mac:-) - one day.
why not just use ink & regular paper, and print out you data encoded on each sheet, you can print the decoding instructions in whatever language you think will still be in use (I suggest English or Mandarin), and then just print a book of loose pages that can be digitally imaged some day. You know, some books can still be read after hundreds of years!
I recently saw some technology to do this simply - if not here, then on reddit, at lest it would make a good disaster backup for any optical or magnetic media you might select. It would be an interesting/fun exercise for anyone to decode when the box is opened. If you treat the paper - you may find the treatment degrades the images in a shorter time than the you expect - most of those treatments are to protect the paper from greasy fingers etc - go see a conservator.
funny - i just checked my.mac idisk and it is now steadily asking for access to keychain, or asking me to log in when ever i do anything - perhaps this has just been implemented, or the original post gave safari access to his keychain having saved his password there (not sure i like keychain that much myself, but i don't have any issues with it either), which then automates the frequent log ins - any others notice a change, or is it just an inaccurate post for a bit of mac bashing - soon to replace windoze bashing. Personally, i use both equally, and linux occasionally - for serious stuff, but if a i had to lose one - i know which OS i would choose to live with, and it works and has not progressively got more dis-functional with every "upgrade" it gets (i used to like win2k, until it got upgraded back to win98 or whatever they called it!
Yes, but it is just so obvious - use a mac - no tweeking required, no sys-admins required, they just work, a mac with firefox can do anything i want to do on the internet, even though i use Safari most of the time, i need firefox for the lazy banks. so you'll miss some media player content - so what - it was probably not for your target users anyway.
oh yes, macs are about as cheap as it gets these days too - no extras required.
not having read the article..... but why does the next killer app etc have to come from within the currrent killer organisation?? just ask yourself, where did Google come from?, Microsoft?? Lotus even?? (if u are old enough to remember that).
I prefer to keep my eyes on Paul Graham and his friends in Y combinator - just wish I could be in on the deal.
I had a yepp mp3 player (some years back) that would drain the batteries whether it was on or off, about 8 hrs life coudl be expected in the off position - solution, take out one of the batteries when not using.
A simple smiwtch woudl haev been easier and probably seen me using it more than I did - anyone want to buy it? Oh yes, updating its music took ages too!
No, I think the first poster was right, Japanese toilet technology (or similar "trivial" commercial product) will eventually be spun off being seen as reliable enough to see it used further afield. Yes, no doubt the FBI etc may have one in their labs, but they will take years to appraise it's use and wont trust it versus the lab with its scientific controls. The most likely sceanario will see use in food techhnology, checking for food contaminants making foods last longer and are safer that come off an aseemby line - checking for the deadly ingredient in Fugu perhaps!!!
it seems that they are targeting centralised IT depts and encouraging them to lock out any user installed software - for many companies this probably look like a win win solution, but for any company with free thinking self motivated people - a disaster!
well, the good news that could come out of this would be a fresh injection of US dollars into space research & NASA, which would be good news for almost all fields in the scientific community, never mind the spin offs for the consumer world
Mollases is more of a textural camparsion, but it must be remembered that this occured as the moon cooled, cooling from molten to solid cheese, so perhaps a better explanation would be that the bulge occured during cooling while the moon was like Fondue.
A few years ago I had a similar problem (still recurs a little) and a colleague who had previously taken 6 months off work due to RSI suggested I try left hand mousing (Yes I am right handed normally). So, it was worth a try, because my arm used to be permanently numb, and yes, within about 30 mins of it feeling awkward, I was fine, and still am - I regularly swap mousing hands, especially for any drafting work (my log drawing work involved intense use of scroll wheel). I found no need to do anything like swap buttons or anything like that, I just moved it over and carried on, slowly at first, then as I said, about 30 mins later, never looked back. It may not be a cure all - but it certainly helped me, but I recomend you seek medical advice if you have any severe problems like this. (std. disclaimer)
I wonder how far a standardisation drive would go if it was pushing everyone to use the company provided ballpen/pencil - and not one of those ubiquitous monte blanc pens that ride suit & shirt pockets - perosnally I wouldn't mind the sight so much, but they are all usually just a.n.other ballpen - me - i am a snobby fountain (ink) pen user - oh yes - and 0.7mm pencil - but lets not start a debate on pencil lead...
my wife is using thundertbird at her office, she was recently struggling with her mail service and the only thing I did to fix it was reduce her inbox from over 7000 mails (with many large attachments) - I didn't record the file size. I think the problem was with the programme constantly trying to index the huge list in one mailbox. I simply split them up into year groupings, and put in some auto functions to move older mails to an archive (after 1 month). At my work we use outlook, that just hangs at somewhere above 1.6GB, I fill approx 6.pst files a year, again, frequent filing and archiving off my hdd helps keep it running smoothly.
I get a lot of realy large email and need about 5.pst file a year for the company wide outlook system. its desparately annnoying when you fill a.pst file (somewhere over 1.6GB, a value which I use as a good working limit).
One thing I am always keeping a look out for is a non-MS package that can read.pst files or a means of transferring them to an indexable database. My home system has just moved to mac & OSX, a few email teething problems, but very comfy now, and I am looking forward to getting Tiger up and running with its index/search abilities, but I will still be stuck with.pst reality of work.
Any suggestions for (non-html conversion type) a database system that can handle huge amounts of emails?? and able to import.pst data structures - I need the structured folders in the.pst files.
I currently have a clie ux50, and the biggest part of the decision was the fact it had a keyboard, not the best, but it works. I made the most use out of my old HP200LX of all things portable I have owned, mostly because it had a great keyboard with a numeric keypad, it suffered from nay sayers complaining about keysize, but when you look at most mobile phones today it is probably better. It packed a full Lotus 123, pocket quicken, a mail package (of its day) and a very adequate text editor / word processor. It's database package was simple & good and made an excelent phone book. i still carry it, it has so much info on it (in 1 MB ram) that I have never equalled it. it used 2x AA batteries, avaialble almost everywhere, and could be configured for re-chargables - a solid HP product. the only thing it realy lacked was a back light.
Anyway, my clie works for now (replaced origianl ipaq), but no decent lotus/excel package, which i think most users of these things realy appreciate - perhasp I should buy some software. I use SiEd as a text editor - which work great for me, and I frequently check my webmail on its browser, but I get frequent problems that seem to come & go.
I wish it took regular batteries, but at least it's batteries last a good few days (1 hr on wifi!)
I recently took out a subscription to The Spectator, it was tricky to always find it in the stores, but I now have masses of well written ctitical comments on all kinds of things (never seen anythign on computers!) - not so right of centre as it pretends, but a blast to read its restaurant reviews.
I guess that when they actually set themselves up, then the tied purse strings will be released and the western world can get back to evolving and expanding instead of just making a buck.
I imagine that the moon will become like antarctica, a collection of isolated bases, each witha political message sayign "this bit is ours, no you cannot have it all!"
Anyway, it will be good to see some serious space exploration on the go again.
this sounds like an omen for a booming 64 bit market before year end to me. What do you all think, especially when I read about Apple already being RISC and 64 bit ready - even if only half baked.
Does anyone recall Bill saying that the internet was dead, and the future was with MSN.
Yes, i was using this shared network spam killer, which was great apart from the fact that it shared headers with other no nothings who subsrcibe to newsletters, then log them as spam. It also had problems whenever it updated itself - very annoying, anyway, it got itself removed from my system - also not an easy task, and I have the very neat and fun "Popfile" spam killer / email sorter - just what i always wanted!
nobody has the slightest idea how it happens, why it happens, and what happens when it actually happens, we only know that at regular intervals, the magentic polarity switches, as it is clearly evidenced by the spreading ocean floor (see plate tectonics). Yes, there is no clear evidence in the fossil record that suggetss anything nasty happens, not even increased levels of radiation - has anyone done any pore fluid anaylysis to check this?
Of course, an alternative theory has it all in God's hands, and wherever you lay your faith, a true scientist will never restrict his vision with theories alone, however good, it's all commonly accepted, but not actually known - like the old flat earth model!
And before the flames start, I am a firm believer in both the theories of evolution and plate tectonics!
believe it or not, oil companies have been there and done all that ages ago, if you go hunting around old junk stores you will find all kinds of HF transmission gear, and almost all with encryption packages tacked on top, those guys have always been paranoid about each others plays! The entry of crytpo into the banking sector seems quite recent by comparison, I recall talking to a friend about all the data the firms (banks) that he worked for was routinely fired through the air waves totally un-encrypted.
By the way, about 2 yrs ago I was still sending my LAS data to Saana in Yemen over a HF set with some old dos package driving it. It worked, often took hours to get less than 1 MB over, and of course, for the drillers, we also had to hook up the fax and fax the squiggly lines too - all over the same HF connection. This connection could barely support audio, so I think we did OK. And of course we all know that with the correct conditions, you can transmit all the way around the world with HF - it's great stuff when you get into it!!! That probably why most places require you to be licensed to run it.
An interesting aside, way out in Eastern Indonesia (beyond Bali, etc), HF is a normal means of communication, telephones requiring major infra-structure, one interesting thing I observed, radio call signs are displayed on the houses, like mail box numbers, I thought that it was a nice idea!
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wow - all that out of the box - I'm impressed - they dont sell that model here in sleepy old Singapore
get an eepc and install glubble on firefox (not tried that yet mind you). It is as full a powered pc as you want it to be, and comes out of the box with a bunch of easy to use and educational games - suitable for challenging all ages!! Bets of all - it is about as child proof as a computer gets (without opting for the barbie model) and is cheap. Also, if you feel the need, it is all you need to take on a trip for everyone's use.
I was planning to buy my daughter (8) one, but I cannot find any linux models in Singapore sadly - forget the windows model! - i suppose that comes with minesweeper & solitaire at least! My eepc has Tuxmath - yeehar!
the sad reality is (at least in Singapore) is that the stores only stock Windows models. I bought my Linux eee pc in Jakarta, when I wanted to buy a second one in Singapore I found that none of the stores were stocking the linux model, just lots of Windows models that weren't selling, as they competed against major branded models. :-) - one day.
So, I stuck with my one linux model and am waiting for apple to ship a nice portable mac
I sure hope Asus read this and take note!
why not just use ink & regular paper, and print out you data encoded on each sheet, you can print the decoding instructions in whatever language you think will still be in use (I suggest English or Mandarin), and then just print a book of loose pages that can be digitally imaged some day. You know, some books can still be read after hundreds of years!
I recently saw some technology to do this simply - if not here, then on reddit, at lest it would make a good disaster backup for any optical or magnetic media you might select. It would be an interesting/fun exercise for anyone to decode when the box is opened. If you treat the paper - you may find the treatment degrades the images in a shorter time than the you expect - most of those treatments are to protect the paper from greasy fingers etc - go see a conservator.
funny - i just checked my .mac idisk and it is now steadily asking for access to keychain, or asking me to log in when ever i do anything - perhaps this has just been implemented, or the original post gave safari access to his keychain having saved his password there (not sure i like keychain that much myself, but i don't have any issues with it either), which then automates the frequent log ins - any others notice a change, or is it just an inaccurate post for a bit of mac bashing - soon to replace windoze bashing. Personally, i use both equally, and linux occasionally - for serious stuff, but if a i had to lose one - i know which OS i would choose to live with, and it works and has not progressively got more dis-functional with every "upgrade" it gets (i used to like win2k, until it got upgraded back to win98 or whatever they called it!
Yes, but it is just so obvious - use a mac - no tweeking required, no sys-admins required, they just work, a mac with firefox can do anything i want to do on the internet, even though i use Safari most of the time, i need firefox for the lazy banks.
so you'll miss some media player content - so what - it was probably not for your target users anyway.
oh yes, macs are about as cheap as it gets these days too - no extras required.
Hi Grandpa - If you're going to abbreviate 'you' to 'u', please also abbreviate 'are' to 'r' thanks for the tip young un
not having read the article.....
but why does the next killer app etc have to come from within the currrent killer organisation?? just ask yourself, where did Google come from?, Microsoft?? Lotus even?? (if u are old enough to remember that).
I prefer to keep my eyes on Paul Graham and his friends in Y combinator - just wish I could be in on the deal.
I had a yepp mp3 player (some years back) that would drain the batteries whether it was on or off, about 8 hrs life coudl be expected in the off position - solution, take out one of the batteries when not using.
A simple smiwtch woudl haev been easier and probably seen me using it more than I did - anyone want to buy it? Oh yes, updating its music took ages too!
No, I think the first poster was right, Japanese toilet technology (or similar "trivial" commercial product) will eventually be spun off being seen as reliable enough to see it used further afield. Yes, no doubt the FBI etc may have one in their labs, but they will take years to appraise it's use and wont trust it versus the lab with its scientific controls.
The most likely sceanario will see use in food techhnology, checking for food contaminants making foods last longer and are safer that come off an aseemby line - checking for the deadly ingredient in Fugu perhaps!!!
it seems that they are targeting centralised IT depts and encouraging them to lock out any user installed software - for many companies this probably look like a win win solution, but for any company with free thinking self motivated people - a disaster!
time to buy your personal mac book!
well, the good news that could come out of this would be a fresh injection of US dollars into space research & NASA, which would be good news for almost all fields in the scientific community, never mind the spin offs for the consumer world
Mollases is more of a textural camparsion, but it must be remembered that this occured as the moon cooled, cooling from molten to solid cheese, so perhaps a better explanation would be that the bulge occured during cooling while the moon was like Fondue.
A few years ago I had a similar problem (still recurs a little) and a colleague who had previously taken 6 months off work due to RSI suggested I try left hand mousing (Yes I am right handed normally). So, it was worth a try, because my arm used to be permanently numb, and yes, within about 30 mins of it feeling awkward, I was fine, and still am - I regularly swap mousing hands, especially for any drafting work (my log drawing work involved intense use of scroll wheel).
I found no need to do anything like swap buttons or anything like that, I just moved it over and carried on, slowly at first, then as I said, about 30 mins later, never looked back.
It may not be a cure all - but it certainly helped me, but I recomend you seek medical advice if you have any severe problems like this. (std. disclaimer)
I wonder how far a standardisation drive would go if it was pushing everyone to use the company provided ballpen/pencil - and not one of those ubiquitous monte blanc pens that ride suit & shirt pockets - perosnally I wouldn't mind the sight so much, but they are all usually just a.n.other ballpen - me - i am a snobby fountain (ink) pen user - oh yes - and 0.7mm pencil - but lets not start a debate on pencil lead...
my wife is using thundertbird at her office, she was recently struggling with her mail service and the only thing I did to fix it was reduce her inbox from over 7000 mails (with many large attachments) - I didn't record the file size. I think the problem was with the programme constantly trying to index the huge list in one mailbox. I simply split them up into year groupings, and put in some auto functions to move older mails to an archive (after 1 month). .pst files a year, again, frequent filing and archiving off my hdd helps keep it running smoothly.
At my work we use outlook, that just hangs at somewhere above 1.6GB, I fill approx 6
I get a lot of realy large email and need about 5 .pst file a year for the company wide outlook system. its desparately annnoying when you fill a .pst file (somewhere over 1.6GB, a value which I use as a good working limit).
.pst files or a means of transferring them to an indexable database. My home system has just moved to mac & OSX, a few email teething problems, but very comfy now, and I am looking forward to getting Tiger up and running with its index/search abilities, but I will still be stuck with .pst reality of work.
.pst data structures - I need the structured folders in the .pst files.
One thing I am always keeping a look out for is a non-MS package that can read
Any suggestions for (non-html conversion type) a database system that can handle huge amounts of emails?? and able to import
I currently have a clie ux50, and the biggest part of the decision was the fact it had a keyboard, not the best, but it works.
I made the most use out of my old HP200LX of all things portable I have owned, mostly because it had a great keyboard with a numeric keypad, it suffered from nay sayers complaining about keysize, but when you look at most mobile phones today it is probably better. It packed a full Lotus 123, pocket quicken, a mail package (of its day) and a very adequate text editor / word processor. It's database package was simple & good and made an excelent phone book. i still carry it, it has so much info on it (in 1 MB ram) that I have never equalled it. it used 2x AA batteries, avaialble almost everywhere, and could be configured for re-chargables - a solid HP product. the only thing it realy lacked was a back light.
Anyway, my clie works for now (replaced origianl ipaq), but no decent lotus/excel package, which i think most users of these things realy appreciate - perhasp I should buy some software. I use SiEd as a text editor - which work great for me, and I frequently check my webmail on its browser, but I get frequent problems that seem to come & go.
I wish it took regular batteries, but at least it's batteries last a good few days (1 hr on wifi!)
I recently took out a subscription to The Spectator, it was tricky to always find it in the stores, but I now have masses of well written ctitical comments on all kinds of things (never seen anythign on computers!) - not so right of centre as it pretends, but a blast to read its restaurant reviews.
I guess that when they actually set themselves up, then the tied purse strings will be released and the western world can get back to evolving and expanding instead of just making a buck.
I imagine that the moon will become like antarctica, a collection of isolated bases, each witha political message sayign "this bit is ours, no you cannot have it all!"
Anyway, it will be good to see some serious space exploration on the go again.
this sounds like an omen for a booming 64 bit market before year end to me. What do you all think, especially when I read about Apple already being RISC and 64 bit ready - even if only half baked.
Does anyone recall Bill saying that the internet was dead, and the future was with MSN.
Yes, i was using this shared network spam killer, which was great apart from the fact that it shared headers with other no nothings who subsrcibe to newsletters, then log them as spam. It also had problems whenever it updated itself - very annoying, anyway, it got itself removed from my system - also not an easy task, and I have the very neat and fun "Popfile" spam killer / email sorter - just what i always wanted!
nobody has the slightest idea how it happens, why it happens, and what happens when it actually happens, we only know that at regular intervals, the magentic polarity switches, as it is clearly evidenced by the spreading ocean floor (see plate tectonics). Yes, there is no clear evidence in the fossil record that suggetss anything nasty happens, not even increased levels of radiation - has anyone done any pore fluid anaylysis to check this?
Of course, an alternative theory has it all in God's hands, and wherever you lay your faith, a true scientist will never restrict his vision with theories alone, however good, it's all commonly accepted, but not actually known - like the old flat earth model!
And before the flames start, I am a firm believer in both the theories of evolution and plate tectonics!
believe it or not, oil companies have been there and done all that ages ago, if you go hunting around old junk stores you will find all kinds of HF transmission gear, and almost all with encryption packages tacked on top, those guys have always been paranoid about each others plays! The entry of crytpo into the banking sector seems quite recent by comparison, I recall talking to a friend about all the data the firms (banks) that he worked for was routinely fired through the air waves totally un-encrypted.
By the way, about 2 yrs ago I was still sending my LAS data to Saana in Yemen over a HF set with some old dos package driving it. It worked, often took hours to get less than 1 MB over, and of course, for the drillers, we also had to hook up the fax and fax the squiggly lines too - all over the same HF connection. This connection could barely support audio, so I think we did OK.
And of course we all know that with the correct conditions, you can transmit all the way around the world with HF - it's great stuff when you get into it!!! That probably why most places require you to be licensed to run it.
An interesting aside, way out in Eastern Indonesia (beyond Bali, etc), HF is a normal means of communication, telephones requiring major infra-structure, one interesting thing I observed, radio call signs are displayed on the houses, like mail box numbers, I thought that it was a nice idea!
ok, I found a recipe/supporting info -m l
http://users.bigpond.net.au/mechtoys/camphor.ht