Google maps print fine, so long as you don't use the print button they provide. Just print the regular page and it's great. Use their print button and it comes out crap. (At least, that's my experience with Firefox and Safari, maybe it works with IE?)
Step 1 is to get yourself a Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Watch dealmac.com for deals and you can probably pick up 200GB for $50 or so. They're low noise and don't heat up much.
Then, I got an Argosy USB 2.0 HiSpeed / Firewire 400 enclosure from pcmicrostore.com. The Argosy has an aluminium casing which is only slightly larger than the hard drive; basically, the casing acts like a giant heat sink. The PSU is in an external brick. So, no fan is required.
I've run the drive overnight in mammoth backup sessions with no overheating problems. The case gets warm, but not uncomfortably warm; just warm like a hard drive in a well-ventilated computer.
I just noticed Argosy now have a version of the enclosure which will plug straight in to ethernet and act as a server. Slick!
Yeah, it'll be like the original Xbox. If you want to buy one the week it's released you might have trouble--but if you wait a month or two, the stores will have boxes of unwanted Xboxes piled high, and will be offering all kinds of bundles and deals.
rubbish. Look at bank's current efforts to fix CC fraud.. CVV numbers that are relatively recent introduction for distance selling, and now chip and pin for cardholder-present frauds.
And look at how effective those "fixes" were. CVV numbers are useless, because effectively they are just adding 4 digits to the credit card number. Chip and PIN is better than Tracy not checking your signature, but has the side effect that you are explicitly made responsible for any losses, rather than the bank, on the grounds that PINs are secure, therefore you must have authorized the transfer. Riiight.
Reiser3 works fine on Debian with no kernel patching required.
It seems as if you're holding out for perfection, not willing to upgrade from ext3 to anything else unless you find The Perfect Filesystem. I think that's kinda silly; better to get 90% of what you need now, than to wait another 2-4 years, surely?
I can't believe nobody's mentioned rsync yet. It has to be the single best command line tool ever.
I use it to update my web site. I use it to synchronize bookmarks between multiple machines. I use it for online incremental backups. I use it to copy directory trees around from disk to disk.
I even use it to fetch my mail. Yes, I switched my mail account to Maildir by using procmail for final delivery, and now I can use rsync -avz --remove-sent-files instead of crappy POP3 or IMAP protocols to pull the mail down to a fast local server.
If I ever meet Andrew Tridgell or Paul Mackerras, they definitely deserve a beer or three...
I buy quite a few new video games. When I've played the game through, I sell it second hand, generally on eBay. Since I look after my stuff, the games are usually in "like new" condition, and I get 50-75% of the initial outlay back.
What happens to the money? Without exception, I use it to buy another game. When someone bought my copy of "Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando" for about $15, every penny immediately went to the game industry when I used the cash to purchase "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal".
Suppose I couldn't sell games second hand. What would I do? Well, for starters I wouldn't pay $50 for a game, ever.
Hence, I find it very hard to see that my selling games when I'm done playing them is doing major harm to the industry.
Apple had something better than COM/DCOM: OpenDoc and Publish and Subscribe. Nobody used it. There's also AppleWorks, which offers object (component) based documents slicker and easier than Office, yet again failed to take over from Office. (And yes, there was a Windows version, widely acclaimed at the time.)
The only reason people use COM/DCOM is because it's the default way Office copies and pastes. Regular copy and paste is, in fact, all most people really want and need.
So they seperated a team to see if they could have a PC in only a years time. They didn't have the time to start from the ground up so they just took off the shelf hardware.
Yes, but the specific off-the-shelf hardware was chosen for its high suck factor. The engineers wanted to use 68K processors, but the 8080 series was chosen because it could be guaranteed not to compete with IBM's high end workstations.
Give them 10 years and MS will be as relevant as IBM.
You mean Microsoft will be the #1 database vendor, #1 groupware vendor, will have a flourishing $10 billion services division, and will support dozens of open source software projects?
But with Mulberry, I can have a window with my folders on the left side of my screen, open up 4 folders at the same time, open up 7 different messages and cut/paste between them, start replying to one and go back and look through archives to find the point I wanted to make.... all in DIFFERENT windows.
What other client can offer me that (and disconnected IMAP, too)?
The obvious commercial solutions are the IBM Workplace or Domino family of products (if you want multi-platform browser-based access), and Lotus Notes (if you're a Windows shop and like the rich client).
The main advantages over wikis are security (transparent encryption and strong authentication), replication (set up local servers at each site for speed, and have them replicate data), indexing of Office and other proprietary file formats, a more sophisticated user interface, commercial support, and ability to extend easily to include e-mail, instant messaging, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance documents, and so on.
The main disadvantages, of course, are price, and that you may not like the user interface--the more sophisticated a UI, the more there is to dislike. The trolls will be along in a minute to expand on that theme.
So he's left with a measly $2M per year after taxes. If he put just one years worth of net into an average mutual fund he could easily be looking at $200+k per year in dividends. That's over twice what my family lives on, and we're doing just fine.
Damn straight. If I made that much for one year, I'd retire and work on open source software. I don't need a million-dollar-a-year lifestyle.
If you couldn't hack Ruby, then maybe programming just isn't for you. I say that because it's the most effortless and easy to learn programming language I've ever encountered.
For the record, I've written in BASIC, C, Pascal, Modula-2, Lisp, Scheme, ML, FORTRAN, 6502 Z80 and 68000 assembler, Smalltalk, C++, Objective-C, Perl, AppleScript, Hypertalk, and Java (in no particular order, and probably forgetting some). They're all a much bigger PITA than Ruby.
I don't think there's any shame attached to simply not having a programmer's mind; I mean, I can't remember people's names for crap, which is far more embarrassing on a daily basis.
My guess is the PS3 will 'run Linux' the way the PS2 does--as an expensive crippled add-on option that's very little use. Sony don't seem to realize that open platforms are a good thing, and the PS2 Linux was no exception.
(The PS2 had USB and Firewire, then just USB in the later models. It seems like at some time Sony thought it might be more than a console, but they gave up on the idea.)
Yeah, I'd like to see Nintendo do better. I have both a GameCube and a PS2--currently the new slim PS2, but I previously had one of the original ones. The GameCube is a far nicer piece of hardware than either model of PS2. Some of the games are much better, too.
Ultimately, though, Nintendo just don't seem to be able to deliver enough games with enough variety; and it's generally harder to find GameCube games in stores than to find PS2 games. I wonder why?
Right now I'm dreading that the lineup for the Nintendo Revolution is going to be Super Mario Revolution, Metroid Revolution, Pokemon Revolution, Zelda Revolution, and that'll be about it.
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Google maps print fine, so long as you don't use the print button they provide. Just print the regular page and it's great. Use their print button and it comes out crap. (At least, that's my experience with Firefox and Safari, maybe it works with IE?)
Step 1 is to get yourself a Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Watch dealmac.com for deals and you can probably pick up 200GB for $50 or so. They're low noise and don't heat up much.
Then, I got an Argosy USB 2.0 HiSpeed / Firewire 400 enclosure from pcmicrostore.com. The Argosy has an aluminium casing which is only slightly larger than the hard drive; basically, the casing acts like a giant heat sink. The PSU is in an external brick. So, no fan is required.
I've run the drive overnight in mammoth backup sessions with no overheating problems. The case gets warm, but not uncomfortably warm; just warm like a hard drive in a well-ventilated computer.
I just noticed Argosy now have a version of the enclosure which will plug straight in to ethernet and act as a server. Slick!
That's why Google should get a clue and link up to the rest of the Jabber network.
That doesn't make it a proprietary PROTOCOL, which is what was written.
Yes, but disk space is cheap, and I'd rather have searchable documents.
If you get ads which are irrelevant and/or fraudulent, complain to the Google spam department. http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
Usually "misleading or repeated words" and "page does not match Google's description" applies to scam ads.
Yeah, it'll be like the original Xbox. If you want to buy one the week it's released you might have trouble--but if you wait a month or two, the stores will have boxes of unwanted Xboxes piled high, and will be offering all kinds of bundles and deals.
Sends the scans as PDF to the e-mail address chosen, via SMTP.
And look at how effective those "fixes" were. CVV numbers are useless, because effectively they are just adding 4 digits to the credit card number. Chip and PIN is better than Tracy not checking your signature, but has the side effect that you are explicitly made responsible for any losses, rather than the bank, on the grounds that PINs are secure, therefore you must have authorized the transfer. Riiight.
Because they're too fucking expensive.
Drop the price to $10 or less and I'd buy about 10x as many CDs as I do now.
Reiser3 works fine on Debian with no kernel patching required.
It seems as if you're holding out for perfection, not willing to upgrade from ext3 to anything else unless you find The Perfect Filesystem. I think that's kinda silly; better to get 90% of what you need now, than to wait another 2-4 years, surely?
Sold with compulsory Windows license.
*plonk*
When is someone going to start selling some decent Linux portables? (I know, Nokia's 770... some time later this year.)
I can't believe nobody's mentioned rsync yet. It has to be the single best command line tool ever.
I use it to update my web site. I use it to synchronize bookmarks between multiple machines. I use it for online incremental backups. I use it to copy directory trees around from disk to disk.
I even use it to fetch my mail. Yes, I switched my mail account to Maildir by using procmail for final delivery, and now I can use rsync -avz --remove-sent-files instead of crappy POP3 or IMAP protocols to pull the mail down to a fast local server.
If I ever meet Andrew Tridgell or Paul Mackerras, they definitely deserve a beer or three...
I buy quite a few new video games. When I've played the game through, I sell it second hand, generally on eBay. Since I look after my stuff, the games are usually in "like new" condition, and I get 50-75% of the initial outlay back.
What happens to the money? Without exception, I use it to buy another game. When someone bought my copy of "Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando" for about $15, every penny immediately went to the game industry when I used the cash to purchase "Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal".
Suppose I couldn't sell games second hand. What would I do? Well, for starters I wouldn't pay $50 for a game, ever.
Hence, I find it very hard to see that my selling games when I'm done playing them is doing major harm to the industry.
You are aware that mainframe sales and profits are growing, right?
Apple had something better than COM/DCOM: OpenDoc and Publish and Subscribe. Nobody used it. There's also AppleWorks, which offers object (component) based documents slicker and easier than Office, yet again failed to take over from Office. (And yes, there was a Windows version, widely acclaimed at the time.)
The only reason people use COM/DCOM is because it's the default way Office copies and pastes. Regular copy and paste is, in fact, all most people really want and need.
Yes, but the specific off-the-shelf hardware was chosen for its high suck factor. The engineers wanted to use 68K processors, but the 8080 series was chosen because it could be guaranteed not to compete with IBM's high end workstations.
You mean Microsoft will be the #1 database vendor, #1 groupware vendor, will have a flourishing $10 billion services division, and will support dozens of open source software projects?
Apple Mail on OS X. Has the 3-pane interface too.
The obvious commercial solutions are the IBM Workplace or Domino family of products (if you want multi-platform browser-based access), and Lotus Notes (if you're a Windows shop and like the rich client).
The main advantages over wikis are security (transparent encryption and strong authentication), replication (set up local servers at each site for speed, and have them replicate data), indexing of Office and other proprietary file formats, a more sophisticated user interface, commercial support, and ability to extend easily to include e-mail, instant messaging, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance documents, and so on.
The main disadvantages, of course, are price, and that you may not like the user interface--the more sophisticated a UI, the more there is to dislike. The trolls will be along in a minute to expand on that theme.
Damn straight. If I made that much for one year, I'd retire and work on open source software. I don't need a million-dollar-a-year lifestyle.
If you couldn't hack Ruby, then maybe programming just isn't for you. I say that because it's the most effortless and easy to learn programming language I've ever encountered.
For the record, I've written in BASIC, C, Pascal, Modula-2, Lisp, Scheme, ML, FORTRAN, 6502 Z80 and 68000 assembler, Smalltalk, C++, Objective-C, Perl, AppleScript, Hypertalk, and Java (in no particular order, and probably forgetting some). They're all a much bigger PITA than Ruby.
I don't think there's any shame attached to simply not having a programmer's mind; I mean, I can't remember people's names for crap, which is far more embarrassing on a daily basis.
My guess is the PS3 will 'run Linux' the way the PS2 does--as an expensive crippled add-on option that's very little use. Sony don't seem to realize that open platforms are a good thing, and the PS2 Linux was no exception.
(The PS2 had USB and Firewire, then just USB in the later models. It seems like at some time Sony thought it might be more than a console, but they gave up on the idea.)
Yeah, I'd like to see Nintendo do better. I have both a GameCube and a PS2--currently the new slim PS2, but I previously had one of the original ones. The GameCube is a far nicer piece of hardware than either model of PS2. Some of the games are much better, too.
Ultimately, though, Nintendo just don't seem to be able to deliver enough games with enough variety; and it's generally harder to find GameCube games in stores than to find PS2 games. I wonder why?
Right now I'm dreading that the lineup for the Nintendo Revolution is going to be Super Mario Revolution, Metroid Revolution, Pokemon Revolution, Zelda Revolution, and that'll be about it.
I'd just like to be the first to say that I hope the Xbox 360 is just as successful as the original Xbox.
I know it's easy to carp, but how long is it going to be before Thunderbird can at least support vCard in its address book, and leap into 1998?