GPS signals are extremely low power and do not work indoors (unless you are near a window of which you can pick up 3+ sat signals). In fact tree leaves will block GPS signals, then there's the whole signal reflection issue in cities...
Man, people are lazy, I just go to the utility room, grab a bulb, stand on my desk and replace the bulb... Sometimes, when I'm lucky, 2 burn out simultaneously and I can sword fight with a fellow cuber until we break one and choke on all the phosphor...then we have to call maintenance to vacuum the floor...
The biggest issue, for me, is the fact that flourescent replacement bulbs are nondimmable. I've replaced a good portion of my house with high end switchlinc X-10 dimmer switches. I'd use flourescent lights but can't. Plus, they don't work in cold environments like the garage or outside here in MN.
LEDs, OTOH, should fill both of these gaps.
Personally, I hate the incandescent light spectrum (soft white) and have been replacing all the lights in my house with daylight bulbs which appear much brighter and work very will with dimmers.
I've got 10 years of Linux experience and would choose it over Windows for any task outside of music, video or print production (OS X for ANY task).
Windows, can NOT be compared to Linux in ease of administration in a server environment. My current work environment consists of OS X, Solaris, Linux, Windows (XP/NT/2K) and Digital Unix (Tru64/OSF). For a server environment I prefer Linux and OS X. Sorry, but GUI != ease of maintenance. In 5 seconds I can configure just about any setting on a Linux server either locally or remotely. Need to change a host address - vi/etc/resolv.conf, need to add a network alias - ifconfig, etc...
I would challenge any NT admin against the clock, and time == money. Here's a good one, do a fresh install of XP/NT on one box and an install of RH 9 on another. Don't log into either, now disconnect the monitor, keyboard and mouse and change the hostname on either one... Do'h no default remote login for XP...
Ask anyone who manages both Windows and *nix servers which is easier and quicker to maintain...
Why should the information be deemed illegal? I learned how to pick locks in high school yet I've never actually done it. Knowing how to do it isn't illegal (yet), but the act of doing it (i.e. B&E) is.
And it should also be noted that my IIE has a SCSI card and is hooked to a 30Meg (wow!) HD, which holds nearly everything I'd ever want to run on a IIe and still leave me plenty of data-file room.
I bought a//gs ROM 03 around '92, still in the garage, been meaning to hook it all back up. Paid $2400 for it new (ouch). Anyway, at the time, I worked for a computer distributor and picked up a Seagate ST4096 and external case for around $300. GSOS sucks because it only supports 40MB partitions (2 40MB and 1 5MB on that drive). Never ran out of space...
Apple//gs ROM 03
5MB RAM
8MHz Zip GS
85MB external SCSI drive
12" Apple RGB monitor
Apple SCSI controller
5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives
Ah, the memories...
Anyone know the status of the GS/Unix software? Haven't heard about it in years but the last thing I found said it went open source, problem is getting the thing networked, anyone with an Appletalk/Ethernet adapter for cheap?
Here in the US you are required to install a GFCI (IIRC, Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt) if the outlet is anywhere near water (i.e. kitchen and bathrooms). I've never had one fail and I use them on my aquariums, though I have had minor shocks from water spillage but nothing life threatening (the GFCI, by design, trips if there's too much current to ground)...
Though, I agree, our 110/120v electrical outlets are pretty weak. The 4 prong 220s, OTOH, are quite impressive...
say... would Apple also be following industry standard on ATAPI devices? How about DDR ram? and PCI cards (like my new Audigy 2?) (Things I'de LOVE to know before I upgrade again)
Yes. You should be able to install just about any OS supported IDE CD-ROM drive in a newer tower. My 1GHz at work has 3 IDE intefaces ATA/100, ATA/66 and ATA and supports ATAPI (using cable select). As for PCI it supports PCI 2.1 at 33MHz (5, 12 or 3.3v). AGP is 1.5V 4x. The new systems support PC2100 and PC2700 (depending on model) DDR RAM, but doesn't take advantage of it (more of a marketing thing than performance)...
The only problem is OS support, if you can't find drivers for your card you're kind of SOL... Audigy isn't support (AFAIK) though SoundBlaster Live! is.
Correction : It's a *client* for XP's Remote Desktop. You can't (as the parent was saying), access a remote OS X desktop from another machine without paying for Apple's software, or using something like VNC.
Sorry, you are correct, forgot to add client (remote desktop client).
What do you mean? The past 6 months have really pushed OS X. Although, game support is quite lacking but that is slowly changing. Who wants to play half the crap that comes out for Windows anyway? But then Linux isn't a huge gaming platform either and it's had an almost 10 year headstart on OS X.;)
XP and 2k have the Remote Desktop thingie. Mac OS X doesn't come with this, but Apple has a version you can buy. I expect Apple to include it with a future version of OSX. However, what I really like being able to do is running just a single application (not an entire desktop) across the LAN, like I can with X. Will Longhorn support this? Will OSX?
Microsoft has an OS X version of remote desktop available free from their website (amazingly). It actually works quite well. Apple also provides a decent X11 implementation (in Beta at the moment) and you can ssh/telnet in to any *nix box and run remote X apps, also quite slick. The best part, however, is that you get these "pro quality" utilities for free with OS X. MS will likely gouge your wallet.
Apple doesn't give the impression it's out to screw it's users (by making them pay 200$ every two years for a new operating system). Apple may charge for new OS, I'm not sure, I've never used it. But Apple doesn't give off the impression that their whole point is to screw the users.
Yes, Apple charges for major OS updates. OS X updates (1.x/2.x/3.x???) have been $129 but they don't have stupid registration restrictions like XP and recently (X2.x) added a 5 user "family license" for $199 (<$50 for an upgrade isn't bad considering a boxed version of Linux is $40 - $50). But look at what you get for that $129 compared to XP for $99+ $40 for the Plus! pack. OS X gives you iTunes, iMovie, iCal, CD and DVD Burning, iPhoto, iDVD and a full application development suite. To get the same out of Windows you need to purchase Visual Studio (if you're into that) for $1000, Outlook for $100, CD Creator (or similar) for $100, plus a DVD/movie editor for ???
Apple doesn't give the impression it's out to screw it's users (by making them pay 200$ every two years for a new operating system). Apple may charge for new OS, I'm not sure, I've never used it. But Apple doesn't give off the impression that their whole point is to screw the users.
Yes, Apple charges for major OS updates. OS X updates (1.x/2.x/3.x???) have been $129 but they don't have stupid registration restrictions like XP and recently (X2.x) added a 5 user "family license" for $199 (
I'd say OS X is a better deal than Windows...
No, MS is convicted of illegally _maintaining_ an existing monopoly, which is very different than illegally _obtaining_ a monopoly. This means that their major success w/ Windows + Office was legit.
Yes and no. There are many, many examples in Microsoft's history that confirm they weren't legitamate. For one thing, when MS "introduced" p2p networking the deliberately wrote incompatible code against 3rd party competitors (Novell). I know first hand about the problems with Win 3.1 and Novell as I was doing technical support at that time and was taking the NCE tests.
If I want Opera on my box, I download it and install it. It's also trivial to make it my default browser (Opera asks you on Install), and MS does nothing to stop this. So, delete the stupid IE icons on your desktop (also trivial) and replace them with Opera?
You CAN'T completely remove IE from your system, it's integrated into Windows. Sure, you can remove the browser icon but other aspects (active desktop) are still there. Try replacing Active Desktop with Opera... Heh! Personally, I don't have a problem with that, I only need Windows for deployment/testing and pity the people that use it on a daily basis (yes, our clients). I choose not to use Windows, I'm now a faithful OS X user/supporter and have used Linux since '93 (exclusively between '96 and '01).
But, look at all of MS's competitors that have been demolished (Novell, IBM-OS/2, BEOS, Netscape, Sun, etc...) because of Microsoft's proprietary nature (DirectX, unreleased APIs, etc...) Java is a very large example of this. MS bundled their own JVM which wasn't 100% compatible, etc. and hasn't been updated in 3+ years. So, anyone using that bastardization of Java will deem it slow and unstable even though it's far from that in it's current incarnation which requires you to download/install from Sun rather than being bundled. Again, I don't have a problem with this as long as MS either completely removes Java from the Windows bundle or includes the latest version.
For instance, if Windows came bundled with Opera 1, Netscape 1 and IE 6 which browser would you choose? Sure, they gave you a choice, but not the latest of each. Is that fair to the other parties?
Then don't use the service. ITunes comes bundled with OS X not integrated into OS X.
Microsoft INTEGRATED IE into Windows as an anti-competitive move to run Netscape, et.al. out of business.
I don't see any competing technologies that OS X integrates that Apple is trying to destroy. Quicktime? Like Microsoft cares about WMP on Mac... PDF? Anyway, you CAN run competing software on OS X without complaints. Sure, you can't remove it from the core OS, but Apple doesn't have close to a monopolistic share. In fact I run GIMP from Apple's X11 Beta 3, no problem... I used to use XFree86 but find X11 to be faster and smaller and it does everything I need it to do (primarilly ssh tunneling to Linux boxes which works better and is easier to configure than XF86).
If you purchased music from the Apple Music Store than you are already using/own iTunes. If, in the future, you want to play them elsewhere then burn them to audio or get a compatible player on your device of choice. AAC is an openish standard (not tied to 1 OS/device). If you don't like iTunes then write something better...
A'right, that's better... So you could technically burn it on a CD and then rip it immediately and have it as mp3s... Sounds reasonable, so long as the loss of quality isn't noticeable.
No, he meant backing up the AAC file (burn it as a file to a CD, copy to another drive, etc...). There are NO restrictions on the file itself, just on playing what's contained in the file. Sure, you could record it as a music track and re-rip it into any format you want. You can also back up the AAC file and restore it later, you could even p2p the file (though it does contain your email address so, personally, I wouldn't do that) but only 3, currently, authorized Macs could actually play it....
2. New surveillance powers circumvent judicial review: Previously federal agencies had to get permission from the courts for wiretapping and other forms of covert surveillance. Under the Patriot Act the agency can arbitrarily label someone a 'suspected terrorist' and conduct surveillance without the court's permission. Moreover, that label doesn't have to be approved by any external agency... and the person gets no chance to defend himself.
This one always gets me. On one hand you want free reign over the airwaves, to receive and do what you want with the signal (decode it, listen to it, watch it, etc...). Yet, OTOH, you don't want anyone else listening/receiving YOUR signals. So, it's okay to intercept police radio signals with a scanner but if you're neighbor is picking up your cell phone call on his scanner across the street he should be arrested... Quite frankly, if you send any signal out into the public you shouldn't expect it to be private any more. Personally, I don't use the phone that much and if the FBI/CIA wants to listen to me ordering a pizza they are welcome to.
The whole 53K Vs 56K thing only matters until your analog call gets converted to digital and placed on the phone network. Which can happen as far as your local central office or as close as your phone pole. After that it's delivered to your ISP via T1 (or T3, or even a simple ISDN circuit). Which happens to be 64K channels.
Depending on the equipment used. T1/T3's use 64K channels, but a lot of older/smaller installations use 56K multiplexers (don't know if they're still used, but I would guess the really small communities are using really old equipment). Not all phone circuits are digital, yet... I know of one small town that ran an analog phone switch in their trailer house. That was 6 or so years ago so I don't know if it's still that way, but I'm sure there are still some analog switches around.
But are POP, SMTP, and IMAP normally compressed? Since mail docs are mainly text and aren't latency sensitive, a 75% compression would be plausible for some kinds of content.
No, none of those use compression by default. I've never really looked at compressing mail so I don't know if anything exists or, if it does, what exists. POP and IMAP use standard text files for storing mail, in fact it's a single file for each mailbox, at least under all of the Sendmail implementations I've dealt with (Linux, Solaris, OSF/Digital Unix).
It really doesn't make much sense to compress mail since people don't, typically, write novels to each other. Compressing a 1K message to 500 bytes isn't going to make a noticeable difference unless you're syncing a large mailbox with hundreds of messages. You should turn on local caching if you're using IMAP which downloads/caches messages in the background. GIF/JPEGs are already compressed (GIF uses LZW compression which is what Zip is, JPEGs are lossy compressed, think mp3, so Zipping one won't make it any smaller).
The most efficient way to deal with email is to send SPAM to/dev/null and only download messages that you'll read.:)
You could us the Cardboard box the monitor came in as the case. And the power supply can be made up by resoldering an old PC/AT power supply to an ATX cable...Old PC/AT power supplies can be had for $1 a dozen, or I've got 2 I'd pay to have someone take from me.:)
But you are right, $160 for a home build w/ monitor is a stretch...even in the used market. Unless, of course, they are PC/ATs which won't run Linux very well anyway...
Buy recycled paper (blech), or recycle your paper. At least then you won't feel so bad about "cutting down trees".
I *try* to recycle, but it's so damn hard to a) know what CAN be recycled, and b) remembering to throw paper in the recycle bin. Recycling centers could make it much easier by sorting through the crap like plastic windowed envolopes, etc... You'd think environmentalists would be lined up outside the recycle center doors for the chance to sort through paper...er......maybe not.:)
BOT...I haven't seen, nor previously heard, anything about Sun Ray, sounds rather interesting. I just don't like the idea of employing thousands of people in a foreign country taking jobs away from the U.S. Has anyone heard or seen proof that exporting development to India actually saves money? Or is it one of those "it looks good on paper" deals? I would think the English translation would be...lacking. And wouldn't support be a bitch? Calling India at 4:00am (India time) and getting a half asleep support tech that barely speaks English to begin with... Hopefully, this is just the latest fad that'll go away in time...
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No, simply because you can't.
GPS signals are extremely low power and do not work indoors (unless you are near a window of which you can pick up 3+ sat signals). In fact tree leaves will block GPS signals, then there's the whole signal reflection issue in cities...
Man, people are lazy, I just go to the utility room, grab a bulb, stand on my desk and replace the bulb... Sometimes, when I'm lucky, 2 burn out simultaneously and I can sword fight with a fellow cuber until we break one and choke on all the phosphor...then we have to call maintenance to vacuum the floor...
The biggest issue, for me, is the fact that flourescent replacement bulbs are nondimmable. I've replaced a good portion of my house with high end switchlinc X-10 dimmer switches. I'd use flourescent lights but can't. Plus, they don't work in cold environments like the garage or outside here in MN.
LEDs, OTOH, should fill both of these gaps.
Personally, I hate the incandescent light spectrum (soft white) and have been replacing all the lights in my house with daylight bulbs which appear much brighter and work very will with dimmers.
Really, come on, hasen't everyone seen Jurassic Park?
I have to agree...
/etc/resolv.conf, need to add a network alias - ifconfig, etc...
I've got 10 years of Linux experience and would choose it over Windows for any task outside of music, video or print production (OS X for ANY task).
Windows, can NOT be compared to Linux in ease of administration in a server environment. My current work environment consists of OS X, Solaris, Linux, Windows (XP/NT/2K) and Digital Unix (Tru64/OSF). For a server environment I prefer Linux and OS X. Sorry, but GUI != ease of maintenance. In 5 seconds I can configure just about any setting on a Linux server either locally or remotely. Need to change a host address - vi
I would challenge any NT admin against the clock, and time == money. Here's a good one, do a fresh install of XP/NT on one box and an install of RH 9 on another. Don't log into either, now disconnect the monitor, keyboard and mouse and change the hostname on either one... Do'h no default remote login for XP...
Ask anyone who manages both Windows and *nix servers which is easier and quicker to maintain...
You mean there's life outside the US?
Nah, you're talkin' crazy...
Maybe not car alarms but how about this...
Techniques of Safecracking
Why should the information be deemed illegal? I learned how to pick locks in high school yet I've never actually done it. Knowing how to do it isn't illegal (yet), but the act of doing it (i.e. B&E) is.
I bought a //gs ROM 03 around '92, still in the garage, been meaning to hook it all back up. Paid $2400 for it new (ouch). Anyway, at the time, I worked for a computer distributor and picked up a Seagate ST4096 and external case for around $300. GSOS sucks because it only supports 40MB partitions (2 40MB and 1 5MB on that drive). Never ran out of space...
Apple //gs ROM 03
5MB RAM
8MHz Zip GS
85MB external SCSI drive
12" Apple RGB monitor
Apple SCSI controller
5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives
Ah, the memories...
Anyone know the status of the GS/Unix software? Haven't heard about it in years but the last thing I found said it went open source, problem is getting the thing networked, anyone with an Appletalk/Ethernet adapter for cheap?
Don't know how this got so far off topic but...
Here in the US you are required to install a GFCI (IIRC, Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt) if the outlet is anywhere near water (i.e. kitchen and bathrooms). I've never had one fail and I use them on my aquariums, though I have had minor shocks from water spillage but nothing life threatening (the GFCI, by design, trips if there's too much current to ground)...
Though, I agree, our 110/120v electrical outlets are pretty weak. The 4 prong 220s, OTOH, are quite impressive...
We found that IIS runs 100% faster on Windows.
Who sets up Samba on Linux specifically for file sharing? Why didn't they test NFS? Or AFS for that matter?
Microsoft does it again!
Yes. You should be able to install just about any OS supported IDE CD-ROM drive in a newer tower. My 1GHz at work has 3 IDE intefaces ATA/100, ATA/66 and ATA and supports ATAPI (using cable select). As for PCI it supports PCI 2.1 at 33MHz (5, 12 or 3.3v). AGP is 1.5V 4x. The new systems support PC2100 and PC2700 (depending on model) DDR RAM, but doesn't take advantage of it (more of a marketing thing than performance)...
The only problem is OS support, if you can't find drivers for your card you're kind of SOL... Audigy isn't support (AFAIK) though SoundBlaster Live! is.
Sorry, you are correct, forgot to add client (remote desktop client).
What do you mean? The past 6 months have really pushed OS X. Although, game support is quite lacking but that is slowly changing. Who wants to play half the crap that comes out for Windows anyway? But then Linux isn't a huge gaming platform either and it's had an almost 10 year headstart on OS X. ;)
Microsoft has an OS X version of remote desktop available free from their website (amazingly). It actually works quite well. Apple also provides a decent X11 implementation (in Beta at the moment) and you can ssh/telnet in to any *nix box and run remote X apps, also quite slick. The best part, however, is that you get these "pro quality" utilities for free with OS X. MS will likely gouge your wallet.
Yes, Apple charges for major OS updates. OS X updates (1.x/2.x/3.x???) have been $129 but they don't have stupid registration restrictions like XP and recently (X2.x) added a 5 user "family license" for $199 (<$50 for an upgrade isn't bad considering a boxed version of Linux is $40 - $50). But look at what you get for that $129 compared to XP for $99+ $40 for the Plus! pack. OS X gives you iTunes, iMovie, iCal, CD and DVD Burning, iPhoto, iDVD and a full application development suite. To get the same out of Windows you need to purchase Visual Studio (if you're into that) for $1000, Outlook for $100, CD Creator (or similar) for $100, plus a DVD/movie editor for ???
I'd say OS X is a better deal than Windows...
Yes, Apple charges for major OS updates. OS X updates (1.x/2.x/3.x???) have been $129 but they don't have stupid registration restrictions like XP and recently (X2.x) added a 5 user "family license" for $199 ( I'd say OS X is a better deal than Windows...
Yes and no. There are many, many examples in Microsoft's history that confirm they weren't legitamate. For one thing, when MS "introduced" p2p networking the deliberately wrote incompatible code against 3rd party competitors (Novell). I know first hand about the problems with Win 3.1 and Novell as I was doing technical support at that time and was taking the NCE tests.
If I want Opera on my box, I download it and install it. It's also trivial to make it my default browser (Opera asks you on Install), and MS does nothing to stop this. So, delete the stupid IE icons on your desktop (also trivial) and replace them with Opera?
You CAN'T completely remove IE from your system, it's integrated into Windows. Sure, you can remove the browser icon but other aspects (active desktop) are still there. Try replacing Active Desktop with Opera... Heh! Personally, I don't have a problem with that, I only need Windows for deployment/testing and pity the people that use it on a daily basis (yes, our clients). I choose not to use Windows, I'm now a faithful OS X user/supporter and have used Linux since '93 (exclusively between '96 and '01).
But, look at all of MS's competitors that have been demolished (Novell, IBM-OS/2, BEOS, Netscape, Sun, etc...) because of Microsoft's proprietary nature (DirectX, unreleased APIs, etc...) Java is a very large example of this. MS bundled their own JVM which wasn't 100% compatible, etc. and hasn't been updated in 3+ years. So, anyone using that bastardization of Java will deem it slow and unstable even though it's far from that in it's current incarnation which requires you to download/install from Sun rather than being bundled. Again, I don't have a problem with this as long as MS either completely removes Java from the Windows bundle or includes the latest version.
For instance, if Windows came bundled with Opera 1, Netscape 1 and IE 6 which browser would you choose? Sure, they gave you a choice, but not the latest of each. Is that fair to the other parties?
Then don't use the service. ITunes comes bundled with OS X not integrated into OS X.
Microsoft INTEGRATED IE into Windows as an anti-competitive move to run Netscape, et.al. out of business.
I don't see any competing technologies that OS X integrates that Apple is trying to destroy. Quicktime? Like Microsoft cares about WMP on Mac... PDF? Anyway, you CAN run competing software on OS X without complaints. Sure, you can't remove it from the core OS, but Apple doesn't have close to a monopolistic share. In fact I run GIMP from Apple's X11 Beta 3, no problem... I used to use XFree86 but find X11 to be faster and smaller and it does everything I need it to do (primarilly ssh tunneling to Linux boxes which works better and is easier to configure than XF86).
If you purchased music from the Apple Music Store than you are already using/own iTunes. If, in the future, you want to play them elsewhere then burn them to audio or get a compatible player on your device of choice. AAC is an openish standard (not tied to 1 OS/device). If you don't like iTunes then write something better...
No, he meant backing up the AAC file (burn it as a file to a CD, copy to another drive, etc...). There are NO restrictions on the file itself, just on playing what's contained in the file. Sure, you could record it as a music track and re-rip it into any format you want. You can also back up the AAC file and restore it later, you could even p2p the file (though it does contain your email address so, personally, I wouldn't do that) but only 3, currently, authorized Macs could actually play it....
Saweet!
This is one thing I missed from Linux/XFree86. Nice to see they've added it for those of us smart enough to know how to use a scroll wheel mouse...
This one always gets me. On one hand you want free reign over the airwaves, to receive and do what you want with the signal (decode it, listen to it, watch it, etc...). Yet, OTOH, you don't want anyone else listening/receiving YOUR signals. So, it's okay to intercept police radio signals with a scanner but if you're neighbor is picking up your cell phone call on his scanner across the street he should be arrested... Quite frankly, if you send any signal out into the public you shouldn't expect it to be private any more. Personally, I don't use the phone that much and if the FBI/CIA wants to listen to me ordering a pizza they are welcome to.
The whole 53K Vs 56K thing only matters until your analog call gets converted to digital and placed on the phone network. Which can happen as far as your local central office or as close as your phone pole. After that it's delivered to your ISP via T1 (or T3, or even a simple ISDN circuit). Which happens to be 64K channels.
Depending on the equipment used. T1/T3's use 64K channels, but a lot of older/smaller installations use 56K multiplexers (don't know if they're still used, but I would guess the really small communities are using really old equipment). Not all phone circuits are digital, yet... I know of one small town that ran an analog phone switch in their trailer house. That was 6 or so years ago so I don't know if it's still that way, but I'm sure there are still some analog switches around.
But are POP, SMTP, and IMAP normally compressed? Since mail docs are mainly text and aren't latency sensitive, a 75% compression would be plausible for some kinds of content.
/dev/null and only download messages that you'll read. :)
No, none of those use compression by default. I've never really looked at compressing mail so I don't know if anything exists or, if it does, what exists. POP and IMAP use standard text files for storing mail, in fact it's a single file for each mailbox, at least under all of the Sendmail implementations I've dealt with (Linux, Solaris, OSF/Digital Unix).
It really doesn't make much sense to compress mail since people don't, typically, write novels to each other. Compressing a 1K message to 500 bytes isn't going to make a noticeable difference unless you're syncing a large mailbox with hundreds of messages. You should turn on local caching if you're using IMAP which downloads/caches messages in the background. GIF/JPEGs are already compressed (GIF uses LZW compression which is what Zip is, JPEGs are lossy compressed, think mp3, so Zipping one won't make it any smaller).
The most efficient way to deal with email is to send SPAM to
You could us the Cardboard box the monitor came in as the case. And the power supply can be made up by resoldering an old PC/AT power supply to an ATX cable...Old PC/AT power supplies can be had for $1 a dozen, or I've got 2 I'd pay to have someone take from me. :)
But you are right, $160 for a home build w/ monitor is a stretch...even in the used market. Unless, of course, they are PC/ATs which won't run Linux very well anyway...
Buy recycled paper (blech), or recycle your paper. At least then you won't feel so bad about "cutting down trees".
:)
I *try* to recycle, but it's so damn hard to a) know what CAN be recycled, and b) remembering to throw paper in the recycle bin. Recycling centers could make it much easier by sorting through the crap like plastic windowed envolopes, etc... You'd think environmentalists would be lined up outside the recycle center doors for the chance to sort through paper...er......maybe not.
BOT...I haven't seen, nor previously heard, anything about Sun Ray, sounds rather interesting. I just don't like the idea of employing thousands of people in a foreign country taking jobs away from the U.S. Has anyone heard or seen proof that exporting development to India actually saves money? Or is it one of those "it looks good on paper" deals? I would think the English translation would be...lacking. And wouldn't support be a bitch? Calling India at 4:00am (India time) and getting a half asleep support tech that barely speaks English to begin with... Hopefully, this is just the latest fad that'll go away in time...