Just because two countries have a good relation now does not mean that it will be so in the future. It's probably best to have your critical infrastructure in your control.
Umm, you lose a lot by outsourcing power production to another country. If you ever get into a fight with that country all they need to do is pull the plug and your country comes to a standstill.
Check out System76 http://www.system76.com/laptops/ and ZaReason http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/. They sell laptops that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. I've never used one so can't comment on their quality but at least you are guaranteed to have all the hardware working out of the box.
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You don't have to use Unity in the latest version if you don't want to. You can do 'sudo apt-get install gnome-fallback-session' which will give you classic Gnome 2 session. Just select 'Gnome Classic' at the time of login.
'Desi' does not mean Indian. It is a common noun of Hindi that simply means 'native' or 'of one's own country'. So anybody can use it regardless of their nationality.
Even though I have used Linux for several years now and am capable of using 'pcie_aspm=force' to get around the issue, I just don't like having to tweak to get around an issue that I expect should not be there in the first place. Tweaking to improve your desktop experience is one thing but tweaking to get around a kernel issue, Linux is too mature now to expect the user to do it.
They have been playing the blame game. Seriously though, I don't care whether it's an upstream issue or a downstream issue, 30% increase in power consumption is pretty big issue no matter what the reason. That's the reason why I am still on Ubuntu 10.10 and haven't upgraded. If they don't fix this before the support window runs out for 10.10 I am switching to something else (maybe even Windows). I use laptop on my battery all the time (in the bathroom, at the library, coffee shop etc.). A 30% reduction in battery life would seriously affect me.
Security is all about having various layers and I think that obscurity is an important one. The lack of information can make it very difficult for a hacker to get past what he does not know or he may not even know that you exist in the first place. For example, if you don't broadcast SSID of your wi-fi, a hacker would certainly pick up some other wi-fi to hack unless he has a strong motivation to hack your wi-fi only.
Tomato totally rocks as long as you need basic router features (and by basic I mean, compared to DD-WRT, it still offers far more features than those that come with stock firmware). I bought an Asus RT-N16 and got tired of its stock firmware - crappy connection, never saw uptime of more than 4 days. Replaced it with Tomato about three months ago and haven't rebooted the router since then. It has all the features I need - mac filtering, vpn tunneling, UPnP, NAS, QoS.
There's nothing wrong with Slashdot "articles" contradicting themselves, because they are not articles written by Slashdot staff. They are stories submitted by users and there's nothing wrong in contradiction arising out of two stories (which are basically opinions based on some facts) submitted by two different people.
Regardless of what justification they give for shortening the release cycle, the real reason is that they simply want to catch up with the version number of Chrome. Since they are several versions behind right now, they need to have a faster release cycle than Chrome to catch up. So if Chrome has a six week release cycle, they need a shorter one.
Boosting a wi-fi signal should be done only when one is having issues due to signal strength. The signal strength should be just enough to get good connection in the radius one intends to use it in (say your apartment/house). If it goes out further than that it is actually a negative thing. The stronger the signal the further it goes out and more vulnerable your wi-fi becomes as it is broadcast over larger area. Also it causes interference with other networks which reduces quality of all the interfering networks involved.
It is quite surprising how limited the mathematical arsenal needed for general relativity is. Considering it is one of the giant theories of physics, the amount of math background needed for general relativity can be learnt in a short time (2-3 months) (in comparison to other theories like String theory which require mind boggling amount of 20th century mathematics and can require several years of learning) . This is provided you have studied math at college level. All you need to know is vectors, tensor and tensor calculus and Reimannian geometry. Pick a good text book of relativity. Lot of books teach the math needed for relativity. I just started working through A Short Course in General Relativity by Foster and Nightingale and it is a very good book. Another good book is 'A First Course in General Relativity' by Schultz but it uses modern index less approach which is more concise and beautiful but also more abstract so harder to grasp for beginners. I found Nightingale much easier to understand.
UK Prime Minister is under tremendous pressure to do something about the riots. The government is getting desperate. They want to show the world that they are taking some action, so what do they do? Arrest people who posted some BS on Facebook. Great!
It's funny how India tries to show off that it is so damn serious about cracking down on terrorism and yet they don't have the balls to hang the sole terrorist convicted in Mumbai attacks. He has been sentenced to death, however, for some reason which is beyond me, he is allowed to appeal to president of India who has the power to reverse the death penalty. And the president is considering it. WTF?
I don't know why there is still such craze with high capacity drives for laptops? For me the capacity seized to matter once the drives touched 200 GB. I would opt for 160 GB SSD over 1 TB HDD any day for my laptop. I was just checking out laptops on Internet this evening and when customizing laptops, most sites list 640 GB 5400 RPM drive as an upgrade over 500 GB 7200 RPM drive. i consider that as a downgrade. I would rather have high speed than high capacity. Though in this particular case they do say that in spite of being 5400 RPM it has good performance. But that is a one off case.
In today's world of free email it sounds silly to pay for personal email but I would happily pay $20-$50 a year for an email account if I was assured that if I had problem with my account or get locked out, I can actually call a customer support number and talk to a human who will help me with the problem. I know Yahoo offers premium email service for $35 a year. What I don't know is there is any customer support associated with it (if there is it is likely to be better than Google's as the latter doesn't have any at all).
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Just because two countries have a good relation now does not mean that it will be so in the future. It's probably best to have your critical infrastructure in your control.
Umm, you lose a lot by outsourcing power production to another country. If you ever get into a fight with that country all they need to do is pull the plug and your country comes to a standstill.
Check out System76 http://www.system76.com/laptops/ and ZaReason http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/. They sell laptops that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. I've never used one so can't comment on their quality but at least you are guaranteed to have all the hardware working out of the box.
You don't have to use Unity in the latest version if you don't want to. You can do 'sudo apt-get install gnome-fallback-session' which will give you classic Gnome 2 session. Just select 'Gnome Classic' at the time of login.
'Desi' does not mean Indian. It is a common noun of Hindi that simply means 'native' or 'of one's own country'. So anybody can use it regardless of their nationality.
Even though I have used Linux for several years now and am capable of using 'pcie_aspm=force' to get around the issue, I just don't like having to tweak to get around an issue that I expect should not be there in the first place. Tweaking to improve your desktop experience is one thing but tweaking to get around a kernel issue, Linux is too mature now to expect the user to do it.
They have been playing the blame game. Seriously though, I don't care whether it's an upstream issue or a downstream issue, 30% increase in power consumption is pretty big issue no matter what the reason. That's the reason why I am still on Ubuntu 10.10 and haven't upgraded. If they don't fix this before the support window runs out for 10.10 I am switching to something else (maybe even Windows). I use laptop on my battery all the time (in the bathroom, at the library, coffee shop etc.). A 30% reduction in battery life would seriously affect me.
Of course no one was using it. Who would think of clicking 'Start' to shut down the computer?
Security is all about having various layers and I think that obscurity is an important one. The lack of information can make it very difficult for a hacker to get past what he does not know or he may not even know that you exist in the first place. For example, if you don't broadcast SSID of your wi-fi, a hacker would certainly pick up some other wi-fi to hack unless he has a strong motivation to hack your wi-fi only.
Tomato totally rocks as long as you need basic router features (and by basic I mean, compared to DD-WRT, it still offers far more features than those that come with stock firmware). I bought an Asus RT-N16 and got tired of its stock firmware - crappy connection, never saw uptime of more than 4 days. Replaced it with Tomato about three months ago and haven't rebooted the router since then. It has all the features I need - mac filtering, vpn tunneling, UPnP, NAS, QoS.
...and she was good looking (that's a goes a long way in getting hired and getting away with stuff).
There's nothing wrong with Slashdot "articles" contradicting themselves, because they are not articles written by Slashdot staff. They are stories submitted by users and there's nothing wrong in contradiction arising out of two stories (which are basically opinions based on some facts) submitted by two different people.
Regardless of what justification they give for shortening the release cycle, the real reason is that they simply want to catch up with the version number of Chrome. Since they are several versions behind right now, they need to have a faster release cycle than Chrome to catch up. So if Chrome has a six week release cycle, they need a shorter one.
You can call in all the experts and engineers to figure this out but never underestimate the importance of common sense and understanding of basics concepts involved. A couple of articles on Tom's explain it well. One story has some testing and benchmarking. May not be exactly what you need but may go a long way in ensuring good wi-fi. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wi-fi-performance,2985.html http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/571-wi-fi-beamforming-networking.html
Last time I checked Stella Artois was a Belgian brand.
Boosting a wi-fi signal should be done only when one is having issues due to signal strength. The signal strength should be just enough to get good connection in the radius one intends to use it in (say your apartment/house). If it goes out further than that it is actually a negative thing. The stronger the signal the further it goes out and more vulnerable your wi-fi becomes as it is broadcast over larger area. Also it causes interference with other networks which reduces quality of all the interfering networks involved.
I am grumpy when I am constipated.
It is quite surprising how limited the mathematical arsenal needed for general relativity is. Considering it is one of the giant theories of physics, the amount of math background needed for general relativity can be learnt in a short time (2-3 months) (in comparison to other theories like String theory which require mind boggling amount of 20th century mathematics and can require several years of learning) . This is provided you have studied math at college level. All you need to know is vectors, tensor and tensor calculus and Reimannian geometry. Pick a good text book of relativity. Lot of books teach the math needed for relativity. I just started working through A Short Course in General Relativity by Foster and Nightingale and it is a very good book. Another good book is 'A First Course in General Relativity' by Schultz but it uses modern index less approach which is more concise and beautiful but also more abstract so harder to grasp for beginners. I found Nightingale much easier to understand.
Aren't most HDDs made in China? So how does cutting export of rare earth metals make a difference?
Um, yeah it does. Haven't you heard of Area 51?
UK Prime Minister is under tremendous pressure to do something about the riots. The government is getting desperate. They want to show the world that they are taking some action, so what do they do? Arrest people who posted some BS on Facebook. Great!
It's funny how India tries to show off that it is so damn serious about cracking down on terrorism and yet they don't have the balls to hang the sole terrorist convicted in Mumbai attacks. He has been sentenced to death, however, for some reason which is beyond me, he is allowed to appeal to president of India who has the power to reverse the death penalty. And the president is considering it. WTF?
Damn! I just switched from Opera to Chromium.
I don't know why there is still such craze with high capacity drives for laptops? For me the capacity seized to matter once the drives touched 200 GB. I would opt for 160 GB SSD over 1 TB HDD any day for my laptop. I was just checking out laptops on Internet this evening and when customizing laptops, most sites list 640 GB 5400 RPM drive as an upgrade over 500 GB 7200 RPM drive. i consider that as a downgrade. I would rather have high speed than high capacity. Though in this particular case they do say that in spite of being 5400 RPM it has good performance. But that is a one off case.
In today's world of free email it sounds silly to pay for personal email but I would happily pay $20-$50 a year for an email account if I was assured that if I had problem with my account or get locked out, I can actually call a customer support number and talk to a human who will help me with the problem. I know Yahoo offers premium email service for $35 a year. What I don't know is there is any customer support associated with it (if there is it is likely to be better than Google's as the latter doesn't have any at all).