Use the phone as a bluetooth modem (only port 80 and e-mail works though with just the $5/month t-zones plan)
I have T-Mobile, and while that's strictly true, I've found it perfectly easy to SSH to my home box over port 80 and port-forward everything else I need. The only drawback is that my auth logfile gets a lot of failed attempts from Code Red hits and the like. (yes, believe it or not, I still see Code Red hits)
Point of reference: I installed Gentoo on my Latitude CP (233MMX, 128MB) a couple weeks ago. 'emerge gdesklets-base desklet-psidisplays desklet-psisensors' took about 36 hours (for 112 packages, including Gnome).
We complain loudly about conflict of interest by legislators and regulators, while ignoring the biggest one of all: that lawyers write laws.
You're overlooking the other problem. The work product of a legislator is legislation. Making laws is their job. The problem is that there are only so many good laws to be made, and the production quota exceeds that number.
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You comment on ANY type of music saying that you're not into it or don't understand it and you're labled "closed minded" and have no understanding at all on music.
Boy, did you nail that on the head! Maybe it's just my experience, but I get this more from hip-hop fans than any other genre. Usually they accuse me of never having listened to it, and when I point out that listening is how I came to realize I don't care for it, I get accused of only sampling "mainstream" acts. Give me Steve Hackett or John Wetton any day, but for the stuff with which I have no cultural resonance whatsoever, I'll just pass.
(and for the hip-hop evangelistas that will take umbrage, please go try to convert someone else, 'k? thx bye)
Has eBay already pulled the listings? music.listings.ebay.com gives me the Big Laundry List'O'Categories. Under Music, there's a heading for 'Digital Downloads (0)'. Your link shows up as an invalid item.
Near as I can tell, there's literally Nothing To See Here.
Let's just say that again: accidentally installed a boot loader.
You say that like it can never happen. I had a cheeseball $2 NIC write a Windows NT boot sector to a drive once with no warning. It came up in PXE looking for a DHCP server, and when it timed out, it rewrote the bootsec and attempted to boot NT. Didn't work very well with RH 8.0, for some reason.
Here's a good reference on the possibility of terrorists building and detonating a nuclear device. Turns out it's not that hard and you can buy everything you need (except the Plutonium) over the counter.
OBCreepyPart: The design criteria used in this book (written in 1973) were to be man-portable and knock down one tower of the WTC.
Good point, and that limits its usefulness for truly disruptive technology. An opportunistic anon remailer, for example. The meshcube would do well at this, but that application really demands disposable hardware. (after all, when whomever the unit is leeching bandwidth from finds it, it's not likely to survive the encounter) $300 per isn't quite disposable. $100 might be, but I haven't seen any very small form factor systems that hit the price point.
Ya know, developers also like packages that aren't actively compile-hostile. When you get to the point that I can do 'make menuconfig && make clean && make && make install', call me. That bozotic build environment for Helix is a major PITA.
I personally think, when something as awesome as Firefly is involved, Shockwave is appreciated.
If it's so "appreciated", why did they do such a static presentation? Ferchrissake, it's a goddamn still frame with one mouseover caption! No theme song, no flyby shot of Serenity, just a logo and three links.
If you need Shockwave for that, you're some kind of messed up!
The FCC needs to require all cellular carriers to activate any phone that meets the technical standards for their network.
More to the point, the FCC needs to put an end to phone locking. (ending contracts would be nice, too) Any technically capable phone should be able to be used on any compatible network.
"Support the troops" is vitally important because not everybody does, and we need to be mindful of that fact.
Ahem. The point is that "Support the troops" does not equate to "Support the administration that committed those troops to an ill-advised course of action for personal and political gain". The "support the troops" slogan is meant to deflect attention from the reasons the troops are there in the first place. Looks like you fell for it.
Getting a virus within 20 minutes each time sounds more like you've got something stuck in your Master Boot Record or wherever that's simply returning with every reinstall.
My personal record is less than 3 minutes after the first network-connected boot, while downloading round 1 of the Win2000 updates, on a heavily firewalled corporate intranet that unfortunately has some less than thoroughly careful users in outlying areas (read: people in the Far East divisions that move their laptops from home to work and back). Besides, when one boots from a CD and nukes/recreates the whole partition structure as part of the build process, lingering MBR problems aren't much of an issue.
Aside: has there ever been a post-NT MBR virus? I can't recall any MBR infectors since the boot-from-floppy days.
That was the best question ever asked of me in an interview. If your candidate has to think, or doesn't admit to ever having made a mistake, recommend him to the Republican Party for 2008 and move on.
BTW, my answer was "Never present an unbuffered microprocessor port to the outside world", given with no hesitation whatever. (and no, I haven't made that same mistake again)
Or "anymore". Or maybe "for the moment" is a better way to put it, because Macs had some of the more original worms back when you could hide one in a floppy disk's resource fork successfully.
By the way, I cannot imagine how spatial browsing must lead to screen clutter: opening folders with double-middle-click or Shift-double-click closes the parent folder window at once.
Oh, yeah, that's intuitive.
And even if it is not enough, one can click one field in the gconf configuration editor and turn Nautilitus into "classical" non-spatial file browser.
That wouldn't be apps/nautilus/preferences/window_always_new, would it? The one that's turned off here? While nautilus still opens a new window for every folder?
About 2 years ago, my Windows box blew a mobo. The budget was a bit tight so I started using my Linux mailserver (233 Pentium / 64MB / RH7.0) to handle email and general net duties until I could get the other one fixed. It was kinda slow under X, but got me through until I could rebuild the Winbox. When I did, I changed the dual-boot to default to Linux (now RH7.3) and decided to see how long I could go without booting Windows. The new box, a Celeron 800 with 192 MB RAM, ran X a bit better than the old mailserver. At first, I was using Windows for burning music CD's until I got a new CD-RW that played better with cdrecord. After just over a year, I had a chance to build a little muscle box (Mini-ITX, Athlon XP1900+, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB disk) and I put RH8.0 on it and didn't look back. Now that box runs Gentoo, screams like a demon and gets the job done.
Linux simply has all the apps I need to get stuff accomplished. The networking is head and shoulders above Windows. (hell, 10 years ago, I was running Win95 except when I wanted to connect up to the net, when I'd reboot into Slackware and use real net tools... remember those kludgerous TCP/IP stacks 95 had?) WineX has progressed to where I can play an occasional round of Half Life (though it still won't run DeLorme Street Atlas 2003). And I can use my 'puter from anywhere I can get a SSH tunnel up. Try that with Windows.
On top of all of that, I don't have to worry about the worm du jour and if I don't like how an app does something, I can dive in and fix it.
Given their fascist "Upgrade your browser" opening page that chases Firefox 0.8 away. Of course, a quick change to the User Agent string and their site looks and works just fine. But that does give one a sense of what their products are like, doesn't it.
Doesn't really matter to me... I already have a Squeezebox and a SliMP3 which together probably cost less than their system.
I've noticed that my blog's getting lots of spam from sites that don't seem like typical spam sites....
I had a spate of comment spamming too, about a month ago. In fact, that was what inspired me to move from blogware (WordPress) to a full-up CMS (PostNuke). The comment spammers' scripts don't seem to have found PostNuke yet. By the time they do, I'll have anti-bot measures in place (if I haven't simply closed comments to unregistered users).
I don't think so. A long and mostly fruitless Google session strongly suggests that the Latitude (and it seems, all Dell laptops) stores the BIOS passwords in non-removable EEPROM. Though I might give it a try anyway.
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So I'll just take my mini-CD and... wha? A slot-loading CD drive?!? D'oh!!
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Still, you only have to do it once.
(and for the hip-hop evangelistas that will take umbrage, please go try to convert someone else, 'k? thx bye)
Near as I can tell, there's literally Nothing To See Here.
OBCreepyPart: The design criteria used in this book (written in 1973) were to be man-portable and knock down one tower of the WTC.
Good point, and that limits its usefulness for truly disruptive technology. An opportunistic anon remailer, for example. The meshcube would do well at this, but that application really demands disposable hardware. (after all, when whomever the unit is leeching bandwidth from finds it, it's not likely to survive the encounter) $300 per isn't quite disposable. $100 might be, but I haven't seen any very small form factor systems that hit the price point.
Ya know, developers also like packages that aren't actively compile-hostile. When you get to the point that I can do 'make menuconfig && make clean && make && make install', call me. That bozotic build environment for Helix is a major PITA.
If you need Shockwave for that, you're some kind of messed up!
Aside: has there ever been a post-NT MBR virus? I can't recall any MBR infectors since the boot-from-floppy days.
BTW, my answer was "Never present an unbuffered microprocessor port to the outside world", given with no hesitation whatever. (and no, I haven't made that same mistake again)
Or "anymore". Or maybe "for the moment" is a better way to put it, because Macs had some of the more original worms back when you could hide one in a floppy disk's resource fork successfully.
I'll know more after I've used it for a while, but considering I write kernel drivers, I'm guessing I'll see the BSOD at least a few times.
More to the point, use what gets your job done. I run Linux at home for exactly that reason.
That wouldn't be apps/nautilus/preferences/window_always_new, would it? The one that's turned off here? While nautilus still opens a new window for every folder?
Linux simply has all the apps I need to get stuff accomplished. The networking is head and shoulders above Windows. (hell, 10 years ago, I was running Win95 except when I wanted to connect up to the net, when I'd reboot into Slackware and use real net tools... remember those kludgerous TCP/IP stacks 95 had?) WineX has progressed to where I can play an occasional round of Half Life (though it still won't run DeLorme Street Atlas 2003). And I can use my 'puter from anywhere I can get a SSH tunnel up. Try that with Windows.
On top of all of that, I don't have to worry about the worm du jour and if I don't like how an app does something, I can dive in and fix it.
Doesn't really matter to me... I already have a Squeezebox and a SliMP3 which together probably cost less than their system.
I don't think so. A long and mostly fruitless Google session strongly suggests that the Latitude (and it seems, all Dell laptops) stores the BIOS passwords in non-removable EEPROM. Though I might give it a try anyway.