The Asus eee has a great form factor and is just a perfect laptop to sneak between a PDA and a notebook. Also you have to just look back to what we used to say about XP, I think I called it an OS designed by a preschool class, but now I can't get rid of it I am so used to it.
Right now it run Linux, it is supposed to run Windows soon and the price is perfect for what you get. Wifi built in.
So let me get this straight. There was an earthquake that opened a crack in the earth three months ago and now the scientists involved can tell, after only three months that there will be a sustained widening of this crack by less than one inch per year. After one million years of this exact widening of one inch a year there will be a new ocean created.
Maybe it is hjust me but most real scientific fact going out a million years would likely be based on more than a three month snapshot of data.
This is no suprise. Microsoft needs to try to become a great force in search to keep up with Google and AOL is content and no power anymore. Anyone at search.msn.com would be salivating over this kind of a deal so that the search services could be enhanced.
One great article by Microsofts Scoble http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/10/04.html#a 11372 shows that there is along way yet before search is over, the domination by Google is only for a short time if they only were to protect their lead but would be much more exciting if content were in the engine as well as the link to the result.
Lets see how we at Slashdot will look at this
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Google has easily replaced Microsoft as the most powerful computer company in the world and we are now seeing them flex that power. There are two ways in a vacuum to look at this: 1. Google is looking after the people by using their force for good and making sure the bad government and other corporations are kept in check. 2. Google has moved to the dark side and are in bed with big government and big business.
Of course we do not live in a vacuum and the reality is probably that Google really has to protect it's position now. As we have all seen over the last 30 years in this industry just becuase you are number one now does not mean you will be tomorrow and the big owners of Google of course recognize that and are going to make sure they are being spoken for when anti-trust, monopoly and copyrights are being talked about in the back rooms of Washington
I have been using the Ultimate Windows Boot CD http://www.ubcd4win.com/ for a couple of years now. It is built on Barts PE and adds a lot of freeware to the mix.
Also for troubleshooting I use a Dos boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/that has a tone on software for troubleshooting and fixing as well as a way to shell out to Linux.
To sum up the wind power. No, we do not have sails on our rapid transit, there is a sub sect of our power company Enmax called Greenmax or something and in a windy area south of Calgary there are hundreds of big windmills generating electricity.
Actually I briefly ran OS/2 on a 486 when I had 8 megs of ram in '94 The extra 4 megs for my PC was $225 but there was an expectation at the time that there was a need for more ram anyway for the upcoming Windows 95.
Then just as now people would not switch becuase the greatest OS ever Windows 95 was just around the corner and IBM still dropped the ball in marketing OS/2
So we are out camping, and there is wood and no matches so I turn to my buddy and ask "How can we start a fire?" He aswers "Lets google it" and we both turn to the geeks next to us and ask.
All I know is that the newest ad on the top banner for Slashdot that keeps flashing FREE in Red hurts my eyes and is about to put me into a seizure...or at least close the site for a couple days.
I can imagine it would be nice to have lots of interfaces but I have always used KDE and am now using the defualt as a new user of RH8. I have alwayys relied on Windows and its one interface and welcome one interface for my favorite Linux distro. If someone wants a full KDE that works it would probably be best to use one of the dozens of others out there that better support KDE. RedHat seems to keep its dominance because they look at there distobution first and the ex-windows users second and seem to always try to keep in line with what the newest Linux convert would want.
I have not looked up into the sky for a while so I may be wrong here but wasn't there a nuclear accident or something that sent the moon out of earths orbit in 1999? I saw the show a few times and last I saw it was on the space channel. Is this supposed to be some kind of rescue mission so Martin Landau can do more movies?
Now Sony can actually launch there video recorder. I am sure almost 20 years of beta testing will allow us to have a really good way to record movies from TV
I have a two year old. I would never even dream of taking her to a movie but of course this is more of the immature comment of "Hey I am 22 and i hate kids and everyone that has them". We see this a little to often on/.
I know exactly the story you are talking about. This friend of an old roomate of mine had that happen, as my friend tells it he was lucky to keep his other arm.
I actually do support for a bunch of users of Windows 95 (Yuck) and NT (not much better). We have had haard drives go and people lose data but it does not ever seem to happen often enough. Makes things even more difficuilt when you have to back up across a WAN but nonetheless the following are what I do: -I always tell people that hard drives are not built as well as they should be. -In idle conversation with users I let them know horror stories(conveniently made up on the way to work) of people losing years of data. -I have users save to the "My Documents" folder which as has been mentioned by others is their home folder. -When ever troubleshooting problems I check to see what is local and tell the user of great reasons to have data backed up to the network (daily backup and fast restores when things get accidently deleted) -If using exchange and limits remember to look for.pst files as personal folders do get huge and corrupt fairly easily although there is an inbox repair tool that will fix it supplied by Microsoft, but, if it is local and the fix does not work they are screwed and sad and ready to blame whoever they can, also in the same vein check to see if someone has setup a sedktop user with an.ost file that is not needed and can really slow down logons and logoffs.
I believe that I can clear this up. Any single video game can integrate itself into a countrys culture. Perhaps the Aussie authoritys are worried that this will cause people to drive on the "wrong" side of the road
And that is the bad thing about broadband. In different areas speeds seem to change. I went from ok speed intermittent service with Shaw to bad speed and great reliability in a different area of Calgary on DSL. I am greedy so I moved back to Shaw in my new neighborhood and now have faster speed and better reliability than I ever had before....is there any kind of standards in High speed?
Here in Canada things could possibly be worse. If a company is doing business in only one province it could not use a.ca. In Alberta it would be.ab.ca and the system is the same in all other provinces as well. Try finding the city of Calgary http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca One would think that cities could be reserved names so Calgary could be http://www.calgary.ca but in Canada more often than not Bureaucracy is more important than simplicity.
I for one do care! I didn't care about music ofr probably five years until I discovered MP3's and then Napster. I began downloading songs that I had never owned but liked from the radio years ago. I did pirate but something strange has now happened, my wife and I have joined two CD clubs (bad investment but thats another story) and are again listening to music. Napster is really dead but it everyone wants to dis it now when it really was an excellent pioneer in the way information can be shared. And no I don't really believe all this P2P will change the world crap.
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The Asus eee has a great form factor and is just a perfect laptop to sneak between a PDA and a notebook. Also you have to just look back to what we used to say about XP, I think I called it an OS designed by a preschool class, but now I can't get rid of it I am so used to it.
Right now it run Linux, it is supposed to run Windows soon and the price is perfect for what you get. Wifi built in.
So again what is wrong with this thing?
So let me get this straight. There was an earthquake that opened a crack in the earth three months ago and now the scientists involved can tell, after only three months that there will be a sustained widening of this crack by less than one inch per year. After one million years of this exact widening of one inch a year there will be a new ocean created.
Maybe it is hjust me but most real scientific fact going out a million years would likely be based on more than a three month snapshot of data.
The only problem thus far is the fact that I am the only one reading my blog
This is no suprise. Microsoft needs to try to become a great force in search to keep up with Google and AOL is content and no power anymore. Anyone at search.msn.com would be salivating over this kind of a deal so that the search services could be enhanced.
a 11372 shows that there is along way yet before search is over, the domination by Google is only for a short time if they only were to protect their lead but would be much more exciting if content were in the engine as well as the link to the result.
One great article by Microsofts Scoble http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/10/04.html#
Google has easily replaced Microsoft as the most powerful computer company in the world and we are now seeing them flex that power. There are two ways in a vacuum to look at this:
1. Google is looking after the people by using their force for good and making sure the bad government and other corporations are kept in check.
2. Google has moved to the dark side and are in bed with big government and big business.
Of course we do not live in a vacuum and the reality is probably that Google really has to protect it's position now. As we have all seen over the last 30 years in this industry just becuase you are number one now does not mean you will be tomorrow and the big owners of Google of course recognize that and are going to make sure they are being spoken for when anti-trust, monopoly and copyrights are being talked about in the back rooms of Washington
I have been using the Ultimate Windows Boot CD http://www.ubcd4win.com/ for a couple of years now. It is built on Barts PE and adds a lot of freeware to the mix. Also for troubleshooting I use a Dos boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/that has a tone on software for troubleshooting and fixing as well as a way to shell out to Linux.
To sum up the wind power. No, we do not have sails on our rapid transit, there is a sub sect of our power company Enmax called Greenmax or something and in a windy area south of Calgary there are hundreds of big windmills generating electricity.
Is this very common anywhere else?
Actually I briefly ran OS/2 on a 486 when I had 8 megs of ram in '94 The extra 4 megs for my PC was $225 but there was an expectation at the time that there was a need for more ram anyway for the upcoming Windows 95.
Then just as now people would not switch becuase the greatest OS ever Windows 95 was just around the corner and IBM still dropped the ball in marketing OS/2
Clippy? As long as your are older than 6 I believe you have prior art.
Nothing like a copyright infringment AGAINST Microsoft
So we are out camping, and there is wood and no matches so I turn to my buddy and ask "How can we start a fire?" He aswers "Lets google it" and we both turn to the geeks next to us and ask.
how about listening to NPR or if you get it lowly CBC TV or radio
No you've got that wrong.
He did not say that he invented it, just that he brought it to the masses, he is kind of like the favorite uncle of the internet.
All I know is that the newest ad on the top banner for Slashdot that keeps flashing FREE in Red hurts my eyes and is about to put me into a seizure...or at least close the site for a couple days.
I can imagine it would be nice to have lots of interfaces but I have always used KDE and am now using the defualt as a new user of RH8. I have alwayys relied on Windows and its one interface and welcome one interface for my favorite Linux distro. If someone wants a full KDE that works it would probably be best to use one of the dozens of others out there that better support KDE. RedHat seems to keep its dominance because they look at there distobution first and the ex-windows users second and seem to always try to keep in line with what the newest Linux convert would want.
I have not looked up into the sky for a while so I may be wrong here but wasn't there a nuclear accident or something that sent the moon out of earths orbit in 1999? I saw the show a few times and last I saw it was on the space channel. Is this supposed to be some kind of rescue mission so Martin Landau can do more movies?
Now Sony can actually launch there video recorder. I am sure almost 20 years of beta testing will allow us to have a really good way to record movies from TV
I have a two year old. I would never even dream of taking her to a movie but of course this is more of the immature comment of "Hey I am 22 and i hate kids and everyone that has them". We see this a little to often on /.
I know exactly the story you are talking about. This friend of an old roomate of mine had that happen, as my friend tells it he was lucky to keep his other arm.
I actually do support for a bunch of users of Windows 95 (Yuck) and NT (not much better). We have had haard drives go and people lose data but it does not ever seem to happen often enough. Makes things even more difficuilt when you have to back up across a WAN but nonetheless the following are what I do: .pst files as personal folders do get huge and corrupt fairly easily although there is an inbox repair tool that will fix it supplied by Microsoft, but, if it is local and the fix does not work they are screwed and sad and ready to blame whoever they can, also in the same vein check to see if someone has setup a sedktop user with an .ost file that is not needed and can really slow down logons and logoffs.
-I always tell people that hard drives are not built as well as they should be.
-In idle conversation with users I let them know horror stories(conveniently made up on the way to work) of people losing years of data.
-I have users save to the "My Documents" folder which as has been mentioned by others is their home folder.
-When ever troubleshooting problems I check to see what is local and tell the user of great reasons to have data backed up to the network (daily backup and fast restores when things get accidently deleted)
-If using exchange and limits remember to look for
I believe that I can clear this up. Any single video game can integrate itself into a countrys culture. Perhaps the Aussie authoritys are worried that this will cause people to drive on the "wrong" side of the road
And that is the bad thing about broadband. In different areas speeds seem to change. I went from ok speed intermittent service with Shaw to bad speed and great reliability in a different area of Calgary on DSL. I am greedy so I moved back to Shaw in my new neighborhood and now have faster speed and better reliability than I ever had before....is there any kind of standards in High speed?
Here in Canada things could possibly be worse. If a company is doing business in only one province it could not use a .ca. In Alberta it would be .ab.ca and the system is the same in all other provinces as well. Try finding the city of Calgary http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca One would think that cities could be reserved names so Calgary could be http://www.calgary.ca but in Canada more often than not Bureaucracy is more important than simplicity.
I for one do care! I didn't care about music ofr probably five years until I discovered MP3's and then Napster. I began downloading songs that I had never owned but liked from the radio years ago. I did pirate but something strange has now happened, my wife and I have joined two CD clubs (bad investment but thats another story) and are again listening to music. Napster is really dead but it everyone wants to dis it now when it really was an excellent pioneer in the way information can be shared. And no I don't really believe all this P2P will change the world crap.