It is interesting to observe what is currently happening in the US. I'm sure this period will be thoroughly covered in future history books. Witness the Americans passively giving up all they have been fighting for and all they praise as dear to their country. Witness the vanishing of freedom and privacy, the death of independent media, and -- most worrying of all -- death of public opinion, which just blindly listens to the media and the current administration.
The net effect of all this is that the average citizen will not oppose his rights being trampled, will not mind his privacy being gone, and will support going to war against anyone, given sufficient amount of convincing by administration officials.
This is a good move -- hopefully many companies will catch on and the FSF will get sponsorship. But what worries my is that the FSF is an organization whose goals are not clearly stated. I, for one, am not sure what exactly FSF can and cannot do. I've spent some time looking for a charter, or a set of rules governing this organization and haven't found any on the FSF web site. All I found was talk and marketing.
I believe this should be particularly alarming to software authors who assign copyrights to the FSF. I would be rather wary of transferring rights to my work to an organization, unless I understood very clearly what the organization can can cannot do with them. Try to find that out from the FSF web site.
Yes, I have contacted the FSF about this. I was told that the documents were not put online because of lack of volunteer time.
If you can get somebody to bring you one from Japan, get the IOData Exrouge player. It doesn't work with Linux when connected via USB, but it accepts SD/MMC cards which you can write using any USB SD/MMC reader.
It's very small, very light, works extremely well and the interchangeable SD/MMC cards are really useful.
A good question to ask yourself is why would you want to give up that SD slot just for BlueTooth connectivity.
I use SD memory cards in my Palm m500 all of the time, removing them just to insert a bluetooth module would be too much of a hassle for it to be actually useful.
I think I'll try TDK's BlueM -- it piggybacks on the Palm, plugging into the expansion port, leaving the SD slot free for memory cards.
Or, buy a Sharp Actius instead of a Sony Vaio. The A280/A290 line is similar in size and features, everything is supported under Linux and the manufacturing quality is excellent. I'm very happy with my A290.
Is there any bank that uses one-time passwords for authentication? I am not ready to trust my money to a single password that can be sniffed (if not on the net, then on my workstation). I really prefer a banking solution that uses devices not connected to my computer (SecurID, Vasco Digipass, etc).
There is a bank in Poland that has just introduced this, there should be more...
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See the swsusp project, which provides this functionality.
ACPI is only a means to trigger hibernation, the ACPI subsystem isn't suppose to save your machine's state to disk.
It is interesting to observe what is currently happening in the US. I'm sure this period will be thoroughly covered in future history books. Witness the Americans passively giving up all they have been fighting for and all they praise as dear to their country. Witness the vanishing of freedom and privacy, the death of independent media, and -- most worrying of all -- death of public opinion, which just blindly listens to the media and the current administration.
The net effect of all this is that the average citizen will not oppose his rights being trampled, will not mind his privacy being gone, and will support going to war against anyone, given sufficient amount of convincing by administration officials.
Wake up, Americans!
This is a good move -- hopefully many companies will catch on and the FSF will get sponsorship. But what worries my is that the FSF is an organization whose goals are not clearly stated. I, for one, am not sure what exactly FSF can and cannot do. I've spent some time looking for a charter, or a set of rules governing this organization and haven't found any on the FSF web site. All I found was talk and marketing.
I believe this should be particularly alarming to software authors who assign copyrights to the FSF. I would be rather wary of transferring rights to my work to an organization, unless I understood very clearly what the organization can can cannot do with them. Try to find that out from the FSF web site.
Yes, I have contacted the FSF about this. I was told that the documents were not put online because of lack of volunteer time.
If you can get somebody to bring you one from Japan, get the IOData Exrouge player. It doesn't work with Linux when connected via USB, but it accepts SD/MMC cards which you can write using any USB SD/MMC reader.
It's very small, very light, works extremely well and the interchangeable SD/MMC cards are really useful.
A good question to ask yourself is why would you want to
give up that SD slot just for BlueTooth connectivity.
I use SD memory cards in my Palm m500 all of the time,
removing them just to insert a bluetooth module would
be too much of a hassle for it to be actually useful.
I think I'll try TDK's BlueM -- it piggybacks on the Palm,
plugging into the expansion port, leaving the SD slot
free for memory cards.
Or, buy a Sharp Actius instead of a Sony Vaio. The A280/A290 line is similar in size and features, everything is supported under Linux and the manufacturing quality is excellent. I'm very happy with my A290.
Is there any bank that uses one-time passwords for authentication? I am not ready to trust my money to a single password that can be sniffed (if not on the net, then on my workstation). I really prefer a banking solution that uses devices not connected to my computer (SecurID, Vasco Digipass, etc).
There is a bank in Poland that has just introduced this, there should be more...