I ended up buying my android online. I got it unlocked straight from the manuf. and of course with no
contract. I made sure that the supported frequencies matched my preferred carrier and dropped my SIM card into it.
Worked great. I liked the Samsung Galaxy S series, but did not like the current trend of making phablets instead of phones.
I didn't want the Galaxy Ace, so went with the unlocked Galaxy S Advance. Not necessarily the best choice, but I
find it amusing that I have an unlocked phone that was *never* made available in my country through the usual carriers.
I also truly detest 'plans' and just use pay-as-you-go. My phone was 250$, and I only pay about 18$/month in services.
HTH.
I used to curse at my Win98 machine every other night (I still prefer to shutdown desktops nightly at home) as I observed
it's inability to shutdown the O/S. It always froze during shutdown and I never found a solution for it. How hard is it to quiesce the disks
and shutdown ?
Fast-forward to today and I've got a Dell laptop with Vista running, and it gets 'sleep', 'reboot', 'shutdown' mixed up. So I'm still cursing.
The cursing is always about Windows for me. My linux boxes never had a problem.
I see what you mean, but for me, it's not so much the science content as the acting.
Anna Torv is great (and easy on the eyes too), and John Noble is amazing with what he
does with Walter's character.
Be sure to check out Openstreetmap.org. It is basically a collaborative mapping project where you can upload your own features in a patent unencumbered manner.
I've been mapping a lot of my local bike and wooded paths in my area using GPS.
People look at me funny (ok, there may be other reasons) when I take apart my MS Natural keyboard.
If you've never taken one apart before, it's hard to appreciate just how well designed they are. They seem to have been designed for washing from the ground up.
I unscrew and pull apart the shell and wash the key modules and shell in the sink at work. The rubber spring pads are also easy to clean. The microfiche type layers get wiped with a damp cloth and I set the whole thing out to dry on the vent.
Yeah, a new keyboard costs 20$ and my keyboard is starting to yellow, but why throw it out ?
My community has a flourescent recycling program. I wonder how many other communities do. Hopefully
lots.
Even if your community has a recycling program, I wonder how many people know this. These mercury
products need to be labelled.
If you don't have a recycling program at your door. Hopefully you have some sort of eco-station
to bring them to once a year. Just keep them in a box until it's worthwhile to make the trip in.
If I'm not mistaken, the original comment looked to me like a rather obvious reference to the
the eroding freedoms and big-brothering going on in the UK as of late
I always thought the best model for Aunt Sally would be
a keyswitch on the front of the computer. Similar to those
round-key locks that used to prevent boot-up.
If a program wants write access to Program Files, a dialogue
box will pop up asking the user to turn the keyswitch to admin
mode.
Now, hopefully Sally won't turn the keyswitch unless she knows
she's trying to install something.
Interesting solution.
As far as I know, you should be able to turn down the colour of any TV with the
settings. The equivalent of 'desaturation' I think.
This will happen with nearly any O/S. I've heard the same story about
any unpatched O/S whether it be RH, SUSE, OS/2 yadda yadda.
Putting any unpatched system on the net is dumb. This is not unique to MS
software
I've seen some other posters mention car analogies. I think a good analogy for my point is: Would you drive a car that has had 26 factory recalls on it ?
Thank-you for clarifying this so well. I was beginning to think
no-one on slashdot understands that in order to maintain a single
DNS system, all the root servers have to pull their data from one
single authoritative source with one root file.
I was getting so sick of hearing: "Nobody stopping you from making your
own root server"
I actually think raising the price is a good idea. How much of a big deal is it to pay 49.95/yr
for a domain, even for us who have their own domain at home ?
I thought part of the reason that spammers can
move so quickly is that domains are so cheap now.
Gosh, so many people have a different angle to this. Almost looks like my post was a troll. I sure didn't intend it to be.
To clarify my point about apples/oranges:
RH 8/9: free unrestricted use, no commercial support, intended for home use, no expectation of support IMO.
RHEL 2.1/3/4: Intended as a commercial server OS, costs $$$: comes with support
W2K/W3K: again, commercial OS with support. costs $$$
I don't commend RH for what they did as some
seem to think I am. I'm not thrilled about RH either. I just thought the original comparison
was not right because it didn't include RH's
current offerings.
If you want to compare MS to RH, please use apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
You're comparing actions of RH at a time when they
were trying to rapidly phase out their consumer
editions. This is the orange.
The Redhat 'apple' I'm referring to is RHEL 2.1/3/4 that gets at least 3 years of support. As far as I know, RHEL 2.1 is still supported and RHEL 4 is out now.
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I ended up buying my android online. I got it unlocked straight from the manuf. and of course with no contract. I made sure that the supported frequencies matched my preferred carrier and dropped my SIM card into it. Worked great. I liked the Samsung Galaxy S series, but did not like the current trend of making phablets instead of phones. I didn't want the Galaxy Ace, so went with the unlocked Galaxy S Advance. Not necessarily the best choice, but I find it amusing that I have an unlocked phone that was *never* made available in my country through the usual carriers. I also truly detest 'plans' and just use pay-as-you-go. My phone was 250$, and I only pay about 18$/month in services. HTH.
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FYI, it's yeast (a member of the fungi kingdom), not bacteria. Bacteria can spoil a good brew.
Craig, is that you ?
You mean like the plants on Gilligan's Island ?
I used to curse at my Win98 machine every other night (I still prefer to shutdown desktops nightly at home) as I observed it's inability to shutdown the O/S. It always froze during shutdown and I never found a solution for it. How hard is it to quiesce the disks and shutdown ? Fast-forward to today and I've got a Dell laptop with Vista running, and it gets 'sleep', 'reboot', 'shutdown' mixed up. So I'm still cursing. The cursing is always about Windows for me. My linux boxes never had a problem.
I see what you mean, but for me, it's not so much the science content as the acting. Anna Torv is great (and easy on the eyes too), and John Noble is amazing with what he does with Walter's character.
What seldom gets mentioned is that most internal combustion vehicles get is 25% efficiency "under the hood".
Even if you're electricity supply is 100% coal, electrical plants are probably 90% or better efficient at turning heat into electricity.
mkgmap is a java program that will convert OSM data to Garmin map format. It's not perfect, but I've found it works well with my GPSMAP 60CSx.
Be sure to check out Openstreetmap.org. It is basically a collaborative mapping project where you can upload your own features in a patent unencumbered manner.
I've been mapping a lot of my local bike and wooded paths in my area using GPS.
Your area may already have this information.
When I was in high school and post-secondary in Canada, it was always math. I honestly have only heard the term maths in the last few years.
It just sounds all wrong to me. Oh, nevermind, I'm off to have a baths.
The sheets in my bed are pretty strong too. Withstands countless dutch-ovens despite the protests of my wife.
People look at me funny (ok, there may be other reasons) when I take
apart my MS Natural keyboard.
If you've never taken one apart before, it's hard to appreciate just
how well designed they are. They seem to have been designed for washing
from the ground up.
I unscrew and pull apart the shell and wash the key modules and shell
in the sink at work. The rubber spring pads are also easy to clean. The
microfiche type layers get wiped with a damp cloth and I set the whole
thing out to dry on the vent.
Yeah, a new keyboard costs 20$ and my keyboard is starting to yellow,
but why throw it out ?
Dude, wish I had mod points. Cuz that was hilarious.
Does it live in a cave on Mars by any chance ?
You raise an important detail.
My community has a flourescent recycling program. I wonder how many other communities do. Hopefully lots.
Even if your community has a recycling program, I wonder how many people know this. These mercury products need to be labelled.
If you don't have a recycling program at your door. Hopefully you have some sort of eco-station to bring them to once a year. Just keep them in a box until it's worthwhile to make the trip in.
If I'm not mistaken, the original comment looked to me like a rather obvious reference to the the eroding freedoms and big-brothering going on in the UK as of late
Can't believe no-one's posted this:
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep
I always thought the best model for Aunt Sally would be a keyswitch on the front of the computer. Similar to those round-key locks that used to prevent boot-up.
If a program wants write access to Program Files, a dialogue box will pop up asking the user to turn the keyswitch to admin mode.
Now, hopefully Sally won't turn the keyswitch unless she knows she's trying to install something.
Interesting solution. As far as I know, you should be able to turn down the colour of any TV with the settings. The equivalent of 'desaturation' I think.
This will happen with nearly any O/S. I've heard the same story about any unpatched O/S whether it be RH, SUSE, OS/2 yadda yadda.
Putting any unpatched system on the net is dumb. This is not unique to MS software
I've seen some other posters mention car analogies. I think a good analogy for my point is: Would you drive a car that has had 26 factory recalls on it ?
Thank-you for clarifying this so well. I was beginning to think no-one on slashdot understands that in order to maintain a single DNS system, all the root servers have to pull their data from one single authoritative source with one root file.
I was getting so sick of hearing: "Nobody stopping you from making your own root server"
I actually think raising the price is a good idea. How much of a big deal is it to pay 49.95/yr for a domain, even for us who have their own domain at home ?
I thought part of the reason that spammers can move so quickly is that domains are so cheap now.
Just a random thought
Gosh, so many people have a different angle to this. Almost looks like my post was a troll. I sure didn't intend it to be.
To clarify my point about apples/oranges:
I don't commend RH for what they did as some seem to think I am. I'm not thrilled about RH either. I just thought the original comparison was not right because it didn't include RH's current offerings.
Thanks for all the interesting viewpoints.
If you want to compare MS to RH, please use apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
You're comparing actions of RH at a time when they were trying to rapidly phase out their consumer editions. This is the orange.
The Redhat 'apple' I'm referring to is RHEL 2.1/3/4 that gets at least 3 years of support. As far as I know, RHEL 2.1 is still supported and RHEL 4 is out now.
Sorry, but FUD like this annoys me.