Although we use it to backup files to a networked PC,not to CDR, we have been very happy with Second Copy.
It's affordable at $29.95 for one user, with bulk pricing for multiuser environments.
It's easy to use, will backup or synchronize files or directories, and works well over a network. And yes, it will back up to CDR. Right now we use it to backup and or sync five systems. Run it once daily and Bob's Yer Uncle.
One editor (male) at the company would stop at least once each day, stomp around his desk, and mutter "KILL! KILL! KILL!"
Another woman, even more scary, was heard to say at lunch one day "If I ever had boy children I would have to malnourish them so that they would be smaller and weaker than my girl children".
Think for a moment how many millions of women are reading three, four, or five of these books every week...
One - set a reasonable price for your work right from the beginning. If you start out pricing yourself at the bottom of the market you'll get bottom feeder clients and lock yourself into low prices. Once you've established that you're the cheapest in town it's almost impossible to boost your rates to where they should be.
Two - contracts are your friend. Even if you don't insist on a full written contract, send the client an e-mail that outlines duties, timeframes, deliverables, and pay rates. Do that before starting work. As one lawyer put it, even the weakest paper beats someone else's memory of a conversation.
Three - if the job changes direction or scale, stop and renegotiate. Don't wait until you've put in two weeks of work not covered by your original contract, only to find that the client has some odd idea about how it was "included".
Four - if the client jerks you around do not ever work for them again, no matter how much they cry and plead for forgiveness. If they do it once, they'll do it again.
Finally, if you have a good client, tell them, and cut them a deal from time to time.
Head down the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and ask the people who live there. Coal mining has done substantial damage to the environment, and to people's lives.
Coal mining today is not about underground mines - it is about strip mines and mountain top removal. Instead of digging holes underground you blast the top few hundred feet off of a mountain and dig straight down. Of course the blast debris - thousands of tons of it - has to go somewhere. Usually into the neighbouring valley, destroying homes and watersheds.
The Industry says that today's coal burns cleaner. Do they tell you how?
That's because the coal is washed before being trucked to users. Where do you think the solvent laden waste water goes? Into large holding ponds, dozens of which are known to be on the brink of collapsing.
One such pond broke in 2002. The Martin County slurry spill, at over 300 million gallons, was the largest disaster of its kind ever in the southeastern United States. The spill released nearly 30 times more liquid than the Exxon Valdez.
You also need to factor in the coal company's history of just abandoning mines, leaving them for local and state governments to clean up. And the ongoing damage and injuries caused by coal trucks hauling grossly overwieght loads - by ten or twenty tons - on narrow highways.
There's more to being clean than measuring smokestack emmisions.
Ah heck - if we're talking consiracy theories, try this.
What happenes to the election of a terrorist attack takes out George W? Do you still go to the polls? Do you get Cheney by defualt? And how long could he delay the election before going foward?
And does anyone think that he hasn't already considered the possibility and planned for it?
Of late it has concerned me that many of my friends in the Unted States feel that there is no way to escape the current political regime. They see the boys dying every day in Iraq, the rapid and ongoing decline in the world opinion of their country, and watch polls that seem to show that four more years of Bush are coming.
Politicians these days will never, ever make strong stands on anything that the pollsters suggest might cost votes. Only greed and a thirst for power matter to most of them.
It is good that there are people like Soros who will stand up and speak their minds.
These things are of course a matter of personal preference, but I find that the innovations in Firefox are almost invariably sensible and useful.
All too often software developers add things that seem good to them, but which the end user finds irritating or just confusing. Opera is a good case in point, with lots of gee whiz cool features that I just never got around to using. That has never happened to me with Mozilla or Firefox.
It seems that with every release I'll find some new little feature that suddenly becomes essential, or at least enhances my browsing experience in some nice way, but without detracting from other things.
The latest was the search bar that pops up at the bottom of the screen when searching in the page. How brilliant! After years of search boxes popping up on top of the text that you're reading, someone figured to drop it in a place that wasn't intrusive.
Sure, there are still things that I would like changed - like moving more of the configuration away from the "about:" system, but all in all I just like Firefox and find that its greatest feature is that it doesn't get in my way - it just does the job and lets me concentrate on content.
This strikes me as one of those neat solutions that sadly won't find a market.
A few years ago, when a new business class PC would run the better part of two thousand bucks, this would make sense. In today's corporate setting a new PC with Windows licence wouldn't cost significantly more than than the PC Reviver.
If your existing stock of PCs are old enough that this is the only way of making them useful, what other hardware failures are looming?
The perception is that politicians get re-elected by spending money in their constituencies. The aim of course is to spend tax dollars in whatever way will register with the largest group of voters.
As evidenced by the Bush administration, politicians really don't give a fig about debt - they care about getting re-elected. If a few billion dollars of deficit spending will bring in the votes, that's what they'll do.
Of course, voters aren't much different. I have yet to hear a fiscal conservative make a list of the things that they are prepared to forego in the name of debt reduction, only the things that everyone else should give up.
My experiences parallel the author's in one important way:
Yes, most user friendly distros will manage a forehead install, but invarably there will be at least one critical function that doesn't work. In my experience that has been Palm hotsync (always), printing over the Windows network (usually), and wireless networking (most recently).
I know from hard experience that trying to find a solution for any of these will involve hours if not days of trolling newsgroups, forums, and that special hell called man pages.
I'm not afraid of command prompts, or of learning new things, but I simply cannot afford to waste a whole day trying to print, or sync my calendar.
I do have to say that in the last few weeks while meta-moderating I've been annoyed at the number of posts that were obviously moderated "off-topic" or "flamebait" just because the moderator didn't agree with the political slant.
I'll also second the post that suggested that this forum should look at politics everywhere, not just the US. There is a lot to be learned by looking at the ways that other jurisdictions handle things like Digital rights, wiretapping, and freedom of speech.
That said, I expect that I'll choose not to subscribe to the politics forum, and I doubt very much that political baiting will disappear from other parts of our beloved slashdot.
I hope that our African correspondents don't think that deregulation of telephone service won't have problems.
I recall a move to Virginia a few years back which left us without long distance service for three weeks while Verizon and Working Assets blamed each other for the inability to make the connection work. Nine exceedingly long phone calls - two of them with Verizon and Working Assets drones conferenced - and several letters were needed before these boobs figured out how things should world.
A monopoly at least offers the chance to know who is screwing you. When you rely on several companies (none of whom in North America usually give a damn about customer satisfaction) to make their competing systems compatible you're often walking into a minefield.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm... I would of thought that after 1067 comments someone would have actually downloaded the software to see if it exists or works.
Ah well, tis the way of slashdot - never let real research get in the way of opinion!
Doesn't work with Mozilla, or Opera, or Pegasus mail, or Eudora..... Guess I'll wait for something less MS centric.
I wonder if slashdot is renderable under Netscape 0.9...
Not even close!
God I loved it! For me that was the Internet!
Although we use it to backup files to a networked PC,not to CDR, we have been very happy with Second Copy.
It's affordable at $29.95 for one user, with bulk pricing for multiuser environments.
It's easy to use, will backup or synchronize files or directories, and works well over a network. And yes, it will back up to CDR. Right now we use it to backup and or sync five systems. Run it once daily and Bob's Yer Uncle.
A friend worked for Harlequin Romances.
One editor (male) at the company would stop at least once each day, stomp around his desk, and mutter "KILL! KILL! KILL!"
Another woman, even more scary, was heard to say at lunch one day "If I ever had boy children I would have to malnourish them so that they would be smaller and weaker than my girl children".
Think for a moment how many millions of women are reading three, four, or five of these books every week...
Even journalists are rethinking the wisdom and safety of travelling to Iraq. Like it or not, any westerner is a target for kidnapping or worse.
If you are thinking of travelling to Iraq, think very carefully about the possibility that you'll only need a one way ticket.
Although showing up on an Al Quaeda connected website will certainly get your name out there!
One - set a reasonable price for your work right from the beginning. If you start out pricing yourself at the bottom of the market you'll get bottom feeder clients and lock yourself into low prices. Once you've established that you're the cheapest in town it's almost impossible to boost your rates to where they should be.
Two - contracts are your friend. Even if you don't insist on a full written contract, send the client an e-mail that outlines duties, timeframes, deliverables, and pay rates. Do that before starting work. As one lawyer put it, even the weakest paper beats someone else's memory of a conversation.
Three - if the job changes direction or scale, stop and renegotiate. Don't wait until you've put in two weeks of work not covered by your original contract, only to find that the client has some odd idea about how it was "included".
Four - if the client jerks you around do not ever work for them again, no matter how much they cry and plead for forgiveness. If they do it once, they'll do it again.
Finally, if you have a good client, tell them, and cut them a deal from time to time.
Head down the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky and ask the people who live there. Coal mining has done substantial damage to the environment, and to people's lives.
Coal mining today is not about underground mines - it is about strip mines and mountain top removal. Instead of digging holes underground you blast the top few hundred feet off of a mountain and dig straight down. Of course the blast debris - thousands of tons of it - has to go somewhere. Usually into the neighbouring valley, destroying homes and watersheds.
The Industry says that today's coal burns cleaner. Do they tell you how?
That's because the coal is washed before being trucked to users. Where do you think the solvent laden waste water goes? Into large holding ponds, dozens of which are known to be on the brink of collapsing.
One such pond broke in 2002. The Martin County slurry spill, at over 300 million gallons, was the largest disaster of its kind ever in the southeastern United States. The spill released nearly 30 times more liquid than the Exxon Valdez.
You also need to factor in the coal company's history of just abandoning mines, leaving them for local and state governments to clean up. And the ongoing damage and injuries caused by coal trucks hauling grossly overwieght loads - by ten or twenty tons - on narrow highways.
There's more to being clean than measuring smokestack emmisions.
Wow - seems that the voting apparatus went down even before the story was publicly posted here. Is their server in Florida?
Ah heck - if we're talking consiracy theories, try this.
What happenes to the election of a terrorist attack takes out George W? Do you still go to the polls? Do you get Cheney by defualt? And how long could he delay the election before going foward?
And does anyone think that he hasn't already considered the possibility and planned for it?
Of late it has concerned me that many of my friends in the Unted States feel that there is no way to escape the current political regime. They see the boys dying every day in Iraq, the rapid and ongoing decline in the world opinion of their country, and watch polls that seem to show that four more years of Bush are coming.
Politicians these days will never, ever make strong stands on anything that the pollsters suggest might cost votes. Only greed and a thirst for power matter to most of them.
It is good that there are people like Soros who will stand up and speak their minds.
The requested URL /archives/worldwind-1_2.zip was not found on this server.
Whoa! Does this mean that they finally have roads and street signs in Quesnel!
Just a guess, but it was more a Photoshopped image of the future. Didn't that big ol' Electrohome hanging from the ceiling look just a tad suspect?
"The University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group has developed an artificially intelligent (poker playing) automaton known as "Vex Bot," "
At last! We Canadians have a piece of technology that can make us as proud as the mighty Canadarm!
7:11 PM - the site has disappeared.
These things are of course a matter of personal preference, but I find that the innovations in Firefox are almost invariably sensible and useful.
All too often software developers add things that seem good to them, but which the end user finds irritating or just confusing. Opera is a good case in point, with lots of gee whiz cool features that I just never got around to using. That has never happened to me with Mozilla or Firefox.
It seems that with every release I'll find some new little feature that suddenly becomes essential, or at least enhances my browsing experience in some nice way, but without detracting from other things.
The latest was the search bar that pops up at the bottom of the screen when searching in the page. How brilliant! After years of search boxes popping up on top of the text that you're reading, someone figured to drop it in a place that wasn't intrusive.
Sure, there are still things that I would like changed - like moving more of the configuration away from the "about:" system, but all in all I just like Firefox and find that its greatest feature is that it doesn't get in my way - it just does the job and lets me concentrate on content.
This strikes me as one of those neat solutions that sadly won't find a market.
A few years ago, when a new business class PC would run the better part of two thousand bucks, this would make sense. In today's corporate setting a new PC with Windows licence wouldn't cost significantly more than than the PC Reviver.
If your existing stock of PCs are old enough that this is the only way of making them useful, what other hardware failures are looming?
"Everything" is really kinda broad don't you think? I too will give up all services that I don't use!
How about a list of the federal government provided services that you actually use on a regular basis and are prepared to give up?
The perception is that politicians get re-elected by spending money in their constituencies. The aim of course is to spend tax dollars in whatever way will register with the largest group of voters.
As evidenced by the Bush administration, politicians really don't give a fig about debt - they care about getting re-elected. If a few billion dollars of deficit spending will bring in the votes, that's what they'll do.
Of course, voters aren't much different. I have yet to hear a fiscal conservative make a list of the things that they are prepared to forego in the name of debt reduction, only the things that everyone else should give up.
So, we asked our friend Cheryl "Cheryl, why do you need a gun?"
Cheryl replied "Because people broke into my house."
Really?", we reply, "What did they steal?"
"Our guns".
My experiences parallel the author's in one important way:
Yes, most user friendly distros will manage a forehead install, but invarably there will be at least one critical function that doesn't work. In my experience that has been Palm hotsync (always), printing over the Windows network (usually), and wireless networking (most recently).
I know from hard experience that trying to find a solution for any of these will involve hours if not days of trolling newsgroups, forums, and that special hell called man pages.
I'm not afraid of command prompts, or of learning new things, but I simply cannot afford to waste a whole day trying to print, or sync my calendar.
I do have to say that in the last few weeks while meta-moderating I've been annoyed at the number of posts that were obviously moderated "off-topic" or "flamebait" just because the moderator didn't agree with the political slant.
I'll also second the post that suggested that this forum should look at politics everywhere, not just the US. There is a lot to be learned by looking at the ways that other jurisdictions handle things like Digital rights, wiretapping, and freedom of speech.
That said, I expect that I'll choose not to subscribe to the politics forum, and I doubt very much that political baiting will disappear from other parts of our beloved slashdot.
I hope that our African correspondents don't think that deregulation of telephone service won't have problems.
I recall a move to Virginia a few years back which left us without long distance service for three weeks while Verizon and Working Assets blamed each other for the inability to make the connection work. Nine exceedingly long phone calls - two of them with Verizon and Working Assets drones conferenced - and several letters were needed before these boobs figured out how things should world.
A monopoly at least offers the chance to know who is screwing you. When you rely on several companies (none of whom in North America usually give a damn about customer satisfaction) to make their competing systems compatible you're often walking into a minefield.