Same here with Linksys wpc54gs. With lots of tweaking I was only able to get bcm43xx on Dapper work with WPA for a short while. After a reboot, I always had to go through the same tweaks again. I upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy Eft and now Wi-Fi works reliably.
Here in Finland 97% of soft drinks / bottled water / bewerages are already sold in refilled bottles. Proper washing and sanitation is ensured by doing the refilll in the brewery. The bottles have a deposit. The industry is encouraged to use refillable bottles trough laws and taxation.
An industry joint association takes care of the refill system.
This works very well. Other northern European countries have similar systems. Now, the next step would be to develop a this kind of system for other goods sold in disposable plastic containers. The Body Shop already does this for cosmetics.
Sounds familiar. I have a Linksys WiFi card based on a Broadcomm chipset. The latest Ubuntu, Dapper Drake, comes bundled with the new bcm43xx native Linux driver. However, that driver will only become functional after it has beeen fed with a copy of the card's firmware (either download it from somewhere on the Internet or extract from Windows partition using fwcutter tool). Ubuntu can not distribute the firmware without Broadcomm's permission and thus WiFi with Broadcomm based cards does not work out of the box. After setting up the firmware, I've been successfully using WPA-PSK.
No, Microsoft's business model relies on vendor lock-in. They have a huge install base. Many of their customers are fed up with all the problems in Microsoft products and would be willing to switch to competing products unless they had lots of custom and third party applications that only support Windows. If Microsoft broke those applications in a future Windows version, nothing would keep the pissed off customers on Windows. Backwards compatiblity is very essential to Microsoft's business model. Besides, in this area they have way better track record than most competitors; pick pretty much any DOS or Windows 3 application and it still works in Vista.
Outlook has supported "basic crypto like key signing and encryption" for a long time. S/MIME with X.509 certificates out of the box and PGP etc using 3rd party plugins.
The rumour has it Office 12 will have PDF export.
Windows has had a "decent package / version management system", Windows Installer, since Windows 2000. Windows Installer is very similar to rpm or deb. One its biggest shortcomings is the lacking support for inter-package dependencies. This has resulted people hacking around it by coding a bootstrapper setup.exes. Windows really needs something like APT. Microsoft has addressed this with their Microsoft Update service but that only covers Microsoft software.
Actually IE is vulnerable, not because of associating WMF to Image & Fax viewer application but because IE automatically renders WMF by itself. Thus IE is exploitable even with a few lines of JavaScript that dynamically creates a WMF image. FF & Opera have no support WMF rendering. They do not try to automatically show WMF but pop up the "Save As / Open With" dialog.
Actually I'd say Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) is preferred right now. Its C++ compiler is much better than 7.1 and there are Express editions that are very affordable ($50).
And for completely free C++ development with an excellent optimizing compiler you can use Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 with Platform SDK. Only command line tools are included. You could use Eclipse CDT or Emacs as an IDE.
I tried the Live CD and I really have agree with this post. The bundled KDE environment seems very polished and consistent. Yast seems absolutely great. There were only a few GTK+ based applications on the CD (Gimp, xmms). So seems 9.1 is very KDE centric.
I failed to get the Suse's 2.6.4 kernel on the live CD work with my nforce onboard audio. That single problem was really my biggest disappoinment.
I completely agree. The proposed solution would be overly complex, would not work well enough and would be simply too pricy for such sych a single function system. Besides wilderness isn't supposed to be completely safe place; If you go there you're at least partly on your own. If you get yourself killed because your own stupidity, that's mostly your problem and not the government's.
In Finland we have addressed this issue by placing a plain old paper logbook (the low tech solution someone else already mentioned here) in cabins/camping areas of national parks and making the cell phone network cover the whole country, including wilderness. You can get a cell phone coverage even in the un-inhabited Northern areas by climbing on top of the nearest hill. This enables hikers and skiers to stay in touch with their friends even if they are completyly in middl e of nowhere, which is nice. Also, Finns have summer cottages in the woods all over the country which helps cover the costs of 100% network coverage.
Speaking of re-touching war photos, Evgeny Khaldei's Victory Flag over Reichstag, Berlin 1945 should really be brought up as an example. It's one of most widely published World War II photos and really a gorgeus shot capturing a historically significant moment. Unfortunately it's completely made up. The flag is actually a piece of red table cloth and the men are artists, not soldiers. The smoke filled sky was re-touched in darkroom. One of the 'soldiers' had a pricy wrist watch clearly visible, so it had to be retouched away to make the shot look more authentic.
You are absolutely right. However, what PostgreSQL really needs to become mainstream is a native win32 port with point-n-click installer. This has been scheduled for release 7.5 or 8.0.
The parent post is actually false. One of the biggest security services companies in Finland used to log their visits with barcode labels as described. However, the rumour has it one of their employees actually ended up implementing your brilliant idea. One of the guarded buildings got destroyed in a fire during the night. After a while the police contacted this company asking whether anything unusual had been noticed two nights ago. For some reason or the other they hadn't heard of the fire and replied: according to our logs the building was checked two nights ago as well as last night and nothing unusal was reported. After this incident the company started using RFID instead of barcodes.
Ikea is a Swedish company but I guess most of their stuff was manufactured in China instead of Sweden. Ikea has pretty much the same business model as H&M: 1. Design good looking stuff 2. Market it (e.g. printed catalog with lots of great photos) 3. Find a Chinese subcontractor to manufacture it as cheap as possible. 4. Profit!
So perhaps that explains the quality issues. But on the other hand, they never promised you high quality and it was propably quite affordable.
Maybe they take SIM cards but have you actually tried sticking T-Mobile SIM into AT&T phone? Most likely it will result an error message like "SIM card rejected". The phone is locked into to certain service provider by software, which kinda reverses the whole idea of SIM. Here in Finland such a service provider vendor lock-in is was declared illegal years ago.
And what you just said about SMS supports my ideas on its state in USA; They make you pay to RECIEVE messages. Sick and wrong. Sending will cost around 15 cents per message here as well. Another problem with SMS in USA seemed to be the presence of non-GSM cell phones and some problems/missing contracts in delivering SMS between different GSM providers. So basically most GSM phone owners didn't really feel like sending SMSs because they couldn't be sure whether their cell phoner owning friends could recieve them.
Thanks for clarification. However, I think the European system for billing is better. Matter of taste / customs ofcourse.
I find your statement on SIM cards hard to believe. One and half a years ago I spent several weeks touring USA, all around the continent and was continously looking for a GSM phone (mostly out of curirosity on the differences between European and American cell phone systems). _None_ of the phones I saw had a replacable SIM card. Technically every GSM phone has a SIM but all the phones I saw either had it soldered on the PCB or it was locked into certain service provider by the phone software. A lot of them were otherwise same models we used here (other frequency though). Besides most cell phone cell phone sales people didn't seems to understand the concept of SIM card (and service-equipment separation) at all back then. I'm sure the situation has changed but clearly your comment on last two years is false.
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Same here with Linksys wpc54gs. With lots of tweaking I was only able to get bcm43xx on Dapper work with WPA for a short while. After a reboot, I always had to go through the same tweaks again. I upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy Eft and now Wi-Fi works reliably.
Oras has been offering such digtal thermostat showers a few year now.
Here in Finland 97% of soft drinks / bottled water / bewerages are already sold in refilled bottles. Proper washing and sanitation is ensured by doing the refilll in the brewery. The bottles have a deposit. The industry is encouraged to use refillable bottles trough laws and taxation. An industry joint association takes care of the refill system. This works very well. Other northern European countries have similar systems. Now, the next step would be to develop a this kind of system for other goods sold in disposable plastic containers. The Body Shop already does this for cosmetics.
Sounds familiar. I have a Linksys WiFi card based on a Broadcomm chipset. The latest Ubuntu, Dapper Drake, comes bundled with the new bcm43xx native Linux driver. However, that driver will only become functional after it has beeen fed with a copy of the card's firmware (either download it from somewhere on the Internet or extract from Windows partition using fwcutter tool). Ubuntu can not distribute the firmware without Broadcomm's permission and thus WiFi with Broadcomm based cards does not work out of the box. After setting up the firmware, I've been successfully using WPA-PSK.
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No, Microsoft's business model relies on vendor lock-in. They have a huge install base. Many of their customers are fed up with all the problems in Microsoft products and would be willing to switch to competing products unless they had lots of custom and third party applications that only support Windows. If Microsoft broke those applications in a future Windows version, nothing would keep the pissed off customers on Windows. Backwards compatiblity is very essential to Microsoft's business model. Besides, in this area they have way better track record than most competitors; pick pretty much any DOS or Windows 3 application and it still works in Vista.
Since when did Cingular manufacture or design cell phones? The cell phone companies aren't the ones with a lock-in strategy, the operators are.
Exactly. This is the primary reason I wanna keep Windows Mobile off my phone.
Outlook has supported "basic crypto like key signing and encryption" for a long time. S/MIME with X.509 certificates out of the box and PGP etc using 3rd party plugins.
The rumour has it Office 12 will have PDF export.
Windows has had a "decent package / version management system", Windows Installer, since Windows 2000. Windows Installer is very similar to rpm or deb. One its biggest shortcomings is the lacking support for inter-package dependencies. This has resulted people hacking around it by coding a bootstrapper setup.exes. Windows really needs something like APT. Microsoft has addressed this with their Microsoft Update service but that only covers Microsoft software.
Actually IE is vulnerable, not because of associating WMF to Image & Fax viewer application but because IE automatically renders WMF by itself. Thus IE is exploitable even with a few lines of JavaScript that dynamically creates a WMF image. FF & Opera have no support WMF rendering. They do not try to automatically show WMF but pop up the "Save As / Open With" dialog.
Firefox does show up in the monthly reports below. It's popular in Germany and Finland.
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Actually I'd say Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) is preferred right now. Its C++ compiler is much better than 7.1 and there are Express editions that are very affordable ($50).
My favorite freeware ACDSee clone is currently cam2pc
MikroBitti, Suomen Kuvalehti, Dr Dobb's Journal, Software Development, Embedded Systems Programming, C/C++ Users Journal, National Geographic and Time
And for completely free C++ development with an excellent optimizing compiler you can use Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 with Platform SDK. Only command line tools are included. You could use Eclipse CDT or Emacs as an IDE.
I tried the Live CD and I really have agree with this post. The bundled KDE environment seems very polished and consistent. Yast seems absolutely great. There were only a few GTK+ based applications on the CD (Gimp, xmms). So seems 9.1 is very KDE centric.
I failed to get the Suse's 2.6.4 kernel on the live CD work with my nforce onboard audio. That single problem was really my biggest disappoinment.
Nope. Most people here seem to prefer network coverage over scenery unspoilt by cell towers.
I completely agree. The proposed solution would be overly complex, would not work well enough and would be simply too pricy for such sych a single function system. Besides wilderness isn't supposed to be completely safe place; If you go there you're at least partly on your own. If you get yourself killed because your own stupidity, that's mostly your problem and not the government's.
In Finland we have addressed this issue by placing a plain old paper logbook (the low tech solution someone else already mentioned here) in cabins/camping areas of national parks and making the cell phone network cover the whole country, including wilderness. You can get a cell phone coverage even in the un-inhabited Northern areas by climbing on top of the nearest hill. This enables hikers and skiers to stay in touch with their friends even if they are completyly in middl e of nowhere, which is nice. Also, Finns have summer cottages in the woods all over the country which helps cover the costs of 100% network coverage.
A Recent Reuters article states some questionable methods of interrogation were approved to be used in Guatanamo Bay.
Speaking of re-touching war photos, Evgeny Khaldei's Victory Flag over Reichstag, Berlin 1945 should really be brought up as an example. It's one of most widely published World War II photos and really a gorgeus shot capturing a historically significant moment. Unfortunately it's completely made up. The flag is actually a piece of red table cloth and the men are artists, not soldiers. The smoke filled sky was re-touched in darkroom. One of the 'soldiers' had a pricy wrist watch clearly visible, so it had to be retouched away to make the shot look more authentic.
You are absolutely right. However, what PostgreSQL really needs to become mainstream is a native win32 port with point-n-click installer. This has been scheduled for release 7.5 or 8.0.
The parent post is actually false. One of the biggest security services companies in Finland used to log their visits with barcode labels as described. However, the rumour has it one of their employees actually ended up implementing your brilliant idea. One of the guarded buildings got destroyed in a fire during the night. After a while the police contacted this company asking whether anything unusual had been noticed two nights ago. For some reason or the other they hadn't heard of the fire and replied: according to our logs the building was checked two nights ago as well as last night and nothing unusal was reported. After this incident the company started using RFID instead of barcodes.
> It's not Linux but it looks way cool:
It looks really ugly to me.
Ikea is a Swedish company but I guess most of their stuff was manufactured in China instead of Sweden. Ikea has pretty much the same business model as H&M:
1. Design good looking stuff
2. Market it (e.g. printed catalog with lots of great photos)
3. Find a Chinese subcontractor to manufacture it as cheap as possible.
4. Profit!
So perhaps that explains the quality issues. But on the other hand, they never promised you high quality and it was propably quite affordable.
Maybe they take SIM cards but have you actually tried sticking T-Mobile SIM into AT&T phone? Most likely it will result an error message like "SIM card rejected". The phone is locked into to certain service provider by software, which kinda reverses the whole idea of SIM. Here in Finland such a service provider vendor lock-in is was declared illegal years ago.
And what you just said about SMS supports my ideas on its state in USA; They make you pay to RECIEVE messages. Sick and wrong. Sending will cost around 15 cents per message here as well. Another problem with SMS in USA seemed to be the presence of non-GSM cell phones and some problems/missing contracts in delivering SMS between different GSM providers. So basically most GSM phone owners didn't really feel like sending SMSs because they couldn't be sure whether their cell phoner owning friends could recieve them.
Thanks for clarification. However, I think the European system for billing is better. Matter of taste / customs ofcourse.
I find your statement on SIM cards hard to believe. One and half a years ago I spent several weeks touring USA, all around the continent and was continously looking for a GSM phone (mostly out of curirosity on the differences between European and American cell phone systems). _None_ of the phones I saw had a replacable SIM card. Technically every GSM phone has a SIM but all the phones I saw either had it soldered on the PCB or it was locked into certain service provider by the phone software. A lot of them were otherwise same models we used here (other frequency though). Besides most cell phone cell phone sales people didn't seems to understand the concept of SIM card (and service-equipment separation) at all back then. I'm sure the situation has changed but clearly your comment on last two years is false.