"Given good content to work with, any programmer could figure out how to make it beautiful using LaTeX.. However there isn't a mature, standardized workflow to get from LaTeX to epub", infernalC
"The second talk came from Andrew Ford, who focussed on converting a LaTeX book to ePub format, using the example of his wife’s cookbook of vegetarian recipes. Andrew explained that the ePub format is a combination of XHTML and CSS, and that LaTeXML has allowed a relatively painless conversion process. Looking beyond ePub, conversion to Kindle format (which unlike ePub is closed)."
I'm not on XP, I've been totally on Linux for ages, except in my `enterprise' where I'm forced to use XP ( for security and compliance ) under pain of sanction (yea I know:)). They won't be upgrading in the near future because of budgeting cuts.
'Enterprises don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says.. Gartner Research`
I find it highly ironic that the only way a company can ethuse people to upgrade is by drawing attention to XPees defects.
Only if certain vested interesteds would like it so. If such it would be a disaster for the ecosysten.. er... monoculture. It will be good for the people who develop these "open APIs", but not so good for the rest of us.
'So much of their life is hidden under a bushel because they don't discuss things, they don't divulge what they know'
Or in a lot of cases, they don't divulge what they don't know. For instance a "Network Engineer" consultant who can't figure out why gmail keeps timing out on Citrix clients running virtual Windows desktops..
Well DOH, it's called EVOLUTION by NATURAL SELECTION. You bump off 90% of a population and the remaining repopulate the ecosystem only with increased resistance. And as a side effect the resistant genes migrate into other species...
Senator: “Do recognize that in the words that are used in antitrust kind of oversight, your market share constitutes monopoly, dominant — special power, dominant firm, monopoly firm. Do you recognize you’re — you’re in that area?”
Schmidt: “I would agree, Senator, that we’re in that area" link
That both they and you assume a 'thriving e-commerce company` can be run with only a single technical staff beggars incredulity. But that is one more than at an ISP where I was once briefly employed. Maybe they don't want anyone hanging round that long. Cut your losses and start looking for your next job now. Else you're looking at a ten months burnout before they find your replacement, similar to the feller you replaced.
Could you find anything newer than January 2007 to generalize that the entire Open Source universe is populated by rude people. ref and it's considered rude not to provide links to what-so-ever you are refering to.
"United States Patent US 7,551,922 B2 Jun. 23, 2009"
"tracks the data collection activity occurring on the devices and maintains detailed information about the specific data collection profiles that are active on the devices.. The queries may be structured in such a way that performance information is gathered about the effect of a simple activity, such as a button press by the user, or information may be gathered about more complex transactions" link
Unless you are a major corporation and have a contract with Microsoft the only support you get is reinstall-reinstall-reinstall, with Open Source you get to contact the developers directly...
None of which actually contribute to the business. With Open Source the IT dept spends much less time on the above and that translates into less IT staff, and that means less money spent on IT.
"That part is true, but it only affected some computers (anecdotally, about half). It appears to be at root a bug in the timer chip on the motherboard, which in turn tickled a bug in Win9x. Hardware that lacked the bug would NOT crash at the 49 day mark". by Reziac
Is this billg talking, cause he's also able to selectively distort the historical record when it suits him too.
"Symptoms: After 49.7 days of continuous operation, your Windows-based computer may stop responding (hang).
Cause: There is a problem with the timing algorithm in the Vtdapi.vxd file.
The windows client uses the API call GetTickCount() to get the current uptime. The value returned by that function can't be larger than 49.7 because elapsed time is stored as a DWORD value.
"Air Traffic radio control system crashes every 49.7 days"
Linus: Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available.. and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a state where it was so usable that I never really thought about switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened. link
1. "They were planning disrupting Wall Street. In other words, they were threatening the economy and even Bloomy can't allow that".
It's the traders on Wall Street who are disrupting the economy, currently they are shorting Italy into bankruptcy so as they can go back in and 'rescue' it, just like they did Greece, Ireland and Iceland before it..
2. "The Occupy protests were jumping the shark and losing popular support as crime ramped up and local business suffered. So the mayors got together and did something about it all at once so no one would have to go first and get singled out for counter attack".
This is total BS, despite an almost total blackout in the media the protests were growing and there is a deep seated anger at the financial sector by the people out of jobs and out of homes.
3. "The Occupy folks themselves kinda wanted to get shut down for the winter and aren't likely to put up more than token resistence. Expect a resurgence in the spring".
How exactly do you go about stealing a digital certificate?
Can you revoke the cert after the event?
What happens to legitimate sites using the stolen cert?
"U.S. law enforcement today said it had smashed what it called a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that injected malware in more than four million computers in over 100 countries while generating $14 million in illegitimate income. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000 were in the United States, including computers belonging to U.S. government agencies, such as NASA".
Did any of these malware infested 'computers` run Microsoft Windows?
"Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over"
By any chance are these SCADA units connected to the Internet, if so then the morons who implimented such a system should be locked up in prison, except they most probably would escape by utilizing some Windows virus. It is taken as given that these systems are running on Microsoft Windows? Give the history of these SCADA systems, who in their right mind, in this day and age would ever connect such systems to the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
"Given good content to work with, any programmer could figure out how to make it beautiful using LaTeX .. However there isn't a mature, standardized workflow to get from LaTeX to epub", infernalC
"The second talk came from Andrew Ford, who focussed on converting a LaTeX book to ePub format, using the example of his wife’s cookbook of vegetarian recipes. Andrew explained that the ePub format is a combination of XHTML and CSS, and that LaTeXML has allowed a relatively painless conversion process. Looking beyond ePub, conversion to Kindle format (which unlike ePub is closed)."
Microsoft "invests" $150 million and in return gets Apple to drop patent infringement lawsuits and make Internet Explorer the default browser :)
"Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, will provide push-button Reset and Refresh in Windows 8"
You mean like Lenovo One Button Restore
"Windows 8 will include a new tool called recimg.exe, which allows you to create a hard drive image that Refresh will use"
You mean similar to CloneZilla?
I'm not on XP, I've been totally on Linux for ages, except in my `enterprise' where I'm forced to use XP ( for security and compliance ) under pain of sanction (yea I know:)). They won't be upgrading in the near future because of budgeting cuts.
.. Gartner Research`
'Enterprises don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says
I find it highly ironic that the only way a company can ethuse people to upgrade is by drawing attention to XPees defects.
Only if certain vested interesteds would like it so. If such it would be a disaster for the ecosysten .. er ... monoculture. It will be good for the people who develop these "open APIs", but not so good for the rest of us.
'So much of their life is hidden under a bushel because they don't discuss things, they don't divulge what they know'
..
Or in a lot of cases, they don't divulge what they don't know. For instance a "Network Engineer" consultant who can't figure out why gmail keeps timing out on Citrix clients running virtual Windows desktops
Well DOH, it's called EVOLUTION by NATURAL SELECTION. You bump off 90% of a population and the remaining repopulate the ecosystem only with increased resistance. And as a side effect the resistant genes migrate into other species ...
Lubuntu is tops ...
Senator: “Do recognize that in the words that are used in antitrust kind of oversight, your market share constitutes monopoly, dominant — special power, dominant firm, monopoly firm. Do you recognize you’re — you’re in that area?”
Schmidt: “I would agree, Senator, that we’re in that area" link
Nobody in the real world uses Metrics, except clueless PHBs ..
"a US FOI report suggests that the FBI is using data captured by the creepy smartphone snooping app" link
That both they and you assume a 'thriving e-commerce company` can be run with only a single technical staff beggars incredulity. But that is one more than at an ISP where I was once briefly employed. Maybe they don't want anyone hanging round that long. Cut your losses and start looking for your next job now. Else you're looking at a ten months burnout before they find your replacement, similar to the feller you replaced.
> The patent tells us nothing ..
Could you find anything newer than January 2007 to generalize that the entire Open Source universe is populated by rude people. ref and it's considered rude not to provide links to what-so-ever you are refering to.
"United States Patent US 7,551,922 B2 Jun. 23, 2009"
.. The queries may be structured in such a way that performance information is gathered about the effect of a simple activity, such as a button press by the user, or information may be gathered about more complex transactions" link
"tracks the data collection activity occurring on the devices and maintains detailed information about the specific data collection profiles that are active on the devices
Unless you are a major corporation and have a contract with Microsoft the only support you get is reinstall-reinstall-reinstall, with Open Source you get to contact the developers directly ...
"re-imaging, installing new software, authentication, virus protection, filtering, backups, security, storage, hardware failure, licence management"
None of which actually contribute to the business. With Open Source the IT dept spends much less time on the above and that translates into less IT staff, and that means less money spent on IT.
"That part is true, but it only affected some computers (anecdotally, about half). It appears to be at root a bug in the timer chip on the motherboard, which in turn tickled a bug in Win9x. Hardware that lacked the bug would NOT crash at the 49 day mark". by Reziac
Is this billg talking, cause he's also able to selectively distort the historical record when it suits him too.
" Symptoms: After 49.7 days of continuous operation, your Windows-based computer may stop responding (hang).
Cause: There is a problem with the timing algorithm in the Vtdapi.vxd file.
Resolution: For Windows 95, For Windows 98" link
The windows client uses the API call GetTickCount() to get the current uptime. The value returned by that function can't be larger than 49.7 because elapsed time is stored as a DWORD value.
"Air Traffic radio control system crashes every 49.7 days"
The original poster was being sarcastic ...
Meta: What is your opinion of 386BSD?
.. and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a state where it was so usable that I never really thought about switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened. link
Linus: Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available
1. "They were planning disrupting Wall Street. In other words, they were threatening the economy and even Bloomy can't allow that".
..
It's the traders on Wall Street who are disrupting the economy, currently they are shorting Italy into bankruptcy so as they can go back in and 'rescue' it, just like they did Greece, Ireland and Iceland before it
2. "The Occupy protests were jumping the shark and losing popular support as crime ramped up and local business suffered. So the mayors got together and did something about it all at once so no one would have to go first and get singled out for counter attack".
This is total BS, despite an almost total blackout in the media the protests were growing and there is a deep seated anger at the financial sector by the people out of jobs and out of homes.
3. "The Occupy folks themselves kinda wanted to get shut down for the winter and aren't likely to put up more than token resistence. Expect a resurgence in the spring".
Why writes your material ?
How exactly do you go about stealing a digital certificate? Can you revoke the cert after the event? What happens to legitimate sites using the stolen cert?
"U.S. law enforcement today said it had smashed what it called a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that injected malware in more than four million computers in over 100 countries while generating $14 million in illegitimate income. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000 were in the United States, including computers belonging to U.S. government agencies, such as NASA".
Did any of these malware infested 'computers` run Microsoft Windows?
A history of DNS Violence
"Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over"
By any chance are these SCADA units connected to the Internet, if so then the morons who implimented such a system should be locked up in prison, except they most probably would escape by utilizing some Windows virus. It is taken as given that these systems are running on Microsoft Windows? Give the history of these SCADA systems, who in their right mind, in this day and age would ever connect such systems to the Internet.
Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant net Aug 2003
Did MS Blaster crash the power grid? Aug 2003