It was the first place I got the hardware mod instructions for my old 6gb archos mp3 player (nothing like having a 20gig version before you can even buy one in the store).
Somebody else mentioned it... the charger that came with the archos really was a POS... the wires frayed on mine, and I ended up cutting them and attaching spade connectors (yeah, I know... unsafe, but it was all I had at the time). Soon after that, the transformer went out entirely, and now I have to change batteries.
Oh well... at least it survived a longish SW Asia military deployment for the afghanistan war (wish I could say the same for all of our equipment).
By the way, there is no justification for "dynamic entry". EVER. Anyone who engages in it is a criminal
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. By that standard, you can count me a criminal. But I'm sure you don't really mean that the way it sounds... after all, what would you do without all those friendly neighborhood criminals-in-blue, looking out for the safety and security of your community and family? I'm sure you're not planning on taking on those sociopathic armed subjects yourself...
"Knock and announce" is the usual standard for tactical team raids, but has several notable exceptions, including officer safety and destructions of evidence. Check this link for more details . Both of these exceptions have to be articulated, backed up by testimony/evidence, and justified in court. Challenging the admissability of evidence is criminal defense 101. No tac-team I know would ever half-ass a warrant and risk their neck, just so they can get humiliated and lose the evidence (and probably their conviction) when it comes out in court.
Personally, I'm not thrilled with the evidentiary exception... seems a bit cheap to sell a police officer's life for a bag of dope. On the other hand, to ensure officer safety and maximize your tactical advantage against a violent, armed, homicidal subject? All day long.
I wasn't there, and I generally despise monday morning quarterbacking... but Waco should never have happened. (I say that with tactical-team experience, along with a military background).
Retrospectively, of course, it looks like a real goat-rope. This is one of those arrest warrants where the ATF would have been light-years ahead of the game to simply grab Koresh in town. Instead, they played right into the fears of the Branch Davidians, and instead chose to assault a heavily armed and fortified compound. I sure as hell wouldn't have been thrilled to be on that entry team, knowing what they knew about the Davidians.
One of the first things you learn in tactics is WHEN to raid a location, preferably when you have maximum tactical advantage, with minimal risk to bystanders and civilians. Of course, raid time varies depending on lots of factors (ie. raiding a meth lab while they are cooking is generally considered a bad idea... Flashbangs will ignite Diethyl-ether fumes, and you want to arrest the dealers, not barbeque them). As far as raiding a forwarned, forearmed, fortified compound in broad daylight? I can't decide whether that's mettle or madness.
It's important to remember that the Davidians were tipped off that the ATF was coming, and the ATF knew it (that alone should have scrubbed the raid, since surprise and disorientation are among the primary reasons for choosing a dynamic entry) After the initial exchange, the Davidians didn't seem that interested in fighting... I find it most interesting that the Davidians didn't press their tactical advantage when the ATF/FBI tac-team members ran out of ammo from the prolonged firefight. Instead, they held their fire and allowed the federal tac-team to collect their wounded and retreat. Amidst all the discussion of the Davidians after the fact, that apparent act of mercy went almost unnoticed.
What a mess, and it all could have been avoided with adherence to simple, basic tactics.
Buying a "hardware firewall" (cheaper ones are just an NAT box) is easy, but teaches you nothing.
Honestly... there is no substitute for building your own stuff, particularly if you want to increase your understanding of networking and security. If you don't have time for that kind of thing, or just don't want the hassle (you say hassle, I say "learning experience") of rolling your own, then buy the Linksys/Dlink/Netgear box and be done with it.
You will get far more options and much better control with the one you build yourself... but it doesn't come for free; it takes effort on your part. Seriously... build your own, then set up an ethernet tap with Snort to see what's coming and going on your network. The latter step with Snort personally taught me more about networking, protocols, and packets than any Man-page or article.
Build it... you'll be amazed at what it does for your networking/security skills.
One of the Smoothwall guys just apologized to you (even though he has no way of verifying your "I was mistreated" story) in a public forum, admitted they were wrong, and did it in front of several hundred thousand slashdotters (something he didn't have to do, BTW)... and you won't even consider the software? Ever?
Projects evolve, abrasive people are often forced out over time. Seems to me you are missing out on a potentially useful tool, based on a past beef with some guys who are no longer there...
I'm not saying you don't have the right to feel they way you do... it just doesn't seem very pragmatic.
I use Quicken myself... it's a very useful piece of software (running on my wife's Win2K PC, naturally). However, I did get burned by their undocumented boot sector writing when I had to rebuild said PC a year or so ago...
Intuit's missteps have been discussed to death in this forum, and while I dislike the hassles I was subjected to by their copyright paranoia, I appreciate a useful piece of software.
So to clarify: I like the program... I dislike the DRM (though they have forsaken that path, thankfully).
Carrying cash gets to be a risk, and a hassle... it also makes it harder to track your spending habits.
Yes, everything you buy on a credit card could go into some giant big-brother database... but you also get a nicely printed statement at the end of the month. I find this makes it infinitely easier to see where your money goes. Some programs, like Quicken (Evil Intuit... Evil!) will even automatically put that data into a ledger for you.
Honestly, credit cards make it easy, and there's fraud protection if it gets snatched (prompt reporting helps). On the other hand, if someone gets your Visa Check/Debit card (connected to your checking account), they can empty your bank account lickety-split... and you can be out the whole amount, not just the first $50.
Laura Longfellow (Maxine Headroom to us old Amiga fans) definitely cut a stunning figure in that famous video. I've tried to find a copy of it online to no avail (it was only about 15 frames per second if I remember right... damned choppy by today's standards, but absolutely cutting edge at the time).
Must have been late 1980's if I remember correctly...
Hehehe... if I had a patient who wanted to chat instead of tell me why they'd come to see me, I'd promptly leave to go check on some of the other patients...
Truly, if you're in the ER, and you're well enough to play Chatty Cathy on your cell phone, there's a good chance you're not nearly as sick as most. I don't say that to be a smart-ass, just pointing out that triage is an ongoing process... sicker patients come first.
well-enough-to-chat = not as sick as the guy who's too short of breath to even speak.
It almost never comes to that, however. Most people have waited long enough by the time I get to them that they immediately cut short their conversation. If there's one thing the ER has taught me, it's that NOBODY likes to wait.
exactly why I don't own or use one of these jammers... instead I have my burly security types address those who get angry, or blatantly choose to flout the cell phone prohibition. We are virtually always full, often with sick, sick people, and they I do NOT tolerate disruptive people in my department... it's unacceptable that the other patients have to suffer rudeness on top of their illness.
Note: I always ask nicely first, just to give them a chance to be adult about the matter...
any sort of interference from a cell phone, with ANY cardiac monitor... and I catch people yakking on their phones in my ER all the time. I've also never heard of a single case where a cell phone affected a monitor such that it caused a problem with a patient.
I personally suspect it's a more-theoretical-than-real concern. On the other hand, I think one of these jammers would probably be a bigger threat to my monitors than a simple cell phone (precisely the reason I would never actually use one of these on-the-job)
My first thought when reading this was one of glee... I'd LOVE to jam those dolts that insist on yakking on their cell phones during the movie.
Also, where I work (critical care area of the hospital), cell phones are explicitly forbidden, so this might be useful to keep in my lab coat pocket ("What? your cell phone just cut out? Hmmm... must be interference from our cardiac monitors") Yes, I'm sure their conversation is critically important, but accurate telemetry from my unstable cardiac patients interests me far more than somebody telling their friends which bar they'll be patronizing when they get discharged from my ER. You wouldn't even believe how torqued (even violent) some people can get if you ask them to turn off their phone... it's not like you're telling them to STFU; you're just asking them to take their conversation outside. I have no problem with someone communicating with their family to apprise them of a patient's condition... but we have land-lines for that, folks; you just have to walk ten feet...
Now if they had one that only blocked outgoing calls...
Linux geeks are hardware and gadget freaks (you know you are... admit it). Hell, look at all the new gee-whiz hardware reviews that get reposted here from every other tech site on the 'net.
I have an enormous MP3 collection.... and I reencoded everything as high-bitrate OGGs using GRIP (easy... set it up to autorip any CD you load, with the desired settings, and just change CDs while you surf... took me weeks to work my way through my CD collection).
Adding OGG support can only help... and will be sure to attract those Linux hardware geeks. I don't know about you, but my friends and family members often come to me for hardware and gadget recommendations...
I'll always recommend a linux-friendly solution if one is available.
I also have business-class cable at my home... costs about 80$ per month (the install was a very-painful and unnecessary 250$). It's great... I get about 3mb down, and around 256kb up, so it's still asymmetric.
Still, the tech support is MUCH better than the residential service (not that I ever call... calling tech support is a sign of weakness), and you get priority for bandwidth on the node, etc.
I like it... reliable, fast, no upstream port filtering, and they don't care if you run servers. I'll never go back to residential service if I can help it.
is the term "low end of the cpu market," as if to imply these chips are somehow less than adequate...
Bah.
Both of my current linux desktop machines run these "low end" chips, and they run just fine, thanks very much. They all have a bunch of RAM... but other than that they are very vanilla... 1.3ghz Durons all. It makes you wonder what's really driving the CPU market (other than wow-look-at-this-shiny-new-CPU marketing).
You, sir, are of the same intellectual stripe as all those racist and homophobic demagogues you claim to hate.
You would call all republicans racists and homophobes based on the actions of a few... you differ little from your basic Klansman; you just hate a different group than he does.
Look in the mirror... how does it feel? You're just wearing a "DEMOCRATS IN 2004!!" button instead of a hood.
I have to believe you are consciously sprinkling your posts with contradictions. I refuse to believe that you are not intelligent enough to note the following...
Ad hominem is latin, meaning literally "to the person." From websters: "marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made." Rather than answer some of your opponents (republicans) contentions on race issues, you besmirch their collective character and call them all racists. Troll.
You would also reproach me for judging Palast by the company he keeps (I believe you said guilt by association.)... yet you would indict all republicans because they are in the same party with Jesse Helms. Troll.
You would judge the republican party by its fringe elements... yet you get upset when I judge a book by its intellectual and idealogical brethren? Troll.
And you have the audacity to preach to me about logical fallacies?
defend the authors who share your political views (excepting the vile Micheal Moore), while in the same breath attacking republicans as racists and homophobes
"No need to dispute the facts when you can attack the man" I believe you said. I was hoping you would see the irony in your blanket attacks on republicans in the same thread as your indignation over my Moore/Vidal/Palast/Franken remarks... Unlike you, however, I will take my lumps for my ad-hominem attacks on Franken, Vidal, and Moore (I will not, however, retract those remarks... I do not consider any of those individuals to be serious, mainstream political commentators)
I am indeed judging these books by the company they keep. They seem to be popular amongst a group of people that like bombastic and over-the-top left-wing political spin. I heard "The Turner Diaries" was a good book, but I'm suspicious of a book that's popular with militia types, and I won't run out to buy it for precisely the same reason.
I'll keep my suspicions about Mr. Palast... could be my loss, but somehow I don't think so.
your post was modded off-topic and flamebait, and it clearly qualifies as both.
Judging by your.sig and some of your previous posts, you have a left-wing viewpoint on some political issues. That's fine... free speech and all that... but it shouldn't surprise you that some slashdotters disagree with your cheap political shot at the Republican party as only growing because they are recruiting racists, homophobes, etc.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a bit skeptical about this one.
In reference to your link at Amazon; his book is bundled with Michael' Moore's book about "stupid white men..." People who bought his book also bought books by Gore Vidal, Al Franken, and other blatant political hacks and operatives. He also writes for the Guardian, far from what most would consider a non-partisan news source, and is a favorite of the democratic underground.
I think the odds that you'll get a sound, unspun, unstilted analysis of ANY political issue from this guy are pretty slim.
I do live in FL, BTW, and I find it funny that so much is made of the republican's election machinations in Florida, and absolutely nothing is said about the democrats' own lawyer tricks during the 2000 election.
Sorry, but it's hardly persuasive to make a blanket accusation about all republicans being racists and police conspiracies to keep the black man down, and then back it up by citing a guy like Mr. Palast.
Is that all you have to say? A poisonous, unsubstantiated little screed about how republicans are all racists and try to keep the black folks away from the polls?
KKK == CCC? Police conspiracies to set up roadblocks?
and we didn't even have 'net access in the dorms (to be fair, it was before the 'net existed, but still...) we had to run our programs off the VAX in the library.
Of course you can use OO on windows, I use it myself on my windows machines. My point is that you don't have to pay the big bucks for MS software when there are other viable options available. And, as long as you're going open-source, might as well make it a complete package.
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It was the first place I got the hardware mod instructions for my old 6gb archos mp3 player (nothing like having a 20gig version before you can even buy one in the store).
Somebody else mentioned it... the charger that came with the archos really was a POS... the wires frayed on mine, and I ended up cutting them and attaching spade connectors (yeah, I know... unsafe, but it was all I had at the time). Soon after that, the transformer went out entirely, and now I have to change batteries.
Oh well... at least it survived a longish SW Asia military deployment for the afghanistan war (wish I could say the same for all of our equipment).
By the way, there is no justification for "dynamic entry". EVER. Anyone who engages in it is a criminal
I'm going to have to disagree with you here. By that standard, you can count me a criminal. But I'm sure you don't really mean that the way it sounds... after all, what would you do without all those friendly neighborhood criminals-in-blue, looking out for the safety and security of your community and family? I'm sure you're not planning on taking on those sociopathic armed subjects yourself...
"Knock and announce" is the usual standard for tactical team raids, but has several notable exceptions, including officer safety and destructions of evidence. Check this link for more details . Both of these exceptions have to be articulated, backed up by testimony/evidence, and justified in court. Challenging the admissability of evidence is criminal defense 101. No tac-team I know would ever half-ass a warrant and risk their neck, just so they can get humiliated and lose the evidence (and probably their conviction) when it comes out in court.
Personally, I'm not thrilled with the evidentiary exception... seems a bit cheap to sell a police officer's life for a bag of dope. On the other hand, to ensure officer safety and maximize your tactical advantage against a violent, armed, homicidal subject? All day long.
I wasn't there, and I generally despise monday morning quarterbacking... but Waco should never have happened. (I say that with tactical-team experience, along with a military background).
Retrospectively, of course, it looks like a real goat-rope. This is one of those arrest warrants where the ATF would have been light-years ahead of the game to simply grab Koresh in town. Instead, they played right into the fears of the Branch Davidians, and instead chose to assault a heavily armed and fortified compound. I sure as hell wouldn't have been thrilled to be on that entry team, knowing what they knew about the Davidians.
One of the first things you learn in tactics is WHEN to raid a location, preferably when you have maximum tactical advantage, with minimal risk to bystanders and civilians. Of course, raid time varies depending on lots of factors (ie. raiding a meth lab while they are cooking is generally considered a bad idea... Flashbangs will ignite Diethyl-ether fumes, and you want to arrest the dealers, not barbeque them). As far as raiding a forwarned, forearmed, fortified compound in broad daylight? I can't decide whether that's mettle or madness.
It's important to remember that the Davidians were tipped off that the ATF was coming, and the ATF knew it (that alone should have scrubbed the raid, since surprise and disorientation are among the primary reasons for choosing a dynamic entry) After the initial exchange, the Davidians didn't seem that interested in fighting... I find it most interesting that the Davidians didn't press their tactical advantage when the ATF/FBI tac-team members ran out of ammo from the prolonged firefight. Instead, they held their fire and allowed the federal tac-team to collect their wounded and retreat. Amidst all the discussion of the Davidians after the fact, that apparent act of mercy went almost unnoticed.
What a mess, and it all could have been avoided with adherence to simple, basic tactics.
I had one of these, tried to set it up for a neighbor (a surgeon who's a non-geek)... it worked for about two days before it died.
Cheap is right. It wasn't even worth the trouble of RMAing it.
Filed in the round file.
Buying a "hardware firewall" (cheaper ones are just an NAT box) is easy, but teaches you nothing.
Honestly... there is no substitute for building your own stuff, particularly if you want to increase your understanding of networking and security. If you don't have time for that kind of thing, or just don't want the hassle (you say hassle, I say "learning experience") of rolling your own, then buy the Linksys/Dlink/Netgear box and be done with it.
You will get far more options and much better control with the one you build yourself... but it doesn't come for free; it takes effort on your part. Seriously... build your own, then set up an ethernet tap with Snort to see what's coming and going on your network. The latter step with Snort personally taught me more about networking, protocols, and packets than any Man-page or article.
Build it... you'll be amazed at what it does for your networking/security skills.
One of the Smoothwall guys just apologized to you (even though he has no way of verifying your "I was mistreated" story) in a public forum, admitted they were wrong, and did it in front of several hundred thousand slashdotters (something he didn't have to do, BTW)... and you won't even consider the software? Ever?
Projects evolve, abrasive people are often forced out over time. Seems to me you are missing out on a potentially useful tool, based on a past beef with some guys who are no longer there...
I'm not saying you don't have the right to feel they way you do... it just doesn't seem very pragmatic.
I use Quicken myself... it's a very useful piece of software (running on my wife's Win2K PC, naturally). However, I did get burned by their undocumented boot sector writing when I had to rebuild said PC a year or so ago...
Intuit's missteps have been discussed to death in this forum, and while I dislike the hassles I was subjected to by their copyright paranoia, I appreciate a useful piece of software.
So to clarify: I like the program... I dislike the DRM (though they have forsaken that path, thankfully).
Carrying cash gets to be a risk, and a hassle... it also makes it harder to track your spending habits.
Yes, everything you buy on a credit card could go into some giant big-brother database... but you also get a nicely printed statement at the end of the month. I find this makes it infinitely easier to see where your money goes. Some programs, like Quicken (Evil Intuit... Evil!) will even automatically put that data into a ledger for you.
Honestly, credit cards make it easy, and there's fraud protection if it gets snatched (prompt reporting helps). On the other hand, if someone gets your Visa Check/Debit card (connected to your checking account), they can empty your bank account lickety-split... and you can be out the whole amount, not just the first $50.
Yep... I find myself using the ATM less and less.
is still one of my favorite Amiga memories...
Laura Longfellow (Maxine Headroom to us old Amiga fans) definitely cut a stunning figure in that famous video. I've tried to find a copy of it online to no avail (it was only about 15 frames per second if I remember right... damned choppy by today's standards, but absolutely cutting edge at the time).
Must have been late 1980's if I remember correctly...
Hehehe... if I had a patient who wanted to chat instead of tell me why they'd come to see me, I'd promptly leave to go check on some of the other patients...
Truly, if you're in the ER, and you're well enough to play Chatty Cathy on your cell phone, there's a good chance you're not nearly as sick as most. I don't say that to be a smart-ass, just pointing out that triage is an ongoing process... sicker patients come first.
well-enough-to-chat = not as sick as the guy who's too short of breath to even speak.
It almost never comes to that, however. Most people have waited long enough by the time I get to them that they immediately cut short their conversation. If there's one thing the ER has taught me, it's that NOBODY likes to wait.
exactly why I don't own or use one of these jammers... instead I have my burly security types address those who get angry, or blatantly choose to flout the cell phone prohibition. We are virtually always full, often with sick, sick people, and they I do NOT tolerate disruptive people in my department... it's unacceptable that the other patients have to suffer rudeness on top of their illness.
Note: I always ask nicely first, just to give them a chance to be adult about the matter...
any sort of interference from a cell phone, with ANY cardiac monitor... and I catch people yakking on their phones in my ER all the time. I've also never heard of a single case where a cell phone affected a monitor such that it caused a problem with a patient.
I personally suspect it's a more-theoretical-than-real concern. On the other hand, I think one of these jammers would probably be a bigger threat to my monitors than a simple cell phone (precisely the reason I would never actually use one of these on-the-job)
My first thought when reading this was one of glee... I'd LOVE to jam those dolts that insist on yakking on their cell phones during the movie.
Also, where I work (critical care area of the hospital), cell phones are explicitly forbidden, so this might be useful to keep in my lab coat pocket ("What? your cell phone just cut out? Hmmm... must be interference from our cardiac monitors") Yes, I'm sure their conversation is critically important, but accurate telemetry from my unstable cardiac patients interests me far more than somebody telling their friends which bar they'll be patronizing when they get discharged from my ER. You wouldn't even believe how torqued (even violent) some people can get if you ask them to turn off their phone... it's not like you're telling them to STFU; you're just asking them to take their conversation outside. I have no problem with someone communicating with their family to apprise them of a patient's condition... but we have land-lines for that, folks; you just have to walk ten feet...
Now if they had one that only blocked outgoing calls...
That website in your sig is a laugh riot... almost choked on my mountain dew reading it... thanks!
Linux geeks are hardware and gadget freaks (you know you are... admit it). Hell, look at all the new gee-whiz hardware reviews that get reposted here from every other tech site on the 'net.
I have an enormous MP3 collection.... and I reencoded everything as high-bitrate OGGs using GRIP (easy... set it up to autorip any CD you load, with the desired settings, and just change CDs while you surf... took me weeks to work my way through my CD collection).
Adding OGG support can only help... and will be sure to attract those Linux hardware geeks. I don't know about you, but my friends and family members often come to me for hardware and gadget recommendations...
I'll always recommend a linux-friendly solution if one is available.
I also have business-class cable at my home... costs about 80$ per month (the install was a very-painful and unnecessary 250$). It's great... I get about 3mb down, and around 256kb up, so it's still asymmetric.
Still, the tech support is MUCH better than the residential service (not that I ever call... calling tech support is a sign of weakness), and you get priority for bandwidth on the node, etc.
I like it... reliable, fast, no upstream port filtering, and they don't care if you run servers. I'll never go back to residential service if I can help it.
is the term "low end of the cpu market," as if to imply these chips are somehow less than adequate...
Bah.
Both of my current linux desktop machines run these "low end" chips, and they run just fine, thanks very much. They all have a bunch of RAM... but other than that they are very vanilla... 1.3ghz Durons all. It makes you wonder what's really driving the CPU market (other than wow-look-at-this-shiny-new-CPU marketing).
as those blinded by their ideology.
You, sir, are of the same intellectual stripe as all those racist and homophobic demagogues you claim to hate.
You would call all republicans racists and homophobes based on the actions of a few... you differ little from your basic Klansman; you just hate a different group than he does.
Look in the mirror... how does it feel? You're just wearing a "DEMOCRATS IN 2004!!" button instead of a hood.
I have to believe you are consciously sprinkling your posts with contradictions. I refuse to believe that you are not intelligent enough to note the following...
Ad hominem is latin, meaning literally "to the person." From websters: "marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made." Rather than answer some of your opponents (republicans) contentions on race issues, you besmirch their collective character and call them all racists. Troll.
You would also reproach me for judging Palast by the company he keeps (I believe you said guilt by association.)... yet you would indict all republicans because they are in the same party with Jesse Helms. Troll.
You would judge the republican party by its fringe elements... yet you get upset when I judge a book by its intellectual and idealogical brethren? Troll.
And you have the audacity to preach to me about logical fallacies?
Bah.
defend the authors who share your political views (excepting the vile Micheal Moore), while in the same breath attacking republicans as racists and homophobes
"No need to dispute the facts when you can attack the man" I believe you said. I was hoping you would see the irony in your blanket attacks on republicans in the same thread as your indignation over my Moore/Vidal/Palast/Franken remarks... Unlike you, however, I will take my lumps for my ad-hominem attacks on Franken, Vidal, and Moore (I will not, however, retract those remarks... I do not consider any of those individuals to be serious, mainstream political commentators)
I am indeed judging these books by the company they keep. They seem to be popular amongst a group of people that like bombastic and over-the-top left-wing political spin. I heard "The Turner Diaries" was a good book, but I'm suspicious of a book that's popular with militia types, and I won't run out to buy it for precisely the same reason.
I'll keep my suspicions about Mr. Palast... could be my loss, but somehow I don't think so.
your post was modded off-topic and flamebait, and it clearly qualifies as both.
.sig and some of your previous posts, you have a left-wing viewpoint on some political issues. That's fine... free speech and all that... but it shouldn't surprise you that some slashdotters disagree with your cheap political shot at the Republican party as only growing because they are recruiting racists, homophobes, etc.
Judging by your
This is not the website you were looking for... Perhaps this is what you had in mind...
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a bit skeptical about this one.
In reference to your link at Amazon; his book is bundled with Michael' Moore's book about "stupid white men..." People who bought his book also bought books by Gore Vidal, Al Franken, and other blatant political hacks and operatives. He also writes for the Guardian, far from what most would consider a non-partisan news source, and is a favorite of the democratic underground.
I think the odds that you'll get a sound, unspun, unstilted analysis of ANY political issue from this guy are pretty slim.
I do live in FL, BTW, and I find it funny that so much is made of the republican's election machinations in Florida, and absolutely nothing is said about the democrats' own lawyer tricks during the 2000 election.
Sorry, but it's hardly persuasive to make a blanket accusation about all republicans being racists and police conspiracies to keep the black man down, and then back it up by citing a guy like Mr. Palast.
Is that all you have to say? A poisonous, unsubstantiated little screed about how republicans are all racists and try to keep the black folks away from the polls?
KKK == CCC? Police conspiracies to set up roadblocks?
I'm sorry, but that's exactly 100% Flamebait.
and we didn't even have 'net access in the dorms (to be fair, it was before the 'net existed, but still...) we had to run our programs off the VAX in the library.
Hmph... spoiled young'uns.
Of course you can use OO on windows, I use it myself on my windows machines. My point is that you don't have to pay the big bucks for MS software when there are other viable options available. And, as long as you're going open-source, might as well make it a complete package.