As said in the title, install ubuntu and let them use a dedicated virtual machine with windows XP. Make a snapshot after the initial installation and always revert to this snapshot.
Of course, there are other virtualization solutions, so you may have your preferences, but VMWare may still have some advantages over others (dual screens, sync USB,...)
as the parlament changed the law to introduce biometric passports, a group of citizens sucessfully launched a referendum. As a result, they're going to vote on this in May, so this will be a good indicator as the people will directy decided.
And before other people jump on the democracy aspect and representation in the EU, don't forget that many EU government/parlament (including mine) already introducted biometric passports and are directly elected.
It will be also difficult to guess what the swiss result will be as they already 'confirmed' different EU decision in such referendums.
er, phones running Series 60 (back from Nokia 7650 in 2002 to N95 today, including all Exx ) can multitask. They may not be as powerfull as other small devices, but it's no problem to run a few programs at the same time
For the french-speaking people, it's also a famous story (fable) from Jean de la Fontaine : "La Laitière et le Pot au lait". I wonder what's the link (btw, she's called Perrette).
"I know [...], Switzerland,[...] relatively homogenous.
Are your sure you know ?
25% of people living in Switzerland aren't Swiss - up to 40-50% in big cities. That's about 3 times more than most EU countries and 10% more than the USA.
Yep, and probably even more extended than in Australia.
One example : the french-speaking "community" has state-funded libraries for music & videos called "Mediatheques". They are playing the same role as libraries for book and they are renting CD for very low prices (1$/week, when I was young). Before internet & broadband, this was one of the best way to discover alternative music. These rentals and the private copy of rented material is legal and was never even challenged by the local RIAA.
Well, to be even more complete, one could also say that traditionnal car manufacturers already have diesel cars that go under 4 l/100km (over 58 mpg). Volkwagen already sold cars that could go down to 3 l/100km (or over 78 mpg).
Ok, that's not in the US, and you still need particle filters, but still, I also think that limiting the options is a bad idea.
FT effectively ditched MS in favor of Siemens (IIRC). But they already had one competitor (Free) who was proposing triple-play bundles, that means they couldn't just stay and listen to microsoft's next-version-will-be-perfect-we-swear-just-waith-s ix-more-months speeches.
Club Internet who is a minor ISP in France. But you're right, all MS TV deployments have been late, buggy and overbudget. In france, all major ISP have been proposing TV for something like 2 years.
The nice marketing twist is that Club Internet propose Microsoft TV as an... exclusivity !
Yes sure. But you may want to brush up your history and look as well to the history of mobile telephony and more specifically the advent of the GSM standard.
Well... before the mid-eighties, all countries were separate and going with some sort of separate standards. Then the european countries tought that a common standard may be good for various reasons (roaming, costs,...).
The need for a global set of standards, at least for interconncetion, came from the very basic characteristic of internet, phone or post services : communications. If you can't "talk" (technically-speaking) to your peers, how do you communicate ? It's not a surprise that the ITU and the UPU are the 2 oldest international organisations.
If you want to really want to go deeper in history, you may want to look at the "Universal Postal Union" (whic
I know you were funny (well, maybe not, but you were moderated as such), but it may be worth replying that no, they don't start with greek alphabet but instead use 2 letters.
You may look at the much older 802.3 group (ethernet) that has made the 802.3af spec (Power over Ethernet), 802.3ab (GigabitEthernet over copper, aka 1000Base-T)
I guess that if you're asking this question, you don't have any experience with linux-based VPN. I also think that if you are have to do troubleshooting, the last thing you want to debug is your VPN.
For my part, I also started with linux-based VPN (openvpn, ipsec) for private use (3 sites), but then, I come to the conclusion it wasn't worth the effort & time spent. I switched to the Cisco SoHo routers (the 800 series) who are just working. I have automatic tunnels between all sites, and can to VPN connection directly to any of the sites, plus many other funny things (IPv6). All this with just simple configurations, mostly through the wizard (SDM) or by copy, adaptation & paste of sample configs.
Of course, these routers may be a little bit too much (of configuration or price) for you, so you may also want to try consumer-grade solutions (e.g. Linksys BEFSX41, Netgear FR114P,...).
Disclaimer : I wish I could get a percentage of Cisco sales;)
PS : oh, and port tunneling with SSH is, from my experience, an awful solution for VPN.
"The main exclusive rights are listed at 17 USC 106.", well, altough Slashdot is american-centric, this article is about lawsuits in Europe. That means that 17 USC 106 means nothing here and that the claim of the parent (Download is OK) is valid. In fact, the local equivalent of the ASCAP here in Switzerland en says so in their FAQ.
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As said in the title, install ubuntu and let them use a dedicated virtual machine with windows XP.
Make a snapshot after the initial installation and always revert to this snapshot.
Of course, there are other virtualization solutions, so you may have your preferences, but VMWare may still have some advantages over others (dual screens, sync USB, ...)
For a dedicated solution, you can buy a Falcom Mambo (http://www.falcom.de/products/personal-tracker/mambo/)
Dedicated GPS tracker with an emergency button
Long battery life
Very Open
as the parlament changed the law to introduce biometric passports, a group of citizens sucessfully launched a referendum.
As a result, they're going to vote on this in May, so this will be a good indicator as the people will directy decided.
And before other people jump on the democracy aspect and representation in the EU, don't forget that many EU government/parlament (including mine) already introducted biometric passports and are directly elected.
It will be also difficult to guess what the swiss result will be as they already 'confirmed' different EU decision in such referendums.
er, phones running Series 60 (back from Nokia 7650 in 2002 to N95 today, including all Exx ) can multitask. They may not be as powerfull as other small devices, but it's no problem to run a few programs at the same time
For the french-speaking people, it's also a famous story (fable) from Jean de la Fontaine : "La Laitière et le Pot au lait".
I wonder what's the link (btw, she's called Perrette).
.
well, maybe that's because there's no opensource similar product ?
(even if you replace office with OpenOffice)
Same is valid for MS Office/Live Communicator - the opensource alternatives lack many of the functions.
Yep - MS basically killed many of advantages of Groove.
;)
Anyway, you may want to try Collanos. Maybe not an exact replacement, but still a nice P2P collaboration package.
+ it even runs on Linux
Are your sure you know ?
25% of people living in Switzerland aren't Swiss - up to 40-50% in big cities.
That's about 3 times more than most EU countries and 10% more than the USA.
Really ?
Are you sure it isn't outsourced to africa (tunisia, morocco, senegal), like it is for european french-speaking market ?
Yep, and probably even more extended than in Australia.
One example : the french-speaking "community" has state-funded libraries for music & videos called "Mediatheques". They are playing the same role as libraries for book and they are renting CD for very low prices (1$/week, when I was young). Before internet & broadband, this was one of the best way to discover alternative music. These rentals and the private copy of rented material is legal and was never even challenged by the local RIAA.
Well, to be even more complete, one could also say that traditionnal car manufacturers already have diesel cars that go under 4 l/100km (over 58 mpg). Volkwagen already sold cars that could go down to 3 l/100km (or over 78 mpg).
Ok, that's not in the US, and you still need particle filters, but still, I also think that limiting the options is a bad idea.
FT effectively ditched MS in favor of Siemens (IIRC). But they already had one competitor (Free) who was proposing triple-play bundles, that means they couldn't just stay and listen to microsoft's next-version-will-be-perfect-we-swear-just-waith-s ix-more-months speeches.
Club Internet who is a minor ISP in France. But you're right, all MS TV deployments have been late, buggy and overbudget. In france, all major ISP have been proposing TV for something like 2 years.
... exclusivity !
The nice marketing twist is that Club Internet propose Microsoft TV as an
Answer : it comes next month from T-Mobile:
Other answer : the mother company (Deutsche Telekom), France Telecom, TeliaSonera, and many others are preparing the launch of similar products.
IMHO, that was a pretty poor editing job.
Oh, and to add to the list of programs who implement this, outlook also has search folders.
Yes sure. But you may want to brush up your history and look as well to the history of mobile telephony and more specifically the advent of the GSM standard.
... before the mid-eighties, all countries were separate and going with some sort of separate standards. Then the european countries tought that a common standard may be good for various reasons (roaming, costs, ...).
Well
The need for a global set of standards, at least for interconncetion, came from the very basic characteristic of internet, phone or post services : communications. If you can't "talk" (technically-speaking) to your peers, how do you communicate ? It's not a surprise that the ITU and the UPU are the 2 oldest international organisations.
If you want to really want to go deeper in history, you may want to look at the "Universal Postal Union" (whic
"television, telephones, etc., are different" : ever heard of the ITU ?
yoUpload.com ?
I know you were funny (well, maybe not, but you were moderated as such), but it may be worth replying that no, they don't start with greek alphabet but instead use 2 letters.
You may look at the much older 802.3 group (ethernet) that has made the 802.3af spec (Power over Ethernet), 802.3ab (GigabitEthernet over copper, aka 1000Base-T)
Er, no the client is also 64 bits - I am using it on my amd64 (gentoo) without any problems. Same for the solaris client, it's 32 & 64 bits.
and if only I was the owner of a Sun T1 ...
Yeah, less functionnalities than actual mobile phones.
I guess that if you're asking this question, you don't have any experience with linux-based VPN. I also think that if you are have to do troubleshooting, the last thing you want to debug is your VPN.
...).
;)
For my part, I also started with linux-based VPN (openvpn, ipsec) for private use (3 sites), but then, I come to the conclusion it wasn't worth the effort & time spent. I switched to the Cisco SoHo routers (the 800 series) who are just working. I have automatic tunnels between all sites, and can to VPN connection directly to any of the sites, plus many other funny things (IPv6). All this with just simple configurations, mostly through the wizard (SDM) or by copy, adaptation & paste of sample configs.
Of course, these routers may be a little bit too much (of configuration or price) for you, so you may also want to try consumer-grade solutions (e.g. Linksys BEFSX41, Netgear FR114P,
Disclaimer : I wish I could get a percentage of Cisco sales
PS : oh, and port tunneling with SSH is, from my experience, an awful solution for VPN.
"The main exclusive rights are listed at 17 USC 106.", well, altough Slashdot is american-centric, this article is about lawsuits in Europe. That means that 17 USC 106 means nothing here and that the claim of the parent (Download is OK) is valid. In fact, the local equivalent of the ASCAP here in Switzerland en says so in their FAQ.
Well, what about that painting called "L'origine du monde".
It's also interesting that you define porn just in term of pictures, what about the writings ?