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Scroll wheel? Thanks, that is a major helper.
What I've begun doing is using the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" for all of my bookmarks. I've got "Essentials" with links to Gmail, Adsense, my website, Distributed.net stats and so forth, basically all of the sites that I try to visit daily. Then I've got "Favorite sites" that holds Slashdot (even though now it's "home"), Woot, Craigslist, Free6.com (hehe), Assambassador.com, Myspleen, demonoid, you get the point.
Then I've got the essential one: "Functions" - that holds mostly Javascript links but other things like TinyURL, @nonymous, Wordpress Press-It, BlogThis!, post to del.icio.us, Ping-o-matic, Send SMS message, mailto: and whatever. Then there is "Junk" which isn't really used any more because del.icio.us is so sweet. I generally dump something I might want to read later there and categorize it later (like every 8 months). Then of course I've got a few drop-down RSS feeds, but since they are torrent sites I'll keep them to myself. (Oh, I almost forgot - a huge drop down of del.icio.us bookmarks with the help of Foxylicious)
This works well, and generally reminds me of a filing system. Since I'm never using the File, Edit, and etc menus this has become my new menu.
I think people will buy DVDs much longer than 8 years after the new format.
Not if content owners like Sony stop selling them... but I just said 8 years because DVD-Video was introduced in 1997.
DVDs had significant benefits - but the kicker probably was in the end the CD-like ability. No more long stretches of minutes spent fastforwarding nor rewinding - you can go to the scene you want as fast as you can access the menus. That and the space savings.
I've got to admit though that I am started to get tired of waiting the 1 or 2 seconds it takes to load a menu or the initial loading of the DVD - you get spoiled after a while.
My other prediction is that "next" medium will be delivered not by need for HD movies but by the demands of computer consumers needing a storage devices that saves more gigabytes than DVDs can possibly hope for.
I agree. I can fit 6 divx/xvid'd movies on a DVD or three 2-hour movies with AC3. I can't wait to put multiple trilogies on one disc... extended editions and all!
Movies will also start being offered officially over the internet way before then.
I see this happening in the next six months - but it won't be DRM free. If it's right, I'll bite though.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't your messages just going to routed all around the world for anyone on tor to see?
Sure, they won't know where the messages came from - but they'll have snippets of the messages you are sending right? If your Google account name is there and any personal information you screwed right?
I'm not bashing tor, just asking - respond with insightful/informative comments please. If you tell me that isn't a problem, I'll install tor right now.
If VHS tapes are any indicator, people will be buy DVD's 8 years after either one of these formats hit the streets.
A lot of retailers have dropped VHS, but Wal-Mart still caries them and they are the biggest retailer around. I even know a well-off kid with HDTV and all of the latest computer "toys" who still buys VHS movies for some stupid reason. Besides price I see no difference.
Think about how long you (the collective you) were still buying tapes after CD's were released. Being that DVD players are being factory installed in some cars and are everywhere it will be a while before people get rid of DVD. Shit, DVD players are the fastest (or highest?) selling consumer device category of all time (For trivia purposes, I believe the original GameBoy still holds the record for highest selling electronic consumer product of all time).
I always start by saying, this software is totally free to use, but most importantly is designed as a tool to solve the problem - not just developed, packaged and sold to fill a market niche. If you explain the higher virtues of the software (correctly) to intelligent people they can't possibly turn it down.
They are ready for Open Source when they realize it'll cost them $800 to replace the shit they used on the first PC. I see this all of the time.
I actually converted two people to Linux this way. My favorite of the two had a computer breakdown and needed a bunch of replacement parts (HDD controller, power supply, a new HDD, which I had laying around). It was a Windows 98 computer and I refused to re-install it, which was fine because they wanted XP or 2000 because that is what they saw at work so much. When I told them that a new copy of XP is over 1/3 of the price of a new computer they thought they pretty much were fucked (I'm basing that 1/3 number on a new Compaq with monitor at Sam's Club that can be had for a cool $599). There was no way that they were going to shell out $200 bucks for software they always thought was free.
Long story short, I showed up the next day with Mandrake (this was shortly before "Mandriva") with *all* of the packages installed. Of course they "got it" being familiar with Windows and was using OpenOffice and browsing the web right away. Now they are what we'd call a less-than-average PC user, a n00b, but there was less of learning curve since they have always been learning as they went along. They asked me if they were going to get into trouble because they had all of this software that they didn't pay for - how cute?
And imagine, someone actually tried talking them into shelling out that $200 for a new copy of Windows. Someone else told them that they could get a copy of XP for free, but looking at how many times it needs to be patched - and how MS is protecting those patches I'm glad I talked them out of it.
So yes, hard drive failures are a quick and easy way to get someone turned onto free software. Free as in speech doesn't matter to them, but free as in beer always appeals to the inner cheapskate. As my dad would say "Free software? That is the best kind!"
"get your pale-faced neighbor to burn you this Live Linux CD - it will NOT change the rest of your computer in any way"
That's funny because I've tried for years to get a buddy to run Knoppix on an old PC he's got and he'll never do it. Even though he knows I have a computer/networking related degree he doesn't believe that Knoppix won't affect his Windows install (which is very broken).
I was going to type "I don't know why he doesn't believe me..." but then I think about all of the Windows software that destroys systems without user intervention and realize that some people just don't trust software not made by a major companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and their ilk or major game developers.
The sad thing is that if people got over the hump of just trying the (open source) software they'll learn there is a lot less to fear than with it's proprietary counterparts.
Why not just use Cygwin's sshd? It can be installed with a dandy GUI and setup in three steps. Plus installing it with Cygwin gets you well onto the path of getting and using common GNU tools under Windows.
As far as performance and usability, I barely even noticed that I was logging into a Windows system when I used VI or Joe. Plus having Cygwin installed lets you take advantage of Bash scripting among other things. I just used it to secure VNC while visiting sunny Florida and it was great, and fast.
Others say the compression degrades performance, which I don't know too much about, but it secures your transfers and compresses data. An added plus is that you have free clients such as Putty which don't even need to be installed, just download and run. Then you've got tools like WinSCP to transfer files, which easily maxed out my (home computers) upload speed and generally worked great - everything finished exactly at the times I expected.
Shit, why isn't anyone saying Cygwin would be a good idea to introducing people to open source software. Of course it wouldn't be geared towards those who don't already "get" the computer, but I think if more people adopted it the development would go a lot faster and generally be better in the long run.
I want more Cygwin applications and support dammit! I want a day when I can download *any* (POSIX standard based) Linux software and install from source. (You don't know how long I've wanted to run XScreensaver under Windows)
Imagine the truck driver that gets a good night of sleep and is bound to strict regulations on how much he/she can drive in one day (without a fellow team driver) - but they tend to get tired seven hours into their (legally mandated maximum) 8 hour shift (or is it 12?). Now even though they are not yet racking up a sleep debt they start to lose some functions they need to stay alive (and possibly keep you alive too). Instead of using crystal meth, which is very popular amongst truck drivers, or even caffeine, they can actually use a drug that will really restore their brain functions - no stimulants needed, no addiction necessary.
Another great use that comes to mind are those beat to death medical residents out there. My buddy just started his OB/GYN residency and has to work one 30 hour shift a week, usually finishing the week with four more shifts all lasting 12 hours each. If he can take something that keeps him from dropping a baby (which already almost happened) then I'd say 'pop those pills'!
This drug sure has the potential to be abused, like any other. But like any drug it has great benefits, especially for those who work in dangerous jobs that have to push themselves to their limits with sleep deprivation building up on them.
(I hope this makes sense, I've now been up for 17.5 hours. I'm not kidding, I've got bi-polar and find it's impossible to sleep when manic. Maybe I could score a few on the street in a few years.)
And you know that some idiot employees will be escalating the standards of company loyalty by using these.
At first I read that as using "three" but I've been up for 17 hours (how ironic)...
But this drug won't make the 167 hour work week (6.958333 days) possible, as the user 'lastchance' has suggested in jest.
From Wikipedia:
Sleep debt is the cumulative effect of not getting enough sleep. The body seems to maintain an awareness of the cumulative amount of a person's missed sleep, when that person does not get enough sleep. Unlike sleep debt, a sleep surplus cannot be accumulated.
I heard once that to use "San Francisco" commercially it costs you 25 cents USD. If you set a movie in San Francisco, you've got to pay the city 25 cents _every time_ the name is said or shows up in the film.
I never believed it until reading that about KFC.
(Yes, Kentucky is a state and yes I'm planning a distribution called "Kentucky Linux")
Sitting next to a total idiot in a "WAN" class I was asked a lot of questions on how to do this and that (you see I paid attention, a novel idea I have about school).
After a four hour lab the total idiot asked me how to erase the configurations from the router, as this was required of each of us as we left class. I respond (in haste and anger):
erase flash
When I should have said:
erase nvram
Well, I came to class the next day with the teacher pulling her hair out because she had to upload the IOS through a serial cable. Well, it never quite worked and it took three days (of her time) to finally get it uploaded. She had to contact Cisco at some point because the routers were old and abused by idiots like me.
No one ever found out what really happened, even total idiot was clueless that he was the one who actually erased the IOS.
Hey, I'm still wondering why an ex-Vietnam field medic is worried about making an endoscope. Oh, he's a doctor you say, not a veteran of the Vietnam war?
Maybe next time the submitter can change more than one word of the stories title. ("DIY" became "Homemade"). From now on can we put stories through TurnItIn?
Moses and Jesus are standing at the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Cardinal Spellman was extolling the virtues of love and giving and forgiveness.
"And Jesus was confused. He had just come through Spanish Harlem and he wondered what 40 Puerto Ricans were doing living in one room and this guy had a ring on him that was worth 8 grand."
(What is in quotes is the only part that is actual Lenny Bruce language)
Slashdot Mirror
Scroll wheel? Thanks, that is a major helper.
What I've begun doing is using the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" for all of my bookmarks. I've got "Essentials" with links to Gmail, Adsense, my website, Distributed.net stats and so forth, basically all of the sites that I try to visit daily. Then I've got "Favorite sites" that holds Slashdot (even though now it's "home"), Woot, Craigslist, Free6.com (hehe), Assambassador.com, Myspleen, demonoid, you get the point.
Then I've got the essential one: "Functions" - that holds mostly Javascript links but other things like TinyURL, @nonymous, Wordpress Press-It, BlogThis!, post to del.icio.us, Ping-o-matic, Send SMS message, mailto: and whatever. Then there is "Junk" which isn't really used any more because del.icio.us is so sweet. I generally dump something I might want to read later there and categorize it later (like every 8 months). Then of course I've got a few drop-down RSS feeds, but since they are torrent sites I'll keep them to myself. (Oh, I almost forgot - a huge drop down of del.icio.us bookmarks with the help of Foxylicious)
This works well, and generally reminds me of a filing system. Since I'm never using the File, Edit, and etc menus this has become my new menu.
eEnlightenment
I'll never fit in that thing!
A million Indian websurfers paid for by spammers beats all three...
Yeah, I can't stay connected either. GAIM (for Windows) won't log the attempts either or I'd provide them for all to see.
I think people will buy DVDs much longer than 8 years after the new format.
Not if content owners like Sony stop selling them... but I just said 8 years because DVD-Video was introduced in 1997.
DVDs had significant benefits - but the kicker probably was in the end the CD-like ability. No more long stretches of minutes spent fastforwarding nor rewinding - you can go to the scene you want as fast as you can access the menus. That and the space savings.
I've got to admit though that I am started to get tired of waiting the 1 or 2 seconds it takes to load a menu or the initial loading of the DVD - you get spoiled after a while.
My other prediction is that "next" medium will be delivered not by need for HD movies but by the demands of computer consumers needing a storage devices that saves more gigabytes than DVDs can possibly hope for.
I agree. I can fit 6 divx/xvid'd movies on a DVD or three 2-hour movies with AC3. I can't wait to put multiple trilogies on one disc... extended editions and all!
Movies will also start being offered officially over the internet way before then.
I see this happening in the next six months - but it won't be DRM free. If it's right, I'll bite though.
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't your messages just going to routed all around the world for anyone on tor to see?
Sure, they won't know where the messages came from - but they'll have snippets of the messages you are sending right? If your Google account name is there and any personal information you screwed right?
I'm not bashing tor, just asking - respond with insightful/informative comments please. If you tell me that isn't a problem, I'll install tor right now.
If VHS tapes are any indicator, people will be buy DVD's 8 years after either one of these formats hit the streets.
A lot of retailers have dropped VHS, but Wal-Mart still caries them and they are the biggest retailer around. I even know a well-off kid with HDTV and all of the latest computer "toys" who still buys VHS movies for some stupid reason. Besides price I see no difference.
Think about how long you (the collective you) were still buying tapes after CD's were released. Being that DVD players are being factory installed in some cars and are everywhere it will be a while before people get rid of DVD. Shit, DVD players are the fastest (or highest?) selling consumer device category of all time (For trivia purposes, I believe the original GameBoy still holds the record for highest selling electronic consumer product of all time).
Will they buy oracle? No 'cause its not open source
Not until they buy it... muhahahaha!
The Slashdot effect meets Instant Messaging!
Want to convince your business that open source is the best way to go? Why not get them to read, at minimum, chapter one of "Free as in Freedom"?
Even the idea that it can be read free online or printed out to read later is a selling point on all things open source.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
I always start by saying, this software is totally free to use, but most importantly is designed as a tool to solve the problem - not just developed, packaged and sold to fill a market niche. If you explain the higher virtues of the software (correctly) to intelligent people they can't possibly turn it down.
They are ready for Open Source when they realize it'll cost them $800 to replace the shit they used on the first PC. I see this all of the time.
I actually converted two people to Linux this way. My favorite of the two had a computer breakdown and needed a bunch of replacement parts (HDD controller, power supply, a new HDD, which I had laying around). It was a Windows 98 computer and I refused to re-install it, which was fine because they wanted XP or 2000 because that is what they saw at work so much. When I told them that a new copy of XP is over 1/3 of the price of a new computer they thought they pretty much were fucked (I'm basing that 1/3 number on a new Compaq with monitor at Sam's Club that can be had for a cool $599). There was no way that they were going to shell out $200 bucks for software they always thought was free.
Long story short, I showed up the next day with Mandrake (this was shortly before "Mandriva") with *all* of the packages installed. Of course they "got it" being familiar with Windows and was using OpenOffice and browsing the web right away. Now they are what we'd call a less-than-average PC user, a n00b, but there was less of learning curve since they have always been learning as they went along. They asked me if they were going to get into trouble because they had all of this software that they didn't pay for - how cute?
And imagine, someone actually tried talking them into shelling out that $200 for a new copy of Windows. Someone else told them that they could get a copy of XP for free, but looking at how many times it needs to be patched - and how MS is protecting those patches I'm glad I talked them out of it.
So yes, hard drive failures are a quick and easy way to get someone turned onto free software. Free as in speech doesn't matter to them, but free as in beer always appeals to the inner cheapskate. As my dad would say "Free software? That is the best kind!"
"get your pale-faced neighbor to burn you this Live Linux CD - it will NOT change the rest of your computer in any way"
That's funny because I've tried for years to get a buddy to run Knoppix on an old PC he's got and he'll never do it. Even though he knows I have a computer/networking related degree he doesn't believe that Knoppix won't affect his Windows install (which is very broken).
I was going to type "I don't know why he doesn't believe me..." but then I think about all of the Windows software that destroys systems without user intervention and realize that some people just don't trust software not made by a major companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and their ilk or major game developers.
The sad thing is that if people got over the hump of just trying the (open source) software they'll learn there is a lot less to fear than with it's proprietary counterparts.
Why not just use Cygwin's sshd? It can be installed with a dandy GUI and setup in three steps. Plus installing it with Cygwin gets you well onto the path of getting and using common GNU tools under Windows.
As far as performance and usability, I barely even noticed that I was logging into a Windows system when I used VI or Joe. Plus having Cygwin installed lets you take advantage of Bash scripting among other things. I just used it to secure VNC while visiting sunny Florida and it was great, and fast.
Others say the compression degrades performance, which I don't know too much about, but it secures your transfers and compresses data. An added plus is that you have free clients such as Putty which don't even need to be installed, just download and run. Then you've got tools like WinSCP to transfer files, which easily maxed out my (home computers) upload speed and generally worked great - everything finished exactly at the times I expected.
Shit, why isn't anyone saying Cygwin would be a good idea to introducing people to open source software. Of course it wouldn't be geared towards those who don't already "get" the computer, but I think if more people adopted it the development would go a lot faster and generally be better in the long run.
I want more Cygwin applications and support dammit! I want a day when I can download *any* (POSIX standard based) Linux software and install from source. (You don't know how long I've wanted to run XScreensaver under Windows)
Following past trends it should be *inux.slashdot.org
I think there are more innocent uses.
Imagine the truck driver that gets a good night of sleep and is bound to strict regulations on how much he/she can drive in one day (without a fellow team driver) - but they tend to get tired seven hours into their (legally mandated maximum) 8 hour shift (or is it 12?). Now even though they are not yet racking up a sleep debt they start to lose some functions they need to stay alive (and possibly keep you alive too). Instead of using crystal meth, which is very popular amongst truck drivers, or even caffeine, they can actually use a drug that will really restore their brain functions - no stimulants needed, no addiction necessary.
Another great use that comes to mind are those beat to death medical residents out there. My buddy just started his OB/GYN residency and has to work one 30 hour shift a week, usually finishing the week with four more shifts all lasting 12 hours each. If he can take something that keeps him from dropping a baby (which already almost happened) then I'd say 'pop those pills'!
This drug sure has the potential to be abused, like any other. But like any drug it has great benefits, especially for those who work in dangerous jobs that have to push themselves to their limits with sleep deprivation building up on them.
(I hope this makes sense, I've now been up for 17.5 hours. I'm not kidding, I've got bi-polar and find it's impossible to sleep when manic. Maybe I could score a few on the street in a few years.)
At first I read that as using "three" but I've been up for 17 hours (how ironic)...
But this drug won't make the 167 hour work week (6.958333 days) possible, as the user 'lastchance' has suggested in jest.
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_debt
I heard once that to use "San Francisco" commercially it costs you 25 cents USD. If you set a movie in San Francisco, you've got to pay the city 25 cents _every time_ the name is said or shows up in the film.
I never believed it until reading that about KFC.
(Yes, Kentucky is a state and yes I'm planning a distribution called "Kentucky Linux")
Sitting next to a total idiot in a "WAN" class I was asked a lot of questions on how to do this and that (you see I paid attention, a novel idea I have about school).
After a four hour lab the total idiot asked me how to erase the configurations from the router, as this was required of each of us as we left class. I respond (in haste and anger):
erase flash
When I should have said:
erase nvram
Well, I came to class the next day with the teacher pulling her hair out because she had to upload the IOS through a serial cable. Well, it never quite worked and it took three days (of her time) to finally get it uploaded. She had to contact Cisco at some point because the routers were old and abused by idiots like me.
No one ever found out what really happened, even total idiot was clueless that he was the one who actually erased the IOS.
Once a major publishers website was slashdotted.
Red Hat doesn't have one because they aren't using 'Linux' in their name. It's Red Hat, Inc.
Makes me wonder though why Novell pays, being that they are "Novell Inc.".
What about the product: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"?
Interestingly, I notice that the Red Hat web site doesn't use "Linux" on the front page except in direct reference to RHEL.
The e-mail:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/000
Hey, I'm still wondering why an ex-Vietnam field medic is worried about making an endoscope. Oh, he's a doctor you say, not a veteran of the Vietnam war?
Maybe next time the submitter can change more than one word of the stories title. ("DIY" became "Homemade"). From now on can we put stories through TurnItIn?
Moses and Jesus are standing at the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Cardinal Spellman was extolling the virtues of love and giving and forgiveness.
"And Jesus was confused. He had just come through Spanish Harlem and he wondered what 40 Puerto Ricans were doing living in one room and this guy had a ring on him that was worth 8 grand."
(What is in quotes is the only part that is actual Lenny Bruce language)
Yeah... a simple Google into "gates PARC" gives me this:
t s0028.asp
http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/mi
"In 1980, Microsoft's Bill Gates also had an opportunity to see what was inside the magical kingdom."