Article: "Though, beware that it currently [colon] panics after about 15 minutes, and when you do the hard reset, it boots back into Windows at factory default settings (meaning, you lose any files you might have stored on it)".
This comment from a/. story seems quite relevant (whether it us true or not, the mindset isn't too uncommon). Exerpted:
My professor turned to him and said, evidently without missing a beat "your product isn't selling well in those areas because your product provides relief for over-eating and the people in those areas are starving!
"The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Nations" at UN Headquarters in New York City. The conference will create the conditions for informal dialogue and brainstorming among industry practitioners, government representatives and international development experts. It will feature plenary sessions and structured brainstorming workshops to establish strategies to overcome obstacles as well as develop environments favorable to the broad deployment of WiFi infrastructures. Conference conclusions will serve as a blueprint for national consensus-building programs, spectrum-policy reform and infrastructure deployment.
With all the buzzwords, what makes me think these buggers don't have a clue?
Stationwagon, SUV, what's the difference? Except of course, $$$.
When will it be "real"...
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...and allow the public to join the project?
Different than the Internet 2 project or even Grid computing, the group says the most obvious benefit is that network services installed on PlanetLab experience all of the behaviors of the real Internet where the only thing predictable is unpredictability (latency, bandwidth, paths taken).
If you want to emulate all the behaviors of the real internet, you need to welcome the hackers. crackers and script kiddies, not to mention the "moms".
I've had to restore (more than once in the last couple years) but I don't do it all at once. I restore the base OS/config first the my favorite progs. The rest gets reloaded as I need/want, including 5+ gig of mp3's (not really much out there that's worth the bandwidth for an old fart). I find that some things never get restored.
Point taken about "right" and "wrong". No argument there.
60 gig is worth backing up though, isn't it?
To answer your question, I've got 1 machine (primary) 30 gig, 1 machine (secondary 40 gig), 2 laptops 4 & 20 gig. All backed up. Downloaded programs: all backed up (with reg codes in.txt files). No pirated progs running (too much good free and OSS stuff out there).
Bad habits are hard to break but good habits are hard to beat.
Known viruses are easily combatted by keeping your dat files up-to-date. New viruses are quickly recoginzed/defeated. Thus, good habits are hard to beat.
..."remotely destroy it using powerful electrical charges. Piece of cake." Please explain how to do this. Our systems were just "upgrafted" to a more recent MS OS and network. A test of this theory is in order. But seriously, how could this be done?
"nuke your system." You back up your data, your config, your bookmarks, you have your favorite distro on hand, etc..., etc..., regularly, right? What could possibly be done in to your system that couldn't be ameliorated in the time it takes for an average/. surfing session? It's not like a spike is driven through your HD.
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Well, Microsoft just landed their biggest contract for a whopping $470 million(about $950/copy).
With whom? Why, the US gov't, of course!
Article: "Though, beware that it currently [colon] panics after about 15 minutes, and when you do the hard reset, it boots back into Windows at factory default settings (meaning, you lose any files you might have stored on it)".
Imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence.
"carp software!"
Carp, Haddock, it all sounds fishy to me.
(I guarantee you if Bill said, "make an open source OS that is bug free", it would be done -...)
1st rule in software development: Nothing is bug free. If you test and develop until it IS bug free, it is obsolete when it is released.
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With all the buzzwords, what makes me think these buggers don't have a clue?
"Sadly, I doubt that the companies will wake up and smell the coffee..."
Just wait 'till Starbucks figures out their "On-line" strategy
Here is a little more on this.
From TechTV
I believe that RFID's only chance to succeed in the marketplace lies in deception and in surreptitious use by manufacturers,...
Welcome to "Business 101".
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Who said that?
...Tom Green
Man, this makes me nervous.
I'll ask if the store uses RFID tags, just before I give them my "Airmiles" card.
Should it bother me that my club # is "3vIl-666"?
As far as privacy, how about, "Hey, I notice you're wearing the same underware today." That wouldn't bother me, but I wont tell you what would.
Having barcoded condoms?
BTW, I'm the guy with the antenna.
Hope that antenna isn't bi-directional.
try this
Stationwagon, SUV, what's the difference?
Except of course, $$$.
If you want to emulate all the behaviors of the real internet, you need to welcome the hackers. crackers and script kiddies, not to mention the "moms".
Forget about the AOLers, we don't need 'em.
I've had to restore (more than once in the last couple years) but I don't do it all at once. I restore the base OS/config first the my favorite progs.
The rest gets reloaded as I need/want, including 5+ gig of mp3's (not really much out there that's worth the bandwidth for an old fart). I find that some things never get restored.
Oh yes, I should add that a slashdot surfing session CAN take 6-7 hours. Ask my wife, she's glaring over my shoulder right now.
Point taken about "right" and "wrong". No argument there.
.txt files). No pirated progs running (too much good free and OSS stuff out there).
60 gig is worth backing up though, isn't it?
To answer your question, I've got 1 machine (primary) 30 gig, 1 machine (secondary 40 gig), 2 laptops 4 & 20 gig. All backed up. Downloaded programs: all backed up (with reg codes in
Bad habits are hard to break but good habits are hard to beat.
"I am a lineman for the RIAA...".
Known viruses are easily combatted by keeping your dat files up-to-date. New viruses are quickly recoginzed/defeated.
Thus, good habits are hard to beat.
..."remotely destroy it using powerful electrical charges. Piece of cake."
Please explain how to do this. Our systems were just "upgrafted" to a more recent MS OS and network. A test of this theory is in order.
But seriously, how could this be done?
"nuke your system." /. surfing session? It's not like a spike is driven through your HD.
You back up your data, your config, your bookmarks, you have your favorite distro on hand, etc..., etc..., regularly, right?
What could possibly be done in to your system that couldn't be ameliorated in the time it takes for an average
OT?
LazyAssOS + "comfortable inaction". Sorry, subtle humor isn't always effective.