I have not been following the pre-presidential election hoopla much yet. Is there a candidate for the US presidency out there that has mentioned this offshoring trend and (more importantly) has promised to do anything about it?
Non US-ers, is this similar trend going on in other coutries (besides India, who is reportedly offshoring US work to China)?
I have bouced back between Mandrake and Redhat for a couple of years. Tried Gentoo last mo.nth, and although it has been quite challenging for me, I have a mich greater understanding now of how Linux works. It has forced me to go beyond the GUI (and the re-install if I really dorked things up.)
This is why I enjoy tikering wiht Linux... it's like working on cars without getting you hands dirty.
Funny, the icons for the links to the course catalog for international students are the MSIE & Adobe icons. Ironic for an intitution that is moving away from windows. Perhaps they sub out their web work to frontpage-based web developers to save money.
Website was kinda vague but not encouraging about the ole 7500's. I stopped using Mandrake because of the lack of support for the Radeon 7500. Luckily RedHat and Suse supported my card. Maybe it was blessing in disguise.
I saw some of these at EPCOT in September, 02. I also noticed that the stroller rental stands were clogged with people renting those battery-powered carts (moto-thrones) that are occasionally seen in grocery stores for, I assumed, handicapped folks.
The alarming thing was that based on overheard conversations, a surprising amount of the people who were getting these appeared not to be handicapped, just too lazy to walk all over the disney parks.
I am in favor of coexisting with technology as much as the next guy, but I have to question things when it makes our (US) overfat and lazy culture more overfat and lazy.
Have been working tin this area for a while and asked the same question. The NSA will only approve something to handle secret data if the encryption device (wireless modem) is physically seperate from the data processing device (computer)
Nope a red-key based crypto algorythm chip is inside the card. It has to be periodically loaded with a crypto loader and can be zero-ed pretyy easily. The crypto chip is built such that it will effectively destroy itself when tampered with.
they have engineered it so the crypto engine cip is permanently destroyed when tampered with, much like the new SAASM chip in the next generation GPS' Someting in the coating of the chip.
Yes I can't afford a Ti book and would probably buy one of I could.
However, the thing I love about Linux is the constant challenge and the education that comes along with making it do what I want.
I came to Linux as a complete newbie, and probably still am by most Linux users' standards, but I really get a kick out of researching and fixing a problem or adding a new capability in Linux. It is not easy, but I learn what is going on when I do, and I really dig that.
I have been using it at home boot for a bout two years, dual boot but i hardly ever need windows anymore. Haven't booted into is sonce May, and then just to try out Wolf.
I guess some would call me a tinkerer or hobbyist Lunix user. So be it. I have run out of things I can do in Windows but CAN'T do in Linux, and I am happy about it.
Wonder if mandrake will ever support Radeon. I upgraded to a Radeon 7500 a month ago and have spent a good 72+ hours trying to get Mandrake (8.2 & 9B) to work with it. (I saw a good test screen only once.)
Of course Netscape, an AOL property, is not going allow users to turn off the pop-ups. It is central to the AOL busniess model: throw a lot of pop-ups with a little content behind them. That would be like Time Warner allowing TV watchers to diable the commericals.
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We use AOL CD's for coasters. Very useful for preventing rings on furniture.
"Hey careful man, I've got a beverage here."
Most of the new computer systems that the Army is procuring now days are Linux. Seems they got the message.
The say this internet thing will revolutionize the way we live. Who'da guessed this?
192.168.0.1. Go ahead, motherfucker.
I have not been following the pre-presidential election hoopla much yet. Is there a candidate for the US presidency out there that has mentioned this offshoring trend and (more importantly) has promised to do anything about it?
Non US-ers, is this similar trend going on in other coutries (besides India, who is reportedly offshoring US work to China)?
Halliburton will be allowed to bid on maintaining the 50 million subsciber list.
hell freezes over
Let's see, of the top of my head... ... keep em coming
SCO
MS(like on this slashdot page and all over SourceForge)
RIAA
*BSD
BeOS
NRA
What country? I thought mandrake was French.
I have bouced back between Mandrake and Redhat for a couple of years. Tried Gentoo last mo.nth, and although it has been quite challenging for me, I have a mich greater understanding now of how Linux works. It has forced me to go beyond the GUI (and the re-install if I really dorked things up.)
This is why I enjoy tikering wiht Linux... it's like working on cars without getting you hands dirty.
Wonder how much this is being backed by large corporations with the desired effect of choking off smaller copetitors with smaller marketing budgets?
OK. Buck a gig. I only need 4-6 GB for my clunker no-X web/mail server. Woo has a HDD for $5? The best I can get on ebay is 10GB for $30.
Traveling wirelessly? you mean like "beaming" in Star Trek, or perhaps like Mike Teevee in the "Willy Wonka" story?
Funny, the icons for the links to the course catalog for international students are the MSIE & Adobe icons. Ironic for an intitution that is moving away from windows. Perhaps they sub out their web work to frontpage-based web developers to save money.
Very Informative. Thanks. I copied your reccomendations into my palmpilot of future reference.
Website was kinda vague but not encouraging about the ole 7500's. I stopped using Mandrake because of the lack of support for the Radeon 7500. Luckily RedHat and Suse supported my card. Maybe it was blessing in disguise.
I saw some of these at EPCOT in September, 02. I also noticed that the stroller rental stands were clogged with people renting those battery-powered carts (moto-thrones) that are occasionally seen in grocery stores for, I assumed, handicapped folks.
The alarming thing was that based on overheard conversations, a surprising amount of the people who were getting these appeared not to be handicapped, just too lazy to walk all over the disney parks.
I am in favor of coexisting with technology as much as the next guy, but I have to question things when it makes our (US) overfat and lazy culture more overfat and lazy.
Have been working tin this area for a while and asked the same question. The NSA will only approve something to handle secret data if the encryption device (wireless modem) is physically seperate from the data processing device (computer)
Nope a red-key based crypto algorythm chip is inside the card. It has to be periodically loaded with a crypto loader and can be zero-ed pretyy easily. The crypto chip is built such that it will effectively destroy itself when tampered with.
they have engineered it so the crypto engine cip is permanently destroyed when tampered with, much like the new SAASM chip in the next generation GPS'
Someting in the coating of the chip.
They (Harris folks) have been promising that te NSA approval would occur "within a month" for over two years.
Yes I can't afford a Ti book and would probably buy one of I could.
However, the thing I love about Linux is the constant challenge and the education that comes along with making it do what I want.
I came to Linux as a complete newbie, and probably still am by most Linux users' standards, but I really get a kick out of researching and fixing a problem or adding a new capability in Linux. It is not easy, but I learn what is going on when I do, and I really dig that.
I have been using it at home boot for a bout two years, dual boot but i hardly ever need windows anymore. Haven't booted into is sonce May, and then just to try out Wolf.
I guess some would call me a tinkerer or hobbyist Lunix user. So be it. I have run out of things I can do in Windows but CAN'T do in Linux, and I am happy about it.
I agree, for instance (from the a CERT advisory
Apple Computer, Inc.
The vulnerability described in this report has been addressed by
* Security Update 2002-08-23 for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), and by
* Security Update 2002-08-02 for Mac OS X 10.1.5.
Wonder if mandrake will ever support Radeon. I upgraded to a Radeon 7500 a month ago and have spent a good 72+ hours trying to get Mandrake (8.2 & 9B) to work with it. (I saw a good test screen only once.)
Suse and Redhat support it with no ?'s asked.
Bye Bye Mandrake.
Of course Netscape, an AOL property, is not going allow users to turn off the pop-ups. It is central to the AOL busniess model: throw a lot of pop-ups with a little content behind them. That would be like Time Warner allowing TV watchers to diable the commericals.
Why would anyone expect any different?