This is old hat, sortof. German computer magazine C'T defeated fingerprint scanners a few years ago using gummibears. Im sure www.heise.de should ahve a (german) copy of that still online somewhere
I half a 1 and a half hour commute each day. I do this on a bicyle
I also drink coffee (usually in moedration) and alcohol (in moderation).
Then again, Im currently working in moscow for a week, so I have no biking commute, I drink about a dozen cups of coffee a day, (and Im not going to talk about alcohol, though compared to the locals Im hardly drinking anything).
Ive also spend time doing similar work in muslim countries (no alcohol allowed, and tea, tea, tea all day long, no exercise either).
Ive also spend time in countries where my habits were between these extremes, doing similar work.
I've looked back on the quality of work there and can safely state that there is no correlation between the quality of work, and the type of beverages or the amount of physical exercise.
Headings and numbering when importing, editing,exporting Word docs
Setting excel spreadsheets to print all on one page (settings sometimes get lost)
Many word templates (esp. those with images in them) look slightly different in OOo, even if all you do is printing them (ooffice --print filename.dot)
>The register article mentions that battery life could be 1/3 of a P-M No, please read again.It's 1/3 LESS battery live , so 66.7% of the P-M. So for your 5 hours example, the battery life would be 3.3 hours
Check the Dice add with the article
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please check out the Dice animated gif that comes with the article (you might have to reload to see it, as they might have changing adverts
if(threshold = salary_sucks)
= ?? on a GCC article ?? And that company claims to be high-tech ?
I care btdownloadmanycurses running under a screen session means that I can have my torrents up and downloading as long as my machine stays up.
If I accidentally crash X whilst playing doom3 (or whatever) it does not hurt my torrents.
In fact I can download.torrent files on any machine, then ftp them to the right directory on my main machine and voila yet another torrent downloading.
Usually the stuff has downloaded by the time I get home again, and I can listen to them immediately (live concerts from easytree). Try that with any of the facny GUI clients
Dude.. if you downloaded the playboy piccies of Kazaa to prevent stains on your store bought copy of said magazine, you are safe. If you happened to have downloaded one piccie that was not part of your store bought collection, you are just as illegal as the mp3 downloaders. If you shared the downloaded piccies (regardless of wether or not you have a store bought copy) you are also in violation.
The fact that the porn industry is not chasing the individual downloaders is irrelevant to this (and the fact that they don;t bother with lawsuits to the big spreaders, but simply show up late at night with some heavy dudes and a bunch of clue-by-fours doesn;t matter either
Oddly enough, the Arthur C Clarke Foundation is actually working on just that. Setting up an alert system for Tsunamis:
http://www.clarkefoundation.org/projects PROJECT WARN in Partnership with the Japan US Science Technology and Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP)
The purpose of Project Warn is combine enhanced communications and IT systems to provide warning of impending natural or man-made disasters and to provide on-going communications and remote sensing and GIS support during disaster relief operations. The Clarke Foundation is working with the Pacific Disaster Center, the Asian Disaster Mitigation Organization, the United Nations, and the US and Japanese Governments as coordinated through the JUSTSAP organization to carry out a suitable test and demonstration in this area. In particular a simulation and test is being planned in the Pacific Region in 2005 to determine to how to use the latest information and sensing technology more effectively in the advent of that a major Tsunami might impact an Asian country or island. Clarke Foundation personnel are providing technical advice and support on a volunteer basis to this project.
Maybe some people should have remembered Krakatoa cataclism or just simply should have seen Clarke book. Damn, some people should just read to help prevent disasters.
If you look on the ACF website, you'll find this tidbit: (in the projects section)
PROJECT WARN in Partnership with the Japan US Science Technology and Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP)
The purpose of Project Warn is combine enhanced communications and IT systems to provide warning of impending natural or man-made disasters and to provide on-going communications and remote sensing and GIS support during disaster relief operations. The Clarke Foundation is working with the Pacific Disaster Center, the Asian Disaster Mitigation Organization, the United Nations, and the US and Japanese Governments as coordinated through the JUSTSAP organization to carry out a suitable test and demonstration in this area. In particular a simulation and test is being planned in the Pacific Region in 2005 to determine to how to use the latest information and sensing technology more effectively in the advent of that a major Tsunami might impact an Asian country or island. Clarke Foundation personnel are providing technical advice and support on a volunteer basis to this project.
Further to this: The article http://www.news-about-space.org/story/2409.html s uggests a drastic climate change happening 5200 years ago, whereas this article http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quelp lant.htm (based on the same findings, by the same Lonnie) states that there has not been a significant climate change in the last 50,000 years.
OK, so the climate is going to change. But from what the article suggests, we will get a period of decreased solar activity, causing a (serious0 global cooling (if I read it correctly).
Unfortunately the article keeps only sayign that ``a major climate change'' is about to happen, without bothering to point out what it is going to be.
Should we stock up on heaters, and start generating more greenhouse gasses ? or should we stock up on sun-cream and cut all NOx emisisions ?
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So, again, what's wrong with kmenuedit ? it does remembers your changes (though the option is called save, not OK)
Of course, I don;t use the menus much, and kmenuedit has some serious limitations, but you can do with it what you want.
(at least with the one that came with KDE 3.2 which I used tested
Trust me on this.. speaking from personal experience, the IT manager does put in the normal 50+hour weeks, and the occaisonal 75+ hour week. Maybe not because of a viagra storm, but simply because of other nice things
when I read the subject and frontpage bit, i thought he was building a bike, that took care of his email needs, and had a build in laptop, and other geeky/. type of stuff.
It turns out however to be the other kind of E (lectric iso lectronic)
OK, so this will be considerd just anecdotical evidence (and rightfully so, because it is), but I've recently encountered a reiserfs corruption issue (on a laptop, that ran out of power)
And I've still had problems with reiser over NFS (there used to be the case that is you had a file/dir with test in it's name it would be seen as a dir if it was a file and v.v.)
Also, the recent mantel kernels from Suse had an issue with reiser hash clashes where creating a file with a 2-letter name caused the creation of a ghost file with a similar name.
The biggest benefit I see for ext3 is that if ext3 gets confused/corrupted, you can tunefs it back to ext2, and then run the tries and tested and rocksolid ext2 recovery tools to recover them.
Having said all that, reiser4 looks extremely good and promising, and Im more then happy that many people start using it, so that they can be bit by the bugs, and that when it's fully stable, I can safely switch as well;)
I wasn't too thrilled with Snow Crash. I did read it though. For me Cryptonomicon was his great work. I have read that book so many times and was breathlessly awaiting the "prequel", Quicksilver. What a letdown. It didn't have any of the spirit of the original. None of the humour or the witty, clever conversations. I found it to have no redeeming features. I was shocked. I haven't bothered to even skim his latest one.
To each his own &c &c. The whole royal society bit can be a bit too geeky I guess, but I found both books an excellent read
For as long as I can remember, airline tickets are personal, meaning that you have not been able to fly anonymously for years.
Having to show an Id to proof that you really are the person you claim to be is only logical.
As other posters have already pointed out, identifying the bodies is another good reason, and while showing an ID will not stop terrorists, it can be a big help in tracing them after the fact (i.e. find their associates and chase them down) which was indeed what happened after 9/11
Figting for your rights and freedom is fine, but this sounds like fighting windmills to me
I find point 12, "Portability is for canoes" either self-serving to Microsoft interests or an interesting insight into their thinking process.
It might explain why their 64bit windows is sooo long in coming.. if portability is for canoes you don;t have to worry that sizeof(int)==sizeof(long) only for a specific subset of architectures , and (case in point) on 64bit opteron systems a long is 64bit (8 bytes) and an int is 32bit/4bytes. On 32bit platforms sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == 4 (bytes)
If all you want is to copy/move whatever stuff from one place to the next, simply open *2* non-spatial browsers or (if you are on windows) use the winodws explorer with the treeview. If you use konqueror, simply split the (konqueror) screen and be done with it.
As for the windows users comment. Ever since win95 it has annoyed the hell out of me that the windows default was to open a new winodw for each new folder.. Im glad G-Nome 2.6 after 10 years of development is now ready to start making the same mistakes Billy Boy and his ilk made over 10 years ago..
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This is old hat, sortof.
German computer magazine C'T defeated fingerprint scanners a few years ago using gummibears. Im sure www.heise.de should ahve a (german) copy of that still online somewhere
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
I half a 1 and a half hour commute each day.
I do this on a bicyle
I also drink coffee (usually in moedration) and alcohol (in moderation).
Then again, Im currently working in moscow for a week, so I have no biking commute, I drink about a dozen cups of coffee a day, (and Im not going to talk about alcohol, though compared to the locals Im hardly drinking anything).
Ive also spend time doing similar work in muslim countries (no alcohol allowed, and tea, tea, tea all day long, no exercise either).
Ive also spend time in countries where my habits were between these extremes, doing similar work.
I've looked back on the quality of work there and can safely state that there is no correlation between the quality of work, and the type of beverages or the amount of physical exercise.
Bzzt, wrong
,exporting Word docs
At least in my case:
Things still broken:
Headings and numbering when importing, editing
Setting excel spreadsheets to print all on one page (settings sometimes get lost)
Many word templates (esp. those with images in them) look slightly different in OOo, even if all you do is printing them
(ooffice --print filename.dot)
>The register article mentions that battery life could be 1/3 of a P-M
No, please read again.It's 1/3 LESS battery live , so 66.7% of the P-M. So for your 5 hours example, the battery life would be 3.3 hours
please check out the Dice animated gif that comes with the article (you might have to reload to see it, as they might have changing adverts
.. tossers
if(threshold = salary_sucks)
= ?? on a GCC article ??
And that company claims to be high-tech ?
Sheesh
Are you saying that if I give you free hardware, you will write the OS for it ?
I care
.torrent files on any machine, then ftp them to the right directory on my main machine and voila yet another torrent downloading .
btdownloadmanycurses running under a screen session means that I can have my torrents up and downloading as long as my machine stays up.
If I accidentally crash X whilst playing doom3 (or whatever) it does not hurt my torrents.
In fact I can download
Usually the stuff has downloaded by the time I get home again, and I can listen to them immediately (live concerts from easytree). Try that with any of the facny GUI clients
Dude ..
if you downloaded the playboy piccies of Kazaa to prevent stains on your store bought copy of said magazine, you are safe.
If you happened to have downloaded one piccie that was not part of your store bought collection, you are just as illegal as the mp3 downloaders.
If you shared the downloaded piccies (regardless of wether or not you have a store bought copy) you are also in violation.
The fact that the porn industry is not chasing the individual downloaders is irrelevant to this
(and the fact that they don;t bother with lawsuits to the big spreaders, but simply show up late at night with some heavy dudes and a bunch of clue-by-fours doesn;t matter either
play doom3
The register has this to say about it:5 00_im ac/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/29/sub-
Sounds sensible.
Hook it up to your TV and/or an airport express (or whatever that wireless streaming audio thingamajig is called) and go.
Of course, a standalone DVD player these days costs $50
Oddly enough, the Arthur C Clarke Foundation is actually working on just that. Setting up an alert system for Tsunamis:
http://www.clarkefoundation.org/projects
PROJECT WARN in Partnership with the Japan US Science Technology and Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP)
The purpose of Project Warn is combine enhanced communications and IT systems to provide warning of impending natural or man-made disasters and to provide on-going communications and remote sensing and GIS support during disaster relief operations. The Clarke Foundation is working with the Pacific Disaster Center, the Asian Disaster Mitigation Organization, the United Nations, and the US and Japanese Governments as coordinated through the JUSTSAP organization to carry out a suitable test and demonstration in this area. In particular a simulation and test is being planned in the Pacific Region in 2005 to determine to how to use the latest information and sensing technology more effectively in the advent of that a major Tsunami might impact an Asian country or island. Clarke Foundation personnel are providing technical advice and support on a volunteer basis to this project.
Maybe some people should have remembered Krakatoa cataclism or just simply should have seen Clarke book. Damn, some people should just read to help prevent disasters.
If you look on the ACF website, you'll find this tidbit: (in the projects section)
PROJECT WARN in Partnership with the Japan US Science Technology and Space Applications Program (JUSTSAP)
The purpose of Project Warn is combine enhanced communications and IT systems to provide warning of impending natural or man-made disasters and to provide on-going communications and remote sensing and GIS support during disaster relief operations. The Clarke Foundation is working with the Pacific Disaster Center, the Asian Disaster Mitigation Organization, the United Nations, and the US and Japanese Governments as coordinated through the JUSTSAP organization to carry out a suitable test and demonstration in this area. In particular a simulation and test is being planned in the Pacific Region in 2005 to determine to how to use the latest information and sensing technology more effectively in the advent of that a major Tsunami might impact an Asian country or island. Clarke Foundation personnel are providing technical advice and support on a volunteer basis to this project.
Further to this:
s uggests a drastic climate change happening 5200 years ago, whereas this articlep lant.htm
The article http://www.news-about-space.org/story/2409.html
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quel
(based on the same findings, by the same Lonnie) states that there has not been a significant climate change in the last 50,000 years.
Puzzling
OK, so the climate is going to change .
But from what the article suggests, we will get a period of decreased solar activity, causing a (serious0 global cooling (if I read it correctly).
Unfortunately the article keeps only sayign that ``a major climate change'' is about to happen, without bothering to point out what it is going to be.
Should we stock up on heaters, and start generating more greenhouse gasses ?
or should we stock up on sun-cream and cut all NOx emisisions ?
So, again, what's wrong with kmenuedit ?
.
it does remembers your changes (though the option is called save, not OK)
Of course, I don;t use the menus much,
and kmenuedit has some serious limitations, but you can do with it what you want
(at least with the one that came with KDE 3.2 which I used tested
Without id software (and some other keys), gaming would be Windows-only right now.
..
But, but
what about nethack ?
Trust me on this .. speaking from personal experience, the IT manager does put in the normal 50+hour weeks, and the occaisonal 75+ hour week. Maybe not because of a viagra storm, but simply because of other nice things
You know,
/. type of stuff.
when I read the subject and frontpage bit, i thought he was building a bike, that took care of his email needs, and had a build in laptop, and other geeky
It turns out however to be the other kind of E (lectric iso lectronic)
Have you considered a moped type bike ?
OK, so this will be considerd just anecdotical evidence (and rightfully so, because it is), but I've recently encountered a reiserfs corruption issue (on a laptop, that ran out of power)
;)
And I've still had problems with reiser over NFS
(there used to be the case that is you had a file/dir with test in it's name it would be seen as a dir if it was a file and v.v.)
Also, the recent mantel kernels from Suse had an issue with reiser hash clashes where creating a file with a 2-letter name caused the creation of a ghost file with a similar name.
The biggest benefit I see for ext3 is that if ext3 gets confused/corrupted, you can tunefs it back to ext2, and then run the tries and tested and rocksolid ext2 recovery tools to recover them.
Having said all that, reiser4 looks extremely good and promising, and Im more then happy that many people start using it, so that they can be bit by the bugs, and that when it's fully stable, I can safely switch as well
I wasn't too thrilled with Snow Crash. I did read it though. For me Cryptonomicon was his great work. I have read that book so many times and was breathlessly awaiting the "prequel", Quicksilver. What a letdown. It didn't have any of the spirit of the original. None of the humour or the witty, clever conversations. I found it to have no redeeming features. I was shocked. I haven't bothered to even skim his latest one.
To each his own &c &c.
The whole royal society bit can be a bit too geeky I guess, but I found both books an excellent read
For as long as I can remember, airline tickets are personal, meaning that you have not been able to fly anonymously for years.
Having to show an Id to proof that you really are the person you claim to be is only logical.
As other posters have already pointed out, identifying the bodies is another good reason, and while showing an ID will not stop terrorists, it can be a big help in tracing them after the fact (i.e. find their associates and chase them down) which was indeed what happened after 9/11
Figting for your rights and freedom is fine, but this sounds like fighting windmills to me
This is aimed at:
.. honest typo, I swear)
1) gamers
2) nerds
3) rich kids
and later on, with the quadro line:
4) companies/professionals who really want a lot of bang for their bug (buck I mean
I find point 12, "Portability is for canoes" either self-serving to Microsoft interests or an interesting insight into their thinking process.
.. if portability is for canoes you don;t have to worry that sizeof(int)==sizeof(long) only for a specific subset of architectures , and (case in point) on 64bit opteron systems a long is 64bit (8 bytes) and an int is 32bit/4bytes. On 32bit platforms sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == 4 (bytes)
It might explain why their 64bit windows is sooo long in coming
If all you want is to copy/move whatever stuff from one place to the next, simply open *2* non-spatial browsers or (if you are on windows) use the winodws explorer with the treeview.
.. Im glad G-Nome 2.6 after 10 years of development is now ready to start making the same mistakes Billy Boy and his ilk made over 10 years ago ..
If you use konqueror, simply split the (konqueror) screen and be done with it.
As for the windows users comment.
Ever since win95 it has annoyed the hell out of me that the windows default was to open a new winodw for each new folder