Are you considering having a "stable" branch of the pages where only a "few" trusted sources are allowed to edit the pages, as well as an "experimental" branch which would be like the current version, ie. editable by anyone?
The reason would be because when I direct students to a certain page on Wikipedia on an assignment, I can't be sure it will contain the same, correct, information today as when I wrote the assignment description. For all I know, it can be edited by the first student reading the assignment!
If I could enter the "stable" version of the page, I'd be sure it will be correct in the future as well.
I assume lots and lots of people would like to have a "stable" version to use as reference in their papers and reports./Tomas ps. I got the idea from a post by a fellow slashdotter...
And yes, my server WILL be able to handle a Slashdotting! (I guess quite a lot of you guys already have seen the page, but it got updated with pictures of the 1 Gbps equipment a few days ago)./Tomas
I always create another disk/partition where I create a directory "documents" where I force all documents to end up in.
Advantages: 1. You can reinstall OS without losing documents.
- Since W2k they have mandatory formatting of OS-drive. 2. You have only 8 letters in the name.
- Dos/scripts are easier to handle.
The Desktop should be a part of that directory OR you shouldn't have write access to the desktop!
Imagine going at 200 mph to work, only using a little bit of electricity. Man, you Americans should really improve your transportation infrastructure!
I went to Florida in March 2005 and there were road constructions everywhere. I can't say that you are preparing for any kind of oil shortage anytime soon...
Why should you not take into account the lossage when transporting gasoline and diesel, then?
They drill for it offshore and wherever, transport it with supertankers and pipelines (losses everywhere, including when they heat up the crude oil to make it pumpable), trucks along the highways etc etc.
Lastly burning the fuel at perhaps 25% efficiency with very poor cleaning (CO2 passes right through)...
If Windows were to ASK the user during startup what services and programs to autostart (except for the well known and checksummed original, MS, services), most of the spyware wouldn't even start!
Some will say that users will answer "yes, start that too" to all programs, but that's mostly depending on the GUI used for the asking process:
* Perhaps all processes/services should by default not start automatically
* Each have a (short) warning text.
* Only one place for all autostarts! Not HKLM, HKCU, Startup,...
* Figure out more stuff here yerselves... I don't work at MS and I don't want to invent stuff for them for free!:)
Since most users believe that they need to buy a new computer because the old one is slow, but it's due to spyware (are Intel/MS supporting the spyware creators to increase sales?), which clings to the OS like a spider in all of it's autostart places...
We installed 100 Mbps internet in 1999. While we dug all over the place, we installed multi mode, single mode, coax and Cat-5 to all houses in the block...
Now we're running VoIP-telephony from the Internet, to the Central (where we have a Ericsson DRU unit and three special phone switches), via the Cat-5s to all houses! It really works, and it is dang cheap!;)
See pictures of it for yourself. Follow the link in my signature.
Professional? You must be using Internet Explorer! Use Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/... and you will most likely have none!
(Except for a few cookies perhaps).
Try to surf to the bastard page: http://www.slasdot.org (misspelled slashdot.org) and in IE you will have to click NO several times etc. The other browsers (Netscape 4.79 and 7.1 at least) have no problem with that kind of crap.
1. I did RTFM! (and I searched Google etc) 2. No, I don't expect it to be like Windows. I expect it to be like Linux with KDE! Not just command line based. 3. I DO have a degree in CS! 4. I have spent about 4 days trying.
I don't want a flame war, just say that I've been trying to install Linux on a Compaq Evo 1015v since last week and I simply can't get X up and running in any orderly fashion.
I've tried Debian and even tried to recompile the kernel a few times, to no avail. I have downloaded a couple of GB via dselect without any success.
The Red Hat 9 CD would only boot, but not install any files. It didn't recognize the network adapter nor the DVD-rom (that it booted from).
How do I install Linux (with X) on that laptop? Must it be that hard to do it?
Does the Linux community understand that the threshold is too high for the big mass of users?
I really want to run Linux (distro unimportant) on the laptop, so don't blame me!
We've had Cash-cards in Sweden half a decade or so. I have one integrated in my Visa-card.
They never took off, though. The banks were stupidly greedy and charged too much from the stores that had a card reader. In the beginning the card worked everywhere in my city, but after one year the readers all vanished when the store keepers got upset about the cost.
There you go - you should spread your inventions to everyone for no cost at all. It's not until you've reached critical mass you can make money, and not from charging for the product, but by savings on other things, like handling cash, and by selling services to the users of your invention.
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Are you considering having a "stable" branch of the pages where only a "few" trusted sources are allowed to edit the pages, as well as an "experimental" branch which would be like the current version, ie. editable by anyone?
/Tomas
The reason would be because when I direct students to a certain page on Wikipedia on an assignment, I can't be sure it will contain the same, correct, information today as when I wrote the assignment description. For all I know, it can be edited by the first student reading the assignment!
If I could enter the "stable" version of the page, I'd be sure it will be correct in the future as well.
I assume lots and lots of people would like to have a "stable" version to use as reference in their papers and reports.
ps. I got the idea from a post by a fellow slashdotter...
To all of you!
Hi!
/Tomas
Welcome to look at our 1 Gbps/100 Mbps project. It has been online since 1999 and just got upgraded to 1 Gbps uplink to the Internet.
http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand (currently 77 845 visitors since 1999).
And yes, my server WILL be able to handle a Slashdotting! (I guess quite a lot of you guys already have seen the page, but it got updated with pictures of the 1 Gbps equipment a few days ago).
Taste this: In the Swedish version of WinXP, the "Program Files" folder is called "Program". Quite a few programs get confused over this... /Tomas
ps. Move the Favorites to that directory too!
I always create another disk/partition where I create a directory "documents" where I force all documents to end up in.
Advantages:
1. You can reinstall OS without losing documents.
- Since W2k they have mandatory formatting of OS-drive.
2. You have only 8 letters in the name.
- Dos/scripts are easier to handle.
The Desktop should be a part of that directory OR you shouldn't have write access to the desktop!
Finally! I really hated those "my " names.
You should aim for a high speed train instead!
Imagine going at 200 mph to work, only using a little bit of electricity. Man, you Americans should really improve your transportation infrastructure!
I went to Florida in March 2005 and there were road constructions everywhere. I can't say that you are preparing for any kind of oil shortage anytime soon...
Why should you not take into account the lossage when transporting gasoline and diesel, then?
They drill for it offshore and wherever, transport it with supertankers and pipelines (losses everywhere, including when they heat up the crude oil to make it pumpable), trucks along the highways etc etc.
Lastly burning the fuel at perhaps 25% efficiency with very poor cleaning (CO2 passes right through)...
Yep. Can't agree more. I got my CS grad in 2001 and haven't had more than 6 months at a decent job since then (the IT-bubble burst...)!
Look at me now, sysadmin on W2k3 servers... It's really really sad!
*buh huuuuuu* (crying doesn't help either..).
I hate my CS degree!!
http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand/
ps. I bet you can't Slashdot that web server off line
Another useless application...
...
:)
If Windows were to ASK the user during startup what services and programs to autostart (except for the well known and checksummed original, MS, services), most of the spyware wouldn't even start!
Some will say that users will answer "yes, start that too" to all programs, but that's mostly depending on the GUI used for the asking process:
* Perhaps all processes/services should by default not start automatically
* Each have a (short) warning text.
* Only one place for all autostarts! Not HKLM, HKCU, Startup,
* Figure out more stuff here yerselves... I don't work at MS and I don't want to invent stuff for them for free!
Since most users believe that they need to buy a new computer because the old one is slow, but it's due to spyware (are Intel/MS supporting the spyware creators to increase sales?), which clings to the OS like a spider in all of it's autostart places...
Low energy use is the most important thing for low cost computers!
Imagine the infrastructure needed and that the power usage cost easily rises beyond the purchase price of the computer.
We installed 100 Mbps internet in 1999. While we dug all over the place, we installed multi mode, single mode, coax and Cat-5 to all houses in the block...
;)
Now we're running VoIP-telephony from the Internet, to the Central (where we have a Ericsson DRU unit and three special phone switches), via the Cat-5s to all houses! It really works, and it is dang cheap!
See pictures of it for yourself. Follow the link in my signature.
Doh, 1 = 100%, hence 0.9999999 = 99.99999% uptime. ...on a Windows box? Gotta be kidding!
Your A/C-unit is eating your gas when it's hot outside. Easy as that.
Professional? You must be using Internet Explorer!
Use Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/... and you will most likely have none!
(Except for a few cookies perhaps).
Try to surf to the bastard page:
http://www.slasdot.org (misspelled slashdot.org) and in IE you will have to click NO several times etc. The other browsers (Netscape 4.79 and 7.1 at least) have no problem with that kind of crap.
Check out how we constructed a 100 Mbps fiber optic network to 60+ bungalows!
http://www.bjornerback.com/tomas/mattgrand
1. I did RTFM! (and I searched Google etc)
;)
2. No, I don't expect it to be like Windows. I expect it to be like Linux with KDE! Not just command line based.
3. I DO have a degree in CS!
4. I have spent about 4 days trying.
Now, what more does it take?
I don't want a flame war, just say that I've been trying to install Linux on a Compaq Evo 1015v since last week and I simply can't get X up and running in any orderly fashion.
I've tried Debian and even tried to recompile the kernel a few times, to no avail. I have downloaded a couple of GB via dselect without any success.
The Red Hat 9 CD would only boot, but not install any files. It didn't recognize the network adapter nor the DVD-rom (that it booted from).
How do I install Linux (with X) on that laptop?
Must it be that hard to do it?
Does the Linux community understand that the threshold is too high for the big mass of users?
I really want to run Linux (distro unimportant) on the laptop, so don't blame me!
Could not have said it better myself!
Take a look at, and even visit, my city Umeå in Northern Sweden, where we have fiber optic cables in the entire city.
m l)
There are even villages 100 km from here with the same infrastructure!
I'm currently sitting on true 100 Mbps internet.
A few links to visit:
http://www.norrnod.se (especially how the DMZ is constructed on http://www.norrnod.se/norrnod/dmz/dmz-oversikt.ht
http://www.bostream.com (fiberstream is one service)
http://www.umeaenergi.se/default.asp?id=2942 (community power company who installed fiber all over the place)
Some information is in Swedish...
I am paying US$25 per month for this service!
Read my sig!
We've had Cash-cards in Sweden half a decade or so. I have one integrated in my Visa-card.
They never took off, though. The banks were stupidly greedy and charged too much from the stores that had a card reader. In the beginning the card worked everywhere in my city, but after one year the readers all vanished when the store keepers got upset about the cost.
There you go - you should spread your inventions to everyone for no cost at all. It's not until you've reached critical mass you can make money, and not from charging for the product, but by savings on other things, like handling cash, and by selling services to the users of your invention.
Season 6 Episode 7: "The Simpsons already did it!".