I've tried Dropbox and SpiderOak. I think I've settled on SpiderOak for now, since it is cheaper per MB and offers really nice, granular controls. For example, I can sync specific sets of data between different computers and backup some computers without syncing them to others at all (unlike Dropbox which syncs everything to everyone). Like Dropbox, you get 2GB free with no purchase necessary and the client automatically encrypts data in such a way that allegedly the company cannot decrypt it without you providing them with your password. It also counts your quota against the size of your data once it has been "deduplicated" rather than before (Dropbox does it before).
As an added bonus, while the client takes more resources when sending data (since it encrypts it on the client side), it idles much lower -- virtually at 0% processor usage -- than Dropbox, I found.
Of course, giving a referral link is mandatory, right? This link provides both you and me with an extra gig of free space.:-)
I mean to say Oxford American English Dictionary. The grand OED itself says:
2. fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In F. ironie du sort.)
It goes on to note this usage has been around since at least the 17th century.
Note the Oxford English Dictionary on ironic: "happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this." That a Verizon device makes an iPhone more usable than AT&T's own network is precisely that.
It has actually been available in parts of Texas (as well as a few other areas -- I think part of Indiana) for almost a year, if not a year. I think it is suppose to be here in St. Louis by the end of the year. SAtechBlog.com has covered it very well from the time it was in trial mode. I can't believe Slashdot didn't catch how old this news was, as you say!
Right, what I was wondering was whether the second *tuner* costs more? Normally each tuner connected to a dish from either company is five extra bucks. If that trend was true for this device, the PVR would really cost $10/month.
1.) Doesn't it cost $5 more a month (not including the DVR fee of $5/month) for the second tuner? At any rate, Dish does have a dual-tuner PVR, but the "standard" one (which is free with a one year contract) comes with just one tuner. Works fine for me though, and it's extremely well designed. Plus it holds 100 hours of video...
2.) Dish's customer service has been excellent. Virtually no hold time, even on weekends, plus they actually know what they are talking about.
Not to mention Dish is always sending me free Pay-Per-View coupons good for movies ($3.99 a pop). Perhaps it's because I don't buy PPV stuff, but its still nice.
Xandros has the ATI proprietary Radeon drivers or the XFree86 ones that are non-accelerated? The last time I spoke with an ATI rep, only Lindows was authorized to include them (that's been a few months, but I don't believe either Libranet or Xandros have had a release since then).
The ProSuite and PowerPack releases include a lot more software, so they are more versatile -- they can setup a good web server, work station for development, etc. Discovery Edition isn't intended for that. It is intended purely to be a normal desktop.
You can add the software, but the main point is not to expect Discovery Edition to replace your copy of Mandrake ProSuite for your web server, mail server, and C++ Programing workstation.
Not the discovery edition, but the standard Download Edition. The discovery edition, like the PowerPack and ProSuite will not be available for a free download (following Mandrake's standard way of doing things).
I thought it was pretty clear, although perhaps not, that this was part one of a two part series. Specifications, speed tests, etc. will be in the second, more technical portion.
Despite the fact that this article appears to copy the text of my article, it has been modified to include one or more offensive remarks. Please read the original instead.
Yes, any restrictions are going to be cause compulsion in some manor. Freedom of the Press, the example the dictionary cites, isn't without limits. For that matter, if you abuse the free press and publish libelous stories, you could get sued. Most "freedoms" have common sense boundaries that prevent you from infringing on others' freedoms.
In a "free government," there are restrictions to insure that freedom endures and anarchy does not take over. This is a very good parallel to the freedom of Free Software. To insure the continual freedom of the code in question, some action, namely preventing the ability take that freedom away from others, is required.
More to the point, the key words in the definition I referenced are "not being unduly hampered or frustrated." There may be some debate on how much restriction would mean being unduly hampered, but I suspect the GPL is within the limits for most people.
The problem with that, of course, is that GPL'd software isn't really free (as in speech). It's just a different set of requirements governing distribution and modification, and it relies just as much on copyright law for protection as any closed source, commercial product.
Actually it is free in the most common sense of the word, much like "free" nations have laws. Here is what Merriam-Webster has to say:
2 a : a political right b : FRANCHISE, PRIVILEGE synonyms FREEDOM, LIBERTY, LICENSE mean the power or condition of acting without compulsion. FREEDOM has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated.
You can see how "Free as in Freedom" is able to fit into the defintion here. The GPL is sort of like a Republican form of government (as opposed to a pure direct-rule democracy) -- by having specific procedures, rules, and representatives, a Democratic Republic can exist much more successfully than a Democracy (ruled directly by and through the people). Likewise, while the BSD license (for example) may be more "purely free," its lack of protection to insure continued freedom in the future prevents it from being as free as the GPL in other senses.
If you install Jaguar on an iMac G3 (Slotloading, not the older tray loading ones) without upgrading the firmware to 4.19 (IIRC), it has been documented that OS X will think the screen is a Flatpanel iMac and will use the wrong refresh frequency.
This has been known to cause the analog card that controls the monitor to die. You can find out more by googling or taking a look at the Apple Support Forums under iMac (G3) Display Issues.
Considering that Mac OS X 10.2 is quite content to fry the analog card inside of an iMac G3 (Slotloading), if someone doesn't read the fine manual and upgrade the firmware first, I think $129 isn't enough in many cases. A system that is suppose to be ultra friendly shouldn't fry one's built-in monitor without big warnings on-screen first.
Of course, if you do read the manual, like I did, I don't see any problems with the system on a G3. Mac OS X 10.2.6 runs quite decently on my iMac.
Just as a bit of info, here is why I use GNU/Linux in my articles covering Open Source/Free Software (including the one these comments are about). It's simply because I see GNU and Linux as two parts to our "success." If you take away GNU from Linux, you no longer have a working operating system. Likewise, if you take Linux away from GNU, you don't have a way to use all of your tools.
Thus, we don't just have GNU or Linux, to have a real competition for other operating systems, we depend on GNU and Linux (GNU/Linux). Why not celebrate both major core components to our wonderful operating software?
I seem to remember another device like this, but this one does look very nice. I wonder how much RadioShack will charge for it? Probably more than I want to know. I guess there is a "remote" chance I'll actually be willing to pay the price for one.
Thanks Mosfet, you are certainly right. If being a KDE mouthpiece means reporting "just the facts" then I plead guilty. Otherwise, Open for Business is not a KDE mouthpiece, and I would retract my findings the moment anyone proves them wrong.
Its unfortunate that people have this double standard where they want one desktop covered with facts based reporting, but if you do a fact based report on the other desktop - wham - your a mouthpiece for the project. I can guarantee that most of those who have attacked my credibility would be quite unhappy if I followed their advice - only on the GNOME League instead. Of course I wouldn't do that either, I see no need to minipulate the facts on either side.
Not really. While the side bars are RSS based, the middle column only features original reporting from the member sites - that isn't something that can be accomplished with RSS.
Yes, I'm happy to report we did. The system happily ran through the night... save a larger then normal load on the system, Linux and Apache came through!!!:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I've tried Dropbox and SpiderOak. I think I've settled on SpiderOak for now, since it is cheaper per MB and offers really nice, granular controls. For example, I can sync specific sets of data between different computers and backup some computers without syncing them to others at all (unlike Dropbox which syncs everything to everyone). Like Dropbox, you get 2GB free with no purchase necessary and the client automatically encrypts data in such a way that allegedly the company cannot decrypt it without you providing them with your password. It also counts your quota against the size of your data once it has been "deduplicated" rather than before (Dropbox does it before).
As an added bonus, while the client takes more resources when sending data (since it encrypts it on the client side), it idles much lower -- virtually at 0% processor usage -- than Dropbox, I found.
Of course, giving a referral link is mandatory, right? This link provides both you and me with an extra gig of free space. :-)
I mean to say Oxford American English Dictionary. The grand OED itself says:
2. fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In F. ironie du sort.)
It goes on to note this usage has been around since at least the 17th century.
Note the Oxford English Dictionary on ironic: "happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this." That a Verizon device makes an iPhone more usable than AT&T's own network is precisely that.
It has actually been available in parts of Texas (as well as a few other areas -- I think part of Indiana) for almost a year, if not a year. I think it is suppose to be here in St. Louis by the end of the year. SAtechBlog.com has covered it very well from the time it was in trial mode. I can't believe Slashdot didn't catch how old this news was, as you say!
Right, what I was wondering was whether the second *tuner* costs more? Normally each tuner connected to a dish from either company is five extra bucks. If that trend was true for this device, the PVR would really cost $10/month.
How large is the standard hard disk, by the way?
1.) Doesn't it cost $5 more a month (not including the DVR fee of $5/month) for the second tuner? At any rate, Dish does have a dual-tuner PVR, but the "standard" one (which is free with a one year contract) comes with just one tuner. Works fine for me though, and it's extremely well designed. Plus it holds 100 hours of video...
2.) Dish's customer service has been excellent. Virtually no hold time, even on weekends, plus they actually know what they are talking about.
Not to mention Dish is always sending me free Pay-Per-View coupons good for movies ($3.99 a pop). Perhaps it's because I don't buy PPV stuff, but its still nice.
Xandros has the ATI proprietary Radeon drivers or the XFree86 ones that are non-accelerated? The last time I spoke with an ATI rep, only Lindows was authorized to include them (that's been a few months, but I don't believe either Libranet or Xandros have had a release since then).
- Tim
The ProSuite and PowerPack releases include a lot more software, so they are more versatile -- they can setup a good web server, work station for development, etc. Discovery Edition isn't intended for that. It is intended purely to be a normal desktop.
You can add the software, but the main point is not to expect Discovery Edition to replace your copy of Mandrake ProSuite for your web server, mail server, and C++ Programing workstation.
Not the discovery edition, but the standard Download Edition. The discovery edition, like the PowerPack and ProSuite will not be available for a free download (following Mandrake's standard way of doing things).
I thought it was pretty clear, although perhaps not, that this was part one of a two part series. Specifications, speed tests, etc. will be in the second, more technical portion.
Despite the fact that this article appears to copy the text of my article, it has been modified to include one or more offensive remarks. Please read the original instead.
That is not stated in the text of my review. Someone has changed the text of my quote, quite offensively I might add.
As I reported in the article, Mandrake 9.2 ProSuite won't be out for sometime still, thus the rationale for the article still being valid.
Yes, any restrictions are going to be cause compulsion in some manor. Freedom of the Press, the example the dictionary cites, isn't without limits. For that matter, if you abuse the free press and publish libelous stories, you could get sued. Most "freedoms" have common sense boundaries that prevent you from infringing on others' freedoms.
In a "free government," there are restrictions to insure that freedom endures and anarchy does not take over. This is a very good parallel to the freedom of Free Software. To insure the continual freedom of the code in question, some action, namely preventing the ability take that freedom away from others, is required.
More to the point, the key words in the definition I referenced are "not being unduly hampered or frustrated." There may be some debate on how much restriction would mean being unduly hampered, but I suspect the GPL is within the limits for most people.
Actually it is free in the most common sense of the word, much like "free" nations have laws. Here is what Merriam-Webster has to say:
You can see how "Free as in Freedom" is able to fit into the defintion here. The GPL is sort of like a Republican form of government (as opposed to a pure direct-rule democracy) -- by having specific procedures, rules, and representatives, a Democratic Republic can exist much more successfully than a Democracy (ruled directly by and through the people). Likewise, while the BSD license (for example) may be more "purely free," its lack of protection to insure continued freedom in the future prevents it from being as free as the GPL in other senses.
If you install Jaguar on an iMac G3 (Slotloading, not the older tray loading ones) without upgrading the firmware to 4.19 (IIRC), it has been documented that OS X will think the screen is a Flatpanel iMac and will use the wrong refresh frequency.
This has been known to cause the analog card that controls the monitor to die. You can find out more by googling or taking a look at the Apple Support Forums under iMac (G3) Display Issues.
Considering that Mac OS X 10.2 is quite content to fry the analog card inside of an iMac G3 (Slotloading), if someone doesn't read the fine manual and upgrade the firmware first, I think $129 isn't enough in many cases. A system that is suppose to be ultra friendly shouldn't fry one's built-in monitor without big warnings on-screen first.
Of course, if you do read the manual, like I did, I don't see any problems with the system on a G3. Mac OS X 10.2.6 runs quite decently on my iMac.
Just as a bit of info, here is why I use GNU/Linux in my articles covering Open Source/Free Software (including the one these comments are about). It's simply because I see GNU and Linux as two parts to our "success." If you take away GNU from Linux, you no longer have a working operating system. Likewise, if you take Linux away from GNU, you don't have a way to use all of your tools.
Thus, we don't just have GNU or Linux, to have a real competition for other operating systems, we depend on GNU and Linux (GNU/Linux). Why not celebrate both major core components to our wonderful operating software?
-Tim
I seem to remember another device like this, but this one does look very nice. I wonder how much RadioShack will charge for it? Probably more than I want to know. I guess there is a "remote" chance I'll actually be willing to pay the price for one.
I put up a mirror of the piece on our server at OfB.biz. Hopefully that will help since the promo.kde.org server is unavailable right now.
HTH,
Tim
Thanks Mosfet, you are certainly right. If being a KDE mouthpiece means reporting "just the facts" then I plead guilty. Otherwise, Open for Business is not a KDE mouthpiece, and I would retract my findings the moment anyone proves them wrong.
Its unfortunate that people have this double standard where they want one desktop covered with facts based reporting, but if you do a fact based report on the other desktop - wham - your a mouthpiece for the project. I can guarantee that most of those who have attacked my credibility would be quite unhappy if I followed their advice - only on the GNOME League instead. Of course I wouldn't do that either, I see no need to minipulate the facts on either side.
-Tim
You might be interested in the article I wrote a few weeks ago considering a scenario similar to what you mention with Palladium.
I don't understand what you mean. Our site is done, the grammar is fine... where's the problem?
Thanks,
Tim
Not really. While the side bars are RSS based, the middle column only features original reporting from the member sites - that isn't something that can be accomplished with RSS.
Best,
Tim
Yes, I'm happy to report we did. The system happily ran through the night... save a larger then normal load on the system, Linux and Apache came through!!! :-)
-Tim