When writing large documents, eg. greater >100 pages, I prefer to use Latex, Bibtex, Subversion, and Kile.
Latex is brilliant for large documents. As it says, it lets you separate content from how its displayed. It produces beutiful results, especially for technical documents with maths etc. With the addition of PSfrag you can even put Latex formatting into your eps graphs and diagrams.
Bibtex is still my preferred reference manager. Most journal have style files for their preferred bibliography.
When I started using subversion with my documents it was great. With a networked subversion server I could get the latest version of my document anywhere. You could track changes, and see when you last worked on a section.Being able to find out what you changed in a particular chapter last month is handy. I now have a subversion repository that I has sub-directories for all my latex documents. I started using subversion while writing up my PhD and have used it to keep track of all my latex documents since. If your unfamiliar with subversion then kdesvn is a great GUI tool that integrates into KDE file management.
Kile is a good kde frontend to latex. I used emacs for 10+ years and loved it, but Kile's integration with the KDE desktop and its specialisation for latex make it a good choice of editor. Of course can use any text editor you want with latex, but choosing one designed for latex mark up and lots of shortcuts makes life easier.
WYSWYG editors like OOO and MSO are really only good for short documents. I've had to deal with these programs for documents >50 pages and they really become a pain.
Elivs
Re:Homeopathy and the power of the mind...
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I'm a doctor
Same.
it is difficult for an individual (even a doctor) to tell somebody to NOT do something that is not harmful, and (very, very unlikely) may be beneficial.
Unfortunately I disagree with this statement. While most homeopathists generally don't do harm I have seen plenty who have.
Things that I've personally seen:
1) Patients who are struggling with money spending more than they can afford on bogus treatments. Depriving them on money they could have spent on other things.
2) Patients refusing or delaying treatment to see try homeopathy. While people have the right to chose their own treatment, a faith heeler and homeopathest misled people by saying that their treatment works. One case springs to mind of a patient in their mid 30 with Duke's A bowel cancer. This should have had a good chance for cure, but after 12 months of "trying the homeopathy first" the cancer had disseminated (liver/retro-peritoneum etc).
3) I've also seen direct harm based on dangerous advice. When I was a house surgeon we had a patient come in with seizures due to a low serum sodium. It turned out that her homeopathists had advise her to drink about 5-7L of water per day. The little old lady did this and essentially diluted herself with excess water until she almost died.
(BTW drinking so much water that you do this is REALLY HARD. It requires a lot of will power to drink much beyond your thirst.)
So, while its nice to say homeopathists etc do no harm, its simply not true. I suggest reading this article on quack watch.
Also, if the ssh server has the sftp-server enabled then the kio-slave sftp:// is faster than fish://
Also kde starts a ssh-identity server (key-ring) on login. Open any shell and you can add identities in the normal way (ssh-add), then you will never be prompted for passwords from any kde apps.
How can you claim to be a geek without a linux box on your network? This is the minimum requirement. You even have a spare machine around.
In every geek home there should be at least 1 linux box to even be considered a geek. After that points are allocated as:
1) 1 point of your linux box is gento or debian/unstable 2) 1 point for each BSD machime 3) 2 points solaris, irix, aix machines 4) 2 points for a rack mount 5) 1 point for each active machine without a cover 6) 1 point for each *nix poster on the wall. (eg- linus, bsd demon etc). 7) 5 points if the poster is an autographed poster of RMS. 7) 1 point for each "light saber" or "one ring" 8) 1 point for having a "ssh" client on your cell phone. 9) 1 point for every 5 windows boxes. 10) -3 points for having a girlfriend. (unless said girlfriend preferes CLI over GUIs, or has an opinion on the vi/emacs debate) 11) 1 point/kg of unused cables or other computer parts that you have keep "just in case" 12) 2 points for posting on slashdot on saturday night asking what consitutes a geek network!
As a father of a six monther, my wife and I have discussed this question. Really it is up to you as parents to decide what's right for you, but here are our ideas and logic.
Our opinion is basically that our computer is part of our everyday life. Our son should learn to use it as soon as he is technically able. However having said that, I would expect his learning to be slow and over many years as he matures. We want to teach sensible and safe use of a tool.
We use our computer as our "digital" hub. We have been doing this for many years. It sits in the lounge with all our music (mp3) and photos (6000+ scanned negatives going back 30yrs for both of us), and occationally dvd/video. The photos are on the screen saver. We are the kind of family that only watches TV 1-2hrs per week. We get outside and are active.
Here are our ideas 1) When my son is able and wants to I'll teach him how to put on music. Judging by my niece that could be when he's quite young, 2-3 yrs. 2) I'm happy to give him an email account when he is able to write to friends. I suspect this will be around the time he goes to school. 3) Web etc. will ALWAYS be done on the family computer under supervision until he's at least 15yrs. 4) He might get a computer in his room at around age 10-12 for music, homework, photos etc. This machine won't have general internet access. 5) I'd like to teach him to program like my father did for me. Logo, basic, and games with programmable parts.
I'm sure every one has their own ideas about what's right for their child, but I think the most important principals are: 1) your child must want to learn 2) it should be staged to what is useful for them at that age 3) it must be "safe"
Remember computers are a normal part of life, just like TV, radio, alcohol, stoves/ovens/cooking, cars. It's your job as parent to teach them when to use them, how to use them, and how to be safe/healthy.
The "apnea monitors" have been shown not to work. Either the manufactures set the senativity so high that it goes off every couple of days with "false alarms", or the sensativity is turned down and many actual SIDS (cot deaths) are missed. Basically there is no happy medium. Child care professionals in most countries suggest you don't waste your money.
Similarly there is no point in a normal baby monitor for preventing SIDS. With a normal baby monitor you hear breathing, rather than the absense of breathing. With such a monitor when the breathing stops, the parents don't notice until the baby is dead.
If you want to prevent SIDS the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend placing you child on their back to sleep. They have the catch phrase "BACK TO SLEEP". This simple measure alone has been shown to reduce cot death by 40%
Maternal:
=========
1) Youth (less than 20yrs)
2) Unmarried
3) Short intergestational interval
4) Low socioeconomic status
5) Smoking
6) Drug Abuse (any drug including alcohol)
7) Black race (?related to socioeconomic factors)
Infant
======
1) Prematurity
2) Low Birth Weight
3) Male sex
4) Product of multiple births
5) Not first sibling
6) SIDS in priot sibling.
Overall the best advice is don't smoke indoors and place your child on their back. After that you can only hope all goes well.
1) Do you think it would be fair to describe UserLinux as a sub-distribution of Debian, rather than a distribution in its own right? If it is a sub-distribution can you explains some of the advantages and disadvantages.
2) As a 4yr Debian user would I be able to start using UserLinux right away? Are the tools the same.
3) I presume the system almost completely complies with debain-policy. Is this true and if not, where does it differ?
4) How large is the UserLinux archive at this stage? How many packages do you have? How many of them are pure-configuration type packages? How many are applications that aren't in the offical debian archive? (such as video players etc)
Thanks is advance for any answers and sorry amount the number and scope of questions. A few links would be great if its easier than giving full answers
Elivs
(PS - I'm about to try a netinstall to check out the system myself.)
When I was at college one of the girls I went out with had a step mother who had no ability to organise her own information.
In her rolodex type phone number finder she had several of her friends listed under "H" for "Home number" with a sublist of name and numbers. She had a similar setup for "W" for "work numbers" and "M" for "mobile numbers" with a list of peoples numbers.
Obviously the cards for "H", "W", "M" where quite full as most people where listed there. Other cards where almost empty.
I asked her why she didn't organise people by first names or last names. She looked stunned that at the suggestion.
I would hate to see how this lady organises her computer files, but a search facility no mater how bad would help her alot.
Elivs -- Sorry about any typoos in my post, Im having a busy day.
On a side note, anyone ever take an up-to-date testing machine and convert it to stable at release time? Did it, uh, work?
Due to the elegance of Debian this sort of thing is completely painless.
I've personally done this on several machines when "woody" became "stable". Its easy to do because when "testing" finally becomes "stable" all that changes in the archive is that symlinks all change.
Currently:
testing -> sarge
stable -> woody
After the release: stable -> sarge.
As an end user you have the option of tracking either by "testing/stable" or "woody/sarge".
To do what you want should track "sarge" rather than "testing". The best method is to use "real names" in your/etc/apt/sources.list. That is, make all occurances of "testing" (or "sarge") all read as "sarge". This way you won't even need to know when "sarge" becomes "stable", all that will happen is your updates will suddenly become less frequent and all updates will be for security.
Elivs
PS- sorry about tpyos and poor formating I having a busy day.
The debian installer is aimed at not just different hardware ports, but also different kernels including netBSD, FreeBSD, and Hurd. (http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux) While these are not yet "stable" ports the installer certainly tragets them in its design. Acknowledgeing that the installer only target debian versions of these kernels.
If you view an installer in the most basic sense, all it does is partition the disk, unarchives a few files, and install a boot loader. The boot media (floppy/net), kernel (bsd/linux), and GUI (gtk/ncurses) used to do this can all vary and be unrelated to the actual system being installed. I think this is the sort of thing you where suggesting and its the aim of the sarge installer.
The difficulty comes in making the installer flexable and extensible enough that you don't need to rewrite the whole thing for every different situation.
With the new sarge installer the flexability come from modularity. Each part of the installer is a ".udebs" package (micro-debian packages) that resides in the debian archive/bug-tracking system like other packages, complete with dependences etc. Thus someone building an image for an installation disk can pick and choose which modules are include depending on their needs. They can even write there own module if they want. For a fictious example: they might want to use a QT GUI rather than GTK, use hardware autodectection for sparc rather than i386, install Hurd rather than linux, and choose GRUB as the boot loader.
It will be interesting to see how well the new design actually achives this and its other goals. But, like most things, in debain flexability is considered a very design goal.
Elivs
(disclaimer: I'm not a debian developer, but I've been using debian for 5yrs and try to follow many of these sorts of dicussions)
I think what you want is the new sarge installer that is at RC1 at the momemnt.
Its modular to support all the things you want, and supports 10 archetures at this stage. Being modular should allow people to: script it, put a GUI on it,
hardware autodection modules (already done), multiple boot methods (PXE,USB mass-storage,CD-rom...)
The way I see it there are two types of file transfers that I might want to serve files for.
Public: In which case http/bitorrent are good choices currently. I can see that pdtp could be better than bit torrent for this.
Private: This includes transfering stuff to and from work, or for a small number of family to access photo collections. For this I currently use ssh/scp/sftp, rsync and scponly. These tools give me reliable, and efficient methods for secure personal file transfer. "scponly" provides a limited chrooted shell to allow specific users only access to a set directory using scp/sftp/rsync.
So yes I can see a place for a pdtp on my box, where it would complement other file transfer systems I have.
Write to them again. Point out that they are not there to be right or wrong, they are there to serve you.
Also tell them that you have shown many of your friends his/her response who where equally as disgused. Tell them that you have convinced several of your friends who previously didn't vote, to vote against them. CC the letter to his opponent and be sure the CC at the top of the letter.
Try to be clear and polite so you don't sound like a lunatic. Ideally you want to sound like a member of the middle ground of people who would normally vote for them.
The thought of someone actively campaining against them is worse than just losing one vote.
First HP goes with Apple for music (iTunes and HP iPod) and now they are trying out Linux...
and my guess is that in 90 days they will be shipping quicktime + itunes on their European PC rather than windows media player.
Elivs
two drives and 1 controller, with striped swap.
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I have two ide drives and 512M ram. I have the first 512M on each drive as a swap with linux stripping the swap. (See "man 2 swapon", "man swapon", "man 5 fstab" and set the priorities of each partion to be the same) I did this on the assupmtion that the bottleneck is likely to be disks's read/write speed, not the controller.
Like you I'm also not sure if it makes much difference but my system certainly seems to often be swap limited. I currently have KDE3, several gnome apps, a browsers with 4 windows (20+tabs), 2 virtual desktops, and I often use octave to process high resolution images. Changing from one app to another can cause the machine to swap for a few seconds if I've haven't used the first app in a few hours/days.
Elivs
Clearly if I used windows I wouldn't have these problems as I could never leave apps idle for days while doing another task.
/me Ducks as an "MS wireless mouse" flies towards me...
I obstificate to prevent havest programs and stupid people all in one go.
My email page looks like this:
..........
Unfortunately due to "spam" I can't put my email address on the web without "email havesting programs" finding my email address and sending me unsolicited email. However you can probably work out what my email address is...
I own the domain duke.co.uk
My first name is richard
It normal to have something like firstname@domain.co.uk as an email address
If you can guess what my email address is, feel free to email me. Most computer programs won't be clever enough to work it out, however I hope you are.
...I remember it so clearly. I mean, it's not like it was a first kiss or anything...
Don't deny it, like everyone else here you are a nerd. Of course downloading your first mp3 on p2p was as important as your first kiss. Back in Dec 1999 when "Believe" came out only us cool people even new what p2p and mp3 were. Being able to "listen to mp3s we had leached from p2p on our RH5.1 boxen running the experimental gnome-0.3 that came on the cd-iso" was what set us ahead of the rest that christmas.
On another alarming note I vaguely remember that "Believe" might of been my first mp3 I downloaded. (should I post this anonymously?)
I first encountered tabs in mozilla and soon became addicted. I now run galeon- 1 "casual" window for me, 1 window for my wife, and 2 work windows in another virtual desktop. By the time I've done a google search and opened each result in a new tab (middle click -> new tab + open in background) I've often found that I have 15-25 tabs in one window, and upto 50 amongst all 4 windows. I often don't shut down galeon for weeks at a time and so tend to leave tabs around with "articles I want to finish" and sites that "I want to browse more throughly" further adding to the plethora of open tabs.
Galeon lets you keep you tabs 1 inch wide in a column down the left or right side, as well as the more usual place under the address bar. For dozens of tabs this is much easier than along the top under the address bar. Most screens these days are wide enough to make this layout very praticle.
Also in galeon if the browser crashes (usually due a page with flash) then on restarting it lets you either reopen all the URLs or keep them as bookmarks.
I use KDE apps for most other tasks but these two obscure features are what stop me from moving to konqueror as my brower. Having 15-25 tabs open is a window in a pain when they are along the top as you either need to click left/right to navigate, or the tab caption becomes so small as to be useless.
I've just started a week of 10hr night shifts and these will be perfect.
Each night I have to be at work from 11pm to 8am, oncall for "emergencies". During this time I'm not that busy, but there is still to much work to sleep. Something like this is just the project I need...
...also I was wondering what to get my wife for xmas, looks like she is getting a Realistic Paper Craft "YZR-R1".
Slashdot Mirror
When writing large documents, eg. greater >100 pages, I prefer to use Latex, Bibtex, Subversion, and Kile.
Latex is brilliant for large documents. As it says, it lets you separate content from how its displayed. It produces beutiful results, especially for technical documents with maths etc. With the addition of PSfrag you can even put Latex formatting into your eps graphs and diagrams.
Bibtex is still my preferred reference manager. Most journal have style files for their preferred bibliography.
When I started using subversion with my documents it was great. With a networked subversion server I could get the latest version of my document anywhere. You could track changes, and see when you last worked on a section.Being able to find out what you changed in a particular chapter last month is handy. I now have a subversion repository that I has sub-directories for all my latex documents. I started using subversion while writing up my PhD and have used it to keep track of all my latex documents since. If your unfamiliar with subversion then kdesvn is a great GUI tool that integrates into KDE file management.
Kile is a good kde frontend to latex. I used emacs for 10+ years and loved it, but Kile's integration with the KDE desktop and its specialisation for latex make it a good choice of editor. Of course can use any text editor you want with latex, but choosing one designed for latex mark up and lots of shortcuts makes life easier.
WYSWYG editors like OOO and MSO are really only good for short documents. I've had to deal with these programs for documents >50 pages and they really become a pain.
Elivs
Same.
Unfortunately I disagree with this statement. While most homeopathists generally don't do harm I have seen plenty who have. Things that I've personally seen:
1) Patients who are struggling with money spending more than they can afford on bogus treatments. Depriving them on money they could have spent on other things.
2) Patients refusing or delaying treatment to see try homeopathy. While people have the right to chose their own treatment, a faith heeler and homeopathest misled people by saying that their treatment works. One case springs to mind of a patient in their mid 30 with Duke's A bowel cancer. This should have had a good chance for cure, but after 12 months of "trying the homeopathy first" the cancer had disseminated (liver/retro-peritoneum etc).
3) I've also seen direct harm based on dangerous advice. When I was a house surgeon we had a patient come in with seizures due to a low serum sodium. It turned out that her homeopathists had advise her to drink about 5-7L of water per day. The little old lady did this and essentially diluted herself with excess water until she almost died. (BTW drinking so much water that you do this is REALLY HARD. It requires a lot of will power to drink much beyond your thirst.)
So, while its nice to say homeopathists etc do no harm, its simply not true. I suggest reading this article on quack watch.
elivs
I couldn't find that reference in wikipedia, but the first elepahant in England was brought ashore at Sandwich.
History of Sandwich
Also, if the ssh server has the sftp-server enabled then the kio-slave sftp:// is faster than fish://
Also kde starts a ssh-identity server (key-ring) on login. Open any shell and you can add identities in the normal way (ssh-add), then you will never be prompted for passwords from any kde apps.
I reached that stage with ashma inhaler and cell phone. I must have more in my groin to start with.
Elivs
How can you claim to be a geek without a linux box on your network? This is the minimum requirement. You even have a spare machine around.
In every geek home there should be at least 1 linux box to even be considered a geek. After that points are allocated as:
1) 1 point of your linux box is gento or debian/unstable
2) 1 point for each BSD machime
3) 2 points solaris, irix, aix machines
4) 2 points for a rack mount
5) 1 point for each active machine without a cover
6) 1 point for each *nix poster on the wall. (eg- linus, bsd demon etc).
7) 5 points if the poster is an autographed poster of RMS.
7) 1 point for each "light saber" or "one ring"
8) 1 point for having a "ssh" client on your cell phone.
9) 1 point for every 5 windows boxes.
10) -3 points for having a girlfriend. (unless said girlfriend preferes CLI over GUIs, or has an opinion on the vi/emacs debate)
11) 1 point/kg of unused cables or other computer parts that you have keep "just in case"
12) 2 points for posting on slashdot on saturday night asking what consitutes a geek network!
Elivs
As a father of a six monther, my wife and I have discussed this question. Really it is up to you as parents to decide what's right for you, but here are our ideas and logic.
Our opinion is basically that our computer is part of our everyday life. Our son should learn to use it as soon as he is technically able. However having said that, I would expect his learning to be slow and over many years as he matures. We want to teach sensible and safe use of a tool.
We use our computer as our "digital" hub. We have been doing this for many years. It sits in the lounge with all our music (mp3) and photos (6000+ scanned negatives going back 30yrs for both of us), and occationally dvd/video. The photos are on the screen saver. We are the kind of family that only watches TV 1-2hrs per week. We get outside and are active.
Here are our ideas
1) When my son is able and wants to I'll teach him how to put on music. Judging by my niece that could be when he's quite young, 2-3 yrs.
2) I'm happy to give him an email account when he is able to write to friends. I suspect this will be around the time he goes to school.
3) Web etc. will ALWAYS be done on the family computer under supervision until he's at least 15yrs.
4) He might get a computer in his room at around age 10-12 for music, homework, photos etc. This machine won't have general internet access.
5) I'd like to teach him to program like my father did for me. Logo, basic, and games with programmable parts.
I'm sure every one has their own ideas about what's right for their child, but I think the most important principals are:
1) your child must want to learn
2) it should be staged to what is useful for them at that age
3) it must be "safe"
Remember computers are a normal part of life, just like TV, radio, alcohol, stoves/ovens/cooking, cars. It's your job as parent to teach them when to use them, how to use them, and how to be safe/healthy.
Elivs
A saying I'm sure most of you have heard:
Trains stop at a train stations.
Buses stop at bus stations.
- So what happens at a workstation?
Elivs
Similarly there is no point in a normal baby monitor for preventing SIDS. With a normal baby monitor you hear breathing, rather than the absense of breathing. With such a monitor when the breathing stops, the parents don't notice until the baby is dead.
If you want to prevent SIDS the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend placing you child on their back to sleep. They have the catch phrase "BACK TO SLEEP". This simple measure alone has been shown to reduce cot death by 40%
Known risk factors (from "Robbins Pathology")
Maternal:
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1) Youth (less than 20yrs)
2) Unmarried
3) Short intergestational interval
4) Low socioeconomic status
5) Smoking
6) Drug Abuse (any drug including alcohol)
7) Black race (?related to socioeconomic factors)
Infant
======
1) Prematurity
2) Low Birth Weight
3) Male sex
4) Product of multiple births
5) Not first sibling
6) SIDS in priot sibling.
Overall the best advice is don't smoke indoors and place your child on their back. After that you can only hope all goes well.
Elivs
Bruce,
1) Do you think it would be fair to describe UserLinux as a sub-distribution of Debian, rather than a distribution in its own right? If it is a sub-distribution can you explains some of the advantages and disadvantages.
2) As a 4yr Debian user would I be able to start using UserLinux right away? Are the tools the same.
3) I presume the system almost completely complies with debain-policy. Is this true and if not, where does it differ?
4) How large is the UserLinux archive at this stage? How many packages do you have? How many of them are pure-configuration type packages? How many are applications that aren't in the offical debian archive? (such as video players etc)
Thanks is advance for any answers and sorry amount the number and scope of questions. A few links would be great if its easier than giving full answers
Elivs
(PS - I'm about to try a netinstall to check out the system myself.)
When I was at college one of the girls I went out with had a step mother who had no ability to organise her own information.
In her rolodex type phone number finder she had several of her friends listed under "H" for "Home number" with a sublist of name and numbers. She had a similar setup for "W" for "work numbers" and "M" for "mobile numbers" with a list of peoples numbers.
Obviously the cards for "H", "W", "M" where quite full as most people where listed there. Other cards where almost empty.
I asked her why she didn't organise people by first names or last names. She looked stunned that at the suggestion.
I would hate to see how this lady organises her computer files, but a search facility no mater how bad would help her alot.
Elivs
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Sorry about any typoos in my post, Im having a busy day.
Eye all ways loose.
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Shirely eyem knot teh ownly
Elivs
Due to the elegance of Debian this sort of thing is completely painless. I've personally done this on several machines when "woody" became "stable". Its easy to do because when "testing" finally becomes "stable" all that changes in the archive is that symlinks all change.
Currently:
testing -> sarge
stable -> woody
After the release:
stable -> sarge.
As an end user you have the option of tracking either by "testing/stable" or "woody/sarge". To do what you want should track "sarge" rather than "testing". The best method is to use "real names" in your /etc/apt/sources.list. That is, make all occurances of "testing" (or "sarge") all read as "sarge". This way you won't even need to know when "sarge" becomes "stable", all that will happen is your updates will suddenly become less frequent and all updates will be for security.
Elivs
PS- sorry about tpyos and poor formating I having a busy day.
If you view an installer in the most basic sense, all it does is partition the disk, unarchives a few files, and install a boot loader. The boot media (floppy/net), kernel (bsd/linux), and GUI (gtk/ncurses) used to do this can all vary and be unrelated to the actual system being installed. I think this is the sort of thing you where suggesting and its the aim of the sarge installer. The difficulty comes in making the installer flexable and extensible enough that you don't need to rewrite the whole thing for every different situation.
With the new sarge installer the flexability come from modularity. Each part of the installer is a ".udebs" package (micro-debian packages) that resides in the debian archive/bug-tracking system like other packages, complete with dependences etc. Thus someone building an image for an installation disk can pick and choose which modules are include depending on their needs. They can even write there own module if they want. For a fictious example: they might want to use a QT GUI rather than GTK, use hardware autodectection for sparc rather than i386, install Hurd rather than linux, and choose GRUB as the boot loader.
It will be interesting to see how well the new design actually achives this and its other goals. But, like most things, in debain flexability is considered a very design goal.
Elivs
(disclaimer: I'm not a debian developer, but I've been using debian for 5yrs and try to follow many of these sorts of dicussions)
Its modular to support all the things you want, and supports 10 archetures at this stage. Being modular should allow people to: script it, put a GUI on it, hardware autodection modules (already done), multiple boot methods (PXE,USB mass-storage,CD-rom...)
Elivs
Public: In which case http/bitorrent are good choices currently. I can see that pdtp could be better than bit torrent for this.
Private: This includes transfering stuff to and from work, or for a small number of family to access photo collections. For this I currently use ssh/scp/sftp, rsync and scponly. These tools give me reliable, and efficient methods for secure personal file transfer. "scponly" provides a limited chrooted shell to allow specific users only access to a set directory using scp/sftp/rsync.
So yes I can see a place for a pdtp on my box, where it would complement other file transfer systems I have.
Elivs
You forgot the more popular choices:
1) Don't read the article, but write knowledeably about the topic in the feedback...
2) Don't read the article, don't even check the topic. Just quickly hit the reply button and submit:
First Post !!!!
3) or if your too slow for that you can go for the always relevent post:
1) In soviet russia...
2) ????
3) Profit!!!
Elivs
Write to them again. Point out that they are not there to be right or wrong, they are there to serve you.
Also tell them that you have shown many of your friends his/her response who where equally as disgused. Tell them that you have convinced several of your friends who previously didn't vote, to vote against them. CC the letter to his opponent and be sure the CC at the top of the letter.
Try to be clear and polite so you don't sound like a lunatic. Ideally you want to sound like a member of the middle ground of people who would normally vote for them.
The thought of someone actively campaining against them is worse than just losing one vote.
Elivs
First HP goes with Apple for music (iTunes and HP iPod) and now they are trying out Linux...
and my guess is that in 90 days they will be shipping quicktime + itunes on their European PC rather than windows media player.
Elivs
Like you I'm also not sure if it makes much difference but my system certainly seems to often be swap limited. I currently have KDE3, several gnome apps, a browsers with 4 windows (20+tabs), 2 virtual desktops, and I often use octave to process high resolution images. Changing from one app to another can cause the machine to swap for a few seconds if I've haven't used the first app in a few hours/days.
Elivs
Clearly if I used windows I wouldn't have these problems as I could never leave apps idle for days while doing another task.
/me Ducks as an "MS wireless mouse" flies towards me...
Rotten fruid at live performaces allows instant feedback to performers. Instant (and graphic) feedback can really usefull in live comedy!!
(Guess I'm likely right now that slashdot hasn't implemented such a feature for moderators)
Elivs
My email page looks like this:
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Unfortunately due to "spam" I can't put my email address on the web without "email havesting programs" finding my email address and sending me unsolicited email. However you can probably work out what my email address is...
If you can guess what my email address is, feel free to email me. Most computer programs won't be clever enough to work it out, however I hope you are.
Don't deny it, like everyone else here you are a nerd. Of course downloading your first mp3 on p2p was as important as your first kiss. Back in Dec 1999 when "Believe" came out only us cool people even new what p2p and mp3 were. Being able to "listen to mp3s we had leached from p2p on our RH5.1 boxen running the experimental gnome-0.3 that came on the cd-iso" was what set us ahead of the rest that christmas.
On another alarming note I vaguely remember that "Believe" might of been my first mp3 I downloaded. (should I post this anonymously?)
Elivs
Galeon lets you keep you tabs 1 inch wide in a column down the left or right side, as well as the more usual place under the address bar. For dozens of tabs this is much easier than along the top under the address bar. Most screens these days are wide enough to make this layout very praticle.
Also in galeon if the browser crashes (usually due a page with flash) then on restarting it lets you either reopen all the URLs or keep them as bookmarks.
I use KDE apps for most other tasks but these two obscure features are what stop me from moving to konqueror as my brower. Having 15-25 tabs open is a window in a pain when they are along the top as you either need to click left/right to navigate, or the tab caption becomes so small as to be useless.
Elivs
Each night I have to be at work from 11pm to 8am, oncall for "emergencies". During this time I'm not that busy, but there is still to much work to sleep. Something like this is just the project I need...
Elivs