Hanging folders with labels by category and year
A good start, which works fine for major things such as "Taxes 2011".
But then there are all the miscellaneous papers which don't fit well in one category and/or which will probably never be accessed anymore, but which one needs to keep "just in case"; for such items, I have found that the best thing is to have a set of folders named "To be thrown away in 20xx", one per year. For each document, you just need to decide how long you need to keep it (1 year ? 5 years? 10 years?) and put it in the right folder. And each December 31st, you thrown away one folder.
It doesn't belong to them in the sense that they can't put restrictions on the code already released. Agreed, they could theoretically release new code under a new license.
As OpenOffice is GPL code, Oracle can't "give it back" to the community, because it doesn't really belong to them.
Oracle could however give up control over the OpenOffice name or logo (because copyrights rules apply for such things) and give them for instance to the LibreOffice folks; but given the damages done to the OpenOffice image by Oracle, LibreOffice might probably not be interested...
Not sure really whether you're criticising Vaughan-Nichols for writing that he'd met her purely on the basis of himself as a source or me for pointing out someone who claims to have met her.
Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize anyone. I believe that Vaughan-Nichols met someone who claimed to be PJ, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
You don't have to be very paranoid to realize that business issues about millions or BILLions of dollars can result is unexplained accidents. If PJ wanted to tell her perception of the truth about the actions of big players, a degree of anonymity is/was actually wise
It was wise. After the victory, it begins to be fishy.
I am not a journalist, but I thought that "one source = no source"...
and he does admit that he didn't check her passport, and those can be faked anyway, so I guess there's still room for mystery if you're into that sort of thing.
I don't care about here passport or age or anything personal; I would just like to be sure that she is a real human being and not for instance the creation of a bunch of IBM lawyers.
Why so certain? And what do you consider long? Is fusion power only 25 years away?
When I was in high school in the early 1980's, the consensus was that fusion would come near the end of the century. Last year, my son also learned at school that fusion would be ready by the end of the century. But not the same century. Oops.
I don't say that nuclear fusion will never work, but it is much too far in the future to be part of today's energy strategy, i.e. what we plan to do for the next 10-20 years.
I think that the reason is much simpler : the advances is hardware are becoming less significant. When I compare my brand new iPhone 4 to my previous original iPhone, there are not so many huge changes. My wife is perfectly happy with the previous one:-)
And same for desktop computers : faster, cheaper, quieter, and that's pretty much it. If I compare today's iMac with the one I am typing this on (3 years old), the changes are only incremental ones.
Can someone explain this URL status bar issue? I'm reading this using Firefox 3 and the URL's are displayed at the bottom of the window, it seems to work just fine and as it allocates the entire width of the window for this I can't see how the new version improves things
Removing the status bar saved a little vertical space. With today's monitors being wider than taller, I see this as a good thing.
This is a problem with software as a service. If you fucking HATE the ribbon you can stick with Office 2003.
Yes, but just a long as it is maintained, patched, etc... This is the problem with commercial software : it is developed not in the user's interest, but in it owner's.
With open source software, there is no owner, just a maintainer; if he starts acting bad (or looking as such), someone will start a fork, just like LibreOffice did with Oracle's OpenOffice.
You buy a sticker to put on the inside of your windshield. It costs ~32€ and is good for a year.
It is a bad system, for many reasons :
Approx. 20%-30% of the money collected goes in the distribution system for the stickers (e.g. margin to the stores who sell them), the additional checks that the police has to do, etc...
You pay the same amount (40 CHF, roughly $40) if you drive a lot or not.
Foreigners are overtaxed, for instance if they only cross the country once.
It would be fairer and more cost effective to simply raise the tax on gas by approx. 2 cents per liter.
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A copy of MS Office for business costs between $130 and $180.
It costs so little because of the existence of OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Remember how much it was 10 years ago ?
Complete, logical, easy to navigate, identical over all system applications. In comparison, man really sucks, and let's not even talk about Windows.
Or put encrypted files in DropBox.
You can't clean a compromised system by using a virus scanner.
Theoretically, it should be possible to boot the system from an other OS (say, a rescue Linux on an USB media) and then clean the system.
The only way to clean a compromised system is to flatten and rebuild.
And if the system was compromised at BIOS level ? Any possibility that even a rebuild could be fooled ?
Hanging folders with labels by category and year A good start, which works fine for major things such as "Taxes 2011".
But then there are all the miscellaneous papers which don't fit well in one category and/or which will probably never be accessed anymore, but which one needs to keep "just in case"; for such items, I have found that the best thing is to have a set of folders named "To be thrown away in 20xx", one per year. For each document, you just need to decide how long you need to keep it (1 year ? 5 years? 10 years?) and put it in the right folder. And each December 31st, you thrown away one folder.
As OpenOffice is GPL code ...
wrong
Ok, LGPL and not GPL, sorry...
because it doesn't really belong to them.
wrong again
It doesn't belong to them in the sense that they can't put restrictions on the code already released. Agreed, they could theoretically release new code under a new license.
As OpenOffice is GPL code, Oracle can't "give it back" to the community, because it doesn't really belong to them.
Oracle could however give up control over the OpenOffice name or logo (because copyrights rules apply for such things) and give them for instance to the LibreOffice folks; but given the damages done to the OpenOffice image by Oracle, LibreOffice might probably not be interested...
At least the problems with nuclear are local-ish.
Localish ? 2000 km away, we could not anymore eat fish from the lake during a while.
Just imagine one second this type of accident in China...
Not sure really whether you're criticising Vaughan-Nichols for writing that he'd met her purely on the basis of himself as a source or me for pointing out someone who claims to have met her.
Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize anyone. I believe that Vaughan-Nichols met someone who claimed to be PJ, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
You don't have to be very paranoid to realize that business issues about millions or BILLions of dollars can result is unexplained accidents. If PJ wanted to tell her perception of the truth about the actions of big players, a degree of anonymity is/was actually wise
It was wise. After the victory, it begins to be fishy.
But the only one a quick Google search brings up is Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
I am not a journalist, but I thought that "one source = no source"...
and he does admit that he didn't check her passport, and those can be faked anyway, so I guess there's still room for mystery if you're into that sort of thing.
I don't care about here passport or age or anything personal; I would just like to be sure that she is a real human being and not for instance the creation of a bunch of IBM lawyers.
I perfectly understand PJ's right to privacy, but I have always been puzzled by the fact that nobody seems to have ever met her physically.
Why so certain? And what do you consider long? Is fusion power only 25 years away?
When I was in high school in the early 1980's, the consensus was that fusion would come near the end of the century. Last year, my son also learned at school that fusion would be ready by the end of the century. But not the same century. Oops.
I don't say that nuclear fusion will never work, but it is much too far in the future to be part of today's energy strategy, i.e. what we plan to do for the next 10-20 years.
I still personally think that nuclear power is the best bet
For today probably, in the long term certainly not.
The fact is that Apple was still happily signing people up for two year contacts with AT&T on brand freaking new iPhone 3Gs until last June.
Wrong : the iPhone 3GS is still supported by the new 4.3 version (see here).
What cannot be upgraded is the iPhone 3G, released in 2008. Just ask a random Android users how long his phone will get free upgrades.
I think that the reason is much simpler : the advances is hardware are becoming less significant. When I compare my brand new iPhone 4 to my previous original iPhone, there are not so many huge changes. My wife is perfectly happy with the previous one :-)
And same for desktop computers : faster, cheaper, quieter, and that's pretty much it. If I compare today's iMac with the one I am typing this on (3 years old), the changes are only incremental ones.
Can someone explain this URL status bar issue? I'm reading this using Firefox 3 and the URL's are displayed at the bottom of the window, it seems to work just fine and as it allocates the entire width of the window for this I can't see how the new version improves things
Removing the status bar saved a little vertical space. With today's monitors being wider than taller, I see this as a good thing.
It is a beta. If you have trouble finding and downloading it, then maybe you should not use it :-)
-- posted from FireFox Beta 12
when you hover over a link, the URL is displayed in the status bar, instead of the location bar
No, it is displayed at the bottom of the window. There is no status bar anymore.
This is a problem with software as a service. If you fucking HATE the ribbon you can stick with Office 2003.
Yes, but just a long as it is maintained, patched, etc... This is the problem with commercial software : it is developed not in the user's interest, but in it owner's.
With open source software, there is no owner, just a maintainer; if he starts acting bad (or looking as such), someone will start a fork, just like LibreOffice did with Oracle's OpenOffice.
So you get the worse of both worlds : locked-in with a proprietary Microsoft file format, and your data handed over to Google. Great.
Sorry, but I'd much prefer a standards-based solution (ODF documents on a WebDAV server, maybe).
Some people spend thousands of dollars for their car, or hundreds for fancy clothes, etc... and who tells them that they are throwing money away ?
Yes, nearly nobody actually needs a tablet, but I won't feel guilty for buying a nice piece of technology.
It uses data trafic.
BTW I assume that they had turned off e-mail checking, of course.
You buy a sticker to put on the inside of your windshield. It costs ~32€ and is good for a year.
It is a bad system, for many reasons :
It would be fairer and more cost effective to simply raise the tax on gas by approx. 2 cents per liter.
PS : I am Swiss