Use small Windows-based devices and don't give it any further thought. The OS will crash at random (you don't have to pay extra for this, it does it out of the box), thereby giving you the fragmented recordings you seek.
On the other hand, you could do it with an embedded linux device too; the frequent battery changes will have the desirable effect.
Okay I confess I wrote this post to confuse the moderators into inaction; he's bashing windows -- no, he's bashing linux -- oh FUCK what to do...
The correct moderation, gentle mod point merchant, is `funny'.
That word, embrace. It is more flexible than I had initially thought. And it took an article title like this to demonstrate this.
We could, for example, begin using it in lieu of opposites and still retain the original meaning, like if we were talking about the Boston Embracer. Or this warm and fuzzy story about cooperation, understanding, and symbiosis between man and pet.
The Sawy Cultural Center is new and the management there was really supportive. We at the LUG feel we can do a lot of work with their support, and one way to get them enthusiastic about linux and open source is for them to feel the power of the open source community. We showed them that day how many people we could pull in, and I'm getting their admin to look at their server stats today (; hit it hard people).
If you want to help us, e-mail Khaled Mohsen who was our liason there and just tell him that you as a linux user and/or open source proponent would like to thank him for helping out the Egyptian Linux Users' Group, and make sure to extend the thanks to Mr. Mohamed Al Sawy too through Khaled.
Believe it or not, from idea to execution was 20 days, mostly carried out with a nucleus of 5 people we call/dev/cabal.
I'm doing an exhaustive write-up, and there's more pictures. We rushed this post because we wanted to thank the people at El Sawy Cultural Center with a slashdotting:)
Thanks quantumparadox. I am in fact doing a complete writeup, and yes we're still groggy (coffee isn't helping; need IV drip) and there's more pictures.
We should have the whole thing ready for a slashback or something, including all the gory details of how IBM Egypt almost torpedoed us (believe it or not, they wanted the LUG initially to pay for the IBM volunteers' t-shirts and they wanted the LUG to pay to write IBM on the back of the shirts too... cue the "in soviet russia LUG sponsors IBM jokes.").
Thanks detritus. The images are on Alaa's home machine which is a dinky ADSL machine. I just called his wife and asked if she had a fire extinguisher.:)
Given disparaties in education between the first world and less developed countries, it is only natural that employment requiring less education will gravitate to where there isn't a high cost of education contributing to average compensation.
Conversely, the higher-level jobs will remain in societies where the labor pool is qualified enough.
To go out on a limb, there is something about this which reminds me of back when this country (Egypt) was under british colonial rule; the cotton was grown here, sold cheaply to European manufacturers, made into textiles, clothes, etc. there, and sold back to Egypt.
No judgment passed, it's a simple case of value-added and relative ability to contribute this value.
As an alternate explanation, perhaps it was "disposed of" and this story invented because they were coming up on a demo deadline and had nothing working to show for it?
This seems most likely, for one specific reason.
1. Really, even a thief engaging in industrial espionage would have taken at least the money. 2. If the software had been taken too, then it would have been a possibility that a similar product would show up on the market a while later, and fingers could point and go "gotcha", presumably. If, however, the software was carelessly left behind, then this will not happen and odds on catching the "perpetrator" would be negligible. Sounds like what a R&D company in NIS 5 milion worth of trouble could do.
There's such a thing as blueprints; these were not stolen. If within the next 6 months or so, no replacement is built by Steadycopter, then we can assume they were covering up for failure.
"Yes, that's the way it works, and if you don't do the updates your computer keeps annoying you, so you have to do them even if they take hours like they sometimes do."
Didn't do that on my XP-ridden laptop, and it's not like that machine is up to date.
Onwards.
It seems Windows, unlike most commercial Linux distributions, doesn't come with office and other productivity software.
Everyone knows that windows doesn't come with office. Stop being so `I'm so innocently rah-tah'ing for linux'. It is embarrassing to the rest of us.
Explorer simply won't be ready for the desktop until it has [tabbed browsing].
Agreed and well-put. I hadn't thought of it quite like that before.
Apparently a lot of Web sites have these things and something related called "popunders" that also open browser windows you don't ask to open. Apparently many Explorer users dislike this feature so much that they are willing to pay for software to shut it off.
That disingenuous tone again; spare me. And there are freeware popup blockers available, fella. STFW. Gah, uninformed platform bashing.
I would like to have a better 'simple' graphics manipulation program for Linux than any I've tried so far.
Good lord yes. I need to do relatively straightforward graphics tasks frequently, and gimp and things like imagemagick are just overkill; I just wat to resize/crop/etc, not develop an alternate theory of the creation of the universe.
When I want to find out the day and date, or check a date a few months ahead, I'm used to clicking on my little KDE clock and having a calendar pop up for me. I can't seem to do this in Windows, even though I've tried. Again, this may be a feature only super-geeks can can use in Windows that is hidden from us ordinary desktop people.
Umm, you double click there. If possession of that factum makes one a super-geek, then I think, roblimo, that you are in the wrong field. Try selling encyclopaedias.
What's up with all this "Ctrl C" and Ctrl V" copy/paste stuff?
Whatever you do, don't try comparing getting a task done with a mouse versus with a keyboard. Keyboards are generally faster when used exclusively, and as such there's nothing wrong with ctrl-c ctrl-v.
You can suggest a more intuitive/ergonomic keybinding, but it is just silly to bash the concept itself. Shame, fella.
Whilte it's good to see people exercising their minds like this, it's also good to keep in mind that some things should not be regarded as more than just exercises.
With this particular scheme, the inherent complexity (needing interfaces to all of these common network protocols) and the risks (there must be a billion ways to lose data this way) basically mean that storage according to this scheme would be really high.
Disproportionate storage costs per unit data automatically means no real-world application outside of brain exercising.
Looks to me like the idea is basically ubiquitous access to your data.
I'll grant them that it _is_ innovative to create a device like this which abstracts the access method to the portable data behind open protocols such as tcpip, but I still get the feeling they're going about it in a lopsided manner.
You move, but this doesn't mean the data must move with you to be accessible. This is one of the ideas with X, your data is plonked on a machine somewhere far off, and you conect to it and presto, you and your data are one.
I feel effort and time invested in ubiquitous connectivity will do far more to address the need to access one's data than working on solutions like this.
Round here at the big state-run universities (Cairo U, etc.) you can get legal copies of Windows, Office, and Visual Studio for the total of around 25 egyptian pounds, or around 4 or 5 US dollars.
That is, of course, breathtakingly shocking. But then, it is common knowledge that the IT ministry is in cahoots with MS.
Offtopic, but is 'campuses' the right plural for campus, or would that be campii, or something?
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Use small Windows-based devices and don't give it any further thought. The OS will crash at random (you don't have to pay extra for this, it does it out of the box), thereby giving you the fragmented recordings you seek.
On the other hand, you could do it with an embedded linux device too; the frequent battery changes will have the desirable effect.
Okay I confess I wrote this post to confuse the moderators into inaction; he's bashing windows -- no, he's bashing linux -- oh FUCK what to do...
The correct moderation, gentle mod point merchant, is `funny'.
That word, embrace. It is more flexible than I had initially thought. And it took an article title like this to demonstrate this.
/. have pioneered, all I can say is, thank you Microsoft for the wonderful product you are kind enough to allow me to buy from you.
We could, for example, begin using it in lieu of opposites and still retain the original meaning, like if we were talking about the Boston Embracer. Or this warm and fuzzy story about cooperation, understanding, and symbiosis between man and pet.
With this new meaning-neutral language which we here at
My profuse apologies for the bungled links (still groggy). Here they are:
Khaled Mohsen
and
Sawy Cultural Center
The Sawy Cultural Center is new and the management there was really supportive. We at the LUG feel we can do a lot of work with their support, and one way to get them enthusiastic about linux and open source is for them to feel the power of the open source community. We showed them that day how many people we could pull in, and I'm getting their admin to look at their server stats today ( ; hit it hard people).
:)
If you want to help us, e-mail Khaled Mohsen who was our liason there and just tell him that you as a linux user and/or open source proponent would like to thank him for helping out the Egyptian Linux Users' Group, and make sure to extend the thanks to Mr. Mohamed Al Sawy too through Khaled.
Show me the power of slashdot
Believe it or not, from idea to execution was 20 days, mostly carried out with a nucleus of 5 people we call /dev/cabal.
:)
I'm doing an exhaustive write-up, and there's more pictures. We rushed this post because we wanted to thank the people at El Sawy Cultural Center with a slashdotting
We have Mostafa Hussein to thank for that, aka whirlpool. Med student and dynamic volunteer and resident linux graphics expert.
:)
None of us really believe he's a med student though; he can't possibly have the time.
Thanks quantumparadox. I am in fact doing a complete writeup, and yes we're still groggy (coffee isn't helping; need IV drip) and there's more pictures.
We should have the whole thing ready for a slashback or something, including all the gory details of how IBM Egypt almost torpedoed us (believe it or not, they wanted the LUG initially to pay for the IBM volunteers' t-shirts and they wanted the LUG to pay to write IBM on the back of the shirts too... cue the "in soviet russia LUG sponsors IBM jokes.").
Thanks detritus. The images are on Alaa's home machine which is a dinky ADSL machine. I just called his wife and asked if she had a fire extinguisher. :)
Yes yes, somewhat offtopic I know, but a google search on the author gave me this piece which I found hilarious.
Although to be honest, I did expect this fellow to be a ranting flamer from the Inquirer article...
Yea, me too.
I don't know shite about porting or coding or Amigas.
I'm not willing to remain ignorant of these skills for free, however.
And I feel $10,000 is a tad low. That's three skills you'll be paying me not to acquire, you know.
Oh. Damn that's good to know. The Microsoft co-founder, eh?
If history is anything to go by, that contraption won't be worth a thing until SpaceShipThreePointOne is built.
Given disparaties in education between the first world and less developed countries, it is only natural that employment requiring less education will gravitate to where there isn't a high cost of education contributing to average compensation.
Conversely, the higher-level jobs will remain in societies where the labor pool is qualified enough.
To go out on a limb, there is something about this which reminds me of back when this country (Egypt) was under british colonial rule; the cotton was grown here, sold cheaply to European manufacturers, made into textiles, clothes, etc. there, and sold back to Egypt.
No judgment passed, it's a simple case of value-added and relative ability to contribute this value.
No blooper is as big as PJ being denied an Oscar these last 2 years.
If he doesn't get it this year the Oscars will become irrelevant. It's just that obvious.
Well well. Someone really dropped the ball.
As an alternate explanation, perhaps it was "disposed of" and this story invented because they were coming up on a demo deadline and had nothing working to show for it?
This seems most likely, for one specific reason.
1. Really, even a thief engaging in industrial espionage would have taken at least the money.
2. If the software had been taken too, then it would have been a possibility that a similar product would show up on the market a while later, and fingers could point and go "gotcha", presumably. If, however, the software was carelessly left behind, then this will not happen and odds on catching the "perpetrator" would be negligible. Sounds like what a R&D company in NIS 5 milion worth of trouble could do.
There's such a thing as blueprints; these were not stolen. If within the next 6 months or so, no replacement is built by Steadycopter, then we can assume they were covering up for failure.
Hmm, according to this, that was a photoshopped hoax.
"Yes, that's the way it works, and if you don't do the updates your computer keeps annoying you, so you have to do them even if they take hours like they sometimes do."
Didn't do that on my XP-ridden laptop, and it's not like that machine is up to date.
Onwards.
It seems Windows, unlike most commercial Linux distributions, doesn't come with office and other productivity software.
Everyone knows that windows doesn't come with office. Stop being so `I'm so innocently rah-tah'ing for linux'. It is embarrassing to the rest of us.
Explorer simply won't be ready for the desktop until it has [tabbed browsing].
Agreed and well-put. I hadn't thought of it quite like that before.
Apparently a lot of Web sites have these things and something related called "popunders" that also open browser windows you don't ask to open. Apparently many Explorer users dislike this feature so much that they are willing to pay for software to shut it off.
That disingenuous tone again; spare me. And there are freeware popup blockers available, fella. STFW. Gah, uninformed platform bashing.
I would like to have a better 'simple' graphics manipulation program for Linux than any I've tried so far.
Good lord yes. I need to do relatively straightforward graphics tasks frequently, and gimp and things like imagemagick are just overkill; I just wat to resize/crop/etc, not develop an alternate theory of the creation of the universe.
When I want to find out the day and date, or check a date a few months ahead, I'm used to clicking on my little KDE clock and having a calendar pop up for me. I can't seem to do this in Windows, even though I've tried. Again, this may be a feature only super-geeks can can use in Windows that is hidden from us ordinary desktop people.
Umm, you double click there. If possession of that factum makes one a super-geek, then I think, roblimo, that you are in the wrong field. Try selling encyclopaedias.
What's up with all this "Ctrl C" and Ctrl V" copy/paste stuff?
Whatever you do, don't try comparing getting a task done with a mouse versus with a keyboard. Keyboards are generally faster when used exclusively, and as such there's nothing wrong with ctrl-c ctrl-v.
You can suggest a more intuitive/ergonomic keybinding, but it is just silly to bash the concept itself. Shame, fella.
And, as ever, a military adaptation/application:
pdf link
Whilte it's good to see people exercising their minds like this, it's also good to keep in mind that some things should not be regarded as more than just exercises.
With this particular scheme, the inherent complexity (needing interfaces to all of these common network protocols) and the risks (there must be a billion ways to lose data this way) basically mean that storage according to this scheme would be really high.
Disproportionate storage costs per unit data automatically means no real-world application outside of brain exercising.
poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side
Oh, so if this isn't an Apple computer I am using, then it must be a windows computer.
Who posted this story? Bill, is that you?
Looks to me like the idea is basically ubiquitous access to your data.
I'll grant them that it _is_ innovative to create a device like this which abstracts the access method to the portable data behind open protocols such as tcpip, but I still get the feeling they're going about it in a lopsided manner.
You move, but this doesn't mean the data must move with you to be accessible. This is one of the ideas with X, your data is plonked on a machine somewhere far off, and you conect to it and presto, you and your data are one.
I feel effort and time invested in ubiquitous connectivity will do far more to address the need to access one's data than working on solutions like this.
Kudos still, the idea is interesting.
World attitude records and unprecedented volumes of hot air. Sheesh. Enough is enough!
/. team.
Cleverly veiled as a science story though. Nice job,
Pluralizing it as if it were Latin would be misleading and pretentious, and pluralizing it with a double i just makes you look like a total idiot.
:)
Or perhaps it would make me look like a non-native english speaker? (which is the case)
OH well, don't let me ruin a perfectly good jump to a conclusion.
Round here at the big state-run universities (Cairo U, etc.) you can get legal copies of Windows, Office, and Visual Studio for the total of around 25 egyptian pounds, or around 4 or 5 US dollars.
That is, of course, breathtakingly shocking. But then, it is common knowledge that the IT ministry is in cahoots with MS.
Offtopic, but is 'campuses' the right plural for campus, or would that be campii, or something?
It amuses me that some of the lawers in the case had names like Crummy and Roach.
heh. How appropriate.