Three copies for me, one for each of my systems. Unfortunately still have to use IE at work, but working on that.:(.
As long have enough quota space at work, you should be able to run firefox. You don't need to run the installer - just unpack the zip file in your home dir... from here.
Although I seriously doubt the folks at Google are shuddering over this new "rival", you can't overlook the potential benefit to American companies who are looking to do business in the world's largest consumer market.
Nike being a prime example - it's also quite difficult when the Chinese government decides to ban Nike Commercials because having Lebron James defeating cartoons of "a kung fu master, two women in traditional Chinese attire and a pair of dragons", were all "insulting" to their country's image.
In highschool, I was one of the top students of my class in all subjects I studied. When I was in college, I was one of the students with the worst GPA. I havent been using the internet that much until university, when I started spending at least 8 hours a day at the computer not doing anything academic related. It can be accounted to a couple of things like electrical engineering is much more difficult than the mickey mouse canadian highschool cirriculum, but having the added distraction didnt help either.
Back then it was a guarentee that EE grads get job offers before finishing their bachelors. Of course, looking back I wish I had spend more time on books, and solving problem sets using the old-fashion pencil and paper. If I had done that I would actually be employed having a better GPA.
Having said that, I was able to look at course websites from other universities and also online publications. So it's helpful in that sense - a lot of it has to do with the person's attitude whether they want to do better in school, I'd say.
i paid for cable for the sole purpose of getting the sports channels so i could watch some basketball. unfortunately not all the games can be found on the net. there are some you'll find on suprnova.org, and even some older classic games (bull vs lakers '91 for example). not only are the two sports channels i get are on seperate packages, but the majority of the games are shown on the channel with the more expensive one. for whatever reason, even during the nhl lockout, they've decided to air minor league hockey, and more (guess what) curling instead of basketball.
i'm living in montreal, which basically has videotron as a monopoly - all i get are TSN and sportsnet-east , and all i get this week are 2 NBA games. Why do I want the bundled crapload of quebecois channels in my cable package? Yes, they even have a remake of paris hilton/ nicole richie's "the simple life" in french with their own montreal "actresses" WITH the exact theme song!
great. now people are just going to spoof documents and put pr0n or enlargement spams in the pdfs when i search for anything academic related. i'm glad i dont have that problem yet finding pdf papers via google yet.
hong kong is known as a one of the major financial capital in asia. parents raise their kids to be businessmen. almost all of them value success as in making tons of money that they'll never even get to spend. being encouraged to study in degrees of electrical engineering or computer science is very rare. lot of people on/. agree that people got into tech only because of the pre-bubble times, not because of their interest in the subject. well in hk, all you get are the bandwagon types. not making this up. i spent 10 yrs of my life there.
it's not the educational system because math and science cirriculum is far more advance and fast paced than in canada and the US, so it's not the fault of highschool programs not preparing the kids well enough to pursue their careers in that direction.
cyberport is mostly for IT (damn i hate that term) - and the buildings were only built for the "looks". honestly, if i want to build a startup there, let's say a fabless semiconductor company, do i really need the 100 megabits a second network? we need the CAD licenses, engineers with experience and fresh grads in EE - which are tough to get there because hong kong university recently shut down their EE department...
another thing, people in hk always have the misconception that they are more advance in tech than north americans. all they see is that they have more variety of advance products to choose from, but it's not them that do any of the in-house design.
all said, it's good to know that there are still people that would invest (or throw away money) for the...um IT industry. at least after i finish my masters in electrical engineering here in canada, i'll have something to fall back on, knowing that i speak the language there...
one thing that people dont tend to share or "pirate" are sports games. you never see any nba games in any of the suprnova.org or tvtorrents.net websites. wonder why that is though. Occationally you see some old classic games like the 1990 nba all-star game, or contraveral ones like the pistons-pacers game last week - but almost never current regular season games. they dont show phoenix suns games in east coast canada:(
knoppix 3.4 failed to detect my Samsung SyncMaster 172N with the correct sync/refresh modes. It's not a problem with the monitor because it works on my primary Debian boot. It's quite a common LCD monitor so you might find this helpful.
4. Font compatibility with Microsoft Office and Openoffice.org and/or StarOffice.
Crossover
I use Crossover on my linux desktop for this purpose. But it still isn't perfect - especially with visio. You just can't export.eps properly. I need an environment for me to do diagrams for my papers/reports/thesis. Unfortunately, neither dia and kivio are even close to what visio has under native windows.
heck, I'm in EE, and no matter whether it was before the bubble burst or after, people say i'm in college studying IT (just ridiculous). i'm at the point where i feel it's a complete waste of time and effort explaining to them - eventhough most of them being relatives (hell even my 'biological' father thinks i'm in it. he has no idea (or care) what i study and he's got an engineering degree himself (chemical).
"This distribution is popular with those who always count in binary, and are politically correct in a free software kind of way. Many are suspected of having been nursed on a TTY. Debian users take pride in the fact that their distribution is always several releases behind the latest version of the kernel, but makes up for that by being more difficult to install and use."
uh... no....
I use debian because it takes zero effort to upgrade packages - no BS, and if there's a change in the default/etc files, i have the option of keeping my old config or use the new package maintener's version. Unlike rpms, the debian packaging system doesnt just dump the files. it checks more than that.
I dont ever have to download ISOs and reinstall the OS from scratch.
There's also a lot less crap installed on my machine than distros like Mandrake or Redhat.
I dont have to worry about rpm packages breaking my system. Packages aren't outdated because I'm running unstable...
I actually find it quite easy to install with their newest installer
i'd rather spend time getting work done than wasting time configuring my system and updating broken packages. I don't want to read packages of documentation from linuxdoc. I just want things to work without the need of manually changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH or using a distro that comes with a beta version of gcc (redhat).
my friend works for d-link support and they are all told by their supervisors that they're supposed to answer that they are located in d-link headquarters in the US whenever customers ask them eventhough the reality is that they are in canada. there are actually customers out there that ask the tech support people whether they are located in india or china.
i'm not entirely sure that quality jobs are moving to canada. i agree with tech support jobs coming here, but i dont see any EE jobs. on the contrary, my school's career fair had a record number of EE-related companies this year since 2001 (sounds like an exaggeration -- there were only 4 and that was "good").
to be honest, as a master student about to graduate in EE, i have not much of a clue as in to how i'm going to find a decent career-related job anywhere (in canada or US).
i'm unable to vote because i'm not american, but i wish you guys out there elect the "correct" president for 2004.
if labs in universities and colleges are setup to include firefox in their computers, post a simple motd login screen to tell them to use firefox, and remove all IE shortcuts, wouldn't that not only boost the percentage of users using the superior browser, but also make the sys admin's lives a lot easier because you dont get as many security issues?
Seriously, how hard is it to get firefox installed in the labs. one of my ee labs at school have mozilla installed but the default profile is broken and you're unable to save your preferences and half of the time it doesn't even start. honestly though, i hate wasting time tweaking things and want things to just work so i can put spend time in doing actual work. if things like mozilla aren't set up properly, people just wont use them. after a while, they'll not think about its existance and totally forgetting about it altogether, even when it's not the school computer they're using.
a lot of people are commenting that water coming out of our pipes (ugh..) were actually from water coming out from animal's "pipes" - so what's the big deal.
the thing is not only about where the water is coming from - the thing is that the water is bottled and branded - being sold for money.
guess that gives my nickname a whole new meaning...
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Three copies for me, one for each of my systems. Unfortunately still have to use IE at work, but working on that. :(.
As long have enough quota space at work, you should be able to run firefox. You don't need to run the installer - just unpack the
zip file in your home dir...
from here.
Although I seriously doubt the folks at Google are shuddering over this new "rival", you can't overlook the potential benefit to American companies who are looking to do business in the world's largest consumer market.
Nike being a prime example - it's also quite difficult when the Chinese government decides to ban Nike Commercials because having Lebron James defeating cartoons of "a kung fu master, two women in traditional Chinese attire and a pair of dragons", were all "insulting" to their country's image.
In highschool, I was one of the top students of my class in all subjects I studied. When I was in college, I was one of the students with the worst GPA. I havent been using the internet that much until university, when I started spending at least 8 hours a day at the computer not doing anything academic related. It can be accounted to a couple of things like electrical engineering is much more difficult than the mickey mouse canadian highschool cirriculum, but having the added distraction didnt help either.
Back then it was a guarentee that EE grads get job offers before finishing their bachelors. Of course, looking back I wish I had spend more time on books, and solving problem sets using the old-fashion pencil and paper. If I had done that I would actually be employed having a better GPA.
Having said that, I was able to look at course websites from other universities and also online publications. So it's helpful in that sense - a lot of it has to do with the person's attitude whether they want to do better in school, I'd say.
Perverted Mayor Quimby (thumb out pointing at audience at podium): "... theeere will beeee 8 maids a milkinnng"
Homer Simpson: "mmmmmmm milk...."
i paid for cable for the sole purpose of getting the sports channels so i could watch some basketball. unfortunately not all the games can be found on the net. there are some you'll find on suprnova.org, and even some older classic games (bull vs lakers '91 for example). not only are the two sports channels i get are on seperate packages, but the majority of the games are shown on the channel with the more expensive one. for whatever reason, even during the nhl lockout, they've decided to air minor league hockey, and more (guess what) curling instead of basketball.
i'm living in montreal, which basically has videotron as a monopoly - all i get are TSN and sportsnet-east , and all i get this week are 2 NBA games. Why do I want the bundled crapload of quebecois channels in my cable package? Yes, they even have a remake of paris hilton/ nicole richie's "the simple life" in french with their own montreal "actresses" WITH the exact theme song!
great. now people are just going to spoof documents and put pr0n or enlargement spams in the pdfs when i search for anything academic related. i'm glad i dont have that problem yet finding pdf papers via google yet.
anyone know whether x.org will make it into sarge as well?
hong kong is known as a one of the major financial capital in asia. parents raise their kids to be businessmen. almost all of them value success as in making tons of money that they'll never even get to spend. being encouraged to study in degrees of electrical engineering or computer science is very rare. lot of people on /. agree that people got into tech only because of the pre-bubble times, not because of their interest in the subject. well in hk, all you get are the bandwagon types. not making this up. i spent 10 yrs of my life there.
...um IT industry. at least after i finish my masters in electrical engineering here in canada, i'll have something to fall back on, knowing that i speak the language there...
it's not the educational system because math and science cirriculum is far more advance and fast paced than in canada and the US, so it's not the fault of highschool programs not preparing the kids well enough to pursue their careers in that direction.
cyberport is mostly for IT (damn i hate that term) - and the buildings were only built for the "looks". honestly, if i want to build a startup there, let's say a fabless semiconductor company, do i really need the 100 megabits a second network? we need the CAD licenses, engineers with experience and fresh grads in EE - which are tough to get there because hong kong university recently shut down their EE department...
another thing, people in hk always have the misconception that they are more advance in tech than north americans. all they see is that they have more variety of advance products to choose from, but it's not them that do any of the in-house design.
all said, it's good to know that there are still people that would invest (or throw away money) for the
this was on eetimes few days ago....
article on eetimes
here and here
one thing that people dont tend to share or "pirate" are sports games. you never see any nba games in any of the suprnova.org or tvtorrents.net websites. wonder why that is though. Occationally you see some old classic games like the 1990 nba all-star game, or contraveral ones like the pistons-pacers game last week - but almost never current regular season games. they dont show phoenix suns games in east coast canada :(
maybe that's why people in quebec work the least hours on average in canada? :D
i know some that work 9-3 job daily with 2 hr lunch breaks...
knoppix 3.4 failed to detect my Samsung SyncMaster 172N with the correct sync/refresh modes. It's not a problem with the monitor because it works on my primary Debian boot. It's quite a common LCD monitor so you might find this helpful.
this is the exact same company the microsoft tried shutting down for distributing mod chips for the x-box.
perhaps not 25000 years ago, but nevertheless a good read.
1421 : The Year China Discovered America
it's written by a man formally in the britian's royal navy (not chinese). lot of interesting revelations and details
perhaps this may give people a better portrail of g4techtv ratings and stop cancelling shows and firing show hosts like the screensavers.
I use Crossover on my linux desktop for this purpose. But it still isn't perfect - especially with visio. You just can't export
heck, I'm in EE, and no matter whether it was before the bubble burst or after, people say i'm in college studying IT (just ridiculous). i'm at the point where i feel it's a complete waste of time and effort explaining to them - eventhough most of them being relatives (hell even my 'biological' father thinks i'm in it. he has no idea (or care) what i study and he's got an engineering degree himself (chemical).
and most of the world's population outside US...
Well, up-up-down-down-A-B-A-B-C-D-start gives you...
"kakaroto!"
"This distribution is popular with those who always count in binary, and are politically correct in a free software kind of way. Many are suspected of having been nursed on a TTY. Debian users take pride in the fact that their distribution is always several releases behind the latest version of the kernel, but makes up for that by being more difficult to install and use."
uh... no....
I use debian because it takes zero effort to upgrade packages - no BS, and if there's a change in the default /etc files, i have the option of keeping my old config or use the new package maintener's version. Unlike rpms, the debian packaging system doesnt just dump the files. it checks more than that.
I dont ever have to download ISOs and reinstall the OS from scratch.
There's also a lot less crap installed on my machine than distros like Mandrake or Redhat.
I dont have to worry about rpm packages breaking my system. Packages aren't outdated because I'm running unstable...
I actually find it quite easy to install with their newest installer
i'd rather spend time getting work done than wasting time configuring my system and updating broken packages. I don't want to read packages of documentation from linuxdoc. I just want things to work without the need of manually changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH or using a distro that comes with a beta version of gcc (redhat).
my friend works for d-link support and they are all told by their supervisors that they're supposed to answer that they are located in d-link headquarters in the US whenever customers ask them eventhough the reality is that they are in canada. there are actually customers out there that ask the tech support people whether they are located in india or china.
i'm not entirely sure that quality jobs are moving to canada. i agree with tech support jobs coming here, but i dont see any EE jobs. on the contrary, my school's career fair had a record number of EE-related companies this year since 2001 (sounds like an exaggeration -- there were only 4 and that was "good").
to be honest, as a master student about to graduate in EE, i have not much of a clue as in to how i'm going to find a decent career-related job anywhere (in canada or US).
i'm unable to vote because i'm not american, but i wish you guys out there elect the "correct" president for 2004.
if labs in universities and colleges are setup to include firefox in their computers, post a simple motd login screen to tell them to use firefox, and remove all IE shortcuts, wouldn't that not only boost the percentage of users using the superior browser, but also make the sys admin's lives a lot easier because you dont get as many security issues?
Seriously, how hard is it to get firefox installed in the labs. one of my ee labs at school have mozilla installed but the default profile is broken and you're unable to save your preferences and half of the time it doesn't even start. honestly though, i hate wasting time tweaking things and want things to just work so i can put spend time in doing actual work. if things like mozilla aren't set up properly, people just wont use them. after a while, they'll not think about its existance and totally forgetting about it altogether, even when it's not the school computer they're using.
a lot of people are commenting that water coming out of our pipes (ugh..) were actually from water coming out from animal's "pipes" - so what's the big deal.
the thing is not only about where the water is coming from - the thing is that the water is bottled and branded - being sold for money.
guess that gives my nickname a whole new meaning...
interesting... would you know anyone with success including MS office on the CD?