That reminds me of the saying "nothing beats the bandwidth of a van full of [insert media of choice] heading down the motorway at 70mph"
The thing is, you can It's much easier to boost the pidgins bandwidth than it is to boost the ADSL. a 2nd 4GB micro SDHC isn't going to slow the pidgin down much..
And the problem isn't just rural broadband. There's loads of suburban areas where you're lucky to get 1Mbit speed especially at peak times, mainly because the local exchange is so far away, and BT can't be bothered to get fiber-to-the-cabinet rolled out any quicker.
Sure bring your laptop I'd be lost if I didn't take mine abroad.
Get a travel adapter and bring a 4-way.
Could be worth picking up a pay-as-you-go sim for your cell phone, assuming you have a modern phone that does the European bands If that doesn't work, then a PAYG pnone can be had for less than £10. It will work out much cheaper than using your hotel phone or your domestic tariff.
Don't get a taxi into the city from the Airport, they will charge a small fortune. The train is the fastest way into the center of town from both Gatwick and Heathrow.
Consider flying Virgin Atlantic, the seat-back entertainment is the best there is on the trans-Atlantic route IMO.
Visit the Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum, Allow a day for each, and keep clear of them on a wet Sunday as they are packed then (there are loads of free parking spaces in London on Sundays, so they make a good free, wet day out for everyone with kids, within an hours drive of them, and that's a lot of people) Allow at least a day each on these.
If you're on a tight budget, check the Museum web sites for indoor picnic areas. Many of them have these, so you can save a bunch of money by brining your own lunch to them.
I've not visited the Imperial War museum, but it's on my list to visit.
The London eye is always good, as long as it's not hammering with rain (which is often is)
If you want to get out of London then you can do day trips by rail as far as York as long as you travel week days. Canterbury or Oxford are good for a visit and you could use the coach to get there to save a few more quid.
If you've got the money, a day trip to Paris by train is also feasible (or stay there for a couple of nights)
Actually, you can triangulate it quite accurately with some equipment. We have Aruba stuff one our sites and that can pin point a wireless mac address down to a a meter or so.
But what on earth is going on in the UK? Security cameras literally everywhere, compulsory DNA databases, laws permitting detention without charge or trial for long periods of time, that insane proposal for a law to allow laws to be made and abolished by regulation (i.e. without a vote in parliament), and this obsession with centralising government control over information, particularly insofar as it relates to the movements and communications of private citizens. The list goes on and on. It's called "New Labour" and I'm afraid we're stuck with them for another couple of years at least.
I'm left wondering what non-technical skills the admins in question had ?
IME, most linux admins with significant experiance have mainly worked in environments where *they* are the final arbiters of the chagne controll policies etc. They've tended to work in smaller companies, or been putting linux in the edge or certain well defined services (i.e. DNS), and not at the center of larger companies.
Windows admins on the other hand (again, IME) are used to working with the larger comapnies and the beurocrecy that goes allong with it.
I've often thought that a lot of the "green" solutions proposed would have major down sides when looked at on a large scale. Some of these effects may be piffingly small, some may not be.
"Zero" emition cars. (fule cell etc): So the "only" output is water vapour. which is "safe". How much of an effect will that be when there's a million or so cars chugging round London or SF pushing out tonnes of water vapour. At the very least there will be an effect on the local climate, (and in europe probably as big an effect on the medievel buildings as polution has had) and there could possibly be an effect on the macro climate too.
Has the BPI got to go to seek the courts' approval each time they want the name and address, or have they somehow automatically gained the right to see confidential records of ISPs just by saying they suspect someone of sharing illegal files ?
I hope it's the former, but I fear it's the latter.
I've a couple of questions on this. There was a comment in the origanal posting that remote SSH keys may be compromised if authentication forwarding was used ? Can anyone explain why that might be ?
Also, isn't anyone worried that the only reason the root kit was discovered is because *two* machines were oopsing. ?
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That reminds me of the saying "nothing beats the bandwidth of a van full of [insert media of choice] heading down the motorway at 70mph"
The thing is, you can It's much easier to boost the pidgins bandwidth than it is to boost the ADSL. a 2nd 4GB micro SDHC isn't going to slow the pidgin down much..
And the problem isn't just rural broadband. There's loads of suburban areas where you're lucky to get 1Mbit speed especially at peak times, mainly because the local exchange is so far away, and BT can't be bothered to get fiber-to-the-cabinet rolled out any quicker.
The company also treats the gasoline with a catalyst that 'activates' it, partially oxidizing it to enhance combustion."
Doesn't oxidizing mean burning it ?
So they make it better by half buring it already...
Hummm....
Sure bring your laptop I'd be lost if I didn't take mine abroad.
Get a travel adapter and bring a 4-way.
Could be worth picking up a pay-as-you-go sim for your cell phone, assuming you have a modern phone that does the European bands If that doesn't work, then a PAYG pnone can be had for less than £10. It will work out much cheaper than using your hotel phone or your domestic tariff.
Don't get a taxi into the city from the Airport, they will charge a small fortune. The train is the fastest way into the center of town from both Gatwick and Heathrow.
Consider flying Virgin Atlantic, the seat-back entertainment is the best there is on the trans-Atlantic route IMO.
Visit the Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum, Allow a day for each, and keep clear of them on a wet Sunday as they are packed then (there are loads of free parking spaces in London on Sundays, so they make a good free, wet day out for everyone with kids, within an hours drive of them, and that's a lot of people) Allow at least a day each on these.
If you're on a tight budget, check the Museum web sites for indoor picnic areas. Many of them have these, so you can save a bunch of money by brining your own lunch to them.
I've not visited the Imperial War museum, but it's on my list to visit.
The London eye is always good, as long as it's not hammering with rain (which is often is)
If you want to get out of London then you can do day trips by rail as far as York as long as you travel week days. Canterbury or Oxford are good for a visit and you could use the coach to get there to save a few more quid.
If you've got the money, a day trip to Paris by train is also feasible (or stay there for a couple of nights)
I can think of two scientists who have done some great TV work recently.
Dr Alice Roberts, presenter of BBC's The Incredible Human Journey http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00klf6j
and Dr Iain Stewart, presenter of the BBC's The Power of the Planet http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/earthpoweroftheplanet/
Icecore now known kablink may be what you need.
http://www.kablink.org/
It's the opensource version of Teaming + Conferencing now owned by Novell (used to be SiteScape)
Disclaimer. I work for them and I've not used this software.
Been there, done that.
Well, actually in my case it ws OS/2 LanServer not netware, and it didn't crash but was being replaced with Warp Server for y2k compliance.
But it was behind a plasterboard wall.
Actually, you can triangulate it quite accurately with some equipment. We have Aruba stuff one our sites and that can pin point a wireless mac address down to a a meter or so.
For those that are interested.
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http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/webcast.htm
So, being Spain and Spain being in the EU, what's to stop you buying from any other EU country ?
Or if it's like cigeretts and alchol in the UK (where it's some kind of import dutie, not tax as such), then just import them yourselves.
I would like to think that one day wine will actually be better at running Windows software than Windows itself is.
Nah, I remember what happened to the last OS that did that.
I'm left wondering what non-technical skills the admins in question had ?
IME, most linux admins with significant experiance have mainly worked in environments where *they* are the final arbiters of the chagne controll policies etc. They've tended to work in smaller companies, or been putting linux in the edge or certain well defined services (i.e. DNS), and not at the center of larger companies.
Windows admins on the other hand (again, IME) are used to working with the larger comapnies and the beurocrecy that goes allong with it.
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http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/index.htm
Manage windows and linux machines.
(yes, I'm biased. I work for Novell, and manage their internal ZLM server in emea)
I've often thought that a lot of the "green" solutions proposed would have major down sides when looked at on a large scale.
Some of these effects may be piffingly small, some may not be.
"Zero" emition cars. (fule cell etc): So the "only" output is water vapour. which is "safe". How much of an effect will that be when there's a million or so cars chugging round London or SF pushing out tonnes of water vapour. At the very least there will be an effect on the local climate, (and in europe probably as big an effect on the medievel buildings as polution has had) and there could possibly be an effect on the macro climate too.
What the article doesn't make clear is this.
Has the BPI got to go to seek the courts' approval each time they want the name and address, or have they somehow automatically gained the right to see confidential records of ISPs just by saying they suspect someone of sharing illegal files ?
I hope it's the former, but I fear it's the latter.
"Most people create documents for others to view, and in today's corporate environment, that means .doc format"
.sxw format.
;-)
Strange, my last two employers have always used
Oh yes. They were Sun and Novell.
No,
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The adlantic convayer is thought to be because of the water cooling as it reaches the ice sheets. As it cools, it sinks driving the convayer.
The melting of the ice sheets decrease the salinity of the sea water causing it not to drop as deap or as fast, reducing the power of the conveyer, and ultimatly turning it off.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchil
If the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma blows, it will cause a mega-tsumani that will wipe out most of the US easern sea board.
To experiment with Linux 9.0 and see if anything new gets broken that works under Linux 8.0 - without bringing down your 8.0 server.
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Funny, I thought it was Linux 2.4 or 2.6
You have obviously not worked where I have worked ......
I've a couple of questions on this.
There was a comment in the origanal posting that remote SSH keys may be compromised if authentication forwarding was used ? Can anyone explain why that might be ?
Also, isn't anyone worried that the only reason the root kit was discovered is because *two* machines were oopsing. ?
In the UK we never had a right to personal backups !!
Actually, I think they are giving ppl what they say they want.
:-(
Ppl say "I don't want to steal music, I just want to rip it to play it in my [mp3 player|mac|windows|linux pc]"
Well, if it's DRM'd WMA files or something it will probably be supported in most consumer MP3 hardware sooner or later.
No chance in linux though.
This seems like very old news to me.
I seem to recall being told this in the early 1980s at school.
Apperently it's the "rebound" effect. In the last ice age all the ice caused Scotland and Northern England to sink under it's weight.
Since it all melted it's been slowly rising.
I can't remember why southern England is sinking though. Maybe there's a pivet somewhere through Shefield or something ?