I can confirm that it works fine with multiple clients behind a NAT firewall (which more often than not totally fucks up commercial IPSec-based VPN clients). I mean - it's basically SSL, so there is no reason why it shouldn't. Setup was a breeze, reliability in my book is very good. OpenVPN is much much better than the Watchguard MuVPN solution I replaced by it (basically a souped-up OpenSWAN with the SafeNet Soft Remote Client). Also clients are available for all mainstream platforms, which is also always a big problem with most commercial solutions.
I think it strongly depends. While not a lot of Germans use credit cards (and also the acceptance still sucks as businesses shy back of credit card fees) debit cards are wildly popular. You are right that if you tried to pay for a disposable razor in a Mom and Pop store using a credit card - as I was able to do already 10 years ago in the US without any trouble - they would set the dogs on you, but still plastic money is also widely popular around here at least for everything from 50 EUR onwards (and the acceptable limits are constantly becoming lower and lower).
The most common reason to enter a Mercedes dealership with a suitcase full of money has lost a lot of attractivity due to the recent laws against money laundering.;-)
Well, as Novell is supposed to be one of the biggest Linux vendors who publicly stated many many times that they are converting all of their internal systems to Linux and pronto this is certainly not only "another company converting to a pure-linux environment". Do as you say or "Eat your own dog food". Especially as I only yesterday read an interview with Mr Messman from Novell in some financial paper stating that Linux can do everything Windows can do and that there is no need for Windows any more (ok, he admitted that there will be a long time where Windows and Linux will have to live side-by-side, but still).
If you call selling not-so-optimal software and illegal monopolistic practices crimes against humanity you maybe should read up about real crimes against humanity like the holocaust, the numerous genocides like in Ruanda, in the Balkans or in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouges. Crimes against humanity, my ass. Guys like you really should get out more.
A couple of years ago I got to play with the first model line of the HP digital sender. Even back then they were quite easy to use and were designed with professional use in mind (read: designed to cope with hundreds of pages, not just fiddling around with one or two). They are not exactly cheap, though (starting around $3000 ), but should still be less expensive than a larger copier. They are also quite handy sizewise. More info here (no, I'm neither HP nor do I have any interests otherwise in them):
You know, there were Apples before the Mac, especially the famous Apple IIs (as the GP clearly stated). They indeed created a blooming market for third party add-ons and clones of mostly dubious legality, much facilitated by the fact that all Apple IIs (at least the big ones, don't know about the IIc, some kind of laptop-precursor) came with full schematics. The Mac was a rather late entry in the whole PC game, Apple was well known for more than half a decade before that. Likely that the bad experiences with Apple II-cloners led Apple to the very closed and proprietary course they took with the Mac (completely opposed as to Apple operated before).
Thought so myself. But the usually very reliable German computing magazine c't ran several tests over last couple of years that showed great quality problems even with expensive brand name media and writers. The results they got strongly depended on the combination of burner and media, and considering that even brand name media often is manufactured by changing OEMs makes selection of a working combination mere luck. Apparently it's slowly becoming better, but still.
I could imagine that those things would be great for doing backups, but: Will they be reliable ?
When writable DVDs and DVD burners got affordable I was thrilled at first: Finally being able to backup several GB of data to one not too expensive disk instead of on a stack of CD-Rs ! But then reality hit: Compatibility problems between individual brands of burners and brands of media, quality problems with media, even worse durability than CD-Rs; altogether more or less a total gamble if you want to do backups with that stuff. Now my DVD burners collect dust or are mostly used as CD burners only. So what is a high capacity medium good for if it is not reliable besides making expensive coasters and wall clocks ?
But is this really so different from self-proclaimed college-drop-out "Linux gurus" who whip together sucky and insecure "solutions" in MySQL and PHP using the "powerful open Enterprise OSS LAMP-stack" ? You can write good as well as bad code both on Linux and Windows, and there are more than enough examples for both on both platforms.
...until you happen to have that crippling accident or contract that nasty disease. I really hope neither will happen to you, but there are enough people that yesterday thought exactly like you and that today curse the city because of all the damned stairs they can't pass with their wheelchair.
That said, an X-Ray is nothing more than a special transparency as far as scanning goes (that's my theory).
So much for the theory. In practice even slightest shadings and finest details that can get lost when transferring the image with sub-standard equipment can hide vital information from the doc examining the picture afterwards, especially if you are not trying to examine some bones but soft tissue structures like e.g. the lung.
So yes, an x-ray image basically is just a special transparency, but you will want the best possible image quality when reproducing it. As a lot of other posters already suggested: Ask the doctor who made the images to make a copy for you, many modern systems are already digital and just image to a standard film for examination and archival purposes; so they can easily produce copies in the same quality the original has. (and yes, I am an MD by training).
If you just once bother to use "View code" you can have a look at and change any painstaking detail that makes your nice little window tick. If you can't be bothered to do even that or even didn't find out up to now that it's possible to do so it would be better if you turned in your programmer's card. But don't blame VS on your lack of interest and curiosity.
I'm sorry if this comes over a little bit harsh, but what really gets me going is people who don't have the slightest problems performing the most difficult tasks for all aspects of *ix but act as if indeed their brain had rotted away once they happen to encounter a windows machine.
No, CA is the dark, wet and dark place underground where good software is being imprisoned after having been kidnapped to die a slow and agonizing death *shudder*.
Depends who you target with your Web site. I am in the biotech field and there are lots of companies and not too few large University hospitals having ultra-paranoically configured firewalls and Web proxies that just strip your nice javascript code from the Web request. So if you target a population like that you have to have a reasonable fallback or it means using and pissing off lots of visitors/customers etc.
You chose a really bad example up there;-). At least in Europe fraud using manipulated or even completely bogus ATMs is not too infrequent according to police reports. Apparently there are a lot of mostly Eastern European gangs that either "enhance" real ATM systems with add-ons for the card reader and the keyboard that, while often not discernible on even closer inspection to the non-expert, can log the users PIN codes and grab the transmitted card data. Sometimes they even use complete real-looking fake-ATMs that trick you into entering your PIN and swallowing your ATM card afterwards. Until you have contacted the bank to get your card back from the presumed read ATM they are already spending your money using your real card and the PIN you gave them.
This is not so much a question of customer demand and technical feasability but of market strategy. It's not so rare that perfectly fine and viable products that even sell well get cancelled because they don't fit into the portfolio of the purchaser or because of other strategical considerations (see Apple's purchase of their audio software a couple of years back (forgot the name of the product) where they cancelled the existing and apparently well selling Windows version immediately). Welcome to the marketplace !
But OS is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.
Yeah, I know. "The Internet is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.". Worked quite well. Ahem.
Usually things like that are only said because noone really has an idea how to make real money with the big new different thingy. Which usually leads to events like the dotcom bubble. I know, there are open source companies that make real money. But there were and still are quite some dotcoms that made money, too, only the largest part of dotcoms back then and OSS companies now don't have any viable business model and will tank eventually. If you have to seek refuge in new paradigms it usually is a sure sign your business model sucks rocks.
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I think you mean Prey. But his wife doesn't leave him, she's just away a lot working on mentioned evil things while he stays at home looking after the kids having trouble to get a job again.
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I can confirm that it works fine with multiple clients behind a NAT firewall (which more often than not totally fucks up commercial IPSec-based VPN clients). I mean - it's basically SSL, so there is no reason why it shouldn't. Setup was a breeze, reliability in my book is very good. OpenVPN is much much better than the Watchguard MuVPN solution I replaced by it (basically a souped-up OpenSWAN with the SafeNet Soft Remote Client). Also clients are available for all mainstream platforms, which is also always a big problem with most commercial solutions.
I think it strongly depends. While not a lot of Germans use credit cards (and also the acceptance still sucks as businesses shy back of credit card fees) debit cards are wildly popular. You are right that if you tried to pay for a disposable razor in a Mom and Pop store using a credit card - as I was able to do already 10 years ago in the US without any trouble - they would set the dogs on you, but still plastic money is also widely popular around here at least for everything from 50 EUR onwards (and the acceptable limits are constantly becoming lower and lower).
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The most common reason to enter a Mercedes dealership with a suitcase full of money has lost a lot of attractivity due to the recent laws against money laundering.
While you are basically right I wouldn't call a city with a population of more than 100000 and being a district capital a village.
Well, as Novell is supposed to be one of the biggest Linux vendors who publicly stated many many times that they are converting all of their internal systems to Linux and pronto this is certainly not only "another company converting to a pure-linux environment". Do as you say or "Eat your own dog food". Especially as I only yesterday read an interview with Mr Messman from Novell in some financial paper stating that Linux can do everything Windows can do and that there is no need for Windows any more (ok, he admitted that there will be a long time where Windows and Linux will have to live side-by-side, but still).
If you call selling not-so-optimal software and illegal monopolistic practices crimes against humanity you maybe should read up about real crimes against humanity like the holocaust, the numerous genocides like in Ruanda, in the Balkans or in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouges. Crimes against humanity, my ass. Guys like you really should get out more.
WHAT ! No SYNERGIES ? I demand synergies ! They will shape the future paradigms of B2C and B2B interaction ! Dang. Forgot my pills again.
A couple of years ago I got to play with the first model line of the HP digital sender. Even back then they were quite easy to use and were designed with professional use in mind (read: designed to cope with hundreds of pages, not just fiddling around with one or two). They are not exactly cheap, though (starting around $3000 ), but should still be less expensive than a larger copier. They are also quite handy sizewise. More info here (no, I'm neither HP nor do I have any interests otherwise in them):
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Use history -c to clear the bash history.
Firefox 1.5, too. Pretty bad, but usually goes away after a forced reload.
Kids these days... *sigh**mutter*
You know, there were Apples before the Mac, especially the famous Apple IIs (as the GP clearly stated). They indeed created a blooming market for third party add-ons and clones of mostly dubious legality, much facilitated by the fact that all Apple IIs (at least the big ones, don't know about the IIc, some kind of laptop-precursor) came with full schematics. The Mac was a rather late entry in the whole PC game, Apple was well known for more than half a decade before that. Likely that the bad experiences with Apple II-cloners led Apple to the very closed and proprietary course they took with the Mac (completely opposed as to Apple operated before).
Thought so myself. But the usually very reliable German computing magazine c't ran several tests over last couple of years that showed great quality problems even with expensive brand name media and writers. The results they got strongly depended on the combination of burner and media, and considering that even brand name media often is manufactured by changing OEMs makes selection of a working combination mere luck. Apparently it's slowly becoming better, but still.
I could imagine that those things would be great for doing backups, but: Will they be reliable ?
When writable DVDs and DVD burners got affordable I was thrilled at first: Finally being able to backup several GB of data to one not too expensive disk instead of on a stack of CD-Rs ! But then reality hit: Compatibility problems between individual brands of burners and brands of media, quality problems with media, even worse durability than CD-Rs; altogether more or less a total gamble if you want to do backups with that stuff. Now my DVD burners collect dust or are mostly used as CD burners only. So what is a high capacity medium good for if it is not reliable besides making expensive coasters and wall clocks ?
Doesn't help your case any- he only moved here last year and Linux gained quite a few American followers before that!
AFAIK he has been living in the US at least since the late 90s. IIRC he only moved inside the US last year, maybe you mixed that up.
But is this really so different from self-proclaimed college-drop-out "Linux gurus" who whip together sucky and insecure "solutions" in MySQL and PHP using the "powerful open Enterprise OSS LAMP-stack" ? You can write good as well as bad code both on Linux and Windows, and there are more than enough examples for both on both platforms.
...until you happen to have that crippling accident or contract that nasty disease. I really hope neither will happen to you, but there are enough people that yesterday thought exactly like you and that today curse the city because of all the damned stairs they can't pass with their wheelchair.
You can do it to the CEO, you can do it to the CIO or everyone else, but... ... never EVER mess with the master of all beancounters !
That said, an X-Ray is nothing more than a special transparency as far as scanning goes (that's my theory).
So much for the theory. In practice even slightest shadings and finest details that can get lost when transferring the image with sub-standard equipment can hide vital information from the doc examining the picture afterwards, especially if you are not trying to examine some bones but soft tissue structures like e.g. the lung.
So yes, an x-ray image basically is just a special transparency, but you will want the best possible image quality when reproducing it. As a lot of other posters already suggested: Ask the doctor who made the images to make a copy for you, many modern systems are already digital and just image to a standard film for examination and archival purposes; so they can easily produce copies in the same quality the original has. (and yes, I am an MD by training).
If you just once bother to use "View code" you can have a look at and change any painstaking detail that makes your nice little window tick. If you can't be bothered to do even that or even didn't find out up to now that it's possible to do so it would be better if you turned in your programmer's card. But don't blame VS on your lack of interest and curiosity.
I'm sorry if this comes over a little bit harsh, but what really gets me going is people who don't have the slightest problems performing the most difficult tasks for all aspects of *ix but act as if indeed their brain had rotted away once they happen to encounter a windows machine.
ARGH ! My brain is bleeding ! THE PAIN ! THE PAIN !
No, CA is the dark, wet and dark place underground where good software is being imprisoned after having been kidnapped to die a slow and agonizing death *shudder*.
Depends who you target with your Web site. I am in the biotech field and there are lots of companies and not too few large University hospitals having ultra-paranoically configured firewalls and Web proxies that just strip your nice javascript code from the Web request. So if you target a population like that you have to have a reasonable fallback or it means using and pissing off lots of visitors/customers etc.
You chose a really bad example up there ;-). At least in Europe fraud using manipulated or even completely bogus ATMs is not too infrequent according to police reports. Apparently there are a lot of mostly Eastern European gangs that either "enhance" real ATM systems with add-ons for the card reader and the keyboard that, while often not discernible on even closer inspection to the non-expert, can log the users PIN codes and grab the transmitted card data. Sometimes they even use complete real-looking fake-ATMs that trick you into entering your PIN and swallowing your ATM card afterwards. Until you have contacted the bank to get your card back from the presumed read ATM they are already spending your money using your real card and the PIN you gave them.
This is not so much a question of customer demand and technical feasability but of market strategy. It's not so rare that perfectly fine and viable products that even sell well get cancelled because they don't fit into the portfolio of the purchaser or because of other strategical considerations (see Apple's purchase of their audio software a couple of years back (forgot the name of the product) where they cancelled the existing and apparently well selling Windows version immediately). Welcome to the marketplace !
But OS is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.
Yeah, I know. "The Internet is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.". Worked quite well. Ahem.
Usually things like that are only said because noone really has an idea how to make real money with the big new different thingy. Which usually leads to events like the dotcom bubble. I know, there are open source companies that make real money. But there were and still are quite some dotcoms that made money, too, only the largest part of dotcoms back then and OSS companies now don't have any viable business model and will tank eventually. If you have to seek refuge in new paradigms it usually is a sure sign your business model sucks rocks.
I think you mean Prey. But his wife doesn't leave him, she's just away a lot working on mentioned evil things while he stays at home looking after the kids having trouble to get a job again.