Plug them in a PC, move everything over to the PC, reformat the card. Now they are all identical and it doesn't matter who they belong to or if you lose them. Why do you ask ?
Incidentaly I use the following Linux/Cygwin script to sort out the files.
Is it possible to use other cell phones as well as modem for Linux boxes ? My old Nokia connects with a USB cable and works as a modem on my windows laptop thanks to a special driver, but I never tried it under Linux. I don't think Nokia provides Linux drivers.
Case in point: my dentist, who is quite wealthy, was recently disgusted at his new associate. The old one having retired, he got a new one right out of school. The new one raised the prices by a big margin and bought a Porsche Cayenne after just a few weeks of work. In protest, he bought one of the cheapest car in existence and parks next to the Porsche on the dental clinic's lot.
I have this hunch that the first tech collapse was in part caused by web ads. Many businesses then had no clearer business plan than "put something on the web and make money off of it", which often turned out to be "put some content user want, and ad some advertisement".
But marketing people IMHO have always greatly overvalued the effect of traditional print/billboard/TV/etc ads. Only on those media there's no way to verify how much extra products they sell. They've been riding on that to justify their very existence for ever.
Only with web adds, you know exactly how many people saw the ads, where they were, how many clicked and how many made the final purchase. That is to say: zero or just about. And then the whole thing collapsed. Only now, instead of devaluating ads in other media which should be the obvious deduction, we are again building sites based on this no-good strategy.
I know, I have a website with AdSense and in two years ad income has been divided by 7 with no noticeable change in viewership. And I also surf with FF and adblock because the web is unpalatable without it. I don't know how to put my money where my mouth is.
Your observations are correct, but as to why some hate X... I wouldn't say I hate it, just that I don't understand it. At all. And I'm a seasoned hacker. It's basically impossible to compile from scratch (the only time I managed to compile it was as part of Gentoo). Config files are obscure to the max, both in syntax and semantics, and there's no way to know where there's an error if there's one. Plenty of its options and capabilities are archaic and leave you scratching your head as to why they are in there at all.
I agree completely with you. About the Scroll lock and caps lock key, I used to pop them out. Then I was surprised to see that Ctrl-S wouldn't work in KDE Konsole... and after googling I learned that you need Scroll-lock !
Since 2001, there has been a 70% increase in new regulations that are "economically significant" [...] and the number of pages in the Federal Register listing all new regulations reached an all-time high of 78,090 in 2007, from 64,438 in 2001.
Why isn't there something in the constitution (no less) that states that when you vote a new law, you need to remove an old one ? I mean who can seriously be expected to know the law ? Even experts can only have a vague idea of what is in those 78 thousand pages.
I also send and receive SMSes in 3 languages daily and I hate the new 'quick' way to write SMS, simply because it assumes the language you use is the same as the one you configured the phone. It's plain impossible to write in another language. Now if it was just 2 keys to change it, it would be fine... Internationalization is still a long way off, never mind globalization.
Indeed. When my new laptop came with Office 2007 pre-loaded, I blinked when I saw this shit that moves around between each app and each setting in an app and I uninstalled the whole shebang for OO.o, although it was already paid for.
I see touchscreens as useful only on netbooks, if you can turn the screen around and use it as a tablet. If you have to raise your hands every time, then the novelty will wear off fast (see 'gorilla arm' syndrom). I'd love something like that so I can read cbr comic books in bed. But keep your greasy fingers off my big main desktop monitor!
If you like the lighter side of Antarctica, you should read Nic's website or book 'Big Dead Place'. It's hilarious and realistic at the same time, and I speak as someone who spent 3 years there. Of course, it'll never be as realistic as this...
And keep in mind that the festive period of Antarctica is not Giftmas or even New Years (too much work to do, too many bosses around), but the Midwinter, celebrated when you are halfway through your 'tour of duty', and the days are the coldest.
I used forth for a while back in the early 80s, as an intermediate between basic and assembly, and I hated it. I don't see why reverse polish anything should be still used, much less taught, nowadays.
Once they figure out how to efficiently virtualize stuff like USB
Which reminds me... I have some Windows-only USB hardware (printers, scanners, cameras, etc) but I'd like to use Linux as my main OS. Which virtual system allows me to have a virtual WinXP with that hardware plugged in ?
"if the complaint is not life threatening and is unlikely to degrade, try all reasonable non-surgical interventions with less risk of complication first; a botched surgery is a bad thing."
That's reasonable. In the case of appendectomy for instance, now massive doses of antibiotics are given before resorting to surgery. But having myself participated in an emergency on-the-field appendectomy in Antarctica, I can tell you that the guy would have been dead given another day or so. And also the field of surgery itself knows that less is better, hence the recent explosion of less invasive techniques like endoscopic techniques. And you are wrong if you think that those techniques are not evaluated. They are, and very closely, and they evolve all the time. Doing a double-blind would be stupid as 1 - it's impossible; 2 - in most cases the alternative is death. Instead different techniques are evaluated against one another.
Don't call me a scientist, but I'm pretty sure poking needles into a body would have some general effect... such as pain. I mean, if my finger hurts and you hit my head with a brick, I'm pretty sure I won't notice the finger pain very much anymore. Just sayin'
And in the category "fastest flamebait ever", I believe we have a winner. Please come back and post after you've had a punctured lung, an apendicitis, or, well, any kind of internal nastiness. I'm curious to know what form of alternative medecine you'll end up using to cure that before reverting to surgery. If any.
Why do you think surgeons have a god complex? It's because out of all the possible professions they are the most efficient at saving lives quickly and effectively. I can't beleive I'm wasting time answering this moron, like in the old usenet days.
Today Linux's USB support is vastly superior to any Windows
Just an observation to add to the pile: I had to develop a USB driver for a custom board at work. OS choice was up to me. It's been a long time since I last wrote Windows drivers so I looked around the web, couldn't find Windows examples without subscribing to MSDN. Found libusb for linux, plenty of examples, had a basic example running in 5 minutes. Had completed my driver within 2 days with no surprise. It now runs on a nuclear reactor (seriously). So when developers like me abandon ship, that's a sign. Oh, and I noticed that libusb also runs on Windows, so I also compiled it for it, no there you have: a dual boot nuclear reactor !!!
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Plug them in a PC, move everything over to the PC, reformat the card. Now they are all identical and it doesn't matter who they belong to or if you lose them. Why do you ask ? Incidentaly I use the following Linux/Cygwin script to sort out the files.
Is it possible to use other cell phones as well as modem for Linux boxes ? My old Nokia connects with a USB cable and works as a modem on my windows laptop thanks to a special driver, but I never tried it under Linux. I don't think Nokia provides Linux drivers.
...getting a crown is still VERY expensive
Case in point: my dentist, who is quite wealthy, was recently disgusted at his new associate. The old one having retired, he got a new one right out of school. The new one raised the prices by a big margin and bought a Porsche Cayenne after just a few weeks of work. In protest, he bought one of the cheapest car in existence and parks next to the Porsche on the dental clinic's lot.
WTF is a 'software attache rate' ?!?
Such a system totally discourages arts.
Nope. Art existed before the establishment of copyright laws.
The idea is to encourage you to make new things, after all
That seems to contradict the facts that:
Can't TrueCrypt be configured with a 'destroy' password that will wipe the disk and/or destroy the encryption if given to a third party ?
I have this hunch that the first tech collapse was in part caused by web ads. Many businesses then had no clearer business plan than "put something on the web and make money off of it", which often turned out to be "put some content user want, and ad some advertisement".
But marketing people IMHO have always greatly overvalued the effect of traditional print/billboard/TV/etc ads. Only on those media there's no way to verify how much extra products they sell. They've been riding on that to justify their very existence for ever.
Only with web adds, you know exactly how many people saw the ads, where they were, how many clicked and how many made the final purchase. That is to say: zero or just about. And then the whole thing collapsed. Only now, instead of devaluating ads in other media which should be the obvious deduction, we are again building sites based on this no-good strategy.
I know, I have a website with AdSense and in two years ad income has been divided by 7 with no noticeable change in viewership. And I also surf with FF and adblock because the web is unpalatable without it. I don't know how to put my money where my mouth is.
So, hmmm, is there a TortoiseGit project for us lazy Windows users ? Which reminds me, is there a GUI for linux equivalent to TortoiseSVN ?
Your observations are correct, but as to why some hate X... I wouldn't say I hate it, just that I don't understand it. At all. And I'm a seasoned hacker. It's basically impossible to compile from scratch (the only time I managed to compile it was as part of Gentoo). Config files are obscure to the max, both in syntax and semantics, and there's no way to know where there's an error if there's one. Plenty of its options and capabilities are archaic and leave you scratching your head as to why they are in there at all.
I agree completely with you. About the Scroll lock and caps lock key, I used to pop them out. Then I was surprised to see that Ctrl-S wouldn't work in KDE Konsole... and after googling I learned that you need Scroll-lock !
With my big fingers I hate the caps lock key too, so I use the CapsUnlock freeware.
I did that as well, left a hidden empty field that would flag as spam if filled, but bots seem to not fill it: it hasn't changed a thing.
Since 2001, there has been a 70% increase in new regulations that are "economically significant" [...] and the number of pages in the Federal Register listing all new regulations reached an all-time high of 78,090 in 2007, from 64,438 in 2001.
Why isn't there something in the constitution (no less) that states that when you vote a new law, you need to remove an old one ? I mean who can seriously be expected to know the law ? Even experts can only have a vague idea of what is in those 78 thousand pages.
I also send and receive SMSes in 3 languages daily and I hate the new 'quick' way to write SMS, simply because it assumes the language you use is the same as the one you configured the phone. It's plain impossible to write in another language. Now if it was just 2 keys to change it, it would be fine... Internationalization is still a long way off, never mind globalization.
Indeed. When my new laptop came with Office 2007 pre-loaded, I blinked when I saw this shit that moves around between each app and each setting in an app and I uninstalled the whole shebang for OO.o, although it was already paid for.
I see touchscreens as useful only on netbooks, if you can turn the screen around and use it as a tablet. If you have to raise your hands every time, then the novelty will wear off fast (see 'gorilla arm' syndrom). I'd love something like that so I can read cbr comic books in bed. But keep your greasy fingers off my big main desktop monitor!
So... is there a 'best of list' of all the 'Top 10 lists' of the year, so I can get all my reading done at once ?
And keep in mind that the festive period of Antarctica is not Giftmas or even New Years (too much work to do, too many bosses around), but the Midwinter, celebrated when you are halfway through your 'tour of duty', and the days are the coldest.
I used forth for a while back in the early 80s, as an intermediate between basic and assembly, and I hated it. I don't see why reverse polish anything should be still used, much less taught, nowadays.
Once they figure out how to efficiently virtualize stuff like USB
Which reminds me... I have some Windows-only USB hardware (printers, scanners, cameras, etc) but I'd like to use Linux as my main OS. Which virtual system allows me to have a virtual WinXP with that hardware plugged in ?
That's reasonable. In the case of appendectomy for instance, now massive doses of antibiotics are given before resorting to surgery. But having myself participated in an emergency on-the-field appendectomy in Antarctica, I can tell you that the guy would have been dead given another day or so. And also the field of surgery itself knows that less is better, hence the recent explosion of less invasive techniques like endoscopic techniques. And you are wrong if you think that those techniques are not evaluated. They are, and very closely, and they evolve all the time. Doing a double-blind would be stupid as 1 - it's impossible; 2 - in most cases the alternative is death. Instead different techniques are evaluated against one another.
Don't call me a scientist, but I'm pretty sure poking needles into a body would have some general effect... such as pain. I mean, if my finger hurts and you hit my head with a brick, I'm pretty sure I won't notice the finger pain very much anymore. Just sayin'
And why is surgery considered "medicine"?
And in the category "fastest flamebait ever", I believe we have a winner. Please come back and post after you've had a punctured lung, an apendicitis, or, well, any kind of internal nastiness. I'm curious to know what form of alternative medecine you'll end up using to cure that before reverting to surgery. If any.
Why do you think surgeons have a god complex? It's because out of all the possible professions they are the most efficient at saving lives quickly and effectively. I can't beleive I'm wasting time answering this moron, like in the old usenet days.
Today Linux's USB support is vastly superior to any Windows
Just an observation to add to the pile: I had to develop a USB driver for a custom board at work. OS choice was up to me. It's been a long time since I last wrote Windows drivers so I looked around the web, couldn't find Windows examples without subscribing to MSDN. Found libusb for linux, plenty of examples, had a basic example running in 5 minutes. Had completed my driver within 2 days with no surprise. It now runs on a nuclear reactor (seriously). So when developers like me abandon ship, that's a sign. Oh, and I noticed that libusb also runs on Windows, so I also compiled it for it, no there you have: a dual boot nuclear reactor !!!