Please check the "Acute effects" here: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methanol. html Lists "inhalation" as well as "ingestion", and I personally know a guy who almost got blind when a 200 gallon container fell on the floor and spilled the methanol inside (dangerous workplace...).
Ok, you have a point: powering your laptop can be done using solar-, wind- or human generated power.
How about the accesspoints? Routers? And the rest of the infrastructure? Satellite links are still insanely expensive and slow; infrastructure is what the poor countries lack - an this was the reason WiFi popped up here. Complete circle?
From the article: Some 200 people -- representing technology companies, developing nations, regulators and international agencies -- attended Thursday's conference, organized by the Boston-based Wireless Internet Institute [...]
Bingo! Food? Forget it! We have stuff to sell, targets to achieve, shareholders to keep happy...
I beg to differ. Look, on http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/software.html it says: A timer IRQ fires 2000 times every second and samples the input pin of the casette interface. The 1-bit value is written into [...]
Well, it's sampled at 2000Hz, what would you expect? Coolness aside, it's similar to whistling 1200 baud: next-to-impossible to use and absolutely useless.
But again, I admit I regret getting rid of my c64 ten years ago: it would've been such a cool thing these days (with JUNIS and all these other guys bringing it back to mainstream etc.:)
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I'm getting this just to claim that every single page on the FAST website is pirated software.
Good point; they don't seem aware of crapflooding.
Also, how secure is the plugin? Why resort to a plugin when you can say "copy'n'paste the url in our webform"? You'd presume people able to install a plugin would be able to copy the offending url, open a new browser window, get www.fast.org.uk from the bookmarks, and paste it there...
They - www.homechoice.co.uk - include on the support pages everything you need to connect your linux-box.../etc/ppp/options,/etc/ppp/ip-up etc, even some basic ipchains(8) based firewall script. With masqurade(!)
Show them the ease of modprobe, the powerfulness of iptables,[...] mounting of ISO-images(!). [...]Inprint in their heads that the machine does not need to be rebooted after updates and installations, ip-adress-changes and change of configuration.
They are developers, for crying out loud. They'll start running after 5 minutes of iptables; why not show them gcc?
Show them the [...] the geniality of config-files, and NO REGISTRY.
Look, config files in/etc,/etc/sysconfig,/etc/$SOFTWARE_NAME,/opt / SOFTWARE_NAME,/usr/etc,/usr/local/etc, ~/.$SOFTWARE_NAME,/usr/share/$SOFTWARE_NAME... but no registry. Woot!
Don't get me wrong, I'm a 100% unix guy; but it seems to me that exactly this kind of arguments makes people stay away from linux. You don't have to crush Windows, you have to give them reasons to make them beleive in linux, and to want to hop in the wagon.
You're right to be sarcastic: I'd rather skip the fly-brained tests and jump directly to the hare-brained ones.
Not to say the whole article can be summarised as "decentralisation and more autonomy, combined with local feed-back". Why do they have to resort to flies? Oh wait, isn't this the same company that realized a week ago something that was generally known for years?
The license agreement (included, and clicked on in order to install), says, under "2. Prohibitions": "j. prepare or develop derivatives based on the software".
Clear enough for correct people - and if think different, maybe the whole GPL/Open Source concept is flawed...
his successor MIGHT have actually grasped the concept that people want lower broadband prices and not pathetic 'extras' like classical music services
Well, this is the "broadband model" that DIDN'T work elsewhere; users just want the high-speed access, and companies that tried sell tis access at little - or not at all - profit, and expected to make profit from "extras", lost big-time.
It seems that BT doesn't want to learn from others' mistakes - they want to reenact them.
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Question is, can the kangaroos read that fast?
Please check the "Acute effects" here:. html
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/methanol
Lists "inhalation" as well as "ingestion", and I personally know a guy who almost got blind when a 200 gallon container fell on the floor and spilled the methanol inside (dangerous workplace...).
The lighter is disposable, your PDA shouldn't be. :)
I mean, you have to _refill_ it.
I'm not sure I'd like to walk with methanol in my pocket. Hell, one whiff and you're blind... not sure even if it's allowed in a plane.
I better go with a wireless keyboard! :)
Why stop halfway? go completely wireless - keyboard, mouse and wifi. I hear WAP really rocks...
Johnny something
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Mnemonic. Johnny Mnenonic. Tough word, isn't it?
And it wasn't about lost memory cells, it was about selling storage space in your
enhanced brain...
... but do you have to type in the URL's? :)
SpeakEasy is an alternative; although it's discontinued. It relies on Gnupg for key exchange and encription.
And then, of course, the classic PGPfone.
Ok, you have a point: powering your laptop can be done using solar-, wind- or human generated power.
How about the accesspoints? Routers? And the rest of the infrastructure?
Satellite links are still insanely expensive and slow; infrastructure is what the poor countries lack - an this was the reason WiFi popped up here. Complete circle?
From the article:
Some 200 people -- representing technology companies, developing nations, regulators and international agencies -- attended Thursday's conference, organized by the Boston-based Wireless Internet Institute [...]
Bingo! Food? Forget it! We have stuff to sell, targets to achieve, shareholders to keep happy...
Their logic is strange:
Laptops are rare in the developing world and the money to buy the needed electronic gear is scarce.
Then
Wi-Fi allows users of laptop computers and other gadgets to access the Internet without electric cords or phone jacks.
Ok, i'd like one of those laptops powered over WiFi...
"So BIG" and "spreading"?
This will be flagged as pR0n browsing by our bofh. Oh shit.
Novell customers reacted positively to the news that they would have the choice of running Novellâ(TM)s network services on Linux or NetWare or both
In other news, IBM announced they'll give their customers the chance to run OS/2 on AS/600.
Alpha is just an early Beta; the way that 2+2=5 for large values of 2.
I beg to differ. Look, on http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/software.html it says:
A timer IRQ fires 2000 times every second and samples the input pin of the casette interface. The 1-bit value is written into [...]
Then, they re-state the sampling frequency as being "2000 Hz" on http://tfe.c64.org:6510/listen.html
Where did you get the 8kHz from?
... but the old game is avalable in a lot of places, like this. :)
Combined with vice, you can relive your childhood...
Maybe Bill Gates, with his vi background, will consider using KDE in windows 2004... :)
[...]sounds like crap.
:)
Well, it's sampled at 2000Hz, what would you expect? Coolness aside, it's similar to whistling 1200 baud: next-to-impossible to use and absolutely useless.
But again, I admit I regret getting rid of my c64 ten years ago: it would've been such a cool thing these days (with JUNIS and all these other guys bringing it back to mainstream etc.
I'm getting this just to claim that every single page on the FAST website is pirated software.
Good point; they don't seem aware of crapflooding.
Also, how secure is the plugin? Why resort to a plugin when you can say "copy'n'paste the url in our webform"? You'd presume people able to install a plugin would be able to copy the offending url, open a new browser window, get www.fast.org.uk from the bookmarks, and paste it there...
This looks just like a publicity stunt to me.
They - www.homechoice.co.uk - include on the support pages everything you need to connect your linux-box... /etc/ppp/options, /etc/ppp/ip-up etc, even some basic ipchains(8) based firewall script. With masqurade(!)
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Check it out here: http://www.homechoice.co.uk/fi/support/script.htm
Hmmm... this if a *lot* more than one would expect from some isp in AD 2002...
Show them the ease of modprobe, the powerfulness of iptables,[...] mounting of ISO-images(!). [...]Inprint in their heads that the machine does not need to be rebooted after updates and installations, ip-adress-changes and change of configuration.
/etc, /etc/sysconfig, /etc/$SOFTWARE_NAME, /opt / SOFTWARE_NAME, /usr/etc, /usr/local/etc, ~/.$SOFTWARE_NAME, /usr/share/$SOFTWARE_NAME ... but no registry. Woot!
They are developers, for crying out loud. They'll start running after 5 minutes of iptables; why not show them gcc?
Show them the [...] the geniality of config-files, and NO REGISTRY.
Look, config files in
Don't get me wrong, I'm a 100% unix guy; but it seems to me that exactly this kind of arguments makes people stay away from linux. You don't have to crush Windows, you have to give them reasons to make them beleive in linux, and to want to hop in the wagon.
You're right to be sarcastic: I'd rather skip the fly-brained tests and jump directly to the hare-brained ones.
Not to say the whole article can be summarised as "decentralisation and more autonomy, combined with local feed-back". Why do they have to resort to flies?
Oh wait, isn't this the same company that realized a week ago something that was generally known for years?
How can you take seriously something from a guy called Rexxx? I mean, with os/2 dead and all the stuff... :)
The license agreement (included, and clicked on in order to install), says, under "2. Prohibitions": "j. prepare or develop derivatives based on the software".
Clear enough for correct people - and if think different, maybe the whole GPL/Open Source concept is flawed...
his successor MIGHT have actually grasped the concept that people want lower broadband prices and not pathetic 'extras' like classical music services
Well, this is the "broadband model" that DIDN'T work elsewhere; users just want the high-speed access, and companies that tried sell tis access at little - or not at all - profit, and expected to make profit from "extras", lost big-time.
It seems that BT doesn't want to learn from others' mistakes - they want to reenact them.