Partners in Solidarity here in Xela did a similiar thing a few months ago. Matthew Rutman arranged for about 50 old computers to be sent to Guatemala. then, at the Centro de Internet CELAS Maya, we switched them over to a trim Debian Linux installation, but including a SpreadSheet, WordProcessing, Email, Browser, etc. They are mostly P200 with 32MB ram.
The lack of surge protectors or ups's has been a problem, as several monitors and machines have been fried.
This applies to a lot of kde apps. Aestheticly, I find it ugly. A bit more serious, is it's fascist/racist connection. Here in Canada, when we want to imply that society is racist/fascist (KKK like) we spell it Kanada.
It's probably too late for the kde people to change the name, too bad.
Stop the bickering and read the fucking article. Then stop and think about what he is saying. Then go read the original editorial. Then stop and think about what he is saying. Goodnight now.
"Linux was born out of one person's need to get his work done. It's that simple."
Jason Spisak, Marketing Director of Lycoris
That is so simple it is just plain wrong. Neither Linus Torvalds nor Richard Stallman gave birth to this software simply to get work done. Linus had a new toy to play with (his new 386), and Richard wanted to share his work with his friends. And then where is the acknowledgement of the thousands of other people who have contributed to make the system what it is today? Why ignore that all this software exists because so many people like sharing?
Let me see, 3 million people, 422 cities, that is what? 7109 people per city. Well, it is a foreign culture, we do have different words for things up here. You say City, we say Town. Same difference.
Maybe bflame could come visit us some time, broaden his horizons a bit.
Seriously, though, I think you have to go Mainland China to find a province with more then 400 cities.
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You ask what makes Gnome different from MS Windows? It is software libre.
I just went to a presentation from my local LUG about this very thing. It was by the IT guy from the local university (ubc) who did exactly that. They have a mix of Solaris and Linux and Windows and he setup a unified ldap thing so that they could get rid of NIS.
He promised to put the details up here in a week or so. In the meantime, get openLDAP and the pam modules from padl.com
He said that all the schemas are there in the source, and that this is the way of the future.
The term "peer review" implies an extensive review of the source code of an application by competent parties. Many Open Source projects do not get peer reviewed for a number of reasons including
* complexity of code in addition to a lack of documentation makes it difficult for casual users to understand the code enough to give a proper review
"Casual Users" are not peers. The term "Peer Review" means that, in this case, the code would be reviewed by other hackers (software engineers), not by the general public.
I am not a hacker, I don't have the skills or knowledge to find security holes in software libre by reviewing the source code. All I can do is use the software, and if I come across a sympton of a problem, I can email the developer to ask what is going on, which often results in a patch within a short period of time.
Pay attention to the details. They are important. You always need to stop and figure out what people mean when they throw around the term open source. Do they just mean to imply the combined common usage of the 2 words? (ie: you can look at the source code) Or are they talking about OSI?
Fortune 500, eh? Why not have a friend start a company selling support for GnuPGP, start another company yourself with shares in the first, then get the place you work for to buy a contract from them (you)? That's how it's supposed to work, no?
But how, exactly, does that work? Cringely doesn't give a lot of details on how he constructed his Passive Repeater. Is it just a couple of directional antennas hocked together with a piece of coax?
Exactly. If you don't care about whether or not the program you use is software libre or not, why limit yourself to Linux? You want the multi-tasking stabilty of Unix? How about OS X?
Of course if you care about software libre, then the question changes. What software libre program can import FrameMaker documents?
That is what the writer is doing. All of the machines being looked at already come loaded and configured with Linux. $800 for a supported Linux machine isn't a bad deal.
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Don't have any real links or figures right now, but I recall that a typical home or office PC with CRT monitor uses about 100 watts of power, about the same a light bulb.
Remember that the wattage rate on the power supply is peak capabilty, not normal use, which is the total of all the parts of your system. Procesor=15 watts. HD=25 watts, etc.
Yes, I use a laptop as a Nat box/firewall/wireless router, goes without saying, really that it never been turned off for the past 4 months. Is that unusual? I don't think it is.
Yes, my daily machine is a laptop that never gets turned off. When I close the lid it goes to sleep, screen off, hd spun-down, etc. I would be suprised if this was actually unusual, laptops are made to run all the time, going into sleep mode rather then being turned off. That is part of the feature set, IMHO.
"Is there someone marketing a low-powered PC solution (CPU and monitor)"
I think some manufactures built computers that run on only 12V rather then the 120V you get from that outlet in the wall. They usually go by the name of "LAPTOP". Rumor has it they can run for hours without being connected to power grid at all! And I hear they have a "sleep" mode whereby they can run for days using just a trickle of electricity! They come with a built-in "LCD" monitor! And they are very quiet as well, I hear. (Or rather, don't hear.)
Of course, with all those features, they cost a bit more then your standard tower & CRT monitor, but some think that it is worth it. I hear that a company by the name of Toshiba makes some that are well regarded in the marketplace. I believe that other companies make "Laptop Computers" as well. Maybe you could try a Google search on that term?
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Partners in Solidarity here in Xela did a similiar thing a few months ago. Matthew Rutman arranged for about 50 old computers to be sent to Guatemala. then, at the Centro de Internet CELAS Maya, we switched them over to a trim Debian Linux installation, but including a SpreadSheet, WordProcessing, Email, Browser, etc. They are mostly P200 with 32MB ram. The lack of surge protectors or ups's has been a problem, as several monitors and machines have been fried.
This applies to a lot of kde apps. Aestheticly, I find it ugly. A bit more serious, is it's fascist/racist connection. Here in Canada, when we want to imply that society is racist/fascist (KKK like) we spell it Kanada. It's probably too late for the kde people to change the name, too bad.
Best to take that brown shirt off to the dry cleaners now, you will want to make a good impression
Will that do anything? Mozilla has the same search button as Netscape 6.
So the question can become: Does clicking the "Search" button in Mozilla send data to Netscape, Inc?
And what does Google have to say about this? After all, they are the recipients of the data.
Debian Woody on an iBook 500. Everything works, once I compiled a kernel from Ben H.
Stop the bickering and read the fucking article. Then stop and think about what he is saying. Then go read the original editorial. Then stop and think about what he is saying. Goodnight now.
"Linux was born out of one person's need to get his work done. It's that simple."
Jason Spisak, Marketing Director of Lycoris
That is so simple it is just plain wrong. Neither Linus Torvalds nor Richard Stallman gave birth to this software simply to get work done. Linus had a new toy to play with (his new 386), and Richard wanted to share his work with his friends. And then where is the acknowledgement of the thousands of other people who have contributed to make the system what it is today? Why ignore that all this software exists because so many people like sharing?
to link 422 cities
Let me see, 3 million people, 422 cities, that is what? 7109 people per city. Well, it is a foreign culture, we do have different words for things up here. You say City, we say Town. Same difference.
Maybe bflame could come visit us some time, broaden his horizons a bit.
Seriously, though, I think you have to go Mainland China to find a province with more then 400 cities.
You ask what makes Gnome different from MS Windows? It is software libre.
I just went to a presentation from my local LUG about this very thing. It was by the IT guy from the local university (ubc) who did exactly that. They have a mix of Solaris and Linux and Windows and he setup a unified ldap thing so that they could get rid of NIS.
He promised to put the details up here in a week or so. In the meantime, get openLDAP and the pam modules from padl.com
He said that all the schemas are there in the source, and that this is the way of the future.
I have 0.9.7 on Debian/PPC and it has publishing.
Ever type sys a: from a windows whatever DOS prompt?
The term "peer review" implies an extensive review of the source code of an application by competent parties. Many Open Source projects do not get peer reviewed for a number of reasons including
* complexity of code in addition to a lack of documentation makes it difficult for casual users to understand the code enough to give a proper review
"Casual Users" are not peers. The term "Peer Review" means that, in this case, the code would be reviewed by other hackers (software engineers), not by the general public.
I am not a hacker, I don't have the skills or knowledge to find security holes in software libre by reviewing the source code. All I can do is use the software, and if I come across a sympton of a problem, I can email the developer to ask what is going on, which often results in a patch within a short period of time.
2 bit dictators also run "Open" democracies and have "Transparent" legislatures. Same with powerful rich dictators.
open source vs Open Source Initiative (OSI).
Pay attention to the details. They are important. You always need to stop and figure out what people mean when they throw around the term open source. Do they just mean to imply the combined common usage of the 2 words? (ie: you can look at the source code) Or are they talking about OSI?
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Fortune 500, eh? Why not have a friend start a company selling support for GnuPGP, start another company yourself with shares in the first, then get the place you work for to buy a contract from them (you)? That's how it's supposed to work, no?
Do you have any links or plans on this kind of thing? It sounds like just what we need!
Exactly.
But how, exactly, does that work? Cringely doesn't give a lot of details on how he constructed his Passive Repeater. Is it just a couple of directional antennas hocked together with a piece of coax?
Time to do a bit more research
Exactly. If you don't care about whether or not the program you use is software libre or not, why limit yourself to Linux? You want the multi-tasking stabilty of Unix? How about OS X?
Of course if you care about software libre, then the question changes. What software libre program can import FrameMaker documents?
That is what the writer is doing. All of the machines being looked at already come loaded and configured with Linux. $800 for a supported Linux machine isn't a bad deal.
Don't have any real links or figures right now, but I recall that a typical home or office PC with CRT monitor uses about 100 watts of power, about the same a light bulb.
Remember that the wattage rate on the power supply is peak capabilty, not normal use, which is the total of all the parts of your system. Procesor=15 watts. HD=25 watts, etc.
Yes, I run laptops 24x7.
Yes, I use a laptop as a Nat box/firewall/wireless router, goes without saying, really that it never been turned off for the past 4 months. Is that unusual? I don't think it is.
Yes, my daily machine is a laptop that never gets turned off. When I close the lid it goes to sleep, screen off, hd spun-down, etc. I would be suprised if this was actually unusual, laptops are made to run all the time, going into sleep mode rather then being turned off. That is part of the feature set, IMHO.
And to improve on that idea, follow Google's example, and replace the disk drive with a flash disk!
"Is there someone marketing a low-powered PC solution (CPU and monitor)"
I think some manufactures built computers that run on only 12V rather then the 120V you get from that outlet in the wall. They usually go by the name of "LAPTOP". Rumor has it they can run for hours without being connected to power grid at all! And I hear they have a "sleep" mode whereby they can run for days using just a trickle of electricity! They come with a built-in "LCD" monitor! And they are very quiet as well, I hear. (Or rather, don't hear.)
Of course, with all those features, they cost a bit more then your standard tower & CRT monitor, but some think that it is worth it. I hear that a company by the name of Toshiba makes some that are well regarded in the marketplace. I believe that other companies make "Laptop Computers" as well. Maybe you could try a Google search on that term?