No, the RIAA doesn't exist in Europe... (Guess what the last A in RIAA means) However, pretty much every Nation has its own equivalent institution. I don't know them all, but in Belgium it's SABAM, in France it's SACEM. I'm sure there are others.
Just bad luck I'd say.... If this is true, explain it to the James Randi foundation and they'll surely come up with a valid double blind scientific test. If he still manages to trash the systems, without doing anything special, he'll be the happy owner of a million dollars.
Of course it was that easy, but I cannot guess if another user has sigs enabled or not. Those important for Luxembourg are Luxembourgish, French and German. English for certain jobs (IT, evidently... I'm never met anyone in IT with no grasp of English) Yes, indeed I do know Dutch/Flemish too. That is however of no importance in Luxembourg. Why did you guess Dutch/Flemish? I'm wondering....
I'll throw you a bone: It's not Belgium which has a German speaking part. I guess officials in that part are required to write German, but I'm not sure.
I was born in Belgium though, and have since then changed to the nationality of my new country.
Long gone are the days where you write long compositions by hand.
Might be true, but there are some cases where I actually had to make long compositions (well, a few pages). Where? When you do an exam... Computers obviously can't be used during an exam.
Where I live, state servants have to pass a "state exam". That's a whole day, you do nothing else than write compositions in three to four different languages. (English isn't mandatory for all positions, hence the variation) I tried it once, because state servants earn significantly more than anything you get in the private sector (We're talking 1000€/month difference here). It is extremely tiring, and I cannot imagine doing that without cursive.
Oh, for the record: I failed the state exam? Why? Because my written German sucks (I never learned it in school, it is readable and comprehensible, but not enough to pass the exam). I also don't really comprehend why an IT guy should write compositions about current affairs, and nothing is asked about his IT knowledge. (I guess, they rely on the fact that you have to have a diploma in your domain.... Evidently a diploma recognised by the state... another hurdle... *sigh*)
An "Overrated" mod... Why am I not surprised? *sigh* Okay, it was not in Amsterdam, it was in Rotterdam.... What's a Browser? - Rotterdam. It was linked in the "Related Videos" of the original "What's a Browser?" youtube video.
I'm European myself, and I like to bash Americans like the next guy.... but I'm also an IT professional and frankly, people really do know squat about computers.... In the US and in Europe.
Erm.... Just for the record: there is a similar video done in Amsterdam. Of course, you won't understand the replies because they were in Dutch, but I'll tell you the result: it wasn't a damned thing better....
Except perhaps that Stallman was pretty much always right in predicting abuses of software licenses..... The man may be difficult to cope with, but he most certainly is a visionary. That's where the analogy with Tesla is quite fitting.
Yes, I know... But being modular, the also have the disadvantage of being in kludgy and made out of multiple exchangeable parts. I had one of those for a time one a laptop (of which the power adapter died) It wasn't fun. It worked, but that was about the best I could say about it. Of course, in this case (a print server), once attached correctly it wouldn't be all that cumbersome, I guess...
Also, it wasn't clear what had died (the print server simply stopped working)... It could have been the hardware itself that let out the magic smoke. If I'd have invested in a new wallwart (modular or otherwise) and it was indeed the printserver itself that was dead, I'd have thrown away money.
I suspect I'm not the only person here who used a Zip drive through a parallel port interface "back in the day".
Nah, I had SCSI;-) I did use some of those Parallel Zip drives at a friends place, but boy, were they unbearably slow. (The Zip drives weren't even fast in SCSI, but the I also had a 1GB Jaz... those could be used as full replacement harddisk... Oh, and just for the record: I have used Bernouilli drives... Heck, we still have a drive lying around...)
I have a parallel port laserjet that I still use from time to time because it is the cheapest way to print available to me at home.
Same thing with my parents. They have a fine Laserjet which works perfectly. By now, I connected it to one of these print-server devices. The RJ-45 to parallel are really hard to fine these days. The only one I could find a few years ago (Probably about 4 years) was a print server device to which you could attach up to three parallel printers. Last year the wall-wart of that device died, and we were damned lucky to find a replacement in my "computer parts storage".
Hmmmm, I bought my Asus EEE PC 701 4G about a year and a half ago. That's a Celeron 900MHz (running at 670MHz) with 512Meg RAM. That's specs of a machine about 8 or 9 years old (In 2000, I had a P-III 800MHz with 128Meg RAM, which later upgraded to 786Meg RAM. That machine still serves as a server for my parent. Running OpenBSD).
I know as a matter of fact that Windows XP should run nicely on that Asus EEE PC. (It runs Debian, and that isn't exactly fast, but it does the job) Up until January 2007, my primary laptop was a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM and a 4Gig HD (pretty much the equivalent spects of the EEE, isn't it?). XP ran just fine.
Do you think I can even install Windows 7 on such a machine? I doubt the 4Gig of storage will be enough.
Except sftp works as advertised under Windows. Well, I don't know of any "Drive mapper" that is Free, but I do know that Filezilla does the deed just fine. (Can't say for Windows Servers.... I obviously do not do Windows as Servers)
I think there is a packaged app out there somewhere (sftp?)
Not really, no.... From Wikipedia: SFTP is not FTP run over SSH, but rather a new protocol designed from the ground up by the IETF SECSH working group.
As someone who has worked in banks and developed eBanking applications, mod this up... You have no idea how true this is.... I (as a developer) told them countless times not to develop for IE only. They didn't listen to me. However, they completely changed faces when a rich-ass Linux user (no kidding, I was surprised too!) called in to complain. Then they put fire under our (the developers) asses, because they wanted it fixed ASAP.
My 2000 Audi TT has a 65 litre tank (62 litre being most I put in it), and that's not that much. Good for a range of 600km depending on the heavyness of my foot. (Managed over 700km and more with exclusively highway at speed limit).
Assuming 60litre/600km, that 10l/100km or about 23.5mpg. Absolutely gas-guzzeling for a European car and I expect its mileage to be in the same line of an average SUV.
Lamborghini is owned by Audi, which in turn is part of the Volkswagen Group. Oh, and if anything, it's the Volkswagen Group who own Porsche, and that only partially. The Volkswagen Group consists out of: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Skoda, Seat and (obviously) Volkswagen.
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No, the RIAA doesn't exist in Europe... (Guess what the last A in RIAA means) However, pretty much every Nation has its own equivalent institution. I don't know them all, but in Belgium it's SABAM, in France it's SACEM. I'm sure there are others.
Yes, and isn't it ironic that the European Constitution, rejected by so many of the Europeans, was about to change that? (Linky)
Just bad luck I'd say.... If this is true, explain it to the James Randi foundation and they'll surely come up with a valid double blind scientific test. If he still manages to trash the systems, without doing anything special, he'll be the happy owner of a million dollars.
Of course it was that easy, but I cannot guess if another user has sigs enabled or not. Those important for Luxembourg are Luxembourgish, French and German. English for certain jobs (IT, evidently... I'm never met anyone in IT with no grasp of English) Yes, indeed I do know Dutch/Flemish too. That is however of no importance in Luxembourg. Why did you guess Dutch/Flemish? I'm wondering....
I'll throw you a bone: It's not Belgium which has a German speaking part. I guess officials in that part are required to write German, but I'm not sure.
I was born in Belgium though, and have since then changed to the nationality of my new country.
Now, you can pretty much guess it, I think....
Perhaps you should inform yourself a bit more about countries within Europe... We're not restricted to the big ones. ;-)
You can find my CV in exactly four clicks from this post. Evidently, my nationality is listed in my CV. Good luck hunting...
Might be true, but there are some cases where I actually had to make long compositions (well, a few pages). Where? When you do an exam... Computers obviously can't be used during an exam.
Where I live, state servants have to pass a "state exam". That's a whole day, you do nothing else than write compositions in three to four different languages. (English isn't mandatory for all positions, hence the variation) I tried it once, because state servants earn significantly more than anything you get in the private sector (We're talking 1000€/month difference here). It is extremely tiring, and I cannot imagine doing that without cursive.
Oh, for the record: I failed the state exam? Why? Because my written German sucks (I never learned it in school, it is readable and comprehensible, but not enough to pass the exam). I also don't really comprehend why an IT guy should write compositions about current affairs, and nothing is asked about his IT knowledge. (I guess, they rely on the fact that you have to have a diploma in your domain.... Evidently a diploma recognised by the state... another hurdle... *sigh*)
An "Overrated" mod... Why am I not surprised? *sigh* Okay, it was not in Amsterdam, it was in Rotterdam.... What's a Browser? - Rotterdam. It was linked in the "Related Videos" of the original "What's a Browser?" youtube video.
I'm European myself, and I like to bash Americans like the next guy.... but I'm also an IT professional and frankly, people really do know squat about computers.... In the US and in Europe.
Erm.... Just for the record: there is a similar video done in Amsterdam. Of course, you won't understand the replies because they were in Dutch, but I'll tell you the result: it wasn't a damned thing better....
Except perhaps that Stallman was pretty much always right in predicting abuses of software licenses..... The man may be difficult to cope with, but he most certainly is a visionary. That's where the analogy with Tesla is quite fitting.
Yes, I know... But being modular, the also have the disadvantage of being in kludgy and made out of multiple exchangeable parts. I had one of those for a time one a laptop (of which the power adapter died) It wasn't fun. It worked, but that was about the best I could say about it. Of course, in this case (a print server), once attached correctly it wouldn't be all that cumbersome, I guess...
Also, it wasn't clear what had died (the print server simply stopped working)... It could have been the hardware itself that let out the magic smoke. If I'd have invested in a new wallwart (modular or otherwise) and it was indeed the printserver itself that was dead, I'd have thrown away money.
Nah, I had SCSI ;-) I did use some of those Parallel Zip drives at a friends place, but boy, were they unbearably slow. (The Zip drives weren't even fast in SCSI, but the I also had a 1GB Jaz... those could be used as full replacement harddisk... Oh, and just for the record: I have used Bernouilli drives... Heck, we still have a drive lying around...)
Same thing with my parents. They have a fine Laserjet which works perfectly. By now, I connected it to one of these print-server devices. The RJ-45 to parallel are really hard to fine these days. The only one I could find a few years ago (Probably about 4 years) was a print server device to which you could attach up to three parallel printers. Last year the wall-wart of that device died, and we were damned lucky to find a replacement in my "computer parts storage".
Hmmmm, I bought my Asus EEE PC 701 4G about a year and a half ago. That's a Celeron 900MHz (running at 670MHz) with 512Meg RAM. That's specs of a machine about 8 or 9 years old (In 2000, I had a P-III 800MHz with 128Meg RAM, which later upgraded to 786Meg RAM. That machine still serves as a server for my parent. Running OpenBSD).
I know as a matter of fact that Windows XP should run nicely on that Asus EEE PC. (It runs Debian, and that isn't exactly fast, but it does the job) Up until January 2007, my primary laptop was a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM and a 4Gig HD (pretty much the equivalent spects of the EEE, isn't it?). XP ran just fine.
Do you think I can even install Windows 7 on such a machine? I doubt the 4Gig of storage will be enough.
Except sftp works as advertised under Windows. Well, I don't know of any "Drive mapper" that is Free, but I do know that Filezilla does the deed just fine. (Can't say for Windows Servers.... I obviously do not do Windows as Servers)
Not really, no.... From Wikipedia: SFTP is not FTP run over SSH, but rather a new protocol designed from the ground up by the IETF SECSH working group.
Perhaps using FreeDOS might help. You could create boot disks if you still have a 5 1/4" spare drive and put it in a modern computer. Good luck.
CIV I had 256 colours on the PC too... It supported MCGA (320x200@8bit)
I'm not saying you don't have a point, just that you're factually incorrect.
As someone who has worked in banks and developed eBanking applications, mod this up... You have no idea how true this is.... I (as a developer) told them countless times not to develop for IE only. They didn't listen to me. However, they completely changed faces when a rich-ass Linux user (no kidding, I was surprised too!) called in to complain. Then they put fire under our (the developers) asses, because they wanted it fixed ASAP.
My 2000 Audi TT has a 65 litre tank (62 litre being most I put in it), and that's not that much. Good for a range of 600km depending on the heavyness of my foot. (Managed over 700km and more with exclusively highway at speed limit).
Assuming 60litre/600km, that 10l/100km or about 23.5mpg. Absolutely gas-guzzeling for a European car and I expect its mileage to be in the same line of an average SUV.
Oops.... Seems, I'm wrong. Now that's surprising. I always heard it was the other way around.
Lamborghini is owned by Audi, which in turn is part of the Volkswagen Group. Oh, and if anything, it's the Volkswagen Group who own Porsche, and that only partially. The Volkswagen Group consists out of: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Skoda, Seat and (obviously) Volkswagen.
So create a company that buys .it domains and rents them out to foreign companies...
I'd put it in a container with water for a few hours or so... Add in a bit disinfectant, perhaps.
The thing is submersible, after all ;-)
I guessed it was such a thing. Of course, you could massively underlock a P-III ;-)
P-III at 16Hz? (The H in Hz is a capital) Was that on the toys packaging, or what? Furthermore, its "I need" instead of "I needs".