Have a clean install on your laptop and then use portable apps http://portableapps.com/ for anything personal. Use encrypted filesystems for personal data.
No matter how you look at it; a laptop is portable and can easily be stolen. The question is not whether you'll let others use it from time to time, but how you personal stuff is protected in case it gets 'misplaced'. If you are prepared for theft, making that friendly gesture to a co-student won't bothr you a bit. At least security-wise.
Interesting effects can happen when the computer's internal clock goes backwards.
Of course, we set the clock back every year when DST starts (or ends? I screw up every time). So computers (i.e. their software) should be able to handle that. If they don't; they'll have fucked up many times by now.
Big books always have some portions you don't want, or that are too shallow. While this much is true, my experience is that there are always part of an OS that you don't know that well. That's where the mixture of advanced and beginners' topics comes in handy.
I am an RHCE, but I know virtually nothing about NIS, or KDE, or wu-ftpd. I could, however, cite the iptables manpage for you (don't ask...;-) ). I always find that when it comes to big books, you find some interesting parts, *not* covered in the generic howto's you've read, in the advanced sections, and that when you have to do some simple things like making a dial-up server while living in an cable-internet-area, it's just there. And that's great.
Furthermore, books like this can always be given to friends thinking you'll answer the phone at odd hours, helping them install or configure this or that, so they also give me a good night's sleep.
Don't you think the Africans themselves know best what they need?
It is so paternalistic, neocolonial even, to tell "What Africa needs". Everyone always seems to know. And funny enough, you hardly hear the phrase "What Europe needs", because we all know that Europe is a diverse region, with several different countries. Same goes for Africa.
In my opinion, all countries in the world should have the same rights to trade. But western countries (and the westernized ones in the east)protect themselves and eachother, keeping the money in their own circle.
As long as we keep that in place, no underdeveloped country will ever get the chances we give ourselves.
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Have a clean install on your laptop and then use portable apps http://portableapps.com/ for anything personal.
Use encrypted filesystems for personal data.
No matter how you look at it; a laptop is portable and can easily be stolen. The question is not whether you'll let others use it from time to time, but how you personal stuff is protected in case it gets 'misplaced'. If you are prepared for theft, making that friendly gesture to a co-student won't bothr you a bit. At least security-wise.
... They has a fit while I commit My social suicide
I'm a dancin' foo-oooo-oool
Big books always have some portions you don't want, or that are too shallow. While this much is true, my experience is that there are always part of an OS that you don't know that well. That's where the mixture of advanced and beginners' topics comes in handy.
;-) ). I always find that when it comes to big books, you find some interesting parts, *not* covered in the generic howto's you've read, in the advanced sections, and that when you have to do some simple things like making a dial-up server while living in an cable-internet-area, it's just there. And that's great.
I am an RHCE, but I know virtually nothing about NIS, or KDE, or wu-ftpd. I could, however, cite the iptables manpage for you (don't ask...
Furthermore, books like this can always be given to friends thinking you'll answer the phone at odd hours, helping them install or configure this or that, so they also give me a good night's sleep.
Honestly, I like big books...
So if you are a female, and you aren't drunk, and you wear your seatbelt, driving is safer than flying.
Good, yet another reason to get drunk on planes...
Don't you think the Africans themselves know best what they need?
It is so paternalistic, neocolonial even, to tell "What Africa needs". Everyone always seems to know. And funny enough, you hardly hear the phrase "What Europe needs", because we all know that Europe is a diverse region, with several different countries. Same goes for Africa.
In my opinion, all countries in the world should have the same rights to trade. But western countries (and the westernized ones in the east)protect themselves and eachother, keeping the money in their own circle.
As long as we keep that in place, no underdeveloped country will ever get the chances we give ourselves.
Read the coffee mini-howto :-)) Greetz, Cathelijne