For almost exactly 3 years, I have found TrueCrypt to be 100% reliable. I don't notice any difference in speed between a TrueCrypt encrypted file or partition and a normal NTFS file or partition on Windows XP SP2.
Leaving your computer on? It is easy to dismount a TrueCrypt volume. Just click on the TrueCrypt icon in the system tray, choose which to dismount and click on the dismount button, or choose dismount all. TrueCrypt -d X dismounts volume X from the command line.
The documentation says that it is better to make an encrypted file than make a separate NTFS partition and encrypt the entire partition. The speed seems the same. It is easier to back up the encrypted file on a DVD. Backing up an entire special partition requires the use of backup software like Acronis, which is more steps and requires dealing with the sometimes crazy behavior of Acronis.
You are going down a slippery slope. Next you will be saying the U.S. president wasn't right when he said "When Saudis attack, invade Iraq", and "The answer to violence is more violence", and "We'll show them! They killed 3,000 Americans, we'll kill more", and "The way to make Muslims more gentle is to attack and kill them".
Re-worded quote from the comment above: "Most companies out there are All-Microsoft shops -- They won't even consider anything else. Most people care only about their core business, and that isn't IT."
True, but IBM is influential with people who understand Microsoft's abuse. See this quote from the Ars Technica article:
A ZDNet article published late last month quotes Microsoft officials who claim that IBM is solely responsible for ISO's recent decision to deny OOXML fast-track approval. "Let's be very clear," Jean Paoli, Microsoft's senior director of XML technology, told ZDNet. "It has been fostered by a single company--IBM. If it was not for IBM, it would have been business as usual for this standard."
I'm glad we don't have "business as usual", as defined by Microsoft.
Agreed. It's more difficult to sell when it has a name that is hard to pronounce.
Why do open source software authors give their projects self-defeating names?
Another example: GIMP which means:
gimp -- noun -- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
Not too smart to give your project a name that means "cripple".
I agree with the other comment, change the name to OurSQL, EasySQL, or ProSQL. I like the last, ProSQL. (All those others are for amateurs.)
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."....
Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to stay... Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
Maybe not fixation, maybe not envy, but SOME kind of mental illness.
To me, cutting cables seems like something some people in the U.S. government
would do, testing its control over communications before invading a Muslim
country. In the past few months, the U.S. government has been trying to get
people excited about invading Iran, for example. I've taught Iranian students
English as a volunteer, and people from other countries, too, and I can tell
you from personal experience that many Iranians are very good people. I think
the attempt to demonize them is extremely dishonest.
I hope that U.S. citizens and people everywhere in the world will
begin to realize that a few oil and weapons investors and others have taken
control over the U.S. government, and that those who have control are becoming
more and more mentally unbalanced, as is usually true of people who emphasize
control and money in their lives.
Another influence toward unbalance are Jews in the U.S. who support
Israel against the interests of the country in which they live, and, frankly,
against the long-term interests of Israel. Israelis feel threatened by some of
the surrounding Muslim countries, and want U.S. taxpayers to pay for Israeli
security. But more violence will never create more security. There are only
approximately 14,000,000 Jews in the world, and getting into gun battles with
1.2 billion Muslims does not enhance the security or quality of life of Jews.
A further unbalancing influence is many of those in the U.S. who call
themselves evangelists; they believe they are superior to the rest of us, and
that their particular preferred killing is the "work of God". Karl Rove
manipulated the evangelists by having George W. Bush pretend to be Christian.
An evangelist associated with the Bush administration wrote a book about that
which I read, but I don't have the title readily available.
What is required to fix this situation is an understanding that the
problem at the top of the U.S. government is an outbreak of mental illness,
and should be treated as such. More violence is not the answer.
Those who run the U.S. government, apparently Cheney and others, may
be hastening their activities, because they need to do some of what they want
to do before George W. Bush is out of office.
wxWidgets is native to all supported operating systems. GTK was originally
designed for Unix-style X Windows. My understanding is that under Windows it
still has X Windows quirks and limitations. There is also a difference in
grief:
It is possible to use these packages with Microsoft's compiler.
However, these DLLs use the MSVCRT.DLL runtime library. This means that also
applications that use these DLLs should use the MSVCRT.DLL runtime.
Specifically, this means that you should not use newer versions of the
Microsoft compiler than Visual C++ 6 without knowing exactly what you are
doing.
wxWidgets supports more compilers than probably any other framework.
All popular Windows C++ compilers are supported with the exception of Symantec
C++ (this is being worked on), and on Windows you can use the Cygwin or
Mingw32 free compilers. Even the 16-bit versions of Visual C++ and Borland C++
can be used. On Windows, makefiles are provided, with project files for VC++ 5
and above.
Just about all known Unix C++ compilers are supported, for the Motif
and GTK platforms. If you have a compiler that isn't supported, with help from
the wxWidgets team we should be able to fix the problem quickly.
Focusing only on broadband when your currency is collapsing and the reputation of the country you love is being destroyed doesn't make much sense. I was only giving my opinion of the bigger picture, the underlying conditions that caused the problem with the U.S. government concerning broadband communications.
Not only does the high price show Microsoft's desperation, it indicates that the real lack at Microsoft is not money, but brains. Yahoo is only a web site. The fact that Microsoft has not been able to compete shows the serious mental poverty that is a common symptom of those who have put money first in their lives. (Bush and Cheney are other examples, as the video shows.)
People talk as though George W. Bush is president. However, I've never heard one analytical remark he has made. I think it is impossible to be the leader of something when not mentally involved. In a childlike way, he called himself the "Decider", but it is said that he only decides from a list given to him in which the preferred decision is already given to him.
Bush is just a figurehead, a puppet to show the public. The media are full of "Bush" said this "Bush" said that, but he is only reading something someone else wrote for him to say.
Cheney and Rove and others have arranged that the powers of the U.S. government be sold to acquaintances, oil and weapons investors, and others who want corruption.
One contribution that seems to have been made by Karl Rove is not only testing that finds the weaknesses of voters and exploits them, but powerful, well-funded initiatives to prevent strong leaders of opposing parties from winning.
It is all corruption all the time. Part of that is endless war that is destroying the value of our money. Notice that prices are rising rapidly? That's because the value of the dollar is dropping. Oil and weapons investors don't care about the value of the dollar, they get paid whatever they ask.
GoDaddy is far, far worse than you say, I think. For example, GoDaddy tries to exploit the ignorance of most people who buy from them by offering many, many services of poor value. That makes GoDaddy's web pages difficult to navigate because they are so cluttered with ads.
I wasn't talking about them hosting a web site. I was recommending not even buying a domain name through GoDaddy.
It's true, voice recognition may be useful to people who don't know how to type.
"The accuracy issue is overblown anyway. Responsible people proofread and revise what they produce, especially where documents are important."
It depends on the material. In some kinds of dictation, voice recognition software makes plausible mistakes that may be missed by a proofreader, but make a big difference in meaning.
You are very unlikely to be aware of changes in your own accent.
Those who made the decisions were rewarded, not punished: What's $34 Billion on Wall Street?. That New York Times
article does not show the true picture, because the executives were rewarded
with tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in pay. Their entire
"punishment" for knowingly causing the problem was having to change employers.
Quote: "In any other industry, Mr. Kim and Mr. Maheras would be
pariahs. But in the looking-glass world of Wall Street, they - and others like
them - are hot properties."
It was completely well understood by everyone that house prices could
not continue to rise rapidly forever. Everything that happened was deliberate,
in the sense that the people who made the decisions knew that they would be
paid well.
Now house prices will go up again, but only because the "economic
stimulus package" will make the value of the dollar go down. The prices of
everything will rise rapidly, as they have been doing recently.
"Now it [privacy] all seems like just another bit of cynical,
focus-group-tested PR."
The U.S. government has become extremely corrupt. One method is the
one mentioned, testing for weaknesses in public understanding, or willingness
to act, and exploiting those weaknesses.
Here are others:
Making sure that honest, public-minded leaders from both parties are
defeated.
Giving bills in Congress misleading names, like "Protect
America".
Giving bills misleading features and widely publicizing the misleading
features. For example, the "economic stimulus" bill only causes the
government, which is deeply in debt, to print more money. That will make the
value of the dollar go down even further. The "economic stimulus" bill also
contains provisions to funnel money to banks. The banks apparently
deliberately created the mortgage finance crisis doing so was profitable, and
because banks were sure that the U.S. government would pass a bill to lessen
the losses.
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For almost exactly 3 years, I have found TrueCrypt to be 100% reliable. I don't notice any difference in speed between a TrueCrypt encrypted file or partition and a normal NTFS file or partition on Windows XP SP2.
Leaving your computer on? It is easy to dismount a TrueCrypt volume. Just click on the TrueCrypt icon in the system tray, choose which to dismount and click on the dismount button, or choose dismount all. TrueCrypt -d X dismounts volume X from the command line.
The documentation says that it is better to make an encrypted file than make a separate NTFS partition and encrypt the entire partition. The speed seems the same. It is easier to back up the encrypted file on a DVD. Backing up an entire special partition requires the use of backup software like Acronis, which is more steps and requires dealing with the sometimes crazy behavior of Acronis.
"... not the word of an infallible being either."
You are going down a slippery slope. Next you will be saying the U.S. president wasn't right when he said "When Saudis attack, invade Iraq", and "The answer to violence is more violence", and "We'll show them! They killed 3,000 Americans, we'll kill more", and "The way to make Muslims more gentle is to attack and kill them".
Re-worded quote from the comment above: "Most companies out there are All-Microsoft shops -- They won't even consider anything else. Most people care only about their core business, and that isn't IT."
True, but IBM is influential with people who understand Microsoft's abuse. See this quote from the Ars Technica article:
A ZDNet article published late last month quotes Microsoft officials who claim that IBM is solely responsible for ISO's recent decision to deny OOXML fast-track approval. "Let's be very clear," Jean Paoli, Microsoft's senior director of XML technology, told ZDNet. "It has been fostered by a single company--IBM. If it was not for IBM, it would have been business as usual for this standard."
I'm glad we don't have "business as usual", as defined by Microsoft.
Godzilla may have thrown chairs, but he didn't have such a potty mouth: Ballmer Throws A Chair At "F*ing Google".
Agreed. It's more difficult to sell when it has a name that is hard to pronounce.
Why do open source software authors give their projects self-defeating names?
Another example: GIMP which means:
gimp -- noun -- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
Not too smart to give your project a name that means "cripple".
I agree with the other comment, change the name to OurSQL, EasySQL, or ProSQL. I like the last, ProSQL. (All those others are for amateurs.)
"No fixation, no envy -- just business as usual." We know what Steve Ballmer thinks of Google: Ballmer Throws A Chair At "F*ing Google".
....
Quotes:
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."
Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to stay... Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
Maybe not fixation, maybe not envy, but SOME kind of mental illness.
"Don't fundamentalist branches of all religions believe this?"
True, it seems. Good point. That is destabilizing for every country in which it happens. Extremism is not religion, it is mental imbalance.
You other answers merely try to find a way to misunderstand what I was saying, instead of understand it.
Why? Because I was pro-Jew, or because I was pro-Iranian, or because I say that violence is not Christian?
Amazing. Found a video about her ignorance.
More amazing ignorance: The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Dana Perino Reveals The Awesome Benefits Of Global Warming.
Was hiring her a decision Cheney allowed George W. Bush to make?
To me, cutting cables seems like something some people in the U.S. government would do, testing its control over communications before invading a Muslim country. In the past few months, the U.S. government has been trying to get people excited about invading Iran, for example. I've taught Iranian students English as a volunteer, and people from other countries, too, and I can tell you from personal experience that many Iranians are very good people. I think the attempt to demonize them is extremely dishonest.
I hope that U.S. citizens and people everywhere in the world will begin to realize that a few oil and weapons investors and others have taken control over the U.S. government, and that those who have control are becoming more and more mentally unbalanced, as is usually true of people who emphasize control and money in their lives.
Another influence toward unbalance are Jews in the U.S. who support Israel against the interests of the country in which they live, and, frankly, against the long-term interests of Israel. Israelis feel threatened by some of the surrounding Muslim countries, and want U.S. taxpayers to pay for Israeli security. But more violence will never create more security. There are only approximately 14,000,000 Jews in the world, and getting into gun battles with 1.2 billion Muslims does not enhance the security or quality of life of Jews.
A further unbalancing influence is many of those in the U.S. who call themselves evangelists; they believe they are superior to the rest of us, and that their particular preferred killing is the "work of God". Karl Rove manipulated the evangelists by having George W. Bush pretend to be Christian. An evangelist associated with the Bush administration wrote a book about that which I read, but I don't have the title readily available.
What is required to fix this situation is an understanding that the problem at the top of the U.S. government is an outbreak of mental illness, and should be treated as such. More violence is not the answer.
Those who run the U.S. government, apparently Cheney and others, may be hastening their activities, because they need to do some of what they want to do before George W. Bush is out of office.
The comment above is referring to this: Ballmer Throws A Chair At "F*ing Google". (Taken from a court document in a legal case started by Microsoft.)
"You can get Visual Studio Express for free and [the] professional version for something like $150."
Visual Studio 2008 Professional Retail-Box Win32 : $699.84. (They didn't want to be honest and say $700.)
That is a low-end version of Visual Studio 2008 Team Software Developers with MSDN Premium for "Only" $5096.99. Otherwise known as $5100.
Source: Microsoft's buy page.
"GTK produces revolting UIs on Windows and Mac, so it's not good either."
Why not use wxWidgets and let professional GUI toolkit developers decide? See the comment below.
wxWidgets is native to all supported operating systems. GTK was originally designed for Unix-style X Windows. My understanding is that under Windows it still has X Windows quirks and limitations. There is also a difference in grief:
GTK -- Using Microsoft's Compiler:
It is possible to use these packages with Microsoft's compiler. However, these DLLs use the MSVCRT.DLL runtime library. This means that also applications that use these DLLs should use the MSVCRT.DLL runtime. Specifically, this means that you should not use newer versions of the Microsoft compiler than Visual C++ 6 without knowing exactly what you are doing.
wxWidgets Compiler support:
wxWidgets supports more compilers than probably any other framework. All popular Windows C++ compilers are supported with the exception of Symantec C++ (this is being worked on), and on Windows you can use the Cygwin or Mingw32 free compilers. Even the 16-bit versions of Visual C++ and Borland C++ can be used. On Windows, makefiles are provided, with project files for VC++ 5 and above.
Just about all known Unix C++ compilers are supported, for the Motif and GTK platforms. If you have a compiler that isn't supported, with help from the wxWidgets team we should be able to fix the problem quickly.
Just use WxWidgets and let the WxWidgets developers decide how to interface with whatever operating system and desktop you want to use?
Focusing only on broadband when your currency is collapsing and the reputation of the country you love is being destroyed doesn't make much sense. I was only giving my opinion of the bigger picture, the underlying conditions that caused the problem with the U.S. government concerning broadband communications.
The Bush Coins video is excellent!
Not only does the high price show Microsoft's desperation, it indicates that the real lack at Microsoft is not money, but brains. Yahoo is only a web site. The fact that Microsoft has not been able to compete shows the serious mental poverty that is a common symptom of those who have put money first in their lives. (Bush and Cheney are other examples, as the video shows.)
People talk as though George W. Bush is president. However, I've never heard one analytical remark he has made. I think it is impossible to be the leader of something when not mentally involved. In a childlike way, he called himself the "Decider", but it is said that he only decides from a list given to him in which the preferred decision is already given to him.
Bush is just a figurehead, a puppet to show the public. The media are full of "Bush" said this "Bush" said that, but he is only reading something someone else wrote for him to say.
Cheney and Rove and others have arranged that the powers of the U.S. government be sold to acquaintances, oil and weapons investors, and others who want corruption.
One contribution that seems to have been made by Karl Rove is not only testing that finds the weaknesses of voters and exploits them, but powerful, well-funded initiatives to prevent strong leaders of opposing parties from winning.
It is all corruption all the time. Part of that is endless war that is destroying the value of our money. Notice that prices are rising rapidly? That's because the value of the dollar is dropping. Oil and weapons investors don't care about the value of the dollar, they get paid whatever they ask.
I did a lot of research and decided NameCheap was the best.
However, I got the impression that they planned to charge for WhoisGuard later.
The entire domain business is badly managed. ICANN has made a mess of management, and has allowed many semi-crooked businesses to make messes, too.
GoDaddy is far, far worse than you say, I think. For example, GoDaddy tries to exploit the ignorance of most people who buy from them by offering many, many services of poor value. That makes GoDaddy's web pages difficult to navigate because they are so cluttered with ads.
I wasn't talking about them hosting a web site. I was recommending not even buying a domain name through GoDaddy.
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names
It's true, voice recognition may be useful to people who don't know how to type.
"The accuracy issue is overblown anyway. Responsible people proofread and revise what they produce, especially where documents are important."
It depends on the material. In some kinds of dictation, voice recognition software makes plausible mistakes that may be missed by a proofreader, but make a big difference in meaning.
You are very unlikely to be aware of changes in your own accent.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
Those who made the decisions were rewarded, not punished: What's $34 Billion on Wall Street?. That New York Times article does not show the true picture, because the executives were rewarded with tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in pay. Their entire "punishment" for knowingly causing the problem was having to change employers.
Quote: "In any other industry, Mr. Kim and Mr. Maheras would be pariahs. But in the looking-glass world of Wall Street, they - and others like them - are hot properties."
It was completely well understood by everyone that house prices could not continue to rise rapidly forever. Everything that happened was deliberate, in the sense that the people who made the decisions knew that they would be paid well.
Now house prices will go up again, but only because the "economic stimulus package" will make the value of the dollar go down. The prices of everything will rise rapidly, as they have been doing recently.
More recent information about U.S. government debt:
U.S. Government Debt Graph (2007 Budget data) (Good for a quick view.)
U.S. Government Debt Clock
U.S. Government Debt
"Now it [privacy] all seems like just another bit of cynical, focus-group-tested PR."
The U.S. government has become extremely corrupt. One method is the one mentioned, testing for weaknesses in public understanding, or willingness to act, and exploiting those weaknesses.
Here are others:
Making sure that honest, public-minded leaders from both parties are defeated.
Giving bills in Congress misleading names, like "Protect America".
Giving bills misleading features and widely publicizing the misleading features. For example, the "economic stimulus" bill only causes the government, which is deeply in debt, to print more money. That will make the value of the dollar go down even further. The "economic stimulus" bill also contains provisions to funnel money to banks. The banks apparently deliberately created the mortgage finance crisis doing so was profitable, and because banks were sure that the U.S. government would pass a bill to lessen the losses.