Apple's laptops for a while now have had an option (in trackpad preferences) where you can place two fingers on the trackpad and click the button to get a right-click. It's easy to get used to, and obviously only requires one hand, so you no longer *have* to have an external mouse and you no longer *have* to use option/ctrl.
I use my MBP all day every day and I estimate that 99% of my clicks are left-clicks, so I have no problem with having one physical mouse button; In fact I much prefer having a huge single button to hit with my thumb.
When I hosted my domains I just had a few 'standard' addresses at the domains going to a 'stuff' mailbox. Aliases like: - root - webmaster - postmaster - admin
I thought it was better when people use other non-existent addresses that they get a bounceback rather than mail being accepted. Especially with the newer worms/trojans that forge headers to send out mails from blahblah81@yourdomain.com etc.
have information like appointments and addresses synched automatically when I bring my pda near my computer
I've just bought myself an Apple iBook G4 with built-in bluetooth for this. It will keep my Nokia 3650, iPod and dotmac account in sync for my calendar, address book, browser bookmarks etc.
:-)
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At work I've moved to a (Gentoo) Linux desktop, and can use it for a lot of my coding and everyday work stuff, but I still have to keep a Windows machine on a KVM because of: SQL Server (for testing) Visual Basic Visual SourceSafe Data Valley (our company timesheet application) Internet Explorer (for testing websites)
So for me, at my company, these are the reasons I have to keep a Windows machine around.
Yeah my friend is just like that with his iBook. However you have to remember that Apple creates and supplies both the software AND hardware, so of course they'll work seamlessly together (most of the time;-) Linux has to work with all sorts of different hardware, so there will always be more issues than with Apple or MS (who has the hardware suppliers or their own departments wrting drivers).
I have to tell you though, in the few days when I borrowed my friend's iBook (I was debating buying it off him), I had more crashes of applications and the whole system itself in those few days than I've ever had with any Linux install I've done (Mandrake, Gentoo and LFS), which surprised me.
Is there another Linux user you know that can come round and help you out with it? Otherwise maybe you can look for a LUG in your area, and see if somebody there will help you out (there seem to be more and more InstallFests going on these days all over, and Linux folk on the whole are a helpful bunch of people).
My friend bought one (in the UK) about 4 months ago, and ended up selling it after a couple of weeks on ebay. He hated it. He claimed it was slow, buggy and crashed a lot.
Now he has a Sony Ericsson P800 that he LOVES, and uses every day.
Personally I didn't want to spend 300UKP on the p800 so I bought the Nokia 3650. It still runs similar Symbian software as the P800 and it is very nice (if a little large).
In a break from his norm, Jeffrey Deaver released a book called The Blue Nowhere, about a hacker that's killing people using social engineering tactics, and a team that have to track him down.
It's very well written - I've read it a couple of times now.
Here is a short summary and an excerpt from the first chapter.
According to a post on bugtraq: IE tries to compare the type of the input field to "HIDDEN", to see if it should be rendered. When there is no type string, a null-pointer is used. mshtml.dll calls shlwapi.dll#158 @ 0x636f0037 with a pointer to a static unicode string "HIDDEN" and a null-pointer. shlwapi.dll#158 does a case-insensitive comparison of two unicode strings: it reads from address 0x0 because of the null-pointer and thus causes an exception. This is not exploitable, other then a DoS because there is no memory mapped @ 0x0 and even if you could load something there, you could only compare it to "HIDDEN" which gets you nowhere.
This summarises exactly why I use Opera on both my work Windows/Linux and home Linux systems.
Opera is a great browser, the only down point IMO is getting the 100% reliability aspect nailed (but as mentioned, at least when you reload it after a crash all your previous sites are reloaded).
That's not my experience (in the UK) - for me the 30-40 SMS I send every month ALL get to their destination. I'd say reliability now in Europe is great, however the US is way behind in pretty much all mobile technologies because it's such a large area to cover and there are/were several competing standards, some of which are way old - I mean analogue mobile phones haven't been in use in the UK for years now!
'The Getaway' on PS2 is fantastic, but not a mention anywhere...it was released on the 11th December - surely early enough to get considered!
It's cracking, especially for people like me who live in London (for those that don't know, they have recreated over 40sq miles of London as the backdrop to carrying out the required gangster missions).
It's probably because those two sites are US-based, so they probably don't appreciate the violence and cockney accents;-) Either that or it hasn't been released in the US yet.
I love my T68 in all departments except one: SPEED (or rather, the lack of) Navigating around when you know the key combinations is dead slow, but mainly I notice it when writing SMS messages. Argh!
I heard that there is a software upgrade that helps improve the speed a bit (and the T68i has a newer version than the T68 so is a bit faster)
Good battery life though, specially compared to my girlfriend's newer Nokia 3210 which seems to need charging every other day.
"O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?"
It has been slow for me (in London) since about midday GMT, both at work (2mbit) and now at home (512k) - i have had quite a few 20-30 second page loads, and even a couple of timeouts! Unheard of before the 'move'.
"IDE is cheap for storage, but if you're looking for performance, a nice IDE RAID card (3WARE Escalade 8500-4) and disks (Western Digital Caviar Special Edition) is expensive compared to an Adaptec 39320 and a Seagate Ultra320 disk. The IDE variant would require at least two, but probably four disks in a RAID 0 configuration to even come close to the SCSI performance."
To install LFS you must use an existing Linux install on the machine to create your LFS system, using the existing system's compiler and the 'chroot' command.
With Gentoo, I believe you can install it off an existing system as well, just by downloading the system tarball, untarring it on a new partition, and again using the 'chroot' command to then compile and install the system.
If you don't have an existing system, you can just use a Linux boot floppy such as tomsrtbt, boot with that, set up the network/internet connection, and then download/chroot from there, which is what I did on a laptop with no bootable CDROM drive.
I would say try one of the more newbie-friendly distros like Red Hat or Mandrake first, and then once you've used it a little while (days or weeks), and feel you want to learn a bit more of how Linux actually works, where certain files are kept, and command-line syntax, try Gentoo.
The Gentoo install is, these days, reasonably easy, but I wouldn't recommend trying it before you even try/use any other distro.
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Apple's laptops for a while now have had an option (in trackpad preferences) where you can place two fingers on the trackpad and click the button to get a right-click. It's easy to get used to, and obviously only requires one hand, so you no longer *have* to have an external mouse and you no longer *have* to use option/ctrl.
I use my MBP all day every day and I estimate that 99% of my clicks are left-clicks, so I have no problem with having one physical mouse button; In fact I much prefer having a huge single button to hit with my thumb.
When I hosted my domains I just had a few 'standard' addresses at the domains going to a 'stuff' mailbox. Aliases like:
- root
- webmaster
- postmaster
- admin
I thought it was better when people use other non-existent addresses that they get a bounceback rather than mail being accepted. Especially with the newer worms/trojans that forge headers to send out mails from blahblah81@yourdomain.com etc.
No, VAT is 17.5% here, compared to the highest (AFAIK) US tax of 8.625% in NYC. There's certainly a far greater difference than that small percentage.
We in the UK have always been ripped off on music (and most other stuff eg fuel at the equivalent of $1.43 per litre of unleaded).
Still I choose to live here blah blah blah.
I've just bought myself an Apple iBook G4 with built-in bluetooth for this. It will keep my Nokia 3650, iPod and dotmac account in sync for my calendar, address book, browser bookmarks etc.
At work I've moved to a (Gentoo) Linux desktop, and can use it for a lot of my coding and everyday work stuff, but I still have to keep a Windows machine on a KVM because of:
SQL Server (for testing)
Visual Basic
Visual SourceSafe
Data Valley (our company timesheet application)
Internet Explorer (for testing websites)
So for me, at my company, these are the reasons I have to keep a Windows machine around.
Nail, meet head.
Nicely said!
(if only I had mod points)
Yeah my friend is just like that with his iBook. However you have to remember that Apple creates and supplies both the software AND hardware, so of course they'll work seamlessly together (most of the time ;-)
Linux has to work with all sorts of different hardware, so there will always be more issues than with Apple or MS (who has the hardware suppliers or their own departments wrting drivers).
I have to tell you though, in the few days when I borrowed my friend's iBook (I was debating buying it off him), I had more crashes of applications and the whole system itself in those few days than I've ever had with any Linux install I've done (Mandrake, Gentoo and LFS), which surprised me.
Is there another Linux user you know that can come round and help you out with it?
Otherwise maybe you can look for a LUG in your area, and see if somebody there will help you out (there seem to be more and more InstallFests going on these days all over, and Linux folk on the whole are a helpful bunch of people).
My friend bought one (in the UK) about 4 months ago, and ended up selling it after a couple of weeks on ebay. He hated it. He claimed it was slow, buggy and crashed a lot.
Now he has a Sony Ericsson P800 that he LOVES, and uses every day.
Personally I didn't want to spend 300UKP on the p800 so I bought the Nokia 3650. It still runs similar Symbian software as the P800 and it is very nice (if a little large).
YMMV.
In a break from his norm, Jeffrey Deaver released a book called The Blue Nowhere, about a hacker that's killing people using social engineering tactics, and a team that have to track him down.
It's very well written - I've read it a couple of times now.
Here is a short summary and an excerpt from the first chapter.
Doh! That's lack of previewing for you...
Here's the one line required:
<input type hello>
Just one line is really required:
According to a post on bugtraq:
IE tries to compare the type of the input field to "HIDDEN", to see if it
should be rendered. When there is no type string, a null-pointer is used.
mshtml.dll calls shlwapi.dll#158 @ 0x636f0037 with a pointer to a static
unicode string "HIDDEN" and a null-pointer.
shlwapi.dll#158 does a case-insensitive comparison of two unicode strings:
it reads from address 0x0 because of the null-pointer and thus causes an
exception.
This is not exploitable, other then a DoS because there is no memory mapped
@ 0x0 and even if you could load something there, you could only compare it
to "HIDDEN" which gets you nowhere.
True, but my reference came from its first commercial flight from London to NY in November 1977.
It's first commercial flight anywhere was in January 1976, from London to Bahrain.
Damn. Considering it came out in 1977, and nothing has come out to replace it yet.
Shame.
Mod parent up!
This summarises exactly why I use Opera on both my work Windows/Linux and home Linux systems.
Opera is a great browser, the only down point IMO is getting the 100% reliability aspect nailed (but as mentioned, at least when you reload it after a crash all your previous sites are reloaded).
M.
That's not my experience (in the UK) - for me the 30-40 SMS I send every month ALL get to their destination.
I'd say reliability now in Europe is great, however the US is way behind in pretty much all mobile technologies because it's such a large area to cover and there are/were several competing standards, some of which are way old - I mean analogue mobile phones haven't been in use in the UK for years now!
'The Getaway' on PS2 is fantastic, but not a mention anywhere...it was released on the 11th December - surely early enough to get considered!
;-)
It's cracking, especially for people like me who live in London (for those that don't know, they have recreated over 40sq miles of London as the backdrop to carrying out the required gangster missions).
It's probably because those two sites are US-based, so they probably don't appreciate the violence and cockney accents
Either that or it hasn't been released in the US yet.
Anyway check it out!
I love my T68 in all departments except one: SPEED (or rather, the lack of)
Navigating around when you know the key combinations is dead slow, but mainly I notice it when writing SMS messages. Argh!
I heard that there is a software upgrade that helps improve the speed a bit (and the T68i has a newer version than the T68 so is a bit faster)
Good battery life though, specially compared to my girlfriend's newer Nokia 3210 which seems to need charging every other day.
YMMV though,
Mark.
This is one of my favourite uses of flash:
Ultimate Flash Face
"O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?"
It has been slow for me (in London) since about midday GMT, both at work (2mbit) and now at home (512k) - i have had quite a few 20-30 second page loads, and even a couple of timeouts! Unheard of before the 'move'.
M.
"IDE is cheap for storage, but if you're looking for performance, a nice IDE RAID card (3WARE Escalade 8500-4) and disks (Western Digital Caviar Special Edition) is expensive compared to an Adaptec 39320 and a Seagate Ultra320 disk. The IDE variant would require at least two, but probably four disks in a RAID 0 configuration to even come close to the SCSI performance."
Did you see this, posted here a few days ago?
It mentions their choice of storage being a RAID0+1 of four IDE disks, and it beating SCSI in both price and performance by some considerable margin.
Cheers,
Mark.
It's easy to add a ccTLD, but much much harder to remove one.
;-)
How about:
# su -
# rm ccTLD/.su
To install LFS you must use an existing Linux install on the machine to create your LFS system, using the existing system's compiler and the 'chroot' command.
With Gentoo, I believe you can install it off an existing system as well, just by downloading the system tarball, untarring it on a new partition, and again using the 'chroot' command to then compile and install the system.
If you don't have an existing system, you can just use a Linux boot floppy such as tomsrtbt, boot with that, set up the network/internet connection, and then download/chroot from there, which is what I did on a laptop with no bootable CDROM drive.
Try it!
Mark.
I would say try one of the more newbie-friendly distros like Red Hat or Mandrake first, and then once you've used it a little while (days or weeks), and feel you want to learn a bit more of how Linux actually works, where certain files are kept, and command-line syntax, try Gentoo.
The Gentoo install is, these days, reasonably easy, but I wouldn't recommend trying it before you even try/use any other distro.
That's IMHO anyway...
Mark.
Whenever I need a boot floppy, I use tomsrtbt. It helped me install Gentoo on my old p120 laptop, which doesn't have a bootable CDROM drive.
Cheers, Mark.
The one they used for the film was the 8110 (my first mobile phone :) with a special push-button slider mechanism created for the film.
M.