I have nothing to say against Jobs or even particularly against Apple, but if shareholders are so stupid as to throw money into a company on the basis of hype surrounding one personality, I can't say I am overwhelmed with sympathy if they lose every cent.
Otherwise, it would need to be installed inline of either radiator hose.
I am aware that a low-tech approach might be anathema in the context of Slashdot, but it seems to me that an efficacious means to the end might be the simple application of the point of a sharp knife to one of the two hoses. I would suggest the lower one, as escaping vapour would be less obvious at this point, and thus the risk of early discovery would be minimised.
It is quite remarkable how small a hole is required to cook an engine. I found this out to my cost a couple of years ago when a heater hose on a newly-reconditioned engine sprung a leak and completely fucked me up 40km into a 150km drive.
Was it deleted, or was it overwritten? Reading deleted data is generally very easy, but reading overwritten data is generally not.
Hmmm. Floppies were so damn unreliable as a storage medium, it was almost pointless to overwrite them. but the old 8" and 5 1/4" floppies at least went through normal shredders OK without damaging the shredder.
I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have a nice little power-hammer in my workshop that delivers the clout of a 500 lb sledgehammer. I would be willing to bet that my way of disposing of my old disk drives, which involves heating it to about 800 degrees C in my forge and giving it a few taps with that mother would defeat the most earnest efforts of the NSA, since the drive comes out about the thickness of tin-foil.
Disclaimer: The NSA has no jurisdiction here in Australia, (yet) and... They would probably be bored by the contents of my drives anyway, and... Yes, I am aware that that temperature will demagnetise the platters, but... It's good fun to do anyway: shiny hot things and lots of noise.:-)
The whole point of either layout is that real difference in typing performance is really only available to those who are very regimented about how they use the keyboard. I have observed that unless these people are taking dictation (yes, it still happens) they are often less fastidious about spelling, grammar, punctuation or comprehension and/or spend a lot of time backtracking to make corrections.
I never really learned how to type properly, since my first real computer keyboard (other than an 029 card punch) was a sort of big clunky old teletype machine that Burroughs used with their mainframe machines back in the day. Not even God could touch-type on one of those damn things.
Hence I rack up an OK but not fast speed with the thumb and first two fingers of both hands. But even so, I still spend a lot more time thinking about what I am going to write than I do in actually typing it.
One approach which worked for me (but which may or may not be directly useful to the OP, since my particular issue was poor reception in a large building built out of metal/foam sandwich panels) was to buy myself a repeater and an omnidirectional 7dBI antenna like this which I stuck to a ceiling at an appropriate location. I had to tweak the output level of the originating AP down a bit so that my laptop didn't insist on trying to use that signal instead of the "louder" one.
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking in a single browser session, clearing cookies, cache and history before and after, and closing/restarting the browser when finished.
Looks like I was right about the monsters behind the sofa after all.
A "merkin" is a patch of fake hair used by prostitutes to cover venereal diseases. It is not another term for someone from the USA. I'm not sure who your post is relevant to pussy-wigs.
Far be it from me to cast nasturtiums on the soi-disant "American sense of humour" (if one might forgive the oxymoron), but I thought that was a pretty obvious hook waiting for a bite.
But your definition could use a bit more poetry. I prefer Dr. Johnson's more succinct "counterfeit hair for women's privy parts".
will be compounded by a super-slow internet connection, compounded further by the extra speed-lag of wireless.
Probably not. If your internet connection is super-slow (or even only slowish), the latency in the wireless setup probably won't make any difference.
An alternative might be mobile broadband, which may or may not be viable according to your provider's roaming charges, if a GPRS signal is avaolable on board. Some of my friends continually run into trouble with traffic limits on the mobile service, but I find having a ruthlessly comprehensive hosts file and running adblock/flashblock keeps me well within limits, even when using skype a lot (without video). Just goes to show how much of your bandwidth is being sucked up by adservers.
For the information of Merkins out there: here in Australia, we don't pay anything to receive calls or SMSs. This only happens when we're roaming internationally, where the cost of calls can be nearly doubled as the telco slugs both caller and callee. Vodafone is a particular case in point.
Because "-rw-r--r-- 1 root root" is so self-explanatory?
I always thought of that notation as being unnecessarily complicated, but it does make sense. But I never really did get the hang of it.
chmod 644 filenamecan achieve the same effect (depending on your umask). Once one has learned the basics of the numeric approach, it actually is simpler. I don't think I should make this post redundant by elaborating, since the most cursory googling will bring up a useful link.
I really only have two particularly major concerns with the iPhone.
(1) something that needs charging every single day is a real handicap, and
(2) I have shared temporary accommodation with iPhone owners while travelling outside major population centres here in Australia, and the iPhone has not stood up to comparison with other phones (Motorola and Nokia) for reception quality, or even availability.
If the Palm offering addresses either of these, I might just consider it the next time I have to change handsets (which is fairly infrequent; I usually wait until they are broken).
I don't need another MP3 player; 8GB storage just isn't enough, and I have a 160GB iPod with which I am perfectly happy. But if Palm can bring themselves to provide an interface with Linux and Mac boxes simultaneously, they've made a sale here.
It is obnoxious to make your posts in monospaced fonts just to make them stand out. If you really prefer these fonts, just use lynx/links and just leave us to go our own way.
by using auto logins I didn't have a clue as to what it was anymore...
Been there. But I've mainly mistrusted autologins because of the risks involved. Putting all those UID/password combos in one place makes that file a worthwhile target to hack. From there you have to put your faith in the encryption algorithm alone, which IMO is a very bad place to be.
My approach is to have a few strong but memorable passwords which I re-use across multiple websites. One of these is used only for banking, and gets changed comparatively often, while another remains static for sites (like Slashdot) where it doesn't really bother me one way or another if someone manages to crack it. I actually leave Firefox to remember this one. Another is for other stuff of high value but for which I don't want to use the same password as my bank accounts.
That way, I can get by with a plain-text file with just a list of userIDs, which by themselves are not useful, and I only have to remember 3 passwords, which I can manage easily enough. It might sound cumbersome, but it works for me, and it keeps access under my control so if someone steals my laptop I don't lose everything.
My perspective here is coloured by memories of my frustration with Linux, X11 and a badly-supported SIS graphics card in 1997. I was actually grateful when it died, justifying the purchase of a Riva TNT, which worked faultlessly from day one, and probably still does. I still have it in a box here (changes in architecture always force me to upgrade graphics cards before I need to).
My point is that with that level of commitment to Linux support in the face of a comparitively meagre commercial return, it isn't unreasonable to expect their support to continue. To decry their efforts in the name of some philosophical ideal is simply churlish. It would be more graceful to say "thanks" to nVidia for providing drivers that have allowed the linux community to grow.
Fortunately, the concept of 'Free Software' has nothing to do with 'being able to have a thing or service for free'.
Indeed. And we are equally permitted to choose our preferred "degrees of freedom".
Which is why there is nothing shameful about using proprietary drivers from nVidia (to use a particularly useful and pertinent example) on our Linux or BSD machines, since they are simply providing commercial support for a truly "free" platform. If one wants to sit on a high horse and pontificate about the purity of our freedom, that is fine, but if we don't want to be treated as lepers, it makes sense to meet commercial interests halfway.
... and weasel words seem to be where we're at these days. Certainly here in Australia, where we seem to be in the grip of a narrow-minded suburban priggery (google Kevin Rudd and Bill Henson) in the name of political correctness.
People just need to grow up a bit and stop minding each others business.
Hmmm, I wonder why they did that. I bought a 160GB iPod Classic just a few months ago, and I'm very happy with it. OK, it is a little on the large side, but if that's what it takes to get storage, then that's what it takes. Looks like I was just in time...
Hopefully by the time this one breaks, there'll be a good alternative...
"You think"
I hope your friend doesn't do anything with finances on her machine.
This is what always bothers me about Windows and the various anti-virus offerings. The operating system, with that arcane registry, always leaves me with an impression of being deliberately made to be overly complex, and you never can be sure of having removed a virus.
There is noone I know off (with eyes and hands) that can't type a readable text...
My point was that some things are communicated more easily with simpler technology.
My perspective is coloured by a background in mathematics and chemistry, both of which take quite a lot of of work to illustrate via a computer. Anyone versed in these fields is bound to find the low-tech options quicker and more accessible.
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I have nothing to say against Jobs or even particularly against Apple, but if shareholders are so stupid as to throw money into a company on the basis of hype surrounding one personality, I can't say I am overwhelmed with sympathy if they lose every cent.
Otherwise, it would need to be installed inline of either radiator hose.
I am aware that a low-tech approach might be anathema in the context of Slashdot, but it seems to me that an efficacious means to the end might be the simple application of the point of a sharp knife to one of the two hoses. I would suggest the lower one, as escaping vapour would be less obvious at this point, and thus the risk of early discovery would be minimised.
It is quite remarkable how small a hole is required to cook an engine. I found this out to my cost a couple of years ago when a heater hose on a newly-reconditioned engine sprung a leak and completely fucked me up 40km into a 150km drive.
Was it deleted, or was it overwritten? Reading deleted data is generally very easy, but reading overwritten data is generally not.
Hmmm. Floppies were so damn unreliable as a storage medium, it was almost pointless to overwrite them. but the old 8" and 5 1/4" floppies at least went through normal shredders OK without damaging the shredder.
I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have a nice little power-hammer in my workshop that delivers the clout of a 500 lb sledgehammer. I would be willing to bet that my way of disposing of my old disk drives, which involves heating it to about 800 degrees C in my forge and giving it a few taps with that mother would defeat the most earnest efforts of the NSA, since the drive comes out about the thickness of tin-foil.
:-)
Disclaimer:
The NSA has no jurisdiction here in Australia, (yet) and...
They would probably be bored by the contents of my drives anyway, and...
Yes, I am aware that that temperature will demagnetise the platters, but...
It's good fun to do anyway: shiny hot things and lots of noise.
The whole point of either layout is that real difference in typing performance is really only available to those who are very regimented about how they use the keyboard. I have observed that unless these people are taking dictation (yes, it still happens) they are often less fastidious about spelling, grammar, punctuation or comprehension and/or spend a lot of time backtracking to make corrections.
I never really learned how to type properly, since my first real computer keyboard (other than an 029 card punch) was a sort of big clunky old teletype machine that Burroughs used with their mainframe machines back in the day. Not even God could touch-type on one of those damn things.
Hence I rack up an OK but not fast speed with the thumb and first two fingers of both hands. But even so, I still spend a lot more time thinking about what I am going to write than I do in actually typing it.
One approach which worked for me (but which may or may not be directly useful to the OP, since my particular issue was poor reception in a large building built out of metal/foam sandwich panels) was to buy myself a repeater and an omnidirectional 7dBI antenna like this which I stuck to a ceiling at an appropriate location. I had to tweak the output level of the originating AP down a bit so that my laptop didn't insist on trying to use that signal instead of the "louder" one.
No, I don't. Until I saw your post, I had never heard of HBCI, and having done some googling, I have not found one Australian bank that supports it.
In any case, how is this more secure than https in a standalone browser session?
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking in a single browser session, clearing cookies, cache and history before and after, and closing/restarting the browser when finished.
Looks like I was right about the monsters behind the sofa after all.
A "merkin" is a patch of fake hair used by prostitutes to cover venereal diseases. It is not another term for someone from the USA. I'm not sure who your post is relevant to pussy-wigs.
Far be it from me to cast nasturtiums on the soi-disant "American sense of humour" (if one might forgive the oxymoron), but I thought that was a pretty obvious hook waiting for a bite.
But your definition could use a bit more poetry. I prefer Dr. Johnson's more succinct "counterfeit hair for women's privy parts".
You will find the word "pun" in any dictionary.
will be compounded by a super-slow internet connection, compounded further by the extra speed-lag of wireless.
Probably not. If your internet connection is super-slow (or even only slowish), the latency in the wireless setup probably won't make any difference.
An alternative might be mobile broadband, which may or may not be viable according to your provider's roaming charges, if a GPRS signal is avaolable on board. Some of my friends continually run into trouble with traffic limits on the mobile service, but I find having a ruthlessly comprehensive hosts file and running adblock/flashblock keeps me well within limits, even when using skype a lot (without video). Just goes to show how much of your bandwidth is being sucked up by adservers.
For the information of Merkins out there: here in Australia, we don't pay anything to receive calls or SMSs. This only happens when we're roaming internationally, where the cost of calls can be nearly doubled as the telco slugs both caller and callee. Vodafone is a particular case in point.
I always thought of that notation as being unnecessarily complicated, but it does make sense. But I never really did get the hang of it.
chmod 644 filename can achieve the same effect (depending on your umask). Once one has learned the basics of the numeric approach, it actually is simpler. I don't think I should make this post redundant by elaborating, since the most cursory googling will bring up a useful link.
Far out. I'll slap the next person who tells me Unix is hard to use, if that's Microsoft's idea of user-friendliness.
I really only have two particularly major concerns with the iPhone.
(1) something that needs charging every single day is a real handicap, and
(2) I have shared temporary accommodation with iPhone owners while travelling outside major population centres here in Australia, and the iPhone has not stood up to comparison with other phones (Motorola and Nokia) for reception quality, or even availability.
If the Palm offering addresses either of these, I might just consider it the next time I have to change handsets (which is fairly infrequent; I usually wait until they are broken).
I don't need another MP3 player; 8GB storage just isn't enough, and I have a 160GB iPod with which I am perfectly happy. But if Palm can bring themselves to provide an interface with Linux and Mac boxes simultaneously, they've made a sale here.
(Yeah, I know, goodluckwiththat.)
Ah, but I suspect that you haven't read the famous quote from Sigmund Freud:
"Two can live as cheaply as one, especially if they both have good jobs."
Thrown in FWIW as devil's advocacy, since I actually agree, having been married for over 20 years...
Being a little dogmatic aren't we?
No, I just think monospaced fonts are an unworthy way to make one's post stand out. More useful just to make it worth reading in the first place.
It is obnoxious to make your posts in monospaced fonts just to make them stand out. If you really prefer these fonts, just use lynx/links and just leave us to go our own way.
by using auto logins I didn't have a clue as to what it was anymore...
Been there. But I've mainly mistrusted autologins because of the risks involved. Putting all those UID/password combos in one place makes that file a worthwhile target to hack. From there you have to put your faith in the encryption algorithm alone, which IMO is a very bad place to be.
My approach is to have a few strong but memorable passwords which I re-use across multiple websites. One of these is used only for banking, and gets changed comparatively often, while another remains static for sites (like Slashdot) where it doesn't really bother me one way or another if someone manages to crack it. I actually leave Firefox to remember this one. Another is for other stuff of high value but for which I don't want to use the same password as my bank accounts.
That way, I can get by with a plain-text file with just a list of userIDs, which by themselves are not useful, and I only have to remember 3 passwords, which I can manage easily enough. It might sound cumbersome, but it works for me, and it keeps access under my control so if someone steals my laptop I don't lose everything.
My perspective here is coloured by memories of my frustration with Linux, X11 and a badly-supported SIS graphics card in 1997. I was actually grateful when it died, justifying the purchase of a Riva TNT, which worked faultlessly from day one, and probably still does. I still have it in a box here (changes in architecture always force me to upgrade graphics cards before I need to).
My point is that with that level of commitment to Linux support in the face of a comparitively meagre commercial return, it isn't unreasonable to expect their support to continue. To decry their efforts in the name of some philosophical ideal is simply churlish. It would be more graceful to say "thanks" to nVidia for providing drivers that have allowed the linux community to grow.
Indeed. And we are equally permitted to choose our preferred "degrees of freedom".
Which is why there is nothing shameful about using proprietary drivers from nVidia (to use a particularly useful and pertinent example) on our Linux or BSD machines, since they are simply providing commercial support for a truly "free" platform. If one wants to sit on a high horse and pontificate about the purity of our freedom, that is fine, but if we don't want to be treated as lepers, it makes sense to meet commercial interests halfway.
... and weasel words seem to be where we're at these days. Certainly here in Australia, where we seem to be in the grip of a narrow-minded suburban priggery (google Kevin Rudd and Bill Henson) in the name of political correctness.
People just need to grow up a bit and stop minding each others business.
Hmmm, I wonder why they did that. I bought a 160GB iPod Classic just a few months ago, and I'm very happy with it. OK, it is a little on the large side, but if that's what it takes to get storage, then that's what it takes. Looks like I was just in time...
Hopefully by the time this one breaks, there'll be a good alternative...
If you really prefer monospaced fonts, just use Lynx/Links. Please don't inflict them on us just to make your post stand out. It's rude.
This is what always bothers me about Windows and the various anti-virus offerings. The operating system, with that arcane registry, always leaves me with an impression of being deliberately made to be overly complex, and you never can be sure of having removed a virus.
There is noone I know off (with eyes and hands) that can't type a readable text...
My point was that some things are communicated more easily with simpler technology.
My perspective is coloured by a background in mathematics and chemistry, both of which take quite a lot of of work to illustrate via a computer. Anyone versed in these fields is bound to find the low-tech options quicker and more accessible.