The user clearly doesn't want some 'dual-boot' system to run a server operating system...
The OP fails to mention what he actually wants the OS for, other than mentioning that he likes "enterprisy" solutions. It's difficult to offer useful suggestions when all he wants is something that isn't Linux, but can't (or won't) articulate why.
Anyone that prefers a MAC has intelligence issues..
Now that really is not very kind. (Disclaimer: I mostly use Linux, but I have a MacBook) Some people do actually manage somehow to get serious work done on Windows when they're not downloading the latest patch or anti-virus update.;-)
Sabre rattling or not, the courts have let themselves in for a long, boring job of listening to lots of spurious complaints.
Given that judges and courts frequently complain that their offices are under-resourced and overworked, leading to long delays in prosecution of more serious cases, one doesn't need a very wide streak of cynicism to wonder if there is no better way for them to occupy their time.
I'm sure even Murdoch must be aware of robots.txt by now, and he must have someone on his staff who knows how to use it. But Murdoch needs Google much more than Google needs him, given that as at least one earlier poster mentioned, few people actually google for news. They'll go straight to the news sites most congenial to their interests.
Murdoch has no interest in blocking Google, he just wants to gouge them for money. Hopefully Google will have the balls to just tell him to get fucked. Or perhaps more professional words to that effect - like "Go get professionally fucked".
Will Microsoft be willing to pay everybody to jump to Bing?
Microsoft can do whatever deals they want with Murdoch and his friends, but the simple fact at the moment is that Bing is rather a poor example of a search engine, and people will vote with their mice.
Every so often I try using Bing (in an attempt to be fair), but the relevance of its results is at best equivalent in to what I remember as typical of AltaVista back in in 1997. That's just not good enough. If the guys at Microsoft want Bing to be a serious competitor to Google, they're going to have to try putting some serious work into their product.
In reality what the USA needs to develop is a heavily armed (preferably international) police force.
Hmmm. A US International police force? To enforce US law against the world? I could say "good luck with that", but it wouldn't be good luck for anyone. Sovereign states are just that, and it is sheer arrogance to assume that the US has any form of moral or other high ground from which any kind of aggressive action might be justified.
every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book.
Not sure about that. Most of the available evidence suggests that the last president of the US couldn't read at all.
This ignorance, fortunately, hasn't been universal among US presidents. After all, Herbert Hoover did an excellent job of translating Agricola's "De Re Metallica" from Latin into English.
I've known what KDE is for well over a decade, and I'm even prepared to say it's quite good, if not to my taste. but I'm fucked if I understand what they're trying to achieve with this re-branding. The whole concept of the developers assuming the identity of "KDE" seems as empty as an election promise. Maybe they've been joined by a new bunch of MBA graduates...
Exactly. I have something similar here (AU$17.99 1GB Dodo.com, i.e. Optus). But my point is, it wouldn't take long to chew through that with a few torrents up, and then I would be stuck with having to foot the bill for the $0.10/MB excess.
Osama Bin Laden could easily have been dead for years. However, he was more useful alive to those pushing for military action, so it's unlikely that anyone would have admitted his demise.
One thing that concerns me is how easy it was for everyone to hack his credit card records. He doesn't make any comment in the article about this, but if I were in his position, I would be concerned about the ready availability of that information to anybody that wasn't a law-enforcement agency. I wouldn't be so alarmed about a gmail account, but most banks here (Australia) tend to block internet access after a few failed logins, and it's a criminal offense for bank staff to release details of customers' accounts.
getting offline (both 'net and financially) would be a wise thing.
Exactly. If you're really trying not to be found, staying away from communities like twitter and facebook are just the start. Otherwise, you might as well shout "Here I am, Look at me!" from the rooftops.
So, as the guy says in TFA (which incidentally is one of the better reads I have come across on Slashdot):
Had I shown that a person, given enough resources and discipline, could vanish from one life and reinvent himself in another?
I would have to say no. Ratliff is obviously somewhat dependent on social engagement (which he admits as a source of stress), but there are many who are a lot more self-contained who would require less in the way of social interaction, who I think would stay below the radar for a lot longer.
And let's be honest, Google is able to profile people really good.
But it's also perfectly possible to limit what it can do. There are other ways, but one simple approach is to put entries in your hosts file to refuse connections from any servers you don't want to hear from. It's a simple enough matter to get a list.
If UK mobile broadband charges are anything like they are here in Australia, NOBODY would share files over it. The telcos gouge you for both upstream and downstream traffic, and it wouldn't be long before you felt the pain.
Nearly. From the picture supplied with TFA, it looks like there's a big flywheel sticking out of the end. The whole assembly looks like it belongs under the hood of a Kenworth truck.:-)
Over the last few years I've made a point of only buying gadgets that charge off USB - those little cables fit into a bag a lot more handily than a power strip. But I guess that would change if I had to deal with an electric shaver. Soap 'n' scrape has always been fine for me...
Just your passport and drivers' licence are plenty as far as documents are concerned. Also, if you take any medication, stock up before you leave the US, since prescriptions aren't recognised internationally.
But one good reason to take your own laptop is so that you can take care of your own security if you have to do any kind of unavoidable online transaction. In December last year my wife talked me out of taking my laptop with me on holiday, and I took the risk (yeah, headsmack) of using a computer installed in the accommodation I was at, not being able to update the AV without hacking the machine, which I was unwilling to do. It might just have been coincidence, but a couple of weeks later (fortunately after I had got back home) I had a spurious transaction of $800 debited against my Visa card for some online purchase.
Fortunately the bank picked it up before I did, but the downside was that I was without the card for a couple of weeks while the matter got straightened out. It could all have been a lot worse, but it was enough to teach me a lesson.
The dirt issue seems much worse with normal scroll mice.
So far, I've been pretty lucky with my Logitech cordless Trackman Wheel regardless of my alimentary habits. That product gets an endorsement from me: it seems to be impossible to break.
However, I do like the look of the FTIR mouse (the last mentioned in TFA). The Microsoft Surface thingy looks kind of neat in its native form, but it would get old quickly with a screen covered in greasy fingerprints. This mouse option looks like it might be a cooler alternative. I hope nobody has thought to patent it yet...
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The user clearly doesn't want some 'dual-boot' system to run a server operating system ...
The OP fails to mention what he actually wants the OS for, other than mentioning that he likes "enterprisy" solutions. It's difficult to offer useful suggestions when all he wants is something that isn't Linux, but can't (or won't) articulate why.
Anyone that prefers a MAC has intelligence issues..
;-)
Now that really is not very kind. (Disclaimer: I mostly use Linux, but I have a MacBook) Some people do actually manage somehow to get serious work done on Windows when they're not downloading the latest patch or anti-virus update.
Sabre rattling or not, the courts have let themselves in for a long, boring job of listening to lots of spurious complaints.
Given that judges and courts frequently complain that their offices are under-resourced and overworked, leading to long delays in prosecution of more serious cases, one doesn't need a very wide streak of cynicism to wonder if there is no better way for them to occupy their time.
I'm sure even Murdoch must be aware of robots.txt by now, and he must have someone on his staff who knows how to use it. But Murdoch needs Google much more than Google needs him, given that as at least one earlier poster mentioned, few people actually google for news. They'll go straight to the news sites most congenial to their interests.
Murdoch has no interest in blocking Google, he just wants to gouge them for money. Hopefully Google will have the balls to just tell him to get fucked. Or perhaps more professional words to that effect - like "Go get professionally fucked".
Exactly. The only newspapers worth buying are the big fat weekend offerings. You can light a fire every day for weeks with just one of those.
Will Microsoft be willing to pay everybody to jump to Bing?
Microsoft can do whatever deals they want with Murdoch and his friends, but the simple fact at the moment is that Bing is rather a poor example of a search engine, and people will vote with their mice.
Every so often I try using Bing (in an attempt to be fair), but the relevance of its results is at best equivalent in to what I remember as typical of AltaVista back in in 1997. That's just not good enough. If the guys at Microsoft want Bing to be a serious competitor to Google, they're going to have to try putting some serious work into their product.
In reality what the USA needs to develop is a heavily armed (preferably international) police force.
Hmmm. A US International police force? To enforce US law against the world? I could say "good luck with that", but it wouldn't be good luck for anyone. Sovereign states are just that, and it is sheer arrogance to assume that the US has any form of moral or other high ground from which any kind of aggressive action might be justified.
every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book.
Not sure about that. Most of the available evidence suggests that the last president of the US couldn't read at all.
This ignorance, fortunately, hasn't been universal among US presidents. After all, Herbert Hoover did an excellent job of translating Agricola's "De Re Metallica" from Latin into English.
I've known what KDE is for well over a decade, and I'm even prepared to say it's quite good, if not to my taste. but I'm fucked if I understand what they're trying to achieve with this re-branding. The whole concept of the developers assuming the identity of "KDE" seems as empty as an election promise. Maybe they've been joined by a new bunch of MBA graduates...
Exactly. I have something similar here (AU$17.99 1GB Dodo.com, i.e. Optus). But my point is, it wouldn't take long to chew through that with a few torrents up, and then I would be stuck with having to foot the bill for the $0.10/MB excess.
You're right. Not sure how I managed to miss that.
But in any case, this isn't the kind of information that should (I hope) be available without a court order...
Osama Bin Laden could easily have been dead for years. However, he was more useful alive to those pushing for military action, so it's unlikely that anyone would have admitted his demise.
One thing that concerns me is how easy it was for everyone to hack his credit card records. He doesn't make any comment in the article about this, but if I were in his position, I would be concerned about the ready availability of that information to anybody that wasn't a law-enforcement agency. I wouldn't be so alarmed about a gmail account, but most banks here (Australia) tend to block internet access after a few failed logins, and it's a criminal offense for bank staff to release details of customers' accounts.
getting offline (both 'net and financially) would be a wise thing.
Exactly. If you're really trying not to be found, staying away from communities like twitter and facebook are just the start. Otherwise, you might as well shout "Here I am, Look at me!" from the rooftops.
So, as the guy says in TFA (which incidentally is one of the better reads I have come across on Slashdot):
Had I shown that a person, given enough resources and discipline, could vanish from one life and reinvent himself in another?
I would have to say no. Ratliff is obviously somewhat dependent on social engagement (which he admits as a source of stress), but there are many who are a lot more self-contained who would require less in the way of social interaction, who I think would stay below the radar for a lot longer.
Laws don't give you rights. They can only take them away.
And let's be honest, Google is able to profile people really good.
But it's also perfectly possible to limit what it can do. There are other ways, but one simple approach is to put entries in your hosts file to refuse connections from any servers you don't want to hear from. It's a simple enough matter to get a list.
Of course you could, but the article was referring to mobile broadband.
If UK mobile broadband charges are anything like they are here in Australia, NOBODY would share files over it. The telcos gouge you for both upstream and downstream traffic, and it wouldn't be long before you felt the pain.
Ah, there it stopped moving, Ill sniff it now.
:-)
Except if said animal has ever had a clockwork mouse. Then it demands that you wind it up again and make it go.
But judging by the machinery these guys are using, they're thinking in terms of much larger values of cat than mine...
But they used valve technology for this one!
:-)
Nearly. From the picture supplied with TFA, it looks like there's a big flywheel sticking out of the end. The whole assembly looks like it belongs under the hood of a Kenworth truck.
Naples is near London!?
I think the parent must need that accessibility feature: Slashdot for the geographically impaired.
And be sure to take a small power strip
Over the last few years I've made a point of only buying gadgets that charge off USB - those little cables fit into a bag a lot more handily than a power strip. But I guess that would change if I had to deal with an electric shaver. Soap 'n' scrape has always been fine for me...
Just your passport and drivers' licence are plenty as far as documents are concerned. Also, if you take any medication, stock up before you leave the US, since prescriptions aren't recognised internationally.
But one good reason to take your own laptop is so that you can take care of your own security if you have to do any kind of unavoidable online transaction. In December last year my wife talked me out of taking my laptop with me on holiday, and I took the risk (yeah, headsmack) of using a computer installed in the accommodation I was at, not being able to update the AV without hacking the machine, which I was unwilling to do. It might just have been coincidence, but a couple of weeks later (fortunately after I had got back home) I had a spurious transaction of $800 debited against my Visa card for some online purchase.
Fortunately the bank picked it up before I did, but the downside was that I was without the card for a couple of weeks while the matter got straightened out. It could all have been a lot worse, but it was enough to teach me a lesson.
There's a wired version too. But I prefer to do without the clutter.
The dirt issue seems much worse with normal scroll mice.
So far, I've been pretty lucky with my Logitech cordless Trackman Wheel regardless of my alimentary habits. That product gets an endorsement from me: it seems to be impossible to break.
However, I do like the look of the FTIR mouse (the last mentioned in TFA). The Microsoft Surface thingy looks kind of neat in its native form, but it would get old quickly with a screen covered in greasy fingerprints. This mouse option looks like it might be a cooler alternative. I hope nobody has thought to patent it yet...