Exactly. I took about $300, built a mythtv box, and signed up for netflix..
Ongoing costs for netflix: ~$108 a year.
So far there's nothing I've wanted to watch I can't get OTA, on Hulu, or on Netflix. And I get to watch it when it's convenient for me... Less money, more convenience.. Not bad IMHO.
I'm well aware of the problem, but there's something about being only 1 version behind the majority of IE users that makes it easier for businesses to keep on using IE 6. When IE 8 is the standard and they're 2 versions behind, it somehow seems more ridiculous to keep saying that IE 6 must be the corporate standard. Also, as the switch continues, more sites will continue to drop IE 6 support, for similar reasons.
Yes, it doesn't really change anything, but there it does highlight the ridiculousness of the current situation, and hopefully will motivate people to solve the problem.
IE 8 isn't my favorite browser,but it's worlds better then IE 6.. It's quality related to IE 7 is harder to discern at this point, but anything that encourages businesses and other IE 6 holdouts to move forward is a good thing in my view. I'd rather they move to Gecko(Firefox), Webkit(Chrome, safari), or Opera, but please, I'm pleading, let IE 6 die...
I assume the "10 billion times brighter then the sun" is an apparent brightness measurement of the sun at the earth, and not of the suns actual luminosity. If it is actually that much brighter then the sun, then that's REALLY impressive...
Wikipedia has always used the verbage with the "or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation" clause, so they can at their convenience switch licenses.
GFDL 1.3 has terms that allow Wikipedia to migrate all their content to CC-BY-SA, as long as they do it by the middle of this year. So score one for license consolidation.
Well, I did buy 4 and am only using 2 at the moment, but I have had 3 in use at one time before.
One nice thing about the Model M is that you can remove each key mechanism and replace it, and also separately replace each key cap, so one spare should be able to keep 3 other keyboards in working order.
I bought 4 IBM model M keyboards on Ebay 10 years ago, and fully intend to keep using them until I can get a neural implant.
Buy quality, and buy it once.
Buy crap, buy it new every year.
Does video play smoothly in VirtualBox at decent resolutions? I've been dual booting my laptop for Netflix and a few games, if VirtualBox graphics performance would let me stop that, I'd be very happy...
Unfortunately, IE still has majority market share, mostly through it's pre-installed nature and corporate standardization. Yes, I can make websites that ignore IE, but I'm ignoring 60% of web visitors. So web developers compromise, and some small subset are starting to push IE 6 off the "A list", but IE 7 is here to stay for the long term. You just can't ignore IE and survive at the moment.
What I still haven't figured out is why Slashdot doesn't automatically prime the coral cache, so the content is available to people who know where to look anyway..
The resurrect pages plugin for Firefox makes using the various caches out there easy, but doesn't help if they're not used before the site gets slashdotted.
We don't have cable, and between a mythtv box with a hdhomerun OTA box, hulu, and netflix, we watch everything we want. There's a few shows we're one season behind on, but I prefer to be able to watch the seasons at my own pace over when they're broadcast. Of course, I work from home, so get no spoilers at the water cooler.
+1 to the above. Like anything else, you pay for someone else's expertise, or you learn yourself.
The best and most through guide to web testing and security out there is to the Web Application Hackers Handbook, but the OWASP Testing Guide is a good intro and a free download you can start working with today.
The best way to learn is by doing, and OWASP WebGoat is a good interactive learning environment. It's also quite easy to try out using the OWASP Live cd, which has many of the testing tools like burp, paros, etc and also webgoat ready to run.
There's also a fairly decent "white box" source code scanner for PHP called pixy. You may wish to check that out also.
If you want to pay someone, that's what I do for a living, and I know a decent number of others in the field if you want recommendations.
The stock market is a harsh mistress, and they must exceed expectations again next quarter, and the next quarter... There's no room for charity and goodwill in a publicly traded company, which is why I avoid working for them if at all possible.
The unfortunate part is how often it's true. Graphics drivers are still a sore point in Linux.
Fortunately, it's easier to update these days, but the newest drivers don't necessarily fix the problems either. There are known firefox/nvidia bugs though, so it doesn't hurt to try.
He was completely unclear if he had Firefox bugs specific to Ubuntu, or he just didn't like Firefox 3 and wanted to use IE on Windows. I guessed the latter, but in the former case, it's probably graphics driver related.
Also, it seems he wants to use Ubuntu, but feels he cannot at the moment. If running envy-ng to get the latest graphics drivers, or installing Opera might allow him to do so, I bet he'd like to know.
Risk of public humiliation and loss of reputation(low risk)
Risk of data loss due to malware infected pirated software, or compromise due to lack of security updates (medium risk)
You have to do a risk analysis of possible and probable monetary losses from these events and your guessed likelyhood of the outcome, and act accordingly. Risk analysis is a major part of how a business works.
JRuby has an intrepreter, written in Java.
It also has a Just In Time compiler to JVM bytecode.
It also has a Ahead of Time compiler to JVM bytecode, just like Java.
What is now Channel 4 stays labeled as channel 4.1-x when the change over occurs, no matter what the actual broadcast frequency is.
The broadcast channels here have been giving clear instructions as commercials and news stories for a year now, and one of the local channels is even giving out free quality Channelmaster UHF+VHF HI antennas if you write and ask for them.
The stations in my area (Raleigh, NC) couldn't possibly have done more to educate or get people ready. If you're not ready, at least in this area, it's your own dumb fault.
I'd be interested to know how many people are using broadcast alone, and don;t have cable and satellite. In my area, it seems most everyone how owns property, no matter their financial situation, has cable or satellite. That being said, we don't, but do use a custom MythTV setup w/ HDTV receivers, Hulu, and Netflix, so we're kind of oddballs that way.
Inkscape is a vector editor, and doesn't support automatic layout when you move items around. At least that I know of, if you can tell me how, you'll make me very happy.
That said, I use Inkscape for making presentation graphics in Linux, but it's not really a Visio replacement.
The government sold access to the airwaves, and is using a small fraction of the money it received in the sale to compensate people for loss value in their own consumer goods.
I have a non-cable connected analog set, and I applied for my coupon a year ago, and bought the box quite a while ago. Could I have afforded the $50 box I bought without the coupon? Yup. But the converter box program is not income qualified, is self funding based on government sale of radio bands, and I have no qualms whatsoever of getting my coupon.
All the broadcast stations have been advertising this changeover for a long time now, anyone who waited to the last minute knew they were doing so, and took the risk being well infomed. If they have to wait a couple of weeks to get their TV, it's their own fault.
Microsoft's image can't get much worse without going batsh*t crazy like SCO, and look how that ended for them.
Yes, I expect a somewhat kinder and gentler Microsoft with all the governmental pressures on them, and they'll have to actually compete with the rest of the marketplace.
As for Windows 7 being the savior of Microsoft, I'm doubtful, but Microsoft still has many years of stranglehold left on the small business side, with their tight server integration, and Office format games. If Microsoft is going to win, it needs to be the same way it has in the past, keeping other products from integrating with their systems by constantly changing the interfaces. If the governments can force them to move to DOCX, and make other interoperability gains, Microsoft has no choice but to compete on quality again.
Calc also rocks, and is better then Excel for my usage pattern anyway.
But agreed, Impress stinks. Most of the problems seem to be due to the fact it doesn't handle transparently correctly in PPT, but it's also a resource hog when presenting in its own format also.
I use Impressive now for all my presentations, no matter what program produced them, but most of my new presentations are being made with LaTeX Beamer.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. I took about $300, built a mythtv box, and signed up for netflix..
Ongoing costs for netflix: ~$108 a year.
So far there's nothing I've wanted to watch I can't get OTA, on Hulu, or on Netflix. And I get to watch it when it's convenient for me... Less money, more convenience.. Not bad IMHO.
I'm well aware of the problem, but there's something about being only 1 version behind the majority of IE users that makes it easier for businesses to keep on using IE 6. When IE 8 is the standard and they're 2 versions behind, it somehow seems more ridiculous to keep saying that IE 6 must be the corporate standard. Also, as the switch continues, more sites will continue to drop IE 6 support, for similar reasons.
Yes, it doesn't really change anything, but there it does highlight the ridiculousness of the current situation, and hopefully will motivate people to solve the problem.
IE 8 isn't my favorite browser,but it's worlds better then IE 6.. It's quality related to IE 7 is harder to discern at this point, but anything that encourages businesses and other IE 6 holdouts to move forward is a good thing in my view. I'd rather they move to Gecko(Firefox), Webkit(Chrome, safari), or Opera, but please, I'm pleading, let IE 6 die...
I assume the "10 billion times brighter then the sun" is an apparent brightness measurement of the sun at the earth, and not of the suns actual luminosity. If it is actually that much brighter then the sun, then that's REALLY impressive...
Wikipedia has always used the verbage with the "or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation" clause, so they can at their convenience switch licenses.
GFDL 1.3 has terms that allow Wikipedia to migrate all their content to CC-BY-SA, as long as they do it by the middle of this year. So score one for license consolidation.
Well, I did buy 4 and am only using 2 at the moment, but I have had 3 in use at one time before.
One nice thing about the Model M is that you can remove each key mechanism and replace it, and also separately replace each key cap, so one spare should be able to keep 3 other keyboards in working order.
I bought 4 IBM model M keyboards on Ebay 10 years ago, and fully intend to keep using them until I can get a neural implant.
Buy quality, and buy it once.
Buy crap, buy it new every year.
Does video play smoothly in VirtualBox at decent resolutions? I've been dual booting my laptop for Netflix and a few games, if VirtualBox graphics performance would let me stop that, I'd be very happy...
Unfortunately, IE still has majority market share, mostly through it's pre-installed nature and corporate standardization. Yes, I can make websites that ignore IE, but I'm ignoring 60% of web visitors. So web developers compromise, and some small subset are starting to push IE 6 off the "A list", but IE 7 is here to stay for the long term. You just can't ignore IE and survive at the moment.
What I still haven't figured out is why Slashdot doesn't automatically prime the coral cache, so the content is available to people who know where to look anyway..
The resurrect pages plugin for Firefox makes using the various caches out there easy, but doesn't help if they're not used before the site gets slashdotted.
Check out the showfinder site.
We don't have cable, and between a mythtv box with a hdhomerun OTA box, hulu, and netflix, we watch everything we want. There's a few shows we're one season behind on, but I prefer to be able to watch the seasons at my own pace over when they're broadcast. Of course, I work from home, so get no spoilers at the water cooler.
+1 to the above. Like anything else, you pay for someone else's expertise, or you learn yourself.
The best and most through guide to web testing and security out there is to the Web Application Hackers Handbook, but the OWASP Testing Guide is a good intro and a free download you can start working with today.
PDF version
Main page
The best way to learn is by doing, and OWASP WebGoat is a good interactive learning environment. It's also quite easy to try out using the OWASP Live cd, which has many of the testing tools like burp, paros, etc and also webgoat ready to run.
There's also a fairly decent "white box" source code scanner for PHP called pixy. You may wish to check that out also.
If you want to pay someone, that's what I do for a living, and I know a decent number of others in the field if you want recommendations.
The stock market is a harsh mistress, and they must exceed expectations again next quarter, and the next quarter... There's no room for charity and goodwill in a publicly traded company, which is why I avoid working for them if at all possible.
The unfortunate part is how often it's true. Graphics drivers are still a sore point in Linux.
Fortunately, it's easier to update these days, but the newest drivers don't necessarily fix the problems either. There are known firefox/nvidia bugs though, so it doesn't hurt to try.
He was completely unclear if he had Firefox bugs specific to Ubuntu, or he just didn't like Firefox 3 and wanted to use IE on Windows. I guessed the latter, but in the former case, it's probably graphics driver related.
Also, it seems he wants to use Ubuntu, but feels he cannot at the moment. If running envy-ng to get the latest graphics drivers, or installing Opera might allow him to do so, I bet he'd like to know.
I'm guessing the real root of both of your problems is old graphics drivers, unless you really seariously prefer IE over Firefox?
Risk management, in at least 3 spheres:
You have to do a risk analysis of possible and probable monetary losses from these events and your guessed likelyhood of the outcome, and act accordingly. Risk analysis is a major part of how a business works.
JRuby has an intrepreter, written in Java. It also has a Just In Time compiler to JVM bytecode. It also has a Ahead of Time compiler to JVM bytecode, just like Java.
Because they don't need to....
What is now Channel 4 stays labeled as channel 4.1-x when the change over occurs, no matter what the actual broadcast frequency is.
The broadcast channels here have been giving clear instructions as commercials and news stories for a year now, and one of the local channels is even giving out free quality Channelmaster UHF+VHF HI antennas if you write and ask for them.
The stations in my area (Raleigh, NC) couldn't possibly have done more to educate or get people ready. If you're not ready, at least in this area, it's your own dumb fault.
I'd be interested to know how many people are using broadcast alone, and don;t have cable and satellite. In my area, it seems most everyone how owns property, no matter their financial situation, has cable or satellite. That being said, we don't, but do use a custom MythTV setup w/ HDTV receivers, Hulu, and Netflix, so we're kind of oddballs that way.
Inkscape is a vector editor, and doesn't support automatic layout when you move items around. At least that I know of, if you can tell me how, you'll make me very happy. That said, I use Inkscape for making presentation graphics in Linux, but it's not really a Visio replacement.
Reddit had a thread on this topic a few months ago, which you can find here: AskReddit: What is the best Visio replacement?
Some of the better suggestions were:
The government sold access to the airwaves, and is using a small fraction of the money it received in the sale to compensate people for loss value in their own consumer goods.
I have a non-cable connected analog set, and I applied for my coupon a year ago, and bought the box quite a while ago. Could I have afforded the $50 box I bought without the coupon? Yup. But the converter box program is not income qualified, is self funding based on government sale of radio bands, and I have no qualms whatsoever of getting my coupon.
All the broadcast stations have been advertising this changeover for a long time now, anyone who waited to the last minute knew they were doing so, and took the risk being well infomed. If they have to wait a couple of weeks to get their TV, it's their own fault.
Microsoft's image can't get much worse without going batsh*t crazy like SCO, and look how that ended for them.
Yes, I expect a somewhat kinder and gentler Microsoft with all the governmental pressures on them, and they'll have to actually compete with the rest of the marketplace.
As for Windows 7 being the savior of Microsoft, I'm doubtful, but Microsoft still has many years of stranglehold left on the small business side, with their tight server integration, and Office format games. If Microsoft is going to win, it needs to be the same way it has in the past, keeping other products from integrating with their systems by constantly changing the interfaces. If the governments can force them to move to DOCX, and make other interoperability gains, Microsoft has no choice but to compete on quality again.
Calc also rocks, and is better then Excel for my usage pattern anyway.
But agreed, Impress stinks. Most of the problems seem to be due to the fact it doesn't handle transparently correctly in PPT, but it's also a resource hog when presenting in its own format also. I use Impressive now for all my presentations, no matter what program produced them, but most of my new presentations are being made with LaTeX Beamer.