Are HP being selective wrt which parts of Mandrake v9.1 are installed, or are they taking the "bung it all on there" route? According to the messages shown when you install 9.1 (and 8.1) any servers installed will be activated at boot time by default. So your basic, office desktop may be running Apache, Samba, sendmail, ProFTP, MySQL, etc. This may make the machine slow, and, over time, vulnerable to new exploits. Not to mention the boss's reaction when he discovers everyone has the complete KDE and Gnome game collections (how many versions of solitaire?). I hope it takes off - it deserves too, especially as 9.1 includes OpenOffice ("Hey - I can open all my pre-97 Word ducuments!")
Do you think that say... the CocaCola company would patent thier formula?
The Coca-Cola company will never patent their formula. They don't want it to "escape" in twenty years, nor do they wish it to become public domain, allowing international scofflaws (Chinese, anyone?) to produce exact copies.
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Run the outfit from photoelectric cells - more sunlight, more cooling!
ISTR a rumour that the former USSR was selling off its FBMs (less ICBMs and missile compartment). Wouldn't a Typhoon make the ultimate floating (sinking?) gin palace? According to this there are two going begging ATM.
You don't get infinite resolution with analogue recordings Yes you do. Is it possible that you don't know what "analogue" means? An analogue signal can vary infinitely between its upper and lower limits as fast as its bandwidth will let it, whereas a 16-bit PCM data stream (CD) can only occupy one of 65536 discrete levels defined at intervals of 2.27E-5 seconds.
use leftover McDonald's vegetable oil...
Wishful thinking AFAIK. When I worked for McD's (12 years ago) their shortening was supplied solid. It needed to be heated to at least 40C just to liquefy it. It would become even more viscous used - and Mcd's really use their oil (I'm sorry if I've reminded anyone out there of the "five enemies of shortening", etc.)
Then complete it.
It should read:
Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States according to figures for 2002 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry The short version is not necessarily the opinion of news.com.
They're just following the money. The US legal system allows this, compare the suit against Clear Channel by those who lost relatives in the club where White Lion were playing.
it's likely we could see mobile MRI and NMR machines Because the damned things are so expensive, the only one of them I've seen is mounted in a trailer (artic-style) which usually lives at Stanmore Orthapaedic Hospital (formerly RNOH) in North London. This was ten years ago. NMRs have been mobile for quite some time now.
if you look at the location bar, it's not google at all No shit, Sherlock? What tickles me is the results of a straight search on the same phrase - the top nine point to or are about [albinoblacksheep.com]. Maybe this is geek-related (geeks create links) but it's almost as funny as the faux-Google page.
They're called wippit (Flash required). They charge 30GBP pa (AFAIK the service is available outside the UK) for unlimited P2P mp3 downloads of music that they have licenced for this method of distribution, and they tell us that the selection (controlled by the client - ie you can only share music registered for that purpose) is growing all the time. When ADSL is available on my local exchange (come on, BT!) I will consider using the service. The only (minor) beef I have with the model is that you are using P2P bandwidth - wippit's bandwidth costs will be minimal - but the capacity to legally d/l over 2000.WAVs per month (over DSL (for those bastards that can get it )) seems like a good idea to me.
Now it's possible to burn a CD in 4 minutes (less?) it shouldn't be too much of a problem to have at least some ready as people are leaving the building. The difficult part will be producing a decent mixdown in realtime (nobody does this at the moment). Maybe PVR-style music recording - pause the mix, change levels, catch up in the interval - will help, but this will still be a labour-intensive process and will not always work.
Even on my home network, my wife (of which I'm usually proud that she has adopted GNU/Linux personally) doesn't install software because it's too hard for her, and I install it myself. On my box, I'm the only person who can install software because only I have the root password. And that's the way I like it. Mind you, it's going to become interesting when my two boys' new hobby becomes "root dad's box". BTW my wife recently completed the UK "computer driving licence" (use of MS apps including Word, Excel, SQL) but finds that AbiWord and Kspread are just as usable.
That's funny, I thought XP & 2000 were versions of NT, without any DOS subOS. Windows versions 1-3.1, 95 & 98 were DOS based, to the extent that DOSEMU will run Windows 3.0. As for being able to get a C:\ prompt, there are probably people running user-friendly Linux distros like Mandrake, which starts X & KDE on boot by default, who have never seen a login screen (I know I didn't for 3+ months), but Konsole, Xterm & RXvt will be there if needed.
AFAIK British Telecom are considering high-port throttling on their BTOpenworld ADSL service because they regard P2P users as "bandwidth-hogs" (on 50-1 contended 512/128kbps connections). It makes me glad I'm no longer with them (they kicked me off for "overuse" of a supposedly unmetered account (AnyTime))
Its times like this that its good to know about that one obscure clause in the American constituion: Revolution is legal. It has to be - the nation's founders had to consider there own government to be legal, and not a treasonous userpment of power. According to Bill Bryson (writing in "Notes From A Big Country" - I don't know if this book was published in the US) the right to "rise up and overthrow the government" (his phrase) is explicitly written into the constitution of the state of New Hampshire. He seems to think it's a good idea too.
your mp3 player is going to have access to those files, unless they are read-only A good reason to chown all cherished files to root (if you do anything other than system maintenance and software installation as root you're a moron) and set permissions to 744 or, if you're really paranoid, 444.
The thing is, this doesn't give Big Brother all the information he needs. Logs of Web requests, for example, may only contain a user's IP address. This can be traced to an ISP, but Big Brother then needs some way to know which user was assigned a particular DHCP address at a particular time. Subpoena the information from the user's ISP perhaps?
This article contains many of the best reasons that this device is a complete waste of time. It seems to me that somebody remembered the Sinclair C5, realized people wanted to be on the sidewalks where they felt safer, and wasted a dynamic stabilization system. Incidentally, does anyone know how much weight the Segway is designed to handle? Because if it does become popular, its gonna need to handle much more...
One important application of RFID tags is for TRUCK tires in fleets I work for Tesco in the UK. All our tractors and trailers tyres have the Tesco logo moulded into both sides do deter thieves. It puzzles me, though. Our trucks are in use almost 24/7 and parked in a secure facility. Truck tyres are HUGE. The nuts that retain them (all 12 of them) are tightened to 120 lb/ft. How does anyone steal these things at all?
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Are HP being selective wrt which parts of Mandrake v9.1 are installed, or are they taking the "bung it all on there" route? According to the messages shown when you install 9.1 (and 8.1) any servers installed will be activated at boot time by default. So your basic, office desktop may be running Apache, Samba, sendmail, ProFTP, MySQL, etc. This may make the machine slow, and, over time, vulnerable to new exploits.
Not to mention the boss's reaction when he discovers everyone has the complete KDE and Gnome game collections (how many versions of solitaire?).
I hope it takes off - it deserves too, especially as 9.1 includes OpenOffice ("Hey - I can open all my pre-97 Word ducuments!")
Do you think that say... the CocaCola company would patent thier formula?
The Coca-Cola company will never patent their formula. They don't want it to "escape" in twenty years, nor do they wish it to become public domain, allowing international scofflaws (Chinese, anyone?) to produce exact copies.
Run the outfit from photoelectric cells - more sunlight, more cooling!
ISTR a rumour that the former USSR was selling off its FBMs (less ICBMs and missile compartment). Wouldn't a Typhoon make the ultimate floating (sinking?) gin palace? According to this there are two going begging ATM.
You don't get infinite resolution with analogue recordings
Yes you do. Is it possible that you don't know what "analogue" means? An analogue signal can vary infinitely between its upper and lower limits as fast as its bandwidth will let it, whereas a 16-bit PCM data stream (CD) can only occupy one of 65536 discrete levels defined at intervals of 2.27E-5 seconds.
use leftover McDonald's vegetable oil ...
Wishful thinking AFAIK. When I worked for McD's (12 years ago) their shortening was supplied solid. It needed to be heated to at least 40C just to liquefy it. It would become even more viscous used - and Mcd's really use their oil (I'm sorry if I've reminded anyone out there of the "five enemies of shortening", etc.)
Then complete it. It should read: Worldwide sales of music CDs, records and cassettes fell for the third year in a row, hit largely by rising Internet piracy in the United States according to figures for 2002 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
The short version is not necessarily the opinion of news.com.
They're just following the money. The US legal system allows this, compare the suit against Clear Channel by those who lost relatives in the club where White Lion were playing.
it's likely we could see mobile MRI and NMR machines
Because the damned things are so expensive, the only one of them I've seen is mounted in a trailer (artic-style) which usually lives at Stanmore Orthapaedic Hospital (formerly RNOH) in North London. This was ten years ago. NMRs have been mobile for quite some time now.
if you look at the location bar, it's not google at all
No shit, Sherlock?
What tickles me is the results of a straight search on the same phrase - the top nine point to or are about [albinoblacksheep.com]. Maybe this is geek-related (geeks create links) but it's almost as funny as the faux-Google page.
They're called wippit (Flash required). They charge 30GBP pa (AFAIK the service is available outside the UK) for unlimited P2P mp3 downloads of music that they have licenced for this method of distribution, and they tell us that the selection (controlled by the client - ie you can only share music registered for that purpose) is growing all the time. When ADSL is available on my local exchange (come on, BT!) I will consider using the service. The only (minor) beef I have with the model is that you are using P2P bandwidth - wippit's bandwidth costs will be minimal - but the capacity to legally d/l over 2000 .WAVs per month (over DSL (for those bastards that can get it )) seems like a good idea to me.
Given carbon nanotubes' reaction to flash photography (they explode) protecting the cable is likely to be more of a problem than destroying it.
Now it's possible to burn a CD in 4 minutes (less?) it shouldn't be too much of a problem to have at least some ready as people are leaving the building. The difficult part will be producing a decent mixdown in realtime (nobody does this at the moment). Maybe PVR-style music recording - pause the mix, change levels, catch up in the interval - will help, but this will still be a labour-intensive process and will not always work.
The BBC has been (increasingly) a Linux shop for some years now.
there are still people out there that have problems turning on computers
Maybe this would help?
Even on my home network, my wife (of which I'm usually proud that she has adopted GNU/Linux personally) doesn't install software because it's too hard for her, and I install it myself.
On my box, I'm the only person who can install software because only I have the root password. And that's the way I like it. Mind you, it's going to become interesting when my two boys' new hobby becomes "root dad's box".
BTW my wife recently completed the UK "computer driving licence" (use of MS apps including Word, Excel, SQL) but finds that AbiWord and Kspread are just as usable.
That's funny, I thought XP & 2000 were versions of NT, without any DOS subOS. Windows versions 1-3.1, 95 & 98 were DOS based, to the extent that DOSEMU will run Windows 3.0.
As for being able to get a C:\ prompt, there are probably people running user-friendly Linux distros like Mandrake, which starts X & KDE on boot by default, who have never seen a login screen (I know I didn't for 3+ months), but Konsole, Xterm & RXvt will be there if needed.
AFAIK British Telecom are considering high-port throttling on their BTOpenworld ADSL service because they regard P2P users as "bandwidth-hogs" (on 50-1 contended 512/128kbps connections). It makes me glad I'm no longer with them (they kicked me off for "overuse" of a supposedly unmetered account (AnyTime))
Its times like this that its good to know about that one obscure clause in the American constituion: Revolution is legal. It has to be - the nation's founders had to consider there own government to be legal, and not a treasonous userpment of power.
According to Bill Bryson (writing in "Notes From A Big Country" - I don't know if this book was published in the US) the right to "rise up and overthrow the government" (his phrase) is explicitly written into the constitution of the state of New Hampshire. He seems to think it's a good idea too.
your mp3 player is going to have access to those files, unless they are read-only
A good reason to chown all cherished files to root (if you do anything other than system maintenance and software installation as root you're a moron) and set permissions to 744 or, if you're really paranoid, 444.
The thing is, this doesn't give Big Brother all the information he needs. Logs of Web requests, for example, may only contain a user's IP address. This can be traced to an ISP, but Big Brother then needs some way to know which user was assigned a particular DHCP address at a particular time.
Subpoena the information from the user's ISP perhaps?
Sorry, better link here for C5 info.
This article contains many of the best reasons that this device is a complete waste of time. It seems to me that somebody remembered the Sinclair C5, realized people wanted to be on the sidewalks where they felt safer, and wasted a dynamic stabilization system.
Incidentally, does anyone know how much weight the Segway is designed to handle? Because if it does become popular, its gonna need to handle much more...
There isn't one and there won't be one until somebody donates a shitload of bandwidth.
One important application of RFID tags is for TRUCK tires in fleets
I work for Tesco in the UK. All our tractors and trailers tyres have the Tesco logo moulded into both sides do deter thieves.
It puzzles me, though. Our trucks are in use almost 24/7 and parked in a secure facility. Truck tyres are HUGE. The nuts that retain them (all 12 of them) are tightened to 120 lb/ft.
How does anyone steal these things at all?