This is the general consensus for highschool here in Holland. Learn the kids how to find information, quickly. Too bad they don't have the general knowledge required to interpret the information they're searching for. Having some general knowledge will help you search faster, search more relevant and interpret the data you're getting back better. Yes, I know it sucks to learn dates and such, but in the end, you'll be better off. If only because you learn to stuff data into your brain and retrieve it efficiently. How's that for a search tool?
Some of these boxes also have pcmcia support, if you want to go wireless (some also have this integrated). As a backend solution, you have several options like Windows Terminal Server, Citrix, Linux and Sun.
Linuxquestions.org usually has tons of info. You can try most linux oriented IRC channels as well, very good info FAST. I was pleasantly surprised by the #debian channel. Lots of help from those guys... I owe them a lot.
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OK, I'm all for performance gain and pushing the limit, but geez, 2 of these cards take up 4 slots. How are you supposed to squeeze in your Audigy card with extra connectors and still put in your extra firewire/usb?
And I'm also wondering how the heat is going to be transferred away from the cards. It looks like you need some serious cooling setup to keep those two babies running.
but I keep reading these posts where people state they would gladly pay $38 for a copy of windows + office with less functionality. As some other poster mentioned, your $38 does not scale to their $38 (yearly mean income of Thailand is ~$2000 source) Anyway, what I don't get is why would you want to pay $38 for Windows when really buying a linux distro is moreexpensive? Now I know that it's bundled with tons of software and you can download Linux for free, don't get me wrong, but I think the end user doesn't have that much trust in that, and would rather buy a copy, especially if it says "support included" on the box. I know that these are the same people that just click on everything they see in IE but downloading and installing a complete operating system they don't know is frightening to them, and you can't blame them for that. Yes I know the installers have been getting better, but to a linux newbie a lot of things that are asked during the install are still power options. Take for instance your ISP connection. Well, the installer kindly offers you a few options: PPPoE, DHCP (including MAC spoofing) and whatnot. I wouldn't blame any newbie for not knowing this (hell, I don't even think half of/. knows exactly what these acronyms stand for), much less let them configure it properly. Back to topic: I don't mind shelling out some $$$ for an operating system (I bought SuSe, now use Debian though), but I think the main point is that Microsoft's products are just blatantly overpriced (along with a slew of other big software packages eg. Adobe Photoshop). I think if they lowered the price to a more reasonable level, a lot more people would be willing to stop pirating and start paying. What they'll lack in revenue for the high price will be easily compensated by the sheer volume of sold licences. Just my thoughts though.
yeah, and too many apps require you to have su/root level privileges. It's the same on linux. I know this is a security feature, but hey, if I want to use "nmap -O IP-Address_here" as a normal user it cannot run in "stealth-mode" on my debian box. Here's the blurb I get:
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Warning: You are not root -- using TCP pingscan rather than ICMP
TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges which you do not appear to possess. Sorry, dude.
QUITTING!
I'm for security and all, but sometimes this can be taken too far as well, as my example hopefully points out.
Here you will find putty for the symbian OS, so your SSH fix is already available. I have it on my nokia 3650. It's a pain to use because you have to type in the commands and with a cellphone keyboard this is absolutely not intuitive but it works.
Why you would want to put a webserver on your phone is beyond me though, the bandwidth technology is still a long way from usable for this kind of thing. Maybe in the future though, but still... what do you want to serve? A live stream from your phone that sitting in your pocket? Wow... a dark screen... that would be cool to watch.
Sure there would be some use for this (live webcast from a convention for instance) but it's more a brag thing than something useful as opposed to an SSH client.
how big is the camping ground you are holding the event?
what speed would you like to give? AP's should be 802.11b/g compliant (more expensive) for compatibility
try to team up with a provider of some sorts, and get some sponsored stuff. They provide the internet connectivity (and get free PR), you just deal with the local problem (in your case the WiFi stuff).
I've organised a few LAN-parties (up to ~250 attendants) and providers are more than willing to help you out. Also talk to one of your local IT shops, they usually don't mind you using their stock for this kind of event for a small rental fee. As an example: for a LAN-party for 100 participants we paid about 200,-- in fees for the whole network infrastructure & server park. We got to use 3 3com superstack switches and 5 dual xeon servers. The internet router (cisco 2600 series) was provided by the ISP. We just hooked the stuff up & had a great party. The help provided by both the ISP & the IT-shop was tremendous. All the help we got was from volunteers of those companies... they only asked free entrance in the gaming contest in return. Oh, and some beers:).
That's why, for example, hotels generally don't ask you to show ID when you claim you've lost your room key.
Well, that may be the case in the hotels you have visited, but having worked at a hotel for more than a few years I can tell you that we had a policy regarding key-loss. The guest had to ID themselves. Furthermore we had CC style keys (the ones you swipe the lock with to open it), and if lost (or taken as a souvenir) were useless... there was no room number on it, and once we coded a new key, the old one was made invalid by default (we could make a copy of it too). This seemed to work out pretty well, because in the 3 years I worked there there were only 2 thefts, both in meeting rooms that were left unlocked by their occupants. Both cases were easily solved anyway, because we had the perpetrators on video (no the hotel is not a 1984 big brother fortress) and measures against the thieves were taken accordingly. 1 case was solved the same day, the other within a week.
The hotel received very kind "thank you" letters from both companies that hired the meeting rooms, as well as new reservations for future meetings. Both companies involved heartily recommend that hotel still to other people if they need to hire a meeting room.
I wonder if WiFi bridges are also affected by this. And of course, how long it will take before the manufacturers will be having a firmware update for this. It seems that most firmware updates only add extra functionality to gain an edge over the competitors, but basic stuff like optimalisation is kind of a non-issue. I'm crossing my fingers this will be fixed shortly, but I'm having doubts about it.
I always send my resume in PDF. I used to send it in.doc format, until some headhunter gave my resume to a company. When the hiring company contacted me directly, it soon became clear the headhunter changed a lot of stuff to make me look better so I would get the job through his office. I sent the company the PDF of my resume, we talked a little more and we connected... I don't work there now, cause I just didn't make the final cut (3 jobs out of 380 applicants), but the company was far more impressed with my original resume than the altered one. I contacted the headhunter and politely asked him not to spread incorrect information about me and asked him to delete me from their database. Since then I have applied for 3 jobs, and indeed all people asked me why I sent in a PDF instead of a.doc (1 company specifically asked for.doc and I didn't give in:)) and I explained my reasons. They all accepted this, and even said that they didn't realise that these things could happen. Anyway, using PDF does make you stand out, but sometimes this can work out positively. For the record, I'm employed now, and I never sent in a resume, I was hired on reference alone, which I think is a bit ironic.
I've had this argument just this evening with some friends. I was just wondering if M$ couldn't just make 2 different versions of Windows available: one with mediaplayer/IE/whatever preloaded and another "barebones" OS. Cut the cost of the barebones OS by say, 10% and voila... The people who are now complaining about the monopoly don't have to complain anymore, since they can load whatever software they want, and the end user without a clue gets what he wants at a decent price... Hell, M$ is better off this way, since they can charge $$$ for the extra bloatw^H^H^Hfunctionality without anyone complaining that it's unfair. IMO they would certainly get a big corporate backing for this, because I don't think the big corps are waiting for another even more entertainment-oriented OS.
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Oops... I misread "Microsoft business strategy" as "Microsoft business tragedy" Man, I need to go home... it's five o'clock anyways.
This is the general consensus for highschool here in Holland. Learn the kids how to find information, quickly.
Too bad they don't have the general knowledge required to interpret the information they're searching for. Having some general knowledge will help you search faster, search more relevant and interpret the data you're getting back better.
Yes, I know it sucks to learn dates and such, but in the end, you'll be better off. If only because you learn to stuff data into your brain and retrieve it efficiently. How's that for a search tool?
IBM's thin clients
nomachine (they give a nice
and Athena (which offers both Windows & linux flavors)
Some of these boxes also have pcmcia support, if you want to go wireless (some also have this integrated). As a backend solution, you have several options like Windows Terminal Server, Citrix, Linux and Sun.
man, I should go home... this job is killing me
Linuxquestions.org usually has tons of info. You can try most linux oriented IRC channels as well, very good info FAST. I was pleasantly surprised by the #debian channel. Lots of help from those guys... I owe them a lot.
To apply patch, it executes the following command
Validation by W3.org for www.microsoft.com and another for their new search engine
I wonder if they sent an internal e-mail to all their webmasters...And I'm also wondering how the heat is going to be transferred away from the cards. It looks like you need some serious cooling setup to keep those two babies running.
but I keep reading these posts where people state they would gladly pay $38 for a copy of windows + office with less functionality. As some other poster mentioned, your $38 does not scale to their $38 (yearly mean income of Thailand is ~$2000 source) /. knows exactly what these acronyms stand for), much less let them configure it properly.
Anyway, what I don't get is why would you want to pay $38 for Windows when really buying a linux distro is more expensive?
Now I know that it's bundled with tons of software and you can download Linux for free, don't get me wrong, but I think the end user doesn't have that much trust in that, and would rather buy a copy, especially if it says "support included" on the box. I know that these are the same people that just click on everything they see in IE but downloading and installing a complete operating system they don't know is frightening to them, and you can't blame them for that. Yes I know the installers have been getting better, but to a linux newbie a lot of things that are asked during the install are still power options. Take for instance your ISP connection. Well, the installer kindly offers you a few options: PPPoE, DHCP (including MAC spoofing) and whatnot. I wouldn't blame any newbie for not knowing this (hell, I don't even think half of
Back to topic: I don't mind shelling out some $$$ for an operating system (I bought SuSe, now use Debian though), but I think the main point is that Microsoft's products are just blatantly overpriced (along with a slew of other big software packages eg. Adobe Photoshop). I think if they lowered the price to a more reasonable level, a lot more people would be willing to stop pirating and start paying. What they'll lack in revenue for the high price will be easily compensated by the sheer volume of sold licences. Just my thoughts though.
Any computing device running the Microsoft (r)(tm) Windows (r)(tm) operating system will be classified as a "limited resource computing device".
I think YOU are the prior "art"... :)
I just received a notice from my administrator that I should change my password again... this'll teach him!
Why you would want to put a webserver on your phone is beyond me though, the bandwidth technology is still a long way from usable for this kind of thing. Maybe in the future though, but still... what do you want to serve? A live stream from your phone that sitting in your pocket? Wow... a dark screen... that would be cool to watch.
Sure there would be some use for this (live webcast from a convention for instance) but it's more a brag thing than something useful as opposed to an SSH client.IANAL&IneverRTFA
Oh wait... did I just give away John Katz's password?- how big is the camping ground you are holding the event?
- what speed would you like to give? AP's should be 802.11b/g compliant (more expensive) for compatibility
try to team up with a provider of some sorts, and get some sponsored stuff. They provide the internet connectivity (and get free PR), you just deal with the local problem (in your case the WiFi stuff).I've organised a few LAN-parties (up to ~250 attendants) and providers are more than willing to help you out. Also talk to one of your local IT shops, they usually don't mind you using their stock for this kind of event for a small rental fee. As an example: for a LAN-party for 100 participants we paid about 200,-- in fees for the whole network infrastructure & server park. We got to use 3 3com superstack switches and 5 dual xeon servers. The internet router (cisco 2600 series) was provided by the ISP. We just hooked the stuff up & had a great party. The help provided by both the ISP & the IT-shop was tremendous. All the help we got was from volunteers of those companies... they only asked free entrance in the gaming contest in return. Oh, and some beers :).
that first cup in the morning gets me started... the bigger & stronger the better... you don't want to be around me if I haven't had my first cup...
Well, that may be the case in the hotels you have visited, but having worked at a hotel for more than a few years I can tell you that we had a policy regarding key-loss. The guest had to ID themselves. Furthermore we had CC style keys (the ones you swipe the lock with to open it), and if lost (or taken as a souvenir) were useless... there was no room number on it, and once we coded a new key, the old one was made invalid by default (we could make a copy of it too).
The hotel received very kind "thank you" letters from both companies that hired the meeting rooms, as well as new reservations for future meetings. Both companies involved heartily recommend that hotel still to other people if they need to hire a meeting room.This seemed to work out pretty well, because in the 3 years I worked there there were only 2 thefts, both in meeting rooms that were left unlocked by their occupants. Both cases were easily solved anyway, because we had the perpetrators on video (no the hotel is not a 1984 big brother fortress) and measures against the thieves were taken accordingly. 1 case was solved the same day, the other within a week.
I wonder if WiFi bridges are also affected by this.
And of course, how long it will take before the manufacturers will be having a firmware update for this. It seems that most firmware updates only add extra functionality to gain an edge over the competitors, but basic stuff like optimalisation is kind of a non-issue. I'm crossing my fingers this will be fixed shortly, but I'm having doubts about it.
hmz... yeah I thought it was kinda appropriate... I usually loathe the Soviet Russia jokes, but I couldn't resist :)
The shoe crashes you!
I always send my resume in PDF. I used to send it in .doc format, until some headhunter gave my resume to a company. When the hiring company contacted me directly, it soon became clear the headhunter changed a lot of stuff to make me look better so I would get the job through his office. I sent the company the PDF of my resume, we talked a little more and we connected... I don't work there now, cause I just didn't make the final cut (3 jobs out of 380 applicants), but the company was far more impressed with my original resume than the altered one. I contacted the headhunter and politely asked him not to spread incorrect information about me and asked him to delete me from their database. .doc (1 company specifically asked for .doc and I didn't give in :)) and I explained my reasons. They all accepted this, and even said that they didn't realise that these things could happen. Anyway, using PDF does make you stand out, but sometimes this can work out positively. For the record, I'm employed now, and I never sent in a resume, I was hired on reference alone, which I think is a bit ironic.
Since then I have applied for 3 jobs, and indeed all people asked me why I sent in a PDF instead of a
it's a joke, OK?
I've had this argument just this evening with some friends. I was just wondering if M$ couldn't just make 2 different versions of Windows available: one with mediaplayer/IE/whatever preloaded and another "barebones" OS. Cut the cost of the barebones OS by say, 10% and voila... The people who are now complaining about the monopoly don't have to complain anymore, since they can load whatever software they want, and the end user without a clue gets what he wants at a decent price... Hell, M$ is better off this way, since they can charge $$$ for the extra bloatw^H^H^Hfunctionality without anyone complaining that it's unfair.
IMO they would certainly get a big corporate backing for this, because I don't think the big corps are waiting for another even more entertainment-oriented OS.