They could support A2DP and file transfers though. For listening music in the car without plugging it in (even in the ipods), and for sending those silly pictures and ringtones (ah, less revenue!) as the rest of us have been doing since around forever.
Unfortunately when we tried we were informed by the kind folk of the nautilus mailing list that it would be pretty difficult, as it's not feasible by using the python nautilus-extensions, and we would have to rewrite a lot of code. Gvfs was not ready yet (and mostly undocumented) so our code would be instantly deprecated, and many of the supposed options of a quick google were hopeleslly outdated / broken / unsupported / deprecated -such as the bonobo views, which I couldn't get to work at all.
Finally my personal struggles with autotools (devilish tool!) ended up burying the idea. Pity, but I'm glad that the opensolaris folk were able to do it. Their GUI rocks a lot IMHO (I tried to congratulate them on their blog but the post got lost somehow;).
Perhaps if one of us gets enough free time in RL we'll port their patches (should be GPL I guess) to our linux implementation, in a cleaner nautilus C plugin.
BTW feel free to try the application, it should be functional (as in "won't break your hard drive down nor delete anything it should, though it might take some space in ~/.hdlorean"), though not as polished as we would have liked. We even managed to build a debian package;), but it's python anyway. Right now the project is somewhat unmantained though, by the mentioned lack of time and some tiredness from the project.
I bought an XPS m1330 (slightly cheaper than a macbook and lighter) as a "consumer" in Spain. My experience with Dell's support has been great so far...
Although the people attending the phone were clearly non-native speakers (which makes me wonder where could they outsource it cheaper than a spanish-speaking country!), and the commercial who attended me was a such utterly incompetent guy, so far the technical support has been excellent.
I got the "bad apple" from the batch (as there are a lot of XPS in my uni and mine seems to be the only one which has developed problems so far); my LED display had a dead "lamp" (like a huge dot too bright, bigger than a pixel), and last week I lost a hard drive which I managed to savage so-so (didn't lose too much data).
In both cases, after calling support and explaining the problem to a perplexed tier-1 guy... (I guess "while updating, kernel started to log problems in the sata device, which I confirmed with smartmontools, so I have dumped with dd the drive and confirmed the problems on several sectors of the drive by plugging it to a different machine" has to sound hardcore to a tier-1 guy expecting an old lady which believed "wireless" meant that it didn't have to be plugged on, otherwise logical - veridic case). They sent a a hard drive / a technician on the next morning (next monday on the drive), who repaired it (swapped the display) on the spot. No sending the laptop and waiting 15 days for it without any assurance of the hard drive contents (ahem Acer), no 300++euro for a keyboard swap I did for outrageous 70euro (ahem HP compaq), no arguing with the store if the damage was my fault or theirs (AHEM Apple Spain!!!! in particular K-tuin store in Madrid! - just troubling with laptops, as my 3G ipod got A+ support dealing directly with Apple)...
So far, I am so satisfied with their support that I'm considering extending the warranty; I've also bought a cheap-ass server from them and I'll possibly suggest replacing our cheaper sun's x2200 with even-cheaper 1U Dells in my workplace.
Not astroturfing though; hardware seems to be on the cheap side (just 2 drive slots on the T105 server seems to be milking the price differences too much, and XPS keyboard is garbage compared to others - but hey, at least I got hardware keys for right button, del, pgdown and pgup:P). However it is quite inexpensive, and if support is good I'm more than willing to deal with the problems it develops (which, by the way, any other hardware will develop as well, as nowadays everything seems to be produced in the same slave-powered factory from China).
The act of terror that caused greatest loss of life in Europe is still the Bolgona railway station bombing perpetrated by a neo-facist right wing group.
That's 191 dead people, vs 85 (as reported by the wikipedia), or 55 in case of the london bombings. And it was islamic terrorism.
Just wanted to pinpoint it.
I don't know... here at the Politecnico of Milan, where I've been staying for the last year in an Erasmus exchange, they seem to manage fine. They have a dual wifi, one public called "polimi" and one private with hidden SSID and name "internet", secured with WPA "enterprise", tkip + tls.
When you have your laptop on "auto-associate" -bad security policy! I've seen some rogue laptops offering AP's here...-, or just join the "polimi" network, every web request gets redirected to an information page explaining quite well how to set up a proxy. Once you do that, you login with your registration number and password, both of which were given to us at the beginning of the year, together with a smart card which is used to access the labs and the libraries, and you get to download a certificate (or its revocation). With that, just follow the instructions, install it, configure a network with hidden ssid "internet" and manually specify that it needs to use the certificate just installed. All of this, of course, with screenshots of every single step. When done, as the proxy is well setup because you had to do it for the "polimi" connection, it's just resetting the wifi and it joins the "internet" network fine and securely (but through a damned proxy, blessed corkscrew;).
It seemed easy enough that an architecture student could do it on his own... =P And it worked on macs and linux (just converting the certificate with openssl it gets picked by wpa_supplicant). No more open-air traffic as in my home university (sit on the cafeteria, open kismet, begin sniffing passwords!)
(btw, to help to manually configure a proprietary wifi interface on a chinese laptop - on a CHINESE gui has had to be the most bizarre computing experience I've had till the date:D).
Suse, since 9.3 (the first release downloadable in DVD), has WPA working out of the box in my laptop... Intel ipw2200 driver, by the way, which is proprietary.
Permit Cookies Extension. You press Alt-C and it shows the status of the current cookie. I leave them disabled by default, and when some site breaks you press alt-c and set it on session, always or maybe remove. Only with the major buggers as yahoo mail I need to choose "ask me" in the preferences because the cookie is some intermediate one. And works with 1.5b1, by the way.
I wonder how was I able to deal with my cookie-related paranoia before:D
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I've always thought that the first game in CDROM format was the venerable Lucasarts' Rebel Assault... Could be mistaken though.
The hand of theirs is clearly behind. As an example, the teacher had a conference room booked like a week before, just to be said that it was suddenly "not available", although it was empty. Also, some of their listeners did book another room by theirselves, without mentioning at all that conference, and had their reservation cancelled right before the conference without any reasons given at all.
I think you don't really know how much power the SGAE has here (RIAA equivalent). They, a private organization, with no publical accouting at all, got the right to collect a tax on every CD and DVD media which increased their price around 40%. I thought before that taxes could only be collected by the state, but it seems I was wrong, not to mention something called "presunción de inocencia", that's "you're innocent until proven guilty". Or you used to, at least.
That's their main way of funding, but they use many other extortion tecniques. As an example, if a band wants to play anywhere (whether it is a town's local celebrations, a bar, a local radio, even playing the damn hymn of a football club in the stadium) they force the owners of the place to pay them, EVEN when the band plays their own music - in fact, almost every free concert has to give free tickets for them to be able to know how many people did attend. Of course, there is no transparence at all on how the funds get distributed between their artists.
And, again, they're arrogant to unbelievable extremes. Always whining about the "death" of the culture, when asked about the CC licences applied to music, one of their representors did laugh at the interviewer, answering that "you'd be fool to not register your song, because I could do it and collect the money in your place".
Of course, noone does anything between the political parties. With the PP (conservative party) that canon on CD's was imposed, and PSOE got a lot of their election campaign funds from them... So the problem does not exist at all.
F***ng thieves. This country sucks a lot, really. If that was the major problem...
Allow me to make one question. Why the h**l would you need a DUAL amd64 for a secondary desktop which is going to be most of the time doing web browsing and ssh??? Goddamn, I think that with any P3-800 you'd have the power needed... Maybe some Dothan Pentium-M to allow it to run confortably any multimedia application could be enough, couldn't it?
And, as you say, for some ocasional travel or vacation... I guess you can survive without Far Cry or Doom3 (come on, doom 3 on a sunny beach? LOL). Maybe Quake3 is enough? Or even nethack:D.
Anyway with 1600x1200 a lot of webpages are going to display pretty weirdly (I swear, I do 1280x1024 myself).
Hmmm I think that's why chunks of the file 9 megs of size are downloaded and checked individually, at least in the ed2k protocol, though I'm not really sure of it.
Actually, if I remember well the Honda commercial was done in two shots, not just one, the cut being mixed with a computer, and at the time the escape tube (dunno how's that called) rotates.
In fact, in Spanish (as you may or may not know) DOS means exactly "two", so there is nothing really translated at all.
In fact I think I have that manual you are referring to... DOS version 3.something could be? I was a young'un at the time (geeky one I guess), but I remember reading it... It's probably lost between tens of boxes from the last moving.
Well, the situation in Spain, where I live, is more similar to African infrastructures than to European ones...
The broadband you can get here is very overpriced and of subpar quality: all the operators offer ADSL of 256/128 24h with no bandwith guaranteed, from 40 euros month (taxes included). I remark the "no-bandwith" because where the net is not properly sized people often get no more than 15KB of download.
Other broadband options are 128/128 ADSL from some operators in around 30 euros / month, or 256/128 but only from 18 to 08, and all weekend, for the same 30 euros (and if you connect out of hours, you pay the difference until about 45 euros).
finally you can get cable, but only in few places, and usually just 128/128 and paying per MB... good pings, but not cheaper, and not really bandwith IMPOV.
Ah, did I mention the infraestructures? Half the connections in Spain -the Telefonica ones, or the operators who resell that connection- pass through a big proxy, which used to break winamps streaming and get pages 2 or 3 days later... non-optionally. Nowadays they charge about 12 euros more for having static IPs (in the beginning it was for free; fortunately they kept that on my connection).
ITs when you compare the Tiscali prices here (40 euros aprox. as I said) to the Netherlands (30 euros 512/128 I think), WITHOUT taking into account the different economical situations of the countries, when you realize that SPAIN SUCKS, at least technologically speaking.
Actually, yes. Gentoo manages the update without much trouble, just emerge -pv development-sources and it will handle the module-init-tools downloading... you cd/usr/src/linux-beta (simlink), compile the kernel and shoot it...
It actually feels quite faster in desktop, in particular with things like compilling + listening to music + web browsing... And I didnt have much trouble in making it work... I have quite a particular config (nforce2, ice1712 soundcard...) and the only problem was finding the patch to compile the nvnet module...
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They could support A2DP and file transfers though. For listening music in the car without plugging it in (even in the ipods), and for sending those silly pictures and ringtones (ah, less revenue!) as the rest of us have been doing since around forever.
... some time ago for a usable time-machine substitute for linux, but failed miserably on the gnome integration.
;).
;), but it's python anyway. Right now the project is somewhat unmantained though, by the mentioned lack of time and some tiredness from the project.
Unfortunately when we tried we were informed by the kind folk of the nautilus mailing list that it would be pretty difficult, as it's not feasible by using the python nautilus-extensions, and we would have to rewrite a lot of code. Gvfs was not ready yet (and mostly undocumented) so our code would be instantly deprecated, and many of the supposed options of a quick google were hopeleslly outdated / broken / unsupported / deprecated -such as the bonobo views, which I couldn't get to work at all.
Finally my personal struggles with autotools (devilish tool!) ended up burying the idea. Pity, but I'm glad that the opensolaris folk were able to do it. Their GUI rocks a lot IMHO (I tried to congratulate them on their blog but the post got lost somehow
Perhaps if one of us gets enough free time in RL we'll port their patches (should be GPL I guess) to our linux implementation, in a cleaner nautilus C plugin.
BTW feel free to try the application, it should be functional (as in "won't break your hard drive down nor delete anything it should, though it might take some space in ~/.hdlorean"), though not as polished as we would have liked. We even managed to build a debian package
Tres, without the circumflex. Três means "so much", more or less, in french, but I think you were counting in spanish. O eso creo ;)
However, the Mitsubishi Pajero it's sold in Spain as the Mitsubishi Montero, as "Pajero" means "wanker" in Spanish ;)
I bought an XPS m1330 (slightly cheaper than a macbook and lighter) as a "consumer" in Spain. My experience with Dell's support has been great so far...
:P). However it is quite inexpensive, and if support is good I'm more than willing to deal with the problems it develops (which, by the way, any other hardware will develop as well, as nowadays everything seems to be produced in the same slave-powered factory from China).
Although the people attending the phone were clearly non-native speakers (which makes me wonder where could they outsource it cheaper than a spanish-speaking country!), and the commercial who attended me was a such utterly incompetent guy, so far the technical support has been excellent.
I got the "bad apple" from the batch (as there are a lot of XPS in my uni and mine seems to be the only one which has developed problems so far); my LED display had a dead "lamp" (like a huge dot too bright, bigger than a pixel), and last week I lost a hard drive which I managed to savage so-so (didn't lose too much data).
In both cases, after calling support and explaining the problem to a perplexed tier-1 guy... (I guess "while updating, kernel started to log problems in the sata device, which I confirmed with smartmontools, so I have dumped with dd the drive and confirmed the problems on several sectors of the drive by plugging it to a different machine" has to sound hardcore to a tier-1 guy expecting an old lady which believed "wireless" meant that it didn't have to be plugged on, otherwise logical - veridic case). They sent a a hard drive / a technician on the next morning (next monday on the drive), who repaired it (swapped the display) on the spot. No sending the laptop and waiting 15 days for it without any assurance of the hard drive contents (ahem Acer), no 300++euro for a keyboard swap I did for outrageous 70euro (ahem HP compaq), no arguing with the store if the damage was my fault or theirs (AHEM Apple Spain!!!! in particular K-tuin store in Madrid! - just troubling with laptops, as my 3G ipod got A+ support dealing directly with Apple)...
So far, I am so satisfied with their support that I'm considering extending the warranty; I've also bought a cheap-ass server from them and I'll possibly suggest replacing our cheaper sun's x2200 with even-cheaper 1U Dells in my workplace.
Not astroturfing though; hardware seems to be on the cheap side (just 2 drive slots on the T105 server seems to be milking the price differences too much, and XPS keyboard is garbage compared to others - but hey, at least I got hardware keys for right button, del, pgdown and pgup
The act of terror that caused greatest loss of life in Europe is still the Bolgona railway station bombing perpetrated by a neo-facist right wing group.
Try again. Madrid bombings
That's 191 dead people, vs 85 (as reported by the wikipedia), or 55 in case of the london bombings. And it was islamic terrorism.
Just wanted to pinpoint it.
I don't know... here at the Politecnico of Milan, where I've been staying for the last year in an Erasmus exchange, they seem to manage fine. They have a dual wifi, one public called "polimi" and one private with hidden SSID and name "internet", secured with WPA "enterprise", tkip + tls. When you have your laptop on "auto-associate" -bad security policy! I've seen some rogue laptops offering AP's here...-, or just join the "polimi" network, every web request gets redirected to an information page explaining quite well how to set up a proxy. Once you do that, you login with your registration number and password, both of which were given to us at the beginning of the year, together with a smart card which is used to access the labs and the libraries, and you get to download a certificate (or its revocation). With that, just follow the instructions, install it, configure a network with hidden ssid "internet" and manually specify that it needs to use the certificate just installed. All of this, of course, with screenshots of every single step. When done, as the proxy is well setup because you had to do it for the "polimi" connection, it's just resetting the wifi and it joins the "internet" network fine and securely (but through a damned proxy, blessed corkscrew ;).
It seemed easy enough that an architecture student could do it on his own... =P And it worked on macs and linux (just converting the certificate with openssl it gets picked by wpa_supplicant). No more open-air traffic as in my home university (sit on the cafeteria, open kismet, begin sniffing passwords!)
(btw, to help to manually configure a proprietary wifi interface on a chinese laptop - on a CHINESE gui has had to be the most bizarre computing experience I've had till the date :D).
I'll go killing some inventors... no copyright after innovator dies, isn't it? ;)
Suse, since 9.3 (the first release downloadable in DVD), has WPA working out of the box in my laptop... Intel ipw2200 driver, by the way, which is proprietary.
Maybe this is what you want...
:D
Permit Cookies Extension. You press Alt-C and it shows the status of the current cookie. I leave them disabled by default, and when some site breaks you press alt-c and set it on session, always or maybe remove. Only with the major buggers as yahoo mail I need to choose "ask me" in the preferences because the cookie is some intermediate one. And works with 1.5b1, by the way.
I wonder how was I able to deal with my cookie-related paranoia before
I've always thought that the first game in CDROM format was the venerable Lucasarts' Rebel Assault... Could be mistaken though.
The hand of theirs is clearly behind. As an example, the teacher had a conference room booked like a week before, just to be said that it was suddenly "not available", although it was empty. Also, some of their listeners did book another room by theirselves, without mentioning at all that conference, and had their reservation cancelled right before the conference without any reasons given at all.
I think you don't really know how much power the SGAE has here (RIAA equivalent). They, a private organization, with no publical accouting at all, got the right to collect a tax on every CD and DVD media which increased their price around 40%. I thought before that taxes could only be collected by the state, but it seems I was wrong, not to mention something called "presunción de inocencia", that's "you're innocent until proven guilty". Or you used to, at least.
That's their main way of funding, but they use many other extortion tecniques. As an example, if a band wants to play anywhere (whether it is a town's local celebrations, a bar, a local radio, even playing the damn hymn of a football club in the stadium) they force the owners of the place to pay them, EVEN when the band plays their own music - in fact, almost every free concert has to give free tickets for them to be able to know how many people did attend. Of course, there is no transparence at all on how the funds get distributed between their artists.
And, again, they're arrogant to unbelievable extremes. Always whining about the "death" of the culture, when asked about the CC licences applied to music, one of their representors did laugh at the interviewer, answering that "you'd be fool to not register your song, because I could do it and collect the money in your place".
Of course, noone does anything between the political parties. With the PP (conservative party) that canon on CD's was imposed, and PSOE got a lot of their election campaign funds from them... So the problem does not exist at all.
F***ng thieves. This country sucks a lot, really. If that was the major problem...
Allow me to make one question. Why the h**l would you need a DUAL amd64 for a secondary desktop which is going to be most of the time doing web browsing and ssh??? Goddamn, I think that with any P3-800 you'd have the power needed... Maybe some Dothan Pentium-M to allow it to run confortably any multimedia application could be enough, couldn't it?
:D.
And, as you say, for some ocasional travel or vacation... I guess you can survive without Far Cry or Doom3 (come on, doom 3 on a sunny beach? LOL). Maybe Quake3 is enough? Or even nethack
Anyway with 1600x1200 a lot of webpages are going to display pretty weirdly (I swear, I do 1280x1024 myself).
Hmmm I think that's why chunks of the file 9 megs of size are downloaded and checked individually, at least in the ed2k protocol, though I'm not really sure of it.
Actually, if I remember well the Honda commercial was done in two shots, not just one, the cut being mixed with a computer, and at the time the escape tube (dunno how's that called) rotates.
In fact, in Spanish (as you may or may not know) DOS means exactly "two", so there is nothing really translated at all.
In fact I think I have that manual you are referring to... DOS version 3.something could be? I was a young'un at the time (geeky one I guess), but I remember reading it... It's probably lost between tens of boxes from the last moving.
Errores with just 2 r, by the way ^^
Because I think the exact number is something like 666.66... Which as you ought to know, rounds to 667. But 333.333 rounds to 333. See? :)
Select all the files (maybe order by type) -> right click (to "do-things") -> Resize pictures.
Hey, the powertoys are not actually that bad. At least you dont have to remember syntax for three or four commands...
about:config
:)
Find "turbo"
enable it
Well, the situation in Spain, where I live, is more similar to African infrastructures than to European ones... The broadband you can get here is very overpriced and of subpar quality: all the operators offer ADSL of 256/128 24h with no bandwith guaranteed, from 40 euros month (taxes included). I remark the "no-bandwith" because where the net is not properly sized people often get no more than 15KB of download. Other broadband options are 128/128 ADSL from some operators in around 30 euros / month, or 256/128 but only from 18 to 08, and all weekend, for the same 30 euros (and if you connect out of hours, you pay the difference until about 45 euros). finally you can get cable, but only in few places, and usually just 128/128 and paying per MB... good pings, but not cheaper, and not really bandwith IMPOV. Ah, did I mention the infraestructures? Half the connections in Spain -the Telefonica ones, or the operators who resell that connection- pass through a big proxy, which used to break winamps streaming and get pages 2 or 3 days later... non-optionally. Nowadays they charge about 12 euros more for having static IPs (in the beginning it was for free; fortunately they kept that on my connection). ITs when you compare the Tiscali prices here (40 euros aprox. as I said) to the Netherlands (30 euros 512/128 I think), WITHOUT taking into account the different economical situations of the countries, when you realize that SPAIN SUCKS, at least technologically speaking.
Actually, yes. Gentoo manages the update without much trouble, just emerge -pv development-sources and it will handle the module-init-tools downloading... you cd /usr/src/linux-beta (simlink), compile the kernel and shoot it...
It actually feels quite faster in desktop, in particular with things like compilling + listening to music + web browsing... And I didnt have much trouble in making it work... I have quite a particular config (nforce2, ice1712 soundcard...) and the only problem was finding the patch to compile the nvnet module...
Try it!