I have an HP PhotoSmart 7550 and I'd have to say that even with a generic program (or say, the windows printing wizard) it prints out BEAUTIFULLY in 6x9's etc whereas the photo-labs often hand me back a bunch of pixellated trash. Of course, with a 4MP camera some of the bigger pictures are going to be a bit pixelly, but overally I'd say most pictures in the area of 6x9 (or 8x10 when taken with decent lighting) come out very snappy. Certainly you can frame the 6x9's and nobody can tell that they came from a printer.
The major advantages?
a) Instant gratification: You can print, see if the print sucked, reprint,
b) Instant modification: Resize, adjust, etc on your PC as needed. Perhaps print some smaller prints with different contrast/brightness settings to see what looks best before printing a large set
c) Privacy: For those, um, personal pictures of you and your "significant other" (esp for slashdotters where your sign-other may be inflatable).
d) Reproduction: As long as you keep a copy of the original file on disk, you can always print out more copies later
e) Versatility: Heck, you can also print out pictures as/for postcards, greeting cards, etc
The major disadvantage though - one not mentioned in the article - is the sensitivity of photoprints from many printers to water. Even with my original HP cartridges I found a little drop would cause instant washout, and high condensation ruins a picture nicely. Normal prints seem to be a bit more resistant to this, perhaps they've got some form of glaze on them to protect against it?
Perhaps somebody might know of a chemical one can apply to protect the prints better against moisture? Short of lamination I can't think of anything offhand that wouldn't likely wash out the picture before setting in.
Would it add to the overhead of loading services to have a WAIT/NOWAIT tag on the init files. For example, my current rc structure is: /etc/rcX.d/S00SomeInit where 00 is a number that defines the order of startup services, and X is the runlevel.
Now why not just have something like:
S10+NOWAITFILE
S11-WAITFILE
So it allows whatever is in S10+NOWAITFILE to load without blocking, but S11-WAITFILE will block S12SOMETHING until loaded, etc etc
The answer might be "bane" if the availability of a particular piece of software might have prompted an OS migration if it were otherwise unavailable on windows.
However, consider also if OS software becomes very popular on windows. If the same software is available on 'nix, then there's familiar territory awaiting anyone who switches. Users whom are used to FireFox/Thunderbird for their daily email shouldn't have too much trouble using the same on a well-configured 'nix machine. Generally I'd say it's often enough a question of the software availablity/familiarity that hinders switching than the OS iself
Semi OT, but since I can't actually view the trailer without tracking-down the URL of the file I thought perhaps/. can help.
The video is available in either quicktime or windows media format. Neither of which is playable in-browser with Firefox/Linux by default. Does anyone know if there's a way to enable this?
Both still take a few chips in their pockets to feed the lawyers. Yes, the lawyers are evil, yes patents are evil... but really I wouldn't mind at all if several hundred companies through themselves at MS with possibly-legit patents, bogging down their legal teams (so that they can't sue others for awhile) and putting whatever drain on the pocketbook they can.
I wouldn't feel bad if Eolas loses in the end, but I'd be more than happy to see this case drag itself along for several years.
Because a cracker is a black-hat form of hacker, but one can be a hacker without being a cracker?
Cracker is a more accurate definition, and certainly this otherwise paints a bad name for hackers. But realistically, given the use of hackers to describe such users perhaps a better name for white-hat hackers would be appropriate...
Online courses are quite legal in most instances: you still have to do all the work, get graded, etc - but the institutation saves the cost of having a classroom, and you don't have to pay the site fees or hunt for parking spaces every morning.
I'm currently work at a Canadian distance-ed school which offers high-school level courses and some upgrading. Perfectly legit, in fact they're part of the local school district, but it allows those who live far out of town or who have problems with regular class environments to work from home via the internet. We're not offering MBA's, but I'd imagine the process would be similar.
Of course, we also don't advertise via spam/email. Word-of-mouth, our website, and paper/search-engine advertising are enough. No legitimate institution should be mailing out these "invitations," since even if their courses/degrees are legit, spamming isn't.
One would think that teachers would have decent spelling/grammar skills. English teachers do, but if the emails and/or memos I get from staff members are any indication, many others don't.
It's not an issue of cold, it's an issue of freezing. It's like when you start your car in a frosty winter day... notice it's taking those few extra cranks to turn over and then sounds like crap for awhile? I think you could probably go fanless if you had a good heatsink and consistent low temperature, or at least a smaller fan.
The warmth issues are - as mentioned above - about your moving parts. Unless you enclose the drive properly enough to contain the CPU heat, your issue will be with the drives failing. Actually, in this case a nice small box is probably best.
That being said though, you could partly insulate the drives (leaving room for air), but not so much that they overheat.
Also, I'd imagine that as long as the drives aren't spinning down for any long period of time, the constant motion will keep the lubricants fluid. Overclocking might work in osme situations for generating some heat, but it really depends on the structure of the case... and if you've got a cruddy heatsink then you may not get a fast enough transfer from the CPU outwards to divest of massive extra heat (in case of a large overclock).
Well, if they wanted to see if it's a case of popup blocking Vs user savvy, why not compare the change in popup ads CS the change in in-page ads.
I'm very happy with the lack of popups, but I've no problem with the inline (a-la-slashdot-and-google) ads provided they're not intrusive (big Flash or worse Java Applets).
Even with the flash they're not too annoying, but I'd prefer to devote my CPU cycles to something more useful.
Find the addresses of the top members and sign them up for every smut list known to man - email and postal (when financially possible). Points for creativity... like nuns being shagged by demons or women pleasuring themselves with crucifix vibrators....
We're not learning "less" we're learning differently. By the reasons given we might as well go back to abacuses because even slide-rules are evil technology blah blah blah.
Yes, you could blame the computers, but realistically I think a lot has to be said about the deterioration of the teaching system. I would know, I work in schools and see daily how bad they've gotten. Kids have no respect... yes they didn't have respect when I was in school (and hey, I'm 23), but now they're much more open about doing everything short of (and sometimes beyond) telling their profs to f*** off.
br
As for the profs, well, it's rather discouraging trying to teach kids that don't want to learn, somewhat like watching the coding project you babied for the last year get tanked by management in the final stages.
But as to the kids that do want to learn, and make use of computers as a tool... they're going to do more than the previous generation did with a set of fancy calculators. Realistic simulations, architectural tools... computers expand in other areas.
Of course, I suppose I could look at myself. Grandiose projects planned, but after a day of work I'm often sacked and just end up playing games to relax. If I had to sit through some of the classes that students do today, I'd probably do the same...
I would be the one deploying the monitors to catch the stupid users who have installed Claria products... are they going to EULA me?
The first is evil, the second is evil and dumb... how many users know how to use a "network monitor," or read the output from one.. unless there are restrictions against a third-party implementing them between your network and the GAIN server
Of course, the screen is quite often one of the more expensive items to replace on the laptop. You might be able to find a used laptop with good screen and cannibalize it for parts, but quite often when it comes to the screen going it's about time to get a new rig.
They're not selling food, they're selling snacks. Prisoners still eat on food paid for by the "system," but I'm assuming that the Canteen supplies their ice-cream and diet-coke fix, for a price...
As for the double-dipping, I'm hoping that some of this goes to paying the cost of food, and the rest (profit) can go towards facility upgrading.
Wouldn't it be nice to have this as an option in firefox (or maybe it is already and just not easily found)?
Simply have an option for "mail handler," with options to select common/installer apps including TB and/or the default system handler, or type in your own command-line.
Is there then an equivilent groupware application for linux/windows?
Personally I've found that many of the functions that groupware software performs are easily replaced by web-applications. Yes, you could install a program with a user manager, room scheduling, etc etc etc... or you could make it accessible anywhere via an https webpage with secure login (and there are lots of different PHP/other projects that fill the groupware functions).
Still, in regards to groupware software, what else is there in the OS world - or is it generally replaced by web-based apps?
I've been using TB since earlier (pre 0.6) versions, and done well by it. Upgrading hasn't nuked my inbox at any time or such things. One of the versions had an issue wherein it lost email folders for some reason, but upgrading to a more recent version fixed that up.
All-in-all, TB is a great email program. I've currently looking at seeing whether the linux and windows versions can both use the same inbox file... if so that gives it an even bigger advantage than most clients in our multi-OS (networked mail directory) environment.
Any substance can be a liquid, it's a matter of melting point vs ambient temperature. In the case of glass it's often argued that it's an amorphous solid as it demonstrates imperceptible fluid/liquid tendancies at common temperatures.
Your camera lense isn't going to flow away in normal temperatures, nor freeze and expand under normal temperature flux. Liquids may, depending on the material used, and it's definately easier for most liquids to escape over time.
I look at it like this: It really depends on the legality of the site at hand and a variety of other factors.
If the RIAA started DDOS'ing P2P'ers or perhaps warez sites there would be uproar... and one must consider that massive packet flows do affect the net overall.
That being said, I'd not likely object to slamming a kiddy-porn site off the face of the planet. And in the same breath, I'd very much doubt they could come after you without exposing their own illegal practices. However, if in doing so you nuked a bunch of sites on the same subnet, prepare for legal repercussions. This is the different between blacklists/filters and an attack: blacklists are by subscription and are generally passive (defence), whereas a DDOS is an offensive move.
That being said, however, it's really quite hard to differentiate between legit traffic and non. Attempting packet-crapflooding is not using the intended access method of a site. Having many many browsers simultaneously load nukemyspammingass.asp off of a spammer's server, it's definately beyond the norm but still accessing the page within the way it was intended (through a browser).
Basically, I wouldn't worry too much about how these things spread to other targets by intent, but how they can do so by accident just due to traffic volume. Moreover, it's not really much different from what spammers themselves do with a flood of traffic... how could they defend against my hitting their site repeatedly when they've done the same to my mailserver?
Since installation the times I've had to change grub.conf or lilo.conf have been few and far between indeed.
The best I could think of was moving from LILO to grub, or perhaps changing the grub splash screen - neither of which would be needed on any type of critical machines. As for the scripting of anything else (modifying the/vmlinuz symlinks, etc etc) - the kernel installer already does that automatically, and reliably enough that between hundreds of machines I've had no problems.
The problem is this: Qualified windows admins are far between. Yes, there are those that know enough to get by in many circumstances, but few and far between are there those that handle a major crisis well. In addition the crap ones make the whole lot look worse. In addition, MS encourages having less paid sysadmins.
Now why would MS encourage that? The answer is simple enough: look at those TCO comparison ad that MS is spitting out,/. has plenty. You know why the TCO can be lower, because the braindead sysadmins are a dime a dozen. Because you can get by in many circumstances with a braindead MS sysadmin, and when things bork like this because of said braindeadness, MS can count them out of the TCO as one of the "1 in 5" circumstances. Nevermind that the other 4/5 were saving 15%, and companies accounting 1/5% suffer a crippling downage due to the f-up.
There, is that a good enough answer for you? Rampant admin incompetence is because MS encourages it. Back in the day when server admins were 'leet and very well paid because of their scarcity often enough this situation wouldn't have happened.
Assuming that the machines nuked had the same config, couldn't they just reverse the changes by finding a non-nuked machine (perhaps one that hadn't been turned on), getting copies of all the files that were fuxored, and replacing them. I'd assume registry death as well, but you could export appropriate areas , regedit import them, and perhaps somehow delete any new uglies.
I'm just playing with the demo now, (this is the URL btw). It suffers from the same ol' syndrome of "very functional," looks like ass.
Now, my own design skills are somewhat limited. I can't make a snappy graphic-filled website without a lot of work (as my own demonstrates, my graphics are blah at the moment) - but even I can see that this needs a remodelling job. Default colour scheme is blahhh.
Look at slashdot... yes some of the schemes are hard on the eyes but overall it's not too bad.
I've always wondered - with the technology of the future - what viruses and technological gags would be like. There are a few "holodeck" episodes about this, but it could go farther.
I'd imagine when in 2350 the captain orders his hot tea and "Windows Starship Edition" clunks out a glass of hot pthactol blood he won't be very happy. Makes for an amusing prank possibility though. That and the "nude" holodeck patch...
Slashdot Mirror
I have an HP PhotoSmart 7550 and I'd have to say that even with a generic program (or say, the windows printing wizard) it prints out BEAUTIFULLY in 6x9's etc whereas the photo-labs often hand me back a bunch of pixellated trash. Of course, with a 4MP camera some of the bigger pictures are going to be a bit pixelly, but overally I'd say most pictures in the area of 6x9 (or 8x10 when taken with decent lighting) come out very snappy. Certainly you can frame the 6x9's and nobody can tell that they came from a printer.
The major advantages?
a) Instant gratification: You can print, see if the print sucked, reprint,
b) Instant modification: Resize, adjust, etc on your PC as needed. Perhaps print some smaller prints with different contrast/brightness settings to see what looks best before printing a large set
c) Privacy: For those, um, personal pictures of you and your "significant other" (esp for slashdotters where your sign-other may be inflatable).
d) Reproduction: As long as you keep a copy of the original file on disk, you can always print out more copies later
e) Versatility: Heck, you can also print out pictures as/for postcards, greeting cards, etc
The major disadvantage though - one not mentioned in the article - is the sensitivity of photoprints from many printers to water. Even with my original HP cartridges I found a little drop would cause instant washout, and high condensation ruins a picture nicely. Normal prints seem to be a bit more resistant to this, perhaps they've got some form of glaze on them to protect against it?
Perhaps somebody might know of a chemical one can apply to protect the prints better against moisture? Short of lamination I can't think of anything offhand that wouldn't likely wash out the picture before setting in.
Would it add to the overhead of loading services to have a WAIT/NOWAIT tag on the init files. For example, my current rc structure is:
/etc/rcX.d/S00SomeInit where 00 is a number that defines the order of startup services, and X is the runlevel.
Now why not just have something like:
S10+NOWAITFILE
S11-WAITFILE
So it allows whatever is in S10+NOWAITFILE to load without blocking, but S11-WAITFILE will block S12SOMETHING until loaded, etc etc
The answer might be "bane" if the availability of a particular piece of software might have prompted an OS migration if it were otherwise unavailable on windows.
However, consider also if OS software becomes very popular on windows. If the same software is available on 'nix, then there's familiar territory awaiting anyone who switches. Users whom are used to FireFox/Thunderbird for their daily email shouldn't have too much trouble using the same on a well-configured 'nix machine. Generally I'd say it's often enough a question of the software availablity/familiarity that hinders switching than the OS iself
Semi OT, but since I can't actually view the trailer without tracking-down the URL of the file I thought perhaps /. can help.
The video is available in either quicktime or windows media format. Neither of which is playable in-browser with Firefox/Linux by default. Does anyone know if there's a way to enable this?
Both still take a few chips in their pockets to feed the lawyers. Yes, the lawyers are evil, yes patents are evil... but really I wouldn't mind at all if several hundred companies through themselves at MS with possibly-legit patents, bogging down their legal teams (so that they can't sue others for awhile) and putting whatever drain on the pocketbook they can.
I wouldn't feel bad if Eolas loses in the end, but I'd be more than happy to see this case drag itself along for several years.
Because a cracker is a black-hat form of hacker, but one can be a hacker without being a cracker?
Cracker is a more accurate definition, and certainly this otherwise paints a bad name for hackers. But realistically, given the use of hackers to describe such users perhaps a better name for white-hat hackers would be appropriate...
Online courses are quite legal in most instances: you still have to do all the work, get graded, etc - but the institutation saves the cost of having a classroom, and you don't have to pay the site fees or hunt for parking spaces every morning.
I'm currently work at a Canadian distance-ed school which offers high-school level courses and some upgrading. Perfectly legit, in fact they're part of the local school district, but it allows those who live far out of town or who have problems with regular class environments to work from home via the internet. We're not offering MBA's, but I'd imagine the process would be similar.
Of course, we also don't advertise via spam/email. Word-of-mouth, our website, and paper/search-engine advertising are enough. No legitimate institution should be mailing out these "invitations," since even if their courses/degrees are legit, spamming isn't.
One would think that teachers would have decent spelling/grammar skills. English teachers do, but if the emails and/or memos I get from staff members are any indication, many others don't.
It's not an issue of cold, it's an issue of freezing. It's like when you start your car in a frosty winter day... notice it's taking those few extra cranks to turn over and then sounds like crap for awhile? I think you could probably go fanless if you had a good heatsink and consistent low temperature, or at least a smaller fan.
The warmth issues are - as mentioned above - about your moving parts. Unless you enclose the drive properly enough to contain the CPU heat, your issue will be with the drives failing. Actually, in this case a nice small box is probably best.
That being said though, you could partly insulate the drives (leaving room for air), but not so much that they overheat.
Also, I'd imagine that as long as the drives aren't spinning down for any long period of time, the constant motion will keep the lubricants fluid. Overclocking might work in osme situations for generating some heat, but it really depends on the structure of the case... and if you've got a cruddy heatsink then you may not get a fast enough transfer from the CPU outwards to divest of massive extra heat (in case of a large overclock).
Well, if they wanted to see if it's a case of popup blocking Vs user savvy, why not compare the change in popup ads CS the change in in-page ads.
I'm very happy with the lack of popups, but I've no problem with the inline (a-la-slashdot-and-google) ads provided they're not intrusive (big Flash or worse Java Applets).
Even with the flash they're not too annoying, but I'd prefer to devote my CPU cycles to something more useful.
Find the addresses of the top members and sign them up for every smut list known to man - email and postal (when financially possible). Points for creativity... like nuns being shagged by demons or women pleasuring themselves with crucifix vibrators....
We're not learning "less" we're learning differently. By the reasons given we might as well go back to abacuses because even slide-rules are evil technology blah blah blah.
Yes, you could blame the computers, but realistically I think a lot has to be said about the deterioration of the teaching system. I would know, I work in schools and see daily how bad they've gotten. Kids have no respect... yes they didn't have respect when I was in school (and hey, I'm 23), but now they're much more open about doing everything short of (and sometimes beyond) telling their profs to f*** off.
br As for the profs, well, it's rather discouraging trying to teach kids that don't want to learn, somewhat like watching the coding project you babied for the last year get tanked by management in the final stages.
But as to the kids that do want to learn, and make use of computers as a tool... they're going to do more than the previous generation did with a set of fancy calculators. Realistic simulations, architectural tools... computers expand in other areas.
Of course, I suppose I could look at myself. Grandiose projects planned, but after a day of work I'm often sacked and just end up playing games to relax. If I had to sit through some of the classes that students do today, I'd probably do the same...
I would be the one deploying the monitors to catch the stupid users who have installed Claria products... are they going to EULA me?
The first is evil, the second is evil and dumb... how many users know how to use a "network monitor," or read the output from one.. unless there are restrictions against a third-party implementing them between your network and the GAIN server
Of course, the screen is quite often one of the more expensive items to replace on the laptop. You might be able to find a used laptop with good screen and cannibalize it for parts, but quite often when it comes to the screen going it's about time to get a new rig.
They're not selling food, they're selling snacks. Prisoners still eat on food paid for by the "system," but I'm assuming that the Canteen supplies their ice-cream and diet-coke fix, for a price...
As for the double-dipping, I'm hoping that some of this goes to paying the cost of food, and the rest (profit) can go towards facility upgrading.
Wouldn't it be nice to have this as an option in firefox (or maybe it is already and just not easily found)?
Simply have an option for "mail handler," with options to select common/installer apps including TB and/or the default system handler, or type in your own command-line.
Is there then an equivilent groupware application for linux/windows?
Personally I've found that many of the functions that groupware software performs are easily replaced by web-applications. Yes, you could install a program with a user manager, room scheduling, etc etc etc... or you could make it accessible anywhere via an https webpage with secure login (and there are lots of different PHP/other projects that fill the groupware functions).
Still, in regards to groupware software, what else is there in the OS world - or is it generally replaced by web-based apps?
I've been using TB since earlier (pre 0.6) versions, and done well by it. Upgrading hasn't nuked my inbox at any time or such things. One of the versions had an issue wherein it lost email folders for some reason, but upgrading to a more recent version fixed that up.
All-in-all, TB is a great email program. I've currently looking at seeing whether the linux and windows versions can both use the same inbox file... if so that gives it an even bigger advantage than most clients in our multi-OS (networked mail directory) environment.
Any substance can be a liquid, it's a matter of melting point vs ambient temperature. In the case of glass it's often argued that it's an amorphous solid as it demonstrates imperceptible fluid/liquid tendancies at common temperatures.
Your camera lense isn't going to flow away in normal temperatures, nor freeze and expand under normal temperature flux. Liquids may, depending on the material used, and it's definately easier for most liquids to escape over time.
I look at it like this: It really depends on the legality of the site at hand and a variety of other factors.
If the RIAA started DDOS'ing P2P'ers or perhaps warez sites there would be uproar... and one must consider that massive packet flows do affect the net overall.
That being said, I'd not likely object to slamming a kiddy-porn site off the face of the planet. And in the same breath, I'd very much doubt they could come after you without exposing their own illegal practices. However, if in doing so you nuked a bunch of sites on the same subnet, prepare for legal repercussions. This is the different between blacklists/filters and an attack: blacklists are by subscription and are generally passive (defence), whereas a DDOS is an offensive move.
That being said, however, it's really quite hard to differentiate between legit traffic and non. Attempting packet-crapflooding is not using the intended access method of a site. Having many many browsers simultaneously load nukemyspammingass.asp off of a spammer's server, it's definately beyond the norm but still accessing the page within the way it was intended (through a browser).
Basically, I wouldn't worry too much about how these things spread to other targets by intent, but how they can do so by accident just due to traffic volume. Moreover, it's not really much different from what spammers themselves do with a flood of traffic... how could they defend against my hitting their site repeatedly when they've done the same to my mailserver?
Since installation the times I've had to change grub.conf or lilo.conf have been few and far between indeed.
/vmlinuz symlinks, etc etc) - the kernel installer already does that automatically, and reliably enough that between hundreds of machines I've had no problems.
/. has plenty. You know why the TCO can be lower, because the braindead sysadmins are a dime a dozen. Because you can get by in many circumstances with a braindead MS sysadmin, and when things bork like this because of said braindeadness, MS can count them out of the TCO as one of the "1 in 5" circumstances. Nevermind that the other 4/5 were saving 15%, and companies accounting 1/5% suffer a crippling downage due to the f-up.
The best I could think of was moving from LILO to grub, or perhaps changing the grub splash screen - neither of which would be needed on any type of critical machines. As for the scripting of anything else (modifying the
The problem is this: Qualified windows admins are far between. Yes, there are those that know enough to get by in many circumstances, but few and far between are there those that handle a major crisis well. In addition the crap ones make the whole lot look worse. In addition, MS encourages having less paid sysadmins.
Now why would MS encourage that? The answer is simple enough: look at those TCO comparison ad that MS is spitting out,
There, is that a good enough answer for you? Rampant admin incompetence is because MS encourages it. Back in the day when server admins were 'leet and very well paid because of their scarcity often enough this situation wouldn't have happened.
Yes, because "apt-get update && apt-get install samba" as SOOOO hard. At least that's how it would work here
Yes, there might be some questions from the installer, but that's not too hard to script fairly reliably.
Assuming that the machines nuked had the same config, couldn't they just reverse the changes by finding a non-nuked machine (perhaps one that hadn't been turned on), getting copies of all the files that were fuxored, and replacing them. I'd assume registry death as well, but you could export appropriate areas , regedit import them, and perhaps somehow delete any new uglies.
I'm just playing with the demo now, (this is the URL btw). It suffers from the same ol' syndrome of "very functional," looks like ass.
Now, my own design skills are somewhat limited. I can't make a snappy graphic-filled website without a lot of work (as my own demonstrates, my graphics are blah at the moment) - but even I can see that this needs a remodelling job. Default colour scheme is blahhh.
Look at slashdot... yes some of the schemes are hard on the eyes but overall it's not too bad.
Look at some other sites for an example of basic but friendly colours, Less cluttered interface, and layouts with many options but good organization
I've always wondered - with the technology of the future - what viruses and technological gags would be like. There are a few "holodeck" episodes about this, but it could go farther.
I'd imagine when in 2350 the captain orders his hot tea and "Windows Starship Edition" clunks out a glass of hot pthactol blood he won't be very happy. Makes for an amusing prank possibility though. That and the "nude" holodeck patch...