So yet again, we're being presumed guilty until we manage through some effort (Dealing with red-tape seems a god given right^H^H^H^H^Hburden now) to prove ourselves innocent.
Mind you, I'm wondering how they're going to fine (that's what it is) the grey market users who buy from swapmeets as opposed to John Doe who's buying 2 cd's to send a movie of his kids first steps to the grandparents.
Another well thought out blunder from money hungry bastards.
I used to be a computer tech in a secondary (high) school in Oz and I have to say it was a LIFE SAVER. Being able to keep appointments that were minute specific and a log of computer troubles, and my e-mail!
How ever I'm a [wank]e-Business consultant[/wank] now and drive a desk. Within 24 hours of landing this job, I stopped using my Palm M105 (2nd base model). Simply because I have all my needs at my fingertips now. I don't need to walk 400mtrs to check things.
I've passed my palm onto my fiances best friend and he's getting a huge amount of use out of it apparently. He's a doctor in training at the moment.
Another case study is my parents, my old man is a tradesman. Again, apointments and job history are what "rocks his world". Mum and Dad keep track of eachother by syncing their Palm (M100's) together. That way she can book the work and he doesn't double book himself either.
Gone are the little written notes and gone are the missed appointments.
I got him a metal case for his palm (He's destroyed 3 laptops in 4 years. Guess what he's getting for Christmas:-) on his last birthday.
To summarise, basically if you use computers and drive a desk, I can't see the use of one. But if you don't have access to a computer the majority of the time, a Palm (PDA et al) is an awesome asset.
My first foray into linux was RH 6.2. I was running a P-100, 16mb RAM, 2mb PCI video card, 2GB hdd. Lets just say I had 1gb free(!), a GUI I couldn't get rid of and a cmd line that was unresponsive... It was 6 months later I tried again....... It was then another 3 months later with a friend who liked Debian sitting beside me that I tried again. The Text mode installer was intuitive and after the install, the box was like new, it flew!
I haven't looked back since.
I found RedHat TOO black box in approach, "stuff goes in", "things happen", "stuff comes out". I really don't like that, I had no idea what the OS was doing.
With Debian, I found it crisper, faster, more informative, and those damn dependancies, gone *bamph*.
I'm still a newbie, probably always will be, hell, I don't understand regex, I don't intend to. With that said though, I thoroughly reccomend Debian to all my friends.
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It's already tomorrow here...
There is also a world genetics congress about to happen in Melbourne, Australia.
Covering many topics (Program -> Symposium).
Genetics Congress - XIX International Congress of Genetics - Melbourne, Australia, July 6-12, 2003
So yet again, we're being presumed guilty until we manage through some effort (Dealing with red-tape seems a god given right^H^H^H^H^Hburden now) to prove ourselves innocent.
Mind you, I'm wondering how they're going to fine (that's what it is) the grey market users who buy from swapmeets as opposed to John Doe who's buying 2 cd's to send a movie of his kids first steps to the grandparents.
Another well thought out blunder from money hungry bastards.
I used to be a computer tech in a secondary (high) school in Oz and I have to say it was a LIFE SAVER. Being able to keep appointments that were minute specific and a log of computer troubles, and my e-mail!
:-) on his last birthday.
How ever I'm a [wank]e-Business consultant[/wank] now and drive a desk. Within 24 hours of landing this job, I stopped using my Palm M105 (2nd base model). Simply because I have all my needs at my fingertips now. I don't need to walk 400mtrs to check things.
I've passed my palm onto my fiances best friend and he's getting a huge amount of use out of it apparently. He's a doctor in training at the moment.
Another case study is my parents, my old man is a tradesman. Again, apointments and job history are what "rocks his world". Mum and Dad keep track of eachother by syncing their Palm (M100's) together. That way she can book the work and he doesn't double book himself either.
Gone are the little written notes and gone are the missed appointments.
I got him a metal case for his palm (He's destroyed 3 laptops in 4 years. Guess what he's getting for Christmas
To summarise, basically if you use computers and drive a desk, I can't see the use of one. But if you don't have access to a computer the majority of the time, a Palm (PDA et al) is an awesome asset.
All I can say is I'm dumbfounded!
:-)
My first foray into linux was RH 6.2. I was running a P-100, 16mb RAM, 2mb PCI video card, 2GB hdd. Lets just say I had 1gb free(!), a GUI I couldn't get rid of and a cmd line that was unresponsive... It was 6 months later I tried again....... It was then another 3 months later with a friend who liked Debian sitting beside me that I tried again. The Text mode installer was intuitive and after the install, the box was like new, it flew!
I haven't looked back since.
I found RedHat TOO black box in approach, "stuff goes in", "things happen", "stuff comes out". I really don't like that, I had no idea what the OS was doing.
With Debian, I found it crisper, faster, more informative, and those damn dependancies, gone *bamph*.
I'm still a newbie, probably always will be, hell, I don't understand regex, I don't intend to. With that said though, I thoroughly reccomend Debian to all my friends.
So, thanks Panix, for the intro to Debian
My Fiance's engagement ring is is a silver ring with three blue topazs.
It's still "showy", but almost 70% cheaper than the same sized/designed silver & diamond ring.
The fact that it was her birth stone and she knew I made the special effort to get it offset that it wasn't a diamond.
However, the real ring must be real, and to quote "I don't care if it's a flake, it's gotta be real."