Having an employee take the tape home is the worst backup solution ever. There are far too many risks involved. What do you do if the employee loses the tape? Who then has your accounting data?
What about the quality of the tape? Employee puts tape into her purse/bag/briefcase with all the other garbage in there, not a good place for a tape. How hard would it be to get the tape from an employee if someone wanted to? Employee takes tape, leaves it in car when they pick up groceries, opps, someone stole it. Being kind of simplistic here, I know, but really, if you are using tape, you better be using a security company to pick up and store the tapes.
Depends on settings. Can choose to open a new page (tab), open page in background, new window, do nothing... Like pretty much everything in opera, it's up to you how you want the broweser to work.
Customization is one of the biggest strengths of the this less know browser. But it's what keeps this Linux user paying for this sweet program.
I can't even count the number of times that I've opened IE or Explorer on clients computers only to find that the address bar has been removed. After seeing this and 'fixing' it on one occasion, the user of the particular computer asked me what I did to his web.. confused, I asked him what he meant. He apparently didn't want that on. I asked him how he got to different web sites. His reply, he just typed where he wanted to go in yahoo.
After that I realized, the address bar, is mainly a power user feature, that many web users don't understand, and don't care to use. I say don't complain, they are making a browser for a certain demographic, the AOL user, the CEO. They aren't hoping to get us to convert.
For all of you who complain about the select, middle click method of coping and pasting ever tried to copy and paste in the Microsoft Windows command windows? You select by highlighting the text (sound familiar) and then you paste by right clicking. Now this is different than anywhere else I have ever seen, and far from anything else in Windows.
URLs are the easiest thing in the world under Linux. You highlight the URL you want, then middle click in the middle of the browser. Most of the browsers support this feature and it is such a time saver.
I also really appreciate the fact that I have two clipboards. Once you understand how they work, and that they are seperate, you realize "hey, I can have two things copied at the same time." Most of the time coping means that I want to use it right away, but if I want something to last in the clipboard for awhile, I ctrl-c it, and its waiting for when I want to use it. Simple.
And I must be lazier than the parent poster, as I would rather just highlight and middle click, then to have to highlight - hit ctrl-z - hit ctrl-v
Mandrake isn't just a great desktop distro, it's a great Server distro as well. For rpm based distros I haven't found anything that works as good.
Each server I create starts off with a minimal Mandrake installation, takes no time at all. Then I add sources for urpmi (rpm wrapper like apt-get, checks dependancies etc). Then I start building the server with just what I need to put on it. Nice clean servers. Easy to manage. Just need to add an update source, and urpmi --auto-select updates all packages.
I find it interesting how there is a $.77 levy on the CD's but I always seem to get my CD's here in Canada for around $20-$25 canadian for 100cd's. On bulk buys, spindles of 50 or 100, the stores swallow a large part of the cost for the CD's and who really wants all those cases of burnt shit cluttering up the nice shelves of compact pieces of art which are CD's, there cases, and their inserts.
So, if you're canadian, just buy bulk. Look for the deals, the stores use the low prices to get you into the store (hint, just go in, grab, buy, go out, you don't have to actually buy anything else). I find prices like that cheep enough for me.
just because I'm under 25 doesn't mean I'm not a Lou Reed fan. hell, I have 3 Lou Reed cd's, 4 Velvet Underground CD's plus the Quinn tapes, and about 4 records VU records. But I still don't want (and can't afford) them coming after me because I have dl'ed some stuff of theirs/his that I don't have.
When i registered my domain, I gave the address archos@myprivacy.ca. Any mail sent to this address is is held while a challange is sent to the sender. The sender just has to reply to the challange email, and the original will be sent to me. Automated spammers won't reply to the challange. myprivacy.ca is a free service provided mainly for.ca domains, or for domains registered with a participating registrars.
Does anyone know of any other services like this?
I don't understand this one, more computers are infected with viruses than people getting caught with pot. The courts are going to be fuller than ever.
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Having an employee take the tape home is the worst backup solution ever. There are far too many risks involved. What do you do if the employee loses the tape? Who then has your accounting data?
What about the quality of the tape? Employee puts tape into her purse/bag/briefcase with all the other garbage in there, not a good place for a tape. How hard would it be to get the tape from an employee if someone wanted to? Employee takes tape, leaves it in car when they pick up groceries, opps, someone stole it. Being kind of simplistic here, I know, but really, if you are using tape, you better be using a security company to pick up and store the tapes.
Depends on settings. Can choose to open a new page (tab), open page in background, new window, do nothing... Like pretty much everything in opera, it's up to you how you want the broweser to work.
Customization is one of the biggest strengths of the this less know browser. But it's what keeps this Linux user paying for this sweet program.
I can't even count the number of times that I've opened IE or Explorer on clients computers only to find that the address bar has been removed. After seeing this and 'fixing' it on one occasion, the user of the particular computer asked me what I did to his web.. confused, I asked him what he meant. He apparently didn't want that on. I asked him how he got to different web sites. His reply, he just typed where he wanted to go in yahoo.
After that I realized, the address bar, is mainly a power user feature, that many web users don't understand, and don't care to use. I say don't complain, they are making a browser for a certain demographic, the AOL user, the CEO. They aren't hoping to get us to convert.
For all of you who complain about the select, middle click method of coping and pasting ever tried to copy and paste in the Microsoft Windows command windows? You select by highlighting the text (sound familiar) and then you paste by right clicking. Now this is different than anywhere else I have ever seen, and far from anything else in Windows.
URLs are the easiest thing in the world under Linux. You highlight the URL you want, then middle click in the middle of the browser. Most of the browsers support this feature and it is such a time saver.
I also really appreciate the fact that I have two clipboards. Once you understand how they work, and that they are seperate, you realize "hey, I can have two things copied at the same time." Most of the time coping means that I want to use it right away, but if I want something to last in the clipboard for awhile, I ctrl-c it, and its waiting for when I want to use it. Simple.
And I must be lazier than the parent poster, as I would rather just highlight and middle click, then to have to highlight - hit ctrl-z - hit ctrl-v
Mandrake isn't just a great desktop distro, it's a great Server distro as well. For rpm based distros I haven't found anything that works as good.
Each server I create starts off with a minimal Mandrake installation, takes no time at all. Then I add sources for urpmi (rpm wrapper like apt-get, checks dependancies etc). Then I start building the server with just what I need to put on it. Nice clean servers. Easy to manage. Just need to add an update source, and urpmi --auto-select updates all packages.
I find it interesting how there is a $.77 levy on the CD's but I always seem to get my CD's here in Canada for around $20-$25 canadian for 100cd's. On bulk buys, spindles of 50 or 100, the stores swallow a large part of the cost for the CD's and who really wants all those cases of burnt shit cluttering up the nice shelves of compact pieces of art which are CD's, there cases, and their inserts. So, if you're canadian, just buy bulk. Look for the deals, the stores use the low prices to get you into the store (hint, just go in, grab, buy, go out, you don't have to actually buy anything else). I find prices like that cheep enough for me.
just because I'm under 25 doesn't mean I'm not a Lou Reed fan. hell, I have 3 Lou Reed cd's, 4 Velvet Underground CD's plus the Quinn tapes, and about 4 records VU records. But I still don't want (and can't afford) them coming after me because I have dl'ed some stuff of theirs/his that I don't have.
When i registered my domain, I gave the address archos@myprivacy.ca. Any mail sent to this address is is held while a challange is sent to the sender. The sender just has to reply to the challange email, and the original will be sent to me. Automated spammers won't reply to the challange. myprivacy.ca is a free service provided mainly for .ca domains, or for domains registered with a participating registrars.
Does anyone know of any other services like this?
I don't understand this one, more computers are infected with viruses than people getting caught with pot. The courts are going to be fuller than ever.