I stopped buying music about 5 years ago. I'll start buying CDs again when the music industry makes good on their promise to lower the price of CDs once manufacturing costs come down. After all, they made this promise circa 1990. I can't imagine that CDs still cost twice as much (or more) to manufacture as tape.
I would love to see from mozilla.org some stats about how long the average person keeps firefox running. This thing about memory usage after hours of use is something (I feel) only effects fringe users.
1) I use kino. It's in the Ubuntu repositories, and also available at http://www.getdeb.net/ . For simple video editing, it's really a breeze to use.
Video authoring software (to create the final DVD with menus) that is quite good is DVD Styler.
2) I use vmware server. It's a free download from vmware.com, and free for non-commercial use. When you register, you get a serial number emailed to you.
Actually, just realized a month ago that my workhorse machine at home has 512MB ram. I use it for photo editing and light video editing under Ubuntu Linux. I occassionally run WinXP as a virtual machine, as well. I also run my home website on the machine (basically just a photo album of a few hundred images), and stream music to a home internet appliance (a squeezebox, by slimdevices).
I consider myself an advanced home user, and I don't need 1GB ram. In fact, the only things that would probably get more responsive for me with the extra memory is likely the video editing and my WinXP virtual machine (which I rarely use anyway). I'd rather use the extra money to buy my daughter a child-friendly mouse or trackball.
Fine. She should have called her local precinct or 311 or something else.
That doesn't take away from the potential dangers of an audible 911 alarm on a cell phone.
By the way, let's have a show of hands. How many of you know the number (or have it programmed into your cell phone) of the local police precinct and firehouse where you live AND where you work?
Frankly, I can't think of a photo manager on any OS that works as good as digikam. It's default to ask every time whether to move or copy files you drag and drop a photo from one folder to another is great for novices. I'm not afraid to set up digikam for my dad's photo library.
Get a cheap wallmart computer ($200?). Put it somewhere you can get at but not nearby (I place mine in my paretns' house. Run linux and install ssh and rsync. Run rsync over ssh. The first run will likely take a few days. Set up a script to run rsync over ssh every night.
You end up with a mirror copy that is only a day old (at most) that can survive your house burning down.
It won't save you from stupid mistakes (ie: you delete a file and realize it a week later). If you want something like that, maybe run the remote backup with something like subversion. (?)
If an extension starts allocating megabytes of memory, should a browser stop it? How much is too much? Should this be a limit set by the user (god help my dad, in that case)?
If an extension crashes, I'm not even sure if the browser is supposed to stay open, or crash with it. Certainly an OS should not crash regardless of what a browser does.
Check out my username on the Ubuntu forums, then. I have links to the various portions of my system, so that people know exactly what hardware I'm running.
I'm not sure what you mean by administrative rights to finish installing updates. The updates are changing files in \Program Files\Firefox (or something like that), so of course administrator rights are necessary.
What should be done (I don't know, since I am administrator on my winXP box) is that update should not be possible unless you have the suitable permissions. I know that this is the way on Mac OSX. (On Ubuntu, it's updated via apt-get or Synaptic, so it's not an issue.)
Not only that, but the entire thing ends up being indexed by google, so the next time someone is looking for your service, they end up with a/. discussion by experts mentioning how bad the product is and how good and cheap the alternatives are.
I work in a hospital with an electronic medical record that is pervasive. The entire front-end network is running WinXP.
It's (unfortunately) not uncommon to log onto a system and one of the first windows to come up is a pop-up that tells me to hit "OK" (the only button) so that the system can do it's routine daily reboot.
I ignore the button until I'm ready to log off. Unfortunately, sometimes I click on it before realizing it, and waste a few minutes while windows reboots.
Actually, X-Men 175 didn't show that Madelyne Pryor was another bloody pheonix. It showed that Mastermind was creating an image of the phoenix to screw with people.
At that time, Madelyne Pryor was just a girl that looked like Jean Grey. Frankly, I thought that was pretty interesting in and of itself.:-)
Madelyne Pryor actually being a clone was a later retcon, if I recall correctly.
When, then you've lost plausible deniability of a second encrypted volume, right?
Encrypted partition AAA of 1GB. The partition has a second encrypted partition, BBB, within it of 200MB with the real juicy data. You have the password for AAA and only see a few kilobytes of text files. You copy 999 MB of data into AAA, but it doesn't fit. You now know there is a volume within it.
I admit to never using truecrypt. One question: How do you know if the encrypted partition is full without simple filesystem arithmetic? ie: 1 have a 1GB encrypted volume. I put 900MB porn for plausible deniability. Now I want to put a single file with 200MB of secret data. This should fail, right?
As with everything else, the older stuff looks great because we forget about all the junk that no one ever bought. That being said, there is some classic Chris Claremont stuff and John Byre stuff from the 80s that I keep on reading even now.
The first 50 issues of New Mutants. Uncanny X-Men 100-200, Fantastic 4 140-175. Good stuff all around.
That being said, I have all of these in print and have no moral reason against downloading them in.cbr format from a.torrent site.:-)
Anyone know if these laptops have flash support? Or if it can easily be added? (Probably easy to add, since it is linux.) Planning on getting one for my kid and it would be nice to know.:-)
From my (admittedly limited) understanding of economics, there will always be a poorer class and have-nots. That being said, why should we focus on ourselves and not give to others that have needs.
I would rather give a computer to someone I don't know (and enable them to learn), than give nothing.
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I stopped buying music about 5 years ago. I'll start buying CDs again when the music industry makes good on their promise to lower the price of CDs once manufacturing costs come down. After all, they made this promise circa 1990. I can't imagine that CDs still cost twice as much (or more) to manufacture as tape.
If all you use WinXP is to rip some audio from a DVD, try this:
mplayer -ao pcm:file=yourfilename.wav -vo null dvd://1
(Replace the last digit with the track number you want to rip off the DVD.)
For those not in the U.S., think about someplace like Guantanamo.
I would love to see from mozilla.org some stats about how long the average person keeps firefox running. This thing about memory usage after hours of use is something (I feel) only effects fringe users.
1) I use kino. It's in the Ubuntu repositories, and also available at http://www.getdeb.net/ . For simple video editing, it's really a breeze to use.
Video authoring software (to create the final DVD with menus) that is quite good is DVD Styler.
2) I use vmware server. It's a free download from vmware.com, and free for non-commercial use. When you register, you get a serial number emailed to you.
Actually, just realized a month ago that my workhorse machine at home has 512MB ram. I use it for photo editing and light video editing under Ubuntu Linux. I occassionally run WinXP as a virtual machine, as well. I also run my home website on the machine (basically just a photo album of a few hundred images), and stream music to a home internet appliance (a squeezebox, by slimdevices).
I consider myself an advanced home user, and I don't need 1GB ram. In fact, the only things that would probably get more responsive for me with the extra memory is likely the video editing and my WinXP virtual machine (which I rarely use anyway). I'd rather use the extra money to buy my daughter a child-friendly mouse or trackball.
Fine. She should have called her local precinct or 311 or something else.
That doesn't take away from the potential dangers of an audible 911 alarm on a cell phone.
By the way, let's have a show of hands. How many of you know the number (or have it programmed into your cell phone) of the local police precinct and firehouse where you live AND where you work?
Ditto.
Frankly, I can't think of a photo manager on any OS that works as good as digikam. It's default to ask every time whether to move or copy files you drag and drop a photo from one folder to another is great for novices. I'm not afraid to set up digikam for my dad's photo library.
Get a cheap wallmart computer ($200?). Put it somewhere you can get at but not nearby (I place mine in my paretns' house. Run linux and install ssh and rsync. Run rsync over ssh. The first run will likely take a few days. Set up a script to run rsync over ssh every night.
You end up with a mirror copy that is only a day old (at most) that can survive your house burning down.
It won't save you from stupid mistakes (ie: you delete a file and realize it a week later). If you want something like that, maybe run the remote backup with something like subversion. (?)
If an extension starts allocating megabytes of memory, should a browser stop it? How much is too much? Should this be a limit set by the user (god help my dad, in that case)?
If an extension crashes, I'm not even sure if the browser is supposed to stay open, or crash with it. Certainly an OS should not crash regardless of what a browser does.
Check out my username on the Ubuntu forums, then. I have links to the various portions of my system, so that people know exactly what hardware I'm running.
I'm not sure what you mean by administrative rights to finish installing updates. The updates are changing files in \Program Files\Firefox (or something like that), so of course administrator rights are necessary.
What should be done (I don't know, since I am administrator on my winXP box) is that update should not be possible unless you have the suitable permissions. I know that this is the way on Mac OSX. (On Ubuntu, it's updated via apt-get or Synaptic, so it's not an issue.)
I know a brilliant professor that lost his nose because he took radiation therapy (I think it was X-rays) as a teenager as a treatment for acne.
Nice guy; it ruined his life (obviously).
I just started using tinyURL a couple weeks ago so that I can create a useful signature in some of my bulletin board groups.
Not only that, but the entire thing ends up being indexed by google, so the next time someone is looking for your service, they end up with a /. discussion by experts mentioning how bad the product is and how good and cheap the alternatives are.
I work in a hospital with an electronic medical record that is pervasive. The entire front-end network is running WinXP.
It's (unfortunately) not uncommon to log onto a system and one of the first windows to come up is a pop-up that tells me to hit "OK" (the only button) so that the system can do it's routine daily reboot.
I ignore the button until I'm ready to log off. Unfortunately, sometimes I click on it before realizing it, and waste a few minutes while windows reboots.
Actually, X-Men 175 didn't show that Madelyne Pryor was another bloody pheonix. It showed that Mastermind was creating an image of the phoenix to screw with people.
:-)
At that time, Madelyne Pryor was just a girl that looked like Jean Grey. Frankly, I thought that was pretty interesting in and of itself.
Madelyne Pryor actually being a clone was a later retcon, if I recall correctly.
When, then you've lost plausible deniability of a second encrypted volume, right?
Encrypted partition AAA of 1GB. The partition has a second encrypted partition, BBB, within it of 200MB with the real juicy data.
You have the password for AAA and only see a few kilobytes of text files. You copy 999 MB of data into AAA, but it doesn't fit. You now know there is a volume within it.
I admit to never using truecrypt. One question:
How do you know if the encrypted partition is full without simple filesystem arithmetic?
ie: 1 have a 1GB encrypted volume. I put 900MB porn for plausible deniability. Now I want to put a single file with 200MB of secret data. This should fail, right?
I was thinking +1 Informative.
As with everything else, the older stuff looks great because we forget about all the junk that no one ever bought. That being said, there is some classic Chris Claremont stuff and John Byre stuff from the 80s that I keep on reading even now.
.cbr format from a .torrent site. :-)
The first 50 issues of New Mutants. Uncanny X-Men 100-200, Fantastic 4 140-175. Good stuff all around.
That being said, I have all of these in print and have no moral reason against downloading them in
Heh. That's what you get when you use an overloaded term.
I meant Macromedia(tm) (now Adobe(tm)) Flash(tm).
Anyone know if these laptops have flash support? Or if it can easily be added? (Probably easy to add, since it is linux.) Planning on getting one for my kid and it would be nice to know. :-)
Sure, for a faster return you should always give locally.
But for a better long-term return (think decades down the line), give globally. There is no long-term benefit in keeping people uneducated globally.
From my (admittedly limited) understanding of economics, there will always be a poorer class and have-nots. That being said, why should we focus on ourselves and not give to others that have needs.
I would rather give a computer to someone I don't know (and enable them to learn), than give nothing.