How about this line: "I have GBs of ripped music, application installs, etc which I
will lose." Hello! You are an IT person at MIT and you don't have a firewire/USB2 external drive with the backed up data? Really???
Sure. I'd also love to have all open source and such. But then, most things aren't. Are you compiling only using gcc or you use a commercial compiler (e.g. intel's fortran or c)? How validated are the compilers? How about the microcode of the CPU?
In the end, the issue is how much you trust the links that build the chain of causation... NOTHING is 100% reliable, not your compiler, not your CPU, not your measuring device of any sort. But we can hope that they are reasonably good...
home and end does not even become context sensitive on the mac (e.g. when typing on a 1 line input form, home and end do not go to the home and end of the line either).
You mean the US treats other countries in good faith? Are you serious? Like the rampant corruption brought in by massive privatization in, e.g. Russia or Argentina? Or how about the massive agricultural subsidies that make it hard for developing countries to use their agriculture as spring-boards to development? Or how about the massive tariffs the US imposes on certain products (e.g. ethanol from Brazil). Or the times that the US lets some produce rot while "waiting inspection" so that the offending country cannot compete in some market (case in point: about 2 years ago a shipload of lemmons from Argentina were held for a month because of pressure from the US citrus lobby). No kidding, that's really fair commerce. Why wouldn't these countries ignore some of the rules the US makes?
Except that China is the #1 financer of the US deficit (brought up by spend-and-spend-and-spend-and-spend "conservatives"). So, the US cuts-off China's commerce, and China cuts-off the US financing. Mmmm, lets see... global collapse is the end-result. No, I do not think the US has any real power over China anymore.
Are you out of your mind? There is a widespread "standard": control-A means select ALL (that's what the A stands for). You change it in your software, you are in fault.
Before, probably no one would steal the thing. Now, just wait 24 hours and the machines will go into the black market. If I were in charge of buying this thing for a government, the fact it runs windoze would automatically make me cancel the order.
Thanks! This is great news. As I will be either accessing the mail from the main machine (using tb) or using ssh (using pine) they will not be used at the same time so no conflicts there!
Many thanks!
What I would really like is a way to use thunderbird and pine concurrently on the same machine (linux). The idea is that when I am physically at the machine I'd use thunderbird (prettier), but when away, I could ssh to the box and use pine instead. All OK, but I still have not figured a way to make pine and thunderbird to share the same "received" "sent" etc mail files so that I could transparently use them on either system.
Any help?????
Wait! Actually I think some states have legislation stating the value of PI. And it is sometimes quite funny. I think some places legislate it to be 22/7 (which is not a horrible approximation has only a 0.04% error!). I also seem to recall that the bible says it is 3...
How typical... just stuff a single file with "everything" so that a single fault can wipe everything. How smart! (windows registry, mail file, etc). I use PINE for e-mail, each month the files are moved to a block file for that month "sent-Mar-2007" and "received-Mar-2007". The files are simple text (meaning: you can recover information from them easily). If a catastrophe happens, then you only loose 1 month of data. Simple, yet most commercial e-mail programs ignore this simple rule...
Typical american view of the world: everyone is starving out there. FYI: the OLPC is not intended to starving people, it is *not* food... It is intended for people who get their *basic* needs met already with the idea of helping themselves get out of poverty and hopefully improving the general economy of the country as well. Gee, what's so difficult to grasp? Following your argument we should not give any education to the poor either since what they need is food? What huge nonsense.
in chuk-o-cheese (? or some silly namelike this) they paint a code with fluorescent ink (it is only visible under UV light) in the kid and parent forearm. They only allow kids to go out with a parent with matching code. OK, not 100% foolproof (no encryption used, hence code could be duplicated), but the idea is sane (once a simple hash with a password is used). Simpler, cheaper, and the only way to get it off the child is too scary to mention in this PG forum...
Indeed, the fact that some MP3 players try to even obscure the files (MY files) that I put on them made me return more than one... For example the Apple Ipod. Nice player but it drove me nuts. Although I could drag and drop files to it and use it as a nice 30GB external disk, these files would not be recognized by the player itself! I could not read text files, I could not play drm-free mp3's, I could not see jpg's, I could not play mp4 videos (MY VIDEOS, not drm'd ones). The only way for this silly device to see them was to import then into itunes, which would simply scramble the file names and put the files in a hidden folder, and then I could not transfer the files to another computer in an easy way. What a stupid device. These are MY FILES and I want to use the device MY WAY. So after 6 days I simply returned the Ipod to the place I bought it (I assume at a loss to apple...). Oh, well... sad devices, indeed!
This is NOT breaking into someone else's airwaves. I am sorry, but if you send unsecured packets through the airspace in my home then I feel completely free to use them as I please. Either: a) use encryption or b) a low intensity signal. The supposed equivalent of breaking into someone's homes just because the door is locked is wrong, the correct analogy is someone leaving stuff inside your kitchen and you taking it...
Come on guys (and gals?)! This is not an essential element for life we're talking about! This is not some scam to get extra food rations before they are over, or medicine, etc. This is just a gaming machine. Same old thing that happens at almost every concert that is popular (poor people get in line early as "agents" for someone else). So they were homeless and/or chinese, so what? Where is the "racism" implied in the tags of the article? This clearly shows nothing has happened over the weekend...
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How about this line: "I have GBs of ripped music, application installs, etc which I will lose." Hello! You are an IT person at MIT and you don't have a firewire/USB2 external drive with the backed up data? Really???
Sure. I'd also love to have all open source and such. But then, most things aren't. Are you compiling only using gcc or you use a commercial compiler (e.g. intel's fortran or c)? How validated are the compilers? How about the microcode of the CPU? In the end, the issue is how much you trust the links that build the chain of causation... NOTHING is 100% reliable, not your compiler, not your CPU, not your measuring device of any sort. But we can hope that they are reasonably good...
home and end does not even become context sensitive on the mac (e.g. when typing on a 1 line input form, home and end do not go to the home and end of the line either).
You mean the US treats other countries in good faith? Are you serious? Like the rampant corruption brought in by massive privatization in, e.g. Russia or Argentina? Or how about the massive agricultural subsidies that make it hard for developing countries to use their agriculture as spring-boards to development? Or how about the massive tariffs the US imposes on certain products (e.g. ethanol from Brazil). Or the times that the US lets some produce rot while "waiting inspection" so that the offending country cannot compete in some market (case in point: about 2 years ago a shipload of lemmons from Argentina were held for a month because of pressure from the US citrus lobby). No kidding, that's really fair commerce. Why wouldn't these countries ignore some of the rules the US makes?
Except that China is the #1 financer of the US deficit (brought up by spend-and-spend-and-spend-and-spend "conservatives"). So, the US cuts-off China's commerce, and China cuts-off the US financing. Mmmm, lets see... global collapse is the end-result. No, I do not think the US has any real power over China anymore.
Are you out of your mind? There is a widespread "standard": control-A means select ALL (that's what the A stands for). You change it in your software, you are in fault.
Before, probably no one would steal the thing. Now, just wait 24 hours and the machines will go into the black market. If I were in charge of buying this thing for a government, the fact it runs windoze would automatically make me cancel the order.
That is why one should stick to PS or at least PCL printers...
Home and End keys do not work as expected (go to the beginning and to the end of a line of text, respectively). I find this tremendously irritating.
Thanks! This is great news. As I will be either accessing the mail from the main machine (using tb) or using ssh (using pine) they will not be used at the same time so no conflicts there! Many thanks!
This does only work for the files in the server... not for the files in the local computer. Not good since the server is limited to ca. 100 MB.
What I would really like is a way to use thunderbird and pine concurrently on the same machine (linux). The idea is that when I am physically at the machine I'd use thunderbird (prettier), but when away, I could ssh to the box and use pine instead. All OK, but I still have not figured a way to make pine and thunderbird to share the same "received" "sent" etc mail files so that I could transparently use them on either system. Any help?????
Wait! Actually I think some states have legislation stating the value of PI. And it is sometimes quite funny. I think some places legislate it to be 22/7 (which is not a horrible approximation has only a 0.04% error!). I also seem to recall that the bible says it is 3...
How typical... just stuff a single file with "everything" so that a single fault can wipe everything. How smart! (windows registry, mail file, etc). I use PINE for e-mail, each month the files are moved to a block file for that month "sent-Mar-2007" and "received-Mar-2007". The files are simple text (meaning: you can recover information from them easily). If a catastrophe happens, then you only loose 1 month of data. Simple, yet most commercial e-mail programs ignore this simple rule...
Here is the source... The "ALL-CRAFT" of the University of Missouri. http://all-craft.missouri.edu/
> This guy was pushing Linux for a decade and decided to give up today,
> a just a few days after Vista announcement? Give me a break
Simple: $$$ from M$...
I do live in the midwest and, no, we do not have those "nice highways". Have you driven I70 in MO??? Clearly not...
Typical american view of the world: everyone is starving out there. FYI: the OLPC is not intended to starving people, it is *not* food... It is intended for people who get their *basic* needs met already with the idea of helping themselves get out of poverty and hopefully improving the general economy of the country as well. Gee, what's so difficult to grasp? Following your argument we should not give any education to the poor either since what they need is food? What huge nonsense.
in chuk-o-cheese (? or some silly namelike this) they paint a code with fluorescent ink (it is only visible under UV light) in the kid and parent forearm. They only allow kids to go out with a parent with matching code. OK, not 100% foolproof (no encryption used, hence code could be duplicated), but the idea is sane (once a simple hash with a password is used). Simpler, cheaper, and the only way to get it off the child is too scary to mention in this PG forum...
Exactly the same idea here!!!!!
Heck! If they slammed the RIAA to the ground I'd start buying MS software!
Indeed, the fact that some MP3 players try to even obscure the files (MY files) that I put on them made me return more than one... For example the Apple Ipod. Nice player but it drove me nuts. Although I could drag and drop files to it and use it as a nice 30GB external disk, these files would not be recognized by the player itself! I could not read text files, I could not play drm-free mp3's, I could not see jpg's, I could not play mp4 videos (MY VIDEOS, not drm'd ones). The only way for this silly device to see them was to import then into itunes, which would simply scramble the file names and put the files in a hidden folder, and then I could not transfer the files to another computer in an easy way. What a stupid device. These are MY FILES and I want to use the device MY WAY. So after 6 days I simply returned the Ipod to the place I bought it (I assume at a loss to apple...). Oh, well... sad devices, indeed!
This is NOT breaking into someone else's airwaves. I am sorry, but if you send unsecured packets through the airspace in my home then I feel completely free to use them as I please. Either: a) use encryption or b) a low intensity signal. The supposed equivalent of breaking into someone's homes just because the door is locked is wrong, the correct analogy is someone leaving stuff inside your kitchen and you taking it...
Come on guys (and gals?)! This is not an essential element for life we're talking about! This is not some scam to get extra food rations before they are over, or medicine, etc. This is just a gaming machine. Same old thing that happens at almost every concert that is popular (poor people get in line early as "agents" for someone else). So they were homeless and/or chinese, so what? Where is the "racism" implied in the tags of the article? This clearly shows nothing has happened over the weekend...
Without RFA: Probably a graduate student doing research in their lab... :)