Copper bars are just thicker wires. Current flowing through a conductor generates heat due to the inherent resistance of the material. The larger the conductor, the less the resistance, thus less heat.
Copper bars are a very common method of conducting DC. You get lower heat, and what heat is generated radiates away quite easily. Plus, you can tap into the line anyplace you can drill and tap a hole.
"Linux is nowhere near providing a mass market user experience and most people working on Linux have absolutely no interest in making it mass market. What some of them want to do is to make the mass market realise how superior the C shell is to a GUI interface but most of the serious developers understand that they are producing something for techies."
My experiences with Linux (Redhat and Mandrake 9.2 and 10.1) have been mostly good, and I learned computing on a unix machine. And spent several years working with it in various flavors and uses.
But for the average user Linux is nowhere near ready. There are too many choices of applications that do the same thing. Too many libraries needed for those apps, and the various libraries all have to be in the proper place. With Windows all you do for an install is answer a very few questions, mostly where you are, and the Product ID, maybe select two or three apps, then you sit back and let the thing go. Got a new app to install? On windows you click on it, then confirm where you want it installed, maybe whether you want a desktop icon, and in a minute or less it is ready to go. On Linux, you need to use the correct installer, then find out you need to install some library that you don't have. Then you need to ensure that it is in the path, then you go back and install the app. 5 minutes later it is installed. Then you need to locate it, then add the app to the menu. And then, after a bit of frustration, and a quite a bit of time, you are ready to use the notepad.
Until the various Linux distros can be installed, and have the various apps as easy to install, they will never be much of a threat to MS.
It should be obvious why they do it. During the week they do not get a lot of business, so offering free wi-fi would increase the business. And since most of the people who do use it would be on a lunch break or only have a little time, there would be no problem. Come the weekend, the crowd would be different. Residents of the area, not people working in the area. They do not need the gimmick of wifi to bring people in, their customer base already exists.
Similar deal to happy hour and lady's night at bars. Get people in when business is slow. Charge extra when there is a draw.
There may be multiple users, but I would guess the vast majority of people using Xp are home users, and are also the most vulnerable to problems, and the most likely to download spyware, adware and viruses.
And almost all of those machines are set so that the user is the administrator, with full permission. I can do anything on my computer, install any software I want, and never have to change permissions. And that is the default method. If you want to make it a bit more secure, you have to know what you are doing.
However, with Linux, and unix, the default is for a user separate from the administrator. You have to login as root to install most programs, to modify any file system other than your own, or even to access some of the directories. The most critical and dangerous commands cannot be run as the user. However, in XP, if you have a stand alone system, you can do anything without logging in as root.
Yeah, you're right. I got the same thing. It was similar to my popup blocking. That was blocking a script from being run or installed. Happens everytime you try to install an extension, unless you choose to allow the site to do so.
I just upgraded yesterday, and it was extremely easy.
I was able to install over my 0.9, and Firefox checked to see what extensions would work, or had updates available, and took care of the whole thing.
I recently upgraded my motherboard and hard drive. Did a completely new install with XP (I won't mutter about the upgrade edition of XP). It took about 45 minutes, but spent several more hours installing and configuring various programs.
I had a 4 gb HD in the box along with a 40 gb, so I tried to install my old Red Hat. It had issues with the hardware. So I got a copy of Mandrake 9.2. Installed and configured it. then decided to partition my 40 gb hard drive and reinstall linux.
Then I had to get my cable modem to work, spent about 15 minutes doing that. In the space of 4 hours I completely installed and configured Linux, including eliminating all sorts of stuff that I was not interested in. And that includes down loading and installing Firefox, thunderbird, and other things that I prefer but do not come with either XP or Linux.
I found Mandrake to be very easy to install, as easy, if not easier, than XP. And certainly faster for the install and extra apps that I like.
I originally started using ad blocking software with
Netscape and a 56K modem, when I found one of my favorite news sites was hanging during loading because the offsite ad server was down. Installed Internet Junkbuster, and killed the ads. I was immediately (as soon as I configured the software, and added the appropriate filters manually) able to see the web pages without the hangs and delays due to slow ad servers, huge images associated with them, and without their stupid cookies.
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Copper bars are just thicker wires. Current flowing through a conductor generates heat due to the inherent resistance of the material. The larger the conductor, the less the resistance, thus less heat. Copper bars are a very common method of conducting DC. You get lower heat, and what heat is generated radiates away quite easily. Plus, you can tap into the line anyplace you can drill and tap a hole.
"Linux is nowhere near providing a mass market user experience and most people working on Linux have absolutely no interest in making it mass market. What some of them want to do is to make the mass market realise how superior the C shell is to a GUI interface but most of the serious developers understand that they are producing something for techies." My experiences with Linux (Redhat and Mandrake 9.2 and 10.1) have been mostly good, and I learned computing on a unix machine. And spent several years working with it in various flavors and uses. But for the average user Linux is nowhere near ready. There are too many choices of applications that do the same thing. Too many libraries needed for those apps, and the various libraries all have to be in the proper place. With Windows all you do for an install is answer a very few questions, mostly where you are, and the Product ID, maybe select two or three apps, then you sit back and let the thing go. Got a new app to install? On windows you click on it, then confirm where you want it installed, maybe whether you want a desktop icon, and in a minute or less it is ready to go. On Linux, you need to use the correct installer, then find out you need to install some library that you don't have. Then you need to ensure that it is in the path, then you go back and install the app. 5 minutes later it is installed. Then you need to locate it, then add the app to the menu. And then, after a bit of frustration, and a quite a bit of time, you are ready to use the notepad. Until the various Linux distros can be installed, and have the various apps as easy to install, they will never be much of a threat to MS.
It should be obvious why they do it. During the week they do not get a lot of business, so offering free wi-fi would increase the business. And since most of the people who do use it would be on a lunch break or only have a little time, there would be no problem. Come the weekend, the crowd would be different. Residents of the area, not people working in the area. They do not need the gimmick of wifi to bring people in, their customer base already exists. Similar deal to happy hour and lady's night at bars. Get people in when business is slow. Charge extra when there is a draw.
There may be multiple users, but I would guess the vast majority of people using Xp are home users, and are also the most vulnerable to problems, and the most likely to download spyware, adware and viruses. And almost all of those machines are set so that the user is the administrator, with full permission. I can do anything on my computer, install any software I want, and never have to change permissions. And that is the default method. If you want to make it a bit more secure, you have to know what you are doing. However, with Linux, and unix, the default is for a user separate from the administrator. You have to login as root to install most programs, to modify any file system other than your own, or even to access some of the directories. The most critical and dangerous commands cannot be run as the user. However, in XP, if you have a stand alone system, you can do anything without logging in as root.
Nah, over here we would say "Thank the good Lord, nobody was hurt. Its' a miracle"
Yeah, you're right. I got the same thing. It was similar to my popup blocking. That was blocking a script from being run or installed. Happens everytime you try to install an extension, unless you choose to allow the site to do so.
It stopped a popup. The bar alerts you so that you can allow popups from the sites you want.
I just upgraded yesterday, and it was extremely easy. I was able to install over my 0.9, and Firefox checked to see what extensions would work, or had updates available, and took care of the whole thing.
I recently upgraded my motherboard and hard drive. Did a completely new install with XP (I won't mutter about the upgrade edition of XP). It took about 45 minutes, but spent several more hours installing and configuring various programs. I had a 4 gb HD in the box along with a 40 gb, so I tried to install my old Red Hat. It had issues with the hardware. So I got a copy of Mandrake 9.2. Installed and configured it. then decided to partition my 40 gb hard drive and reinstall linux. Then I had to get my cable modem to work, spent about 15 minutes doing that. In the space of 4 hours I completely installed and configured Linux, including eliminating all sorts of stuff that I was not interested in. And that includes down loading and installing Firefox, thunderbird, and other things that I prefer but do not come with either XP or Linux. I found Mandrake to be very easy to install, as easy, if not easier, than XP. And certainly faster for the install and extra apps that I like.
I originally started using ad blocking software with Netscape and a 56K modem, when I found one of my favorite news sites was hanging during loading because the offsite ad server was down. Installed Internet Junkbuster, and killed the ads. I was immediately (as soon as I configured the software, and added the appropriate filters manually) able to see the web pages without the hangs and delays due to slow ad servers, huge images associated with them, and without their stupid cookies.