I'm fairly sure that Sally Secretary's job involves much less word processing, and much more time organisation than you'd imagine.
Her job stopped being purely an interface to a type writer, and started being a general organiser as soon as everyone got computers on their desk.
Creating a distro that emulates a typewriter, would be pointless....just go and buy a type writer.... You'll find that most secretaries these days rely much more heavily on Outlook than they do on word, and to be honest, as much as I like evolution, it's still not there.
What will make Sally Secretary happy is if her new box is intuitive. That doesn't mean that it has to be a windows clone, it just means that if she mucks around with it long enough, she'll be able to work out why the printers not working.
And FYI, my wife happens to be a secretary, and not only does she regularly use *nix, she's a dab hand at sorting things out when I'm at work, and I've lost connectivity to home:). In my experience, the people that will really have difficulties getting into linux are the 55 year old long timers that have worked in the company since 5 years before it was formed, and have no idea how to even turn the thing on....
just wait for someone to hack in and steal all the text - Let's face it, it's probably only a few gigs. Just one disgruntled employee would be all it takes to put the whole thing out there on p2p.
Let's free the information! No one should own thoughts!
I keep meaning to try and get it working on my box, since it'd be nice to know that even if the polizei do come calling, they wouldn't be able to tell if my harddrives are even formatted....
I'd love to see as much thought that goes into a cd album being put into this:
Specifically, I'd definately pay for a package that contained:
High quality vbr mp3s. Multiple peices of album artwork, not just a scan of cd-album front cover. Lyric files to all the MP3s. Where available guitar chords as well.
I think that copy protection would be a big turn off. For indie bands, I reckon that the majority of people would be happy to buy, even if they could get it for free, just as a matter of support.
Perhaps an introduction to the album by the artists concerned.
The function doesn't stop you sharing, it just stops someone listing all the files you are sharing.
This means that if they request a file _directly then they can have it, however they can't browse. I would say this in it self makes it fairly difficult for the RIAA/MPAA to work out what you're sharing.
If you're paranoid, then use StegFS to store your mighty porn/mp3/movie collection. When the polizei come calling, just claim that someone must of been downloading over your wireless lan.
I've been thinking recently, that a really good way to get people into linux would be to have a couple of really decent games for the platform.
The trouble being that we're in a chicken-egg senario right now (the chicken did btw...) - no killer linux only games exist, and because mostly only geeks are using linux at home right now, no (killer) games are written for linux.
So how about using knoppix as the answer - basically, if you want to play our game, you have to put the disk in and reboot.... a knoppix like distro could boot, and then the game could automatically load on top of that. No doubt performance would be better since you're now not likely using 500megs of ram on all the quickstart agents that inevitably seem to load up on boot...
You could also include a way of just booting up into a normal kde system by hitting the right key on loadup - the kids would absolutely love the new/coolness factor of it, and voila! 10 years from now we'll have kids remeniscing how the first time they touched linux was when it came distributed with XYZ linux.
Plus linux can get some great press because it's suddenly a gaming platform as well!
It is a cross p2p network client, capable of connecting to eDonkey/Overnet, Gnutella, Fasttrak, Shareaza, and a whole host of others. It's also a fairly decent BitTorrent client.
It has a very nice html interface, and that is a major bonus, since you can also then set it up so that you can start new files downloading at home, while you're at work (but be careful folks, make sure you've got your setup pretty tight, or I'm sure you'll have script kiddies downloading hardcore pRon for you all night long)
A few years ago, myself and a friend found another, equally interesting use for old CDs:
You can use a stack of them hooked up together as a big high-voltage capacitor!
We connected them all up, then passed in ~20K volts, and it really could hold it's charge (I can't remember the numbers - since then, I've lived in amsterdam for 3 years, and a'dam tends to have a negative effect on ones memory....). What was amazing was when you hooked it up to the powersource, all the disks were attracted to each other and clamped up really tight.
Discharging the thing was amazing, and the 'zap' (for want of a better word) could easily burn through some thick paper...
Maybe when I've got some time I'll repeat the setup, this time with some photos, then I'll enjoy a good ol' fashioned slashdotting...
The point I was trying to make is, that there's really no need for such huge cars, as far as I know they don't transport any more people, and at the end of the day they're costing us all.
quote " Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters - the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill "
No, the beauty of the current (US) military development/spending is that it's a self fulfilling system:
Developing bigger, nastier, more effective killing machines only makes those darn terrorists more likely to want to fly planes into buildings or whatever their next plan is.
And of course then dubya will have to punish them by invading a totally uninvolved 3rd world country.
And everyone knows that when you're attacking people only armed with mangos and the like, M16s and the like will just not cut it.
In the UK, pretty much any post you send arrives the next morning.
I currently live in Switzerland, and the post takes a couple of days to get back home, but it always arrives.
I'm not sure why the US thinks it needs to suggest a new scheme. Perhaps the US needs a new scheme internally, but is that to say that the rest of the world does ?
But there are some decent artists out there over the last 20 or 30 years that have changed things.
From my anglo-centric viewpoint, I'd say that people will still know about pink floyd, radiohead and a whole host of others in 200 years time......no doubt there'll be 24th century kids bored sensless with it all by some dryer than dry music teacher.
In my experience, there's only one true way to make it look like you're working hard the whole day long - get ssh access to your box at home, then spend the whole day screwing around with it.
If people come into your office, and see you frantically hacking away at some code, or examining syslogs or whatever, they automatically assume that it's work.
Funnily enough, my machine at home is now about 100 times more secure and those personal projects keep moving:)
Having said that, if I have a deadline, I'll always make it. Too bad the boss doesn't know that most of my tasks take hours and not days;)
For those of you that haven't please please please watch "Bowling for Columbine" my god thats one scary movie.
Does anyone else feel like we're getting to the point in world politics where we have to act, I no longer feel confident that our leaders even remotely consider our best interests.
I thought that NASA stays with the old 8080s (or whatever they have) because they have like a 8 micron spacing by comparison to new PIVs at.18 or.13 or whatever they've got to.
The amount of stray radiation plays havocs when the spacing is too close - electrons can get bumped up and jump.....
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm,
:). In my experience, the people that will really have difficulties getting into linux are the 55 year old long timers that have worked in the company since 5 years before it was formed, and have no idea how to even turn the thing on....
I'm fairly sure that Sally Secretary's job involves much less word processing, and much more time organisation than you'd imagine.
Her job stopped being purely an interface to a type writer, and started being a general organiser as soon as everyone got computers on their desk.
Creating a distro that emulates a typewriter, would be pointless....just go and buy a type writer.... You'll find that most secretaries these days rely much more heavily on Outlook than they do on word, and to be honest, as much as I like evolution, it's still not there.
What will make Sally Secretary happy is if her new box is intuitive. That doesn't mean that it has to be a windows clone, it just means that if she mucks around with it long enough, she'll be able to work out why the printers not working.
And FYI, my wife happens to be a secretary, and not only does she regularly use *nix, she's a dab hand at sorting things out when I'm at work, and I've lost connectivity to home
Ha ha ha.....devious....I like it.
just wait for someone to hack in and steal all the text - Let's face it, it's probably only a few gigs. Just one disgruntled employee would be all it takes to put the whole thing out there on p2p.
Let's free the information! No one should own thoughts!
ha ha.
Generally the filesystem keeps more than one copy of each inode so that even if one gets overwritten, it's not the end of the world.
Also check out rubberhose - another "plausible denial" filesystem.
Electromagnets you say ?
What about StegFS....
I keep meaning to try and get it working on my box, since it'd be nice to know that even if the polizei do come calling, they wouldn't be able to tell if my harddrives are even formatted....
Damn it, must get that working.....
dew-genen-ny said: MCI Worldcom are back! Just that they dropped the Worldcon part.....
I'd love to see as much thought that goes into a cd album being put into this :
;)
Specifically, I'd definately pay for a package that contained:
High quality vbr mp3s.
Multiple peices of album artwork, not just a scan of cd-album front cover.
Lyric files to all the MP3s.
Where available guitar chords as well.
I think that copy protection would be a big turn off. For indie bands, I reckon that the majority of people would be happy to buy, even if they could get it for free, just as a matter of support.
Perhaps an introduction to the album by the artists concerned.
And of course, some decent music
Urm no.
The function doesn't stop you sharing, it just stops someone listing all the files you are sharing.
This means that if they request a file _directly then they can have it, however they can't browse. I would say this in it self makes it fairly difficult for the RIAA/MPAA to work out what you're sharing.
If you're paranoid, then use StegFS to store your mighty porn/mp3/movie collection. When the polizei come calling, just claim that someone must of been downloading over your wireless lan.
What could they say ?
i told u i was hardcore.... so, someone else noticed autopron was beaten.....
I've been thinking recently, that a really good way to get people into linux would be to have a couple of really decent games for the platform.
The trouble being that we're in a chicken-egg senario right now (the chicken did btw...) - no killer linux only games exist, and because mostly only geeks are using linux at home right now, no (killer) games are written for linux.
So how about using knoppix as the answer - basically, if you want to play our game, you have to put the disk in and reboot.... a knoppix like distro could boot, and then the game could automatically load on top of that. No doubt performance would be better since you're now not likely using 500megs of ram on all the quickstart agents that inevitably seem to load up on boot...
You could also include a way of just booting up into a normal kde system by hitting the right key on loadup - the kids would absolutely love the new/coolness factor of it, and voila! 10 years from now we'll have kids remeniscing how the first time they touched linux was when it came distributed with XYZ linux.
Plus linux can get some great press because it's suddenly a gaming platform as well!
Try MLDonkey
It is a cross p2p network client, capable of connecting to eDonkey/Overnet, Gnutella, Fasttrak, Shareaza, and a whole host of others. It's also a fairly decent BitTorrent client.
It has a very nice html interface, and that is a major bonus, since you can also then set it up so that you can start new files downloading at home, while you're at work (but be careful folks, make sure you've got your setup pretty tight, or I'm sure you'll have script kiddies downloading hardcore pRon for you all night long)
Really can't recommend it enough.A few years ago, myself and a friend found another, equally interesting use for old CDs:
You can use a stack of them hooked up together as a big high-voltage capacitor!
We connected them all up, then passed in ~20K volts, and it really could hold it's charge (I can't remember the numbers - since then, I've lived in amsterdam for 3 years, and a'dam tends to have a negative effect on ones memory....). What was amazing was when you hooked it up to the powersource, all the disks were attracted to each other and clamped up really tight.
Discharging the thing was amazing, and the 'zap' (for want of a better word) could easily burn through some thick paper...
Maybe when I've got some time I'll repeat the setup, this time with some photos, then I'll enjoy a good ol' fashioned slashdotting...
Doesn't MPlayer ???
Mplayer - the movie player for linux.
Nice idea....
Just wait a few seconds and take another picture!
Why don't they do that back here on earth?
The point I was trying to make is, that there's really no need for such huge cars, as far as I know they don't transport any more people, and at the end of the day they're costing us all.
If you need confirmation check out here and here
quote " Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters - the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill "
No, the beauty of the current (US) military development/spending is that it's a self fulfilling system:
Developing bigger, nastier, more effective killing machines only makes those darn terrorists more likely to want to fly planes into buildings or whatever their next plan is.
And of course then dubya will have to punish them by invading a totally uninvolved 3rd world country.
And everyone knows that when you're attacking people only armed with mangos and the like, M16s and the like will just not cut it.
13.6 Liter.
And might I ask, who the hell would need that ?
That seems absurd. Don't tell me it's for performance.... afaik these days the japanese are ahead in street racing, with much, much smaller engines.
Even F1 cars are less than 3 litres, and they easily break 200mph.
Maybe we need to pursuade car manufacturers to build more effecient engines....then start tuning the computers.....
In the UK, pretty much any post you send arrives the next morning.
I currently live in Switzerland, and the post takes a couple of days to get back home, but it always arrives.
I'm not sure why the US thinks it needs to suggest a new scheme. Perhaps the US needs a new scheme internally, but is that to say that the rest of the world does ?
Remember Americans ÜSA!=World
From BBC website, it's around 1kgcm^-2 .
It does unstick easy, you just need to peel away from an edge.
I'm sure that it'd be a hell of a lot better than current tires....
Perhaps in the US....
I was working as a Network Engineer for them, in amsterdam, and as far as I know, we only had a test IPv6 network.
We did a lot of discussing IPv6, and as per most of the big ISPs right now, decided that it isn't currently worth it.
Could insert obligatory US != world comment, but to be honest that's totally how Wcom worked....Europe? that in Texas ???
As an ex-worldcom employee, I'm almost 100% they didn't use IPv6.....
Have you checked out URPMI ?
It solves all dependencies by just downloading all the stuff you need.
Gotta say, it's made those mad rpm downloading sessions and circular dependancy problems a thing of the past....
Anyways, I've got 9.1, and as far as I'm concerned it's the absolute dogs doodaas.
Sure he will.
...no doubt there'll be 24th century kids bored sensless with it all by some dryer than dry music teacher.
But there are some decent artists out there over the last 20 or 30 years that have changed things.
From my anglo-centric viewpoint, I'd say that people will still know about pink floyd, radiohead and a whole host of others in 200 years time...
In my experience, there's only one true way to make it look like you're working hard the whole day long - get ssh access to your box at home, then spend the whole day screwing around with it.
:)
;)
If people come into your office, and see you frantically hacking away at some code, or examining syslogs or whatever, they automatically assume that it's work.
Funnily enough, my machine at home is now about 100 times more secure and those personal projects keep moving
Having said that, if I have a deadline, I'll always make it. Too bad the boss doesn't know that most of my tasks take hours and not days
For those of you that haven't please please please watch "Bowling for Columbine" my god thats one scary movie.
Does anyone else feel like we're getting to the point in world politics where we have to act, I no longer feel confident that our leaders even remotely consider our best interests.
I thought that NASA stays with the old 8080s (or whatever they have) because they have like a 8 micron spacing by comparison to new PIVs at .18 or .13 or whatever they've got to.
The amount of stray radiation plays havocs when the spacing is too close - electrons can get bumped up and jump.....
Or am I talking out of my arse.....