Dialer software from ISPs is often of value to traveling users. Typically it will present a memu that allows the user to select from the ISPs points of presence.
As more poeple use VPNs to connect to the office while travelling on business this type of software becomes increasingly useful.
The google.com.au annoys the f*ck out of me, since it's a typo I have made more than a few times (being in Australia means typing.au is somewhat automatic. When you hit instra.com.au they won't let you out of the site with the browser "Back" button.
I emailed then about this when I first ended up at their site accidentally, and had no response. The last time I made the mistake, nothing had changed: Another hosting company I wouldn't touch becuase of the mindset behind that sort of thing.
For the last couple of months I'd been using Moz 0.94, until in a moment of boredom I decided to download Netscape last week.
I find NS6.2 is
(a) lot faster than Mozilla (0.94) when it comes to clicking on menu's etc. and the install process was smooth and easy.
(b) a lot less likely to eat all my memory up after a few days of operation
(c) have not seen a segfault in a week since install.
(d) doesn't crash on some web sites, necessitating me to move to Opera to perform some tasks.
Once mozilla has the stability and performance I need I will go with that for ideological reasons, but for now, NS6.2 is filling a big gap in Linux browser software.
So reading between the lines here, I could buy cheap hardware, because the 'system' would detect my lack of precessing power, and use the more expensive, better resourced kit that others had bought instead, and dimply deliver the ther results.
Oh hang on, everyone else has the same idea too. Who would pay for the expenive machaines that were to do everyone elses work? Maybe we could call those big expsnive systems mainframes
Thus you'd need to bring in some sort of charging structure, with a rebate scehem if you provided processing power to others. Presumably run by a centraised authority. I wonder who that might be?
By writing this sort of article, the author merely continues the cycle of coverage, as do I, and other contributers do here.
Our reactions are out of our individual control, a powerful mass conciousness of our new globalised world we have created for ourseleves, where we see things like this when happen, even if we are not actually there.
We need to communicate better and understand each other more, and this experience of collective horror shows us how much more we have in common with each other, and how insignificant our differences.
Well the less net users story might turn out to be more significant than the AOL story. People are already receiving a net experience they choose to do without.
Congratulations, humanity! A big collective "No!" at some subconcious cultural level. It is quite re-assuring, really:)
We [/.ers] can have a cleaner net exerience if we want to, becuase we know how to. But no-ones making much money from us either.
More bandwidth to share between us, eh? I hear there isn't a shortage of bandwidth really these days, just a shortage of people using it. Last week the company I work for decided to reduce it's international ATM link by 50%. Smarter use of what we have by using easy to use and adjust QOS systems QOS, and a saving monthy of A$20,000 per month.
Disk have problem, noone there to fix in reasonable time, other IT systems in disarray (!:)), company struggles, either takes on IT staff again or fails.
I worked at a nuclear fuel manufacturing and research eastablishement for a several years, during which time there was a big press story about radio-active material going missing.
What was being missed (by the reporters, not the research organisation), was that this was entirely expected.
(a) Heavy metals weigh a lot, so a little missing sounds like a lot
(b) When you saw a preice of metal in half, thereis a small qunatitiy of metalic paticles, shavings if you like, that cannot be weighed and accounted for, caught in oil traps etc.
Over a period of years, this means that an establishment will receive more material than it sends out.
I found my http://domain.com.au very usful - assoicated with Fairfax press in Australia, they have all the real estate ads, on line, and are searchable by location, price, type etc. It was a great tool for getting a list of properties to inspect, and getting the home buyers early start on a Saturday. Using this method I could easily generate a shortlist for a dozen or so houses to inspect each week.
Once a house was chosen, it was back to using an agent & solicitor. To buy a house you need to be there in person to get the best price; there is a whol psychology involved, with the agent playing the both sides of the fence...
It save you only a few dollars for the increasing complexity. In the price range to which you refer, we are talking inkjet technology. It is the consumables market which makes money, and are the expensive bit to manufacture.
Glad you have a clue, unlike many poeple who contributed to the I Hate New Year thread, who seem to think women are some weird species who must be dealt with using tactics and techniques.
To those people: Social skills, real freindships, love, are, in part, about respect, not gender or sexuality.
A preconfigured system with Win/Mac functionality and connectivity out of the box, a cool intuitive interface such as eazel on it (Dell), office functionality (even if lacking the more esoteric features of commerical software) would be very attractive to consumers.
Working for this type of computer system would be the subscription type methods of software sales being adopted by the current market dominators, where it is no longer possible to choose to remain with an older version of a product.
It won't suit some poeple and for others, it would be just right. Poeple who are not overly familiar with the techology itself will have a choice which can easily be explained to them.
To understand drugs you have to take them, or know at least in some way about the nature of addiction. Some poeple are designed for addiction. Some poeple think drug addiction is cool. Some poeple are bored, some people want to get high enoght to escape, at least in the beginning. I would never had been able to image beforehand what drug addiction was like. I knew when I was becoming addicted, I couldn't have stoped myself. I remember looking in a mirror and thinking I had to trust myself to somehow come out at the other sid, like stepping into a black hole.
I was what I had to do to become the person I am today. Here I am some years later, older, wiser, and very happy.
There are many reasons why poeple take drugs. None of them are an excuse for bailing out from the social responsibilty we all have to the people around us. We should understand they are a complex issue, and that complex means multifacetted, not just hard. Drugs make poeple selfish, becuase they need the drug more than they need anything else, which is just sad.
The Apple Coprpration has announced today a new line of personal computers, in cases shaped as apples (why haven't we though of that before?). In this product line are:
. Golden Delicious . Red Delicious . Granny Smith.
More varieties are planned. A line of accessories will include:
. Apple Pie . Apple Sauce.
Several OEM Vendors are working on projects such as:
fans in PCs are cheap componants with crap bearings. therefore cheap fan = better profits. also the blades and housing collect dust so the air flow is less smooth.
and it always makes your new PC seem so nice for a while. if PCs didn't rattle and wheeze as they got older poeple would have a reason less to upgrade.
on a similar vein, why do old PCs always look discoloured. perhaps the dyes on the beige are designed to turn to that special nictine-stain colour...
We lease becuase it's an ongoing affordable expense rathger than a large captial outlay of stuff that depreciate, or is generally to expensive to afford even if it appreciates.
In reality, we have, with capitalism, and the technology which supports it, simply built a house of cards. One day our cilizisation will end, as many others have before us.
Yet we live in the world we live in, we can't choose to ignore the rest of our poeple, becasue the rest of our poeple simply won't let us.
Sending out 1st generation buggy products is standard for Sony - I saw a TV documentary which followed the rise and rise of Sony. The same thing happened with the Trinitron TV way back, where there was a fault on the tubes which meant the picture brightness would reduce after a few months.
What was interesting was the founders of the company are genuniely enthralled by technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Dialer software from ISPs is often of value to traveling users. Typically it will present a memu that allows the user to select from the ISPs points of presence.
As more poeple use VPNs to connect to the office while travelling on business this type of software becomes increasingly useful.
RG
The google.com.au annoys the f*ck out of me, since it's a typo I have made more than a few times (being in Australia means typing .au is somewhat automatic. When you hit instra.com.au they won't let you out of the site with the browser "Back" button.
I emailed then about this when I first ended up at their site accidentally, and had no response. The last time I made the mistake, nothing had changed: Another hosting company I wouldn't touch becuase of the mindset behind that sort of thing.
Where can you get the ogg stream from for BBC-R1?
It isn't on the availble streams on the 'listen' link of their web site?
For the last couple of months I'd been using Moz 0.94, until in a moment of boredom I decided to download Netscape last week.
I find NS6.2 is
(a) lot faster than Mozilla (0.94) when it comes to clicking on menu's etc. and the install process was smooth and easy.
(b) a lot less likely to eat all my memory up after a few days of operation
(c) have not seen a segfault in a week since install.
(d) doesn't crash on some web sites, necessitating me to move to Opera to perform some tasks.
Once mozilla has the stability and performance I need I will go with that for ideological reasons, but for now, NS6.2 is filling a big gap in Linux browser software.
Peace 2002
Richard
So reading between the lines here, I could buy cheap hardware, because the 'system' would detect my lack of precessing power, and use the more expensive, better resourced kit that others had bought instead, and dimply deliver the ther results.
Oh hang on, everyone else has the same idea too. Who would pay for the expenive machaines that were to do everyone elses work? Maybe we could call those big expsnive systems mainframes
Thus you'd need to bring in some sort of charging structure, with a rebate scehem if you provided processing power to others. Presumably run by a centraised authority. I wonder who that might be?
RG
By writing this sort of article, the author merely continues the cycle of coverage, as do I, and other contributers do here.
Our reactions are out of our individual control, a powerful mass conciousness of our new globalised world we have created for ourseleves, where we see things like this when happen, even if we are not actually there.
We need to communicate better and understand each other more, and this experience of collective horror shows us how much more we have in common with each other, and how insignificant our differences.
When we are ready it will pass.
RG
Who goes to Harrods for dinner?
Well the less net users story might turn out to be more significant than the AOL story. People are already receiving a net experience they choose to do without.
:)
Congratulations, humanity! A big collective "No!" at some subconcious cultural level. It is quite re-assuring, really
We [/.ers] can have a cleaner net exerience if we want to, becuase we know how to. But no-ones making much money from us either.
More bandwidth to share between us, eh? I hear there isn't a shortage of bandwidth really these days, just a shortage of people using it. Last week the company I work for decided to reduce it's international ATM link by 50%. Smarter use of what we have by using easy to use and adjust QOS systems QOS, and a saving monthy of A$20,000 per month.
RG
And to contunue with your scenario...
:)), company struggles, either takes on IT staff again or fails.
Disk have problem, noone there to fix in reasonable time, other IT systems in disarray (!
I worked at a nuclear fuel manufacturing and research eastablishement for a several years, during which time there was a big press story about radio-active material going missing.
What was being missed (by the reporters, not the research organisation), was that this was entirely expected.
(a) Heavy metals weigh a lot, so a little missing sounds like a lot
(b) When you saw a preice of metal in half, thereis a small qunatitiy of metalic paticles, shavings if you like, that cannot be weighed and accounted for, caught in oil traps etc.
Over a period of years, this means that an establishment will receive more material than it sends out.
RG
I found my http://domain.com.au very usful - assoicated with Fairfax press in Australia, they have all the real estate ads, on line, and are searchable by location, price, type etc. It was a great tool for getting a list of properties to inspect, and getting the home buyers early start on a Saturday. Using this method I could easily generate a shortlist for a dozen or so houses to inspect each week.
Once a house was chosen, it was back to using an agent & solicitor. To buy a house you need to be there in person to get the best price; there is a whol psychology involved, with the agent playing the both sides of the fence...
It save you only a few dollars for the increasing complexity. In the price range to which you refer, we are talking inkjet technology. It is the consumables market which makes money, and are the expensive bit to manufacture.
Bikes are cool. I ride 60KM most days to work, take public transport when the weather is bad or I have a hangover.
Just like a porn site, when you open up the article, you get another pop-up window you didn't ask for, trying to sell you something else....
A practice more and more common these days I know, but surely a technique initially championed by the porn industry.
RG
Guess it's the nature of geeks, to play devils advocate. Stop's him (and us) getting lazy.
Glad you have a clue, unlike many poeple who contributed to the I Hate New Year thread, who seem to think women are some weird species who must be dealt with using tactics and techniques.
:)
To those people: Social skills, real freindships, love, are, in part, about respect, not gender or sexuality.
And to you: Happy New Year
A preconfigured system with Win/Mac functionality and connectivity out of the box, a cool intuitive interface such as eazel on it (Dell), office functionality (even if lacking the more esoteric features of commerical software) would be very attractive to consumers.
Working for this type of computer system would be the subscription type methods of software sales being adopted by the current market dominators, where it is no longer possible to choose to remain with an older version of a product.
It won't suit some poeple and for others, it would be just right. Poeple who are not overly familiar with the techology itself will have a choice which can easily be explained to them.
RG
To understand drugs you have to take them, or know at least in some way about the nature of addiction. Some poeple are designed for addiction. Some poeple think drug addiction is cool. Some poeple are bored, some people want to get high enoght to escape, at least in the beginning. I would never had been able to image beforehand what drug addiction was like. I knew when I was becoming addicted, I couldn't have stoped myself. I remember looking in a mirror and thinking I had to trust myself to somehow come out at the other sid, like stepping into a black hole.
I was what I had to do to become the person I am today. Here I am some years later, older, wiser, and very happy.
There are many reasons why poeple take drugs. None of them are an excuse for bailing out from the social responsibilty we all have to the people around us. We should understand they are a complex issue, and that complex means multifacetted, not just hard. Drugs make poeple selfish, becuase they need the drug more than they need anything else, which is just sad.
http://www.tweaker.org
The Apple Coprpration has announced today a new line of personal computers, in cases shaped as apples (why haven't we though of that before?). In this product line are:
.
.
. Golden Delicious . Red Delicious . Granny Smith
More varieties are planned. A line of accessories will include:
. Apple Pie . Apple Sauce
Several OEM Vendors are working on projects such as:
. Custard . Lamb Chops .
...maybe. Poeple stopped wearing radioactive underwear, marketed as a cure-all-aches-and-pains early 19th C. once the dangers were realised.
fans in PCs are cheap componants with crap bearings. therefore cheap fan = better profits. also the blades and housing collect dust so the air flow is less smooth.
and it always makes your new PC seem so nice for a while. if PCs didn't rattle and wheeze as they got older poeple would have a reason less to upgrade.
on a similar vein, why do old PCs always look discoloured. perhaps the dyes on the beige are designed to turn to that special nictine-stain colour...
We lease becuase it's an ongoing affordable expense rathger than a large captial outlay of stuff that depreciate, or is generally to expensive to afford even if it appreciates.
In reality, we have, with capitalism, and the technology which supports it, simply built a house of cards. One day our cilizisation will end, as many others have before us.
Yet we live in the world we live in, we can't choose to ignore the rest of our poeple, becasue the rest of our poeple simply won't let us.
Sending out 1st generation buggy products is standard for Sony - I saw a TV documentary which followed the rise and rise of Sony. The same thing happened with the Trinitron TV way back, where there was a fault on the tubes which meant the picture brightness would reduce after a few months.
What was interesting was the founders of the company are genuniely enthralled by technology.
philosphy is not about winning or losing. if a philosophy works, it is simply a statement of the truth.
No, more suitable for Storm Linux... instead of a 'Twister' rip-off on the box...