Cherry makes keyboards for all major layouts and can refer you to companies that ship internationally. They also have (or had) a pack available with all of the five or six major layouts in one bundle -- this is commonly purchased by test labs who need to make sure Windows apps will work on each.
From a marketing standpoint. That's it. It's hard to immediately discern how it's pronounced, it's got seven uneven letters, it's relatively long and it has no obvious immediate meaning or collection of related possible meanings based on the roots of the word.
I've really got to agree here. Bad names have killed some of the better open source projects, and there's no question that this should be the primary focus right now. For example, "xfree86." Who's going to remember that? I think this project is dead before it's even begun.
Linux? What is that, "lee nooks?" "Li Nucks?" "Lin You X?" Could this be any more awkward?
And what the hell do "tar" and "emacs" mean!? Saddled with confusing names which have nothing to do with the project, these two are sure never getting off the ground...
To understand the new perl6 iterators, $% and ^%, it is important to perform a brief exercise. Breathe in, saying "no" to yourself. Exhale sharply, saying "yes." Grab your ankles and close your eyes, pretend your hands are somebody else's. Try to run away and pretend they are holding you back. Pretend somebody else is running away, and hold them back, breathing in "no," and out, "yes." This is God. Breathe in and run away, "$%." Breathe out and hold them back, "^%."
Careful -- security fixes don't always go straight into testing. If you run testing, you'll have to manually build many security updates or pull extra packages from unstable to satisfy the version requirements for fixed packages.
If you want to slashdot it, the IP address is visible in some of the screen shots. It's 169.254.226.132, but I'm not cruel enough to actually turn that into a hyperlink.:-)
Outside of China, there's an excellent benefit from China swarming all over Linux: This means there will be Linux support out of the gate for those strange, cheap, no-name peripherals you see in plain little boxes all over the computer stores. This means less reverse-engineering Windows drivers, and less hair pulling at trying to get specs from engineers all the way across the globe.
But I won't give my credit card number to a thousand different sites...
Until there's a standard for centralized payments
Happy to oblige... here's your answer [link to MS Passport].
Actually, Microsoft got rid of the wallet feature early this summer. Even when they offered the feature, they were still giving your credit card number to merchants rather than acting as middle man for the payments, so you were still leaving yourself open to all the problems that come with a hundred sites with varying levels of security all having your card number.
I'll gladly pay for better content. No contest there.
But I won't give my credit card number to a thousand different sites. I will not subscribe to a bunch of sites (recurring payments or minimum payments greater than what I'll use on my visit), and I will not enter my personal information over and over and over again. And when it comes to downloadable books, software and music, I want that content downloadable forever, or the deal's off.
Until there's a standard for centralized payments (it's fine if there are multiple payment centers, so long as they all speak the same protocol), I'm going to use Google to hunt for alternate sites for information and entertainment.
Until downloadable content is as loss-proof as a book or a CD (meaning my library doesn't go away if a hard drive goes away without a backup or I run out of space and have to kill a folder of tunes I won't listen to for a few months), it doesn't feel like you actually own anything. If you have a permanent account with permanent access, you feel like you've purchased something, and it feels like your money's afforded you a little certainty. If you only get one, two or three downloads or a 30-day cap and then you're screwed, it's just as fulfilling (and often less trouble) for others to load up bittorrent and grab a few movies and CD images. The whole download-limited purchase thing seems really short-sighted.
I use my keychain to slowly transport my mp3s to work, rather than going to the trouble of burning CDs or abusing the company network.
Just a few lines of shell script and a cron job at each end, and you can populate your keychain with 32, 64, however many megs of files at a go every night and drop them off at work in the morning. If you're the kind who plugs your keychain into your system at work and home already, the copy process can be completely transparent.
I set up my scripts late last year. With a tiny little $35 32 meg keychain, I've already transported over 5 gigs without ever once having to wait or think about the process. Get a bigger keychain, and you could go many times faster.
If you're walking around with ssh keys on your keychain, please remember to use strong password encryption on the key. The person who finds your keyfob may not be a stranger to your net habits.
If you've got a key you tend to use from only one place (i.e. work->home), consider prefixing the authorized_hosts line with a from="some.hostname.com" as well. This will prevent the key being used from a different IP by someone who "borrows" your keychain.
If you Google for "hosted havenco" you'll find a few casino sites that advertise being at HavenCo. From there, you can simply check port 80 on other addresses in the same netblock.
When I hunted around, I found a few more casinos and a money exchanger (virtual money) outfit, nothing exciting.
If you can't afford $500/mo for 64k you don't need HavenCo hosting.
Maybe so, but if not enough people need HavenCo hosting for HavenCo to survive, perhaps they need to compete as a conventional provider at least long enough to fill in some of the dead slots. So long as the incremental cost of adding servers is less than the money each would gross, this is only common sense. If the incremental cost of adding each extra server actually approaches $500/month however, then they have some serious problems.
In all fairness, the 64kbit machine was a special which included the lease.
The higher-end plans all involve purchasing hardware from them, however. It's inconvenient, but I don't remember the hardware prices being too altogether absurd -- it's just the monthly fees and the bandwidth charges that kill you. And even a local connection between two colocated machines is abusively expensive.
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Cherry makes keyboards for all major layouts and can refer you to companies that ship internationally. They also have (or had) a pack available with all of the five or six major layouts in one bundle -- this is commonly purchased by test labs who need to make sure Windows apps will work on each.
They used to say it was "eight megs and constantly swapping." But that was when eight megs mattered.
Sure, but I remember you saying that about "Leenix" and "empeethree" too.
I've really got to agree here. Bad names have killed some of the better open source projects, and there's no question that this should be the primary focus right now. For example, "xfree86." Who's going to remember that? I think this project is dead before it's even begun.
Linux? What is that, "lee nooks?" "Li Nucks?" "Lin You X?" Could this be any more awkward?
And what the hell do "tar" and "emacs" mean!? Saddled with confusing names which have nothing to do with the project, these two are sure never getting off the ground...
Careful -- security fixes don't always go straight into testing. If you run testing, you'll have to manually build many security updates or pull extra packages from unstable to satisfy the version requirements for fixed packages.
Erm -- whoever moderated this "informative" missed the joke. :-) Someone mod it back down?
Fat-fingered the paste. Rather, the source code is here.
The source code is here. See for yourself. :-)
If you want to slashdot it, the IP address is visible in some of the screen shots. It's 169.254.226.132, but I'm not cruel enough to actually turn that into a hyperlink. :-)
Outside of China, there's an excellent benefit from China swarming all over Linux: This means there will be Linux support out of the gate for those strange, cheap, no-name peripherals you see in plain little boxes all over the computer stores. This means less reverse-engineering Windows drivers, and less hair pulling at trying to get specs from engineers all the way across the globe.
As with all Slashdot stories... once again, the Amiga had it first. (lower right)
And there was much rejoicing.
Mirror of the flaming blower
I'd say it was a call for any kind of RPC application framework, not just .NET's particular flavor.
Maybe it would help prove their masculinity if they each accessorized with one of those jolly orange 300MHz iPurses.
...to diffuse the gay sailor image any more than the snow-white knickers and jaunty art cap did!!!
Actually, Microsoft got rid of the wallet feature early this summer. Even when they offered the feature, they were still giving your credit card number to merchants rather than acting as middle man for the payments, so you were still leaving yourself open to all the problems that come with a hundred sites with varying levels of security all having your card number.
But I won't give my credit card number to a thousand different sites. I will not subscribe to a bunch of sites (recurring payments or minimum payments greater than what I'll use on my visit), and I will not enter my personal information over and over and over again. And when it comes to downloadable books, software and music, I want that content downloadable forever, or the deal's off.
Until there's a standard for centralized payments (it's fine if there are multiple payment centers, so long as they all speak the same protocol), I'm going to use Google to hunt for alternate sites for information and entertainment.
Until downloadable content is as loss-proof as a book or a CD (meaning my library doesn't go away if a hard drive goes away without a backup or I run out of space and have to kill a folder of tunes I won't listen to for a few months), it doesn't feel like you actually own anything. If you have a permanent account with permanent access, you feel like you've purchased something, and it feels like your money's afforded you a little certainty. If you only get one, two or three downloads or a 30-day cap and then you're screwed, it's just as fulfilling (and often less trouble) for others to load up bittorrent and grab a few movies and CD images. The whole download-limited purchase thing seems really short-sighted.
Just a few lines of shell script and a cron job at each end, and you can populate your keychain with 32, 64, however many megs of files at a go every night and drop them off at work in the morning. If you're the kind who plugs your keychain into your system at work and home already, the copy process can be completely transparent.
I set up my scripts late last year. With a tiny little $35 32 meg keychain, I've already transported over 5 gigs without ever once having to wait or think about the process. Get a bigger keychain, and you could go many times faster.
If you've got a key you tend to use from only one place (i.e. work->home), consider prefixing the authorized_hosts line with a from="some.hostname.com" as well. This will prevent the key being used from a different IP by someone who "borrows" your keychain.
When I hunted around, I found a few more casinos and a money exchanger (virtual money) outfit, nothing exciting.
Maybe so, but if not enough people need HavenCo hosting for HavenCo to survive, perhaps they need to compete as a conventional provider at least long enough to fill in some of the dead slots. So long as the incremental cost of adding servers is less than the money each would gross, this is only common sense. If the incremental cost of adding each extra server actually approaches $500/month however, then they have some serious problems.
The higher-end plans all involve purchasing hardware from them, however. It's inconvenient, but I don't remember the hardware prices being too altogether absurd -- it's just the monthly fees and the bandwidth charges that kill you. And even a local connection between two colocated machines is abusively expensive.
They really need to offer lower rates to fill those racks up a bit more, save the novelty premiums for those last slots.