If you're really freaked out about it, run all your web/internet traffic through an encrypted connection to a proxy server outside china's borders, and run your firefox web browser and putty (or whatever you use for ssh) off an encrypted USB drive. Set it up so your history and cookies are also saved to the USB drive instead of on the home folder on your computer.
Unfortunately "Go to school, study hard, and get a good job" is no longer a viable formula for personal economic development, especially in this economy and more specifically in the computer / tech industry.
If you want to work in IT, find an area that has high demand and low supply for a particular skill or service. Learn those skills and make yourself so invaluable to the company that you are nearly indispensable.
And look for smaller companies (I'm talking 100 or less employees) rather than large ones like EA. They will appreciate you much more.
Yea, but is Aishwarya gonna get nekkid for the movie? Inquiring minds want to know. ..
Currently any kind of kissing or sex scenes are strictly forbidden in Indian cinema, I'm sure it will create quite a stir if she gets it on with Mr. Bond.
I've been using linux for about six years now, mostly on web servers during the first couple of years. Back in 2001, I tried making Redhat 7 my distro of choice for my laptop and there was just way too much trouble getting all the drivers and devices working. Little things like copying and pasting between apps didn't work, and finally I decided it was just not practical to work with.
Those days have come and gone, and both Gnome and KDE have left MS Windows in the dust. The level of configurability and eye candy that you get with KDE or Gnome is awesome! And take a distribution like Fedora Core and you can have a windows user up and running in a few minutes.
At my company our entire sales staff uses the Fedora Core 3 desktop and they all like it.
Not necessarily - some bloggers are right there on the ground watching the news unfold in front of their eyes. Take for example that Saed fellow in Iraq, quite interesting to hear from somebody right in the middle of the conflict.
I doubt Apple will drop the price on their computers just because of lower component costs. The high-end Macintosh has always cost around $3000 USD, as far back as I can remember. Back in 1984, the original Macintosh sold for $2495.00. Now you can buy a dual G5 processor Powermac for around the same price, or a little higher if you go for top-of-the-line.
There is a danger of underpricing an item and devaluing it in the mind of your customers.
Apple/Macintosh computers have an amazing resale value compared to wintel boxes - the ones I've seen selling on ebay go for nearly 80% of original price compared to wintel computers.
I have visited Delhi and it is extremely heart-rending to see so many people suffering from hunger, disease, crime, and violence. Compassion alone should be reason enough to spend that $80 million on feeding and clothing people, rather than a dubious space-shot.
According to Vedic culture, one must do what is in harmony with Mother Nature's laws. By going against this basic truth they are only paving their own path to ruin, just as the United States is doing.
Let us hope mother India will return to her peaceful and glorious ways.
That is, until you're on vacation or a business trip, and there is a power outage in your area shutting down your email server. Or some other problem crops up - the dynamic dns stops working or whatever.
If you're in a position to help make purchasing decisions at your company, and you need a laptop or more than one you should try to buy from HP. Vote with your dollars and help bring linux into the mainstream.
This is a bunch of BS - there is no way the Internet is going to be shut down by government or big media. Take off the tinfoil hat and settle down a bit.
Ok, the k-name convention is cute and all but can get extremely annoying. Why does every last bloody package have to start with a freaking K? It makes it a real pain in the ass for a rookie end-user to find what they want when everything starts with a K. First of all it makes it hard to read anything in alphabetical order, and secondly the names can get confusing.
The default system menu that ships with Fedora Core 2 is a more ideal way to set up a menu, where the name of each program explains WHAT IT DOES, rather than trying to shoehorn some cute name into something that starts with K (or G for you Gnome fans). For example:
Instead of saying GAIM it says "Internet Messenger"
Not to start a Gnome / KDE flamewar here but we have twelve users on linux workstations and they all do just fine in the custom Gnome environment provided with FC2. They all came from using Windows and there was not a steep learning curve at all.
I personally find the nautilus spacial browsing really annoying though, and even moreso that the only way to turn it off is to dig way down in the gconf editor.
THank you so much for pointing this out. My end users have been complaining for weeks "Why is the Internet so slow?" No one in my lug group knew why this was happening, we all thought it was crappy nameservers.
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If you're really freaked out about it, run all your web/internet traffic through an encrypted connection to a proxy server outside china's borders, and run your firefox web browser and putty (or whatever you use for ssh) off an encrypted USB drive. Set it up so your history and cookies are also saved to the USB drive instead of on the home folder on your computer.
Unfortunately "Go to school, study hard, and get a good job" is no longer a viable formula for personal economic development, especially in this economy and more specifically in the computer / tech industry. If you want to work in IT, find an area that has high demand and low supply for a particular skill or service. Learn those skills and make yourself so invaluable to the company that you are nearly indispensable. And look for smaller companies (I'm talking 100 or less employees) rather than large ones like EA. They will appreciate you much more.
Yea, but is Aishwarya gonna get nekkid for the movie? Inquiring minds want to know. . .
Currently any kind of kissing or sex scenes are strictly forbidden in Indian cinema, I'm sure it will create quite a stir if she gets it on with Mr. Bond.
To be balanced, they should have another sticker that reads:
"Creationism is also a theory, not a fact."
Why not spend $100 more and get one of those new Mac Mini units? All the gooey OSX goodness without the $3000 price tag.
I've been using linux for about six years now, mostly on web servers during the first couple of years. Back in 2001, I tried making Redhat 7 my distro of choice for my laptop and there was just way too much trouble getting all the drivers and devices working. Little things like copying and pasting between apps didn't work, and finally I decided it was just not practical to work with. Those days have come and gone, and both Gnome and KDE have left MS Windows in the dust. The level of configurability and eye candy that you get with KDE or Gnome is awesome! And take a distribution like Fedora Core and you can have a windows user up and running in a few minutes. At my company our entire sales staff uses the Fedora Core 3 desktop and they all like it.
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Not necessarily - some bloggers are right there on the ground watching the news unfold in front of their eyes. Take for example that Saed fellow in Iraq, quite interesting to hear from somebody right in the middle of the conflict.
In the French version of Halo 2, your main weapons are a very hard baguette and a big white flag.
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiter.
This is not intended as a troll - but honestly - go get a real merchant account.
I doubt Apple will drop the price on their computers just because of lower component costs. The high-end Macintosh has always cost around $3000 USD, as far back as I can remember. Back in 1984, the original Macintosh sold for $2495.00. Now you can buy a dual G5 processor Powermac for around the same price, or a little higher if you go for top-of-the-line. There is a danger of underpricing an item and devaluing it in the mind of your customers. Apple/Macintosh computers have an amazing resale value compared to wintel boxes - the ones I've seen selling on ebay go for nearly 80% of original price compared to wintel computers.
The parent poster has been sacked and replaced with trained llamas.
I have visited Delhi and it is extremely heart-rending to see so many people suffering from hunger, disease, crime, and violence. Compassion alone should be reason enough to spend that $80 million on feeding and clothing people, rather than a dubious space-shot. According to Vedic culture, one must do what is in harmony with Mother Nature's laws. By going against this basic truth they are only paving their own path to ruin, just as the United States is doing. Let us hope mother India will return to her peaceful and glorious ways.
That is, until you're on vacation or a business trip, and there is a power outage in your area shutting down your email server. Or some other problem crops up - the dynamic dns stops working or whatever.
If you're in a position to help make purchasing decisions at your company, and you need a laptop or more than one you should try to buy from HP. Vote with your dollars and help bring linux into the mainstream.
Yes, but he DOES have a satellite dish with a receiver which he is ALSO not allowed to take apart or modify, even though it belongs to him.
"Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye."
This is a bunch of BS - there is no way the Internet is going to be shut down by government or big media. Take off the tinfoil hat and settle down a bit.
I just ordered a Danger Sidekick (original). Maybe its not too late to cancel and wait for the II?
An air traffic server has no business being available on the public Internet for terrorists to log on to.
Ok, my bad. I haven't used KDE recently enough to know that they updated the menu. Last time I tried it it was just a jumble of Ks :)
Believe it or not, every cat my mother in law has owned has been called "Ming", Tagalog (Filipino) for you guessed it, "cat".
The default system menu that ships with Fedora Core 2 is a more ideal way to set up a menu, where the name of each program explains WHAT IT DOES, rather than trying to shoehorn some cute name into something that starts with K (or G for you Gnome fans). For example:
Instead of saying GAIM it says "Internet Messenger"
Instead of Mozilla, it says "Web Browser"
Not to start a Gnome / KDE flamewar here but we have twelve users on linux workstations and they all do just fine in the custom Gnome environment provided with FC2. They all came from using Windows and there was not a steep learning curve at all. I personally find the nautilus spacial browsing really annoying though, and even moreso that the only way to turn it off is to dig way down in the gconf editor.
THank you so much for pointing this out. My end users have been complaining for weeks "Why is the Internet so slow?" No one in my lug group knew why this was happening, we all thought it was crappy nameservers.