We're concerned because most crisis call lines are not the phone bank you see on TV, but volunteers that work at home. As a crisis line volunteer, you want your home number blocked so that the client calls the crisis line and not you.
Some of the people we deal with aren't particularly stable and may try to latch on to the crisis worker - these, if they go into common use, could cause mental health issues for the users of crisis hotlines, AND the volunteers.
I've seen an (illegal) hack to turn Windows XP into a terminal server. I'm not sure how legal this is (since there's no reference to purchasing additional Windows licenses), but ThinSoft's WinConnect has a commercial program that does the same thing the hack does. There are problems with WinConnect: the license is really harsh (PC died? Tough crap, buy another license), and Windows XP doesn't regulate resources well in this mode: if six people launch the same app, you have six separate instances (rather than one split) run, with all the resource requirements six times over.
Let's expand the parameters a bit - disparate hardware, maybe someone wants one of your existing PCs to run Windows occasionally (or a teacher with a Mac wants onto the shared box): Try XRDP. It sets up quickly, can be access by multiple platforms, and on the client end just requires an rdesktop command.
I'm no programmer, so I can't addressed the "cobbled-together" comment, but from an administrative point-of-view, I must disagree.
I've never had an easier installation of such a program. Likewise, updating is just as easy. The telnet interface takes its root from the 300-baud days, and isn't necessary for it to work - it's no more or less secure than anything that uses telnet (which is to say, not secure). However, there's ssh and its own text client (which is quite nice) to get around that.
That would, of course, be the advantage to audio.:) I suppose they also had to wait this long to figure out a way to make his Doctor actually likeable.
Thanks for the plug - compared to much of what the BBC has put out lately on Doctor Who (Death Comes to Time, and those two unfortunte stories with Jon Pertwee), it's nice to know that there's a group that really has the spirit of Doctor Who in their stories and directing.
This is the third audio that BBCi has put our of original Doctor Who - the two previous (Death comes to Time and Real Time) were done with Real. At least from watching the trailer, Flash works out much better, both in appearance, and in the bandwidth requirements.
As for why they're doing it again. The original Shada, with Tom Baker, was never finished because of labor strikes. Tom Baker has said on several occasions that he's done with Doctor Who (probably because it took a LONG time to get over the typecasting), so they're doing it with the "current" Doctor, from the BBC/FOX movie, Paul McGann. It's being done by Big Finish, which have been doing great original audios with all the living doctors (except Tom Baker, of course), and I trust they'll pull it off quite well.
That is the first time I've heard ANYONE call the PowerMac case boring. Long in the tooth yes, but still better looking (and MUCH better designed) than other large-scale retailers (yes, custom cases can be cooler, but I don't see any in mass production).
They should give some props to the old Newton - many of the Newton people (including Steve Capps, known as the Father of the Newton) worked on the Tablet PC.
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There's been lots of talk about open-sourcing the Newton, and there's several reasons why it won't happen:
First, much of the Newton is based on licensed technology, so it's not Apple's to release.
Second, even if Apple wanted to release the parts of Newton that are their IP, it's been reports that Apple can't even find the information its based on! I don't recall where these reports came from (if you have the energy you can search - but it's pretty old news for us Newtoneers).
There was an attempt to re-create the Newton's interface (GNUton) but it's a long way from completion, if ever.
Actually, it's Big Finish Productions that's been making Doctor Who audio dramas for the last coupld of years.
They've been waging a quiet battle to get them carried at Barnes & Noble and Borders Booksellers, and have been asking people to request them. The request won't go through, of course, but will help them open up a BIG potential revenue source. After you request it, go back to Big Finish's site and order it for real.:)
Anyone remember The Tomorrow People? Big Finish has just started doing audio versions of that show, too (and you thought Doctor Who had a small budget?). You might like Linux, but TIM rocks.
I've watched the first couple of seasons of Robot Wars courtesy PBS, and I've seen a few episodes of Battlebots while on trips (I don't have cable, but I have DSL - gotta have my priorities!), and I have to say, I prefer Robot Wars.
First, while we all like to see the little buggers beat each other senseless, I think the additional challenges in Robot Wars is a much better test of the robots, and the people who control them.
Second, where Battlebots does WWF-style bits, Robot Wars goes behind the scenes to survey the damage, and how the teams repair and prepare for the next round.
Third, no stupid WWF imitations.
Fourth, no stupid WWF imitations.
Fifth, Robot Wars seems to have more of a sense of humor and innovation (a robot that looks like Elvis, another made from 19th century baby-carrige wheels - both of which did quite well)
As people gripe about ignorant web users using Remarq, I have to point out that, at least in my case, it's because my work ISP (whom I have no chance of changing) has a newsfeed that sucks.
I dropped dejanews when it switched to deja - I've had enough service problems with them prior to my dropping them to wonder what other services people would recommend.
I think it's a wonderful idea to look into volunteering your services, but asking where to go? Just look outside your window - almost any (except the Big Name charities) non profit organization has to live off of grants, and can't afford any type of real work on computers.
Use your contacts as geeks - find out about donating old computers (I recently found a bunch of old 486s, which was like mana from heaven for a sexual assault organization), or brush on your basics. If you have to ask others where to volunteer, you don't have enough of a life.
A couple years ago (has it been that long?) when a Texas company offered Apple $11M for the discarded Newton, one of the remaining Newton people in Apple anonymously revealed that the disruption of the Newton group was so complete that Apple didn't even know where the various parts (be they hardware or software specs) were. So, even if Apple did was to sell, they couldn't.
You have to realize that most of us Newton users have heard of all this before - it's REALLY old news. Most of the people who developed the Newton eventually went to Palm and M$ for WinCE. The more work that goes into the Palm, the closer it becomes to the MessagePad 130.
As for me, I'm very disappointed that nothing has come around to replace my Newton.
There's been a change in the attitudes concerning capitalism and in capitalists. Disney's history (politics of Walt aside)is a perfect example.
is that the capitalists, while wanting to make money, also had visions and ideas to improve society and the world. Any philanthropic gestures by corporations today are almost strictly for tax breaks or good P.R.
From what I'm getting from the article, Walt's vision of Epcot would have been similar to Biosphere 2 where you have a working, productive model that seeks to serve society, and that picks up a tidy sum in the process.
Putting aside that Microsoft crashed and burned when trying to switch to NT, Exchange doesn't support the RBL - so that would ice it. I know plenty of poor sods who use Exchange (because the non-computing boss said so), who would like to use the RBL, but can't.
America's schools have been heading this direction for quite some time. Not only is it very common to brand each student with ID numbers and badges they cannot remove (this has gone on for some time in or nation's poorer schools), they're also creating an atmosphere where it's increasingly difficult to raise children free of commercial influences.
The Pepsi advertisement really bothers me. These people have no choice but to be a walking advertisement. I, for one, find America's corporate culture very unhealthy, and would question any public institution's forceful indoctrination.
Of course, most lefties are too busy working to change the world, and don't have the money to hire armies to do it for them.:-b
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We're concerned because most crisis call lines are not the phone bank you see on TV, but volunteers that work at home. As a crisis line volunteer, you want your home number blocked so that the client calls the crisis line and not you.
Some of the people we deal with aren't particularly stable and may try to latch on to the crisis worker - these, if they go into common use, could cause mental health issues for the users of crisis hotlines, AND the volunteers.
I've seen an (illegal) hack to turn Windows XP into a terminal server. I'm not sure how legal this is (since there's no reference to purchasing additional Windows licenses), but ThinSoft's WinConnect has a commercial program that does the same thing the hack does. There are problems with WinConnect: the license is really harsh (PC died? Tough crap, buy another license), and Windows XP doesn't regulate resources well in this mode: if six people launch the same app, you have six separate instances (rather than one split) run, with all the resource requirements six times over.
Let's expand the parameters a bit - disparate hardware, maybe someone wants one of your existing PCs to run Windows occasionally (or a teacher with a Mac wants onto the shared box): Try XRDP. It sets up quickly, can be access by multiple platforms, and on the client end just requires an rdesktop command.
I'm no programmer, so I can't addressed the "cobbled-together" comment, but from an administrative point-of-view, I must disagree.
I've never had an easier installation of such a program. Likewise, updating is just as easy. The telnet interface takes its root from the 300-baud days, and isn't necessary for it to work - it's no more or less secure than anything that uses telnet (which is to say, not secure). However, there's ssh and its own text client (which is quite nice) to get around that.
That would, of course, be the advantage to audio. :) I suppose they also had to wait this long to figure out a way to make his Doctor actually likeable.
Thanks for the plug - compared to much of what the BBC has put out lately on Doctor Who (Death Comes to Time, and those two unfortunte stories with Jon Pertwee), it's nice to know that there's a group that really has the spirit of Doctor Who in their stories and directing.
And they even make Colin Baker look good!
They included a apostrophe in the title! (Blakes 7/Blake's 7)
This is the third audio that BBCi has put our of original Doctor Who - the two previous (Death comes to Time and Real Time) were done with Real. At least from watching the trailer, Flash works out much better, both in appearance, and in the bandwidth requirements.
As for why they're doing it again. The original Shada, with Tom Baker, was never finished because of labor strikes. Tom Baker has said on several occasions that he's done with Doctor Who (probably because it took a LONG time to get over the typecasting), so they're doing it with the "current" Doctor, from the BBC/FOX movie, Paul McGann. It's being done by Big Finish, which have been doing great original audios with all the living doctors (except Tom Baker, of course), and I trust they'll pull it off quite well.
That is the first time I've heard ANYONE call the PowerMac case boring. Long in the tooth yes, but still better looking (and MUCH better designed) than other large-scale retailers (yes, custom cases can be cooler, but I don't see any in mass production).
A bit of paint and you've got a pretty good approximation of Slave from Blakes 7.
Too bad High Weirdness By Mail hasn't been updated since 1988. Would be nice to put him on the foreskin savers list.
They should give some props to the old Newton - many of the Newton people (including Steve Capps, known as the Father of the Newton) worked on the Tablet PC.
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Oh, god - flashback. Sorry about that, folks.
There's been lots of talk about open-sourcing the Newton, and there's several reasons why it won't happen: First, much of the Newton is based on licensed technology, so it's not Apple's to release. Second, even if Apple wanted to release the parts of Newton that are their IP, it's been reports that Apple can't even find the information its based on! I don't recall where these reports came from (if you have the energy you can search - but it's pretty old news for us Newtoneers). There was an attempt to re-create the Newton's interface (GNUton) but it's a long way from completion, if ever.
Actually, it's Big Finish Productions that's been making Doctor Who audio dramas for the last coupld of years.
:)
They've been waging a quiet battle to get them carried at Barnes & Noble and Borders Booksellers, and have been asking people to request them. The request won't go through, of course, but will help them open up a BIG potential revenue source. After you request it, go back to Big Finish's site and order it for real.
Anyone remember The Tomorrow People? Big Finish has just started doing audio versions of that show, too (and you thought Doctor Who had a small budget?). You might like Linux, but TIM rocks.
First, while we all like to see the little buggers beat each other senseless, I think the additional challenges in Robot Wars is a much better test of the robots, and the people who control them.
Second, where Battlebots does WWF-style bits, Robot Wars goes behind the scenes to survey the damage, and how the teams repair and prepare for the next round.
Third, no stupid WWF imitations.
Fourth, no stupid WWF imitations.
Fifth, Robot Wars seems to have more of a sense of humor and innovation (a robot that looks like Elvis, another made from 19th century baby-carrige wheels - both of which did quite well)
As people gripe about ignorant web users using Remarq, I have to point out that, at least in my case, it's because my work ISP (whom I have no chance of changing) has a newsfeed that sucks.
I dropped dejanews when it switched to deja - I've had enough service problems with them prior to my dropping them to wonder what other services people would recommend.
I think it's a wonderful idea to look into volunteering your services, but asking where to go? Just look outside your window - almost any (except the Big Name charities) non profit organization has to live off of grants, and can't afford any type of real work on computers.
Use your contacts as geeks - find out about donating old computers (I recently found a bunch of old 486s, which was like mana from heaven for a sexual assault organization), or brush on your basics. If you have to ask others where to volunteer, you don't have enough of a life.
A couple years ago (has it been that long?) when a Texas company offered Apple $11M for the discarded Newton, one of the remaining Newton people in Apple anonymously revealed that the disruption of the Newton group was so complete that Apple didn't even know where the various parts (be they hardware or software specs) were. So, even if Apple did was to sell, they couldn't.
You have to realize that most of us Newton users have heard of all this before - it's REALLY old news. Most of the people who developed the Newton eventually went to Palm and M$ for WinCE. The more work that goes into the Palm, the closer it becomes to the MessagePad 130.
As for me, I'm very disappointed that nothing has come around to replace my Newton.
There's been a change in the attitudes concerning capitalism and in capitalists. Disney's history (politics of Walt aside)is a perfect example.
is that the capitalists, while wanting to make money, also had visions and ideas to improve society and the world. Any philanthropic gestures by corporations today are almost strictly for tax breaks or good P.R.
From what I'm getting from the article, Walt's vision of Epcot would have been similar to Biosphere 2 where you have a working, productive model that seeks to serve society, and that picks up a tidy sum in the process.
Putting aside that Microsoft crashed and burned when trying to switch to NT, Exchange doesn't support the RBL - so that would ice it. I know plenty of poor sods who use Exchange (because the non-computing boss said so), who would like to use the RBL, but can't.
America's schools have been heading this direction for quite some time. Not only is it very common to brand each student with ID numbers and badges they cannot remove (this has gone on for some time in or nation's poorer schools), they're also creating an atmosphere where it's increasingly difficult to raise children free of commercial influences.
:-b
The Pepsi advertisement really bothers me. These people have no choice but to be a walking advertisement. I, for one, find America's corporate culture very unhealthy, and would question any public institution's forceful indoctrination.
Of course, most lefties are too busy working to change the world, and don't have the money to hire armies to do it for them.