Whether the earlier opening up or this latest blocking is on purpose I don't think we'll know. According to the Chinese delegate to the conference in Greece two weeks ago no sites are blocked.
How can we thank you? For our mod points we do fumble
But I upset that guy Taco and my karma did tumble
I could make a new user and mod you by stealth
But I'll just open this page and reply to myself
All alone in my cubicle, all dank and cheerless
I read your post and cried, this guy is peerless
Among all this drivel and dupes with grammar all gone
A geek that does word craft - that's number one.
"...now the unfortunate Tan Jia Luo is facing charges under the computer misuse act and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday."
I wonder if the judge hearing this case will notice that larger-than-usual number of foreign hacks loitering around the building on Wednesday morning?
Assuming this young lad wasn't up to anything that nefarious (that would derail a great bandwagon wouldn't it?) I hope this case gets some exposure and the lad gets some support.
You're less scrupulously cynical than I am. I wouldn't have assumed they'd be consistent in putting Shuttle stories under science.slashdot.org... but it appears they were after all.
Looks like a cranky mod is getting "off topic" confused with "informative". The info certainly spurred me to find a more reliable source than The Guardian and I found this: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68 947. Those damned Wikipedians have also been beavering away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(film)... and I still couldn't find this putative "pace marine" anywhere.
"A ballooning budget (rumored to have been closing in on the $200 Mil mark) and apparent lack of confidence in rookie feature film director Neill Blomkamp are being named the major culprits for Fox and Universal's decision."
Surely it's "...major factors behind Fox and Universal's decision"?
I just saw that you mentioned Linux. Also check out Dnsmasq, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq... "Dnsmasq can be configured to send queries for certain domains to upstream servers handling only those domains..
Something else to look into is this code written in Visual Basic* - please don't laugh - I've been using a hacked version for some time now to cache results and to pass certain lookups through tor_resolve. Url: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/caching_dns/.
(If the author is reading this I've been meaning to say "thanks"!)
...according to TFA is: "its Virtual Hard Disk Image Format - new software that will allow computers running on rival products like Apple's OS X or Linux, its chief competitors in operating systems, to simultaneously run Windows" (that's a PITA to copy with IHT's javascript).
Don't get carried away. I think I read here last week that MS aren't going to allow Vista to run inside a virtual machine - am I correct? And there's Vista messing up the boot sector too. It looks like this is not a two-way street.
"since when does Africa have massive quantities of water frozen slightly beneath its surface?"
People following that logic ten years ago were telling us oil was going to have run out by about now. Using new technology they found extra reserves where they couldn't have looked before.
But yes, using groundwater to alleviate the country's problems doesn't sound like a great solution. Lack of seasonal fluctuations in supply will lessen the awareness of scarcity (ie they'll leave the taps dripping) or they'll use it to irrigate thirsty crops like cotton. Whatever the case it'll run out - quickly.
"You have a machine or two around that are outside the firewall for when you desperately need to do something else. Those machines have [b]a canned read-only disk image that's refreshed on each reboot[/b] or logout, like Internet cafe machines."
A brazilion studies show just how quickly machines get infiltrated. If they're vulnerable they'll get taken over in a matter of minutes as opposed to hours or days so all this really does is avoid an accumulation of baddies - which might actually be a good thing as such an accumulation might totally disable the machine or at least be more likely to show outward symptoms which would draw someone to come and take action rather than allowing it to go on stealthily serving those who were lucky enough to get there first each morning just after power up...
Deviating from the submission slightly and concentrating on some of crap in the TFA:
"If you're used to a having a 15-in. or 17-in. laptop and then go to a smaller resolution laptop, you can realize [the difference]."
When I was younger and less wise I would have thought so too. I went from a 21" CRT to a 15" laptop and for the first few days I was trying to figure out how I could arrange my desk to actually accomodate the 21" monitor *plugged into* the laptop. Then I saw the light and realised how much more productive I was when I was untethered. The reason I saw the light was that I tried actually *working* as opposed to putting together a useless series of metrics and fumbling around for data to fill my 40 page report.
Anyway to the "insightful" part: Anyone of these conssultants ever stopped to think that the 17" laptop screen is going to be further away from you than the 14" screen? Any of them stopped to realise that the 17" screen is basically tied to the desktop and actually *reaching* the monitor in order to adjust to a more comfortable viewing angle is often a 'tall' order? There are many benefits to a smaller screen and I haven't got round to swivel-round tablet screen machines that can be held in one hand yet.
Coming back to the distance from your eyes, a big advantage of the wide screen format for me is that the screen is just off the top of the keyboard (thus closer) and you can push the thing round your desk to suit your viewing angle without worrying that the momentum of a tall screen jutting high up into the air is going to put stress on the hinges.
A lot has been said in the TFA and in the responses here about the advantages of two screens. For someone who is tied to the desk, yes. Data input? Sure. Answering support tickets, watching your servers or following up stacks of emails then sure. If you're some kind of drone (anyone read the Bill Gates interview?) you'll like two screens.
"... would estimate a maximum 5 percent productivity gain for workers using a larger monitor. "But you're not going to see the boost in productivity you'll see by adding a second screen," which could increase productivity as much as 30 percent, Stack said."
*If you're tied to your desk*. To me this is a bit like the "Christmas Turkey" syndrome. The company decided to give every employee a free turkey one xmas. The first year it went down really well but then the second year the Jewish guy decided he wanted to mark the Jewish holiday instead, and the Greek Orthodox, and the vegetarian,... and so on......once the comfort factors are disturbed hell breaks loose and employees become babbling kids. Relocate these staff to somewhere temporary during some renovations and see how they complain. Ask one or two to do some work on the road and they'll moan like hell. Work at home programs (apparently being favoured by companies as they mitigate the risk or terrorist attacks or natural disasters) turn into do-nothing-at-home programs.
To conclude: I'm happy with my 15" laptop. I almost traded down to a 12" model (Dual Core mind you) recently but in the end I didn't have the guts. But I'm constantly working on transferring more and more of my work to my PDA. I look askance at these desk-bound big/dual monitor folk who fumble like hell when they're on the road.
...it seems the OLPC site still mentions it... when you hover the mouse over the FAQ. However it's not mentioned in the actual FAQ and this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_myths puts things straight.
The hand crank was there in early prototypes but the actual shipping units will use an off-board human-power system, connected to the power brick. Candidates include a foot-pedal charger similar to the Freecharge portable charger.
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...from the original
...that which can be explained by incompetence.
Whether the earlier opening up or this latest blocking is on purpose I don't think we'll know. According to the Chinese delegate to the conference in Greece two weeks ago no sites are blocked.
How can we thank you? For our mod points we do fumble But I upset that guy Taco and my karma did tumble I could make a new user and mod you by stealth But I'll just open this page and reply to myself
All alone in my cubicle, all dank and cheerless I read your post and cried, this guy is peerless Among all this drivel and dupes with grammar all gone A geek that does word craft - that's number one.
Nguyn Minh Trit is a drooling ^NO CARRIER
"...now the unfortunate Tan Jia Luo is facing charges under the computer misuse act and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday."
I wonder if the judge hearing this case will notice that larger-than-usual number of foreign hacks loitering around the building on Wednesday morning?
Assuming this young lad wasn't up to anything that nefarious (that would derail a great bandwagon wouldn't it?) I hope this case gets some exposure and the lad gets some support.
"Quality control is THIS difficult."
... but it appears they were after all.
You're less scrupulously cynical than I am. I wouldn't have assumed they'd be consistent in putting Shuttle stories under science.slashdot.org
Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch - exchange Reuters article for CNN article.
Looks like a cranky mod is getting "off topic" confused with "informative". The info certainly spurred me to find a more reliable source than The Guardian and I found this: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68 947. Those damned Wikipedians have also been beavering away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(film) ... and I still couldn't find this putative "pace marine" anywhere.
"A ballooning budget (rumored to have been closing in on the $200 Mil mark) and apparent lack of confidence in rookie feature film director Neill Blomkamp are being named the major culprits for Fox and Universal's decision."
Surely it's "...major factors behind Fox and Universal's decision"?
Did the Chinese also writes the headline?
"The first thing I did after installing this ... was checked that FlashBlock still worked."
I'd be more concerned that I had scripting enabled for every site.
(replying to myself)
... "Dnsmasq can be configured to send queries for certain domains to upstream servers handling only those domains..
c ache-for-faster-browsing/
I just saw that you mentioned Linux. Also check out Dnsmasq, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq
There's a guide for installing on Ubuntu here: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/08/02/local-dns-
I'm not sure if Posadis will meet your requirements or not. See here: http://posadis.sourceforge.net/
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Something else to look into is this code written in Visual Basic* - please don't laugh - I've been using a hacked version for some time now to cache results and to pass certain lookups through tor_resolve. Url: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/projects/caching_dns/
(If the author is reading this I've been meaning to say "thanks"!)
...according to TFA is: "its Virtual Hard Disk Image Format - new software that will allow computers running on rival products like Apple's OS X or Linux, its chief competitors in operating systems, to simultaneously run Windows" (that's a PITA to copy with IHT's javascript).
Don't get carried away. I think I read here last week that MS aren't going to allow Vista to run inside a virtual machine - am I correct? And there's Vista messing up the boot sector too. It looks like this is not a two-way street.
"You've gotta hand it to these guys..."
Sorry but I don't think the moderators are going to grasp the meaning of this. Perhaps you could lend them a hand?
Could be very handy.
"since when does Africa have massive quantities of water frozen slightly beneath its surface?"
People following that logic ten years ago were telling us oil was going to have run out by about now. Using new technology they found extra reserves where they couldn't have looked before.
But yes, using groundwater to alleviate the country's problems doesn't sound like a great solution. Lack of seasonal fluctuations in supply will lessen the awareness of scarcity (ie they'll leave the taps dripping) or they'll use it to irrigate thirsty crops like cotton. Whatever the case it'll run out - quickly.
"There are plenty of other places in our own world that could probably benefit from the discovery of water...try Africa.
Hum, check out the predictions: http://www.unep.org/vitalwater/21.htm - the US and half of Europe could be joining the club soon.
Scientists have unearthed a 154 pound meteorite [CC] from a Kansas field using ground penetrating radar.
Should have read "located with the help of ground-penetrating radar".
"You have a machine or two around that are outside the firewall for when you desperately need to do something else. Those machines have [b]a canned read-only disk image that's refreshed on each reboot[/b] or logout, like Internet cafe machines."
A brazilion studies show just how quickly machines get infiltrated. If they're vulnerable they'll get taken over in a matter of minutes as opposed to hours or days so all this really does is avoid an accumulation of baddies - which might actually be a good thing as such an accumulation might totally disable the machine or at least be more likely to show outward symptoms which would draw someone to come and take action rather than allowing it to go on stealthily serving those who were lucky enough to get there first each morning just after power up...
...c'mon, tell me where you apply.
... and so on... ...once the comfort factors are disturbed hell breaks loose and employees become babbling kids. Relocate these staff to somewhere temporary during some renovations and see how they complain. Ask one or two to do some work on the road and they'll moan like hell. Work at home programs (apparently being favoured by companies as they mitigate the risk or terrorist attacks or natural disasters) turn into do-nothing-at-home programs.
Deviating from the submission slightly and concentrating on some of crap in the TFA:
"If you're used to a having a 15-in. or 17-in. laptop and then go to a smaller resolution laptop, you can realize [the difference]."
When I was younger and less wise I would have thought so too. I went from a 21" CRT to a 15" laptop and for the first few days I was trying to figure out how I could arrange my desk to actually accomodate the 21" monitor *plugged into* the laptop. Then I saw the light and realised how much more productive I was when I was untethered. The reason I saw the light was that I tried actually *working* as opposed to putting together a useless series of metrics and fumbling around for data to fill my 40 page report.
Anyway to the "insightful" part: Anyone of these conssultants ever stopped to think that the 17" laptop screen is going to be further away from you than the 14" screen? Any of them stopped to realise that the 17" screen is basically tied to the desktop and actually *reaching* the monitor in order to adjust to a more comfortable viewing angle is often a 'tall' order? There are many benefits to a smaller screen and I haven't got round to swivel-round tablet screen machines that can be held in one hand yet.
Coming back to the distance from your eyes, a big advantage of the wide screen format for me is that the screen is just off the top of the keyboard (thus closer) and you can push the thing round your desk to suit your viewing angle without worrying that the momentum of a tall screen jutting high up into the air is going to put stress on the hinges.
A lot has been said in the TFA and in the responses here about the advantages of two screens. For someone who is tied to the desk, yes. Data input? Sure. Answering support tickets, watching your servers or following up stacks of emails then sure. If you're some kind of drone (anyone read the Bill Gates interview?) you'll like two screens.
"... would estimate a maximum 5 percent productivity gain for workers using a larger monitor. "But you're not going to see the boost in productivity you'll see by adding a second screen," which could increase productivity as much as 30 percent, Stack said."
*If you're tied to your desk*. To me this is a bit like the "Christmas Turkey" syndrome. The company decided to give every employee a free turkey one xmas. The first year it went down really well but then the second year the Jewish guy decided he wanted to mark the Jewish holiday instead, and the Greek Orthodox, and the vegetarian,
To conclude: I'm happy with my 15" laptop. I almost traded down to a 12" model (Dual Core mind you) recently but in the end I didn't have the guts. But I'm constantly working on transferring more and more of my work to my PDA. I look askance at these desk-bound big/dual monitor folk who fumble like hell when they're on the road.
(Replying to myself...)
...it seems the OLPC site still mentions it ... when you hover the mouse over the FAQ. However it's not mentioned in the actual FAQ and this page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_myths puts things straight.
Glad that's sorted.
I posted just one minute after you. According to this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_myths the crank has been dropped and
The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a wind-up crank.
Is this more shoddy BBC journalism? I thought this had been dropped from the OLPC spec a while ago?