Bear in mind, this is *only* news from yesterday. There is a lot more. One could go into the probable death of the tourist industry in Cansda. You know, the tourist that used to go there to hunt wild game. On the other hand, they are apparently not trying very hard to keep out those who might be terrorists. That would be profiling I guess.
Then, I was also appalled by some problems in the other direction. Best summarized by thie one web site which describe how citizens in the USA on the southern border are virtually being overrun by illegal aliers, sometimes armed with full auto weapons. Tell me how you would resist that and be unarmed.
http://www.ranchrescue.com/
So, where is our govenrment?!?!?!?!
Well, we have New York City, Chicago, and Los Angleles. Each of these cities have been the murder capitals of the US in the past three years respectivly, yet each one bans guns. Washinton DC is no better, nor Maryland. Yet that is where the DC sniper did his task.
Gun bans are also not working in Great Britain, where even toy guns and air guns are banned or in the process of it, yet crime is soaring.
Gun bans did work in Nazi Germany however. Just ask the Jews (that survived). Gun bans in some US States did work also in a way. They prevented the Black slaves from defending themselves against the Klan raids. Everything here is documented elsewhere.
Moral of the story: Banning guns leaves good people defenseless. Bad people don't care about the ban.
I work for a large corporation which has standardized on Dell PC's for some time, and of course, Micorosoft software.
I can imagine that they would be rather interested in the Dell product simply because it is Dell.
And the big thing there is that it would displace everything else (Palm, Linux based PDA) with Win CE, virtually assuring MS dominance in the PDA field as other large companies also standardize on Dell.
Perhaps we should wait just a bit longer.
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I have beel watching the "Sky Car" for about 6 years, and it is getting close. I won't be able to afford it right away, but I sure do want one!!! It would save me a lot of time getting to work!
You gotta see the pictures and info on the website. This thing is cool!
What I see going on, and it comes from regular phones as well, is that people are becoming too dependent on others.
Rather than research a subject or situation, and solve it themselves, they are calling someone else to provide a solution.
Tp illustrate, some years ago a student in a public school had to go to the Principals office to make or receive a call. The extra 'cost' of the procedure to make a call etc encouraged problem solving by the student. Students tended to remember to bring things they needed each day.
But now with cell phones, no one seems to have any decisive abilities. Children (and adults) call parents and others to ask the most trivial things. What to wear, what to eat, where is the sugar, can't find the peanut butter, should I buy this (insert some inconsequential object), etc.
It seems the power of reasoning and decision has all but disappeared.
And, wasn't that what school was all about? Getting away from home and learning to survive and prosper on ones' own?
Laws do not prevent crime. They merely provide punishment for those who disregard them. And if they are *stupid* laws, it is a virtual guarantee they will be disregarded.
Laws also mean nothing to the 'good' citizen. That citizen would behave properly whether the law existed or not, providing it is a proper and just law.
Not does the law mean anything to the criminal. He will break them ( or rather, do what he wants )whether or not they exist.
Again I say, that laws merely define a punishment. They do *not* control behaviour.
And is therefore the cause of the Spam it recieves. Has Hotmail merely become an advertising medium, which of course charges for extra storage space, to hold [??] the spam received?
My brother says his Hotmail account can fill up in a day or two., thus bouncing all the mail I'd send.
MoZilla. By a nose.
Runs on Win32, Linux, OS/2, all of which I use.
Runs good, has great options, and plugins can be copied from Netscape if missing.
How many browsers can you use anyway? I've got IE (need for work), Mozilla, and NS 7 beta. Mozilla gets 95% of the usage now, and has an email program I can trust which I certainly can't say about Outlook.
Opera is just too late on my radar screen to make a difference. YMMV however.
No. it is not the same. For instance: Windows, all varieties, virtually demand that the user be 'local administrator'. A lot of software doesn't work correctly unless that is so. Rather than fight it, that is what is done. So anything the local user executes happens to the machine. Software holes are fixed only when MS gets around to it, after they admit there is one to begin with. It is really easy to write a worm/virus for Windows. The 'I love you' virus was a single page of plain text, very simple to accomplish.
OTOH, Linux and other Unices, the administrator (root) is strongly discouraged to be the 'user'. And the 'user' has no direct access to the machine. He can hurt himself, but not the machine. And since it is open source, the fixes are much more likely to come sooner and be better done.
This takes care of most of the problems, and makes fixing the rest easier.
1. Insert Linux Boot CD, Install.
2. Begin Install
3. Delete all NTFS, Fat32, FAT partitions
4. Continue install. Set up firewall and normal Linux security stuff.
Like magic, the whole internet becomes more secure.
I thought one reason IE had an advantage over Netscape 4.x (but not Mozilla) was that it *was* modular! So you mean they are saying IE is the only modular part of Windows??
What is interesting about this article is that it mentions Linux encroaching on UNIX (read: Sun's) territory, but it doesn't mention Microsoft at all. I have to assume that this means an external (web, application) server migration to Linux. If not, I'd like to know the answers to the following questions:
1) How do you work around the complete lack of server-side productivity software on Linux servers? By deploying Exchange, you can make scheduling a meeting as easy as sending an email with a time and having everyone click to confirm the meeting, which is then added to everyone's calendar. There is no solution like this without using Exchange (and I've looked.)
That is simply not true. First, you completely ignore that the primary competition to Exchange (and better product) is Lotus Notes. Exchange still does not equal Notes. And importantly, Lotus Domino server (ie Notes) runs on Linux. You can download it and try it free.
As for usefullness, I work for a large corporation that uses Notes extensively. We recently merged with another company of size similar but slightly less than ours that ran with Exchange. After the merger, they were converted to Notes. As a big plus to comment was recently made that they have seen a huge decrease in virus contamination after the conversion to Notes from Exchange/Outlook.
2) How do you work around the lack of group policy controls in SAMBA? By this I mean forcing a computer to have the most up-to-date anti-virus software when it logs on to the domain; mapping network drives automatically; downloading OS patches automatically through a local server. AFAIK, Samba can't do any of this as well as a Windows 2000 Server can. And what about Active Directory? LDAP isn't as cohesive a solution if you are running Windows clients.
We use a scripting language (Kixstart), kicked off at logon by a batch file on the logon server(s). With this we do indeed check the upgrade status of virus software and a lot of other things, map drives, apply patches, upgrades, etc etc. There is no reason that I know of that this wouldn't run on a Samba/Linux box. In fact, I am thinking of setting up a test box at home to do this, primarily to customize my logon at home and automate some stuff there.
We don't use Active Directory yet, but it looks like we are going that way. Originally we were going to use Novell NDS to do this, but this is a Microsoft shop (probably means penalties if we don't) so that has changed. The workstations are a mixture of Win2k, NT 4, and some Win95/98.
But the point here again is that Novell NDS also runs on Linux. There is a solution on Linux, and a better one most likely, except for the Micosoft tax if you have it.
I am currently scanning very old (50-100 years)family photos for distribution to the family on CD. I want to create a CD that is bootable and will go from a cold machine to an X11 desktop and immediatly start doing a slide show of the photos on the CD.
As a bonus, it looks like to me that a CD like this would be a great way for Linux to get exposure running business slideshows or product demos.
Therefore, it would have to logon as root (?), autoconfigure X11, and start playing. In addition, I would also put a 'autorun.inf' and copy of 'iview32' (win32 viewer) on it for those who shove it in and use with Winddows.
The basic requirements I can think of are:
1. All opensource/freeware
2. Linux Autoboot, Configure, Play etc.
3. Smallest disk space requirement, saving CD space for the pictures.
4. Ease of use. Might be nice to break out of the slide show and view pictures under user control.
Any ideas on what to use?
Which of these distros being discussed to use?
What Linux program will do the slide show?
How to autoconfig X11 if the distro doesn't?
How to autologon?
The project is so big, to compete with MSO, that perhaps all the different groups (OpenOffice, KDEOffice, Gnome office, Gnumeric, Abiword, etc) should all collaborate somehow and make a killer product. Then maybe we'd have a MSO killer.
All the elements are there, and it's all open source anyway, so how about 'together we stand' and not 'divided we fall'?
Ahem, this remark from the very company that clones competitor's software then gives the clone away till they have fuctionally killed the competitiors?
And then starts charging for it or some service or software dependent on it?
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http://southernhighlands.yourguide.com.au/detail.
A billion dollars wasted for something that doesn't work and can never be accurate? And isn't even completed?B 6-13A0-46B9-BF90-82A99356D24F%7D
http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id ={A02202BA-AA91-446F-BFA4-361EA9A160A1}
Gun Control costs way out of control in Canada (and half the guns *not* registered).
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=%7B8A0875
Bear in mind, this is *only* news from yesterday. There is a lot more. One could go into the probable death of the tourist industry in Cansda. You know, the tourist that used to go there to hunt wild game. On the other hand, they are apparently not trying very hard to keep out those who might be terrorists. That would be profiling I guess. Then, I was also appalled by some problems in the other direction. Best summarized by thie one web site which describe how citizens in the USA on the southern border are virtually being overrun by illegal aliers, sometimes armed with full auto weapons. Tell me how you would resist that and be unarmed. http://www.ranchrescue.com/ So, where is our govenrment?!?!?!?!
Well, we have New York City, Chicago, and Los Angleles. Each of these cities have been the murder capitals of the US in the past three years respectivly, yet each one bans guns. Washinton DC is no better, nor Maryland. Yet that is where the DC sniper did his task.
Gun bans are also not working in Great Britain, where even toy guns and air guns are banned or in the process of it, yet crime is soaring.
Gun bans did work in Nazi Germany however. Just ask the Jews (that survived). Gun bans in some US States did work also in a way. They prevented the Black slaves from defending themselves against the Klan raids. Everything here is documented elsewhere.
Moral of the story: Banning guns leaves good people defenseless. Bad people don't care about the ban.
Has he not learned that basic truth. The word is mightier than the sword, and he is getting all the printed words that he deserves!!!
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I guess there is yet another problme with their idea.
I can imagine that they would be rather interested in the Dell product simply because it is Dell.
And the big thing there is that it would displace everything else (Palm, Linux based PDA) with Win CE, virtually assuring MS dominance in the PDA field as other large companies also standardize on Dell.
You gotta see the pictures and info on the website. This thing is cool!
http://www.moller.com/skycar/
Surely, Ebay would have to restructure their system for some better method.
I have avoided the fraud on Ebay by avoiding Ebay. I do use it to figure out the approximate worth of something, but have never gotten an ID there.
Flamebait? I was serious! I'd like their solution if they find one. And it is one we will have paid for, so we 'own' it.
I could stand a good ruleset as well.
What I see going on, and it comes from regular phones as well, is that people are becoming too dependent on others.
Rather than research a subject or situation, and solve it themselves, they are calling someone else to provide a solution.
Tp illustrate, some years ago a student in a public school had to go to the Principals office to make or receive a call. The extra 'cost' of the procedure to make a call etc encouraged problem solving by the student. Students tended to remember to bring things they needed each day.
But now with cell phones, no one seems to have any decisive abilities. Children (and adults) call parents and others to ask the most trivial things. What to wear, what to eat, where is the sugar, can't find the peanut butter, should I buy this (insert some inconsequential object), etc.
It seems the power of reasoning and decision has all but disappeared.
And, wasn't that what school was all about? Getting away from home and learning to survive and prosper on ones' own?
Laws also mean nothing to the 'good' citizen. That citizen would behave properly whether the law existed or not, providing it is a proper and just law.
Not does the law mean anything to the criminal. He will break them ( or rather, do what he wants )whether or not they exist.
Again I say, that laws merely define a punishment. They do *not* control behaviour.
Set DVCopy to RW
Set copies to make to "continuous"
Set Responses to "automatic"
Turn monitor off.
Come back in 6 months and check progress.....
My brother says his Hotmail account can fill up in a day or two., thus bouncing all the mail I'd send.
And hopefully, XP and the Eula nightmare will start folks on their *upgrade* to Linux in the next couple of years.
After selecting the right envelope orientations etc, click [New Doc] to create it.
The procedure creates two text boxes. I went into each and changed the font sizes and made the addressee bold.
After creation, you can move the text boxes around and stretch them.
I find that with my printer, I have to go into properties each time and set the paper to A10 Envelope.
* 90% of the users use 10% of the features.
* 10% of the users use 90% of the features.
However, i'd tned to agree it may be closer to 95/5 partly because there are just so many superfluous features in MS Office and other suites.
http://www.directpc.com/
How many browsers can you use anyway? I've got IE (need for work), Mozilla, and NS 7 beta. Mozilla gets 95% of the usage now, and has an email program I can trust which I certainly can't say about Outlook.
Opera is just too late on my radar screen to make a difference. YMMV however.
OTOH, Linux and other Unices, the administrator (root) is strongly discouraged to be the 'user'. And the 'user' has no direct access to the machine. He can hurt himself, but not the machine. And since it is open source, the fixes are much more likely to come sooner and be better done.
1. Insert Linux Boot CD, Install.
2. Begin Install
3. Delete all NTFS, Fat32, FAT partitions
4. Continue install. Set up firewall and normal Linux security stuff.
Like magic, the whole internet becomes more secure.
I don't believe it.
1) How do you work around the complete lack of server-side productivity software on Linux servers? By deploying Exchange, you can make scheduling a meeting as easy as sending an email with a time and having everyone click to confirm the meeting, which is then added to everyone's calendar. There is no solution like this without using Exchange (and I've looked.)
That is simply not true. First, you completely ignore that the primary competition to Exchange (and better product) is Lotus Notes. Exchange still does not equal Notes. And importantly, Lotus Domino server (ie Notes) runs on Linux. You can download it and try it free.
As for usefullness, I work for a large corporation that uses Notes extensively. We recently merged with another company of size similar but slightly less than ours that ran with Exchange. After the merger, they were converted to Notes. As a big plus to comment was recently made that they have seen a huge decrease in virus contamination after the conversion to Notes from Exchange/Outlook.
2) How do you work around the lack of group policy controls in SAMBA? By this I mean forcing a computer to have the most up-to-date anti-virus software when it logs on to the domain; mapping network drives automatically; downloading OS patches automatically through a local server. AFAIK, Samba can't do any of this as well as a Windows 2000 Server can. And what about Active Directory? LDAP isn't as cohesive a solution if you are running Windows clients.
We use a scripting language (Kixstart), kicked off at logon by a batch file on the logon server(s). With this we do indeed check the upgrade status of virus software and a lot of other things, map drives, apply patches, upgrades, etc etc. There is no reason that I know of that this wouldn't run on a Samba/Linux box. In fact, I am thinking of setting up a test box at home to do this, primarily to customize my logon at home and automate some stuff there.
We don't use Active Directory yet, but it looks like we are going that way. Originally we were going to use Novell NDS to do this, but this is a Microsoft shop (probably means penalties if we don't) so that has changed. The workstations are a mixture of Win2k, NT 4, and some Win95/98.
But the point here again is that Novell NDS also runs on Linux. There is a solution on Linux, and a better one most likely, except for the Micosoft tax if you have it.
I am currently scanning very old (50-100 years)family photos for distribution to the family on CD. I want to create a CD that is bootable and will go from a cold machine to an X11 desktop and immediatly start doing a slide show of the photos on the CD.
As a bonus, it looks like to me that a CD like this would be a great way for Linux to get exposure running business slideshows or product demos.
Therefore, it would have to logon as root (?), autoconfigure X11, and start playing. In addition, I would also put a 'autorun.inf' and copy of 'iview32' (win32 viewer) on it for those who shove it in and use with Winddows.
The basic requirements I can think of are:
1. All opensource/freeware
2. Linux Autoboot, Configure, Play etc.
3. Smallest disk space requirement, saving CD space for the pictures.
4. Ease of use. Might be nice to break out of the slide show and view pictures under user control.
Any ideas on what to use?
Which of these distros being discussed to use?
What Linux program will do the slide show?
How to autoconfig X11 if the distro doesn't?
How to autologon?
All the elements are there, and it's all open source anyway, so how about 'together we stand' and not 'divided we fall'?
And then starts charging for it or some service or software dependent on it?
Give me a break!!!!
No. Mozilla 0.98 works fine on a WinNT 4 with 160 MB ram.
(and a number of tabbed windows open as well)