Sorry, have to disagree. You probably shouldn't put your business related email out on a free email system. Likely nothing would even happen but still, better safe than sorry.
I personally would be more trusting in an in-house managed open source server myself on a dedicated machine (with proper security audit controls -- never trust a sys admin:).
Maybe...but boosting an iPod mini into low Earth orbit by the space shuttle would have cost just over $1,000, assuming $10,000 per kg. Wonder how much he could sell it for on eBay?
it has been involved in more wars than any other country since the 20th century
What a stupid statement. I assume you mean the US has put a stop to more wars than any other country since the 20th century. Let's take a poll. All those in favor of USSR dominating the world raise their hands...thought so.
Because of the space weapons race, countries create satellites that can defend themselves from attack. Unfortunately, satellites that pass each other too closely inadvertently fire upon each other and destroy themselves. So satellites have to be made smarter. Eventually satellites become smart enough to join together and restrict access to space as the best preemptive defense move. Mankind, not wanting to be trapped on Earth, launch a ground based attack to take out the satellites. Satellites retaliate, and destroy all human habitation on the planet, knocking mankind back to the stone age. Peace reigns in space.
Bit of a stretch, isn't it? The US may be the most powerful country on the planet, and it may be to most arrogant country on the planet, and it may even be the most bullyish country on the planet, but it is hardly the most violent.
Recovering the cost of installing and maintaining the infrastructure is a separate problem from providing a service on that infrastructure.
It's BS from the telcos when they say if they had to compete with other companies in thr DSL space they couldn't be profitable, or would have no incentive to put in fiber. Just like any business, the cost of the infrastructure would be passed on to the consumer, regardless of the company that supplied the service. The truth is that the telcos are not interested in competing because they would not be able to set their own premium fees for basic service.
Not all of the telcos are standing still, though...to their credit, Verizon has gone ahead with switching to fiber (which in itself shows that the comment about the barrier for switching to fiber is a lie). In my area that means we WILL finally have true competition between cable and DSL. I look forward to it.
Illegally destroyed competition in the OS space.
Suppressed or destroyed competition in the app space.
Dictated an artificial (e.g. unnecessarily expensive) software replacement cycle.
Empowered unscrupulous businesses to spy on your every web surfing move.
I hear people say that things aren't so bad with the current state of desktop computing. After all, Windows rarely crashes anymore and you can surf the web, play games, read email, etc. What else is there? To be quite frank, a lot. It is difficult to quantify all of the software development that hasn't been done because of Microsoft's oppressive control over the desktop. I estimate we are at least three generations of software development behind because most businesses would not risk competing with Microsoft. Just 5 years ago I can remember reading stories about companies that decided NOT to compete in a particular area because they feared Microsoft would crush them. Forget the companies put out of business or the people who had to find a new job. The loss of advancement in software technique is incalculable.
I've always thought that someone with a strong opinion on the pitiful state of privacy laws in the US would... how do you say it... demonstrate just how easy it is to steal someone's identity in this country (using, of course, selective politically connected individuals as test cases). Nothing like getting a senator interested in stronger privacy protection after they get the bill for that $5000 digital camera someone "bought" using their credit card.
This is not news of course and smart people have been working on the issue for a number of years. Two interesting links:
A short writeup of the issue (PDF alert)...
A recent breakthrough announcement...
We're getting there fast...I here NASA is planning on putting the orbiters that are left up on blocks and using them for spare parts for the new ships being designed...
Understand your comment, however, there are no gases at their current location (and I will assume that NASA didn't engineer a compound that would produce gasses while it cured in a vaccuum. I wonder how a vaccuum bubble would affect it during reentry?
Not to quibble (or, maybe to quibble just a little bit) but why should I have to worry about what distro I'm using? ndiswrapper is the same program for any distro, I am running Gnome, the same windows manager available in every major distro, why isn't there a Gnome installer and GUI for it?
Obviously, it is because the developers haven't written one yet. Another ubiquitous Linux problem.
I'll have to check out Novell Linux (i.e. Suse) to see what I can find for my hardware.
Unsupported hardware on Windows? What unsupported hardware?
Actually, I know you are right. The root problem is that many manufacturers don't support Linux with drivers, etc., and that is why we have ndiswrapper...
BUT...
Why don't we have a ndiswrapper installer and GUI interface? There's no excuse for that IMHO. Yeah, I know, maybe next year...
#Install Linux headers #(enter your version of linux headers or usr the synaptic package manager) sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.10
#install ndiswrapper cd/home/username/ sudo tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.2-rc1 cd/home/username/ndiswrapper-1.2-rc1/ sudo make sudo make install
#load drivers with ndiswrapper cd/the_dir_you_put_the_wlan_drivers_into/ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (fill out your own drivers for bcmwl5.inf) sudo ndiswrapper -l (shows if the driver is installed)
#Load ndiswrapper and check if it worked sudo modprobe ndiswrapper sudo dmesg (shows that the card is installed (hopefully)) sudo iwlist wlan0 scan (shows all APs surrounding you)
#Make sure Ndiswrapper is loaded during bootup sudo ndiswrapper -m
#Configure your Wlan card sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid name_of_AP (the name you found by using iwlist wlan0 scan) iwconfig wlan0 enc (fill out your WEP key (if you have one)) sudo dhclient wlan0 (gets a dynamic IP adress) sudo ping -c 3 www.ubuntu-linux.nl (tests the connection)
And that DOES NOT include getting WPA-PSK working.
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Sorry, have to disagree. You probably shouldn't put your business related email out on a free email system. Likely nothing would even happen but still, better safe than sorry.
:).
I personally would be more trusting in an in-house managed open source server myself on a dedicated machine (with proper security audit controls -- never trust a sys admin
7. Profit!!!
You forgot that step...
Maybe...but boosting an iPod mini into low Earth orbit by the space shuttle would have cost just over $1,000, assuming $10,000 per kg. Wonder how much he could sell it for on eBay?
No, they call it a bribe...
Nothing like the possibility of disaster to bring out everyone's interest. This was probably the most watched space mission since Apollo 13...
NASA engineers were having a decidedly difficult job picking a landing time that didn't correlate to your waking schedule...
You mean "cite"...
it has been involved in more wars than any other country since the 20th century
What a stupid statement. I assume you mean the US has put a stop to more wars than any other country since the 20th century. Let's take a poll. All those in favor of USSR dominating the world raise their hands...thought so.
Because of the space weapons race, countries create satellites that can defend themselves from attack. Unfortunately, satellites that pass each other too closely inadvertently fire upon each other and destroy themselves. So satellites have to be made smarter. Eventually satellites become smart enough to join together and restrict access to space as the best preemptive defense move. Mankind, not wanting to be trapped on Earth, launch a ground based attack to take out the satellites. Satellites retaliate, and destroy all human habitation on the planet, knocking mankind back to the stone age. Peace reigns in space.
The most violent nation in the world.
Bit of a stretch, isn't it? The US may be the most powerful country on the planet, and it may be to most arrogant country on the planet, and it may even be the most bullyish country on the planet, but it is hardly the most violent.
There will be no need to worry about weapons based in space...someone will just send a ship up and steal the whole satellite.
Recovering the cost of installing and maintaining the infrastructure is a separate problem from providing a service on that infrastructure.
It's BS from the telcos when they say if they had to compete with other companies in thr DSL space they couldn't be profitable, or would have no incentive to put in fiber. Just like any business, the cost of the infrastructure would be passed on to the consumer, regardless of the company that supplied the service. The truth is that the telcos are not interested in competing because they would not be able to set their own premium fees for basic service.
Not all of the telcos are standing still, though...to their credit, Verizon has gone ahead with switching to fiber (which in itself shows that the comment about the barrier for switching to fiber is a lie). In my area that means we WILL finally have true competition between cable and DSL. I look forward to it.
Illegally destroyed competition in the OS space.
Suppressed or destroyed competition in the app space.
Dictated an artificial (e.g. unnecessarily expensive) software replacement cycle.
Empowered unscrupulous businesses to spy on your every web surfing move.
I hear people say that things aren't so bad with the current state of desktop computing. After all, Windows rarely crashes anymore and you can surf the web, play games, read email, etc. What else is there? To be quite frank, a lot. It is difficult to quantify all of the software development that hasn't been done because of Microsoft's oppressive control over the desktop. I estimate we are at least three generations of software development behind because most businesses would not risk competing with Microsoft. Just 5 years ago I can remember reading stories about companies that decided NOT to compete in a particular area because they feared Microsoft would crush them. Forget the companies put out of business or the people who had to find a new job. The loss of advancement in software technique is incalculable.
I've always thought that someone with a strong opinion on the pitiful state of privacy laws in the US would ... how do you say it ... demonstrate just how easy it is to steal someone's identity in this country (using, of course, selective politically connected individuals as test cases). Nothing like getting a senator interested in stronger privacy protection after they get the bill for that $5000 digital camera someone "bought" using their credit card.
Must be a slow news day for NewScientist...
This is not news of course and smart people have been working on the issue for a number of years. Two interesting links:
A short writeup of the issue (PDF alert)...
A recent breakthrough announcement...
We've received a lot of letters asking about how PS2 will be backwards compatible with PS2 and the original Playstation [...]
You'd have 5 cents...
We're getting there fast...I here NASA is planning on putting the orbiters that are left up on blocks and using them for spare parts for the new ships being designed...
Understand your comment, however, there are no gases at their current location (and I will assume that NASA didn't engineer a compound that would produce gasses while it cured in a vaccuum. I wonder how a vaccuum bubble would affect it during reentry?
Not to quibble (or, maybe to quibble just a little bit) but why should I have to worry about what distro I'm using? ndiswrapper is the same program for any distro, I am running Gnome, the same windows manager available in every major distro, why isn't there a Gnome installer and GUI for it?
Obviously, it is because the developers haven't written one yet. Another ubiquitous Linux problem.
I'll have to check out Novell Linux (i.e. Suse) to see what I can find for my hardware.
Unsupported hardware on Windows? What unsupported hardware?
Actually, I know you are right. The root problem is that many manufacturers don't support Linux with drivers, etc., and that is why we have ndiswrapper...
BUT...
Why don't we have a ndiswrapper installer and GUI interface? There's no excuse for that IMHO. Yeah, I know, maybe next year...
Simplistic answer. Here is how you do it (and these steps illustrate one of the major issues with Linux today). ...
/etc/ndiswrapper/ /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
/home/username/ /home/username/ndiswrapper-1.2-rc1/
/the_dir_you_put_the_wlan_drivers_into/
#wireless install for Ubuntu 5.0.4
#remove existing ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe -r bcmwl5
sudo rmmod ndiswrapper
sudo apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils
sudo rm -r
sudo rm -r
#Install Linux headers
#(enter your version of linux headers or usr the synaptic package manager)
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.10
#install ndiswrapper
cd
sudo tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.2-rc1
cd
sudo make
sudo make install
#load drivers with ndiswrapper
cd
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (fill out your own drivers for bcmwl5.inf)
sudo ndiswrapper -l (shows if the driver is installed)
#Load ndiswrapper and check if it worked
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo dmesg (shows that the card is installed (hopefully))
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan (shows all APs surrounding you)
#Make sure Ndiswrapper is loaded during bootup
sudo ndiswrapper -m
#Configure your Wlan card
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid name_of_AP (the name you found by using iwlist wlan0 scan)
iwconfig wlan0 enc (fill out your WEP key (if you have one))
sudo dhclient wlan0 (gets a dynamic IP adress)
sudo ping -c 3 www.ubuntu-linux.nl (tests the connection)
And that DOES NOT include getting WPA-PSK working.
Maybe I can ask him how to get my wireless card working in Linux on my laptop?
Not sure it is an improvement. I would think that there will be very poor tactile feedback when it comes to clicking a virtual button...
So that explains the extra glow after sunset...