OOo Writer has an "Export to PDF" menu point in the "File" menu. It is ideal for preservation of the format -- unless the receiving party needs to edit it, that is. But in vast majority of cases, just sending over something for people to read, PDF is sufficient.
I was just going to say it. I have an oldie machine - a 900MHz Celeron-II that I use as a media center. I routinely watch prerecorded TV shows on it in either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 while in the background I'm recoding recently recorded MPEG-2 files to MPEG-4. The CPU is not strong enough to encode to either MPEG-2 let alone MPEG-4 in realtime esp. when also watching the show with a delay, so I use a Hauppauge PVR-250 in it, which has a MPEG-2 hardware encoder, and I recode the stream to MPEG-4 later using the Cygwin port of mencoder. Now, playing back a video stream takes up about 70% of the CPU. I just use the stock Windows Task Manager to set the priority of the mencoder process to "low", and it doesn't interfere with the BSPlayer running on "normal" priority level - the numerically intensive recoding operation in mencoder can only use those CPU cycles that the media player doesn't. Same should hold for games - start them up, then bump their priority level to "above normal" to ensure nothing distracts you (don't bump it to "high", though as then you might not be able to bring up Task Manager again, who itself runs on "high" prio).
Reverse is also true for us non-native English speakers: never use (in speech) a word that you've only read and never head. You WILL sound like a fool. I still remember the embarrasment of the first time I tried to use the word "volatile" in an oral conversation.
Yep, they'll do whatever they can to increase profit. This is similar to ads in movie theaters before the feature film (at least that's how it works in Hungary). I paid for it, and still have to watch ads and trailers of upcoming movies (which are also just ads) for like 10-15 minutes. Of course, I can try to show up late 10 minutes, but with Murphy's Law at work that strategy actually led me to miss the first few minutes of a movie more than once.
The ugliest thing I have come across so far is my Shrek 2 DVD, which contains *two* *unskippable* movie trailers before the actual movie. They really pissed me off so much that if I bothered watching it more often, I'd probably just rip the feature off to XVID and burn it to a CD.
If I like a band, I will then buy their album (new if they are not signed by a RIAA label, used on ebay or amazon marketplace if they are with the RIAA).
This. Is. Brilliant. Strategy. You just got yourself a follower.
I was to Turkey for few weeks last year, and have also spoken to others that were, and know few Turkish citizens as well, and we all agree that Turkey today is a rigorously secular country, committed to rock solid separation of religion and state and to democracy. Why, they're good enough to be a NATO country, and last I heard, NATO is a military organization of countries devoted to protecting democratic regimes... I live in EU and consider myself christian, but I'm not losing sleep over EU negotiations with Turkey. I lose more sleep over software patentability debates, sincerely. As far as I see, for vast majority of Turkish people, Islam is not playing a bigger role in everyday life as Christianity/Judaism is for average EU citizen. That islam will overflow Europe if Turkey joined is as reasonable as to expect as French culture to overflow Hungary now that Hungary joined (hint: not likely). And since they, not us, are eager to join, we're in a fairly good negotiating position. Not so with Norway, who currently have no economic or geopolitical urge whatsover to join EU.
I just introduced my five-and-half y.o. son to computer chess http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.htm l after I couldn't keep up with his demands to play chess with him all day (have a job...)
I think he spends his time much better than if he sat in front of TV (disclaimer: he's usually in the kindergarten during work hours, but is being ill for a week; we don't keep him in front of screen all day usually)
to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect
Users don't like software that limits and annoys them. Nobody would use it. Imagine a phone that doesn't transmit grammatically incorrect spoken sentences. Would you use it?
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Same story with my ol' IBM i1200 ThinkPad - 700 MHz P-III and maxed out at 64MB RAM + 128MB expansion module.
I had to buy a new laptop for the sole purpose of getting more RAM even if I was otherwise perfectly happy with other specs of the machine.
My new machine has 1GB of RAM but also a P-IV that sucks batteries in record time and is so hot that the machine's fan is constantly on, making noise. I don't like it.
(ThinkPad was passed to wife who uses it to play Civilization III and surf the web)
I think that as long as they concentrate on having IE users rather than Firefox users switch to Growser, they'll gain user base more quickly.
And it doesn't have to do anything with Firefox users' loyalty to Firefox, but rather with the Firefox's market share.
On an unrelated note, it would take something extraordinary for me to switch from Opera at this point.
Actually, I took few extra seconds after sending the above comment, and went to the band's website, found a contact e-mail address and wrote them too about how they lost a sale yesterday.
Not a too big activism, but IMHO the most a single consumer can do for the cause.
It's funny. Just yesterday I was browsing CDs in the local store, and found one from an artist I like, but just before dropping it in the cart, I noticed it is "copy protected" mark on it. Whops, CD goes back. Voted with my money again and felt good about it.
You're right that it's much more tedious to write a worm that will scan the system for multiple recognized configurations; Windows is orders of magnitude more uniform in this regard. However, by writing the worm so that it can recognizes and operates at least in out-of-the-box configs of the most widepread distros, the author would make the best-effort at maximizing the probability of successful infection. I.e. as of present day, it could target the machines with default install of Fedora Core1, Mandrake 10 and Suse 9.1 (eventually relying on minor deviations from the default setup - i.e. that the services it exploits were enabled during install). Granted, it would still be way less virulent than a Windows worm, but I believe it'd still be able to spread in significant numbers.
I don't have the required Linux system expertise to create a proof of concept, though:-)
I believe virus creators can create a virus/worm that executes well on wide variety of Linux configs. They're just software, and a binary compiled and statically linked for, say, i386should run on most Linux x86 boxes, right?
As I have learned it, the NT Kernel is separate from the Win32 API. The Win32 system makes calls into the kernel to get system things done (like disk and screen I/O), but tracks all the Win32 stuff itself (like windows and message queues). Win32 is, in essence, just a 'personality' running on the NT core. Someone (Microsoft themselves, I think) is doing another personality module for the NT kernel that will let it run Unixy stuff too, at the same time as the Win32 stuff.
As a matter of fact, NT/W2k/XP ship with three "personalities": Win32 API, POSIX, and OS/2 API (console only). Apps compiled/linked for any subsystem can run concurrently with any other at any time.
I just visited http://www.linspire.com/ and it is blatantly obvious that the website design is a ripoff of the Apple web site. Just look at the Aqua-ish navigation buttons...
I'm in the unfortunate situation that I totalled my 6-years old Toyota Carina E last week. I loved that car and didn't intend on parting with it, but the accident crossed my plans. Unfortunately, the repair would have costed more than the current market value of the car - almost half of the cost attributable to a new pair of airbags.
Anyway, this forced me to analyze my typical car usage, and I found out that in my particular case, I'm better off if I use cabs and rent a car occasionally. I work from home. I go shopping once a week, and visit friends one-two times a week. Cabs are perfect for these purposes. I'm going on a longer trip over weekends once or twice a month, and once a year on a two-week vacation. Renting a car is perfect for this purpose.
I save myself from paying interest on a loan for the new car (or losing interest on money I can't invest since I have to spend it on a car - same thing), I don't have to pay insurance, and I needn't worry about repairs.
The whole idea is still fresh, and I wonder how will it work out, but for now it looks like it'll provide me with near equal comfort as owning a car, and I expect it to be less expensive in long run.
"(.Net)...effectively exposes source code at the very heart of Microsoft consumer and enterprise applications. The result is that nearly every emerging Microsoft product is vulnerable, including the OS itself. That's one reason why we are always hearing more, not fewer, stories about Microsoft security problems. And that?s why Microsoft security updates are now at least a monthly event."
So, the guy claims that we're seeing more reports about Microsoft security problems because code written for.Net platform is easily reverse engineered? Looks to me as if he hints that hiding the source code prevents the risk of security problems through bug exploits.
Well, even if it were true, it certainly isn't true that we see more Windows security updates because of visibility of code written for.Net. The code of almost all Microsoft products is written in plain old C.
Oh, and BTW, since when is it a problem if we see at least one security update/month? I'd be anxious if there were *none* for a month! (I understand that can be a nightmare for sysadmins, but I'm lucky to only have two laptops and one desktop machine to maintain at home)
OTOH, I fail to see why on Earth could Ant (a make-like build tool) depend on Swing (a GUI library). If it does, then Apache folks who wrote it did something Wrong(tm)
Have a laptop and wireless, and a cellphone with GPRS as a last resort. Last summer I was able to spend my days working on the beach, in company of my wife and kids. There was no WiFi there, but that's when the GPRS comes in handy. (I recommend a Bluetooth-enabled cellphone so you don't even need to take it out of your pocket and fiddle with a cable). Sure, working on the beach sucks compared to just relaxing on the beach, but working in the office sucks compared to working on the beach (in summer that is).
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OOo Writer has an "Export to PDF" menu point in the "File" menu. It is ideal for preservation of the format -- unless the receiving party needs to edit it, that is. But in vast majority of cases, just sending over something for people to read, PDF is sufficient.
I was just going to say it. I have an oldie machine - a 900MHz Celeron-II that I use as a media center. I routinely watch prerecorded TV shows on it in either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 while in the background I'm recoding recently recorded MPEG-2 files to MPEG-4. The CPU is not strong enough to encode to either MPEG-2 let alone MPEG-4 in realtime esp. when also watching the show with a delay, so I use a Hauppauge PVR-250 in it, which has a MPEG-2 hardware encoder, and I recode the stream to MPEG-4 later using the Cygwin port of mencoder. Now, playing back a video stream takes up about 70% of the CPU. I just use the stock Windows Task Manager to set the priority of the mencoder process to "low", and it doesn't interfere with the BSPlayer running on "normal" priority level - the numerically intensive recoding operation in mencoder can only use those CPU cycles that the media player doesn't. Same should hold for games - start them up, then bump their priority level to "above normal" to ensure nothing distracts you (don't bump it to "high", though as then you might not be able to bring up Task Manager again, who itself runs on "high" prio).
Reverse is also true for us non-native English speakers: never use (in speech) a word that you've only read and never head. You WILL sound like a fool. I still remember the embarrasment of the first time I tried to use the word "volatile" in an oral conversation.
Yep, they'll do whatever they can to increase profit. This is similar to ads in movie theaters before the feature film (at least that's how it works in Hungary). I paid for it, and still have to watch ads and trailers of upcoming movies (which are also just ads) for like 10-15 minutes. Of course, I can try to show up late 10 minutes, but with Murphy's Law at work that strategy actually led me to miss the first few minutes of a movie more than once.
The ugliest thing I have come across so far is my Shrek 2 DVD, which contains *two* *unskippable* movie trailers before the actual movie. They really pissed me off so much that if I bothered watching it more often, I'd probably just rip the feature off to XVID and burn it to a CD.
If I like a band, I will then buy their album (new if they are not signed by a RIAA label, used on ebay or amazon marketplace if they are with the RIAA).
This. Is. Brilliant. Strategy. You just got yourself a follower.
I was to Turkey for few weeks last year, and have also spoken to others that were, and know few Turkish citizens as well, and we all agree that Turkey today is a rigorously secular country, committed to rock solid separation of religion and state and to democracy. Why, they're good enough to be a NATO country, and last I heard, NATO is a military organization of countries devoted to protecting democratic regimes... I live in EU and consider myself christian, but I'm not losing sleep over EU negotiations with Turkey. I lose more sleep over software patentability debates, sincerely. As far as I see, for vast majority of Turkish people, Islam is not playing a bigger role in everyday life as Christianity/Judaism is for average EU citizen. That islam will overflow Europe if Turkey joined is as reasonable as to expect as French culture to overflow Hungary now that Hungary joined (hint: not likely). And since they, not us, are eager to join, we're in a fairly good negotiating position. Not so with Norway, who currently have no economic or geopolitical urge whatsover to join EU.
I just introduced my five-and-half y.o. son to computer chess http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.htm l after I couldn't keep up with his demands to play chess with him all day (have a job...)
I think he spends his time much better than if he sat in front of TV (disclaimer: he's usually in the kindergarten during work hours, but is being ill for a week; we don't keep him in front of screen all day usually)
to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect
Users don't like software that limits and annoys them. Nobody would use it. Imagine a phone that doesn't transmit grammatically incorrect spoken sentences. Would you use it?
Same story with my ol' IBM i1200 ThinkPad - 700 MHz P-III and maxed out at 64MB RAM + 128MB expansion module. I had to buy a new laptop for the sole purpose of getting more RAM even if I was otherwise perfectly happy with other specs of the machine. My new machine has 1GB of RAM but also a P-IV that sucks batteries in record time and is so hot that the machine's fan is constantly on, making noise. I don't like it. (ThinkPad was passed to wife who uses it to play Civilization III and surf the web)
I think that as long as they concentrate on having IE users rather than Firefox users switch to Growser, they'll gain user base more quickly. And it doesn't have to do anything with Firefox users' loyalty to Firefox, but rather with the Firefox's market share. On an unrelated note, it would take something extraordinary for me to switch from Opera at this point.
As I heard it in the news, the car was stolen and it was the thief who threw the baby out. Presumably it was not his baby, but the car owners' baby.
Actually, I took few extra seconds after sending the above comment, and went to the band's website, found a contact e-mail address and wrote them too about how they lost a sale yesterday. Not a too big activism, but IMHO the most a single consumer can do for the cause.
It's funny. Just yesterday I was browsing CDs in the local store, and found one from an artist I like, but just before dropping it in the cart, I noticed it is "copy protected" mark on it. Whops, CD goes back. Voted with my money again and felt good about it.
You're right that it's much more tedious to write a worm that will scan the system for multiple recognized configurations; Windows is orders of magnitude more uniform in this regard. However, by writing the worm so that it can recognizes and operates at least in out-of-the-box configs of the most widepread distros, the author would make the best-effort at maximizing the probability of successful infection. I.e. as of present day, it could target the machines with default install of Fedora Core1, Mandrake 10 and Suse 9.1 (eventually relying on minor deviations from the default setup - i.e. that the services it exploits were enabled during install). Granted, it would still be way less virulent than a Windows worm, but I believe it'd still be able to spread in significant numbers.
:-)
I don't have the required Linux system expertise to create a proof of concept, though
I believe virus creators can create a virus/worm that executes well on wide variety of Linux configs. They're just software, and a binary compiled and statically linked for, say, i386should run on most Linux x86 boxes, right?
As a matter of fact, NT/W2k/XP ship with three "personalities": Win32 API, POSIX, and OS/2 API (console only). Apps compiled/linked for any subsystem can run concurrently with any other at any time.
I just visited http://www.linspire.com/ and it is blatantly obvious that the website design is a ripoff of the Apple web site. Just look at the Aqua-ish navigation buttons...
Anyway, this forced me to analyze my typical car usage, and I found out that in my particular case, I'm better off if I use cabs and rent a car occasionally. I work from home. I go shopping once a week, and visit friends one-two times a week. Cabs are perfect for these purposes. I'm going on a longer trip over weekends once or twice a month, and once a year on a two-week vacation. Renting a car is perfect for this purpose.
I save myself from paying interest on a loan for the new car (or losing interest on money I can't invest since I have to spend it on a car - same thing), I don't have to pay insurance, and I needn't worry about repairs.
The whole idea is still fresh, and I wonder how will it work out, but for now it looks like it'll provide me with near equal comfort as owning a car, and I expect it to be less expensive in long run.
From the article:
"(.Net) ...effectively exposes source code at the very heart of Microsoft consumer and enterprise applications. The result is that nearly every emerging Microsoft product is vulnerable, including the OS itself. That's one reason why we are always hearing more, not fewer, stories about Microsoft security problems. And that?s why Microsoft security updates are now at least a monthly event."
So, the guy claims that we're seeing more reports about Microsoft security problems because code written for .Net platform is easily reverse engineered? Looks to me as if he hints that hiding the source code prevents the risk of security problems through bug exploits. .Net. The code of almost all Microsoft products is written in plain old C.
Well, even if it were true, it certainly isn't true that we see more Windows security updates because of visibility of code written for
Oh, and BTW, since when is it a problem if we see at least one security update/month? I'd be anxious if there were *none* for a month! (I understand that can be a nightmare for sysadmins, but I'm lucky to only have two laptops and one desktop machine to maintain at home)
OTOH, I fail to see why on Earth could Ant (a make-like build tool) depend on Swing (a GUI library). If it does, then Apache folks who wrote it did something Wrong(tm)
My 802.11b kit runs at cca. 5MBit/sec when I'm sitting some 8 metres from it, separated by a single (altough bearing, 30cm thick) wall.
Have a laptop and wireless, and a cellphone with GPRS as a last resort. Last summer I was able to spend my days working on the beach, in company of my wife and kids. There was no WiFi there, but that's when the GPRS comes in handy. (I recommend a Bluetooth-enabled cellphone so you don't even need to take it out of your pocket and fiddle with a cable). Sure, working on the beach sucks compared to just relaxing on the beach, but working in the office sucks compared to working on the beach (in summer that is).