I've been putting StuffBak (http://www.stuffbak.com) stickers on all of my tech stuff (and other things like suitcases) for a while now. Since then I haven't lost anything, but I think it's a good investment.
I've got a few years experience with allowing hundreds of kids to play with Edubuntu on laptops at a local tech fair. The games that seem to hold their attention are Potato Guy (which also includes many other scenarios such as Ancient Egypt, Robot Workshop and Robin Tux) and Tux Paint.
Try Modest Needs (http://www.modestneeds.org/). They provide small, one-time grants to keep individuals and families from sliding from self-sufficiency into homelessness. Applications are carefully vetted, and donors get to decide what applications they fund. Typical grants are for medical needs, basic transportation, catching up on house payments, or the like. The administrative staff and overhead is very small.
The FBI page looks perfectly fine to me in Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP. The top right navigation links are broken on a couple of pages, but the appearance is OK.
> Not that I am trying to tear down any scientific theory, but acceptence of one theory > does not imply that I have to accept all theories.
You make a good point, but the parent wasn't really saying that. He was pointing out that people are confused about what constitutes a "theory" in this sense. Pointing out some of the better-known scientific theories may help to illustrate what the word means.
> The only thing you can do is move out of the > country or just continue to civilly disobey.
Actually, there is something you can do, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON complaining here should do it now if he hasn't already: join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). The EFF is fighting on the front lines for your digital rights as we speak, and they need all the help they can get.
One of the most visible ways that our department saves money is to check eBay before making most purchases. We buy there if we find a suitable item from a reliable source at a great price -- which happens frequently. Tape drives, laptops, software, you name it. Hint -- always tell your boss how much money you just saved!
If you really want Linux on the clients, but can't replace certain Windows apps, invest in a big Windows server running Citrix. It's expensive, but presumably you'll make back some of that cost in reduced maintenance.
I've heard of the above technique being used on *all* mail, without depending on the previous detection of the spam. With ordinary messages to a limited number of people, connecting to any referenced web sites would cause no problem. For spam, it would trigger millions of connections to the web site. Seems worth a try.
Don't forget that there are several kinds of data loss, and your approach only protects against one of those (hard drive failure).
There's also the case where you delete something accidentally and discover it a couple of days or weeks later (after your disk backup is overwritten), and the case where all of your disks fail (a fire or flood).
Tape, or some other removeable medium that lets you make multiple copies and store some offsite, is a solution to all of those cases.
Well, I've been doing web development for a little while in PHP, and I'm starting to run into situations where my lack of knowledge of the protocol confuses me -- proxy and client-side cache issues, for example.
This book is clearing things up, amd I feel it will be a big help in my development work.
Actually, everyone who designs and debugs moderately complex web sites / apps needs to know more about the protocol than you get in a "how to build a web site" type book.
Sure, you can dig stuff out of the RFCs, but that's hardly a pleasant way to learn. (Great for reference, though.)
I'm reading this book right now, and finding lots of good stuff in it that I can use for web development.
You missed the point of the book. It *is* intended for web site developers.
The deeper you get into writing and debugging complex sites and web apps, the more you need to understand about how the browser interacts with the server. And that's the direction the author takes with this information.
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I've been putting StuffBak (http://www.stuffbak.com) stickers on all of my tech stuff (and other things like suitcases) for a while now. Since then I haven't lost anything, but I think it's a good investment.
I've got a few years experience with allowing hundreds of kids to play with Edubuntu on laptops at a local tech fair. The games that seem to hold their attention are Potato Guy (which also includes many other scenarios such as Ancient Egypt, Robot Workshop and Robin Tux) and Tux Paint.
Try Modest Needs (http://www.modestneeds.org/). They provide small, one-time grants to keep individuals and families from sliding from self-sufficiency into homelessness. Applications are carefully vetted, and donors get to decide what applications they fund. Typical grants are for medical needs, basic transportation, catching up on house payments, or the like. The administrative staff and overhead is very small.
The FBI page looks perfectly fine to me in Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows XP. The top right navigation links are broken on a couple of pages, but the appearance is OK.
> Not that I am trying to tear down any scientific theory, but acceptence of one theory
> does not imply that I have to accept all theories.
You make a good point, but the parent wasn't really saying that. He was pointing out that people are confused about what constitutes a "theory" in this sense. Pointing out some of the better-known scientific theories may help to illustrate what the word means.
Excellent! I was hoping someone would mention Magnus. Just as long as we don't all have to wear those silly-looking tunics...
> The only thing you can do is move out of the
> country or just continue to civilly disobey.
Actually, there is something you can do, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON complaining here should do it now if he hasn't already: join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). The EFF is fighting on the front lines for your digital rights as we speak, and they need all the help they can get.
One of the most visible ways that our department saves money is to check eBay before making most purchases. We buy there if we find a suitable item from a reliable source at a great price -- which happens frequently. Tape drives, laptops, software, you name it. Hint -- always tell your boss how much money you just saved!
If you really want Linux on the clients, but can't replace certain Windows apps, invest in a big Windows server running Citrix. It's expensive, but presumably you'll make back some of that cost in reduced maintenance.
I've heard of the above technique being used on *all* mail, without depending on the previous detection of the spam. With ordinary messages to a limited number of people, connecting to any referenced web sites would cause no problem. For spam, it would trigger millions of connections to the web site. Seems worth a try.
Don't forget that there are several kinds of data loss, and your approach only protects against one of those (hard drive failure).
There's also the case where you delete something accidentally and discover it a couple of days or weeks later (after your disk backup is overwritten), and the case where all of your disks fail (a fire or flood).
Tape, or some other removeable medium that lets you make multiple copies and store some offsite, is a solution to all of those cases.
How about "If I'm going to drink a lot of this water, I might want to know a bit about where it comes from and what's in it."
Well, I've been doing web development for a little while in PHP, and I'm starting to run into situations where my lack of knowledge of the protocol confuses me -- proxy and client-side cache issues, for example. This book is clearing things up, amd I feel it will be a big help in my development work.
Actually, everyone who designs and debugs moderately complex web sites / apps needs to know more about the protocol than you get in a "how to build a web site" type book. Sure, you can dig stuff out of the RFCs, but that's hardly a pleasant way to learn. (Great for reference, though.) I'm reading this book right now, and finding lots of good stuff in it that I can use for web development.
You missed the point of the book. It *is* intended for web site developers. The deeper you get into writing and debugging complex sites and web apps, the more you need to understand about how the browser interacts with the server. And that's the direction the author takes with this information.