The separate mouse is OK. I spend my evenings on the couch, with the notebook in my lap and the (optical) mouse on the couch, just where my hand naturally comes to rest. It's much more comfortable than any track(ball|point|pad) or whatever.
Other than a real mouse, the only I found usable was a clip-on "Ballpoint" mouse sold a long time ago with Toshiba laptops. I don't think they exist anymore. And they didn't have a scroll wheel of course.
Robert X. Cringely made his weekly column about this. Read his insightful comment titled "Divide and Conquer - Why Apple Has an iPod Division". (As usual, he starts a bit boring but gets more interesting on way).
That is exactly what I would also like to do, but with some sort of wireless vlan. I do want anybody to be able to connect to my access point, and go to the Internet through the gateway.
BUT I don't want them to be able to see my machines on the network, and don't want to run personal firewalls on them. Besides, when I connect to the access point, I want to have full access to the other machines.
And I don't want to buy or setup more routers and/or access points.
What I'm looking for is an access point which lets some addresses go anywhere, and some others only to non-local addresses through the gateway. If I understand it correctly, that's what managed switches supporting vlan do, but they cost a lot.
Is there an affordable access point with such capability, or would I really have to bother keeping some old box runnix night and day with a Linux firewall?
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and we know that we always keep finding and extracting more than we would have predicted.
Maybe more than predicted, but less every year since 1962! (see graph)
A simpler statement might be that a good majority of the EU population are anti-American irrespective of what they do
That is not true. Anybody who knows Europe will be able to tell you that the Iraq war made a huge difference.
While before, a tiny minority was anti-American, it seems to have grown to the vast majority only because of the Iraq war. Anti-Americanism has now become so pervasive in the European society, that I even hear it in remarks from my kids. And they are at an age (8) when their views are ultra-conservative, and they would only express things that are shared by a significant majority in the school yard.
Believe me, Americans are only fooling themselves if they ignore the damage this war (or this administration) has done to their country.
"Please note that we will only accept family safe images."
This raises interesting questions for a global Internet company. "Family safe" by which standard? US? European? Tunisian? South-African?...
All regions in the world have very different standards for morality in general (at least in various details), and particularly for sexually or simply nudity-related images.
Europeans in general could not quite understand the fuss in the US about Janet Jackson's nipple on TV, and were quite amused by the uproar. For the fuss about Clinton's private life, some Europeans were shocked like a part of the American public seemed to be, while others felt that his sex-life was nobody's business.
Some "family safe" content in the US would be quite shocking for many Muslims (as it might also have been for many Christians just a few decades ago).
etc.
So, which standard will they apply? The US standard because Google is a US company? The standard of the country of the web site? The standard of the country of the advertizer?
Feel free to post a few links for an interesting comparative study...:-)
You can leave out goatse.cx and it's variants; we all know these already. But I really wonder what is considered "osé" (or even "sexy") but still acceptable on an Iranian web site.
Did I really read something about some "registry" and "registry editor" in that article?
Sorry, I don't know Gnome. Is it really configured through some sort of registry, like Windows?
The registry is one of the things I hate most about Windows and the alternative is among what I appreciate most in Linux: all configuration through simple text files, usually well commented, grep-able, diff-able, whatever-able.
If indeed Gnome is going the way of Windows (and Windows 95 for the folder thing!) with this registry nonsense, I'm certain to stay away from it. Someone please reassure me that I misunderstood.
I know. And I believe that's more or less how it should be. I was making a disillusioned reply to the sarcastic remark "Also what international terrorist law is he going to be tortured for?".
But if he is 18, I guess he wouldn't be tried under juvenile laws. Whether he will get probation or not will be up to judge(s). And it may be a bit early for us to decide what he would deserve:-)
Forgot to add: it's the politicians role to keep the military and the police under control, and make sure they behave. Unfortunately, politicians mostly also tend to be the same sort of people in all countries...
Also what international terrorist law is he going to be tortured for?
I hope that they don't do this sort of thing in Germany. But I wouldn't bet on it. Military and police have a tendency to be the same sort of people in all countries.
Monday, my normal ADSL line, through a firewall, was down (because of Sasser? don't know).
So I plugged my XP notebook on the other SDSL line which is normally only used for servers, and forgot to enable ZoneAlarm.
20 minutes after the switchover, I saw the characteristic message signaling the presence of Sasser, and the computer shut down.
Took me 2 hours to make sure everything was cleaned up: reboot in safe mode, cleanup "Run" in the registry, do an AV scan of c:\windows, reboot, search the net for details, manually check the relevant places, and finally do a complete av scan, and take the opportunity to let it delete the ~200 viruses in Eudora's attachment directory (around 20 a day; I guess that's the average for most people around here).
So yes, from my experience: all you have to do is plug a windows machine into the net and your in trouble within 20 minutes.
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The separate mouse is OK. I spend my evenings on the couch, with the notebook in my lap and the (optical) mouse on the couch, just where my hand naturally comes to rest. It's much more comfortable than any track(ball|point|pad) or whatever.
Other than a real mouse, the only I found usable was a clip-on "Ballpoint" mouse sold a long time ago with Toshiba laptops. I don't think they exist anymore. And they didn't have a scroll wheel of course.
Go with a standard wireless optical mouse!
See 2 reactions by Moore on French TV yesterday, and a different link, in yesterday's submission which I kept here
Robert X. Cringely made his weekly column about this. Read his insightful comment titled "Divide and Conquer - Why Apple Has an iPod Division". (As usual, he starts a bit boring but gets more interesting on way).
That is exactly what I would also like to do, but with some sort of wireless vlan. I do want anybody to be able to connect to my access point, and go to the Internet through the gateway.
BUT I don't want them to be able to see my machines on the network, and don't want to run personal firewalls on them. Besides, when I connect to the access point, I want to have full access to the other machines.
And I don't want to buy or setup more routers and/or access points.
What I'm looking for is an access point which lets some addresses go anywhere, and some others only to non-local addresses through the gateway. If I understand it correctly, that's what managed switches supporting vlan do, but they cost a lot.
Is there an affordable access point with such capability, or would I really have to bother keeping some old box runnix night and day with a Linux firewall?
and we know that we always keep finding and extracting more than we would have predicted.
Maybe more than predicted, but less every year since 1962! (see graph)
See this comment from yesterday under a different story, for financial analyst's view on SCO, and another press release.
A simpler statement might be that a good majority of the EU population are anti-American irrespective of what they do
That is not true. Anybody who knows Europe will be able to tell you that the Iraq war made a huge difference.
While before, a tiny minority was anti-American, it seems to have grown to the vast majority only because of the Iraq war. Anti-Americanism has now become so pervasive in the European society, that I even hear it in remarks from my kids. And they are at an age (8) when their views are ultra-conservative, and they would only express things that are shared by a significant majority in the school yard.
Believe me, Americans are only fooling themselves if they ignore the damage this war (or this administration) has done to their country.
Everytime something happens in the SCucks case, Pretenderle and Didiot come out of the blue corner.
Well, as far as SCO is concerned, there seems to be only one analyst caring to give his opinion. It is "sell".
And his advice seems to be good: even though, SCO has made some press release and arranged for other news to try to get the investor's interest, their stock continues to plummet.
(There was no SCO story today, so we need at leat this comment in an unrelated story, dont'we?)
You are right of course. I was mixing them up. Shame on me.
I wonder when they'll have our Kristalnacht
It was a Kristalmorgen instead (on 9/11/2001).
This raises interesting questions for a global Internet company. "Family safe" by which standard? US? European? Tunisian? South-African?
All regions in the world have very different standards for morality in general (at least in various details), and particularly for sexually or simply nudity-related images.
Europeans in general could not quite understand the fuss in the US about Janet Jackson's nipple on TV, and were quite amused by the uproar. For the fuss about Clinton's private life, some Europeans were shocked like a part of the American public seemed to be, while others felt that his sex-life was nobody's business.
Some "family safe" content in the US would be quite shocking for many Muslims (as it might also have been for many Christians just a few decades ago).
etc.
So, which standard will they apply? The US standard because Google is a US company? The standard of the country of the web site? The standard of the country of the advertizer?
Feel free to post a few links for an interesting comparative study...
You can leave out goatse.cx and it's variants; we all know these already. But I really wonder what is considered "osé" (or even "sexy") but still acceptable on an Iranian web site.
Did I really read something about some "registry" and "registry editor" in that article?
Sorry, I don't know Gnome. Is it really configured through some sort of registry, like Windows?
The registry is one of the things I hate most about Windows and the alternative is among what I appreciate most in Linux: all configuration through simple text files, usually well commented, grep-able, diff-able, whatever-able.
If indeed Gnome is going the way of Windows (and Windows 95 for the folder thing!) with this registry nonsense, I'm certain to stay away from it. Someone please reassure me that I misunderstood.
the famous Weapons of Mass Destruction.
That's not universal.
Well, it should be...
I know. And I believe that's more or less how it should be. I was making a disillusioned reply to the sarcastic remark "Also what international terrorist law is he going to be tortured for?".
:-)
But if he is 18, I guess he wouldn't be tried under juvenile laws. Whether he will get probation or not will be up to judge(s). And it may be a bit early for us to decide what he would deserve
Forgot to add: it's the politicians role to keep the military and the police under control, and make sure they behave. Unfortunately, politicians mostly also tend to be the same sort of people in all countries...
Why would he have to be extradited? If he is guilty, he can be judged in Germany. And one cannot be judged more than once for the same crime.
Also what international terrorist law is he going to be tortured for?
I hope that they don't do this sort of thing in Germany. But I wouldn't bet on it. Military and police have a tendency to be the same sort of people in all countries.
Was just about to submit this story. I see my lins are different, so you may find them useful too (they are in English):
An 18 year old has been arrested in Germany, suspect of being the creator of the Sasser worm, as reported by Yahoo news and many others. Sophos believes he may also be the author of Netsky.
Monday, my normal ADSL line, through a firewall, was down (because of Sasser? don't know).
So I plugged my XP notebook on the other SDSL line which is normally only used for servers, and forgot to enable ZoneAlarm.
20 minutes after the switchover, I saw the characteristic message signaling the presence of Sasser, and the computer shut down.
Took me 2 hours to make sure everything was cleaned up: reboot in safe mode, cleanup "Run" in the registry, do an AV scan of c:\windows, reboot, search the net for details, manually check the relevant places, and finally do a complete av scan, and take the opportunity to let it delete the ~200 viruses in Eudora's attachment directory (around 20 a day; I guess that's the average for most people around here).
So yes, from my experience: all you have to do is plug a windows machine into the net and your in trouble within 20 minutes.
... for weapons of mass destruction.
:-)
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didn't count the time it took [...] to drive to the library
He obviously lives there, you insensitive clod.
If you want them in different folders, that's easy to do with filters.
I do not want different pop accounts in different folders, so TB is unusable for me.