After 2 to 3 years of intensive use, Li-Ion batteries become miserable. I have bought new batteries for all the notebooks I have used so far, because the notebook itself was fine for my purposes for yet another 2 or 3 years. I have kept all my notebooks (Toshiba Portégés in the 90', Thinkpads X* since then) for 4 to 7 years. I have also added RAM and changed the hard drive for a bigger one in most of these machines.
I guess these non-serviceable machines are intended for a different type of users. That would be OK if I didn't sense a trend, making me fear everything will be like that in a few years.
So this new Thinkpad weighs the same as my X200, but has no Ethernet port (with a stupid adapter instead), no swappable/replaceable battery, soldered-on RAM, and a weird keyboard layout which puts the Home/End keys far away from the Page Up/Down keys.
If that's the new trend for Thinkpads, I'm afraid that after all these years with various X* models, I will I will have to look at other brands.
I want a small lightweight laptop, with a full keyboard (dedicated delete / backspace / pg up/ pg dn / home / end / INSert / PrtScreen / etc. keys!). So I have had Thinkpads X... machines for the last 10 years or so. (X31, X200s).
And I also want access to a Real Terminal with a Real Shell. So I install Linux on that Thinkpad, and a couple of WinXP virtual machines for a few special apps that only run on Windows.
Whether you wasted your time depends on whether you can use what you learned occasionally, or whether you had fun learning it. But anyway, learning anything is seldom a waste of time.
If your coders know several languages, and happen to not like Perl, that's OK. But if they know only a single language and really never use anything else, they are just not very competent and probably also quite boring.
Indeed, I used photorec/testdisk to recover mp4 files after they had (all) been accidentally deleted from an HFS+ partition.
But when I first started it in it's default mode, it "found" only rubbish, breaking up the actual mp4s into a mess of.doc, xml, jpg,.whatever files, including totally broken.mp4s.
When I restarted it after configuring it to only look for.mov/.mp4, it did a fantastic job, and as far as I know, all files could be recovered. Of course, that was made easier by the fact that I knew that all the files which needed to be recovered were.mp4.
No. Do it the other way around. I would create a new domain for the new guy taking over your site, or let him do it. Then transfer the web content to the new site, and set up a redirect on your site to the new one.
That way, people going to the old web site end up on the correct new site, but you don't have to change or worry about anything related to your personal email addresses.
If your web site also used email @yoursite, then YOU take care of setting up a redirect or whatever solution seems best.
You don't want to have your personal stuff at the mercy of someone else, or to have to call him to find out what the problem is if he made some configuration mistake or whatever.
Thank you. But I'm afraid I don't have the patience to watch a 12 minute video. What is this new trend of making videos for stuff which would be so much more useful in a written document? Doesn't this project have a web page which I can skim through to get an idea, read in detail if interested, and from which I can copy/paste relevant commands when needed?
I have a dozen domains on my own server. If I would like to use DNSSEC, is there a good practical how-to guide on what I would have to do to my bind configuration?
And would I need to buy a certificate? Currently I just use my own CA and certificates for encryption of my mail traffic and a few private web pages. I really don't want to give money to some anonymous foreign company so that they can "certify" who I am. After all, I should know who I am better than they would.
Originally, yes. But very few people use it in that meaning nowadays. It's quite vulgar. I can't remember hearing it in a conversation.
The current meaning became the norm after WWII. It's the standard word for that category of people and is very widely used. The Larousse translation seems to agree with others and with my Harap's. They don't mention "moron". Maybe "moron" is not strong enough? "asshole" may be a good translation, except I believe it is more vulgar: you can't use it in many social environments. "con" is a much more acceptable word, even if it's meaning can be strong. You can use it in just about any social context (if careful about whom it qualifies). Also, unlike something like "idiot", I feel both asshole and con can be used for someone with a normal IQ. It doesn't necessarily mean low IQ or "imbecile", even if it often does.
Maybe there are good forum threads somewhere about that? The precise meaning and usage of such words can be debated endlessly.
Very interesting. But how can we test for this vulnerability in practice? I guess there isn't a readily available exploit for it. So if we don't want to check all configuration pages of all our wifi routers to see if they support WPS and whether it is enabled, what can we do? Is there an easy way to send an appropriate packet and see in the response if the router may be vulnerable or not?
Stratfor said there were no WMD in Iraq right before we invaded
Well, outside of the US, or at least in Europe, any mainstream media source was basically explaining this. And that Saddam Hussein, while certainly very evil, had no connection with Al Qaida.
So this doesn't say anything about Stratfor. And I still wonder what that Stratfor company is and does, for whom, and why they are considered evil by some.
All of my "rare-earth" magnets came with giant warnings that not only say "KEEP AWAY FROM ALL CHILDREN" but also "Keep away from nose and mouth. Do not swallow. If swallowed, seek emergency medical attention as magnets may stick together in the intestine, causing severe injury or death".
I wonder where you get your old hard drives from. I never saw such a warning on any of mine.
I do, but as far as I can tell, the sentence has no meaning at all, and even most of the words are just made up. Not sure what, if anything, is supposed to be funny about it.
Q: Two goldfish are in a tank. A: One says, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
Well, I understood the joke differently. I thought the fish was wondering how to drive the fish tank, and found that funny. Never thought of a military tank.
Maybe that is because I'm from Europe, and according to the article, we have a penchant for surreal jokes?
There was also an op-ed by Rebecca MacKinnon in the NY Times: "Stop the Great Firewall of America". Unfortunately behind their paywall, but may be accessible through a Google search?
In fact, with Acid, they did definitely NOT lose organization. The spider webs were beautiful, but had defects like being too fragile, and incomplete.
You are probably remembering one of the other tests they did. They gave all sorts of drugs to spiders (and to other animals including soldiers and other people). I have also seen pictures of these different spider webs. I cannot remember which drug made them make these horribly messy webs (speed? THC?), but I definitely remember being surprised by the webs made under acid.
I often run remote GUI apps over SSH to my Ubuntu notebook. When you say that it doesn't work well with Gnome, does it also apply to single apps designed for Gnome (or designed for Gtk?), and would K* apps work better?
In practice, I regularly use Meld to compare 2 remote files, or Geany to edit them. As far as I understand, these 2 happen to be designed for Gnome/Gtk, rather than for KDE.
Would I be better off selecting KDE apps instead, or does it make no difference if I don't actually run the whole desktop, and just start a single app from my CLI SSH session?
I also still miss Ami Pro every time I need to write anything in a word processor. Nothing can compare to the simple and efficient way it let you use and manage.
For those who don't know what was so special:
Formatting was applied through styles, which lived in style sheets. Styles were assigned to Function keys. You could also access more styles through the menus, but the point was that you assigned your 10 most needed styles to 10 F-keys, so you could just keep typing structured text (with titles, quotes, bullets, whatever) without ever needing to get distracted by a mouse and hunting stuff through menus.
If only there was an HTML editor working like Ami Pro...
A not too bad word processor in these sad times without Ami Pro is Softmaker's TextMaker. However, it uses a proprietary format for documents and templates, the Linux version feels awkward, and there is no Mac version. But for Windows users, it may be a good alternative to Word or it's bloated clones OO/LO.
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After 2 to 3 years of intensive use, Li-Ion batteries become miserable. I have bought new batteries for all the notebooks I have used so far, because the notebook itself was fine for my purposes for yet another 2 or 3 years. I have kept all my notebooks (Toshiba Portégés in the 90', Thinkpads X* since then) for 4 to 7 years. I have also added RAM and changed the hard drive for a bigger one in most of these machines.
I guess these non-serviceable machines are intended for a different type of users. That would be OK if I didn't sense a trend, making me fear everything will be like that in a few years.
So this new Thinkpad weighs the same as my X200, but has no Ethernet port (with a stupid adapter instead), no swappable/replaceable battery, soldered-on RAM, and a weird keyboard layout which puts the Home/End keys far away from the Page Up/Down keys.
If that's the new trend for Thinkpads, I'm afraid that after all these years with various X* models, I will I will have to look at other brands.
who still uses Linux?
I do.
I want a small lightweight laptop, with a full keyboard (dedicated delete / backspace / pg up/ pg dn / home / end / INSert / PrtScreen / etc. keys!). So I have had Thinkpads X... machines for the last 10 years or so. (X31, X200s).
And I also want access to a Real Terminal with a Real Shell. So I install Linux on that Thinkpad, and a couple of WinXP virtual machines for a few special apps that only run on Windows.
Whether you wasted your time depends on whether you can use what you learned occasionally, or whether you had fun learning it. But anyway, learning anything is seldom a waste of time.
If your coders know several languages, and happen to not like Perl, that's OK. But if they know only a single language and really never use anything else, they are just not very competent and probably also quite boring.
I have lived all my life too!
I hope I haven't lived all of it yet...
Indeed, I used photorec/testdisk to recover mp4 files after they had (all) been accidentally deleted from an HFS+ partition.
But when I first started it in it's default mode, it "found" only rubbish, breaking up the actual mp4s into a mess of .doc, xml, jpg, .whatever files, including totally broken .mp4s.
When I restarted it after configuring it to only look for .mov/.mp4, it did a fantastic job, and as far as I know, all files could be recovered. Of course, that was made easier by the fact that I knew that all the files which needed to be recovered were .mp4.
the site has issues and many many people [...] are working to improve the online experience
Maybe that's the problem?
I'd create a new domain for yourself first
No. Do it the other way around. I would create a new domain for the new guy taking over your site, or let him do it. Then transfer the web content to the new site, and set up a redirect on your site to the new one.
That way, people going to the old web site end up on the correct new site, but you don't have to change or worry about anything related to your personal email addresses.
If your web site also used email @yoursite, then YOU take care of setting up a redirect or whatever solution seems best.
You don't want to have your personal stuff at the mercy of someone else, or to have to call him to find out what the problem is if he made some configuration mistake or whatever.
Thank you. But I'm afraid I don't have the patience to watch a 12 minute video. What is this new trend of making videos for stuff which would be so much more useful in a written document? Doesn't this project have a web page which I can skim through to get an idea, read in detail if interested, and from which I can copy/paste relevant commands when needed?
I must be too old...
Not if they're in .ca, .org, or any of hundreds of other TLDs that aren't controlled by a US-based company
Do you mean that it would only affect .com domains? In that case, what's all the fuss about. If it only targets spammers, who cares?
I have a dozen domains on my own server. If I would like to use DNSSEC, is there a good practical how-to guide on what I would have to do to my bind configuration?
And would I need to buy a certificate? Currently I just use my own CA and certificates for encryption of my mail traffic and a few private web pages. I really don't want to give money to some anonymous foreign company so that they can "certify" who I am. After all, I should know who I am better than they would.
Doesn't con mean cunt?
Originally, yes. But very few people use it in that meaning nowadays. It's quite vulgar. I can't remember hearing it in a conversation.
The current meaning became the norm after WWII. It's the standard word for that category of people and is very widely used. The Larousse translation seems to agree with others and with my Harap's. They don't mention "moron". Maybe "moron" is not strong enough? "asshole" may be a good translation, except I believe it is more vulgar: you can't use it in many social environments. "con" is a much more acceptable word, even if it's meaning can be strong. You can use it in just about any social context (if careful about whom it qualifies). Also, unlike something like "idiot", I feel both asshole and con can be used for someone with a normal IQ. It doesn't necessarily mean low IQ or "imbecile", even if it often does.
Maybe there are good forum threads somewhere about that? The precise meaning and usage of such words can be debated endlessly.
Most people are idiots, and don't improve with age.
As a French singer wrote and sang long ago:
Le temps ne fait rien à l’affaire ...
Quand on est con, on est con
(time doesn't matter, when you're a moron you're a moron)
http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/wiki/HintsAndTips
Very interesting. But how can we test for this vulnerability in practice? I guess there isn't a readily available exploit for it. So if we don't want to check all configuration pages of all our wifi routers to see if they support WPS and whether it is enabled, what can we do? Is there an easy way to send an appropriate packet and see in the response if the router may be vulnerable or not?
Stratfor said there were no WMD in Iraq right before we invaded
Well, outside of the US, or at least in Europe, any mainstream media source was basically explaining this. And that Saddam Hussein, while certainly very evil, had no connection with Al Qaida.
So this doesn't say anything about Stratfor. And I still wonder what that Stratfor company is and does, for whom, and why they are considered evil by some.
All of my "rare-earth" magnets came with giant warnings that not only say "KEEP AWAY FROM ALL CHILDREN" but also "Keep away from nose and mouth. Do not swallow. If swallowed, seek emergency medical attention as magnets may stick together in the intestine, causing severe injury or death".
I wonder where you get your old hard drives from. I never saw such a warning on any of mine.
Doesn't Tupperware already have a patent, or at least "prior art", on something like this?
I don't understand German
I do, but as far as I can tell, the sentence has no meaning at all, and even most of the words are just made up. Not sure what, if anything, is supposed to be funny about it.
Q: Two goldfish are in a tank.
A: One says, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
Well, I understood the joke differently. I thought the fish was wondering how to drive the fish tank, and found that funny. Never thought of a military tank.
Maybe that is because I'm from Europe, and according to the article, we have a penchant for surreal jokes?
There was also an op-ed by Rebecca MacKinnon in the NY Times: "Stop the Great Firewall of America". Unfortunately behind their paywall, but may be accessible through a Google search?
In fact, with Acid, they did definitely NOT lose organization. The spider webs were beautiful, but had defects like being too fragile, and incomplete.
You are probably remembering one of the other tests they did. They gave all sorts of drugs to spiders (and to other animals including soldiers and other people). I have also seen pictures of these different spider webs. I cannot remember which drug made them make these horribly messy webs (speed? THC?), but I definitely remember being surprised by the webs made under acid.
I often run remote GUI apps over SSH to my Ubuntu notebook. When you say that it doesn't work well with Gnome, does it also apply to single apps designed for Gnome (or designed for Gtk?), and would K* apps work better?
In practice, I regularly use Meld to compare 2 remote files, or Geany to edit them. As far as I understand, these 2 happen to be designed for Gnome/Gtk, rather than for KDE.
Would I be better off selecting KDE apps instead, or does it make no difference if I don't actually run the whole desktop, and just start a single app from my CLI SSH session?
Indeed. Every time I tried OOo, looking for an alternative to MS-Office, I mostly just found a clumsy clone of MS Office.
The other day, I tried Office 2010 to write 2 pages of instructions, and discovered that it had actually improved since 2003, and was not too bad.
I also still miss Ami Pro every time I need to write anything in a word processor. Nothing can compare to the simple and efficient way it let you use and manage.
For those who don't know what was so special:
Formatting was applied through styles, which lived in style sheets.
Styles were assigned to Function keys. You could also access more styles through the menus, but the point was that you assigned your 10 most needed styles to 10 F-keys, so you could just keep typing structured text (with titles, quotes, bullets, whatever) without ever needing to get distracted by a mouse and hunting stuff through menus.
If only there was an HTML editor working like Ami Pro...
A not too bad word processor in these sad times without Ami Pro is Softmaker's TextMaker. However, it uses a proprietary format for documents and templates, the Linux version feels awkward, and there is no Mac version. But for Windows users, it may be a good alternative to Word or it's bloated clones OO/LO.