Now everybody is gonna go have a look at this guy's homepage and we'll be actually be slashdotting a site that has nothing but a "in construction" label!
I'm actually impressed!
(I'd pay to see the administrator look at the stats and go "Now how did this happened?")
FileVault is not useful if, like me, you use both Macs and Windows PCs (Home and Work laptops respectively...) and would like to be able to read the same encrypted drive on both machines.
And I've had a lot of warnings about losing your data when using FileVault. I'm not the one who's going to take chances on that.
However, the main advantage would be portability. I use TrueCrypt on my work laptop and on USB or external drives, but I can't open those files on my mac at home. And Vice-versa. It's not a major problem.
Also, the hidden volume feature and the fact that the TrueCrypt disk image cannot be identified as such by looking at its binary content are other advantages over its Mac OS X counterpart (which I also like!).
If I didn't have enough of coding of coding as a full-time programmer I would cheerly give time to this problem. But I like to spend my evenings and weekend away from an IDE.;)
I've been considering buying my first Apple laptop since they switched to Intel, and looked at both the Boot Camp and Parallels options to have Windows on the side for when I need it (work, games).
Bottom line : Based on the many reviews I read of Parallels beta, virtualization is A LOT more practical than dual booting, since you don't need to reboot. The speed loss is there, but not that much.
HOWEVER, forget about it if you want to play games or any application that uses the 3D features of the graphics card heavily (BTW has anyone tried Solidworks on the MacBook?). In those cases, dual booting is the only viable option since the performance loss is VERY present.
DISCLAMER: Again, I haven't tried those myself, only read the reviews. And I would love to have feedback from people who did test both.
My girfriend and I subscribed last fall. It's very convenient, whether it is for a short visit to see Grandma or to stop at IKEA for some stuff...
They also have long distance plans and per-day fees if you want to get the car for a long week-end.
The thing that bothers me a little bit, and this is where it will never having a car of your own, is that you have to plan your trips. You can't just decide on a saturday morning "Hey, let's take the car right now and go someplace nice for the week-end".
But it's really a minor inconvenient, and not paying for a car that would stay in my driveway for 5 days really is good on for the budget, and we can spend that money elsewhere (a colleague of my girlfriend who has a car keeps telling her we seem to go out a lot!):)
We are definitely staying with this system. Of course, I don't think it would work as well in cities where public transit isn't well developped.
I have a question... did you have to sign deals in order to display the Dilbert and Calvin & Hobbes comic strips?
Just curious...
PS: I like the looks of it, I'd like to see the comics above shown directly on the page instead of just the links (as an option of course, many people would hate that).
Sorry for the slashdot crowd if this is not a big technical question!:)
A death thread about any individual on a blog could probably result in criminal pursuit. It would be like going on radio and saying "I'm going to kill !".
There are criminal charges applicable here, and it has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
And treathening to kill a elected political leader is simply anti-democratic and dangerous. And I'm saying that as the last guy who would have voted for the actual president...
To answer your question, I don't have a DVD burner (it's on my chrismas list) but was able to install SUSE on my box :
I downloaded and installed SUSE 9.2 Personal Edition a few weeks ago, it's a single CD image. After installing it I went into YAST and added a installation reference to one of the SUSE FTP sites. I was then able to download the kernel source (I needed it to install 3d acceleration on my ATI...)
So you don't need the DVD. I also remember trying the 9.0 pro version that came on CDs (4 or 7 of them I think, not sure).
I think so too, especially at an age where fiction and reality are not completely told apart. Imagine watching that awfully big spider coming at you when you're 5... and it's even worse in IMAX!;)
Even though, try having a 5 year-old stay seated for a whole 3 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES... There were a lot of kids in the theater when we went to see the movie. After 1 hour you already had half of them crying 'is the movie finished yet?'... not mentionning the 20 trips to the bathroom/food counter during the course of the movie... not easy not to disturb anybody when the place is full.
Don't bring kids that young to see movies that long... at least wait for the DVD so they can take pauses once in a while...
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Senior citizens can date too you insensitive clod!
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Great.
Now everybody is gonna go have a look at this guy's homepage and we'll be actually be slashdotting a site that has nothing but a "in construction" label!
I'm actually impressed!
(I'd pay to see the administrator look at the stats and go "Now how did this happened?")
I'm dyslexic you intensive clod!
Hmm...
Read Wired much?
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/10-uses-for-the.html
FileVault is not useful if, like me, you use both Macs and Windows PCs (Home and Work laptops respectively...) and would like to be able to read the same encrypted drive on both machines. And I've had a lot of warnings about losing your data when using FileVault. I'm not the one who's going to take chances on that.
3 words: Open Source Bureaucracy.
If I could mod you +20 funny I would!
In Soviet Russia, RIAA RIPS YOU! Oh wait...
... And that would be Leopard.
I guess it explains why actually nobody modded you funny...
Discloser: I have a Mac and I love it. :)
;)
However, the main advantage would be portability. I use TrueCrypt on my work laptop and on USB or external drives, but I can't open those files on my mac at home. And Vice-versa. It's not a major problem.
Also, the hidden volume feature and the fact that the TrueCrypt disk image cannot be identified as such by looking at its binary content are other advantages over its Mac OS X counterpart (which I also like!).
If I didn't have enough of coding of coding as a full-time programmer I would cheerly give time to this problem. But I like to spend my evenings and weekend away from an IDE.
379... Wow... I feel like I'm meeting Galileo or something!
My guess would be that it's so they can implement their own DRM...
But don't mind me I'm probably just paranoid.
I've been considering buying my first Apple laptop since they switched to Intel, and looked at both the Boot Camp and Parallels options to have Windows on the side for when I need it (work, games).
Bottom line : Based on the many reviews I read of Parallels beta, virtualization is A LOT more practical than dual booting, since you don't need to reboot. The speed loss is there, but not that much.
HOWEVER, forget about it if you want to play games or any application that uses the 3D features of the graphics card heavily (BTW has anyone tried Solidworks on the MacBook?). In those cases, dual booting is the only viable option since the performance loss is VERY present.
DISCLAMER: Again, I haven't tried those myself, only read the reviews. And I would love to have feedback from people who did test both.
Here it's called Communauto, it's been available for a few years.
:)
http://www.communauto.com/index_ENG.html
My girfriend and I subscribed last fall. It's very convenient, whether it is for a short visit to see Grandma or to stop at IKEA for some stuff...
They also have long distance plans and per-day fees if you want to get the car for a long week-end.
The thing that bothers me a little bit, and this is where it will never having a car of your own, is that you have to plan your trips. You can't just decide on a saturday morning "Hey, let's take the car right now and go someplace nice for the week-end".
But it's really a minor inconvenient, and not paying for a car that would stay in my driveway for 5 days really is good on for the budget, and we can spend that money elsewhere (a colleague of my girlfriend who has a car keeps telling her we seem to go out a lot!)
We are definitely staying with this system. Of course, I don't think it would work as well in cities where public transit isn't well developped.
Don't you know it spoils the fun of the joke when someone explains it?
Oh boy I haven't laughed like that for a while... (and I AM Canadian) Sorry I don't have MOD points!
I have a question... did you have to sign deals in order to display the Dilbert and Calvin & Hobbes comic strips? Just curious... PS: I like the looks of it, I'd like to see the comics above shown directly on the page instead of just the links (as an option of course, many people would hate that). Sorry for the slashdot crowd if this is not a big technical question! :)
A death thread about any individual on a blog could probably result in criminal pursuit. It would be like going on radio and saying "I'm going to kill !".
There are criminal charges applicable here, and it has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
And treathening to kill a elected political leader is simply anti-democratic and dangerous. And I'm saying that as the last guy who would have voted for the actual president...
Did I miss something ? I though Al Gore was the guy who invented the Internet... When did he sell his patents to Microsoft ?
To answer your question, I don't have a DVD burner (it's on my chrismas list) but was able to install SUSE on my box : I downloaded and installed SUSE 9.2 Personal Edition a few weeks ago, it's a single CD image. After installing it I went into YAST and added a installation reference to one of the SUSE FTP sites. I was then able to download the kernel source (I needed it to install 3d acceleration on my ATI...) So you don't need the DVD. I also remember trying the 9.0 pro version that came on CDs (4 or 7 of them I think, not sure).
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I think so too, especially at an age where fiction and reality are not completely told apart. Imagine watching that awfully big spider coming at you when you're 5... and it's even worse in IMAX! ;)
Even though, try having a 5 year-old stay seated for a whole 3 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES... There were a lot of kids in the theater when we went to see the movie. After 1 hour you already had half of them crying 'is the movie finished yet?'... not mentionning the 20 trips to the bathroom/food counter during the course of the movie... not easy not to disturb anybody when the place is full.
Don't bring kids that young to see movies that long... at least wait for the DVD so they can take pauses once in a while...