On Windows, it's easiest to create a PDF printer, using either Cute PDF or FreePDF XP. Both products are simply a wrapper for AFPL Ghostscript, and create a printer that you can print to from any application to create a PDF. Oh, and they're free (beer I think).
I even find that they produce better PDFs than Adobe Distiller a fair bit of the time.
You can make reasonable efforts to keep your bag in sight at all times so someone doesn't get the opportunity.
Except that there is some evidence that Chapelle Corby had the weed added to her boogie board bag by corrupt baggage handlers once she'd boarded the plane. The baggage handlers at her stopover who were supposed to take it out failed to find it and so it flew on with her to Indonesia where it was discovered by police. She got 20 years in an Indonesian prison for it, btw (an appeal is pending).
It could also be potentially possible to get illegal images, etc. without even knowing it.
Something along the lines of.. img src="illegal.png" width=1 height=1
Not to mention Mozilla/Firefox link prefetching. This downloads the "next" page (including images referenced by that page), according to the prefetching hints embedded in the current page. They look like
<link rel="prefetch" href="/images/big.jpeg">
This is normally a Good Thing (tm) as the next page loads from the cache, speeding things up.
Note that Google currently embeds link tags such that the first hit in some searches gets prefetched. So if you do a google search and the first hit contains questionable material, it could end up in your cache, without you being aware of it.
Note that link prefetching is enabled by default, but you can turn it off if you like. Type about:config in the URL field and change network.prefetch-next to "false".
Couldn't you just hire a car for the long distance trips? You might find that it's more cost effective overall if you can make 95% of your usage significantly cheaper.
Thinking outside the square can help in more every-day ways as well: For many people taking a taxi instead of owning a car actually works out cheaper in the long run. You have to factor in depreciation, maintenance, registration and insurance. That's going to add up to at least $2000 a year, before you even drive anywhere.
I thought the U.K. was a world leader in alternative power. Tidal, wave, wind. Don't just automatically think solar. At the moment (in my native Australia) the cheapest alternative electricity generation is hydro, followed by wind, followed by solar.
Here you can actually choose where your power comes from if you're willing to pay extra. My power comes 50% from hydro and 50% from wind. I like having the choice.
Saying the oil will run out is a bit of a misnomer.
No no no!
mis.no.mer (from dictionary.com)
n.
1. An error in naming a person or place.
2.
a. Application of a wrong name.
b. A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object.
I think the word you're looking for is misconception (A mistaken thought, idea, or notion; a misunderstanding). Sorry about the rant; I've just seen "misnomer" abused too many times on slashdot.
I think your are focused on the wrong part of the organisation. The people working in all organisations are just normal people, with normal senses of ethics, but the organisation still behaves in an ethically questionable way.
I once read a study that applied standard psychiatric measures to corporations. Almost every organisation came out as "psychopathic" on the standard measures of human decency.
Pure capitalism is just not good at building in social responsibility. It's something that needs to be imposed from outside the system (generally by regulation). Pure capitalism rewards competitiveness and efficiency, and behaving in a socially or environmentally responsible way is often at odds with this.
Organisations are a microcosm of the same problem which in its larger sense can be applied to the whole of mankind. We just don't have the level of governmental or organisational maturaty that even allows us to see, let alone fix, what we are doing to the environment. And this is no suprise; we are after all just animals, and we've never before been in the position of being able to completely destroy the planet's biosphere. So naturally it's hard to come up with practical solutions to this: no one has ever done it before.
There have been challenges to our collective society (war, pandemics, natural disaster) but nothing on this scale. It's the biggest challenge yet to face us as a fledgeling intelligent race.
This problem is built directly into our "human nature". We naturally tend to want lots of children, we natrually tend to want financial security, our capitalist economies depend on growth, etc etc. That's precisely the reason that fixing the problem will be so difficult. It requires overriding certain parts of our basic nature in order to reach some ideolistic ideal. And that's not something we are good at, especially collectively (the old idea that your concious mind only has 10% control over your actions, whereas your unconcious has 90% control).
I'm not sure if we're up to the task. Perhaps we do need to go though some kind of apocolypse first, before the tatters of our population try again. Who knows? It'll sure be an interesting ride.
You know...I agree about the lack of a cool, loud roaring sound being a drawback, but, seriously, why do so many people try to equate a fun, powerful car with penile size?
Acutally, where I come (AU) from it's widely recognised that this is a inverse relationship. Like people are trying to make up for inadequacies in penis size by buying the largest engine they can afford.
Regardless, those guys that cruise down the most "commercial" streets (Lygon and Chapel streets in my native Melbourne) between about 10pm and 3am Friday and Saturday nights deafening people by reving their engines really do seem to be from the "dickhead" school of courting.
Hrm... for all I know it might be a successful strategy, but I doubt it. It can't be that simple, right? Right!?
I have a dual boot machine with an Athlon 64 3200+ and 1GB of RAM. And I find that Linux (Debian with Gnome) performs _much_ better than Windows XP. At least more to my liking. Note that all that follows is drawn from my own (subjective) experiences with the two operating systems.
There are several issues here as far as I can tell:
The performance of the scheduler
The way processes are swapped out to disk
The way windows are drawn
Linux has seen much development in the scheduler over the last year or so (since 2.6 was released). It has improved to the point now where I believe it's superior to XP's. I tend to multi-task fairly heavily so this affects me directly.
The swapping behaviour of Windows XP seems to be absolutely abysmal. When you have several processes open, even with 1GB of RAM, things still get swapped out! I mean when you have say Firefox and Thunderbird open, you spend say 1/2 an hour writing some email, then alt-tab back to firefox, you have to wait up to 10 seconds for it to be swapped back to RAM. This is something that _never_ happens in Linux. Until RAM is exhausted, Linux barely touches the swap file.
The way windows are drawn is actually a plus for Windows in terms of performance. Windows has the window drawing routines in its kernel, and thus will probably always be faster than Linux in terms of the snappiness of window redraws. Now, I'd like to point out that this makes me nervous. Doing something like that in kernel space just sounds like a bad idea to me. I'm left wondering how many BSODs are caused by this "optimisation".
This issue was the reason a friend of mine gave for switching back to Windows from Linux. Mind you that guy used 800x600 as his screen resolution, so his mind obviously runs in a different way than mine;) I just can't stand the window manager in Windows. Annoys the hell out of me. I'll take slightly slower screen redraws any day if I never have to have my focus stolen again!:)
Oh, and if you're looking for ways to speed up your linux desktop, maybe try this Linux Journal article: Optimising Desktop Performance
I can't remember the last time FireFox crashed. Have you done something funky to your profile, or installed some kind of weird extension? If you want stability back, I'd suggest creating a new profile by moving your.firefox (or.mozilla-firefox) directory somewhere else and rerunning firefox.
You can do the same thing on Windows by moving your C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\FireFox\<something or other> directory away.
You might be pleasantly suprised.
This kind of profile issue is why when reporting bugs it's required that you reproduce the bug with a fresh profile.
The Linux Weekly News security page would be a good place to start. If you then went back and looked through the security pages of the weekly editions, you'd probably have a pretty complete database.
I think you're missing the point here. Basically, this can never be anything like a representative suvey. This is because:
Those who post saying that they illegally downloaded music are Anonymous Cowards. They may be scared of the RIAA, or they may be astroturfers.
Those who have collections of legal music are understandably proud of them (kind of like being celibate) and are therefore more likely to post non-anonymously.
I did not have to restart the browser, certainly not the entire operating system.
Actually, you do need to restart the browser for the patch to come in to effect. Though considering that firefox loads so fast these days, this is hardly a major inconvenience.
Mind you, it would be much less of an inconvenience if Firefox had the cool Mozilla feature of Bookmark this group of tabs.... I loved that feature because I often had more tabs open than I could finish reading in one sitting, and I could come back to them later. Perhaps it'll be a Firefox extension eventually.:)
They're down!:) The two week clock is now ticking... It'll be interesting to see if the roll at the end of the ascent will affect the timing of the second flight.
I must say, what an impressive piece of aeronautical engineering. Why haven't we been doing it like this for longer? Makes the shuttle seem so unsubtle.:)
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On Windows, it's easiest to create a PDF printer, using either Cute PDF or FreePDF XP. Both products are simply a wrapper for AFPL Ghostscript, and create a printer that you can print to from any application to create a PDF. Oh, and they're free (beer I think).
I even find that they produce better PDFs than Adobe Distiller a fair bit of the time.
Cute PDF
FreePDF XP
From the release notes for version 0.42:
* Better PS/EPS export: gradient support, better text handling, a command line option for batch export.
Not sure if it's good enough for professional work or not.
Except that there is some evidence that Chapelle Corby had the weed added to her boogie board bag by corrupt baggage handlers once she'd boarded the plane. The baggage handlers at her stopover who were supposed to take it out failed to find it and so it flew on with her to Indonesia where it was discovered by police. She got 20 years in an Indonesian prison for it, btw (an appeal is pending).
It was a big deal in Australia.
Not to mention Mozilla/Firefox link prefetching. This downloads the "next" page (including images referenced by that page), according to the prefetching hints embedded in the current page. They look like
This is normally a Good Thing (tm) as the next page loads from the cache, speeding things up.
Note that Google currently embeds link tags such that the first hit in some searches gets prefetched. So if you do a google search and the first hit contains questionable material, it could end up in your cache, without you being aware of it.
Note that link prefetching is enabled by default, but you can turn it off if you like. Type about:config in the URL field and change network.prefetch-next to "false".
More info on link prefetching in mozilla here.
Couldn't you just hire a car for the long distance trips? You might find that it's more cost effective overall if you can make 95% of your usage significantly cheaper.
Thinking outside the square can help in more every-day ways as well: For many people taking a taxi instead of owning a car actually works out cheaper in the long run. You have to factor in depreciation, maintenance, registration and insurance. That's going to add up to at least $2000 a year, before you even drive anywhere.
I thought the U.K. was a world leader in alternative power. Tidal, wave, wind. Don't just automatically think solar. At the moment (in my native Australia) the cheapest alternative electricity generation is hydro, followed by wind, followed by solar.
Here you can actually choose where your power comes from if you're willing to pay extra. My power comes 50% from hydro and 50% from wind. I like having the choice.
No no no!
mis.no.mer (from dictionary.com)
n.
I think the word you're looking for is misconception (A mistaken thought, idea, or notion; a misunderstanding). Sorry about the rant; I've just seen "misnomer" abused too many times on slashdot.
I think your are focused on the wrong part of the organisation. The people working in all organisations are just normal people, with normal senses of ethics, but the organisation still behaves in an ethically questionable way.
I once read a study that applied standard psychiatric measures to corporations. Almost every organisation came out as "psychopathic" on the standard measures of human decency.
Pure capitalism is just not good at building in social responsibility. It's something that needs to be imposed from outside the system (generally by regulation). Pure capitalism rewards competitiveness and efficiency, and behaving in a socially or environmentally responsible way is often at odds with this.
Organisations are a microcosm of the same problem which in its larger sense can be applied to the whole of mankind. We just don't have the level of governmental or organisational maturaty that even allows us to see, let alone fix, what we are doing to the environment. And this is no suprise; we are after all just animals, and we've never before been in the position of being able to completely destroy the planet's biosphere. So naturally it's hard to come up with practical solutions to this: no one has ever done it before.
There have been challenges to our collective society (war, pandemics, natural disaster) but nothing on this scale. It's the biggest challenge yet to face us as a fledgeling intelligent race.
This problem is built directly into our "human nature". We naturally tend to want lots of children, we natrually tend to want financial security, our capitalist economies depend on growth, etc etc. That's precisely the reason that fixing the problem will be so difficult. It requires overriding certain parts of our basic nature in order to reach some ideolistic ideal. And that's not something we are good at, especially collectively (the old idea that your concious mind only has 10% control over your actions, whereas your unconcious has 90% control).
I'm not sure if we're up to the task. Perhaps we do need to go though some kind of apocolypse first, before the tatters of our population try again. Who knows? It'll sure be an interesting ride.
Acutally, where I come (AU) from it's widely recognised that this is a inverse relationship. Like people are trying to make up for inadequacies in penis size by buying the largest engine they can afford.
Regardless, those guys that cruise down the most "commercial" streets (Lygon and Chapel streets in my native Melbourne) between about 10pm and 3am Friday and Saturday nights deafening people by reving their engines really do seem to be from the "dickhead" school of courting.
Hrm... for all I know it might be a successful strategy, but I doubt it. It can't be that simple, right? Right!?
I have a dual boot machine with an Athlon 64 3200+ and 1GB of RAM. And I find that Linux (Debian with Gnome) performs _much_ better than Windows XP. At least more to my liking. Note that all that follows is drawn from my own (subjective) experiences with the two operating systems.
There are several issues here as far as I can tell:
Linux has seen much development in the scheduler over the last year or so (since 2.6 was released). It has improved to the point now where I believe it's superior to XP's. I tend to multi-task fairly heavily so this affects me directly.
The swapping behaviour of Windows XP seems to be absolutely abysmal. When you have several processes open, even with 1GB of RAM, things still get swapped out! I mean when you have say Firefox and Thunderbird open, you spend say 1/2 an hour writing some email, then alt-tab back to firefox, you have to wait up to 10 seconds for it to be swapped back to RAM. This is something that _never_ happens in Linux. Until RAM is exhausted, Linux barely touches the swap file.
The way windows are drawn is actually a plus for Windows in terms of performance. Windows has the window drawing routines in its kernel, and thus will probably always be faster than Linux in terms of the snappiness of window redraws. Now, I'd like to point out that this makes me nervous. Doing something like that in kernel space just sounds like a bad idea to me. I'm left wondering how many BSODs are caused by this "optimisation".
This issue was the reason a friend of mine gave for switching back to Windows from Linux. Mind you that guy used 800x600 as his screen resolution, so his mind obviously runs in a different way than mine ;) I just can't stand the window manager in Windows. Annoys the hell out of me. I'll take slightly slower screen redraws any day if I never have to have my focus stolen again! :)
Oh, and if you're looking for ways to speed up your linux desktop, maybe try this Linux Journal article: Optimising Desktop Performance
The MIME type is the same for me. Perhaps it's the .mov.torrent file extension? What webserver are you using?
You can do the same thing on Windows by moving your C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\FireFox\<something or other> directory away.
You might be pleasantly suprised.
This kind of profile issue is why when reporting bugs it's required that you reproduce the bug with a fresh profile.
The 340 even comes with a small external mic.
The Linux Weekly News security page would be a good place to start. If you then went back and looked through the security pages of the weekly editions, you'd probably have a pretty complete database.
http://lwn.net/security
I think you're missing the point here. Basically, this can never be anything like a representative suvey. This is because:
Awesome to the max! Seems a little less intuitive, but maybe that's just an excuse for not being observant... :)
Thanks, man.
Actually, you do need to restart the browser for the patch to come in to effect. Though considering that firefox loads so fast these days, this is hardly a major inconvenience.
Mind you, it would be much less of an inconvenience if Firefox had the cool Mozilla feature of Bookmark this group of tabs.... I loved that feature because I often had more tabs open than I could finish reading in one sitting, and I could come back to them later. Perhaps it'll be a Firefox extension eventually. :)
They're down! :) The two week clock is now ticking... It'll be interesting to see if the roll at the end of the ascent will affect the timing of the second flight.
I must say, what an impressive piece of aeronautical engineering. Why haven't we been doing it like this for longer? Makes the shuttle seem so unsubtle. :)
And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
-Strategic Air Command General Jack D. Ripper
(Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove)