.. is that 9/11 was some sort of national tragedy. You lost 2,974 people, which is about the average death toll for 2 months total gun-related crimes in the USA. Hell you probably lose more people than that in traffic accidents in a year.
9/11 was shocking and distinctly impolite of the terrorists but if you use death tolls to define tragedies, you have far bigger problems to deal with than Al-Qaeda
"When driving after 18 hours awake you have the concentration of someone who's hovering around the UK drink-drive limit. If you drive after you've been awake for 24 hours, you have the same concentration level as someone who's downed half a bottle of Scotch" - Jeremy Clarkson
when my employers blackberries failed earlier this month they fell back to laptops with a bluetooth tethered phone and outlook/exchange. redundancy is built into the mindset. No messages were lost
use gmail's POP collector to harvest mail from Charter to Gmail, then use Thunderbird to read gmail
email will be backed up on: Charter's servers, for as long as they can manage. Gmails servers, til judgment day, and thunderbird's mbx storage file, until you have a HDD fail or similar bad luck.
I am often asked to 'set people up on the net' and that is how I always configure their ISP email accounts.. it gives a little bit of extra resilience and also, free virus/spam filtering
You can get 4 eee PCs for the price of this thing, in fact you can probably get 3 into its footprint. I was hoping they would properly challenge Sony and Dell's subnotebooks with a 10-inch screen device. Thinness is less important than width to me
Whereas you buy your PC / Mac (in my case) and bring it home and 'just use it' - no need to download and burn an ISO then install (like any 'regular user' is ever going to do that.. ludicrous..). Also you seem to have forgotten that OO.O has always been available for Windows and as of late is available for Mac too
Windows has 2 instant out-of-the-box wordprocessors - Wordpad which is a bit naff, and Google Docs (OK, dependent on internet connectivity) which has full revision control and ability to do joint authoring
I'm not a troll, I'm right and I'm saying something you don't want to hear
Probably because freelance writers are far too busy producing content to bother with an operating system that requires many hours work just to get running;-)
Yes, damn them to hell for making free, compelling services, with non-intrusive and sometimes helpful advertising, cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility, resilient support and high levels of availability
Web apps like google docs and gmail are great as now I can have all my wordprocessing and spreadsheets accessible from any compliant computer, and from my laptop and desktop without sync issues. Nothing confidential goes into it, but for everything I'm not sensitive about its fantastic
Likewise online storage. I'll use it to back up any files i wouldnt care if the word saw, like my old holiday photos, my mp3s, maybe some downloaded video if usage allowances permit. Presently my photo album and my self-made videos (phone-cam stuff) are all in S3 as I can't really replace my memories if I lose them, and onsite backup isn't reliable enough (think fire, drive lifespans, DVD-R lifespan, etc).
I used to run an SFTP server on my main machine so I could access my stuff while away. No need any longer.
A promising Linux prodct comes out and all the stalwarts who have been nailing their colours to the mast over their willingness to buy commercial linux computers start looking for excuses
FWIW the vendor of a GPL product only has to provide the source to their customers, only then on request, and can make an administration charge for the code and can deliver it way they like - not just through the conventional public FTP server*, I don't suppose you considered buying an Eee and asking Asus for the code, anyone?
*although printing it in grey ink on the back of a wild rhino might not pass the test
Also, Microsoft's online Office offering (which required office installed..) doesnt work on any portable device. Google wants an open rendering engine on mobile browsers so it can more easily code their profit-making web applications to run on it. Think of Android as a driver for Google Apps for your Domain
Google funds Mozilla because they're afraid of a IE-centric web that pushes people toward Microsoft-specific technologies. In recent months their Google Apps platform has been made much more Webkit-friendly (Docs: Document is now safari-friendly and Docs:Spreadsheet works, albeit after warning you it might not)
Would you want Gecko on a portable device? it's a good engine but big... and a lot of works already been done by Nokia (S60 browser uses it) to make webkit mobile-device friendly
the best way to migrate between mail applications is to use an IMAP account. Configure it on both machines, copy mail in on one and out on the other. Fastmail.fm is a provider of free IMAP that I've used before to do this.
If its a powermac, open it up and press the little button on the motherboard, this resets the PSU circuits and usually revives the Mac
The PSU in mine (G4 PM 733) flips out if there's a power spike so I get used to doing this.... the usual symptom is a power button that only lights up when touched and won't boot the system..
That's like saying The Christians killed John F.Kennedy. It's either a racially-motivated lie or evidence of a worrying lack of education in both fact and logic
Do you know the rights of a Jew in an Arab country? The right to be hung
When the Crusaders retook Jerusalem from Saladin's forces the firt thing they did was massacre the Jewish population who had been living there under the protection of the Moslem forces for generations. Iraq had a sizeable Jewish population until fairly recently.. coincidentally their murders began just after the invasion/liberation (depending on your political PoV) of Iraq. There sre Jews all over the world living in Moslem societies, we shouldn't associate the views of Moslems about them with the views of extremists over Zionists (a lot of Jews recognise that Israel's policies do the whole race no favours while protecting only those who live within the Jewish states' walls.
Most moslems accept unconditionally that Israel only represents a zionist point of view which is a minority view among the world jewry.
I suppose a hpyervizor doesn't need or take control of hardware components the way an O/S would but even so, I'd be concerned that a virus if it could somehow get into the flash ROM (or be compulsorily included there by the US National Security Agency) might be undetectable to O/S based virus scanning as the Boot ROM doesn't appear as a mountable volume and is never checked....
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.. is that 9/11 was some sort of national tragedy. You lost 2,974 people, which is about the average death toll for 2 months total gun-related crimes in the USA. Hell you probably lose more people than that in traffic accidents in a year.
9/11 was shocking and distinctly impolite of the terrorists but if you use death tolls to define tragedies, you have far bigger problems to deal with than Al-Qaeda
"When driving after 18 hours awake you have the concentration of someone who's hovering around the UK drink-drive limit. If you drive after you've been awake for 24 hours, you have the same concentration level as someone who's downed half a bottle of Scotch" - Jeremy Clarkson
right. so people should just send their clocks by DHL to family in the next time zone..
when my employers blackberries failed earlier this month they fell back to laptops with a bluetooth tethered phone and outlook/exchange. redundancy is built into the mindset. No messages were lost
use gmail's POP collector to harvest mail from Charter to Gmail, then use Thunderbird to read gmail
email will be backed up on: Charter's servers, for as long as they can manage. Gmails servers, til judgment day, and thunderbird's mbx storage file, until you have a HDD fail or similar bad luck.
I am often asked to 'set people up on the net' and that is how I always configure their ISP email accounts.. it gives a little bit of extra resilience and also, free virus/spam filtering
You can get 4 eee PCs for the price of this thing, in fact you can probably get 3 into its footprint. I was hoping they would properly challenge Sony and Dell's subnotebooks with a 10-inch screen device. Thinness is less important than width to me
..you lose...
Whereas you buy your PC / Mac (in my case) and bring it home and 'just use it' - no need to download and burn an ISO then install (like any 'regular user' is ever going to do that.. ludicrous..). Also you seem to have forgotten that OO.O has always been available for Windows and as of late is available for Mac too
Still true, still not trolling.
Windows has 2 instant out-of-the-box wordprocessors - Wordpad which is a bit naff, and Google Docs (OK, dependent on internet connectivity) which has full revision control and ability to do joint authoring
I'm not a troll, I'm right and I'm saying something you don't want to hear
Probably because freelance writers are far too busy producing content to bother with an operating system that requires many hours work just to get running ;-)
Yes, damn them to hell for making free, compelling services, with non-intrusive and sometimes helpful advertising, cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility, resilient support and high levels of availability
What utter bastards they really are.
if you use Jungledisk to create a r/w (via webdav) filesystem on S3 you can rsync against that trivially
Mozy's a joke - if you want online backup, JungleDisk ($20, one-off) plus Amazon S3 ($0.18/GB/month) are the way do store a 2gb file easily and safely
Speak for yourself
Web apps like google docs and gmail are great as now I can have all my wordprocessing and spreadsheets accessible from any compliant computer, and from my laptop and desktop without sync issues. Nothing confidential goes into it, but for everything I'm not sensitive about its fantastic
Likewise online storage. I'll use it to back up any files i wouldnt care if the word saw, like my old holiday photos, my mp3s, maybe some downloaded video if usage allowances permit. Presently my photo album and my self-made videos (phone-cam stuff) are all in S3 as I can't really replace my memories if I lose them, and onsite backup isn't reliable enough (think fire, drive lifespans, DVD-R lifespan, etc).
I used to run an SFTP server on my main machine so I could access my stuff while away. No need any longer.
A promising Linux prodct comes out and all the stalwarts who have been nailing their colours to the mast over their willingness to buy commercial linux computers start looking for excuses
FWIW the vendor of a GPL product only has to provide the source to their customers, only then on request, and can make an administration charge for the code and can deliver it way they like - not just through the conventional public FTP server*, I don't suppose you considered buying an Eee and asking Asus for the code, anyone?
*although printing it in grey ink on the back of a wild rhino might not pass the test
typed on a sony ericsson ;-)
the main guy (I forget his name) has already been on video explicitly stating this is NOT an ad-supported platform and phones will not show ads
Also, Microsoft's online Office offering (which required office installed..) doesnt work on any portable device. Google wants an open rendering engine on mobile browsers so it can more easily code their profit-making web applications to run on it. Think of Android as a driver for Google Apps for your Domain
Google funds Mozilla because they're afraid of a IE-centric web that pushes people toward Microsoft-specific technologies. In recent months their Google Apps platform has been made much more Webkit-friendly (Docs: Document is now safari-friendly and Docs:Spreadsheet works, albeit after warning you it might not)
Would you want Gecko on a portable device? it's a good engine but big... and a lot of works already been done by Nokia (S60 browser uses it) to make webkit mobile-device friendly
the best way to migrate between mail applications is to use an IMAP account. Configure it on both machines, copy mail in on one and out on the other. Fastmail.fm is a provider of free IMAP that I've used before to do this.
If its a powermac, open it up and press the little button on the motherboard, this resets the PSU circuits and usually revives the Mac The PSU in mine (G4 PM 733) flips out if there's a power spike so I get used to doing this.... the usual symptom is a power button that only lights up when touched and won't boot the system..
What, even back in the 90s when you were doubtless running Mac System 8 or 9 on an IBM-fabbed PowerPC chip?
And who's threatening them? The Muslims are.
That's like saying The Christians killed John F.Kennedy. It's either a racially-motivated lie or evidence of a worrying lack of education in both fact and logic
Do you know the rights of a Jew in an Arab country? The right to be hung
When the Crusaders retook Jerusalem from Saladin's forces the firt thing they did was massacre the Jewish population who had been living there under the protection of the Moslem forces for generations. Iraq had a sizeable Jewish population until fairly recently.. coincidentally their murders began just after the invasion/liberation (depending on your political PoV) of Iraq. There sre Jews all over the world living in Moslem societies, we shouldn't associate the views of Moslems about them with the views of extremists over Zionists (a lot of Jews recognise that Israel's policies do the whole race no favours while protecting only those who live within the Jewish states' walls.
Most moslems accept unconditionally that Israel only represents a zionist point of view which is a minority view among the world jewry.
I suppose a hpyervizor doesn't need or take control of hardware components the way an O/S would but even so, I'd be concerned that a virus if it could somehow get into the flash ROM (or be compulsorily included there by the US National Security Agency) might be undetectable to O/S based virus scanning as the Boot ROM doesn't appear as a mountable volume and is never checked....