You can already use a Linksys PCI wifi card with Apple's Airport driver as it uses the same chip. Could be they'll supply a MiniPCI Broadcom adapter but yeah, Centrino's more likely
Perhaps they'll take the Intel move as their cue to move to 108/125mbps adaptors.
Recent news covered the maturing of the WINE platform for running Win32 binaries on x86 *nix operating systems
How ironic that just as we reach the point where there is a good chance of a Win32 binary running on WINE, the big move to Win64 applications begins in earnest.
No, I don't believe this is a prime or even a significant motivating factor.. it's just the way things are.
A further point in favour of your "implied metadata" is that in the even of an operating system crash, most of us would have no difficulty recovering our "home" directories / partitions intact with files still as they are stored.
If filing is handled by an application, it only takes one prefs file to be damaged and all your sorting may be gone.
This will get me modded down, but the US isn't as free-speech as it would like to make out. "Free Speech Zones" (which are actually the opposite), anyone?.
Actually, through the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the US has a strong interest in Europe and obligations to involve itself in wars on European soil in certain circumstances. Thankfully since the fall of the Eastern Bloc, those circumstances have become much more likely.
Unilateralism "We will not under any circumstances..." seems to have won again.
What's less obvious, is why?
If the US believes it has national security interests in maintaining control of the Internet, that can only act to undermine the confidence of the rest of the world in the wisdom of using it as a public network.
If there aren't security reasons, has international negotiation come down to a contest as to who is the most macho.. along the now-common split between the US and the UN ?
although processor- or memory-intensive processes are getting a bit sluggish
Sorry for being pernickety, but unless your install is getting a bit old and crotchety, oryou have a dying hard drive, I fail to see why it would be any slower now than when it was new...
On a wider point, I still use a laptop with a 366mhz processor (G3) and upgraded RAM for many everyday tasks, resorting to my 1.853 Ghz Athlon workstation for photo editing and other media work as well as file storage.
At what point do we define a platform as so old as to be obsolete? I rebuild Pentium 3 Dell desktops as ultra-cheap surfing, DVD and mp3 machines for friends and none has complained its too slow. I suspect for them, as with your DP machine, speed is subjective. it'd only appear to drag had they sampled sweeter fruits.
A degree of bloat is caused by cross-platformness.
For example, a mail client written just to run on Windows can use the system addressbook. A mail client like Thunderbird that runs on many platforms has to implement an addressbook as a component because it can't guarantee the host system will have one it can access / have one at all.
Given the choice between writing code to access equivalent functions on different platforms, considering the differences between Windows, Mac OS and Linux/KDE or Linux/GNOME, many OSS apps choose to implement various core services internally so as to give consistency across operating systems. It's sub-optimal but it works.
It has all the classic signs of fakeness (being in distant land, politically difficult surroundings, area largely unknown to Westerners, and primarily discussed on paranormal-specific websites)
Plus the images - both of them - were photoshopped. the backbones in the first are obviously superimposed onto what I suspect is an ancient ruined building, and in the second the different lighting on the bones and the dodgy edges where they've been pasted in are very evident.
How would you feel if you were an IT technician, and a big corporation started supplying IT services in your home town for $5 an hour.. then after you were driven into bankruptcy, started raising its prices back to industry norms?
Firms are required not to subsidise their products as allowing goods to be sold below cost gives the big industry players a chance to bankrupt their competitors: You know, like what Microsoft did to Netscape....
.. forget the 4200 / 5400 rpm internal drive, get a big 7200rpm 3.5 in drive in a firewire hard drive case and boot off that. Instant massive performance boost, and the chance to have more than 80gb of files too (my/Video directory is 73gb alone)
I wasn't sure it was right when I heard of anti-cartel legislation being used against RIAA copyright-infringement suits but it sounds now like this industry body is becoming the collective negotiator for the formerly competing record industries
time was, they competed for airplay. Now they threaten those playing - and therefore promoting - their music
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If you're making a case that my actions are immoral, unethical, and weakly justified. fair comment. They are.
I'm not motivated by ethics. I'm motivated by annoyance at the recording industry. I like depriving them of profit by downloading files for my use and that of my friends.
The decision to "reject and not consume" is the choice of a digital media freedom fighter. Moral and worthless to the bigger fight. I prefer the actions of a digital media terrorist. Sending USB hard drives and DVD-Rs packed with files around the country by DHL
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..only reinforces my determination not to pay for content.
Am I a thief? yes. but it sits easier with my conscience than paying an industry which shows so readily all the worst tendencies of big business
OK, paying $299 (UK equiv about £180) for a 366mhz x86 PC running a stripped-down PDA operating system.
Probably good for the granny squad (anyone heard of a WinCE virus?) but not so great for anyone who wants to use consumer applications. At least you can install regular Windows or x86 Linux on it if needs be.
Compared to the spec of the Mac Mini that costs only $100 more though, this suffers by 30gb less disk space, 884mhz less processor cycles, a quarter the RAM.. and a lot of coolness.
I lean the same way. However much I love gmail I have my POP3 downloads into Thunderbird as a backup (and all my other email addresses redirected to gmail as a secondary backup)
Give me a solution where I can background sync my worldprocessing and spreadsheet documents folder with a web-accessible server, and have an intelligent sync so changes I make on the site propagate to my local copy and vice-versa... and that's something I'd pay for.
Ideally there's be a single allocation of space, much like 30gigs.com described earlier today, which could be used for file storage, online document backup/sync, or IMAP webmail... and web-based access for read, write and edit to all documents.
Everyone who uses gmail as a low-tech backup medium might disagree with you.
Its flawed but not everyone can securely configure a remote file-server. Email's a tool that's universally available to net-connected people, and the rise of large inboxes makes it highly practical.
Businesses implement procedure as a methodology to get things done in an accountable way and keep wayward employees in-line. They know that evolution is critical to their survival
If you know your method will bring results, either get verbal permission - if you know your boss trusts you - or do it on a test basis and report showing your improved results and seek official sanction to continue, quoting the benefits and most importantly, showing that your boss hasn't lost control of you or been undermined by your plan.
I've rewritten my job spec using these methods and benefitted myself and my employers.
I get the impression that the Lightning extension is one step of many which will enable Thunderbird to be built up into a heavyweight groupware client for those who need it.
(Add redundant comment, as already stated above - like KDE Kontact which uses elements of different KDE apps to build a complete application, Mozilla Lightning will use elements of Thunderbird and Sunbird/Moz.Calendar to make an email-and-scheduling app)
Obviously the nature of POP (Post Office Protocol - mail stays on server waiting to be collected) would preclude this but IMAP mail is a replication-based system where the client caches a copy of a mailbox permanently stored on a server, and could be a basis for exchange-like usage when combined with CalDAV calendar sharing as being developed for Sunbird/Lightning
IMAP mail is supported as a connection technology on Microsoft Exchange, although obviously most enterprises moving to TB/Lightning will probably also be moving mail server software..
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You can already use a Linksys PCI wifi card with Apple's Airport driver as it uses the same chip. Could be they'll supply a MiniPCI Broadcom adapter but yeah, Centrino's more likely
Perhaps they'll take the Intel move as their cue to move to 108/125mbps adaptors.
Recent news covered the maturing of the WINE platform for running Win32 binaries on x86 *nix operating systems
How ironic that just as we reach the point where there is a good chance of a Win32 binary running on WINE, the big move to Win64 applications begins in earnest.
No, I don't believe this is a prime or even a significant motivating factor.. it's just the way things are.
Great comment
A further point in favour of your "implied metadata" is that in the even of an operating system crash, most of us would have no difficulty recovering our "home" directories / partitions intact with files still as they are stored.
If filing is handled by an application, it only takes one prefs file to be damaged and all your sorting may be gone.
good grief.. oops. Yes. LESS !
This will get me modded down, but the US isn't as free-speech as it would like to make out. "Free Speech Zones" (which are actually the opposite), anyone?.
Actually, through the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the US has a strong interest in Europe and obligations to involve itself in wars on European soil in certain circumstances. Thankfully since the fall of the Eastern Bloc, those circumstances have become much more likely.
Unilateralism "We will not under any circumstances..." seems to have won again.
What's less obvious, is why?
If the US believes it has national security interests in maintaining control of the Internet, that can only act to undermine the confidence of the rest of the world in the wisdom of using it as a public network.
If there aren't security reasons, has international negotiation come down to a contest as to who is the most macho.. along the now-common split between the US and the UN ?
.. its lawyer says GNUtanamo Bay is lovely at this time of year
although processor- or memory-intensive processes are getting a bit sluggish
Sorry for being pernickety, but unless your install is getting a bit old and crotchety, oryou have a dying hard drive, I fail to see why it would be any slower now than when it was new...
On a wider point, I still use a laptop with a 366mhz processor (G3) and upgraded RAM for many everyday tasks, resorting to my 1.853 Ghz Athlon workstation for photo editing and other media work as well as file storage.
At what point do we define a platform as so old as to be obsolete? I rebuild Pentium 3 Dell desktops as ultra-cheap surfing, DVD and mp3 machines for friends and none has complained its too slow. I suspect for them, as with your DP machine, speed is subjective. it'd only appear to drag had they sampled sweeter fruits.
A degree of bloat is caused by cross-platformness.
For example, a mail client written just to run on Windows can use the system addressbook. A mail client like Thunderbird that runs on many platforms has to implement an addressbook as a component because it can't guarantee the host system will have one it can access / have one at all.
Given the choice between writing code to access equivalent functions on different platforms, considering the differences between Windows, Mac OS and Linux/KDE or Linux/GNOME, many OSS apps choose to implement various core services internally so as to give consistency across operating systems. It's sub-optimal but it works.
..Don't buy a printer! Just stick this flat-screen monitor in any photocopier and have one-click printing with no hassle !!!!
It has all the classic signs of fakeness (being in distant land, politically difficult surroundings, area largely unknown to Westerners, and primarily discussed on paranormal-specific websites)
Plus the images - both of them - were photoshopped. the backbones in the first are obviously superimposed onto what I suspect is an ancient ruined building, and in the second the different lighting on the bones and the dodgy edges where they've been pasted in are very evident.
Thunderbird supports auto-compacting of folders and has for several releases now. It's an option, unticked by default, in the Options panel.
AdBlock represents a possible problem as it hasn't been updated in quite a while and in its current iteration doesn't work with Firefox 1.5.
There is a spin-off project called AdBlockPlus which would make a more logical choice.
How would you feel if you were an IT technician, and a big corporation started supplying IT services in your home town for $5 an hour.. then after you were driven into bankruptcy, started raising its prices back to industry norms?
Firms are required not to subsidise their products as allowing goods to be sold below cost gives the big industry players a chance to bankrupt their competitors: You know, like what Microsoft did to Netscape....
.. forget the 4200 / 5400 rpm internal drive, get a big 7200rpm 3.5 in drive in a firewire hard drive case and boot off that. Instant massive performance boost, and the chance to have more than 80gb of files too (my /Video directory is 73gb alone)
I wasn't sure it was right when I heard of anti-cartel legislation being used against RIAA copyright-infringement suits but it sounds now like this industry body is becoming the collective negotiator for the formerly competing record industries
time was, they competed for airplay. Now they threaten those playing - and therefore promoting - their music
If you're making a case that my actions are immoral, unethical, and weakly justified. fair comment. They are.
I'm not motivated by ethics. I'm motivated by annoyance at the recording industry. I like depriving them of profit by downloading files for my use and that of my friends.
The decision to "reject and not consume" is the choice of a digital media freedom fighter. Moral and worthless to the bigger fight. I prefer the actions of a digital media terrorist. Sending USB hard drives and DVD-Rs packed with files around the country by DHL
..only reinforces my determination not to pay for content.
Am I a thief? yes. but it sits easier with my conscience than paying an industry which shows so readily all the worst tendencies of big business
OK, paying $299 (UK equiv about £180) for a 366mhz x86 PC running a stripped-down PDA operating system.
Probably good for the granny squad (anyone heard of a WinCE virus?) but not so great for anyone who wants to use consumer applications. At least you can install regular Windows or x86 Linux on it if needs be.
Compared to the spec of the Mac Mini that costs only $100 more though, this suffers by 30gb less disk space, 884mhz less processor cycles, a quarter the RAM.. and a lot of coolness.
I lean the same way. However much I love gmail I have my POP3 downloads into Thunderbird as a backup (and all my other email addresses redirected to gmail as a secondary backup)
Give me a solution where I can background sync my worldprocessing and spreadsheet documents folder with a web-accessible server, and have an intelligent sync so changes I make on the site propagate to my local copy and vice-versa... and that's something I'd pay for.
Ideally there's be a single allocation of space, much like 30gigs.com described earlier today, which could be used for file storage, online document backup/sync, or IMAP webmail... and web-based access for read, write and edit to all documents.
Yes
Everyone who uses gmail as a low-tech backup medium might disagree with you.
Its flawed but not everyone can securely configure a remote file-server. Email's a tool that's universally available to net-connected people, and the rise of large inboxes makes it highly practical.
Best post so far
Businesses implement procedure as a methodology to get things done in an accountable way and keep wayward employees in-line. They know that evolution is critical to their survival
If you know your method will bring results, either get verbal permission - if you know your boss trusts you - or do it on a test basis and report showing your improved results and seek official sanction to continue, quoting the benefits and most importantly, showing that your boss hasn't lost control of you or been undermined by your plan.
I've rewritten my job spec using these methods and benefitted myself and my employers.
I get the impression that the Lightning extension is one step of many which will enable Thunderbird to be built up into a heavyweight groupware client for those who need it.
(Add redundant comment, as already stated above - like KDE Kontact which uses elements of different KDE apps to build a complete application, Mozilla Lightning will use elements of Thunderbird and Sunbird/Moz.Calendar to make an email-and-scheduling app)
Obviously the nature of POP (Post Office Protocol - mail stays on server waiting to be collected) would preclude this but IMAP mail is a replication-based system where the client caches a copy of a mailbox permanently stored on a server, and could be a basis for exchange-like usage when combined with CalDAV calendar sharing as being developed for Sunbird/Lightning
IMAP mail is supported as a connection technology on Microsoft Exchange, although obviously most enterprises moving to TB/Lightning will probably also be moving mail server software..