OpenOffice already has several offshoots: NeoOffice, OxygenOffice, Go-oo...
And many projects or offshoots like that often have a very small team, with probably one key person who cannot be missed for the survival of the team. On the other hand, the fact that only a couple of people are needed (fulltime) to maintain a project like this probably means that companies like Oracle and IBM will keep on sponsoring it.
I had a problem with Mozy as well. It turned out my osx-partition had too little space, and some big files couldn't be processed anymore. No mention of this in the status window or anything. It even reported that the backup succeeded. Just because I noticed that the backup had been uploaded too quick to be true, I checked the logs, and found an error message. Mozy support still doesn't understand that this is a bug.
So it may be that your problem was reported in the error logs. But I guess you don't trust it anymore.
I have about 100GB to upload as well, which succeeded in the end. I am still thinking about changing to S3 though.
Encrypt the entire drive with TrueCrypt or something. Use a strong cipher and a very strong passphrase. The laptop is as good as bricked to anyone who gets it.
Use a passphrase that's easy and quick to type. Easy to type doesn't mean it has to be a bad password. My guess is that nobody cares about your documents, unless you work for some government or big company, or unless you're a celebrity. So an 8 or 10 character long password is good enough, and nobody will even attempt to break it.
That's fine if your ISP doesn't have draconian caps. I have over 2TB of stuff (legal, mind you, lets not get a redundant "You must be pirating" theme going). Mostly photos and video content. My ISP caps at 100GB per month. Online backup is not a viable option except for my most important stuff. I use the offsite backup drive method, however I don't have two sets that I swap, I just have one offsite backup that I bring home from work ever other week.
Some of those online backup services offer the option to send in harddrives or tapes to make the start. If you stick with offsite backups, you can leave one big basis backup at work, and only swap the incremental backups. Then two simple 2.5" usb drives are big enough to handle that.
Erh... the flaw in your theory is that the cats that are closest to human (i.e. cats living in apartments), thus also the best fed ones, are also the ones that are most likely not able to produce any offspring...
I don't know in what world you live, but those cats create offspring like rabbits! Where I live there are so many cats going outside each day and night, enough opportunity to do whatever needs to be done.
The law in Spain is that any non-profit copying of material is OK. All the judge has done is make it clear to the RIAA that P2P involves no exchange of money so therefore it's legal under Spanish law.
The same is true for the Netherlands, although Brein pretends it's otherwise. So here you can download copyrighted content for private use. Another thing that's legal is to make a copy of a cd or dvd for a friend or relative. As long as you don't ask money for it, and don't do this in batches (like 30 cds for the complete classroom) you won't have any problems.
Take a look at the new PGAdmin. One of the great improvements is a visual query builder, similar to MS SQL Server Management Studio. I've only tested it for a few minutes, but it looks promising!
Why is a voting system doing any kind of math at all? I voted yesterday in Belgium on a computer that puts my vote onto a card, which is then tallied separately. This same system has been working since at least 1995 with zero reports of fraud or failure (except normal "computer is broken" style failures).
How can a computer "add phantom ballots"? Software does not just "glitch", it breaks in ways that depend entirely on how it was built.
How do you know this system is fraud free? Reading your comment doesn't convince me one bit. I voted too, in the Netherlands, and for the first time in years I had to use a pencil again. No guarantee that there are no counting errors, but they won't be systematic on a large scale.
It's not YOUR PC though, the hardware is but Microsoft own the copy of Windows running on it, you only own a license to use Windows under their terms and conditions. Under those terms Microsoft can do whatever they want with the consent of the owners.....which is themselves.
Which is complete and utter bullshit!!! They can state whatever they want in their licenses, but I think you are completely wrong, and at least here in Europe national or EU laws will overrule such conditions. They may still own Windows, but they may not do whatever they like on my or any other computer.
Is Russia the last country where engineers are not (yet) forced by corporations to intentionally produce designs that fail two days after warranty expires?
Mars rovers? Voyager? NASA seems to be doing okay with that.
Mod this up. Ask the crew what software they want to use for editing, and get whatever supports that.
Mod parent up, and grandparent as well, and don't forget me! And in the mean time, ask the crew if they need anything like software and machines and stuff and you know. And then give them that!
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OpenOffice already has several offshoots: NeoOffice, OxygenOffice, Go-oo...
And many projects or offshoots like that often have a very small team, with probably one key person who cannot be missed for the survival of the team. On the other hand, the fact that only a couple of people are needed (fulltime) to maintain a project like this probably means that companies like Oracle and IBM will keep on sponsoring it.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode? (Imagining that as a sexual euphemism gives me all kinds of degrading ideas)
It's called "Two Girls, One Cup."
It stands for Assynchronous Transfer Mug.
It's an official opera now!
with built-in Wi-Fi, your Zune can alert you to every other Zune within 10 meters, to which you can then send a song (or a podcast or a photo).
Wow, it will be a real party with so many zunes in the 10 meter zone!
I had a problem with Mozy as well. It turned out my osx-partition had too little space, and some big files couldn't be processed anymore. No mention of this in the status window or anything. It even reported that the backup succeeded. Just because I noticed that the backup had been uploaded too quick to be true, I checked the logs, and found an error message. Mozy support still doesn't understand that this is a bug.
So it may be that your problem was reported in the error logs. But I guess you don't trust it anymore.
I have about 100GB to upload as well, which succeeded in the end. I am still thinking about changing to S3 though.
Encrypt the entire drive with TrueCrypt or something. Use a strong cipher and a very strong passphrase. The laptop is as good as bricked to anyone who gets it.
Use a passphrase that's easy and quick to type. Easy to type doesn't mean it has to be a bad password. My guess is that nobody cares about your documents, unless you work for some government or big company, or unless you're a celebrity. So an 8 or 10 character long password is good enough, and nobody will even attempt to break it.
Mozy is much cheaper, although S3 can be cheaper when you want to backup multiple machines.
For a simple solution if you have a Mac, just get an external drive and use Time Machine.
Get two external 2.5" usb drives, and always leave one of them offsite.
That's fine if your ISP doesn't have draconian caps. I have over 2TB of stuff (legal, mind you, lets not get a redundant "You must be pirating" theme going). Mostly photos and video content. My ISP caps at 100GB per month. Online backup is not a viable option except for my most important stuff. I use the offsite backup drive method, however I don't have two sets that I swap, I just have one offsite backup that I bring home from work ever other week.
Some of those online backup services offer the option to send in harddrives or tapes to make the start. If you stick with offsite backups, you can leave one big basis backup at work, and only swap the incremental backups. Then two simple 2.5" usb drives are big enough to handle that.
Erh... the flaw in your theory is that the cats that are closest to human (i.e. cats living in apartments), thus also the best fed ones, are also the ones that are most likely not able to produce any offspring...
I don't know in what world you live, but those cats create offspring like rabbits! Where I live there are so many cats going outside each day and night, enough opportunity to do whatever needs to be done.
The law in Spain is that any non-profit copying of material is OK. All the judge has done is make it clear to the RIAA that P2P involves no exchange of money so therefore it's legal under Spanish law.
The same is true for the Netherlands, although Brein pretends it's otherwise. So here you can download copyrighted content for private use. Another thing that's legal is to make a copy of a cd or dvd for a friend or relative. As long as you don't ask money for it, and don't do this in batches (like 30 cds for the complete classroom) you won't have any problems.
The police use their own voicemail password. In North America, it's usually 7782.
I don't care about North American police. We here on slashdot use 1337!
"Except in the UK, The Land Of The One-Way Roads, Where Straight Lines Are Forever Banished"
EITUKTLOTOWRWSLAFB
Good lord! I've heard of run-on sentences but a run-on acronym? I'm just glad you spelled it out for us - otherwise I would have been lost for days.
EITUKTLOTOWRWSLAFB, is that Welsh?
Take a look at the new PGAdmin. One of the great improvements is a visual query builder, similar to MS SQL Server Management Studio. I've only tested it for a few minutes, but it looks promising!
Dell OEM cd's won't work on non-Dell machines, as they check whether the machine is a Dell. Some stores sell OEM cdroms without this limitation.
Do I need to say more?
Shit... if this is gonna be that kind of article, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.
When I was in highschool, that was the first thing I said to my girlfriend's mom. I didn't think about how dumb that was, but man was it funny.
If you refered to your girlfriend as an article, the mashed potatoes must have been in your head! Man, that makes a good brain fuck!
Why is a voting system doing any kind of math at all? I voted yesterday in Belgium on a computer that puts my vote onto a card, which is then tallied separately. This same system has been working since at least 1995 with zero reports of fraud or failure (except normal "computer is broken" style failures).
How can a computer "add phantom ballots"? Software does not just "glitch", it breaks in ways that depend entirely on how it was built.
How do you know this system is fraud free? Reading your comment doesn't convince me one bit. I voted too, in the Netherlands, and for the first time in years I had to use a pencil again. No guarantee that there are no counting errors, but they won't be systematic on a large scale.
It's not YOUR PC though, the hardware is but Microsoft own the copy of Windows running on it, you only own a license to use Windows under their terms and conditions. Under those terms Microsoft can do whatever they want with the consent of the owners.....which is themselves.
Which is complete and utter bullshit!!! They can state whatever they want in their licenses, but I think you are completely wrong, and at least here in Europe national or EU laws will overrule such conditions. They may still own Windows, but they may not do whatever they like on my or any other computer.
...contrary to popular belief we're not the 51st state ;)
When did this happen??? They seceded?
No, they were sold to Europe! It's coming to Europe you know! The Zune is just a cover operation.
Mars rovers? Voyager? NASA seems to be doing okay with that.
How about Toyota? Just watch Top Gear killing a Toyota Hi Lux.
I mean, who really needs 'all' those characters?
Here on slashdot, we only need one character: Anonymous Coward!
Mod this up. Ask the crew what software they want to use for editing, and get whatever supports that.
Mod parent up, and grandparent as well, and don't forget me! And in the mean time, ask the crew if they need anything like software and machines and stuff and you know. And then give them that!
Commodore 64 with an on-hook phone coupling.
I recommend that you use micro-cassettes for backup.
thats because god used coreldraw
God, that runs only on Windows!