ok that quote was from a blogger on the conservative Lew Rockwell website, I missed that to be honest, my mistake (was it intended that I make it?) but maybe this still stands.
""The coloring book, which was put online in 2003, was removed last week and FEMA is currently reviewing all Web content designed and posted by the previous administration," a FEMA spokesman said in a statement.
Yet when I look at it again, it actually only states that the coloring book was taken down, and that further material by the previous administration is under review. It's not saying as much as it first appears.
I guess really they are talking but saying nothing.
Thanks for the lesson in political speaking - it's an interesting art form.
After people complained, FEMA removed the coloring book from its site.
It also says
"The coloring book, which was put online in 2003, was removed last week and FEMA is currently reviewing all Web content designed and posted by the previous administration," a FEMA spokesman said in a statement.
"When biology student Dana Spinu and I visited Timisoara a few weeks before the Smithfield takeover, we found officials and academics naively unprepared for what awaited them. We were invited to Paderini, one of six Contim farms being operated by a Romanian firm, in its last days of independence before being swallowed up. In contrast to US and Polish hog factories, the operation was scrupulously clean. The effluent was pumped to sewage ponds a kilometer away; the feeder pigs had four times more room than in the United States, twice that required under EU regulations. Piglets were weaned at 36 days and took six months to reach market weight. My description of Smithfield practices--piglets weaned at 11 days and brought to market weight at 120 days, feed doped with growth enhancers and antibiotics, dumpsters overflowing with dead animals--was greeted with incredulity by company veterinarians. "Impossible! Illegal! It can't happen here!"
Smithfield's first move upon its arrival was to fire former managers, post guards at hog factory gates, and order employees to say nothing about their work. Evidence of high level corruption was not long in coming. Local officials were ordered to keep "hands off" the company; academic critics were disciplined. Smithfield's relationship with the neo-liberals who came to power in 2005 was even more intimate. Free of interference, even exempted from EU regulations until 2012, Smithfield moved rapidly to consolidate its position, reactivating the Contim farms, and buying refrigeration and transportation companies. While the government shut down small slaughterhouses (ostensibly because of the EU), leaving small farmers with no place to market pigs, Smithfield flooded the country with pork imported from Poland and the United States.
In July 2007, however, Smithfield encountered an opponent that it could not bribe. At Cenei, west of Timisoara, 3,500 Smithfield pigs died suddenly. The company blamed it on a heat wave, but nauseating piles of carcasses attracted the press, and the county veterinary inspectorate was forced to do its job. On Aug. 3, it discovered classical swine fever, a viral disease long endemic in Romania, among Cenei's 20,000 pigs. At this point, the "hands off Smithfield" policy came to an abrupt end. The county disease control center halted all movement of Smithfield hogs, freezing its operations; the National Veterinary and Food Safety Authority began emergency inspections of the entire Contim system. Within a few days, two more infected farms with 30,000 pigs were discovered at Igris, on the Hungarian border.
At the same time, it was learned that 11 Smithfield farms had not even applied for sanitary-veterinary authorization and were operating in blatant contempt of Romanian law. Agency head Radu Roatus excoriated local officials and announced that the unregistered farms would be shut down. Agriculture Minister Decebal Traian Remes confirmed that all exposed pigs would be killed and incinerated, and he suggested that the company "probably" would not be compensated for them. Muzzles removed, lesser officials blamed the Americans. "Our doctors have not had access to American farms to perform routine inspections," said Timis county veterinarian Csaba Doraczi. "Every time they tried they were pushed away by the guards." It even came to light that Smithfield workers are paid so little, about $230 US a month, that the company suffered fro
Problem is if you don't think your going to be somewhere for 12 months, then you can't really sign a 12 month contract. It's going to be pot luck how well it works, badly when you really want it working, is probably going to be the answer.
However if you have no choice I'd find a pay as you go provider and maybe two sim cards depending on the overuse charge. With a Pay as you go modem you get a fixed data quantity. Get into a contract and go over, they have you by the... In 3 months time when you decide it just isn't worth the hassle any more, you don't have 9 months worth of contract left. It might get better or worse, but you can hang on to that modem for years and only use it when have too.
Even 3 months use would be a win financially, ADSL costs about 25 for line rental and 25 for ADSL per month 3 charge 20 for 10 - 20gb (I forget which) a month and the modem is 79 so in three months your actually up 10 if it doesn't drive you crazy first.
Lan usage, you can buy a special router for the job or go cheap (using existing hardware) and use a switch or a regular router and port-forward to your ethernet port. I've done some experimenting and found an Aspire One running Ubuntu makes a great little "Cable modem" just set up iptables and a fixed address for the wan port on the router and ether-net port and setup iptables (I think windows can just use ICS for the same effect). Note, its a straight cat5 cable between the wan port and eth0 on your laptop. But watch the video and realize what you may be letting yourself in for.
Almost certainly now there are many good alternatives to Ubuntu, but when I was first trying SUSE, it was a pig. Dependencies drove me up the wall, trying to network with windows PC's did likewise and KDE was so unresponsive, i often opened a shell for example 2 or 3 times. from I think around 8 to 9 Suse was getting usable but I haven't touched it since.
I would put that down to inexperience and under powered hardware to be honest. I'm still adverse to KDE although there are some really good applications, K3B for example. I think I'm open to try other distributions now, but having experience with Ubuntu really helps.
It's a different time now, there are lots of respectable mature distributions around that are easy to use but for me Dapper was where I found I could use Linux on a day to day basis.
Your not burning Karma at all by giving a fair evaluation and saying what you think, probably the opposite. There is always a need for balanced opinion , thats what keeps Slashdot interesting, going evangelical over any OS really doesn't help anybody.
Well your right that Canonical is highly praised, but its for bringing a desktop distribution thats usable by ordinary people. Honestly there are huge numbers of people that have tried other distributions and given up and gone back to Windows. Canonical's six month release schedule keeps things interesting and gains more users with each release and more developers. It's good for other distributions too as users mature and are prepared to try a different distribution. They might hate it but they are far more likely to return to Ubuntu than retreat back to Windows.
While you disagreed with the Novell/MS deal so did a lot of other people, it's still not a popular choice. On the other hand they did fight hard against SCO providing two years of regular entertainment as SCO went further and further down. Being on the same side as IBM helped though.
You should see me post on a bad day (seriously). 2 spelling mistakes that I'm aware of or should that be "awear off" plus I owe you two '' and a handful of Capital Letters GYPGYP.
You may have heard of Subject Verb Object, "Absolutely disgusting", does not make a sentence. I can only suppose that you were referring to Phorms' questionable marketing practices, in which case we are in agreement.
They were a spywear company now there an advertising company that spies on an Isps customers and scrapes peoples web sites in order to sell advertising to your competitors.
As a website owner what is particularly objectionable is the scraping of your sites to sell ad space to other companies. Their bot will spider your page and ignore robots.txt unless they say you have specifically blocked google and yahoo. The critical difference between what google and yahoo does and phorm does is google and yahoo spider your site to bring your pages to the attention of people looking for what you offer. Phorm spiders your site in order to bring people to other sites which offer similar things to what you offer. Poaching your customer base in this way with your own marketing materials is well out of order.
which is perhaps one good reason why this matters if your outside of the UK but with a UK customer base.
Thanks for a sensible and informative post, from what I have read the problem with this flu is a healthy immune system is going to over react to this new flu and thats what kills the patient.
I believe the six guys who nearly died in a medical trial essentially suffered the same problem bodies over reacting to the substance that was given to them.
I once asked my Dr why he stayed healthy when he is in contact with so many sick people, essentially he said it was washing his hands. So It looks like all the average person can do is avoid crowds and try and maintain good hygiene. It might be worth staying home rather than mixing with people who might be infected.
whoops my mistake (forgot about arm), but there are skype versions on windows mobile (arm processor) and I'm pretty sure my other mobile isn't running windows mobile and has skype built in.
So yes there are arm versions of skype and linux versions of skype, on the nokia810 there is skype and linux, with maemo http://maemo.org/ jaunty also seems to be running on the 810 to a reasonable extent, but not complete. Sound isn't working for example.
It seems likely that Skype will be made available once the platform is widely available. For Skype the money is to be made by providing people with the service and they seem to be extremely willing to provide that service on any platform that can support it.
well the local paper reports over 50 million euro spent on the 7,500 machines since 2002 and they have gone unused in 5 years and 3.5 million is spent per year to keep them in a storage facility in meath Minister Gormley said "It is clear from consideration of the report of the commission on electronic voting that significant additional costs would arise to advance electronic voting in ireland" Or to put it simply they cost too much and ireland really can't justify spending any more on the things what with rising unemployment and less revenue from tax.
It's not a problem with voting electronically, but the cost of electronic voting.
Lulu does a reasonable job, and it's pretty cheap too, unlike most vanity printing you can order as few or as many as you like. I've seen someones book full of old photo's and text while the photo quality wasn't perfect. It's nice to see you can get a minimum order of 1 at a competitive price.
I wonder if some netbooks will have the option to use a Bluetooth headset to make phone calls (via GSM or VoIP)?
only the ones with usb sockets:)
certainly with linux netbooks there is a full bluetooth stack, ekiga is a voip application or there is skype as well (really not that great compared to a good voip app to be honest).
Technically theres no reason why you couldnt be using 3g or Hspda for voip except the mobile service providers make a lot more selling you voice calls and texts and will try to prevent you doing this.
with wifi and ethernet there is nothing stopping you at all.
It's really quite crazy that people are still running up big landline bills when they have adsl or cable modems. For 12.50 I get free landline calling over voip for 90 days (the 12.50 covers chargable calls and once my 90 days are up). there is no limits no minutes package its brilliant.
heres something else the mobile providers don't want people to know.
wlan0 is your wireless connection if it was ppp0 it'd be your 3g or hspda modem. 192.168.2.1 is your ethernet port on your netbook 192.168.2.2 is the address given to a pc or even the wan port of a router.
only problem is it puts the netbook outside of the rest of your lan being the gate way with ppp0 as the internet access it should be possible to get wlan0 assigned an address on the lan side as well and be both a gateway and a lan client. anyone going to show me how to do that:)
I bet no one sings happy birthday to you do they, you'd have them arrested.
It's that kind of incredibly stupid copyright law which ensures there is very little respect for copyrights. That you can watch or record a TV program on your DVR if it goes to plan but getting a copy of the very same program from TPB thats illegal.
TPB is always going to be a popular cause for bringing a little light relief into many lives. To be honest the real profiteering from pirated content comes from the companies sending out the broadband bills each month. without the wide availability of pirated content do you think they would make even half the money they rake in each month.
Actually suppose pirated content did go away, then the only thing the ISP's could do is raise the broadband bills and thats going to cost you. Did you ever consider that the pirates may well be subsidizing your broadband connection?
What the heck are you basing this on? It's been my experience that welfare moms beget welfare children. And no, I'm not just parroting Rush Limbuagh. I've spent the last five years working for an agency in the human services field and my SO is a social worker with 13 years of experience. I've yet to see welfare moms produce anything other than welfare children. The welfare system in my experience creates a cycle of dependency that few people are able (or willing) to break out of.
you state its your experience that welfare moms beget welfare children, I've yet to see welfare moms produce anything other than welfare children, The welfare system in my experience creates a cycle of dependency that few people are able (or willing) to break out of.
Those are your own words, they don't sound positive do they? They don't suggest that this is any fault but their own, even in your reply you state, to paraphrase "I'd be ok i've got savings behind me" implying your not like they are. Do you think your words are coming across as anything else other than looking down on them?
Don't worry though its a normal human reaction to disassociate from groups that are suffering? We'd all go crazy if we considered ourselves to be part of that group or one step away. It's hard enough dealing with the issues we have to face as it is.
The whole general tone of this thread has been extremely negative making people on welfare sound like candidates for the jerry springer show.
I wanted to put some humanity in to the situation and present a different view point, theres far too much stereotyping going on. You can be a decent person and be on welfare. And really isn't it true you and your partner are going to come into contact with the worst cases.
If the Economy was good, perhaps it would be possible for subsidized childcare and education programs to break these mothers out of the poverty welfare trap. Politically I can't see America being ready for that ever. your more likely to fix your health system first.
note the grandparent was talking about raising the level of welfare payments which could make the difference between survival and being to do something positive to improve the quality of life.
Think about this, I remember talking with a guy who i went to school with his cousin was in my class at school but she wasn't in school much, not because her parents didn't want her in school but primarily because she didn't have shoes! I never realized people could be that poor. That was the cost of her education. I'll tell you another, boy i used to take to school from time to time (as part of my job) was often late up and didn't go. Why? he didn't have an alarm clock. I gave him my old one (which was probably against the rules) and his attendance improved dramatically. It's hard to imagine poverty like that but when there is so little money in a household things get sacrificed.
Your savings don't really matter too much, they will help you survive longer, but they will not give you a job, or clean you of that taint of being unemployed. That sucks but you must know that being employed is key to getting a new job, certainly anything paying over minimum wage.
The crystal meth comments floating round this thread really annoyed me, do people really think welfare pays enough to support a family and pay for a drug habit? as the thread title says racism is rampant, I can only hope that the united in United States will eventually mean united and stop Americans being prejudiced against their fellow Americans.
I hope you get it now the difference between an employed American and an unemployed American is a pay check, and in the current circumstances the chances of going from the former to the latter are improving all the time.
Consider this suppose tomorrow your partner tells you she is pregnant (i'm assuming your a heterosexual man) and suppose you argued and split up. what would stop her from becoming a welfare mom?
spending 250 million will get a fair few people gainfully employed and spending that money. That money spent will be spent again paying the wages of the staff who provided the services used by those people and spent again paying the staff who... now without that money going in you have a bunch of unemployed people with minimal incomes spending as little as possible (actually in reality as much as they have) meaning they now don't support the local economy so well, so local services get cut back and more people join the dole queue...
So really its a useful injection of cash which helps the economy recover and manages to provide services to people in area's which commercially don't make any sense. chances are the infra structure will be leased at a low cost to commercial service providers who then find not having to build the infrastructure means its profitable to provide a reasonable service to these area's.
An injection of cash is needed and this is one way of doing it, could argue the 2012 Olympics are another.
Funny thing really theres a good chunk of that 250 Million will be taken as income tax and national insurance , council tax and VAT duty on fuel and drink and cigarettes and various other taxes.
so it could actually cost less than it appears to initially.
guess what, social workers tend to deal with the problem cases, the ones that don't manage, who can't cope, and occasionally people smart enough to know that a social worker going to bat for them will improve their situation. Your not seeing the people who struggle day to day maybe get a little help from family when it gets really bad but your just lumping them all in together because you have a job.
What are people supposed to do when there is no work, the industry drops away and theres 500, 1000 people chasing every job, and your already down on them because they haven't got a job. when GM shuts a factory and the workers are made redundant its not the workers that are defective, the managers thought they can make a bit more by out sourcing, so they did so. Now those workers are just welfare scroungers in your eyes.
it's difficult to get out of a situation like that, and if you work in human services as you say, then your getting your welfare check from the government too. It could even be seen as profiting off the misery of others. sure it might make you feel better to debase them, but they are just as human as you are and your one wage check away from being one of them.
It doesn't really matter what I think, but if it's easy to do and effective someone might pick it up, costs me nothing to suggest it. if i felt that strongly i'd do something more than post on slashdot. look what happened coz of that printer driver RMS couldn't hack:)
Theres 3 alternatives essentially and a few permutations. Dual boot, best of both worlds on a single system but an annoying delay as you switch context. you can read ext2 in windows and ntfs in linux but you might want to share data via a third partition both systems can be a bit cranky when the files get messed with by the other OS. wine. Can be enough if its just one or two things that you need from windows. Can be quirky. conversely cygwin, which really needs experience on the (unix/linux) command line to get the best out of it.
A VM Virtualbox and vmware are about on a par with each other virtualbox is maybe easier on the install vmware make sure you go for the.bundle file and it will install smoothly (the tar file is difficult to impossible to install without some expertise).
with virtualisation you can host with windows or linux and have the other as guest. If you play 3d windows games it needs to be host really, the VM's will give poor 3d performance compared to native.
If you can live with that put windows in the VM and know that once you have the hdd image backed up repairing a broken installation is as simple as copying a file. If you keep your data in a shared folder on the host you will lose very little, should you need to wipe the VM but since the VM is not out on the net unless you want it there it can stay clean. Also your less likely to install an odd ball program which doesnt do what you think its going to do. since there is a good chance linux has a free alternative. running cracked copies of software is a bit pointless if there is a linux alternative which meets your requirements, eg why pirate Nero when k3b would do what you need instead.
I think if you have the space dual boot and have a vm on either or both installs. In six months to a year you will know which option is best for you for a particular task and thats all that matters.
Choose the best tool for your needs and you won't go far wrong and its not religion you don't need to choose one or the other.
Btw 9.04 Aspire one installs really nicely with the alt CD everything essential appears to be working, the atom cpu is set to frequency scale on demand and it feels quite responsive. only negative so far the wifi light isn't flashing. (ok not perfect automatic partitioning sets swap too small.
The only time a system can be protected from this type of stuff is if it's encrypted. But then again, that's only protecting someone from accessing information you want to keep private, not protecting from reinstalling your operating system.
funny how this kind of thing comes up at an appropriate moment ubuntu 9.04 on a fresh install asks do you want to encrypt your home directory and it will be seamlessly decrypted when you use it.
I thought about this, then decided against it, the risk of losing everything due to having it in an encrypted home folder out weighs the risk of my data being readable by someone having physical access to the machine. on the other hand having everything easily readable also doesn't appeal either so I compromised and decided to use ubuntu's built in encryption for files to protect the important but replaceable stuff.
Read the release notes (whilst downloading torrent
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Boot failures on systems with Intel D945 motherboards
Users have reported slower than normal detection of SATA hard drives on systems with Intel D945 motherboards in Ubuntu 9.04. This may cause the system to drop to a busybox initramfs shell on boot with a "Gave up waiting for root device." error. Wait a minute or two and then exit the initramfs shell by typing 'exit'. Booting should proceed normally. If it doesn't, wait a bit longer and try again. Once the system boots, edit/boot/grub/menu.lst and add rootdelay=90 to the kernel stanza for your current kernel. (290153)
I don't think I need each and every Pidgin message to be displayed as a notification for reasons of both privacy and distraction.
. Probably needs a way to configure that. but in use it's not that bad at least it only sends you messages that are addressed at you.
If your browsing and in an Irc Chat or looking something up it's easy to miss something aimed for your attention and that pop up gets your attention for a couple of seconds, I found it quite useful. BTW if you don't want to talk, you could log out or mark yourself busy or something. Actually thats a good point. if user has marked himself unavailable don't show the notification, for extra points show the notifications that occurred whilst unavailable when the user decides to be available again.
If any pidgin devs read this, here's another idea, silently ignore people who send urls to you without being on your contacts list. Bot-Sentry has its heart in the right place but tends to insist on telling you it failed to deliver a message to a spambot. thus providing all the annoyance without the porn scam links. If instead you could filter out unknown contacts sending urls that would probably eliminate 95% + of all bot messaging. blocking all unknown contacts messaging isn't an ideal solution either.
It really does depend on how big a consumer of electricity you are, domestic supplies are rather small and insignificant. Industrial Electricity demands can be huge and quite often there are agreements about how much can be used and agreed low use times. it's a trade off better pricing by agreeing to cooperate with the electricity companies.
Electric companies do offer some incentives for domestic customers e.g Economy 7 in the UK offers cheap electricity in the night and a slightly higher than standard rate for during the day and evening. If you can adjust your usage to take advantage of this scheme you can make quite significant savings.
Virgin a cable provider seems to get this idea, and limits bandwidth over a certain amount (based on package) during peak times, knowing you can get faster rates after midnight, users can modify their downloading habits to suit.
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ok that quote was from a blogger on the conservative Lew Rockwell website, I missed that to be honest, my mistake (was it intended that I make it?) but maybe this still stands.
""The coloring book, which was put online in 2003, was removed last week and FEMA is currently reviewing all Web content designed and posted by the previous administration," a FEMA spokesman said in a statement.
Yet when I look at it again, it actually only states that the coloring book was taken down, and that further material by the previous administration is under review.
It's not saying as much as it first appears.
I guess really they are talking but saying nothing.
Thanks for the lesson in political speaking - it's an interesting art form.
from the article near the end.
After people complained, FEMA removed the coloring book from its site.
It also says
"The coloring book, which was put online in 2003, was removed last week and FEMA is currently reviewing all Web content designed and posted by the previous administration," a FEMA spokesman said in a statement.
Smithfield is quite 'well known' for its intensive pig farming techniques, let me show you a few links
http://nationalhogfarmer.com/mag/farming_smithfield_draws_mixed/ this is from an industry site not environmentalist hippies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm BBC report.
http://www.saplonline.org/pubs/Quarterly/07-56-04/07_56_4p1415.htm
Here's an extract from the third link.
"When biology student Dana Spinu and I visited Timisoara a few weeks before the Smithfield takeover, we found officials and academics naively unprepared for what awaited them. We were invited to Paderini, one of six Contim farms being operated by a Romanian firm, in its last days of independence before being swallowed up. In contrast to US and Polish hog factories, the operation was scrupulously clean. The effluent was pumped to sewage ponds a kilometer away; the feeder pigs had four times more room than in the United States, twice that required under EU regulations. Piglets were weaned at 36 days and took six months to reach market weight. My description of Smithfield practices--piglets weaned at 11 days and brought to market weight at 120 days, feed doped with growth enhancers and antibiotics, dumpsters overflowing with dead animals--was greeted with incredulity by company veterinarians. "Impossible! Illegal! It can't happen here!"
Smithfield's first move upon its arrival was to fire former managers, post guards at hog factory gates, and order employees to say nothing about their work. Evidence of high level corruption was not long in coming. Local officials were ordered to keep "hands off" the company; academic critics were disciplined. Smithfield's relationship with the neo-liberals who came to power in 2005 was even more intimate. Free of interference, even exempted from EU regulations until 2012, Smithfield moved rapidly to consolidate its position, reactivating the Contim farms, and buying refrigeration and transportation companies. While the government shut down small slaughterhouses (ostensibly because of the EU), leaving small farmers with no place to market pigs, Smithfield flooded the country with pork imported from Poland and the United States.
In July 2007, however, Smithfield encountered an opponent that it could not bribe. At Cenei, west of Timisoara, 3,500 Smithfield pigs died suddenly. The company blamed it on a heat wave, but nauseating piles of carcasses attracted the press, and the county veterinary inspectorate was forced to do its job. On Aug. 3, it discovered classical swine fever, a viral disease long endemic in Romania, among Cenei's 20,000 pigs. At this point, the "hands off Smithfield" policy came to an abrupt end. The county disease control center halted all movement of Smithfield hogs, freezing its operations; the National Veterinary and Food Safety Authority began emergency inspections of the entire Contim system. Within a few days, two more infected farms with 30,000 pigs were discovered at Igris, on the Hungarian border.
At the same time, it was learned that 11 Smithfield farms had not even applied for sanitary-veterinary authorization and were operating in blatant contempt of Romanian law. Agency head Radu Roatus excoriated local officials and announced that the unregistered farms would be shut down. Agriculture Minister Decebal Traian Remes confirmed that all exposed pigs would be killed and incinerated, and he suggested that the company "probably" would not be compensated for them. Muzzles removed, lesser officials blamed the Americans. "Our doctors have not had access to American farms to perform routine inspections," said Timis county veterinarian Csaba Doraczi. "Every time they tried they were pushed away by the guards." It even came to light that Smithfield workers are paid so little, about $230 US a month, that the company suffered fro
Mr. Lessig's a very clever man, watch the presentation and think about it ;) http://blip.tv/file/1937322
Mobile broadband, this short video says it all,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d62jQ22w360 ((hitler gets 3 broadband) Its pretty good if you've not seen the same scene done with too many variations)
Problem is if you don't think your going to be somewhere for 12 months, then you can't really sign a 12 month contract. It's going to be pot luck how well it works, badly when you really want it working, is probably going to be the answer.
However if you have no choice I'd find a pay as you go provider and maybe two sim cards depending on the overuse charge. With a Pay as you go modem you get a fixed data quantity. Get into a contract and go over, they have you by the ... In 3 months time when you decide it just isn't worth the hassle any more, you don't have 9 months worth of contract left. It might get better or worse, but you can hang on to that modem for years and only use it when have too.
Even 3 months use would be a win financially, ADSL costs about 25 for line rental and 25 for ADSL per month 3 charge 20 for 10 - 20gb (I forget which) a month and the modem is 79 so in three months your actually up 10 if it doesn't drive you crazy first.
Lan usage, you can buy a special router for the job or go cheap (using existing hardware) and use a switch or a regular router and port-forward to your ethernet port. I've done some experimenting and found an Aspire One running Ubuntu makes a great little "Cable modem" just set up iptables and a fixed address for the wan port on the router and ether-net port and setup iptables (I think windows can just use ICS for the same effect). Note, its a straight cat5 cable between the wan port and eth0 on your laptop.
But watch the video and realize what you may be letting yourself in for.
Almost certainly now there are many good alternatives to Ubuntu, but when I was first trying SUSE, it was a pig. Dependencies drove me up the wall, trying to network with windows PC's did likewise and KDE was so unresponsive, i often opened a shell for example 2 or 3 times.
from I think around 8 to 9 Suse was getting usable but I haven't touched it since.
I would put that down to inexperience and under powered hardware to be honest. I'm still adverse to KDE although there are some really good applications, K3B for example.
I think I'm open to try other distributions now, but having experience with Ubuntu really helps.
It's a different time now, there are lots of respectable mature distributions around that are easy to use but for me Dapper was where I found I could use Linux on a day to day basis.
Your not burning Karma at all by giving a fair evaluation and saying what you think, probably the opposite. There is always a need for balanced opinion , thats what keeps Slashdot interesting, going evangelical over any OS really doesn't help anybody.
Well your right that Canonical is highly praised, but its for bringing a desktop distribution thats usable by ordinary people. Honestly there are huge numbers of people that have tried other distributions and given up and gone back to Windows. Canonical's six month release schedule keeps things interesting and gains more users with each release and more developers. It's good for other distributions too as users mature and are prepared to try a different distribution. They might hate it but they are far more likely to return to Ubuntu than retreat back to Windows.
While you disagreed with the Novell/MS deal so did a lot of other people, it's still not a popular choice. On the other hand they did fight hard against SCO providing two years of regular entertainment as SCO went further and further down. Being on the same side as IBM helped though.
You should see me post on a bad day (seriously). 2 spelling mistakes that I'm aware of or should that be "awear off" plus I owe you two '' and a handful of Capital Letters GYPGYP.
You may have heard of Subject Verb Object, "Absolutely disgusting", does not make a sentence. I can only suppose that you were referring to Phorms' questionable marketing practices, in which case we are in agreement.
where do we start the easy one home office basically in charge of domestic matters, similar to the foreign office for non domestic matters.
Phorm...
absolutely no point me rewriting the wikipedia article so heres the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm.
They were a spywear company now there an advertising company that spies on an Isps customers and scrapes peoples web sites in order to sell advertising to your competitors.
As a website owner what is particularly objectionable is the scraping of your sites to sell ad space to other companies. Their bot will spider your page and ignore robots.txt unless they say you have specifically blocked google and yahoo. The critical difference between what google and yahoo does and phorm does is google and yahoo spider your site to bring your pages to the attention of people looking for what you offer. Phorm spiders your site in order to bring people to other sites which offer similar things to what you offer. Poaching your customer base in this way with your own marketing materials is well out of order.
which is perhaps one good reason why this matters if your outside of the UK but with a UK customer base.
Thanks for a sensible and informative post, from what I have read the problem with this flu is a healthy immune system is going to over react to this new flu and thats what kills the patient.
I believe the six guys who nearly died in a medical trial essentially suffered the same problem bodies over reacting to the substance that was given to them.
I once asked my Dr why he stayed healthy when he is in contact with so many sick people, essentially he said it was washing his hands. So It looks like all the average person can do is avoid crowds and try and maintain good hygiene. It might be worth staying home rather than mixing with people who might be infected.
whoops my mistake (forgot about arm), but there are skype versions on windows mobile (arm processor) and I'm pretty sure my other mobile isn't running windows mobile and has skype built in.
So yes there are arm versions of skype and linux versions of skype, on the nokia810 there is skype and linux, with maemo http://maemo.org/ jaunty also seems to be running on the 810 to a reasonable extent, but not complete. Sound isn't working for example.
It seems likely that Skype will be made available once the platform is widely available. For Skype the money is to be made by providing people with the service and they seem to be extremely willing to provide that service on any platform that can support it.
well the local paper reports over 50 million euro spent on the 7,500 machines since 2002 and they have gone unused in 5 years and 3.5 million is spent per year to keep them in a storage facility in meath
Minister Gormley said "It is clear from consideration of the report of the commission on electronic voting that significant additional costs would arise to advance electronic voting in ireland"
Or to put it simply they cost too much and ireland really can't justify spending any more on the things what with rising unemployment and less revenue from tax.
It's not a problem with voting electronically, but the cost of electronic voting.
Lulu does a reasonable job, and it's pretty cheap too, unlike most vanity printing you can order as few or as many as you like. I've seen someones book full of old photo's and text while the photo quality wasn't perfect. It's nice to see you can get a minimum order of 1 at a competitive price.
I wonder if some netbooks will have the option to use a Bluetooth headset to make phone calls (via GSM or VoIP)?
only the ones with usb sockets :)
certainly with linux netbooks there is a full bluetooth stack, ekiga is a voip application or there is skype as well (really not that great compared to a good voip app to be honest).
Technically theres no reason why you couldnt be using 3g or Hspda for voip except the mobile service providers make a lot more selling you voice calls and texts and will try to prevent you doing this.
with wifi and ethernet there is nothing stopping you at all.
It's really quite crazy that people are still running up big landline bills when they have adsl or cable modems. For 12.50 I get free landline calling over voip for 90 days (the 12.50 covers chargable calls and once my 90 days are up). there is no limits no minutes package its brilliant.
heres something else the mobile providers don't want people to know.
sudo su /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ifconfig eth0 up"
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.1
echo "1" >
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -s 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p tcp --dport 3074 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.2
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p udp -m multiport --dports 88,3074 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.2
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -d 192.168.2.2 -p tcp --dport 3074 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -d 192.168.2.2 -p udp -m multiport --dports 88,3074 -j ACCEPT
wlan0 is your wireless connection if it was ppp0 it'd be your 3g or hspda modem.
192.168.2.1 is your ethernet port on your netbook
192.168.2.2 is the address given to a pc or even the wan port of a router.
only problem is it puts the netbook outside of the rest of your lan being the gate way with ppp0 as the internet access it should be possible to get wlan0 assigned an address on the lan side as well and be both a gateway and a lan client. :)
anyone going to show me how to do that
I bet no one sings happy birthday to you do they, you'd have them arrested.
It's that kind of incredibly stupid copyright law which ensures there is very little respect for copyrights. That you can watch or record a TV program on your DVR if it goes to plan but getting a copy of the very same program from TPB thats illegal.
TPB is always going to be a popular cause for bringing a little light relief into many lives. To be honest the real profiteering from pirated content comes from the companies sending out the broadband bills each month. without the wide availability of pirated content do you think they would make even half the money they rake in each month.
Actually suppose pirated content did go away, then the only thing the ISP's could do is raise the broadband bills and thats going to cost you.
Did you ever consider that the pirates may well be subsidizing your broadband connection?
What the heck are you basing this on? It's been my experience that welfare moms beget welfare children. And no, I'm not just parroting Rush Limbuagh. I've spent the last five years working for an agency in the human services field and my SO is a social worker with 13 years of experience. I've yet to see welfare moms produce anything other than welfare children. The welfare system in my experience creates a cycle of dependency that few people are able (or willing) to break out of.
you state its your experience that welfare moms beget welfare children ,
I've yet to see welfare moms produce anything other than welfare children,
The welfare system in my experience creates a cycle of dependency that few people are able (or willing) to break out of.
Those are your own words, they don't sound positive do they? They don't suggest that this is any fault but their own, even in your reply you state, to paraphrase "I'd be ok i've got savings behind me" implying your not like they are. Do you think your words are coming across as anything else other than looking down on them?
Don't worry though its a normal human reaction to disassociate from groups that are suffering? We'd all go crazy if we considered ourselves to be part of that group or one step away. It's hard enough dealing with the issues we have to face as it is.
The whole general tone of this thread has been extremely negative making people on welfare sound like candidates for the jerry springer show.
I wanted to put some humanity in to the situation and present a different view point, theres far too much stereotyping going on. You can be a decent person and be on welfare. And really isn't it true you and your partner are going to come into contact with the worst cases.
If the Economy was good, perhaps it would be possible for subsidized childcare and education programs to break these mothers out of the poverty welfare trap. Politically I can't see America being ready for that ever. your more likely to fix your health system first.
note the grandparent was talking about raising the level of welfare payments which could make the difference between survival and being to do something positive to improve the quality of life.
Think about this, I remember talking with a guy who i went to school with his cousin was in my class at school but she wasn't in school much, not because her parents didn't want her in school but primarily because she didn't have shoes! I never realized people could be that poor. That was the cost of her education. I'll tell you another, boy i used to take to school from time to time (as part of my job) was often late up and didn't go. Why? he didn't have an alarm clock. I gave him my old one (which was probably against the rules) and his attendance improved dramatically. It's hard to imagine poverty like that but when there is so little money in a household things get sacrificed.
Your savings don't really matter too much, they will help you survive longer, but they will not give you a job, or clean you of that taint of being unemployed.
That sucks but you must know that being employed is key to getting a new job, certainly anything paying over minimum wage.
The crystal meth comments floating round this thread really annoyed me, do people really think welfare pays enough to support a family and pay for a drug habit?
as the thread title says racism is rampant, I can only hope that the united in United States will eventually mean united and stop Americans being prejudiced against their
fellow Americans.
I hope you get it now the difference between an employed American and an unemployed American is a pay check, and in the current circumstances the chances of going from the former to the latter are improving all the time.
Consider this suppose tomorrow your partner tells you she is pregnant (i'm assuming your a heterosexual man) and suppose you argued and split up. what would stop her from becoming a welfare mom?
I hope the answer
spending 250 million will get a fair few people gainfully employed and spending that money. That money spent will be spent again paying the wages of the staff who provided the services used by those people and spent again paying the staff who... now without that money going in you have a bunch of unemployed people with minimal incomes spending as little as possible (actually in reality as much as they have) meaning they now don't support the local economy so well, so local services get cut back and more people join the dole queue...
So really its a useful injection of cash which helps the economy recover and manages to provide services to people in area's which commercially don't make any sense.
chances are the infra structure will be leased at a low cost to commercial service providers who then find not having to build the infrastructure means its profitable to provide a reasonable service to these area's.
An injection of cash is needed and this is one way of doing it, could argue the 2012 Olympics are another.
Funny thing really theres a good chunk of that 250 Million will be taken as income tax and national insurance , council tax and VAT duty on fuel and drink and cigarettes and various other taxes.
so it could actually cost less than it appears to initially.
guess what, social workers tend to deal with the problem cases, the ones that don't manage, who can't cope, and occasionally people smart enough to know that a social worker going to bat for them will improve their situation. Your not seeing the people who struggle day to day maybe get a little help from family when it gets really bad but your just lumping them all in together because you have a job.
What are people supposed to do when there is no work, the industry drops away and theres 500, 1000 people chasing every job, and your already down on them because they haven't got a job. when GM shuts a factory and the workers are made redundant its not the workers that are defective, the managers thought they can make a bit more by out sourcing, so they did so. Now those workers are just welfare scroungers in your eyes.
it's difficult to get out of a situation like that, and if you work in human services as you say, then your getting your welfare check from the government too. It could even be seen as profiting off the misery of others. sure it might make you feel better to debase them, but they are just as human as you are and your one wage check away from being one of them.
It doesn't really matter what I think, but if it's easy to do and effective someone might pick it up, costs me nothing to suggest it. :)
if i felt that strongly i'd do something more than post on slashdot. look what happened coz of that printer driver RMS couldn't hack
Theres 3 alternatives essentially and a few permutations.
Dual boot, best of both worlds on a single system but an annoying delay as you switch context. you can read ext2 in windows and ntfs in linux but you might want to share data via a third partition both systems can be a bit cranky when the files get messed with by the other OS.
wine.
Can be enough if its just one or two things that you need from windows. Can be quirky.
conversely
cygwin, which really needs experience on the (unix/linux) command line to get the best out of it.
A VM .bundle file and it will install smoothly (the tar file is difficult to impossible to install without some expertise).
Virtualbox and vmware are about on a par with each other virtualbox is maybe easier on the install vmware make sure you go for the
with virtualisation you can host with windows or linux and have the other as guest. If you play 3d windows games it needs to be host really, the VM's will give poor 3d performance compared to native.
If you can live with that put windows in the VM and know that once you have the hdd image backed up repairing a broken installation is as simple as copying a file.
If you keep your data in a shared folder on the host you will lose very little, should you need to wipe the VM but since the VM is not out on the net unless you want it there it can stay clean. Also your less likely to install an odd ball program which doesnt do what you think its going to do. since there is a good chance linux has a free alternative. running cracked copies of software is a bit pointless if there is a linux alternative which meets your requirements, eg why pirate Nero when k3b would do what you need instead.
I think if you have the space dual boot and have a vm on either or both installs. In six months to a year you will know which option is best for you for a particular task and thats all that matters.
Choose the best tool for your needs and you won't go far wrong and its not religion you don't need to choose one or the other.
Btw 9.04 Aspire one installs really nicely with the alt CD everything essential appears to be working, the atom cpu is set to frequency scale on demand and it feels quite responsive. only negative so far the wifi light isn't flashing. (ok not perfect automatic partitioning sets swap too small.
The only time a system can be protected from this type of stuff is if it's encrypted. But then again, that's only protecting someone from accessing information you want to keep private, not protecting from reinstalling your operating system.
funny how this kind of thing comes up at an appropriate moment ubuntu 9.04 on a fresh install asks do you want to encrypt your home directory and it will be seamlessly decrypted when you use it.
I thought about this, then decided against it, the risk of losing everything due to having it in an encrypted home folder out weighs the risk of my data being readable by someone having physical access to the machine. on the other hand having everything easily readable also doesn't appeal either so I compromised and decided to use ubuntu's built in encryption for files to protect the important but replaceable stuff.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904
Boot failures on systems with Intel D945 motherboards
Users have reported slower than normal detection of SATA hard drives on systems with Intel D945 motherboards in Ubuntu 9.04. This may cause the system to drop to a busybox initramfs shell on boot with a "Gave up waiting for root device." error. Wait a minute or two and then exit the initramfs shell by typing 'exit'. Booting should proceed normally. If it doesn't, wait a bit longer and try again. Once the system boots, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add rootdelay=90 to the kernel stanza for your current kernel. (290153)
could that be your problem ?
I don't think I need each and every Pidgin message to be displayed as a notification for reasons of both privacy and distraction.
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Probably needs a way to configure that. but in use it's not that bad at least it only sends you messages that are addressed at you.
If your browsing and in an Irc Chat or looking something up it's easy to miss something aimed for your attention and that pop up gets your attention for a couple of seconds, I found it quite useful. BTW if you don't want to talk, you could log out or mark yourself busy or something.
Actually thats a good point. if user has marked himself unavailable don't show the notification, for extra points show the notifications that occurred whilst unavailable when the user decides to be available again.
If any pidgin devs read this, here's another idea, silently ignore people who send urls to you without being on your contacts list. Bot-Sentry has its heart in the right place but tends to insist on telling you it failed to deliver a message to a spambot. thus providing all the annoyance without the porn scam links.
If instead you could filter out unknown contacts sending urls that would probably eliminate 95% + of all bot messaging. blocking all unknown contacts messaging isn't an ideal solution either.
Would I be mistaken in thinking Amazon gets paid each time data gets transfered?
It's hardly likely they are paying line rental in the deal.
It really does depend on how big a consumer of electricity you are, domestic supplies are rather small and insignificant. Industrial Electricity demands can be huge and quite often there are agreements about how much can be used and agreed low use times. it's a trade off better pricing by agreeing to cooperate with the electricity companies.
Electric companies do offer some incentives for domestic customers e.g Economy 7 in the UK offers cheap electricity in the night and a slightly higher than standard rate for during the day and evening. If you can adjust your usage to take advantage of this scheme you can make quite significant savings.
Virgin a cable provider seems to get this idea, and limits bandwidth over a certain amount (based on package) during peak times, knowing you can get faster rates after midnight, users can modify their downloading habits to suit.