"It seems like everyone is running Ubuntu these days"
Seems....
I ran Mandrake/Mandriva from 1999/2000 to 2006, using Win4Lin to run w98. I then switched to PCLinuxOS in late 05 or early 06 when I kept having issues with Mandriva. When i got my new laptop in Dec 08, i found that i was not going to run Win4Lin (personal choice pains from 05) and win98 (new CAD apps not running on w98), and since my laptop came with vista, i upped the RAM to 2GB and upped the hard drives to ~160 GB and ~250GB (two drive bays) from the sold 80GB drive.
If i'm not running Mandriva, I run PCLinuxOS. Now that PCLOS 2009 is out.... and money's TIGHT... but...
I like CompizFusion and KDE4 enough to not likely use PCLOS until/unless PCLOS goest to KDE4.2.2 (polished/distributed)...
Now, i'm running Mdva 2009.1 with KDE4.1. What i DON'T like, however, is that across reboots (at least in the Spring/Free version):
-- KDE4.2 does NOT remember my last used browers/apps and i have to manually re-run them (KDE3.5, OTOH, still works as expected)
-- KDE4.1 does not allow CUSTOMIZED multiple desktops, whereas KDE 3.5 still does.
What IS really compelling is getting VirtualBox 2.2. What i want to find out is whether i can use a 32-bit system to run vista or even the win 7 or 64-bit win7 in VBox. I'll have to read to find out if VB HAS TO BE 64-bit VB on a 64-bit machine, or if a 64-bit VB can run on a 32-bit machine AND still run 64-bit apps in some reduced functionality mode. Might not, i suspect. But i guess really i need to find out if the 64-bit VB on a 64-bit machine can run 32 bit apps instead of my having to use still-flaky 64-bit versions of apps i know work (for now) more stabler as 32-bit.
is compatible with Linux. I use it with my laptop. It doesn't require any special software. Just use kppp, and adjust the settings per the Sprint documentation or the on-phone tech. It was a PAIN in the ass trying to get the -597 to work, and both Best Buy AND Sprint earlier claimed the 597 was compatible, but, IIRC, Sierra did not make that claim.
i use this because, tho i *could* piggyback on Feeva in the Union Square area, i think i'd rather have reasonably reliable AND mobile access. Besides, there *might* be more personal privacy/security going via mobile wireless through a cell carrier than a lesser-protected wi-fi signal. Now, of course, if anyone near me is scanning RF or my laptop emissions specifically, then, yeh, i know almost all bets are off...
Would loads of lead-based paint absorb the signal? If you look at a number of San Francisco apartments, it may be possible to find doors, walls, cabinets and other surfaces having 5 or 10 layers of paint since property owners seem to be poor or too cheap (or, conveniently environmentally supersensitive) to remove the layers and apply modern coats. The building i used to live in a couple years ago was like that. Cabinet doors not closing, who knows what under the carpets, and slanted floors.... window frames from 1945 or something. But, the building was one of the few that passed flying colors after the 1989 quake....
Yep, they are gonig to learn the HARD way that Lessig is Moreig.... He'll be the enigma wrapped in a question packaged in a sledge hammer and he'll defignally CRUSH them. Game Over.
My first thought was that they made this fix, but they "forgot" to involve the various nation's security/intelligence agencies of "fixes" that broke spy tools. So, they need to give the agencies time to "catch up" to ms and "stay ahead" of the rest of us...
It was a "windy day in Arizona" when the US flag fluttered.
Now, Federal'noe kosmicheskoe agentstvo Rossii, (RKA) will blow DUST in the yankee eyes by landing with RETRO RETROs... But, i don't know if it will be a dusty/chokey day in Chernobyl or Sunny Siberia...
Considering the pricing of Apple laptops, I will keep buying "good-enough-to-slightly-better-than-i-hoped" generic PCs that Linux can use reasonably well. I will keep using VirtualBox (to the extent that Oracle doesn't kill it off) and probably use windoze 7 if i buy another laptop in the next 5 months or whenever i can escape vista.
Apple iPhones and laptops are, i readily say, enviable and slick and cool and nice and all, but a few of the keys i can't wrap my head around. I still am stuck on 3-button or 2-button-with-wheel mice with apps READY TO USE the feature. About the closest-to-Apple-like product i use is Punch! ViaCAD, and that runs reasonably well & useful for me in memory-hogging vista, inside VirtualBox, inside Mandriva...
Doll... might make for gender-neutral, good aural or gap-filler (feeler?) effects.
or, use it for caseload reduction for trauma/ER rooms. Imagine slime ordered to deal with a sucking chest wound. Of course, a soldier might die of heart attack at the sight of slime crawing to the rib cage. Might also make for good sci-fi special visual effects.
Any geeks/nerds out there with horny-ass little (redundant?) chihuahuas? Maybe they could wrap their little bony/bowed ass legs around rag-sized slime. After insliminating, they might give rise to real reservoir or slime dogs. That would be an abumination of nature.
"Symphony" should have been an extension of SmartSuite especially since SmartSuite has:
- A multi-award-winning end-user-friendly relational database (Approach) that trounces the hell out of Base - A spreadsheed (1-2-3) that has STILL got some superior chart editing features that Calc hasn't got - A word processor (WordPro) that has true WYSIWYG facilities that Write hasn't got - A planner (Organizer) - A presentation application (Freelance)
The first 3 alone are worth the $300 IBM asks for, but REALLY wish that IBM didn't use the name "Symphony" (a previous Lotus product that, IIRC, was pretty much like a 3-D database/spread sheet before even ms came out with Excel) until SmartSuite was overshadowed by a decent release candidate replacement, which Symphony currently is NNOTTTT.
In all the SmartSuite apps, however, non-modal properties pallets are available so you can modify font and other properties without having to play stupid-ass do-it-the-ms-and-other-lazy-develpers'-way of "edit-jump-out-change-edit-change-..." until you get fed up and just live with what is on screen.
WordPro has a much better visual editor interface for viewing multiple sheets of a same or different documents. I've for YEARS been begging the OO.o devs to just "take a look" at SmartSuite., and they persist with the NIH (Not-Invented-Here) attitude. It's obvious, since their idea of sections and divisions (which i might have inspired, but they copied in name only) is woefully dismal an attempt to create a flexible interface.
Too bad IBM keeps saying it bought a patent-mired Lotus SmartSuite, which is their excuse for not releasing SmartSuite into Open Source, which could enable devs to fall in love with it and rebuilt and unencumber the patent-minefield parts.
"What, can't do that because you have 60 students in a class? Well, there's part of the problem too."
Hmmmm, isn't that what TAs are for? Well, at least what the TRUSTED/TRUSTWORTHY TAs are for...
Might be even interesting to have the professor's colleagues who KNOW the subject matter each forward papers from their students to make sure there is no in-school favoritism by TAs who may be sleeping with or doing/getting other favors from a challenged/weak student.
The professor should keep a secret list of colleagues who randomely get a paper so that any student trying to directly approach the "anonymous" off-campus grader/professor would immediately generate a FAIL for the student. It would be like a student trying to influence or curry favor from a test proctor...
bullshit off, or i will NEVER consider buying Apple products, AND, i may decide to work HARD to dissuade prospective laptop-buying friends from buying Appleware. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF, APPLE!
Well, it looks like Dell grabbed THIS tiger by the Tell, for they delliberately told a false tale to the public. Now, it's Dell's bells for tiger. Or, for whom bells toll for Tiger... Tiger will have to go clawing around for a new fang(led) tactic to get their paws and mitts on money.
"So Konrad is a big fan of having ships travel in convoys. That means there are more eyes looking for trouble and that pirates will have a harder time attacking any single ship."
The ships could then deploy/rig piano wire-like cabling (or, ship-safe electrical wires) between them and crank up the juice to near-switchboard-blowing-levels of voltage and current when the pirates get between the hulls. Or, rig non-scalable pontons beween the ships. When the pirates get between, have a sideswiping operation to grind them up.
Seriously, tho, the LRAD is promising, but well-stabilized speed boats afford an opportunity for sniper-trained pirates (or, highly-skilled boarders) to disable the LRAD so they can avoid using ear protection that might otherwise impede team communication devices...
Next thing we know, all these merchies will be (for a few years to come at least, until piracy is suppressed) have armed Marines (Korean, Japanese, British, Chinese, etc...) onboard. Next, for matters of convenience, nations will abrogate various insurance and ship classification society rules and contract ship owners and operators to carry illicit cargoes under the protection of armed personnel who might make it inconvenient or even dangerous for shipboard personnel to carry out damage control, routine inspections, and maintenance activities in the presence of armed supervisors.
It could end up like "When asked if there are certain military cargoes onboard the S.S. whatever, the ONLY proper response is 'I can neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of (category of item) aboard the S.S. whatever', and then you head directly to the ship's master to report the person who asked the questions....", harkening back to the cold war era...
Many nations have internationally-binding agreements or understandings that doing such a thing could cause the ship to be placed under arrest (yes, a ship can be arrested), the crew detained or held pending a trial, and the ship owners sent an extraordinarly expensive bill for being held fast (secured, or for you landluppers, "tied up" or "docked") to a pier, taking up space pending judicial proceedings.
The in-jurisdiction discovery of a shooting or killing anyone, even pirates or people not part of said nation's waters, puts that ship in the jeopardy. It's why learned, experienced and astute non-military/non-police vessel sailors (civilian yacht and merchant ships) do not carry weapons, or at least secure them and discharge them only in waters in which there is no question of legal risk.
Now, as for the foam that makes the ladders (inclined ladders, etc) nearly impossible to climb, well, they better hope the pirates don't haul sandbags up the ship and use some sort of modified spray applicators to make the foam useless. Or, they better hope the pirates don't have backers who fund them well enough to wear cleated or magnetic shoes that avert the issue of slipping.
As for rifles, the M-16 may be ubiquitous and the darling of movies and numerous police agencies and even the basis of modified K-1 & K-2:
and of other nations, but Belgians and others have rifles to offer. Besides, the best RIFLE to use would be a well-camouflaged sniper rifle, some of which can be seen here:
ifff... iffff the use of them can be applied to snipers outside of their own protected waters. If the international laws can be changed to allow carrying of contracted/hired guns (privateers) to defend them against pirates and piratical activities, then you can really, responsibly, seriously talk about using deadly force outward from and aboard the merchant and passenger ships at risk of piracy.
Is there any viable fork of MySQL? Can the "detritus" or those (who'll get) laid-off who deeply care about MySQL just say "FORK IT"? It'll probably take some years to get traction, though.
I was listening to KQED's "Forum", and i heard Michael Krasny say or relay that microsoft and another company the name of which i cannot remember were writing "Thank You" letters to Oracle for removing some of Sun's products from the competitive space via the acquisition.
Moreover, from the show, this means that IBM will begin to see their pricing and bundling strategy severely undermined, since in the past, they were able to mask the true costs of components of a sale. Now, with Oracle in the mix, using their new leverage, they'll put some serious pressure on IBM and quite cost IBM some sales.
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"It seems like everyone is running Ubuntu these days"
Seems....
I ran Mandrake/Mandriva from 1999/2000 to 2006, using Win4Lin to run w98. I then switched to PCLinuxOS in late 05 or early 06 when I kept having issues with Mandriva. When i got my new laptop in Dec 08, i found that i was not going to run Win4Lin (personal choice pains from 05) and win98 (new CAD apps not running on w98), and since my laptop came with vista, i upped the RAM to 2GB and upped the hard drives to ~160 GB and ~250GB (two drive bays) from the sold 80GB drive.
If i'm not running Mandriva, I run PCLinuxOS. Now that PCLOS 2009 is out.... and money's TIGHT... but ...
I like CompizFusion and KDE4 enough to not likely use PCLOS until/unless PCLOS goest to KDE4.2.2 (polished/distributed)...
Now, i'm running Mdva 2009.1 with KDE4.1. What i DON'T like, however, is that across reboots (at least in the Spring/Free version):
-- KDE4.2 does NOT remember my last used browers/apps and i have to manually re-run them (KDE3.5, OTOH, still works as expected)
-- KDE4.1 does not allow CUSTOMIZED multiple desktops, whereas KDE 3.5 still does.
What IS really compelling is getting VirtualBox 2.2. What i want to find out is whether i can use a 32-bit system to run vista or even the win 7 or 64-bit win7 in VBox. I'll have to read to find out if VB HAS TO BE 64-bit VB on a 64-bit machine, or if a 64-bit VB can run on a 32-bit machine AND still run 64-bit apps in some reduced functionality mode. Might not, i suspect. But i guess really i need to find out if the 64-bit VB on a 64-bit machine can run 32 bit apps instead of my having to use still-flaky 64-bit versions of apps i know work (for now) more stabler as 32-bit.
is compatible with Linux. I use it with my laptop. It doesn't require any special software. Just use kppp, and adjust the settings per the Sprint documentation or the on-phone tech. It was a PAIN in the ass trying to get the -597 to work, and both Best Buy AND Sprint earlier claimed the 597 was compatible, but, IIRC, Sierra did not make that claim.
http://www.myrateplan.com/cool_phones/2283/sprint/sierra_598_usb_modem/
http://www.sierrawireless.com/product/USB598.aspx
i use this because, tho i *could* piggyback on Feeva in the Union Square area, i think i'd rather have reasonably reliable AND mobile access. Besides, there *might* be more personal privacy/security going via mobile wireless through a cell carrier than a lesser-protected wi-fi signal. Now, of course, if anyone near me is scanning RF or my laptop emissions specifically, then, yeh, i know almost all bets are off...
Would loads of lead-based paint absorb the signal? If you look at a number of San Francisco apartments, it may be possible to find doors, walls, cabinets and other surfaces having 5 or 10 layers of paint since property owners seem to be poor or too cheap (or, conveniently environmentally supersensitive) to remove the layers and apply modern coats. The building i used to live in a couple years ago was like that. Cabinet doors not closing, who knows what under the carpets, and slanted floors.... window frames from 1945 or something. But, the building was one of the few that passed flying colors after the 1989 quake....
Yep, they are gonig to learn the HARD way that Lessig is Moreig.... He'll be the enigma wrapped in a question packaged in a sledge hammer and he'll defignally CRUSH them. Game Over.
Security and lip service. Autorun is not ALL they are disabling.
They are disabling access to vista SP2:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132311
My first thought was that they made this fix, but they "forgot" to involve the various nation's security/intelligence agencies of "fixes" that broke spy tools. So, they need to give the agencies time to "catch up" to ms and "stay ahead" of the rest of us...
Just some wild guessing...
the "footage", or, would they ... cheatah us out of that rolling stock...?
Put this into a tiger. Show it food. What will they see from the perspective of the eye of the tiger?
ing to .... Harry Potter...
Hell, even Clarence Thomas might want to LOUDLY proclaim about his pubic-hair-on-the-Coke-can comment: "See, I'm VINdickATED"...
Now, things will suck if cashews come with hair... It would also suck if my comments are based on a lame submission summary...
It was a "windy day in Arizona" when the US flag fluttered.
Now, Federal'noe kosmicheskoe agentstvo Rossii, (RKA) will blow DUST in the yankee eyes by landing with RETRO RETROs... But, i don't know if it will be a dusty/chokey day in Chernobyl or Sunny Siberia...
(Since, apparently, Russia has no deserts...
http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/desert/in-russia/
)...
Considering the pricing of Apple laptops, I will keep buying "good-enough-to-slightly-better-than-i-hoped" generic PCs that Linux can use reasonably well. I will keep using VirtualBox (to the extent that Oracle doesn't kill it off) and probably use windoze 7 if i buy another laptop in the next 5 months or whenever i can escape vista.
Apple iPhones and laptops are, i readily say, enviable and slick and cool and nice and all, but a few of the keys i can't wrap my head around. I still am stuck on 3-button or 2-button-with-wheel mice with apps READY TO USE the feature. About the closest-to-Apple-like product i use is Punch! ViaCAD, and that runs reasonably well & useful for me in memory-hogging vista, inside VirtualBox, inside Mandriva...
Yeh, i know i could run Parallels.... but...
Doll... might make for gender-neutral, good aural or gap-filler (feeler?) effects.
or, use it for caseload reduction for trauma/ER rooms. Imagine slime ordered to deal with a sucking chest wound. Of course, a soldier might die of heart attack at the sight of slime crawing to the rib cage. Might also make for good sci-fi special visual effects.
Any geeks/nerds out there with horny-ass little (redundant?) chihuahuas? Maybe they could wrap their little bony/bowed ass legs around rag-sized slime. After insliminating, they might give rise to real reservoir or slime dogs. That would be an abumination of nature.
Here are my various comments over the years:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171938&cid=14319700
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=300993&cid=20659515
This one is my comment about how IBM could get around the patented stuff, but they have not yet seemed to show any desire to do so:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=302369&cid=20670579
"Symphony" should have been an extension of SmartSuite especially since SmartSuite has:
- A multi-award-winning end-user-friendly relational database (Approach) that trounces the hell out of Base
- A spreadsheed (1-2-3) that has STILL got some superior chart editing features that Calc hasn't got
- A word processor (WordPro) that has true WYSIWYG facilities that Write hasn't got
- A planner (Organizer)
- A presentation application (Freelance)
The first 3 alone are worth the $300 IBM asks for, but REALLY wish that IBM didn't use the name "Symphony" (a previous Lotus product that, IIRC, was pretty much like a 3-D database/spread sheet before even ms came out with Excel) until SmartSuite was overshadowed by a decent release candidate replacement, which Symphony currently is NNOTTTT.
In all the SmartSuite apps, however, non-modal properties pallets are available so you can modify font and other properties without having to play stupid-ass do-it-the-ms-and-other-lazy-develpers'-way of "edit-jump-out-change-edit-change-..." until you get fed up and just live with what is on screen.
WordPro has a much better visual editor interface for viewing multiple sheets of a same or different documents. I've for YEARS been begging the OO.o devs to just "take a look" at SmartSuite., and they persist with the NIH (Not-Invented-Here) attitude. It's obvious, since their idea of sections and divisions (which i might have inspired, but they copied in name only) is woefully dismal an attempt to create a flexible interface.
Too bad IBM keeps saying it bought a patent-mired Lotus SmartSuite, which is their excuse for not releasing SmartSuite into Open Source, which could enable devs to fall in love with it and rebuilt and unencumber the patent-minefield parts.
"What, can't do that because you have 60 students in a class? Well, there's part of the problem too."
Hmmmm, isn't that what TAs are for? Well, at least what the TRUSTED/TRUSTWORTHY TAs are for...
Might be even interesting to have the professor's colleagues who KNOW the subject matter each forward papers from their students to make sure there is no in-school favoritism by TAs who may be sleeping with or doing/getting other favors from a challenged/weak student.
The professor should keep a secret list of colleagues who randomely get a paper so that any student trying to directly approach the "anonymous" off-campus grader/professor would immediately generate a FAIL for the student. It would be like a student trying to influence or curry favor from a test proctor...
Apply it to the RealDoll first, then when the space ship is crashing into the moon, the distant-touchers will be mashing as they croon...
bullshit off, or i will NEVER consider buying Apple products, AND, i may decide to work HARD to dissuade prospective laptop-buying friends from buying Appleware. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF, APPLE!
be in jeopardy....
Well, it looks like Dell grabbed THIS tiger by the Tell, for they delliberately told a false tale to the public. Now, it's Dell's bells for tiger. Or, for whom bells toll for Tiger... Tiger will have to go clawing around for a new fang(led) tactic to get their paws and mitts on money.
"So Konrad is a big fan of having ships travel in convoys. That means there are more eyes looking for trouble and that pirates will have a harder time attacking any single ship."
The ships could then deploy/rig piano wire-like cabling (or, ship-safe electrical wires) between them and crank up the juice to near-switchboard-blowing-levels of voltage and current when the pirates get between the hulls. Or, rig non-scalable pontons beween the ships. When the pirates get between, have a sideswiping operation to grind them up.
Seriously, tho, the LRAD is promising, but well-stabilized speed boats afford an opportunity for sniper-trained pirates (or, highly-skilled boarders) to disable the LRAD so they can avoid using ear protection that might otherwise impede team communication devices...
Next thing we know, all these merchies will be (for a few years to come at least, until piracy is suppressed) have armed Marines (Korean, Japanese, British, Chinese, etc...) onboard. Next, for matters of convenience, nations will abrogate various insurance and ship classification society rules and contract ship owners and operators to carry illicit cargoes under the protection of armed personnel who might make it inconvenient or even dangerous for shipboard personnel to carry out damage control, routine inspections, and maintenance activities in the presence of armed supervisors.
It could end up like "When asked if there are certain military cargoes onboard the S.S. whatever, the ONLY proper response is 'I can neither confirm nor deny the presence or absence of (category of item) aboard the S.S. whatever', and then you head directly to the ship's master to report the person who asked the questions....", harkening back to the cold war era...
You CAN'T DO THAT.
Many nations have internationally-binding agreements or understandings that doing such a thing could cause the ship to be placed under arrest (yes, a ship can be arrested), the crew detained or held pending a trial, and the ship owners sent an extraordinarly expensive bill for being held fast (secured, or for you landluppers, "tied up" or "docked") to a pier, taking up space pending judicial proceedings.
The in-jurisdiction discovery of a shooting or killing anyone, even pirates or people not part of said nation's waters, puts that ship in the jeopardy. It's why learned, experienced and astute non-military/non-police vessel sailors (civilian yacht and merchant ships) do not carry weapons, or at least secure them and discharge them only in waters in which there is no question of legal risk.
Now, as for the foam that makes the ladders (inclined ladders, etc) nearly impossible to climb, well, they better hope the pirates don't haul sandbags up the ship and use some sort of modified spray applicators to make the foam useless. Or, they better hope the pirates don't have backers who fund them well enough to wear cleated or magnetic shoes that avert the issue of slipping.
As for rifles, the M-16 may be ubiquitous and the darling of movies and numerous police agencies and even the basis of modified K-1 & K-2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_K2
and of other nations, but Belgians and others have rifles to offer. Besides, the best RIFLE to use would be a well-camouflaged sniper rifle, some of which can be seen here:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/3864/sniper.htm
ifff... iffff the use of them can be applied to snipers outside of their own protected waters. If the international laws can be changed to allow carrying of contracted/hired guns (privateers) to defend them against pirates and piratical activities, then you can really, responsibly, seriously talk about using deadly force outward from and aboard the merchant and passenger ships at risk of piracy.
"OurSQL", or to "YourSQL"..., and tell SOracle: What's YOURS is MINE and what's MINE is.... MINE"
1. F, S, & HG
2. Lasers
3. Mirrors...
Illuminating Holy Trinity?
But, they won't unseat Alan Parsons in a fair match...
Electric Light Orchestra and Alan Parsons Project, with some OMD (Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark)....LOL!
Is there any viable fork of MySQL? Can the "detritus" or those (who'll get) laid-off who deeply care about MySQL just say "FORK IT"? It'll probably take some years to get traction, though.
I was listening to KQED's "Forum", and i heard Michael Krasny say or relay that microsoft and another company the name of which i cannot remember were writing "Thank You" letters to Oracle for removing some of Sun's products from the competitive space via the acquisition.
Moreover, from the show, this means that IBM will begin to see their pricing and bundling strategy severely undermined, since in the past, they were able to mask the true costs of components of a sale. Now, with Oracle in the mix, using their new leverage, they'll put some serious pressure on IBM and quite cost IBM some sales.