I think the authors intent was that of a security CD.. more or less to scan your network for "issues".
In a different, but similar, vein I'm trying to get <plug>Salvare</plug> to be a generic system rescue CD/workstation in less than 34MB (the size of the credit-card CDs I've got).
The small space isn't so much of an issue given that you can apt-get install foo into RAM and so install new software on the fly without having to even mount the hard disk!
It's only at 0.1.1 atm, but further testers and suggestions would be welcome;-)
No, he's there because he did a good job at Education.
He, err, did what exactly? I do remember him promising that the Government would meet its new education targets within 3 years or he'd resign. However, come June 2002 the targets were not met but, oh look, he's not Education Secretary any more so doesn't resign.
The only redeeming feature of Blunkett compared with Jack Straw is that he's only ever-so-slightly less of a right wing extremist; and even then he seems to be learning quickly.
Everyone seems to like Lucy the dog, though... let's appoint her Home Secretary;-)
That's a feature I'd like with X. Just set my notebook next to my 21' monitor, and it automatically becomes a part of my multiheaded display unit.
I know someone's already mentioned win2vnc, but there's also x2vnc which works incredibly well between my Debian desktop and W2K laptop: just stick a VNC server on the laptop and run x2vnc on the X desktop. It's also easy to write a little script to keep trying x2vnc so I can pull my laptop out of the docking station and when I drop it back in the connection's restored.
But it reveals the flaws of any Dead Man's Switch when his increasing Alzheimers (IIRC) means he knows that he has to do it and what the consequences will be if he doesn't, but he gets stuck half way through and can't complete the task.
...It ships on multiple platforms (BeOS, Win32, Linux... even Epoc ?)
EPOC is the nice operating system from Symbian which runs on Psion PDAs, the Ericsson R380, the Diamond Mako, the Nokia 9210 and a whole load of other stuff...
It's quite nice having a browser as good as IE 5 on your palmtop:-). If you've got an EPOC PDA, install the Opera 5 beta now!:-)
When you do your homework and make actual screen fonts, like, oh, say, Microsoft does, you don't end up with a badly anti-aliased page but with a page that can be read without getting a splitting headache.
Unfortunately Microsoft's "anti-aliasing" still isn't as good as existed on home machines in 1987... an interesting comparison of RISC OS vs. Windows' font renders contains these two examples:
ARM used to be owned/manufactured by DEC, but when they were bought by Compaq, the ARM division went to Intel.
Actually, ARM still exist as a separate entity on the FTSE - ARM originally stood for "Acorn RISC Machines", but Acorn hived it off as a standalone firm a good few years ago (can't remember exact year) as "Advanced RISC Machines". The StrongARM was the natural progression from the ARM7 and the rights to manufacture the StrongARM were sold to Digital and then to Intel (possibly via Compaq when Digital were bought). ARM now just do chip design and leave the manufacture to those who can do it best, i.e. Intel. So although StrongARM might be an Intel product, Intel don't own ARM.
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In a different, but similar, vein I'm trying to get <plug>Salvare</plug> to be a generic system rescue CD/workstation in less than 34MB (the size of the credit-card CDs I've got).
The small space isn't so much of an issue given that you can apt-get install foo into RAM and so install new software on the fly without having to even mount the hard disk!
It's only at 0.1.1 atm, but further testers and suggestions would be welcome ;-)
He, err, did what exactly? I do remember him promising that the Government would meet its new education targets within 3 years or he'd resign. However, come June 2002 the targets were not met but, oh look, he's not Education Secretary any more so doesn't resign.
The only redeeming feature of Blunkett compared with Jack Straw is that he's only ever-so-slightly less of a right wing extremist; and even then he seems to be learning quickly.
Everyone seems to like Lucy the dog, though... let's appoint her Home Secretary ;-)
I know someone's already mentioned win2vnc, but there's also x2vnc which works incredibly well between my Debian desktop and W2K laptop: just stick a VNC server on the laptop and run x2vnc on the X desktop. It's also easy to write a little script to keep trying x2vnc so I can pull my laptop out of the docking station and when I drop it back in the connection's restored.
But it reveals the flaws of any Dead Man's Switch when his increasing Alzheimers (IIRC) means he knows that he has to do it and what the consequences will be if he doesn't, but he gets stuck half way through and can't complete the task.
EPOC is the nice operating system from Symbian which runs on Psion PDAs, the Ericsson R380, the Diamond Mako, the Nokia 9210 and a whole load of other stuff...
It's quite nice having a browser as good as IE 5 on your palmtop :-). If you've got an EPOC PDA, install the Opera 5 beta now! :-)
Unfortunately Microsoft's "anti-aliasing" still isn't as good as existed on home machines in 1987... an interesting comparison of RISC OS vs. Windows' font renders contains these two examples:
Down at the bottom of the first page is an example from a reimplementation of RISC OS' font manager on Linux, which does look nice! ;-)
Actually, ARM still exist as a separate entity on the FTSE - ARM originally stood for "Acorn RISC Machines", but Acorn hived it off as a standalone firm a good few years ago (can't remember exact year) as "Advanced RISC Machines". The StrongARM was the natural progression from the ARM7 and the rights to manufacture the StrongARM were sold to Digital and then to Intel (possibly via Compaq when Digital were bought). ARM now just do chip design and leave the manufacture to those who can do it best, i.e. Intel. So although StrongARM might be an Intel product, Intel don't own ARM.