The CSIRO did indeed invent the wireless technology which we all use in wireless LANs today. However, they're a government-funded agency, they should be creating technology for the good of all citizens of the world and making that technology available for free.
As far as I'm concerned, my Australian Tax dollars have already paid the CSIRO for this work. They're not patent trolls but I disagree with their actions to assert royalty payments over this patent.
Because underage children are known for their acute sense of morality and appropriateness and do not need guidance of their elders at all. I think you need to look up what school is actually for.
A school has a duty of care to students, part of this is monitoring their internet communication to ensure nothing is happening which could potentially be of harm to the student. Perhaps this is overkill for college students but it's definitely required for younger children.
Either you misunderstand the question, or the OP misunderstands the capabilities of the X root window and display limitations.
Anyway, I ran like this for a long time, first with two monitors then with three. I tried several solutions and ended up writing an ugly hack for some X library which allowed me to specify viewports in a config file. Eventually that broke due to changes to multiple monitor code further upstream, so I ditched my two 17" screens and got a better videocard and a massive 24" LCD - problem solved.
I haven't experienced multiple monitors on ATI under Linux, but at least with nVidia's pathetic dedication to the platform (and insultingly stubborn tech support) it was a painful experience and I wouldn't recommend trying.
Handwriting science is about pressures applied through the stroke of the letter and the directions those strokes come from as a person moves their hand and holds a writing implement a certain way. The shape of a signature is easily copied and has been used by school children to forge absent notes from their parents since forever, how the signature is written is something largely unique to the individual's hand.
If one wishes a "cursive-style" signature there is no formal education required to form a few letters without lifting your pen. For your purposes of producing a unique mark, it's arguably better for a person to do this with no prior training, as they will not conform to the same guidelines as everyone else does. What seems like a natural joining stroke to you may be odd to me and vice versa.
Speed of cursive vs printing is arguable, and handwriting (mine anyway) is always more legible afterwards if I print. Taking notes down fast is useless if you can't read them afterwards.
Have your lawyer write up a legal letter which says that for any confidentiality-bound practice like lawyers or doctors, you recommend they do not use Google Apps as they are likely in breach of their own privacy-related responsibilities. Have the end user sign the document before you will do business with them. If they won't, then walk.
That way, when they get busted to the tune of millions of dollars for the sake of a couple of hundred bucks of office software, you can't take the fall.
Unsurprisingly, the answer to managing many documents is to use a document management system. There are several commercial and free products available, both linked here and on the Wikipedia page for Document Management Systems.
I've worked next to the team who administered Bentley ProjectWise in a previous engineering job, which is expensive but definitely suited to your task. There may be other good options out there.
I live 15 minutes walk from work, and I still want more hours in the day. I used to live a 3 hour round commute away, no idea how I managed that for 9 months!
I've been customers of both, and though they're still very good, Internode are 2nd best for me. They're not quite as large as ii, and their Linux mirrors are usually a few days behind. Their network is really low-latency though, great for gaming.
I agree that there is nothing wonderful about C64 BASIC, and also wonder why someone would port an awful archaic language to modern PCs, when there are far better BASIC interpreters around already.
However, hardware sound reproduction is something else. SID chips produce a noticeable sound, and sound decks with SIDs built in are worth several thousand dollars and used by many popular recording artists today.
You'll also find the Gameboy has a popular sound production scene associated with it. Look on YouTube for "little gp tracker" or just "gameboy tracker" and you'll see what I mean.
Actually, the Zune is a really nice player. I own a Zune 80 and an iPod Video. The Zune has superior audio and screen quality to the iPod, the controls are great, and they have radio.
Just sucks they use this encrypted MTP format to copy music over, so they only work with the Zune software under Windows.
But VirtualBox + USB Proxy + Wireless Sync solves that problem.
they're mostly for onboard video chipsets, and this is awesome news for integrated devices and lightweight PCs like media centres, internet kiosks, settop boxes, netbooks, etc etc etc
simply the fact that one of the largest video chipset manufacturers in the world is writing open source drivers is huge, and an awesome step forward for linux and foss in general
not everything related to the phase "video card" is about pcie cards in sli and their crysis benchmark
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The CSIRO did indeed invent the wireless technology which we all use in wireless LANs today. However, they're a government-funded agency, they should be creating technology for the good of all citizens of the world and making that technology available for free.
As far as I'm concerned, my Australian Tax dollars have already paid the CSIRO for this work. They're not patent trolls but I disagree with their actions to assert royalty payments over this patent.
You can also use Fring on Android to make Skype VoIP calls for free.
Because underage children are known for their acute sense of morality and appropriateness and do not need guidance of their elders at all. I think you need to look up what school is actually for.
A school has a duty of care to students, part of this is monitoring their internet communication to ensure nothing is happening which could potentially be of harm to the student. Perhaps this is overkill for college students but it's definitely required for younger children.
Either you misunderstand the question, or the OP misunderstands the capabilities of the X root window and display limitations.
Anyway, I ran like this for a long time, first with two monitors then with three. I tried several solutions and ended up writing an ugly hack for some X library which allowed me to specify viewports in a config file. Eventually that broke due to changes to multiple monitor code further upstream, so I ditched my two 17" screens and got a better videocard and a massive 24" LCD - problem solved.
I haven't experienced multiple monitors on ATI under Linux, but at least with nVidia's pathetic dedication to the platform (and insultingly stubborn tech support) it was a painful experience and I wouldn't recommend trying.
What rubbish.
Handwriting science is about pressures applied through the stroke of the letter and the directions those strokes come from as a person moves their hand and holds a writing implement a certain way. The shape of a signature is easily copied and has been used by school children to forge absent notes from their parents since forever, how the signature is written is something largely unique to the individual's hand.
If one wishes a "cursive-style" signature there is no formal education required to form a few letters without lifting your pen. For your purposes of producing a unique mark, it's arguably better for a person to do this with no prior training, as they will not conform to the same guidelines as everyone else does. What seems like a natural joining stroke to you may be odd to me and vice versa.
Speed of cursive vs printing is arguable, and handwriting (mine anyway) is always more legible afterwards if I print. Taking notes down fast is useless if you can't read them afterwards.
Have your lawyer write up a legal letter which says that for any confidentiality-bound practice like lawyers or doctors, you recommend they do not use Google Apps as they are likely in breach of their own privacy-related responsibilities. Have the end user sign the document before you will do business with them. If they won't, then walk.
That way, when they get busted to the tune of millions of dollars for the sake of a couple of hundred bucks of office software, you can't take the fall.
Unsurprisingly, the answer to managing many documents is to use a document management system. There are several commercial and free products available, both linked here and on the Wikipedia page for Document Management Systems.
I've worked next to the team who administered Bentley ProjectWise in a previous engineering job, which is expensive but definitely suited to your task. There may be other good options out there.
I cannot BELIEVE you are getting modded down for this. Best post on Slashdot, evar.
> Besides...getting it off the newsgroups is less traceable.
It sure is! You only have to sign up for a binary newsgroup service, supplying them your credit card info and identity details.
OR, intentionally getting a new girlfriend with the same name as the last one ;)
But they're anti-Microsoft jokes, it's my duty as a Slashdotter to mod them from +5 to over 9000!
Goddamnit, I never have mod points when there are good comments!
Awesome, now they'll have more content than ever to mark as "not notable" and delete!
I live 15 minutes walk from work, and I still want more hours in the day. I used to live a 3 hour round commute away, no idea how I managed that for 9 months!
I've worked with people who did 4/40 work schedules, and said it was great.
I'm a big personal fan of the 4-day working week. An extra hour every day for an entire day off? I'd love the 9/80 option at my workplace!
I've been customers of both, and though they're still very good, Internode are 2nd best for me. They're not quite as large as ii, and their Linux mirrors are usually a few days behind. Their network is really low-latency though, great for gaming.
You mean Goatse-net :P (look at their logo)
iiNet are also, by far, the best ISP this country has.
I agree that there is nothing wonderful about C64 BASIC, and also wonder why someone would port an awful archaic language to modern PCs, when there are far better BASIC interpreters around already.
However, hardware sound reproduction is something else. SID chips produce a noticeable sound, and sound decks with SIDs built in are worth several thousand dollars and used by many popular recording artists today.
You'll also find the Gameboy has a popular sound production scene associated with it. Look on YouTube for "little gp tracker" or just "gameboy tracker" and you'll see what I mean.
tl;dr - BASIC lame, SID good
I can't believe parent is modded 0. Funny, if not Informative!
Actually, the Zune is a really nice player. I own a Zune 80 and an iPod Video. The Zune has superior audio and screen quality to the iPod, the controls are great, and they have radio.
Just sucks they use this encrypted MTP format to copy music over, so they only work with the Zune software under Windows.
But VirtualBox + USB Proxy + Wireless Sync solves that problem.
they're mostly for onboard video chipsets, and this is awesome news for integrated devices and lightweight PCs like media centres, internet kiosks, settop boxes, netbooks, etc etc etc
simply the fact that one of the largest video chipset manufacturers in the world is writing open source drivers is huge, and an awesome step forward for linux and foss in general
not everything related to the phase "video card" is about pcie cards in sli and their crysis benchmark
Agreed. See the amusing, enlightening, and very readable Unix-Haters Handbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
jwz's had his thumb in a few pies. It never ceases to amaze me just how much software we owe to the development of so few.