I have a cheap GSM phone on a $5 per month plan with expensive calls. My wife has a 3G phone with hundreds of dollars of calls packaged per month. When I want to speak to her I send her an SMS saying "call me" and she calls me right back.
Its not very elegant, but it works for me. Not interested in this twitter bullshyt though.
As for the packages themselves, run a local apt proxy like approx, especially if you have more than one Debian or Ubuntu system. It keeps a copy of every.deb you download, and automatically purges the ones that are outdated.
How is that different from running a normal http proxy?
That's also why you have all the local mirrors - I doubt Canonical operates very many of them. Same thing in companies, set one machine to download and the 100 others to download from the local machine, you don't need to put any trust in that machine as it's just passing signed packages.
While we are on the subject, is anybody else having trouble with files missing from the Australian mirror? I am running jaunty on my eeepc and I have had to point it to the main server to be able to update it at all.
Locally I have squid running with a big cache on my LAN so when upgrade day comes I should only be downloading each file once.
And I thought you could put in any CD, not just the alternate CD, that had updated packages on it, and could use it as a repository. In other words, I'm pretty sure putting in a normal desktop CD will make it prompt for if you want to update your packages off of it, and in the case of desktops, the desktop CD should be what you should use, as it would probably have more appropriate packages than the alternate CD may have.
This worked years ago. I believe they stopped it because of space limitations on the disk.
The C and D letter itself undermines its argument. It notes that Goldmann Sachs owns the trademark "in the financial services market". Trademarks are restricted to particular market segments.
So what market segment is the blogger in? By criticising a company in the financial services segment don't they operate in the same segment?
This is not necessarily tied to MBAs as much as it's tied to corporate psychopaths - the ones most likely to succeed in the modern chaotic corporate world (especially in larger publicly-traded companies). They will lie, manipulate and use everything and everybody only to further their own interest. If the company, their workers or even the economy of the whole USA will suffer, they won't care one bit - no conscience.
Yeah, got one of those where I work now. Not sure whether to leave, take counter measures or wait it out.
This seems to happen in places where money, and especially foreign exchange are at a premium. A big advantage for the Tatarstan Ministry of Education is that they don't have to commit to lots of purchases in US dollars. Instead, as you point out, they can make their own engineers who will work for local currency, and educate their people at the same time.
Do you have any idea how surprised people get when they send me a Word document and I send them back all my edits with cute little bubble comments next them?
When budget time comes around here in Victoria, Australia the state government has at times sent their documents to the press in.doc files. They have certainly been surprised to find all their earlier drafts in that nice package.
Well the Japanese and European car makers have good, profitable markets for their small cars. GM and Ford have narrower markets and are more exposed to changes in market conditions.
I interpreted that to mean that the battery has to heat the interior of the car, or you freeze in a cold climate. Similarly in the tropics most cars run an aircon much of the time. Both of these things cost energy. Electric motors have waste heat which could be used to heat the cabin. Aircons will just cost energy I suppose.
Life was much better in the old days. We didn't have to rely on these new fangled gasoline powered vehicles. Horses were the way to go. If it needed a rest you just stopped off at the side of the road and let it eat for a while.
Seriously, there are a lot more places where you can get electricity, than places where you can get gasoline.
Urban speed limits in my city are typically 60 km/h. I once calculated my average speed for trips around the city. It was the same by car as by bicycle: 30 km/h.
Speaking as a bicycle rider this has me somewhat interested. Cars are slow to get off the mark partly because internal combustion engines take a lot of time to come up to speed. I don't have that problem with my bike so I have an advantage when accelerating from zero.
I doubt that this will be a serious issue for me in the long term because not every electric car out there will be a tesla. It is more likely that engines will be small to save on power and drivers will be too distracted by the blinkinlights to notice that they have a green signal.
A Tesla wouldn't be affordable even if it wasn't electric. It's a Lotus Elise with the engine replaced.
The Elise is expensive because it is a low production sports car, not because it is a Lotus. If everybody wanted one Lotus would mass produce them in China for a fraction of the current price.
Slashdot Mirror
[puts shotgun down]
Don't be so hasty. There are real people herding the zombies.
...unless they are only attacking from my existing list of blocked IP addresses.
Some sites (boing boing being an example) seem to think it is better not to thread. I am not sure why though.
You won't catch me reading crikey. But now The Age has started trolling for page views.
I have a cheap GSM phone on a $5 per month plan with expensive calls. My wife has a 3G phone with hundreds of dollars of calls packaged per month. When I want to speak to her I send her an SMS saying "call me" and she calls me right back.
Its not very elegant, but it works for me. Not interested in this twitter bullshyt though.
As for the packages themselves, run a local apt proxy like approx, especially if you have more than one Debian or Ubuntu system. It keeps a copy of every .deb you download, and automatically purges the ones that are outdated.
How is that different from running a normal http proxy?
That's also why you have all the local mirrors - I doubt Canonical operates very many of them. Same thing in companies, set one machine to download and the 100 others to download from the local machine, you don't need to put any trust in that machine as it's just passing signed packages.
While we are on the subject, is anybody else having trouble with files missing from the Australian mirror? I am running jaunty on my eeepc and I have had to point it to the main server to be able to update it at all.
Locally I have squid running with a big cache on my LAN so when upgrade day comes I should only be downloading each file once.
And I thought you could put in any CD, not just the alternate CD, that had updated packages on it, and could use it as a repository. In other words, I'm pretty sure putting in a normal desktop CD will make it prompt for if you want to update your packages off of it, and in the case of desktops, the desktop CD should be what you should use, as it would probably have more appropriate packages than the alternate CD may have.
This worked years ago. I believe they stopped it because of space limitations on the disk.
Synaptic installs applications with fewer clicks than anything on windows.
The C and D letter itself undermines its argument. It notes that Goldmann Sachs owns the trademark "in the financial services market". Trademarks are restricted to particular market segments.
So what market segment is the blogger in? By criticising a company in the financial services segment don't they operate in the same segment?
This is not necessarily tied to MBAs as much as it's tied to corporate psychopaths - the ones most likely to succeed in the modern chaotic corporate world (especially in larger publicly-traded companies). They will lie, manipulate and use everything and everybody only to further their own interest. If the company, their workers or even the economy of the whole USA will suffer, they won't care one bit - no conscience.
Yeah, got one of those where I work now. Not sure whether to leave, take counter measures or wait it out.
This seems to happen in places where money, and especially foreign exchange are at a premium. A big advantage for the Tatarstan Ministry of Education is that they don't have to commit to lots of purchases in US dollars. Instead, as you point out, they can make their own engineers who will work for local currency, and educate their people at the same time.
Do you have any idea how surprised people get when they send me a Word document and I send them back all my edits with cute little bubble comments next them?
When budget time comes around here in Victoria, Australia the state government has at times sent their documents to the press in .doc files. They have certainly been surprised to find all their earlier drafts in that nice package.
I don't have that problem with my bike so I have an advantage when accelerating from zero.
Actually, that's only because they didn't know you were racing. Yeah, you're That Guy. Congrats.
No, actually I am just trying to move safely in traffic.
Well the Japanese and European car makers have good, profitable markets for their small cars. GM and Ford have narrower markets and are more exposed to changes in market conditions.
What does warm weather have to do with it.
I interpreted that to mean that the battery has to heat the interior of the car, or you freeze in a cold climate. Similarly in the tropics most cars run an aircon much of the time. Both of these things cost energy. Electric motors have waste heat which could be used to heat the cabin. Aircons will just cost energy I suppose.
Where will people who live in apartments plug in their car?
Where they park it for the night. On the street or in a car park.
Life was much better in the old days. We didn't have to rely on these new fangled gasoline powered vehicles. Horses were the way to go. If it needed a rest you just stopped off at the side of the road and let it eat for a while.
Seriously, there are a lot more places where you can get electricity, than places where you can get gasoline.
I drove 280 miles today (central NY to upstate) and it took me 3.5 hours, meaning I traveled an average speed of 80mph for the journey.
Yeah but this was in Europe. Many of their country roads are old horse tracks with a bit of asphalt pasted over the top.
Urban speed limits in my city are typically 60 km/h. I once calculated my average speed for trips around the city. It was the same by car as by bicycle: 30 km/h.
Speaking as a bicycle rider this has me somewhat interested. Cars are slow to get off the mark partly because internal combustion engines take a lot of time to come up to speed. I don't have that problem with my bike so I have an advantage when accelerating from zero.
I doubt that this will be a serious issue for me in the long term because not every electric car out there will be a tesla. It is more likely that engines will be small to save on power and drivers will be too distracted by the blinkinlights to notice that they have a green signal.
I see your point, but gasoline in a tank never blows up spontaneously. Li ion batteries are still a bit dicey, on occasion.
Either way you have a lot of potential energy in a small volume. I once had a short circuit inside my bicycle tail light... Not pretty.
A Tesla wouldn't be affordable even if it wasn't electric. It's a Lotus Elise with the engine replaced.
The Elise is expensive because it is a low production sports car, not because it is a Lotus. If everybody wanted one Lotus would mass produce them in China for a fraction of the current price.
So how about Red Dwarf? It has lots of fans, but if it were to be played on American network TV, how well would it fare?
Do you mean it has never been broadcast in the USA? It is pretty popular here in Australia.
I'd love to see a driver unload a freight truck wearing one of these, instead of a forklift.
His hands still have to carry the whole load so I don't really see an advantage.