iPad is definitely the way to go. We have my 81 year old grandma using one every day. She never really learned to use a "PC", but was able to pick the iPad up and use it immediately with very little help. Her first iPad ran for over 4 years before we finally got her a new one (to get a faster internet connection).
I also wish that you could pair up a bluetooth keyboard/mouse to different computers at the same time and just switch from a computer to another by a switch on the keyboard
This can be done in software using Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. I have used it to share a mouse and keyboard between my Mac and PC for a few months now, and it seems to work rather well.
they estimate MONTHS before some places get electricity back
This statistic isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since in many cases there is simply nothing left to restore power to.
If each city, each neighborhood has a microgrid for power and communications that was burried and belowground...
This is not likely to happen because underground lines cost more and don't last as long as their over-head equivalents. This combined with the fact that the government is continually requiring utilities to invest less money into their grids and you can begin to see why alot of underground services are beginning to be put overhead once again.
... sealed against weather then our communications and electrical infastructure would remain even after huge natrual disasters such as these hurricanes that we have been so blessed with this season.
Actually, lightning would wipe out an under ground system, so such a system wouldn't really be any more secure from natural disasters than the over head system. Realize, too, that it is much faster to locate problems with over-head lines than it is to track down places where underground cabling has failed.
No, its usually the speed of the line, its just american residential has dicked us around long enough for people to expect it.
The line itself has a finite bandwidth. Most home users pull down far more information from the internet than they upload to it. Broadband providers know this, and design their systems so that the bandwitdth allocation reflects it.
Hence instead of splitting the bandwith equally between upstream and downstream, more is allocated to the downstream band. Its an optimization issue, not an "evil empire" policy.
CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class OS stability without the cost of certification and support.
Not to flame, but someone had to put in the time to create that stability. It is only fair that if they want to be compensated for their time, then you should either:
A) Pay them for their efforts
B) Don't use their product
NOT
C) Use a loop hole to take their work and use it as your own for free.
Remember that it is RedHat that is ultimately creating the updates for both its Enterprise Linux, AND CentOS, so if it goes backrupt, where will that leave you and your organization?
Gnome's file manager handle's SFTP/SCP rather well. I use it daily for copying files back and forth from my school user account.
Most users can handle dragging and dropping to a local directory, which can then be edited using Nvu...
OpenOffice can connect to both MySQL and PostgreSQL to save information. It also has form editors which look very much like those in MS Access. Its the closiest thing I've encountered on linux to an Access clone.
The trickiest part of using the whole thing is getting the connection set up to the database, and a simple google search will give examples of how to do it.
Have you read up on SELinux? It provides extremely fine grain control over applications, and allows you to set permissions on what the application can do irregardless of who ran it.
In your example about the web browser, you could simply "relabel" the.browser-folder (and its contents) in your home folder to be considered a different type, and allow the web browser to be able to write to only that type. More importantly, the browser can be prevented (by default, I believe) from invoking other applications, since they are not in its "execution domain".
The test versions of Fedora Core 3 have SELinux fully functional, so it might be worth a look.
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iPad is definitely the way to go. We have my 81 year old grandma using one every day. She never really learned to use a "PC", but was able to pick the iPad up and use it immediately with very little help. Her first iPad ran for over 4 years before we finally got her a new one (to get a faster internet connection).
This can be done in software using Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/. I have used it to share a mouse and keyboard between my Mac and PC for a few months now, and it seems to work rather well.
This statistic isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since in many cases there is simply nothing left to restore power to.
If each city, each neighborhood has a microgrid for power and communications that was burried and belowground...
This is not likely to happen because underground lines cost more and don't last as long as their over-head equivalents. This combined with the fact that the government is continually requiring utilities to invest less money into their grids and you can begin to see why alot of underground services are beginning to be put overhead once again.
Actually, lightning would wipe out an under ground system, so such a system wouldn't really be any more secure from natural disasters than the over head system. Realize, too, that it is much faster to locate problems with over-head lines than it is to track down places where underground cabling has failed.
The line itself has a finite bandwidth. Most home users pull down far more information from the internet than they upload to it. Broadband providers know this, and design their systems so that the bandwitdth allocation reflects it. Hence instead of splitting the bandwith equally between upstream and downstream, more is allocated to the downstream band. Its an optimization issue, not an "evil empire" policy.
Not to further nit-pick, but 300 baud is 300 "symbols" per second. Using constellation diagrams 1 symbol can correspond to a variable number of bits.
In a dialup modem, 8000 baud is used at 7 databits per symbol to arrive at 56Kbps.
Yes, thats the general idea.
IIRC, Microsoft programmed OS/2.
Not to flame, but someone had to put in the time to create that stability. It is only fair that if they want to be compensated for their time, then you should either:
A) Pay them for their efforts
B) Don't use their product
NOT
C) Use a loop hole to take their work and use it as your own for free.
Remember that it is RedHat that is ultimately creating the updates for both its Enterprise Linux, AND CentOS, so if it goes backrupt, where will that leave you and your organization?
Gnome's file manager handle's SFTP/SCP rather well. I use it daily for copying files back and forth from my school user account. Most users can handle dragging and dropping to a local directory, which can then be edited using Nvu...
The trickiest part of using the whole thing is getting the connection set up to the database, and a simple google search will give examples of how to do it.
In your example about the web browser, you could simply "relabel" the .browser-folder (and its contents) in your home folder to be considered a different type, and allow the web browser to be able to write to only that type. More importantly, the browser can be prevented (by default, I believe) from invoking other applications, since they are not in its "execution domain".
The test versions of Fedora Core 3 have SELinux fully functional, so it might be worth a look.
Check out the link to access Launch from linux with mplayer http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/920