Get a couple of big hard disks with nice large caches.
One is a storage disk for things like documents, one is an applications disk. Partitions may be useful to prevent fragmentation.
Then (if you're on Windows) get another smaller but FAST drive and use it exclusively as a swap file.
I have 120gb program HDD, an 80gb storage HDD (2 partitions), and an old 6gb 10K RPM HDD as a swap file and nothing more (please, no complaints about Windows. The 3 linux boxes under my desk get on with life and Windows is my desktop PC for compatability purposes). All with 8mb cache, the swap is on its own ATA channel and the two big buggers are on SATA.
My pc, despite only being a 1.2gHz CPU, is shit hot. The 2gb of RAM probably helps here, but even getting Windows XP and a plethora of background tasks up and running takes all of 30 seconds. Not to mention that working with 200mb+ PSDs is a breeze:D
Cannot be beaten IMHO. Autoscanning, background tasking, full backups, constantly updating detection list and a veritable Swiss army knife of tools for doing all your security maintenance.
"The entire radar and tracking system is offline Sir!"
You're not gonna sit there and go "Damn Microsoft" are you? You're going to scramble every fighter you've got and bump up ground-based radar through whatever jamming ceilings you can.
Take your head out of your arse, look at the world past the borders through which naught but stories of terror and anti-US islamic fundementalists shall pass, and realise that the US is not the only country in the world with culture and skills.
If people can work for less and enjoy a lower cost of living, then isn't your cost of living a bit too high? Lose the SUV, lose the big family home, lose the regular eating out, and for God's sake get off your damn arse and stop whining.
Sentenced to unemployment because you're born in the States? Only one group of people could possibly get a country into a condition where that is true. Sadly they're going to go and vote tomorrow.
It depends where you're taking your definition of free from. Could you possibly imagine the US stopping people having a pro-democracy view, stopping free access to information, making up cover stories...
Oh wait. PATRIOT Act, PATRIOT Act, and the report on WMD in Iraq.
I stopped taking anything from governments at face value a long time ago. At least China have the decency to say they closed the bars. The US would come up with something like "The bars in question, after much work by the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security, were deemed a terrorist threat. We have no further comment."
Would you really give up 20% of your freedom for an 80% increase in security?
I really wish people wouldn't go on like this. For starters, the biometric identifying information on your ID would most likely be a hash only, and to verify it you would be required to perform some task (look into retina scanner, place finger on fingerprint reader etc). RFID chips can perform basic encryption and authentication rather than just plain response, cutting down skimming. And as for freedom:
If you have a credit card you use in supermarkets, then that supermarket knows who you are and what you buy. They know how much you spend and what on. They even know what you bought on the other side of the state last tuesday. It's used for spotting fraud, if you've been buying groceries and suddenly you start buying expensive electronics then the system flags it for attention.
Mobile phones. If you have one then your mobile company knows who you call and when, who calls you and for how long, who you text, what you text, when you turn your phone on or off and even where you are (Cell ID/transmitter triangulation. In a city, it can be accurate down to about 6ft).
Still got all your precious 'freedom'? Of have you just realised you signed it away of your own free will?
Looks OK on mine (Except for a big ColdFusion error in one of the adboxes), but then again I am on a 1600x1200 monitor and it's easy to see that the formatting isn't properly relative.
Surely this is far more appropriate than Windows XP's 'Utopia' or whatever it's called default background. You know, the perfect world with the sunshine and the clouds and the bunnies...
At least this one shows real people and real diversity. Kudos and Karma to Ubuntu.
According to one of the astronauts who went up on a service mission then lectured us for an hour, they need to excercise regularly going, whilst there, and coming back. The machines are pretty much your standard gym equipment with a few tweaks to let it work in a weightless environment.
Interestingly, before spacewalks the spacewalkers must excercise for 2 hours whilst breathing pure oxygen to prevent the bends.
I think that 70mb is a bit low personally, surely i would be in their best interests to use zero compression, therefore a reasonably high quality (i.e. high res scan of the original reel) image would take far more than 70mb.
So hang on... it's powered bu over-the-counter AA batteries as opposed to some proprietary (although very well designed) Apple battery? I don't believe it!
And now it seems that the US can't do their job and are relying on the Brits to calm down people and back up the 'superior' US troops.
Anyone care to explain why the British ploughed into southern Iraq, and it's been relatively calm, whilst the US ploughed into northern Iraq and all hell broke loose? I can't seem to find any explanation for this other than:
a. Southern Iraq is placated by the opium fields. b. The British troops are inherently better at dealing with people.
Anyone considered the cause could actually be a reverse? Those with low levels of testosterone and high levels of oestrogen (UK spelling, don't panic) don't go out and get girls, ergo they are then stuck at home with their PC.
RP sets are far superior to plasma screens for the reason you don't need to recharge them after 2000 hours viewing. LCD are all well and good, but decent sets like the Sagem you pointed out trounce them (afaic) in nearly every field.
That lost passports will become much harder to not find? Handheld RFID wand, wave it over every bag if someone can't find their passport. Problem solved.
Anyway, I think this is a great idea and personally would have every piece of official stuff I have with an RFID chip (or even better, put it all on one card with an RFID chip). The only problem here is that stuff could be skimmed, so the chip would have to contain a lot of security features.
Any word on what information this would actually store?
For MSN to eat Google surely requires the shareholders to agree?
Now I don't know about you, but if I had shares in Google I wouldn't let someone like Microsoft, who would doubtlessly put hundreds of ads and generally stuff the service, anywhere near.
Personally, I use the left-mounted thumb button on my Intellimouse, along with Firefox. It produces an effect remarkably similar to all manner of key combinations and even clicking the button, all with a mere 3.2mm movement of my right-hand thumb.
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Get a couple of big hard disks with nice large caches.
:D
One is a storage disk for things like documents, one is an applications disk. Partitions may be useful to prevent fragmentation.
Then (if you're on Windows) get another smaller but FAST drive and use it exclusively as a swap file.
I have 120gb program HDD, an 80gb storage HDD (2 partitions), and an old 6gb 10K RPM HDD as a swap file and nothing more (please, no complaints about Windows. The 3 linux boxes under my desk get on with life and Windows is my desktop PC for compatability purposes). All with 8mb cache, the swap is on its own ATA channel and the two big buggers are on SATA.
My pc, despite only being a 1.2gHz CPU, is shit hot. The 2gb of RAM probably helps here, but even getting Windows XP and a plethora of background tasks up and running takes all of 30 seconds. Not to mention that working with 200mb+ PSDs is a breeze
RAM. Big HDDs. Fast busses. Good configuration.
Spybot S&D - http://security.kolla.de
Cannot be beaten IMHO. Autoscanning, background tasking, full backups, constantly updating detection list and a veritable Swiss army knife of tools for doing all your security maintenance.
Disrupt early warning systems?
"The entire radar and tracking system is offline Sir!"
You're not gonna sit there and go "Damn Microsoft" are you? You're going to scramble every fighter you've got and bump up ground-based radar through whatever jamming ceilings you can.
I wish I had points to mod you with, but not up.
Take your head out of your arse, look at the world past the borders through which naught but stories of terror and anti-US islamic fundementalists shall pass, and realise that the US is not the only country in the world with culture and skills.
If people can work for less and enjoy a lower cost of living, then isn't your cost of living a bit too high? Lose the SUV, lose the big family home, lose the regular eating out, and for God's sake get off your damn arse and stop whining.
Sentenced to unemployment because you're born in the States? Only one group of people could possibly get a country into a condition where that is true. Sadly they're going to go and vote tomorrow.
It depends where you're taking your definition of free from. Could you possibly imagine the US stopping people having a pro-democracy view, stopping free access to information, making up cover stories...
Oh wait. PATRIOT Act, PATRIOT Act, and the report on WMD in Iraq.
I stopped taking anything from governments at face value a long time ago. At least China have the decency to say they closed the bars. The US would come up with something like "The bars in question, after much work by the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security, were deemed a terrorist threat. We have no further comment."
I can see it all. Running on Windows (Longhorn has just gone Beta)... the command prompt...
C:\>net send \\foodmachine "give food"
Instant grub for but one command.
Would you really give up 20% of your freedom for an 80% increase in security?
I really wish people wouldn't go on like this. For starters, the biometric identifying information on your ID would most likely be a hash only, and to verify it you would be required to perform some task (look into retina scanner, place finger on fingerprint reader etc). RFID chips can perform basic encryption and authentication rather than just plain response, cutting down skimming. And as for freedom:
If you have a credit card you use in supermarkets, then that supermarket knows who you are and what you buy. They know how much you spend and what on. They even know what you bought on the other side of the state last tuesday. It's used for spotting fraud, if you've been buying groceries and suddenly you start buying expensive electronics then the system flags it for attention.
Mobile phones. If you have one then your mobile company knows who you call and when, who calls you and for how long, who you text, what you text, when you turn your phone on or off and even where you are (Cell ID/transmitter triangulation. In a city, it can be accurate down to about 6ft).
Still got all your precious 'freedom'? Of have you just realised you signed it away of your own free will?
Looks OK on mine (Except for a big ColdFusion error in one of the adboxes), but then again I am on a 1600x1200 monitor and it's easy to see that the formatting isn't properly relative.
We Slashdotted Dremel already? I would have thought the first 500,000 hits would be nothing to their servers :P
Surely this is far more appropriate than Windows XP's 'Utopia' or whatever it's called default background. You know, the perfect world with the sunshine and the clouds and the bunnies...
At least this one shows real people and real diversity. Kudos and Karma to Ubuntu.
Surely adding correct SPF records to the domain will allow the MTA to send using that domain, hence the whole point of how it works?
Wasn't CmdrTaco responsible for all 3 dupes yesterday, or is that my memory failing me?
The NYT ad is only for 1.0 Final iirc, the PRs will still be just for those who get them through some other means.
Has Mozilla actually done any advertising for Firefox, or has it all been by people through word of mouth?
According to one of the astronauts who went up on a service mission then lectured us for an hour, they need to excercise regularly going, whilst there, and coming back. The machines are pretty much your standard gym equipment with a few tweaks to let it work in a weightless environment.
Interestingly, before spacewalks the spacewalkers must excercise for 2 hours whilst breathing pure oxygen to prevent the bends.
I think that 70mb is a bit low personally, surely i would be in their best interests to use zero compression, therefore a reasonably high quality (i.e. high res scan of the original reel) image would take far more than 70mb.
So hang on... it's powered bu over-the-counter AA batteries as opposed to some proprietary (although very well designed) Apple battery? I don't believe it!
And now it seems that the US can't do their job and are relying on the Brits to calm down people and back up the 'superior' US troops.
Anyone care to explain why the British ploughed into southern Iraq, and it's been relatively calm, whilst the US ploughed into northern Iraq and all hell broke loose? I can't seem to find any explanation for this other than:
a. Southern Iraq is placated by the opium fields.
b. The British troops are inherently better at dealing with people.
If you go running untrusted bash scripts on startup then you get what's coming to you.
/" did if it came up, slapped them in the face, then rm -Rf'd their /
Then again, most Mac users wouldn't understand what an "rm -Rf
Anyone considered the cause could actually be a reverse? Those with low levels of testosterone and high levels of oestrogen (UK spelling, don't panic) don't go out and get girls, ergo they are then stuck at home with their PC.
RP sets are far superior to plasma screens for the reason you don't need to recharge them after 2000 hours viewing. LCD are all well and good, but decent sets like the Sagem you pointed out trounce them (afaic) in nearly every field.
That lost passports will become much harder to not find? Handheld RFID wand, wave it over every bag if someone can't find their passport. Problem solved.
Anyway, I think this is a great idea and personally would have every piece of official stuff I have with an RFID chip (or even better, put it all on one card with an RFID chip). The only problem here is that stuff could be skimmed, so the chip would have to contain a lot of security features.
Any word on what information this would actually store?
For MSN to eat Google surely requires the shareholders to agree?
Now I don't know about you, but if I had shares in Google I wouldn't let someone like Microsoft, who would doubtlessly put hundreds of ads and generally stuff the service, anywhere near.
I can see the radio antenna right now...
"It looks like you're attempting to change gear. Would you like me to help you with this?"
Now it's only a matter of time before we see MSN screen-names along the lines of "SX-8 g33k GurL"
*prepares for flaming*
Personally, I use the left-mounted thumb button on my Intellimouse, along with Firefox. It produces an effect remarkably similar to all manner of key combinations and even clicking the button, all with a mere 3.2mm movement of my right-hand thumb.