And if you are in the UK its even cheaper, get Plex then pickup a NowTV box for only £10. The NowTV box is just a Roku LT with custom firmware, but it still has the developer mode that allows you to install Plex.
I just bought an Asus Fonepad to replace my ageing Galaxy Note (Which is still a nice phone but too small). The Fonepad is 7" (Nexus 7 sized), and is a completely functional phone, although I haven't had to take a call yet I can imagine you will look a complete idiot.
Except that 6 minutes is a very conservative estimate, I work in local government and our PC's were taking 20 minutes+ to get to a state they were usable. Worse if you were at one of the remote offices with poor WAN links you could be waiting upwards of 30-40 minutes.
We recently did a complete restructure of our AD that along with an upgrade to Windows 7 and a series of PC refreshes has cut this dramatically, down to 3-4 minutesish now.
However as for this £6000 figure I can see how this could work, where I work all PC and IT services are managed in house and I think on the whole we provide a good service to our customers, but most central government departments outsourced it all and its now generally dire, my partner has one of the better machines in their office and its cringingly slow, very out of date (1.2Ghz single core) and still running Windows XP with no announced plans to get off XP before support expires.
I've crossed into Israel at this particular border point, around 5 years ago, and yes it was one of the hardest border crossings I've ever done, we were part of a tourist party who were going to be in Israel for around 30 minutes (a quick drive through Elat then out into Jordan), and its not somewhere I would take anything bigger than a camera I would even if I could empty the card before I went through.
Everything was Xrayed, the metal detectors were so sensitive every scrap of metal was detected, a few people having to remove jeans with quite a few studs, your personal property was swabbed and checked for explosives and then once through there you were grilled about your personal details at passport control, quite a few people getting long grillings. All under the watch of guys with automatic weapons. It wasn't a place you made any kind of joke, you do exactly as you are told.
At the time I though it was overkill then a week later this happened http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Sinai_bombings, a terrorist attack aimed at the Israelis pretty much at that border point (although on the Egyptian side), kind of puts it all into perspective.
Saying that since that border crossing, I am a lot more careful what I take with me, laptops and cameras fully backed up, and only take essentials, even bought a travel laptop so my main machine would stay safe at home. Everything electrical packed into one easy to search bag.
Jen
I'm a software developer and will often create my own certificates for testing purposes, and in my test lab people will trust them, however out in the wild there is no excuse for not getting a proper certificate signed by a proper authority.
Not only is this coming across as the company trying to do things on the cheap it has the possiblity of unraveling the trust of SSL for places you actually care about. If this becomes wide spread just think of the phishers create a copy of A Bank's site make their own SSL and put a note on the login screen "Dont worry you have to do some work to trust this certificate everything is alright honest guv."
Personally I normally trust self signed SSL certificates for sites I visit if they have them as i know the risks, but to potentially undermine for general users is just mad.
The ZX81 was there, it just went by its American name the Timex Sinclair 1000. I was a bit surprised not to see a Spectrum though, I used to hate those rubber keys.
This is where the "commerical" Linuxes can score highly for non-power users, Xandros for instance comes out of the box with Java and flash support, even with Firefox.
Thats because the Xandros team (And the Linspire team also do similar things) compile their own versions that will work for people the way they want it to work.
You still have the same problems other Linux users have when leaving the comfort zone of the pre-packaged applications, although both Xandros and Linspire do have active communities that handhold new users through these things (I imagine other distros do as well, but I can only say first hand about Xandros since thats what I use).
Jen
Xandros does not use IE at all, if you want it you have to install it yourself (Assuming you have Crossover or some form of Wine installed). I tend to have IE installed under Xandros, but rarely use it.
As to what browser it uses it depends what version you have
Xandros 2 OCE (The free non commerical one) uses Opera, where as the other Xandros 2 variants (Standard, Professional and Business) use Mozilla 1.x (Think the latest version available is 1.6)
Xandros 3 Deluxe, uses Mozilla 1.7.
Its a real pity they didnt review Xandros 3 in this article as its made leaps and bounds past Xandros 2, and now does include DVD writing functionality out of the box.
Jen
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And if you are in the UK its even cheaper, get Plex then pickup a NowTV box for only £10. The NowTV box is just a Roku LT with custom firmware, but it still has the developer mode that allows you to install Plex.
http://uk.asus.com/Tablet/Fonepad/ASUS_Fonepad/
I just bought an Asus Fonepad to replace my ageing Galaxy Note (Which is still a nice phone but too small). The Fonepad is 7" (Nexus 7 sized), and is a completely functional phone, although I haven't had to take a call yet I can imagine you will look a complete idiot.
Jen
Except that 6 minutes is a very conservative estimate, I work in local government and our PC's were taking 20 minutes+ to get to a state they were usable. Worse if you were at one of the remote offices with poor WAN links you could be waiting upwards of 30-40 minutes. We recently did a complete restructure of our AD that along with an upgrade to Windows 7 and a series of PC refreshes has cut this dramatically, down to 3-4 minutesish now. However as for this £6000 figure I can see how this could work, where I work all PC and IT services are managed in house and I think on the whole we provide a good service to our customers, but most central government departments outsourced it all and its now generally dire, my partner has one of the better machines in their office and its cringingly slow, very out of date (1.2Ghz single core) and still running Windows XP with no announced plans to get off XP before support expires.
I've crossed into Israel at this particular border point, around 5 years ago, and yes it was one of the hardest border crossings I've ever done, we were part of a tourist party who were going to be in Israel for around 30 minutes (a quick drive through Elat then out into Jordan), and its not somewhere I would take anything bigger than a camera I would even if I could empty the card before I went through. Everything was Xrayed, the metal detectors were so sensitive every scrap of metal was detected, a few people having to remove jeans with quite a few studs, your personal property was swabbed and checked for explosives and then once through there you were grilled about your personal details at passport control, quite a few people getting long grillings. All under the watch of guys with automatic weapons. It wasn't a place you made any kind of joke, you do exactly as you are told. At the time I though it was overkill then a week later this happened http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Sinai_bombings, a terrorist attack aimed at the Israelis pretty much at that border point (although on the Egyptian side), kind of puts it all into perspective. Saying that since that border crossing, I am a lot more careful what I take with me, laptops and cameras fully backed up, and only take essentials, even bought a travel laptop so my main machine would stay safe at home. Everything electrical packed into one easy to search bag. Jen
Generally you are right, however the RNLI does actually do the "Baywatch" type life guards as well. http://www.rnli.org.uk/what_we_do/sea_and_beach_safety/rnli_lifeguards
I'm a software developer and will often create my own certificates for testing purposes, and in my test lab people will trust them, however out in the wild there is no excuse for not getting a proper certificate signed by a proper authority.
Not only is this coming across as the company trying to do things on the cheap it has the possiblity of unraveling the trust of SSL for places you actually care about. If this becomes wide spread just think of the phishers create a copy of A Bank's site make their own SSL and put a note on the login screen "Dont worry you have to do some work to trust this certificate everything is alright honest guv."
Personally I normally trust self signed SSL certificates for sites I visit if they have them as i know the risks, but to potentially undermine for general users is just mad.
The ZX81 was there, it just went by its American name the Timex Sinclair 1000. I was a bit surprised not to see a Spectrum though, I used to hate those rubber keys.
This is where the "commerical" Linuxes can score highly for non-power users, Xandros for instance comes out of the box with Java and flash support, even with Firefox. Thats because the Xandros team (And the Linspire team also do similar things) compile their own versions that will work for people the way they want it to work. You still have the same problems other Linux users have when leaving the comfort zone of the pre-packaged applications, although both Xandros and Linspire do have active communities that handhold new users through these things (I imagine other distros do as well, but I can only say first hand about Xandros since thats what I use). Jen
Xandros does not use IE at all, if you want it you have to install it yourself (Assuming you have Crossover or some form of Wine installed). I tend to have IE installed under Xandros, but rarely use it. As to what browser it uses it depends what version you have Xandros 2 OCE (The free non commerical one) uses Opera, where as the other Xandros 2 variants (Standard, Professional and Business) use Mozilla 1.x (Think the latest version available is 1.6) Xandros 3 Deluxe, uses Mozilla 1.7. Its a real pity they didnt review Xandros 3 in this article as its made leaps and bounds past Xandros 2, and now does include DVD writing functionality out of the box. Jen