At one point I worked in IT support for a telemarketer. AFAIK, from what they told me, if a company tells them to stop calling, they're supposed to add you to their own DNC list and they are not to call you anymore for fear of fines. The laws could vary from state to state, so YMMV.
Agreed. How many things does your typical modern Linux PC, Windows PC or Macintosh actually start at bootup time compared with a Mac Plus from 20 years ago? TCP/IP stacks are just the tip of the iceberg. How about file indexing daemons like Beagle, USB hotplug support, an OpenSSH server, device drivers and other such suport for hundreds of modern pieces of hardware like scanners, DVD burners, etc., and hundreds of other things that actually enhance my productivity on a day-to-day basis, yet we seem to take for granted?
There's a lot I can do on my Linux PC that I could never have done on a Mac Plus. That's not to badmouth the Mac Plus, it's just that, well, it was machine built for its time.
Syncroprated! is listed as 'pre-Alpha' on garage.maemo.org. So I would imagine that it might have problems. But, it is written Python, so it should be fairly easy to debug the problem if you're a developer. If not, well, you'll have to wait for the app to become a bit more mature. Since I'm a Python developer, I think I'll download it and have a look at the code. It looks like a neat program to spend some time with.
BTW--Personally, I just use Nautilus to sync up my Creative Labs Zen Nano player.
Try reading my posts before you reply to them. I also said that it was necessary to turn off automatic updates before going to the coffee bar. Perhaps I should have also mentioned that you should install all your addons and updates at home (or in the office), on your own (or your office's) network, but I thought this was obvious.
Also known as Vista ME and Vista MEE. For up to 64 cores running in a portable computing environment, you need Vista Multicore Ultimate Laptop Edition (Vista MULE). Especially useful for drug smuggling.
This is why one of the problem is automatical updates, multiple untrusted sources of updates and update systems that allow those by default.
You mean like the Google Toolbar for IE and about a bazillion other ActiveX applets?
This problem is not Firefox-specific.
However, it's important to note that Firefox does not allow updates from untrusted sources by default. It comes configured with updates allowed only from addons.mozilla.org and updates.mozilla.org.
Furthermore, for those of you with notebooks/WiFi -- for God's sake, turn off Automatically check for Updates to: Firefox, Installed Add-Ons and Search Engines from the 'Updates' tab in the 'Advanced' options, especially if you're going to be spending time in a coffee bar. And before you say: "Well, that's in the Advanced section and we shouldn't expect normal people to have to edit those options" I say horsepuckey. If you're bright enough to be using Firefox instead of IE, you should be bright enough to know how to configure it in a secure manner.
Bingo! Why do you suppose Bush is proposing South Korea as a model for Iraq? We've had troops in South Korea since the early 1950s. That's right. Almost 60 years.
Terrorism is the new bogeyman. Nevermind that we don't actually need one with Iran, North Korea and China all ready to push the nuke button at us. It's just that unlike Iran, North Korea and China, terrorism is easy to put a face to for the American public: Osama bin Laden.
Let's face it: the idea that another 9/11 could occur scares the crap out of us. Now I don't know that the government didn't pay Osama to crash those planes (Bush isn't that bright, but there are those in the CIA and NSA who are). But I don't know that they did.
What I do know is that the government has been using 9/11 to take away all of our Constitutional rights, to garner public support for massive amounts of military and intelligence spending, and to basically keep us all afraid so that it appears that we have no choice but to trust that the government will protect us. Which maybe they can't. And that's what you should be afraid of.
We already did. They run the movie industry, the record industry, ClearCh^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe radio business, and, of course, the cable and telco industries.
If you're getting to the point that you're getting incompatible updates with your existing setup, then you can always try `emerge -NDuep` and look at the resulting list it'll give you (p is for preview). From that, `emerge -C` anything you don't use any more, and then drop the 'p' from the command above and re-run it. It'll re-compile everything on your system with the latest packages, meaning that you should hopefully avoid the incompatibilities you're referring to.
Yeah. That's what I did on my Gentoo box back around Gentoo 2003.5. Given that it's still recompiling, I gave up installed Ubuntu on another box some time ago.;)
You also ignore that the register sex offender was registered in Utah and that the woman whose page was taken down lived in Colorado and Florida previously, but not in Utah. so your same place argument falls too.
I'm sending you back to 6th grade geography class! Or at least to Google Maps. Utah and Colorado are right next to each other on the map. Its certainly possible and even likely that someone living in Colorado might relocate to Utah or vice versa without having to switch jobs or lose contact with friends, relatives, etc., depending on whether they lived in the respective states.
What have they done, if anything, to address update difficulties? Despite claims, you can't start at one version and keep rolling along to the current version by using Portage. Eventually updates become incompatible with your existing setup and Portage sometimes even fails to update itself.
You didn't read the text. All it says is that what matters is two products have the same functionality, it doesn't mention anything about whose product came first.
The section is vague at best. Hundreds of open source projects have "the same or substantially the same features and functionality as a then-existing product (or major component thereof) of [Microsoft] and that (a) has the same or substantially the same user interface, or (b) implements all or substantially all of the Application Programming Interfaces of the Prior Product."
Samba could be viewed as a clone product, but so could gedit (clone of notepad). Firefox might be a clone of Internet Explorer 7. What about totem? Looks an awful lot like Windows Media Player, at least the older versions. Nautilus behaves a lot like Windows Explorer, huh?
This section is stupid and ridiculous and is likely to get struck down by the first courtroom judge that looks at this thing as being too vaguely worded.
The biggest problem with speeds below 600-800 MHz or so is that is you're not likely to be able to stream SD-resolution media very smoothly (forget about HD-resolution). Maybe with a hardware MPEG board or something.
Sounds pretty cool, but it does require that you mod your Xbox 360
It's been slashdotted, but from what I did read, it seems like the Linux version doesn't necessarily require an Xbox? Wouldn't this put it at odds with projects like MythTV?
Precisely. The question in the title is a little bit like asking "Will large PC clusters obsolete mainframes?" or "Will Web applications obsolete traditional GUI applications?" The answer is, as always, "It depends on what you use it for." For high-performance databases or a high-traffic Exchange server, these things may not work well.
I've seen plenty iSCSI of solutions coupled with NAS servers that get pretty good throughput in this price range that are already integrated and ready to go, but the bottom line is that if you want high-peformance, high-availability storage for I/O-intensive applications, you need a fiber SAN/NAS solution.
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At one point I worked in IT support for a telemarketer. AFAIK, from what they told me, if a company tells them to stop calling, they're supposed to add you to their own DNC list and they are not to call you anymore for fear of fines. The laws could vary from state to state, so YMMV.
Uhhhh....what? Copy and paste has been supported on Linux since the day it could run XFree86. Probably sometime back in the early 90s.
Agreed. How many things does your typical modern Linux PC, Windows PC or Macintosh actually start at bootup time compared with a Mac Plus from 20 years ago? TCP/IP stacks are just the tip of the iceberg. How about file indexing daemons like Beagle, USB hotplug support, an OpenSSH server, device drivers and other such suport for hundreds of modern pieces of hardware like scanners, DVD burners, etc., and hundreds of other things that actually enhance my productivity on a day-to-day basis, yet we seem to take for granted?
There's a lot I can do on my Linux PC that I could never have done on a Mac Plus. That's not to badmouth the Mac Plus, it's just that, well, it was machine built for its time.
Well, they fight like an old married couple anyway...
Plan 9?
Show of hands: How many knew that Glenda the Bunny was the official unofficial logo for Plan 9? (No fair Googling!)
*hand raised*
Syncroprated! is listed as 'pre-Alpha' on garage.maemo.org. So I would imagine that it might have problems. But, it is written Python, so it should be fairly easy to debug the problem if you're a developer. If not, well, you'll have to wait for the app to become a bit more mature. Since I'm a Python developer, I think I'll download it and have a look at the code. It looks like a neat program to spend some time with.
BTW--Personally, I just use Nautilus to sync up my Creative Labs Zen Nano player.
Try reading my posts before you reply to them. I also said that it was necessary to turn off automatic updates before going to the coffee bar. Perhaps I should have also mentioned that you should install all your addons and updates at home (or in the office), on your own (or your office's) network, but I thought this was obvious.
Ummmm...OS X? Linux? *BSD?
Also known as Vista ME and Vista MEE. For up to 64 cores running in a portable computing environment, you need Vista Multicore Ultimate Laptop Edition (Vista MULE). Especially useful for drug smuggling.
You mean like the Google Toolbar for IE and about a bazillion other ActiveX applets?
This problem is not Firefox-specific.
However, it's important to note that Firefox does not allow updates from untrusted sources by default. It comes configured with updates allowed only from addons.mozilla.org and updates.mozilla.org.
Furthermore, for those of you with notebooks/WiFi -- for God's sake, turn off Automatically check for Updates to: Firefox, Installed Add-Ons and Search Engines from the 'Updates' tab in the 'Advanced' options, especially if you're going to be spending time in a coffee bar. And before you say: "Well, that's in the Advanced section and we shouldn't expect normal people to have to edit those options" I say horsepuckey. If you're bright enough to be using Firefox instead of IE, you should be bright enough to know how to configure it in a secure manner.
Bingo! Why do you suppose Bush is proposing South Korea as a model for Iraq? We've had troops in South Korea since the early 1950s. That's right. Almost 60 years. Terrorism is the new bogeyman. Nevermind that we don't actually need one with Iran, North Korea and China all ready to push the nuke button at us. It's just that unlike Iran, North Korea and China, terrorism is easy to put a face to for the American public: Osama bin Laden. Let's face it: the idea that another 9/11 could occur scares the crap out of us. Now I don't know that the government didn't pay Osama to crash those planes (Bush isn't that bright, but there are those in the CIA and NSA who are). But I don't know that they did. What I do know is that the government has been using 9/11 to take away all of our Constitutional rights, to garner public support for massive amounts of military and intelligence spending, and to basically keep us all afraid so that it appears that we have no choice but to trust that the government will protect us. Which maybe they can't. And that's what you should be afraid of.
Small, low-power Linux laptop....
We already did. They run the movie industry, the record industry, ClearCh^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe radio business, and, of course, the cable and telco industries.
Anyone else feel like releasing a few million helium balloons right above Redmond, Washington, right about now? ;)
Yeah. That's what I did on my Gentoo box back around Gentoo 2003.5. Given that it's still recompiling, I gave up installed Ubuntu on another box some time ago.
I'm sending you back to 6th grade geography class! Or at least to Google Maps. Utah and Colorado are right next to each other on the map. Its certainly possible and even likely that someone living in Colorado might relocate to Utah or vice versa without having to switch jobs or lose contact with friends, relatives, etc., depending on whether they lived in the respective states.
What have they done, if anything, to address update difficulties? Despite claims, you can't start at one version and keep rolling along to the current version by using Portage. Eventually updates become incompatible with your existing setup and Portage sometimes even fails to update itself.
You didn't read the text. All it says is that what matters is two products have the same functionality, it doesn't mention anything about whose product came first.
The section is vague at best. Hundreds of open source projects have "the same or substantially the same features and functionality as a then-existing product (or major component thereof) of [Microsoft] and that (a) has the same or substantially the same user interface, or (b) implements all or substantially all of the Application Programming Interfaces of the Prior Product."
Samba could be viewed as a clone product, but so could gedit (clone of notepad). Firefox might be a clone of Internet Explorer 7. What about totem? Looks an awful lot like Windows Media Player, at least the older versions. Nautilus behaves a lot like Windows Explorer, huh?
This section is stupid and ridiculous and is likely to get struck down by the first courtroom judge that looks at this thing as being too vaguely worded.
IANAL and this is not legal advice.
The biggest problem with speeds below 600-800 MHz or so is that is you're not likely to be able to stream SD-resolution media very smoothly (forget about HD-resolution). Maybe with a hardware MPEG board or something.
It's been slashdotted, but from what I did read, it seems like the Linux version doesn't necessarily require an Xbox? Wouldn't this put it at odds with projects like MythTV?
Precisely. The question in the title is a little bit like asking "Will large PC clusters obsolete mainframes?" or "Will Web applications obsolete traditional GUI applications?" The answer is, as always, "It depends on what you use it for." For high-performance databases or a high-traffic Exchange server, these things may not work well.
I've seen plenty iSCSI of solutions coupled with NAS servers that get pretty good throughput in this price range that are already integrated and ready to go, but the bottom line is that if you want high-peformance, high-availability storage for I/O-intensive applications, you need a fiber SAN/NAS solution.
Put it on your excellent and thoughtful blog. ;)
That's the best response I've seen so far! Bravo! A generic Linux box that one could turn into almost anything... hmmm...
Yeah. A cheeky post deserves a cheeky response.