OK - so it's a bit drastic, but (thankfully) US law doesn't yet apply worldwide.
Here's a question for the lawyers and not-a-lawyers with more time for legalese for the rest of us - if you're physically resident in one state, but only ever store and write programs in a second, and publish (whatever that means) in a third, which law applies?
As has already been noted, if the loan machine isn't identical, a drive image might not be a lot of use.
Why not concentrate on getting the stuff he REALLY couldn't do without onto a backup (I'm guessing, but probably email, documents and the data for one or two applications), along with practicing what to do with the backups when his PC goes back to get repaired? Unless he's into video in a big way, the chances are that "all the data that he can't live without" isn't that huge - maybe less than a DVD.
I'd have thought that every contract electronics manufacturer on the planet has something on the market or in the works:
o about the size of a matchbox o runs off an AAA battery o a display that you can read from at least some angles o works as a flash drive, allows easy copying of mp3 files to and fro
Apple have succeeded because they (very skilfully) made the original iPod a fashion accessory. People will always buy fashion items, but this year's "must have" spends next year in a drawer.
(still can't quite understand why quite so many people drive BMWs though).
> An aside; one of the places you are less likely to be affected by radiation from the base-station antenna, is right below it.
Ish, but it's a lot more complicated than that. In the UK at least, GSM towers tend to be either large area towers or (more frequently these days) smaller "fill-in" ones that are highly directional (to provide uninterupted coverage on motorways through cuttings, for example).
The directional towers that cover the motorways near me have a very narrow directional beam (I'd guess 30 degrees covering the road North and South) together with a bit of what I assume is "spill" out of the side.
There is an option "allow local LAN access" on the "transport" tab of the VPN client setup. However, according to the Usenet post above:
"... the administrator has the final say whether or not clients can do local LAN, both by enabling/or/ not enable "split tunnelling" in the concentrator GROUP/CLIENT CONFIG. Without split tunnelling your stuck sending everything through the tunnel. You are only allowed to speak to your DEFAULT gateway, I.E the ISP ROUTER. Nothing you can do with the client will override this."
The bloke who wrote it is keen on "it organising it for you" but I don't use it like that - it's easier to work with a list based on priorites and deadlines.
From http://www.1soft.com/. It's designed to work in exactly the way that you describe.
Been using versions of it for many years, and can't fault it. The web site looks like a leftover from 1995, but don't hold that against them. Windows only, and doesn't run under Wine (at least not the last time I tried).
It supports tasks, projects, statuses, alarms, all that sort of stuff. Notes against items are just text files - easy to search or edit externally if you want to. Tasks can be imported or exported too if you wish.
Where you live that may be true...
However, venture out a little further and you'll find that it isn't. I somehow suspect that there are currently more French AZERTY keyboard users than Dvorak users worldwide. Don't forget that even most languages that use latin characters have more letters than the 26 that you're used to.
Don't forget non-latin character languages (far Eastern etc.) too.
There are a number of questions on the visa waiver form with some fairly obvious "right" and "wrong" answers - such as (and I'm paraphrasing) "are you a spy". Any spies flying into the US are unlikely to be 100% honest with this one. I suspect that not all potential terrorists are either.
The destination address is similar - even if you are just going to drive around and find a motel not filling in this bit is the "wrong answer".
Having a "chat" with the person on the desk at immigration isn't going to acheive anything - they didn't create the form. That's not to say that the whole "perceived vs actual security" discussion isn't worth having with someone who can do something about it - your MP/TD/whatever back home.
Not that this is in any way new, of course. Try reading up on "Selden's Patents" - he patented the car without building one and extracted money from (almost) everyone at the time.
Dead right - a good CV gets you an interview, not a job.
I know it sounds obvious, but make sure it's spelt correctly (or spelled if you're from the US I guess) uses correct grammar and is "readable" - not just a list of bullet points or a "stream of conciousness".
Although I haven't written one for many years (too lazy to change jobs) I've read through plenty of other people's and know exactly what will get canned after the first read.
Keep it simple, and make it read like it was written by a human. It'll get read by one - and they're thinking, along with whether you could do the job or not, "could I work with this person over the next X years?". However, as the parent said, that's the point of the interview.
As has been said elsewhere, concentrate on achievements rather than a blow-by-blow account of every project you've ever worked on.
Also, once you've written "the perfect CV" don't let any agency you deal with marmalise it. If they're going to reformat anything, make sure you get to approve anything before it goes out.
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OK - so it's a bit drastic, but (thankfully) US law doesn't yet apply worldwide.
Here's a question for the lawyers and not-a-lawyers with more time for legalese for the rest of us - if you're physically resident in one state, but only ever store and write programs in a second, and publish (whatever that means) in a third, which law applies?
As has already been noted, if the loan machine isn't identical, a drive image might not be a lot of use.
Why not concentrate on getting the stuff he REALLY couldn't do without onto a backup (I'm guessing, but probably email, documents and the data for one or two applications), along with practicing what to do with the backups when his PC goes back to get repaired? Unless he's into video in a big way, the chances are that "all the data that he can't live without" isn't that huge - maybe less than a DVD.
Yes, but as your brain is warmer you no longer need to wear a hat.
Someone has installed a VW Lupo in a Dell.
I'd have thought that every contract electronics manufacturer on the planet has something on the market or in the works:
o about the size of a matchbox
o runs off an AAA battery
o a display that you can read from at least some angles
o works as a flash drive, allows easy copying of mp3 files to and fro
Apple have succeeded because they (very skilfully) made the original iPod a fashion accessory. People will always buy fashion items, but this year's "must have" spends next year in a drawer.
(still can't quite understand why quite so many people drive BMWs though).
> An aside; one of the places you are less likely to be affected by radiation from the base-station antenna, is right below it.
Ish, but it's a lot more complicated than that. In the UK at least, GSM towers tend to be either large area towers or (more frequently these days) smaller "fill-in" ones that are highly directional (to provide uninterupted coverage on motorways through cuttings, for example).
The directional towers that cover the motorways near me have a very narrow directional beam (I'd guess 30 degrees covering the road North and South) together with a bit of what I assume is "spill" out of the side.
I looked into this a while back.8 &c2coff=1&threadm=79240318.0302052128.2ac4b7de%40p osting.google.com&rnum=8&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dcisco% 2B%2522default%2Bgateway%2522%2Bvpn%2Bclient%26hl% 3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN%26 tab%3Dwg
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
is a summary of what I found then.
There is an option "allow local LAN access" on the "transport" tab of the VPN client setup. However, according to the Usenet post above:
"... the administrator has the final say whether or not clients can do local LAN, both by enabling/or/ not enable "split tunnelling"
in the concentrator GROUP/CLIENT CONFIG. Without split tunnelling your stuck sending everything through the tunnel. You are only allowed to speak to your DEFAULT gateway, I.E the ISP ROUTER. Nothing you can do with the client will override this."
Surely that means it is tripe?
...and guess who Terry Pretchett worked for before becoming an author full-time!
(not actually Sellafield, but as a press officer for the CEGB "looking after 4 nuclear power stations", according to his biog).
On a very quick test, map24 wins:
4 0036&spn=0.005020%2C0.008355
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.377686%2C-121.9
Seems to suggest that roads join when they don't, doesn't zoom as far in and doesn't show the hotel and gas station that map24 does.
e:\scratch>pdftotext "C:\Documents and Settings\Me\Desktop\shite.pdf"
Error: PDF version 1.5 -- xpdf supports version 1.4 (continuing anyway)
e:\scratch>notepad shite.txt
You get something that reads even more like pretentious garbage than the original (if that's possible).
...and yes, all PDFs DO suck, even in a stand-alone viewer.
The bloke who wrote it is keen on "it organising it for you" but I don't use it like that - it's easier to work with a list based on priorites and deadlines.
Been using versions of it for many years, and can't fault it. The web site looks like a leftover from 1995, but don't hold that against them. Windows only, and doesn't run under Wine (at least not the last time I tried).
It supports tasks, projects, statuses, alarms, all that sort of stuff. Notes against items are just text files - easy to search or edit externally if you want to. Tasks can be imported or exported too if you wish.
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Where you live that may be true... However, venture out a little further and you'll find that it isn't. I somehow suspect that there are currently more French AZERTY keyboard users than Dvorak users worldwide. Don't forget that even most languages that use latin characters have more letters than the 26 that you're used to. Don't forget non-latin character languages (far Eastern etc.) too.
There are a number of questions on the visa waiver form with some fairly obvious "right" and "wrong" answers - such as (and I'm paraphrasing) "are you a spy". Any spies flying into the US are unlikely to be 100% honest with this one. I suspect that not all potential terrorists are either. The destination address is similar - even if you are just going to drive around and find a motel not filling in this bit is the "wrong answer". Having a "chat" with the person on the desk at immigration isn't going to acheive anything - they didn't create the form. That's not to say that the whole "perceived vs actual security" discussion isn't worth having with someone who can do something about it - your MP/TD/whatever back home.
Not that this is in any way new, of course. Try reading up on "Selden's Patents" - he patented the car without building one and extracted money from (almost) everyone at the time.
This was at the turn of the last century.
No, most likely the tealeaf responsible tried to flog it in his local pub but it ended up in the bin when it ran out of power.
Dead right - a good CV gets you an interview, not a job. I know it sounds obvious, but make sure it's spelt correctly (or spelled if you're from the US I guess) uses correct grammar and is "readable" - not just a list of bullet points or a "stream of conciousness". Although I haven't written one for many years (too lazy to change jobs) I've read through plenty of other people's and know exactly what will get canned after the first read. Keep it simple, and make it read like it was written by a human. It'll get read by one - and they're thinking, along with whether you could do the job or not, "could I work with this person over the next X years?". However, as the parent said, that's the point of the interview. As has been said elsewhere, concentrate on achievements rather than a blow-by-blow account of every project you've ever worked on. Also, once you've written "the perfect CV" don't let any agency you deal with marmalise it. If they're going to reformat anything, make sure you get to approve anything before it goes out.