"Toronto to Become One Huge Hotspot" Oh, one big "hotspot," so that's what they call them these days! Such an odd people, those Canucks...
Disclaimer: I kid! I kid! Living within 100 miles of the border, I've learned to appreciate the exchange rate and advantages of Canadian currency in vending machines. GO CANADIAN WOMEN HOCKEY!
Security is a big problem for laptops. Most places use a keyed or combination lock attached to the Universal Security Slot (USS) on the laptop (or projector, or anything else with one, for that matter.) Most of the laptops that I've seen are very weak in the USS's attachment to the laptop body. For example, at my uni they use Dell Latitude D800 (or something) and the USS is right by a fitting between two plastic pieces of body. That's about 1/8 inch of soft plastic that has to be twisted out to steal a laptop from a cart. I wish they would connect the slot to a stong internal metal structure, but who am I to advise Dell on practical security?
Oh, one more thing. Organizational skills are key! The guy I worked for rigged the switches seemingly randomly, making repair/replace take a LOOONG time.
I helped manage a mid-size district (2400+ total) with about 400 computers on the network when I was in high school. One thing that made it interesting was that the REAL admin was almost blind, and gone half the year for eye surgery.
I remember a lot of manual labor. I was carrying cases/monitors/other items between 4 buildings most days. In the elementary school, when you go in you're a magician. If you're lucky, you step in during a snack break with a particularly generous teacher. In the middle school rooms, you're a nerd, and hear 12 year olds talking about their "skills" in fixing things. In high school, maybe you know some people, but still feel out of place. Teachers, for the most part, know nothing about the workings of their computers. They know their username and password (because it's written on their monitors) and how to check e-mail, and that's about it. They attract spyware like honey-covered shit attracts flies. Kids are pretty much harmless, save for physical vandalism to cases. The beginning of the year and right after Christmas break were crazy. Also, whenever they got a technology grant shipment was hell. 2 people unpacking, labling, and distributing 60 workstations in a day?! Not to mention clearing out old ones.
Thankfully, the admin made network images of each model, and all the lab computers ran DeepFreeze.
Things outside normal IT are explaining to very small children how the computers do and do not work. Although, it's probably similar in the real world.
It seems that lately the honeymoon effect of Google is wearing off. They've been around a bit, and while they offer great products, it's finally possible to voice concerns, valid or not. Personally, I like Google. If I have something that no one else (including Google) needs to see, I use this concept called ENCRYPTION.
SCSI drives are significantly more expensive than SATA or IDE, especially when you get into the high capacities. The makers are expanding their SCSI lines, but most individuals don't need/can't afford the big ones. If you're a big enough business or government agency, the game changes.
Hey now! Remember, the people are bigger, but so are the pedals and doors on cars!
But the automobile culture is somewhat necessary, at least in rural areas and moving between cities.
The settlers who came spread out across huge areas, not as much in densely packed cities. You could bike across many European countries in a relatively short time, but the USA is a tad bigger. Heck, Ohio is, IIRC, 35th in size of the 50 states, and it's bigger in area than Scotland!
Contagious fatness? There has to be a Fat Bastard joke in here somewhere...
But otherwise, it sure seems convenient to start blaming genetics and other uncontrollable factors for your problems, doesn't it? Unless, of course, you end up as a healthy, intelligent person. Then, it's all your doing. Maybe the only thing that's contagious is a fear of responsibility, a major problem when you consider all the laws made specifically for people who don't watch out for themselves. McDonalds' coffee IS hot, and a heavy diet of fast food IS NOT the best for you!
As funny as it is, it just doesn't seem realistic to me. Maybe I'm at the wrong intraweb... In the last 5 years on Windoze 2000 + xp, I've been pwned exactly 0 times, same as my BSD box. Of course, the firewall, firefox, and not being a dumbass certainly help.
But that toaster does NOT function as a toaster, just a neat case-mod. I'm talking about the one with a small board that actually controls the elements and timer on the toaster. That's the only way it would be practical for the whole dinner-from-afar thing. http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm
We just had a story today about NetBSD finally being used to control a toaster, ethernet/serial and all.
Sure, ovens have a tad more features and controls than a 2-slice, but an electric stove can be thought of as basically a very large toaster, right?
Who's up for the challenge?
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"Toronto to Become One Huge Hotspot"
Oh, one big "hotspot," so that's what they call them these days!
Such an odd people, those Canucks...
Disclaimer: I kid! I kid! Living within 100 miles of the border, I've learned to appreciate the exchange rate and advantages of Canadian currency in vending machines. GO CANADIAN WOMEN HOCKEY!
Ahem... do we REALLY need Jack Thompson's and Hillary Clinton's views on the organ trade, too?
Won't SOMEBODY think of the homeless with no ties to family or work who no one notices are gone?!
Erm, no.
You'll be duped tomorrow...or later tonight, whenever another editor comes on shift.
Security is a big problem for laptops. Most places use a keyed or combination lock attached to the Universal Security Slot (USS) on the laptop (or projector, or anything else with one, for that matter.) Most of the laptops that I've seen are very weak in the USS's attachment to the laptop body. For example, at my uni they use Dell Latitude D800 (or something) and the USS is right by a fitting between two plastic pieces of body. That's about 1/8 inch of soft plastic that has to be twisted out to steal a laptop from a cart. I wish they would connect the slot to a stong internal metal structure, but who am I to advise Dell on practical security?
Oh, one more thing.
Organizational skills are key!
The guy I worked for rigged the switches seemingly randomly, making repair/replace take a LOOONG time.
I helped manage a mid-size district (2400+ total) with about 400 computers on the network when I was in high school. One thing that made it interesting was that the REAL admin was almost blind, and gone half the year for eye surgery. I remember a lot of manual labor. I was carrying cases/monitors/other items between 4 buildings most days. In the elementary school, when you go in you're a magician. If you're lucky, you step in during a snack break with a particularly generous teacher. In the middle school rooms, you're a nerd, and hear 12 year olds talking about their "skills" in fixing things. In high school, maybe you know some people, but still feel out of place. Teachers, for the most part, know nothing about the workings of their computers. They know their username and password (because it's written on their monitors) and how to check e-mail, and that's about it. They attract spyware like honey-covered shit attracts flies. Kids are pretty much harmless, save for physical vandalism to cases. The beginning of the year and right after Christmas break were crazy. Also, whenever they got a technology grant shipment was hell. 2 people unpacking, labling, and distributing 60 workstations in a day?! Not to mention clearing out old ones. Thankfully, the admin made network images of each model, and all the lab computers ran DeepFreeze. Things outside normal IT are explaining to very small children how the computers do and do not work. Although, it's probably similar in the real world.
Wait... do video games train killers, or don't they? I'm so confused.
What does Jack Thompson have to say about this?
It seems that lately the honeymoon effect of Google is wearing off. They've been around a bit, and while they offer great products, it's finally possible to voice concerns, valid or not.
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Personally, I like Google. If I have something that no one else (including Google) needs to see, I use this concept called ENCRYPTION.
Also, Google DOES occasionally make errors, and thankfully glaringly obvious ones:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=trabu
One makes a RAID array of iPods, THAT is what one does with 10 60GB iPods!
Remember the RAID Shuffle? Implemented a little better, perhaps, with each on its own USB port instead of sharing one, especially for 60GB each.
About as hard as it is for us guys to leave it DOWN if that's the way we found it.
Not in my mouth...please?
Any chemodentists (dentochemists?) have anything to say about this? 5 years sounds pretty crazy for one treatment.
Well, it would seem that he's trying, but with $60 billion, it takes a LOT:
...Enough so to be named Time People of the Year.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/truegrowth/gates1.html
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
Setting aside the business ethics used to make the money, I'd say he's found at least one good way to use it.
Now about that Olympic swimming pool of puddding...
That was "phoe" as in "phoenix," the original name of the browser. It went Phoenix > Firebird > Firefox.
Do we really need an update every 2 weeks of the status of FF vs. IE?
I love my phoe-firebird/fox/something, but that's my choice.
Alternatively, could slash include a ticker on the frontpage?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822116148
NewEgg has a Fujitsu 300GB SCSI drive... for $730!
SCSI drives are significantly more expensive than SATA or IDE, especially when you get into the high capacities. The makers are expanding their SCSI lines, but most individuals don't need/can't afford the big ones. If you're a big enough business or government agency, the game changes.
Hey now! Remember, the people are bigger, but so are the pedals and doors on cars! But the automobile culture is somewhat necessary, at least in rural areas and moving between cities. The settlers who came spread out across huge areas, not as much in densely packed cities. You could bike across many European countries in a relatively short time, but the USA is a tad bigger. Heck, Ohio is, IIRC, 35th in size of the 50 states, and it's bigger in area than Scotland!
Contagious fatness? There has to be a Fat Bastard joke in here somewhere...
But otherwise, it sure seems convenient to start blaming genetics and other uncontrollable factors for your problems, doesn't it?
Unless, of course, you end up as a healthy, intelligent person. Then, it's all your doing.
Maybe the only thing that's contagious is a fear of responsibility, a major problem when you consider all the laws made specifically for people who don't watch out for themselves. McDonalds' coffee IS hot, and a heavy diet of fast food IS NOT the best for you!
As funny as it is, it just doesn't seem realistic to me. Maybe I'm at the wrong intraweb...
In the last 5 years on Windoze 2000 + xp, I've been pwned exactly 0 times, same as my BSD box. Of course, the firewall, firefox, and not being a dumbass certainly help.
British kids? Are you serious?!
I kid, I kid...
The RMS Titanic showed us all that it's the size of the ship AND how you use it that both matter.
This reminds me of Austin Powers...
Under the Ballmer-McBride thesis that open source is evil, Netscape is Scotty and Mozilla is Mini Me:
Netscape, you're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough!
Continuum: it's like crack!
Only problem is the noobs these days with their artificial lag that think they're "leet"...
Is this in any way related to the Fifth Dimension, and Let the Sun Shine?
But that toaster does NOT function as a toaster, just a neat case-mod. I'm talking about the one with a small board that actually controls the elements and timer on the toaster. That's the only way it would be practical for the whole dinner-from-afar thing.m
http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.ht
We just had a story today about NetBSD finally being used to control a toaster, ethernet/serial and all. Sure, ovens have a tad more features and controls than a 2-slice, but an electric stove can be thought of as basically a very large toaster, right? Who's up for the challenge?
Um... airplanes carry just a little a bit more of that explosive fuel!
Yes, airplanes crash less than cars.
But: When the car crashes, they ask if anyone got hurt.
When a plane crashes, they ask if anyone survived.
I'll take my chances being my own pilot and mechanic.