"...trying to run any graphical stuff under Linux is a nightmare"
That would depend on what desktop environment or window manager you where trying to use on Linux.
Depending on the PC's spec KDE or GNOME would be a bit of a hog on an ancient machine, although in work I have 3 PC's at my desk, 2 Win2k workstations (P3 800 & P4 2.8) and 1 old box (P2 400) running SuSE 10 with KDE, all running similar apps such as Novell client, Novell Groupwise, Citrix client, OpenOffice and ssh sessions galore (Putty/Konsole)... Many Slashdotters would hardly be surprised that the 2 Win2k machines are seriously sluggish on login & especially when I get through to the afternoon after hammering away all day (due to Win2k's crappy process memory handling causing memory usage to climb throughout the day).
The SuSE box hasn't been rebooted for 3 months and is more responsive and nicer to work on than the Windows machines.
What I'm getting at is... the OS and the desktop environment are separate packages, even with the heavyweight Linux desktop environments older "obsolete" hardware can be secure. modern workstations with all the OS features and software without grinding to a halt.
If it's too old or has too little RAM to handle KDE or GNOME then as always with Linux/Unix-based systems the GUI environment can be changed as there are several other desktop environments or window managers freely available to cater for those old systems with less than 64MB RAM
VIC20 here too, remember those big bulky cartridges?:D
I kept mine in the wardrobe (closet) for years until I took it out one day about 6-7 years ago and it wouldn't power on.
If I'd known there'd be mini-itx around in a few years time I wouldn't have thrown it away so readily and done something like this
"Who says people want to increase muscle mass in order to be strong? I suspect a lot of guys would like to have more muscle mass just because they think it would look good"
Let's not forget the most likely use of a drug like this would be to treat people suffering from a muscle wasting disease such as Muscular Dystrophy.
An impressive display of dullard ignorance...
How on earth would a single disk drive spinning down amongst 50 servers (300+ disks) located 10 feet away emulate a sharp human whistle directed into my ear?
I too didn't beleive such things could happen until it happened to me.
In one of my previous jobs, I did actually have an ghostly encounter in a server room when I was working for a major government agency in London just on the south bank of the Thames.
Our server & comms rooms were in the basement of the building and these where the only functional rooms down there.
I went to do the backup tape duty as usual when as I stood writing out some labels someone whistled right in my ear, I actually felt the puff of air against the side of my head.
I was the only person in that part of the building and only two other co-workers had access to those rooms and they where on the 4th floor. It's odd really because it didn't panic as I would've thought I would in that situation, apart from the initial shock of it happening which made me jump out of my skin!
I did leave the room pretty quickly after I realized that it wasn't a prank and I was the only one there... the pisser was I had to go back to finish the tapes.
Too true... There's nothing more annoying to me than browsing the web on my fast DSL connection and pages pause in the middle of loading because the browser's waiting for the ad server to reply.
I have my Netgear router's built-in site keyword blocker block them.
Page loads are waayy faster on (previously) ad heavy sites.
Now I can use Opera without ads, which I personally deem to be faster than Firefox with Adblock.
That would depend on what certifications you're talking about.
Comparing someone who designs and supports large enterprise critical failsafe systems and someone behind PC World's counter swapping cards and installing XP Home for a living, certification entails different levels of commitment.
I have found certification invaluable, not because of the training it provides (I can always train myself) but they quickly show the non-technical recruitment agents/HR staff when they receive your CV that you have some commitment to your career by gaining industry qualifications.
To those guys, if you have the relevant experience and the right 'XYZ' certification listed on the job spec, you're past the first hurdle.
If your certification surpases the job spec, then you'll either be past the second hurdle or maybe they'll wonder why you're not applying for a better/higher paid job.
Try a real scooter, something like a Piaggio or Gilera with a range of 50,125,180,250,500cc engines.
I have a Gilera 180cc 'Runner' scooter, which has ample under seat & back box storage, keeps my shins dry in bad weather and goes upto 80mph, really nippy in-between tight traffic and you'll always be able to find a free parking space.
What about hard disk/removable disk encryption?
I work for a financial company who is naturally highly concerned with data security.
All portable devices that we deploy use data encryption, even our PDA's SD cards use encryped files systems.
In relation to maotx's query, all our laptop's hard disks are encrypted at the sector level requiring the user to login with a username & password just past the BIOS stage, just to access the hard disk. The mini-PCI WLAN cards are removed and IR & Bluetooth is disabled
For this we use PC Guardian's Encryption Plus which uses 256bit encryption and also supports removable disks
The removable disk feature is good because the encrypted removable disk can only be used on the PC that initially encrypted the disk and without the correct username & password, the disk is useless.
Just make sure that your users don't write down the username & password anywhere.
Satan & The Son of God are both at their PC's coding when a fuse blows cutting power to both workstations.
Satan goes over and sorts out the fuse, comes back and boots his PC only to find that all his hard work has been lost.
Furious, Satan looks over to see his counterpart happily carrying on where he left off.
Satan leans over and asks "Hey, why have I lost my work and you haven't?"
Don't use IE for the web... or disable IE's ActiveX & 'Install on Demand'
Don't install malware... KNOW WHAT YOU ARE INSTALLING ON YOUR SYSTEM
Don't steal software... why do people use cracked versions of bloated commercial apps when there are so many decent, often superior freeware & open source packages out there? The amount of people I've come across who use cracked versions of Norton amazes me... pointless as it's sh1t software anyway.
Linux... I think we can all agree that Linux is gradually becoming a more viable & usable OS for the average Joe nowadays, although you actually still need some knowledge about computers and commands to use the average distro which is still too 'scary' for the average user, it's getting there though. Spyware, malware, viruses, piracy are thankfully still mainly dead subjects to us Linux users.
Future... Windows vs Linux vs OSX x86, it's gonna be fun:)
OK, granted that the ability to convert a neural chemical signal to a nervous electrical impulse nerve is a "built-in" process.
What I was implying was that the ablility to intentionally use that process to trigger a reaction in a specific muscle or part or our body is something we learn to control from as early as the foetal stage of development.
The ability to move your muscles isn't 'pre-built', it's something you start learning at the foetal stage of development.
The only autonomous movement in your body is your heart & bowels which are both comprised of unique electromotive cells. They're not controlled by the brain/nervous system at all.
...Is anyone sensing the effect of US government brainwashing here... or is it just me?
Isn't the moral of Christianity to 'love thy neighbour', 'do unto others...' and all that?
When did "deny, hate and gain control of those who don't look or think the same way as you do" slip into the bible?
I think the 'Anonymous Coward' (apt don't you think?) has been watching a little too many TV "evangelists" or GW Bush propaganda for his own good.
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homey folk wisdom..
brilliant!
"...trying to run any graphical stuff under Linux is a nightmare"
That would depend on what desktop environment or window manager you where trying to use on Linux.
Depending on the PC's spec KDE or GNOME would be a bit of a hog on an ancient machine, although in work I have 3 PC's at my desk, 2 Win2k workstations (P3 800 & P4 2.8) and 1 old box (P2 400) running SuSE 10 with KDE, all running similar apps such as Novell client, Novell Groupwise, Citrix client, OpenOffice and ssh sessions galore (Putty/Konsole)...
Many Slashdotters would hardly be surprised that the 2 Win2k machines are seriously sluggish on login & especially when I get through to the afternoon after hammering away all day (due to Win2k's crappy process memory handling causing memory usage to climb throughout the day).
The SuSE box hasn't been rebooted for 3 months and is more responsive and nicer to work on than the Windows machines.
What I'm getting at is... the OS and the desktop environment are separate packages, even with the heavyweight Linux desktop environments older "obsolete" hardware can be secure. modern workstations with all the OS features and software without grinding to a halt.
If it's too old or has too little RAM to handle KDE or GNOME then as always with Linux/Unix-based systems the GUI environment can be changed as there are several other desktop environments or window managers freely available to cater for those old systems with less than 64MB RAM
With Windows you simply have no choice.
VIC20 here too, remember those big bulky cartridges? :D
I kept mine in the wardrobe (closet) for years until I took it out one day about 6-7 years ago and it wouldn't power on.
If I'd known there'd be mini-itx around in a few years time I wouldn't have thrown it away so readily and done something like this
Interesting...
Makes it all the more frustrating that NASA Worldwind was only developed for Windows/DirectX...
Why oh why!
"Who says people want to increase muscle mass in order to be strong? I suspect a lot of guys would like to have more muscle mass just because they think it would look good"
Let's not forget the most likely use of a drug like this would be to treat people suffering from a muscle wasting disease such as Muscular Dystrophy.
The worldwind moon addon has been around for ages.
Nothing new here...
An impressive display of dullard ignorance...
How on earth would a single disk drive spinning down amongst 50 servers (300+ disks) located 10 feet away emulate a sharp human whistle directed into my ear?
I too didn't beleive such things could happen until it happened to me.
In one of my previous jobs, I did actually have an ghostly encounter in a server room when I was working for a major government agency in London just on the south bank of the Thames.
Our server & comms rooms were in the basement of the building and these where the only functional rooms down there.
I went to do the backup tape duty as usual when as I stood writing out some labels someone whistled right in my ear, I actually felt the puff of air against the side of my head.
I was the only person in that part of the building and only two other co-workers had access to those rooms and they where on the 4th floor. It's odd really because it didn't panic as I would've thought I would in that situation, apart from the initial shock of it happening which made me jump out of my skin!
I did leave the room pretty quickly after I realized that it wasn't a prank and I was the only one there... the pisser was I had to go back to finish the tapes.
Why would it?... Considering the desktop rollout (which I assume you're referring to) will unboubtedly be Novell Linux Desktop not SUSE Linux.
Too true...
There's nothing more annoying to me than browsing the web on my fast DSL connection and pages pause in the middle of loading because the browser's waiting for the ad server to reply.
I have my Netgear router's built-in site keyword blocker block them.
Page loads are waayy faster on (previously) ad heavy sites.
Now I can use Opera without ads, which I personally deem to be faster than Firefox with Adblock.
The "1TB non-volatile Quantum-Optical Synchronous RAM" storage fits into an SODIMM slot & is due to be priced at $6000 (!!) according to this page
That would depend on what certifications you're talking about.
Comparing someone who designs and supports large enterprise critical failsafe systems and someone behind PC World's counter swapping cards and installing XP Home for a living, certification entails different levels of commitment.
I totally agree...
I have found certification invaluable, not because of the training it provides (I can always train myself) but they quickly show the non-technical recruitment agents/HR staff when they receive your CV that you have some commitment to your career by gaining industry qualifications.
To those guys, if you have the relevant experience and the right 'XYZ' certification listed on the job spec, you're past the first hurdle.
If your certification surpases the job spec, then you'll either be past the second hurdle or maybe they'll wonder why you're not applying for a better/higher paid job.
Try a real scooter, something like a Piaggio or Gilera with a range of 50,125,180,250,500cc engines.
I have a Gilera 180cc 'Runner' scooter, which has ample under seat & back box storage, keeps my shins dry in bad weather and goes upto 80mph, really nippy in-between tight traffic and you'll always be able to find a free parking space.
What about hard disk/removable disk encryption?
I work for a financial company who is naturally highly concerned with data security.
All portable devices that we deploy use data encryption, even our PDA's SD cards use encryped files systems.
In relation to maotx's query, all our laptop's hard disks are encrypted at the sector level requiring the user to login with a username & password just past the BIOS stage, just to access the hard disk. The mini-PCI WLAN cards are removed and IR & Bluetooth is disabled
For this we use PC Guardian's Encryption Plus which uses 256bit encryption and also supports removable disks
The removable disk feature is good because the encrypted removable disk can only be used on the PC that initially encrypted the disk and without the correct username & password, the disk is useless.
Just make sure that your users don't write down the username & password anywhere.
Well that all depends on your defininion of the word 'definition' Let's do this all day (work is slow today, it's friday) :)
Spin the bottle :D
Satan & The Son of God are both at their PC's coding when a fuse blows cutting power to both workstations.
Satan goes over and sorts out the fuse, comes back and boots his PC only to find that all his hard work has been lost.
Furious, Satan looks over to see his counterpart happily carrying on where he left off.
Satan leans over and asks "Hey, why have I lost my work and you haven't?"
The other smiles, turns and replies "Jesus Saves"
Prevention is better than the cure:
Spyware, malware, viruses, piracy are thankfully still mainly dead subjects to us Linux users.
OK, granted that the ability to convert a neural chemical signal to a nervous electrical impulse nerve is a "built-in" process.
What I was implying was that the ablility to intentionally use that process to trigger a reaction in a specific muscle or part or our body is something we learn to control from as early as the foetal stage of development.
So yeah, I get the distiction.
This discussion is getting stupid...
The ability to move your muscles isn't 'pre-built', it's something you start learning at the foetal stage of development.
The only autonomous movement in your body is your heart & bowels which are both comprised of unique electromotive cells. They're not controlled by the brain/nervous system at all.
'Muscle memory'.. now THAT'S just silly!
LOL
Spoken like a true Christian...
...Is anyone sensing the effect of US government brainwashing here... or is it just me?
Isn't the moral of Christianity to 'love thy neighbour', 'do unto others...' and all that?
When did "deny, hate and gain control of those who don't look or think the same way as you do" slip into the bible?
I think the 'Anonymous Coward' (apt don't you think?) has been watching a little too many TV "evangelists" or GW Bush propaganda for his own good.
Jobserve, for the UK & Ireland are good places to start.