Tel-aviv is in the middle of a large metro area (the Dan block), but the city of Tel-aviv itself isn't actually very large. The article refers to the municopality alone.
I don't see any news about master password and encrypted password vault (for Linux) anywhere.
Have I missed something or is it still really missing?
That's so far the only blocker for me from trying Chrome out. I can't survive without a proper password vault in my browser.
Not to defend Evolution itself but I find integration of calendar/contacts/e-mail and possibly VoIP telephony as very useful - when I get an invitation to an event I can just click on it to add it to my calendar, and when I want to invite others I don't have to maintain a separate list of contacts for my e-mail and calendar tools and so on.
Every time I read one of those "who the F*** needs this integration?" posts I have a strong suspicion that the writer have never got around to work in a real job - he might be some school/college kid who have yet to see what real work looks like.
Thanks for the info. I have a feeling it would be a waste of time to try to run VMware on my current 512Mb of RAM but I recently saw at least two people who claim to use VMware on 512Mb. Since so far I failed to get extra memory for a good price I just might go ahead with my current memory.
My only interest in virtualization right now (and VMware in particular, since it's the only viable option on my current hardware) is to be able to run Windows Skype 2.0 with webcam.
Right now I plan to create an entire Windows XP virtual machine just for this - is there a way to create a machine which can run only Skype and reduce memory requirements by this? My hunch says "no" but I always have a feeling I'm missing something when it comes to tracking the VMware product lines.
If you don't care about standards then you can already buy proprietary solutions to give you that.
Just don't come back wailing when you get stuck with products from only one provider because they don't support a well-defined standard...
I know someone who already has a 108Mbps wireless network at home but he's aware that he'll have to either stick to his current vendor for new hardware, or completly replace his hardware when the time comes to upgrade.
As for myself - I'm ready to wait a couple of years for the dust (and prices, and inter-operability bugs) to settle down before I throw my money at this.
("Of course! I'm American! I want it the fast way!" - Marge Simpson agrees that Homer will blow up a jammed drawer using fire crackers)
You are right - but maybe what they are aiming for is that businesses will get the unfinished Vista before end of 2006 then will have to renew their support contracts in order to get all the critical bug fixes which will be available after 2006?
Just thinking while writing the above - I'm not sure how much MS cares about customer goodwill - they might still feel that they got the balls of most of the market in their warm sweaty hands (which is probalby true for large parts of the market). Coming from that point of view - your statement might be "righter" for non-monopolistic players than for entities like MS.
"If the Jews are so smart then a) how did the Nazis almost wipe them out and b) why do so many of them want to live in a crappy, waterless flea-pit like Palestine?"
a) What does being smart has to do with being shot at?
b) Because they were (and at some areas still are) being prosecuted for centuries in all other parts of the world and this is the only place in the world they can call home.
As far as I'm aware, the F-15I (the Israeli version of the F-15) has its entire software built in Israel. I heard that all versions of F-15's have at least some of their systems built by Israeli sub-contractors.
You can take an example from the commercial world - I worked for startups which had to put their source code in escrow as part of pilot agreements with Fortune-100 companies.
So I don't think it's unreasonable or even extra-ordinary for the Brits to want the source too. Just prudent.
Maybe it's my background of handling sensitive material in the military - but I thoroughly scribble over the important bits (almost anything I've writen on the printed form) before tearing it up in multiple tear direction (not just "spaghetti") and throwing away the pieces in multiple beans, preferably a long way from one another (e.g. one near home and another near work). That way even if someone somehow manages to piece the form back together it will still don't have my details on it.
I keep remembering the news clip showing Iranian students in the 1979 Iranian revolution putting together shreded documents cought in the American embassy - they were just long strips of paper and very readable once they were put together - I find it extremly stupid that the embassy didn't have an incinerator.
I tried a release candidate a few months ago but couldn't pass the point of actually communicating with anyone.
My setup is an ADSL modem/router (D-Link 504G) which does firewalling and NAT'ing for my Linux and my wife's windows 98.
Even when I do all the port forwarding I could configure, or even putting my Linux in the DMZ, the ONLY application which could give me VoIP was Skype (which doesn't require any setup) and MSN for video conf on the Windows 98.
I'd love to be able to do VoIP and video conf on my Linux using an open application but so far couldn't make anything pass through my NAT except Skype, and it doesn't support video-conf on Linux. My current plan is to buy enough RAM to run Skype-2/Windows-XP on top of VMware on my Debian Sarge but would love to be able to do this with a native Linux application.
Actually they care a lot about it - see Bug #289480
It's just such a complex problem to tuckle that it seems to me (as a sideline spectactor) to be stupid to block the entire Firefox train just for it. They are working on it.
Back when I worked for Sun Microsystems in 1999 we got a tour around one of the data centers in Palo Alto were shown a transformator side-room which provided DC power to plugs around the floor of the huge data-center.
Actually you remind me - a shipping company who's services I used to move my house to the other side of the world both stole stuff from my container and didn't provide services I pre-paid for. Now I'm the other side of the world and can't do much beyond call them on the phone. Every time I called from abroad they didn't answer (because they saw it's an international line) and every time I got some family member or a friend to call them they answered the first time then black-listed the number and wouldn't answer it any more. They also wouldn't answer anonymous calls.
Now with these services I can keep calling from various numbers and try to reach the busterds (or at least try to annoy them).
I'm pretty sure it's possible for the US government and large corporates to receive the source code of the commercial product as part of an agreement, or have it deposited in an escrow (as was demanded by clients which did businesses with startups I worked with).
To comapre properly - check the absolute number and percentage of attacks on Israel foiled by its security services (especially the Shin-Bet aka Shabak aka GSS) against terrorist attacks US soil.
I don't know the numbers for the US, but a few times the GSS released claims of foiling well above 95% of terrorist attacks.
And that disregards the resources which each country have to fight these attacks, or absolute number and percentage of population which condons such attacks.
Between us, as others have pointed out - in the Xen world there is not really a "host" OS a-la VMware and friends but more of an OS which runs at Ring-0 and manages Xen. I don't think that the original questioner should care which OS is this as long as he can get both Windows and Linux running in parallel on his hardware, which will be possible with the new hardware I mentioned (allowing Windows to run under Xen and therefore allowing him to share the same hardware between Windows and Linux more efficiently than the current solutions).
Or am I wrong on that account too, and he should still care to shell out the money for Longhorn Server?
About what you describe - while backpacking and learning to ski over ten years ago I was tought by numerous people I met that around 30% of the body's heat releasing is done through the head, therefore any head cover can make a difference.
I'm not sure how much the reverse is related - I think that cooling the head has more to do with letting the brain function in normal temperature instead of focusing on cooling itself with increased blood flow.
I don't remember where is this originated, but I've heard of research which came up with the conclusion that just cooling the head by 2-3 degrees celsius (4-5 fahrenheit?) helps a lot in letting a person concentrate. I think Israeli tank crews have such head coolers attached to their helmets.
Then again - a tank's crew mission is usually to stay in the tank while a humvee crew might have a need to move around more easely (but maybe just cooling their head will help to decrease the cooling unit size and weight).
The biggest news here, IMHO, is that Skype proved that their technology is actually used mostly for "other things", very legitimate things, besides "piracy". So RIAA and friends can't shut it down because "it's used mostly for illegal activity" and will have to learn to live with it, which in turn might make them come to terms with digital distribution in general.
While there are probably many examples of Cisco inventing their own "standard", usually where an industry standard is yet to emerge, but they feature prominantly in many IETF working groups and other open standards commeetis.
Granted that MS is also mentioned in some of such efforts, but still I think there is a place for Cisco to be offended from such a comparison as you used.
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Tel-aviv is in the middle of a large metro area (the Dan block), but the city of Tel-aviv itself isn't actually very large. The article refers to the municopality alone.
You can simulate this using inotify.
I don't see any news about master password and encrypted password vault (for Linux) anywhere.
Have I missed something or is it still really missing?
That's so far the only blocker for me from trying Chrome out. I can't survive without a proper password vault in my browser.
Every time I read one of those "who the F*** needs this integration?" posts I have a strong suspicion that the writer have never got around to work in a real job - he might be some school/college kid who have yet to see what real work looks like.
Thanks for the info. I have a feeling it would be a waste of time to try to run VMware on my current 512Mb of RAM but I recently saw at least two people who claim to use VMware on 512Mb. Since so far I failed to get extra memory for a good price I just might go ahead with my current memory.
Right now I plan to create an entire Windows XP virtual machine just for this - is there a way to create a machine which can run only Skype and reduce memory requirements by this? My hunch says "no" but I always have a feeling I'm missing something when it comes to tracking the VMware product lines.
If you don't care about standards then you can already buy proprietary solutions to give you that.
Just don't come back wailing when you get stuck with products from only one provider because they don't support a well-defined standard...
I know someone who already has a 108Mbps wireless network at home but he's aware that he'll have to either stick to his current vendor for new hardware, or completly replace his hardware when the time comes to upgrade.
As for myself - I'm ready to wait a couple of years for the dust (and prices, and inter-operability bugs) to settle down before I throw my money at this.
("Of course! I'm American! I want it the fast way!" - Marge Simpson agrees that Homer will blow up a jammed drawer using fire crackers)
You are right. The "R" in RSA stands for (Ron) Rivest. On the other hand, Prof. Rabin won the Turing award many many years ago...
Just thinking while writing the above - I'm not sure how much MS cares about customer goodwill - they might still feel that they got the balls of most of the market in their warm sweaty hands (which is probalby true for large parts of the market). Coming from that point of view - your statement might be "righter" for non-monopolistic players than for entities like MS.
"If the Jews are so smart then a) how did the Nazis almost wipe them out and b) why do so many of them want to live in a crappy, waterless flea-pit like Palestine?"
a) What does being smart has to do with being shot at?
b) Because they were (and at some areas still are) being prosecuted for centuries in all other parts of the world and this is the only place in the world they can call home.
You can take an example from the commercial world - I worked for startups which had to put their source code in escrow as part of pilot agreements with Fortune-100 companies.
So I don't think it's unreasonable or even extra-ordinary for the Brits to want the source too. Just prudent.
I keep remembering the news clip showing Iranian students in the 1979 Iranian revolution putting together shreded documents cought in the American embassy - they were just long strips of paper and very readable once they were put together - I find it extremly stupid that the embassy didn't have an incinerator.
My setup is an ADSL modem/router (D-Link 504G) which does firewalling and NAT'ing for my Linux and my wife's windows 98. Even when I do all the port forwarding I could configure, or even putting my Linux in the DMZ, the ONLY application which could give me VoIP was Skype (which doesn't require any setup) and MSN for video conf on the Windows 98.
I'd love to be able to do VoIP and video conf on my Linux using an open application but so far couldn't make anything pass through my NAT except Skype, and it doesn't support video-conf on Linux. My current plan is to buy enough RAM to run Skype-2/Windows-XP on top of VMware on my Debian Sarge but would love to be able to do this with a native Linux application.
Any hope from here?
It's just such a complex problem to tuckle that it seems to me (as a sideline spectactor) to be stupid to block the entire Firefox train just for it. They are working on it.
Back when I worked for Sun Microsystems in 1999 we got a tour around one of the data centers in Palo Alto were shown a transformator side-room which provided DC power to plugs around the floor of the huge data-center.
Now with these services I can keep calling from various numbers and try to reach the busterds (or at least try to annoy them).
I'd say this is a legitimate use.
I'm pretty sure it's possible for the US government and large corporates to receive the source code of the commercial product as part of an agreement, or have it deposited in an escrow (as was demanded by clients which did businesses with startups I worked with).
I don't know the numbers for the US, but a few times the GSS released claims of foiling well above 95% of terrorist attacks.
And that disregards the resources which each country have to fight these attacks, or absolute number and percentage of population which condons such attacks.
Between us, as others have pointed out - in the Xen world there is not really a "host" OS a-la VMware and friends but more of an OS which runs at Ring-0 and manages Xen. I don't think that the original questioner should care which OS is this as long as he can get both Windows and Linux running in parallel on his hardware, which will be possible with the new hardware I mentioned (allowing Windows to run under Xen and therefore allowing him to share the same hardware between Windows and Linux more efficiently than the current solutions).
Or am I wrong on that account too, and he should still care to shell out the money for Longhorn Server?
Xen 3.0 on the newer Intel/AMD chips should be able to run Windows (or any other OS) without modification to the hosted OS.
He's in Israel but still it looks nice in US format.
Other than that - kill this stupid format. YYYY-MM-DD or stating month names is the way to go to avoid this stupidity.
About what you describe - while backpacking and learning to ski over ten years ago I was tought by numerous people I met that around 30% of the body's heat releasing is done through the head, therefore any head cover can make a difference.
I'm not sure how much the reverse is related - I think that cooling the head has more to do with letting the brain function in normal temperature instead of focusing on cooling itself with increased blood flow.
Then again - a tank's crew mission is usually to stay in the tank while a humvee crew might have a need to move around more easely (but maybe just cooling their head will help to decrease the cooling unit size and weight).
The biggest news here, IMHO, is that Skype proved that their technology is actually used mostly for "other things", very legitimate things, besides "piracy". So RIAA and friends can't shut it down because "it's used mostly for illegal activity" and will have to learn to live with it, which in turn might make them come to terms with digital distribution in general.
Granted that MS is also mentioned in some of such efforts, but still I think there is a place for Cisco to be offended from such a comparison as you used.