Re:These are just preliminary hacks
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Hacking the XO Laptop
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Opera, on the other hand, gets worse results display wise.
It's working great for me. I'm posting from my OLPC XO right now, from the Opera browser. The XO is great. It's small, light, and rugged. Not only does Opera work, but so does wvdial, so when I'm in the field in rural locations I'm able to use my cellphone as a tethered modem. Works great for reading pdf's and ebooks, too. The Youtube vids are a bit slow, but I've got a developer key so I can try out other optimized linux distributions made for multimedia performance.
Maybe you should try one if they offer the "Give-One-Get-One" program again. Maybe the kid who gets the XO you donate will create hacks you might find satisfactory.
The fact remains that OLPCNews has not been forthcoming with disclosing the connection between Intel and the blog founder. Burying the association between Intel in obscure link trails that first lead off-site, and then back onsite to a post in a comment section is hardly full disclosure of the fact that Wayan Vota, the founder of the OLPCNews blog was not just "an employee" of Geekcorps, he was the Director.
Geekcorps (with Wayan as the Director) was promoting the Intel Classmate PC to developing countries at the same time that Wayan was operating the ostensibly independent "OLPCNews" blog. The Intel Classmate PC is a competitor to the OLPC XO device, and Intel has been accused of using it's market presence to undermine the efforts and goals of the OLPC foundation. The manner in which this association has been hidden may give new meaning to the term, "security through obscurity."
it costs too much and isn't being used in anyway that it keeps being promoted as being.
I call bullshit. What costs more, the OLPC or the Intel Classmate? Even with the Intel subsidy of their classmate PC, it costs more than the XO. The OLPC XO is being used for its purpose of educating children in every area where it has been deployed to students.
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KDE 4.0 Is Out
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from my own toying it really does seem to be quite feature incomplete
Yes, it still suffers from the main problems in RC2, which are summarized here.
If every one of MS' customers went on a subscription program, the BSA would be nearly put out of business, at least for enforcement of MS software.
I think you mean, as long as MS' customers stay on the subscription program, they might not be threatened by the BSA.
Also, blaming small business IT for not having the resources to manage the completely unmanageable tangle of Microsoft licensing is unfair. The BSA built it's extortion racket based on Microsoft's history of changing licenses with updates and service packs, along with changing terms regarding the interactions of legacy Microsoft products with new Microsoft products -- can you tell me off the top of your head how many client access licenses (CALs) can be transferred from a Windows 2000 server to the new Windows Server 2008? Who do you ask? Did you know that Microsoft can't even keep it's server certificates up to date?
Read all the licenses, and get back to me about the CALs. Until then, STFU about ignorance.
Auto dealers talk about "open pricing options." Real estate agents hold "open houses" all the time...
Interesting comparisons. Autos and houses are too expensive to be purchased upfront. Is Microsoft admitting as much regarding the cost of their software?
Don't forget that autos and houses get reposessed, but you get to keep the belongings you have inside them. Can the same be said for the information that is stored on an Exchange server? And the collection arm of Microsoft -- the Business Software Alliance (BSA) -- loves to target small businesses on even the flimsiest of evidence. Microsoft's new licensing program will give the BSA a ready made target list. And the BSA sets the price.
That "auto" you owed $10,000 on? Now you owe $150,000. That's Microsoft Open.
That just means the Gnome stuff in 8.04 will receive security updates longer than the KDE stuff in 8.04.
Yeah, and those updates will just embed the Microsoft hooks deeper into gnome. Microsoft will be waiting to reel in people using gnome in any Linux distribution other than Novell.
Now, you're going to think about whether this comment will be marked "funny", or "insightful".
I heard the Slashdot crew was considering a mod category called "perverse", but they dropped the idea when they couldn't decide whether it should be a plus one or a minus one.
Well, 3522 comments ought to be enough for anybody...
Maybe that's why Microsoft stopped counting at 3522, instead of the actual number of ten thousand. And the Computerworld article says the 3500+ list hasn't been trimmed of "overlapping" comments yet.
One crime? How about obstruction of justice by deleting the MySpace account? Hampering an investigation by telling a witness to withold information? There could have been sexual discussion between Megan and the adult, which opens a whole range of charges. And there's also the fact that others were drawn into the charade, including a minor.
And you must be a hell of a foosball fan to think that what the Meiers did to that table (while it was in their house) was a crime, and to compare the severity of that with the dead body of a 13 year old girl.
When someone posts your address online over an alleged crime or slight...
When Curt and Lori Drew filed charges against the Meiers (the victim's parents) for destroying the foosball table that they had asked (after their sick "prank" had driven the Meiers' daughter to suicide) the Meiers to store in their house, they put their own names out in public. Read the story. When the Meiers learned of the Drews' direct involvement in causing the death of their daughter, they busted up the foosball table and dumped it on the Drews' lawn. The Drews then had the gall to file charges for property damage against the Meiers. In the police report, Lori Drew said she kind of felt bad until she found out at Megan's funeral that Megan was unstable and may have attempted suicide in the past. That made her feel better. Holy cow! That's lower than snake shit.
Again, if the Drews hadn't filed charges against the Meiers for destroying the foosball table, it would have been harder to find out who they were. The Drews put themselves on the official public record.
That must have been one killer foosball table, because the Sheriff, the DA, and the Drews all think it's worth more than Megan Meiers life.
Such is life. John Conway's game of life, that is. And it's been around a lot longer than this rebranded form of cellular automaton called "Swarm Theory" has. Note that Conway also worked at Princeton. Small world, and smaller attribution.
in addition to that, we know the general composition of the sun which shouldn't deviate too much from the composition of soalr wind so if we find something statistically off about the oxygen/nitrogen composition then we know that it is likely that the samples were contaminated.
In other words, if they find only what they expect (or want) to find, they can conclude that the samples are valid? Or, conversely, if they find something that is different than their theories predict, they can conclude that the samples must be contaminated?
I'll never forget that crashed UFO in a crater picture.
It looks like a turd waiting to be painted gold.
Yeah, the instruments and samples were so delicate that the researchers were afraid that a parachute landing would be too hard and destroy the samples. But, but, wait! We really didn't need the helicopters.
And parachutes? We don't need no stinking parachutes!.
if, and when, a better tool is available, I'll find out the pros and cons of switching and make my decision based on the facts at hand and the recommendations of those I trust.
Why don't you ask your sister the bartender? I'll bet she'll be serving a lot of tonics to your IT staff as they struggle to implement the unimplementable for their clueless boss who views them as "wait staff".
...Novell being one of the 5 biggest contributers to open source...
Don't forget Moonlight, where Novell doesn't care if they put Microsoft patented code into it. Miguel de Icaza says Novell isn't concerned about distributing Microsoft tainted code in Moonlight because Novell has an "agreement" with Microsoft. I would have provided a link to Miguel's blog, but it's now been restricted.
Novell's future contributions to any open source project have to be considered as patent-traps. It's their policy now.
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Shakespeare of the net.
Maybe you should try one if they offer the "Give-One-Get-One" program again. Maybe the kid who gets the XO you donate will create hacks you might find satisfactory.
The fact remains that OLPCNews has not been forthcoming with disclosing the connection between Intel and the blog founder. Burying the association between Intel in obscure link trails that first lead off-site, and then back onsite to a post in a comment section is hardly full disclosure of the fact that Wayan Vota, the founder of the OLPCNews blog was not just "an employee" of Geekcorps, he was the Director.
Here's a quick summary of Geekcorps -- IESC Geekcorps, a $10.5 million portfolio of technology-focused international development programs operating in nine countries, for the International Executive Service Corps. And, "Geekcorps has partnered with Intel Emerging Markets Group in Intels Discover the PC initiative focused on delivering products and technologies that are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of people in emerging markets."
Geekcorps (with Wayan as the Director) was promoting the Intel Classmate PC to developing countries at the same time that Wayan was operating the ostensibly independent "OLPCNews" blog. The Intel Classmate PC is a competitor to the OLPC XO device, and Intel has been accused of using it's market presence to undermine the efforts and goals of the OLPC foundation. The manner in which this association has been hidden may give new meaning to the term, "security through obscurity."
Also, blaming small business IT for not having the resources to manage the completely unmanageable tangle of Microsoft licensing is unfair. The BSA built it's extortion racket based on Microsoft's history of changing licenses with updates and service packs, along with changing terms regarding the interactions of legacy Microsoft products with new Microsoft products -- can you tell me off the top of your head how many client access licenses (CALs) can be transferred from a Windows 2000 server to the new Windows Server 2008? Who do you ask? Did you know that Microsoft can't even keep it's server certificates up to date?
Read all the licenses, and get back to me about the CALs. Until then, STFU about ignorance.
Don't forget that autos and houses get reposessed, but you get to keep the belongings you have inside them. Can the same be said for the information that is stored on an Exchange server? And the collection arm of Microsoft -- the Business Software Alliance (BSA) -- loves to target small businesses on even the flimsiest of evidence. Microsoft's new licensing program will give the BSA a ready made target list. And the BSA sets the price.
That "auto" you owed $10,000 on? Now you owe $150,000. That's Microsoft Open.
And you must be a hell of a foosball fan to think that what the Meiers did to that table (while it was in their house) was a crime, and to compare the severity of that with the dead body of a 13 year old girl.
Read the story, and note who filed a police report. They put themselves on the public record a long time ago.
Again, if the Drews hadn't filed charges against the Meiers for destroying the foosball table, it would have been harder to find out who they were. The Drews put themselves on the official public record.
That must have been one killer foosball table, because the Sheriff, the DA, and the Drews all think it's worth more than Megan Meiers life.
Such is life. John Conway's game of life, that is. And it's been around a lot longer than this rebranded form of cellular automaton called "Swarm Theory" has. Note that Conway also worked at Princeton. Small world, and smaller attribution.
Looks like we've been fooled again.
Why did they even bother to launch the probe?
Yeah, the instruments and samples were so delicate that the researchers were afraid that a parachute landing would be too hard and destroy the samples. But, but, wait! We really didn't need the helicopters.
And parachutes? We don't need no stinking parachutes!.
Novell's future contributions to any open source project have to be considered as patent-traps. It's their policy now.
novell microsoft patent cross-licensing
I think there are a lot of people who disagree with you.