damn near every PC laptop larger than a netbook has a trackpad shifted way the hell over to the left.
I noticed this trend a couple of weeks ago. I'm a leftie, so I just thought it was kewlcool. It seems that the touchpad in usually centered at the G, H keys which on most laptops are not at the center.
There's still a lot to be said about a service which allows you to find "anyone" you have met and communicate with them. That wasn't nearly as practical before Facebook.
Probably my guess for 100W was a bit low, but it's probably lower than 1750lm too. I found a list of efficacies of various light sources in Wikipedia and there it seems to be about 1400lm. But yeah.
I also recently installed a bunch of 9W Philips LEDs (E27 socket) and by eye I would estimate each one to produce at least as much of light than a 60W incandescent.
Although a 100W incandescent is in reality something like 1000..1200lm, not 1700lm like the article says. So the LED should be quite efficient after all. It looks funky, too.
This hanger system does not have to be an extra-proof secured system with all corner-cases solved to still be useful in many situations. That situation can even be improved by having labels in the hangers and have staff replace the clothes if someone still puts them into wrong ones.
What I see here is that people have discovered "hey, I can download stuff for free" and then just make up all sorts of excuses like "RIAA suppresses innovation" to desperately justify what they are doing.
Before reading, I was thinking the article was about tuning some TCP/IP parameters or similar to confuse the actual blocking mechanism, thus letting you use the address normally.
While I'm "platform-agnostic" and see no problem using Linux for projects, it bothers me too how often Linux is here the right way to do things or how open source makes everything automatically good. Almost never there is an article which would solely focus on Windows or Mac administration. It just paints a bit boring, one-perspective world view.
Unfortunately there's lots of brokenness like that in Linux distros. Things work generally nicely, but when you even slightly fall off the beaten path, there is not enough robustness to handle the condition. You might get some completely wrong error message and somewhere deep is just a script failing with an obscure "Invalid argument".
There should be more attention for things like this than the hipster desktop environment of the month...
yes, until mom needs word processor (cloud services like google doc don't count), and the ability to watch movies their kids email her of a newborn. The point is, while you could help your mom install linux or whatever other app she needs initially, she can't go out and download or buy additional software on her own, and then install it on her own.
I enjoy linux as any other, but I don't think it passes the grandma test yet.
It's hard to say if grandma is really in a worse position here with Linux. As we know, usually you have all the programs (browser, word processor, movie player...) already installed, while in Windows you have to install all kinds of stuff separately.
That being said, Linux is indeed having bad problems supporting third party stuff. There is currently no easy and unified ways of installing apps or drivers if they come outside of the distribution.:(
Does someone know what's the case with Windows 7? Let's say I install the original gold master of Win7 and apply no patches, leave it with a public IP address but don't otherwise do anything. Is the box vulnerable?
PHP is so inconsistent it hurts. So error-prone it makes Windows look perfect. No, learning quirks is not how you learn languages.
Just a shame so many people use it because "yeeaaah open souuurce!"
Another reason is probably that you can learn PHP quite easily and get results fast.
2: The good old problem with hardware support. All old desktops will have XP drivers, but the same can't be said for Linux drivers. (And when they do, depending on the hardware and type, they sometimes won't work as just generic.ko modules, but need special hooks in the kernel, see #1) You have to do your homework to know you get hardware you can fully use under Linux.
While it's true you still have to do some homework, driver support is something that actually has improved tremendously for Linux over the past 10 years.:)
Making installing third party drivers easier can improve the situation even more. It would be fantastic if you could just double-click some driver package, enter sudo credentials, and that's it.
Basically if any conditions change in user's personality of physiology, or computer's configuration, or your routine daily tasks security app would be useless.
That does not immediately make the software completely useless. It still works when you are functioning in your mainline. During days which your behavior is deviant enough, you might just disable the feature for a while, or something.
And even if it would still get too much in your way, you could make it so that instead of completely locking the session, it would simply log the spurious events so you could check them if necessary.
The problem with this is that people will forget the password, or it will be really weak so they dont't have trouble remembering it the 3 times a year they need it.
They can use their normal account password to get back. The mouse-movement-thing is just something extra that stops the action if someone else starts screwing with an unlocked, logged-in workstation.
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You could meta-argue further even that, as we recently had the story about global broadband speeds dropping.
damn near every PC laptop larger than a netbook has a trackpad shifted way the hell over to the left.
I noticed this trend a couple of weeks ago. I'm a leftie, so I just thought it was kewlcool. It seems that the touchpad in usually centered at the G, H keys which on most laptops are not at the center.
There's still a lot to be said about a service which allows you to find "anyone" you have met and communicate with them. That wasn't nearly as practical before Facebook.
Probably my guess for 100W was a bit low, but it's probably lower than 1750lm too. I found a list of efficacies of various light sources in Wikipedia and there it seems to be about 1400lm. But yeah.
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Have you considered the option of running only OSX natively and Windows and Linux in virtual machines? It might make things a bit neater.
I also recently installed a bunch of 9W Philips LEDs (E27 socket) and by eye I would estimate each one to produce at least as much of light than a 60W incandescent.
Although a 100W incandescent is in reality something like 1000..1200lm, not 1700lm like the article says. So the LED should be quite efficient after all. It looks funky, too.
This hanger system does not have to be an extra-proof secured system with all corner-cases solved to still be useful in many situations. That situation can even be improved by having labels in the hangers and have staff replace the clothes if someone still puts them into wrong ones.
Who's the naked person in the garden?
What I see here is that people have discovered "hey, I can download stuff for free" and then just make up all sorts of excuses like "RIAA suppresses innovation" to desperately justify what they are doing.
Before reading, I was thinking the article was about tuning some TCP/IP parameters or similar to confuse the actual blocking mechanism, thus letting you use the address normally.
Well, I drove off a cliff anyway.
While I'm "platform-agnostic" and see no problem using Linux for projects, it bothers me too how often Linux is here the right way to do things or how open source makes everything automatically good. Almost never there is an article which would solely focus on Windows or Mac administration. It just paints a bit boring, one-perspective world view.
I guess it all depends how well you multitask. For example I'm driving right now and playing Angry Birds while typing this message. I really don
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Unfortunately there's lots of brokenness like that in Linux distros. Things work generally nicely, but when you even slightly fall off the beaten path, there is not enough robustness to handle the condition. You might get some completely wrong error message and somewhere deep is just a script failing with an obscure "Invalid argument".
There should be more attention for things like this than the hipster desktop environment of the month...
yes, until mom needs word processor (cloud services like google doc don't count), and the ability to watch movies their kids email her of a newborn. The point is, while you could help your mom install linux or whatever other app she needs initially, she can't go out and download or buy additional software on her own, and then install it on her own.
I enjoy linux as any other, but I don't think it passes the grandma test yet.
It's hard to say if grandma is really in a worse position here with Linux. As we know, usually you have all the programs (browser, word processor, movie player...) already installed, while in Windows you have to install all kinds of stuff separately.
That being said, Linux is indeed having bad problems supporting third party stuff. There is currently no easy and unified ways of installing apps or drivers if they come outside of the distribution. :(
Does someone know what's the case with Windows 7? Let's say I install the original gold master of Win7 and apply no patches, leave it with a public IP address but don't otherwise do anything. Is the box vulnerable?
Hmm. So is the "Burn disc image" menu option missing when he right-clicks the file?
PHP is so inconsistent it hurts. So error-prone it makes Windows look perfect. No, learning quirks is not how you learn languages. Just a shame so many people use it because "yeeaaah open souuurce!"
Another reason is probably that you can learn PHP quite easily and get results fast.
<?php print("Hello world!"); ?>
Or PowerShell.
2: The good old problem with hardware support. All old desktops will have XP drivers, but the same can't be said for Linux drivers. (And when they do, depending on the hardware and type, they sometimes won't work as just generic .ko modules, but need special hooks in the kernel, see #1) You have to do your homework to know you get hardware you can fully use under Linux.
While it's true you still have to do some homework, driver support is something that actually has improved tremendously for Linux over the past 10 years. :)
Making installing third party drivers easier can improve the situation even more. It would be fantastic if you could just double-click some driver package, enter sudo credentials, and that's it.
Only if you remember to brush your teeth with thermal paste.
There's probably many other sources too that can be used. For example a webcam with some face detection.
Basically if any conditions change in user's personality of physiology, or computer's configuration, or your routine daily tasks security app would be useless.
That does not immediately make the software completely useless. It still works when you are functioning in your mainline. During days which your behavior is deviant enough, you might just disable the feature for a while, or something.
And even if it would still get too much in your way, you could make it so that instead of completely locking the session, it would simply log the spurious events so you could check them if necessary.
The problem with this is that people will forget the password, or it will be really weak so they dont't have trouble remembering it the 3 times a year they need it.
They can use their normal account password to get back. The mouse-movement-thing is just something extra that stops the action if someone else starts screwing with an unlocked, logged-in workstation.