As others have mentioned managing your own mail server on a private connection would be a nightmare.
I'd recommend you look into a fully managed VPS solution so you still have full control over everything if you want but your provider can still fix things for you when they break etc. I'd also look into a host that provides the @mail webmail interface which is similar to gmail (possibly better). This shouldn't set you back too much per month and should give you everything you need without all the headaches.
Yeah and Elop has been pretty clear that there'll be a Nokia/MeeGo device released this year.
They're hardly abandoning it. WP7 seems more of a replacement for Symbian than Maemo/MeeGo.
Online backup is definitely worth a look. I use Mozy (http://mozy.com), it costs $4.95 per month and includes unlimited storage and a handy little app which handles all your backups for you. I have ~120gb of photos and important docs backed up online. Sure the initial backup takes a while but after that it only uploads new/changed files. Oh and it's all encrypted and you can use your own key. Also, if the thought of downloading all your data if you lose it scares you then they'll send it to you on DVDs.
I always liked the idea that 'UFO's' and 'Aliens' weren't from another distant planet, but infact highly evolved humans from - say a million - years in the future traveling back in time to study their ancestors.
With the election looming and the popularity of the Labor party taking a dive the Government is dumping all sorts of unpopular policies including their much touted Emissions Trading Scheme, the disastrous Insulation Scheme and of course this ridiculous Internet filter. Of course if Australia votes them in again, they'll say they have a mandate for this filter but the opposition is pretty much a joke. *Sigh*
Banks must roll differently stateside, here in Australia my visa debit card has been compromised twice. Both times I was contacted by the bank (different banks in each case) before I even knew what was going on. They had a new card and number out to me in 3 days and the dodgy charges were refunded by the time I logged on to my internet banking to check.
Another time I was on my honeymoon and the resort we were staying at put a rather large hold of funds on my visa debit card. My bank rang me and said they had a large charge on my card and asked if it was ok.
That implies they care about universal enforcement of the law. They don't really care if someone whines about a traffic fine anonymously on the blog. No, they'll go after "particular" offenders, or they'll use it to punish dissidents they particularly dislike after already having them so they have something that can stick. That's how modern democracy works, after all--enough laws and you'll be able to nail someone on something eventually.
You are correct, it seems Atkinson had a particular bee in his bonnet about a 'fictitious' Liberal Party mouthpiece. Turns out the guy exists...
Yesterday, on radio station FIVEaa, defending his internet censorship laws, Mr Atkinson said the new legislation was necessary because people such as Mr Fornarino were plants for the Liberal Party.
"I'll give you an example; repeatedly in the AdelaideNow website one will see commentary from Aaron Fornarino of West Croydon. That person doesn't exist," he said.
"That name has been created by the Liberal Party in order to run Liberal Party commentary."
When asked how he knew Mr Fornarino did not exist, Mr Atkinson said: "Because I've been the member for the area for 20 years, I've lived here for longer.
"I have the up-to-date electoral roll and I just know West Croydon people very well."
But Mr Fornarino does exist. He lives in a flat on Port Rd, about 500m from Mr Atkinson's electorate office.
I would recommend a fixed wireless terminal like the Ericsson W35 unit: http://www.ericssonw35.com/
They support 3g and 2g networks. 2100/1900/850mhz and 2100/1900/900mhz 3g flavours available depending on your preferred carrier.
Built in wlan and lan switch makes it pretty easy to connect all your devices. Best of all you can hookup an external antenna to boost your signal.
We use these a lot on remote mine sites etc. and they're quite robust and solid enough to keep up an ipsec tunnel 99% of the time.
If there was a phone with the openness of Android/WebOS, the polish of the iPhone, the large amount of networks like the BlackBerry, all in one phone it would sell like crazy.
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/
I used a few early betas of this and although not free is probably the closet thing to photoshop out there.
From the news it looks like a publisher has picked it up and it will be available 'real soon now' in Linux, MacOSX and Windows flavours.
The biggest problem I see on the roads are large cars being driven around with only 1 person in them! How "fuel efficient" is that?
About 9 months ago I got sick of paying high prices for petrol and wanted to do my bit for the environment, so I got my motorbike license and purchased a 125cc scooter. I haven't looked back. Now my wife and I only have two vehicles, a small 2.0 litre car and a 125cc scooter. These two vehicles are fine for everything we need them for.
While I admit scooters aren't right for everybody, they are definitely a possibility for the majority of people. When I try and encourage other people to do their bit and buy a scooter they often come back with the following responses...
"They don't work out that much cheaper once you buy everything." - Complete BS, sure there's a little bit involved in the outlay (Scooter AUD$3000, license/training AUD$500, gear AUD$500, rego AUD$350, comp. insurance AUD$200) but once you're up and running these things run on the whiff of an oily rag. Consider it an investment. Right now I'm doing about 150km per week to and from work (and a little bit of running around on the weekends), I'm averaging about 30km per litre! It costs me around AUD$9 per week to fill up, that's with 98RON premium mind you! So you do the sums and see how much it will save you.
"Scooters are dangerous, you could get killed." - Again, complete BS. I was sceptical about how everyone kept saying how dangerous riding a scooter would be. So I did my research and contacted my state's Transport Authority. The stats were even surprising to a sceptic. In the past four years in my state there's been one fatality on a scooter and only three other fatalities on motorcycles less than 250cc. Once you go over 250cc, people seem to become retards and there are a lot more deaths. Mind you, 2/3 of those were with stationary objects i.e. poles, parked cars etc. People forget too that on a scooter you're a much smaller target and much more agile. The main risk I've faced seems to be people coming into my lane without checking blind spots. In all cases I've been able to successfully swerve/break/accelerate out of the way.
"What about riding in the rain, you'll get wet." - No, you don't if you have the right gear. I bought a weatherproof clothing straight up. I wear this gear over my normal business attire with leather shoes and I'm yet to get wet. I've even ridden in hail and I didn't feel a thing!
"You can't carry much stuff on them." - This is the only place where scooters fall down slightly. But still, scooters offer a few storage options. Most come with storage under the seats - big enough for a bag or your helmet. There's usually a bag hook to hang some shopping bags, you can get a top box put on the back for more storage and I also wear a back pack.
"They're too slow and therefore dangerous." - This is true for the 50cc scooters, which I believe are only suitable for inner city riding. But my 125cc will top out at about 100km/h and will happily cruise at about 90km/h. They are also *very* quick off the line.
...program the camera to do something that will get the intruder's attention before snapping a photo... Just forcing the camera to use red eye reduction should do the trick. Though once the burglar realises the camera is there they may try to destroy it.
Pfft... touch screens. I suspect it won't be long before computers simply type what we think and I can't see any problems with that whatsoman I'm hungry.
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Trying to argue that EA should release mainstream games on Linux will get you absolutely nowhere.
How about if they just helped the WINE community to get their games running decently on WINE. Surely that's just a win win situation with minimal effort.
A lot of their games are probably most of the way there. I recently installed FIFA 08 under WINE on Ubuntu and it almost worked perfectly. Two problems: gamepads wouldn't work correctly and the ball was grey. If they could help the WINE developers solve those problems, you'd have a fully functional "port" with minimal effort.
If EA put a little logo on their boxes i.e. "Works on WINE" I'd buy more games for sure.
My wife worked hours like that... for a while. 5 months later she was burnt out and has just now started a job with regular hours. The thing about the four day system is that you have to make sure you wont be expected to work outside of those hours. Her boss was asking her to go into to work on the odd Saturday and Wednesday off, or on occasion start a bit earlier. Before long she was averaging 45-50+ hours a week and in a physical job which she was doing, that's not a good thing. Just be careful.
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As others have mentioned managing your own mail server on a private connection would be a nightmare.
I'd recommend you look into a fully managed VPS solution so you still have full control over everything if you want but your provider can still fix things for you when they break etc. I'd also look into a host that provides the @mail webmail interface which is similar to gmail (possibly better). This shouldn't set you back too much per month and should give you everything you need without all the headaches.
Yeah and Elop has been pretty clear that there'll be a Nokia/MeeGo device released this year. They're hardly abandoning it. WP7 seems more of a replacement for Symbian than Maemo/MeeGo.
Online backup is definitely worth a look. I use Mozy (http://mozy.com), it costs $4.95 per month and includes unlimited storage and a handy little app which handles all your backups for you. I have ~120gb of photos and important docs backed up online. Sure the initial backup takes a while but after that it only uploads new/changed files. Oh and it's all encrypted and you can use your own key. Also, if the thought of downloading all your data if you lose it scares you then they'll send it to you on DVDs.
I always liked the idea that 'UFO's' and 'Aliens' weren't from another distant planet, but infact highly evolved humans from - say a million - years in the future traveling back in time to study their ancestors.
With the election looming and the popularity of the Labor party taking a dive the Government is dumping all sorts of unpopular policies including their much touted Emissions Trading Scheme, the disastrous Insulation Scheme and of course this ridiculous Internet filter. Of course if Australia votes them in again, they'll say they have a mandate for this filter but the opposition is pretty much a joke. *Sigh*
Hmmm... I know, how about Flash!
Banks must roll differently stateside, here in Australia my visa debit card has been compromised twice. Both times I was contacted by the bank (different banks in each case) before I even knew what was going on. They had a new card and number out to me in 3 days and the dodgy charges were refunded by the time I logged on to my internet banking to check.
Another time I was on my honeymoon and the resort we were staying at put a rather large hold of funds on my visa debit card. My bank rang me and said they had a large charge on my card and asked if it was ok.
Impressive all round.
You are correct, it seems Atkinson had a particular bee in his bonnet about a 'fictitious' Liberal Party mouthpiece. Turns out the guy exists...
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/mike-meet-aaron-he-lives-500m-from-your-office/story-e6frea6u-1225826082741
Whoops.
Awesome bar is awesome.
Biggest. Haiku. Ever.
I would recommend a fixed wireless terminal like the Ericsson W35 unit: http://www.ericssonw35.com/ They support 3g and 2g networks. 2100/1900/850mhz and 2100/1900/900mhz 3g flavours available depending on your preferred carrier. Built in wlan and lan switch makes it pretty easy to connect all your devices. Best of all you can hookup an external antenna to boost your signal. We use these a lot on remote mine sites etc. and they're quite robust and solid enough to keep up an ipsec tunnel 99% of the time.
If there was a phone with the openness of Android/WebOS, the polish of the iPhone, the large amount of networks like the BlackBerry, all in one phone it would sell like crazy.
You may be interested in this: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/ I used a few early betas of this and although not free is probably the closet thing to photoshop out there. From the news it looks like a publisher has picked it up and it will be available 'real soon now' in Linux, MacOSX and Windows flavours.
The biggest problem I see on the roads are large cars being driven around with only 1 person in them! How "fuel efficient" is that?
About 9 months ago I got sick of paying high prices for petrol and wanted to do my bit for the environment, so I got my motorbike license and purchased a 125cc scooter. I haven't looked back. Now my wife and I only have two vehicles, a small 2.0 litre car and a 125cc scooter. These two vehicles are fine for everything we need them for.
While I admit scooters aren't right for everybody, they are definitely a possibility for the majority of people. When I try and encourage other people to do their bit and buy a scooter they often come back with the following responses...
"They don't work out that much cheaper once you buy everything." - Complete BS, sure there's a little bit involved in the outlay (Scooter AUD$3000, license/training AUD$500, gear AUD$500, rego AUD$350, comp. insurance AUD$200) but once you're up and running these things run on the whiff of an oily rag. Consider it an investment. Right now I'm doing about 150km per week to and from work (and a little bit of running around on the weekends), I'm averaging about 30km per litre! It costs me around AUD$9 per week to fill up, that's with 98RON premium mind you! So you do the sums and see how much it will save you.
"Scooters are dangerous, you could get killed." - Again, complete BS. I was sceptical about how everyone kept saying how dangerous riding a scooter would be. So I did my research and contacted my state's Transport Authority. The stats were even surprising to a sceptic. In the past four years in my state there's been one fatality on a scooter and only three other fatalities on motorcycles less than 250cc. Once you go over 250cc, people seem to become retards and there are a lot more deaths. Mind you, 2/3 of those were with stationary objects i.e. poles, parked cars etc. People forget too that on a scooter you're a much smaller target and much more agile. The main risk I've faced seems to be people coming into my lane without checking blind spots. In all cases I've been able to successfully swerve/break/accelerate out of the way.
"What about riding in the rain, you'll get wet." - No, you don't if you have the right gear. I bought a weatherproof clothing straight up. I wear this gear over my normal business attire with leather shoes and I'm yet to get wet. I've even ridden in hail and I didn't feel a thing!
"You can't carry much stuff on them." - This is the only place where scooters fall down slightly. But still, scooters offer a few storage options. Most come with storage under the seats - big enough for a bag or your helmet. There's usually a bag hook to hang some shopping bags, you can get a top box put on the back for more storage and I also wear a back pack.
"They're too slow and therefore dangerous." - This is true for the 50cc scooters, which I believe are only suitable for inner city riding. But my 125cc will top out at about 100km/h and will happily cruise at about 90km/h. They are also *very* quick off the line.
Did I also mention they're very FUN to ride?
So what's your excuse?
At least in Australia we know your corps are all run by criminals. ;P
Yeah America keeps sending them over here for some reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Trujillo
...program the camera to do something that will get the intruder's attention before snapping a photo... Just forcing the camera to use red eye reduction should do the trick. Though once the burglar realises the camera is there they may try to destroy it.Already invented. It's called my wife's Motorola V3X running low on battery in the middle of the night.
Pfft... touch screens. I suspect it won't be long before computers simply type what we think and I can't see any problems with that whatsoman I'm hungry.
Trying to argue that EA should release mainstream games on Linux will get you absolutely nowhere.
How about if they just helped the WINE community to get their games running decently on WINE. Surely that's just a win win situation with minimal effort.
A lot of their games are probably most of the way there. I recently installed FIFA 08 under WINE on Ubuntu and it almost worked perfectly. Two problems: gamepads wouldn't work correctly and the ball was grey. If they could help the WINE developers solve those problems, you'd have a fully functional "port" with minimal effort.
If EA put a little logo on their boxes i.e. "Works on WINE" I'd buy more games for sure.
Try: http://www.heidisql.com/
I think the correct car analogy would be if Ford only allowed you to put a certain brand of petrol/gas in your car.
Yeah, but you have to put the laptop together yourself... with an Allen Key.
My wife worked hours like that... for a while. 5 months later she was burnt out and has just now started a job with regular hours. The thing about the four day system is that you have to make sure you wont be expected to work outside of those hours. Her boss was asking her to go into to work on the odd Saturday and Wednesday off, or on occasion start a bit earlier. Before long she was averaging 45-50+ hours a week and in a physical job which she was doing, that's not a good thing. Just be careful.
We are human, we are rule breakers. It's built into us. When we have a problem we bend the rules to suit us.