10 Euro a day? Somebody's severely deluding himself here, or my name's not Napoleon.
I pay ~21 Euro (199 SEK) a *month* for roaming WiFi in Stockholm, and the only reason I pay that at all is because I can't access any free hotspots reliably from the café where I like to work. I suppose I could find another hangout, but it's close to our office and the owner's a friend of mine - I figure all the free coffee more than offsets what I pay for the RoverRabbit subscription.
It's those modules that let you type "ftp://" "sftp;//" "smb://" "webdav://" or "nfs://" addresses... Dunno about Gnome, but with KDE you don't even need to do that - just type "fish://" and the path starting with the remote hostname or IP address, and let KIO do the work of figuring out which protocol to use - ftp, sftp, scp, smb, or whatever. It'll even use rsync if the client's available on on the remote machine and nothing else is running there. Works in Konqueror and (most if not) all KDE apps, so you can use it to edit files remotely as well. Works on my employer's VPN, too.
Unfortunately Scandinavian countries have allow almost no immigration... Dunno which Scandinavia you're talking about, but the one I'm currently living in seems a bit different in that wise, and according to Wikipedia's article on Sweden,
As of April 2007, the total population of Sweden was estimated to be 9,131,425.... The population exceeded 9,000,000 for the first time as of approximately 12 August 2004 according to... Statistics Sweden. Of the 2004 population, 1.1 million, or 12%, were foreign-born and approximately 16.7% (1.53 million) had at least one parent born abroad or were themselves born abroad.... In 2006, immigration to Sweden reached its highest level since records began. I didn't have much trouble obtaining a visa to live and work here - my employer asked me to transfer here, and vouched for me with Migrationsverket.
Otherwise, I suppose I would have had to learn to play the accordion.;)
...100mbit both directions, full duplex for 200SEK a month, or ~$15. How did you manage this? I'm also a B2 customer, live in Stockholm, and I get 20 Mb down, 3 up for 349 kr/month. Now I guess I understand why they sounded so apologetic when they told me this was the best I could get in my neighbourhood, and said they'd make it up to me by tossing in a free modem/router, free phone line, free installation, and my first 2 months service free.
Which, now that I think of it, is 12 times faster than what I had in Australia, at 25% of the cost, and no bandwidth cap.
Then there's MySQL, which was made a platform on the basis of open source good will, and is now making quiet efforts to cut off enterprise level tools from non-paying customers. Which is a real boon to those who those who all these years thought they were working towards the lofty goal of enterprise quality tools free for all.... That's what I mean by co-opting other peoples code. The only thing MySQL isn't distributing anymore is the Enterprise tarballs. You can still get the Enterprise sources from the repository at http://mysql.bkbits.net/, as noted in the article you cited. The Community tarballs (and binaries) can be obtained from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/, or you can access the Community repository at bkbits.net. As for the tools, tarballs and binaries are also available at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/, and the repositories can be accessed via http://svn.mysql.com/.
I can see that he got modded up 5, Funny, and that you and one other person apparently didn't get the joke. (If I might indulge in a nearly-recent./ meme: Whoosh.)
Nor do you appear to know twitter nearly as well as you think you do.
Actually, if you bother to follow the links, they lead to this:
...James Plamondon, a Microsoft technical evangelist, in a 1996 speech referred to independent software developers as 'pawns' and compared wooing them to trying to win over a one-night stand. Last week's proceedings also included testimony by Ronald Alepin, a former CTO at Fujitsu Software Corp. and currently an adviser to the law firm Morrison Foerster LLP. He said that Lotus 1-2-3 was killed, in part, by Microsoft encouraging Lotus's programmers to use the Windows API even though Microsoft's own developers found it too complicated to use.
So you're flaming twitter for quoting a Microsoft rep?
Showing ads related to your search term on Google or Yahoo hardly counts as "spyware". -- Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option. I'd argue that, in this case, Slashdot needs a "-1, Stupid" moderation option.
You only get feedback for being metamoderated as "Unfair". I actually saw quite a string of these for a while.
I'm not exactly new here. I've always had good-to-excellent karma, had mod points fairly often, usually used them (although not always), and metamoderated pretty frequently (whenever eligible, pretty much). I like to think I've been pretty evenhanded all round (posting, moderation, metamod).
However, a couple of years ago, there was a spell of about 2 months where most if not all of my moderations got negatively metamoderated. I've no idea why - all I know is that I noticed that it'd stopped about the same time I noticed that one of the editors wasn't posting any more stories, and I've not been metamodded (or at least not got any notices about it) since then.
I never (knowingly) had any dealings with the guy, so make of that what you will.
I've visited Thailand several times, have many friends there, and even speak a bit of the language. (FWIW I'm also a convert to Theravada Buddhism.)
I was in Thailand at the time of the September coup, and I personally viewed groups of people giving flowers and treats to the soldiers, and thanking them for their support of the King. The "junta" have ruled with a very light hand, and not many Thais seem to miss Thaksin (the PM that got the boot).
As for the laws about lèse majesté: The Thais make it very clear when you visit that you don't insult the King or desecrate his likeness, and that you're subject to criminal penalties if you do so. (The same things are true with respect to the Buddhist religion, likenesses of the Buddha, temples, monks, etc.) The law notwithstanding, an insult against the King is regarded by Thais as an affront against themselves and their country. Anybody who wishes to do these things is not welcome in Thailand and should not go there. Anyone who goes and does these things should be prepared for the consequences. It's that simple.
The King did not set up a cult of personality about himself, and to compare him with Kim-Il Sung (or by extension Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc.) in this regard is totally wide of the mark. In fact, he himself has said, "...I must also be criticised. I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the king cannot be criticised, it means that the king is not human."
The King is revered in large part because:
- He and his ancestors kept the country from being colonised by foreign powers in the 17th-20th centuries - no small feat, and Thailand is the only East Asian country other than Japan that can make that claim.
- He represents a focal point for the cultural, social, and religious unity of the Thai people in the face of a world that is non-Thai and largely non-Buddhist. I should point out that the Thais by and large welcome outside visitors and ideas, but they don't want to lose their Thai-ness as a result of these.
- He sets an example for his people in the realms of education, cultrue, and religion (among other things, he's educated as an MD, he's an accomplished musician and composer, spent some time as a monk, and he's been responsible for several major civil engineering projects, some of which he's paid for out of his own funds), and holds a UN Human Development Lifetime Achievement Award
- He has interceded on several occasions to protect his subjects from the excesses of the government and/or military (for example, in October 1973, he gave refuge in the Palace to student protesters who were being gunned down in the streets by the army, and granted the protest leaders an audience)
I'm not suggesting that the King is perfect (nor does he - see above); he may have made a few mistakes along the way. But he has done much good, he's been doing it for longer than I (along with most if not all Slashdotters) have been alive, he's tremendously important to the Thai people (whom I hold in high regard), and FWIW he has my respect on that account.
As another poster has pointed out, the Thais do not demand that you love their King or their religion or even that you agree with them. But they do expect that when you visit their country, you will accept the fact that these are important cultural and national symbols to them, and that you will treat them with at least a minimum amount of respect.
I have little sympathy for the Swiss guy.
And GooTube should either quit censoring Nazi symbols in Germany and lending its support to the Great Firewall of China, or accomodate the Thai government's request.
And the cane fields (likewise banana and pineapple) extend halfway to Sydney from the QLD-NSW line. (I see them when I drive through that area, which I do on a regular basis.)
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10 Euro a day? Somebody's severely deluding himself here, or my name's not Napoleon.
I pay ~21 Euro (199 SEK) a *month* for roaming WiFi in Stockholm, and the only reason I pay that at all is because I can't access any free hotspots reliably from the café where I like to work. I suppose I could find another hangout, but it's close to our office and the owner's a friend of mine - I figure all the free coffee more than offsets what I pay for the RoverRabbit subscription.
Parent should have been modded Insightful.
fish:// rules.
...you can't run Perl or Python on most non-*nix systems. Unless I'm sadly mistaken, both of these can be run pretty much anywhere.Otherwise, I suppose I would have had to learn to play the accordion.
Mods are braindead and/or humorless, parent is Funny.
...100mbit both directions, full duplex for 200SEK a month, or ~$15. How did you manage this? I'm also a B2 customer, live in Stockholm, and I get 20 Mb down, 3 up for 349 kr/month. Now I guess I understand why they sounded so apologetic when they told me this was the best I could get in my neighbourhood, and said they'd make it up to me by tossing in a free modem/router, free phone line, free installation, and my first 2 months service free.Which, now that I think of it, is 12 times faster than what I had in Australia, at 25% of the cost, and no bandwidth cap.
Guess I'll live.
http://mysql.bkbits.net/ is still there, and AFAIK it isn't going away anytime soon.
Same as the old Internet...
Bingo.
These things are pretty much expected of me in my job.
I can see that he got modded up 5, Funny, and that you and one other person apparently didn't get the joke. (If I might indulge in a nearly-recent ./ meme: Whoosh.)
Nor do you appear to know twitter nearly as well as you think you do.
I liked his old nick heaps better, though.
So you're flaming twitter for quoting a Microsoft rep?
fish:// rules.
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Slashdot needs a "-1, Wrong" moderation option. I'd argue that, in this case, Slashdot needs a "-1, Stupid" moderation option.
You can post comments to the MySQL Manual(s) as well.
I'm not exactly new here. I've always had good-to-excellent karma, had mod points fairly often, usually used them (although not always), and metamoderated pretty frequently (whenever eligible, pretty much). I like to think I've been pretty evenhanded all round (posting, moderation, metamod).
However, a couple of years ago, there was a spell of about 2 months where most if not all of my moderations got negatively metamoderated. I've no idea why - all I know is that I noticed that it'd stopped about the same time I noticed that one of the editors wasn't posting any more stories, and I've not been metamodded (or at least not got any notices about it) since then.
I never (knowingly) had any dealings with the guy, so make of that what you will.
I've visited Thailand several times, have many friends there, and even speak a bit of the language. (FWIW I'm also a convert to Theravada Buddhism.)
I was in Thailand at the time of the September coup, and I personally viewed groups of people giving flowers and treats to the soldiers, and thanking them for their support of the King. The "junta" have ruled with a very light hand, and not many Thais seem to miss Thaksin (the PM that got the boot).
As for the laws about lèse majesté: The Thais make it very clear when you visit that you don't insult the King or desecrate his likeness, and that you're subject to criminal penalties if you do so. (The same things are true with respect to the Buddhist religion, likenesses of the Buddha, temples, monks, etc.) The law notwithstanding, an insult against the King is regarded by Thais as an affront against themselves and their country. Anybody who wishes to do these things is not welcome in Thailand and should not go there. Anyone who goes and does these things should be prepared for the consequences. It's that simple.
The King did not set up a cult of personality about himself, and to compare him with Kim-Il Sung (or by extension Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc.) in this regard is totally wide of the mark. In fact, he himself has said, "...I must also be criticised. I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the king cannot be criticised, it means that the king is not human."
The King is revered in large part because:
- He and his ancestors kept the country from being colonised by foreign powers in the 17th-20th centuries - no small feat, and Thailand is the only East Asian country other than Japan that can make that claim.
- He represents a focal point for the cultural, social, and religious unity of the Thai people in the face of a world that is non-Thai and largely non-Buddhist. I should point out that the Thais by and large welcome outside visitors and ideas, but they don't want to lose their Thai-ness as a result of these.
- He sets an example for his people in the realms of education, cultrue, and religion (among other things, he's educated as an MD, he's an accomplished musician and composer, spent some time as a monk, and he's been responsible for several major civil engineering projects, some of which he's paid for out of his own funds), and holds a UN Human Development Lifetime Achievement Award
- He has interceded on several occasions to protect his subjects from the excesses of the government and/or military (for example, in October 1973, he gave refuge in the Palace to student protesters who were being gunned down in the streets by the army, and granted the protest leaders an audience)
I'm not suggesting that the King is perfect (nor does he - see above); he may have made a few mistakes along the way. But he has done much good, he's been doing it for longer than I (along with most if not all Slashdotters) have been alive, he's tremendously important to the Thai people (whom I hold in high regard), and FWIW he has my respect on that account.
As another poster has pointed out, the Thais do not demand that you love their King or their religion or even that you agree with them. But they do expect that when you visit their country, you will accept the fact that these are important cultural and national symbols to them, and that you will treat them with at least a minimum amount of respect.
I have little sympathy for the Swiss guy.
And GooTube should either quit censoring Nazi symbols in Germany and lending its support to the Great Firewall of China, or accomodate the Thai government's request.
I bought an Acer laptop without Windows a few months ago and it was about AU$40.00 cheaper than the same unit with Windows.
This was in Thailand. Dunno if that's possible in the US or not, though.
Queensland's not exactly small. :)
And the cane fields (likewise banana and pineapple) extend halfway to Sydney from the QLD-NSW line. (I see them when I drive through that area, which I do on a regular basis.)
Damn you, and I thought that was just a goatse link.
My eyes! My eyes!
*stumbles around the house looking for the bleach*
And I think I responded to that comment as I'll respond here: That dialogue is a really, REALLY stupid idea.
That kind of FUD only works if yours is the majority product. Otherwise, it just makes it sound like your product is crap.
There are things that we don't support, sure, but claiming that we don't support primary keys is ridiculous.
I suggest that the parent is ignorant and/or trolling.