"Pratz claims to have minimized the problem of dropped signals with a technology similar to that used by the space shuttles to maintain an Internet connection."
The Space shuttle is connected to the Internets?!?
everything except for the Integrated wireless worked perfectly for me on this laptop. I could get the wireless working if I wanted to... but I'm happy with wired right now.
Now that I re-read my comment, yes... it seems dumbfuckish.
You'd be surprised at how easy Linux runs on laptops. I'm typing this on a Compaq nx6325 and it runs Linux just fine. Just search around for some of the ACPI hacks though... you can burn up your processor if you're not careful.
Any issues you have can be solved on linuxquestions.org. I guaruntee that you will have all of your hardware working within a month. Most of it (if not, all of it) within a week.
Unencrypted email is like a post card. Encrypted email is like a letter. When you leave a post card in your house, it's yours and the government needs a search warrant to read it, ditto with letters. When you leave a post card in someone else's house, it's still yours, but the government needs a search warrant to search the other person's house to get it, ditto with letters. Anybody in the USPS can read your post cards, however it is illegal to open letters.
Therefore, the best way to keep your email secure (in the legal way and the technical way) is to encrypt it and store it on someone else's computer.
I was recently trying to get into a free, yet exclusive alternative to public high school (not some ritzy joint... my family's not loaded) and my mom and I needed to go for an interview in an area of town that I've never been to before.. My mom got directions off of Mapquest (first mistake) and while we were trying to get to this meeting on time, my mom thought that I had misread the directions, so I lost my job as navigator. After about 500 feet of my mom navigating, her cell phone rang -- it was her friend/business partner. They spoke for about 15 minutes and my mom hung up. "Are we going the right way?" she asked, as if I have lived in the area for all my life. "I don't know, you took the directions." "Well... are we?" "Mom. I. Don't. Know. You. Have. The. Directions."
Several turn arounds, arguments and snatching of the directions later, we found our way to the place we needed to be.
If anyone cares, it turns out that the school wasn't too exclusive, and I did get in.
A lot of the traffic came from Digg... the $100 XB360 story was on the front page twice. Once when it originally broke, and a reminder on thanksgiving.
As a public high school student in the US, I have seriously considered dropping out. I'm not your stereotypical pot head or alkie, but more of your bookish nerd.
here's a list of personal grievances I have with my school:
1) The building itself is disgusting. Built in the '70s, my public high school suffers from faulty plumbing. This causes toilets to back up randomly (for which we're not dismissed) and ceiling tiles to become breeding grounds for mold. This mold then causes allergy problems for me and ~1500 other people.
2) Staff doesn't give a shit about students. My locker is in such a place that I can't get to it in the allotted time between classes. I've asked for a different locker (they told me they had exactly 1 locker per student, yet a locker was found for the new girl who moved to my area) or a permanent hall pass so that I could be 1 to 2 minutes late to certain classes. The staff in charge of locker assignments basically ignored me. As a result, I have a 70lb+ backpack that I have to carry around with me at all times.
3) Make the policies reasonable. The Internet agreement form that basically says 'no pr0n, sign here.' is poorly written in such a way that it grants the school district the right to monitor all communications on the Internet to and from me, even out of school. Since cell phones, land lines, DSL, Cable modems, WiFi, and My home computer systems allow for communication over the Internet, the school would have the right to monitor those devices. (If I had signed the form of course -- I'm not stupid.) This form is 'required' for use of any school computer system according to the main office, and I have been threatened with detention if I don't sign it. This is interesting, as my English class, C++ programming class, and Video Production class all require use of an in-school computer connected to the LAN. What are they going to do? Kick me out of three of my classes and fail me for the year... and then do it again next year? *loop*
4) Make food better. The school cafeteria has a monopoly on what students eat. This year, the budget requirement for the cafeteria was that it must make a profit of $1.50 per lunch. Lunches cost the student $2.10. This means that the students are getting a $0.60 meal full of carbs, cheese substitute, and ketchup -- definitely not healthy.
5) School starts too early for it's own good. I have to be in my first period class by 7:28AM. I have a 45 minute bus ride to my school. The usual shower/brush teeth/contacts routine takes me about half an hour. This means, I have to be up and out of bed by about 5:45AM. Notice that there was no time for breakfast in there.
6) Teachers get paid if they teach or not. A situation that I have come across all to often is a teacher passing out some papers, saying "learn this, test tomorrow", and then not taking any questions. This is why I have a 60-something percent in my chemistry class.
7) "Pay attention". I'll pay attention to whatever I feel has the most pressing need. If we're learning a concept in math that I've already mastered and I have an assignment for Spanish due next period, Spanish takes priority over math. Sorry.
8) Compulsory Education. When you require the youth to go to school, you require all of the youth. This includes clowns and drug dealers, who would likely be somewhere else (read "not disrupting class") if they weren't required by law to be in school.
9) Stop it with the dumb kid routine. I've spoken with my C++ teacher about computers and seen her eyes glaze over. But 10 minutes later, I'm getting the shut-up-you-know-nothing routine. Thats why I'm aiming to be the BSFH.
If forced to choose between the two, I would identify myself as a republican, and I'm currently writing a paper on the topic of network neutrality (which I'm all in favor for). In such paper, I will be quoting several people in our government who have made downright idiotic statements about the Internet. These quotes will include "The Internet is... a series of tubes" (Ted Stevens, R-AK), "I've used the Internets" (George Bush, R-TX), and "I Invented the Internet" (Al Gore D-DC). I'm usually the person that people ask for help when it comes to the "tubes", and quite often find myself correcting those who are teaching computer science for a living.
The moral of my comment:
Don't stereotype or bash people because of their political affiliation.
-JimXugle
PS. If not forced, I would tell you that I agree with George Washington in the way that I believe that political parties divide people more than they unite people. Also, political parties make government inefficient and distance officials from the constituents. Political parties also serve a third function: to tell their members what to think. This leads to uninformed voters, which leads to unhappiness (ie. "Who voted for that referendum? It really screwed me in the ass. Oh... it was that one? really? Shit. I voted for it.")
Internet Filtering: DNS Based Filter? TorPark. Software based? software hacks or Ubuntu Live CD. Content-based filtering? SSH Tunnel (on non-standard port)
Anything worth its while on Windows doesn't dig into the registry or write system files, so running as a limited account will do little. I believe Cain & Abel (a popular password "recovery" program) can be run like this.
Just $0.02 from a Public High School Student and Hellbringer of School IT staff extraordinaire.
You can have a similar effect now by using a flash drive as your root partition, or as a swap partition. Keep in mind that using it as a swap partition would make the drive age faster.
Or do credit checks on him and let them slip into the fax machine when it's set to auto-dial the NY Times, Washington Post, His Wife, Misteress, and several corporate leadership figures in the company.
Slashdot Mirror
"Pratz claims to have minimized the problem of dropped signals with a technology similar to that used by the space shuttles to maintain an Internet connection."
The Space shuttle is connected to the Internets?!?
nmap -A -T4 atlantis.sts.critical.nasa.gov
Wow... geeksquad can deal with Linux o.O ?
everything except for the Integrated wireless worked perfectly for me on this laptop. I could get the wireless working if I wanted to... but I'm happy with wired right now.
Now that I re-read my comment, yes... it seems dumbfuckish.
You'd be surprised at how easy Linux runs on laptops. I'm typing this on a Compaq nx6325 and it runs Linux just fine. Just search around for some of the ACPI hacks though... you can burn up your processor if you're not careful.
Any issues you have can be solved on linuxquestions.org. I guaruntee that you will have all of your hardware working within a month. Most of it (if not, all of it) within a week.
Can the customs agents refuse you entry or take the laptop just on the grounds that there's encrypted information on it?
"I've seen it all twice before
They try to be original
Disappoint the way of the world
The truth is there is no truth
Mystified, can't compute
Well I said forget about
Everything you've heard
You won't last that long
You won't last that long
You might as well transform
You won't last, you won't last"
Am I gonna get sued now?
How about we take precedent from the USPS?
Unencrypted email is like a post card.
Encrypted email is like a letter.
When you leave a post card in your house, it's yours and the government needs a search warrant to read it, ditto with letters.
When you leave a post card in someone else's house, it's still yours, but the government needs a search warrant to search the other person's house to get it, ditto with letters.
Anybody in the USPS can read your post cards, however it is illegal to open letters.
Therefore, the best way to keep your email secure (in the legal way and the technical way) is to encrypt it and store it on someone else's computer.
But does it come in Esperanto?
I was recently trying to get into a free, yet exclusive alternative to public high school (not some ritzy joint... my family's not loaded) and my mom and I needed to go for an interview in an area of town that I've never been to before.. My mom got directions off of Mapquest (first mistake) and while we were trying to get to this meeting on time, my mom thought that I had misread the directions, so I lost my job as navigator. After about 500 feet of my mom navigating, her cell phone rang -- it was her friend/business partner. They spoke for about 15 minutes and my mom hung up. "Are we going the right way?" she asked, as if I have lived in the area for all my life. "I don't know, you took the directions." "Well... are we?" "Mom. I. Don't. Know. You. Have. The. Directions."
Several turn arounds, arguments and snatching of the directions later, we found our way to the place we needed to be.
If anyone cares, it turns out that the school wasn't too exclusive, and I did get in.
Wow! I was thinking about getting my friend a pre-paid phone for christmas!
The best one I've found is this one: link
$18!!!
A lot of the traffic came from Digg... the $100 XB360 story was on the front page twice. Once when it originally broke, and a reminder on thanksgiving.
It's stupid, but I've seen kids parents held responsible because 'johnny' was looking at porn when he should have been typing his english report.
As a public high school student in the US, I have seriously considered dropping out. I'm not your stereotypical pot head or alkie, but more of your bookish nerd.
here's a list of personal grievances I have with my school:
1) The building itself is disgusting. Built in the '70s, my public high school suffers from faulty plumbing. This causes toilets to back up randomly (for which we're not dismissed) and ceiling tiles to become breeding grounds for mold. This mold then causes allergy problems for me and ~1500 other people.
2) Staff doesn't give a shit about students. My locker is in such a place that I can't get to it in the allotted time between classes. I've asked for a different locker (they told me they had exactly 1 locker per student, yet a locker was found for the new girl who moved to my area) or a permanent hall pass so that I could be 1 to 2 minutes late to certain classes. The staff in charge of locker assignments basically ignored me. As a result, I have a 70lb+ backpack that I have to carry around with me at all times.
3) Make the policies reasonable. The Internet agreement form that basically says 'no pr0n, sign here.' is poorly written in such a way that it grants the school district the right to monitor all communications on the Internet to and from me, even out of school. Since cell phones, land lines, DSL, Cable modems, WiFi, and My home computer systems allow for communication over the Internet, the school would have the right to monitor those devices. (If I had signed the form of course -- I'm not stupid.) This form is 'required' for use of any school computer system according to the main office, and I have been threatened with detention if I don't sign it. This is interesting, as my English class, C++ programming class, and Video Production class all require use of an in-school computer connected to the LAN. What are they going to do? Kick me out of three of my classes and fail me for the year... and then do it again next year? *loop*
4) Make food better. The school cafeteria has a monopoly on what students eat. This year, the budget requirement for the cafeteria was that it must make a profit of $1.50 per lunch. Lunches cost the student $2.10. This means that the students are getting a $0.60 meal full of carbs, cheese substitute, and ketchup -- definitely not healthy.
5) School starts too early for it's own good. I have to be in my first period class by 7:28AM. I have a 45 minute bus ride to my school. The usual shower/brush teeth/contacts routine takes me about half an hour. This means, I have to be up and out of bed by about 5:45AM. Notice that there was no time for breakfast in there.
6) Teachers get paid if they teach or not. A situation that I have come across all to often is a teacher passing out some papers, saying "learn this, test tomorrow", and then not taking any questions. This is why I have a 60-something percent in my chemistry class.
7) "Pay attention". I'll pay attention to whatever I feel has the most pressing need. If we're learning a concept in math that I've already mastered and I have an assignment for Spanish due next period, Spanish takes priority over math. Sorry.
8) Compulsory Education. When you require the youth to go to school, you require all of the youth. This includes clowns and drug dealers, who would likely be somewhere else (read "not disrupting class") if they weren't required by law to be in school.
9) Stop it with the dumb kid routine. I've spoken with my C++ teacher about computers and seen her eyes glaze over. But 10 minutes later, I'm getting the shut-up-you-know-nothing routine. Thats why I'm aiming to be the BSFH.
What? No Screenshot from anybody?
gun control means not having to say "I missed".
If forced to choose between the two, I would identify myself as a republican, and I'm currently writing a paper on the topic of network neutrality (which I'm all in favor for). In such paper, I will be quoting several people in our government who have made downright idiotic statements about the Internet. These quotes will include "The Internet is ... a series of tubes" (Ted Stevens, R-AK), "I've used the Internets" (George Bush, R-TX), and "I Invented the Internet" (Al Gore D-DC). I'm usually the person that people ask for help when it comes to the "tubes", and quite often find myself correcting those who are teaching computer science for a living.
The moral of my comment:
Don't stereotype or bash people because of their political affiliation.
-JimXugle
PS. If not forced, I would tell you that I agree with George Washington in the way that I believe that political parties divide people more than they unite people. Also, political parties make government inefficient and distance officials from the constituents. Political parties also serve a third function: to tell their members what to think. This leads to uninformed voters, which leads to unhappiness (ie. "Who voted for that referendum? It really screwed me in the ass. Oh... it was that one? really? Shit. I voted for it.")
Well, Pixie dust is pretty useful when paired with Debian Linux...
*ducks*
When will we see the 8950GTX?
Well, hopefully, the financial sanctions will be put in place this time.
I'm working on a script that will install eyecandy with minimal user intervention. It's no where near done, but here's a link to what I have so far:
http://www.xugle.com/candy.sh
But you can't.
Internet Filtering:
DNS Based Filter? TorPark.
Software based? software hacks or Ubuntu Live CD.
Content-based filtering? SSH Tunnel (on non-standard port)
Anything worth its while on Windows doesn't dig into the registry or write system files, so running as a limited account will do little. I believe Cain & Abel (a popular password "recovery" program) can be run like this.
Just $0.02 from a Public High School Student and Hellbringer of School IT staff extraordinaire.
You can have a similar effect now by using a flash drive as your root partition, or as a swap partition. Keep in mind that using it as a swap partition would make the drive age faster.
"they're like an American TARDIS for children."
In that case, I should go grab one before they're all gone!
Time traveling in a mailbox might be a bit cramp-- oh yeah... Tardis
Or do credit checks on him and let them slip into the fax machine when it's set to auto-dial the NY Times, Washington Post, His Wife, Misteress, and several corporate leadership figures in the company.
Break out the gas masks and survival crackers, kiddies, it's world war three!