A while back there was a neighborhood movement in my area against a cell phone tower. I didn't really have an opinion on the matter at the time. I still don't.
Dan Bricklin had two interesting log entries (1), (2) on this topic.
There are pages at the FCC website here and here on RF safety considerations.
Have your employees check their brains at the front desk so they can't walk out with snippets of code lodged in their lobes. Or perhaps you may be able to open your source and get help from people who will work on your technology because of interest.
It's called Wife1.0. You won't ever have to worry about not having tasks scheduled for you again. Whatever free time you had will be filled automatically with any number of tedious jobs. Unfortunately, v1.0 it turned out to be ridden with nagware.
I've since gone back to bachelor 1.0 and don't really think about upgrading.
Once worked with a sales representative who was rather exuberant in her use of punctuation.
Every email she would send would have a subject line like, "VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" or "READ THIS IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!"
Her letters were similar. Her grammar and spelling were fairly decent. However, do interrogatives seem more pressing when they end like this?!?!?!? She was prolific in the amount of email she generated, and making every subject sound like an emergency along with the abuse of the punctuation made for rather brutal stuff to read.
One day, I told her that our license for Office required micropayments for usage of punctuation and that accounting was concerned about the ridiculously large overusage fees we were paying Microsoft for exclamation points.
She went pale. I wish I could have kept up the ruse, but another sales person fell out of her chair when she saw her reaction.
Bluetooth is pretty nifty, but it can be hard to get the compatibility you are looking for. Indeed, I am typing this post on my laptop running Fedora Core 2 over a bluetooth connection using GPRS through a mobile phone. However, serial ports and serial cables are reliable, prevalant, and are your best shot at compatibility. A GPS connection is not going to move (relatively) much data over whatever interface you choose. Serial is easy.
I recently received a Garmin Rino 130 as a present. It's pretty nifty. It's hand-held, with a built-in digital compass along with the GPS, and it has a built-in FRS/GMRS radio. Something like 54MB of RAM for maps. There's plenty more stuff in there that I haven't even scratched yet.
I don't really have much recent experience with GPS equipment, but within 15 minutes I had it talking via its included serial cable to my laptop via NMEA protocol, and started plotting my location on freely-downloadable maps with the awesome GPSDrive software.
The process was as easy and about as seamless as I could have imagined for such stuff.
I doubt that the art guys checked with the science guys before illustrating the CPU cooling design, unless that lower CPU is either A)Off or B) Magical.
Firstly I must first solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and it is my great regret that the IT and communications technologies like the Internet worth $35,432,000USD are being held hostage by the selfish interests of those countries which are in quest of global dominance and hegemony.
If I may beg your assistance in freeing the ITs, I will be happy to name your family the beneficiary of their accounts. Thank you in advanced for your anticipated cooperation.
Point taken. I made that comment principally because I like how snappy XFCE is on old pentiums and athlons without a lot of RAM in comparison to more recent hardware. XFCE can make an old pc "feel" new again, whereas Gnome and KDE, even with their recent optimizations, easily bog older systems down.
Regardless of the target platform, I applaud the decision made by the developers to include the packages in the distribution to make it easy for users to try it out.
> file selector business go away and be replaced by a nautilus window of the right kind of files in the right location
Agreed. Though I like the new file selector, I think that that subtraction would improve the consistency of the interface.
If the nautilus window determined what files it filtered for display based on the app that called it, I imagine a widget in the status bar next to the parent-folders button intelligently allowing modifications to that filter.
I don't know if such a feature obeys the HIG. Maybe it would be better handled by a contextual menu, or is it even unnecessary?
This seems to affect older laptops primarily and has been a relatively easy fix for most people. There has been plenty of list traffic about the Synaptic touchpad issues and a quick google will provide instructions if you need to download an RPM to get running. However, for my wife's HP omnibook XE2 which allowed tapping under FC1 but lost that function under default FC2, all I had to do was add psmouse.proto=imps to the kernel options in grub.conf. Some people have had to download a bios update for their buggy laptop bios.
> XFCE4 (incompatible with xorg?)
Hmm. No problems here. I am happy they included it in the distribution; it's fantastic interface for older pcs.
> wlan card (linuxant drivers)
I don't see how it's the Fedora dev team's responsibility to work out your problem here. You bought a card whose vendor doesn't want to support linux. Linuxant is providing a proprietary interface to that card using propietary Windows drivers, charging what I consider a reasonable fee for their efforts. If these were natively-supported wireless chipsets, you may have a case, but in this circumstance I think you should go to the Linxuant user lists, not indict Fedora for reaching "too far".
Anyway, Linuxant has an rpm for the standard Fedora Core 2 kernel included in the distribution. Are you using a custom kernel or are you running with a kernel from a third party repository? If so, did you try the source-based rpm? In Core 2 I have had no issues with the Linuxant driver for a Dell 1300 (broadcom), nor with recent cvs builds from the MadWifi project for Netgear/Atheros-based card.
I think if selinux had been enabled by default, that would have been reaching too far. I lost a lot of hair trying to get my head around selinux while running the release candidates. Otherwise, I think that Core 2 is a fine improvement over Core 1. Everything "feels faster" to me with the 2.6 kernel and I am really enjoying the direction Gnome is going. So are the several Windows users with older PCs who I have helped start running Fedora Core 2 instead of buying a new pc.
Don't forget to add fedora.us to your repository list for extra goodness.
I need one of these magic windows on the door to my office. It could run a video of myself, appearing to be sitting at my desk coding feverishly when I am actually sitting at my desk posting to stuffy matter news sites. Oh wait. What did I need the magic window for?
I agree that the slight changes may keep things fresh, but space for music is really not that big of a deal anymore. You can store dozens of hours of reasonable quality audio on a 700MB CD-ROM and none of it may be worth a damn, regardless of whether it is fresh.
The parent to your post said, "hire a musician". I don't think the RIAA comment helped the argument, but the poster was onto something; there is an aspect in music composition that arpeggiating algorithms can appease and extend to some extent, but there is always something lacking that results from the rigidity of purely mathematical constructions. After listening to many of the sample tracks , I think they are on to something of a middle ground that may work out rather well. Here's why:
I listened to all the available sample tracks. Some were quirky, some were rather interesting, but none of the demos developed a hook. When it comes right down to it, they all were ambient and lacking melodic recurrence to draw me into the piece (no offense intended to the composer). That hook will bring you back (thanks JP).
But these were merely the demos. They are creating this software with the idea that it will end up in the hands of a (hopefully) talented melodic composer that will provide exactly what you may be looking for, (i.e. I think): reduction of time/space/money/whathaveyou in the composition process, while creating an original theme that is still humanistic in its structure and delivery, resulting in a memorable and likeable melody that holds your attention over the long haul.
Or the are just using sax and violins to sell games?
> Is it really necessary to have every test release on the front page?
I got a test release story submission accepted for the back page once. Boy I was ticked! It didn't generate any comments, not even a Frsty! No one ever looks at the back side of their monitors, I guess.
Or it occurred to them that they can make a mint by selling/licensing the technology to "spammers" or slightly more legitimate advertisers.
It's probably just perception, but I think that a good chunk of the dinner-time phone-spam, and a large portion of the direct mail I used to get was from the Death Star.. oops.. I mean good ole Ma' Bell.
> will we see another lazy-admin problem with this (and any) vulnerability in Open Source applications?
Lazy applies to admins, open-source applications, closed-source applications, make-up applications, partners in relationships, oil changes, bill-paying, laundry, dishes, dogs, eyeballs, and any other situation where not taking action is available as an option, which happens to be most situations. No fix for anything is any good if it goes unused.
> what good is an immediate bugfix if the admin isn't applying the patch?
That's rhetorical, I'm guessing.
> does Linux have a similar auto-update feature like in Windows
There are several, but most are not really like Windows. They are usually better.
For example, if you run Debian or can use apt for rpm, run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a nightly cron job. But the admin still has to initially submit the job, and pick up the pieces when something breaks. Automagic patching can have side effects and certainly perpetuates the "someone else" problem. Besides, I like to watch the progress meter. Makes me feel useful.
Anyway, hire a new admin if the one you have can't be a verb as well as a noun.
That must have been one brutal pregnant pause to wait for the radio lag between "Do you take..." and the "I do".
I wonder if for a second the thought passed through the poor guy's head..."Is she thinking about it?"
I didn't see in the article where he was in orbit. Heck, instead of 380km he could have been more like 6,400 km away or so. Did they wait to do the ceremony until he was more or less overhead?
I wonder if this is the farthest apart two people have been when they were married, other than when MJ married Lisa Marie Presley.
Thanks to MADWIFI and this postI was able to get my Netgear WAG 511 working in a laptop in under five minutes. A walk in the park compared to the last time I configured wireless on my laptop.
I have not had a chance to thoroughly test it in a multi-signal environment, but the throughput is solid on B. There have been some drop-outs but I blame the D-Link access point to which I am connecting. (DWL-1000AP=junk, but at least it was inexpensive).
The WAG511 was on sale at Fry's for $80; I haven't seen it significantly cheaper on line, so I grabbed two.
This afternoon I am working on getting another card to work in a desktop with a pcmcia adapter to act as a host so I can unload the D-Link; then the higher-speed testing can begin. I have nothing but good things to say about the Netgear card so far. Thanks to all those who are doing the heavy lifting to make A/G support possible.
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A while back there was a neighborhood movement in my area against a cell phone tower. I didn't really have an opinion on the matter at the time. I still don't.
Dan Bricklin had two interesting log entries (1), (2) on this topic.
There are pages at the FCC website here and here on RF safety considerations.
Find towers near you.
Zonk just got back from seeing Hitchhiker's. He's telling us that 4test2 is the answer. Dang spoilers.
Have your employees check their brains at the front desk so they can't walk out with snippets of code lodged in their lobes. Or perhaps you may be able to open your source and get help from people who will work on your technology because of interest.
It's called Wife1.0. You won't ever have to worry about not having tasks scheduled for you again. Whatever free time you had will be filled automatically with any number of tedious jobs. Unfortunately, v1.0 it turned out to be ridden with nagware.
I've since gone back to bachelor 1.0 and don't really think about upgrading.
Spoiler ahead:
The last digit is 4.
I also wrote a compression algorithm that will get you all the digits in 11 characters. Feel free to share with your friends:
0123456789.
CherryOS.. run Apple software on Lemon hardware.
Once worked with a sales representative who was rather exuberant in her use of punctuation.
Every email she would send would have a subject line like, "VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" or "READ THIS IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!"
Her letters were similar. Her grammar and spelling were fairly decent. However, do interrogatives seem more pressing when they end like this?!?!?!? She was prolific in the amount of email she generated, and making every subject sound like an emergency along with the abuse of the punctuation made for rather brutal stuff to read.
One day, I told her that our license for Office required micropayments for usage of punctuation and that accounting was concerned about the ridiculously large overusage fees we were paying Microsoft for exclamation points.
She went pale. I wish I could have kept up the ruse, but another sales person fell out of her chair when she saw her reaction.
I estimate that I would end up somewhere in the middle.
Does that imply that you are mean spirited?
Bluetooth is pretty nifty, but it can be hard to get the compatibility you are looking for. Indeed, I am typing this post on my laptop running Fedora Core 2 over a bluetooth connection using GPRS through a mobile phone. However, serial ports and serial cables are reliable, prevalant, and are your best shot at compatibility. A GPS connection is not going to move (relatively) much data over whatever interface you choose. Serial is easy.
I recently received a Garmin Rino 130 as a present. It's pretty nifty. It's hand-held, with a built-in digital compass along with the GPS, and it has a built-in FRS/GMRS radio. Something like 54MB of RAM for maps. There's plenty more stuff in there that I haven't even scratched yet.
I don't really have much recent experience with GPS equipment, but within 15 minutes I had it talking via its included serial cable to my laptop via NMEA protocol, and started plotting my location on freely-downloadable maps with the awesome GPSDrive software.
The process was as easy and about as seamless as I could have imagined for such stuff.
I doubt that the art guys checked with the science guys before illustrating the CPU cooling design, unless that lower CPU is either A)Off or B) Magical.
Dear Sir,
Firstly I must first solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and it is my great regret that the IT and communications technologies like the Internet worth $35,432,000USD are being held hostage by the selfish interests of those countries which are in quest of global dominance and hegemony.
If I may beg your assistance in freeing the ITs, I will be happy to name your family the beneficiary of their accounts. Thank you in advanced for your anticipated cooperation.
Best Regards,
Mr. Robert Mugabe
> I'm running it on an Athlon64
Point taken. I made that comment principally because I like how snappy XFCE is on old pentiums and athlons without a lot of RAM in comparison to more recent hardware. XFCE can make an old pc "feel" new again, whereas Gnome and KDE, even with their recent optimizations, easily bog older systems down.
Regardless of the target platform, I applaud the decision made by the developers to include the packages in the distribution to make it easy for users to try it out.
> file selector business go away and be replaced by a nautilus window of the right kind of files in the right location
Agreed. Though I like the new file selector, I think that that subtraction would improve the consistency of the interface.
If the nautilus window determined what files it filtered for display based on the app that called it, I imagine a widget in the status bar next to the parent-folders button intelligently allowing modifications to that filter.
I don't know if such a feature obeys the HIG. Maybe it would be better handled by a contextual menu, or is it even unnecessary?
> touch pad (really, can't tap to click)
This seems to affect older laptops primarily and has been a relatively easy fix for most people. There has been plenty of list traffic about the Synaptic touchpad issues and a quick google will provide instructions if you need to download an RPM to get running. However, for my wife's HP omnibook XE2 which allowed tapping under FC1 but lost that function under default FC2, all I had to do was add psmouse.proto=imps to the kernel options in grub.conf. Some people have had to download a bios update for their buggy laptop bios.
> XFCE4 (incompatible with xorg?)
Hmm. No problems here. I am happy they included it in the distribution; it's fantastic interface for older pcs.
> wlan card (linuxant drivers)
I don't see how it's the Fedora dev team's responsibility to work out your problem here. You bought a card whose vendor doesn't want to support linux. Linuxant is providing a proprietary interface to that card using propietary Windows drivers, charging what I consider a reasonable fee for their efforts. If these were natively-supported wireless chipsets, you may have a case, but in this circumstance I think you should go to the Linxuant user lists, not indict Fedora for reaching "too far".
Anyway, Linuxant has an rpm for the standard Fedora Core 2 kernel included in the distribution. Are you using a custom kernel or are you running with a kernel from a third party repository? If so, did you try the source-based rpm? In Core 2 I have had no issues with the Linuxant driver for a Dell 1300 (broadcom), nor with recent cvs builds from the MadWifi project for Netgear/Atheros-based card.
I think if selinux had been enabled by default, that would have been reaching too far. I lost a lot of hair trying to get my head around selinux while running the release candidates. Otherwise, I think that Core 2 is a fine improvement over Core 1. Everything "feels faster" to me with the 2.6 kernel and I am really enjoying the direction Gnome is going. So are the several Windows users with older PCs who I have helped start running Fedora Core 2 instead of buying a new pc.
Don't forget to add fedora.us to your repository list for extra goodness.
Like here, for example
I need one of these magic windows on the door to my office. It could run a video of myself, appearing to be sitting at my desk coding feverishly when I am actually sitting at my desk posting to stuffy matter news sites. Oh wait. What did I need the magic window for?
I agree that the slight changes may keep things fresh, but space for music is really not that big of a deal anymore. You can store dozens of hours of reasonable quality audio on a 700MB CD-ROM and none of it may be worth a damn, regardless of whether it is fresh.
The parent to your post said, "hire a musician". I don't think the RIAA comment helped the argument, but the poster was onto something; there is an aspect in music composition that arpeggiating algorithms can appease and extend to some extent, but there is always something lacking that results from the rigidity of purely mathematical constructions. After listening to many of the sample tracks , I think they are on to something of a middle ground that may work out rather well. Here's why:
I listened to all the available sample tracks. Some were quirky, some were rather interesting, but none of the demos developed a hook. When it comes right down to it, they all were ambient and lacking melodic recurrence to draw me into the piece (no offense intended to the composer). That hook will bring you back (thanks JP).
But these were merely the demos. They are creating this software with the idea that it will end up in the hands of a (hopefully) talented melodic composer that will provide exactly what you may be looking for, (i.e. I think): reduction of time/space/money/whathaveyou in the composition process, while creating an original theme that is still humanistic in its structure and delivery, resulting in a memorable and likeable melody that holds your attention over the long haul.
Or the are just using sax and violins to sell games?
> Is it really necessary to have every test release on the front page?
I got a test release story submission accepted for the back page once. Boy I was ticked! It didn't generate any comments, not even a Frsty! No one ever looks at the back side of their monitors, I guess.
Or it occurred to them that they can make a mint by selling/licensing the technology to "spammers" or slightly more legitimate advertisers. It's probably just perception, but I think that a good chunk of the dinner-time phone-spam, and a large portion of the direct mail I used to get was from the Death Star.. oops.. I mean good ole Ma' Bell.
> will we see another lazy-admin problem with this (and any) vulnerability in Open Source applications?
Lazy applies to admins, open-source applications, closed-source applications, make-up applications, partners in relationships, oil changes, bill-paying, laundry, dishes, dogs, eyeballs, and any other situation where not taking action is available as an option, which happens to be most situations. No fix for anything is any good if it goes unused.
> what good is an immediate bugfix if the admin isn't applying the patch?
That's rhetorical, I'm guessing.
> does Linux have a similar auto-update feature like in Windows
There are several, but most are not really like Windows. They are usually better. For example, if you run Debian or can use apt for rpm, run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a nightly cron job. But the admin still has to initially submit the job, and pick up the pieces when something breaks. Automagic patching can have side effects and certainly perpetuates the "someone else" problem. Besides, I like to watch the progress meter. Makes me feel useful.
Anyway, hire a new admin if the one you have can't be a verb as well as a noun.
Nah.. she downloaded a clip from a Madonna song to use as the ringer, and the RIAA is getting REALLY aggressive about protecting their artist's IP.
That must have been one brutal pregnant pause to wait for the radio lag between "Do you take..." and the "I do". I wonder if for a second the thought passed through the poor guy's head..."Is she thinking about it?" I didn't see in the article where he was in orbit. Heck, instead of 380km he could have been more like 6,400 km away or so. Did they wait to do the ceremony until he was more or less overhead? I wonder if this is the farthest apart two people have been when they were married, other than when MJ married Lisa Marie Presley.
Thanks to MADWIFI and this postI was able to get my Netgear WAG 511 working in a laptop in under five minutes. A walk in the park compared to the last time I configured wireless on my laptop.
I have not had a chance to thoroughly test it in a multi-signal environment, but the throughput is solid on B. There have been some drop-outs but I blame the D-Link access point to which I am connecting. (DWL-1000AP=junk, but at least it was inexpensive).
The WAG511 was on sale at Fry's for $80; I haven't seen it significantly cheaper on line, so I grabbed two.
This afternoon I am working on getting another card to work in a desktop with a pcmcia adapter to act as a host so I can unload the D-Link; then the higher-speed testing can begin. I have nothing but good things to say about the Netgear card so far. Thanks to all those who are doing the heavy lifting to make A/G support possible.
Well, they _are_ in engineering. If they were self-actualized, happy, positive, gregarious, blustering idiots they would be in marketing.