My HP 2133 shipped with an absolutely, craptastically broken SUSE Enterprise Linux. Barely functional wifi, no webcam or audio, poorly configured desktop. First time I ran YUM to update, it broke the X-server. Suffice to say 10 hours later I had Ubuntu humming along. My mom, wife, and anyone else who's not a Linux fanboy would have shipped it back to HP 10 minutes after powering it up.
I think that's pretty much the idea of calling in a shared hosting provider. Some people have the in-house expertise and need the flexibility of DIY. Most do not. If you are in the second category but want to play with HA anyway, save your company the money and build one at home for fun.
Nothing against the Chinese, but the constant barrage of bots flinging themselves against my firewall needs to stop! In our case, it's more likely script kiddies on a rr.com connection, but nevertheless, better use packet inspection at the Tier-1 level would help here too.
I don't understand why the studios want to cram low-quality, DRM crap down their customers' throats when it is trivial to rip a DVD anyway. If I really wanted to send pirate copies of Legally Blonde 3 to 10,000 of my friends, I'm sure as heck not going to waste 2 hrs downloading and capturing a compressed-as-hell video stream. The nearest video store is 5 mins away, and dvd::rip works just fine, thanks.
The good news about ridiculous legislation like this is that it has little or no chance of actually passing. The extreme level of stupidity should be apparent to most average law-school graduates / politicians. Then again, that's what I thought about DMCA.
I'm writing this on a Compaq 1700 running Xubuntu (Debian-based dist with lightweight XFCE windows manager). This is a PIII with 128M. This Linux runs faster and seems more stable than the W98SE it originally shipped with. No problem with the antique wireless card, either. I agree with the parent about sleep and hibernate modes. Power management doesn't seem to work, but I haven't spent much time messing with it.
"Kim is reportedly under his physician's orders to avoid hard liquor and prefers French wines."
This brings to mind an assassination plot against the evil dictator... every week, FedEx him a case of fine cognac, 10 lbs of the best chocolate, and 5 cases of Marlboros. Let him enjoy his final months!
So, if I make a backup copy of my customer's disk before working on his computer -- a service provided for a fee -- have I violated copyright law? What if I use Norton Ghost to make the copy, because some files are encrypted? Have I then violated DCMA as well?
These are great headphones. I use them on the motorcycle, but I can also tell you they block out human voices *really* well. Whenever my riding partner says anything, I just smile and waive, because I can't hear a word. It takes a little fiddling to find the right combination of earbuds from the sizes and styles they supply -- but once you get a good fit, the results are worth it.
TFA/V is surprisingly positive. Most people don't carry their notebooks around all day like this guy did. I think we'll see other big laptops like this marketed as desktop replacements.
Is anyone else worried about this becoming a gratuitous push to add new features? Why should OOo include Thuderbird? If I want that application, it's not difficult to install the latest version from their own distribution. It seems to me that refining the core functionality and compatibility of the office applications should be a higher priority than bloating it up with unrelated features.
I've found many voice systems that will also accept touchtones for numeric input. Examples include
Alaska Airlines and
Sprint/Embarq.
You can also often hit zero or in some cases, a string of zeros, to bypass the voice menus entirely and queue for a live operator.
If you want the software patch, you accept the new licensing agreement. If you don't want the new EULA, no one is forcing you to download anything. Sounds like a perfectly valid contract to me, but IANAL.
"In July 0f 2005 Highway Watch® partnered with the three largest school bus trade associations, the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT), the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), and the National School Transportation Association (NSTA) to create School Bus Watch, an anti-terrorism training program for school bus drivers."
Some U.S. mines are designed to self-destruct after a preset deployment period.
"All [scatterable] mines have a safe-arm time from (45 seconds to 2 minutes). When mines fail to arm they will self-destruct immediately. SD times are not exact, mines actually self-destruct in a window between 80 to 100 percent of their SD time ie. mines with a 4 hour SD time will start to SD in 3 hours 12 minutes."
See http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/fascam.htm
Also http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/pol icy/army/fm/20-32/index.html
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My HP 2133 shipped with an absolutely, craptastically broken SUSE Enterprise Linux. Barely functional wifi, no webcam or audio, poorly configured desktop. First time I ran YUM to update, it broke the X-server. Suffice to say 10 hours later I had Ubuntu humming along. My mom, wife, and anyone else who's not a Linux fanboy would have shipped it back to HP 10 minutes after powering it up.
At $10,000/hour operating costs, that's only $0.064 (USD) per terrabyte. Not bad.
I think that's pretty much the idea of calling in a shared hosting provider. Some people have the in-house expertise and need the flexibility of DIY. Most do not. If you are in the second category but want to play with HA anyway, save your company the money and build one at home for fun.
Nothing against the Chinese, but the constant barrage of bots flinging themselves against my firewall needs to stop! In our case, it's more likely script kiddies on a rr.com connection, but nevertheless, better use packet inspection at the Tier-1 level would help here too.
I don't understand why the studios want to cram low-quality, DRM crap down their customers' throats when it is trivial to rip a DVD anyway. If I really wanted to send pirate copies of Legally Blonde 3 to 10,000 of my friends, I'm sure as heck not going to waste 2 hrs downloading and capturing a compressed-as-hell video stream. The nearest video store is 5 mins away, and dvd::rip works just fine, thanks.
"California leads the nation in agricultural production, followed by Texas, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, according to the 1992 Census of Agriculture"
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/ind ex.asp
The good news about ridiculous legislation like this is that it has little or no chance of actually passing. The extreme level of stupidity should be apparent to most average law-school graduates / politicians. Then again, that's what I thought about DMCA.
I'm writing this on a Compaq 1700 running Xubuntu (Debian-based dist with lightweight XFCE windows manager). This is a PIII with 128M. This Linux runs faster and seems more stable than the W98SE it originally shipped with. No problem with the antique wireless card, either. I agree with the parent about sleep and hibernate modes. Power management doesn't seem to work, but I haven't spent much time messing with it.
"Kim is reportedly under his physician's orders to avoid hard liquor and prefers French wines."
This brings to mind an assassination plot against the evil dictator ... every week, FedEx him a case of fine cognac, 10 lbs of the best chocolate, and 5 cases of Marlboros. Let him enjoy his final months!
So, if I make a backup copy of my customer's disk before working on his computer -- a service provided for a fee -- have I violated copyright law? What if I use Norton Ghost to make the copy, because some files are encrypted? Have I then violated DCMA as well?
IANAL, but this makes my head hurt!
These are great headphones. I use them on the motorcycle, but I can also tell you they block out human voices *really* well. Whenever my riding partner says anything, I just smile and waive, because I can't hear a word. It takes a little fiddling to find the right combination of earbuds from the sizes and styles they supply -- but once you get a good fit, the results are worth it.
TFA/V is surprisingly positive. Most people don't carry their notebooks around all day like this guy did. I think we'll see other big laptops like this marketed as desktop replacements.
Is anyone else worried about this becoming a gratuitous push to add new features? Why should OOo include Thuderbird? If I want that application, it's not difficult to install the latest version from their own distribution. It seems to me that refining the core functionality and compatibility of the office applications should be a higher priority than bloating it up with unrelated features.
Apparently, so do they.
I've found many voice systems that will also accept touchtones for numeric input. Examples include Alaska Airlines and Sprint/Embarq. You can also often hit zero or in some cases, a string of zeros, to bypass the voice menus entirely and queue for a live operator.
I accept the terms and conditions of your contract. You may have some difficulty enforcing it, however. See you in court!
If you want the software patch, you accept the new licensing agreement. If you don't want the new EULA, no one is forcing you to download anything. Sounds like a perfectly valid contract to me, but IANAL.
From the same website:
.. huh!
"In July 0f 2005 Highway Watch® partnered with the three largest school bus trade associations, the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT), the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), and the National School Transportation Association (NSTA) to create School Bus Watch, an anti-terrorism training program for school bus drivers."
Uh
Some U.S. mines are designed to self-destruct after a preset deployment period. "All [scatterable] mines have a safe-arm time from (45 seconds to 2 minutes). When mines fail to arm they will self-destruct immediately. SD times are not exact, mines actually self-destruct in a window between 80 to 100 percent of their SD time ie. mines with a 4 hour SD time will start to SD in 3 hours 12 minutes." See http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/fascam.htm
Also http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/pol icy/army/fm/20-32/index.html
Taking a 10-pound sledge to the platters does a pretty effective job of wiping the drive. Hammer: $0. New drive: $100. Data security: Priceless.