If the weather cannot be accurately predicted 100% of the time for three days in advance, why would anyone believe they can predict it based on some trending for the next 50 years? Or maybe this is perhaps generated by some political agenda to get a government grant..? Follow the money. This happens far more than people might suspect.
Next up from the university: predicting earthquakes and stock market indexes for the years 2041-2060!
Where does it say in the constitution that congress is responsible for being a consumer or even privacy watchdog? Isn't that the responsibility of the FTC Bereau of Consumer Protection, CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), the newly created Department of Consumer Protection or the CPSC (Consumer Protection Safety Commission)? See below for links.. these are separate organizations of government.
I think the congressional hearings are far, far too used. I watch as ignorant senators call up Goldman Sachs or Toyota and grill them on practices and safety. Meanwhile, they can't pass a budget for the bloated, ignorant government to run on. Senators act like royalty, yet they're the ones trading on insider information and often the ones who caused the problem with restrictive laws or regulations in the first place.
The gut instinct of all of us, when we see an article like this,l is to say, "My privacy is important!" and to be a little thankful for the government to be the oversight when we feel powerless, *yet* its the government who is tapping out phones, e-mails and electronic communication illegally. Am I the only one who recognizes how bad things have become??!
What ever happened to innovation, and sticking to a core business model? What is Microsoft thinking, they're not a hardware company. So there advanced technologies R&D lab thinks up something they can throw a patent application up for. They won't execute on it. They'll just litigate on it if someone does actually try to deliver something to the market.
Oh wait... I guess this is Microsoft's core business model, never mind my bad.
I've been living in Japan for the past two years and I can say I'm not surprised. With Japan's over-employment strategy, this moonbase will have two girls in brightly colored happy blue spacesuits (with matching hat, and white gloves) at every airlock.
"Going out, sir?"
"Uh... yeah."
"Which floo-- machigaita, dame! I mean, it will be my pleasure to puch the lock cycle button for you."
"No I can do it!"
"You? Aren't you supposed to be working the elevator, Makiko?"
"No, I'm on airlock today."
"Right, let's push it together. Ichi! Ni! Sa-"
"Hey, where did he go?"
"He pushed it himself!!"
and then the moonbase economy will collapse because we could not employ everyone.
Ok, this country's starting to affect me now. Going offline... cycling...... out. *vaccuum sound*
iChat encryption? Think again, and pay the tax!
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I got excited about iChat encryption - I think iChat with iSight is phenominal, and I regularly use three-way video chat with my parents and sister back in the States (from Japan). The video compression and rendering is excellent - it's saved a fortune and it's better even than the mega-buck one we use at my fortune 500 company. I regularly talk to upper managment (all who use OSX.. coincidental?) about it and they've questioned why we pay so much for VC software when iSight costs ~$150/camera (1 mac for each conference room would be a drop in the bucket).
So I thought encryption would help iSight/Chat move up to some of the security requirements some businesses may have for video conferencing software. I try to enable it at home and I got this:
"You need to sign up for a.Mac account to enable iChat encryption."
What the Frell? I have to pay the.Mac tax to get a feature on the core OS? For shame, Apple... for shame!
Additionally, I had a major issue when I upgraded, and I wasn't alone according to the discussions on the Apple support site. All my firewire devices freaked out and wouldn't come online. Not my LaCie, not my EyeTV.
I rebooted once, after the initial 10.4.3 reboot load, and everything started behaving. But now I'm a bit scared to reboot again. Lesson learned? Don't upgrade on the first day:-)
RageTech
iChat encryption - but fist you have to pay tax
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Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I got excited about iChat encryption - it'll help it move up to some of the requirements companies have for video conferencing software. But then I got this:
"You need to sign up for a.Mac account to enable iChat encryption."
What the Frell? I have to pay the.Mac tax to get a feature on the core OS? For shame, Apple... for shame.
Additionally, I had a major issue when I upgraded, and I wasn't alone according to the discussions on the Apple support site. All my firewire devices freaked out and wouldn't come online. Not my LaCie, not my EyeTV.
I rebooted once, after the initial 10.4.3 reboot load, and everything started behaving. But now I'm a bit scared to reboot again.
Access Control Lists (ACL)
Go beyond the limitations of traditional UNIX file permissions and enjoy greater flexibility over assigning access permissions to files, folders and network services.
My wife and I share the same computer at home, and thank God for "Fast User switching" - especially because she's a Japanese native and I'm from the US. One click and a password entry and she's got her own desktop with menus in Kanji.
But the downside of sharing the same computer is trying to share the same files. Apple puts a "Shared" folder under the home directory root. Does this mean my wife and I can easily work on the same file? No. Permissions are a bitch - I fiddle and fiddle, but things always get reset and eventually gave up. I'm hoping ACLs are going to add a lot for collaboration on the same server.
I just bought one of the latest phones Sony Ericsson phones in Japan and no Bluetooth. In fact, the only phone that had Bluetooth (from AU KDDI) was from Toshiba, and it was not a bi-lingual phone so I had to return it.
I sincerly hope Bluetooth is not on the way out. Sony is always trying to cut costs, they've been having a rough time so maybe we shouldn't read too much into this.
At home w/ SuSE I use cryptofs, but if you don't have SuSe here's something else that looks pretty good (And I think OpenBSD has this one too)-- CFS. I think there are actually a lot of options out there for you, just look around through Google.
No, you've got it all wrong. There should be updates for pirated software users. And I should be able to exchange this DVD player I stole from Best Buy with a new one too.
I'm so pissed... I got called to record my viewing habits for a week for the Nielson ratings, but my week I'm supposed to "diary" what I watch is from last Thursday until this coming Thursday. I was kind of hoping to be able to record the new Farscape episode -- at least I got to put a blip on for last Friday's repeats, but...
Farscape is the only show I've watched, in the past five years, that I've followed religiously. It's hard to explain it to anyone how much you can get into it, but it was sooo well done; it's cancellation by SciFi really made me loose interest in T.V. -- besides The Simpsons, what shows are out there that are long lasting?
My girlfriend's Japanese, and she was telling me of this soap she used to watch that her father watches, that was on for literally 20 years. Unfortunatly, the tv execs don't invest in shows that much here. They want quick, easy cash... and eventually it's going to hurt them.
That was just a test flight of one. They'er considering deploying a lot of these.
That wingspan size is almost a 737's wingspan, but luckily these things will fly much, much higher than normal 737 commercial traffic, so not much danger there.
Anyway my point: it is not routine, they're considering making flights routine, and frankly I'm all for it. We need to prtect our airspace (anyone who doesn't agree with me has been in a coma for the last year and a half) and, most importantly now, our port security and waterways.
Perhaps it's a learning disability (LD), not ADHD (which is often over-diagnosed and trated with un-necessary drugs).
My sister has a LD and had quite a lot of trouble with school. She was very smart and still did poorly. Luckly, my mom found out some information about learning disabilities before she bought into the "ADHD craze".
Basically, with a learning disability, there's a sort of short-wiring with the way the brain interprets some hearing, so in effect, it's very difficult to hear things and understand them correctly. Often things need to be repeated two or three times in order to be comprehended or learned.
There are ways that this can be dealt with, suttle little changes that can change her life. For example, the doctor my sister saw suggested tape recording lectures in order to play them later to understand. That worked wonders. There are other things, and symptoms that you should check out, before you decide ADHD is the only possible conclusion:
Actually the law is designed to protect the minor from being held liable for signing a contract that takes advantage of them.
Imagine if Apple's disclaimer said, "And I will pay Apple $100 a month to do this." Adults are supposed to know better, but minors are not supposed to be legally bound to contracts for THEIR protection (not the company or contractor's). This is a sad story, but it's better that it's enforced than 'overlooked'.
Thanks for posting this question, it's a good one. I have the same dilemma you have -- I want a window manager that I don't have to use the mouse to navigate and use. Additionally, I prefer a desktop without a lot of fancy icons or control panels that get in the way of the windows I'm working in.
A few years ago I tried out Window Maker, as I was looking for an Afterstep alternative. At the time, kde was an infant and gnome was in the same nursery. Afterstep was getting to bloated and slow, and when I tried out Window Maker I was in heaven! It was fast, lightweight and clean. My only complaint is that every time a new app is launched, an icon is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
As far as key bindings are concerned, everything is customizable. I use my keyboard to move virtual desktops all the time. Actually this is one of the things Window Maker wins me with -- I can jump from virtual window 1 to virtual window 3 by just typing "Alt-3" sort of a la Linux virtual consoles. I can also cycle through windows making them active "Alt-tab" or kill windows (read: Netscape annoying javascript banner pop-up adds)
I haven't tried the other window managers people have suggested, but I will be soon. If you want to get something up quick, without having to do a lot of customization, try out Window Maker for a while.
I think what you're after is Bugzilla, yeah. They also seem to have something called Bonsai which will let you view the CVS repositories, much like ViewCVS, a CGI script written in Python.
Good luck... integrating CVS with any bug tracking system is going to be a bit difficult.
There is a Project Management Programs FAQ you'll probably be really interested in. It isn't all web-based, but you should look through it. Also there is some project management web-based software at this address seemed to be excellent when we evaluated it.
If you just want time tracking software, check out this site and this one.
Slashdot Mirror
If the weather cannot be accurately predicted 100% of the time for three days in advance, why would anyone believe they can predict it based on some trending for the next 50 years? Or maybe this is perhaps generated by some political agenda to get a government grant..? Follow the money. This happens far more than people might suspect.
Next up from the university: predicting earthquakes and stock market indexes for the years 2041-2060!
Where does it say in the constitution that congress is responsible for being a consumer or even privacy watchdog? Isn't that the responsibility of the FTC Bereau of Consumer Protection, CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), the newly created Department of Consumer Protection or the CPSC (Consumer Protection Safety Commission)? See below for links.. these are separate organizations of government.
I think the congressional hearings are far, far too used. I watch as ignorant senators call up Goldman Sachs or Toyota and grill them on practices and safety. Meanwhile, they can't pass a budget for the bloated, ignorant government to run on. Senators act like royalty, yet they're the ones trading on insider information and often the ones who caused the problem with restrictive laws or regulations in the first place.
The gut instinct of all of us, when we see an article like this,l is to say, "My privacy is important!" and to be a little thankful for the government to be the oversight when we feel powerless, *yet* its the government who is tapping out phones, e-mails and electronic communication illegally. Am I the only one who recognizes how bad things have become??!
-- Ragetech
Links:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/consumer.shtm - FTC
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/ - CFPB
http://www.ct.gov/DCP/site/default.asp - Department of Consumer Protection
http://www.cpsc.gov/ - CPSC
Also, it looks like this story about Microsoft has been out since June.
What ever happened to innovation, and sticking to a core business model? What is Microsoft thinking, they're not a hardware company. So there advanced technologies R&D lab thinks up something they can throw a patent application up for. They won't execute on it. They'll just litigate on it if someone does actually try to deliver something to the market.
Oh wait... I guess this is Microsoft's core business model, never mind my bad.
I've been living in Japan for the past two years and I can say I'm not surprised. With Japan's over-employment strategy, this moonbase will have two girls in brightly colored happy blue spacesuits (with matching hat, and white gloves) at every airlock.
"Going out, sir?"
"Uh... yeah."
"Which floo-- machigaita, dame! I mean, it will be my pleasure to puch the lock cycle button for you."
"No I can do it!"
"You? Aren't you supposed to be working the elevator, Makiko?"
"No, I'm on airlock today."
"Right, let's push it together. Ichi! Ni! Sa-"
"Hey, where did he go?"
"He pushed it himself!!"
and then the moonbase economy will collapse because we could not employ everyone.
Ok, this country's starting to affect me now. Going offline... cycling...... out.
*vaccuum sound*
If you missed this one, it's truely a great BOFH episode...
i ng_the_savegame_panic/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/23/bofh_hitt
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RageTech
QUAKE II
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Copyright (c) 1991-2001. All rights reserved.
West of steaming pit of hell
You are standing in an open room west of a steaming pit of hell leading down.
There is a gun here.
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(recycled: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/31
--
RageTech
I got excited about iChat encryption - I think iChat with iSight is phenominal, and I regularly use three-way video chat with my parents and sister back in the States (from Japan). The video compression and rendering is excellent - it's saved a fortune and it's better even than the mega-buck one we use at my fortune 500 company. I regularly talk to upper managment (all who use OSX .. coincidental?) about it and they've questioned why we pay so much for VC software when iSight costs ~$150/camera (1 mac for each conference room would be a drop in the bucket).
.Mac account to enable iChat encryption."
.Mac tax to get a feature on the core OS? For shame, Apple... for shame!
:-)
So I thought encryption would help iSight/Chat move up to some of the security requirements some businesses may have for video conferencing software. I try to enable it at home and I got this:
"You need to sign up for a
What the Frell? I have to pay the
Additionally, I had a major issue when I upgraded, and I wasn't alone according to the discussions on the Apple support site. All my firewire devices freaked out and wouldn't come online. Not my LaCie, not my EyeTV.
I rebooted once, after the initial 10.4.3 reboot load, and everything started behaving. But now I'm a bit scared to reboot again. Lesson learned? Don't upgrade on the first day
RageTech
I got excited about iChat encryption - it'll help it move up to some of the requirements companies have for video conferencing software. But then I got this:
.Mac account to enable iChat encryption."
.Mac tax to get a feature on the core OS? For shame, Apple... for shame.
"You need to sign up for a
What the Frell? I have to pay the
Additionally, I had a major issue when I upgraded, and I wasn't alone according to the discussions on the Apple support site. All my firewire devices freaked out and wouldn't come online. Not my LaCie, not my EyeTV.
I rebooted once, after the initial 10.4.3 reboot load, and everything started behaving. But now I'm a bit scared to reboot again.
RageTech
This is the one that's on my top 3 list:
Access Control Lists (ACL)
Go beyond the limitations of traditional UNIX file permissions and enjoy greater flexibility over assigning access permissions to files, folders and network services.
My wife and I share the same computer at home, and thank God for "Fast User switching" - especially because she's a Japanese native and I'm from the US. One click and a password entry and she's got her own desktop with menus in Kanji.
But the downside of sharing the same computer is trying to share the same files. Apple puts a "Shared" folder under the home directory root. Does this mean my wife and I can easily work on the same file? No. Permissions are a bitch - I fiddle and fiddle, but things always get reset and eventually gave up. I'm hoping ACLs are going to add a lot for collaboration on the same server.
Ragetech
I just bought one of the latest phones Sony Ericsson phones in Japan and no Bluetooth. In fact, the only phone that had Bluetooth (from AU KDDI) was from Toshiba, and it was not a bi-lingual phone so I had to return it.
I sincerly hope Bluetooth is not on the way out. Sony is always trying to cut costs, they've been having a rough time so maybe we shouldn't read too much into this.
Well, I'm not sure if this is a mirror or the primary, but anyway check this out: Munitions - cryptographic software for Linux.
At home w/ SuSE I use cryptofs, but if you don't have SuSe here's something else that looks pretty good (And I think OpenBSD has this one too)-- CFS. I think there are actually a lot of options out there for you, just look around through Google.
No, you've got it all wrong. There should be updates for pirated software users. And I should be able to exchange this DVD player I stole from Best Buy with a new one too.
I'm so pissed... I got called to record my viewing habits for a week for the Nielson ratings, but my week I'm supposed to "diary" what I watch is from last Thursday until this coming Thursday. I was kind of hoping to be able to record the new Farscape episode -- at least I got to put a blip on for last Friday's repeats, but...
Farscape is the only show I've watched, in the past five years, that I've followed religiously. It's hard to explain it to anyone how much you can get into it, but it was sooo well done; it's cancellation by SciFi really made me loose interest in T.V. -- besides The Simpsons, what shows are out there that are long lasting?
My girlfriend's Japanese, and she was telling me of this soap she used to watch that her father watches, that was on for literally 20 years. Unfortunatly, the tv execs don't invest in shows that much here. They want quick, easy cash... and eventually it's going to hurt them.
Ok, I'm rabling... go Farscape!
That was just a test flight of one. They'er considering deploying a lot of these.
That wingspan size is almost a 737's wingspan, but luckily these things will fly much, much higher than normal 737 commercial traffic, so not much danger there.
Anyway my point: it is not routine, they're considering making flights routine, and frankly I'm all for it. We need to prtect our airspace (anyone who doesn't agree with me has been in a coma for the last year and a half) and, most importantly now, our port security and waterways.
Greg Gallagher -- Get informed! Center for Security policy..
Perhaps it's a learning disability (LD), not ADHD (which is often over-diagnosed and trated with un-necessary drugs).
My sister has a LD and had quite a lot of trouble with school. She was very smart and still did poorly. Luckly, my mom found out some information about learning disabilities before she bought into the "ADHD craze".
Basically, with a learning disability, there's a sort of short-wiring with the way the brain interprets some hearing, so in effect, it's very difficult to hear things and understand them correctly. Often things need to be repeated two or three times in order to be comprehended or learned.
There are ways that this can be dealt with, suttle little changes that can change her life. For example, the doctor my sister saw suggested tape recording lectures in order to play them later to understand. That worked wonders. There are other things, and symptoms that you should check out, before you decide ADHD is the only possible conclusion:
Hope this helps and that you seek out alternatives before giving into the fad of ADHD and drugs as a treatment.
Actually the law is designed to protect the minor from being held liable for signing a contract that takes advantage of them.
Imagine if Apple's disclaimer said, "And I will pay Apple $100 a month to do this." Adults are supposed to know better, but minors are not supposed to be legally bound to contracts for THEIR protection (not the company or contractor's). This is a sad story, but it's better that it's enforced than 'overlooked'.
A few years ago I tried out Window Maker, as I was looking for an Afterstep alternative. At the time, kde was an infant and gnome was in the same nursery. Afterstep was getting to bloated and slow, and when I tried out Window Maker I was in heaven! It was fast, lightweight and clean. My only complaint is that every time a new app is launched, an icon is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
As far as key bindings are concerned, everything is customizable. I use my keyboard to move virtual desktops all the time. Actually this is one of the things Window Maker wins me with -- I can jump from virtual window 1 to virtual window 3 by just typing "Alt-3" sort of a la Linux virtual consoles. I can also cycle through windows making them active "Alt-tab" or kill windows (read: Netscape annoying javascript banner pop-up adds)
I haven't tried the other window managers people have suggested, but I will be soon. If you want to get something up quick, without having to do a lot of customization, try out Window Maker for a while.
Good luck... integrating CVS with any bug tracking system is going to be a bit difficult.
Greg Gallagher
If you just want time tracking software, check out this site and this one.
Good luck!