This (2MB PDF) is how I learnt, but it was only a 90min guide back then. It tells you everything you need to know and gives examples of code and the formatted output, so making your first document is straight forward and the examples in there have been sufficient for everything I have ever needed to produce.
What makes you say this? They have xserves which, from what I've seen, are mostly configured with a GUI. I know they have some remote GUI management tools to some of this, but having a graphical connection back to the server is also a helpful think to have at times. Why wouldn't they want something that works better than the current tools?
debian should have exactly what you are looking for, the netinst has just enough on the cd to install a console, then you can add whatever else you want with apt. link
Well TFS said it was in the European Parliament, since the RIAA is an organisation in the USA, I would assume it has little relevance to what the RIAA can do. However, the European equivalent of the RIAA might have more trouble pinning stuff on you.
I'm not an electrician either, but I know there is a cable being built (maybe finished by now) connecting the Victorian and Tasmanian power grids (two states of Australia separated by water, if you're unfamiliar). Other people could probably point you to other examples too, but I think undersea electrical transmission is a solved problem.
I think you're on the right track, but you need to consider a few small but possible show stoppers depending on the location of the said African village.
In many of these developing countries (I'm only familiar with some in asia) there is not a reliable or honest banking system which makes it very difficult to accept credit card payments or do much with your paypal money.
Secondly, logistics in developing countries may not be what you expect, there may or may not be a postal service in the country, which may or may not work to schedules and may or may not actually deliver your stuff instead of keeping it themselves. There may or may not be frieght companies who can get your rugs and or coffee from your village to Capital City where there is a possibility you may know someone who can organise paperwork and payment for export of stuff. But once you can get it out of the country, the international system works quite well
You can either view these as problems or as job opportunites for the other villagers, but that would require training them as well.
and here in Hong Kong I get 1000Mb/s both ways with no download limits for the princely sum of HK$240 (~US$30). Only hitch is that's only for HK traffic, international traffic crawls along at 20Mb/s:(
I was working in Cambodia a few years back, you generally have a choice of two levels of quality, the stuff made in Thailand or the stuff made in Vietnam. Generally, when compared to western goods, the Thai stuff is pretty good but a lot cheaper, Vietnamese stuff is cheaper but is usually knock off's of other products. So when the time came to buy a new water pump for my well I had a look at the cheap Vietnamese pump, it was a copy of an old Russian design. So, not only could I get the legendry reliability and quality of a Russian water pump, but I could also expect it to fall just short of the original Russian quality from being a cheap knock off.
Now, what is my point? If you try to replicate a steaming pile of shit, do you really think you will end up with a better quality product than the original POS?
I understand the need for compatibility with a widely used system so users can transition to the superior alternative... Oh wait, no one has a better way of doing things, just replicas of MS shite or an old complicated system of unix utils, databases and tools that are not trivial to get working harmoniously. What's the easiest way to connect a mac to a linux fileserver? Samba. Why? Because doing it the *nix way is too complicated.
There needs to be something better than AD and SMB before people can stop using them.
Too true, I'm doing all my office type work on windows and MSOffice again because I couldn't stand how slow OpenOffice runs. I'll still download this to try it, but I'm unlikely to use it regularly until they make it somewhat more efficient.
What have you got running on a home server that couldn't be done on an old laptop? I've got my web/mail/file server on a laptop in a cupboard drawing about 18W.
I had to put something on my laptop from a floppy a few years ago, there was never any mention of usb booting in the bios, but I plugged in a usb floppy then went into the bios setup and it was automatically in the list of boot devices. YMMV.
I saw a while back that Thailand is interested in these things. I was just wondering if anyone has actually tested them for use with the Thai script. Why I ask is that I worked on Khmer (Cambodian language with very similar complex writing system) a couple of years ago, and typing at a reasonable speed in unicode using complex text rendering (graphite or uniscribe) slowed my 1.6GHz system to a crawl, and often had to wait for the processor to catch up displaying what I had typed.
Yeah, but it will probably take off in the US just as well as the other well known French developed system for communication and harmony - the metric system...
"I don't think that's what they meant though."
Really??? If you look down the bottom of TFA it says "Source: SGI" Given that TFA talks more about the SGI systems than than the actual experiment, and SGI wrote TFA, they should know better. But then again, it is just marketing....
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How about a teacher with 20yrs experience vs an accountant with 20 yrs?
This (2MB PDF) is how I learnt, but it was only a 90min guide back then. It tells you everything you need to know and gives examples of code and the formatted output, so making your first document is straight forward and the examples in there have been sufficient for everything I have ever needed to produce.
More documentation here if you need.
What makes you say this? They have xserves which, from what I've seen, are mostly configured with a GUI. I know they have some remote GUI management tools to some of this, but having a graphical connection back to the server is also a helpful think to have at times. Why wouldn't they want something that works better than the current tools?
debian should have exactly what you are looking for, the netinst has just enough on the cd to install a console, then you can add whatever else you want with apt. link
Only if evil = 2
Well TFS said it was in the European Parliament, since the RIAA is an organisation in the USA, I would assume it has little relevance to what the RIAA can do. However, the European equivalent of the RIAA might have more trouble pinning stuff on you.
Source code available here.
I'm not an electrician either, but I know there is a cable being built (maybe finished by now) connecting the Victorian and Tasmanian power grids (two states of Australia separated by water, if you're unfamiliar). Other people could probably point you to other examples too, but I think undersea electrical transmission is a solved problem.
I think you're on the right track, but you need to consider a few small but possible show stoppers depending on the location of the said African village.
In many of these developing countries (I'm only familiar with some in asia) there is not a reliable or honest banking system which makes it very difficult to accept credit card payments or do much with your paypal money.
Secondly, logistics in developing countries may not be what you expect, there may or may not be a postal service in the country, which may or may not work to schedules and may or may not actually deliver your stuff instead of keeping it themselves. There may or may not be frieght companies who can get your rugs and or coffee from your village to Capital City where there is a possibility you may know someone who can organise paperwork and payment for export of stuff. But once you can get it out of the country, the international system works quite well
You can either view these as problems or as job opportunites for the other villagers, but that would require training them as well.
Disks made in Thailand, then sold in Taiwan was how I understood the summary.
and here in Hong Kong I get 1000Mb/s both ways with no download limits for the princely sum of HK$240 (~US$30). Only hitch is that's only for HK traffic, international traffic crawls along at 20Mb/s :(
Last I heard, they just had two agents working on them.
I was working in Cambodia a few years back, you generally have a choice of two levels of quality, the stuff made in Thailand or the stuff made in Vietnam. Generally, when compared to western goods, the Thai stuff is pretty good but a lot cheaper, Vietnamese stuff is cheaper but is usually knock off's of other products. So when the time came to buy a new water pump for my well I had a look at the cheap Vietnamese pump, it was a copy of an old Russian design. So, not only could I get the legendry reliability and quality of a Russian water pump, but I could also expect it to fall just short of the original Russian quality from being a cheap knock off.
Now, what is my point? If you try to replicate a steaming pile of shit, do you really think you will end up with a better quality product than the original POS?
I understand the need for compatibility with a widely used system so users can transition to the superior alternative... Oh wait, no one has a better way of doing things, just replicas of MS shite or an old complicated system of unix utils, databases and tools that are not trivial to get working harmoniously. What's the easiest way to connect a mac to a linux fileserver? Samba. Why? Because doing it the *nix way is too complicated.
There needs to be something better than AD and SMB before people can stop using them.
They're talking about the "world", as defined by the World Series Baseball people. Lame story.
Too true, I'm doing all my office type work on windows and MSOffice again because I couldn't stand how slow OpenOffice runs. I'll still download this to try it, but I'm unlikely to use it regularly until they make it somewhat more efficient.
You mean something like the firehose?
What have you got running on a home server that couldn't be done on an old laptop? I've got my web/mail/file server on a laptop in a cupboard drawing about 18W.
Nah, they won't try drilling - open cut is a much better option.
Wait... how does that joke work again?
I had to put something on my laptop from a floppy a few years ago, there was never any mention of usb booting in the bios, but I plugged in a usb floppy then went into the bios setup and it was automatically in the list of boot devices. YMMV.
So that's 1hrs work, 7hrs doing whatever I like? Are you guys hiring?
... will it hold little Billy's painting on the fridge?
I saw a while back that Thailand is interested in these things. I was just wondering if anyone has actually tested them for use with the Thai script. Why I ask is that I worked on Khmer (Cambodian language with very similar complex writing system) a couple of years ago, and typing at a reasonable speed in unicode using complex text rendering (graphite or uniscribe) slowed my 1.6GHz system to a crawl, and often had to wait for the processor to catch up displaying what I had typed.
Yeah, but it will probably take off in the US just as well as the other well known French developed system for communication and harmony - the metric system...
"I don't think that's what they meant though."
Really??? If you look down the bottom of TFA it says "Source: SGI" Given that TFA talks more about the SGI systems than than the actual experiment, and SGI wrote TFA, they should know better. But then again, it is just marketing....