Filesystems are designed to abstract file handling. Applications need not know if the FS is Etx4, Xfs, Btrfs, etc. They all have a standard POSIX interface to manipulate files. If this were not the case, we'd live in utter chaos. So that was a bogus point. As for apps like Photoshop, we already have better Linux equivalents; InkScape and GIMP for example. High-level applications like Dropbox need not worry about the FS, and should not worry about distribution so much. There are many development platforms that can help build distribution and platform agnostic applications. Take Microsoft Visual Code for example. And if the application has a web interface, then the OS and distribution make no difference. I can access my Google Drive with any web browser, or via apps. Google Drive has a native app for Windows, but not for Linux. However, I use my web browser to access my files in Drive under Linux every day. For Dropbox to drop Linux application support is really not such a big deal. There are already open source clients that can access Dropbox in Linux. From Dropboxes perspective, why not let the open source community create the applications?
It is not Google that puts the ads in front of you, it is other people who put the google ads in front of you so that they, the other people, can make money.
None of our websites put google ads in front of you; a choice we made, not Google.
And there you have it; the state of our country and most of the world; "I have not obligation to society, just leave me alone, I have too much other shit to deal with"
In addition, shooting the messenger is par for the course in America today. How convienient it is for a government/society to generate fear in people in order to prevent them from taking action. The last thing we need is a bunch of do-gooders running around causing problems.
I had a three speaker system on my dekstop for years. It was a basic 79 dollar system from Fry's. The speakers always made a terrible sound before the phone rang.
I upgraded to a more expnsive Bose computer speaker system (three speakers as well). Same noise. I upgraded to a balckberry 8800 and it makes noises all the time. Sometimes it just starts buzzing for a few minutes and then it stops.
Two months ago I upgraded to a very high end system for my desktop (Onkyo 7.1 surround rceiver, left and right Event 20/20 speakers, center channel Dynaudio with BBC circuitry, two rear bose speakers from an older surround system I once had, and a bose rear center like the rear left and right (no side speakers connected yet)).
Guess what, not one sound from my phone. Not once. Then, I added a very high end JVC sub-woofer and the noise is back. Louder and more annoying than ever.
So, I can assume the noise is within the frequency range of lower end. I can adjust the frequency of the sub-woofer, and that may help, but I have not tried it yet.
Freedom of speech is not a free pass to anarchy. You can not yell fire in a crowded room if there is no fire. Does that squelch freedom of speech?
On the flip-side. If the educational institution had been doing it's job correclty, maybe the student would have used a more robust vocabulary in his criticism. Resorting to that sort of profanity is a direct reflection on our society and our educational system.
Here is an interesting discussion on freedom of speech from a course from the Open University:
Did any one notice the comment "which was expected". The ads were intended to be bad. It was Microsoft's attempt at "Cocaine Style Marketing"; which worked. They have recieved plenty of press over the ads. No press is bad press. Trust me, I know:)
What sort of morons must diebold be hiring to write the voting machine code? I mean seriously, isn't that like comp-sci 101: day 1, book 1, chapter 1, section 1, page 1, example 1?
Although VOIP will not work reliably, VSAT is an excellent options when there are no others excpet dialup. I used www.starband.com for 6 years before moing to a location with broadband. Down speeds were awesome, up speeds OK, packet turnaround time sucks for VPN and any other packet-exchange protocol.
Starband uses a protocol accelerator (BST - Boosted Session Transport) that blasts loads of packets at once and then blasts the check sums. Allowing large data transfers to take advantage of the high speed burts that VSAT uses. I have, on occasion, had speeds up to 25 MB/S; I am not joking (that is MB/S not mb/S)! However, 1 to 4 megabits is normal.
What does criminology have to do with PC repair? I would not have a problem with a PC repair license that is all about being qualified. However, a PI license does not qualify a person to repair my PC.
I suspect this is a law to allow Texas to haul people in to court and reuqire them to tell your secrets to a grand jury.
You will need a Dual Wan router. I use the LinkSys RV082. It has been working great for me for several (like 5) years.
I use a local wireless ISP for my primary WAN and www.starband.com for my secondary. It will fail over, but I also use protocol binding in the router so that all web traffic goes over the satellite and VOIP and email go over the wireless. Other traffic is load balanced.
It is an awesome router and starband is so reliable, I am never down.
I lived on a remote mountain and was 100% off-grid. I used Starband (www.starband.com). I had it for six years and it was flawless. Up speeds were not awesome, but better than dial up. The service was the most reliable I have ever had. Down speeds were great (1+ meg). I had the SOHO plan. I ran a souce control server on it and an Exchange server. Worked awesome. Again, VSAT is a little different and you soon get use to the diferences. No phone line required.
Also, I head from a friend that Wild Blue (www.wildblue.com) is also very good. I am going to get VSAT again (I moved) as a backup because it was very reliable. I have an RV082 and I know it works with VSAT on one of the WAN ports.
This is probably going to be a more reliable mechanism than a long-haul wireless setup.
I rememeber in the late 80's, and early 90's I read an article in the New York Times Technology section on Photorefractors. They must be making some great headway by now.
I just got (like three days ago) the Plantronics 590A headphones. They are bluetooth and do not cancel ambient noise. They are spectacular! The kit comes with the base station charger (about 10 hours per charge), a bluetooth dongle, a USB charger, AC charger and an optional headphone cable for in-flight use; with this cable inserted, the bluetooth radio is disabled.
You can pair it with your cell phone or PC and use the dongle at the same time. When an call comes in, the music is canceled and the headphones switch to the phone.
Not for Virus scanning; Norton SUCKS! Try NOD32 from ESET (www.nod32.com). It is the leanest, meanest, and best virus scanner by far. Do not take my word for it, try it for yourself.
I am not affiliated with ESET. I just think the product rocks.
This is a very narrow minded post and the article to boot. Apple does not, out of the box, let me connect my iPod to my CD player or stereo for recording, so why would I expect the iPodVideo to do that. I am sure the new iTunes will allow you to put video content on the thing via your PC, just like it does for music.
Now, I do not know if it does this or not, but, it would be very cool to hook the iPodVideo up to the TV for playback; like I can do with the iPod and my stereo.
1 x Lister-Petter 7.1 KWh diesel generator ~$6,000 1 x Trace/Xantrex T240 autotransformer ~$300 1 x Trace/Xantrex SW 4024 inverter ~$1,500 on ebay NIB 12 x Fulmen 2.2 volt batteries at 1900 amp/hours each ~$4,000 for the lot (delivered) 2 x Starband connections for backup (www.starband.com) ~$1,000.00 1 x/. post - priceless
This gives me about 50 KWh backup power; I just wish I could still find some of those 7000 amp/hour submarine batteries.
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Filesystems are designed to abstract file handling. Applications need not know if the FS is Etx4, Xfs, Btrfs, etc. They all have a standard POSIX interface to manipulate files. If this were not the case, we'd live in utter chaos. So that was a bogus point. As for apps like Photoshop, we already have better Linux equivalents; InkScape and GIMP for example. High-level applications like Dropbox need not worry about the FS, and should not worry about distribution so much. There are many development platforms that can help build distribution and platform agnostic applications. Take Microsoft Visual Code for example. And if the application has a web interface, then the OS and distribution make no difference. I can access my Google Drive with any web browser, or via apps. Google Drive has a native app for Windows, but not for Linux. However, I use my web browser to access my files in Drive under Linux every day. For Dropbox to drop Linux application support is really not such a big deal. There are already open source clients that can access Dropbox in Linux. From Dropboxes perspective, why not let the open source community create the applications?
A small hat made from aluminum foil and a roll of duct tape is what i use. So far I have had no problems.
It is not Google that puts the ads in front of you, it is other people who put the google ads in front of you so that they, the other people, can make money.
None of our websites put google ads in front of you; a choice we made, not Google.
Jamey
What! No ReiserFS support; sounds like discrimination against a convicted murderer to me.
Jamey
And there you have it; the state of our country and most of the world; "I have not obligation to society, just leave me alone, I have too much other shit to deal with"
In addition, shooting the messenger is par for the course in America today. How convienient it is for a government/society to generate fear in people in order to prevent them from taking action. The last thing we need is a bunch of do-gooders running around causing problems.
Jamey
I had a three speaker system on my dekstop for years. It was a basic 79 dollar system from Fry's. The speakers always made a terrible sound before the phone rang.
I upgraded to a more expnsive Bose computer speaker system (three speakers as well). Same noise. I upgraded to a balckberry 8800 and it makes noises all the time. Sometimes it just starts buzzing for a few minutes and then it stops.
Two months ago I upgraded to a very high end system for my desktop (Onkyo 7.1 surround rceiver, left and right Event 20/20 speakers, center channel Dynaudio with BBC circuitry, two rear bose speakers from an older surround system I once had, and a bose rear center like the rear left and right (no side speakers connected yet)).
Guess what, not one sound from my phone. Not once. Then, I added a very high end JVC sub-woofer and the noise is back. Louder and more annoying than ever.
So, I can assume the noise is within the frequency range of lower end. I can adjust the frequency of the sub-woofer, and that may help, but I have not tried it yet.
Jamey
If you do not vote, then do not fucking compalin!
With Freedom of speech comes responsibility.
Freedom of speech is not a free pass to anarchy. You can not yell fire in a crowded room if there is no fire. Does that squelch freedom of speech?
On the flip-side. If the educational institution had been doing it's job correclty, maybe the student would have used a more robust vocabulary in his criticism. Resorting to that sort of profanity is a direct reflection on our society and our educational system.
Here is an interesting discussion on freedom of speech from a course from the Open University:
Fredom of Speech
I do have a little experience in this area.
Did any one notice the comment "which was expected". The ads were intended to be bad. It was Microsoft's attempt at "Cocaine Style Marketing"; which worked. They have recieved plenty of press over the ads. No press is bad press. Trust me, I know :)
What sort of morons must diebold be hiring to write the voting machine code? I mean seriously, isn't that like comp-sci 101: day 1, book 1, chapter 1, section 1, page 1, example 1?
Jamey
He is too busy getting laid.
I use the Plantronics 590A with a bluetooth adapter. Works pefect!
I also hear the new Plantronics Calisto is quite awesome and integrates with your Skype, land-line and cell phone. I may get one for myself :)
Jamey
Although VOIP will not work reliably, VSAT is an excellent options when there are no others excpet dialup. I used www.starband.com for 6 years before moing to a location with broadband. Down speeds were awesome, up speeds OK, packet turnaround time sucks for VPN and any other packet-exchange protocol.
Starband uses a protocol accelerator (BST - Boosted Session Transport) that blasts loads of packets at once and then blasts the check sums. Allowing large data transfers to take advantage of the high speed burts that VSAT uses. I have, on occasion, had speeds up to 25 MB/S; I am not joking (that is MB/S not mb/S)! However, 1 to 4 megabits is normal.
Jamey
What does criminology have to do with PC repair? I would not have a problem with a PC repair license that is all about being qualified. However, a PI license does not qualify a person to repair my PC.
I suspect this is a law to allow Texas to haul people in to court and reuqire them to tell your secrets to a grand jury.
Jamey
You will need a Dual Wan router. I use the LinkSys RV082. It has been working great for me for several (like 5) years.
I use a local wireless ISP for my primary WAN and www.starband.com for my secondary. It will fail over, but I also use protocol binding in the router so that all web traffic goes over the satellite and VOIP and email go over the wireless. Other traffic is load balanced.
It is an awesome router and starband is so reliable, I am never down.
Jamey
I lived on a remote mountain and was 100% off-grid. I used Starband (www.starband.com). I had it for six years and it was flawless. Up speeds were not awesome, but better than dial up. The service was the most reliable I have ever had. Down speeds were great (1+ meg). I had the SOHO plan. I ran a souce control server on it and an Exchange server. Worked awesome. Again, VSAT is a little different and you soon get use to the diferences. No phone line required.
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Also, I head from a friend that Wild Blue (www.wildblue.com) is also very good. I am going to get VSAT again (I moved) as a backup because it was very reliable. I have an RV082 and I know it works with VSAT on one of the WAN ports.
This is probably going to be a more reliable mechanism than a long-haul wireless setup.
Just my
Jamey
Is there any other way? Hell, it is CSS and HTML for Christ's sake.
Jamey
Are they asking for Brawndo?
I have not looked in to photorefractive polymers in years. Here is some good information:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/moerner/prpgen.html
Jamey
I rememeber in the late 80's, and early 90's I read an article in the New York Times Technology section on Photorefractors. They must be making some great headway by now.
Jamey
I just got (like three days ago) the Plantronics 590A headphones. They are bluetooth and do not cancel ambient noise. They are spectacular! The kit comes with the base station charger (about 10 hours per charge), a bluetooth dongle, a USB charger, AC charger and an optional headphone cable for in-flight use; with this cable inserted, the bluetooth radio is disabled.
You can pair it with your cell phone or PC and use the dongle at the same time. When an call comes in, the music is canceled and the headphones switch to the phone.
The sound quality is amazing!
Not for Virus scanning; Norton SUCKS! Try NOD32 from ESET (www.nod32.com). It is the leanest, meanest, and best virus scanner by far. Do not take my word for it, try it for yourself.
I am not affiliated with ESET. I just think the product rocks.
Probably more than know how to work on fuel cells and hybrids.
Jamey
This is a very narrow minded post and the article to boot. Apple does not, out of the box, let me connect my iPod to my CD player or stereo for recording, so why would I expect the iPodVideo to do that. I am sure the new iTunes will allow you to put video content on the thing via your PC, just like it does for music.
Now, I do not know if it does this or not, but, it would be very cool to hook the iPodVideo up to the TV for playback; like I can do with the iPod and my stereo.
This is what I am using for my UPS here at home:
/. post - priceless
1 x Lister-Petter 7.1 KWh diesel generator ~$6,000
1 x Trace/Xantrex T240 autotransformer ~$300
1 x Trace/Xantrex SW 4024 inverter ~$1,500 on ebay NIB
12 x Fulmen 2.2 volt batteries at 1900 amp/hours each ~$4,000 for the lot (delivered)
2 x Starband connections for backup (www.starband.com) ~$1,000.00
1 x
This gives me about 50 KWh backup power; I just wish I could still find some of those 7000 amp/hour submarine batteries.