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On 5/21/07, Michael Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) If you only want to try out Linux, you can completely remove the
Windows drive and replace that with your spare drive. Install Linux
and test/break that installation as you wish
Also, does the MacBook Pro come with an emulation program for Windows?
Emulation? No, use virtualization.
http://www.parallels.com/ ($80 for Mac, worth every penny)
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Smart phones that can access on-demand Web-based applications
have the potential to reshape the business landscape forever.
This isn't just about the iPhone. Information-technology
departments are already supporting BlackBerrys and other smart
phones.
On 7/29/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... (who was located
in Round Rock, TX, BTW)
... *again,* not located in this country.
Not that I have a problem with that per se, but sometimes,
you can cut the accent with a knife.
Looks like you _do_ have a problem with _that_.
There are a
The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to ascertain the likelihood
that the header time stamps on some mail I have received from a sender
are accurate or possibly fabricated.
The headers should contain at least one Received: line. If those
lines aren't forged, they are usually
... they print a zero tape at the beginning of the voting day and
then a final tally tape at the end. And the vote counts have to
match meters on the front of the machines ...
This is the answer I got from my polling place in Montgomery county,
MD in 2004. Sure, if the number of total votes
So Sun paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL in order to kill it? What a
theory! Do these companies really have that kind of money to burn?
Larry Ellison does. And that is Dvorak's conspiracy theory.
I think, there's a hole in that theory. MySQL is an open source
product. For the sake of the
Why will timemachine greatly reduce it?
Mac's TimeMachine uses a filesystem technique called Copy-on-Write (COW).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write
Say you created a file 5 days ago and haven't touched it since. That means
all the daily and hourly backup snapshots of that file have
When that happens would the public and advertisers
migrate to the MSN product or the Google product?
This particular public will certainly be migrating to the Goolge
product. I've spent a *lot* of time avoiding Microsoft products except
for OSes because I'm too lazy to learn Linux and too
Not even if you type: http://cguys.org ?
How about this?
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I'm considering moving my mom from windows xp pro to ubuntu. She has
just one too many friends forwarding her every email they find on the
web I believe and I can't seem to get her to stop opening them. The
only app I'm not sure about replacing is her quicken. I've read on
the gnucash
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Judy Cosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
red or white?
We now return you back to the Windows vs. Mac food fight.
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Any recommendations for a GPS ...
I was given a GPSr (r is for receiver) unit as a gift. It was a
Magellan Maestro 3100. I've been meaning to purchase a GPSr as
another gadget to play with, so I appreciated the gift.
Mapping, touch screen, voice, etc are fine. You can zoom in/out in the
map
HAHAHAHA! You are too funny Tom! But you didn't use one of them cute
smileys, so it's hard to tell if you're being serious - as most of your
posts seem ...
Most of the time, Tom is not all that serious. He is having fun asking
questions from the left field. He enjoys making edgy remarks.
I too would vote for a pad and pencil LONG before I would pass around
an electronic device. Heck, under your scenario, an unscrupulous or
ham-fisted person could delete previous entries!
... Or walking away with the device. Or a person with 10 thumbs dropping it
and losing all the records.
I've been looking around our local imax theaters to go see Dark Knight
since this is one of the few movies actually shot and not converted
for imax. I don't know anything about the tech specs behind imax,
just that it's big. I've been hearing conflicting stories about the
theaters here
Steve's health is a private matter.
Steve's health is obviously a private matter, but it's also a matter of
supreme importance to Apple shareholders. We know of no big company, in
fact, in which the CEO's health is a more critical consideration for
shareholders than it is at Apple.
Yeah,
How about being so protective of your hardware that you are willing to go
to jail to keep others from molesting it? This is a fascinating story...
I think, there's enough blame to go around for everyone in this story.
Terry Childs set up a network by himself, and didn't let any of his
collegues
I have the DSL service through Verizon. Every time there is lightning in
the area, the DSL connection resets. The modem then takes about a minute or
so to re-establish the DSL connection and all is happy ... (until the next
lightning during the dark and stormy night, that is.)
Has anyone else
Phone lines aren't grounded.
This is a very good summary of the issues and a few partial solutions:
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/surge/telesurge.html
The lightning/thunder I'm talking about are not close-by. Most of the
time they are quite far (~5-10 seconds between lightning and
Five to ten seconds between lightming and thunder is NOT
far away. That's like 1.6 to 3.2 kilometers away. Outer limit
of DSL effectiveness assuming straight copper feed is just
about 5.5 kilometers, or 18,000 feet.
The 5-10 seconds was my kid's guess. I will keep track of them
and write
The problem isn't your DSL, it's your modem. The DSL modem runs on
electricity from the power company. Your DSL on POTS line service
gets its power from TPC [The Phone Company]. The electricity blips
during thunderstorms.
Hmm... no, in my case, the DSL modem is on a UPS, so the power
doesn't
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Eric S. Sande wrote:
Lasers are the tough ones. Their draw is quite heavy on warm up.
So you're looking at power slope on the UPS assuming a storm
induced line dip? Good call, Mical and Stewart. So, what's on
the UPS, Michael?
Yeah, my UPS (APC 350) might be a bit
You need to run a VPN on top of the wireless connection. This will
give you a secure tunnel from your computer through to the VPN server.
See a good tutorial at www.cites.uiuc.edu/vpn/security.html
The above web site has a couple of nice graphics showing what part
of the communication stream
use 'https' for gmail.
if no vpn, but use https for gmail - wouldn't the wireless signal for
a public connection still be in the clear transmitting your username
and password?
No.
https uses SSL. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer)
It uses public/private keys to make an
Another interesting thing about the Tivo is ...
Also nice is the ability to get content over the Internet.
Interesting ... Can you get non-US channels like the BBC World Service
and Canadian cable channels (ie: ATN)?
BTW, anyone tried TVAnts or SopCast?
For a small business, I would generally recommend using computers they
would
otherwise discard and set up two, replicated MySQL servers for a reliable
database that won't stop if one computer or one disk drive fails.
You could do the same thing with two older computers that still work
MySQL replication:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html
Thanks for that. (Just for completeness if anyone searches the archives,
I've found the corresponding postgresql docs.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_and_Connection_Pooling
and I'm trying to
What value for degree of horribleness do you assign to total
destruction of the planet?
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My experiences with Seagate are based upon about 20 consecutive
failures (by Sun workstation serial number) about 10 years ago. After
the first 5 or so, Sun contacted us and started to proactively replace
workstation hard drives - all by Seagate.
I've worked with Sun workstations and servers
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, b_s-wilk wrote:
HP had its own OS almost 20 years ago, but it was only for
enterprise. It was pretty good. We used HP/UX for the workstations
to do 3D grid modeling for robots. With a good GUI, it might be
competitive with OS X. How's it with CDE?
Had? HP still
With this new technology will there really be a need for personally-owned
vehicles? Would it not be better to just call for a vehicle of the type
needed for each trip and have it come get you?
When the personal ownership goes away, you can have modular cars.
So when they are on the highway, a
Whether or not you are blogging, would you share one question or a
thought or two on how/why to use blogging for business?
Example: http://blogs.sun.com/ I've found it quite useful in
finding out what's coming down the pike from Sun. At times, I've
gotten code/script parts, ideas, etc. for
I'm no Cisco-Certified Network guy. So, take it with a grain of salt.
Is running on different subnets sufficient to keep my main network
secure?
Is the WiFi network going to be open to the public? If so, keep
the router firmware up to date in order to make it difficult to hack
into the
If a bad guy were to get on the WiFi network, he can flood the MAC
address table for the switch in the New Router and make the
switch part (LAN side) behave like a dumb hub.
So I see it is possible to break the router and lose the benefits of the
isolation the router is supposed to provide.
Instead, (for the truly paranoid, I guess) here's another network.
This one uses another router to NAT and isolate the entire WiFi
network behind a single IP from the outer network. (SOHO Router/NAT
boxes are cheap.)
New Old
Router
I'm trying to watch some streaming video. Unfortunately, it is only
available as a Windows Media Player stream so that's what I'm using.
Unfortunately*2, my DSL connection isn't fast enough so I get
periods of nice moving pictures and then choppy static pictures.
The audio plays without any
I don't know the answer, but most streaming servers will continue to
stream while paused, so you can just pause it and come back later. But
you didn't give a link so who knows if that will work here.
It is live TV, so I can't pause it. Here's the link:
http://ooxtv.com/cbn.php The front
I don't know the answer, but most streaming servers will continue to
stream while paused, so you can just pause it and come back later. But
you didn't give a link so who knows if that will work here.
Funny, I replied to this last night, but, apparently AOL's spam
control process may have eaten
You could try increasing the buffer. That'll store a longer
portion of the vid before playback.
I was thinking along the same line. But increasing the buffer to
10 or 15 seconds didn't help. It actually may have hurt. It became
unwatchable. Now I have it down to 3 seconds and I get periods
Tony said:
# IE wants to install the WMP plugin (forget it). But why can't they
# just stream like everyone else and not require a plugin?
Steve said:
% I tried to test it, but it requires Internet Explorer, which I do not
use.
Thanks guys, for trying. Sorry, I should have said that that site
To copy stuff from an old Win98SE disk ...
I have used up to 1 GB size of these sticks with great
success. Otherwise if it must be smaller look around on
ebay. Someone must be selling a few of these dirt cheap
(even compgeeks might have them) with the price of solid
state memory
Nice article explaining the MD5 problems.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081231-theoretical-attacks-yield-practical-attacks-on-ssl-pki.html
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I just installed ubuntu on an old computer. Now I need to know how to
set it up to recognize the internet (DSL modem) and network through an
Ethernet connection.
Have you looked through this?
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/internet/C/index.html
Are you running into any specific problems?
Since no one has answered this, I'll take a crack at it, but I
don't have any direct answers.
I just discovered that my ISP thinks I have 108,000 files on their
server. I think this can't be.
Do they mean _including_ the files they have on _tape_ backups?
So we have discussed such utilities
Ubuntu Pocket Guide
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download.html
It begins with a brief intro to Ubuntu, GNU, Linux, etc. It also covers
installation, dual booting, installation in an intel mac ...
Looks like a pretty good beginners guide. Can't beat the price.
... break all the windows in the the museums ...
But, but, that's like taking coal to Newcastle.
Windows is already broken!
Aw, shucks! You mean real windows. My bad.
mumble And, I thought this was a computer list.
Silly me! /mumble
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, gerald wrote:
http://www.fanniemae.com/ir/pdf/earnings/2008/q32008.pdf
evince (Document Viewer) in Ubuntu works ok with cut'n'paste.
File - Properties reports Security: No
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Please elaborate. Are TM files a proprietary format?
At the moment nobody seems to understand how TM works.
I don't use Time Machine even though I have a Mac laptop with
OS 10.5. However, I do know the theory behind how TM works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(Apple_software)
So if the webmail link says https (it does, btw) then the
username and password login information *is* automatically
protected even on a non-encrypted connection?
SSL (https, closed-padlock icon at the bottom of the page) _is_ an
encrypted connection from your browser to that site you are
How can the over-the-air part of the communication be protected
using only SSL login on email without a VPN or other encruption?
Because ssl _IS_ a form of encryption.
As you can see from other posts the security of SSL comes and goes and is
not under your control. There are even reports
I'm trying to order FiOS phone/internet/tv services. If I get HD
TV service, is there an option to connect the FiOS tv service
to a computer and watch tv from the computer monitor? Basically,
are there FiOS TV tuner cards available (either from Verizon or
from a third party) along with software?
sudo yum install root --- sudo will ask you for the root
password
I don't use Fedora, so I don't know exactly how sudo gets
configured in a newly installed machine, but don't you mean this?
sudo yum install galeon
(sudo will ask for YOUR password,
I'm trying to order FiOS phone/internet/tv services. If I get HD
TV service, is there an option to connect the FiOS tv service
to a computer and watch tv from the computer monitor?
answering my own query ... I found this:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/verizonfios/4.0_FiOS_Television
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Activity Monitor under Tiger shows the cupsd process running. Under
Leopard it is no longer there. How's that for evidence?
A quick test:
System Pref - Print Fax - Click + to add a printer.
Then open a Terminal window and run 'ps -ef | grep cups'
Do
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/05/researchers-hijack-botnet-score-56000-passwords-in-an-hour.ars
Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara have
published a paper detailing their findings after hijacking a botnet
for ten days earlier this year. Among other things, the
This query is somewhat related to the recent thread here about Google
mail, IMAP and POP.
I have some e-mail in my yahoo account that I would like to move to my
Gmail account. This would be a snap if Yahoo provided a (free) POP
service. You can just connect to Yahoo/POP and Gmail/IMAP, then
Does anyone know if HTC or Motorola or some other company will be coming out
with a PDA that runs Android OS? For instance, iPod Touch is the iPhone
minus the phone ... I'm insterested in such a device, but without the
phone. Googling for Android PDAs turns up several hits about experimental
Hmm ... there's obviously a market for the iPod Touch. With the Android
eco-system being FOSS, you'd think a vendor would take advantage of all the
apps (being developed for the phones) and come out with a cheaper iPod Touch
competitor. Otherwise, I'm hoping for the Touch prices to come donw
Looking for list opinions. Yes, I know that it will be all over the place,
but that's what I'm looking for, I guess.
Currently I have two old Dell boxes. (1) Primary: Optiplex GX270 running
Ubuntu Linux. Yes, it is my primary as I'm a server admin and work with
remote servers all the time.
a. Another option is to look at VMware. The newest Virtualbox (3.0?) is
very nice, but you can also do a lot with free VMware products like
vmplayer. One or the other will have some feature you like better. I am
pretty darn sure VMware can give a VM direct access to hardware. I have
only
Other than the streaming video that requires IE can you do all your other
video watching in Ubuntu?
Yes, for instance, flash or watching DVDs works from Ubuntu.
They shouldn't be dictating your browser choices like that (which, I guess,
you already know :-).
Yeah, what's worse, I'm
Thank you all for various options and suggestions. This is sort of a
(long) summary of my tests. Hopefully, someone else may find this useful.
Option 1: Run 64-bit Ubuntu on the physical machine ...
I installed 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10, nVidia module for my video card on the
physical HW. Then
mint.com's security tech and practices are here:
http://www.mint.com/privacy/security-tech/
They keep the passwords encrypted. They are not encrypted as one-way hashes
and they decrypt them to use at the bank sites. 24/7 security guards?
Even if they have a guard dog, I don't want someone
I'm not talking about CC numbers. I'm worried about a third-party company
storing my sensitive passwords in its servers. It's the principle of the
thing ... if you are okay with it, go for it.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or
Right now we are testing Skype's $5.95/mo one country deal. After only a
few days my wife announced that we had already gotten our money's worth. We
still have to place the call from our Mac, but it rings to a regular phone
in Italy.
In that case, what you want is the Skype To Go feature.
rm -i Icon\\r
rm -i 'Icon\\r'
rm -i Icon\r
rm -i 'Icon\r'
Alas no.
Even the dread rm * fails to conquer.
A couple of ideas:
1) move everything else out of that directory.
cd ..
\rm -rf that directory name
2) I'm not sure if OSX comes with emacs, but I've used emacs' directory
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, t.piwowar wrote:
The following was suggested to me for a cron job to delete old emails
from a spam folder. I don't completely understand the syntax at the
end of the line.
find /home/user/mail/domain/email/.spam -type f +mtime 30 -exec rm -f '{}'
\;
should not +mtime
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, t.piwowar wrote:
The following was suggested to me for a cron job to delete old emails
from a spam folder. I don't completely understand the syntax at the
end of the line.
find /home/user/mail/domain/email/.spam -type f +mtime 30 -exec rm -f '{}'
\;
should not +mtime
Very interesting ... this is why software patents are evil.
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Jobs delivered his threat to Sun personally, Schwartz said, calling his
office to say the graphics in Sun's operating system 3D interface, Project
Looking Glass, were stepping all over Apple's IP, and that if Sun
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