Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting post about Nicholas Negroponte's keynote at the AAAS annual
meeting. I like the phrase 'obese electronics.'
I don't. It sounds like a pompous, ivory-tower intellectual spouting
off about things he knows nothing about.
Electronics are not
On Feb 19, 2008 10:49 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting post about Nicholas Negroponte's keynote at the AAAS annual
meeting. I like the phrase 'obese electronics.'
Electronics are not obese. They are getting faster and smaller all the time.
Electronics is a cut-throat
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It failed? Did Netcraft confirm it? ;-)
Perhaps failed isn't quite the right word.
I think OLPC is a somewhat ill-concieved idea, but last I heard, the
OLPC program wasn't dead.
Neither was the Black Knight...
The investors have deep pockets and
On Feb 19, 2008 2:43 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These arguments never go anywhere.
It takes two to tango. ;-) If you don't like the lame, quibbling
arguments, don't participate in them. Nobody's making you hit
Reply. Not even Microsoft. ;-)
They don't make it more
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:20 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 2:43 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These arguments never go anywhere.
It takes two to tango. ;-) If you don't like the lame, quibbling
arguments, don't participate in them. Nobody's making you hit
On Feb 18, 2008, at 18:09, Ted Roche wrote:
Have you tried The Levelator?
http://www.conversationsnetwork.com/levelator/
Ah, that claims to be exactly what I need. Your Google-fu is
superior to mine.
Running a test, it seems to work about half the time - the other half
it has big noise
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 15:20, Ben Scott wrote:
They don't make it more complex, expensive, or any of that.
They do indeed make it more complex.
I disagree. I have been using nothing but a cell phone for almost a decade
now. It's a rare thing when I'm out of service and pick up a
On Feb 19, 2008, at 18:23, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
Support standards-based phones like GSM phones that you
can own, without complicated contracts, and take with you from one
carrier to
the next, if necessary?
For those of us stuck in NH with one plausible carrier, the good news
is
This is an FYI.
On my newish Fedora 8 install. One issue I had is that I can't SSH
in and authenticate using public keys. I get prompted for a password.
Password login works. Just not public key authentication. I can SSH
out with pubkeys, not in, though. Same home directory (multi-boot;
