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Comment IBUprofen is a common painkiller, lol (Score 1) 1240

by burni (#27326021) Attached to: Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment
And you know what prescriptionstrength means ?
- 600mg vs 400mg per dosis (if you take nonpresc. strength 1 1/2 pills do the same)

And well it is a drug, but we all know that girls during menstruation are likely to have
pain in their belly area and migrane or heavy headache as well.

Is there no right for the girl to attend the school painfree ?

Comment Computer + Mathematics == More Understanding+Fun (Score 1) 630

by burni (#26777133) Attached to: Mathematics Reading List For High School Students?
Applied Geometry for Computer Graphics and CAD
(Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

Pages: 352 Seiten
Publisher: Springer
Language: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1852338016
ISBN-13: 978-1852338015

I've read it by myself and even if it says "undergraduate" it will perfectly fit,
give it a try applied mathematics is fun either.

Comment Re:Three ways to do (Score 1) 823

by burni (#26221989) Attached to: Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen?
Hey programmer IMPLEMENT a for LOOP!
"""Three""" ?DIFFERENT? ways to do this.

a. b. c.
1  2  3

in sum THREE options.

THREE different things (how about reading and thinking first? or has Apple abondend letters instead of fancy signs?)

c.) (saving MBR)
the link to wikipedia contains the dd command and further explanation, and changing
this to the english wikipedia link isn't that big problem or ?

POWERING OFF vs. SHUTTING down
There is even no problem in powering a system off for a senior (press the SoftPower Button and it will be shut down and then powered off
(or is this a compatibility issue with linux_acpi implementation?)

It's less TCO than you might think, because I don't need to answer the question,
"why does not run fancy senior windows game, fancy senior office2007, fancy etc.. not
on my computer"

They can do what they want and when it goes bad, no problem just firing up the backup.

Comment Three ways to do (Score 1) 823

by burni (#26221387) Attached to: Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen?
a.)
- educate them so they can install things on their own
- educate them "where" to save their files
- educate them to buy an external HDD (ntfs has a nice mount to directory feature(DESKTOP/MYFILES)
- educate them that for an application based question, they need to find a solution on their own.
(this worked great for my mom, and her knowledge has grown since I started this)

b.)
- close the access to the PC that they are working as a normal user, no install etc..
- install firewall antivirus

c.)
- install windows, make a binary image of the partitioning and the installation
( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Boot_Record )
dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/themasterbackup/backup.img

- install an antivirus & firewall
- say them where to save their files
- give them full access to anything

Anytime they got major problems backup their files remotely
(LiveBootCD+Linux/FreeBSD+SSH+preconfigured)
and fire up the old configuration(from an only in the case of a restoration to use external hdd)

But all in all the most important things is, educate them not write down their email adress anywhere in the internet

The most obvious things not mentioned anywhere, autoupdates+NO.I.E.+NO.O.L., FIREWALL
And the the very best is learning to say "NO" and "NO, I have no time to do this".

The OS Question: WindowsXP

Comment Re:Wow. Hoax? (Score 2, Insightful) 91

by burni (#26206581) Attached to: Thieves Take the Cake
Don't joke about microfilms!

For archiving over a long term they have some unbeatable pro's

(+) 100years+
(+) lowtech data retrival (even Gallileo could extract information!)
(+) burn it when the deadline is met (faster & more secure than erasing tapes)

(-) slow data retrival (but this is just data which has to be archived, and won't be accessed
anymore)

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