...Meanwhile, #2 still applies - a game station is actually a very cheap distraction if it prevents a single serious incident. Figure $10k if somebody's stabbed, $100k+ for a prison riot, etc...
The reason they have cable TV in prisons is to reduce the number of guards required to manage prisoners. I don't have real numbers but I'd wager that paying a couple of prison guards for a year is considerably more expensive than a year's worth of cable TV.
ps - I use homeplug *and* WDS at the house - mainly because there are three walls and a floor between my home router and the rack where directv/PS3/xbox lives. There is a WDS node in the kitchen one floor below the my router and another one in my bedroom feeding a directv receiver. This is a fairly new house and the spousal unit won't allow me to pull wire through her walls.
Yet.
If the homeplug nodes are on opposite sides of the breaker box your signal goes through the transformer on the pole down the street.
First thing I do on a new KDE installation is install wicd, even on wired connections. network-manager is just awful.
I find the product to be fairly robust and the developer has been pretty darned responsive - I had enough issues with 11.04 that I went back to Debian, but I digress
synaptic is still my go-to gooey package manager. Functionally I don't think synaptic is any better than muon and I'm not sure whether it's my own prejudices or the GUI really could use a little help, but I find muon a bit more difficult to use than synaptic. IMO GUI design is an art form anyway - and not a skill that all developers possess
I have no problem running GTK+ apps in KDE but know a few people who do - I've never been one of those "pure KDE" people.
I think muon's a great effort - and kudos to the developer, who's pretty quick to answer questions.
I have a problem with cloud sites that advertise encryption simply because you don't have control of the key - or of who has it. There's no doubt in my mind that all of these services can decrypt your files for you if you lose your key.
I personally just encrypt my own stuff and stick it in a folder in my gmail account.
No, thanks.
I prefer people with a bit stronger moral compass, myself. People who believe the end justifies the means brought us among other things, the Patriot Act and waterboarding. IM frequently less than HO if you do a bad thing for a good reason you're still doing a bad thing.
write test on the same netbook:
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output.img bs=8k count=256k && sudo rm
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 19.916 s, 108 MB/s
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$
...30MB/s is about the fastest I've seen from a laptop drive, and that was when it was completely new so every write was a sequential write.
Then you'll like this. This was just run off my Atom 270 netbook (HP Mini 110c) with a 500gb Samsung drive and Kubuntu 10.10 -
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$ sudo hdparm -tT
[sudo] password for wizard:
Timing cached reads: 1228 MB in 2.00 seconds = 613.74 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 312 MB in 3.01 seconds = 103.70 MB/sec
wizard@wizard-netbook:~$
Don't know anyone else who's had this problem but on the 64-bit upgrade X started throwing errors about a missing session - then you clicked "okay" and KDE started normally.
Solution was in this thread - all I had to do was select KDE as a session once.
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91936
Also, my panel lost transparency although compositing was enabled. Changing the panel theme and then changing it back solved that.
On the 32-bit netbook which has just about all unnecessary stuff turned off including akonadi KDE's memory footprint went from ~180mb to ~170mb at idle. I use compiz instead of kwin on both machines, though.
I got hit by this yesterday. Friend of mine picked up some malware on his PC that posted to his wall and sent messages to everybody on his friends list with a link to Yet More Malware. Since I was on his friends list FB forced me to change my password and certify that I'd changed my email password and scanned my PC for viruses - I only access FB with a Linux box but scanned it anyway just for fun
All was good until I got to the facial recognition thing. They sent me pictures of a buncha people I'd never seen - since you can tag any photo with any name I got three pictures of people I'd never seen before - at least they'll let you opt out and do CAPTCHA as the facial recognition thing was an epic fail for me.
Launch nuclear deterrent!
-Operation denied, are you root?
SUDO LAUNCH NUCLEAR DETERRENT!!!
-SUDO: command not found
help SUDO
-bash: help: no help topics match `SUDO'. Try `help help' or `man -k SUDO' or `info SUDO'.
help help
-help: help [-dms] [pattern
Display information about builtin commands.
Displays brief summaries of builtin commands. If PATTERN is specified, gives detai...
Then all you see is a blinding white flash.
compiz works just fine under KDE4.
IME compiz is more stable, more configurable and has a smaller memory footprint than kwin plus I get to use my favorite emerald theme.
I was a diehard GNOME user for years and KDE hasn't got it completely right yet - for instance I think kate is just awful and prefer gedit for a gooey text editor. I've tried learning to like kate but so far haven't been successful.
But - I do like that KDE seems to have the integration that GNOME lacks for the most part.
Buying 1,000 desktops should give you a lot of leverage.
In my experience buying 1,000 desktops gives you *no* leverage with the top three hardware vendors.
I just bought a million bucks worth of machines from Dell a few months ago. Dell's annual sales for the year ending January 2010 was 52.9 billion dollars, so my little million-dollar purchase was less than 0.00002% of their annual sales.
That's not a whole lot of leverage.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
