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Comment Re:Which island? (Score 1) 270

Like the other two posters said, I seriously doubt you'll get any reception on that island.

Driving along those highways I frequently lose coverage with Rogers and then when my coverage comes back my friends on Bell/Telus lose their coverage.

Your best bet would be to call the camp and ask them if they have any cell reception, if they don't then you don't even need to worry about Internet. Seriously though, you can't go for one week with no Internet? What sort of camp is this!

Comment Simply Accounting (Canadian accounting software) (Score 1) 272

Sage, the makers of Simply Accounting (a popular small business accounting program in Canada), are perhaps even worse. Not only are the different years incompatible but the different patches each year are also incompatible. Even more troublesome is the fact that the program throws no errors when one tries to load a company file from a previous generation, it just instantly closes.

In order for accountants to access your data they have to know exactly which version of the program you're running. I'm sure Sage makes thousands from frustrated accountants just telling customers they're going to need to upgrade to the latest version.

Submission + - GPS for school kids

mahadiga writes: "My son will be 3 years old shortly and I intend to hook a light weight and durable GPS gadget to his school bag. Kindly advice. We live in India."

Submission + - xkcd redesign? (xkcd.com) 1

kevin_j_morse writes: The main page has been replaced with an AJAX emulation of a terminal window. So far I've found that cd, ls, man, and cat seem to work.

Comment Autumn... (Score 1) 451

I have never heard Autumn called Autumn in Vancouver... Fall is a much more suitable name for the several months of rain falling. Which typically is followed by Winter of more rain... Then a Spring of rain... Finally followed by the absolutely glorious Summer!

Education

The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School 705

Hugh Pickens writes "With the perspective of forty-plus years since my graduation, I would say the single most useful course I took in high school was a business class in touch-typing that gave me a head start for writing and with computers that I have benefited from my entire life. So it was with particular interest that I read Gordon Rayner's essay in the Telegraph proposing that schools add a mandatory course in touch typing to the cornerstones of education: reading, writing and arithmetic. 'Regardless of the career a child takes up when they leave school, a high percentage of them will use a keyboard in their daily work, and all of them are likely to use a keyboard in their leisure time,' writes Rayner. 'Touch-typing would help every child throughout their lives — so why are our schools so blind to this?'"
Education

350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil 109

xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"
Windows

Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 1127

TechForensics writes "A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files." Read on for more details of this user's findings.

Comment Re:The Simple Option (Score 1) 1032

Glue traps are the absolute worst! Anyone here ever think of what happens? The mouse gets stuck on the trap until it dies from starvation or dehydration. Plan old spring loaded mouse traps work great, and kill it instantly.

Although, have a sick story on the glue traps. 20 years ago in HS, working at McDs, I had a cheap manager and a lot of mice. He bought glue traps, and wanted to "reuse" them. By reuse, he thought he could just pull the mouse off the trap. We, he is pulling on that tail, and that mouse is squeaking like hell, and he pulled so hard he pulled the damn spine out of the mouse. The was a quick end to the glue traps and the real exterminators came in the next day.

We had rats in our attic that chewed off their own tails to get out of the glue traps...

We dealt with them by sealing up holes in the framing with chicken wire and leaving big ass spring loaded traps to catch them. From what I remember they like peanut butter.

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