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I love Linux too! I dual boot to Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion and it runs faster than XP but has nicer graphics and effects than Vista. Plus, antivirus and anti-malware are unnecessary! It's all free and it works excellently.
Concerning your old computer, yes:
"It will run on old, or "obsolete" hardware, such as a 386 processor, 32Mb of RAM, and 300Mb hard disk. But if you plan on using some of IPCop's features, such as the caching web proxy, or Intrusion Detection Logging, you are going to need more RAM, more disk space, and a faster processor."
http://www.ipcop.org/1.4.0/en/quickstart/h...quirements.html
You can probably run the basic setup with the snort intrusion detection. You really don't need much more than that. You might be limited to ISA network cards (which usually only support an absolute maximum of 10 mbps) if your Pentium 1 motherboard doesn't have PCI slots. So if you have a good firewall router already, you might want to stick with it, unless you like to build stuff like this and have a lot of detailed control over your network.
With my computer's specs I was able to run an addon HTTP filter which blocks any detected viruses, browser exploits, phishing attempts, and blacklisted sites before they even get to my computers. Woooo!!
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I'll take an Ariel Atom 500, please.
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P.S. Care to tell us the story behind that photo you're now using for your personal photo?
It's Leach Cross, The Fighting Dentist.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2333657724/
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Leach_Cross
I found the picture and the person interesting.
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Oh, come on. You'll have to do better than that to get banned.
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Here's a better shot. It's part of a Salvador Dali portrait called In Voluptas Mors by Philippe Halsman.
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The more the merrier! Here's another favorite Ravel piece, performed by Vlado Perlemuter no less:
Sonatine
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Assez vif - Tr
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If you find the answers, let me know.
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We can just ignore derivatives and credit implosions now that we have some handouts to fix the whole problem! Never mind where the funding came from.
"The money is going to help Americans offset the high prices we're seeing at the gas pump, the grocery store, and also give our economy a boost to help us pull out of this economic slowdown" -G. W. Bush
"The money is going to help exacerbate the high prices we're seeing at the gas pump, the grocery store, and also give our economy a push to help turn this economic slowdown into stagflation." - Moonlapse
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A low currency increases exports while decreasing imports and also reduces budget deficit. The only problem is that will reduce purchase power so shrink consumption but this is less of the problem for the dollar that has so many economies tied to it.
And what if these economies 'untie' themselves from ours by unloading depreciating dollar-based assets, similar to what Iran, Venezuela, and Iraq did by trading oil in Euros?
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Sure, as long as consumer spending stays up and we quit debasing our currency.
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Nevermind, I found it here, on page 286: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/2008/2008_erp.pdf
Informative paper on the NAICS data used to create the graph: http://www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/SIC_NAICS.pdf
Still trying to find the basic data that this was all compiled from, but there's very little information about it. BTW, I dislike NAFTA because free trade doesn't require government agreements, it requires the removal of artificial barriers. I haven't really developed my viewpoint on its exact effects, but I do think that we will need greater export capabilities to aid recovery from our current problems. I would really like to see statistics which include the "value of circulating capital goods, intermediate non-durable products, or of capital goods which are not yet finished or if so, pass from one stage to another during the process of production," of which I believe a great share is imported.
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Do you have a link to the source? I'm not doubting what you are saying, BTW, I'm just interested in how the statistics are created. You may like this, it's from Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles from Jesus Huerta de Soto:
...Therefore the key is to study grosssaving and investment, i.e., the aggregated value, in monetary
terms, of the stages of intermediate goods prior to final consumption,
an amount which remains hidden if we focus exclusively
on the evolution of accounting figures in net terms.
This is precisely why we should be especially critical of
traditional national income accounting measures. For example,
the traditional definition of
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Is this measured in dollars? Is this nominal or adjusted? If adjusted, with what criteria?
That graph aside here is a picture of current conditions from the Fed
www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/Beigebook/2008/20080305/fullreport20080305.pdf
Reports on the manufacturing sector were mixed but, on the whole, subdued. New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Kansas City, and Dallas indicated that production or shipments were sluggish or falling. Atlanta, Minneapolis, and San Francisco characterized activity as varying across industries. Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago indicated stable levels or trends. Only St. Louis noted a strengthening relative to prior reports.Various Districts cited strong demand for steel, aircraft and parts, energy-related equipment, and exports, but mostly continued weak markets for products and equipment used for building and furnishing homes. Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas indicated that automotive production and sales have been light or declining. On the other hand, the Cleveland District saw an uptick in the production of foreign nameplates during January, and St. Louis was anticipating additional capacity and employment in automotive parts manufacturing. Dallas reported that refining production fell in the face of weak margins. Reports on food processing were mixed, with some Districts indicating that high prices were constraining demand, while others cited rising demand. Boston and New York mentioned that some manufacturers are experiencing slower payments from their customers.
All Districts commenting on the near-term outlook mentioned caution or concern on the part of at least some segments of manufacturing. Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and San Francisco indicated that some firms are adjusting their hiring or capital spending plans downward. A couple of Districts mentioned risks associated with financing constraints. For example, Chicago cited concerns on the part of the auto industry that tight credit would cause its customers to become more price-sensitive and less able to obtain car loans.
www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20080318.pdf
The information reviewed at the March meeting indicated that economic activity had continued to decelerate in recent months. The contraction in homebuilding intensified, consumer spending appeared to be weakening, and survey measures of both consumer and business sentiment were at depressed levels. Industrial production fell in February, and private payroll employment posted a third consecutive monthly decline. After having increased in recent months through January, both headline and core inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) dropped noticeably in February. In early March, however, prices of oil and other commodities rose sharply.Labor demand softened markedly in recent months. The decline in private payroll employment that began last December steepened through February. Although employment by firms in the nonbusiness services sector and in state and local governments continued to rise, declines elsewhere were widespread. Losses were greatest in the manufacturing, construction, and retail trade sectors. Aggregate hours of private production or nonsupervisory workers fell slightly in the first two months of the year. The unemployment rate edged down to 4.8 percent in February, but was still up from the 4.5 percent rate of a year earlier. The labor force participation rate declined in February.
Industrial production declined in February after edging up slightly in the previous two months. The output of utilities dropped back after a weather-related surge in January, while mining output fell somewhat in the first two months of the year on average. Manufacturing production edged down after having flattened out in January. The motor vehicle and construction-related industries continued to hold down overall manufacturing output even as high-tech production posted moderate increases. The factory utilization rate edged down in February to a level noticeably below its recent high in the third quarter of 2007.
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Google Desktop search beats the hell out of windows' search. I have almost 200 GB of data and it's practically a necessity in order to find some things.
Here's some recommendations for keeping your stuff secure, all free:
Firewall - Comodo (advanced) or Online Armor
Anti-malware - Spyware Terminator (HIPS capability, but don't enable the Clam AV) and Threatfire (behavioral capability) Each works differently, and seem to work well together. If you are using Comodo or Online Armor with all options turned on, you won't really need these and it may cause conflicts)
Firefox Addons - McAfee Site Advisor or WOT (better than Site Advisor IMO) and NoScript
Antivirus (if you don't already have it) - McAfee VirusScan Plus (has own firewall - disable if using separate firewall) or AVG or Avast!
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Good job. There seems to be a sort of social sickness around here where people hesitate to help anyone unless someone else takes initiative.
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Dark chocolate and dark beer.Dark chocolate is so much better than milk chocolate.
And dark Google!
Haha! and dark humour!
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It's that very reasoning I find hard to understand. I'm a parent. If my kid were that sick, I wouldn't stop at God to find an answer. I am reluctant to pass judgement on the faith and belief of others but when there are children involved, well, I just think you should pull out all the stops. This isn't getting at you, either, Moon. Thanks for trying to help me understand.Indeed, it's completely absurd from a rational point of view. Those people are controlled by a social environment that has convinced them that an eternity of indescribable torment awaits them if they deviate from the prescribed rules. The only point of reference is usually the pastor and the other members of the group (along with approved outlets of media) which often use techniques such as hypnotism and subliminal messaging (often oblivious to the fact they are using these techniques) to exert influence. If you've ever noticed the wall of noise created by a church band, the repetitive or formless background music, or the constant affirmative outbursts of group members during fervent spoken prayer of the pastor - these are good examples. An intrustion of objective reasoning in this situation is almost shocking and is immediately attributed the influence of Satan or of demons. It also has a near immediate affirming effect as members cling more tightly to their beliefs after momentarily glimpsing soimething that threatens to undermine the entire structure of their reality. I can tell you from personal experience that if you are raised in this environment, you have no other scope of reality. To reject it requires a complete re-evaluation of everything inside your mind and everything that you can sense, a transferrence of your mental dependency to another ideology, or even a denial of any sort of meaningful thought except for a hatred of Christianity.
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I guarantee that at the root of that belief was someone like a church pastor subtly manipulating them with the guilt of not having faith. I've seen it first hand on numerous occasions. I don't doubt that the parents had the best of intentions and I'm sure that they are being fed the notion that it was in the hands of God and that no man can understand God's plan. Questioning the notion shows a weakness of faith and indicates temptation by Satan to lead you astray when you are most vulnerable. One should be happy that the girl is now with God. Etc.
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Welcome and congratulations!! If I could, I'd buy you a beer!
Thanks mate. Are we the resident pissheads, or what?
You'll come to find that this place is full of pissheads, I think its a prerequisite for promotion. By pissheads, for pissheads.
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Good luck to you, sir. I know the feeling.
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Well, its a little complicated to explain, but only visiting safe websites is only a small part of computer security. There are lots of different network type connections that your computer is capable of using and web surfing uses only one of them. It depends on whether your computer is connected directly to your internet connection or is run through a firewall-router, whether you have firewall software, whether you have programs on your computer that have known vulnerabilities to network attacks, etc.