Thank you. BTW: I can't find anything that matches the description of "root of your subscription tree", nor have I ever seen anything that looks like the page you gave me the URL for.
Two services obviously dumbed down so far that I can't correct for it enough to get anything useful out of either of them.
If anyone wants to give me a step-by-step for Bloglines that results in me actually being able to read anything I've subscribed to, and doesn't use marketing speak, I'd be most grateful. Probably.
Is working with Mac hardware really that hard?
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Game Console Hacking by Joe Grand, Albert Yarusso, et al already has a step by step guide of how to install a mini-itx board into an Atari 2600. Is doing something similar with Mac hardware so much more difficult that it's news? I've recently purchased myself some torx drivers to convert a couple of Powerbooks into digital picture frames. At the moment the big problem is where to get the frames. Can I have a Slashdot story when I've got one converted?
Gee, let's see, I would expect a train station to have an IT department because I've worked in one. I did a three month project with "Westrail", the government department that manages the trains in Western Australia. There's a big central organisation with a big IT deparment and staff go out to the various stations (easy to get to, just hop on the train) to do IT stuff. Do you really think an individual station is an isolated company?
WTF? I would expect the IT Department of any given company to be smarter about computer things than your average Joe Blow. Who do think installs this stuff, the CEO, a secretary perhaps, maybe the cleaners?
Email is an arcane, brilliant, overloaded, compatible mess. For everyone with an overpowered PC overflowing with spam, there's someone with a museum piece for whom email is a lifeline. It's not going anywhere. I'd love a modern alternative. Something with decent compression and encryption. Digital signatures and proper user authentication for sending. Meanwhile, I just bought a fax in order to better communicate with a new community of people I've recently joined. I'll still be able to send and receive email using my Amstrad PPC XT portable in 20 years time.
It's simple. By default, restrict the number of messages that can be sent out in a given time period. Even at my most prolific, I rarely send more than a dozen emails in a five minute period. Make the default limit 20, then allow users to change it if they want.
My mobile phone has an email address, but it costs me to receive. To prevent spam bankrupting me I have the limit of messages it can receive in one day set to five. How hard would it be to implement something like this for general email? Not very, surely.
I'm with iiNet on one of their old 256/128 plans. I get 12 Gig peak, 12 Gig off peak for A$49.95 a month. That same price gets 1 Gig peak, 1 Gig off peak. I think I'll wait for the quotas to move to something sensible before I switch.
I used the Litestep implementation of a virtual desktop manager where you could just pickup a window and drag it to another virtual desktop (it jumped from one to the other when the mouse hit the edge of the screen). I'm yet to see anything but extra physical screens beat that.
Use cardboard to build little boxes 'round the doors and windows so you only have to use a fraction of the amount of popcorn to make it look like you've filled the place.
Two things: The corporation as a legal person, yet the concept of limited liability. It builds a psychopath of an organisation. Time to start making real people responsible for their actions again -- and time to remove the protection afforded by this ficticious corporate "I".
You are, of course, right. My comment is that we don't have any spare bandwidth in which to run VoIP, thus negating much of its vaunted value saving. In order to use VoIP, not only would we throw away much of our existing infrastructure, but we'd require serious upgrades to provide a similar level of service.
As an aside, the last place I worked found some cellular box that routed outgoing phone calls through seme cheap network. There was a delay built into the system to allow you to dial the number that would also occur if an incoming call was diverted to a mobile phone. It was impossible to trade off a delay long enough to allow the slowest dialers to get through the number without making redirected calls seem like they'd been dropped. That was an absolutely minimal change and it caused ongoing annoyance. I don't think that, here in Australia at least, VoIP is mature enough to be able to be implemented by small-medium businesses without even more annoying annoyances.
Also, I don't like the idea of losing phones and email at the same time. It's nice to be able to use one if the other goes down.
I literally paid money to see this crap on the front page. Time for the Cowboy to go back on the "don't show me these editor's stories on the front page" list. What a bloody joke.
So far there is a single, mostly unknown, source for the portions of the story pertaining to Lynx. This is notable more for how opposite the Blogsphere and mainstream media positions are on the story. Currently, only the man arrested knows the real story and I have even seen a quote from him yet. We certainly haven't been exposed to any decent journalism yet.
A traffic shaper. Hmm. Which would we dial down? Staff interaction with government websites due to regulartory obligations? Customer experience of our website? Or phone calls?
It's not like anyone listening to a streaming radio station or running eMule.
I'll go one better. Explain how a company with a basic Internet connection already heavily loaded with staff browsing traffic and customers accessing the website can possibly get decent performance out of Skype without having to do expensive upgrades that are unlikely to pay for themselves by the time standards change and we start all over again.
I tried Skype at work and it was not only completely unusable, it was almost physically painful at times. Packet loss must have been running at 80%.
They're so crap at the moment. If you can't afford to pay to see the one or two good movies that come out a year, how did you afford the computer needed to play an Xvid? And music, damn there's some junk on the radio. One of our local supermarket chains started playing the top 50 as their instore musak and we switched chains it was so bad. I don't want this stuff free, why is anyone risking a law suit over this pap?
Is it a manufactored demand thing? Is marketing really so effective that people are willing to break the law just to say they have this stuff? I thought we were finally getting to a point where the population was seeing through this pointless consumption.
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Thank you. BTW: I can't find anything that matches the description of "root of your subscription tree", nor have I ever seen anything that looks like the page you gave me the URL for.
If anyone wants to give me a step-by-step for Bloglines that results in me actually being able to read anything I've subscribed to, and doesn't use marketing speak, I'd be most grateful. Probably.
Game Console Hacking by Joe Grand, Albert Yarusso, et al already has a step by step guide of how to install a mini-itx board into an Atari 2600. Is doing something similar with Mac hardware so much more difficult that it's news? I've recently purchased myself some torx drivers to convert a couple of Powerbooks into digital picture frames. At the moment the big problem is where to get the frames. Can I have a Slashdot story when I've got one converted?
Good to see we're still finding reasons to destroy content just like the warmer moments of various regimes throughout time. What a waste.
Gee, let's see, I would expect a train station to have an IT department because I've worked in one. I did a three month project with "Westrail", the government department that manages the trains in Western Australia. There's a big central organisation with a big IT deparment and staff go out to the various stations (easy to get to, just hop on the train) to do IT stuff. Do you really think an individual station is an isolated company?
Great logic there. "Expert X isn't perfect, therefore they're no better than the average idiot." This is just bizzare.
WTF? I would expect the IT Department of any given company to be smarter about computer things than your average Joe Blow. Who do think installs this stuff, the CEO, a secretary perhaps, maybe the cleaners?
Email is an arcane, brilliant, overloaded, compatible mess. For everyone with an overpowered PC overflowing with spam, there's someone with a museum piece for whom email is a lifeline. It's not going anywhere. I'd love a modern alternative. Something with decent compression and encryption. Digital signatures and proper user authentication for sending. Meanwhile, I just bought a fax in order to better communicate with a new community of people I've recently joined. I'll still be able to send and receive email using my Amstrad PPC XT portable in 20 years time.
My mobile phone has an email address, but it costs me to receive. To prevent spam bankrupting me I have the limit of messages it can receive in one day set to five. How hard would it be to implement something like this for general email? Not very, surely.
I'm with iiNet on one of their old 256/128 plans. I get 12 Gig peak, 12 Gig off peak for A$49.95 a month. That same price gets 1 Gig peak, 1 Gig off peak. I think I'll wait for the quotas to move to something sensible before I switch.
I used the Litestep implementation of a virtual desktop manager where you could just pickup a window and drag it to another virtual desktop (it jumped from one to the other when the mouse hit the edge of the screen). I'm yet to see anything but extra physical screens beat that.
Policies like this typically result in more people breaking the rules and writing down their passwords, which in turn reduces security.
Use cardboard to build little boxes 'round the doors and windows so you only have to use a fraction of the amount of popcorn to make it look like you've filled the place.
Nah. Meowth from the Pokemon version.
Two things: The corporation as a legal person, yet the concept of limited liability. It builds a psychopath of an organisation. Time to start making real people responsible for their actions again -- and time to remove the protection afforded by this ficticious corporate "I".
Gotta love Australia's inability to keep a secret.
Would the juror please step forward and state his profession.
Database Administrator.
Dismissed.
As an aside, the last place I worked found some cellular box that routed outgoing phone calls through seme cheap network. There was a delay built into the system to allow you to dial the number that would also occur if an incoming call was diverted to a mobile phone. It was impossible to trade off a delay long enough to allow the slowest dialers to get through the number without making redirected calls seem like they'd been dropped. That was an absolutely minimal change and it caused ongoing annoyance. I don't think that, here in Australia at least, VoIP is mature enough to be able to be implemented by small-medium businesses without even more annoying annoyances.
Also, I don't like the idea of losing phones and email at the same time. It's nice to be able to use one if the other goes down.
I literally paid money to see this crap on the front page. Time for the Cowboy to go back on the "don't show me these editor's stories on the front page" list. What a bloody joke.
So far there is a single, mostly unknown, source for the portions of the story pertaining to Lynx. This is notable more for how opposite the Blogsphere and mainstream media positions are on the story. Currently, only the man arrested knows the real story and I have even seen a quote from him yet. We certainly haven't been exposed to any decent journalism yet.
It's not like anyone listening to a streaming radio station or running eMule.
Whoooooo! Looking forward to putting together an SLI monster with the K8WE.
I tried Skype at work and it was not only completely unusable, it was almost physically painful at times. Packet loss must have been running at 80%.
Is it a manufactored demand thing? Is marketing really so effective that people are willing to break the law just to say they have this stuff? I thought we were finally getting to a point where the population was seeing through this pointless consumption.
I sit corrected.