So you're saying Mount St. Helens doesn't have a sleepy little (whitebread, redneck) mountain town nestled at its base. There goes that movie-of-the-week.
People seem to be a bit bi-polar at the core. Jumping straight to panic from complacency is a little extreme, but all too common. If you do live in the area, what the warning means is that you should be activily monitoring the news for more information. Carry a radio for example, or subscribe to an SMS news alert system is one is available for your area. Other things you could do is make sure the car doesn't get low on petrol. Or contact friends out of the danger zone to see who's got a spare bed if you're required to evacuate. Have an exit strategy (generally a good idea no matter what the situation). Subtle stuff that makes life easier if mother nature tries to make it difficult.
We've started buying PCI Express for work. We don't need the 3D, just fast responses with multiple monitors and the knowledge that if we want to upgrade the PC in three years' time, we'll have some decent options.
Shame. Oh well, we did learn a couple of things. Don't use pngout if you've got alpha channels, and if Apple distributed a PNG rather than a binHexed TIFF, they'd be offering a file half the size with identical quality. (Unless some CMYK vs RGB experts can dispute this.)
7zip will take the TIFF and make it 6.94MB. Unfortunately my favourite PNG creator doesn't like CMYK and can't do alpha channels, so when it outputs a 4MB file it's cheating. If you have the time, try running pngout over your PNG to see if it gets any smaller. Warning: I've had 120k 24-bit PNG files take 30 minutes to pack with this program.
No doubt the other members of senior management paid him to take the fall. I once worked someplace where I was told that if pirated software was found any staff member that claimed individual responsibilty would be reimbursed for the fine by the company, given that it's an order of magnitude less for an individual vs a company.
Given China's behaviour with respect to Tibet and Taiwan, I would say that any company that specifically re-enforces the policy of the government through censorship has no more right to claim to not be evil than Fox News has to claim to be fair and balanced. Either way, I'm not going to give up my Gmail account, but then I don't claim to not be evil.
My mother used to read me the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a bedtime story. Not sure it's what you want, but it certainly didn't do me any harm:)
It was an interview with the creator of the Sims, not long before the release of Sims 2. This is an interview with the creator of the Sims, a little closer to the release of Sims 2. It's like going on a talk show to promote your new movie, or doing an FHM shoot because your TV show is starting a new season. It's all advertising and it's all paid. It's also typically devoid of any interesting content.
I personally believe anti-virus it a waste of time.
Not true. Our email attachment rules (ie; no.scr,.pif,.exe files, etc) are pretty good at blocking malicious content while letting the legit stuff through, but being able to detect a known virus makes things a lot cleaner. If it's just whatever.scr, we bounce it, but if it's whatever.scr with a known virus we blackhole it.
A locked-down 98 box that just runs a Terminal Services or Cytrix client could almost get away without anti-virus protection -- particularly if it contained no user files and just used a standard image that could be swapped in on a new hard drive if a virus did hit it.
If you're comparing an old hard drive to an embedded solution, surely you just have a standard image. Keep a set of (cheap, old) imaged hard drives around and if one fails throw it out and replace it.
FMV might be out of the question, but slowly fading from one pic to another each minute would keep the apparent time outside in sync with the time inside. That would rock.
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So you're saying Mount St. Helens doesn't have a sleepy little (whitebread, redneck) mountain town nestled at its base. There goes that movie-of-the-week.
People seem to be a bit bi-polar at the core. Jumping straight to panic from complacency is a little extreme, but all too common. If you do live in the area, what the warning means is that you should be activily monitoring the news for more information. Carry a radio for example, or subscribe to an SMS news alert system is one is available for your area. Other things you could do is make sure the car doesn't get low on petrol. Or contact friends out of the danger zone to see who's got a spare bed if you're required to evacuate. Have an exit strategy (generally a good idea no matter what the situation). Subtle stuff that makes life easier if mother nature tries to make it difficult.
We've started buying PCI Express for work. We don't need the 3D, just fast responses with multiple monitors and the knowledge that if we want to upgrade the PC in three years' time, we'll have some decent options.
Are there any PCs still out there even capable of catching the Stoned virus. From memory, it could only spread on 360k floppies.
If the latter, it doesn't matter. A new system with up to date patches and anti-virus software will block any existing viruses in old data files.
If the former, separate system and data partitions usually do the trick, but you have to have set them up before the problem occurs.
Shame. Oh well, we did learn a couple of things. Don't use pngout if you've got alpha channels, and if Apple distributed a PNG rather than a binHexed TIFF, they'd be offering a file half the size with identical quality. (Unless some CMYK vs RGB experts can dispute this.)
That's a pretty good showing for pngout. Is that still the same picture, or did it trash the alpha channel? Also, how long did it take?
7zip will take the TIFF and make it 6.94MB. Unfortunately my favourite PNG creator doesn't like CMYK and can't do alpha channels, so when it outputs a 4MB file it's cheating. If you have the time, try running pngout over your PNG to see if it gets any smaller. Warning: I've had 120k 24-bit PNG files take 30 minutes to pack with this program.
I'd take you up on the compression challenge, but I can't even get the original file down at the moment, it keeps breaking around the 7MB mark.
No doubt the other members of senior management paid him to take the fall. I once worked someplace where I was told that if pirated software was found any staff member that claimed individual responsibilty would be reimbursed for the fine by the company, given that it's an order of magnitude less for an individual vs a company.
Given China's behaviour with respect to Tibet and Taiwan, I would say that any company that specifically re-enforces the policy of the government through censorship has no more right to claim to not be evil than Fox News has to claim to be fair and balanced. Either way, I'm not going to give up my Gmail account, but then I don't claim to not be evil.
So, their new motto is "Don't be evil, unless you have to"?
I sold a Blip on eBay back in Nov '01 for A$12 including p&h. There simply aren't enough people that appreciate it.
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My mother used to read me the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a bedtime story. Not sure it's what you want, but it certainly didn't do me any harm :)
It was an interview with the creator of the Sims, not long before the release of Sims 2. This is an interview with the creator of the Sims, a little closer to the release of Sims 2. It's like going on a talk show to promote your new movie, or doing an FHM shoot because your TV show is starting a new season. It's all advertising and it's all paid. It's also typically devoid of any interesting content.
"...this election has driven voter turnout to it's highest level in centuries, six percent."
... it should be. Maybe if we had more paid advertising like this story has to be, we wouldn't need the ad banners.
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Aren't there enough distros for this sort of thing already?
A locked-down 98 box that just runs a Terminal Services or Cytrix client could almost get away without anti-virus protection -- particularly if it contained no user files and just used a standard image that could be swapped in on a new hard drive if a virus did hit it.
If you're comparing an old hard drive to an embedded solution, surely you just have a standard image. Keep a set of (cheap, old) imaged hard drives around and if one fails throw it out and replace it.
http://www.powerpulse.net/powerpulse/archive/aa_03 1901c1.stm
FMV might be out of the question, but slowly fading from one pic to another each minute would keep the apparent time outside in sync with the time inside. That would rock.