That's quite a collectable. If you've still got the old card I'll swap a Gmail invite for it;)
I'm interested in going for one of these new dual-card implementations simply because I'm perverse. Anyone that goes for any of these bleeding edge "solutions" for any reason other than bragging rights, or "because I can" is only going to get burnt. Sometimes literally.
Who needs a new car? A rig like this looks like something worth building. Time to start looking for an interesting new case and a place to put another PC.
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those in charge dont know much about cleaning things - at least not when Council money is involved.
Sure they do, only they call it laundering.
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Who let the children onto this website? Aren't you learning to fingerpaint in pre-school today, kiddy?
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Coward. Post with your name attached.
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so the party responsible has to remove it.
How? How do you remove something that exists because it has already removed something that shouldn't be there in the first place? There is no way to remove the ad as it is only visible because of the dirt around it, you have to remove the dirt around the ad. Dirt that shouldn't be there in the first place. How much of the city are you proposing that the advertiser be forced to clean up?
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"Leeds City Council demanded the "clean-up" of a piece of graffiti"
It's obvious in the write-up and again in the article that in fact the only clean bit of the wall is the graffiti, so how does the City Council propose that it be cleaned-up? Seriously. These are our elected representatives unable to form even the simplest of requests. You can't clean-up something that's specifically clean. Would they wish him to make it dirty again? It's very hard to replace years and years of dirt and grime. Does the city claim ownership of the dirt?
The solution is, of course, for the City to keep everything clean, then this doesn't work. The (hidden) message to clean up the city is the one that the City really has the problem with because they can't claim that it is clean when a message 'written in clean' is easily readable.
I haven't suffered from eye strain using computers, so I don't know how much help this is, but I have assisted on a number of IT ergonomics and occ. health and safety issues, so I have a good feel for these sorts of things.
I strongly suggest a high contrast, bright (digital) LCD panel as your primary screen. Eye strain is often not from bright light, it's from being forced to compensate for low contrast or fuzzy text. I also recommend a second monitor that's a CRT if your first monitor is LCD, or vice versa. This means that your eyes aren't being fed the same type of light all the time.
I also recommend against desk lamps unless you're reading a lot of stuff off paper. Lighting up your whole work area when you're looking at something that's producing (rather than reflecting) light is counter-productive. In fact, glare from light bouncing off the screen can be a major source of problems.
I wear glasses because I'm short sighted. The glasses I've chosen are photochromatics ("peril sensitive", they get dark in bright light). At their clearesst setting they're about a 5% shade and they reduce a lot of glare. If you already need glasses, you may wish to try something similar. They're also great for driving at night as they reduce the glare from oncoming lights.
Here's what I sent out (sanitised) about this latest hole, if we're trying to save people time:
There's a really nasty security problem going 'round the 'Net involving Internet Explorer (on Windows) and Micrsoft's web server software IIS.
Popular and normally trustworthy websites are being compromised and software you really don't want is being installed on user's PCs when they browse these sites. This one is big, huge.
It is being recommended by some that you don't use Internet Explorer until this hole is fixed. I agree. I recommend that Windows users download...
Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/dow nload.html
...or...
Opera (Ad sponsored) http://www.opera.com/download/?lng=en& ver=7.51
...and use them for at least a couple of weeks until this all calms down.
If these downloads are too large for your Internet connection, the browsers are bundled on pretty much every cover CD of every computer magazine. I recommend APC, or Atomic if this month's cover CD contains web browsers.
I'll be making sure that Mozilla is available on staff PCs as fast as I can on Monday morning. And I'll be installing the Internet Explorer patch as soon as it's out.
Anti-virus software may help, you should make sure it's updated and functioning.
Their fear with Netscape was that the internet browser could become an operating platform unto itself, thus writing them out of the picture
But surely it's clear now that Java in a web browser is not a threat to Windows. It's easier to move to Linux wholesale than it is to try to run a business just with web browsers.
Windows needs to go on a diet something cruel. I love the core, but I hate the shovelware and craptacular licensing.
I've prepared a 'quirks' document of everything (IT) unique to the company that you couldn't get from a reference book. If someone new needs anything more, they shouldn't have been hired.
Across our company I've had staff PCs "unavailable" due to viruses for maybe a total of 90 minutes over two years. The most major downtime other than viruses has been a Twinhead laptop that had has both RAM and hard drive replaced and needs another hard drive again. Fair's fair though, my Fujitsu laptop had bad RAM and a bad hard drive, but the level of service is such that it hasn't been unavailable for more than a day in two years. Other than that, we've lost two PCs -- one to a major leak (we call it "The Flood") and one to a power supply failure.
As long as there's absolutely no speech in what you pipe down the line, it can be any genre. I don't want to listen to your music, but I do want to listen for when your staff member answers my call.
If you're specifically asking about genres, I recommend ambient electronica and/or classical, in that order.
No. When there's talk on the radio you can't easily tell the difference between the chatter and the person you're waiting to pickup the phone, frequency -wise. It forces you to listen.
I'm not inventing this. Compatibility isn't MS' problem, I agree, it's up to the DR-DOS people, or anyone else that wants to make an MS-DOS compatible OS. However, purposely crippling your own product so that it's incompatible with a competitor's product that it would otherwise work with is low. And it's illegal if you're a monopoly.
Also, your distinction between release version and beta version is not approriate given that reports of compatibility problems even at the beta stage can adversely affect a product.
If it was always going to be designed to run on OSes other than MS', why would you restrict beta users (who are supposed to find problems) to only MS' OS?
You also didn't mention the 1st party Sega adapters for the Mega Drive and Game Gear that let them play Master System games -- or that your Mega Drive will still play Mega Drive games after being expanded with a 32X.
That said, as a PSX and PS2 owner I'd have to say that I've used the PS2's backward compatibility exactly zero times. Also, I never bought another PSX game after I bought my PS2. (I've also barely played some of my PS2 games and haven't bought a new one in roughly a year, but that's another story.)
If that were the reason then the incompatibility would have clearly documented and it wouldn't have just looked like DR-DOS was broken when it was Windows that was rigged.
Microsoft has a long and rich history of crippling opposition products. Quicktime for Windows was flakey as hell in the early years, but far from that being Apple's fault it was alleged (convincingly) that Microsoft were deliberately making it unstable. DR-DOS is the subject of a long running lawsuit where it appears that some versions of Windows 3.x simply refused to install on it for no good reason and providing only confusing errors.
However, I will not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Hotmail has been so unreliable of late that at work we're close to the point where Hotmail addresses will not be accepted as a primary email address. Incredibly stupid filters tend to be at the root of the problems. If too many messages look the same Hotmail calls them spam and they vanish into a black hole. Meanwhile, actual spam fills many a Hotmail inbox.
The N-Gage's RAM is 16MB with 10 or 11 free after bootup. (The GBA has only 384k of RAM.) The MMC slot is known to be able to accept (some) 512MB MMC RAM cards.
However, that's all missing the point. 8MB ROM cards are cheaper to make than 16MB ROM cards.
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I'm interested in going for one of these new dual-card implementations simply because I'm perverse. Anyone that goes for any of these bleeding edge "solutions" for any reason other than bragging rights, or "because I can" is only going to get burnt. Sometimes literally.
Who needs a new car? A rig like this looks like something worth building. Time to start looking for an interesting new case and a place to put another PC.
Who let the children onto this website? Aren't you learning to fingerpaint in pre-school today, kiddy?
Coward. Post with your name attached.
The solution is, of course, for the City to keep everything clean, then this doesn't work. The (hidden) message to clean up the city is the one that the City really has the problem with because they can't claim that it is clean when a message 'written in clean' is easily readable.
Oh, go inform yourself.
Short Sighted. Maybe it's called something different in the US, like how you don't spell colour correctly.
I strongly suggest a high contrast, bright (digital) LCD panel as your primary screen. Eye strain is often not from bright light, it's from being forced to compensate for low contrast or fuzzy text. I also recommend a second monitor that's a CRT if your first monitor is LCD, or vice versa. This means that your eyes aren't being fed the same type of light all the time.
I also recommend against desk lamps unless you're reading a lot of stuff off paper. Lighting up your whole work area when you're looking at something that's producing (rather than reflecting) light is counter-productive. In fact, glare from light bouncing off the screen can be a major source of problems.
I wear glasses because I'm short sighted. The glasses I've chosen are photochromatics ("peril sensitive", they get dark in bright light). At their clearesst setting they're about a 5% shade and they reduce a lot of glare. If you already need glasses, you may wish to try something similar. They're also great for driving at night as they reduce the glare from oncoming lights.
Windows needs to go on a diet something cruel. I love the core, but I hate the shovelware and craptacular licensing.
I've prepared a 'quirks' document of everything (IT) unique to the company that you couldn't get from a reference book. If someone new needs anything more, they shouldn't have been hired.
Student labs are a different matter...
I thought it was Wash by the end too.
If you're specifically asking about genres, I recommend ambient electronica and/or classical, in that order.
No. When there's talk on the radio you can't easily tell the difference between the chatter and the person you're waiting to pickup the phone, frequency -wise. It forces you to listen.
More seriously, what's the pay? If asteroid mining rakes it in, maybe they'd need an IT Manager. Can't be worse than a fly-in-fly-out job in Tanzania.
Also, your distinction between release version and beta version is not approriate given that reports of compatibility problems even at the beta stage can adversely affect a product.
My father was John Johnson. So was his father. My mother would have killed both of them before naming me John. It's not even my middle name.
If it was always going to be designed to run on OSes other than MS', why would you restrict beta users (who are supposed to find problems) to only MS' OS?
That said, as a PSX and PS2 owner I'd have to say that I've used the PS2's backward compatibility exactly zero times. Also, I never bought another PSX game after I bought my PS2. (I've also barely played some of my PS2 games and haven't bought a new one in roughly a year, but that's another story.)
However, I will not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Hotmail has been so unreliable of late that at work we're close to the point where Hotmail addresses will not be accepted as a primary email address. Incredibly stupid filters tend to be at the root of the problems. If too many messages look the same Hotmail calls them spam and they vanish into a black hole. Meanwhile, actual spam fills many a Hotmail inbox.
However, that's all missing the point. 8MB ROM cards are cheaper to make than 16MB ROM cards.