There's always someone who goes on about the old IBM keyboards, and while their movement and feedback are greatly superior to $bundled_crapboard they aren't anywhere nearly as comfortable to use as a good ergonomic split keyboard like the original Microsoft Natural or, my current favourite, the Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro.
This product was first announced at least two years ago. It was to be called Song-Boy or MP3-Boy or something-Boy and Nintendo smacked it down. It never recovered. It's vapour.
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Trick question. Nothing "falls" where there's no gravity.
Gamblehog. I won't make a clickable URL, but Gamblehog has a signup right there on the front page, and once you're listed in the gambling flavoured spam lists you're screwed. My mother has maxxed-out her 100 blocked adresses on her Yahoo account.
You can combine canning with long boring lectures about how times are tough and resources are limited and there isn't any room on the servers or the network for MP3s and other unnecessary stuff.
And so long as management haven't just voted themselves a pay rise or purchased a yacht everything should be fine.
(Disclaimer: I'm currently cleaning MP3s and other assorted unwanted files off a student network. The little buggers have managed to consume half a Gig of storage during a four week non-teaching period. Our monthly Internet traffic exceeds 20Gig.)
I purchased Moby's Play, but I have neither downloaded any of his new tracks nor purchased his new album.
Actually, "purchased" might be too strong a word. I think I might have used some GeoCities GeoPlus points that got turned into gift e-certificates to order the CD via Amazon (or similar).
Personally, I believe he's reached "terminal saturation" -- that is to say that's we've all had enough of him. Guy Pierce is suffering from the same thing (actors must hate it when three movies come out at once). Britters is pretty close too. That Pepsi/soccer ad combined with the photo of her smoking has probably pushed her over the edge. Then add the PS2 game...
It's not an interesting article. Not even a good one. It jumps all over the place -- cheats and DDoS aren't even slightly similar. It seems simultaneously surprised that consoles are computers and can be hacked while failing to realise how useless an underpowered, rarely-on console is in any sort of malicious role.
It's a non-story. (And a poor writeup.) Give me my 10 minutes back.
If anything's broke it came that way. I do get "outdated firmware" errors in my event log, plus ATAPI time-outs. I've already taken the bastard back to service once, now I'm just trying to get work done.
Does anyone know a URL that explains how to get this running amongst friends. I've got some PC friends with a spare phone line such that they could theoreticaly setup some sort of dial-up Quake III server that I could connect to with my Dreamcast -- if I can get some software to setup their phone number as the place to dial. But I havent' been able to find a good resource to explain my options...
386enh mode needs 1024K of extended memory, but if you run it in REAL mode (say, on an XT), it only uses conventional memory. Handy because RAM expansion cards were a bugger to setup as extended memory.
Ah, the days where expansion options really made a difference. And old parts could still make a difference to your current PC. These days stuff is obsolete before it hits the store shelves.
I'm sure my first PC had an AST SixPak at one time or another. I also remember it taking two and a half minutes to load Win3.0 (from the C: prompt, not from switch-on) on my 19MHz XT with 512k of disk cache in Expanded memory. How things have changed. Now it takes ten minutes to load Windows XP on my 1+GHz P3.
What do you mean "Darn... and I just updated my anti-virus software"?? You should be doing it every day -- sometimes twice a day. At work we're hooked into F-secure's auto-update with a server/client system running. At home, my PC automatically checks for updates every time I dial into my ISP. Updating is a constant process, not one you only bother about when someone issues a press release.
"Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system http://www.grisoft.com)."
I absolutely DO NOT trust any email that comes with a tag like that. I've had infect emails arrive with that in the.sig. I don't trust anyone else on the planet to keep their own anti-virus systems updated and functioning. What's more, I don't need to -- I maintain the anti-virus systems at work and I have my own at home, not to mention that I also use a spam and virus filter for personal email (spamcop) and I'm about to implement a server-based anti-spam, anti-virus filter at work (mailscanner and friends). That'll be sweet -- I can't wait until the staff finally stop receiving email viruses...
Hey, don't blame me, these labs were like this when I got here. Though, quite frankly, if I could go back in time and change one thing it would be the Zip drives, not Office.
As someone who runs a set of student labs, you're going to need to figure out how to cope with abuse, such as:
Viruses, hacking -- people trying to install keyloggers, etc. Mostly from inside, but also from outside. You're going to need to spend a bit on a decent, centralised, rapidly updating, anti-virus system. And/or key very up to date with security patches for your chosen OS and apps.
Bandwidth hogs. You're going to need to install a quota system and/or traffic shaping, or else whatever pipe you've got is going to be saturated straight away.
Porn. 'nuff said.
Don't be surprised if someone uses your labs to cyber-stalk other students.
Expect the printers to spend most of their time down, particularly at the end of semester. It's not a huge amount of fun when someone who has had four months to do an assignment starts yelling at you because the printers are down for the last hour before their deadline.
The only way it will work is if a small group really lay down the law as to what is and isn't going to happen. And that's not much of a co-op. You're better to present the case to the various departments that the current labs have reached capacity and new ones need to be brought on-line.
(Or possibly, someone could teach students that when the lecturer says that the presentation doesn't need to be in Powerpoint that it really doesn't and you don't have to spend 10 hours on the layout when you could just print off a set of overheads from Word.)
I designed an event-logging database a few years back, ideal for core staff to keep track of phone calls, marketing or whatever in relation to each item in their portfolios. At the suggestion of one staff member I added a feature or two and created a "knowledge-base" journal-like thing where staff could post their current problems and/or solutions. The idea was to save time by each staff member not having to duplicate prior work. Thing was, the staff were only interesting in getting stuff out of it and not putting things into it. In no time at all it collapsed.
Ultimately the major barrier was typing speed. When it takes 10 times longer to type something in than to mention it at the next department lunch, they tend not to bother. I left that place before I ever implemented a solution. We tried providing a touch-typing tutorial CD, but few staff could be bothered running it.
The second most major barrier is that people value their knowledge and wish to keep it to themselves. These sorts of automated, souless information repositories don't help -- specifically, thinking that some big tech-oriented buzzword will allow turnover to stay at 50%pa without the company eventually being full only of people that don't know what they're doing does tend to re-enforce the belief that staff are not considered valuable as individuals.
I downloaded a demo MSbackup cracker that gave me the first letter, then I found the word in the file, but reversed. I shouldn't have needed to look in the file, once I knew the first letter I really should have noticed it was the last letter of the guys last name and put 2 and 2 together...
MS-DOS 6.22 Backup for MS-DOS (MSBACKUP.EXE) can restore earlier compressed
backups only if one of the following conditions is true:
DoubleSpace is installed (DBLSPACE.BIN is loaded in memory).
The files DBLSPACE.BIN and DRVSPACE.MR1 are available. For more
information on DRVSPACE.MR1, see section 7.28.
Both MSBACKUP.EXE and MWBACKUP.EXE can successfully restore MS-DOS
version 6, 6.2 and 6.21 backups made without backup data compression
If you unchecked the Compress Backup Data box in the Backup Options
dialog before you backed up, you should have no problems restoring your
data using the MS-DOS version 6.22 Backup programs.
The.bin is easy, but the MR1 could be tricky. Also, I bet I'll have problems with Win9x's Drivespace 3 v's the older versions DOS used.
Backup cannot read this backup set because it was
created with the MS-DOS 6.0 or 6.2 version of Backup.
For more information, see the Backup section of the
README.TXT file (located inhe directory that contains
your MS-DOS files and on -DOS 6.22 setup Disk 1).
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There's always someone who goes on about the old IBM keyboards, and while their movement and feedback are greatly superior to $bundled_crapboard they aren't anywhere nearly as comfortable to use as a good ergonomic split keyboard like the original Microsoft Natural or, my current favourite, the Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro.
This product was first announced at least two years ago. It was to be called Song-Boy or MP3-Boy or something-Boy and Nintendo smacked it down. It never recovered. It's vapour.
Trick question. Nothing "falls" where there's no gravity.
Gamblehog. I won't make a clickable URL, but Gamblehog has a signup right there on the front page, and once you're listed in the gambling flavoured spam lists you're screwed. My mother has maxxed-out her 100 blocked adresses on her Yahoo account.
And so long as management haven't just voted themselves a pay rise or purchased a yacht everything should be fine.
(Disclaimer: I'm currently cleaning MP3s and other assorted unwanted files off a student network. The little buggers have managed to consume half a Gig of storage during a four week non-teaching period. Our monthly Internet traffic exceeds 20Gig.)
Actually, "purchased" might be too strong a word. I think I might have used some GeoCities GeoPlus points that got turned into gift e-certificates to order the CD via Amazon (or similar).
Personally, I believe he's reached "terminal saturation" -- that is to say that's we've all had enough of him. Guy Pierce is suffering from the same thing (actors must hate it when three movies come out at once). Britters is pretty close too. That Pepsi/soccer ad combined with the photo of her smoking has probably pushed her over the edge. Then add the PS2 game...
Ah, Australia -- a land where sporting heroes get an Order of Australia and science gets the pink slip. At least we've got decent gun laws.
"YES, I'M SURE... ... No, wait!"
It's a non-story. (And a poor writeup.) Give me my 10 minutes back.
If anything's broke it came that way. I do get "outdated firmware" errors in my event log, plus ATAPI time-outs. I've already taken the bastard back to service once, now I'm just trying to get work done.
Does anyone know a URL that explains how to get this running amongst friends. I've got some PC friends with a spare phone line such that they could theoreticaly setup some sort of dial-up Quake III server that I could connect to with my Dreamcast -- if I can get some software to setup their phone number as the place to dial. But I havent' been able to find a good resource to explain my options...
386enh mode needs 1024K of extended memory, but if you run it in REAL mode (say, on an XT), it only uses conventional memory. Handy because RAM expansion cards were a bugger to setup as extended memory. Ah, the days where expansion options really made a difference. And old parts could still make a difference to your current PC. These days stuff is obsolete before it hits the store shelves.
I'm sure my first PC had an AST SixPak at one time or another. I also remember it taking two and a half minutes to load Win3.0 (from the C: prompt, not from switch-on) on my 19MHz XT with 512k of disk cache in Expanded memory. How things have changed. Now it takes ten minutes to load Windows XP on my 1+GHz P3.
What do you mean "Darn... and I just updated my anti-virus software"?? You should be doing it every day -- sometimes twice a day. At work we're hooked into F-secure's auto-update with a server/client system running. At home, my PC automatically checks for updates every time I dial into my ISP. Updating is a constant process, not one you only bother about when someone issues a press release.
- Viruses, hacking -- people trying to install keyloggers, etc. Mostly from inside, but also from outside. You're going to need to spend a bit on a decent, centralised, rapidly updating, anti-virus system. And/or key very up to date with security patches for your chosen OS and apps.
- Bandwidth hogs. You're going to need to install a quota system and/or traffic shaping, or else whatever pipe you've got is going to be saturated straight away.
- Porn. 'nuff said.
- Don't be surprised if someone uses your labs to cyber-stalk other students.
Expect the printers to spend most of their time down, particularly at the end of semester. It's not a huge amount of fun when someone who has had four months to do an assignment starts yelling at you because the printers are down for the last hour before their deadline.The only way it will work is if a small group really lay down the law as to what is and isn't going to happen. And that's not much of a co-op. You're better to present the case to the various departments that the current labs have reached capacity and new ones need to be brought on-line.
(Or possibly, someone could teach students that when the lecturer says that the presentation doesn't need to be in Powerpoint that it really doesn't and you don't have to spend 10 hours on the layout when you could just print off a set of overheads from Word.)
Ultimately the major barrier was typing speed. When it takes 10 times longer to type something in than to mention it at the next department lunch, they tend not to bother. I left that place before I ever implemented a solution. We tried providing a touch-typing tutorial CD, but few staff could be bothered running it.
The second most major barrier is that people value their knowledge and wish to keep it to themselves. These sorts of automated, souless information repositories don't help -- specifically, thinking that some big tech-oriented buzzword will allow turnover to stay at 50%pa without the company eventually being full only of people that don't know what they're doing does tend to re-enforce the belief that staff are not considered valuable as individuals.
If you find a solution, let me know.
Where's Fark's "Dumass" tag when you need it?
I downloaded a demo MSbackup cracker that gave me the first letter, then I found the word in the file, but reversed. I shouldn't have needed to look in the file, once I knew the first letter I really should have noticed it was the last letter of the guys last name and put 2 and 2 together...
Did you test the database with an old copy of Dbase for Windows? There could be more passwords...
MS-DOS 6.22 Backup for MS-DOS (MSBACKUP.EXE) can restore earlier compressed backups only if one of the following conditions is true:
- DoubleSpace is installed (DBLSPACE.BIN is loaded in memory).
- The files DBLSPACE.BIN and DRVSPACE.MR1 are available. For more
information on DRVSPACE.MR1, see section 7.28.
Both MSBACKUP.EXE and MWBACKUP.EXE can successfully restore MS-DOS version 6, 6.2 and 6.21 backups made without backup data compression If you unchecked the Compress Backup Data box in the Backup Options dialog before you backed up, you should have no problems restoring your data using the MS-DOS version 6.22 Backup programs.The .bin is easy, but the MR1 could be tricky. Also, I bet I'll have problems with Win9x's Drivespace 3 v's the older versions DOS used.
Critical Error
Backup cannot read this backup set because it was created with the MS-DOS 6.0 or 6.2 version of Backup.
For more information, see the Backup section of the README.TXT file (located inhe directory that contains your MS-DOS files and on -DOS 6.22 setup Disk 1).
The password is "ladepujd", but the msback.exe I linked to in another post says the version is wrong for a restore. It does do a catelogue though.