If you read through the comments, you'll see info detailing that it has been fixed.
And no, this isn't the same as the 'butterfly ballot' or 'hanging chad' problems. Those were due to the stupidity of the user and a general inability to read and follow fairly simple directions. This is a typographical error.
Still, I bet people will manage to screw up the connecting of an arrow.
If they want to make it easy, they are going to need to do something like what was done in Kai's PhotoSoap. This is the *only* image editing app (besides iPhoto) that I've seen computer novices be able to figure out. The tools were simple, made sense, and the UI was great. And it worked well, too.
I think some stuff might have gotten tossed around on AOL's campus. But, I wasn't there... Per my friend there wasn't anything really bad that happened.
Then again, it's more likely that the tornado took out power, and if the colo facility is in a basement (bad idea) the sump pumps weren't working.
A friend of mine works on the AOL Campus in Dulles, Virginia. On September 17th, 2004, one of his coworkers, Steve Gibson (not of grc.com) captured some images of what I believe is the tornado that caused this damage. The photos can be seen here, here, and here, if anyone is interested.
Really? You can't? I've got an inbox full of Excel and Word documents. In fact, if this ability were removed, I think most MS shops would... Well... Look elsewhere for email.
Here's the thing... I *think* you could, but unless you properly take into account the amperage of the batteries and such, you could risk damage to the circuitry which handles the switching. And that would be bad...
That reminds me of how once when working retail, this guy came in and asked me how many deep cycle batteries he could chain off an APC BackUPS. He wanted literally racks and racks of them, so that he could handle his whole house. All while having things switched by that little BackUPS...
I'm not sure if you've ever been in a server room, but the UPS' to handle switching massive loads like this tend to be multiple-rack-sized, having contacts that look more like copper paperback books jutting out of the panel.
Just FYI, if you have a UPS with replacable batteries (not the crap throw-away Energizer or whatever brand ones) it's very likely that the battery inside is a gel-type sealed lead acid battery. Just take the battery out and look at the markings on them. Odds are good that you'll be able to find a replacement either on eBay or any of the cheap battery suppliers online.
Myself and a number of friends of mine have acquired SmartUPS' (typically >1400) for free, simply because they are 'broken', and a battery replacement costing around US$50 or so makes them like new. Oh, and a good SmartUPS is really, really nice compared to a standard passive device.
Audio Hijack lets you grab a stream coming out of any app and record or process and record it. It works well, for what it does.
What I'm talking about is some sort of additional driver or app (I'd prefer a driver) which is a generic 'Airport Express Out' or something. You could then use Rogue Amoeba's Detour to then route the audio output from any app to the Airport Express.
But yeah, I can see latency problems if you wish to play a DVD on the laptop, but have the audio coming out of the stereo or something. However, for uses such as playing stuff via WMP or RealOne, it could be nice.
Regardless, I still think that it's a good option.
Now all we need is some sort of software-based audio out driver for OS X (like Cycling 74's Soundflower) which allows you to reroute OS X audio output to the Airport Express. This would be *ideal*, as then it'd be possible to stream audio from practically anything to your stereo. Digitally!
My complaint about MD is that it sounds like butt compared to any other decent portable recording. (to memory card / CD-R / HDD / DAT / etc) It's compressed, and on top of it all, none of the players come stock with a digital out. While analog can sound real good, pulling the tracks off via digital is just....nicer.
Oh, and one other thing? If you go with a Windows 2000 AD structure, then wish to bring in 2003 Domain Controllers, you'll get to extend your AD schema. While it wasn't a problem for us, I really don't think you want to have to go through such a process. After all, at it's core AD is a big-ass database. Do you really want to extend a DB schema if you don't have to?
Just go with 2003 to begin with and be set with the new schema, finer grained GPOs, better management tools, etc.
I can tell you that a rather large auto manufacturer is going to a massive 2003-based AD structure for a good part of it's operations throughout the world, and it's all going fairly smoothly.
I'd definitely go with 2003 myself. There's no reason to go to 2000...
Oh, and AD can be very nice to work with, just be sure you know what you're doing. It's a complex, powerful tool, and just like any good tool you can hurt yourself or get mired in misconfigurations.
Another word of advise? Use certified and tested drivers. There's good reason to listen to the Windows Hardware Quality Labs. WHQL approval means the driver isn't going to blow up, and a machine full of solid, approved drivers will run solidly (barring hardware problems).
After all, you can't expect an untested third party kernel module to never misbehave, can you?
Interestingly, last night while at a party I burned my copy of an EDS book which was ghost written for the old CEO. Yep, the same CEO that got EDS investigated by the SEC, caused a bunch of employees to lose jobs, etc.
I was kicking out 500KB/sec after my download finished from a colocated webserver. I let that run for ~15 minutes to give some back to the community, but then dropped, in order to save on bandwidth charges.
I don't think getting this via the.torrent will be a problem for anyone.
And with that you just explained why most people buy iPods. Not to flame you, but most people don't care about support for anything beyond MP3 and "whatever iTMS uses". Most people also don't care about how the files are stored on the disk. Just the fact that an iPod can be used as a FW/USB external disk is good enough, although most people probably don't care about this either.
So, yes, once again it comes down to the interface. You can easily use it with one hand while driving, walking, whatever, and it's just fairly intuitive.
A home-made webcam is so far different from the type of pinhole camera that was likely made in school that it's not even funny.
It's one thing to make a cardboard box which uses some fairly standard physics to project an image on a chemical-coated piece of paper which can then be processed. Everything is big, can be made and handled by hand, etc.
With a webcam, it's not exactly like you can whip up a CCD, various other ICs, the code to run it, etc. Almost none of this can be done by hand, and it requires a extremely high level of knowledge to do it all. In fact, it's very unlikely that any one person has ever possessed all of the knowledge to make such a device.
This is like saying "well, since it's not hard to make a simple steam driven piston type engine in a metal shop, why doesn't anyone piece together an electronically controlled fuel injection engine?
I don't know why noone has said this yet, but why not stick a copy of Knoppix in one partition on a large USB keychain device and boot it using a floppy with a boot manager on it? Then use the other partition on the keychain device for data storage.
Booting Knoppix will eliminate the need for massive amounts of read/write, and you'd still have a bit of space to store whatever it is you are working on.
I personally really enjoy it when I call up some place, and their hold music is the local public radio station. I think it's great to hear that little bit of wherever the end-point of your call is. Granted, this doesn't work for huge companies, but when I call a smallish / mediumish place, it's a nice treat.
...and who is going to pay to run / admin the Jabber servers so that just anyone can fire up a single product and talk to anyone else using that product?
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If you read through the comments, you'll see info detailing that it has been fixed.
And no, this isn't the same as the 'butterfly ballot' or 'hanging chad' problems. Those were due to the stupidity of the user and a general inability to read and follow fairly simple directions. This is a typographical error.
Still, I bet people will manage to screw up the connecting of an arrow.
If they want to make it easy, they are going to need to do something like what was done in Kai's PhotoSoap. This is the *only* image editing app (besides iPhoto) that I've seen computer novices be able to figure out. The tools were simple, made sense, and the UI was great. And it worked well, too.
I think some stuff might have gotten tossed around on AOL's campus. But, I wasn't there... Per my friend there wasn't anything really bad that happened.
Then again, it's more likely that the tornado took out power, and if the colo facility is in a basement (bad idea) the sump pumps weren't working.
A friend of mine works on the AOL Campus in Dulles, Virginia. On September 17th, 2004, one of his coworkers, Steve Gibson (not of grc.com) captured some images of what I believe is the tornado that caused this damage. The photos can be seen here, here, and here, if anyone is interested.
I *must* recommend Everybody Poops or any of it's companion books such as The Gas We Pass.
Really? You can't? I've got an inbox full of Excel and Word documents. In fact, if this ability were removed, I think most MS shops would... Well... Look elsewhere for email.
Here's the thing... I *think* you could, but unless you properly take into account the amperage of the batteries and such, you could risk damage to the circuitry which handles the switching. And that would be bad...
That reminds me of how once when working retail, this guy came in and asked me how many deep cycle batteries he could chain off an APC BackUPS. He wanted literally racks and racks of them, so that he could handle his whole house. All while having things switched by that little BackUPS...
I'm not sure if you've ever been in a server room, but the UPS' to handle switching massive loads like this tend to be multiple-rack-sized, having contacts that look more like copper paperback books jutting out of the panel.
Just FYI, if you have a UPS with replacable batteries (not the crap throw-away Energizer or whatever brand ones) it's very likely that the battery inside is a gel-type sealed lead acid battery. Just take the battery out and look at the markings on them. Odds are good that you'll be able to find a replacement either on eBay or any of the cheap battery suppliers online.
Myself and a number of friends of mine have acquired SmartUPS' (typically >1400) for free, simply because they are 'broken', and a battery replacement costing around US$50 or so makes them like new. Oh, and a good SmartUPS is really, really nice compared to a standard passive device.
I call shenanigans. The 30" displays aren't shipping yet, and I've yet to see an Apple store that actually has one on display.
Where'd you see one at?
That said, I agree that the stands are *very* stable, but I've only seen them on the 20" and 23" displays.
Audio Hijack lets you grab a stream coming out of any app and record or process and record it. It works well, for what it does.
What I'm talking about is some sort of additional driver or app (I'd prefer a driver) which is a generic 'Airport Express Out' or something. You could then use Rogue Amoeba's Detour to then route the audio output from any app to the Airport Express.
But yeah, I can see latency problems if you wish to play a DVD on the laptop, but have the audio coming out of the stereo or something. However, for uses such as playing stuff via WMP or RealOne, it could be nice.
Regardless, I still think that it's a good option.
Now all we need is some sort of software-based audio out driver for OS X (like Cycling 74's Soundflower) which allows you to reroute OS X audio output to the Airport Express. This would be *ideal*, as then it'd be possible to stream audio from practically anything to your stereo. Digitally!
My complaint about MD is that it sounds like butt compared to any other decent portable recording. (to memory card / CD-R / HDD / DAT / etc) It's compressed, and on top of it all, none of the players come stock with a digital out. While analog can sound real good, pulling the tracks off via digital is just....nicer.
How about a portable DAT recorder? They aren't too pricy, if you get a 'pro' level one, there's no serial copy bit, and the sound is excellent.
They've been the benchmark for non-compressed portable audio recording for years.
Oh, and one other thing? If you go with a Windows 2000 AD structure, then wish to bring in 2003 Domain Controllers, you'll get to extend your AD schema. While it wasn't a problem for us, I really don't think you want to have to go through such a process. After all, at it's core AD is a big-ass database. Do you really want to extend a DB schema if you don't have to?
Just go with 2003 to begin with and be set with the new schema, finer grained GPOs, better management tools, etc.
I can tell you that a rather large auto manufacturer is going to a massive 2003-based AD structure for a good part of it's operations throughout the world, and it's all going fairly smoothly.
I'd definitely go with 2003 myself. There's no reason to go to 2000...
Oh, and AD can be very nice to work with, just be sure you know what you're doing. It's a complex, powerful tool, and just like any good tool you can hurt yourself or get mired in misconfigurations.
Another word of advise? Use certified and tested drivers. There's good reason to listen to the Windows Hardware Quality Labs. WHQL approval means the driver isn't going to blow up, and a machine full of solid, approved drivers will run solidly (barring hardware problems).
After all, you can't expect an untested third party kernel module to never misbehave, can you?
Interestingly, last night while at a party I burned my copy of an EDS book which was ghost written for the old CEO. Yep, the same CEO that got EDS investigated by the SEC, caused a bunch of employees to lose jobs, etc.
I was kicking out 500KB/sec after my download finished from a colocated webserver. I let that run for ~15 minutes to give some back to the community, but then dropped, in order to save on bandwidth charges.
.torrent will be a problem for anyone.
I don't think getting this via the
Technically that's not a searching engine, though. It's a directory, and as they mention, a human-edited one.
Okay, and who is going to pay for the hardware, bandwidth, and infrastructure to run a 'Free' (or 'free) search engine?
And with that you just explained why most people buy iPods. Not to flame you, but most people don't care about support for anything beyond MP3 and "whatever iTMS uses". Most people also don't care about how the files are stored on the disk. Just the fact that an iPod can be used as a FW/USB external disk is good enough, although most people probably don't care about this either.
So, yes, once again it comes down to the interface. You can easily use it with one hand while driving, walking, whatever, and it's just fairly intuitive.
A home-made webcam is so far different from the type of pinhole camera that was likely made in school that it's not even funny.
It's one thing to make a cardboard box which uses some fairly standard physics to project an image on a chemical-coated piece of paper which can then be processed. Everything is big, can be made and handled by hand, etc.
With a webcam, it's not exactly like you can whip up a CCD, various other ICs, the code to run it, etc. Almost none of this can be done by hand, and it requires a extremely high level of knowledge to do it all. In fact, it's very unlikely that any one person has ever possessed all of the knowledge to make such a device.
This is like saying "well, since it's not hard to make a simple steam driven piston type engine in a metal shop, why doesn't anyone piece together an electronically controlled fuel injection engine?
You mean something like Survival Research Labs' Pitching Machine?
:D
This thing shoots 6' long 2x4's at over 120mph using the same concept... Except using tires and a 500 cubic inch engine.
I don't know why noone has said this yet, but why not stick a copy of Knoppix in one partition on a large USB keychain device and boot it using a floppy with a boot manager on it? Then use the other partition on the keychain device for data storage.
Booting Knoppix will eliminate the need for massive amounts of read/write, and you'd still have a bit of space to store whatever it is you are working on.
I personally really enjoy it when I call up some place, and their hold music is the local public radio station. I think it's great to hear that little bit of wherever the end-point of your call is. Granted, this doesn't work for huge companies, but when I call a smallish / mediumish place, it's a nice treat.
...and who is going to pay to run / admin the Jabber servers so that just anyone can fire up a single product and talk to anyone else using that product?