My phone is constantly beside my computer speakers on my desk or by my clock radio when I'm sleeping. I haven't heard anything from either...
Maybe it's because the computer speakers are so old that they're actually still shielded (unlike most today?) Dunno about the clock radio though, but it's pretty old too... has to be at least 5-6 years now.
Sadly no. I have a ton of things to back up at home and just use Bacula with a ton of DVD-RWs. It's not really ideal.
I'd say it'd be cheaper to get a really cheap PC and run linux raid + rsync over a gigabit LAN for home users...
Tape drives (good high capacity ones) aren't going to be affordable for home users for who knows how long. You could probably build three or four cheap systems with enough disk space over the LAN for one of those tape systems. Only problem then is offsite backups... better hope the house doesn't burn down.
But is $0 too much for you that you must ask for a budget line, having the autorisation of the financial authority before contracting a negotiation with an http/ftp server to buy the product ?
You'd be surprised what bandwidth costs in some countries... or the speed in some... (who wants to download 200MB over a 56k modem?)
Nah, the moms and pops would just tie a horn to a horse's head. Problem solved! Whenever the question of wings came up, kids were told the unicorn was a cripple!
It's just a way to get people who hog bandwidth to upgrade to business class.
I've often wondered this, but will Comcast even install a business class connection at a residential address? There are ISPs where I live that won't. Then people are really screwed.
On Telus, they discontinued binary newsgroups, but all of the text ones remain. Not sure if it was outsourced or not, but the times I've needed to use it, it has worked.
That won't do anything. On my laptop Vista shows non-broadcast networks and marks them as "Unnamed network". This was it's default setting; I didn't do anything to turn this mode on... I don't think it'd be that hard to find out what the SSID is either.
And to give you an idea we go through ~20-30 Vista PCs a day at my shop, both repairs and software installs/bloatware cleanups on new units.
And I'll bet none are installed on a RAID array. I was trying to speed up Vista by running it on a RAID 0+1. This article has the details, and it apparently affects 32-bit installs as well. Right on the KB it says:
Workaround: Remove 2 GB of RAM, and then restart the installation process. After Windows Vista is installed, reinstall the RAM.
and then
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
I actually installed SP1 before reinstalling the RAM.
FWIW, once I got it installed, I've had zero issues with it. I was rather puzzled at first, I've never had any install CD BSOD/panic (be it windows/linux/etc.)
I have never had a blue screen of death in Vista ever. Period.
That's funny, when I tried to install Vista Ultimate x64 it bluescreened. It couldn't even load the installer. Turns out you can't boot from the DVD when you have 4GB of RAM in your machine. (Isn't the whole reason to go x64 for addressing more ram??)
Once I removed a stick, installed it, installed SP1, and put the stick back did I get any stability.
I haven't tried updating iTunes yet, maybe I won't bother. I'll get nightmares about trying to install Vista again...
PS. Please use Vancouver B.C. to refer to that other Vancouver;)
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Whenever I see articles stating Vancouver it's always Vancouver, BC. The articles I saw for Washington State were clearly stated "Vancouver, WA".
[/nitpick]
Hell, I didn't even know there was another Vancouver besides the one in BC until about two years ago.;o)
Long before there was talk of Linux supplanting Windows, it was OS/2.
I was one of them, from version 2 through Warp 4. Let the Star Trek puns rain down on me for that one!:)
I was too! I was even developing software for OS/2. I don't remember what happened, after writing three small utilities (I can't even recall what they are at the moment) I stopped writing software. Seemed to me at the time I was the only one in 100 miles that used it as a desktop...
I actually didn't even have a CDROM for OS/2 Warp 3. Damn being a student and all... I still have the 35 floppies or so. I somehow doubt they are even readable now, which wouldn't matter now anyway, seeing as none of my recent builds have floppy drives...
I should try getting it to work in a VM. Somehow I don't think any of my new hardware would be supported anyway.
I do believe the poster was referring to the spark generated when hooking it up. Batteries have to vent, and I've actually seen a small explosion from hooking something up to the battery.
It is seriously not wise to tell someone to do what you're suggesting. Acid burns aren't fun.
My previous cellular provider went and got me mad enough to switch. I looked at several types of phones capable of scheduling and whatnot, including Blackberry offerings, the iPhone, and a Samsung phone. My old phone was a Windows Mobile based phone which would randomly do odd things (backlight would flake out - required messing around with no backlight to go reset something in the control panel, and it would randomly just lock up and I'd have to remove the battery) so after finding out Samsung's device ran Windows Mobile I ran as fast as I could. Never going to buy one of those ever again. The Windows phone was even replaced under warranty and the new one did the same thing.
I looked & fiddled with the Blackberry and the iPhone, and I found the iPhone's controls were just better for browsing and doing other tasks. It's pretty intuitive. It also can receive calls in my apartment where my old phone would constantly drop calls.
What I found strange is all of the reports of problems with dropped calls and bad reception. I haven't experienced that yet.
I don't consider myself a zealot (I only own the iPhone, and an iPod that I bought a month ago - driving a moving truck 1000km with no CD Player didn't sound like a good idea to me.)
Now that I know about this I won't be updating the phone though.
My question would be if they were working a fire in a window unit on the second floor, what were they doing in the basement?
As someone else pointed out, probably checking the electrical panel.
However, it is possible that a fire can jump a floor. If it was a 2-storey house with a basement that had a chimney/elevator shaft a fire can start in the basement and ignite the second floor before the main floor.
Every hundred yards or so, some person's big, snarling guard dog would race out of a no-trespassing-staked-yard, barking like mad, with every intention of tearing us limb from limb, until the owner, invariably some person holding some kind of weapon, noticed that we were just runners and called off the dog. It got to the point where we just turned around.
Well, if it's anything like the ranches and whatnot where my mom used to live, there's a lot of theft and vandalism. My mom was walking her dogs and has been confronted with farmers with shotguns several times. One farmer even apologized and didn't bother her any more after that. He was the one that told her about the vandalism/theft that occurred several times in the past.
What are the odds of accidentally clicking the Submit button instead of the Continue Editing button. Doh!
To finish it off: I don't think there's any official documentation on the gentoo website just yet, but there was a guide installed in/usr/share/doc/portage-2.2_rc1/html/index.html on my amd64 box.
There's more information about the changes in a draft upgrade guide. There's a few key changes (as someone above mentioned as well), one being that portage will preserve existing libraries until the dependencies are rebuilt against the new ones. Another is that you can create logical sets (i.e. create a media_player set with vlc & mplayer and dependencies, and update it using `emerge -av @media_player` -- this will update everything in the set. Pretty nifty.
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My phone is constantly beside my computer speakers on my desk or by my clock radio when I'm sleeping. I haven't heard anything from either...
Maybe it's because the computer speakers are so old that they're actually still shielded (unlike most today?) Dunno about the clock radio though, but it's pretty old too... has to be at least 5-6 years now.
I'd say it'd be cheaper to get a really cheap PC and run linux raid + rsync over a gigabit LAN for home users...
Tape drives (good high capacity ones) aren't going to be affordable for home users for who knows how long. You could probably build three or four cheap systems with enough disk space over the LAN for one of those tape systems. Only problem then is offsite backups... better hope the house doesn't burn down.
Hah, if you think you're behind the times, I still use Office 4.3 on 40+ 3.5" floppies. :(
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You'd be surprised what bandwidth costs in some countries... or the speed in some... (who wants to download 200MB over a 56k modem?)
I'm glad I don't live in one of them.
I'm pretty sure that it's masked... if you aren't running an unstable branch, that won't work. ;)
Using laughing@you.com for sites that require email addresses is even better.
Nah, the moms and pops would just tie a horn to a horse's head. Problem solved! Whenever the question of wings came up, kids were told the unicorn was a cripple!
I've often wondered this, but will Comcast even install a business class connection at a residential address? There are ISPs where I live that won't. Then people are really screwed.
On Telus, they discontinued binary newsgroups, but all of the text ones remain. Not sure if it was outsourced or not, but the times I've needed to use it, it has worked.
That won't do anything. On my laptop Vista shows non-broadcast networks and marks them as "Unnamed network". This was it's default setting; I didn't do anything to turn this mode on... I don't think it'd be that hard to find out what the SSID is either.
And I'll bet none are installed on a RAID array. I was trying to speed up Vista by running it on a RAID 0+1. This article has the details, and it apparently affects 32-bit installs as well. Right on the KB it says:
and then
I actually installed SP1 before reinstalling the RAM.
FWIW, once I got it installed, I've had zero issues with it. I was rather puzzled at first, I've never had any install CD BSOD/panic (be it windows/linux/etc.)
I'm assuming that you weren't installing on a raid setup. KB Article that mentions the problem. The issue is fixed in SP1.
FWIW, once I got it installed with SP1 I have had zero problems with it.
That's funny, when I tried to install Vista Ultimate x64 it bluescreened. It couldn't even load the installer. Turns out you can't boot from the DVD when you have 4GB of RAM in your machine. (Isn't the whole reason to go x64 for addressing more ram??)
Once I removed a stick, installed it, installed SP1, and put the stick back did I get any stability.
I haven't tried updating iTunes yet, maybe I won't bother. I'll get nightmares about trying to install Vista again...
[nitpick]
;o)
Whenever I see articles stating Vancouver it's always Vancouver, BC. The articles I saw for Washington State were clearly stated "Vancouver, WA".
[/nitpick]
Hell, I didn't even know there was another Vancouver besides the one in BC until about two years ago.
I was too! I was even developing software for OS/2. I don't remember what happened, after writing three small utilities (I can't even recall what they are at the moment) I stopped writing software. Seemed to me at the time I was the only one in 100 miles that used it as a desktop...
I actually didn't even have a CDROM for OS/2 Warp 3. Damn being a student and all... I still have the 35 floppies or so. I somehow doubt they are even readable now, which wouldn't matter now anyway, seeing as none of my recent builds have floppy drives...
I should try getting it to work in a VM. Somehow I don't think any of my new hardware would be supported anyway.
Yep, she was charged. You know what they say: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
I do believe the poster was referring to the spark generated when hooking it up. Batteries have to vent, and I've actually seen a small explosion from hooking something up to the battery.
It is seriously not wise to tell someone to do what you're suggesting. Acid burns aren't fun.
Ahh, but what if you have one of these things on each desk? Fragging takes on a new meaning!
My previous cellular provider went and got me mad enough to switch. I looked at several types of phones capable of scheduling and whatnot, including Blackberry offerings, the iPhone, and a Samsung phone. My old phone was a Windows Mobile based phone which would randomly do odd things (backlight would flake out - required messing around with no backlight to go reset something in the control panel, and it would randomly just lock up and I'd have to remove the battery) so after finding out Samsung's device ran Windows Mobile I ran as fast as I could. Never going to buy one of those ever again. The Windows phone was even replaced under warranty and the new one did the same thing.
I looked & fiddled with the Blackberry and the iPhone, and I found the iPhone's controls were just better for browsing and doing other tasks. It's pretty intuitive. It also can receive calls in my apartment where my old phone would constantly drop calls.
What I found strange is all of the reports of problems with dropped calls and bad reception. I haven't experienced that yet.
I don't consider myself a zealot (I only own the iPhone, and an iPod that I bought a month ago - driving a moving truck 1000km with no CD Player didn't sound like a good idea to me.)
Now that I know about this I won't be updating the phone though.
As someone else pointed out, probably checking the electrical panel.
However, it is possible that a fire can jump a floor. If it was a 2-storey house with a basement that had a chimney/elevator shaft a fire can start in the basement and ignite the second floor before the main floor.
Well, if it's anything like the ranches and whatnot where my mom used to live, there's a lot of theft and vandalism. My mom was walking her dogs and has been confronted with farmers with shotguns several times. One farmer even apologized and didn't bother her any more after that. He was the one that told her about the vandalism/theft that occurred several times in the past.
What are the odds of accidentally clicking the Submit button instead of the Continue Editing button. Doh!
/usr/share/doc/portage-2.2_rc1/html/index.html on my amd64 box.
To finish it off: I don't think there's any official documentation on the gentoo website just yet, but there was a guide installed in
There's more information about the changes in a draft upgrade guide. There's a few key changes (as someone above mentioned as well), one being that portage will preserve existing libraries until the dependencies are rebuilt against the new ones. Another is that you can create logical sets (i.e. create a media_player set with vlc & mplayer and dependencies, and update it using `emerge -av @media_player` -- this will update everything in the set. Pretty nifty.
I don't think there's any
This is changing, pretty soon world will not contain system packages. So you'll have to update them separately.