The headline makes it sound like a new wonder drug was found. According to the article, this drug was found in 1967. So it's been around for quite a while. They've just found that the soil around the trees end up with the drug in it to. Thus when they harvest the drug, they can harvest the soil to get more of it at one time. Nothing new cure wise, just a better way for drug companies to produce a product.
It happened after watching live TV for me. If I was watching a recording or DVD and suspended, it would re-suspend after recording new shows just fine. But if I pressed the PC suspend button on my remote after watching live TV, the next time it woke up to record a show, the PC would stay on after the recording was done. Even if I pressed the pause or stop button before suspending it would still not power back off correctly. For a while there, I would always start playing a recording before suspending the PC. The Standy Tool fixed the issue and I haven't had any weird suspend problems since then.
Under MCE, I use the MCE Standy Tool. MCE has a bad habit of waking up to record a show and then not returning to standby afterwards. This can result in the computer staying on all day instead of just 1/2 hour to record a small show. The Standby Tool has features to help MCE handle power management in better ways then Windows default methods. It makes me wonder why Microsoft couldn't get things to work as smoothly as this 3rd party software. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hveijk/mst/indexe.htm
Windows XP will often times not give s3 suspend as an option even when turned on in BIOS. But with Microsofts dumppo.exe utility you can force it to use an S3 or S4 state. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/products/Oemtest/v1.1/WOST est/Tools/Acpi/dumppo.exe To force it to S3, run this under command prompt "dumppo admin minsleep=s3"
SCO will add themselves to the list of people being sued. They will then quickly settle with themselves thus proving that being hoisted on ibiblio is admission of guilt. It's the ultimate Catch-SCO-22.
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I'd say Windows ME is pretty high up there. While BOB was dead in the water from the get go, Windows ME just took a little while longer to die.
NASA has been sending probes and landers to Mars since the 70's. How long will it take until some radial environmentalist group decide that this is the result of man's interference there? While any rational person would see this article as a reason to question global warming theories on Earth, some people will see this as an excuse to blame humans for Mars' melting ice caps. Be prepared for this to be used as a new unfounded excuse.
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The headline makes it sound like a new wonder drug was found. According to the article, this drug was found in 1967. So it's been around for quite a while. They've just found that the soil around the trees end up with the drug in it to. Thus when they harvest the drug, they can harvest the soil to get more of it at one time. Nothing new cure wise, just a better way for drug companies to produce a product.
It happened after watching live TV for me. If I was watching a recording or DVD and suspended, it would re-suspend after recording new shows just fine. But if I pressed the PC suspend button on my remote after watching live TV, the next time it woke up to record a show, the PC would stay on after the recording was done. Even if I pressed the pause or stop button before suspending it would still not power back off correctly. For a while there, I would always start playing a recording before suspending the PC. The Standy Tool fixed the issue and I haven't had any weird suspend problems since then.
Under MCE, I use the MCE Standy Tool. MCE has a bad habit of waking up to record a show and then not returning to standby afterwards. This can result in the computer staying on all day instead of just 1/2 hour to record a small show. The Standby Tool has features to help MCE handle power management in better ways then Windows default methods. It makes me wonder why Microsoft couldn't get things to work as smoothly as this 3rd party software. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hveijk/mst/indexe.htm
Windows XP will often times not give s3 suspend as an option even when turned on in BIOS. But with Microsofts dumppo.exe utility you can force it to use an S3 or S4 state. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/products/Oemtest/v1.1/WOST est/Tools/Acpi/dumppo.exe To force it to S3, run this under command prompt "dumppo admin minsleep=s3"
SCO will add themselves to the list of people being sued. They will then quickly settle with themselves thus proving that being hoisted on ibiblio is admission of guilt. It's the ultimate Catch-SCO-22.
I'd say Windows ME is pretty high up there. While BOB was dead in the water from the get go, Windows ME just took a little while longer to die.
I caught a nasty virus when I got a paper cut from a piece of Gmail paper spam.
Well that didn't take long.
NASA has been sending probes and landers to Mars since the 70's. How long will it take until some radial environmentalist group decide that this is the result of man's interference there? While any rational person would see this article as a reason to question global warming theories on Earth, some people will see this as an excuse to blame humans for Mars' melting ice caps. Be prepared for this to be used as a new unfounded excuse.
We already covered the FCC saying no. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/2 2/2237249
Thankfully Linux is immune to Bird viruses.