Team Viewer 5 does this. You send the person a link, or verbally tell them the URL over the phone. It downloads an EXE file, they run it. The program gives them some numbers they read off to you, and you connect using those numbers.
Done!
I use it a lot for helping friends/family.
A few years back on April Fools day I sent around an e-mail staying passwords would now be expiring weekly (instead of quarterly), your password had to be 24 characters long, and we'd all have to use swipe cards to open any doors in the building.
I got a bunch of horrified responses, but mostly people caught on.
Flash forward 2 years. We merged our Active Directory domain with out head office, and the password requirements shot up (not as much as I said in my e-mail, but more then users were used to). Also we all got ID/swipe cards, although as of yet we don't use them for anything other then looking pretty.
Me too.
I currently use my android based phone with a 'wifi tether' app, which can share the 3g over wifi or bluetooth.
I have a CarPC in my car for wife/kids, it gets internet from phone, so they can surf on long trips.
Google recently released Nexus one that supports Rogers 3G networks, and it is available for Canadians to buy, there is also a version for Wind. Bell/Telus can't run the Nexus one yet though.
Rogers has already announced everyone with one of these handsets will be getting one month of free data service.
However, I don't think it's right Rogers has cutoff our data in order to force us to update.
I have a rooted magic running a 1.6 rom which is immune to this 911 problem. They want me to reflash back to their 1.5rom, which co-incidentally they loaded a new SPL into that is currently unbreakable, so we can't even flash back to another rom after.
Brief history:
-Rogers announces there is a critical problem with 911 on dream and magic phones. The issue is related to GPS trying to send your location when you call 911.
-Rogers advises customers to disable GPS until they issue a fix.
-Rogers releases a new ROM that fixes the issue, they say if you don't update to it within a day or so, your internet access will be cut off (this also allows 911 calls to go through since it can't try to transmit your location)
First off, I like alternatives as much as the other guy, I use firefox and opera as my main browsers.
However, this complaint is just stupid. Are some of you so jaded that you can't stand the fact that you will be in IE for all of 30 seconds while you choose something else? You don't even have to manually go find your browser of choice, for the vast majority of us our choice is among the ones listed.
This whole browser ballot thing is just an inconvenience for about 90% of the population out there.
I say this to customers and friends too, but I am serious. Norton AV is horrid. It does make your computer more unusable then most virii out there.
It's sad to see how crappy the norton name has become. I still fondly remember using Norton Commander back in the DOS days, loved that program.
It's VERY annoying now. I built a CarPC and had it working well with my old WinMo phone, making/receiving calls over the BT connection, address book, and the like would come up on the computer screen (8" touch screen). My new magic is awesome, but I now have nothing BT wise working beyond a basic headset.
Well Rogers has both the original G1 and the Magic. The local Rogers outlets here in Southern Ontario have had them for several weeks at least (thats just the first time I went into a store, could be longer).
Rogers is nationwide, so you should be able to find them there too.
One massive improvement Vista made to file copying over XP, is in relation to the prompting. In XP, if you start a file copy, say it's 20 gigs and thousands of files. You start it, and walk away as it will take a couple hours.
You come back two hours later to see it as 3% done, with a prompt asking you something. FAIL.
On Vista/7, with the same scenario, you come back to a prompt, but it's at 97% complete, because it did everything that didn't conflict first, and then prompted you at the end for the conflicts. WIN.
The first line of this summary is quite wrong. Intel has LOTS of Core2Duo's that do not support Intel VT.
A quick look through their processor matrix will confirm this.
Still, it's common practise for laptop manufacturers to disable things like VT on their consumer models. My Toshiba satellite has it disabled (not changeable in BIOS), but the pro version of it (same mainboard and cpu) has the option.
I'm sure there is some way to get it working via a hex editor or something, but then we're into voiding warranties (if the bios gets fubared).
Agreed, this is a non issue, or at worst, a very tiny issue.
For the very tiny amount of people out there that will run "Chkdsk -r" on a secondary partition, they may see almost all their ram used up while it is scanning the disk. If they have prexisting hardware or software glitches, it might blue screen on them.
For the 90% of consumers who would never run chkdsk, and who don't have more then one parition, this is a complete non-issue.
Regarding a descent remake, interplay's website had a post last year saying they wanted to bring back some old franchises, thought they didn't say which. There was a picture with it, and right in the center was a blue descent shield orb.
So maybe we will see Descent again. I can only hope.
I never found D3 overly laggy.
I played D1/D2 on Kali and Kahn back in the day, and I found the PXO experience better in general.
Even in D3, a large amount of people were on dial up and you'd see the ones with high pings skipping everywhere, but it was still quite playable and no more laggy then other online games of the day.
I never had video card issues with D3 either. not sure if I am in the minority or what, but it ran great on both my Voodoo3 and later ATI video cards, I think I ran it in D3d mode after I upgraded past the Voodoo3.
I do remember some people having issues with white boxes appearing and other artifacts, but I never had them.
Kevin, did you attend Califest 1? I remember there were a couple guys there from Parralax/outrage.
CDN_WingMan_^BoTS^ (Descent 3 name):)
I'm a little confused. I have a htpc/media center, and when I get a movie that has been compresed into multi-part rar files, I simply extract it to it's original file.
If you have WinRar installed it's a simple right click, and pick extract here or extract to subfolder.
One click, seems pretty simple.
I fail to see how this is a critical feature to add to VLC. It seems simple to me to just setup something to automatically extract the rar's if you are too lazy to do that single click yourself. Of course I can't speak for everyones situation, there might be situations where this isn't possible, but to be it just seems like bloat.
I've got Win7 on a few machines, ranging from a P4D 3.0ghz, to a C2Q6600. The P4 has 1gb of ram and an old geforce fx5200 and it runs 7 quite well. Oddly it keeps waking up from sleep every hour or so, then going back to sleep, then waking up, etc..
Indeed, I don't know how anyone could enjoy the original BSG more then the new one.
Whereas with Trek, while I personally like TNG and DS9 better then TOS, I can see why people would like the original more.
Our organization is currently switching our messaging system as well.
We have 3 main offices. One is an all MS shop, so Exchange with outlook. Another office is a Novell shop, so Groupwise 7. The last office is much smaller, and until recently were just POP3 from an external host.
All of us are now switching to Google Apps. We're a charity so we get it for free, which is nice.
My office is the exchange office, and I've got about 15% of our 60 users switched to Google Apps.
So far our biggest issue is contacts. There is no good way to do shared address lists (at least in the education edition). Since google doesn't have any good tools to help with outlook, we're using a 3rd party tool called oggsync. It allows us to sync contacts and calendars with outlook. A good chunck of our users will want to keep using outlook because they are so used to it, and some are on planes so often they will want offline access to compose messages. oggsync, and the other 3rd party programs currently can't do multiple contact lists though, they just lump everyone together which is a pain.
Overall, the people swapped over so far are liking it.
online games use very little bandwidth to start with.
even VOIP isn't using anywhere near the capacity of your connection, so you'd never get flagged.
This will only affect those transfering large amounts of data, continuously. Things like torrents, streaming video, running servers (which violates your TOS anyway).
Even when you are affected, your internet connection doesn't suddenly drop to some horribly slow speed.
Your data will simply be given an importance of say 3 ouf of 5, instead of the normal 5 out of 5. So now, if Comcasts local node is so overloaded it has to decide which packet to route first, it will pick someone elses, and yours will be delayed a fraction of a second.
This will repeatedly go on until there is no longer a bandwitch shortage.
If this system is implemented properly, you'll notice almost zero difference in your connection when it happens.
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Team Viewer 5 does this. You send the person a link, or verbally tell them the URL over the phone. It downloads an EXE file, they run it. The program gives them some numbers they read off to you, and you connect using those numbers. Done! I use it a lot for helping friends/family.
True for VHS, but initially the adult industry backed HD-DVD, not bluray,and bluray still won.
A few years back on April Fools day I sent around an e-mail staying passwords would now be expiring weekly (instead of quarterly), your password had to be 24 characters long, and we'd all have to use swipe cards to open any doors in the building. I got a bunch of horrified responses, but mostly people caught on. Flash forward 2 years. We merged our Active Directory domain with out head office, and the password requirements shot up (not as much as I said in my e-mail, but more then users were used to). Also we all got ID/swipe cards, although as of yet we don't use them for anything other then looking pretty.
Me too. I currently use my android based phone with a 'wifi tether' app, which can share the 3g over wifi or bluetooth. I have a CarPC in my car for wife/kids, it gets internet from phone, so they can surf on long trips.
Google recently released Nexus one that supports Rogers 3G networks, and it is available for Canadians to buy, there is also a version for Wind. Bell/Telus can't run the Nexus one yet though.
Rogers has already announced everyone with one of these handsets will be getting one month of free data service. However, I don't think it's right Rogers has cutoff our data in order to force us to update. I have a rooted magic running a 1.6 rom which is immune to this 911 problem. They want me to reflash back to their 1.5rom, which co-incidentally they loaded a new SPL into that is currently unbreakable, so we can't even flash back to another rom after. Brief history: -Rogers announces there is a critical problem with 911 on dream and magic phones. The issue is related to GPS trying to send your location when you call 911. -Rogers advises customers to disable GPS until they issue a fix. -Rogers releases a new ROM that fixes the issue, they say if you don't update to it within a day or so, your internet access will be cut off (this also allows 911 calls to go through since it can't try to transmit your location)
Not exclusive no, the US does license out that right to other countries :)
First off, I like alternatives as much as the other guy, I use firefox and opera as my main browsers. However, this complaint is just stupid. Are some of you so jaded that you can't stand the fact that you will be in IE for all of 30 seconds while you choose something else? You don't even have to manually go find your browser of choice, for the vast majority of us our choice is among the ones listed. This whole browser ballot thing is just an inconvenience for about 90% of the population out there.
I say this to customers and friends too, but I am serious. Norton AV is horrid. It does make your computer more unusable then most virii out there. It's sad to see how crappy the norton name has become. I still fondly remember using Norton Commander back in the DOS days, loved that program.
It's VERY annoying now. I built a CarPC and had it working well with my old WinMo phone, making/receiving calls over the BT connection, address book, and the like would come up on the computer screen (8" touch screen). My new magic is awesome, but I now have nothing BT wise working beyond a basic headset.
Well Rogers has both the original G1 and the Magic. The local Rogers outlets here in Southern Ontario have had them for several weeks at least (thats just the first time I went into a store, could be longer). Rogers is nationwide, so you should be able to find them there too.
One massive improvement Vista made to file copying over XP, is in relation to the prompting. In XP, if you start a file copy, say it's 20 gigs and thousands of files. You start it, and walk away as it will take a couple hours. You come back two hours later to see it as 3% done, with a prompt asking you something. FAIL. On Vista/7, with the same scenario, you come back to a prompt, but it's at 97% complete, because it did everything that didn't conflict first, and then prompted you at the end for the conflicts. WIN.
The first line of this summary is quite wrong. Intel has LOTS of Core2Duo's that do not support Intel VT. A quick look through their processor matrix will confirm this. Still, it's common practise for laptop manufacturers to disable things like VT on their consumer models. My Toshiba satellite has it disabled (not changeable in BIOS), but the pro version of it (same mainboard and cpu) has the option. I'm sure there is some way to get it working via a hex editor or something, but then we're into voiding warranties (if the bios gets fubared).
Agreed, this is a non issue, or at worst, a very tiny issue. For the very tiny amount of people out there that will run "Chkdsk -r" on a secondary partition, they may see almost all their ram used up while it is scanning the disk. If they have prexisting hardware or software glitches, it might blue screen on them. For the 90% of consumers who would never run chkdsk, and who don't have more then one parition, this is a complete non-issue.
Regarding a descent remake, interplay's website had a post last year saying they wanted to bring back some old franchises, thought they didn't say which. There was a picture with it, and right in the center was a blue descent shield orb. So maybe we will see Descent again. I can only hope.
I never found D3 overly laggy. I played D1/D2 on Kali and Kahn back in the day, and I found the PXO experience better in general. Even in D3, a large amount of people were on dial up and you'd see the ones with high pings skipping everywhere, but it was still quite playable and no more laggy then other online games of the day. I never had video card issues with D3 either. not sure if I am in the minority or what, but it ran great on both my Voodoo3 and later ATI video cards, I think I ran it in D3d mode after I upgraded past the Voodoo3. I do remember some people having issues with white boxes appearing and other artifacts, but I never had them. Kevin, did you attend Califest 1? I remember there were a couple guys there from Parralax/outrage. CDN_WingMan_^BoTS^ (Descent 3 name) :)
Indeed, Descent rocks. I still jump into Descent3 from time to time. I travelled North America going to descent2/3 lan parties in my youth.
I'm a little confused. I have a htpc/media center, and when I get a movie that has been compresed into multi-part rar files, I simply extract it to it's original file. If you have WinRar installed it's a simple right click, and pick extract here or extract to subfolder. One click, seems pretty simple. I fail to see how this is a critical feature to add to VLC. It seems simple to me to just setup something to automatically extract the rar's if you are too lazy to do that single click yourself. Of course I can't speak for everyones situation, there might be situations where this isn't possible, but to be it just seems like bloat.
There are tiny odds of just about anything happening, why is it news?
I've got Win7 on a few machines, ranging from a P4D 3.0ghz, to a C2Q6600. The P4 has 1gb of ram and an old geforce fx5200 and it runs 7 quite well. Oddly it keeps waking up from sleep every hour or so, then going back to sleep, then waking up, etc..
Indeed, I don't know how anyone could enjoy the original BSG more then the new one. Whereas with Trek, while I personally like TNG and DS9 better then TOS, I can see why people would like the original more.
Our organization is currently switching our messaging system as well. We have 3 main offices. One is an all MS shop, so Exchange with outlook. Another office is a Novell shop, so Groupwise 7. The last office is much smaller, and until recently were just POP3 from an external host. All of us are now switching to Google Apps. We're a charity so we get it for free, which is nice. My office is the exchange office, and I've got about 15% of our 60 users switched to Google Apps. So far our biggest issue is contacts. There is no good way to do shared address lists (at least in the education edition). Since google doesn't have any good tools to help with outlook, we're using a 3rd party tool called oggsync. It allows us to sync contacts and calendars with outlook. A good chunck of our users will want to keep using outlook because they are so used to it, and some are on planes so often they will want offline access to compose messages. oggsync, and the other 3rd party programs currently can't do multiple contact lists though, they just lump everyone together which is a pain. Overall, the people swapped over so far are liking it.
online games use very little bandwidth to start with. even VOIP isn't using anywhere near the capacity of your connection, so you'd never get flagged. This will only affect those transfering large amounts of data, continuously. Things like torrents, streaming video, running servers (which violates your TOS anyway). Even when you are affected, your internet connection doesn't suddenly drop to some horribly slow speed. Your data will simply be given an importance of say 3 ouf of 5, instead of the normal 5 out of 5. So now, if Comcasts local node is so overloaded it has to decide which packet to route first, it will pick someone elses, and yours will be delayed a fraction of a second. This will repeatedly go on until there is no longer a bandwitch shortage. If this system is implemented properly, you'll notice almost zero difference in your connection when it happens.
incorrect. Steam can be set to offline mode, and then games (obviously only single player games) can be played offline just fine.
Ah, hadn't boned up on the 2007 marketing speak :)