I can say that the professional machines do work. I was playing HALO 3 on my new xbox, which was placed vertically for optimal airflow, when my retarded (but soooo cute) cat sketched out and ran around and knocked the xbox over. It was not a pretty sound and the disk had bad ring shaped scratches.
Took the disk to the local used CD store and for $2 they fixed the disk. You can still see the rings on the bottom of the disk, but barely, and they work! 2$/CD is a bargain, just pay the money and let someone else deal with it.
I have also used this to repair FFVII disks for PS1. If anything will fix the disk, this is your best bet, aside from having it done professionally bit-by-bit.
Why? We've known there was water (ice) on Mars for ages, just as we know the moons of the gas giants are giant balls of ice, and I'm pretty sure it's been observed in molecular clouds in deep space as well. As none of that's alive, what makes you think this would be any different?
Well, we have not known that there is ice on mars, only speculated that it is likely. There is a big difference. The moons of the gas giants are hardly giant balls of ice, though many do contain "ice", although that ice may not be water. Regardless, how do you know that there is no life on one of these "giant balls of ice". Until we go and look, we don't know for sure.
I disagree. I have XBMC right now and about 900GB of data that streams to it. If you put each item into a "channel" there would be hundreds and hundreds of pages to flip though. I think that a scrollable list that can handle directory structures is the only way to go.
Yeah, we get them to do that. We umplug and reset the modem and satellite controller, and then press the auto-align button, but for some reason it doesn't always work. There is a GPS module that connects to the site controller so that the site knows where to look in the sky to find the bird. Sometimes the GPS module acts up and the site dosen't know where it is, so can't find the bird. This seems to be when a tech has to be dispatched.
Your ignorance is startling. I said nothing that would imply that windows was running at the site. In fact, the site controller is an embedded system, not a computer at all. Thanks for coming out.
There are many oil companies that have paid telus big money to have coverage at thier site. As a result, there aren't many places that you can drive to that aren't covered. Alberta has the best coverage out of all of Canada though, so if you are in SK, you likely are SOL
I work for a company that has 10+ satelite links and some are better than others. AFIK all satelite operators in Canada use Telesat's satelites, so it doesn't really matter if you switch providers, as you will still be talking to the same bird in the sky.
We use Infosat Communications for our satelite sites, and lately they have been having issues. Their uplink facility is in downtown Calgary and when a storm rolls through (which they have daily now for several weeks) there is a good chance that the uplink facility will lose connection to the bird, and ALL sites will go offline. Outages are usually breif, but a MAJOR pain in my ass.
Once service is restored, likely one of the sites will not come up correctly and I have to call the site and do some rebooting tickery to bring it back online, which SUCKS as most of the people up north can barely tie their shoelaces, let alone work satellite equipment.
We have two different types of satelite dishes. The more reliable of the two (by quite a large margin) is a dish mounted to a 4" pole sunk into concrete. That baby ain't `goin nowhere, and generally works pretty good (but HIGH latency). The other dishes we have are auto aiming, so that, in theory, you can drop the thing anywhere, press some buttons and away it goes. In reality, they can find the satelite in the sky quite well, but if for whatever reason, that connection gets lost, it will not reaquire. Someone has to go out to the site, and play with the equipment. Then when it doesn't come up, we call Infosat, and they get the person on site to play with the equipment, before finally sending a tech.
When one of my auto-aligning dishes goes down, I curse. Usually it takes DAYS to get it back online. I have to get someone on site, then get infosat on the phone...
Anyways, I feel the submitter's pain, as I live with it too. Unfortunately I think you are SOL and will have to live with it, as cellular data can be spotty too (and is unavailable pretty much everywhere north, except northern Alberta. We looked into cellular data and they couldn't/wouldn't give us a SLA so we are still on satelitte.
Acutally the 'choice' consists of a multitude of hardware venders, many, many software apps and more peripherals than you can shake a stick at.
I don't know where this Microsoft of nothing is coming from. You, no doubt, have a Mac, so that fact alone is proof that there is choice. Windows is by far the most supported OS, giving users many choises for software, hardware, and anything else you can think of that plugs into a computer. Ironically, Apple's motto seems to be 'apple or nothing' and TFA would be my citation.
And finally, how successful would OS/X be if Apple sold it as software for any platform, Microsoft-style? It would be earth-shakingly successful, probably garnering 50% marketshare within one year. And probably making 10x more money than they do now.
Isn't is amazing that the whole point in licensing the software was to get around that fact that a copy was in ram and violated copyright.
Is that true? Can anyone second this? I always thought that software was licensed was because Billy G refused to sell IBM his DOS but instead licensing a copy to each PC that IBM (and later other manufacturers) produced. This way he would be getting continual income, instead of a lump sum.
Looking at your comment history shows that you clearly have a Apple bias. Nothing that I could say would satisfy you if it was in any negitive to Apple. Why don't you go and edit some pictures and upload them to myspace.
Speak for yourself. The VAST majority of computer users use windows. The majority of servers run windows. As for price, a quick google of OS X, shows that Leopard is selling for at minumum, 161.49. I can get an OEM of winXP for 129.99. Talking about high prices, how about the Apple hardware, which is overpriced, and when something breaks, you have to take it to some uptight douchebag @ Apple to fix, not your local PC repair shop.
I'm sick to death of iFanbois. If Apple was so good, why are they not the market leader? Why can't they support any hardware mashup like the big boys at Microsoft do? I'm no MS fanboi, but ignorant comments like this piss me off./rant
If you actually RTFA (before it was slashdotted), kernel modularization was one of the points, as was some sort of "safe mode for games".
Anyways, you do bring up a good point: Many of us choose XP just because of the games. Here is where MSFT I think shot themselves in the foot. I, personally, rarely, if ever, play games on the computer anymore. I way prefer the XBOX360. Not having to use the computer for games, has allowed me to switch to Linux, should I choose.
There is one thing that still has me clinging to XP. If you are storing large files in windows, you really only have one choice for the filesystem, NTFS. I currently have nearly 1 TB of data on a NTFS RAID array, that I REALLY dont want to backup and convert to another FS. I know that Linux does NTFS reads, but I want to also write (and reliably) to the disk.
For the price of your drive home, or at least my drive home, you can buy another power supply.
Why don't you just grab one from the desktop area? At my company 2 power bricks is standard with all laptops. One stays at the office, and one stays at home. I personally have 4. One for the desk, one for home, one for the bag (in case i'm not at home or office) and one spare that someone gave to me that sits in my desk as a spare.
So? Isn't that standard for IT phones? I know my phone is caller ID restricted. If I want someone to have my number, I'll give it to them. Otherwise, call the help desk and generate a ticket.
Surely there is some other law that she could be charged with. Perhaps manslaughter. IANAL, but it seems to me that she was being criminally negligent. There were likely signs that the girl was distressed that would be apparant to the accused, prior to the death, yet she still pressed on...
Do the people that make laws have absolutely ANY idea how the internet works and is used? Are they even living on the same planet as the rest of us?
I realize that this was likely a rhetorical question, but IMO, the rulemakers do not live in the same world as us slashdotters. I would bet that many of the lawmakers still have VCRs hooked up, and the clock has been blinking 12:00 for 10 years. The lawmakers are just like every other "old" person. They call thier son/nephew/grandson for technical support when thier computer isn't working. They do not have a myspace profile, instant messanger account, or any account for that matter beyond email.
I'm a Canadian, for the record, and bill C-61 (Canada's DMCA) has all the marks of someone that wants to make a difference, but really does not understand the technology that the laws are supposed to cover.
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I can say that the professional machines do work. I was playing HALO 3 on my new xbox, which was placed vertically for optimal airflow, when my retarded (but soooo cute) cat sketched out and ran around and knocked the xbox over. It was not a pretty sound and the disk had bad ring shaped scratches.
Took the disk to the local used CD store and for $2 they fixed the disk. You can still see the rings on the bottom of the disk, but barely, and they work! 2$/CD is a bargain, just pay the money and let someone else deal with it.
I have also used this to repair FFVII disks for PS1. If anything will fix the disk, this is your best bet, aside from having it done professionally bit-by-bit.
Why? We've known there was water (ice) on Mars for ages, just as we know the moons of the gas giants are giant balls of ice, and I'm pretty sure it's been observed in molecular clouds in deep space as well. As none of that's alive, what makes you think this would be any different?
Well, we have not known that there is ice on mars, only speculated that it is likely. There is a big difference. The moons of the gas giants are hardly giant balls of ice, though many do contain "ice", although that ice may not be water. Regardless, how do you know that there is no life on one of these "giant balls of ice". Until we go and look, we don't know for sure.
How is this offtopic? Many older computer do have infrared ports, in hope that it would actually catch on one day.
I disagree. I have XBMC right now and about 900GB of data that streams to it. If you put each item into a "channel" there would be hundreds and hundreds of pages to flip though. I think that a scrollable list that can handle directory structures is the only way to go.
Yeah, we get them to do that. We umplug and reset the modem and satellite controller, and then press the auto-align button, but for some reason it doesn't always work. There is a GPS module that connects to the site controller so that the site knows where to look in the sky to find the bird. Sometimes the GPS module acts up and the site dosen't know where it is, so can't find the bird. This seems to be when a tech has to be dispatched.
I'm pretty sure that most Lease vehicles are not allowed to be driven in Mexico.
Your ignorance is startling. I said nothing that would imply that windows was running at the site. In fact, the site controller is an embedded system, not a computer at all. Thanks for coming out.
Actually, I think that Alberta has some of the best rural coverage around. TELUS has high speed EVDO coverage for a large part of the provence.
http://www.telusmobility.com/ab/coverage/pcs_home.shtml
There are many oil companies that have paid telus big money to have coverage at thier site. As a result, there aren't many places that you can drive to that aren't covered. Alberta has the best coverage out of all of Canada though, so if you are in SK, you likely are SOL
Sorry, the pole is 4" in diameter. The dish is a 3-4' dish. Bigger than a starchoice, but smaller than a BUD
Not to mention that the winter is when most the work up north gets done. In the summer the roads melt and are impassible.
I think what he means is dedicated bandwidth.
I work for a company that has 10+ satelite links and some are better than others. AFIK all satelite operators in Canada use Telesat's satelites, so it doesn't really matter if you switch providers, as you will still be talking to the same bird in the sky.
We use Infosat Communications for our satelite sites, and lately they have been having issues. Their uplink facility is in downtown Calgary and when a storm rolls through (which they have daily now for several weeks) there is a good chance that the uplink facility will lose connection to the bird, and ALL sites will go offline. Outages are usually breif, but a MAJOR pain in my ass.
Once service is restored, likely one of the sites will not come up correctly and I have to call the site and do some rebooting tickery to bring it back online, which SUCKS as most of the people up north can barely tie their shoelaces, let alone work satellite equipment.
We have two different types of satelite dishes. The more reliable of the two (by quite a large margin) is a dish mounted to a 4" pole sunk into concrete. That baby ain't `goin nowhere, and generally works pretty good (but HIGH latency). The other dishes we have are auto aiming, so that, in theory, you can drop the thing anywhere, press some buttons and away it goes. In reality, they can find the satelite in the sky quite well, but if for whatever reason, that connection gets lost, it will not reaquire. Someone has to go out to the site, and play with the equipment. Then when it doesn't come up, we call Infosat, and they get the person on site to play with the equipment, before finally sending a tech.
When one of my auto-aligning dishes goes down, I curse. Usually it takes DAYS to get it back online. I have to get someone on site, then get infosat on the phone...
Anyways, I feel the submitter's pain, as I live with it too. Unfortunately I think you are SOL and will have to live with it, as cellular data can be spotty too (and is unavailable pretty much everywhere north, except northern Alberta. We looked into cellular data and they couldn't/wouldn't give us a SLA so we are still on satelitte.
Acutally the 'choice' consists of a multitude of hardware venders, many, many software apps and more peripherals than you can shake a stick at.
I don't know where this Microsoft of nothing is coming from. You, no doubt, have a Mac, so that fact alone is proof that there is choice. Windows is by far the most supported OS, giving users many choises for software, hardware, and anything else you can think of that plugs into a computer. Ironically, Apple's motto seems to be 'apple or nothing' and TFA would be my citation.
And finally, how successful would OS/X be if Apple sold it as software for any platform, Microsoft-style? It would be earth-shakingly successful, probably garnering 50% marketshare within one year. And probably making 10x more money than they do now.
So why don't they then?
I disagree. It's because of issues like this, when you give your two weeks notice, that you get two weeks vacation.
Is that true? Can anyone second this? I always thought that software was licensed was because Billy G refused to sell IBM his DOS but instead licensing a copy to each PC that IBM (and later other manufacturers) produced. This way he would be getting continual income, instead of a lump sum.
Looking at your comment history shows that you clearly have a Apple bias. Nothing that I could say would satisfy you if it was in any negitive to Apple. Why don't you go and edit some pictures and upload them to myspace.
Yes - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1016_3-6041804.html?hhTest=1
they - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/03/windows_steals_top_server_os_s.html
actually - http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/32706.html
do - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6041804.html
But thanks for coming out.
Speak for yourself. The VAST majority of computer users use windows. The majority of servers run windows. As for price, a quick google of OS X, shows that Leopard is selling for at minumum, 161.49. I can get an OEM of winXP for 129.99. Talking about high prices, how about the Apple hardware, which is overpriced, and when something breaks, you have to take it to some uptight douchebag @ Apple to fix, not your local PC repair shop.
/rant
I'm sick to death of iFanbois. If Apple was so good, why are they not the market leader? Why can't they support any hardware mashup like the big boys at Microsoft do? I'm no MS fanboi, but ignorant comments like this piss me off.
If you actually RTFA (before it was slashdotted), kernel modularization was one of the points, as was some sort of "safe mode for games".
Anyways, you do bring up a good point: Many of us choose XP just because of the games. Here is where MSFT I think shot themselves in the foot. I, personally, rarely, if ever, play games on the computer anymore. I way prefer the XBOX360. Not having to use the computer for games, has allowed me to switch to Linux, should I choose.
There is one thing that still has me clinging to XP. If you are storing large files in windows, you really only have one choice for the filesystem, NTFS. I currently have nearly 1 TB of data on a NTFS RAID array, that I REALLY dont want to backup and convert to another FS. I know that Linux does NTFS reads, but I want to also write (and reliably) to the disk.
Why don't you just grab one from the desktop area? At my company 2 power bricks is standard with all laptops. One stays at the office, and one stays at home. I personally have 4. One for the desk, one for home, one for the bag (in case i'm not at home or office) and one spare that someone gave to me that sits in my desk as a spare.
So? Isn't that standard for IT phones? I know my phone is caller ID restricted. If I want someone to have my number, I'll give it to them. Otherwise, call the help desk and generate a ticket.
OMG!!! WTF do u mean BIG parties r al ways noows i want 2 go!!!11!!!!1! OMG WTF LOL!1!!
Surely there is some other law that she could be charged with. Perhaps manslaughter. IANAL, but it seems to me that she was being criminally negligent. There were likely signs that the girl was distressed that would be apparant to the accused, prior to the death, yet she still pressed on...
I realize that this was likely a rhetorical question, but IMO, the rulemakers do not live in the same world as us slashdotters. I would bet that many of the lawmakers still have VCRs hooked up, and the clock has been blinking 12:00 for 10 years. The lawmakers are just like every other "old" person. They call thier son/nephew/grandson for technical support when thier computer isn't working. They do not have a myspace profile, instant messanger account, or any account for that matter beyond email.
I'm a Canadian, for the record, and bill C-61 (Canada's DMCA) has all the marks of someone that wants to make a difference, but really does not understand the technology that the laws are supposed to cover.
Somethings telling me to "Move along, there's nothing to see here".