Apperently, this "thing" that will happen will either happen to the Dell users when +R loses out, or will happen to the Apple users with -R drives (remember when apple sold DVD writers in the new G4s instead of going back to CD- writers?). Some large company's customers will lose out.
That said, I noticed in Best Buy, while telling the Mother In Law what she should get for the Brother In Law, that most fo the DVD burners support both formats. Given that case, I'm not sure why anyone's even bothering with pushing one over the other - just use what you can find.:)
Changing the number of rings before picking up based on message presence isn't anything I've seen on a modern "store-bought" answering machine. Name one that does.:)
He's saying that the United States is really just the government-owned property, including military bases, the federal buildings in major cities, and the District of Columbia (AKA Washington, D.C.), which isn't technically part of any state - it's its own "thing" that's part of the federal government. Iraq is lumped in there 'cause the feds give the impression that they're running Iraq now.:)
The individual states, as the other poster mentioned, are supporting members of the USA government, but are mostly independent as much as possible.
North America is a Continent. South America is a continent. Central America is part of the North American continent. "America" is a commonly accepted shorthand for "United States of America", but is *not* a continent. You may technically be american, but there's only 10 or 11 people worldwide who refer to everyone from the "Americas" as Americans.:)
Besides, people from most countries in the Americas have their own descriptor - Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, etc. People from the USA don't get some name like USAsians or USies. American, unless referring to 2 continents, generally refers to people from the USA.
It was anti-shark *spray*, darn it! Haven't you seen the movie (with Adam West, not someone else - though Angelina Jolie's dad, I forget his name, sure looks like Adam West)?
I feel compelled to point out that the average "football jock" is not smart enough to be a "motorhead". In fact, most of the "football jocks" I've known to drive mustangs are driving the V6 variety, which fits in well with the poser attitude. "My car looks like a fast car, but is really a cheap econobox". Count the tailpipes - 1 pipe = cheap mustang.
Side Note: I'm a geek. I'm a motorhead (but hate NASCAR). I think that football is near the top of the list of stupid sports, in that it's really not much more fun to watch than golf or baseball. It's like hockey with artificially inflated scores (let's give them 6 points for scoring one goal!) and no fights.:)
I'm pretty sure that the revolutionary war (among others) was fought over some laws that were put in place by a distant government that was trying to control their subjects. Several of those laws didn't make sense, and only existed to tax things that didn't need to be taxed.
Speeding doesn't hurt anything - people who are incompetent and/or don't understand that their car has limits hurt things. Speed limit exist because they're the simplest solution to speeding - tax those who do it. I've gotten several speeding tickets (note that I'm rarely going over the limit that was acceptable 30 years ago on the same road - before the "gas crunch"), and each time, I've encountered a system that just makes me pay a minimal fee and lets me go with no record kept. My speeding has always happened on open roads with little to no surrounding traffic, out in the rural areas that most city dwellers don't know exists. So, we have 1) speed limits that don't do anything to protect people and 2) penalties that are just a tax, nothing more.
Yeah, speed limits are a neccesary part of a succesful society. Sure. Germany's been doing real badly with maintaining their society with areas that don't have speed limits. The US has no social problems, thanks to the miricle of completley arbitrary speed limits (I'm sure that a nice, even number like "55 MPH" was chosen after years of engineering study, and tha speed is obviously appropriate for both 20 miles of unobstructed, flat, straight rural road *and* for short, twisty roads in the suburbs).
I didn't ask to lower the limit on who could drive. In fact, I write to my representatives periodically asking them to make it harder to get a license. Speed is fine. Stupid people are not. I do not accept lower speed limits (which, BTW, were lowered years ago - when cars were less stable at speed - in order to conserve gas, not to save lives). Perhaps I'll start speeding more often with the excuse that I'm protesting against how easy it is to get a license.:) Somehow, I'm betting that'll just make it harder for *me* to get one.:(
The port was mostly done a long time ago - it was released under the name of "Safari". Porting the rest of KDE so it could keep the old crappy UI was the hard part.:)
That's a mature, existing standard. If consumer PCs were meant to have OF, they would've gotten it a long time ago. Therefore, a new "standard" should be developed and left undocumented.
There was an article in Linux Journal a few months back about something similar to this, where the people set up a wireless access point and mp3 server in a boombox.
Basically, you set up a DNS server that has a wildcard entry to point every domain to your web server, which redirects all requests to a "registration" script.
The registration script grabs the source MAC from the connected machine's IP. Once you have that, you have a script that redirects outgoing DNS requests to your "real" DNS server, and adds their source address to the list of machines that are allowed to access DNS (other than the fake) and that are allowed to get outside of the network.
You could tie the registration script on your machine in with something like paypal's system, possibly by using a script to serve an image on the "thanks for paying" page - so you can get the client's MAC and do the allow-access thing after they pay. If you want to take cash payments, I'd suggest having the registration script generate a random string that they can then take to the payment location. The payment collector then enters that string, which is associated with their MAC, and then the magic script from above adds that MAC to the access allowed list.
Finally, you need some kind of cron job that clears the day's entries, or that expires access rights after so many hours, or whatever. I'd probably make the "allow access" rule a seperate chain, and then flush that chain every night.
Either way, that should take minimal programming, minimal intervention from management, and generally Just Work without any real hassles other than running a pair of DNS servers...
AGP cards mount board up, chip down in tower cases. If you're using a PCI-based video card, you're probably not using one that gets hot enough to matter - but those would be chip up. A riser card could go either way, but it's usually PCI chip down.
Perhaps *you* should look inside of a modern computer before speaking.;) Here's the first image that I could find. Notice that the top of the AGP video card in the picture is the *back* of the circuit board - the hot chips are below the card.
Hooray! I knew that if I kept that 8 foot C-band dish up in the backyard, it'd someday come back into style! All those neighbors who've laughed at my giant dish will again be envious, just like in the 80's...
Yeah, but without that stunt man explaning how he's involved in films because of cold, hard cash (certainly not because he loves what he does, 'cause money's his only argument), you learn a valuable lesson. Namely, that it's possible to download movies from the internet and put stuntmen out of a job.
I would have never downloaded a movie (that takes forever - it's a lot of data, damn it), but by golly, I'm gonna pull one or two down now just because it pisses me off to have *paid* to see that commercial.:)
My mail server and primary DNS run on an AMD 486 DX/4-120 OC'd to 133MHz. It also handles some firewall/proxy-esque duties, and runs spam assassin. It's actually quite useful - and is about the baddest 486-class system around (ignoring those multi-proc systems that are even more rare).:)
I've read the Hobbit, but not the LOTR books, and I don't see your point. Which chars appeared all of the sudden (seriously)? The movie seemed to flow along fairly nicely, albeit at a somewhat hurried pace (hard to believe in a 3.5 hour movie).
Either way, I'm not seeing the "troll" in the article, either. Maybe I'm just dense this morning, or maybe I'm not *looking* for reasons to criticize/..:)
and using it on risers (so it is chip down) are a definite no-no
So, using ATI cards in a tower case is bad, eh? I wonder why they haven't noticed that almost *all* cases sold are tower-style now, and that their cards will almost always, therefore, be installed so that the heatsink is *under* the chip/card? I find it difficult to believe that their engineers are completely oblivious to this fact...
The Wal-Mart ISP looks like AOL - not the music thing. A little web searching reveals that walmart's ISP stuff all goes through AOL-owned locations.
So, perhaps AOL is hoping walmart's online music attempt will result in having a more controlled music portal - that's kid-safe, due to the censoring...:(
whatever happened to the ISP that wal-mart tried to float? I rest my case.
The seceratary at my office just signed up for it, and likes it. I'm pretty sure it's just "skinned" AOL, from the sounds of it. Anyway, they're still pushing the CDs at the local WalMart, so I think it must be doing alright...
What kind of moron puts the water pipes in exterior walls? That's like, lesson #2 in "building a house, 101" - "putting the plumbing in a reasonable location". (lesson 1 is "how to use a hammer")
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Apperently, this "thing" that will happen will either happen to the Dell users when +R loses out, or will happen to the Apple users with -R drives (remember when apple sold DVD writers in the new G4s instead of going back to CD- writers?). Some large company's customers will lose out.
:)
That said, I noticed in Best Buy, while telling the Mother In Law what she should get for the Brother In Law, that most fo the DVD burners support both formats. Given that case, I'm not sure why anyone's even bothering with pushing one over the other - just use what you can find.
Changing the number of rings before picking up based on message presence isn't anything I've seen on a modern "store-bought" answering machine. Name one that does. :)
He's saying that the United States is really just the government-owned property, including military bases, the federal buildings in major cities, and the District of Columbia (AKA Washington, D.C.), which isn't technically part of any state - it's its own "thing" that's part of the federal government. Iraq is lumped in there 'cause the feds give the impression that they're running Iraq now. :)
The individual states, as the other poster mentioned, are supporting members of the USA government, but are mostly independent as much as possible.
[dad]@sbcglobal.net: Hey, how do you set default browsers and other internet applications in Panther?
:)
Can't you do that in the same place as 10.2, ie. under the "internet" control panel thingie? I think it's the last tab in the list...
North America is a Continent. South America is a continent. Central America is part of the North American continent. "America" is a commonly accepted shorthand for "United States of America", but is *not* a continent. You may technically be american, but there's only 10 or 11 people worldwide who refer to everyone from the "Americas" as Americans. :)
Besides, people from most countries in the Americas have their own descriptor - Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, etc. People from the USA don't get some name like USAsians or USies. American, unless referring to 2 continents, generally refers to people from the USA.
It was anti-shark *spray*, darn it! Haven't you seen the movie (with Adam West, not someone else - though Angelina Jolie's dad, I forget his name, sure looks like Adam West)?
I feel compelled to point out that the average "football jock" is not smart enough to be a "motorhead". In fact, most of the "football jocks" I've known to drive mustangs are driving the V6 variety, which fits in well with the poser attitude. "My car looks like a fast car, but is really a cheap econobox". Count the tailpipes - 1 pipe = cheap mustang.
:)
Side Note: I'm a geek. I'm a motorhead (but hate NASCAR). I think that football is near the top of the list of stupid sports, in that it's really not much more fun to watch than golf or baseball. It's like hockey with artificially inflated scores (let's give them 6 points for scoring one goal!) and no fights.
I'm pretty sure that the revolutionary war (among others) was fought over some laws that were put in place by a distant government that was trying to control their subjects. Several of those laws didn't make sense, and only existed to tax things that didn't need to be taxed.
:)
Speeding doesn't hurt anything - people who are incompetent and/or don't understand that their car has limits hurt things. Speed limit exist because they're the simplest solution to speeding - tax those who do it. I've gotten several speeding tickets (note that I'm rarely going over the limit that was acceptable 30 years ago on the same road - before the "gas crunch"), and each time, I've encountered a system that just makes me pay a minimal fee and lets me go with no record kept. My speeding has always happened on open roads with little to no surrounding traffic, out in the rural areas that most city dwellers don't know exists. So, we have 1) speed limits that don't do anything to protect people and 2) penalties that are just a tax, nothing more.
Yeah, speed limits are a neccesary part of a succesful society. Sure. Germany's been doing real badly with maintaining their society with areas that don't have speed limits. The US has no social problems, thanks to the miricle of completley arbitrary speed limits (I'm sure that a nice, even number like "55 MPH" was chosen after years of engineering study, and tha speed is obviously appropriate for both 20 miles of unobstructed, flat, straight rural road *and* for short, twisty roads in the suburbs).
Sorry - . Got a little worked up there...
I didn't ask to lower the limit on who could drive. In fact, I write to my representatives periodically asking them to make it harder to get a license. Speed is fine. Stupid people are not. I do not accept lower speed limits (which, BTW, were lowered years ago - when cars were less stable at speed - in order to conserve gas, not to save lives). Perhaps I'll start speeding more often with the excuse that I'm protesting against how easy it is to get a license. :) Somehow, I'm betting that'll just make it harder for *me* to get one. :(
The port was mostly done a long time ago - it was released under the name of "Safari". Porting the rest of KDE so it could keep the old crappy UI was the hard part. :)
That's a mature, existing standard. If consumer PCs were meant to have OF, they would've gotten it a long time ago. Therefore, a new "standard" should be developed and left undocumented.
There was an article in Linux Journal a few months back about something similar to this, where the people set up a wireless access point and mp3 server in a boombox.
Basically, you set up a DNS server that has a wildcard entry to point every domain to your web server, which redirects all requests to a "registration" script.
The registration script grabs the source MAC from the connected machine's IP. Once you have that, you have a script that redirects outgoing DNS requests to your "real" DNS server, and adds their source address to the list of machines that are allowed to access DNS (other than the fake) and that are allowed to get outside of the network.
You could tie the registration script on your machine in with something like paypal's system, possibly by using a script to serve an image on the "thanks for paying" page - so you can get the client's MAC and do the allow-access thing after they pay. If you want to take cash payments, I'd suggest having the registration script generate a random string that they can then take to the payment location. The payment collector then enters that string, which is associated with their MAC, and then the magic script from above adds that MAC to the access allowed list.
Finally, you need some kind of cron job that clears the day's entries, or that expires access rights after so many hours, or whatever. I'd probably make the "allow access" rule a seperate chain, and then flush that chain every night.
Either way, that should take minimal programming, minimal intervention from management, and generally Just Work without any real hassles other than running a pair of DNS servers...
AGP cards mount board up, chip down in tower cases. If you're using a PCI-based video card, you're probably not using one that gets hot enough to matter - but those would be chip up. A riser card could go either way, but it's usually PCI chip down.
;) Here's the first image that I could find. Notice that the top of the AGP video card in the picture is the *back* of the circuit board - the hot chips are below the card.
Perhaps *you* should look inside of a modern computer before speaking.
Hooray! I knew that if I kept that 8 foot C-band dish up in the backyard, it'd someday come back into style! All those neighbors who've laughed at my giant dish will again be envious, just like in the 80's...
Don't feel bad - they didn't want it the next day, either:
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After you connect a couple o fleads on the top of the chip with heavy pencil lines, of course... :)
BTW, I like my dual Celeron machine. Abit BP6 may be a crappy, unstable board, but I still like it.
Yeah, but without that stunt man explaning how he's involved in films because of cold, hard cash (certainly not because he loves what he does, 'cause money's his only argument), you learn a valuable lesson. Namely, that it's possible to download movies from the internet and put stuntmen out of a job.
:)
I would have never downloaded a movie (that takes forever - it's a lot of data, damn it), but by golly, I'm gonna pull one or two down now just because it pisses me off to have *paid* to see that commercial.
My mail server and primary DNS run on an AMD 486 DX/4-120 OC'd to 133MHz. It also handles some firewall/proxy-esque duties, and runs spam assassin. It's actually quite useful - and is about the baddest 486-class system around (ignoring those multi-proc systems that are even more rare). :)
I've read the Hobbit, but not the LOTR books, and I don't see your point. Which chars appeared all of the sudden (seriously)? The movie seemed to flow along fairly nicely, albeit at a somewhat hurried pace (hard to believe in a 3.5 hour movie).
/.. :)
Either way, I'm not seeing the "troll" in the article, either. Maybe I'm just dense this morning, or maybe I'm not *looking* for reasons to criticize
and using it on risers (so it is chip down) are a definite no-no
So, using ATI cards in a tower case is bad, eh? I wonder why they haven't noticed that almost *all* cases sold are tower-style now, and that their cards will almost always, therefore, be installed so that the heatsink is *under* the chip/card? I find it difficult to believe that their engineers are completely oblivious to this fact...
much more powerful Amigas
:)
Heh.
The Wal-Mart ISP looks like AOL - not the music thing. A little web searching reveals that walmart's ISP stuff all goes through AOL-owned locations.
:(
So, perhaps AOL is hoping walmart's online music attempt will result in having a more controlled music portal - that's kid-safe, due to the censoring...
The seceratary at my office just signed up for it, and likes it. I'm pretty sure it's just "skinned" AOL, from the sounds of it. Anyway, they're still pushing the CDs at the local WalMart, so I think it must be doing alright...
"but, the only way I can reach that outlet is by standing in the bathtub" :)
What kind of moron puts the water pipes in exterior walls? That's like, lesson #2 in "building a house, 101" - "putting the plumbing in a reasonable location". (lesson 1 is "how to use a hammer")