It's always bugged me that Scroll Lock doesn't work in MS Word or in Visual Studio. (I know, I know.)
I'll be reading a document using the scroll wheel on my mouse, get tired of that particular method then switch to using the arrow key, which then jumps the view to the current cursor position, which is by now miles away from where I was reading.
Not exactly sure I'd remember to turn on Scroll Lock in the first place, but for read-only documents it might be a good default.
Not all of it requires a plug, and not all of it meets your "expensive" criteria, but it's full of great, high-quality stuff you didn't know you needed.
What if the only plug-in that was allowed was a TCL/TK interpreter? That's what Doyle's pet language is. I think he has a book published on it. Besides, the only other product that Eolas has ever marketed was a half-assed TCL/TK IDE.
At one point (not sure if still true) there were two Eolas companies in Chicago. (Both owned by Doyle) One was the company (Eolas.net) that held the patent. The other (Eolas.com) that was a TCL programming shop of about 5 people.
True story (I've met some of the company's employees):
Eolas, the company that won the judgement's best selling product to date was the IP license for the curley "e" logo (like the @ sign w/ an e) that they sold to IBM for use in the IBM "e-business" logo.
Every once in a while, though, they're right. Three years ago, I was having intermittent problems with my cable modem.
Call up tech support. One of the things she asks: "is the modem plugged into a surge supressor?" Me: "of course." Tech:"Unplug, and plug directly in wall." Me (dripping in sarcasm) "Oh, I'm sure that's the problem." So, to humor her, I move a bunch of furniture (disconnecting the phone in the process). Low and behold, the sumbitch is fixed.
Now, previously I'd been rebooting by unplugging the adaptor from the back of the modem, so it wasn't a simple power cycle. Can anyone explain why this fixed it, or did she just get lucky?
Actually, IBM wasn't the first to trademark the circle e symbol. They purchased the rights from eolas a small start-up in Chicago. eolas continues to use the symbol, and I'm guessing that the royalties from IBM are what keeps the company going. You may recall eolas is the company that claims patent rights on any executable started from a web page.
Speed is not going to be corrected, but the beauty is it's unattended. Couple hundred disks a week in the background.
Divices such as the SLink-e (that the inquisitor has) allow pulling the TOC over a Sony S-Link to serial connection. If you own one a Sony multi-changer (or two or three) with several hundred CDs loaded, you should really look into dropping a couple of hundred on one of these. Or build your own. Lots of information starting here
Brightmail.com (site is not responding for me now) used to provide just such a free service that worked pretty much as you describe. Alas, last summer it went the way of so many other useful, free services.
One of it's good features (besides getting at least 80% of the spam that hit me) was to send a monthly summary of the mail it filtered with links to retrieve it from their server.
Actually, the costs of production aren't that different. The difference in the retail price is just the publisher's way of soaking up some people's willingness to pay more for a book.
(This is about the only thing I retained from my econ classes in school.)
The two way remote on the Sony ES series remotes is cool. Take it up a notch by interfacing the Sony remote connector (Control A1-II) to your RS232 port with this $50 interface.
(No relation to the seller, just a happy customer)
I have young children (two boys under 7 yrs). I imagine that someday the problem will be them going someplace I'd rather they didn't. For that, monitoring logs is a solid answer.
At their current age, however, there are things I'd rather they didn't just stumble across when they are using the web or reading mail.
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Link to article.
We apologise for the fault in the router. Those responsible have been sacked.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretty nasti...
We apologise again for the fault in the router. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
--Humba
It's always bugged me that Scroll Lock doesn't work in MS Word or in Visual Studio. (I know, I know.)
I'll be reading a document using the scroll wheel on my mouse, get tired of that particular method then switch to using the arrow key, which then jumps the view to the current cursor position, which is by now miles away from where I was reading.
Not exactly sure I'd remember to turn on Scroll Lock in the first place, but for read-only documents it might be a good default.
--H
Scroll lock is alive and well. If you're on windows (insert joke), just click your mouse wheel.
--H
Not all of it requires a plug, and not all of it meets your "expensive" criteria, but it's full of great, high-quality stuff you didn't know you needed.
--H
What if the only plug-in that was allowed was a TCL/TK interpreter? That's what Doyle's pet language is. I think he has a book published on it. Besides, the only other product that Eolas has ever marketed was a half-assed TCL/TK IDE.
At one point (not sure if still true) there were two Eolas companies in Chicago. (Both owned by Doyle) One was the company (Eolas.net) that held the patent. The other (Eolas.com) that was a TCL programming shop of about 5 people.
--H
> screaming spikey-haired Asian guy.
.com age.
a.k.a. Waldo Chen who even appears on my ReplayTV channel guide. He is the poster child for the
--H
True story (I've met some of the company's employees):
Eolas, the company that won the judgement's best selling product to date was the IP license for the curley "e" logo (like the @ sign w/ an e) that they sold to IBM for use in the IBM "e-business" logo.
--H
Every once in a while, though, they're right. Three years ago, I was having intermittent problems with my cable modem.
Call up tech support. One of the things she asks: "is the modem plugged into a surge supressor?"
Me: "of course."
Tech:"Unplug, and plug directly in wall."
Me (dripping in sarcasm) "Oh, I'm sure that's the problem."
So, to humor her, I move a bunch of furniture (disconnecting the phone in the process). Low and behold, the sumbitch is fixed.
Now, previously I'd been rebooting by unplugging the adaptor from the back of the modem, so it wasn't a simple power cycle. Can anyone explain why this fixed it, or did she just get lucky?
--H
Him? Oddly enough, I always thought Google was female.
--H
I'm guessing the studios don't like the idea of this anymore than Internet content providers liked "framing" of their content inside others ads.
--H
Actually, IBM wasn't the first to trademark the circle e symbol. They purchased the rights from eolas a small start-up in Chicago. eolas continues to use the symbol, and I'm guessing that the royalties from IBM are what keeps the company going. You may recall eolas is the company that claims patent rights on any executable started from a web page.
Shouldn't the blue screens be $0.10 for 12?
Divices such as the SLink-e (that the inquisitor has) allow pulling the TOC over a Sony S-Link to serial connection. If you own one a Sony multi-changer (or two or three) with several hundred CDs loaded, you should really look into dropping a couple of hundred on one of these. Or build your own. Lots of information starting here
Brightmail.com (site is not responding for me now) used to provide just such a free service that worked pretty much as you describe. Alas, last summer it went the way of so many other useful, free services.
One of it's good features (besides getting at least 80% of the spam that hit me) was to send a monthly summary of the mail it filtered with links to retrieve it from their server.
Actually, they sell Teradata data warehousing gear that goes for millions, and that people like us spec.
Actually, the costs of production aren't that different. The difference in the retail price is just the publisher's way of soaking up some people's willingness to pay more for a book. (This is about the only thing I retained from my econ classes in school.)
--Chris
At their current age, however, there are things I'd rather they didn't just stumble across when they are using the web or reading mail.