Actually it's not a bad idea, that is if it was done right, but with a few improvements it would be a lot useful. For Example.
1) Have a "Ungroup" Action added if you right click it. That way, you can force it to ungroup. right now, once it's grouped it stays that way until you close enough windows for it to ungroup. Which brings me to..
2) Fix the Group Logic. It seems to be really screwy how it decides to group, for example, say I have 4 IE's running, and I open Notepad and then After I open "My computer" it groups all the IE's. Once I close the "my computer" window it should ungroup, but it wont unless I close notepad or one of the IE's. I think TweakUI can fix this, but I'm not sure.
One big thing I like about it is when IE Goes to a crazy page and starts popups like mad, all you do is Right click the group, select close Group and the 50 popup windows go away.
Most of my commute to work involves 5-10 mins of stop and go, 15 mins of highway and 5 minutes of more stop and go. putting about 50 miles on the car per day.
It has a 13 gallon fuel tank, but I never drive it to the Fuel low level, so basicially for the sake of Fuel economy I say 10 gallons cause it's easy to compute that way.
Generally, I cant give an exact average on the car. It seems to like the summer season better. the last tank I filled got me to 311 miles, so roughly 31 MPG. This is the highest I've seen it this year. the tank before that got 300, before that 280. generally speaking I average about 270-280 miles on a tank during the summer, which is pretty much in the epa standard.
In the winter, its a much different story. I know that driving is going to be a little slower but generally I go the speed limit the whole way to work. During the winter I Average between, 250-230 miles per tank. The lowest being 200 during the coldest portion of this winter. It could be becasue its idled more to get warm in the morning, but generally its a lot less.
I call these things paper viruses, primarily because they spread like one and are just as bad sometimes.
I'm going to go off the deep end if I ever have to again fix the mess a certain someone in admissions caused because one of her friend's sent her the "Remove the jdbgmgr virus from your machine, and send this to all your friends so they think your brilliant and..." message and forwards it to half the campus. You know she did it when the phone basicially explodes off my desk with calls concerning it.
Telling her why not to send it to her entire contact list it like talking to this wall here. If she was listening, she wouldn't have done it three times now.
Well. yes and no. Most of the Holodeck Storylines could be covered under "Cute Space Alien!", "It's a Rift!" or the later added #4 "This guy is Nuts!". I dont know if Enterprise has a holodeck, so if it doesn't it hasn't been used lately. I guess there could be a #5 so..
5) "Oh No! The Holodeck Has Gone Self Aware! We got to Get them out of the.. Wait a second. WE'RE IN THE HOLODECK! We got to convince it to let us out before all hell breaks loose!"
Of course Thats what the "What to do when the Holodeck Goes self aware and traps the crew" manual is for.
4) "Oh My god! This guy is Nuts!! We have to stop him at all costs! That means you die, and you die, and you die, in fact the whole ship is gonna probably be destroyed! Hmm. I always wanted a new ship. Boy I love that new ship smell! Hope you live to smell it with me!"
I'm not sure it needs a rest as much as it needs a new vision. Pretty much, Star Trek as of late has three Primary Scripts that it uses.
1) "Aww! It's a cute little space alien!! Wook at the cute wittle space alien! Let me pet it and stroke it and help it and dont screw up the Primary Directive and...." 2) "Oh no! It's a Rift!! Quick! get the "How to use the Deflector to fix a rip in the space-time continuium" manual and fix it before it destroys the universe! It's under the "What to do when the Holodeck Goes self aware and traps the crew" manual!" 3) "Oops! We Traveled Through Time!! Lets get out of here before we screw up histo...Wait a Second, WE ALREADY SCREWED IT UP! OH NO! WE GOT TO FIX IT!!
Anything new that doesn't revole around these three things would be refreshing.
Personally I would like to see a war break out between the Federation and something else. It doesn't matter who the "Something Else" is, as long as it Lasts for the majority of the series. They could have focused on the war that the Enterprise C was involved in and run with it, or either Focus on a war in the Future timeline, or something, but at the very least drop the Peaceful stuff for awile and show some interesting battles, technology and space warfare tactics.
I'll second this. putting on the Built in Firewall in XP will stop Blaster from infecting the machine. Pretty unplug from the network, install XP, turn on the built in firewall and hit windowsupdate until you get all the patches.
With Windows 2000 however, it gets fun since there is no built in firewall for that. You can use zonealarm to block the virus traffic, or you can use a Router/Firewall to block traffic. I know you can set IP security policies in windows 2000 without downloading anything but I never tried it on a machine that was unpatched and able to be infected.
GOOD: F-secure detected the demonstration in the cache as VBS/Petch.A... BAD:...after it ran the Demonstration Program.
Considering that Javascript can be altered to avoid detection and Antivirus Software Sucks at detecting Spyware, Your pretty much screwed until this thing is finally patched, you lock PC's down like fort knox, or use something other than IE.
It does explain why there is so much spyware floating around here.
I'm not sure about this, but I think that this may be the first major PC manufacturer to do liquid Cooling in a consumer PC.
Has any other major PC manufacturer sold PC's with liquid cooling standard? I've seen laptop's and shuttles use heat pipes, but nothing like actual pump driven liquid cooling without having to buy an external kit.
Worldwide Handheld Marketshare 2003 1. palmOne 40% 2. HP 22% 3. Sony 14% 4. Dell 6% 5. Toshiba 3% 6. All Others 15%
Best Selling SKUs (Oct - Dec 2003 US Retail) Rank Model % of Total 1. palmOne Tungsten E 19% 2. Sony Clie SJ22 13% 3. palmOne Zire 21 10% 4. palmOne Zire 71 7% 5. HP iPaq 1945 (PPC) 6% 6. palmOne Zire 6% 7. Sony Clie TJ25 6% 8. palmOne Tungsten T3 4% 9. HP iPaq 2215 (PPC) 4% 10. palmOne Zire 21 Limited Ed Bundle 3%
It's not likely they were having Problems selling them, they were the number 2 PalmOS Based PDA seller, and The Number 3 Overall. They also had the number 2 and 7 best selling PDA.
Maybe they were expecting to sell more than this, or maybe most of those sales are outside the US.
If it has all of the capabilities of a standard OEM PC then isn't it a PC?
Not exactly. Right now, someone at MS is looking at the apextreme PC Consloe and thinks that the next XBOX should have that capibility as well. My guess would be that it would function like the apextreme more than a PC.
If they did build it so it performed much like a PC, with LAN Parties becoming more mainstream, something like this would be intresting, especially if it keeps the same footprint. An XBOX is big but it's still smaller than most PC's and if it can do play anything a PC can play, why lug a PC when you could lug a smaller, lighter XBOX.
on the dev side of things though, PC developers would worship this thing like a god, primarialy since a system like this would be completely standardized hardware wise. (that is if MS makes it so you cant upgrade it.) Thats one of the reasons the XBOX is so crash free. Since every XBOX is the same internal wise, they only have to make sure it works on that hardware alone. On the minus side, however you would see the devs standardize on XBOX Next first, PC second. So their games would probably run with less errors on the XBOX next then on a PC, even though the PC was the main target.
If this is the case. Seriously, what is someone going to do with 1GB of mail, let alone 1TB.
I still say that this service is basicially wasting space. It could be so much better used in some sort of Remote storage solution like XDrive.
Fun With Oil Numbers.
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I remember when I was in High school, reading in my science book, that they were Predicting that the oil supply would be dry in 25 years.
Apparently they were wrong, because the book was made in 1976. It's 2004 and I'm not living in a real life Post Apocalyptic "Mad Max" world full of thugs and killers spilling Blood for Oil.
Getting back to the point, I'll believe we'll be out of oil when I see it. Particulary since so far the analysts doing these studies haven't been right so far.
Pretty much all of the other stuff your going to find here is DittoHeads Vs FrankenSteins to see which radio Talk show host has the biggest head:)
Working in a college enviroment, I can say with a good amount of certainity that almost 1/3 of the machine's that we had come in for repairs this year were Windows XP with the FCKGW key, and were at least 2/3's of all the windows XP PC's we saw, And thats down from last year because People that replaced their old pc would just use the copy that came with their PC.
We knew they existed, and the policy was pretty much if a PC needed the blaster patch and the Machine wouldn't install it, it was barred from the network. That was fun dealing with irate Studens and Parents, but flat out it was the law and we stuck with it.
Also, keep in mind that your also dealing with the user of the computer as well. First rule of computers in my mind is the 1% rule, which states that 99% of computer users dont know what they are doing. based on that, and a student base of roughly 1500 student's that equates to roughly 15 students that do, and have installed the patch. Basicially even if they knew about the patch and could install it they wouldn't install it because they didn't know how, or they thought it would never happen to them and viruses only happens to the nerds and not the jocks or some other stupid excuse. They started to care when their internet got shut off in their rooms for supposedly no reason even though we sent them an Inter-campus mail saying we were shutting off their connection cause they weren't patched AND left a message on their Voice Mailbox three days before it was shut off.
That Being said, there was a lot better ways MS could have handled that situation. Specificially they could have let it install SP1 but not allow anything but Critical Updates to be installed. Then you couldn't install DX9, WMP9, the.Net Framework, even Corporate MS products or flat out disable the entire windows installer if they really wanted to be sadistic. The only problem with that would be the Second Rule of Computers in my mind or the Illiteracy Rule, Which stats that Computer users Do not Read, So when everything goes nuts and it's poping up message after message that your using a Pirate copy, The'll think the PC is crashing and MS makes Crash Happy Software instead of reading the message and know that their stealing the OS.
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They definatly cleaned up their site since the last time I was on it.
The last time, You'd click on free, there would be stuff everywhere about the plus realplayer, then there was another link that said, for the free player that was slightly smaller, but it was for the "Free" 14 day Trial of Realplayer Plus. Finally, after reading absoletly everything you would find a small text link that would take you to the actual free player. then you had to register...
I'm glad I gave up on Real when they released G2. I still say the 5.0 player was the last decent player that came out of them. It was simple, small and it worked.
I dont know about you, but I can find a lot more uses for a GB of space other than E-mail. Google is going to find out about a year after this thing's official release that 60-90% of the mail stored on Gmail will be Viruses/Spam.
What I would like to see instead of this thing would be something along the lines of online storage like XDrive but free. That way I can store files from anywhere in the world, using just a web browser to access them.
Now that I think about it, Here are some other things that we have been using other than Spybot and Ad-Aware. so far I've haven't found a single app that does it all.
HijackThis - Excellent tool that lists just about everywhere spyware gets into and allows you to delete them. This is not user friendly however, so you better know what you are doing before you do it.
CWShredder - Gets rid of CoolWebSearch. a Very nasty Spyware app that a pain to remove.
22 Infected files is pretty low in my opinion. You run a pretty tight ship on your box.
We have to clean spyware off of student PC's on campus since it screws up internet connections and F-Secure goes nuts to the point where it wont talk to the server anymore.
So far, the Ad-Aware record is 17039 from a student that had a spyware app that put 19000 internet shortcuts in her favorites directory. Number two is 1973 and number Three is 1058.
Midway and Acclaim are pratcially twins when it comes to game making.
It wouldn't suprise me one bit if Minday jumps the cliff after it saw acclaim do the same thing.
IMO, the only reason Acclaim is still around is because of Midway giving Acclaim the rights to their coin-op library during the 16 bit era. If Acclaim didn't have that golden goose back then they would be gone by now.
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Actually it's not a bad idea, that is if it was done right, but with a few improvements it would be a lot useful. For Example.
1) Have a "Ungroup" Action added if you right click it. That way, you can force it to ungroup. right now, once it's grouped it stays that way until you close enough windows for it to ungroup. Which brings me to..
2) Fix the Group Logic. It seems to be really screwy how it decides to group, for example, say I have 4 IE's running, and I open Notepad and then After I open "My computer" it groups all the IE's. Once I close the "my computer" window it should ungroup, but it wont unless I close notepad or one of the IE's. I think TweakUI can fix this, but I'm not sure.
One big thing I like about it is when IE Goes to a crazy page and starts popups like mad, all you do is Right click the group, select close Group and the 50 popup windows go away.
My focus is rated 30-35 MPG
Most of my commute to work involves 5-10 mins of stop and go, 15 mins of highway and 5 minutes of more stop and go. putting about 50 miles on the car per day.
It has a 13 gallon fuel tank, but I never drive it to the Fuel low level, so basicially for the sake of Fuel economy I say 10 gallons cause it's easy to compute that way.
Generally, I cant give an exact average on the car. It seems to like the summer season better. the last tank I filled got me to 311 miles, so roughly 31 MPG. This is the highest I've seen it this year. the tank before that got 300, before that 280. generally speaking I average about 270-280 miles on a tank during the summer, which is pretty much in the epa standard.
In the winter, its a much different story. I know that driving is going to be a little slower but generally I go the speed limit the whole way to work. During the winter I Average between, 250-230 miles per tank. The lowest being 200 during the coldest portion of this winter. It could be becasue its idled more to get warm in the morning, but generally its a lot less.
I call these things paper viruses, primarily because they spread like one and are just as bad sometimes.
I'm going to go off the deep end if I ever have to again fix the mess a certain someone in admissions caused because one of her friend's sent her the "Remove the jdbgmgr virus from your machine, and send this to all your friends so they think your brilliant and..." message and forwards it to half the campus. You know she did it when the phone basicially explodes off my desk with calls concerning it.
Telling her why not to send it to her entire contact list it like talking to this wall here. If she was listening, she wouldn't have done it three times now.
Well. yes and no. Most of the Holodeck Storylines could be covered under "Cute Space Alien!", "It's a Rift!" or the later added #4 "This guy is Nuts!". I dont know if Enterprise has a holodeck, so if it doesn't it hasn't been used lately. I guess there could be a #5 so..
5) "Oh No! The Holodeck Has Gone Self Aware! We got to Get them out of the.. Wait a second. WE'RE IN THE HOLODECK! We got to convince it to let us out before all hell breaks loose!"
Of course Thats what the "What to do when the Holodeck Goes self aware and traps the crew" manual is for.
Hmm. I'd better add a Number 4 to this...
4) "Oh My god! This guy is Nuts!! We have to stop him at all costs! That means you die, and you die, and you die, in fact the whole ship is gonna probably be destroyed! Hmm. I always wanted a new ship. Boy I love that new ship smell! Hope you live to smell it with me!"
I'm not sure it needs a rest as much as it needs a new vision. Pretty much, Star Trek as of late has three Primary Scripts that it uses.
1) "Aww! It's a cute little space alien!! Wook at the cute wittle space alien! Let me pet it and stroke it and help it and dont screw up the Primary Directive and...."
2) "Oh no! It's a Rift!! Quick! get the "How to use the Deflector to fix a rip in the space-time continuium" manual and fix it before it destroys the universe! It's under the "What to do when the Holodeck Goes self aware and traps the crew" manual!"
3) "Oops! We Traveled Through Time!! Lets get out of here before we screw up histo...Wait a Second, WE ALREADY SCREWED IT UP! OH NO! WE GOT TO FIX IT!!
Anything new that doesn't revole around these three things would be refreshing.
Personally I would like to see a war break out between the Federation and something else. It doesn't matter who the "Something Else" is, as long as it Lasts for the majority of the series. They could have focused on the war that the Enterprise C was involved in and run with it, or either Focus on a war in the Future timeline, or something, but at the very least drop the Peaceful stuff for awile and show some interesting battles, technology and space warfare tactics.
I'll second this. putting on the Built in Firewall in XP will stop Blaster from infecting the machine. Pretty unplug from the network, install XP, turn on the built in firewall and hit windowsupdate until you get all the patches.
With Windows 2000 however, it gets fun since there is no built in firewall for that. You can use zonealarm to block the virus traffic, or you can use a Router/Firewall to block traffic. I know you can set IP security policies in windows 2000 without downloading anything but I never tried it on a machine that was unpatched and able to be infected.
GOOD: F-secure detected the demonstration in the cache as VBS/Petch.A... ...after it ran the Demonstration Program.
BAD:
Considering that Javascript can be altered to avoid detection and Antivirus Software Sucks at detecting Spyware, Your pretty much screwed until this thing is finally patched, you lock PC's down like fort knox, or use something other than IE.
It does explain why there is so much spyware floating around here.
I'm not sure about this, but I think that this may be the first major PC manufacturer to do liquid Cooling in a consumer PC.
Has any other major PC manufacturer sold PC's with liquid cooling standard? I've seen laptop's and shuttles use heat pipes, but nothing like actual pump driven liquid cooling without having to buy an external kit.
Yes, vote the clowns out in November
...and vote in a whole new set of Clowns.
Just Because you vote out Ronald Mc'Donald and replace him with Mayor Mc'Cheese, doesn't mean you can "Have it your way".
From Palminfocenter's market share list
Worldwide Handheld Marketshare 2003
1. palmOne 40%
2. HP 22%
3. Sony 14%
4. Dell 6%
5. Toshiba 3%
6. All Others 15%
Best Selling SKUs (Oct - Dec 2003 US Retail)
Rank Model % of Total
1. palmOne Tungsten E 19%
2. Sony Clie SJ22 13%
3. palmOne Zire 21 10%
4. palmOne Zire 71 7%
5. HP iPaq 1945 (PPC) 6%
6. palmOne Zire 6%
7. Sony Clie TJ25 6%
8. palmOne Tungsten T3 4%
9. HP iPaq 2215 (PPC) 4%
10. palmOne Zire 21 Limited Ed Bundle 3%
It's not likely they were having Problems selling them, they were the number 2 PalmOS Based PDA seller, and The Number 3 Overall. They also had the number 2 and 7 best selling PDA.
Maybe they were expecting to sell more than this, or maybe most of those sales are outside the US.
If it has all of the capabilities of a standard OEM PC then isn't it a PC?
Not exactly.
Right now, someone at MS is looking at the apextreme PC Consloe and thinks that the next XBOX should have that capibility as well. My guess would be that it would function like the apextreme more than a PC.
They are also watching Sony as well. They have been thinking for a long time to Turn the PS2 into a PC. (Sorry No English, with these pics at least) If Sony doesn't do it with the PS2 then possibly the PS3. Doubtful, but who knows.
If they did build it so it performed much like a PC, with LAN Parties becoming more mainstream, something like this would be intresting, especially if it keeps the same footprint. An XBOX is big but it's still smaller than most PC's and if it can do play anything a PC can play, why lug a PC when you could lug a smaller, lighter XBOX.
on the dev side of things though, PC developers would worship this thing like a god, primarialy since a system like this would be completely standardized hardware wise. (that is if MS makes it so you cant upgrade it.) Thats one of the reasons the XBOX is so crash free. Since every XBOX is the same internal wise, they only have to make sure it works on that hardware alone. On the minus side, however you would see the devs standardize on XBOX Next first, PC second. So their games would probably run with less errors on the XBOX next then on a PC, even though the PC was the main target.
Does this mean that Graffiti is coming back on the new Palm's?
If this is the case. Seriously, what is someone going to do with 1GB of mail, let alone 1TB.
I still say that this service is basicially wasting space. It could be so much better used in some sort of Remote storage solution like XDrive.
I remember when I was in High school, reading in my science book, that they were Predicting that the oil supply would be dry in 25 years.
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Apparently they were wrong, because the book was made in 1976. It's 2004 and I'm not living in a real life Post Apocalyptic "Mad Max" world full of thugs and killers spilling Blood for Oil.
Getting back to the point, I'll believe we'll be out of oil when I see it. Particulary since so far the analysts doing these studies haven't been right so far.
Pretty much all of the other stuff your going to find here is DittoHeads Vs FrankenSteins to see which radio Talk show host has the biggest head
Working in a college enviroment, I can say with a good amount of certainity that almost 1/3 of the machine's that we had come in for repairs this year were Windows XP with the FCKGW key, and were at least 2/3's of all the windows XP PC's we saw, And thats down from last year because People that replaced their old pc would just use the copy that came with their PC.
.Net Framework, even Corporate MS products or flat out disable the entire windows installer if they really wanted to be sadistic. The only problem with that would be the Second Rule of Computers in my mind or the Illiteracy Rule, Which stats that Computer users Do not Read, So when everything goes nuts and it's poping up message after message that your using a Pirate copy, The'll think the PC is crashing and MS makes Crash Happy Software instead of reading the message and know that their stealing the OS.
We knew they existed, and the policy was pretty much if a PC needed the blaster patch and the Machine wouldn't install it, it was barred from the network. That was fun dealing with irate Studens and Parents, but flat out it was the law and we stuck with it.
Also, keep in mind that your also dealing with the user of the computer as well. First rule of computers in my mind is the 1% rule, which states that 99% of computer users dont know what they are doing. based on that, and a student base of roughly 1500 student's that equates to roughly 15 students that do, and have installed the patch. Basicially even if they knew about the patch and could install it they wouldn't install it because they didn't know how, or they thought it would never happen to them and viruses only happens to the nerds and not the jocks or some other stupid excuse. They started to care when their internet got shut off in their rooms for supposedly no reason even though we sent them an Inter-campus mail saying we were shutting off their connection cause they weren't patched AND left a message on their Voice Mailbox three days before it was shut off.
That Being said, there was a lot better ways MS could have handled that situation. Specificially they could have let it install SP1 but not allow anything but Critical Updates to be installed. Then you couldn't install DX9, WMP9, the
you probably know it more as savenow. a nasty varient of spyware. if you do a ctrl-alt-del and you see savenow in your process list, then you got it.
this site tells you what it does
spybot and ad-aware both remove it if you got it on your PC
click here for spybotSD
For Ad-Aware.
They definatly cleaned up their site since the last time I was on it.
The last time, You'd click on free, there would be stuff everywhere about the plus realplayer, then there was another link that said, for the free player that was slightly smaller, but it was for the "Free" 14 day Trial of Realplayer Plus. Finally, after reading absoletly everything you would find a small text link that would take you to the actual free player. then you had to register...
I'm glad I gave up on Real when they released G2. I still say the 5.0 player was the last decent player that came out of them. It was simple, small and it worked.
I dont know about you, but I can find a lot more uses for a GB of space other than E-mail. Google is going to find out about a year after this thing's official release that 60-90% of the mail stored on Gmail will be Viruses/Spam.
What I would like to see instead of this thing would be something along the lines of online storage like XDrive but free. That way I can store files from anywhere in the world, using just a web browser to access them.
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Liberty, A Gameboy Emulator for the PalmOS, was released 7/6/2000, Well before the 11/28/2000 filing of the patent.
Gambit Studios is going to have a field day with this patent.
Now that I think about it, Here are some other things that we have been using other than Spybot and Ad-Aware. so far I've haven't found a single app that does it all.
Go here and get the following tools.
HijackThis - Excellent tool that lists just about everywhere spyware gets into and allows you to delete them. This is not user friendly however, so you better know what you are doing before you do it.
CWShredder - Gets rid of CoolWebSearch. a Very nasty Spyware app that a pain to remove.
Also Here has these tools as well
WinsockFix - Fixes the winsock after spyware FUBAR's it.
TheKillBox - Gets rid of files that wont delete.
HostsFileReader - helps you get rid of all the crap adware likes to put in there. Can restore it to factory default.
22 Infected files is pretty low in my opinion. You run a pretty tight ship on your box.
We have to clean spyware off of student PC's on campus since it screws up internet connections and F-Secure goes nuts to the point where it wont talk to the server anymore.
So far, the Ad-Aware record is 17039 from a student that had a spyware app that put 19000 internet shortcuts in her favorites directory. Number two is 1973 and number Three is 1058.
Midway and Acclaim are pratcially twins when it comes to game making.
It wouldn't suprise me one bit if Minday jumps the cliff after it saw acclaim do the same thing.
IMO, the only reason Acclaim is still around is because of Midway giving Acclaim the rights to their coin-op library during the 16 bit era. If Acclaim didn't have that golden goose back then they would be gone by now.
"If it uses electricy, is a chemical, or anything that is not found in nature in any way, it kills you slowly."
Now that thats over with, Let me die a slow, happy death.