Firefox does not have parental control features. His daughters are around 8 and 10 and he seems to feel the need to restrict their surfing experience.
They don't work. Never have done. They rely on a site putting special rating codes into their HTML, and it's extremely rare that anyone has done.
Thunderbird can apparently read multiple e-mail addresses from one domain (userx@noddy.com, usery@noddy.com . ..) but only allows you to use one when sending messages. His family have one email address each.
Thunderbird does this - in fact it does it very well (I have home & business accounts and a mistake could be costly).
I found one this evening in fact... www.iceland.co.uk. Lets you in, looks fine, then the menus don't work - so you can't actually buy anything.
Even in IE the site sucks (every time you click on something with an offer attached you get a full page popup saying "look! offer! I'm not going away until you accept it!"
XP does POST to desktop in 14 seconds, but how long before it's usable?
I get the 'tada' music, then it's 1-2 minutes before the CPU load has got below 100% so you can actually *do* something. There's not even much installed on this box either (nothing runs at boot, except the SQLServer service manager, and that's disabled by default).
I think it's the wireless network. Windows goes postal if it doesn't receive a DHCP reply immediately, and a wireless lan can take up to 30 seconds to sync very easily.
Arch is actually quite interesting as a concept.. it's a bit too alien for me, though (I had a look at it and couldn't work out what the hell was going on!).
Video is just fluff on these things... you can't watch video when it's in your pocket. You can't watch video walking down the street, you can't watch video while driving, you can't watch video on the bus (well in theory you could but you'd look like a complete dork doing so). Who needs video?
RTFA - their aim is to get the charging time down to something like a mobile phone, which is suggested as 1-2 hours (this is an editorial addition though).
There's no indication of battery life other than that it's a priority. If that's also similar to a mobile phone you should be able to get 20-30 hours.
It's aimed at 'developing' markets? What happened to the days when companies actually did some market research before releasing a product?
1. $249 is *not* cheap in the developing world - in fact it can easily be more than a months salary (in some countries several months - I knew a guy who worked in Bosnia for a time... he used his salary to pay 8 people to do his work for him and still had enough left over for a nice house). 2. Dialup? Most of these countries are hugely into mobile technology now, where the setup cost is low (no land lines to dig). Where connectivity does exist it is through local cyber-cafe's - the home PC just isn't as common, or required when you have better things to do, like keeping food on the table. 3. Guess what happens to the old PCs you think are 'slow'? A lot of them are happily chugging away running Win95 or Win3.1 (linux is also becoming more popular, but is still a minority) in developing countries, for a few dollars a pop or even free.
They tried it in the UK and had to withdraw it, because it emerged they were taking standard tapwater and adding chemicals to it (then charging 1000% of the cost price). The result failed several water safety tests, and had to be withdrawn from shelves and destroyed for public safety reasons.
Shortly after the debacle they announced they were discontinuing the product for 'business reasons'.
The Audigy 2 EX still doesn't work properly - you can get 2 speaker sound out of it (barely) but there's not even volume control. I junked mine and went to the onboard AC97 as at least that worked...
Use the omega drivers... I've got the same problem on my Fujitsu. The OEM drivers don't work worth a damn, and they haven't offered an upgrade since the laptop was released (btw. never buy Fujitsu, their build quality is junk.. I've had keys quite literally fall off this keyboard).
I'm running the latest Omega drivers now which are rock solid and play FFXI nicely.
I've never had any problems giving out my email address. Junk goes in the spam filter, which I clean out once a month (when I admined for a company we had someone check every 2-3 days but never had any FPs to my knowledge).
I get maybe 1 spam gets through the filters in a week. Easy to handle.
Apple seem intent in being non-existent in the UK.
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Price for the 12" ibook £749.00 ($1,200)
For a 1.2ghz processor and 30GB drive? It's competing with £300 PC laptops.
It's not surprising I haven't actually met a mac owner for years...
I read page 1 of the part 1 story, then it dumped me in a 'get your FREE Cursors Now!' page and won't let me off it... Apparently unless I get my FREE Cursors Now! I'm not allowed to read the rest of the story.
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The default make install keeps your old kernel, so you just fire up the grub command line, edit the boot string, then boot.
Still a lot easier than compiling a new kernel on every boot.
It's not that expensive... We're only a small company and are planning to do it next year - you can negotiate really good rates off them.
I wouldn't mind if that was what they were doing... printers are still quite expensive, though.
When they start giving printers away free with your first cartridge, then I'm sure few will complain.
Firefox does not have parental control features. His daughters are around 8 and 10 and he seems to feel the need to restrict their surfing experience.
.) but only allows you to use one when sending messages. His family have one email address each.
They don't work. Never have done. They rely on a site putting special rating codes into their HTML, and it's extremely rare that anyone has done.
Thunderbird can apparently read multiple e-mail addresses from one domain (userx@noddy.com, usery@noddy.com . .
Thunderbird does this - in fact it does it very well (I have home & business accounts and a mistake could be costly).
I found one this evening in fact... www.iceland.co.uk. Lets you in, looks fine, then the menus don't work - so you can't actually buy anything.
Even in IE the site sucks (every time you click on something with an offer attached you get a full page popup saying "look! offer! I'm not going away until you accept it!"
XP does POST to desktop in 14 seconds, but how long before it's usable?
I get the 'tada' music, then it's 1-2 minutes before the CPU load has got below 100% so you can actually *do* something. There's not even much installed on this box either (nothing runs at boot, except the SQLServer service manager, and that's disabled by default).
I think it's the wireless network. Windows goes postal if it doesn't receive a DHCP reply immediately, and a wireless lan can take up to 30 seconds to sync very easily.
Arch is actually quite interesting as a concept.. it's a bit too alien for me, though (I had a look at it and couldn't work out what the hell was going on!).
Video is just fluff on these things... you can't watch video when it's in your pocket. You can't watch video walking down the street, you can't watch video while driving, you can't watch video on the bus (well in theory you could but you'd look like a complete dork doing so). Who needs video?
£414?!!!
Bugger that. I can get an SFF PC and populate it for that.
You need a better browser. The site shows up fine here.
RTFA - their aim is to get the charging time down to something like a mobile phone, which is suggested as 1-2 hours (this is an editorial addition though).
There's no indication of battery life other than that it's a priority. If that's also similar to a mobile phone you should be able to get 20-30 hours.
It's aimed at 'developing' markets? What happened to the days when companies actually did some market research before releasing a product?
1. $249 is *not* cheap in the developing world - in fact it can easily be more than a months salary (in some countries several months - I knew a guy who worked in Bosnia for a time... he used his salary to pay 8 people to do his work for him and still had enough left over for a nice house).
2. Dialup? Most of these countries are hugely into mobile technology now, where the setup cost is low (no land lines to dig). Where connectivity does exist it is through local cyber-cafe's - the home PC just isn't as common, or required when you have better things to do, like keeping food on the table.
3. Guess what happens to the old PCs you think are 'slow'? A lot of them are happily chugging away running Win95 or Win3.1 (linux is also becoming more popular, but is still a minority) in developing countries, for a few dollars a pop or even free.
Before anyone yells "Source!!" here it is, btw.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3566233.stm
They still sell that stuff?
They tried it in the UK and had to withdraw it, because it emerged they were taking standard tapwater and adding chemicals to it (then charging 1000% of the cost price). The result failed several water safety tests, and had to be withdrawn from shelves and destroyed for public safety reasons.
Shortly after the debacle they announced they were discontinuing the product for 'business reasons'.
My first thought on reading this was...
They're taking the piss!
Then I read a bit further and realized they were bottling it and selling it too!!
My first though on reading this was...
They're taking the piss, right?
The Audigy 2 EX still doesn't work properly - you can get 2 speaker sound out of it (barely) but there's not even volume control. I junked mine and went to the onboard AC97 as at least that worked...
Asus have a speech synth for this (with an annoying 'have a nice day' accent).
You still need to attach speakers though, which sucks.
Use the omega drivers... I've got the same problem on my Fujitsu. The OEM drivers don't work worth a damn, and they haven't offered an upgrade since the laptop was released (btw. never buy Fujitsu, their build quality is junk.. I've had keys quite literally fall off this keyboard).
I'm running the latest Omega drivers now which are rock solid and play FFXI nicely.
Isn't C5 rather a dumb thing to call a car you actually want to sell?
EMP doesn't require a nuclear weapon (although that does generate one heck of an EMP as a byproduct of vaporising the neigbourhood!).
http://www.plans-kits.com/plans/emp.html
In the real world people filter.
I've never had any problems giving out my email address. Junk goes in the spam filter, which I clean out once a month (when I admined for a company we had someone check every 2-3 days but never had any FPs to my knowledge).
I get maybe 1 spam gets through the filters in a week. Easy to handle.
Price for the 12" ibook £749.00 ($1,200)
For a 1.2ghz processor and 30GB drive? It's competing with £300 PC laptops.
It's not surprising I haven't actually met a mac owner for years...
For that I got an AMD64 laptop, DVD-RW, Wireless, Firewire, 3xUSB, widescreen display.
Sorry, Apple still have a lot of catching up to do.
G4s are suckingly slow (The 2.8Ghz P4 you mention is a lot faster, and not just in benchmarks either - I've used both).
..for 'free' cursors.
I read page 1 of the part 1 story, then it dumped me in a 'get your FREE Cursors Now!' page and won't let me off it... Apparently unless I get my FREE Cursors Now! I'm not allowed to read the rest of the story.
Total suckage.