www.zoomshorts.com WHOIS pulls my info up just fine.:P Dear Paul:
There is a typographical error in the street address portion of your WHOIS information. As a result, we are revoking your domain, effective immediately.
This only happens on Windows XP, when you have either Office 2007 or Windows Live Photo gallery installed. I don't think this is the case. I watched it go on at least one machine yesterday with neither of those installed; it *might* have had Office 2000 SR-1 Professional, but probably not.
Conspiracy theory: MS is doing this to cause older or marginal boxes to become less responsive/snappy so as to further nudge the owners towards getting a new machine... and hence Vista.
Previosly sent mail is in 'sent mail' folder under a 'Gmail' parent folder. Mail sent from the iPhone is in actual 'sent' folder. At least it's not emailing me a copy of my sent mail anymore. Go into Settings - Mail - your Gmail account - Advanced. Configure the Sent, Drafts, and Trash folders to be the appropriate folders on the server, not on your iPhone. This will give you seamless integration; a message sent from your iPhone will then show up in Gmail's web interface in your Sent Mail.
the Royal Canadian Mint (the federal agency that prints Canadian paper currency and stamps Canadian coins)
Nope. The Royal Canadian Mint stamps coins only. The Bank of Canada is responsible for paper money, the actual printing of which is performed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited and BA International Inc (formerly British American Banknote).
If I'm not mistaken, Adblock Plus has an option -- enabled by default, IIRC -- that downloads blocked page elements anyway, then just suppresses their rendering. This way, a website operator won't even know if l've blocked any of their ads, and nor will the advertiser. The website owner will still get the same CPM out of me, because I'm causing him to be paid anyway, even though I'm not seeing at the ad in question.
So this is not a problem for website owners, but rather a problem for advertising companies. But that doesn't seem to be what all the screaming is about...
Both exist, and one points to the other, just like acetaminophen and paracetamol are the exact same thing with two different, equally valid, names. You say aluminium, I say aluminum. Let's call the whole thing off...
Then you can unlock it in OpenSRS. At least take a look at it before you babble on. Actually, I'm an OpenSRS reseller, and us resellers have the ability to suppress the lock option from being displayed on manage.opensrs.net. If your reseller has configured their stuff that way, you will not be able to lock or unlock it yourself.
You can tell whether or not this is the case by logging into manage.opensrs.net with your domain name, username, and password, then clicking "Domain locking" -- if you see the following text, your reseller has prevented you from doing this yourself: NOTE: Locking cannot be enabled/disabled from this interface. Please contact your domain supplier for assistance.
Tucows policy clearly states that if the registrant and reseller are at odds over whether or not a domain should be locked, the registrant shall prevail. If I were in this position, I would call them directly at 1-800-371-6992.
I tried to compare 10/100/1000 differences with a newer PC installed with the intel gigabit networking options, just like 3 of the servers; connected to a gigabit supporting switch to the company backbone. The difference is very minimal;
Then either you have very slow hard drives in your boxes, or a very cheap Gigabit Ethernet switch. I regularly transfer 5 GB files around my network, and in doing some testing I discovered that between the exact same two machines, when I forced one of them to connect at 100Mbps instead of 1Gbps, the file transfer then took twice as long (Intel Pro/1000 MT PCI at both ends, Cisco Catalyst 3560G-24PS). Fast Ethernet has a theoretical top speed of 12.5 MB/second, and Gigabit Ethernet 125 MB/second (but you'll never reach that because of signalling and protocol overhead).
The clue that 100Mbps was the bottleneck is that during the file transfer, the boxes' hard disk lights were blinking, whereas at 1000Mbps they were both on solid, indicating the hard disks themselves had become the bottleneck. It's neat to be able to transfer files between machines at basically the same throughput as though both hard disks were in the same machine!
By the way, in case you couldn't tell, there's something wrong with your Mac. You may wish to get it fixed.
I believe Royal Bank of Canada still uses Token Ring. They have rolled out new computer systems to many branches, and the one I was in recently had new computers at the teller's counters which appeared to have Token Ring addresses on the info-stickies (system serial number, helpdesk phone number, etc) stuck to the monitors.
Am I the only one that finds clicking the mousewheel to be a stupid way of middle clicking. It's right up there with pushing on the control sticks in XBox/PS2 as a button. It's hard to push these buttons without having the scroll wheel/joystick move.
I'm willing to bet you have a Microsoft mouse made in the last year or two. Microsoft used to have detents in their scroll wheel, but they made a deliberate decision to remove them, with which I disagree.
My Logitech MX610 (like all Logitech mice, and like the Microsoft ones that were worth owning) has nice detents in the wheel, and it's very easy for me to click the scroll wheel without rolling it (or even tilting it sideways, since it can do that -- or at least it could if I had the Logitech drivers installed, which I don't, since all buttons other than the IM button work perfectly in XP without them).
Actually, it costs less here (Ontario, Canada) for self-serve; only a fraction of stations offer full-serve anymore anyway. Some smaller chains offer full-serve for the same price, but I appreciate being able to get out of the car and start filling my tank right away if the attendant is busy with another customer, still hasn't come out of the building, or whatever.
I tried that in New Jersey (complete with Ontario plates on my Accord), completely ignorant of the law in question; at the time, I had heard of the law but thought it was just Oregon that had such a thing. I was actually reprimanded by the attendant (who quickened his pace as soon as he saw me reaching for the nozzle).
I let him fill it without argument, but had I been on my Ninja I'd have politely told him to bugger off. (I read something about an exemption for motorcycles, allowing their riders to fill them -- was that NJ or OR?)
First, is the accessability issue. You have voters that can't understand instructions and can't follow them when they are explained. A paper ballot that isn't verified for correctness immediately results in the "undervote" and "overvote" situation where they have either not enough marks or too many marks to figure out what the voter intended. Unless someone or something checks the ballots immediately, this will be a problem.
When I voted in a Toronto municipal election (2000?), the ballot was a letter-size sheet. I was handed a Sharpie and told to connect the arrow-head next to my choice with its arrow-tail about 1 cm to the right, then slipped it into a cardboard carrier that covered the lower 3/4 of the ballot (no selections were made in the top quarter, so it was completely secret). I handed it to the lady, who turned it so the ballot was about to enter the machine head-first and face-down, and brought the carrier closer so the top of the sheet entered the unit. It sucked the ballot from the carrier, scanning it, and dropped it into a sealed cardboard box for later counting if necessary (or maybe they were all counted anyway just in case).
Anyway, you mention that it should be able to immediately report errors -- this machine did. I watched a little old lady's ballot get about 95% of the way into the machine, and then heard it start beeping and reverse its feed rollers, spitting the ballot back out face-down. Apparently she didn't completely connect the two parts of the arrow.
These machines had modems in them, which after the polls closed were connected to a phone line to report the numbers to the mothership. The ballots were still stored in their sealed cardboard box.
As mentioned elsewhere, for the disabled/infirm/etc a touchscreen system could be used to print such ballots which were ready to scan, sans Sharpie.
Why on earth isn't this system used EVERYWHERE? It really *is* the perfect system! Simple ballots (big text, and the arrows were at least an inch apart vertically, with the candidates in a column), no hanging chads, instant electronic results, and Real Paper Ballots to fall back on.
Yeah, I drove from Kingston, Ontario to Toms River, NJ once to pick up a rack-mount APC 3000VA UPS (with batteries) I bought on eBay; UPS wanted about the same amount it was going to cost me to drive there and back, but UPS would have destroyed it since the seller didn't have the original box and I didn't trust her to package it *properly*.
What the *hell*, I ask, is up with those "jughandles"? Are New-Joysians incapable of safely making left turns from, oh, say, a left-turn lane? And why are you poor people not permitted to pump your own gas?!
I don't know about where you live, but here you don't have to file income tax unless the government asks you to file for a specific year or unless you owe the government money (note that I didn't say "unless you know you owe the government money" -- not knowing is not a defense against not filing).
Thus, if like most people you have a job which deducts income tax automatically from your paycheque (that's "paycheck" for speakers of American), you don't have to file (as long as the two rules above are met). However, not filing causes you to miss out on your (usually ~$100 minumum) GST rebate, among others I think.
The above applies to individuals, not corporations. I am not an accountant or lawyer, so YMMV.
it by default sets up your microphone and webcam to spy on you
Actually, if you right-click on a Flash item in your browser and click Settings, you'll notice that by default all webcam and microphone access is denied to the Flash movie unless you specifically enable it.
Peter Payne, the American-born founder of J-List, a source for all things Japanese, had this to say in today's instalment of his regular newsletter:
"After a long wait, Apple's iTunes Japan music store has finally opened, allowing
customers here to download Japanese and international music for around $1.75 per
song. Despite the large number of digital-savvy users in Japan, it's not at all
surprising to me that it took so long for Apple to get the iTunes store up and
running. Japan can be a very conservative place, and to big companies with
established businesses, nothing is more terrifying than change, any change at
all. Apple has had to navigate between greedy record companies who have kept the
prices of CDs at the artificially high price of $30 for decades, and industry
groups like the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers
(JASRAC) and the Recording Industry of Japan (RIAJ), who have closed ranks
against any kind of digital distribution of music that doesn't guarantee more
profits for them than conventional CDs. A big problem was JASRAC's insistence
that Apple follow "Japan's rules" when it came to selling music online, which
apparently meant that the industry group was to receive 7.7% of every song sold
in addition to what the actual copyright holders receive. It's all very silly
when you think about the fact that in Japan, you can go into any one of
thousands of CD rental shops and rent a whole album for $3 or less. Sadly,
Japan's copyright-happy record industry lacked the vision to allow Apple to sell
Japanese music to customers outside of Japan, so worldwide fans of JPOP are shut
out from participating in the Japan iTMS. Apple isn't the first company that's
had to endure pressure from the establishment in Japan: Amazon was blocked from
selling products below list price on their site here, since price fixing is
still allowed for some products, like books and CDs. If there's one good thing
that's come from the past decade of recession in Japan, it's that many of
Japan's closed economic doors have been forced open, letting the light of
competition and common sense flood in. If you want to see a hilarious commercial
that marries the iPod with Sazae-san, one the most popular anime in Japan's
history, here's the link: http://www.jbox.com/sazae (Quicktime required)"
I've never understood why people are unwilling to shell out money for a good keyboard, but will cheerfully plop down money for the hottest CPU or latest video card.
Owning a Herman Miller Aeron chair, purchased new from Herman Miller before the dot-com bust caused a flood of them on eBay, I feel somewhat qualified to insert my CAD 0.02.
Even though my Aeron has the older lumbar support (the chair on the right in the second photo at the link above), instead of the newer Y-shape one (can you purchase that part by itself to upgrade the older ones?), it is an incredibly supportive and comfortable chair, even when spending continuous 8+ hour periods in it. The Aeron's mesh is far superior to that of the cheaper imitations available at Staples etc; it prevents your back, butt, or thighs from getting sweaty even if the room you're working in is sunny or hot, and causes a very even distribution of support throughout.
Yes, I spent C$1,000 on it. However, two of the options on the chair, the tilt-five-degrees-forward control and the lock-recline-angle control, which I never and rarely use, respectively, could have been omitted for a savings of C$100 per option. (Hindsight was apparently C$200 at the time.)
Even at C$800 for the chair (which has a 12-year parts-and-labour warranty if bought new from them), if you spend any appreciable amount of time in a chair, it is money very well spent. Your back (and therefore the rest of your body, since it's all pretty much connected to that at one point or another) will thank you.
I'm generally not one to jump to conclusions (especially since I've never used iTunes and have no idea what its UI looks like), but if this is at all accurate, it's pretty damning evidence of Apple ripping off the patent-holder's interface design...
As far as I know, STP only kills ports that STP decides are causing a loop. Seeing a MAC address on two ports just makes it think that the system has moved
A cookie for you, good sir. Indeed the MAC addresses will age out of the table, but as soon as a MAC is noticed on another port, its table entry is updated. (This is why when you change a box's switch port, you can't ping it until the MAC timer expires, at which point it becomes an unknown-destination broadcast to all ports, or until the box sends a frame on the new port, causing the switch to notice it's moved.)
How STP detects loops is with BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units).
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www.zoomshorts.com WHOIS pulls my info up just fine.
There is a typographical error in the street address portion of your WHOIS information. As a result, we are revoking your domain, effective immediately.
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Conspiracy theory: MS is doing this to cause older or marginal boxes to become less responsive/snappy so as to further nudge the owners towards getting a new machine... and hence Vista.
Nope. The Royal Canadian Mint stamps coins only. The Bank of Canada is responsible for paper money, the actual printing of which is performed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited and BA International Inc (formerly British American Banknote).
If I'm not mistaken, Adblock Plus has an option -- enabled by default, IIRC -- that downloads blocked page elements anyway, then just suppresses their rendering. This way, a website operator won't even know if l've blocked any of their ads, and nor will the advertiser. The website owner will still get the same CPM out of me, because I'm causing him to be paid anyway, even though I'm not seeing at the ad in question.
So this is not a problem for website owners, but rather a problem for advertising companies. But that doesn't seem to be what all the screaming is about...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_Oxide
Both exist, and one points to the other, just like acetaminophen and paracetamol are the exact same thing with two different, equally valid, names. You say aluminium, I say aluminum. Let's call the whole thing off...
You can tell whether or not this is the case by logging into manage.opensrs.net with your domain name, username, and password, then clicking "Domain locking" -- if you see the following text, your reseller has prevented you from doing this yourself:
NOTE: Locking cannot be enabled/disabled from this interface. Please contact your domain supplier for assistance.
Tucows policy clearly states that if the registrant and reseller are at odds over whether or not a domain should be locked, the registrant shall prevail. If I were in this position, I would call them directly at 1-800-371-6992.
I believe that name is taken. Didn't stop Apple, did it?
Way back when, Taco's sig was something along the lines of "Pants are optional, but recommended for you." Perhaps he should have remembered that...
The clue that 100Mbps was the bottleneck is that during the file transfer, the boxes' hard disk lights were blinking, whereas at 1000Mbps they were both on solid, indicating the hard disks themselves had become the bottleneck. It's neat to be able to transfer files between machines at basically the same throughput as though both hard disks were in the same machine!
By the way, in case you couldn't tell, there's something wrong with your Mac. You may wish to get it fixed.
I believe Royal Bank of Canada still uses Token Ring. They have rolled out new computer systems to many branches, and the one I was in recently had new computers at the teller's counters which appeared to have Token Ring addresses on the info-stickies (system serial number, helpdesk phone number, etc) stuck to the monitors.
Am I the only one that finds clicking the mousewheel to be a stupid way of middle clicking. It's right up there with pushing on the control sticks in XBox/PS2 as a button. It's hard to push these buttons without having the scroll wheel/joystick move.
:)
I'm willing to bet you have a Microsoft mouse made in the last year or two. Microsoft used to have detents in their scroll wheel, but they made a deliberate decision to remove them, with which I disagree.
My Logitech MX610 (like all Logitech mice, and like the Microsoft ones that were worth owning) has nice detents in the wheel, and it's very easy for me to click the scroll wheel without rolling it (or even tilting it sideways, since it can do that -- or at least it could if I had the Logitech drivers installed, which I don't, since all buttons other than the IM button work perfectly in XP without them).
How's THAT for a run-on sentence?
Actually, it costs less here (Ontario, Canada) for self-serve; only a fraction of stations offer full-serve anymore anyway. Some smaller chains offer full-serve for the same price, but I appreciate being able to get out of the car and start filling my tank right away if the attendant is busy with another customer, still hasn't come out of the building, or whatever.
I tried that in New Jersey (complete with Ontario plates on my Accord), completely ignorant of the law in question; at the time, I had heard of the law but thought it was just Oregon that had such a thing. I was actually reprimanded by the attendant (who quickened his pace as soon as he saw me reaching for the nozzle).
I let him fill it without argument, but had I been on my Ninja I'd have politely told him to bugger off. (I read something about an exemption for motorcycles, allowing their riders to fill them -- was that NJ or OR?)
First, is the accessability issue. You have voters that can't understand instructions and can't follow them when they are explained. A paper ballot that isn't verified for correctness immediately results in the "undervote" and "overvote" situation where they have either not enough marks or too many marks to figure out what the voter intended. Unless someone or something checks the ballots immediately, this will be a problem.
When I voted in a Toronto municipal election (2000?), the ballot was a letter-size sheet. I was handed a Sharpie and told to connect the arrow-head next to my choice with its arrow-tail about 1 cm to the right, then slipped it into a cardboard carrier that covered the lower 3/4 of the ballot (no selections were made in the top quarter, so it was completely secret). I handed it to the lady, who turned it so the ballot was about to enter the machine head-first and face-down, and brought the carrier closer so the top of the sheet entered the unit. It sucked the ballot from the carrier, scanning it, and dropped it into a sealed cardboard box for later counting if necessary (or maybe they were all counted anyway just in case).
Anyway, you mention that it should be able to immediately report errors -- this machine did. I watched a little old lady's ballot get about 95% of the way into the machine, and then heard it start beeping and reverse its feed rollers, spitting the ballot back out face-down. Apparently she didn't completely connect the two parts of the arrow.
These machines had modems in them, which after the polls closed were connected to a phone line to report the numbers to the mothership. The ballots were still stored in their sealed cardboard box.
As mentioned elsewhere, for the disabled/infirm/etc a touchscreen system could be used to print such ballots which were ready to scan, sans Sharpie.
Why on earth isn't this system used EVERYWHERE? It really *is* the perfect system! Simple ballots (big text, and the arrows were at least an inch apart vertically, with the candidates in a column), no hanging chads, instant electronic results, and Real Paper Ballots to fall back on.
Yeah, I drove from Kingston, Ontario to Toms River, NJ once to pick up a rack-mount APC 3000VA UPS (with batteries) I bought on eBay; UPS wanted about the same amount it was going to cost me to drive there and back, but UPS would have destroyed it since the seller didn't have the original box and I didn't trust her to package it *properly*.
What the *hell*, I ask, is up with those "jughandles"? Are New-Joysians incapable of safely making left turns from, oh, say, a left-turn lane? And why are you poor people not permitted to pump your own gas?!
Ridiculous, if you ask me.
But what do I know? I'm just a Canadian.
I don't know about where you live, but here you don't have to file income tax unless the government asks you to file for a specific year or unless you owe the government money (note that I didn't say "unless you know you owe the government money" -- not knowing is not a defense against not filing).
Thus, if like most people you have a job which deducts income tax automatically from your paycheque (that's "paycheck" for speakers of American), you don't have to file (as long as the two rules above are met). However, not filing causes you to miss out on your (usually ~$100 minumum) GST rebate, among others I think.
The above applies to individuals, not corporations. I am not an accountant or lawyer, so YMMV.
it by default sets up your microphone and webcam to spy on you
Actually, if you right-click on a Flash item in your browser and click Settings, you'll notice that by default all webcam and microphone access is denied to the Flash movie unless you specifically enable it.
Peter Payne, the American-born founder of J-List, a source for all things Japanese, had this to say in today's instalment of his regular newsletter:
"After a long wait, Apple's iTunes Japan music store has finally opened, allowing customers here to download Japanese and international music for around $1.75 per song. Despite the large number of digital-savvy users in Japan, it's not at all surprising to me that it took so long for Apple to get the iTunes store up and running. Japan can be a very conservative place, and to big companies with established businesses, nothing is more terrifying than change, any change at all. Apple has had to navigate between greedy record companies who have kept the prices of CDs at the artificially high price of $30 for decades, and industry groups like the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) and the Recording Industry of Japan (RIAJ), who have closed ranks against any kind of digital distribution of music that doesn't guarantee more profits for them than conventional CDs. A big problem was JASRAC's insistence that Apple follow "Japan's rules" when it came to selling music online, which apparently meant that the industry group was to receive 7.7% of every song sold in addition to what the actual copyright holders receive. It's all very silly when you think about the fact that in Japan, you can go into any one of thousands of CD rental shops and rent a whole album for $3 or less. Sadly, Japan's copyright-happy record industry lacked the vision to allow Apple to sell Japanese music to customers outside of Japan, so worldwide fans of JPOP are shut out from participating in the Japan iTMS. Apple isn't the first company that's had to endure pressure from the establishment in Japan: Amazon was blocked from selling products below list price on their site here, since price fixing is still allowed for some products, like books and CDs. If there's one good thing that's come from the past decade of recession in Japan, it's that many of Japan's closed economic doors have been forced open, letting the light of competition and common sense flood in. If you want to see a hilarious commercial that marries the iPod with Sazae-san, one the most popular anime in Japan's history, here's the link: http://www.jbox.com/sazae (Quicktime required)"
I've never understood why people are unwilling to shell out money for a good keyboard, but will cheerfully plop down money for the hottest CPU or latest video card.
Owning a Herman Miller Aeron chair, purchased new from Herman Miller before the dot-com bust caused a flood of them on eBay, I feel somewhat qualified to insert my CAD 0.02.
Even though my Aeron has the older lumbar support (the chair on the right in the second photo at the link above), instead of the newer Y-shape one (can you purchase that part by itself to upgrade the older ones?), it is an incredibly supportive and comfortable chair, even when spending continuous 8+ hour periods in it. The Aeron's mesh is far superior to that of the cheaper imitations available at Staples etc; it prevents your back, butt, or thighs from getting sweaty even if the room you're working in is sunny or hot, and causes a very even distribution of support throughout.
Yes, I spent C$1,000 on it. However, two of the options on the chair, the tilt-five-degrees-forward control and the lock-recline-angle control, which I never and rarely use, respectively, could have been omitted for a savings of C$100 per option. (Hindsight was apparently C$200 at the time.)
Even at C$800 for the chair (which has a 12-year parts-and-labour warranty if bought new from them), if you spend any appreciable amount of time in a chair, it is money very well spent. Your back (and therefore the rest of your body, since it's all pretty much connected to that at one point or another) will thank you.
I'm generally not one to jump to conclusions (especially since I've never used iTunes and have no idea what its UI looks like), but if this is at all accurate, it's pretty damning evidence of Apple ripping off the patent-holder's interface design...
The FCX carried a federal combined city-highway economy rating of 57 miles per kilogram
But how many decimeters per troy ounce does it get?
Come on, America. Get off your lazy ass and switch to the metric system. (That goes for you too, the UK -- finish the job you started!)
As far as I know, STP only kills ports that STP decides are causing a loop. Seeing a MAC address on two ports just makes it think that the system has moved
:)
A cookie for you, good sir. Indeed the MAC addresses will age out of the table, but as soon as a MAC is noticed on another port, its table entry is updated. (This is why when you change a box's switch port, you can't ping it until the MAC timer expires, at which point it becomes an unknown-destination broadcast to all ports, or until the box sends a frame on the new port, causing the switch to notice it's moved.)
How STP detects loops is with BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units).
And yes, I *am* Cisco certified.
The Acura TSX is basically a left-hand-drive version of the Accord sold in Europe, with different badges.