P.S., the Colorado Dept of Transportation will actually adjust the speed limit to match the drivers, not the other way around. They feel, reasonably, that thousands of drivers will make an informed decision about the best speed for a segment of road.
My god, intelligent decisions from a DOT?!
I'm going to forgo modding you up (sorry) to say that if this is true, Ontario (and probably many other places) could learn a lot by following Colorado's example.
Ministry of Transportation, are you listening? A speed limit of 100 km/h on Highway 401 (quoted as being the second-busiest highway in North America, second to some highway in southern California), which extends from the Detroit/Windsor border to the Ontario/Quebec border ~100 km west of Montreal, has been in place since Canada converted to the Metric System in the 1960's: the 60 MPH limit was rounded up from 97 km/h to 100 km/h, and it's sat there ever since. It's high time it was raised to reflect reality!
Although, to the credit of the Ontario Provincial Police, they don't ever bother writing you a ticket if you're going 115 km/h, and 120 km/h is almost always safe (financially). I've spoken with more than one OPP constable that has said he doesn't bother with anything below 135 km/h on the 401 (which is where the fines jump from ~C$145 and 3 points at 134 km/h to ~C$245 and 4 points at 135 km/h).
American Autobahn should be required reading for all police officers and highway planners/builders.
Now all that remains is for Michael Valentine to get his ass in gear and revise his product to render the Spectre RDD useless...
Does it *ONLY* listen on the localhost interface, or will machines without firewalls become open proxies? Surely they thought of this and locked it down to localhost-only, but this reminds me of the old Norton AntiVirus (2003?) POP email scanning tray-icon that listened on *:110 as a virus-scanning POP proxy, opening up unfirewalled boxes to remote DoS exploits once a buffer overflow was found in it...
Super fast little unit. I bought the 4GB model a few months ago for like US$450, and it's been worth its weight in gold. I carry installers for antispyware and free antivirus software on it, as well as a bootable image of BartPE (which unfortunately, by the way, takes forever for the ISO to load into the RAMdisk set up by the Win2K3 SP1 NT loader, no matter how fast your flash disk is... any way around this on boxes that give a BSOD without the ISO trick?).
However, do not *ever* open the "disk" it presents to the OS in something like WinHex then tell WinHex to write 00h to all user-accessible sectors as a way of securely cleaning it up before repartitioning, reformatting, and reloading stuff onto it. The wiping seems to irrevocably fuck the unit beyond repair, by apparently blowing away some config sector of flash or something. (Apacer's fixing utility doesn't seem to work properly on the 4GB model, not even after they emailed me a different version.) I recall in some USB-flash-disk-controller-IC datasheet (probably not the same one Apacer uses, but they're all probably pretty similar in this regard) I read that the controller itself requires a few sectors of flash for housekeeping, sizing, configuration, etc. One of the things you (the manufacturer) could set was the number of LBA sectors it would report to the host machine. I suspect Apacer set this number a little too high and included part or all of the keepout region the controller requires as being reported and exposed to the host OS, causing this issue.
I went through two units before I figured out exactly what was doing it -- but to Apacer's credit, they exchanged it both times at no charge (I paid shipping both ways, which in a padded envelope with a tracking number cost me US$3.85 each way).
The Apacer HT202 and HT203 units are beautifully-designed. I didn't want one where I could ever lose the cap, because if you know me, you know the cap would be gone in a week. The thin rubber-coated stranded steel cable is a very secure attachment point, and makes sure that cap goes absolutely nowhere you don't want it to.
I don't have the balls to try washing it in my pants pocket, though, since it's NOT sealed. I wish Apacer would pot them with RTV silicone or something which would also give them more shock resistance, not unlike the SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash cards. I don't know how they avoid the silicone releasing acetic acid when it's curing, though -- wouldn't this be bad for the metal traces, pins, joints, discrete components, USB connector shell, etc?
In short, before even reading the review, the HT203 (and Apacer's support) get my one-point-seven-thumbs-up stamp of approval!
Can you please not hit the Enter key when you are typing and your text reaches the right hand edge of the text input box? Allowing the box to wrap your text for you will allow your text to flow more easily on other users' screens.
If only they'd fix Acrobat Reader for PalmOS! I have a Treo 650 now (wow, what an improvement over the 600, even just in snappiness -- and the camera's actually usable now, even though it's still VGA), but Adobe's sorry excuse for a PDF reader for PalmOS blows serious chunks. At the same time, I don't want to have to preprocess PDF files before I view them. If I'm stuck someplace, I want to be able to download a PDF in Blazer and view it, right then, right there. Is this really so difficult?!
Hey, you got the credit, because I have my threshold set at 3 -- and they didn't obviously look like someone else's words. (I use italics when I quote on slashdot; I find indents to not be nearly as noticeable.)
When you've run a beta test and are happy that you've got enough bugs for your software to be a product your customers want to buy from you, you make the release.
Well, waiting until sufficient bugs accumulate before release is a development model which seems to be profitable for Microsoft, so surely you must be on to something!
It says "All rights reserved". You are not buying any intellectual property at all when you buy a CD. Just a piece of plastic. Copyright does not forbid you to play it, but it does forbid you to copy it, save for fair use.
Actually, it's legal for me to copy it. It's not legal for me to copy it and give that copy to my friend, though.
However, it *is* legal for my friend to borrow the original from me, copy it, give me back the original, and keep the copy.
Ahh, the benefits of living in Canada. And you thought they ended at universal health care!
I just got TWO seemingly-identical eBay spoof messages to my eBay-registered email address (which contains 'ebay', but which doesn't otherwise collect spam). There is one difference between the messages, namely the URLs they point to:
The directory the php files are in is interesting. The whole thing is laid out in there. The email actually points to login.php, which brings you through a couple of intermediary pages before asking you for the goods. Submitting the verify.php page, blank, results in a little delay not present when you submit any of the other pages' forms -- presumably while verify.php is emailing the contents of the form fields somewhere.
I already left a note at the fast-host.com support page (although I'm not holding my breath, obviously). I tried calling them, but I got an unprofessional-sounding answering machine, leading me to think some guy is running fast-host.com out of his basement.
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P.S., the Colorado Dept of Transportation will actually adjust the speed limit to match the drivers, not the other way around. They feel, reasonably, that thousands of drivers will make an informed decision about the best speed for a segment of road.
My god, intelligent decisions from a DOT?!
I'm going to forgo modding you up (sorry) to say that if this is true, Ontario (and probably many other places) could learn a lot by following Colorado's example.
Ministry of Transportation, are you listening? A speed limit of 100 km/h on Highway 401 (quoted as being the second-busiest highway in North America, second to some highway in southern California), which extends from the Detroit/Windsor border to the Ontario/Quebec border ~100 km west of Montreal, has been in place since Canada converted to the Metric System in the 1960's: the 60 MPH limit was rounded up from 97 km/h to 100 km/h, and it's sat there ever since. It's high time it was raised to reflect reality!
Although, to the credit of the Ontario Provincial Police, they don't ever bother writing you a ticket if you're going 115 km/h, and 120 km/h is almost always safe (financially). I've spoken with more than one OPP constable that has said he doesn't bother with anything below 135 km/h on the 401 (which is where the fines jump from ~C$145 and 3 points at 134 km/h to ~C$245 and 4 points at 135 km/h).
American Autobahn should be required reading for all police officers and highway planners/builders.
Now all that remains is for Michael Valentine to get his ass in gear and revise his product to render the Spectre RDD useless...
Does it *ONLY* listen on the localhost interface, or will machines without firewalls become open proxies? Surely they thought of this and locked it down to localhost-only, but this reminds me of the old Norton AntiVirus (2003?) POP email scanning tray-icon that listened on *:110 as a virus-scanning POP proxy, opening up unfirewalled boxes to remote DoS exploits once a buffer overflow was found in it...
Super fast little unit. I bought the 4GB model a few months ago for like US$450, and it's been worth its weight in gold. I carry installers for antispyware and free antivirus software on it, as well as a bootable image of BartPE (which unfortunately, by the way, takes forever for the ISO to load into the RAMdisk set up by the Win2K3 SP1 NT loader, no matter how fast your flash disk is... any way around this on boxes that give a BSOD without the ISO trick?).
However, do not *ever* open the "disk" it presents to the OS in something like WinHex then tell WinHex to write 00h to all user-accessible sectors as a way of securely cleaning it up before repartitioning, reformatting, and reloading stuff onto it. The wiping seems to irrevocably fuck the unit beyond repair, by apparently blowing away some config sector of flash or something. (Apacer's fixing utility doesn't seem to work properly on the 4GB model, not even after they emailed me a different version.) I recall in some USB-flash-disk-controller-IC datasheet (probably not the same one Apacer uses, but they're all probably pretty similar in this regard) I read that the controller itself requires a few sectors of flash for housekeeping, sizing, configuration, etc. One of the things you (the manufacturer) could set was the number of LBA sectors it would report to the host machine. I suspect Apacer set this number a little too high and included part or all of the keepout region the controller requires as being reported and exposed to the host OS, causing this issue.
I went through two units before I figured out exactly what was doing it -- but to Apacer's credit, they exchanged it both times at no charge (I paid shipping both ways, which in a padded envelope with a tracking number cost me US$3.85 each way).
The Apacer HT202 and HT203 units are beautifully-designed. I didn't want one where I could ever lose the cap, because if you know me, you know the cap would be gone in a week. The thin rubber-coated stranded steel cable is a very secure attachment point, and makes sure that cap goes absolutely nowhere you don't want it to.
I don't have the balls to try washing it in my pants pocket, though, since it's NOT sealed. I wish Apacer would pot them with RTV silicone or something which would also give them more shock resistance, not unlike the SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash cards. I don't know how they avoid the silicone releasing acetic acid when it's curing, though -- wouldn't this be bad for the metal traces, pins, joints, discrete components, USB connector shell, etc?
In short, before even reading the review, the HT203 (and Apacer's support) get my one-point-seven-thumbs-up stamp of approval!
"Hello, my name is Alexander Burke. My voice is my passport. Verify me."
:)
Next stop: the Sony Store!
Can you please not hit
the Enter key when you
are typing and your
text reaches the right
hand edge of the text
input box? Allowing
the box to wrap your
text for you will
allow your text to
flow more easily on
other users' screens.
Thanks.
The Boingboing link is just a summary which links to the real thing.
http://print.tweakers.net/?reviews/557
Man, if I had mod points, you'd have gotten a Funny. :)
If only they'd fix Acrobat Reader for linux...
If only they'd fix Acrobat Reader for PalmOS! I have a Treo 650 now (wow, what an improvement over the 600, even just in snappiness -- and the camera's actually usable now, even though it's still VGA), but Adobe's sorry excuse for a PDF reader for PalmOS blows serious chunks. At the same time, I don't want to have to preprocess PDF files before I view them. If I'm stuck someplace, I want to be able to download a PDF in Blazer and view it, right then, right there. Is this really so difficult?!
Adobe premiered (no pun intended)
:)
I haven't laughed like that in a while. Thanks.
www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html
I tell you, some people just don't have anything better to do than to try being copycats. Tubgirl is the original and best -- accept no substitutes!
Maybe Signal 11 could swing by, that would be entertaining.
Ah, how I miss Signal 11... *sniff*
Hey, you got the credit, because I have my threshold set at 3 -- and they didn't obviously look like someone else's words. (I use italics when I quote on slashdot; I find indents to not be nearly as noticeable.)
When you've run a beta test and are happy that you've got enough bugs for your software to be a product your customers want to buy from you, you make the release.
Well, waiting until sufficient bugs accumulate before release is a development model which seems to be profitable for Microsoft, so surely you must be on to something!
It says "All rights reserved". You are not buying any intellectual property at all when you buy a CD. Just a piece of plastic. Copyright does not forbid you to play it, but it does forbid you to copy it, save for fair use.
Actually, it's legal for me to copy it. It's not legal for me to copy it and give that copy to my friend, though.
However, it *is* legal for my friend to borrow the original from me, copy it, give me back the original, and keep the copy.
Ahh, the benefits of living in Canada. And you thought they ended at universal health care!
http://sciesnet.net.nyud.net:8090/pics/006.jpg
The desktop-type hard drives don't even appear to be shock-mounted. For this reason alone, I would stay well away from this...
I find your ideas fascinating, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
w00t! The linked websites are now dead. When they were pulled is anyone's guess, though...
I just got TWO seemingly-identical eBay spoof messages to my eBay-registered email address (which contains 'ebay', but which doesn't otherwise collect spam). There is one difference between the messages, namely the URLs they point to:
. php
. php
http://d280599.u36.fast-host.com/ws/aw-cgi/verify
http://d281000.u36.fast-host.com/ws/aw-cgi/verify
The directory the php files are in is interesting. The whole thing is laid out in there. The email actually points to login.php, which brings you through a couple of intermediary pages before asking you for the goods. Submitting the verify.php page, blank, results in a little delay not present when you submit any of the other pages' forms -- presumably while verify.php is emailing the contents of the form fields somewhere.
I already left a note at the fast-host.com support page (although I'm not holding my breath, obviously). I tried calling them, but I got an unprofessional-sounding answering machine, leading me to think some guy is running fast-host.com out of his basement.
(*Sigh...*)
from the whis-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-whis-k-whis-k dept.
:)
Uhh, that's exactly the situation I'd rather have a keypad for, thanks. Every second counts!
(Pedantic note: If I'm not mistaken, it would actually be 10,2,2... right?)
...or of a lawsuit?
I hope all of the connections in their office are wireless!
There's no foam on the sides! Drop that box on its edge, and the PowerBook gets it!
Stupid...
For those of you wanting fruitcake this Christmas, may I recommend Collin Street Bakery?
If Collin Street Bakery is a bit too expensive for your liking, however, then you may wish to try Sollog's folks. They look well-stocked.
I know, replying to your own post is bad form, but I just couldn't help it.
For more information from Sollog's point of view, check this out.
At the moment, the article is blank. This version, however, is quite informative.