Child's Play has become a Christmas Ritual for my daughter and I - both last year and this (she's 5 now) we have sat down at the computer with the Wish List for our hospital, and I let her choose what we want to send. This year we sent a Barbie Princess DVD, a My Little Pony DVD, a board book, and Five dozen D-cell batteries.
I'm not sure why she chose batteries, but she has recently learned that some of her toys don't work when they run out, and she's very concerned about having enough to go around...
>> That said, I do believe that some crazy person made a FireFox extension to embed IE or something and run the wretched things.
I believe you're talking about IEView, which is useful for those of us who run Firefox on XP and want to visit sites that just don't work (or don't work as well) in Firefox..
I was thinking that - the same technique that was used in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. I'm not sure how practical that would be for an entire film, but I think it was planned to be used to do a Magneto film with McKellan, so I would assume it's do-able.
The computer crimes unit in the department that I work for (as an IT flunky) seized a C64 about 2 years ago in a kiddie porn case, along with a good number of 5 1/4" disks, but no working drive. They send a global email looking for anyone with old C64 hardware, and I donated my 1541 drive to the cause.
I'm not sure what the outcome was, but I know they still have the C64 up and running in their office.
It does present some interesting complications, from what (little) I know about the forensic examinations they do, they go to great pains not to alter the contents of the original media, using apps like EnCase to snapshot drives they're working with.
homer_caHow reliable are those 20 year old floppy disks?
I'm not sure, but I have an unopened (still shrinkwrapped) box of 10 5 1/4's in my office that I've been considering tossing on eBay just for fun. Buy 'em and find out!
Maybe we should all use the "Official" ISO date format - YYYY-MM-DD and avoid confusion.
I have a system that I administer that uses the ISO dates, and every single one of my users hates it.
I'm not arguing that property seizures happen, I have an issue with the concept of 'sold at auction before anyone could so anything about it'. It's the concept that a cop is just going to come up and take your car, then sell it at auction with you not being able to do anything about it that's wrong.
That's why we have things like courts, to prevent things like that from occurring.
Close, but still doesn't meet the criteria of "No recourse", since the article itself is posted by someone taking legal action to reverse the actions by the agency. (and the bad law that made the action possible)
I don't doubt or dispute that bad things happen at the hands of some cops, but to make a blanket statement that indites all of Law Enforcements and paints them as jack-booted thugs by saying things like this happen "All the time" simply isn't fair or true.
Sixty Minutes did a story about someone completely uninvolved with a crime (an honest innocent bystander) having their vehicle seized and sold at auction with absolutely no recourse?
Bullshit. Not in the litigious society in which we live.
You read about stories all the time in the US where someone for example gets their car seized as part of a raid, and before the owner can get the courts to force it back to them, it's already been sold at a government auction. In most of these cases the owner of the property was completely uninvolved, it could have been a car just parked at the curb in front of the house as the owner was happened to be visiting a friend across the street that day.
Please provide a single corroborated instance of this occurring. I'll be the most surprised person on Earth if you can, but since you read about it 'all the time' it shouldn't be that much of a problem for you.
Windows:
1. Click 'Start'.
2. Go to Settings > Control Panel (or click on 'Control Panel' if using the XP menu)
3. Double-click on 'User Accounts' and wait for applet to load.
4. Click on account name.
5. Click on 'Change Password' (or 'Create Password' if none is set)
6. Type in current password (only if 'Change Password' was selected), new password, and again to confirm. Also type in a hint.
7. It may ask if you want to make folders private. Choose yes or no.
8. Close window. Done.
See, that's strange, because all I do is hit CTRL + ALT + DEL, then click "Change Password". Enter the old, then the new twice and click "OK"
No need to complicate things overly. And no need to compare the O/S's. each has it's place.
I feel fairly comfortable with admining Windows.
Maybe we've just discovered why so many Windows systems have problems.
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place
Yea, tell that to the cops who cry for it when they're trying to do report narratives or warrants without spell check.
And FWIW, there is at least one large police agency in the US that makes extensive use of OpenOffice. Mine. We started deploying it in our patrol cars about 2 years ago and now have about 350 MDC's on the street, all with OpenOffice, add to that the 400 or so that we've configured for the smaller police departments in the state, and we're close to 800 users with an OSS app.
It's getting the the point where officers come in to teach at the academy and they presentaitons are done in Impress rather than PowerPoint. Kinda neat seeing the adaption they're doing on their own.
There was some initial complaining, but the users have adapted very well. It's been great for us.
# No multiplayer coop - playing against a few friends at a lan party with bots for backup was one of my favorite things to do in BF 1942.
That is possible - have a user start a single-player game, then have friends to "Connect to IP" and direct-connect to the hosts address. Bingo - multiplayer with bots. You're stuck on the 16-player maps, but it's better than nothing, which is how it came out of the box.
You can check out this thread over on Wickedlans for more info. We used it at our (smallish) LAN party last weekend and it worked fine.
The easiest way to know if the cellular internet service is going to work is by looking to see if your cell phone works. If your cell phone is with the same carrier, it's signal bars will mirror those of the wireless data service.
I'm in a similar situation - too far for DSL, too expensive to run cable (at the time, building my house 1/4 mile from the main road seemed like a good idea - now Comcast wants $1500 to run the wire up my driveway, and the won't tie into it if I do it.) I do have fairly reliable dial-up, but it's still just dial up.
We've been using Verizon's wireless data service at my work (I work in the IT dept. at a large East Coast LE agency) since 1997, starting with their CDPD service, and are now in the process of switching to their 1x CDMA service. I've been using CDMA on my take-home laptop for about 18 months now and it's all but eliminated my use of dial-up at home.
The service is fast - faster than dial-up at least. It is not nearly as fast as DSL, but you can use it anywhere - if I'm on call it's not a problem to chuck the laptop in the trunk of the car and be available from anywhere there's Verizon phone service. I have used their 3x service while at a conference in DC last summer, and it was faster (or seemed so) than the wired connection availalbe in my hotel room, but it's not available in my area yet.
The downsides - it's not for gaming. Just like the DirectWay service, there's built-in latency. I've tried it once, and it's just not any good. I use my dial-up to game, and use the CDMA and the laptop for Ventrillo - that works pretty well.
And the expense - it will go down, fairly rapidly I expect. When we first started using CDMA about 2 years ago, we were paying $80 per month per account for unlimited use. It's now down to $55 per month per account for the same service.
I would check with my local cell phone shop to see if they will let you 'test' a CDMA (tho with Cingular I expect it's GMRS, or GPRS, forget their acroym) phone for a few days, you can at least see how it's going to work for you.
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Child's Play has become a Christmas Ritual for my daughter and I - both last year and this (she's 5 now) we have sat down at the computer with the Wish List for our hospital, and I let her choose what we want to send. This year we sent a Barbie Princess DVD, a My Little Pony DVD, a board book, and Five dozen D-cell batteries.
I'm not sure why she chose batteries, but she has recently learned that some of her toys don't work when they run out, and she's very concerned about having enough to go around...
7. No significant protection (thick fur, heavy fat layer, thick skin)
I don't know about you, but I have a pretty heavy fat layer....
IETab, which lets you run IE windows inside firefox tabs
IEView allows the same thing - I wonder how many other 'duplicate' extensions there are...
>> That said, I do believe that some crazy person made a FireFox extension to embed IE or something and run the wretched things.
I believe you're talking about IEView, which is useful for those of us who run Firefox on XP and want to visit sites that just don't work (or don't work as well) in Firefox..
What a sucker, mine only cost $1201.68
I was thinking that - the same technique that was used in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. I'm not sure how practical that would be for an entire film, but I think it was planned to be used to do a Magneto film with McKellan, so I would assume it's do-able.
The computer crimes unit in the department that I work for (as an IT flunky) seized a C64 about 2 years ago in a kiddie porn case, along with a good number of 5 1/4" disks, but no working drive. They send a global email looking for anyone with old C64 hardware, and I donated my 1541 drive to the cause.
I'm not sure what the outcome was, but I know they still have the C64 up and running in their office.
It does present some interesting complications, from what (little) I know about the forensic examinations they do, they go to great pains not to alter the contents of the original media, using apps like EnCase to snapshot drives they're working with.
homer_ca How reliable are those 20 year old floppy disks?
I'm not sure, but I have an unopened (still shrinkwrapped) box of 10 5 1/4's in my office that I've been considering tossing on eBay just for fun. Buy 'em and find out!
My personal favorite method of dealing with hung apps is pskill, part of the PsTools suite - when you absolutely need to end a process right now.
Also cool because you can kill processes remotely if you're an admin. Fun with friends!
Maybe we should all use the "Official" ISO date format - YYYY-MM-DD and avoid confusion. I have a system that I administer that uses the ISO dates, and every single one of my users hates it.
wasn't there already a Dragonlance cartoon in the 80's, and didn't it suck hard
You may be thinking of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon which aired Saturday Morning from '83 to '85 on CBS.
Please point out where in your above original post, the words 'No Recourse' appear or are implied.
Ummm. Ok.
before the owner can get the courts to force it back to them, it's already been sold at a government auction
Any other stupid requests? I do magic tricks, too.
I'm not arguing that property seizures happen, I have an issue with the concept of 'sold at auction before anyone could so anything about it'. It's the concept that a cop is just going to come up and take your car, then sell it at auction with you not being able to do anything about it that's wrong.
That's why we have things like courts, to prevent things like that from occurring.
Carnifex0 was giving his daughter a bath.
Close, but still doesn't meet the criteria of "No recourse", since the article itself is posted by someone taking legal action to reverse the actions by the agency. (and the bad law that made the action possible)
I don't doubt or dispute that bad things happen at the hands of some cops, but to make a blanket statement that indites all of Law Enforcements and paints them as jack-booted thugs by saying things like this happen "All the time" simply isn't fair or true.
Sixty Minutes did a story about someone completely uninvolved with a crime (an honest innocent bystander) having their vehicle seized and sold at auction with absolutely no recourse?
Bullshit. Not in the litigious society in which we live.
You read about stories all the time in the US where someone for example gets their car seized as part of a raid, and before the owner can get the courts to force it back to them, it's already been sold at a government auction. In most of these cases the owner of the property was completely uninvolved, it could have been a car just parked at the curb in front of the house as the owner was happened to be visiting a friend across the street that day.
Please provide a single corroborated instance of this occurring. I'll be the most surprised person on Earth if you can, but since you read about it 'all the time' it shouldn't be that much of a problem for you.
Is there ONE good game that was a license of a brand?
While the Star Wars games are hit and miss, there are certainly hits in there.. XvT comes to mind, as does last year's Lego Star Wars.
Windows:
1. Click 'Start'.
2. Go to Settings > Control Panel (or click on 'Control Panel' if using the XP menu)
3. Double-click on 'User Accounts' and wait for applet to load.
4. Click on account name.
5. Click on 'Change Password' (or 'Create Password' if none is set)
6. Type in current password (only if 'Change Password' was selected), new password, and again to confirm. Also type in a hint.
7. It may ask if you want to make folders private. Choose yes or no.
8. Close window. Done.
See, that's strange, because all I do is hit CTRL + ALT + DEL, then click "Change Password". Enter the old, then the new twice and click "OK"
No need to complicate things overly. And no need to compare the O/S's. each has it's place.
I feel fairly comfortable with admining Windows.
Maybe we've just discovered why so many Windows systems have problems.
No way, with markdown, it's like $38.97
A lot of the rags to riches stories involves geeks. South Park's creators, Family Guy's creator, Matt Groenig, Woz and Steve Jobs.
And Kevin Smith, and Quentin Tarentino....
Please, tell us how you really feel..
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place
Yea, tell that to the cops who cry for it when they're trying to do report narratives or warrants without spell check.
And FWIW, there is at least one large police agency in the US that makes extensive use of OpenOffice. Mine. We started deploying it in our patrol cars about 2 years ago and now have about 350 MDC's on the street, all with OpenOffice, add to that the 400 or so that we've configured for the smaller police departments in the state, and we're close to 800 users with an OSS app.
It's getting the the point where officers come in to teach at the academy and they presentaitons are done in Impress rather than PowerPoint. Kinda neat seeing the adaption they're doing on their own.
There was some initial complaining, but the users have adapted very well. It's been great for us.
Bemopolis:
Sheesh -- If you're going to act like a n00b then give me your lower Slashdot number as bounty.
What's considered a low number? And what is such a thing worth?
(I keed, I keed)
# No multiplayer coop - playing against a few friends at a lan party with bots for backup was one of my favorite things to do in BF 1942.
That is possible - have a user start a single-player game, then have friends to "Connect to IP" and direct-connect to the hosts address. Bingo - multiplayer with bots. You're stuck on the 16-player maps, but it's better than nothing, which is how it came out of the box. You can check out this thread over on Wickedlans for more info. We used it at our (smallish) LAN party last weekend and it worked fine.
The easiest way to know if the cellular internet service is going to work is by looking to see if your cell phone works. If your cell phone is with the same carrier, it's signal bars will mirror those of the wireless data service.
I'm in a similar situation - too far for DSL, too expensive to run cable (at the time, building my house 1/4 mile from the main road seemed like a good idea - now Comcast wants $1500 to run the wire up my driveway, and the won't tie into it if I do it.) I do have fairly reliable dial-up, but it's still just dial up.
We've been using Verizon's wireless data service at my work (I work in the IT dept. at a large East Coast LE agency) since 1997, starting with their CDPD service, and are now in the process of switching to their 1x CDMA service. I've been using CDMA on my take-home laptop for about 18 months now and it's all but eliminated my use of dial-up at home.
The service is fast - faster than dial-up at least. It is not nearly as fast as DSL, but you can use it anywhere - if I'm on call it's not a problem to chuck the laptop in the trunk of the car and be available from anywhere there's Verizon phone service. I have used their 3x service while at a conference in DC last summer, and it was faster (or seemed so) than the wired connection availalbe in my hotel room, but it's not available in my area yet.
The downsides - it's not for gaming. Just like the DirectWay service, there's built-in latency. I've tried it once, and it's just not any good. I use my dial-up to game, and use the CDMA and the laptop for Ventrillo - that works pretty well.
And the expense - it will go down, fairly rapidly I expect. When we first started using CDMA about 2 years ago, we were paying $80 per month per account for unlimited use. It's now down to $55 per month per account for the same service.
I would check with my local cell phone shop to see if they will let you 'test' a CDMA (tho with Cingular I expect it's GMRS, or GPRS, forget their acroym) phone for a few days, you can at least see how it's going to work for you.