Truthfully, I was thinking along the lines of taking a high resolution camera and making it better, rather than taking a low resolution camera and making it high. My aging Nikon is a 7.1 megapixel, with only a 3x optical zoom. There have been times I wanted to take a picture of something quick, so do not necessaraly have time to zoom or move closer to the object. After cropping, I may end up with a 1-2 megapixel image (sometimes much lower). For the longest, I thought I just needed more megapixels, and a faster and higher powered optical zoom. However, looking at the pictures I have, I am like, if someone could just come up with something to make this look better... There is usually plenty of detail there for my eye, if something would come in and soften jaggie edges, sharpen the overall picture, and understand textures (such as clothing)...
Truthfully, with what I just talked about, I am looking for them to implement this in Photoshop so I can clean up some existing crappy photography of mine.
Couple of things. In my experience, if its a single error, that pops up fairly frequently and the user can reproduce it, they will give you the error message. If not, then you can follow their steps to reproduce the error message. If they can't remember the error, can't get it to pop up, then tell the user that you are not creating a ticket at that time, and for them to call back when the error appears, and then you can remote assist them.
If users are rapidly clicking through error messages, then either something such as your login script is generating errors on their computer, or they got spyware.
In the end of the day, I think creating custom error messages is going to be more trouble than its worth - just play some tough love and mention that you cannot help them if they cannot tell you what the problem is. This may frustrate them at first, but it won't take long at all before attitude changes. Otherwise, they are wasting their time and yours while you "investigate the situation".
I think its just silly. I live about 500 feet from an AT&T tower in my area. Neither me, nor people who live closer to it, have ever experienced any issues because of it. Maybe its because we are Texans and too stupid to worry about it, or maybe the amount of radiation it puts out is so minimal it doesn't affect anyone. I can tell you there are no mutated squirls running around, and my Pecans on my tree are just as safe to eat and tasty as those I buy at the store.
On the plus side, I get awesome reception and 3G service.
While we are one big state of Palin-worshiping Bible-thumping pro-life conservatives, I find the insenuation that those of us from North Texas just want to hunt and fish insulting. We care about cows, oil, airlines and fighter jets here.
I actually just switched to Dreamhost a week ago, and love it. $8.95 a month, unlimited everything, and SHELL ACCESS!!!! I mean, who gives you shell access this day and age? And I agree, the fact that not only are they in California but their techs are in California is a huge help. Shot tech support an e-mail, and heard back within minutes.
On neither my laptop, which has two gig of ram, or my desktop, which has 6 gig of ram, have I ran out of RAM with Windows 7. In fact, my experience is that Windows 7 uses LESS ram than Vista did (don't have actual numbers to give, sorry). That being said, I do USE the RAM on both - I do HD video editing on the desktop, and I multitask the crap out of my computers. Its not unusual for me to be rendering video, have uTorrent running, and acting as a media server, while I am Photoshopping stuff (on top of the RAM, thank goodness for multi-core processors and the ability to change thread priority in my rendering software). Truthfully, no one I know who is running Windows 7 has yet to hit a place where they "ran out of ram" - even those with only a gig (then again, those people tend to run instant messanger and a webbrowser most of the time, not exactly memory intensive applications). In my experience, most people this day and age have at least a basic understanding of numbers such as mHz and Ram, and know what they are going to be using a computer for, and can generally explain their needs to the computer salesmen. Even your most basic system on the market nowdays has enough processor power / memory to run Windows 7, a web browser, maybe an e-mail program, an instant messanger program or two, and possibly a word processor, if needed (unless you are at a computer store that is trying to unload old stock on you.). If you are running out of memory, its because you either running an older computer and installed a new OS on it (in which case, you probably need more of an upgrade than just a new OS), you did not properly convey your computing needs to your computer sales person (when people suddenly decide they are going to start running Photoshop and do video editing and playing games on their base systems), or you constantly work on large rendering projects (Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, etc) where no amount of ram is ever going to be enough for you.
Actually it did, it sparked something in my mind, and so I just googled IP over coax. Many articles and solutions for setting up IP based video cameras over a home's existing coax cabling, but I also found this link that actually has a device for running ethernet over a buildings existing coax (wither RG-6 or RG-59). Might be worth looking into.
The Texas Pledge? You mean, "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
I have lived in Texas all my life, and never heard of this. Had to look it up online. In fact, I bet you would be pretty hard pressed to find a student who knows this. Its also getting harder and harder to find kids who know "Texas, Our Texas", and who could tell you what the state bird and tree are.
As a Christian, I admire what they are doing, but I do disagree. At least with teaching Creationism in the classroom. I feel that should be left to the parents and to churches. I am, however, of the belief that evolution should be taught as a "theory" and not as "a hard scientific fact". Do I believe that mutation can happen over time and lead to eventual evolution? Yes. Science has been shown to prove this. Do I believe that all life on earth evolved from some primordial soup? Heck no - that's more far more out there than Creationism theory - the chances of life evolving by chance are astronomical, and there is no hard data supporting that. As such, the best you can do is look at modern mutations, and then predict if you look at this in reverse, how life got to its present state.
Also, belief in creationism should not necessarially mean that one does not believe in evolution. Look at the creation story in Genesis - the ORDER in which life was created. Then think that maybe the "days" in Genesis may not be literal days, but periods of time, possibly millions of years. What do you have?
As for history, I am not really sure what the argument was here. People should not mistake the Christian foundation of the colonies with the foundation of the country (or the founding fathers). Many of the early settlers left England and other European countries searching for religious freedoms. If you want to look at it strictly on what was there at the time, you had Protestants, Catholics, and the breakaway Church of England. Whoever was in control of a country at a time had a habbit of smushing all others, driving them into private worship, or in some cases, having people put to death. People left to go to the colonies so they could practice their religions in peace and safety. The founding fathers knew this, and knew what state control of religion would lead to. Truthfully, I believe that seperation of church and state wasn't ment to infer that you cannot pray in school or anything like that (otherwise, that would have been put into place back in the late 1700s), but rather that the government would not dictate how one chooses to worship and their beliefs. No, really and truely, why are we making all of these assumptions about if stuff like placing the Ten Commandments in a government building is a violation of church and state? Do people honestly think this is new? It was happening in 1776. So why did the founding fathers not specifically state this, or try putting a stop to it?
So, yes, history should state about religious persecution in Europe in the middle ages, how Christians left Europe in search of religious freedoms, and how the founding fathers said that the government would dictate a specific religion or ones beliefs or how one is to worship. What is so controversal about that?
This is really no surprise to me. I have people telling me there is something wrong with their laptop because its slow to load stuff up and the battery only seems to last half an hour. I ask them how new it is, and they are like, "Oh, its fairly new, I just bought the thing in April of 2007".
I got a fairly new laptop that I have been running Windows 7 (actual release, betas and RCs) for about a year now. I can tell you that Windows 7 is not depleting my battery any faster than any other OS. If this was a true problem, it would be reproducable, and many more people than this would be having this issue.
I agree. Unless you are doing some weird coding, your site should be viewable with the majority of browsers out there.
That being said, most people still running IE6 and IE7 either don't know how to upgrade or, more likely, can't upgrade. Many corporations (mine included) blocks the installation of IE8 because it hasn't been properly tested yet. And up until three weeks ago, Firefox was blocked. On our XP x64 boxes, people are still on IE6 (don't ask me why, I just support the stuff). And guess what? We are a tech company! So the original poster's argument that any tech person who visits their site can simply "update their browser" clearly does not take corporate regulations into account, or how slow corporations are to upgrade. Shoot, most corporations are still on XP. IE7 shipped with Vista, and Windows 7 shipped with IE8. By your argument, software developers should stop supporting both XP and Vista and support only Windows 7.
Nah, don't write special code for IE6, just let it try to render it. And if YOUR site is standard complient, chances are, IE6 will render most (maybe not all) of your stuff just fine. And agree with the other posts that state to just stick a banner on the page stating that your browser is old and may not render the page correctly.
Wow, Slashdot Plagerising a Washington Post article that is plagerising an article on Android Community. Practically word for word identical. Not sure if linking to the article is the same as providing citation.:-p
I am seriously doubting that this will be allowed to be applied by anyone except a licensed professional. While it might lead to some strange fettishes, I doubt most of us would want to get this on our skin.
What is the point of implementing something that is really not needed? When you are running secure stuff, SSH, SCP, VPN are used. Encrypting harddrives is overkill for the average person. What e-mails are we sending back and forth that is so sensitive it needs to be encrypted? If it is sensitive, most organizations have the approproate framework in place. I mean, why do I need to encrypt an e-mail to my fellow co-workers of the redneck joke of the day, or encrypt my browsing of Slashdot?
Deffinately agree about AT&Ts voice coverage area. Living in Texas, there are many areas where the other providers just don't have coverage at all. If you get outside of Austin, Houston, San Antonio, or DFW, (which happens to be like 90% of the state), you better hope you have AT&T. T-Mobile seems to have second-best coverage area area. Verizon is not bad, but I can certainly take you to places (miles at a time) where you will get no service with Verizon. Sprint, at least in DFW, has spotty coverage at best in the cities, and NO coverage when you get outside of it. And with Boost and Metro, better hope you never go outside your coverage area.
Verizon has the best 3G coverage. That being said, their network is 3G only. When Verizon phones have no service, I am still surfing at Edge speeds on my iPhone (albiet slow). I am still posting pics to Facebook in areas where Sprint users can't even make a phone call (oh, but Sprint has 4G! Oh joy, the nations fastest network, IF you are lucky enough to be in a place that you can actaully get coverage).
Traveling throughout the US, AT&T seems to have consistant signals, which is great when you like to drive backroads like I do. I can even get spotty reception in the mountains. I e-mailed photos from Mount Lemon in Tucson while on Mount Lemmon - where Verizon, Qwest, Cricket, and Sprint had no service. TMobile did. I have made phone calls from Pike's Peak. In fact, the only place I completely lost signal was for about 2 miles driving through a pass to Hoover Dam.
So, question is, do you want great coverage areas, or fast networks in limited areas?
Shoot, I would love to see, oh what's his name, is it Elijah Baley, from Asmov's Robots of Dawn series? A futuristic crime show? Shoot, crime shows are all the rage now, I am sure those would do fairly well.
As far as a reboot, Buck Rogers or Flash Gordan would be good. Or something like Seaquest with a decent story and decent writters. Shoot, I would like to see Lost In Space Rebooted a second time (taht cast in the movie would have worked if the characters weren't so freakin flat). Take people similar to the original cast, flesh out a GOOD set of stories, and extend them over a series instead of in a single movie. Kill the monkey. And keep the Stargate Universe writters away from it - I really do not want to see the whole Robinson family fighting with each other and sleeping together (shudders).
That's one. I know we are only one season in, but reboot Stargate Universe. God, that show sucks! Thanks for killing the francise, SGU!
You know, if you had a problem, you could have just turned your chair and talked to me, or IMed me, you did not have to post to Slashdot. Didn't think I would find out, did you? Go Cowboys!
While more companies are coming back to having thier own IT department, many still contract. Shoot, I have to PAY into a benefits package to get sick time, and certainly don't get vacation. The company I am contracting to does not have free coffee - shoot I just paid two bucks down in the cafeteria to get some nasty overcooked Starbucks stuff (hence why it was two bucks instead of $5), and its way better than the toilet water that is in the pay coffee machine in the hall. But I have a job right now in an otherwise troubled economy, so I am not complaining too much. But free caffinee would be AWESOME! That and to get hired on directly so I can get some PTO, Vacation, and some medical benefits that don't cost me half a weeks salery.
Yeah, its a Microsoft product, but its not half bad. Has exactly what you asked, an easy to learn language (BASIC) that is actually usable in real-world scenarios.
NEVER teach C or Java or Assembly to a first time programmer unless they are really bright. You need to teach a person how to develope reasoning and logic first before they start worrying about syntax and object oriented stuff, and Basic is a great stepping stone. The advantage of Visual Basic is suddenly you are in a GUI enviornment, and once you learn the easy stuff, you can actaully get into object oriented stuff.
But yes, in the end, stick to Basic, GWBasic, or Visual Basic. You have got to have that foundation of understanding programing Logic first and formost. After you have that foundation, you can fairly easily jump into any other language.
OpenOffice Word Document Table Parsing Heap Overflow Windows XP (Service Pack 3, [++]) 3.0-9358 3.0-9358 3.0-9358 51 Upgrade to OpenOffice 3.1.1
That was just one of the vulnerabilities Foundstone sees. I would have more examples, but we scrapped OpenOffice off the network about a month or so ago, as OpenSource software is forbidden at our company for legal reasons. Apparently someone reinstalled it.
You know, one of the problems with ask slashdot, especially if you get on a story shortly after its been posted, is a lot of times, I miss if a good answer was ever found. No I hear you dude, I am running into this issue a lot myself. Epson has gotten to where they chip their cartrages now, so generics are practically illegal unless and you end up having to get them imported. The problem is, Epson constantly changes their cartraige standard. If your printer is over a year old, you practically can no longer find cartrages for it, and if you do, they are freakin expensive.
I have gotten to where I keep my epson stylus cx6000 around simply because its a great scanner and useful as a card reader, but I cannot find ink for this thing hardly anywhere. I started getting cheap printers for around $40 that I use for my every day printing, and just throwing them out by the curb when the cartrages go bad and getting new printer. Talk about a huge carbon footprint I am leaving.
Usually, if I need to print documents or something, I will either do it at work or church, and for pictures, I just send them off to CVS or Walmart as the quality is better, and its MUCH cheaper than printing at home.
I don't think the problem is so much an issue with classic hard drive storage as it is with Optical Storage. You are right, those file systems, as well as some others, actually do a pretty good job at this. Its why, when files are corrupt on the harddrive, you can simply do a CheckDisk, or run DiskWarrior, or whatever you use on your operating system of choice, and easily recover data (unless the harddrive is physically corrupt, then there are still data retrieval services out there).
No, the problem is deffinately with Optical Media,a nd going from the traditional ISO and UDF formats to something that has a hash check, say at the begining, end, and possibly even the middle, of a session may not be such a bad idea. Shoot, Par files on newsgroups have been dealing with data corruption for years - and its amazing how 4-5 meg of par files can help you recover data from a 5 gig corrupt download - depending on how many par files are created and how corrupt the original download is.
I have had many optical that seem to start having issues with bits here and there sometimes just a few short months after reading them, and become almost unreadable within just a couple of years, while software exists to pull the files even if the disc is bad, you do have errors and such. I have old home movies that are almost unwatchable because the data deteriorated just too much on the disc. But yeah, if there were a hash check in a couple of different physical places on the disc, I probably would have been able to recover my original file.
So yeah, this does not really need to be done at the file level. Shoot, in fact, I think that is a STUPID idea. It really should be done at a slightly higher level.
Guess I will wait for AMD to make an x64 version of it. I don't care how many cores you have, I am not going back to 32 bit! Expecially if I have 48 cores, I REALLY want to use more than 3 gig of RAM!
I was not a fan of it on Vista, but it is actaully REALLY good on Windows 7 - mainly because it seems to work wtih Professional (Vista did not have Media Center in the Business edition). That said, my ATI HD TV Wonder does not work with anything other than XP. But I am starting to hate the thing anyway and just buy me a Haupeg card that has component and SPIDIF input.
Its why I left Linux. I hate when documentation states that I install such and such program by using the standard "make" command. This means taht I have to go find a second set of documentation to remember what the make command is (RPMs spoiled me), then google the error code to realize I am missing a library, then dig over this badly written documentation trying to figure out how to install the library just to realize taht it relies on yet another dependancy that I don't have, and am just linked to a subversion library where I have to learn on my own how to debug and compile code so that I can install library to find out that the original tarball does not do the function I had downloaded it for.
Now I know that not every Linux program is like that, and this was a bad taste from about 4 years ago, but it made a BAD taste in my mouth for linux. And I had been using it since 1997. I left Linux for Vista when it was in early Beta, and now on Windows 7, and I do not regret my decision in the least.
What Linux really needs is not really documentation, but Universal Binaries (such as on the Mac) taht will include dependancies with it. I can put up with there not being much software documentation - shoot, I don't mind just messing with something, but please, don't make me hunt down half a dozen documents on Google plus a few dependancies and libraries just to INSTALL your program.
No, Linux Bug #1 is no standard for Binaries, NOT lack of documentation.
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Truthfully, I was thinking along the lines of taking a high resolution camera and making it better, rather than taking a low resolution camera and making it high. My aging Nikon is a 7.1 megapixel, with only a 3x optical zoom. There have been times I wanted to take a picture of something quick, so do not necessaraly have time to zoom or move closer to the object. After cropping, I may end up with a 1-2 megapixel image (sometimes much lower). For the longest, I thought I just needed more megapixels, and a faster and higher powered optical zoom. However, looking at the pictures I have, I am like, if someone could just come up with something to make this look better... There is usually plenty of detail there for my eye, if something would come in and soften jaggie edges, sharpen the overall picture, and understand textures (such as clothing)...
Truthfully, with what I just talked about, I am looking for them to implement this in Photoshop so I can clean up some existing crappy photography of mine.
Couple of things. In my experience, if its a single error, that pops up fairly frequently and the user can reproduce it, they will give you the error message. If not, then you can follow their steps to reproduce the error message. If they can't remember the error, can't get it to pop up, then tell the user that you are not creating a ticket at that time, and for them to call back when the error appears, and then you can remote assist them.
If users are rapidly clicking through error messages, then either something such as your login script is generating errors on their computer, or they got spyware.
In the end of the day, I think creating custom error messages is going to be more trouble than its worth - just play some tough love and mention that you cannot help them if they cannot tell you what the problem is. This may frustrate them at first, but it won't take long at all before attitude changes. Otherwise, they are wasting their time and yours while you "investigate the situation".
I think its just silly. I live about 500 feet from an AT&T tower in my area. Neither me, nor people who live closer to it, have ever experienced any issues because of it. Maybe its because we are Texans and too stupid to worry about it, or maybe the amount of radiation it puts out is so minimal it doesn't affect anyone. I can tell you there are no mutated squirls running around, and my Pecans on my tree are just as safe to eat and tasty as those I buy at the store.
On the plus side, I get awesome reception and 3G service.
While we are one big state of Palin-worshiping Bible-thumping pro-life conservatives, I find the insenuation that those of us from North Texas just want to hunt and fish insulting. We care about cows, oil, airlines and fighter jets here.
I actually just switched to Dreamhost a week ago, and love it. $8.95 a month, unlimited everything, and SHELL ACCESS!!!! I mean, who gives you shell access this day and age? And I agree, the fact that not only are they in California but their techs are in California is a huge help. Shot tech support an e-mail, and heard back within minutes.
On neither my laptop, which has two gig of ram, or my desktop, which has 6 gig of ram, have I ran out of RAM with Windows 7. In fact, my experience is that Windows 7 uses LESS ram than Vista did (don't have actual numbers to give, sorry). That being said, I do USE the RAM on both - I do HD video editing on the desktop, and I multitask the crap out of my computers. Its not unusual for me to be rendering video, have uTorrent running, and acting as a media server, while I am Photoshopping stuff (on top of the RAM, thank goodness for multi-core processors and the ability to change thread priority in my rendering software). Truthfully, no one I know who is running Windows 7 has yet to hit a place where they "ran out of ram" - even those with only a gig (then again, those people tend to run instant messanger and a webbrowser most of the time, not exactly memory intensive applications). In my experience, most people this day and age have at least a basic understanding of numbers such as mHz and Ram, and know what they are going to be using a computer for, and can generally explain their needs to the computer salesmen. Even your most basic system on the market nowdays has enough processor power / memory to run Windows 7, a web browser, maybe an e-mail program, an instant messanger program or two, and possibly a word processor, if needed (unless you are at a computer store that is trying to unload old stock on you.). If you are running out of memory, its because you either running an older computer and installed a new OS on it (in which case, you probably need more of an upgrade than just a new OS), you did not properly convey your computing needs to your computer sales person (when people suddenly decide they are going to start running Photoshop and do video editing and playing games on their base systems), or you constantly work on large rendering projects (Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, etc) where no amount of ram is ever going to be enough for you.
Actually it did, it sparked something in my mind, and so I just googled IP over coax. Many articles and solutions for setting up IP based video cameras over a home's existing coax cabling, but I also found this link that actually has a device for running ethernet over a buildings existing coax (wither RG-6 or RG-59). Might be worth looking into.
The Texas Pledge? You mean, "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
I have lived in Texas all my life, and never heard of this. Had to look it up online. In fact, I bet you would be pretty hard pressed to find a student who knows this. Its also getting harder and harder to find kids who know "Texas, Our Texas", and who could tell you what the state bird and tree are.
As a Christian, I admire what they are doing, but I do disagree. At least with teaching Creationism in the classroom. I feel that should be left to the parents and to churches. I am, however, of the belief that evolution should be taught as a "theory" and not as "a hard scientific fact". Do I believe that mutation can happen over time and lead to eventual evolution? Yes. Science has been shown to prove this. Do I believe that all life on earth evolved from some primordial soup? Heck no - that's more far more out there than Creationism theory - the chances of life evolving by chance are astronomical, and there is no hard data supporting that. As such, the best you can do is look at modern mutations, and then predict if you look at this in reverse, how life got to its present state.
Also, belief in creationism should not necessarially mean that one does not believe in evolution. Look at the creation story in Genesis - the ORDER in which life was created. Then think that maybe the "days" in Genesis may not be literal days, but periods of time, possibly millions of years. What do you have?
As for history, I am not really sure what the argument was here. People should not mistake the Christian foundation of the colonies with the foundation of the country (or the founding fathers). Many of the early settlers left England and other European countries searching for religious freedoms. If you want to look at it strictly on what was there at the time, you had Protestants, Catholics, and the breakaway Church of England. Whoever was in control of a country at a time had a habbit of smushing all others, driving them into private worship, or in some cases, having people put to death. People left to go to the colonies so they could practice their religions in peace and safety. The founding fathers knew this, and knew what state control of religion would lead to. Truthfully, I believe that seperation of church and state wasn't ment to infer that you cannot pray in school or anything like that (otherwise, that would have been put into place back in the late 1700s), but rather that the government would not dictate how one chooses to worship and their beliefs. No, really and truely, why are we making all of these assumptions about if stuff like placing the Ten Commandments in a government building is a violation of church and state? Do people honestly think this is new? It was happening in 1776. So why did the founding fathers not specifically state this, or try putting a stop to it?
So, yes, history should state about religious persecution in Europe in the middle ages, how Christians left Europe in search of religious freedoms, and how the founding fathers said that the government would dictate a specific religion or ones beliefs or how one is to worship. What is so controversal about that?
This is really no surprise to me. I have people telling me there is something wrong with their laptop because its slow to load stuff up and the battery only seems to last half an hour. I ask them how new it is, and they are like, "Oh, its fairly new, I just bought the thing in April of 2007".
I got a fairly new laptop that I have been running Windows 7 (actual release, betas and RCs) for about a year now. I can tell you that Windows 7 is not depleting my battery any faster than any other OS. If this was a true problem, it would be reproducable, and many more people than this would be having this issue.
I agree. Unless you are doing some weird coding, your site should be viewable with the majority of browsers out there.
That being said, most people still running IE6 and IE7 either don't know how to upgrade or, more likely, can't upgrade. Many corporations (mine included) blocks the installation of IE8 because it hasn't been properly tested yet. And up until three weeks ago, Firefox was blocked. On our XP x64 boxes, people are still on IE6 (don't ask me why, I just support the stuff). And guess what? We are a tech company! So the original poster's argument that any tech person who visits their site can simply "update their browser" clearly does not take corporate regulations into account, or how slow corporations are to upgrade. Shoot, most corporations are still on XP. IE7 shipped with Vista, and Windows 7 shipped with IE8. By your argument, software developers should stop supporting both XP and Vista and support only Windows 7.
Nah, don't write special code for IE6, just let it try to render it. And if YOUR site is standard complient, chances are, IE6 will render most (maybe not all) of your stuff just fine. And agree with the other posts that state to just stick a banner on the page stating that your browser is old and may not render the page correctly.
Wow, Slashdot Plagerising a Washington Post article that is plagerising an article on Android Community. Practically word for word identical. Not sure if linking to the article is the same as providing citation. :-p
I am seriously doubting that this will be allowed to be applied by anyone except a licensed professional. While it might lead to some strange fettishes, I doubt most of us would want to get this on our skin.
That depends - the glass is water resistant - is it shatterproof as well? Drive down a dirt road, and there goes your shiny expensive coating.
What is the point of implementing something that is really not needed? When you are running secure stuff, SSH, SCP, VPN are used. Encrypting harddrives is overkill for the average person. What e-mails are we sending back and forth that is so sensitive it needs to be encrypted? If it is sensitive, most organizations have the approproate framework in place. I mean, why do I need to encrypt an e-mail to my fellow co-workers of the redneck joke of the day, or encrypt my browsing of Slashdot?
Deffinately agree about AT&Ts voice coverage area. Living in Texas, there are many areas where the other providers just don't have coverage at all. If you get outside of Austin, Houston, San Antonio, or DFW, (which happens to be like 90% of the state), you better hope you have AT&T. T-Mobile seems to have second-best coverage area area. Verizon is not bad, but I can certainly take you to places (miles at a time) where you will get no service with Verizon. Sprint, at least in DFW, has spotty coverage at best in the cities, and NO coverage when you get outside of it. And with Boost and Metro, better hope you never go outside your coverage area.
Verizon has the best 3G coverage. That being said, their network is 3G only. When Verizon phones have no service, I am still surfing at Edge speeds on my iPhone (albiet slow). I am still posting pics to Facebook in areas where Sprint users can't even make a phone call (oh, but Sprint has 4G! Oh joy, the nations fastest network, IF you are lucky enough to be in a place that you can actaully get coverage).
Traveling throughout the US, AT&T seems to have consistant signals, which is great when you like to drive backroads like I do. I can even get spotty reception in the mountains. I e-mailed photos from Mount Lemon in Tucson while on Mount Lemmon - where Verizon, Qwest, Cricket, and Sprint had no service. TMobile did. I have made phone calls from Pike's Peak. In fact, the only place I completely lost signal was for about 2 miles driving through a pass to Hoover Dam.
So, question is, do you want great coverage areas, or fast networks in limited areas?
Shoot, I would love to see, oh what's his name, is it Elijah Baley, from Asmov's Robots of Dawn series? A futuristic crime show? Shoot, crime shows are all the rage now, I am sure those would do fairly well.
As far as a reboot, Buck Rogers or Flash Gordan would be good. Or something like Seaquest with a decent story and decent writters. Shoot, I would like to see Lost In Space Rebooted a second time (taht cast in the movie would have worked if the characters weren't so freakin flat). Take people similar to the original cast, flesh out a GOOD set of stories, and extend them over a series instead of in a single movie. Kill the monkey. And keep the Stargate Universe writters away from it - I really do not want to see the whole Robinson family fighting with each other and sleeping together (shudders).
That's one. I know we are only one season in, but reboot Stargate Universe. God, that show sucks! Thanks for killing the francise, SGU!
You know, if you had a problem, you could have just turned your chair and talked to me, or IMed me, you did not have to post to Slashdot. Didn't think I would find out, did you? Go Cowboys!
While more companies are coming back to having thier own IT department, many still contract. Shoot, I have to PAY into a benefits package to get sick time, and certainly don't get vacation. The company I am contracting to does not have free coffee - shoot I just paid two bucks down in the cafeteria to get some nasty overcooked Starbucks stuff (hence why it was two bucks instead of $5), and its way better than the toilet water that is in the pay coffee machine in the hall. But I have a job right now in an otherwise troubled economy, so I am not complaining too much. But free caffinee would be AWESOME! That and to get hired on directly so I can get some PTO, Vacation, and some medical benefits that don't cost me half a weeks salery.
Yeah, its a Microsoft product, but its not half bad. Has exactly what you asked, an easy to learn language (BASIC) that is actually usable in real-world scenarios.
NEVER teach C or Java or Assembly to a first time programmer unless they are really bright. You need to teach a person how to develope reasoning and logic first before they start worrying about syntax and object oriented stuff, and Basic is a great stepping stone. The advantage of Visual Basic is suddenly you are in a GUI enviornment, and once you learn the easy stuff, you can actaully get into object oriented stuff.
But yes, in the end, stick to Basic, GWBasic, or Visual Basic. You have got to have that foundation of understanding programing Logic first and formost. After you have that foundation, you can fairly easily jump into any other language.
OpenOffice Word Document Table Parsing Heap Overflow Windows XP (Service Pack 3, [++]) 3.0-9358 3.0-9358 3.0-9358 51 Upgrade to OpenOffice 3.1.1
That was just one of the vulnerabilities Foundstone sees. I would have more examples, but we scrapped OpenOffice off the network about a month or so ago, as OpenSource software is forbidden at our company for legal reasons. Apparently someone reinstalled it.
You know, one of the problems with ask slashdot, especially if you get on a story shortly after its been posted, is a lot of times, I miss if a good answer was ever found. No I hear you dude, I am running into this issue a lot myself. Epson has gotten to where they chip their cartrages now, so generics are practically illegal unless and you end up having to get them imported. The problem is, Epson constantly changes their cartraige standard. If your printer is over a year old, you practically can no longer find cartrages for it, and if you do, they are freakin expensive.
I have gotten to where I keep my epson stylus cx6000 around simply because its a great scanner and useful as a card reader, but I cannot find ink for this thing hardly anywhere. I started getting cheap printers for around $40 that I use for my every day printing, and just throwing them out by the curb when the cartrages go bad and getting new printer. Talk about a huge carbon footprint I am leaving.
Usually, if I need to print documents or something, I will either do it at work or church, and for pictures, I just send them off to CVS or Walmart as the quality is better, and its MUCH cheaper than printing at home.
I don't think the problem is so much an issue with classic hard drive storage as it is with Optical Storage. You are right, those file systems, as well as some others, actually do a pretty good job at this. Its why, when files are corrupt on the harddrive, you can simply do a CheckDisk, or run DiskWarrior, or whatever you use on your operating system of choice, and easily recover data (unless the harddrive is physically corrupt, then there are still data retrieval services out there).
No, the problem is deffinately with Optical Media,a nd going from the traditional ISO and UDF formats to something that has a hash check, say at the begining, end, and possibly even the middle, of a session may not be such a bad idea. Shoot, Par files on newsgroups have been dealing with data corruption for years - and its amazing how 4-5 meg of par files can help you recover data from a 5 gig corrupt download - depending on how many par files are created and how corrupt the original download is.
I have had many optical that seem to start having issues with bits here and there sometimes just a few short months after reading them, and become almost unreadable within just a couple of years, while software exists to pull the files even if the disc is bad, you do have errors and such. I have old home movies that are almost unwatchable because the data deteriorated just too much on the disc. But yeah, if there were a hash check in a couple of different physical places on the disc, I probably would have been able to recover my original file.
So yeah, this does not really need to be done at the file level. Shoot, in fact, I think that is a STUPID idea. It really should be done at a slightly higher level.
Guess I will wait for AMD to make an x64 version of it. I don't care how many cores you have, I am not going back to 32 bit! Expecially if I have 48 cores, I REALLY want to use more than 3 gig of RAM!
I was not a fan of it on Vista, but it is actaully REALLY good on Windows 7 - mainly because it seems to work wtih Professional (Vista did not have Media Center in the Business edition). That said, my ATI HD TV Wonder does not work with anything other than XP. But I am starting to hate the thing anyway and just buy me a Haupeg card that has component and SPIDIF input.
Its why I left Linux. I hate when documentation states that I install such and such program by using the standard "make" command. This means taht I have to go find a second set of documentation to remember what the make command is (RPMs spoiled me), then google the error code to realize I am missing a library, then dig over this badly written documentation trying to figure out how to install the library just to realize taht it relies on yet another dependancy that I don't have, and am just linked to a subversion library where I have to learn on my own how to debug and compile code so that I can install library to find out that the original tarball does not do the function I had downloaded it for.
Now I know that not every Linux program is like that, and this was a bad taste from about 4 years ago, but it made a BAD taste in my mouth for linux. And I had been using it since 1997. I left Linux for Vista when it was in early Beta, and now on Windows 7, and I do not regret my decision in the least.
What Linux really needs is not really documentation, but Universal Binaries (such as on the Mac) taht will include dependancies with it. I can put up with there not being much software documentation - shoot, I don't mind just messing with something, but please, don't make me hunt down half a dozen documents on Google plus a few dependancies and libraries just to INSTALL your program.
No, Linux Bug #1 is no standard for Binaries, NOT lack of documentation.