Windows 8 removes the F8 boot menu. Makes getting into Safe Mode interesting when you can't boot a machine and tell it to run Safe Mode. I have read that pressing Shift+F8 is supposed to do the trick now, but I haven't gotten it to work.
Its not illegal per say, the law just limits a corporation to two retail licenses to sell alcohol. That being said, Coors is extremely popular in NJ for some reason.
The Power Macintosh debuted in March 1994, running a mostly emulated operating system and applications. Until native applications were available, a Quadra was better in terms of performance. The fastest platform for running 68k Mac applications was actually an Amiga running a Macintosh emulator and a 68060 CPU upgrade. Don't discount the 68000, Apple kept selling low cost Macs (Powerbook 100 and Mac Classic) with them all the way until September 1992.
Any high end Amiga is going to be rare in the US. They were primarily sold as Video Toaster workstations here. The platform was far more popular in Europe. Things like leaking NiCad clock batteries and capacitors have taken many of them out of service however.
CPU-wise they were equal to Macs. The circa 1992 Amiga 4000 came with 25Mhz 68030 and 68040 CPUs. Most mass market Macs were shipping with 68030s with the 040 reserved for the new and expensive Quadra. Where the 4000 really lagged was graphics. The AGA chipset was easily outclassed by Apple's onboard video systems, and that is saying ALOT. Sound was still competitive, but not for very long as even PCs got "16bit" sound in the form of the PAS16 and Soundblaster 16.
Lotus Notes.... *shiver*. That client screams 1995. It still uses.INI files for its configuration the last time I set it up for a family member (they since switched to an Exchange server). The setup sheet the IT dept gave her for the client was 3 pages long and very technical.
IHe tries to generalize it, but it seems like he's talking about outlook specifically not working with gmail. Maybe he should try not using outlook? I dunno. Maybe that's just me. I hate outlook, but my work seems to love it. I have to forward my work e-mail to a gmail account to use it on anything besides outlook.
If you have access to your Exchange server's web interface, try this.
But I stopped using a fat client a long time ago, because why the hell would you even bother?
That's just my IMO of course.
Ever had to check multiple e-mail boxes? Not everyone can forward their mail to one account. Logging in and out of multiple web interfaces is a PITA, one click and all my accounts are available via IMAP.
Most cars with an electronic parking brake require that it be put into a service mode to change the rear pads. Most cars will disable the ABS/Traction Control function while the controller is in diagnostics mode, but the braking system will still function and stop the car.
According to the service manual for my car, the "entertainment" CANBus system (which has the bluetooth connection) is separate from the rest of the car's systems. What worries me is that some companies (I'm looking at you Nissan) has gone to using bluetooth based diagnostics tools at their dealerships.
Just goes to show that the Win32 API is stable compared to say, MacOS X. Even though Mozilla dropped support for 10.4 and 10.5 PowerPC, the TenFourFox project keeps up with Mozilla's changes. Whats missing from Win32 in XP/2K3 that would force Mozilla to drop support in the future? OS X had big changes to font handling in 10.5 and higher, plus that big architecture change.
Yeah, the "dime lady" aka Candice Bergen in Sprint commercials. Yes kids, Sprint used to be a wired phone company, they were even an ILEC in some areas (spun off as Embarq and now part of Century Link).
If the job required any sort of federal security clearance, chances are they were looking for someone who already had one. They don't want to spend the time and money on getting clearances.
Eventually companies will want your labels to include RFID tags or 2d barcodes, both of which your laser will cost a fortune to do in software licensing and burned up RFID tags.
If you do enough shipping to have an account with UPS, you can usually convince them to give you the label printer and labels for next to nothing.
Its hard to kill a PX engine printer. Toner is cheap too, brand new HP branded carts can be found for under $20. The only downside is print speed. It'll take awhile to print something at 4ppm.
Firewire died mostly because of Apple's high licensing costs and the fact they wouldn't let anyone use the "Firewire" name and that "Y" symbol. This resulted in weird things like Sony calling it "iLink" and everyone else resorting to using its IEEE standard number, which was just awkward. Dell labelled all their laptop firewire ports as simply "1394" as a result.
Thunderbolt isn't going anywhere simply because of its high cost. Its an Intel backed standard, but nobody seems interested. Many non-Apple laptop models that had the port have already been discontinued.
On the subject of dead Sony standards, you forgot Elcaset. Reel-to-reel quality in a cartridge format!
The BBC has also been recovering color information from the dot crawl that was recorded on the B&W telecines they had of many episodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_recovery
I wave at the current smoke detector and it usually shuts off. Amazing when you clear the smoke away from a detector how it stops. Smoke/CO2 alarms are dumb, and more importantly, simple systems. You want them to work when you need them.
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younow.com, the website that took over blogTV earlier in the year exclusively uses Facebook in order to authenticate users.
Now we're just waiting for YouTube to do the same....
Windows 8 removes the F8 boot menu. Makes getting into Safe Mode interesting when you can't boot a machine and tell it to run Safe Mode. I have read that pressing Shift+F8 is supposed to do the trick now, but I haven't gotten it to work.
Its not illegal per say, the law just limits a corporation to two retail licenses to sell alcohol. That being said, Coors is extremely popular in NJ for some reason.
The Power Macintosh debuted in March 1994, running a mostly emulated operating system and applications. Until native applications were available, a Quadra was better in terms of performance. The fastest platform for running 68k Mac applications was actually an Amiga running a Macintosh emulator and a 68060 CPU upgrade. Don't discount the 68000, Apple kept selling low cost Macs (Powerbook 100 and Mac Classic) with them all the way until September 1992.
Any high end Amiga is going to be rare in the US. They were primarily sold as Video Toaster workstations here. The platform was far more popular in Europe. Things like leaking NiCad clock batteries and capacitors have taken many of them out of service however.
CPU-wise they were equal to Macs. The circa 1992 Amiga 4000 came with 25Mhz 68030 and 68040 CPUs. Most mass market Macs were shipping with 68030s with the 040 reserved for the new and expensive Quadra. Where the 4000 really lagged was graphics. The AGA chipset was easily outclassed by Apple's onboard video systems, and that is saying ALOT. Sound was still competitive, but not for very long as even PCs got "16bit" sound in the form of the PAS16 and Soundblaster 16.
Lotus Notes.... *shiver*. That client screams 1995. It still uses .INI files for its configuration the last time I set it up for a family member (they since switched to an Exchange server). The setup sheet the IT dept gave her for the client was 3 pages long and very technical.
IHe tries to generalize it, but it seems like he's talking about outlook specifically not working with gmail. Maybe he should try not using outlook? I dunno. Maybe that's just me. I hate outlook, but my work seems to love it. I have to forward my work e-mail to a gmail account to use it on anything besides outlook.
If you have access to your Exchange server's web interface, try this.
But I stopped using a fat client a long time ago, because why the hell would you even bother? That's just my IMO of course.
Ever had to check multiple e-mail boxes? Not everyone can forward their mail to one account. Logging in and out of multiple web interfaces is a PITA, one click and all my accounts are available via IMAP.
Most cars with an electronic parking brake require that it be put into a service mode to change the rear pads. Most cars will disable the ABS/Traction Control function while the controller is in diagnostics mode, but the braking system will still function and stop the car.
According to the service manual for my car, the "entertainment" CANBus system (which has the bluetooth connection) is separate from the rest of the car's systems. What worries me is that some companies (I'm looking at you Nissan) has gone to using bluetooth based diagnostics tools at their dealerships.
Just goes to show that the Win32 API is stable compared to say, MacOS X. Even though Mozilla dropped support for 10.4 and 10.5 PowerPC, the TenFourFox project keeps up with Mozilla's changes. Whats missing from Win32 in XP/2K3 that would force Mozilla to drop support in the future? OS X had big changes to font handling in 10.5 and higher, plus that big architecture change.
Amazon Prime customer? They were likely the lowest bidder. That is how they keep costs down.
Yeah, the "dime lady" aka Candice Bergen in Sprint commercials. Yes kids, Sprint used to be a wired phone company, they were even an ILEC in some areas (spun off as Embarq and now part of Century Link).
If the job required any sort of federal security clearance, chances are they were looking for someone who already had one. They don't want to spend the time and money on getting clearances.
DavMail, a popular Outlook to IMAP/etc. gateway requires Java. It doesn't require it in browser though since its a standalone application.
Eventually companies will want your labels to include RFID tags or 2d barcodes, both of which your laser will cost a fortune to do in software licensing and burned up RFID tags.
If you do enough shipping to have an account with UPS, you can usually convince them to give you the label printer and labels for next to nothing.
Its hard to kill a PX engine printer. Toner is cheap too, brand new HP branded carts can be found for under $20. The only downside is print speed. It'll take awhile to print something at 4ppm.
Firewire died mostly because of Apple's high licensing costs and the fact they wouldn't let anyone use the "Firewire" name and that "Y" symbol. This resulted in weird things like Sony calling it "iLink" and everyone else resorting to using its IEEE standard number, which was just awkward. Dell labelled all their laptop firewire ports as simply "1394" as a result.
Thunderbolt isn't going anywhere simply because of its high cost. Its an Intel backed standard, but nobody seems interested. Many non-Apple laptop models that had the port have already been discontinued.
On the subject of dead Sony standards, you forgot Elcaset. Reel-to-reel quality in a cartridge format!
Whats more amusing is his latest article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425840,00.asp
Some businesses are just switching to thin RDP/Citrix clients like this: http://www.wyse.com/products/cloud-clients/thin-clients/C10LE
A friend of mine has them at work. Somehow he manages to get stuff done with it.
Wait, what? A harddrive/flashdrive with a micro-USB connector? Where and why the hell are you buying those?
Its all too common. Device makers are putting Micro-USB into stuff large enough to use a standard "B" plug, like regular desktop sized keyboards.
The BBC has also been recovering color information from the dot crawl that was recorded on the B&W telecines they had of many episodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_recovery
I wave at the current smoke detector and it usually shuts off. Amazing when you clear the smoke away from a detector how it stops. Smoke/CO2 alarms are dumb, and more importantly, simple systems. You want them to work when you need them.
You should see the promotions for it.