Most of them don't even have their own domain, and if they even have a local network, a fileserver crash is more likely than an internet connection being dropped. That'd be a problem since you need a domain to sign up. Of course, they'll gladly help you find a domain broker.
Yeah. What I've done now that I've locked myself into a gmail account is autoforward everything to my IMAP server. That way, I can still log on to Gmail if the server takes a dive or I need better search options than the IMAP server provides.
All my accounts log on as Busy. From time to time I might change to On the Phone (if I'm IMing someone when the phone rings)... But generally I don't use those other, weird modes. I mean, why would I be at my computer if I wasn't keeping busy?
This surprises me a little bit. Are you saying that the keyboard and mouse did not work at all or simply that the extra functions (like side scrolling and media buttons) didn't work? Sorry, I should have specified. The standard 2/102-button stuff worked fine. All the extra stuff (the reason I pumped $100 into the set) did not work. Not even the middle button. After fidgetting the drivers into Vista, only the "Magnifying" function did not work properly.
nvidia: We have two package options; Premium, where we provide the drivers directly to the end users and Basic, where we provide some binaries and some source to the OEM, and you then have to repackage and distribute your version of the drivers. Dell: So, basically you're saying that we get to put our logo on more stuff, and save money in our end? W00+!
I bet if Microsoft made all their own hardware and then locked people into only using Vista on said hardware, it would be easy as pie to get Vista configured for the hardware. What an idea! Except, of course, that the whole idea behind the PC is open hardware standards, vendor competition, and consumer choice.
Honestly, the way Windows (and Linux to a large extent, though it's vendor base is significantly smaller than Windows) manages to interoperate with hundreds of thousands of different vendor's drivers is pretty impressive. It's one thing to claim stability when 95% consumer configurations are identical to your test bench, it's another to have no idea what kind of cheap crazy crap consumers will install and still have comparable stability. This just makes it so much more fun that I had trouble getting my wireless Microsoft Keyboard/Mouse set to work in Vista... I had to force drivers on it that weren't released for Vista (but works fine). By force, I mean simple edits in install INFs, but still not market-ready.
I'm sorry to say that yesterday I had to resort to such a site to get my Lexmark x1130 drivers. I just couldn't get to them on Lexmark's site, and I didn't have time to horse around. In Lexmark's defence, I'd just like to say that the site seemed slowed, possibly by DOS attacks. Either that or they suck. At any rate, I ain't getting me another Lexmark any time soon - too bad for them, as I'm in the market for a fast document scanner... (Any good ideas?:-P )
Hmm.. reply to article link is missing. That's weird. This isn't a response to ubuntudupe... Odd, I had the same problem... turned out that turning off the beta discussion system fixed it. Goes for other discussions here, too. Woot for betas.
(Note: I really hate capital letters at every word)
My boss has actually offered me a bribe to not buy the Wii. Serious bribe. Like in, a carte blanche to upgrade my computer instead of buying medical-grade heroine with motion sensing. I of course declined. Wii > new hard drives...
... for using this very off-topic space to say thank you.
You probably don't remember, but you made my life easier, and now that I am fiddling with it at work as well, that extra knowledge came in very handy. It's one of those cases where I meant to thank you but never got around to it... Well, finally, the thanks you deserve:) (hopefully you read this)
Hell, it's fast. It already evolved to being up, and now it wants authentication before allowing stuff in. That's even stronger than AB positive immune defenses!
(getting a bit off-topic here)
I noticed that when UAM alerts were turned off, the Guest account suddenly also had all the rights in the world - very unnerving. This was in RTM. So basically, if I am cocky enough to turn of UAM, I can't trust that the user policies will be enforced. FTW!
Preview might be your friend but Damn Small Linux is mine. I farked some hdd settings some months ago (in the middle of a large project that I totally was not procrastinating by meddling with my system) and I used my GFs Mac to fetch the quickest fix - DSL. It was faster than going through all my unmarked CDs.
That's faster than my desktop mp3 player/server, which is plenty fast enough for the purpose, and allows me to run arbitrary managment software on an arbitrary OS. It's not only the hertz count that matters, but also the processor architecture... But that's an aside. I think that the iPod processors ought to be plenty sufficient not to squirrel out the last few dozen bytes out of a filename.
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Yeah. What I've done now that I've locked myself into a gmail account is autoforward everything to my IMAP server. That way, I can still log on to Gmail if the server takes a dive or I need better search options than the IMAP server provides.
I just leave mine on busy *always*, and I ignore heaps.
All my accounts log on as Busy. From time to time I might change to On the Phone (if I'm IMing someone when the phone rings)... But generally I don't use those other, weird modes. I mean, why would I be at my computer if I wasn't keeping busy?
I actually only have good experiences with WD and was about to order a new batch of SATA disks (now-ish).
I think that you can actually use the license to downgrade to XP Pro - I read it somewhere... :-s
Thank you :)
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As for the cowboy message, that's what tabs are for
You misunderstood.
What I meant was American Style Headline Capital Letters At Every Spaghettidamned Word!
... is that an OS from 2001 does not have the same level of hardware support as a freshly weeded Linux distro?
Microsoft, you bastards!
Honestly, the way Windows (and Linux to a large extent, though it's vendor base is significantly smaller than Windows) manages to interoperate with hundreds of thousands of different vendor's drivers is pretty impressive. It's one thing to claim stability when 95% consumer configurations are identical to your test bench, it's another to have no idea what kind of cheap crazy crap consumers will install and still have comparable stability. This just makes it so much more fun that I had trouble getting my wireless Microsoft Keyboard/Mouse set to work in Vista... I had to force drivers on it that weren't released for Vista (but works fine). By force, I mean simple edits in install INFs, but still not market-ready.
I'm sorry to say that yesterday I had to resort to such a site to get my Lexmark x1130 drivers. I just couldn't get to them on Lexmark's site, and I didn't have time to horse around. :-P )
In Lexmark's defence, I'd just like to say that the site seemed slowed, possibly by DOS attacks. Either that or they suck.
At any rate, I ain't getting me another Lexmark any time soon - too bad for them, as I'm in the market for a fast document scanner... (Any good ideas?
Woot for betas.
(Note: I really hate capital letters at every word)
My boss has actually offered me a bribe to not buy the Wii. Serious bribe. Like in, a carte blanche to upgrade my computer instead of buying medical-grade heroine with motion sensing.
I of course declined. Wii > new hard drives...
CTRL+E -> Search field FTW
... for using this very off-topic space to say thank you.
:)
You probably don't remember, but you made my life easier, and now that I am fiddling with it at work as well, that extra knowledge came in very handy.
It's one of those cases where I meant to thank you but never got around to it... Well, finally, the thanks you deserve
(hopefully you read this)
About 4 years ago an 8-year old kid asked me what a tape was. Earnestly.
Hell, it's fast. It already evolved to being up, and now it wants authentication before allowing stuff in. That's even stronger than AB positive immune defenses!
You wanna run Vista on your Mac? Now there's a wild concept.
(getting a bit off-topic here)
I noticed that when UAM alerts were turned off, the Guest account suddenly also had all the rights in the world - very unnerving. This was in RTM.
So basically, if I am cocky enough to turn of UAM, I can't trust that the user policies will be enforced. FTW!
Looks interesting, I'll probably download (and CLEARLY LABEL the CD when burned) for office use... Thanks :-)
:-D )
(And if it ends up saving me trouble, I'll do as I did with DSL and donate, only this time on my new Company CCard
Preview might be your friend but Damn Small Linux is mine. I farked some hdd settings some months ago (in the middle of a large project that I totally was not procrastinating by meddling with my system) and I used my GFs Mac to fetch the quickest fix - DSL. It was faster than going through all my unmarked CDs.
Virgin denied access to mile high club?
That's faster than my desktop mp3 player/server, which is plenty fast enough for the purpose, and allows me to run arbitrary managment software on an arbitrary OS.
It's not only the hertz count that matters, but also the processor architecture... But that's an aside. I think that the iPod processors ought to be plenty sufficient not to squirrel out the last few dozen bytes out of a filename.