Actually, I had a bunch of Logitech wireless mice. At home I couldn't get them to work more than 10' from the base station, but I tried one out at work before taking it home, and it worked from WAY the hell over at the other side of the building.
So I guess it depends on where you are.
Plus they probably have a better receiver than you.
I can honestly say I can live without another Lone Gunmen series. It really wasn't THAT good, although funny at times. I had absolutely no respect for the guys after Lara Croft^W^W^WYves Adele Whatever kept screwing them over and bailing them out all the time - I mean, come on, the show's about THEM. If you're going to portray them as incompetent fools a-la Inspector Gadget (the original), do it. Don't give me half way we-can-hack-into-the-pengaton-but-a-chick-in-a-tig ht-outfit-can-totally-pull-a-sheep-over-our-eyes crap.
It looked like that was going to change toward the end. Maybe it'd have got better.
The thing that really bothers me is it ended with a cliffhanger. I hate not knowing what happened next!
The FBI knowing your underwear size is a GOOD thing.
It means that when they handcuff you, they can use custom-made handcuffs that'll be more comfortable for you. Same goes for straitjackets - the taylor-made ones are FAR superiour to the Off-The-Shelf variety.
Also when the FBI is out shopping for birthday presents, they know what kind of DVDs you buy so they won't end up sending you The Little Mermaid again.
And this has been the palestenians land since when?
The 'occupied territories' were captured from Jordan. If anyone has a right to them, it's Jordan, and they don't want it back.
Israel made this land and it's occupants part of the State of Israel in every way - they got the same infrastructure, they are/were considered Israeli citizens, they could vote for Israeli parliament.
When those lands were part of Jordan, the palestenians were doing the exact same thing. The difference being Jordan would come by with a bunch of tanks and just bomb the crap out of them.
And the current uprising started why again? Because of land-snatching? No. It started because the current prime-minister of Israel visited a site that's holy to both Judaism and Islam, and the palestenians went berserk.
I empathize with the innocent Palestenians too. I also empathize with people like... let's seee... me. Who have had friends blown up by suicidal bombers. Who have gotten off a bus 60 seconds before it blew up. Who has seen innocent children blown to bits for... what? Does anyone there even remember what they're fighting for? I think not.
What it boils down to is this. The Israeli government (even the current insane one) takes military action, and performs precise military strikes against the actual terrorist factions.
The Palestenian terrorists blow up school busses, ambush teenagers and bash their brains out, and commit suicide in an explosive manner.
How do you deter someone from committing suicide when they are promised all the glories of Heaven in the afterlife if they take enough innocent bystanders with them?
I'm not saying the Israeli Government is right, or that the Palestenians are wrong. I'm saying BOTH sides are wrong. They don't WANT peace. I used to think they did once. Maybe a minority on either side does, but they don't seem to be able to act on it.
Yes. A lot of new immigrants DO live in the occupied territories area. No, they don't bulldoze over Palestenian houses, they live in the Israeli settlements. Most of which, by the way, require armed guards at the entrance.
I am sure some of them are tricked into living there. Some of them like the tax benefits and lower home costs (which new immigrants get anyway).
But a whole lot of them are the kind of people who moved 'back' to Israel because it's their Birthright, And it's that attitude that's making Peace be a lot harder to attain (ie, neither side is willing to be adult about this).
Heh, that's true. I wonder why Konq hasn't got a lot more mainstream (well, slashdot-mainstream [oxymoron?])following. I did try and use it a few times, and I think my problems with it were marginal (fonts were too small, etc). Also it pissed me off that it was being a file manager (;
Also, Netscape 6 and Mozilla have a virtually identical user interface, so it's not like people who can't tell the difference will, well, be able to ell the difference.
Plus you can always download Netscape anyway. Someone's bound to make RPMs of it for the tarball-challenged.
Does Red Hat bundle KDE? maybe they should leave Mozilla out and say they're bundling Konq. That'd be a story.
Well, an anonymous tip is one way, providing you are actually trying to help and NOT trying to make yourself look good by making the competition look bad.
I'm tempted to say that you really shouldn't do anything. They chose to go with the other guys, it's not really any of your problem or concern anymore.
Also, be very paranoid and careful. Do not send them "proof", as in lists of employees or any data obtained through hacks. You could quite easily be sued for anything like that, despite the fact that you're trying to be helpful.
I used ext3 about a year or to ago. It worked a lot better than it should have. Or so I thought.
It claimed that it'll still have fsck run when you crash, but actually nothing was getting run... I'm pretty sure that it was just not repairing itself after crashes. I'm really surprised I never lost any data until, well, one day I lost the whole damn partition.
I'm using ReiserFS now and I'm really happy with performance/crash recovery. I have a lot of cat-related outages...
I have one of those! I got it at CompUSA for $0.31! There was a mixup with the barcode and the checkout guy was obviously pissed at CompUSA so he was like "That can't be right. Whatever" and let me have it.
I never stepped on the powerswitch with a regular powerstrip, but the cats do. All the time.
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Yeah, that's it, something old looking. I was thinking mostly brass or bronze with some wood bevels and things, for practical reasons (it would conduct heat better).
Maybe I'll just spraypaint my case bronze. Hehe.
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I've seen all those before. They're all, well, nice. But I want antique looking, not Futuristic or just wooden.
I'm thinking more of something MOSTLY bronze with wood bevels (would conduct heat better).
Ok, it's cute, but I'd hardly call it News or "Mind Blowing".
I want a computer case made of bronze and wood. You know, make it look like things used to look 100 years ago. A fake-antique computer case.
I can visualize it, but unfortunetly have none of the technical skills required to make one. I know you can get a nice alluminum case at Thinkgeek, but that's not the same. I'm really tired of baige metal/translucent plastics.
Actually I'm just tired. Been up for about 48 hours. I hate books. I start reading one and can't stop. Joe Haldeman is pretty darn good.
I can solder fine. Doesn't mean I need to know what a 'diode' is, or how it works.
When I put the blue LED in my computer, you think I knew what the polarity on it was? I have no idea. Not like one leg was longer than the other or one wat notched or there were INSTRUCTIONS. Trial and error.
If someone won't solder their mouse because they don't know hoe diodes work, how on Earth are they going to LEARN what a diode is?
A series set in the early days of the Federation would let them put more limits on the tech. They might go as long as a month before introducing a new particle to us.
In theory that's true. But this is Star Trek. They ran out of ideas years ago. I'm willing to bet that no matter what show they decide to do, they'll still Particle-of-the-week and deus ex machina (sp?) the hell out of it.
That's what I don't like about Trek. At the end of an episode, usually everything is EXACTLY the way it was at the begining. Except in Voyager it's like "Oh yeah, we used that SuperTransHyperWarp drive for 5 seconds so now we're closer to home. Also, 7 of 9 tried a new hairdo".
And how do you make a vCD under UNIX? I uinderstand VCD is just differently encoded MPEG. Say I manage to get an MPEG encoder to create a MY_CAT_BEING_CUTE.vcd - how do I burn that onto a CDR? Just cdrecord and treat the VCD as an image? Or what?
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Actually, I had a bunch of Logitech wireless mice. At home I couldn't get them to work more than 10' from the base station, but I tried one out at work before taking it home, and it worked from WAY the hell over at the other side of the building.
So I guess it depends on where you are.
Plus they probably have a better receiver than you.
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I can honestly say I can live without another Lone Gunmen series. It really wasn't THAT good, although funny at times. I had absolutely no respect for the guys after Lara Croft^W^W^WYves Adele Whatever kept screwing them over and bailing them out all the time - I mean, come on, the show's about THEM. If you're going to portray them as incompetent fools a-la Inspector Gadget (the original), do it. Don't give me half way we-can-hack-into-the-pengaton-but-a-chick-in-a-tig ht-outfit-can-totally-pull-a-sheep-over-our-eyes crap.
It looked like that was going to change toward the end. Maybe it'd have got better.
The thing that really bothers me is it ended with a cliffhanger. I hate not knowing what happened next!
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The FBI knowing your underwear size is a GOOD thing.
It means that when they handcuff you, they can use custom-made handcuffs that'll be more comfortable for you. Same goes for straitjackets - the taylor-made ones are FAR superiour to the Off-The-Shelf variety.
Also when the FBI is out shopping for birthday presents, they know what kind of DVDs you buy so they won't end up sending you The Little Mermaid again.
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And this has been the palestenians land since when?
The 'occupied territories' were captured from Jordan. If anyone has a right to them, it's Jordan, and they don't want it back.
Israel made this land and it's occupants part of the State of Israel in every way - they got the same infrastructure, they are/were considered Israeli citizens, they could vote for Israeli parliament.
When those lands were part of Jordan, the palestenians were doing the exact same thing. The difference being Jordan would come by with a bunch of tanks and just bomb the crap out of them.
And the current uprising started why again? Because of land-snatching? No. It started because the current prime-minister of Israel visited a site that's holy to both Judaism and Islam, and the palestenians went berserk.
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I empathize with the innocent Palestenians too. I also empathize with people like... let's seee... me. Who have had friends blown up by suicidal bombers. Who have gotten off a bus 60 seconds before it blew up. Who has seen innocent children blown to bits for... what? Does anyone there even remember what they're fighting for? I think not.
What it boils down to is this. The Israeli government (even the current insane one) takes military action, and performs precise military strikes against the actual terrorist factions.
The Palestenian terrorists blow up school busses, ambush teenagers and bash their brains out, and commit suicide in an explosive manner.
How do you deter someone from committing suicide when they are promised all the glories of Heaven in the afterlife if they take enough innocent bystanders with them?
I'm not saying the Israeli Government is right, or that the Palestenians are wrong. I'm saying BOTH sides are wrong. They don't WANT peace. I used to think they did once. Maybe a minority on either side does, but they don't seem to be able to act on it.
My point? Empathize with both sides.
BTW, why do you spell it "Isrial"?
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Nice flamebait, but I'll reply anyway.
Yes. A lot of new immigrants DO live in the occupied territories area. No, they don't bulldoze over Palestenian houses, they live in the Israeli settlements. Most of which, by the way, require armed guards at the entrance.
I am sure some of them are tricked into living there. Some of them like the tax benefits and lower home costs (which new immigrants get anyway).
But a whole lot of them are the kind of people who moved 'back' to Israel because it's their Birthright, And it's that attitude that's making Peace be a lot harder to attain (ie, neither side is willing to be adult about this).
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Heh, that's true. I wonder why Konq hasn't got a lot more mainstream (well, slashdot-mainstream [oxymoron?])following. I did try and use it a few times, and I think my problems with it were marginal (fonts were too small, etc). Also it pissed me off that it was being a file manager (;
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I mean, for one, yeah, Mozilla _is_ really good.
Also, Netscape 6 and Mozilla have a virtually identical user interface, so it's not like people who can't tell the difference will, well, be able to ell the difference.
Plus you can always download Netscape anyway. Someone's bound to make RPMs of it for the tarball-challenged.
Does Red Hat bundle KDE? maybe they should leave Mozilla out and say they're bundling Konq. That'd be a story.
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Well, an anonymous tip is one way, providing you are actually trying to help and NOT trying to make yourself look good by making the competition look bad.
I'm tempted to say that you really shouldn't do anything. They chose to go with the other guys, it's not really any of your problem or concern anymore.
Also, be very paranoid and careful. Do not send them "proof", as in lists of employees or any data obtained through hacks. You could quite easily be sued for anything like that, despite the fact that you're trying to be helpful.
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I used ext3 about a year or to ago. It worked a lot better than it should have. Or so I thought.
It claimed that it'll still have fsck run when you crash, but actually nothing was getting run... I'm pretty sure that it was just not repairing itself after crashes. I'm really surprised I never lost any data until, well, one day I lost the whole damn partition.
I'm using ReiserFS now and I'm really happy with performance/crash recovery. I have a lot of cat-related outages...
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I guess all us people will have to get used to paying the same price for CD-R media that we used to pay 4 months ago... the horror!!!
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This has got to be the dumbest question I've ever heard.
If you HAVE to get a tattoo, shouldn't you like something a lot and THEN decide to get it tattoos permanently on your skin?
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So THAT'S what's been causing mozilla to die on me! Watch me upgrade...
I wonder if NTFS support can write to Win2K now... maybe I can fix my #$%^&(* Win2K drive without reinstalling...
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Remember, the Leftoriums business has been going down ever since Leftopolis moved in - which is always good news for the consumer.
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Wow, finally my .sig is actually on-topic!!!
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Sentinal was cool. I thought I was the only person who watched it.
Had Jeri Ryan in a bikini, too.
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I have one of those! I got it at CompUSA for $0.31! There was a mixup with the barcode and the checkout guy was obviously pissed at CompUSA so he was like "That can't be right. Whatever" and let me have it.
I never stepped on the powerswitch with a regular powerstrip, but the cats do. All the time.
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Yeah, that's it, something old looking. I was thinking mostly brass or bronze with some wood bevels and things, for practical reasons (it would conduct heat better).
Maybe I'll just spraypaint my case bronze. Hehe.
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I've seen all those before. They're all, well, nice. But I want antique looking, not Futuristic or just wooden.
I'm thinking more of something MOSTLY bronze with wood bevels (would conduct heat better).
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I'm reading the whole 'trilogy', iot's taking more than 48 hours. And I've been taking breaks. Reading for more than a few hour gives me headaches.
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Ok, it's cute, but I'd hardly call it News or "Mind Blowing".
I want a computer case made of bronze and wood. You know, make it look like things used to look 100 years ago. A fake-antique computer case.
I can visualize it, but unfortunetly have none of the technical skills required to make one. I know you can get a nice alluminum case at Thinkgeek, but that's not the same. I'm really tired of baige metal/translucent plastics.
Actually I'm just tired. Been up for about 48 hours. I hate books. I start reading one and can't stop. Joe Haldeman is pretty darn good.
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Sure. If you know what a continuity checker is.
All I'm saying is I was fiddling around and resoldering stuff long before I knew what a diode did.
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I could not dissagree youth you more.
I can solder fine. Doesn't mean I need to know what a 'diode' is, or how it works.
When I put the blue LED in my computer, you think I knew what the polarity on it was? I have no idea. Not like one leg was longer than the other or one wat notched or there were INSTRUCTIONS. Trial and error.
If someone won't solder their mouse because they don't know hoe diodes work, how on Earth are they going to LEARN what a diode is?
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In theory that's true. But this is Star Trek. They ran out of ideas years ago. I'm willing to bet that no matter what show they decide to do, they'll still Particle-of-the-week and deus ex machina (sp?) the hell out of it.
That's what I don't like about Trek. At the end of an episode, usually everything is EXACTLY the way it was at the begining. Except in Voyager it's like "Oh yeah, we used that SuperTransHyperWarp drive for 5 seconds so now we're closer to home. Also, 7 of 9 tried a new hairdo".
Babylon 5 ruined Trek for me (:
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And how do you make a vCD under UNIX? I uinderstand VCD is just differently encoded MPEG. Say I manage to get an MPEG encoder to create a MY_CAT_BEING_CUTE.vcd - how do I burn that onto a CDR? Just cdrecord and treat the VCD as an image? Or what?
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