I use Jenny's phone number as most places will allow you to key in a phone number as a substitute. It is especially fun at Safeway as their cashiers are required to say your name when telling you to have a good day. Some area codes are funnier than others. I think when I used a Los Angeles one my name was Mr. Fuchinger and I had to help the cashier on the pronunciation. Of course this only works when you pay cash as your credit card will override the name.
Back on topic though. WTF? Who gives any card to the cashier before putting their groceries on the conveyor belt? I know of Sam's/Costco that needs a card first but they use boxes. Honestly I can't remember ever being asked if I wanted paper or plastic at any store.
Being a victim of ID theft, I agree and would go a step further to suggest canceling any debit card you have. They are worthless to the account holder and valuable only to the bank.
Banks only care about their money (Credit Cards) not yours (Check/Debit cards) and don't give a damn when it's your money that gets taken and will do only the minimum they are required to assist you, often times charging a 'research fee' of $100 or more to 'look into' each discrepancy.
It still sucks when someone gets hold of your credit card, but it is only 1% of the potential suckage of getting your debit card compromised.
Yes and no, but the answer is a little more complicated than that, see bellow: XBMC for XBox
In general, it can not play native HD format videos, but can upscale SD or lower format video to HD resolutions
A standard XBox (with the XBox HD AV Pack) is capable of outputting HD signals. XBMC can quite easily upscale all low-resolution videos (like retail DVD Movies) to 720por 1080i.
Unfortunately, the XBox's 733Mhz Intel Pentium-III CPU, is to slow to play native HD video (Microsoft® and DivX® recommends a 2.4 Ghz PC + 384MB RAM for 720p MPEG-4 playback!). This means that you might only get maybe 10-20fps (frames per seconds) displayed which would appear so jerky because of all dropped frames that it will be un-viewable.
Upgraded Processor
It is possible to upgrade the processor in an XBox (for example, with the DreamX-1400 from FriendTech, to one which is at capable of decoding some native HD videos (i.e. those encoded with MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP (H.263) at up to 720p). FriendTech do offers trade-in). Note! You must enable/setup your HDTV settings in Microsoft dashboard, (on NTSC Xboxes).
I'm not a MS fanboy by any means but just want to agree with your post. If I had mod points I'd use them. I setup a waste processing plant using Intellution about a decade ago. Was running on NT4, now 2k. But there is nothing scary about that. When the PLCs are programmed properly nothing terrible happens when the Wintel box crashes. Nope the proverbial sh*t doesn't hit the fan. It only makes it a little difficult for the plant engineers to monitor things and adjust levels. When the system boots back up everything is fine.
eBay was good when it was Auction Web. Almost like craigslist where anything and everything could be auctioned and the listing fees were reasonable. The interface was simple and straight forward, now it is as bad as godaddy.com 90% garbage 10% substance.
Same here. I do consulting for small businesses and the only people that don't complain about vista are the ones that use it to play solitaire and check their email. (not computer literate in the least) The ones that complain the loudest are those that picked up a brand new computer to replace their old one only to find out the new one runs much slower. I have 'upgraded' many vista laptops and desktops to XP in the last year each charging the same as a virus/rootkit removal plus MS license. Laptops are the worst, especially HP, it is like they are intentionally hiding XP drivers for things as simple as a sound cards. I'm still able to find workarounds but in all my years working with PCs I have never seen support for a predecessor OS being unsupported so quickly. Even with the push for 2k/XP there were several years of support for 9x users.
I still try to keep an open mind, I was skeptical of 2000 and XP when it first came out, but I am finding it very difficult to swallow vista. My most recent endeavor trying to make vista work for someone was on a brand new state of the art quad core computer. It ran at a decent speed, no complaints other than the printer (brand new HP officejet pro) would intermittently fail to respond. The network card would work for 5 minutes and then go to 'Media Disconnected' status for no reason even after replacing the motherboard (on-board nic), building wiring, HP ProCurve module, patch cords, etc. I could boot a knoppix or ubuntu live CD and have no networking problems at all. Checked the latest Marvell drivers, Bios, etc. The only solution was to install XP.
I have yet to see with my own eyes a power user that is happy with vista. So far I only hear about it on the internet from fanboys. By power user I mean someone that runs multiple applications in a productive environment and are able to do so at the same speed or better than XP without having to know how their computer works.
I keep trying vista myself as it is my business to do so, but I haven't seen any compelling reason yet to recommend it to anyone. To me it is still a downgrade. I'll keep trying it as future updates come out. Part of me thinks those touting it on the net are shills from MS. Just like aliens, until I see it with my own eyes I'm not going to believe it.
I run 2 VOIP adapters, one for NextAlarm, and the other for iTaklBB for local and international calls. m0n0 has a very good traffic shaping configuration tool. When configured properly it will always grant the highest priority to the VOIP ports. And set P2P traffic as bulk/hated status. Even giving you good performance for web,im,etc without having to shape it as it falls in the everything else category. Even under full load, several torrents running, ReplayTVs sending shows, it has never given me a problem.
You can even get it in a nice power saving box at Soekris Write the m0n0 image to a CF card and you are ready to go. With it's very intuitive web interface you will be up and running without having to learn any command lines, etc. Any old PC with a couple NICs and a bootable CD or USB flash will work too, but in the long run the PC will cost you about $15/month in power.
There are many howtos etc at http://m0n0.ch I can't recommend it more. I have deployed dozens of these to replace underpowered routers and pretend firewalls.
One thing you will need to learn is how NAT and Rules work on this FW. You first need to create NATs for incoming ports that you want open. During the NAT creation process there is an option to auto-add it to the firewall Rules to make it easier. But creating a NAT alone without a Rule will not allow incoming traffic. Plenty of tutorials are on their site.
I run a QX9650, had 2 8800GTXs in SLi mode. 1100W Tagan PSU. Picked up a Kill-A-Watt measuring device and was surprised to see it only drawing 180W in idle, and 400+ while playing Crysis. The heat was unbearable though. My utility bill went up $100+ more/month than usual (mainly due to the HVAC trying to cool my den) so I ditched the 8800s and now use a single cheap 8600GT. Funny thing is, I see no difference in game quality. My room is much cooler, and my system will peak at 220W when under full load. Also has 2 WD 150GB Raptors and a Seagate 500GB 7200.11 HD. Maybe gaming isn't my thing, but to me at 1600x1200 it is good enough. Definitely not enough to justify $100 more in power.
The Kill-A-Watt is a very useful device in finding the power vampires in your house. You would be surprised how much cable/satellite receivers consume even when 'off'
Keep backing up to whatever current ext storage devices exists. 1TB ext HDDs are available for $199 at newegg. In 1.5 years it will be 2TB, and so on. Just keep staying with current technology. The nice thing about digital is there is no loss when making multigenerational copies. Video is now beginning to escape the restrictions of how the MP3 of the mid 90s was, when it would take hours to encode and consume an HDD pretty quickly. With CPUs and storage doubling every 18 months it won't matter much, it will be like your MP3 collection is now and how easy it is to move it from one storage medium to another.
at your local community college. Will cost you $100 (depending on your location)and be well worth it. A basic electronics class will be mostly theory and book work 90% study 10% lab. You really won't grasp it without some education. With this, then get a book with some schematics that interest you and buy the breadboards and components online. If you want to learn more, depending on your interests; analog or digital, take more advanced classes. Most community colleges have night classes and can be 1 hr 3-4 times a week or 3 hours once a week.
I'll use a car analogy: Auto enthusiast spends $1000 or more to have a spoiler attached to the rear hatch even though it is illegal to drive at a speed where the spoiler would show any benefit. Then pays thousands more for chrome and gold plated engine components under the hood. (which adds nothing to the actual performance of the car) This is just bling and bling comes in many varieties. If someone has $30,000+ invested in an AV system that they enjoy showing off it would look tacky to have generic cables attached even though they perform just the same, like having equally functional engine components without bling in a hot rod. Denon profits $495 for each of these, they are filling a niche bling market and if they did sell them for $10 it would be tacky in the eyes of their customer.
As long as he doesn't pick Hillary for VP that is ok with me. McCain is just plain awful and has no chance of winning. As a card carrying Republican since the day I was old enough to vote, I will only vote for McCain if Hillary ends up on the ticket. Otherwise I will stay home that day and won't really care.
Hey, it had an internal 300bps modem and I had a lot of fun BBSing through the 80s. Even bought the 3.5" RS-232 floppy drive that also ran on AA batteries. I didn't know what ARPA was at the time, nor the BBSes I frequented such as Archer80 made any mention of it, but with the internal modem and integrated terminal application, I'm sure it wasn't out of the realm of possibility. I only learned of the internet by seeing strange.com file names with @ signs in them.:)
I freeze my CRs and because I have no near future plans to use credit and I think everyone in their right mind aught to do the same. If or when I do need credit, I can request the CRA to thaw the CR for a particular creditor, or in some cases get a 1 time pin. Takes about 3 days, and I agree it is a PITA for all 3 parties involved, but they CRAs can make it much easier if they really wanted to. I think they are under pressure from creditors to keep it a cumbersome process as a discouragement because so much credit is granted on a whim and waiting 3 days gives too much time for the consumer to think about their purchase.
It could be that Shanghai is a SEZ city. I've been there 3 times since 2005 and there wasn't any websites blocked that I could find. Could also be the hotel, and the western company I visited didn't have those restrictions. I was also able to watch my Slingbox, and bring my Vonage adapter and make local calls back to the states. YMMV
I'd keep a small piece of tape over the lens and jab the mic a few times with an unfolded paper clip. Two things on my PC that I never plan to use and will never miss.
I'm not sure if Spamhaus is any respector of ISP. They have blacklisted some (not all as they run many) of Cox's SMTP servers on numerous occasions, and I'm sure they have done the same to other ISPs as well. If enough spam is coming from an IP it can and likely will get blacklisted. Cox just assigns a new IP to the blacklisted server and gets around it while dealing with the blacklists to get their old ip removed. Dealing with millions of customers where more than half probably have no security software running it is no surprise that this happens. Note: I'm not claiming I know how Spamhaus works internally, just my observations. I'm assuming that much of what goes on there is automated. When I hear a complaint from someone getting mail refused to a hotmail account. I check the IP in the message headers of the returned mail of which MTA tried to communicate with hotmail and check it against Spamhaus and find it blacklisted. Calling the ISP tech support does nothing as there is no way to reach any NOC personnel from a call center nor does the support rep have any clue what Spamhaus or blacklists are. The admins in the NOC eventually correct the problem sometimes in as long as a day or two. Meanwhile users just have to resend their message and hope it goes through a different MTA within their ISP. If Gmail gets blacklisted they will probably do the same, I'm sure they have much more than one MTA.
I've done something similar using a wifi SD memory card that automatically uploads the pictures to your PC or favorite photo sharing site, like flickr, etc.
The Eye-Fi is a novel idea but getting a camera to stay on long enough has been a challenge, most have power save features that only let you select a minute or two. I suppose a way around this would be to wire something to press a button every 30 secs to keep it awake. Being on a limited budget I purchased a $80 7MP Camera from Walmart and found that it had the option to stay on. Opened it up, soldered wires for power (3VDC) and two for the shutter control. A cheap PIR motion detector with a relay will close the connection and snap a picture. Bought a $15 mini tripod and removed the legs and mounted it to the ceiling. Everytime motion is detected the camera snaps a pic and the Eye-Fi transfers a high resolution jpeg to the PC via Wifi.
For the most part it works really good, other than the camera was too cheap to do wide angle, and had no focus control, so the images are blurry. Cameras that enclose the SD card in a metal chassis will present a challenge for range. I think enough tinkering with other cameras will do the trick. When I called Eye-Fi tech support they never heard of anyone using their product for security and couldn't recommend a cheap, but good camera that will have the 'stay on' feature.
The white paper says no changes were made to how activation works, other than the SP3 media will allow installation without a key, similar to Vista. WGA warnings about activation will occur after installation, at which time a key can be entered in the activation window.
Should make installing a little easier, but I'm not sure what the point of it will be. The large OEM's already worked around this years ago. With EOL in just a couple of months it's not like I'll be able to pick up an oem copy of this at Newegg when I sell myself a new computer.
Perhaps smaller VL users that don't already make their own installation image will find this useful.
Get a 30" to sandwich between the other two 20" rotated 90 deg. All wide screen, best of both worlds. I set one up like that for a friend that has more money to burn than me.
I'm currently using 2 Dell 20" widescreens side by side. When coding I rotate the left one with my terminal window at full screen (portrait mode), and the other left normal with IE and Firefox side by side for the result.
You would be surprised how different it is and will likely never go back. Sort of like when you got your first flat panel 8 years ago.
Where is my fiber to the curb? A lot of my tax dollars were freely handed to them to do it. A decade later and what do they have to show? A report the the tubes will be clogged in less than 2 years. I want congressional hearings, and heads on platters.
Every time I read things like this, I get so upset that I want to stand at the front door of the MPAA and use my entire DVD collection as frisbees and try to hit their door and watch them shatter into many little pieces.
Anyone know the physics of DVD tossing? Is it the same as CDs? I've gotten pretty good at tossing them AOL CDs against the brick wall in our tech room. (Good for calming my nerves)
Is this legal?
-or- Should I get a new prescription to calm me down and keep my precious DVD collection??
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I use Jenny's phone number as most places will allow you to key in a phone number as a substitute. It is especially fun at Safeway as their cashiers are required to say your name when telling you to have a good day. Some area codes are funnier than others. I think when I used a Los Angeles one my name was Mr. Fuchinger and I had to help the cashier on the pronunciation.
Of course this only works when you pay cash as your credit card will override the name.
Back on topic though. WTF? Who gives any card to the cashier before putting their groceries on the conveyor belt? I know of Sam's/Costco that needs a card first but they use boxes.
Honestly I can't remember ever being asked if I wanted paper or plastic at any store.
Being a victim of ID theft, I agree and would go a step further to suggest canceling any debit card you have. They are worthless to the account holder and valuable only to the bank.
Banks only care about their money (Credit Cards) not yours (Check/Debit cards) and don't give a damn when it's your money that gets taken and will do only the minimum they are required to assist you, often times charging a 'research fee' of $100 or more to 'look into' each discrepancy.
It still sucks when someone gets hold of your credit card, but it is only 1% of the potential suckage of getting your debit card compromised.
Qute from the XBMC Wiki:
Does XBMC support High Definition (HD) resolution media?
Yes and no, but the answer is a little more complicated than that, see bellow:
XBMC for XBox
In general, it can not play native HD format videos, but can upscale SD or lower format video to HD resolutions
A standard XBox (with the XBox HD AV Pack) is capable of outputting HD signals. XBMC can quite easily upscale all low-resolution videos (like retail DVD Movies) to 720por 1080i.
Unfortunately, the XBox's 733Mhz Intel Pentium-III CPU, is to slow to play native HD video (Microsoft® and DivX® recommends a 2.4 Ghz PC + 384MB RAM for 720p MPEG-4 playback!). This means that you might only get maybe 10-20fps (frames per seconds) displayed which would appear so jerky because of all dropped frames that it will be un-viewable.
Upgraded Processor
It is possible to upgrade the processor in an XBox (for example, with the DreamX-1400 from FriendTech, to one which is at capable of decoding some native HD videos (i.e. those encoded with MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP (H.263) at up to 720p). FriendTech do offers trade-in). Note! You must enable/setup your HDTV settings in Microsoft dashboard, (on NTSC Xboxes).
I'm not a MS fanboy by any means but just want to agree with your post. If I had mod points I'd use them.
I setup a waste processing plant using Intellution about a decade ago. Was running on NT4, now 2k. But there is nothing scary about that. When the PLCs are programmed properly nothing terrible happens when the Wintel box crashes. Nope the proverbial sh*t doesn't hit the fan. It only makes it a little difficult for the plant engineers to monitor things and adjust levels. When the system boots back up everything is fine.
eBay was good when it was Auction Web. Almost like craigslist where anything and everything could be auctioned and the listing fees were reasonable. The interface was simple and straight forward, now it is as bad as godaddy.com 90% garbage 10% substance.
BTW I sold my 1997 account for $1500.
Same here.
I do consulting for small businesses and the only people that don't complain about vista are the ones that use it to play solitaire and check their email. (not computer literate in the least)
The ones that complain the loudest are those that picked up a brand new computer to replace their old one only to find out the new one runs much slower. I have 'upgraded' many vista laptops and desktops to XP in the last year each charging the same as a virus/rootkit removal plus MS license. Laptops are the worst, especially HP, it is like they are intentionally hiding XP drivers for things as simple as a sound cards. I'm still able to find workarounds but in all my years working with PCs I have never seen support for a predecessor OS being unsupported so quickly. Even with the push for 2k/XP there were several years of support for 9x users.
I still try to keep an open mind, I was skeptical of 2000 and XP when it first came out, but I am finding it very difficult to swallow vista.
My most recent endeavor trying to make vista work for someone was on a brand new state of the art quad core computer. It ran at a decent speed, no complaints other than the printer (brand new HP officejet pro) would intermittently fail to respond. The network card would work for 5 minutes and then go to 'Media Disconnected' status for no reason even after replacing the motherboard (on-board nic), building wiring, HP ProCurve module, patch cords, etc. I could boot a knoppix or ubuntu live CD and have no networking problems at all. Checked the latest Marvell drivers, Bios, etc. The only solution was to install XP.
I have yet to see with my own eyes a power user that is happy with vista. So far I only hear about it on the internet from fanboys. By power user I mean someone that runs multiple applications in a productive environment and are able to do so at the same speed or better than XP without having to know how their computer works.
I keep trying vista myself as it is my business to do so, but I haven't seen any compelling reason yet to recommend it to anyone. To me it is still a downgrade. I'll keep trying it as future updates come out.
Part of me thinks those touting it on the net are shills from MS. Just like aliens, until I see it with my own eyes I'm not going to believe it.
I run 2 VOIP adapters, one for NextAlarm, and the other for iTaklBB for local and international calls.
m0n0 has a very good traffic shaping configuration tool. When configured properly it will always grant the highest priority to the VOIP ports. And set P2P traffic as bulk/hated status. Even giving you good performance for web,im,etc without having to shape it as it falls in the everything else category.
Even under full load, several torrents running, ReplayTVs sending shows, it has never given me a problem.
You can even get it in a nice power saving box at Soekris
Write the m0n0 image to a CF card and you are ready to go. With it's very intuitive web interface you will be up and running without having to learn any command lines, etc.
Any old PC with a couple NICs and a bootable CD or USB flash will work too, but in the long run the PC will cost you about $15/month in power.
There are many howtos etc at http://m0n0.ch
I can't recommend it more. I have deployed dozens of these to replace underpowered routers and pretend firewalls.
One thing you will need to learn is how NAT and Rules work on this FW. You first need to create NATs for incoming ports that you want open. During the NAT creation process there is an option to auto-add it to the firewall Rules to make it easier. But creating a NAT alone without a Rule will not allow incoming traffic. Plenty of tutorials are on their site.
I run a QX9650, had 2 8800GTXs in SLi mode. 1100W Tagan PSU.
Picked up a Kill-A-Watt measuring device and was surprised to see it only drawing 180W in idle, and 400+ while playing Crysis.
The heat was unbearable though. My utility bill went up $100+ more/month than usual (mainly due to the HVAC trying to cool my den) so I ditched the 8800s and now use a single cheap 8600GT. Funny thing is, I see no difference in game quality. My room is much cooler, and my system will peak at 220W when under full load.
Also has 2 WD 150GB Raptors and a Seagate 500GB 7200.11 HD.
Maybe gaming isn't my thing, but to me at 1600x1200 it is good enough. Definitely not enough to justify $100 more in power.
The Kill-A-Watt is a very useful device in finding the power vampires in your house. You would be surprised how much cable/satellite receivers consume even when 'off'
Keep backing up to whatever current ext storage devices exists. 1TB ext HDDs are available for $199 at newegg.
In 1.5 years it will be 2TB, and so on.
Just keep staying with current technology. The nice thing about digital is there is no loss when making multigenerational copies.
Video is now beginning to escape the restrictions of how the MP3 of the mid 90s was, when it would take hours to encode and consume an HDD pretty quickly. With CPUs and storage doubling every 18 months it won't matter much, it will be like your MP3 collection is now and how easy it is to move it from one storage medium to another.
at your local community college. Will cost you $100 (depending on your location)and be well worth it. A basic electronics class will be mostly theory and book work 90% study 10% lab. You really won't grasp it without some education.
With this, then get a book with some schematics that interest you and buy the breadboards and components online.
If you want to learn more, depending on your interests; analog or digital, take more advanced classes.
Most community colleges have night classes and can be 1 hr 3-4 times a week or 3 hours once a week.
I'll use a car analogy:
Auto enthusiast spends $1000 or more to have a spoiler attached to the rear hatch even though it is illegal to drive at a speed where the spoiler would show any benefit. Then pays thousands more for chrome and gold plated engine components under the hood. (which adds nothing to the actual performance of the car)
This is just bling and bling comes in many varieties.
If someone has $30,000+ invested in an AV system that they enjoy showing off it would look tacky to have generic cables attached even though they perform just the same, like having equally functional engine components without bling in a hot rod.
Denon profits $495 for each of these, they are filling a niche bling market and if they did sell them for $10 it would be tacky in the eyes of their customer.
As long as he doesn't pick Hillary for VP that is ok with me.
McCain is just plain awful and has no chance of winning. As a card carrying Republican since the day I was old enough to vote, I will only vote for McCain if Hillary ends up on the ticket. Otherwise I will stay home that day and won't really care.
Hey, it had an internal 300bps modem and I had a lot of fun BBSing through the 80s. Even bought the 3.5" RS-232 floppy drive that also ran on AA batteries. I didn't know what ARPA was at the time, nor the BBSes I frequented such as Archer80 made any mention of it, but with the internal modem and integrated terminal application, I'm sure it wasn't out of the realm of possibility. I only learned of the internet by seeing strange .com file names with @ signs in them. :)
You don't remember all of the marketing hype, TV, radio, magazine promotions for 'Bob'?
MS innovation at its best.
I freeze my CRs and because I have no near future plans to use credit and I think everyone in their right mind aught to do the same. If or when I do need credit, I can request the CRA to thaw the CR for a particular creditor, or in some cases get a 1 time pin. Takes about 3 days, and I agree it is a PITA for all 3 parties involved, but they CRAs can make it much easier if they really wanted to. I think they are under pressure from creditors to keep it a cumbersome process as a discouragement because so much credit is granted on a whim and waiting 3 days gives too much time for the consumer to think about their purchase.
It could be that Shanghai is a SEZ city. I've been there 3 times since 2005 and there wasn't any websites blocked that I could find. Could also be the hotel, and the western company I visited didn't have those restrictions.
I was also able to watch my Slingbox, and bring my Vonage adapter and make local calls back to the states.
YMMV
I'd keep a small piece of tape over the lens and jab the mic a few times with an unfolded paper clip. Two things on my PC that I never plan to use and will never miss.
I'm not sure if Spamhaus is any respector of ISP. They have blacklisted some (not all as they run many) of Cox's SMTP servers on numerous occasions, and I'm sure they have done the same to other ISPs as well. If enough spam is coming from an IP it can and likely will get blacklisted. Cox just assigns a new IP to the blacklisted server and gets around it while dealing with the blacklists to get their old ip removed. Dealing with millions of customers where more than half probably have no security software running it is no surprise that this happens. Note: I'm not claiming I know how Spamhaus works internally, just my observations. I'm assuming that much of what goes on there is automated.
When I hear a complaint from someone getting mail refused to a hotmail account. I check the IP in the message headers of the returned mail of which MTA tried to communicate with hotmail and check it against Spamhaus and find it blacklisted. Calling the ISP tech support does nothing as there is no way to reach any NOC personnel from a call center nor does the support rep have any clue what Spamhaus or blacklists are. The admins in the NOC eventually correct the problem sometimes in as long as a day or two. Meanwhile users just have to resend their message and hope it goes through a different MTA within their ISP.
If Gmail gets blacklisted they will probably do the same, I'm sure they have much more than one MTA.
Can you be more specific? Link to a website, etc? Makes, models, etc. Even if it is in Chinese, I am very interested.
I've done something similar using a wifi SD memory card that automatically uploads the pictures to your PC or favorite photo sharing site, like flickr, etc.
The Eye-Fi is a novel idea but getting a camera to stay on long enough has been a challenge, most have power save features that only let you select a minute or two. I suppose a way around this would be to wire something to press a button every 30 secs to keep it awake.
Being on a limited budget I purchased a $80 7MP Camera from Walmart and found that it had the option to stay on. Opened it up, soldered wires for power (3VDC) and two for the shutter control. A cheap PIR motion detector with a relay will close the connection and snap a picture. Bought a $15 mini tripod and removed the legs and mounted it to the ceiling. Everytime motion is detected the camera snaps a pic and the Eye-Fi transfers a high resolution jpeg to the PC via Wifi.
For the most part it works really good, other than the camera was too cheap to do wide angle, and had no focus control, so the images are blurry. Cameras that enclose the SD card in a metal chassis will present a challenge for range.
I think enough tinkering with other cameras will do the trick. When I called Eye-Fi tech support they never heard of anyone using their product for security and couldn't recommend a cheap, but good camera that will have the 'stay on' feature.
The white paper says no changes were made to how activation works, other than the SP3 media will allow installation without a key, similar to Vista. WGA warnings about activation will occur after installation, at which time a key can be entered in the activation window.
Should make installing a little easier, but I'm not sure what the point of it will be. The large OEM's already worked around this years ago. With EOL in just a couple of months it's not like I'll be able to pick up an oem copy of this at Newegg when I sell myself a new computer.
Perhaps smaller VL users that don't already make their own installation image will find this useful.
Get a 30" to sandwich between the other two 20" rotated 90 deg. All wide screen, best of both worlds. I set one up like that for a friend that has more money to burn than me.
I'm currently using 2 Dell 20" widescreens side by side. When coding I rotate the left one with my terminal window at full screen (portrait mode), and the other left normal with IE and Firefox side by side for the result.
You would be surprised how different it is and will likely never go back. Sort of like when you got your first flat panel 8 years ago.
Where is my fiber to the curb? A lot of my tax dollars were freely handed to them to do it. A decade later and what do they have to show? A report the the tubes will be clogged in less than 2 years.
I want congressional hearings, and heads on platters.
- Anyone know the physics of DVD tossing? Is it the same as CDs? I've gotten pretty good at tossing them AOL CDs against the brick wall in our tech room. (Good for calming my nerves)
- Is this legal?
- -or- Should I get a new prescription to calm me down and keep my precious DVD collection??
Bob.