so will a huge fine from the people behind HIPAA. actually, im not sure that dental falls under the HIPAA rules, but most any place that holds medical records should.
The latest incarnation of the Sony Reader plugs in to a USB host and shows up like a drive, to drag files over. It can handle.txt and.PDF as well as JPEG and MP3. Feel free to totally ignore installing their software and never using DRM. I have one and it is fantastic for taking with me when I travel.
Eh, you can, but you're going to get the best results regarding display quality (because you can control font and size), as well as not waiting (feels like an eternity) for the reader to format the file itself.
If you do want to just drop books in, at least convert them to Sony's native book format. They really do tend to be better. The tool I use for this purpose is called BookDesigner, and it makes for some very comfortable reading. Still have the formatting wait though.
While I'm at it, PDFrasterfarian can format your PDF files. You can crop the pdfs, force one pdf page to use two frames (thats usually what i go for) portrait or landscape modes, all free stuff. Google should lend you a hand finding these.
for the record, i own one of these, and i absolutely love it. my only real gripe is the lack of backlighting, but i think i might be able to hack something up to make a frontlight that wont send a glare back at me.
it's the pinout of the null modem cable. you can't use a straight through serial cable, the tx/rx lines need to be reversed so that computer a's transmit ends up at computer b's receive.
you can either cut a straight through cable and resolder, buy the db9 or db25 ends and make your own cable (can be soldered, or solderless), or just go buy a null modem cable.
The book King wrote, "Dragon's Eye", reveals a great deal about Flagg, for those interested. It's an old book, fairly difficult to find.
Check out the roadmap. It shows that many of his books are linked to the Dark Tower, and how. Don't scroll down past the map unless you're prepared for a spoiler or two though, especially if you have not finished the dt series at least. http://www.thedarktower.net/connections/roadmap/ tommy
We force children to wear helmets to do anthting from sports to riding a bike, and we refuse to let them learn *anything* from experience. Example: would you ever sit and watch your kid put a penny in a light socket? Why not? It's a good lesson to learn, listen to your elders, they usually know what they are talking about. I graduated from school in 2000, and most of you have no idea how sheltered and spoiled most of the people I had as classmates were. It is embarrassing to be even in the same age group as these kids.
A lot must have changed in a few years. I graduated in 97, and half the 'kids' there would have stuck a knife in you for no real reason. There was no shelter..
This is an Evaporative Cooler, AKA a Swamp Cooler.
Maybe.. but a far more effective method would be to make a real swamp cooler, and instead of pushing the water through a radiator, use it to wet a filter. Push the air through the filter, and you get a much more efficient evaporative cooler.
I have no doubt that you could use an AVR or PIC microcontroller to do this, and it wouldn't even be hard to design. IDE interface, microcontroller, maybe some kind of random number generator, and you'd be set.
This is kinda interesting, I think I'll look into it. Add a few buttons on the front of the dongle to chose your paranoia level..
Somewhat offtopic, but why does gmail block zip files? I need to email exe and dll files and I zip them since the exchange server on the other end blocks those extensions. gmail accepts zips when I rename them to.zi, but it's a hassle.
They don't. They only block those exe and dll files. They will block exe and dll files in any compressed form that it can open as well. For now, it seems that gmail doesn't do 7zip, so I'm not quite yet irritated, but it took me a bit to figure out why I could receive some zips, not others, &c..
So shouldn't we be able to buy Optical drives and HDD for use in *external* boxes at a reasonable price? At present, external drives always cost ~100% more than an internal version... which is a shame as an external HDD would be nice for backups but given that I'd need something bigger in approx. 12 to 18 months, I prefer not to pay an arm and a leg!
It is FAR cheaper to make your own external than to buy one premade by WD or Maxtor, etc. Check newegg, you can buy a OEM hard drive, and a usb2 or firewire external chassis for about the same price as a retail drive at CompUSA or BestBuy.
As a side note, I very much do not trust the shitty drives that come inside premade externals. I've had far better luck buying oem 7200rpm drives with 8mb cache and dropping it inside a chassis. Our shop has seen a good two times more premades die than built, however I cannot say its because theyre shittier, or because the people that build their own take better care of their equipment.
I will warn you, then kill you if you do not leave. I dont have time to see if you have a gun, or even find out why you are there. I will shot at you till I am out of ammo You are just the exact kind of idiot who ends up in prison for manslaughter. I believe in the right to own guns but when I see people like you it really makes me wonder if letting the average Joe Idiot own a gun is such a great idea.
.. if you warn someone that you are armed and they should leave, and they do not, you have every reason to believe they are also armed, and willing to use whatever against you. You should then be sufficiently scared for your life that you can legally kill someone in your home. This is true of California, which has very strong laws regarding this kind of thing. Just pray you can make the jury believe.
if someone stole your car and i bought it from him would you have *me* responsible? .. you are responisble for any stolen property you possess, whether or not you stole it. (in the us)
Does anyone know much about how long these drives are supposed to last? Is there a maximum number of writes, like flash memory, or is it equivalent to a 2.5" hard drive?
I've got a few i-openers and I also want to build a small router type machine out of a soekris board, these drives would be ideal, as long as they aren't going to stop working after a month of writing logs. Read and write speed is not an issue with what I have in mind.
mm. Franklin eBookMan. They arent made any longer, but you can pick them up new in box for about 60 dollars still.
Theyre somewhat larger than a palm pilot or similar, but not nearly so large as the rocket ebook readers.
I have a few eBookMans. I havent found an unencrypted format that I couldnt convert, and most encrypted things I can convert as well.
Also accepts plain text and html.
It isnt the best thing in the world, but for the price you can get them at, they are most likely the best thing until the eInk readers come out, and hopefully they dont force a shitty os onto those.
Never been back to retail. I'm sure your first job was something wonderful, not everyone can be so giften.
Two parter here. 1) Use of profanity is the mark of high intelligence. 2) Electronics salesmen on the whole are smart and knowlegeable and know what's best. It goes wothout saying that people who were not willing to buy your reccommneded product were churlish dolts that should be put to death.
I don't think my status as an electronics salesman had any impact on the observation that sweat pants and fannypacks are 'out there.' I'm sure your witty comments about peoples' careers are important to you, but somehow, churlish is describing you much better than those not willing to buy my reccommended products.
hmm.. for my first job, i worked as an electronics salesman at OfficeMax. this is no joke, and im not trying to say anything deeper than what it looks like.
When a dumpy, chubyish man or woman came into the store, wearing glasses, a fannypack, and their shirt tucked into their sweatpants, about 9 out of 10 times they would ask me if i carried mac software.
there's always the odd one out, but i could tell a mac user with a far better chance of being right than i should have.
oh ya, and these people always irritated the fuck out of me, and didnt understand half the shit i tried to explain to them.
otoh, i know plenty of 'normal' people that use macs. i own a powerbook, to look pretty against all my x86 based workhorses.
Only the smtp server needs to have a.mail domain, right? You can host an indefinite ammount of domains for email on one server, I don't see any reason why you would need a.mail domain for every email domain.
Why aren't we instead doing this to the companies that are paying the spammers to spam? If all the companies that are using spammers as advertising start getting false information, they might stop using spam to get their product out there. It's pretty obvious to me that the person spamming isn't using a valid return address, but the message in the spam must have some valid stuff, otherwise it wouldn't sell.
It isn't about making spamming not profitable for spammers, it's making spam not profitable for companies selling their product using questionable advertising.
...something that can already be done with Postfix and other mailers. It's very simple. Postfix can check to see if the hostname you claim to be from matches your IP. It can also check to see if the IP reverses to the hostname you claimed(this one is not as wise, as there are perfectly valid reasons for not having a reverse entry, although you -should- have one). Further, Postfix can return not-authorized if you try and give a MAIL FROM address which doesn't match your domain; ie, if you're coming from a01.nastyspammer.com, you're not going to be able to say "MAIL FROM: niceguy@yahoo.com". It is -incredibly- effective against blocking spam, but the problem is that many ISPs and company just don't have properly configured mail servers, or hostnames set up for their mail servers(an even more common mistake is for the hostname to not match the name reported by the connecting server in the HELO command- most often Exchange servers). This would change quickly if more people configured their mail servers to block such shenanigans.
this is stupid. what about email thats sent via my ISPs mail server, but the from address is my own domain? that is perfectly reasonable. you would lose a ton of email filtering like that.
have you ever heard of poly-morphic viruses? they re-wrote most of themselves when they spread. the only problem with that is that the code to morph the virus always stays the same, so thats how AV software tracked them. when someone figured out how to morph the morph code, we're fucked.
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so will a huge fine from the people behind HIPAA.
actually, im not sure that dental falls under the HIPAA rules, but most any place that holds medical records should.
Eh, you can, but you're going to get the best results regarding display quality (because you can control font and size), as well as not waiting (feels like an eternity) for the reader to format the file itself.
If you do want to just drop books in, at least convert them to Sony's native book format. They really do tend to be better. The tool I use for this purpose is called BookDesigner, and it makes for some very comfortable reading. Still have the formatting wait though.
While I'm at it, PDFrasterfarian can format your PDF files. You can crop the pdfs, force one pdf page to use two frames (thats usually what i go for) portrait or landscape modes, all free stuff. Google should lend you a hand finding these.
for the record, i own one of these, and i absolutely love it. my only real gripe is the lack of backlighting, but i think i might be able to hack something up to make a frontlight that wont send a glare back at me.
it's the pinout of the null modem cable. you can't use a straight through serial cable, the tx/rx lines need to be reversed so that computer a's transmit ends up at computer b's receive.
you can either cut a straight through cable and resolder, buy the db9 or db25 ends and make your own cable (can be soldered, or solderless), or just go buy a null modem cable.
Check out the roadmap. It shows that many of his books are linked to the Dark Tower, and how. Don't scroll down past the map unless you're prepared for a spoiler or two though, especially if you have not finished the dt series at least. http://www.thedarktower.net/connections/roadmap/
tommy
We force children to wear helmets to do anthting from sports to riding a bike, and we refuse to let them learn *anything* from experience. Example: would you ever sit and watch your kid put a penny in a light socket? Why not? It's a good lesson to learn, listen to your elders, they usually know what they are talking about. I graduated from school in 2000, and most of you have no idea how sheltered and spoiled most of the people I had as classmates were. It is embarrassing to be even in the same age group as these kids.
A lot must have changed in a few years. I graduated in 97, and half the 'kids' there would have stuck a knife in you for no real reason. There was no shelter..
Maybe.. but a far more effective method would be to make a real swamp cooler, and instead of pushing the water through a radiator, use it to wet a filter. Push the air through the filter, and you get a much more efficient evaporative cooler.
I have no doubt that you could use an AVR or PIC microcontroller to do this, and it wouldn't even be hard to design. IDE interface, microcontroller, maybe some kind of random number generator, and you'd be set.
This is kinda interesting, I think I'll look into it. Add a few buttons on the front of the dongle to chose your paranoia level..
They don't. They only block those exe and dll files. They will block exe and dll files in any compressed form that it can open as well. For now, it seems that gmail doesn't do 7zip, so I'm not quite yet irritated, but it took me a bit to figure out why I could receive some zips, not others, &c..
It is FAR cheaper to make your own external than to buy one premade by WD or Maxtor, etc. Check newegg, you can buy a OEM hard drive, and a usb2 or firewire external chassis for about the same price as a retail drive at CompUSA or BestBuy.
As a side note, I very much do not trust the shitty drives that come inside premade externals. I've had far better luck buying oem 7200rpm drives with 8mb cache and dropping it inside a chassis. Our shop has seen a good two times more premades die than built, however I cannot say its because theyre shittier, or because the people that build their own take better care of their equipment.
I will warn you, then kill you if you do not leave. I dont have time to see if you have a gun, or even find out why you are there. I will shot at you till I am out of ammo
.. if you warn someone that you are armed and they should leave, and they do not, you have every reason to believe they are also armed, and willing to use whatever against you. You should then be sufficiently scared for your life that you can legally kill someone in your home.
You are just the exact kind of idiot who ends up in prison for manslaughter. I believe in the right to own guns but when I see people like you it really makes me wonder if letting the average Joe Idiot own a gun is such a great idea.
This is true of California, which has very strong laws regarding this kind of thing. Just pray you can make the jury believe.
if someone stole your car and i bought it from him would you have *me* responsible?
.. you are responisble for any stolen property you possess, whether or not you stole it. (in the us)
Does anyone know much about how long these drives are supposed to last? Is there a maximum number of writes, like flash memory, or is it equivalent to a 2.5" hard drive?
I've got a few i-openers and I also want to build a small router type machine out of a soekris board, these drives would be ideal, as long as they aren't going to stop working after a month of writing logs.
Read and write speed is not an issue with what I have in mind.
mm. Franklin eBookMan. They arent made any longer, but you can pick them up new in box for about 60 dollars still.
Theyre somewhat larger than a palm pilot or similar, but not nearly so large as the rocket ebook readers.
I have a few eBookMans. I havent found an unencrypted format that I couldnt convert, and most encrypted things I can convert as well.
Also accepts plain text and html.
It isnt the best thing in the world, but for the price you can get them at, they are most likely the best thing until the eInk readers come out, and hopefully they dont force a shitty os onto those.
Never been back to retail.
I'm sure your first job was something wonderful, not everyone can be so giften.
I don't think my status as an electronics salesman had any impact on the observation that sweat pants and fannypacks are 'out there.' I'm sure your witty comments about peoples' careers are important to you, but somehow, churlish is describing you much better than those not willing to buy my reccommended products.
hmm..
for my first job, i worked as an electronics salesman at OfficeMax.
this is no joke, and im not trying to say anything deeper than what it looks like.
When a dumpy, chubyish man or woman came into the store, wearing glasses, a fannypack, and their shirt tucked into their sweatpants, about 9 out of 10 times they would ask me if i carried mac software.
there's always the odd one out, but i could tell a mac user with a far better chance of being right than i should have.
oh ya, and these people always irritated the fuck out of me, and didnt understand half the shit i tried to explain to them.
otoh, i know plenty of 'normal' people that use macs. i own a powerbook, to look pretty against all my x86 based workhorses.
Have you taken a look at the prices for ram lately? It's something like 4 times the cost of a month ago.
Janus? Microsoft is going to clone itself and take over the world. Where's Dredd when you need him?
Only the smtp server needs to have a .mail domain, right? You can host an indefinite ammount of domains for email on one server, I don't see any reason why you would need a .mail domain for every email domain.
Why aren't we instead doing this to the companies that are paying the spammers to spam? If all the companies that are using spammers as advertising start getting false information, they might stop using spam to get their product out there. It's pretty obvious to me that the person spamming isn't using a valid return address, but the message in the spam must have some valid stuff, otherwise it wouldn't sell.
It isn't about making spamming not profitable for spammers, it's making spam not profitable for companies selling their product using questionable advertising.
required-
5 years linux experiance
thorough knowlege of perl, c, php, shell scripting
ability to travel
BA in CS
was some kind of admin job for a new company
they offered us $8 an hour.
this is stupid. what about email thats sent via my ISPs mail server, but the from address is my own domain? that is perfectly reasonable. you would lose a ton of email filtering like that.
jigga what?
have you ever heard of poly-morphic viruses? they re-wrote most of themselves when they spread. the only problem with that is that the code to morph the virus always stays the same, so thats how AV software tracked them. when someone figured out how to morph the morph code, we're fucked.
we're obviously ignoring the fact that you cannot approach infinity.
thanks for playing.
felons have no rights.