I did that once, I was sorry. windowsupdate showed an "updated driver" on for my vid card on my laptop (neomagic, I think). Now, normally I don't go and update device drivers unless there is some specific reason (something not working/ imcompat w some software), but I thought I'd give it a try.
What a mistake. When I rebooted I started getting error messages and it threw me into generic VGA. I had to then dig out the disks that came with the thing and re-install the driver.
Since then, I've avoided this like the plague. Sorry, I'll update any non-ms software myself, thanks. Windowsupdate is convenient given the number of "security updates". It saves me from having to keep track of what I've installed on my machines and it is fairly painless to go out there a couple times a month to see what is available.
But it also encourages the mindset that you should install software updates just because, well, it updates you to the latest version. Updating windows with all the latest security patches, fine. Updating IE or media player just because there is a new version? No thanks.
Same goes for drivers and non-ms software. I'll grant that it would be convenient to see that there are updates and then be able to install right there (remember Oil Change?), but I personally don't need to always need to keep my apps and drivers "up to date", especially if they are working fine otherwise.
More likely it would be used to embarass and ridicule us. Kinda like when your friends come over to your house and find pictures of you a 2yr old running around nekkid in the back yard under the sprinkler.
I can see it now:
Morbo: Heh, lookie what I found! The earthlings sent out a cute little probe 50,000 years ago! How pathetic. Look! Here's nekkid pictures of his great, great, great [...] grandmother and grandfather!
earther: Hey! Give that back, dammit!
Morbo: He he, well well. So the big bad earthers want their itty-bitty wittle spacecwaft back, doo dey? Hee hee, can't wait to show this to the guys on Omicron Persei 8!
Opponents of Hollywood's drive to strengthen copyright law are mounting a new strategy: Require anything that has antipiracy technology built in to be clearly labeled and let consumers decide at the cash register.
So, they aren't trying to pass a law to require digital copyright protection on devices, they are trying to legislate disclosure of "anti-piracy" technology that might otherwise silently sit on that new CD player you are ready to buy from Circuit City.
Why are we bitching at the Democrats? Oh, because it was on slashdot and the genius editor posted it "from the compromising-freedom dept", so we don't have to actually read the the article before kicking into full knee-jerk mode.
"I want people to walk into every store in America and see that the product they're about to buy has restrictions," Wyden said. "Let's take this to the marketplace."
Uh, that's what we want, isn't it? (well, short of making the whole copyright BS go away, I mean).
Opponents of Hollywood's drive to strengthen copyright law are mounting a new strategy: Require anything that has antipiracy technology built in to be clearly labeled and let consumers decide at the cash register.
So, they aren't trying to pass a law to require digital copyright protection on devices, they are trying to legislate disclosure of "anti-piracy" technology that might otherwise silently sit on that new CD player you are ready to buy from Circuit City.
Why are we bitching at the Democrats? Oh, because it was on slashdot and the genius editor posted it "from the compromising-freedom dept", so we don't have to actually read the the article before shouting profanities at the "Fucking Democrats".
A Report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers
Yeah, that's right. Popular Culture is manufactured -- everything the teenies think is "cool" or "hot" is identified months in advance by a highly sophisticated machine that probes the minds of kids to predict what will be the next trend so that the marketing establishment can gear up to take advantage of the short window where the "thing" is "cool" and can be sold to teens in such a way that they don't even realize what is going on.
>Just remove the extension from all mp3 files, re-add them when the audit is over.
Or better yet, simply name them *.3pm and change the associations (assuming you are using windows).
Hell, the file extension doesn't change the contents of the file, right? (just the application that is automatically launched when you click on one - although I suppose it could cause problems for programs that build playlists by scanning for the proper extension).
Why the hell is this modded as informative when it is clearly offtopic?
This thread is solely for the purpose of bitching and whining about slashdot duplicate story posting. Please take your comments about CPU architectures to a more appproprite forum!
Yeah, it seems to be just broadcat, at least in this case.
I had heard that there was something else going on where the content wasn't visible, was broken up across different time slices and re-assembled bu the TiVo, but this doesn't seem likely or even necessary.
Yes, it will always record your "to do" list first. I often set to record things overnight and I've never had something drop because it conflicted with a "showcase" (that's where these sit when they're not on the main menu with a little star).
In fact, it won't even change the channel on you if you happen to be watching something.
I was up the other night sleepless, flipping channels when TiVo asked if it could change the channel. I was suprised because I didn't remember setting anything up for 3:30 am on the Discovery Channel, but I let it go because I thought maybe my wife had set to record something.
So, it changed the channel (with my permission) and proceeded to start recording some previews for "Daredevil". I decided I'd rather go back to some documentary about Rhinos humping or something I was previously watching, so it let me change the channel without complaining that I was interrupting a scheduled recording or anything.
It went back and picked up the movie previews the next night, I guess because they showed up in a couple days.
I guess I was a little wary that TiVo was recording what amounts to ads at first. But I really don't mind that much now. Some of the stuff like best buy kind of turns me off, a few things like the daredevil previews I liked, and the rest I really don't even care about.
Besides, isn't there a backdoor code or something to keep TiVo from recording these?
Granted, I do have this on top of instead of under the desk. Still wouldn't be too bad since these are so easily accessed from the front. The model I have is a small enough footprint that I don't mind having it on the desk next to the monitor, though.
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But that's ok. What is distracting is the apparent "updating" of the dialog (dub) by peppering it with references like this.
I did that once, I was sorry. windowsupdate showed an "updated driver" on for my vid card on my laptop (neomagic, I think). Now, normally I don't go and update device drivers unless there is some specific reason (something not working/ imcompat w some software), but I thought I'd give it a try.
What a mistake. When I rebooted I started getting error messages and it threw me into generic VGA. I had to then dig out the disks that came with the thing and re-install the driver.
Since then, I've avoided this like the plague. Sorry, I'll update any non-ms software myself, thanks. Windowsupdate is convenient given the number of "security updates". It saves me from having to keep track of what I've installed on my machines and it is fairly painless to go out there a couple times a month to see what is available.
But it also encourages the mindset that you should install software updates just because, well, it updates you to the latest version. Updating windows with all the latest security patches, fine. Updating IE or media player just because there is a new version? No thanks.
Same goes for drivers and non-ms software. I'll grant that it would be convenient to see that there are updates and then be able to install right there (remember Oil Change?), but I personally don't need to always need to keep my apps and drivers "up to date", especially if they are working fine otherwise.
More likely it would be used to embarass and ridicule us. Kinda like when your friends come over to your house and find pictures of you a 2yr old running around nekkid in the back yard under the sprinkler.
I can see it now:
Morbo: Heh, lookie what I found! The earthlings sent out a cute little probe 50,000 years ago! How pathetic. Look! Here's nekkid pictures of his great, great, great [...] grandmother and grandfather!
earther: Hey! Give that back, dammit!
Morbo: He he, well well. So the big bad earthers want their itty-bitty wittle spacecwaft back, doo dey? Hee hee, can't wait to show this to the guys on Omicron Persei 8!
earther: &**#(@$!
Slurm!
It's highly addictive!
sorry, couldn't resist - now mod me down.
Yep, try about:netscape or any other value after about: and you just get an error.
If you do an about:mozilla and then go into prefs and set it as your homepage you get
res://mshtml.dll/about.moz
Curious. I wonder why they did that? Must be some reason.
I assume you're slamming me for posting the same comment twice.
;-p
Yeah, after I posted this reply the parent got modded into oblivion.
I posted to the top thread to elicit some intelligent discussion.
I guess I failed (thank you very much)
Opponents of Hollywood's drive to strengthen copyright law are mounting a new strategy: Require anything that has antipiracy technology built in to be clearly labeled and let consumers decide at the cash register.
So, they aren't trying to pass a law to require digital copyright protection on devices, they are trying to legislate disclosure of "anti-piracy" technology that might otherwise silently sit on that new CD player you are ready to buy from Circuit City.
Why are we bitching at the Democrats? Oh, because it was on slashdot and the genius editor posted it "from the compromising-freedom dept", so we don't have to actually read the the article before kicking into full knee-jerk mode.
"I want people to walk into every store in America and see that the product they're about to buy has restrictions," Wyden said. "Let's take this to the marketplace."
Uh, that's what we want, isn't it? (well, short of making the whole copyright BS go away, I mean).
Wait, aren't they on our side?
Opponents of Hollywood's drive to strengthen copyright law are mounting a new strategy: Require anything that has antipiracy technology built in to be clearly labeled and let consumers decide at the cash register.
So, they aren't trying to pass a law to require digital copyright protection on devices, they are trying to legislate disclosure of "anti-piracy" technology that might otherwise silently sit on that new CD player you are ready to buy from Circuit City.
Why are we bitching at the Democrats? Oh, because it was on slashdot and the genius editor posted it "from the compromising-freedom dept", so we don't have to actually read the the article before shouting profanities at the "Fucking Democrats".
Ever see Merchants of Cool on Frontline?
A Report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers
Yeah, that's right. Popular Culture is manufactured -- everything the teenies think is "cool" or "hot" is identified months in advance by a highly sophisticated machine that probes the minds of kids to predict what will be the next trend so that the marketing establishment can gear up to take advantage of the short window where the "thing" is "cool" and can be sold to teens in such a way that they don't even realize what is going on.
>Just remove the extension from all mp3 files, re-add them when the audit is over.
Or better yet, simply name them *.3pm and change the associations (assuming you are using windows).
Hell, the file extension doesn't change the contents of the file, right? (just the application that is automatically launched when you click on one - although I suppose it could cause problems for programs that build playlists by scanning for the proper extension).
>appproprite
;-p
Gah! And while we're at it, can we have another bitch-fest about the lack of a spell-checker!?
Why the hell is this modded as informative when it is clearly offtopic?
This thread is solely for the purpose of bitching and whining about slashdot duplicate story posting. Please take your comments about CPU architectures to a more appproprite forum!
Bravo Opera!
Noo und imprufed! Coostumeeze-a yuoor oovn pege-a veet lucel noos, veezer, und mure-a!
Now, that's class.
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But I am using the most up-to-date version of my browser! Now what do I do? I really want to buy a Jaguar!
Oh, I see...
Yeah, that site won't even load in Konqueror! ;-P
>You don't put colour (or formatting) information in HTML.
I think he means color tag hilighting in the code view (Dreamweaver does this too, and is easier to configure, IMO).
Yeah, I hafta agree. I have used both FP and Dreamweaver (3&4) to do html, and most of what Matt points to in FP is even better in DW4.
Plus, DW4 can be made to produce standards-compliant XHTML.
don't mind me...
Yeah, it seems to be just broadcat, at least in this case.
I had heard that there was something else going on where the content wasn't visible, was broken up across different time slices and re-assembled bu the TiVo, but this doesn't seem likely or even necessary.
Ok, this is about the coolest statement in an OS FAQ I've ever seen:
It was chosen in the Bell Labs tradition of selecting names that make marketeers wince.
Yes, it will always record your "to do" list first. I often set to record things overnight and I've never had something drop because it conflicted with a "showcase" (that's where these sit when they're not on the main menu with a little star).
In fact, it won't even change the channel on you if you happen to be watching something.
I was up the other night sleepless, flipping channels when TiVo asked if it could change the channel. I was suprised because I didn't remember setting anything up for 3:30 am on the Discovery Channel, but I let it go because I thought maybe my wife had set to record something.
So, it changed the channel (with my permission) and proceeded to start recording some previews for "Daredevil". I decided I'd rather go back to some documentary about Rhinos humping or something I was previously watching, so it let me change the channel without complaining that I was interrupting a scheduled recording or anything.
It went back and picked up the movie previews the next night, I guess because they showed up in a couple days.
I guess I was a little wary that TiVo was recording what amounts to ads at first. But I really don't mind that much now. Some of the stuff like best buy kind of turns me off, a few things like the daredevil previews I liked, and the rest I really don't even care about.
Besides, isn't there a backdoor code or something to keep TiVo from recording these?
OIC - clever.
sneaky that,putting
lots of <br> tags
in the anchor
so that only the very last apparent 'link' has the domain revealed:
heh, I was thinking of "tiny" and "flaccid".
Sein Penis war Mikro- und weich.
Crap. Used up all my mod points earlier.
Bravo, excellent points.
>But what a pain when your box is under your desk
That's what's so nice about the dell box (at least the one sitting on my desktop at work).
There is a little door on the front that opens to reveal the usb and audio jacks.
This isn't the exact same layout I have, but you get the idea:
350 workstation view of front ports
Granted, I do have this on top of instead of under the desk. Still wouldn't be too bad since these are so easily accessed from the front. The model I have is a small enough footprint that I don't mind having it on the desk next to the monitor, though.