You really need to look into this more, a 33Mhz system with a 14.4 modem actually has a lot of uses. It'd make a decent (but very low bandwith) home firewall, for one.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's not useful!
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Take a look at this picture and the cat. Now look at your desktop PC and imagine a cat standing next to it. The nanode really is that small.
I have to yell at my cat at least half a dozen times a day for using my either PC or keyboard as a launch pad (the PC is located next to the table with his food dish). If I got one of these, he'd start using it as a toy, that'd be even more annoying...!
There'd be far less home computers and most of them would either be running MacOS or OS/2. Microsoft may be a monstrosity who write crap software, but they have got excellent marketing skills and are largely responsible (but by no means exclusively) for the number of home PC's being sold today.
As a Christian, I found the whole movie hilarious - it's good to laugh at yourselves every once in a while. Nothing offensive about that movie at all if you ask me. Didn't stop my parents having a fit when they found out I'd seen it though:)
I wonder if the re-release will generate the same controvesy this time around as it did in the 1970's. Somehow I doubt we'll need to have the organised bus trips to other towns to see the movies cause your local theatre has banned it.
Wide format is slowly coming along, about 40% of the shows I watch are broadcast in widescreen right now. My biggest beef at the moment is the number of broadcasters who slap a watermark right in the middle of the black lines thus confusing my TV so it can't stretch the image properly. Yes, I can use one of the manual presets but then it chops off the edges.
My Phillips TV does a really good job of automatically stretching the screen when it detects widescreen.
I like my job about 70% of the time, that's the amount of time I spend actually working on computers. The remaining 30% (and getting larger as time goes on it seems) is dealing with more and more paperwork, meetings and the occasional user who is not only stupid (*all* users are stupid) but argumentative as well.
So, 70% of the time I'm happy.
By contrast, a few years ago I spent 12 months in a complete career switch working for a steel company. Lots of dirty outdoor work and coming hope with little bits of steel imbedded in my arms. I actually really enjoyed it and lost my pale geeky look for a while:-) However, the pay wasn't very good and working outside in the pouring rain isn't much fun either. I'm happier back in the IT industry but it was a great experience.
Hmmm... are you using the most recent version (0.5?), it's been very stable for me in Linux AND Windows [XP] and I do a lot of IMAP stuff in it which is the best way to break most mailers!
Try 0.5, or if you already using it get the latest snapshot releases. If it's still buggy for you file a bug. Perfection takes time and the Thunderbird developers are doing a fantastic job.
Unfortuantely, the FCC has responded to the ludicrous hype which has all stemmed from a split second shot of someone's breast. It was so fast it was over in the time it took me to look down to pop another taste piece of chicken breast (sweet irony, eh?) on my fork. They show far worse things on MTV, every single day but no one complained. Go figure.
OK so it was wrong, she shouldn't have shown her boob (waldrobe malfunction my ass, attention grabbing idea more like) on national TV during a family show but please, get over it!
My personal opinion is that the US should follow the UK rule, have censorship until 9 pm and then tone it down. It's the parents responsibility to limit what children watch at a time when those that are young and impressional should be asleep anyway.
We have the same policy at my job. It's not a problem because they supplied me with a pager. It does the same job your SMS solution does, I get a page when our monitoring systems notice a problem. Any decent technology company will supply you with one if you justify it.
I would never recommend using your personal stuff for anything to do with your employer, if they're not prepared to give you the tools you need to do your job find a different employer!
What your seeing is the result of a slow exposure camera watching a objecting moving across the sky. It's probably the Mars Odyssey orbiter which the Rovers both use as a communications relay. You can simulate that on earth too, wait for the ISS to fly over your house, point your camera at it and leave the shutter open for a few minutes.
The desktop is definitely more responsive, but (at least for me) at the expense of everything else. MPlayer, xmms, and anything that's remotely timing-intensive is unusable (xmms actually skips while playing MP3s, and Mplayer prints the message "Your computer is TOO SLOW to play this file" when playing anything I've got. Note that everything works fine under 2.4.)
I had this problem up until 2.6.1 - major skipping with anything audio related. After 2.6.2 everything works great. It may just be your audio driver hasn't been updated for 2.6 yet so your best bet for now is to use the old OSS drivers and wait for the ALSA driver to get updated. That's what fixed it for me.
I'm a roaming contractor, so the alternative was trying to manage email clients at several locations, and constantly finding that something (address books, mail archives, etc..) was out of sync.
I swear, the closer you get to Kennedy Space Center, the less chance they will offer it.
Have you asked? We used to have it on Time Warner and it was removed in favour of WB (I kid not). So, I went down to the local store and put in a request for it to be re-added. 2 months later, they added the channel again.
I'm sure the initial product will be free, but something makes me think that MS will be just as eager to charge you a monthly fee for Virus Definition Updates.
Just like they did with that horrible virus scanner they released with DOS 6.0 you mean?
It's not the first time MS have bundled a virus scanner with their OS, remember that.
Evidentally, you've eaten at different places to me. The following foods are what I would consider "Uniquely British":
1. Fish and Chips, actually the best part of this are the chips - REAL potatoes deep fried in lard! The fish (cod or haddock usually) is also deep fried in batter. Most Fish and Chip shops server sausages, hamburgers and, for the very very brave, some have snickers bars deep fried in batter.
2. Roast dinners. Go to a local tavern on Sunday, enjoy some of the best roast meat you've ever had. Make sure you try the Yorkshire Pudding.
3. Toad in the Hole. Yorkshire pudding with sausages. The Americans have something similar but only about half as good called "pigs in the blanket".
4. Cornish Pasties. Minced beef with vegetables (and spices if you're lucky) wrapped in flaky pastry. Yum!
Curry is becoming well known as the True National Dish of England, even though it's not technically truly English (who cares, anyway?). The Indian food you eat in England is the best in the world.
I must have applied for 2-300 jobs on various online boards, I got 2 calls back both from silly start up businesses who wanted me to invest in them so they could invest in me. You know the type!
Got my latest job the same way I've gotten all my jobs, I actually made the effort to visit the business and talk face to face with them.
OK, I have not read the article so can't comment on this case (the site's/.'d:(). Why do so many people get worked up when a cop asks for you id?
Case in point, which has been getting a lot of coverage in FL recently. A man was shot and killed by police because they thought he was a fugitive, it turns out he wasn't the man they where after - he was a law abiding citizen. Reason he was shot: he ran from the police when they tried to pull him over, when they finally caught up to him he reached for something in his pocket that the office thought was a gun (turned out it wasn'). I'm sorry the guy's dead, but if he'd just stopped and showed his ID he'd have been sent on his way and two families lives wouldn't be ruined.
Yes, it's an extreme example I know but you see my point. Just show your id, if you've nothing to hide why worry?
You're already going about it the right way. I, too have a one year gap in my Resume they has been questioned. By the time I've told them it's because I took 6 months out to travel to the USA and spend time with my fiancee (later wife), then decided to move here and it took another 3 months to get employement authorisation from the INS they're usually too interested in the story to care:-) [1]
[1] Nitpickers: The remaining 3 months where spent trying to actually find a job.
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And who the hell wants to browse the web on a 14.4 modem?
I did for a long time when I was an impoverished student and couldn't afford a faster modem (cue violins).
Actually, it wasn't all that bad unless the site had a lot of java or flash in it.
You really need to look into this more, a 33Mhz system with a 14.4 modem actually has a lot of uses. It'd make a decent (but very low bandwith) home firewall, for one.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's not useful!
Take a look at this picture and the cat. Now look at your desktop PC and imagine a cat standing next to it. The nanode really is that small.
I have to yell at my cat at least half a dozen times a day for using my either PC or keyboard as a launch pad (the PC is located next to the table with his food dish). If I got one of these, he'd start using it as a toy, that'd be even more annoying...!
There'd be far less home computers and most of them would either be running MacOS or OS/2. Microsoft may be a monstrosity who write crap software, but they have got excellent marketing skills and are largely responsible (but by no means exclusively) for the number of home PC's being sold today.
As a Christian, I found the whole movie hilarious - it's good to laugh at yourselves every once in a while. Nothing offensive about that movie at all if you ask me. Didn't stop my parents having a fit when they found out I'd seen it though :)
I wonder if the re-release will generate the same controvesy this time around as it did in the 1970's. Somehow I doubt we'll need to have the organised bus trips to other towns to see the movies cause your local theatre has banned it.
Wide format is slowly coming along, about 40% of the shows I watch are broadcast in widescreen right now. My biggest beef at the moment is the number of broadcasters who slap a watermark right in the middle of the black lines thus confusing my TV so it can't stretch the image properly. Yes, I can use one of the manual presets but then it chops off the edges.
My Phillips TV does a really good job of automatically stretching the screen when it detects widescreen.
They've been selling wireless mice and keyboards for years! Logitech are particularly good.
I like my job about 70% of the time, that's the amount of time I spend actually working on computers. The remaining 30% (and getting larger as time goes on it seems) is dealing with more and more paperwork, meetings and the occasional user who is not only stupid (*all* users are stupid) but argumentative as well.
:-) However, the pay wasn't very good and working outside in the pouring rain isn't much fun either. I'm happier back in the IT industry but it was a great experience.
So, 70% of the time I'm happy.
By contrast, a few years ago I spent 12 months in a complete career switch working for a steel company. Lots of dirty outdoor work and coming hope with little bits of steel imbedded in my arms. I actually really enjoyed it and lost my pale geeky look for a while
It's officially a Kuiper Belt or Trans-Nepturian (depending on who you ask) object, not a planet.
Hmmm... are you using the most recent version (0.5?), it's been very stable for me in Linux AND Windows [XP] and I do a lot of IMAP stuff in it which is the best way to break most mailers!
Try 0.5, or if you already using it get the latest snapshot releases. If it's still buggy for you file a bug. Perfection takes time and the Thunderbird developers are doing a fantastic job.
Unfortuantely, the FCC has responded to the ludicrous hype which has all stemmed from a split second shot of someone's breast. It was so fast it was over in the time it took me to look down to pop another taste piece of chicken breast (sweet irony, eh?) on my fork. They show far worse things on MTV, every single day but no one complained. Go figure.
OK so it was wrong, she shouldn't have shown her boob (waldrobe malfunction my ass, attention grabbing idea more like) on national TV during a family show but please, get over it!
My personal opinion is that the US should follow the UK rule, have censorship until 9 pm and then tone it down. It's the parents responsibility to limit what children watch at a time when those that are young and impressional should be asleep anyway.
Ever heard of a thing called the off switch?
They where predicting the net would die and was a passing fad as late as 1996 in some journals, Radio Times (UK TV listings) for one.
We have the same policy at my job. It's not a problem because they supplied me with a pager. It does the same job your SMS solution does, I get a page when our monitoring systems notice a problem. Any decent technology company will supply you with one if you justify it.
I would never recommend using your personal stuff for anything to do with your employer, if they're not prepared to give you the tools you need to do your job find a different employer!
No, Viking 2's orbiter ran out of fuel in August 1980. Have a look at this website for more information.
And a quick look at NASA's website shows that NASA think's that it's the Viking 2 orbiter, so I was close :-)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Spacecraft?
What your seeing is the result of a slow exposure camera watching a objecting moving across the sky. It's probably the Mars Odyssey orbiter which the Rovers both use as a communications relay. You can simulate that on earth too, wait for the ISS to fly over your house, point your camera at it and leave the shutter open for a few minutes.
The desktop is definitely more responsive, but (at least for me) at the expense of everything else. MPlayer, xmms, and anything that's remotely timing-intensive is unusable (xmms actually skips while playing MP3s, and Mplayer prints the message "Your computer is TOO SLOW to play this file" when playing anything I've got. Note that everything works fine under 2.4.)
I had this problem up until 2.6.1 - major skipping with anything audio related. After 2.6.2 everything works great. It may just be your audio driver hasn't been updated for 2.6 yet so your best bet for now is to use the old OSS drivers and wait for the ALSA driver to get updated. That's what fixed it for me.
It's also amazing how many don't block 8080 and 8000... I have the same problem, guess what alternate ports I use for IMAP and SSH :-)
I'm a roaming contractor, so the alternative was trying to manage email clients at several locations, and constantly finding that something (address books, mail archives, etc..) was out of sync.
That's what IMAP is for.
I swear, the closer you get to Kennedy Space Center, the less chance they will offer it.
Have you asked? We used to have it on Time Warner and it was removed in favour of WB (I kid not). So, I went down to the local store and put in a request for it to be re-added. 2 months later, they added the channel again.
I'm sure the initial product will be free, but something makes me think that MS will be just as eager to charge you a monthly fee for Virus Definition Updates.
Just like they did with that horrible virus scanner they released with DOS 6.0 you mean?
It's not the first time MS have bundled a virus scanner with their OS, remember that.
Evidentally, you've eaten at different places to me. The following foods are what I would consider "Uniquely British":
1. Fish and Chips, actually the best part of this are the chips - REAL potatoes deep fried in lard! The fish (cod or haddock usually) is also deep fried in batter. Most Fish and Chip shops server sausages, hamburgers and, for the very very brave, some have snickers bars deep fried in batter.
2. Roast dinners. Go to a local tavern on Sunday, enjoy some of the best roast meat you've ever had. Make sure you try the Yorkshire Pudding.
3. Toad in the Hole. Yorkshire pudding with sausages. The Americans have something similar but only about half as good called "pigs in the blanket".
4. Cornish Pasties. Minced beef with vegetables (and spices if you're lucky) wrapped in flaky pastry. Yum!
Curry is becoming well known as the True National Dish of England, even though it's not technically truly English (who cares, anyway?). The Indian food you eat in England is the best in the world.
I must have applied for 2-300 jobs on various online boards, I got 2 calls back both from silly start up businesses who wanted me to invest in them so they could invest in me. You know the type!
Got my latest job the same way I've gotten all my jobs, I actually made the effort to visit the business and talk face to face with them.
OK, I have not read the article so can't comment on this case (the site's /.'d :(). Why do so many people get worked up when a cop asks for you id?
Case in point, which has been getting a lot of coverage in FL recently. A man was shot and killed by police because they thought he was a fugitive, it turns out he wasn't the man they where after - he was a law abiding citizen. Reason he was shot: he ran from the police when they tried to pull him over, when they finally caught up to him he reached for something in his pocket that the office thought was a gun (turned out it wasn'). I'm sorry the guy's dead, but if he'd just stopped and showed his ID he'd have been sent on his way and two families lives wouldn't be ruined.
Yes, it's an extreme example I know but you see my point. Just show your id, if you've nothing to hide why worry?
You're already going about it the right way. I, too have a one year gap in my Resume they has been questioned. By the time I've told them it's because I took 6 months out to travel to the USA and spend time with my fiancee (later wife), then decided to move here and it took another 3 months to get employement authorisation from the INS they're usually too interested in the story to care :-) [1]
[1] Nitpickers: The remaining 3 months where spent trying to actually find a job.