Why aren't drivers, by law, required to learn on an older car with a crappy 4-cylinder engine, manual transmission and no ABS or other modern conveniences (well, ABS is required by law in newer cars nowadays so that may not work). You may scoff, but you'll also be a better driver in the long term. I learned on an ancient Diesel Fiat Uno. It was horrible:-)
Actually, no I'm not. 0.7 was buggy as hell and totally unstable (it was an early alpha release!!). 1.0 had minor bugs, 1.0.7 has been completely rock solid for me. 1.5 beta 1 had an occasional issue with leaking memory, fixed in beta 2. What I have noticed is that the quality of FF extensions are going downhill fast, many of them are buggy enough to crash the browser. The only ones I use are Forecastfox and AdBlock, which both work fine.
"Effectively" shut down? So he's free to just buy new servers, host them elsewhere and restart his spamming or have they slapped an injunction off him telling him to stop?
I host e-mail for various friends and family members, most of them not very computer literate. Trying to get them to use Thunderbird creates enormous headaches. I think their heads (and probably mine) would explode if I tried to teach them PINE.
However, they have no trouble with web based clients such as SquirrelMail. Go figure.
Washing Machine: Hot cycle, Cold cycle, Permanent Press, Colors, Whites, Dry Clean Only, Gentle, Cotton, Polyester, etc, etc, etc.
Oh come on...:
* If you wear it: wash it in cold, or luke warm if it's really dirty. Separate white and colours. * If you sleep on it (bedsheets, you dirty bastards): wash it warm * If you dry or wash yourself with it, wash it on hot.
As far as the dryer is concerned, never, ever, use the hottest setting (which my dryer does by default for some stupid reason) unless you intent to shrink everything:).
Seriously, it's not that hard. Most things you wear have instructions on the label. You do know how to read a manual, right?
My (dearly departed) Grandad would have taken one look at Firefox, scoffed at the idea of even using a computer, let alone using one, and gone back to his gardening (which is was really good at). This is why I miss him so much.
It's easy as pie, but can take a while depending on the size of your gallery and speed of the server (took about 15 minutes for my creaky old dual PIIIs to convert several thousand pictures). I did this in one of the early betas and it worked absolutely fine so you should be fine!
Then why aren't you securing their laptops? It's quite simple to set some policies that lock out the user from doing anything stupid, install a sane web browser (you know the ones I'm talking about), install a firewall and configure the thing to get automatic updates (which means anti-virus, anti-spyware and OS patches). Do it once, build an image, deploy the image to every new laptop you get. Job done.
It's a cute idea but it's really nothing more than a gimmick. Unless it has some kind of life-changing amazing typing response there's no way that I'll pay $80 for a keyboard.
As for not having labels on the keys, so what? I've not looked at the keyboard when typing for over 15 years.
I'll stick to my HP multimedia keyboard that came free with my PC.
"Hidden black holes discovered". That's just not possible, if something is hidden then by definition it hasn't been discovered yet. Unless, some hitherto unknown alien intelligence discovered them first and hid them.
Otherwise, it's just your basic newly discovered black hole.
All being well the tank doesn't fall anywhere, it hits the atmosphere and burns up. The idea of launching from the space coast is that if something unpleasant does occur it'll piss of fish and environmentalists. Having several thousand pounds of rocket fuel explode all over your house tends to piss people off.
Also, I enjoy watching launches from my front garden and would be sad if they stopped.
You've probably fallen foul of the fact Dell seems to use the same CD key for all of its restore CDs. Which, incidentally is published all over the net! Those blue Dell OEM XP stickers only work with Dell's XP CDs (so don't loose your Dell CD!).
You can get instructions on how to change the key here:
About half of all searches through Google are from WinXP. The implication is, that if MS controls ~90% of computers, that they have failed to convince roughly 4 out of every 10 of their users to upgrade from previous versions.
I don't think so, roughly half the people I fix computers for are running an early version of Windows (mostly Me [which self-destructs every couple of months thus assuring me a steady income!] and 98). The reason that most people haven't updated to XP is not so much lack of marketing by MS, it's just that they bought the machine 4 years ago, it came with Windows 98/ME, it does what they need it to, and they see no reason to dish out $99 or more for an upgrade.
It's exceptionally rare to meet someone who actually went out and paid for XP (yes, many people pirate it) without buying a new machine.
The simple fact is, most people just don't care so long as the blue blob connects them to the internet when they need it to.
Heh... this happened in my old car, check engine light kept coming on. Kept getting it checked, nothing wrong.. in the end I was told a factory way to get it to turn off since it kept coming on every few thousand miles.
Modern programmers are lazy, they have so much power and memory available they don't bother to optimize there code anymore. It's a sad state of affairs.
Before Oxygen and WE came along, Lifetime was catering to that precious "bored housewife who likes weepy movies" demographic (have you watched this channel.. it's one of the most depressing things I've ever seen!). Of course they will conclude that women control the DVR.
A quick scan of the stuff recorded or scheduled on my DVR reveals an even match between my shows (mainly revolving around either baseball or stuff on Discovery), the stuff my wife watches (stuff on Discovery and a few shows on MTV [noticeable lack of WE/Oxygen/Lifetime), stuff my mother-in-law likes (Big Brother) and stuff my son watches (PBS kids).
It should be noted that I'm the only one who knows how to hook it up in our household...:)
The writer of this article is a little strange if he considers a P233 old hardware. Back when Windows 2000 came out (1999, kids) I was using a P233 as my primary machine.
He makes one excellent point at the end: memory. Memory is what Windows needs more than anything. Once you remove all the cuddly crap, Windows 2000 and XP runs perfectly well on a classic Pentium so long as it has 128Mb or more. Preferably 256 with XP.
I've never tried XP or 2000 on a 486, but I would be willing to bet it'd run fine (NT certainly did). Anyone else tested this?
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Why aren't drivers, by law, required to learn on an older car with a crappy 4-cylinder engine, manual transmission and no ABS or other modern conveniences (well, ABS is required by law in newer cars nowadays so that may not work). You may scoff, but you'll also be a better driver in the long term. I learned on an ancient Diesel Fiat Uno. It was horrible :-)
No problems on a 450Mhz laptop with 256Mb of RAM, not for a long time.
Yep, it lasted exactly 45 minutes before I trashed it *grin*. I'm still running Slackware 10 years later.
Actually, no I'm not. 0.7 was buggy as hell and totally unstable (it was an early alpha release!!). 1.0 had minor bugs, 1.0.7 has been completely rock solid for me. 1.5 beta 1 had an occasional issue with leaking memory, fixed in beta 2. What I have noticed is that the quality of FF extensions are going downhill fast, many of them are buggy enough to crash the browser. The only ones I use are Forecastfox and AdBlock, which both work fine.
"Effectively" shut down? So he's free to just buy new servers, host them elsewhere and restart his spamming or have they slapped an injunction off him telling him to stop?
I host e-mail for various friends and family members, most of them not very computer literate. Trying to get them to use Thunderbird creates enormous headaches. I think their heads (and probably mine) would explode if I tried to teach them PINE.
However, they have no trouble with web based clients such as SquirrelMail. Go figure.
Washing Machine: Hot cycle, Cold cycle, Permanent Press, Colors, Whites, Dry Clean Only, Gentle, Cotton, Polyester, etc, etc, etc.
:).
Oh come on...:
* If you wear it: wash it in cold, or luke warm if it's really dirty. Separate white and colours.
* If you sleep on it (bedsheets, you dirty bastards): wash it warm
* If you dry or wash yourself with it, wash it on hot.
As far as the dryer is concerned, never, ever, use the hottest setting (which my dryer does by default for some stupid reason) unless you intent to shrink everything
Seriously, it's not that hard. Most things you wear have instructions on the label. You do know how to read a manual, right?
My (dearly departed) Grandad would have taken one look at Firefox, scoffed at the idea of even using a computer, let alone using one, and gone back to his gardening (which is was really good at). This is why I miss him so much.
The BBC has answered your questions better than I can.
It's easy as pie, but can take a while depending on the size of your gallery and speed of the server (took about 15 minutes for my creaky old dual PIIIs to convert several thousand pictures). I did this in one of the early betas and it worked absolutely fine so you should be fine!
Then why aren't you securing their laptops? It's quite simple to set some policies that lock out the user from doing anything stupid, install a sane web browser (you know the ones I'm talking about), install a firewall and configure the thing to get automatic updates (which means anti-virus, anti-spyware and OS patches). Do it once, build an image, deploy the image to every new laptop you get. Job done.
It's a cute idea but it's really nothing more than a gimmick. Unless it has some kind of life-changing amazing typing response there's no way that I'll pay $80 for a keyboard.
As for not having labels on the keys, so what? I've not looked at the keyboard when typing for over 15 years.
I'll stick to my HP multimedia keyboard that came free with my PC.
"Hidden black holes discovered". That's just not possible, if something is hidden then by definition it hasn't been discovered yet. Unless, some hitherto unknown alien intelligence discovered them first and hid them.
Otherwise, it's just your basic newly discovered black hole.
All being well the tank doesn't fall anywhere, it hits the atmosphere and burns up. The idea of launching from the space coast is that if something unpleasant does occur it'll piss of fish and environmentalists. Having several thousand pounds of rocket fuel explode all over your house tends to piss people off.
Also, I enjoy watching launches from my front garden and would be sad if they stopped.
This is why I watched the launch on NasaTV, just like I always do. You get the NASA commentary with no BS.
I briefly switched over to our ABC affiliate... heard some quasi-scientist making wildly inaccurate commentary and quickly turned back.
You've probably fallen foul of the fact Dell seems to use the same CD key for all of its restore CDs. Which, incidentally is published all over the net! Those blue Dell OEM XP stickers only work with Dell's XP CDs (so don't loose your Dell CD!).
You can get instructions on how to change the key here:
How to change the Windows XP Product Activation Key Code
I hope this helps.
About 1999 in the case of my neighbourhood. Most of my area was thick woodland back then, now it's mostly sprawling suburbia :(.
The Google Maps picture is from early 2004, just before Charley knocked the remaining trees down.
About half of all searches through Google are from WinXP. The implication is, that if MS controls ~90% of computers, that they have failed to convince roughly 4 out of every 10 of their users to upgrade from previous versions.
I don't think so, roughly half the people I fix computers for are running an early version of Windows (mostly Me [which self-destructs every couple of months thus assuring me a steady income!] and 98). The reason that most people haven't updated to XP is not so much lack of marketing by MS, it's just that they bought the machine 4 years ago, it came with Windows 98/ME, it does what they need it to, and they see no reason to dish out $99 or more for an upgrade.
It's exceptionally rare to meet someone who actually went out and paid for XP (yes, many people pirate it) without buying a new machine.
The simple fact is, most people just don't care so long as the blue blob connects them to the internet when they need it to.
Heh... this happened in my old car, check engine light kept coming on. Kept getting it checked, nothing wrong.. in the end I was told a factory way to get it to turn off since it kept coming on every few thousand miles.
Two weeks later the transmission went.
Blah.
A great actor who will be missed by all. So sad that such an extrodinary human suffered the indignity of dying through Alzheimers.
I recommend all Slashdotters honour his memory by donating to the Alzheimer's Association so we can find a cure for this disease.
Definitely... when FF 1.0 came out they where very slow (but still working). I suspect they've upgraded their bandwidth since then.
Modern programmers are lazy, they have so much power and memory available they don't bother to optimize there code anymore. It's a sad state of affairs.
Before Oxygen and WE came along, Lifetime was catering to that precious "bored housewife who likes weepy movies" demographic (have you watched this channel.. it's one of the most depressing things I've ever seen!). Of course they will conclude that women control the DVR.
:)
A quick scan of the stuff recorded or scheduled on my DVR reveals an even match between my shows (mainly revolving around either baseball or stuff on Discovery), the stuff my wife watches (stuff on Discovery and a few shows on MTV [noticeable lack of WE/Oxygen/Lifetime), stuff my mother-in-law likes (Big Brother) and stuff my son watches (PBS kids).
It should be noted that I'm the only one who knows how to hook it up in our household...
Thanks for the clarification.
The writer of this article is a little strange if he considers a P233 old hardware. Back when Windows 2000 came out (1999, kids) I was using a P233 as my primary machine.
He makes one excellent point at the end: memory. Memory is what Windows needs more than anything. Once you remove all the cuddly crap, Windows 2000 and XP runs perfectly well on a classic Pentium so long as it has 128Mb or more. Preferably 256 with XP.
I've never tried XP or 2000 on a 486, but I would be willing to bet it'd run fine (NT certainly did). Anyone else tested this?