Why, I have one less than 1 ft away from me that works great - must be at least 20 years old. Wish I could say the same for all of the push button phones we've gone through over the years. It even has a proper bell for the ringer.
It's retro, and I love it. The only thing you can't do with it is navigate those horrible menu systems that every company seems to love. You can't do that with a touch-tone phone most of the time, anyway so that's not really a loss. Every home should have one:)
I think "Good Morning America" needs to hire new science advisors. I walked out of my bedroom this morning to hear "The Cassini spacecraft has successfully begun its descent into Titan". That would have been bad, very bad...
Not necessarily, since is son was legally an adult then that law wouldn't apply. I'm not even sure if it applies in the case of minors anymore (IANAL!).
My view on this is that they where private e-mails, his son never divulged his password to his Father because maybe he didn't want his Father to see them.
We must also remember that the people who sent e-mails to his son, wouldn't their privacy be breached if they where released?
All this being said, I hope it gets sorted out soon one way or the other for the benefit of his grieving family. I lost a child with a miscarriage and that was awful enough, I cannot even imagine how bad it would be having watched your child grow. I hope the fact that he died with honour serving his country will come as some comfort to them.
Good... it's finally gone (or going at least). Software that was released in 1996 can be considered extinct in IT terms. Microsoft released an upgrade to NT in 1999, called Windows 2000. In 2003 they updated that with Windows 2003. There's absolutely no reason to still use NT!
Hats off to Microsoft though, yes it had its problems but NT 4.0 was a vast improvement over NT 3.51 and the only other desktop OS offering at the time was Windows 95. Ewww.
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
I did customer service on the phone for 4 years. Yes, it was hell. On the other hand, you should also know that those QA calls of myself I had to listen to where very helpful in improving my customer service skills. This was bolstered by the fact that I had an excellent QA team. Not all companies are the same but most of the big ones are.
$15,000 to pay for college? At today's rates that will cover about a semester in community college. OK, I exaggerate just a bit, but only a bit.
2 hours ago it was at $10K with 3 days left, it'll go higher too now that the media has grabbed on. Plus, he'll make money from TV and magazine interviews. Hell, he could write a book:)
Here's one use: Editing HDTV movies. That takes up many, many gigabytes.
I can remember getting a 125Mb HDD with my first PC (a 486-33!) to the extreme jealousy of all my geeky friends. I thought I'd never fill it. 2 years later Microsoft released Windows 95:)
I find belief in a kind and loving God difficult because of events like the tsumani and the resulting suffering around some of the poorest areas in Asia and Africa. The acts of man, especially if one also believes in free will, doesn't afffect faith one way or another. Perhaps God is indifferent? That seems more of a challenge to me than disbeleiving God altogether.
Humans need suffering, it brings out the best in us. 155,000 people being killed was a terrible tragedy and we're right to question God's motives.
Millions of people around the world putting aside their differences and coming together to help the survivors. That's a miracle.
Eventhough mentioning the Bible doesn't go over well with the/. crowd - another cheap way to "protect" your valuables is to leave two BIbles on the front seat - one where they can plainly see the words Holy Bible - the other with the 8th commandment (Thou Shalt Not Steal) highlighted.
1. This wouldn't work. The average criminal couldn't care less.
2. You're more likely to get harrased by other drivers if you have visible Christian symbols on your car. I lost count of the number of times idiots have shouted obscenities at my Mother when she was driving. She has a Christian fish on the back of her car.
Would I spend $12 on a fake pizza box that I could build myself for almost nothing (*peers out of office window at Italian restaurant*... yep, John would certainly give me a free Pizza box if I asked nicely. Or bought a pizza to put in it...)? No, that'd be just stupid.
I'd put it in my car boot, where the thief wouldn't be able to see it. Thus, he'd be less likely to break into my car.
Two options. 1) Try to repair in space and risk more damage, 2) Camp out at the ISS and wait for a rescue ship to arrive. My money is on them going for option 2.
Given that it's lasted this long and is in almost perfect working order I see no reason why we won't be celebrating a martian one year anniversary in November.
The viking landers each lasted well over 1,000 days (but ran on nuclear power).
Are you sure? A 486-80Mhz will run slow with a modern GUI such as KDE or GNOME. However, as a server it will run very fast. Never underestimate the power of a 486:)
Put Linux on it, it'll make a perfectly decent home firewall, dns server, web server and mail server. It'll still have plenty of horsepower left over as well.
Very nice, converted to it from CuteFTP when new versions started to get bloated and bug ridden and have never looked back. I've not tried the server, though.
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In all honestly if I had $50,000 to spend it wouldn't go on cloning either Gary or Elanor (and Elanor is 12 now so she's pretty old:(). Maybe I could spend it on therapy for Dougal, a dog who thinks he's a cat and is terrified of dollar bills?:) Morally I agree with you, if you have a lot of money you should give some of it to charity (my pastor would tell you 10% at least).
The fact is, people who have a lot of money will always spend it on something that others will view as useless. Hopefully she'll get many years of happiness with Little Nicky and make the money worthwhile - at least in her eyes. It's her money, so good luck to her I say.
It didn't explode on the launch pad, and it did make it into orbit. That's a remarkable achievment in itself. This is new hardware and there's bound to be teething problems.
The term you're looking for is "successful failure":)
No, they would have been killed 5 minutes into the ride by an idiot motorist who didn't see the cyclist. I don't know about the rest of the US, but in Florida riding a bike is suicide. [1]
This is what insurance forms are for, and any sensible rental company is going to have insurance. (this less sensible ones don't last very long...:-)).
[1] And most cyclists I've encountered are suicidal. Riding a bike with no reflectors or lights in the dark is suicidal behaviour in my book, the two children I almost hit riding on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner on Friday are lucky I wasn't speeding and had time to slam on my brakes. Parents! Educate your kids!
Unfortunately, it's not free either. A visually impared co-worker needed help finding free software and I couldn't not find any decent software that wasn't free. There are very few decent commercial products, either. This is a real shame because there's a lot of visually impared geeks out there who are crying out for decent software.
ZoomText is available from AI Squared and works great with Mozilla Firefox. Unfortunately at $395 the price tag is pretty hefty and there's no Linux version. Blind charities can usually sell the software at a discount, however.
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Why, I have one less than 1 ft away from me that works great - must be at least 20 years old. Wish I could say the same for all of the push button phones we've gone through over the years. It even has a proper bell for the ringer.
:)
It's retro, and I love it. The only thing you can't do with it is navigate those horrible menu systems that every company seems to love. You can't do that with a touch-tone phone most of the time, anyway so that's not really a loss. Every home should have one
They did announce it, at least in Florida. Lots of TV ads and an insert in my bill. They're supposedly increasing it to 5Mbit/s soon as well.
Great works guys, I hope the data is worth it!
I think "Good Morning America" needs to hire new science advisors. I walked out of my bedroom this morning to hear "The Cassini spacecraft has successfully begun its descent into Titan". That would have been bad, very bad...
Not necessarily, since is son was legally an adult then that law wouldn't apply. I'm not even sure if it applies in the case of minors anymore (IANAL!).
My view on this is that they where private e-mails, his son never divulged his password to his Father because maybe he didn't want his Father to see them.
We must also remember that the people who sent e-mails to his son, wouldn't their privacy be breached if they where released?
All this being said, I hope it gets sorted out soon one way or the other for the benefit of his grieving family. I lost a child with a miscarriage and that was awful enough, I cannot even imagine how bad it would be having watched your child grow. I hope the fact that he died with honour serving his country will come as some comfort to them.
Good... it's finally gone (or going at least). Software that was released in 1996 can be considered extinct in IT terms. Microsoft released an upgrade to NT in 1999, called Windows 2000. In 2003 they updated that with Windows 2003. There's absolutely no reason to still use NT!
Hats off to Microsoft though, yes it had its problems but NT 4.0 was a vast improvement over NT 3.51 and the only other desktop OS offering at the time was Windows 95. Ewww.
You'd think that if 2% of the calls are monitored for quality control purposes... then QC would actually improve in the long run. In my experience, phone support/service is generally about the same (or less) quality as it was many years ago.
I did customer service on the phone for 4 years. Yes, it was hell. On the other hand, you should also know that those QA calls of myself I had to listen to where very helpful in improving my customer service skills. This was bolstered by the fact that I had an excellent QA team. Not all companies are the same but most of the big ones are.
And yes, those calls can be saved for years!
$15,000 to pay for college? At today's rates that will cover about a semester in community college. OK, I exaggerate just a bit, but only a bit.
:)
2 hours ago it was at $10K with 3 days left, it'll go higher too now that the media has grabbed on. Plus, he'll make money from TV and magazine interviews. Hell, he could write a book
Here goes:
1. Significantly faster than Ad-Aware
2. Considered TightVNC to be a moderate threat. Nice feature, but I think it's overreacting a little.
3. A like the restore IE settings feature, something Ad-Aware lacks
4. Missed 18 items that Ad-Aware caught. (I ran Ad-Aware second).
So, in all I'm moderately impressed. They need to work on the detection engine a little first, though.
Here's one use: Editing HDTV movies. That takes up many, many gigabytes.
:)
I can remember getting a 125Mb HDD with my first PC (a 486-33!) to the extreme jealousy of all my geeky friends. I thought I'd never fill it. 2 years later Microsoft released Windows 95
Well, it could be done but the quality and lag would be terrible. :)
:-)
Have you considered asking your local amateur radio clubs for help?
Better still, rent the town hall
I find belief in a kind and loving God difficult because of events like the tsumani and the resulting suffering around some of the poorest areas in Asia and Africa. The acts of man, especially if one also believes in free will, doesn't afffect faith one way or another. Perhaps God is indifferent? That seems more of a challenge to me than disbeleiving God altogether.
Humans need suffering, it brings out the best in us. 155,000 people being killed was a terrible tragedy and we're right to question God's motives.
Millions of people around the world putting aside their differences and coming together to help the survivors. That's a miracle.
Definitely a unique signature. Maybe he was a Doctor before becoming a judge?
Eventhough mentioning the Bible doesn't go over well with the /. crowd - another cheap way to "protect" your valuables is to leave two BIbles on the front seat - one where they can plainly see the words Holy Bible - the other with the 8th commandment (Thou Shalt Not Steal) highlighted.
1. This wouldn't work. The average criminal couldn't care less.
2. You're more likely to get harrased by other drivers if you have visible Christian symbols on your car. I lost count of the number of times idiots have shouted obscenities at my Mother when she was driving. She has a Christian fish on the back of her car.
Would I spend $12 on a fake pizza box that I could build myself for almost nothing (*peers out of office window at Italian restaurant*... yep, John would certainly give me a free Pizza box if I asked nicely. Or bought a pizza to put in it...)? No, that'd be just stupid.
I'd put it in my car boot, where the thief wouldn't be able to see it. Thus, he'd be less likely to break into my car.
Neat idea, silly marketing.
Two options. 1) Try to repair in space and risk more damage, 2) Camp out at the ISS and wait for a rescue ship to arrive. My money is on them going for option 2.
Given that it's lasted this long and is in almost perfect working order I see no reason why we won't be celebrating a martian one year anniversary in November.
The viking landers each lasted well over 1,000 days (but ran on nuclear power).
25C is considered winter temperatures to the average resident in the tropics. It was hotter than that this weekend here in Florida :-)
40C is closer to the mark for summertime. Don't forget your sunscreen!
Are you sure? A 486-80Mhz will run slow with a modern GUI such as KDE or GNOME. However, as a server it will run very fast. Never underestimate the power of a 486 :)
Put Linux on it, it'll make a perfectly decent home firewall, dns server, web server and mail server. It'll still have plenty of horsepower left over as well.
Very nice, converted to it from CuteFTP when new versions started to get bloated and bug ridden and have never looked back. I've not tried the server, though.
In all honestly if I had $50,000 to spend it wouldn't go on cloning either Gary or Elanor (and Elanor is 12 now so she's pretty old :(). Maybe I could spend it on therapy for Dougal, a dog who thinks he's a cat and is terrified of dollar bills? :) Morally I agree with you, if you have a lot of money you should give some of it to charity (my pastor would tell you 10% at least).
The fact is, people who have a lot of money will always spend it on something that others will view as useless. Hopefully she'll get many years of happiness with Little Nicky and make the money worthwhile - at least in her eyes. It's her money, so good luck to her I say.
It didn't explode on the launch pad, and it did make it into orbit. That's a remarkable achievment in itself. This is new hardware and there's bound to be teething problems.
:)
The term you're looking for is "successful failure"
Perhaps, but they're also slow and fail half the time anyway (in my experience). RAID 5 is the best backup solution IMHO!
Farming it off to another hard drive (or better still, another hard drive array) is an excellent idea, but I would make it writeable only by root.
Tape backups are a secondary backup system in my opinion.
No, they would have been killed 5 minutes into the ride by an idiot motorist who didn't see the cyclist. I don't know about the rest of the US, but in Florida riding a bike is suicide. [1]
:-)).
This is what insurance forms are for, and any sensible rental company is going to have insurance. (this less sensible ones don't last very long...
[1] And most cyclists I've encountered are suicidal. Riding a bike with no reflectors or lights in the dark is suicidal behaviour in my book, the two children I almost hit riding on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner on Friday are lucky I wasn't speeding and had time to slam on my brakes. Parents! Educate your kids!
Unfortunately, it's not free either. A visually impared co-worker needed help finding free software and I couldn't not find any decent software that wasn't free. There are very few decent commercial products, either. This is a real shame because there's a lot of visually impared geeks out there who are crying out for decent software.
ZoomText is available from AI Squared and works great with Mozilla Firefox. Unfortunately at $395 the price tag is pretty hefty and there's no Linux version. Blind charities can usually sell the software at a discount, however.