I prefer this one these days when fixing a computer almost always means reformatting the hard drive, installing a new operating system that they almost never can find the right CD key for and installing all the service packs and such BEFORE connecting to the net... No I will not fix your computer.
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I got that error on an RSS enabled website I was working on on Aug 28. Firefox didn't get RSS bookmarks in a public release until September.... if the Live-bookmark feature in the nightly builds from July was what pushed Slashdot to do that I'd be very surprised.
I'd guess that it was more to do with standalone RSS readers and Evolution e-mail clients.
No. Here is a quickreference of what IS legal to download:
Open Source software Creative Commons media content Anything that is wholly in the public domain Anything that you have permission from the IP owner to download.
The only one that I've seen get through (and it's not really spyware) is changing a person's homepage. I'm not sure why IE even allows this. Fortunately, the main reason for switching someone's home page (slamming them with pop-up ads) is kind of diminished with SP2.
Can't this be solved by setting a company wide policy for the default homepage?
Check out your windows domain policies, I'm sure that's in there.
The point I was trying to make (I realize it didn't come across very clearly) is that they are doing this all wrong. They should only have to provide a count of how many keys of each type they need and V provides them with X keys for 6 yearold males, etc. But it sounds more like they are taking the other approach and using a key with a unique id that links to a database of name age and gender.
The former would do what they seem to want without giving out unnecessary amounts of data to verisign, but the latter is VERY dangerous indeed.
What's to stop this unique ID from being used to collect all kinds of data on the children? who controlls the servers that do the authentication? if it's the school it's not so big a deal if it's some other org (especially Verisign) I'd be very wary of it's use.
Well, if in fact the only info encoded to the key is age and gender all they should need to give verisign is a count of how many 8 year old girls, 8 year old boys... etc. they need tokens for.
They have come down. The average price for a typical new release Pop CD was $25 now it's $15... not as much as it SHOULD have come down (see the DVD example, in only a few years the minimum price for a hollywood DVD went from $29 to $8... sure the average is still $25, but there are a lot of good flicks in the $12-$19 range)...but the prices have come down.
For those intersted My energy consumption went from an average of 22kWh/day to 14kWh/day (that's only 420kWh/month in a 30 day month)
At Ontario's current rate of 4.3 cents per kWh that's a monthly savings of $10.32
$125.56/year.... that more than pays for the more expensive bulbs. When the price freeze ends and energy costs go up I'll be saving even more.
Anyway, to bring this back on topic, if you can comfortably replace a 60W bulb in your computer room with a 15W florescent I think that the value of the LCD in terms of energy savings goes up significantly.
True, I did the same math before I bought my LCD monitor.
But then I also figured in convenience (I don't need a switch box because the monitor has 2 inputs, one DVI and the other VGA) and health reasons. LCDs don't emit the kind of radiations you get from CRTs, and they are easier on the eyes, especially when used in a room that has florescent lighting. I've replaced all but one light bulb in my house (a tri-light lamp that just wouldn't work with the flourescent tri-light bulbs) with compact flourescent light bulbs... that DOES help with energy savings.
Not too many people are willing to put down that much cash for one game.
Considering the PC version has a 6.5 GB disk space requirement (I can't find published requirements for the PS2 version because it comes with the hard drive) I think that a laptop drive would be the only option.
This is of course assuming that there is an option for a harddrive. The article at BBC makes no mention of one, and I can't get to the other article.
It worries me to see so many people on/. that only reboot "due to power failure"
Doesn't anyone realize how damaging a powerfailure can be to the system?
For god's sake people, buy a friggin UPS. They are only like $50... you'll appreciate it when your harddisks stop failing on you due to power surges.
For the record, my PC in the bedroom gets turned off nightly (I can't usually sleep with it on, despite my best efforts to reduce the noise to nearly nothing.) but my server (an old celeron 300) in the basement has been up for 2 months, last reboot was to create a system image of the / partition, before that it was up for ~25 days with the reboot because I was lazy and didn't want to walk a friend through restarting pppd over the phone while I was on vacation. prior to that it had been up for about 3 months (since initial install)
See? power failure isn't in there, Admin lazyness and planned maintenance are, but even the lazyness I admit should be eliminated.
No that's WPA that the old ones don't support, I'm quite confident that ALL 802.11b,a, and g routers and cards support WEP 40bit as a minimum.
Some earlier ones didn't support 128Bit (or not in a way that was compatible with other brands) but all of them support 40bit.
I think (not sure about this one though) even some of the 802.11 (no letter) cards...the old 2mbit max speed ones, supported wep, though I'd be very suprised to see them still in use.
Myth is only free if you don't take into account the cost of hardware.
Since you need either a dedicated Mpeg encoder/decoder or a pentium 4 to record and watch at the same time tivo is much cheaper. (bought my series 1 20Gig for $85 (incuding lifetime subscription in case I ever move to the USA where that would become useful) added an ethernet card to it for $69 and popped in an old 30Gig drive I had laying around to bring it up to about 60 hours at low quality total investment was far less than the approx $300-400 I would have had to pay for a Myth box that could do the same and it's got a nice remote control and a slicker GUI. Even if I only used the Tivo to encode my Existing VHS collection to MPEG for DVD. It's worth it.
Personally I can't see that Tivo needs saving, they still only have one real competitor (Replay)
you forgot the ones I'm complaining most about....
those who HAVE lost data and still don't make backups because they just don't get it that recovering data is far more of a pain than backing up in the first place.
I think that computer stores should start encouraging people to buy tape drives. It seems that Hard drives just get used as extra storage space, and CD/DVD burners never really get used to make backups. (I think mostly because the software to make backups onto CD/DVD requires the inconvenience of shutting the PC down to do it.)
Tape on the other hand, you set up once and just feed it a new tape when it prompts you to.
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I prefer this one these days when fixing a computer almost always means reformatting the hard drive, installing a new operating system that they almost never can find the right CD key for and installing all the service packs and such BEFORE connecting to the net...
No I will not fix your computer.
I got that error on an RSS enabled website I was working on on Aug 28.
Firefox didn't get RSS bookmarks in a public release until September.... if the Live-bookmark feature in the nightly builds from July was what pushed Slashdot to do that I'd be very surprised.
I'd guess that it was more to do with standalone RSS readers and Evolution e-mail clients.
No.
Here is a quickreference of what IS legal to download:
Open Source software
Creative Commons media content
Anything that is wholly in the public domain
Anything that you have permission from the IP owner to download.
The only one that I've seen get through (and it's not really spyware) is changing a person's homepage. I'm not sure why IE even allows this. Fortunately, the main reason for switching someone's home page (slamming them with pop-up ads) is kind of diminished with SP2.
Can't this be solved by setting a company wide policy for the default homepage?
Check out your windows domain policies, I'm sure that's in there.
I really like iRiver, but I wish they'd support audible.com audio books.
I need something that can support both OGG and Audible, and so far the only one I've seen that does both is Samsung's YH-920.
When was PSP's release moved up to 2004?
I thought it was always 2005.
The point I was trying to make (I realize it didn't come across very clearly) is that they are doing this all wrong. They should only have to provide a count of how many keys of each type they need and V provides them with X keys for 6 yearold males, etc. But it sounds more like they are taking the other approach and using a key with a unique id that links to a database of name age and gender.
The former would do what they seem to want without giving out unnecessary amounts of data to verisign, but the latter is VERY dangerous indeed.
What's to stop this unique ID from being used to collect all kinds of data on the children? who controlls the servers that do the authentication? if it's the school it's not so big a deal if it's some other org (especially Verisign) I'd be very wary of it's use.
Well, if in fact the only info encoded to the key is age and gender all they should need to give verisign is a count of how many 8 year old girls, 8 year old boys... etc. they need tokens for.
WHether you callit a server or a workstation it's still subject to the same problems if it is on 24/7
Sorry I should have specified, that was all in $ Canadian.
They have come down. ... not as much as it SHOULD have come down (see the DVD example, in only a few years the minimum price for a hollywood DVD went from $29 to $8... sure the average is still $25, but there are a lot of good flicks in the $12-$19 range) ...but the prices have come down.
The average price for a typical new release Pop CD was $25 now it's $15
For those intersted My energy consumption went from an average of 22kWh/day to 14kWh/day (that's only 420kWh/month in a 30 day month)
/year.... that more than pays for the more expensive bulbs. When the price freeze ends and energy costs go up I'll be saving even more.
At Ontario's current rate of 4.3 cents per kWh that's a monthly savings of $10.32
$125.56
Anyway, to bring this back on topic, if you can comfortably replace a 60W bulb in your computer room with a 15W florescent I think that the value of the LCD in terms of energy savings goes up significantly.
True, I did the same math before I bought my LCD monitor.
But then I also figured in convenience (I don't need a switch box because the monitor has 2 inputs, one DVI and the other VGA) and health reasons. LCDs don't emit the kind of radiations you get from CRTs, and they are easier on the eyes, especially when used in a room that has florescent lighting. I've replaced all but one light bulb in my house (a tri-light lamp that just wouldn't work with the flourescent tri-light bulbs) with compact flourescent light bulbs... that DOES help with energy savings.
Except the current price for a 4GB microdrive is $499.99
Not too many people are willing to put down that much cash for one game.
Considering the PC version has a 6.5 GB disk space requirement (I can't find published requirements for the PS2 version because it comes with the hard drive) I think that a laptop drive would be the only option.
This is of course assuming that there is an option for a harddrive. The article at BBC makes no mention of one, and I can't get to the other article.
Torrent for Linux installer
Torrent for Linux installer
It worries me to see so many people on /. that only reboot "due to power failure"
Doesn't anyone realize how damaging a powerfailure can be to the system?
For god's sake people, buy a friggin UPS. They are only like $50... you'll appreciate it when your harddisks stop failing on you due to power surges.
For the record, my PC in the bedroom gets turned off nightly (I can't usually sleep with it on, despite my best efforts to reduce the noise to nearly nothing.) but my server (an old celeron 300) in the basement has been up for 2 months, last reboot was to create a system image of the / partition, before that it was up for ~25 days with the reboot because I was lazy and didn't want to walk a friend through restarting pppd over the phone while I was on vacation. prior to that it had been up for about 3 months (since initial install)
See? power failure isn't in there, Admin lazyness and planned maintenance are, but even the lazyness I admit should be eliminated.
Torrent for Win32 installers
Torrent for win32 installers
...and here i've been calling mine /mnt/camera all this time and missing out on the humour. :(
a term doesn't need to be accurate to come into common use.
Think of these examples:
Pensylvania Dutch (not dutch)
Mountain ash (not an ash)
mountian lion (not a lion)
american buffalo (not a buffalo)
Just because a name is born of ignorance doen't prevent it from becoming the common name for something.
I could see how the Transparent Aluminum of Star Trek is a mislabeled transparent alumina rather than a physics defying metal.
No that's WPA that the old ones don't support, I'm quite confident that ALL 802.11b,a, and g routers and cards support WEP 40bit as a minimum.
...the old 2mbit max speed ones, supported wep, though I'd be very suprised to see them still in use.
Some earlier ones didn't support 128Bit (or not in a way that was compatible with other brands) but all of them support 40bit.
I think (not sure about this one though) even some of the 802.11 (no letter) cards
You show me a program that does a complete windows or linux backup to DVD without taking the system offline.
Add to that the necessity of having a spare 4GB for ISO image creation.
Myth is only free if you don't take into account the cost of hardware.
Since you need either a dedicated Mpeg encoder/decoder or a pentium 4 to record and watch at the same time tivo is much cheaper. (bought my series 1 20Gig for $85 (incuding lifetime subscription in case I ever move to the USA where that would become useful) added an ethernet card to it for $69 and popped in an old 30Gig drive I had laying around to bring it up to about 60 hours at low quality total investment was far less than the approx $300-400 I would have had to pay for a Myth box that could do the same and it's got a nice remote control and a slicker GUI. Even if I only used the Tivo to encode my Existing VHS collection to MPEG for DVD. It's worth it.
Personally I can't see that Tivo needs saving, they still only have one real competitor (Replay)
3 types,
you forgot the ones I'm complaining most about....
those who HAVE lost data and still don't make backups because they just don't get it that recovering data is far more of a pain than backing up in the first place.
I think that computer stores should start encouraging people to buy tape drives. It seems that Hard drives just get used as extra storage space, and CD/DVD burners never really get used to make backups. (I think mostly because the software to make backups onto CD/DVD requires the inconvenience of shutting the PC down to do it.)
Tape on the other hand, you set up once and just feed it a new tape when it prompts you to.