I used to have Apache 1.3, Apache 2, and IIS (PWS, actually)--all with PHP--running on my Win98 ThinkPad and all were sharing the same DocumentRoot/wwwroot, running on:80,:85, and:8080. Good times.:-)
To convert purchased songs without wasting a physical CD: Open iMovie. Make a new project. Drop a song into the timeline. Look inside your project's "Media" folder. Ta da! See that big file with the same name as your song? That's an AIFF--don't let the lack of an '.aif' suffix fool you. Enjoy.
Really? I manage six conference rooms. Each has a projector that runs, on average, 20-30 hrs/week. Some projectors are new, some are old, but I've only had one bulb go out in four years. Then again, we're Epson across the board. (Except for a copule ancient InFocuses (InFoci?;-) ) that are on their last legs, but they're, like, 6 yeasrs old.)
Remember: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.":-)
Um, no, I haven't, ever. Every sign I've seen in my life (lived in CA and FL, and drove across the country between the two) had upcoming exits in miles, then 3/4, 1/2, or 1/4. Here's a perfect example. So yeah, I guess 1/2 or 1/4 mile is "about" 1/2 a km, but never in my life have I seen a sign designated in thirds of a mile. Other signs have no distance and just say "next exit"--no reason to move *or* relabel them when (if) the metric system comes.
Go for offices if at all possible. Depending on your cow-orkers, cubes can suck, royally. My cube is a reasonable balance between listening to my next-cube-neighbor talking to her idiot kid on the phone all day long, people asking me questions all the time, and being eaten alive by fire ants.
But I agree about excess in general. Wait until year 2 for the ferraris and plasma screens.
With all due respect to the author, who I'm sure wrote a fine book, no one sits down and reads whole manuals. Some people will grab a manual to find a solution to a problem. The rest will ask someone, do a workaround, or do without. 330 pages? That's about the thickness of a John Grisham book. (Though I'm sure this one has more pictures.) IOW, huge.
"After all, the housing prices wouldn't be at $500,000+ for a two bedroom house if people would move out of the area occasionally, when it became to expensive to live there. [People] already have a quarter million dollar(low ball estimate) nest egg built up, [and] could live anywhere else in the country they want."
But why, exactly, should someone *have* to leave California if they're old and comfortable and like it there? As it happens, it's a great place to live. That's why they're staying. Besides, what happens when people *do* do what you suggest? They move to OR and WA and raise the property values* there because they sell their $500k house and go buy whatever the hell they want and pay a bunch for it because they can. (A friend of mine sold his 1600-sq-ft house in the Bay Area and bought 4000 sq ft in Nevada and had money left over. And that was over 10 years ago.) Then people in one part of Portland who want to move to another part can no longer afford to because, ta-da!, it's too expensive!
Besides, it's not too expensive to *live* there. It's too expensive to *move* there. If you're already there, you're set. OK, gas is a bit much, and your car insurance might be high if you're in the wrong zip code (or male, or under 25) but groceries, computers, and stereo gear all cost about the same.
* which, of course, does not bother the people who live there and want to sell, but pisses off people who want to move in or around there... sound familiar?
That's one of the best reasons to use something like Yahoo instead of a separate email client. It won't let viruses come in through attachments. When an email has an attachment, the link is to "Scan & Download attachment". It automatically scans first, and if there's a virus found, it just won't let you download it.
Unless, of course, it's a passworded.zip file. Then it has no choice but to let you have it. In fact, I doubt it checks even non-passworded.zips. In which case, it's no different than a binary email app that scans attachments before letting you have them, or having something like an A/V app's real-time protection.
Besides, I like the idea of Microsoft selling A/V software with the tag line "Protect your insecure operating system with help from the people who wrote it!";-)
People keep harping about yahoo!'s ads. I use the email heavily--I have two jobs, so since I'm never home I have all my mail forwarded to my yahoo! account (which I had previously only used while travelling.) So, I use it all the time, and my eyes only look at the email I'm composing or reading. I don't even notice the ads much at all. Certainly not enough to be a bother. Same with web news--I start looking at the screen 3 inches from the top and don't even notice banners. (Plus I have custom/etc/hosts files everywhere, anyway. Yahoo! serves ad images from their own servers, but like I said, they don't bother me.)
And yahoo! mail works perfectly with safari, which is great, since my primary machines at home and both jobs are OS X Macs. I don't know if gmail works with safari yet, but in the early stages of the beta, it specifically didn't.
Mine has 15 filters, not 10. And other posts say that number has increased along with the size. I've been using yahoo! as my primary email interface for over a year--I got a second job last May and never check email at home any more. I forwarded my me@mydomain.com address to yahoo and it has been pretty good. It took a while for it to quit thinking my dads email was spam but otherwise it's been pretty good. the added size is great for me--I was always bumping up against the 6 mb limit and routinely went over if I didn't check religiously. Suddenly, life is much better. Funny--I was *almost* ready to pay for the upgraded account to get better spam filtering, I was just waiting until I decided whether or not to use them for my web hosting as well. I'll still probably use them for that.
It still requires a lot of checkbox clicking, but I can save you lots of page clicking--just hit the "size" link (twice?) to get your biggest messages at the top. Faster to delete one 200k message than a hundred 2k messages.
to eliminate distortion, I'm working on a 44,081-speaker setup where each speaker will produce exactly one frequency in 1-Hz increments from 20 Hz to 44,100. Oh, wait, better make that 88,162 speakers--forgot about the right channel. Dammit, that'll make it impractical. Grr...
...this seems like a solution in search of a problem. Exactly what scenario requires a password that cannot be guessed by passers-by and cannot be extracted by interrogators but at the same time is unimportant enough that 90% accuracy is acceptable? Neat trick, but there are lots of things to work out before this is anywhere near practical.
3 months to get to 90%? Doesn't sound too good. And 1 in 100,000 means there are 100,000 possibilities, I guess, (RTFA? what's an A?) which really isn't that much to use brute force against (for a machine, anyway.) And, to put that in perspective, 4 letters (26^4) has over 450,000 combinations. So why not go with a 4-letter acronym and get >99% success immediately?
Actually, it was mostly lack of App support that killed it for me. I'd boot into it, play with ArtPaint until it crashed, read Slashdot on NetPositive, play with the 3D audio thingie until it crashed, do the movies-on-a-cube demo, then boot back into Windows and get back to work, making web pages with Netscape, HomeSite, and Photoshop. *sigh* It was cool, though. I had R3, 4, and 5 for Intel. I was always hoping it would wind up catching on. The real-time effects in ArtPaint were awesome, and it ran like a greased duck on an AMD/300 with 48 MB RAM. Oh yeah, and the right-click navigation was cool, too.
And now that I know what a database is good for, I *wish* someone would implement a comparable database-based filesystem. I would *kill* to do complex queries on my filesystem and get the results back instantly. Hardware wasn't too much of a problem--just buy from the list, which I did, and you're fine. SoundBlaster sound card, ATI video card, life was fine. I'm sure i you wanted the newest NVidia stuff for gaming it sucked, but if you are happy with the supported HW list and bought from it, all was great.
Redundant Array of Free Email Providers: get a Hotmail account and a Yahoo! account. Got an important message on your Hotmail account? Forward it to your Yahoo! account. Unlikely that both will go down on the same day.:-)
Sorry, I missed that--once I saw "I rarely have to move on to more advanced steps..." I must have glazed over it, since throwing out the preferences is, in my mind, less "advanced" than zapping the PRAM and other stuff you mentioned--quit app, toss file, empty trash, and restart the app--no rebooting or 4-way key combos needed. Since I only lightly customize apps, lost prefs don't bother me at all.
I agree with you about losing settings; however, if it's an app you have set up carefully, you can always stuff the prefs file and then toss the original. If that doesn't fix the problem, toss the new prefs and restore the stuffed file. But now we're getting "advanced".:-)
"The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example...'"
I don't have a vacation home. I do, however, have a job.
Reminds me of this quote from Jack Valenti:
(Discussing the plausibility of anti-piracy advertisements featuring wealthy Hollywood figures) "I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that." (Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003)
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Jack_Valenti
As for limited copying, it sounds more and more like we're buying licenses to listen to music, not a shiny 5" disc. Tell you what: if I can buy a CD once and get free replacements for the rest of my life if the disc gets lost, stolen, or damaged in any way, and update it to new formats as they come out (I know a guy who has bought "Dark Side of the Moon" on 8-track, LP, cassette, and twice on CD) then maybe I'll start accepting the idea that you can dictate how I can listen to it. (PS: assuming the hardware is heavily DRM'd and otherwise useless, I'll expect free updates for my car and home systems to handle each new DRM scheme.) Until then, kiss my ass. As long as I'm buying the hardware and the discs, I do with them as I please.
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I used to have Apache 1.3, Apache 2, and IIS (PWS, actually)--all with PHP--running on my Win98 ThinkPad and all were sharing the same DocumentRoot/wwwroot, running on :80, :85, and :8080. Good times. :-)
clicky clicky
"...considering all the hoo-ha that went on over Janet Jacksons b--b..."
;-)
OK, I figured out "boob" but... I give up. What letter is missing from "hoo-ha"?
Don't mind me, it just struck me as funny.
To convert purchased songs without wasting a physical CD: Open iMovie. Make a new project. Drop a song into the timeline. Look inside your project's "Media" folder. Ta da! See that big file with the same name as your song? That's an AIFF--don't let the lack of an '.aif' suffix fool you. Enjoy.
Really? I manage six conference rooms. Each has a projector that runs, on average, 20-30 hrs/week. Some projectors are new, some are old, but I've only had one bulb go out in four years. Then again, we're Epson across the board. (Except for a copule ancient InFocuses (InFoci? ;-) ) that are on their last legs, but they're, like, 6 yeasrs old.)
:-)
Remember: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
I love it. The old-school version of going to Netcraft to show that an anti-OSS site runs on BSD or Linux. :-)
Um, no, I haven't, ever. Every sign I've seen in my life (lived in CA and FL, and drove across the country between the two) had upcoming exits in miles, then 3/4, 1/2, or 1/4. Here's a perfect example. So yeah, I guess 1/2 or 1/4 mile is "about" 1/2 a km, but never in my life have I seen a sign designated in thirds of a mile. Other signs have no distance and just say "next exit"--no reason to move *or* relabel them when (if) the metric system comes.
Go for offices if at all possible. Depending on your cow-orkers, cubes can suck, royally. My cube is a reasonable balance between listening to my next-cube-neighbor talking to her idiot kid on the phone all day long, people asking me questions all the time, and being eaten alive by fire ants.
But I agree about excess in general. Wait until year 2 for the ferraris and plasma screens.
With all due respect to the author, who I'm sure wrote a fine book, no one sits down and reads whole manuals. Some people will grab a manual to find a solution to a problem. The rest will ask someone, do a workaround, or do without. 330 pages? That's about the thickness of a John Grisham book. (Though I'm sure this one has more pictures.) IOW, huge.
war criming!
And "memory" means "hard disk space"... except when it means "RAM."
"After all, the housing prices wouldn't be at $500,000+ for a two bedroom house if people would move out of the area occasionally, when it became to expensive to live there. [People] already have a quarter million dollar(low ball estimate) nest egg built up, [and] could live anywhere else in the country they want."
But why, exactly, should someone *have* to leave California if they're old and comfortable and like it there? As it happens, it's a great place to live. That's why they're staying. Besides, what happens when people *do* do what you suggest? They move to OR and WA and raise the property values* there because they sell their $500k house and go buy whatever the hell they want and pay a bunch for it because they can. (A friend of mine sold his 1600-sq-ft house in the Bay Area and bought 4000 sq ft in Nevada and had money left over. And that was over 10 years ago.) Then people in one part of Portland who want to move to another part can no longer afford to because, ta-da!, it's too expensive!
Besides, it's not too expensive to *live* there. It's too expensive to *move* there. If you're already there, you're set. OK, gas is a bit much, and your car insurance might be high if you're in the wrong zip code (or male, or under 25) but groceries, computers, and stereo gear all cost about the same.
* which, of course, does not bother the people who live there and want to sell, but pisses off people who want to move in or around there... sound familiar?
That's one of the best reasons to use something like Yahoo instead of a separate email client. It won't let viruses come in through attachments. When an email has an attachment, the link is to "Scan & Download attachment". It automatically scans first, and if there's a virus found, it just won't let you download it.
.zip file. Then it has no choice but to let you have it. In fact, I doubt it checks even non-passworded .zips. In which case, it's no different than a binary email app that scans attachments before letting you have them, or having something like an A/V app's real-time protection.
;-)
Unless, of course, it's a passworded
Besides, I like the idea of Microsoft selling A/V software with the tag line "Protect your insecure operating system with help from the people who wrote it!"
What's the price? A dollar twice.
People keep harping about yahoo!'s ads. I use the email heavily--I have two jobs, so since I'm never home I have all my mail forwarded to my yahoo! account (which I had previously only used while travelling.) So, I use it all the time, and my eyes only look at the email I'm composing or reading. I don't even notice the ads much at all. Certainly not enough to be a bother. Same with web news--I start looking at the screen 3 inches from the top and don't even notice banners. (Plus I have custom /etc/hosts files everywhere, anyway. Yahoo! serves ad images from their own servers, but like I said, they don't bother me.)
And yahoo! mail works perfectly with safari, which is great, since my primary machines at home and both jobs are OS X Macs. I don't know if gmail works with safari yet, but in the early stages of the beta, it specifically didn't.
Mine has 15 filters, not 10. And other posts say that number has increased along with the size. I've been using yahoo! as my primary email interface for over a year--I got a second job last May and never check email at home any more. I forwarded my me@mydomain.com address to yahoo and it has been pretty good. It took a while for it to quit thinking my dads email was spam but otherwise it's been pretty good. the added size is great for me--I was always bumping up against the 6 mb limit and routinely went over if I didn't check religiously. Suddenly, life is much better. Funny--I was *almost* ready to pay for the upgraded account to get better spam filtering, I was just waiting until I decided whether or not to use them for my web hosting as well. I'll still probably use them for that.
It still requires a lot of checkbox clicking, but I can save you lots of page clicking--just hit the "size" link (twice?) to get your biggest messages at the top. Faster to delete one 200k message than a hundred 2k messages.
Don't laugh--passing tons and tons of laws has stopped gun violence and drug use, right? Oh, wait...
to eliminate distortion, I'm working on a 44,081-speaker setup where each speaker will produce exactly one frequency in 1-Hz increments from 20 Hz to 44,100. Oh, wait, better make that 88,162 speakers--forgot about the right channel. Dammit, that'll make it impractical. Grr...
...this seems like a solution in search of a problem. Exactly what scenario requires a password that cannot be guessed by passers-by and cannot be extracted by interrogators but at the same time is unimportant enough that 90% accuracy is acceptable? Neat trick, but there are lots of things to work out before this is anywhere near practical.
3 months to get to 90%? Doesn't sound too good. And 1 in 100,000 means there are 100,000 possibilities, I guess, (RTFA? what's an A?) which really isn't that much to use brute force against (for a machine, anyway.) And, to put that in perspective, 4 letters (26^4) has over 450,000 combinations. So why not go with a 4-letter acronym and get >99% success immediately?
Actually, it was mostly lack of App support that killed it for me. I'd boot into it, play with ArtPaint until it crashed, read Slashdot on NetPositive, play with the 3D audio thingie until it crashed, do the movies-on-a-cube demo, then boot back into Windows and get back to work, making web pages with Netscape, HomeSite, and Photoshop. *sigh* It was cool, though. I had R3, 4, and 5 for Intel. I was always hoping it would wind up catching on. The real-time effects in ArtPaint were awesome, and it ran like a greased duck on an AMD/300 with 48 MB RAM. Oh yeah, and the right-click navigation was cool, too.
And now that I know what a database is good for, I *wish* someone would implement a comparable database-based filesystem. I would *kill* to do complex queries on my filesystem and get the results back instantly. Hardware wasn't too much of a problem--just buy from the list, which I did, and you're fine. SoundBlaster sound card, ATI video card, life was fine. I'm sure i you wanted the newest NVidia stuff for gaming it sucked, but if you are happy with the supported HW list and bought from it, all was great.
Redundant Array of Free Email Providers: get a Hotmail account and a Yahoo! account. Got an important message on your Hotmail account? Forward it to your Yahoo! account. Unlikely that both will go down on the same day. :-)
Sorry, I missed that--once I saw "I rarely have to move on to more advanced steps..." I must have glazed over it, since throwing out the preferences is, in my mind, less "advanced" than zapping the PRAM and other stuff you mentioned--quit app, toss file, empty trash, and restart the app--no rebooting or 4-way key combos needed. Since I only lightly customize apps, lost prefs don't bother me at all.
:-)
I agree with you about losing settings; however, if it's an app you have set up carefully, you can always stuff the prefs file and then toss the original. If that doesn't fix the problem, toss the new prefs and restore the stuffed file. But now we're getting "advanced".
"The idea is to let consumers 'make a limited number of copies of their music -- enough for a car, a vacation home and a friend, for example...'"
I don't have a vacation home. I do, however, have a job.
Reminds me of this quote from Jack Valenti: (Discussing the plausibility of anti-piracy advertisements featuring wealthy Hollywood figures) "I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that." (Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003) http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Jack_Valenti
As for limited copying, it sounds more and more like we're buying licenses to listen to music, not a shiny 5" disc. Tell you what: if I can buy a CD once and get free replacements for the rest of my life if the disc gets lost, stolen, or damaged in any way, and update it to new formats as they come out (I know a guy who has bought "Dark Side of the Moon" on 8-track, LP, cassette, and twice on CD) then maybe I'll start accepting the idea that you can dictate how I can listen to it. (PS: assuming the hardware is heavily DRM'd and otherwise useless, I'll expect free updates for my car and home systems to handle each new DRM scheme.) Until then, kiss my ass. As long as I'm buying the hardware and the discs, I do with them as I please.