Cisco has been improving CCNA by giving the labs a little more depth, but they sure don't want to give up the ancient technology. This is my biggest beef with Cisco and their certification programs.
Who uses ISDN in a new installation anyway? These days you either go great guns with an OC3 or better between office locations or you use business/consumer grade DSL or Cable modem and VPN between office locations. I still hear of new T1 installations every now and then for certain critical uses where latency, security, and/or reliability are a huge concern, but they're still rare. ISDN is pretty much a dead horse. In fact many smaller telcos never did upgrade their switching equipment to even support ISDN in the first place. POTS, consumer broadband, and high-end DS1/DS3/OC3+ is where the action is at.
It's still Apple, but they've moved the CVS to a more public area. Aside from one person (Anders Carlsson) everyone working on Safari and WebKit are Apple employees.
Absolute bunk. I regularly use my laptop on major commercial flights flying at 30,000 ft or more, never yet had a problem!
Unless you're flying on a really, really low budget airline (I kid!), the cabin is pressurized to the equivalent to less than 8,000 feet altutude. This is actually an FAA regulation and a major safety issue. The atmosphere is quite thin at 30,000 feet and you'd have a hard time getting enough oxygen to stay alive.
ADC also carried the power for the display. Having analog+dvi+usb+power on one connector really cut down on cable clutter. Even Apple's 17" CRT was powered by the ADC connector!
But it was hell for the graphics card! Apple had to add a card edge power and usb connector just past the end of the AGP connector on its graphics cards, meaning not only did they have to have their own firmware and video connector for the ATI and NVIDIA cards they used, but also their own special printed circuit board to route the power and USB to the ADC connector as well. BTW, the ADC->VGA adaptors were pretty common, ADC macs used to ship with such an adapter and they sold new for $10 - $30, it's just a little thing that routes the analog RGBHV pins from the ADC connector to a VGA connector, much like the "Mac"->VGA adapters back when Apple used DB15 for video.
Apple ditched ADC about two years ago when they switched to DVI for their aluminum skinned LCD monitors... more specifically, dual link (DDL) DVI to suppor the resolution of their 30" monitor (ADC only supported single link DVI).
This wasn't the first time Steve Jobs tried this, back in 1988 his NeXT computers used a single cable to carry power, video, audio, and keyboard/mouse data to the snazzy black monitor. This became a headache when NeXT went color, requiring a combination speaker box and splitter cable.
I don't usually buy from the local game stores or the local computer stores in my area because their prices are way too high. On the rare even that I do buy something locally it's because I need it *now*, either to replace a broken part or if I only have two days off to buy and play a game. When something is only a few dollars more locally I will buy it here in town, but in the example of computer parts, newegg.com is usually 20% cheaper! I have talked with many of the local computer store owners and they have explained to me that they do watch online prices, but their own "wholesale" prices (from IngramMicro, for example) are often already 5% higher than NewEgg's retail price. Much of what they have in their stores already comes from online retail shops such as NewEgg and ZipZoomFly (because that's the cheapest place they can find inventory!), and then they of course have to add a profit markup on top of that to pay for their own expenses (salary, store rental, shipping, return allowances, theft allowances, insurance, etc).
In this day and age, if you want to have a competitive brick and mortar store, your prices are going to have to be low enough / close enough to the online prices to be somewhat competitive. That said, I have no idea how you are going to do that when online retail stores often charge less than what you will be able to buy your inventory wholesale. And I really doubt you'll be able to buy more than 10 - 20 copies of each game, whereas the online giants buy hundreds of thousands of copies.
Good luck! *sigh* I wish you the best, I miss the good mom-and-pop stores, but my money is tight too.
I read the feature list and changelog earlier today but without taking the time to set up a test server and experiment with it I really have no idea how it compares to 1.3. For the most part we have stuck with 1.3.x for it's stability, performance on our older hardware (from 256MB dual 75MHz SPARCstation 20 to 1 GB 440 MHz Netras), and rock solid compatibility with mod_perl and Perl 5.6.
I'll be willing to try upgrading in the near future in hopes of experimenting with and making use of the some of the newer featues, but I would like to hear some first-hand information from those who have recently made the leap to 2.2, if at all possible.
I never understood why they took out X11, seems like it would make more sense to keep it.
Apple / NeXT never really had X11 to remove. It's always been available, but never a key part by any means.
Apple's first unix, A/UX back in the late 1980s, had X11 but it also ran normal Mac apps. I'm not exactly sure of the architecture of it, but I know Apple's X11 implementation was later spun off as an X11 client/server for the regular MacOS called "MacX". (Apple also made a Mac emulator for SunOS and HPUX called MAE: Macintosh Application Environment).
Mac OS X is basiclly the next version of NeXTstep/OpenStep... recall that NeXT bought Apple for negative $400 Million. NeXTstep was based on 4.2BSD and Display Postscript. X11 support came from third party vendors and freeware projects. These days Apple has X11 on the Mac OS X installer (it might still be an optional install, but it's there and it's supported).
I've tried the universal power adapters, I've tried docking stations, I've even tried to replace my multiple gadgets with a does-it-all-pda-camera-phone. Nothing worked too well.
The best solution I've found was to buy a larger desk (I use an old library table) with three powerstrips on the floor under it. To keep the cables from sliding off the desk I have about a dozen little white plastic self-adhesive clips stuck on the back of the desk, each with a cable going thru it.
X-Code, does that run on MAC OS/X or is that OS-X?
Maybe I'm thinking of Xcode for Mac OS X.
NeXT never did have a good grasp on capitalization. Their own OS went through at least three names, "NeXTStep", "NeXTSTEP", and "NEXTSTEP". NeXTpple these days continues the mess with the lowercase "i" in iMac, iBook, iLife, and then the uppercase "X" in Xcode, Xsan, and Xserve.
Maybe it's lowercase for consumers, uppercase for pros?
Send an email to tac@cisco.com requesting the security update. They will reply with a short list of "REQUIRED INFORMATION". Email this back with the info requested (router serial number, current IOS version, your contact info) and they will send you a download link.
At least that's how it worked for me this morning. The entire process took less than 2 hours from initial email to downloading the updated version of IOS.
BTW: be sure to quote the advisory URL in all of your emails to Cisco.
Jobs was not a visionary... It is really nice that he gave an interview in 96 sayying that the internet was going to be huge, but then again by '96 every single college kid had an internet connection, and would have said the same thing. Even gates had amended his "road ahead" book to include a chapter about the internet by that time.
Steve Jobs was known to have an internet connection va T1 to his home around 1992. He used it to access machines/files/email at NeXT and later to surf the web with OmniWeb. He mentioned this in several interviews and explained how he enjoyed experimenting with the kind of bandwidth that would soon be available to average consumers. There are even a few stories of how NeXT engineers would have to log into Steve's home NeXTstation to troubleshoot for him!:)
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Who cares? Seriously. Quake 4 dosn't have a metal / NINish soundtrack, you have to reload your weapons, and there aren't as many hidden secrets and powerups. Sounds more like Doom3 and less like Quake to me.
I think Google is simply making their privacy policy a bit more clear. It has been known for years that, at the very least, they log the IP address and search string for every request that hits their servers.
It might be fun to have a "what has this IP adress searched for?" feature to sift thru the google logs. Then again, it might uncover some scary stuff.
The Remote is a disappointment. It's basically a Shuffle with a menu button. Doesn't have the touch-sensitive wheel that makes navigating through long lists of songs such a pleasure. Of course, I haven't tried it with Front Row yet, but I'm not really looking forward to it due to the clunkiness of the design.
First of all, to be clear, you are talking about the remote that comes bundled with the iMac, right?
You do realize that a whole bunch of people complain about the touch-sensitive iPod click wheel? I think it's sort of a 50/50 split, some people love the iPod interface, some people totally hate it.
I think the coolest part are the somewhat reasonable prices on the new iMacs.
For $1299 you get 17" LCD, built in good quality webcam, 1.9 GHz G5, 512 MB, 160 GB, dual layer slot load DVD writer, Radeon X600 Pro, 802.11g, bluetooth, a wired funky MightyMouse, a remote control, and a bunch of preinstalled software.
The memory issue seems to be improved, but not fixed. I upgraded from 1.0.2 to the nightly builds and most recently to 1.5b1. I use FF on Mac, Win, Linux, and Solaris. Performance of 1.5b1 is a bit better than 1.0.2 and memory usage is a bit better as well. With 1.0.2, leaving FF running with several tabs as you describe will easilly eat hundreds of MB after a few days of running. With 1.5b1 it's down to about 100 MB. Still too much, but slightly better.
I know it's a pipe dream, but I am hoping 2.0 will once and for all make the memory and CPU usage a good 33% lighter.
I'm actually amazed that the Geode is finally selling! Both the device and its CPU have been discussed on Slashdot and other forums since about mid 2004.
Now if only VIA would finally ship their NanoITX boards!
You're not the only person who complained about the name. A few months after Apple came out with the color iPod Photo, they dropped the price a bit and also dropped the "photo" from the name. Now it's just "iPod" (although the URL suggests iPod color). http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/
I hate to jump on the "try the latest nightly" fanboy bandwagon, but I really have found the 1.5 beta to be much more stable and much faster.
Ever since version 1.0 came out, the FF development focus has been on what will be version 1.5 All of the 1.0.x updates have been for security... and you can only patch an application so many times before further patches starts to degrade and break the original code.
Version 1.0 is getting old and crusty, 1.5 is where the action is.
The automatic flash plugin install ended up hanging firefox.
You know, this is one common complaint that really bugs me. I've heavily used computers for over two decades and I still don't trust a web browser to auto install plugins. There are at most maybe six browser plugins that most people would ever really need. When I set up a machine I install a few plugins right out the gate and don't bother with it later.
The sad thing is, you're spot on. Desipite the huge number of computer users these days, the computer world enjoys more of a monoculture now than ever before. People use software because it is "THE software to use" not because they've tried a few options and picked the one that best fit.
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Cisco has been improving CCNA by giving the labs a little more depth, but they sure don't want to give up the ancient technology. This is my biggest beef with Cisco and their certification programs.
Who uses ISDN in a new installation anyway? These days you either go great guns with an OC3 or better between office locations or you use business/consumer grade DSL or Cable modem and VPN between office locations. I still hear of new T1 installations every now and then for certain critical uses where latency, security, and/or reliability are a huge concern, but they're still rare. ISDN is pretty much a dead horse. In fact many smaller telcos never did upgrade their switching equipment to even support ISDN in the first place. POTS, consumer broadband, and high-end DS1/DS3/OC3+ is where the action is at.
You can grab nightly builds of Safari here:
http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/
It's still Apple, but they've moved the CVS to a more public area. Aside from one person (Anders Carlsson) everyone working on Safari and WebKit are Apple employees.
Absolute bunk. I regularly use my laptop on major commercial flights flying at 30,000 ft or more, never yet had a problem!
Unless you're flying on a really, really low budget airline (I kid!), the cabin is pressurized to the equivalent to less than 8,000 feet altutude. This is actually an FAA regulation and a major safety issue. The atmosphere is quite thin at 30,000 feet and you'd have a hard time getting enough oxygen to stay alive.
ADC also carried the power for the display. Having analog+dvi+usb+power on one connector really cut down on cable clutter. Even Apple's 17" CRT was powered by the ADC connector!
But it was hell for the graphics card! Apple had to add a card edge power and usb connector just past the end of the AGP connector on its graphics cards, meaning not only did they have to have their own firmware and video connector for the ATI and NVIDIA cards they used, but also their own special printed circuit board to route the power and USB to the ADC connector as well. BTW, the ADC->VGA adaptors were pretty common, ADC macs used to ship with such an adapter and they sold new for $10 - $30, it's just a little thing that routes the analog RGBHV pins from the ADC connector to a VGA connector, much like the "Mac"->VGA adapters back when Apple used DB15 for video.
Apple ditched ADC about two years ago when they switched to DVI for their aluminum skinned LCD monitors... more specifically, dual link (DDL) DVI to suppor the resolution of their 30" monitor (ADC only supported single link DVI).
This wasn't the first time Steve Jobs tried this, back in 1988 his NeXT computers used a single cable to carry power, video, audio, and keyboard/mouse data to the snazzy black monitor. This became a headache when NeXT went color, requiring a combination speaker box and splitter cable.
"One Adam Twelve, One Adam Twelve, see the man, a 240 and a 484, mugging with iPod theft at the corner of Coldwater and Mulholland"
I don't usually buy from the local game stores or the local computer stores in my area because their prices are way too high. On the rare even that I do buy something locally it's because I need it *now*, either to replace a broken part or if I only have two days off to buy and play a game. When something is only a few dollars more locally I will buy it here in town, but in the example of computer parts, newegg.com is usually 20% cheaper! I have talked with many of the local computer store owners and they have explained to me that they do watch online prices, but their own "wholesale" prices (from IngramMicro, for example) are often already 5% higher than NewEgg's retail price. Much of what they have in their stores already comes from online retail shops such as NewEgg and ZipZoomFly (because that's the cheapest place they can find inventory!), and then they of course have to add a profit markup on top of that to pay for their own expenses (salary, store rental, shipping, return allowances, theft allowances, insurance, etc).
In this day and age, if you want to have a competitive brick and mortar store, your prices are going to have to be low enough / close enough to the online prices to be somewhat competitive. That said, I have no idea how you are going to do that when online retail stores often charge less than what you will be able to buy your inventory wholesale. And I really doubt you'll be able to buy more than 10 - 20 copies of each game, whereas the online giants buy hundreds of thousands of copies.
Good luck! *sigh* I wish you the best, I miss the good mom-and-pop stores, but my money is tight too.
I read the feature list and changelog earlier today but without taking the time to set up a test server and experiment with it I really have no idea how it compares to 1.3. For the most part we have stuck with 1.3.x for it's stability, performance on our older hardware (from 256MB dual 75MHz SPARCstation 20 to 1 GB 440 MHz Netras), and rock solid compatibility with mod_perl and Perl 5.6.
I'll be willing to try upgrading in the near future in hopes of experimenting with and making use of the some of the newer featues, but I would like to hear some first-hand information from those who have recently made the leap to 2.2, if at all possible.
I never understood why they took out X11, seems like it would make more sense to keep it.
Apple / NeXT never really had X11 to remove. It's always been available, but never a key part by any means.
Apple's first unix, A/UX back in the late 1980s, had X11 but it also ran normal Mac apps. I'm not exactly sure of the architecture of it, but I know Apple's X11 implementation was later spun off as an X11 client/server for the regular MacOS called "MacX". (Apple also made a Mac emulator for SunOS and HPUX called MAE: Macintosh Application Environment).
Mac OS X is basiclly the next version of NeXTstep/OpenStep... recall that NeXT bought Apple for negative $400 Million. NeXTstep was based on 4.2BSD and Display Postscript. X11 support came from third party vendors and freeware projects. These days Apple has X11 on the Mac OS X installer (it might still be an optional install, but it's there and it's supported).
I've tried the universal power adapters, I've tried docking stations, I've even tried to replace my multiple gadgets with a does-it-all-pda-camera-phone. Nothing worked too well.
The best solution I've found was to buy a larger desk (I use an old library table) with three powerstrips on the floor under it. To keep the cables from sliding off the desk I have about a dozen little white plastic self-adhesive clips stuck on the back of the desk, each with a cable going thru it.
Unless this is made by Ronco I think they might have a problem using the "Set It And Forget It" slogan.
X-Code, does that run on MAC OS/X or is that OS-X?
Maybe I'm thinking of Xcode for Mac OS X.
NeXT never did have a good grasp on capitalization. Their own OS went through at least three names, "NeXTStep", "NeXTSTEP", and "NEXTSTEP". NeXTpple these days continues the mess with the lowercase "i" in iMac, iBook, iLife, and then the uppercase "X" in Xcode, Xsan, and Xserve.
Maybe it's lowercase for consumers, uppercase for pros?
Send an email to tac@cisco.com requesting the security update. They will reply with a short list of "REQUIRED INFORMATION". Email this back with the info requested (router serial number, current IOS version, your contact info) and they will send you a download link.
At least that's how it worked for me this morning. The entire process took less than 2 hours from initial email to downloading the updated version of IOS.
BTW: be sure to quote the advisory URL in all of your emails to Cisco.
Jobs was not a visionary ... It is really nice that he gave an interview in 96 sayying that the internet was going to be huge, but then again by '96 every single college kid had an internet connection, and would have said the same thing. Even gates had amended his "road ahead" book to include a chapter about the internet by that time.
:)
Steve Jobs was known to have an internet connection va T1 to his home around 1992. He used it to access machines/files/email at NeXT and later to surf the web with OmniWeb. He mentioned this in several interviews and explained how he enjoyed experimenting with the kind of bandwidth that would soon be available to average consumers. There are even a few stories of how NeXT engineers would have to log into Steve's home NeXTstation to troubleshoot for him!
Who cares? Seriously. Quake 4 dosn't have a metal / NINish soundtrack, you have to reload your weapons, and there aren't as many hidden secrets and powerups. Sounds more like Doom3 and less like Quake to me.
I think Google is simply making their privacy policy a bit more clear. It has been known for years that, at the very least, they log the IP address and search string for every request that hits their servers.
It might be fun to have a "what has this IP adress searched for?" feature to sift thru the google logs. Then again, it might uncover some scary stuff.
The Remote is a disappointment. It's basically a Shuffle with a menu button. Doesn't have the touch-sensitive wheel that makes navigating through long lists of songs such a pleasure. Of course, I haven't tried it with Front Row yet, but I'm not really looking forward to it due to the clunkiness of the design.
First of all, to be clear, you are talking about the remote that comes bundled with the iMac, right?
You do realize that a whole bunch of people complain about the touch-sensitive iPod click wheel? I think it's sort of a 50/50 split, some people love the iPod interface, some people totally hate it.
I think the coolest part are the somewhat reasonable prices on the new iMacs.
For $1299 you get 17" LCD, built in good quality webcam, 1.9 GHz G5, 512 MB, 160 GB, dual layer slot load DVD writer, Radeon X600 Pro, 802.11g, bluetooth, a wired funky MightyMouse, a remote control, and a bunch of preinstalled software.
The memory issue seems to be improved, but not fixed. I upgraded from 1.0.2 to the nightly builds and most recently to 1.5b1. I use FF on Mac, Win, Linux, and Solaris. Performance of 1.5b1 is a bit better than 1.0.2 and memory usage is a bit better as well. With 1.0.2, leaving FF running with several tabs as you describe will easilly eat hundreds of MB after a few days of running. With 1.5b1 it's down to about 100 MB. Still too much, but slightly better.
I know it's a pipe dream, but I am hoping 2.0 will once and for all make the memory and CPU usage a good 33% lighter.
I'm actually amazed that the Geode is finally selling! Both the device and its CPU have been discussed on Slashdot and other forums since about mid 2004.
Now if only VIA would finally ship their NanoITX boards!
You're not the only person who complained about the name. A few months after Apple came out with the color iPod Photo, they dropped the price a bit and also dropped the "photo" from the name. Now it's just "iPod" (although the URL suggests iPod color).
http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/
And to be totally fair, I still use pine for my email
Whoa, I'm not the only one!
I've been using Pine since about 1993 when my sysadm removed elm from the machine. I still haven't even tried Mutt yet.
I have monkeyed with NeXTmail and Claris Em@iler, but I'm mainly a pine dude.
So how about an IE Skin and an icon change?
Smells like a lawsuit. Microsoft will claim that someone is trying to harm their spitshined MSIE image by making a "shoddy clone" of it.
I hate to jump on the "try the latest nightly" fanboy bandwagon, but I really have found the 1.5 beta to be much more stable and much faster.
Ever since version 1.0 came out, the FF development focus has been on what will be version 1.5 All of the 1.0.x updates have been for security... and you can only patch an application so many times before further patches starts to degrade and break the original code.
Version 1.0 is getting old and crusty, 1.5 is where the action is.
The automatic flash plugin install ended up hanging firefox.
You know, this is one common complaint that really bugs me. I've heavily used computers for over two decades and I still don't trust a web browser to auto install plugins. There are at most maybe six browser plugins that most people would ever really need. When I set up a machine I install a few plugins right out the gate and don't bother with it later.
The sad thing is, you're spot on. Desipite the huge number of computer users these days, the computer world enjoys more of a monoculture now than ever before. People use software because it is "THE software to use" not because they've tried a few options and picked the one that best fit.