I currently work in a government department (state gov, not in US) and we have just rolled out SP2. I'm not sure what problems that has caused but since it is a standard desktop, in theory everything is well tested before being rolled out. Unfortuneately several machines' harddrives died in the upgrade (actually dead - hardware replacement required) and many softwares broke, including AutoCAD and several databases. The systems used are quite good - Novel-delivered apps can give the installer programs admin rights without the user having them, so upgrading a machine or installing new software is just double click on an icon and come back in xx minutes. The longest I saw was about 5 hours but mostly under 30 mins - one was still going after 24 hours but it had run out of harddrive space.
We tend to be two years behind cutting edge. We replaced our last CRT with a LCD the other day! I'm happy about that - no more lugging around heavy glass and lead.:)
I got rid of my 2400bps modem in 1999 when I could afford a 33.6kps modem. So slightly longer than me.:) (I gave it to a friend who used it for a year, on his 386, which he really only used IRC and light email.)
When I got my 56k modem in 2001 my friends had 512k DSL. I found I (then) lived on over 5km of crappy copper which meant if I connected at v.90 it would drop out, so I had to restrict it to 33600bps anyway.:-/
Then my friends' DSL was capped to 3GB of transfers which became really tight and I got in trouble for downloading 800MB in one month on my dialup. They left that company and had no broadband for about 6 months until other companies could offer a better and cheaper service.
These days I use 1536/256kbps all by myself.:) And that's the fastest broadband I can get, without spending ridiculous amounts of money. Can't wait for ADSL2+ to be available!
Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.
I remember back in the day I had 512MB of RAM; which was at least twice as much as any of my friends at the time, and to speed things I up turned off swap completely. It went faster then, running Windows98, until I tried to start Quake 2. Q2 actally requested swap space (only about 16MB IIRC) but because I had none it stopped with an error...
Now with XP, minimising stuff with 512MB RAM and swap causes that app to be swapped out, even minimising and walking away ("Blank Screen" screensaver) coming back 30 minutes later can take several seconds to restore the window. I turned swap off on that machine and haven't found a problem yet (when upgraded to 1GB RAM) but that is my fiance's computer now and she really just uses MSN and plays Neopets. This laptop running Ubuntu feels more snappy at any time (512MB RAM), even when speed-shaped down to 600MHz.
My computer uses about 25 W/h. Two lightbulbs are on in my room: one uses 20 W/h, the other one is 12 W/h. So far 57 W/h
Your computer uses about 25 W. Not Watts per hour - there is no such unit. If you are using 57W for 1 hour then it is 57 Watt.hours of energy used (about 205kJ or 194BTU according to Google). Which is probably around 0.855 cents per hour (assuming 15c/kWh).
FWIW My laptop has a 65W PSU, I haven't found a Linux program to monitor how much power it's actually using (I remember seeing one in Windows but I haven't been there in a while).
8 or 17Mbit with a 200MB cap, then excess charges at 15c/MB - this is the one they market at Mums and Dads who have no idea - then wonder why they have thousands of dollars of excess charges! Telstra also charge uploads+downloads, not just downloads. Get infected with a trojan or unknowningly leave a P2P running, have to sell the house... (yes, there have been cases like this)
That cable is also very limited in area it covers, but most Australians can get ADSL, albeit limited to 1.5Mbit in most places, and relatively low download limits. Most ISPs are better value compared to Telstra, but Telstra uses its monopolistic power as most people still think they are the only game in town.
I've been getting around once bounce message every day for the past couple of months, AOL telling me a certain person doesn't exist (always the same username @aol.com), to an email address I never used (info@ my domain) and always via uk2.net. "My" email is in the Return-path, but it is something else in the From. I have setup SPF, but I don't know any more I can do.
Everything else that bills itself as "unlimited" is full of unlimited bullshit.
Here in Australia it's even worse - the biggest ISP has "Unlimited" plans with 10GB of *transfer* quota (uploads+downloads) before the whole thing is shaped to 64kbps. But what is even worse is the "cheap" plans with 200MB of transfer and than charging $150/GB for excess. I talked to someone today who joined that plan and didn't even know about the excess charges...
I have a VISA debit card, when I make a "credit" purchase it comes straight out of my savings account. And it does not contribute to the limited number of transactions allowed. And you can get cool cards! http://www.chooseyourowncard.com.au/
I had a business plan to support Linux, but it got rejected for the NEIS allowance as "not viable". I made it more general, and applied at a better NEIS provider, and got accepted. I do support one Linux server out of my hundred-odd customers...
My uni had some Compaq keyboards where the space bar was split. There was some way to set the right one to backspace - something like holding down F10 when booting (no it wasn't in the BIOS). It was funny to watch someone type half an email "withounoticinthearpressinbackspacinsteaospace!"
Not sure what happened to those machines and/or keyboards, and I haven't ever seen them anywhere else.
I remember in 1996 I had W95 running on my 386DX with 8MB RAM, it worked OK, but one of my harddrives didn't like the 32-bit disk access so always got corrupted after a few boots. So it was back to DOS and Windows 3.11. I had bought the extra 4MB of RAM especially for W95. I didn't really discover Linux until 1998 in my first year of uni.
On of my friends put it on his 486 with 4MB RAM. We couldn't get ROTT working on his machine with pure DOS, but under W95 it would at least play - although IIRC the 386 with DOS was a little faster. I can't remember if it was MSDOS 6.22 or DR-DOS 7.02 at the time.
That's around 11 US gallons PER WEEK. I myself use about half that much (I live in the US), so a little energy consumption curbing in NZ could make a large impact on the percentage.
I'd say you'd use more than that. Remember you have to take into account all your indirect fuel uses - the bulk of that would be simply transporting food around; as well as things like heating oil; electricity generation; planes, trains and busses (public transport); etc. As well as the non-fuel uses for plastics and lubricants (even though I expect none to very little imported oil would be used to create plastic - much cheaper to just import the final product from China or somewhere).
So 41L of fuel per capita per week. I think I use about 30 directly, since I've been doing all too much driving recently. My car has a 48L tank and I fill it up several times a month.
Ah, never really been into RPGs. But then now I don't get into any games much at all... I did once program a fairly simple network multiplayer game for uni, though.
Well for a bank, I wouldn't bother with them (I've also avoided a VOIP company because their site doesn't work with non-IE, even if they have the cheapest rates in the country). But I only used the squid proxy to see what ACMA did that needed IE (it used to work with everything - just a simple form) and also emailed them. A government department should have everything accessable. It contained information I wanted and not available elsewhere.
Nine times out of ten the site will still work with the non-MSIE browser, if you change the query string. I've installed squid on my (Linux) laptop just for that, and use Opera quick preferences to turn it on and off. http://web.acma.gov.au/numb/login.do is one such site. But I managed to get a CSV version of what I wanted anyway, and imported into my own database which makes it much easier to manipulate.
It's usually only strange Javascipt or security-killing ActiveX that cause real problems.
My two-browser life is Opera and Firefox. If it doesn't work in either of those then they don't get my business. I've even left a bank partly because they "upgraded" their internet banking and it no longer works in Opera.
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Uh, 720x480 is Standard Definition (NTSC); 768x576 is SD PAL; HD is 1280x720 or 1920x1080
I currently work in a government department (state gov, not in US) and we have just rolled out SP2. I'm not sure what problems that has caused but since it is a standard desktop, in theory everything is well tested before being rolled out. Unfortuneately several machines' harddrives died in the upgrade (actually dead - hardware replacement required) and many softwares broke, including AutoCAD and several databases. The systems used are quite good - Novel-delivered apps can give the installer programs admin rights without the user having them, so upgrading a machine or installing new software is just double click on an icon and come back in xx minutes. The longest I saw was about 5 hours but mostly under 30 mins - one was still going after 24 hours but it had run out of harddrive space.
:)
We tend to be two years behind cutting edge. We replaced our last CRT with a LCD the other day! I'm happy about that - no more lugging around heavy glass and lead.
I got rid of my 2400bps modem in 1999 when I could afford a 33.6kps modem. So slightly longer than me. :) (I gave it to a friend who used it for a year, on his 386, which he really only used IRC and light email.)
:-/
:) And that's the fastest broadband I can get, without spending ridiculous amounts of money. Can't wait for ADSL2+ to be available!
When I got my 56k modem in 2001 my friends had 512k DSL. I found I (then) lived on over 5km of crappy copper which meant if I connected at v.90 it would drop out, so I had to restrict it to 33600bps anyway.
Then my friends' DSL was capped to 3GB of transfers which became really tight and I got in trouble for downloading 800MB in one month on my dialup. They left that company and had no broadband for about 6 months until other companies could offer a better and cheaper service.
These days I use 1536/256kbps all by myself.
Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.
His name was flashed up over Ready Steady Cook today. How many people get that happen to them? He is (was?) an Australian Icon.
I remember back in the day I had 512MB of RAM; which was at least twice as much as any of my friends at the time, and to speed things I up turned off swap completely. It went faster then, running Windows98, until I tried to start Quake 2. Q2 actally requested swap space (only about 16MB IIRC) but because I had none it stopped with an error...
Now with XP, minimising stuff with 512MB RAM and swap causes that app to be swapped out, even minimising and walking away ("Blank Screen" screensaver) coming back 30 minutes later can take several seconds to restore the window. I turned swap off on that machine and haven't found a problem yet (when upgraded to 1GB RAM) but that is my fiance's computer now and she really just uses MSN and plays Neopets. This laptop running Ubuntu feels more snappy at any time (512MB RAM), even when speed-shaped down to 600MHz.
My computer uses about 25 W/h. Two lightbulbs are on in my room: one uses 20 W/h, the other one is 12 W/h. So far 57 W/h
Your computer uses about 25 W. Not Watts per hour - there is no such unit. If you are using 57W for 1 hour then it is 57 Watt.hours of energy used (about 205kJ or 194BTU according to Google). Which is probably around 0.855 cents per hour (assuming 15c/kWh).
FWIW My laptop has a 65W PSU, I haven't found a Linux program to monitor how much power it's actually using (I remember seeing one in Windows but I haven't been there in a while).
This: http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1597363.ht m and http://www.digislide.com.au/ would be better in a mobile phone since it actually projects video images rather than a laser.
Try living in Australia:
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http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/isp.cfm/Telstra-BigPon
8 or 17Mbit with a 200MB cap, then excess charges at 15c/MB - this is the one they market at Mums and Dads who have no idea - then wonder why they have thousands of dollars of excess charges! Telstra also charge uploads+downloads, not just downloads. Get infected with a trojan or unknowningly leave a P2P running, have to sell the house... (yes, there have been cases like this)
That cable is also very limited in area it covers, but most Australians can get ADSL, albeit limited to 1.5Mbit in most places, and relatively low download limits. Most ISPs are better value compared to Telstra, but Telstra uses its monopolistic power as most people still think they are the only game in town.
"The end result of this is a very fast way to find a seven digit sequence within PI. So have fun, search for your phone number or someone elses."
;-)
I have an eight-digit phone number, you insensitive clod.
"The number 0000000 was found starting at position 3794572 to the right of the decimal point."
So replacing one seven digit number with another one, good work.
I've been getting around once bounce message every day for the past couple of months, AOL telling me a certain person doesn't exist (always the same username @aol.com), to an email address I never used (info@ my domain) and always via uk2.net. "My" email is in the Return-path, but it is something else in the From. I have setup SPF, but I don't know any more I can do.
(and there is a banana detector in the works to register purchase of bananas)
:)
With the price of bananas lately you need lots of controls to protect them
Has the price of bananas trebled in price anywhere else in the world, from last year?
Everything else that bills itself as "unlimited" is full of unlimited bullshit.
Here in Australia it's even worse - the biggest ISP has "Unlimited" plans with 10GB of *transfer* quota (uploads+downloads) before the whole thing is shaped to 64kbps. But what is even worse is the "cheap" plans with 200MB of transfer and than charging $150/GB for excess. I talked to someone today who joined that plan and didn't even know about the excess charges...
I have a VISA debit card, when I make a "credit" purchase it comes straight out of my savings account. And it does not contribute to the limited number of transactions allowed. And you can get cool cards! http://www.chooseyourowncard.com.au/
I had a business plan to support Linux, but it got rejected for the NEIS allowance as "not viable". I made it more general, and applied at a better NEIS provider, and got accepted. I do support one Linux server out of my hundred-odd customers...
Contact me if you want: http://cortina.com.au/us/
My uni had some Compaq keyboards where the space bar was split. There was some way to set the right one to backspace - something like holding down F10 when booting (no it wasn't in the BIOS). It was funny to watch someone type half an email "withounoticinthearpressinbackspacinsteaospace!"
Not sure what happened to those machines and/or keyboards, and I haven't ever seen them anywhere else.
I remember in 1996 I had W95 running on my 386DX with 8MB RAM, it worked OK, but one of my harddrives didn't like the 32-bit disk access so always got corrupted after a few boots. So it was back to DOS and Windows 3.11. I had bought the extra 4MB of RAM especially for W95. I didn't really discover Linux until 1998 in my first year of uni.
On of my friends put it on his 486 with 4MB RAM. We couldn't get ROTT working on his machine with pure DOS, but under W95 it would at least play - although IIRC the 386 with DOS was a little faster. I can't remember if it was MSDOS 6.22 or DR-DOS 7.02 at the time.
That's around 11 US gallons PER WEEK. I myself use about half that much (I live in the US), so a little energy consumption curbing in NZ could make a large impact on the percentage.
I'd say you'd use more than that. Remember you have to take into account all your indirect fuel uses - the bulk of that would be simply transporting food around; as well as things like heating oil; electricity generation; planes, trains and busses (public transport); etc. As well as the non-fuel uses for plastics and lubricants (even though I expect none to very little imported oil would be used to create plastic - much cheaper to just import the final product from China or somewhere).
So 41L of fuel per capita per week. I think I use about 30 directly, since I've been doing all too much driving recently. My car has a 48L tank and I fill it up several times a month.
Ah, never really been into RPGs. But then now I don't get into any games much at all... I did once program a fairly simple network multiplayer game for uni, though.
I didn't know what WIS and INT are. Google seems to point it to wisdom and intelligence in Everquest. Or it is some USism for IQ?
Three passwords:
:)
Get into your computer
Get onto your ISP (usually stored within your computer)
Get into the VPN (but should be like a encryption key?)
Can't really get fewer than that now can we?
Well for a bank, I wouldn't bother with them (I've also avoided a VOIP company because their site doesn't work with non-IE, even if they have the cheapest rates in the country). But I only used the squid proxy to see what ACMA did that needed IE (it used to work with everything - just a simple form) and also emailed them. A government department should have everything accessable. It contained information I wanted and not available elsewhere.
Nine times out of ten the site will still work with the non-MSIE browser, if you change the query string. I've installed squid on my (Linux) laptop just for that, and use Opera quick preferences to turn it on and off. http://web.acma.gov.au/numb/login.do is one such site. But I managed to get a CSV version of what I wanted anyway, and imported into my own database which makes it much easier to manipulate.
It's usually only strange Javascipt or security-killing ActiveX that cause real problems.
My two-browser life is Opera and Firefox. If it doesn't work in either of those then they don't get my business. I've even left a bank partly because they "upgraded" their internet banking and it no longer works in Opera.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q =melbourne+site:.aero&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=u tf-8:
.aero:
.pros:
Results 1 - 50 of about 454 English pages for melbourne site:.aero. (0.47 seconds)
There does seem to be a few companies using
Results 1 - 50 of about 289,000 English pages for site:.aero. (0.25 seconds)
Very few
Results 1 - 50 of about 52,100 English pages for site:.pro. (0.36 seconds)
Of course:
Results 1 - 50 of about 7,520,000,000 English pages for site:.com. (0.35 seconds)