Back then I was working at Egghead Software at the time so I had fairly unlimited access to evaluation software and lots of time to fuck around with it - so I know of what I speak:-). First there was standard Desqview, which ran on PC-AT (80286) class machines and better. Apple ][+'s were on the way out back then, but the ][e's were still in vogue. Of course, later on there was Desqview 386 which had better memory protection and virtualization. I actually got pretty good with it, to the point where I could run Desqview and Windows 3.1 together at the same time. But you needed plenty of RAM, and a very tweaked and stable QEMM-386 config (637KB low memory free w/ mouse, CD-ROM, Stacker, NAV and SpeedDisk, bitch).
Personally, I'm so addicted to wireless headsets I would probably never use the phone without one, so a bad mic is a non-issue to me.
I am, however, wondering if anyone has found a good voice-dialling solution for the Treos (even if it's not free). That's the main thing holding me back from purchasing a 650 (well, once the GSM models are available).
FWIW (add salt accordingly) I've also heard from a moderately reliable inside source that the 700 will be out in around 6 months, possibly running PalmOS 6.
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I think that would present a very interesting dynamic in the Karma system. Maybe a weighted blend of your posts' moderation combined with reply moderation?
Remaining [OT]... Yeah, but it's still wishful thinking, of course. The moderation system favors highly polarized comments that appeal to specific groups, rather than intellectual analysis that encourages polite or at least respectful discussion. Intellegent discourse is still likely when the subject matter is extremely technical and in areas where political / religious differences are unlikely to inflame things. Otherwise, posts usually start in the gutter and go down from there.
I have to add my agreement. My take as we walked out of the theater was, "OK, this jackass can't choreograph a fight scene, so he'll move the camera around so much these guys could just stand there with their thumbs in their asses and we wouldn't know the difference." Should have been titled "Jason Bourne meets the Blair Witch production team." Or "Where the hell is John Woo when you need him?"
My friends and I decided it would be best for the filmgoing public if somebody put out Mr. Greengrass's eyes, cut out his tongue, and chopped off his hands*. Anything to stop him from directing again.
*This is meant facetiously and should not be taken as any form of instruction or motivation for any particularly violent and / or psychotic individuals who may be reading this. Of course, this being Slashdot, I guess I should limit that to violent and / or psychotic individuals who actually leave their parent's basement.
This is slightly off-topic because it won't take care of the particular solution being sought, but another interesting way to do RAID-1 is using the controllers from Arco Data Protection. The have some that are physically connected between your IDE or SATA controller and the two drives to be mirrored - they just seamlessly mimic a single IDE device. This makes it possible to RAID-1 any IDE or SATA drive under any operating system or device. I've used them in places like phone systems and voice mail systems that have no provisioning whatsoever for RAID. It can take a little bit of case tweaking, and you have to be sure the power supply can handle it, but it's an interesting solution in certain situations where nothing else can do the job.
The Promise controllers are SHRAID, which is my own non-standard acronym for Software w/ Hardware-assist RAID or SHitty RAID in less polite company. And the "promise" of true redundancy is a charade (rim-shot, please). Basically, you have all of the disadvantages of software RAID - the need to manually configure bootability of both drives (assuming you're running RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 - if you're running RAID5 or JBOD it's an even bigger pain), plus the need to have specialized drivers on the OS, etc. These controllers (Promise, Highpoint, etc.) should be avoided like the plague for technical reasons alone.
Good, relatively inexpensive IDE and SATA RAID can be had with 3Ware Controllers. 2-drive models start around $140, and they support up to 12 drives on their more expensive controllers. The drives appear as a single physical device to the O/S, whether it's Windoze, Linux, BSD, DOS 3.1, etc.
Software raid is fine for simple configurations, but if you want to "do it right" - especially considering that you just dropped about a kilobuck on HDDs, go Hardware. A good, reasonably priced true hardware RAID controller that will fit the bill for you is the 3Ware Escalade 7506-8. It has 8 IDE ports, 1 for each drive - you don't want to run two RAID drives in master/slave mode off of a single IDE port; it will play hell with your I/O performance. It's true hardware raid, so you don't have to worry about big CPU overhead and being able to boot with a failed drive (a major disadvantage to software RAID if your boot partition is on a RAID volume, certain RAID-1 configurations excepted). You can buy them for under $450. provantage.com price is $423.48 (I have no relationship with them other than I've noticed that their prices tend to be decent).
I love the comment about the excitement over HD TiVo, followed by the mention you can only get it with evil DirecTV. Even if DirecTV wasn't evil, there's no way in hell I can hit their satellites from my home (my patio directly abuts the neighboring building, and I have an extremely narrow view of the sky from there).
Right now I use a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD (HD DVR provided by my cable company) which has to be the most under-powered (CPU-wise) piece of consumer electronics ever produced. Press a button (wait 3 seconds), press another button. Keypress caching is intermittent and unpredictable, so you get into situations where your device becomes unresponsive for a minute because you accidentally held down a button. Directly entering a channel from the remote can take 5 attempts. It crashes regularly and takes 10 minutes to recover from a crash. It's a complete piece of shit that I pay $10/month to use because for all of the hassle, being able to record in HD is pretty sweet.
So TiVo needs to hurry up and release an HD-capable device for the rest of us so I can tell my cable company where they can stick this stupid box. Can you hear me TiVo? I want to give you money!!!
Something about an officially branded Firefox Stripper... Oooh! We could market it in Playboy! For porn! And we can show people's favorite porn pages! Without popups!
Isn't this the hole^H^H^H^Hwhole point of extensions? (ooh.. three puns for the price of one... but I guess you could see that co... never mind) Have one that inserts free pr0n randomly into whatever page the user is viewing.
Install on your boss's computer.
Boss gets fired, you get his/her/its job.
Install Firefox on all computers in your organization.
Become more productive due to decrease in spyware, popups, viruses, etc.
Profit!!!
(Sorry there's no ??? step - this is much easier to manage than stealing underwear).
The one way to tell for sure if the good guys win, is if the Republican National Committee goes bankrupt
Yes, I know this is funny, but keep in mind that a few years ago on the Clipper Chip issue it was also Kerry vs. Ashcroft - but it was Kerry pushing for the Clipper Chip and then Senator Ashcroft pushing for individual privacy. Ashcroft has since done a post-9/11 180-degree flip on his views here, but nothing suggests that Kerry has done the same (insert Kerry flip-flop joke here if you want, but no one really knows what he really thinks right now - maybe not even Kerry).
The bottom line - no political party can be trusted to secure your privacy, civil liberties, etc. Pick your candidates on their individual stances on the issues important to you. Depressingly, most of the time the only difference between the parties (and candidates) is how much lubrication they'll use when fucking you in the ass.
Hey, that's highly offensive to metal-bending robots! You should apologize to your nearest Bender unit by throwing him a party with lots of booze and gambling and hookers. On second thought, forget the booze and gambling.
The newer Logitech models (link, link) that have this problem pretty well handled (I use the second one listed), however, at the expense of battery life (not a big deal with these models, as they include NiMH batteries and a recharging cradle). Once you get used to cordless mice, dealing with a mouse cord is extremely obnoxious.
More on-topic, these "Museum-Kwality" mice look fugly.
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Back then I was working at Egghead Software at the time so I had fairly unlimited access to evaluation software and lots of time to fuck around with it - so I know of what I speak :-). First there was standard Desqview, which ran on PC-AT (80286) class machines and better. Apple ][+'s were on the way out back then, but the ][e's were still in vogue. Of course, later on there was Desqview 386 which had better memory protection and virtualization. I actually got pretty good with it, to the point where I could run Desqview and Windows 3.1 together at the same time. But you needed plenty of RAM, and a very tweaked and stable QEMM-386 config (637KB low memory free w/ mouse, CD-ROM, Stacker, NAV and SpeedDisk, bitch).
Of course, then I switched to OS/2...
No multitasking under DOS?!?? Desqview, baby, Desqview! Ahh... those were the days (and I miss the properly used SysRq key).
Personally, I'm so addicted to wireless headsets I would probably never use the phone without one, so a bad mic is a non-issue to me.
I am, however, wondering if anyone has found a good voice-dialling solution for the Treos (even if it's not free). That's the main thing holding me back from purchasing a 650 (well, once the GSM models are available).
FWIW (add salt accordingly) I've also heard from a moderately reliable inside source that the 700 will be out in around 6 months, possibly running PalmOS 6.
Combining "holograms" and "geek-pop" in the same article summary conjurs up some awful visuals....
I have to add my agreement. My take as we walked out of the theater was, "OK, this jackass can't choreograph a fight scene, so he'll move the camera around so much these guys could just stand there with their thumbs in their asses and we wouldn't know the difference." Should have been titled "Jason Bourne meets the Blair Witch production team." Or "Where the hell is John Woo when you need him?"
My friends and I decided it would be best for the filmgoing public if somebody put out Mr. Greengrass's eyes, cut out his tongue, and chopped off his hands*. Anything to stop him from directing again.
*This is meant facetiously and should not be taken as any form of instruction or motivation for any particularly violent and / or psychotic individuals who may be reading this. Of course, this being Slashdot, I guess I should limit that to violent and / or psychotic individuals who actually leave their parent's basement.
Generic response from congresscritter: "What is this 'Constitution' thing of which you speak?"
Nah, I propose they be forced to donate one organ per junk e-mail...
This is very true; I've actually killed components with this phenomenon in my younger and more foolish years.
Three words: External Drive Enclosures.
Spread that power load arouund, dude. I'm surprised your power supply hasn't yet melted into a pile of slag.
This is slightly off-topic because it won't take care of the particular solution being sought, but another interesting way to do RAID-1 is using the controllers from Arco Data Protection. The have some that are physically connected between your IDE or SATA controller and the two drives to be mirrored - they just seamlessly mimic a single IDE device. This makes it possible to RAID-1 any IDE or SATA drive under any operating system or device. I've used them in places like phone systems and voice mail systems that have no provisioning whatsoever for RAID. It can take a little bit of case tweaking, and you have to be sure the power supply can handle it, but it's an interesting solution in certain situations where nothing else can do the job.
The Promise controllers are SHRAID, which is my own non-standard acronym for Software w/ Hardware-assist RAID or SHitty RAID in less polite company. And the "promise" of true redundancy is a charade (rim-shot, please). Basically, you have all of the disadvantages of software RAID - the need to manually configure bootability of both drives (assuming you're running RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 - if you're running RAID5 or JBOD it's an even bigger pain), plus the need to have specialized drivers on the OS, etc. These controllers (Promise, Highpoint, etc.) should be avoided like the plague for technical reasons alone.
Good, relatively inexpensive IDE and SATA RAID can be had with 3Ware Controllers. 2-drive models start around $140, and they support up to 12 drives on their more expensive controllers. The drives appear as a single physical device to the O/S, whether it's Windoze, Linux, BSD, DOS 3.1, etc.
Software raid is fine for simple configurations, but if you want to "do it right" - especially considering that you just dropped about a kilobuck on HDDs, go Hardware. A good, reasonably priced true hardware RAID controller that will fit the bill for you is the 3Ware Escalade 7506-8. It has 8 IDE ports, 1 for each drive - you don't want to run two RAID drives in master/slave mode off of a single IDE port; it will play hell with your I/O performance. It's true hardware raid, so you don't have to worry about big CPU overhead and being able to boot with a failed drive (a major disadvantage to software RAID if your boot partition is on a RAID volume, certain RAID-1 configurations excepted). You can buy them for under $450. provantage.com price is $423.48 (I have no relationship with them other than I've noticed that their prices tend to be decent).
I love the comment about the excitement over HD TiVo, followed by the mention you can only get it with evil DirecTV. Even if DirecTV wasn't evil, there's no way in hell I can hit their satellites from my home (my patio directly abuts the neighboring building, and I have an extremely narrow view of the sky from there).
Right now I use a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD (HD DVR provided by my cable company) which has to be the most under-powered (CPU-wise) piece of consumer electronics ever produced. Press a button (wait 3 seconds), press another button. Keypress caching is intermittent and unpredictable, so you get into situations where your device becomes unresponsive for a minute because you accidentally held down a button. Directly entering a channel from the remote can take 5 attempts. It crashes regularly and takes 10 minutes to recover from a crash. It's a complete piece of shit that I pay $10/month to use because for all of the hassle, being able to record in HD is pretty sweet.
So TiVo needs to hurry up and release an HD-capable device for the rest of us so I can tell my cable company where they can stick this stupid box. Can you hear me TiVo? I want to give you money!!!
Install on your boss's computer.
Boss gets fired, you get his/her/its job.
Install Firefox on all computers in your organization.
Become more productive due to decrease in spyware, popups, viruses, etc.
Profit!!!
(Sorry there's no ??? step - this is much easier to manage than stealing underwear).
This post being modded flamebait is the height of irony.
Apparently their webserver's running on one of their modded X-Boxen :-)
Just add some oil and get the room really hot (say 375 degrees Farenheit or so) - nothing beats the smell of bacon! Mmmmmm......
The bottom line - no political party can be trusted to secure your privacy, civil liberties, etc. Pick your candidates on their individual stances on the issues important to you. Depressingly, most of the time the only difference between the parties (and candidates) is how much lubrication they'll use when fucking you in the ass.
The newer Logitech models (link, link) that have this problem pretty well handled (I use the second one listed), however, at the expense of battery life (not a big deal with these models, as they include NiMH batteries and a recharging cradle). Once you get used to cordless mice, dealing with a mouse cord is extremely obnoxious.
More on-topic, these "Museum-Kwality" mice look fugly.
My friends are strange^H^H^H^H^H^H unique enough to where I can easily identify them...