I like my Pixma, except that if one of those printer cartridges has a problem, it won't let you scan, fax, or do anything else. And buying the replacement yellow cartridge at the local office store, just to get scanning working, cost me $14.
American official: The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Russian official: Yes, that's what we wanted you to think! [laughs]
Well, it looks as if the century's greatest lie has been exposed, as communist factories start producing tanks again, the Berlin Wall re-erects itself out of the ground, and Lenin rises from the grave, saying "Must Crush Capitalism, Rrr!".
What about federal properties located in states that aren't complying with RealID? Like SC for example. Can their own employees even enter the building?
Didn't they charge $2 for that 802.11n update? $20 is more like a for-profit venture than an accounting technicality. Since they're charging $20 to update iPod Touches (mine is like 3 weeks old for Pete's sake), I will be astonished if the forthcoming SDK is free or even remotely affordable for independent developers.
I spoke to a couple of my older relatives who were under the impression that everyone had to buy an HDTV because of this switch to digital. I think they were fed this idea by TV salespeople. If that's true, it's dishonest way to sell TVs to people who don't understand the technology.
Anyone else getting a lot of spam in German? I don't think the spammers know that I can speak German, but I would say that at least 25% of my spam these days is in German.
I gave that a try, but it didn't make much difference on my laptop. Plus I wasn't really comfortable installing packages from some non-official server, and apparently that build will never be official as it might be running afoul of some Microsoft patent.:(
I recently ran out of room on my HD for an XP install on my laptop. I bought a new drive and I installed Ubuntu Feisty on it. I was pretty impressed. I was able to do nearly everything I needed, mainly web development stuff. Even the power management seemed to be working. But I could not get the fonts to my liking...for whatever reason they just didn't look right, and they bothered my eyes. None of the settings that I tweaked helped significantly. So for now I'm back to XP, but I will investigate improving Ubuntu's fonts in the meantime.
P.S. One thing I missed from the Windows world was a simple RPN calculator like XCalc.
The hardware looks a lot like the machines I've voted on in South Carolina (not sure who makes them, or if they're considered suspect). Of course, the GUIs might be totally different.
I've been fighting this problem too. I've gone through several methods. I found that most spam accounts sign up and then don't activate, so I wrote a cron job to blow away all inactive accounts after a reasonable amount of time for a legitimate person to activate.
Unfortunately, there are still a few spammers who actually activate. Some then wait a couple days and sneak in a post. So far those are at a manageable level and I delete them manually.
How about giving us a single URL to download a particular file from, then your system can route us to the least-taxed mirror? A lot of times I just want to wget something on an SSH terminal and instead I have to use lynx and wade through pages, or download it locally to my PC so I can get a URL to use with wget. Then I've wasted bandwidth starting two downloads.
That video also shows the kite doing several dives at low altitude. I've experienced this myself with a "flow form" parachute-style kite while trying to do kite aerial photography. One of those dives led to me bashing my camera into the beach. I can imagine it would be a mess to haul one of their huge kites out of the ocean.
I came across this site with images of the shuttle rollout to the launch pad. A few pages in are some panoramics as well. Whatever its technological flaws, the shuttle is pretty to look at. I wish everyone involved the best until we can get the shuttle's replacement off the ground!
The JPEG2000 patent litigation appears to be near dead, with LizardTech asking for a rehearing of their failed appeal. Whether this frees up wavelets, JPEG2000, or just ER Mapper's specific JPEG2000, I'm not sure.
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A company nearby recently produced its (estimated) trillionth gel capsule.
I guess the BSOD was not enough? Now they want to have gurus too?
I like my Pixma, except that if one of those printer cartridges has a problem, it won't let you scan, fax, or do anything else. And buying the replacement yellow cartridge at the local office store, just to get scanning working, cost me $14.
What about federal properties located in states that aren't complying with RealID? Like SC for example. Can their own employees even enter the building?
Didn't they charge $2 for that 802.11n update? $20 is more like a for-profit venture than an accounting technicality. Since they're charging $20 to update iPod Touches (mine is like 3 weeks old for Pete's sake), I will be astonished if the forthcoming SDK is free or even remotely affordable for independent developers.
I spoke to a couple of my older relatives who were under the impression that everyone had to buy an HDTV because of this switch to digital. I think they were fed this idea by TV salespeople. If that's true, it's dishonest way to sell TVs to people who don't understand the technology.
Anyone else getting a lot of spam in German? I don't think the spammers know that I can speak German, but I would say that at least 25% of my spam these days is in German.
Wasn't that car a prize from a contest several years ago?
I found a picture.
I've had good luck for several years using Xapian integrated with PHP. It did take some work to integrate but it's fast and flexible.
Apparently, someone else did it for them with an addon called TileProxy...I have not tried it, but there's a video here.
I've been using Xapian too, and it works great. Mod Parent Up.
I gave that a try, but it didn't make much difference on my laptop. Plus I wasn't really comfortable installing packages from some non-official server, and apparently that build will never be official as it might be running afoul of some Microsoft patent. :(
I recently ran out of room on my HD for an XP install on my laptop. I bought a new drive and I installed Ubuntu Feisty on it. I was pretty impressed. I was able to do nearly everything I needed, mainly web development stuff. Even the power management seemed to be working. But I could not get the fonts to my liking...for whatever reason they just didn't look right, and they bothered my eyes. None of the settings that I tweaked helped significantly. So for now I'm back to XP, but I will investigate improving Ubuntu's fonts in the meantime.
P.S. One thing I missed from the Windows world was a simple RPN calculator like XCalc.
Take a good picture and post the bug image to BugGuide!
The hardware looks a lot like the machines I've voted on in South Carolina (not sure who makes them, or if they're considered suspect). Of course, the GUIs might be totally different.
A continuously variable automatic transmission
I'm surprised GM is trying this again, after the fiasco of their last attempt. I have this transmission and I keep my fingers crossed that it keeps working, but lots of folks on the Saturn forums have had serious problems with it.
I've been fighting this problem too. I've gone through several methods. I found that most spam accounts sign up and then don't activate, so I wrote a cron job to blow away all inactive accounts after a reasonable amount of time for a legitimate person to activate.
Unfortunately, there are still a few spammers who actually activate. Some then wait a couple days and sneak in a post. So far those are at a manageable level and I delete them manually.
I posted details in my blog.
I was pro Bono until congress extended copyright in near-perpetuity in his name.
Cool. I'm glad you guys are working on it.
How about giving us a single URL to download a particular file from, then your system can route us to the least-taxed mirror? A lot of times I just want to wget something on an SSH terminal and instead I have to use lynx and wade through pages, or download it locally to my PC so I can get a URL to use with wget. Then I've wasted bandwidth starting two downloads.
I think they should add the ability to filter these parts of the "movie":
* FBI warning
* Interpol warning
* Movie previews
* Advertisements
* Studio logo screens
* Studio disclaimers for comment tracks
Now that would be useful!
That video also shows the kite doing several dives at low altitude. I've experienced this myself with a "flow form" parachute-style kite while trying to do kite aerial photography. One of those dives led to me bashing my camera into the beach. I can imagine it would be a mess to haul one of their huge kites out of the ocean.
I came across this site with images of the shuttle rollout to the launch pad. A few pages in are some panoramics as well. Whatever its technological flaws, the shuttle is pretty to look at. I wish everyone involved the best until we can get the shuttle's replacement off the ground!
The JPEG2000 patent litigation appears to be near dead, with LizardTech asking for a rehearing of their failed appeal. Whether this frees up wavelets, JPEG2000, or just ER Mapper's specific JPEG2000, I'm not sure.