A Netbook is max $400, $500 is really pushing it. A $1100 machine is not in the same league. Neither is a $800 "Ultrabook". That's something MS and Ultrabook makers are missing. And why the $300-$400 tablet market is booming where the $300-$400 Netbook market previously did.
Indeed, and especially assuming the officer that pulls you over is a plain clothes officer. Given some attempts at police impersonators, I've seen recommendations FROM POLICE that if there's a question of an unmarked / un-uniformed officer pulling you over, to call dispatch and verify. Maybe that doesn't work in 'merica where you'll be thrown in Guantanamo before your call can be completed.
Further. Why stop there? Windows 95 is the earliest you can go whilst keeping your start button. I don't personally have a start button, but I hear it is extremely important to an operating system.
If you have Windows 3.1 you can install Calmira to get your start button
Yes. On a Windows PC without iTunes my iPod Touch shows up as a digital camera media device and charges. I know a couple times that I plugged it into a Linux machine it gave the "I'm charging" tone a lot quicker than it took to be recognized in a Windows PC.
New Jersey is hte worst, supposedly the attendants are there for your own good. They can make sure you don't put the wrong grade into a car or deisel instead of gas.
That's great, except the two times someone else pumped my gas, I had to stop them before them put too low of an octane into the tank.
A couple weeks ago I was at a rural full serve gas station in my province (only option for hours) and the minimum wage pimply face attendant kept topping up the tank. "*clunk* *clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk*"
Thanks! Now in addition to being able to go 3km further on the tank, and being able to put an even $60 on my credit card, I get to risk $400 damage to my charcoal canister! Good thing there's professionals operating the pump. The best part is I get to pay 2c / litre more for this service. The last time I went to a full serve (15 years ago) you could give them your card and they'd come back with the slip to sign. With chip and pin they couldn't be bothered to buy a wireless terminal so I had to walk in the store to pay. WTF? Just give me pay at the pump self-serve.
Finding an XP machine, or a VM Machine with USB passthrough shouldn't be that hard. XP marketshare is still 33% or so. It's not like you need to find an 8086 with ISA ports and DOS 3.3.
Does the camcorder not have Firewire capability? Or even composite out? What model is it?
The stupid fuckers broke in my car and got my AM/FM Cassette radio that doesn't fucking work. That's not the problem. The morons busted out the window despite the fact the fucking door was not locked and they could have just opened it. Then they proceeded to bust the dash apart to get the piece of shit non-working radio out when I had a screwdriver and pair of vice grips under the front seat which they didn't see evidently because they were focused on the damn cassette unit. See what crack cocaine and meth do for you? 600 dollars in damage to get a 30 dollar radio IF it had even worked. I would have gladly given them enough meth ot OD them free of charge.
I parked late at night at a friend's apartment in a shady part of town. $200 damage (smashed side window and trunk lock) and they took a toll transponder (that I had to pay $30 to report stolen), and $5 in change. Not only did they break into my shitty 8 year old car, they also broke into a shittier 15 year old car next to mine.
Using msdos since 1990,/slash switches are overall less common on msdos and its children than -minus switches were.
Nevermind that / is a poor choice due to its meaning as a directory separator. (Yes, windows supports / as dir separator for the last ten years or more).
But please, parade your lack of familiarity with your platform more.
straight from my cmd window
You were saying? Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200] (c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\>dir/? Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.
[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list./A Displays files with specified attributes.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files I Not content indexed files
L Reparse Points - Prefix meaning not/B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary)./C Display the thousand separator in file sizes. This is the
default. Use/-C to disable display of separator./D Same as wide but files are list sorted by column./L Uses lowercase./N New long list format where filenames are on the far right./O List by files in sorted order.
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date/time (oldest first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order/P Pauses after each screenful of information./Q Display the owner of the file./R Display alternate data streams of the file./S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories./T Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting
timefield C Creation
A Last Access
W Last Written/W Uses wide list format./X This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file
names. The format is that of/N with the short name inserted
before the long name. If no short name is present, blanks are
displayed in its place./4 Displays four-digit years
I was setting up a Toshiba Windows 8 machine for my father a few weeks back. Very frustrating uninstalling the shitware. Symantec was the worst. It kept begging to not be uninstalled, I spent time filling out the survey explaining why I hated their shovelware. It was also frustrating that the option to burn off the restore DVDs was hidden, as usually that comes back to bite people later when they bork their machine or have a hard drive failure. I would have done a nuke and reinstall, but it isn't as easy in Windows 8 as it was in Windows 7, so I had to put up with uninstalling the shovelware. Installing ClassicShell to get start menu / boot to desktop was the least of my worries.
Given how unnecessarily complex setting up the average Windows PC is, I'm amazed Joe Sixpack manages at all. The shovelware experience does an amazing amount of damage to the Windows image, as that junk bloats Windows more than Microsoft does. Microsoft sells "Microsoft Signature PC's" which are shovelware free, but in pretty low numbers (who buys a PC from a Microsoft store?) I'm also amazed walking into Best buy how many PC's say "DANGER: Your Symantec trial expired 45 days ago" or "DANGER your McAfee trial expired 32 days ago". Really? You think you're going to sell PCs like that? Talk about curb appeal! Meanwhile go over and look at the crowd around the Apple display.
Windows 7 OEM (preinstallation on Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, etc) requires BIOS with SLP bits, OEM:SLP key (like above link), but it also needs a certificate installed in Windows to recognize the BIOS.
"Daz Loader" Will install the certificate, and the OEM:SLP key to match your machine if the BIOS already has the right bits. It can also be used illicitly if your BIOS doesn't have the right bits, which I don't condone. But it's the easiest way to nuke and install Windows 7 on an OEM machine.
When installing from the ISO's above, you can hit next or "enter key later" or something during install, then run Daz afterwards.
Windows 8 is a whole 'nother matter, and other methods are required to do a nuke and reinstall. Make sure first thing first you always burn off restore DVDs (which was frustratingly hard to find on a Win 8 Toshiba I set up lately.)
Start with things the way they should work, then give them some basic troubleshooting, maintenance, etc. for the added functions.
Oh basic troubleshooting. I laugh sometimes at how basic some of the basic troubleshooting is "Problem: Display won't light up. Possible problem: No power supply Solution: Check power supply"
I find it even funnier calling tech support, for companies that we pay a lot for tech support contracts, only to have them read back the same page of the manual I'm looking at word for word.
I too like good documentation. I only dabble in programming, but when the language reference explains all options, complete with functional examples, it's good.
Where I work (manufacturing process automation maintenance) I like being able to take a complex problem that no one understands, figure it out, and document it so those after me can understand it.
When browsing through my list of emails, I'd rather see the first line of content than a bunch of hi's.
Isn't that a fault with your email client? I think the salutation is useful as it sets the tone of the email: "Dear Xxxx" is different to "Hi Xxxx", "Hey Xxxx", "Xxxx" and "Dear Sir/Madam". I write one most of the time, but if I'm replying rapidly in an email discussion I'll omit it.
If you're signature is prepended with "-- " on a blank line, the email client should cut it off when someone replies. Most also grey it out, or similar.
Did a quick test, I didn't see this behaviour. Did you have any more information on this?
I have my signature with email address because internal to our company Lotus Notes uses a completely different email address format, so this way if my email gets forwarded by someone in my company, to someone external, the external person will have my contact information if they need it.
A practice I've changed is on voicemail greeting, cutting it to a minimum: "You have reached xxx, leave a message." People know they dialed the right number, and they are prepared for an upcoming beep. By now people understand what voicemail is, that they got it because I wasn't available, and that they should say who they are and why they're calling, and that when they are done they can hang up. I also don't understand people within my company that leave the time they called. Didn't they notice that the system tells you what time the message was left?
A trend I've seen, which was a directive at the last company I worked at, is compressing signature information on one line
Nonsense. Raising the speed limit would reveal how shitty American cars really are.
I mean, let's be honest, American cars are okay at 55 MPH, and even at 80 MPH if you are traveling in a straight line, but take them on some back roads (with lots of turns) at high speeds, and you can easily see how their European and Japanese cousins outclass them.
Can you imagine what would happen if the national speed limit was raised 20 MPH? Ford and GM would be out of business; they simply can't put out a vehicle, for an affordable price, that can perform well (and safely) at those speeds.
20 years ago called. They want their complaints against their shitty North American cars back.
More and more a lot of GM and Ford's designs sold in North America are actually used in Europe and well regarded. A lot of their other product offerings have dramatically improved in recent years as well. The new Chevrolet Impala is nothing like the old one.
Already an option on some cars. My last car was 410+ hp and capable of getting to 100+ mph in short order. The system, however, allowed the keys to be limited in various ways if you wanted to. Speed limits, stereo volume limits, etc.
Presumably you're talking about Ford MyKey where it can be set to limit the speed, but only at a fixed point of 80MPH / 130 km/h
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I don't know, maybe the fact that they changed their fucking name 9 months ago from RIM to BlackBerry.
http://press.blackberry.com/press/2013/research-in-motion-changes-its-name-to-blackberry.html
A Netbook is max $400, $500 is really pushing it. A $1100 machine is not in the same league. Neither is a $800 "Ultrabook". That's something MS and Ultrabook makers are missing. And why the $300-$400 tablet market is booming where the $300-$400 Netbook market previously did.
-1.
We use Grindr not just texting.
Indeed, and especially assuming the officer that pulls you over is a plain clothes officer. Given some attempts at police impersonators, I've seen recommendations FROM POLICE that if there's a question of an unmarked / un-uniformed officer pulling you over, to call dispatch and verify. Maybe that doesn't work in 'merica where you'll be thrown in Guantanamo before your call can be completed.
Windows Embedded Standard (2009) is the last version of WindowsXP embedded. It will be supported until 1/8/2019
So someone will still be slaving away on XP updates, if needed they can pop them over the the customer channel.
Further. Why stop there? Windows 95 is the earliest you can go whilst keeping your start button. I don't personally have a start button, but I hear it is extremely important to an operating system.
If you have Windows 3.1 you can install Calmira to get your start button
Yes. On a Windows PC without iTunes my iPod Touch shows up as a digital camera media device and charges. I know a couple times that I plugged it into a Linux machine it gave the "I'm charging" tone a lot quicker than it took to be recognized in a Windows PC.
Work is still downgrading new machines to XP.
New Jersey is hte worst, supposedly the attendants are there for your own good. They can make sure you don't put the wrong grade into a car or deisel instead of gas.
That's great, except the two times someone else pumped my gas, I had to stop them before them put too low of an octane into the tank.
A couple weeks ago I was at a rural full serve gas station in my province (only option for hours) and the minimum wage pimply face attendant kept topping up the tank. "*clunk* *clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk**clunk*"
Thanks! Now in addition to being able to go 3km further on the tank, and being able to put an even $60 on my credit card, I get to risk $400 damage to my charcoal canister! Good thing there's professionals operating the pump. The best part is I get to pay 2c / litre more for this service. The last time I went to a full serve (15 years ago) you could give them your card and they'd come back with the slip to sign. With chip and pin they couldn't be bothered to buy a wireless terminal so I had to walk in the store to pay. WTF? Just give me pay at the pump self-serve.
Finding an XP machine, or a VM Machine with USB passthrough shouldn't be that hard. XP marketshare is still 33% or so. It's not like you need to find an 8086 with ISA ports and DOS 3.3.
Does the camcorder not have Firewire capability? Or even composite out? What model is it?
The stupid fuckers broke in my car and got my AM/FM Cassette radio that doesn't fucking work. That's not the problem. The morons busted out the window despite the fact the fucking door was not locked and they could have just opened it. Then they proceeded to bust the dash apart to get the piece of shit non-working radio out when I had a screwdriver and pair of vice grips under the front seat which they didn't see evidently because they were focused on the damn cassette unit. See what crack cocaine and meth do for you? 600 dollars in damage to get a 30 dollar radio IF it had even worked. I would have gladly given them enough meth ot OD them free of charge.
I parked late at night at a friend's apartment in a shady part of town. $200 damage (smashed side window and trunk lock) and they took a toll transponder (that I had to pay $30 to report stolen), and $5 in change. Not only did they break into my shitty 8 year old car, they also broke into a shittier 15 year old car next to mine.
This is somewhat how I got started in IT. Back when Novell Networks were still a thing, I was in middle school.
My F500 company still runs on Netware you insensitive clod!
Do you work for NCR?
Using msdos since 1990, /slash switches are overall less common on msdos and its children than -minus switches were.
Nevermind that / is a poor choice due to its meaning as a directory separator. (Yes, windows supports / as dir separator for the last ten years or more).
But please, parade your lack of familiarity with your platform more.
straight from my cmd window
You were saying?
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\>dir /?
Displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory.
DIR [drive:][path][filename] [/A[[:]attributes]] [/B] [/C] [/D] [/L] [/N]
[/O[[:]sortorder]] [/P] [/Q] [/R] [/S] [/T[[:]timefield]] [/W] [/X] [/4]
[drive:][path][filename] /A Displays files with specified attributes. /B Uses bare format (no heading information or summary). /C Display the thousand separator in file sizes. This is the /-C to disable display of separator. /D Same as wide but files are list sorted by column. /L Uses lowercase. /N New long list format where filenames are on the far right. /O List by files in sorted order. /P Pauses after each screenful of information. /Q Display the owner of the file. /R Display alternate data streams of the file. /S Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories. /T Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting /W Uses wide list format. /X This displays the short names generated for non-8dot3 file /N with the short name inserted /4 Displays four-digit years
Specifies drive, directory, and/or files to list.
attributes D Directories R Read-only files
H Hidden files A Files ready for archiving
S System files I Not content indexed files
L Reparse Points - Prefix meaning not
default. Use
sortorder N By name (alphabetic) S By size (smallest first)
E By extension (alphabetic) D By date/time (oldest first)
G Group directories first - Prefix to reverse order
timefield C Creation
A Last Access
W Last Written
names. The format is that of
before the long name. If no short name is present, blanks are
displayed in its place.
I don't know if this should be rated funny or insightful.
I was setting up a Toshiba Windows 8 machine for my father a few weeks back. Very frustrating uninstalling the shitware. Symantec was the worst. It kept begging to not be uninstalled, I spent time filling out the survey explaining why I hated their shovelware. It was also frustrating that the option to burn off the restore DVDs was hidden, as usually that comes back to bite people later when they bork their machine or have a hard drive failure. I would have done a nuke and reinstall, but it isn't as easy in Windows 8 as it was in Windows 7, so I had to put up with uninstalling the shovelware. Installing ClassicShell to get start menu / boot to desktop was the least of my worries.
Given how unnecessarily complex setting up the average Windows PC is, I'm amazed Joe Sixpack manages at all. The shovelware experience does an amazing amount of damage to the Windows image, as that junk bloats Windows more than Microsoft does. Microsoft sells "Microsoft Signature PC's" which are shovelware free, but in pretty low numbers (who buys a PC from a Microsoft store?) I'm also amazed walking into Best buy how many PC's say "DANGER: Your Symantec trial expired 45 days ago" or "DANGER your McAfee trial expired 32 days ago". Really? You think you're going to sell PCs like that? Talk about curb appeal! Meanwhile go over and look at the crowd around the Apple display.
Windows 7 OEM (preinstallation on Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer, etc) requires BIOS with SLP bits, OEM:SLP key (like above link), but it also needs a certificate installed in Windows to recognize the BIOS.
"Daz Loader" Will install the certificate, and the OEM:SLP key to match your machine if the BIOS already has the right bits. It can also be used illicitly if your BIOS doesn't have the right bits, which I don't condone. But it's the easiest way to nuke and install Windows 7 on an OEM machine.
When installing from the ISO's above, you can hit next or "enter key later" or something during install, then run Daz afterwards.
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/24901-Windows-Loader-Current-release-information
Windows 8 is a whole 'nother matter, and other methods are required to do a nuke and reinstall. Make sure first thing first you always burn off restore DVDs (which was frustratingly hard to find on a Win 8 Toshiba I set up lately.)
Start with things the way they should work, then give them some basic troubleshooting, maintenance, etc. for the added functions.
Oh basic troubleshooting. I laugh sometimes at how basic some of the basic troubleshooting is "Problem: Display won't light up. Possible problem: No power supply Solution: Check power supply"
I find it even funnier calling tech support, for companies that we pay a lot for tech support contracts, only to have them read back the same page of the manual I'm looking at word for word.
I too like good documentation. I only dabble in programming, but when the language reference explains all options, complete with functional examples, it's good.
Where I work (manufacturing process automation maintenance) I like being able to take a complex problem that no one understands, figure it out, and document it so those after me can understand it.
And for no arguments. Or at least print what is required to get help
C:\>app
Crappy app 0.0.0.1a
GPL 2 (If you don't like it fix it yourself
For help type -?
C:\>app /?
Crappy app 0.0.0.1a
GPL 2 (If you don't like it fix it yourself
I said enter -?, not /? This program was barely ported using cygwin, so you have to use *NIX arguments
Don't like it, fix it yourself
C:\>_
When browsing through my list of emails, I'd rather see the first line of content than a bunch of hi's.
Isn't that a fault with your email client? I think the salutation is useful as it sets the tone of the email: "Dear Xxxx" is different to "Hi Xxxx", "Hey Xxxx", "Xxxx" and "Dear Sir/Madam". I write one most of the time, but if I'm replying rapidly in an email discussion I'll omit it.
If you're signature is prepended with "-- " on a blank line, the email client should cut it off when someone replies. Most also grey it out, or similar.
Did a quick test, I didn't see this behaviour. Did you have any more information on this?
I have my signature with email address because internal to our company Lotus Notes uses a completely different email address format, so this way if my email gets forwarded by someone in my company, to someone external, the external person will have my contact information if they need it.
A practice I've changed is on voicemail greeting, cutting it to a minimum: "You have reached xxx, leave a message." People know they dialed the right number, and they are prepared for an upcoming beep. By now people understand what voicemail is, that they got it because I wasn't available, and that they should say who they are and why they're calling, and that when they are done they can hang up. I also don't understand people within my company that leave the time they called. Didn't they notice that the system tells you what time the message was left?
A trend I've seen, which was a directive at the last company I worked at, is compressing signature information on one line
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Nonsense. Raising the speed limit would reveal how shitty American cars really are.
I mean, let's be honest, American cars are okay at 55 MPH, and even at 80 MPH if you are traveling in a straight line, but take them on some back roads (with lots of turns) at high speeds, and you can easily see how their European and Japanese cousins outclass them.
Can you imagine what would happen if the national speed limit was raised 20 MPH? Ford and GM would be out of business; they simply can't put out a vehicle, for an affordable price, that can perform well (and safely) at those speeds.
20 years ago called. They want their complaints against their shitty North American cars back.
More and more a lot of GM and Ford's designs sold in North America are actually used in Europe and well regarded. A lot of their other product offerings have dramatically improved in recent years as well. The new Chevrolet Impala is nothing like the old one.
I've seen far more photo-radar in Europe than in North America.
Ticket for 38 km/h in a 30 zone, ticket for 58 km/h in a 50 zone. This is in the land of the Autobahn!
Already an option on some cars. My last car was 410+ hp and capable of getting to 100+ mph in short order. The system, however, allowed the keys to be limited in various ways if you wanted to. Speed limits, stereo volume limits, etc.
Presumably you're talking about Ford MyKey where it can be set to limit the speed, but only at a fixed point of 80MPH / 130 km/h
Is there more to it than UPNP port opening?
I imagine it's UDP hole punching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching