At first I thought it was "Interest in" becoming public information. If that was the case the easy solution is to leave it empty, but it wasn't.
The "loophole" allowed someone to add them to "Queer Chorus" discussion group.
I laugh at the talking head that talked about "robust privacy controls". I locked up my account so that no one except friends can see anything. Or so I thought. Sometime recently (changeover to timeline?) all new posts started becoming public, and I had to re-lock it down. As I notice searching people on Facebook, it seems there's lots of people who previously intended to keep their profile private now have public timelines. These sure are robust controls!
My heart goes out to these students and their intolerant environment.
Instead of a supercomputer wouldn't it make more sense to use clouding computing to crowd-source the power? Then they just need to put a media consumer device on the moon.
USB flash Drives! Although certainly not fail-proof, they are the true successor to the Floppy. A lot more reliable than the floppy, higher capacity than a floppy, significantly faster, and a lot smaller.
It always boggled my mind people that kept documents ONLY on floppy (as opposed to transport between machines or as a backup). The number of times I've seen sole copies of a major term paper completely lost due to a "Not Ready reading drive A: (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore" is heartbreaking.
I'm from Canada, and younger than you, so I was always surrounded by Metric. There's two notable exceptions to the metric system: -People ALWAYS tell their height in feet and inches -People ALWAYS tell their weight / mass in pounds.
Here's some other exceptions: -People tend to give rough measurements in feet/inches and pounds.
-For some reason people use MPG for fuel economy when distances aren't measured in miles, and fuel isn't sold in gallons. Dealer ads use "MPG" as well. To make matters worse, the "official" Canadian gallon is the Imperial gallon (4.5L), not the US Gallon (3.8L), but a lot of people that use MPG are too stupid to tell the difference. Half the TV / ads are American, showing US-MPG, and Canadian ads show Imp-MPG, and people get confused why a Canadian Civic has better "MPG".
-Baking / cooking instructions use cups/tsp, degrees F, etc
-Stores advertise produce and meat with prices "per pound" even if the final tag has mass in kg and a kg unit price.
When I'm in the USA I can do a reasonable job of running local and understanding MPH, degrees F, etc.
These days I see more and more old highway signs where the old imperial distances / speed limits are starting to bleed through. Explains why there's signs advertising an exit in 1.2km and 600m.
I graduated 10 years later, but I was the only one on the yearbook committee that could use Pagemaker (yet the two editors were the ones that went on a week-long course). I also blew them away with a 2MP digital camera. At first the other committee members wanted me to take pictures, print them, and then mail them in like they do for film pictures. I knew it must have been possible to directly import them into Pagemaker.
As far as my exposure, K-6 were Apple ][, 7-8 were Mac Classics, 9 was brand new iMacs, and 10-12 were PCs.
On the Apple ][ it was learn to type and play games on the Macs there was internet access so we did some online research and used hypercard, and I remember some basic layouts and sketching in shop class. I never had a course with the PCs, but there was a typing class availible (which included basic how to use Word). I elected instead to take shop, which I found a lot more fun. I guess we did some "graphic design" using Word in that class (argg), and some CAD using a DOS version of AutoSketch.
Interesting. Another thing that seems to archive poorly is forums. User communities are created, lots of useful information is collected, then the forum goes offline. Unlike Usenet there's no easy way to dig into that useful information.
I still have and love my EeePC 701 Netbook. I've since finished university and don't use it for travel near as much (if I'm over at a friend's I'll just use my phone), but over vacation it was great to backup my photos to a USB stick, and to network storage. It was also great for sites that require a real computer / browser. The truth is the early netbook models with small SSDs were not made for the general public, as it needed a tech's mind to tinker and get it going. That's one of the reasons tablets took off: Great battery life, instant on/off, far less tinkering required. Didn't help that artificial restrictions from Microsoft killed the low end, as "Netbooks" continue to have hardware that was low end hardware 4 years ago.
Right now I still use my 701 to act as a MIDI interface with my keyboard.
The artificial restrictions continued into Windows 7. You can STILL (3 years later) buy netbooks with 1GB RAM and 250GB hard drive. Ultrabooks aren't a replacement for netbooks because they are more expensive. So Ultrabooks have the high end ultra portables, what's at the low end? 3-4 year old tech in Netbooks.
Any version of Win9x was never fantastic. Substantially better than 3.x, but very poor in the stability department. NT was always much better for stability, but required significantly more resources.
When home users (and frankly a lot of business users) were migrated over to NT based XP*, machines were powerful enough to handle it and it brought a substantial improvement of stability to the majority of users (as well as better USB support, built in CD burning, network). This (substantial improvement over the previous, to the point of being "good enough"), combined with the fact that it took 5 years before they tried to release the next version, is why XP has had such a stronghold.
*-Truthfully most of the improvements in XP were present in 2000, which was a significant jump from NT4, but 2000 wasn't marketed towards end users.
Windows 7 32 bit can run Vista-32, XP-32, and 2000-32 drivers. Win7-64 can load Vista-64 drivers, and I believe XP-64 drivers. I think Windows 8 can even run XP/2000 drivers. The only major limitation is XP video drivers won't give you Aero or DX10 or higher.
Win98 could run WDM (which ultimately extended right into 2000 and higher), Win95 VxD files, Windows 3.1 drivers, and even DOS real-mode drivers. GRanted this led to some of the notorious instability with 9x
That legacy driver support is better than Linux, where kernel ABI changes every month.
On Win 7 I turn off Transparencies, minimize/maximize animations, and set the colour to black and think it looks pretty cool. Especially because Office has a black theme.
I'm surprised how many readers of this site don't understand that "IT" contains two branches: -Operations (system admin, desktop support, etc) -Development (programming)
And assume anytime there is an article talking about "IT", the article is talking about whatever branch they are in.
In the case of the article, it says "Key areas are web development, app programming and scripting.", which sounds to me to be the development side of things.
As long as it doesn't say "One file in the middle of your large copy / move operation is in use, so I will have to abandon the entire rest of it in an unknown state"
Of course, the problem with laser printers that cheap, is usually when anything more significant than a toner cartridge needs replaced, it's cheaper to just get a new printer. I found a refurbished drum that I bought a while back when the one it came with died, but even refurb I probably would have been better off just buying a whole new printer
Samsung makes a good budget laser as well. A bonus is unlike Brother the drum is in the toner cartridge. I can't talk to their latest models, but of the ones I've used the "chip" will only make it report low, it won't refuse to print.
I've also started experimenting with refills from http://tonerrefillkits.com/ which can give another charge or two to a cartridge's life. Kits are model specific, they provide replacement chips, excellent directions, some printers don't even need the tool, and they throw a pack of M&M's in the box. If you look on their facebook page or elsewhere you can find 15% discount coupons.
I bought a $50 Samsung AIO monochrome laser on clearance. I've printed maybe 20 pages in the past year and a half. Every time I fire it up it prints. Not like inkjets that would be clogged solid that an alcohol bath might not even fix. My toner cartridge still has at least another 980 pages left. And the Samsung won't expire and refuse to print with "such an old cartridge" either.
We have some 11 year old Laserjet 5000 and 5 printers at work. 300,000+ prints in an extremely dirty environment and they rarely jam up or have problems. Sadly finding parts is a problem and we're starting to cannibalize old printers, and new printers being rolled out aren't near as robust.
I especially haven't had good luck with Lexmark inkjets. Monochrome laser, even consumer models, seems like a better deal. As it is I don't print a lot these days. Maybe a boarding pass on an online ticket for a movie.I may have printed 20 pages on my laser in the past 1.5 years. But I fire it up and it always works (no clogged cartridges). Text quality is always sharp, and per page cost is lower than inkjet. Hard decisions!
My current model is a $50 clearance AIO Samsung monochrome laser. I've used the scanner more than the printer.
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At first I thought it was "Interest in" becoming public information. If that was the case the easy solution is to leave it empty, but it wasn't.
The "loophole" allowed someone to add them to "Queer Chorus" discussion group.
I laugh at the talking head that talked about "robust privacy controls". I locked up my account so that no one except friends can see anything. Or so I thought. Sometime recently (changeover to timeline?) all new posts started becoming public, and I had to re-lock it down. As I notice searching people on Facebook, it seems there's lots of people who previously intended to keep their profile private now have public timelines. These sure are robust controls!
My heart goes out to these students and their intolerant environment.
Instead of a supercomputer wouldn't it make more sense to use clouding computing to crowd-source the power? Then they just need to put a media consumer device on the moon.
USB flash Drives! Although certainly not fail-proof, they are the true successor to the Floppy. A lot more reliable than the floppy, higher capacity than a floppy, significantly faster, and a lot smaller.
It always boggled my mind people that kept documents ONLY on floppy (as opposed to transport between machines or as a backup). The number of times I've seen sole copies of a major term paper completely lost due to a "Not Ready reading drive A: (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore" is heartbreaking.
-partially tongue in cheek.
I'm from Canada, and younger than you, so I was always surrounded by Metric. There's two notable exceptions to the metric system:
-People ALWAYS tell their height in feet and inches
-People ALWAYS tell their weight / mass in pounds.
Here's some other exceptions:
-People tend to give rough measurements in feet/inches and pounds.
-For some reason people use MPG for fuel economy when distances aren't measured in miles, and fuel isn't sold in gallons. Dealer ads use "MPG" as well. To make matters worse, the "official" Canadian gallon is the Imperial gallon (4.5L), not the US Gallon (3.8L), but a lot of people that use MPG are too stupid to tell the difference. Half the TV / ads are American, showing US-MPG, and Canadian ads show Imp-MPG, and people get confused why a Canadian Civic has better "MPG".
-Baking / cooking instructions use cups/tsp, degrees F, etc
-Stores advertise produce and meat with prices "per pound" even if the final tag has mass in kg and a kg unit price.
When I'm in the USA I can do a reasonable job of running local and understanding MPH, degrees F, etc.
These days I see more and more old highway signs where the old imperial distances / speed limits are starting to bleed through. Explains why there's signs advertising an exit in 1.2km and 600m.
I graduated 10 years later, but I was the only one on the yearbook committee that could use Pagemaker (yet the two editors were the ones that went on a week-long course). I also blew them away with a 2MP digital camera. At first the other committee members wanted me to take pictures, print them, and then mail them in like they do for film pictures. I knew it must have been possible to directly import them into Pagemaker.
As far as my exposure, K-6 were Apple ][, 7-8 were Mac Classics, 9 was brand new iMacs, and 10-12 were PCs.
On the Apple ][ it was learn to type and play games
on the Macs there was internet access so we did some online research and used hypercard, and I remember some basic layouts and sketching in shop class.
I never had a course with the PCs, but there was a typing class availible (which included basic how to use Word). I elected instead to take shop, which I found a lot more fun. I guess we did some "graphic design" using Word in that class (argg), and some CAD using a DOS version of AutoSketch.
I didn't read /. back then, so I had to look up some of his articles.
They all seem to be full of superfluous nonsense.
Interesting. Another thing that seems to archive poorly is forums. User communities are created, lots of useful information is collected, then the forum goes offline. Unlike Usenet there's no easy way to dig into that useful information.
Are you suggesting reading the article / summary?
I still have and love my EeePC 701 Netbook. I've since finished university and don't use it for travel near as much (if I'm over at a friend's I'll just use my phone), but over vacation it was great to backup my photos to a USB stick, and to network storage. It was also great for sites that require a real computer / browser. The truth is the early netbook models with small SSDs were not made for the general public, as it needed a tech's mind to tinker and get it going. That's one of the reasons tablets took off: Great battery life, instant on/off, far less tinkering required. Didn't help that artificial restrictions from Microsoft killed the low end, as "Netbooks" continue to have hardware that was low end hardware 4 years ago.
Right now I still use my 701 to act as a MIDI interface with my keyboard.
The artificial restrictions continued into Windows 7. You can STILL (3 years later) buy netbooks with 1GB RAM and 250GB hard drive. Ultrabooks aren't a replacement for netbooks because they are more expensive. So Ultrabooks have the high end ultra portables, what's at the low end? 3-4 year old tech in Netbooks.
WAV is supported by infinitely more software packages for editing, and storage space was not at a premium.
Any version of Win9x was never fantastic. Substantially better than 3.x, but very poor in the stability department. NT was always much better for stability, but required significantly more resources.
When home users (and frankly a lot of business users) were migrated over to NT based XP*, machines were powerful enough to handle it and it brought a substantial improvement of stability to the majority of users (as well as better USB support, built in CD burning, network). This (substantial improvement over the previous, to the point of being "good enough"), combined with the fact that it took 5 years before they tried to release the next version, is why XP has had such a stronghold.
*-Truthfully most of the improvements in XP were present in 2000, which was a significant jump from NT4, but 2000 wasn't marketed towards end users.
Windows 7 32 bit can run Vista-32, XP-32, and 2000-32 drivers. Win7-64 can load Vista-64 drivers, and I believe XP-64 drivers. I think Windows 8 can even run XP/2000 drivers. The only major limitation is XP video drivers won't give you Aero or DX10 or higher.
Win98 could run WDM (which ultimately extended right into 2000 and higher), Win95 VxD files, Windows 3.1 drivers, and even DOS real-mode drivers. GRanted this led to some of the notorious instability with 9x
That legacy driver support is better than Linux, where kernel ABI changes every month.
think Aero flip is eye candy, and "slamming" can be done with Aero disabled.
On Win 7 I turn off Transparencies, minimize/maximize animations, and set the colour to black and think it looks pretty cool. Especially because Office has a black theme.
Office 2003, the last version that used .doc as the native format, will have extended support (security fixes) through till April 8, 2014.
The utility company tried to call their bluff, Microsoft wasn't bluffing so they started their heaters, and the utility company folded.
Are you sure they didn't Start their photocopiers?
If you're given the option, do the base jump from ISS BEFORE the one way trip to mars.
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I'm surprised how many readers of this site don't understand that "IT" contains two branches:
-Operations (system admin, desktop support, etc)
-Development (programming)
And assume anytime there is an article talking about "IT", the article is talking about whatever branch they are in.
In the case of the article, it says "Key areas are web development, app programming and scripting.", which sounds to me to be the development side of things.
As long as it doesn't say "One file in the middle of your large copy / move operation is in use, so I will have to abandon the entire rest of it in an unknown state"
Of course, the problem with laser printers that cheap, is usually when anything more significant than a toner cartridge needs replaced, it's cheaper to just get a new printer. I found a refurbished drum that I bought a while back when the one it came with died, but even refurb I probably would have been better off just buying a whole new printer
Samsung makes a good budget laser as well. A bonus is unlike Brother the drum is in the toner cartridge. I can't talk to their latest models, but of the ones I've used the "chip" will only make it report low, it won't refuse to print.
I've also started experimenting with refills from http://tonerrefillkits.com/ which can give another charge or two to a cartridge's life. Kits are model specific, they provide replacement chips, excellent directions, some printers don't even need the tool, and they throw a pack of M&M's in the box. If you look on their facebook page or elsewhere you can find 15% discount coupons.
I bought a $50 Samsung AIO monochrome laser on clearance. I've printed maybe 20 pages in the past year and a half. Every time I fire it up it prints. Not like inkjets that would be clogged solid that an alcohol bath might not even fix. My toner cartridge still has at least another 980 pages left. And the Samsung won't expire and refuse to print with "such an old cartridge" either.
We have some 11 year old Laserjet 5000 and 5 printers at work. 300,000+ prints in an extremely dirty environment and they rarely jam up or have problems. Sadly finding parts is a problem and we're starting to cannibalize old printers, and new printers being rolled out aren't near as robust.
I especially haven't had good luck with Lexmark inkjets. Monochrome laser, even consumer models, seems like a better deal. As it is I don't print a lot these days. Maybe a boarding pass on an online ticket for a movie.I may have printed 20 pages on my laser in the past 1.5 years. But I fire it up and it always works (no clogged cartridges). Text quality is always sharp, and per page cost is lower than inkjet. Hard decisions!
My current model is a $50 clearance AIO Samsung monochrome laser. I've used the scanner more than the printer.