What I would like to see in both Thunderbird and Firefox is a way of storing my preferences in a central location (LDAP server, mysql, xml file on a web/ftp server). That way between my work, home and laptops, I can login to the preference server and instantly have all the contacts, favorites, etc... that I have on the other machines.
Actually, there was someone who had scanned some song out of Guitar mag and posted it on one of the tab newsgroups...this was before the OLGA lawsuits. The tab community was horrified by it and very unsupportive of it.
Though I supposed I could go look for alt.binaries.warez.tab:)
That was obviously some new movie that came out being transfered. We better get the MPAA access to Internet2 even faster now, otherwise box offices across the country will shut down.
And that would be great - yet tomorrow at thanksgiving I'll be doing god knows what to my aunts computer that is probably infected 200 ways. She doesnt' know about patching, is on a dial-up and downloading a 10-20MB patch from MS is not something she is likely to do.
Basically, the guy was loading and emulating what is probably 80% of the internet users out there (think AOLers:)
I had a warezed version of windows like that...nice installer, even the CD and hologram looked official, but it was constantly just showing a blue screen. Definatly must have been a warez release.:)
On the bottom, about 2/3rds of the way to the right, where the brown sidewalk is, there is a bloke riding a bike. It looks like part of where they stiched the images together. As you zoom all the way in, it looks like one plate had the guy on the bike, and the adjoining frame had someone walking there. Looks odd.
I have a notebook setup just for this. The bad thing is that it has an ATI card in there for TV out which is a pain to get working with Linux, so for now I'm just using Windows. I can play vids for the kids and stream my favorite radio stations.
The next step is to get MythTV running on the box, which has a much easier interface and can do more, such as image galleries, etc...
The biggest problem I have is input. Right now the notebook is on top of the entertainment center because of the aforementioned kids. And it's running windows so things like forcing video out is a pain, plus my wife doesn't know how to work it. And what idiot decided that play/pause in media player should be Control-P instead of space.
My main mythtv box has a remote controller for the video capture card, but I have nothing to hook to the notebook. I guess I need to bite the bullet and either buy some cheap IR receiver for use with lirc or threaten to burn the house down by building my own.
I'm surprised no company has come out with a USB based IR receiver that can be taught so you can control all your apps with it. Seems like a simple little item, not much needed to make and could be sold cheap enough to return a decent product and get lots of people to buy.
TNG usually had a few eps per season that would have Picard doing something atypical and possibly afoul of starfleet wishes.
I never watch DS9 much - found it way too boring, though I hear it got better.
Voyager was the wussiest show I've ever seen. It was all about "Hi...we're from earth and trying to get home...Please be our friends."
Enterprise should be grittier than it is. It is too tame as well. Though in the last season it's been getting a little better...stuff like Archer disabling a ship and stealing it's warp core or whatever.
I really did like B5 though - it was real balls to the wall. Not all polite diplomacy. ST needs to be a mix of what it is, B5 and Andromeda.
I have used no@no.no for years. Though I still find it being taken already from time to time. TVGuide.com has had about 5 different locations when I sign in with it that others have chosen for their association with it.
In college I had an XT clone. I was working on my compiler project and was showing my roommate something in my code that was bugging me. Of course I hadn't saved in a while. I was holding the keyboard in one hand (with my hand touching a screw on the bottom) and pointed to the screen to show the line of code in question. As soon as I touched the screen - reboot!!!
This same machine also suffered my wrath one time when it was acting up or something. I kicked the side of the machine (it was standing upright) and it died. Would not boot back up. When I opened the case up, the CPU had popped out of the scoket and was laying on top of the video card.
I was tring to hook two old MFM drives up in another XT box once and didn't get the terminating resistor in the drive correctly. This caused a release of the magic smoke in one of the components on the drive itself.
One other thing that comes to mind...we had just gotten in an 18GB SCSI drive (a few years ago when this was a lot). It was in the anti-static bag. I went to pick the bag up by the open end. As I did, the drive went sliding right out the other open end of the bag (shipped that way even!) Made a nice thud as it hit the thin carpet covering the concrete floor.
And there was the time we were cleaning up and my boss pitched a box that looked like it was just full of packing peanuts. Turns out there were two 128MB sticks of RAM in there. Probably about $800+ at that time.
But other than that - no major "oh craps". Why do I suddenly expect to have something to post later tonight about this:)
A can of soda cost $0.60. Assume that three cans are downed a day (yes, probably conservative, but may average out), 5 days a week, 4 days a month.
That comes to $36/month, or $432/year per employee. Usually when a salary is decided for a position, there is a percentage that is added to the pay for benefits. So, you just add that in to those computations, so if you have $80k allocated for a job, then you may pay the person $72k instead of $73k, but they get something for free that they probably would have paid for anyway.
And once you add in econmics of scale, it gets real cheap. The cost vs take on a soda machine at McDonalds or Burget King is highway robbery.
Happy worker=productive worker. However, all the 21-inch screens doesn't make office politics any better or more toleable:)
We've had lots of MCSE's apply for various jobs (or CCNA, etc...) However, we've found many bought the books, took the test, passed and expected money to be thrown at them. For the most part, if something was outside what the book covered, they were lost.
MCSE - need to tie accounts on the Unix and windows box together (glossy look as the resist the urge to say "Migrate to active directory")
CCNA - Yeah...we don't use Cisco - stare of disbelief as if I just grew another head.
It's great if you can pass these things, but if you can't apply the knowledge and extrapolate from it, may as well use the certificate as bird linings.
Makes me think of the movie "The Paper" where they send some klutzy photographer out to get a picture of the two boys. She can't get through cause everyone else is getting shots and she ends up falling on the ground in front of them, they look at her and she either took the shot or the camera went off by accident - ended up being a great shot.
Just never know what you're gonna get and what will be good. Such as this classic
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What I would like to see in both Thunderbird and Firefox is a way of storing my preferences in a central location (LDAP server, mysql, xml file on a web/ftp server). That way between my work, home and laptops, I can login to the preference server and instantly have all the contacts, favorites, etc... that I have on the other machines.
Actually, there was someone who had scanned some song out of Guitar mag and posted it on one of the tab newsgroups...this was before the OLGA lawsuits. The tab community was horrified by it and very unsupportive of it.
:)
Though I supposed I could go look for alt.binaries.warez.tab
Gleng, thank you. This is the funniest thing I've seen in the last week. You made my day a lot better!
That was obviously some new movie that came out being transfered. We better get the MPAA access to Internet2 even faster now, otherwise box offices across the country will shut down.
And that would be great - yet tomorrow at thanksgiving I'll be doing god knows what to my aunts computer that is probably infected 200 ways. She doesnt' know about patching, is on a dial-up and downloading a 10-20MB patch from MS is not something she is likely to do.
:)
Basically, the guy was loading and emulating what is probably 80% of the internet users out there (think AOLers
I had a warezed version of windows like that...nice installer, even the CD and hologram looked official, but it was constantly just showing a blue screen. Definatly must have been a warez release. :)
That's okay...don't care much for deer meat either.
:)
Now elk - that's another story
Damn me...I'll be the only one tagged as poison ivy does nothing to me :(
On the bottom, about 2/3rds of the way to the right, where the brown sidewalk is, there is a bloke riding a bike. It looks like part of where they stiched the images together. As you zoom all the way in, it looks like one plate had the guy on the bike, and the adjoining frame had someone walking there. Looks odd.
Lion King bored me - like most Disney fare - lets see what we can have singing - animals, candlesticks, etc...
Lilo and Stitch was hilarious. Like Toy Story, it had a good story and good writing.
Too many things Disney puts out relies on the fact that they are disney.
Doesn't look like I could use my Pioneer remote for it, but it this looks like it may be a decent stand in.
I really want to find some sort of IR receiver and retransmitter. That way you can have the 'puter turn on devices, etc.
In the AV world you can find these sort of things, just not too much that interfaces with a computer.
I have a notebook setup just for this. The bad thing is that it has an ATI card in there for TV out which is a pain to get working with Linux, so for now I'm just using Windows. I can play vids for the kids and stream my favorite radio stations.
The next step is to get MythTV running on the box, which has a much easier interface and can do more, such as image galleries, etc...
The biggest problem I have is input. Right now the notebook is on top of the entertainment center because of the aforementioned kids. And it's running windows so things like forcing video out is a pain, plus my wife doesn't know how to work it. And what idiot decided that play/pause in media player should be Control-P instead of space.
My main mythtv box has a remote controller for the video capture card, but I have nothing to hook to the notebook. I guess I need to bite the bullet and either buy some cheap IR receiver for use with lirc or threaten to burn the house down by building my own.
I'm surprised no company has come out with a USB based IR receiver that can be taught so you can control all your apps with it. Seems like a simple little item, not much needed to make and could be sold cheap enough to return a decent product and get lots of people to buy.
It was great. I needed to build the kernel so I typed
# make -j 10534 bzImag
and even before I could hit the e and enter, it was done.
I was gonna build X but on this box the possible outcomes of "build World" scared me!
TNG usually had a few eps per season that would have Picard doing something atypical and possibly afoul of starfleet wishes.
I never watch DS9 much - found it way too boring, though I hear it got better.
Voyager was the wussiest show I've ever seen. It was all about "Hi...we're from earth and trying to get home...Please be our friends."
Enterprise should be grittier than it is. It is too tame as well. Though in the last season it's been getting a little better...stuff like Archer disabling a ship and stealing it's warp core or whatever.
I really did like B5 though - it was real balls to the wall. Not all polite diplomacy. ST needs to be a mix of what it is, B5 and Andromeda.
I have used no@no.no for years. Though I still find it being taken already from time to time. TVGuide.com has had about 5 different locations when I sign in with it that others have chosen for their association with it.
Probably one of the best cliffhangers of the whole series.
In college I had an XT clone. I was working on my compiler project and was showing my roommate something in my code that was bugging me. Of course I hadn't saved in a while. I was holding the keyboard in one hand (with my hand touching a screw on the bottom) and pointed to the screen to show the line of code in question. As soon as I touched the screen - reboot!!!
:)
This same machine also suffered my wrath one time when it was acting up or something. I kicked the side of the machine (it was standing upright) and it died. Would not boot back up. When I opened the case up, the CPU had popped out of the scoket and was laying on top of the video card.
I was tring to hook two old MFM drives up in another XT box once and didn't get the terminating resistor in the drive correctly. This caused a release of the magic smoke in one of the components on the drive itself.
One other thing that comes to mind...we had just gotten in an 18GB SCSI drive (a few years ago when this was a lot). It was in the anti-static bag. I went to pick the bag up by the open end. As I did, the drive went sliding right out the other open end of the bag (shipped that way even!) Made a nice thud as it hit the thin carpet covering the concrete floor.
And there was the time we were cleaning up and my boss pitched a box that looked like it was just full of packing peanuts. Turns out there were two 128MB sticks of RAM in there. Probably about $800+ at that time.
But other than that - no major "oh craps". Why do I suddenly expect to have something to post later tonight about this
Yup...remember hanging out there a bit. Still have a T-shirt and few other itms from there.
I believe Joe was the name of the guy who ran the store along with his wife or girlfriend Mandy. Used to show up at the ALS meetings a lot.
A can of soda cost $0.60. Assume that three cans are downed a day (yes, probably conservative, but may average out), 5 days a week, 4 days a month.
:)
That comes to $36/month, or $432/year per employee. Usually when a salary is decided for a position, there is a percentage that is added to the pay for benefits. So, you just add that in to those computations, so if you have $80k allocated for a job, then you may pay the person $72k instead of $73k, but they get something for free that they probably would have paid for anyway.
And once you add in econmics of scale, it gets real cheap. The cost vs take on a soda machine at McDonalds or Burget King is highway robbery.
Happy worker=productive worker. However, all the 21-inch screens doesn't make office politics any better or more toleable
We've had lots of MCSE's apply for various jobs (or CCNA, etc...) However, we've found many bought the books, took the test, passed and expected money to be thrown at them. For the most part, if something was outside what the book covered, they were lost.
MCSE - need to tie accounts on the Unix and windows box together (glossy look as the resist the urge to say "Migrate to active directory")
CCNA - Yeah...we don't use Cisco - stare of disbelief as if I just grew another head.
It's great if you can pass these things, but if you can't apply the knowledge and extrapolate from it, may as well use the certificate as bird linings.
I saw a camcorder screener of Toy Story 2. Had never seen the first one.
I now own all the Pixar stuff on DVD and am eagerly awaiting "The Invicibles".
I guess that means it's back to beta for XP SP2
Makes me think of the movie "The Paper" where they send some klutzy photographer out to get a picture of the two boys. She can't get through cause everyone else is getting shots and she ends up falling on the ground in front of them, they look at her and she either took the shot or the camera went off by accident - ended up being a great shot.
Just never know what you're gonna get and what will be good. Such as this classic
Yeah...something like that. :)
All I remember is when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes!
Guess I need to rewatch it, which'll drive my wife nuts.
Why...what happens if we cross the streams?