> The nice thing about the auto-mounted units is...
Assuming you mean factory-mounted units?
> well, there are > two nice things that apply here. First, they can always assume > that your car is where you left it when you turned if off -- > at least as a starting point.
Most Garmin Streetpilots do this already. My 2610 does.
> Also, they can use compass directions and wheel travel to > determine approximate location in the absense of sattelite > information,
You can get similar dead reckoning on Garmins (and other GPSs) for $100-$200 extra plus mechanic installation fees.
> mostly mitigating the startup lag.
Time to find satellites is usually 30-60 seconds. By the time I've gotten my seatbelt on and selected my destination, it knows where I am.
I've got a Garmin Streetpilot as well and am a safer driver. Before, I had mapquest printouts in one hand, pinned to the steering wheel, trying to check what the next exit was. I slowed down a lot and frequently took the wrong road.
Now I just keep my eyes on the road and obey the British dominatrix in my Streetpilot as she barks 'turn rIIIGHT!'
Read about that that cord problem before buying them. Apparently it doesn't happen to *everyone*. You'd think it might after going through the wash in hot water with extra-strength Tide but it didn't.
Bought these around Christmas for $19. About the same quality as the original ipod buds, but with noiseproofing. Comes with 3 different size earbud attachments to fit different size ears.
Mine just went through the laundry and after drying it out for 24 hours, still works.
Ditto here. First thing I tell clients when they're getting email timeouts, disable Norton or McAfee email scanning.
Email scanning is useless anyway, as the stay-resident part of the scanner stops the virus as soon as the attachment is opened. And good ISPs should be deleting viruses as they come in anyway.
A good corporate alternative (cheap too at $20) = CA etrust antivirus. (Formerly Innoculate IT.) One of my customers uses it and has never seen any AV program so efficiently programmed and stable.
I tried to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Trustix to recognize ICH5R RAID or Adaptec 1200A RAID and neither worked. Had to use FreeBSD 6, which just rocks and supports everything I throw at it.
[wideangle@host]: uname -srp FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE i386 [wideangle@host]: find/usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -or -name '*.h' -exec grep "belong here" {} \;
* This doesn't really belong here, but I can't think of a better/* XXX these 2 don't really belong here... */
* XXX doesn't really belong here I guess...
* XXX these don't really belong here; but for now they're/* XXX doesn't really belong here, but has been historical practice in SysV. */
No FIXMEs like in 5.4, at least none on the same line as "belong here".
Uninstalled it too. Autoupdates are OK only if users are given the option to disable them. Google doesn't even provide a registry key to toggle updates off.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you. I wish more sites were like slashdot and left fonts at 100%.
Ditto. Manufacturers need to know blue LEDs are not cool, they're annoying:
c klash/
http://led.linear1.org/wired-magazine-blue-led-ba
http://martybugs.net/articles/bling.cgi
> The nice thing about the auto-mounted units is...
Assuming you mean factory-mounted units?
> well, there are
> two nice things that apply here. First, they can always assume
> that your car is where you left it when you turned if off --
> at least as a starting point.
Most Garmin Streetpilots do this already. My 2610 does.
> Also, they can use compass directions and wheel travel to
> determine approximate location in the absense of sattelite
> information,
You can get similar dead reckoning on Garmins (and other GPSs) for $100-$200 extra plus mechanic installation fees.
> mostly mitigating the startup lag.
Time to find satellites is usually 30-60 seconds. By the time I've gotten my seatbelt on and selected my destination, it knows where I am.
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Grapher, perhaps? (208K download)
http://students.washington.edu/bellc/grapher/view
Or Gnumeric? (15M)
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/images/gnu
I've got a Garmin Streetpilot as well and am a safer driver. Before, I had mapquest printouts in one hand, pinned to the steering wheel, trying to check what the next exit was. I slowed down a lot and frequently took the wrong road.
Now I just keep my eyes on the road and obey the British dominatrix in my Streetpilot as she barks 'turn rIIIGHT!'
Read about that that cord problem before buying them. Apparently it doesn't happen to *everyone*. You'd think it might after going through the wash in hot water with extra-strength Tide but it didn't.
Will post back here if it ever occurs.
Sony MDR-EX51LP
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000779RZU/
Bought these around Christmas for $19. About the same quality as the original ipod buds, but with noiseproofing. Comes with 3 different size earbud attachments to fit different size ears.
Mine just went through the laundry and after drying it out for 24 hours, still works.
Ditto here. First thing I tell clients when they're getting email timeouts, disable Norton or McAfee email scanning.
Email scanning is useless anyway, as the stay-resident part of the scanner stops the virus as soon as the attachment is opened. And good ISPs should be deleting viruses as they come in anyway.
A good corporate alternative (cheap too at $20) = CA etrust antivirus. (Formerly Innoculate IT.) One of my customers uses it and has never seen any AV program so efficiently programmed and stable.
> "I use grey as the default background color rather than white."
Good call. I use a parchment-color as it makes me think of old paper rather than a blinding white screen.
> Don't you configure the kernel yourself in FreeBSD?
Nope, FreeBSD 6 worked out of the box, which is an improvement from older releases.
I tried to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Trustix to recognize ICH5R RAID or Adaptec 1200A RAID and neither worked. Had to use FreeBSD 6, which just rocks and supports everything I throw at it.
And in FreeBSD 4.11:
/usr/src/sys -name '*.c' -or -name '*.h' -exec grep "belong here" {} \; /* XXX these 2 don't really belong here... */ /* XXX doesn't really belong here, but has been historical practice in SysV. */
[wideangle@host]: uname -srp
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE i386
[wideangle@host]: find
* This doesn't really belong here, but I can't think of a better
* XXX doesn't really belong here I guess...
* XXX these don't really belong here; but for now they're
No FIXMEs like in 5.4, at least none on the same line as "belong here".
Thank you for pointing that out.
Uncheck Tools > Options > Web Features > Allow web sites to install software
Yes, uninstall 7 and install Acrobat 4. The old version is faster and I haven't found a PDF it can't read.
She might mean Firefox is less bloated in terms of UI.
For example, in Mozilla, pull down the Edit menu and click Preferences. Count the number of tweakable options you see.
Now do the same for Firefox.
Which has the less bloated UI?
Thanks. (to you and tshak and figleaf)
Will get a test box up and see if that works.
True. Netsh is a great tool.
But try scripting this:
You want to add an IP address to IIS5's block list.
How do you do it using only the command line?
One of the reasons \Program Files was so-named is because MSFT wanted to show off long file names in Win95.
C ur rentVersion]
Not a big fan of the defaults either. But you can change 'em with a slipstream disc.
Or you could play with TweakUI or fiddle with the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
"ProgramFilesDir"="D:\\Apps"
This probably won't change much in Longhorn.
1. Click Preferences. ...)
2. Tick the box [ ] Light (reduce the complexity of Slashdot's HTML
3. Slashdot becomes readable.
Uninstalled it too. Autoupdates are OK only if users are given the option to disable them. Google doesn't even provide a registry key to toggle updates off.
Anyone noticed how much memory IE gobbles when viewing a thread full of PNGs? It doesn't do this for a thread full of similarily sized GIFs or JPGs.
On one "post your desktop" thread, memory usage was up to 75MB.
Even better, make all admin accounts monochrome.
I wouldn't lower the resolution too much though. Ever tried to use the Windowsupdate site in 640x480? NOT fun.
A CRM114 plugin for SA is available, thanks to Devin Nate:
d =2 301
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?i
How about an art site that gets 22 million hits a month?
Browsers:
1 MSIE (all versions) 20,840,535 93.57%
2 Netscape/Mozilla (all versions) 985,761 4.42%
3 Opera (all versions) 141,673 0.63%
4 Others 90,084 0.4%
5 Googlebot/2.1 73,865 0.33%
Pretty close to 95%, no?
OS:
1 Windows NT/2000/XP 14,658,286 65.81%
2 Windows 98 6,025,951 27.05%
3 Macintosh PowerPC 771,331 3.46%
4 Others 634,325 2.84%
5 Windows 95 122,386 0.54%
6 Linux 50,865 0.22%
7 SunOS 4,231 0.01%