one easy way I use is to simply block movement of ANY email with "vba" in it. Gets rid of all.jpg.vba attachments that fool the secretaries, and stops discussion of vba-spreading by some of the junior consultants that we had last year. If they wanna spread viri, they can talk about it off company time...
What about those of us on mailing lists that automatically forward email from you to many other memebers? What about those mailing lists that archive the emails and put them up on a website for quick and easy reference?
...if you're going to release a game that requires broadband access, don't bother releasing it in the UK. Go and see The Register and read about all the problems our monopoly of a telco are causing (for example, only allowing 30 ADSL installations/day, giving preference to it's own "impartial" ISP)
Ahh, that would be the RealWeasel: http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
Reports i'm hearing say it's absolutely fantastic, especially if you're on an non-top end server without serial-line BIOS availability. Downside? It's a bit pricy for the average user, but if you can afford a colo, you can probably afford one of these too...
Noo, motorola telephones, and devices in general just don't cut it any more, at least in human interface terms. Their software is developed in the US, where txt msgn hasn't taken off to nearly as much extent as it has over here in Europe.
For example, receive a text on a Motorola Phone - mine's a Talkabout T2288e and at the end of the text, it can't do a simple phonebook lookup - it only tells you the sender's number, not their name!
I have heard that although the v.box looks promising, the interface is even worse than on the phones (they all share the same software) and, whilst usable, it has several annoying niggles, such as the one mentioned above. Also, the keyboard is actually HARDER to use than a standard numerical keypad for texting, because the buttons are so small, and the functions so confusing.
Look, just add BSD-binary compatability to Linux, and run Aqua. Maybe it'll need some creative layer fool Aqua, like maybe a simulated Apple-ish BIOS, but details details...
Why worry about making X, kde, gnome etc etc all perdy for the luser desktop on linux? Give them Aqua! (with a licence? do we need a licence to run it?)
Why are you worried about OS-X on x86 anyhoo? They won't release it - Apple Hardware won't let them; it'll cut WAAY into Apple Hardware sales. Why buy an expensive G4 when you can build an el-cheapo K6-III, or Duron, or celery with an ATI Rage (same gcard as the G4s) and run OS-X for x86 on that?
I totally agree with DrHyde - get a good atlas and look at the GDP of a middle-eastern oil producing country, like Iraq or Brunai. Their GDP is artificially high because of the few oilfield owners and merchants that get $$$ per second. Most of the inhabitants of the country have little or no $flow, they're mostly Bedouins or similar.
Compare the PQLI index of.uk and.us, they're pretty similar. The PQLI is the Physical Quality of Life Index, and it takes into account many things, such as doctors per 100 people, % of country with electricity supply and running water. % country with inside/outside/no sanitary facilities, population birth/death rates and public transport availability.
MY GOD!!/. nerds in Stockport! jd, bongo, are there any others ya know of? (I'm from Marple meself...)
Ever been to K to wind down on the A6? It's an invitation only multiplayer gaming centre.
my god!
awx
A coupla questions: 1. Is this available in the UK? (most probably not...) and is there a hope for the future for anything like this?
2. What about small *cheap* networks? Have your PC transmitting at, say 108Mhz, and the one at the other end transmitting at 108.5Mhz (or whatever). Listen to each other as well and you could *easily* link up via modem or ethernet (see that homemade 10ghz microwave project for details...) Longer distances = small repeater stations duplicating data onto a different frequency and so on...
Wouldn't the MP3 player get confused? If the filesystem space is hard-coded in, imagine if the hardware finds 10Gb space instead of 32 or 64mb - what would it do? This seems like the same situation with the Sony Playstation memory cards - sure, they could supply memory cards with loads more capacity than they originally anticipated, but as the size (15 'blocks') is hardcoded into the psx, the memory cards had a little button on them so they could switch between 'pages' of blocks. If you did this, only with a 'page' size of 32 or 64mb and had a button to flip, it's doable. (Sounds bloomin' hard though.... ) alex
Sorry, but it was *totally* the other way around for me. Learning basic on an old v-tech thing when I was about 5 years old taught me the concept of variables waay before school tried to. Basic really helped me with math, giving me an immediate advantage over the rest of the kids there. Even in my GCSEs (UK exams at age 15/16) I am much more competant at algebra than most.
If you want qbasic, get version 4.5 off the net - it'll complile (DOS/Windows, sorry) binaries...
Wrong! Next month's code was sometimes passed around encoded with the current code to the operators. It was cracked when a long message had to be retyped by a disgruntled operator, who made one typing error in the message. From this, the girls at Bletchley Park (The UK's code-cracking center during the war and where Alan Turing worked, and eventually designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer...) were able to work out the shifting of the wheels within Enigma.
Slashdot Mirror
..........i'm sorry, you've already reported this one. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/16/145222 9 . Next!
*Grin* you beat me to a cross-posting there :)
here, see my friend's page at http://doug.los-gatos.net and look at the input pages...
one easy way I use is to simply block movement of ANY email with "vba" in it. Gets rid of all .jpg.vba attachments that fool the secretaries, and stops discussion of vba-spreading by some of the junior consultants that we had last year. If they wanna spread viri, they can talk about it off company time...
What about those of us on mailing lists that automatically forward email from you to many other memebers? What about those mailing lists that archive the emails and put them up on a website for quick and easy reference?
Sheesh.
...if you're going to release a game that requires broadband access, don't bother releasing it in the UK. Go and see The Register and read about all the problems our monopoly of a telco are causing (for example, only allowing 30 ADSL installations/day, giving preference to it's own "impartial" ISP)
Ahh, that would be the RealWeasel: http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
Reports i'm hearing say it's absolutely fantastic, especially if you're on an non-top end server without serial-line BIOS availability. Downside? It's a bit pricy for the average user, but if you can afford a colo, you can probably afford one of these too...
13 times more reliable than Windows 98, eh? Hmm, let's think about this for a second shall we......
Ahh, enightenment...
Noo, motorola telephones, and devices in general just don't cut it any more, at least in human interface terms. Their software is developed in the US, where txt msgn hasn't taken off to nearly as much extent as it has over here in Europe.
For example, receive a text on a Motorola Phone - mine's a Talkabout T2288e and at the end of the text, it can't do a simple phonebook lookup - it only tells you the sender's number, not their name!
I have heard that although the v.box looks promising, the interface is even worse than on the phones (they all share the same software) and, whilst usable, it has several annoying niggles, such as the one mentioned above. Also, the keyboard is actually HARDER to use than a standard numerical keypad for texting, because the buttons are so small, and the functions so confusing.
Yes: Aqua on Linux. No: another port of gnome.
Look, just add BSD-binary compatability to Linux, and run Aqua. Maybe it'll need some creative layer fool Aqua, like maybe a simulated Apple-ish BIOS, but details details...
Why worry about making X, kde, gnome etc etc all perdy for the luser desktop on linux? Give them Aqua! (with a licence? do we need a licence to run it?)
Why are you worried about OS-X on x86 anyhoo? They won't release it - Apple Hardware won't let them; it'll cut WAAY into Apple Hardware sales. Why buy an expensive G4 when you can build an el-cheapo K6-III, or Duron, or celery with an ATI Rage (same gcard as the G4s) and run OS-X for x86 on that?
I totally agree with DrHyde - get a good atlas and look at the GDP of a middle-eastern oil producing country, like Iraq or Brunai. Their GDP is artificially high because of the few oilfield owners and merchants that get $$$ per second. Most of the inhabitants of the country have little or no $flow, they're mostly Bedouins or similar.
.uk and .us, they're pretty similar. The PQLI is the Physical Quality of Life Index, and it takes into account many things, such as doctors per 100 people, % of country with electricity supply and running water. % country with inside/outside/no sanitary facilities, population birth/death rates and public transport availability.
.sigfault
Compare the PQLI index of
Have fun...
Alex
*ROFL!* Jeez man, you really cracked me up!!
Mmmm, I do like that keyboard. Reminds me of my old MacSE. Anyone know where to get that keyboard oem or retail, or one like it?
Lovely
Alex
(Or even apple ADB to PS/2 interface info, get my old apple keyb up and running again)
I just had a heart attack when I read it:
PythonLabs is moving to Digital Convergence
d'oh.
awx
Yeah, but what happens when you forget to pay your subscription to Micro$oft .clothing? Or if the system crashes?.....
awx
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MY GOD!! /. nerds in Stockport! jd, bongo, are there any others ya know of? (I'm from Marple meself...)
Ever been to K to wind down on the A6? It's an invitation only multiplayer gaming centre.
my god!
awx
D'ya think they'll gpl it? lololol......... awx
Hows about the "Hacking the TiVo" story a coupla days back?
alex
oh yeah, fp.
A coupla questions:
1. Is this available in the UK? (most probably not...) and is there a hope for the future for anything like this?
2. What about small *cheap* networks?
Have your PC transmitting at, say 108Mhz, and the one at the other end transmitting at 108.5Mhz (or whatever). Listen to each other as well and you could *easily* link up via modem or ethernet (see that homemade 10ghz microwave project for details...)
Longer distances = small repeater stations duplicating data onto a different frequency and so on...
Go figure. Lucky US hackers...
Alex
Wouldn't the MP3 player get confused? If the filesystem space is hard-coded in, imagine if the hardware finds 10Gb space instead of 32 or 64mb - what would it do? This seems like the same situation with the Sony Playstation memory cards - sure, they could supply memory cards with loads more capacity than they originally anticipated, but as the size (15 'blocks') is hardcoded into the psx, the memory cards had a little button on them so they could switch between 'pages' of blocks. If you did this, only with a 'page' size of 32 or 64mb and had a button to flip, it's doable. (Sounds bloomin' hard though.... )
alex
Sorry, but it was *totally* the other way around for me. Learning basic on an old v-tech thing when I was about 5 years old taught me the concept of variables waay before school tried to. Basic really helped me with math, giving me an immediate advantage over the rest of the kids there. Even in my GCSEs (UK exams at age 15/16) I am much more competant at algebra than most.
If you want qbasic, get version 4.5 off the net - it'll complile (DOS/Windows, sorry) binaries...
alex
Wrong! Next month's code was sometimes passed around encoded with the current code to the operators. It was cracked when a long message had to be retyped by a disgruntled operator, who made one typing error in the message. From this, the girls at Bletchley Park (The UK's code-cracking center during the war and where Alan Turing worked, and eventually designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer...) were able to work out the shifting of the wheels within Enigma.
Or something.
awx