I'd recommend the Wallee case/wall mount for the kitchen: http://www.thewallee.com/
We've got one on a kitchen cupboard and it makes the ipad the perfect kitchen PC, once you disable the auto-off. We use it all the time.
the first phones that are NOT designed to be disposable every one or two years, unlike all (most) previous cell phones on the market before iPhone came along.
What utter bollocks. I've just replaced my Treo 650 that I bought second-hand more than four years ago. It's had one replacement battery (you're probably not familiar with that concept) and it went to a friend of mine who's still using the Treo 180 I gave him when I bought the 650. He'll get a few more years out of the 650, I'm betting.
Blackberries also seem to have a decent lifetime and they've been round a lot longer than the iphone.
Picasa imports into dated folders based on the date you import them, not the date they were taken.
The thing I like about Picasa is that it doesn't touch where your images are, or even the images themselves. I can't stand programs that insist on moving your shit around (iPhoto). I've never tried importing, I can copy images off a card quicker than it can.
Parent has it only partially correct, but here's your citation: http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx
Word 6.0 for Mac was built from the same codebase as the Windows product, looked quite a lot like a Windows product, and used to occasionally throw Windows-style errors. The number of floppy disks required to install it on a Mac was equal to the number of disks for the Windows version plus 7 (?), which was the same number of floppies that Win 3.11 took. Hence why you'll see people claim it was emulated.
ExpertsExchange pages do have all the content on them, and it's not "cloaked" in the traditional sense.
Yep, it is. Try it. Find one of their results through Google and you can scroll down to see the answers. Reload the same page without the Google referrer and bing! Answers gone.
That said, the only feature removed that comes to mind immediately is the File Types association dialog box from the Folder Options control panel / dialog.
Thanks for confirming what I'd thought; I've only been running Vista a couple of weeks and I couldn't find the damn thing anywhere.
I agree that too much is made of CD rot, but it definitely does exist. I have two music CDs - from a total collection of roughly 5 or 600 - that have been kept in their cases for their entire lives and are both now unplayable - one has a pinprick-sized "burn hole" right through the foil layer and one has a brown mark that looks like a coffee stain covering pretty much the entire rim of the disk. Both disks were fine when I bought them.
Ubuntu 7.10 boots to the LiveCD on my main (Dell) laptop, with the attached LCD running at 1920x1200. Great! Install to a partition, reboot, the attached screen no longer runs at anything greater than 1600-ish, even after I poke around in xorg.conf. No idea why.
I tried it on a Compaq laptop (which runs FreeBSD perfectly, including my wifi card). The wifi doesn't work at all, and the installer dies silently (or sometimes with a Python error) right at the end of the install, also freezing the live X environment as soon as you move the mouse. Just to be sure, I tried it with Kubuntu and Xubuntu as well, with the same results.
For now I've gone with a straight Debian install and that's working great. But it's definitely put me off playing with Ubuntu again for a while.
"Hitler got less coverage when he invaded Poland. Exactly what new meditation sequence Steve Jobs learned recently that could create such a flurry of fawning interest is beyond me." June 2007 I agree that in general Dvorak talks a bunch of arse, but he's dead on with this one. The iPhone got saturation media coverage in countries where you couldn't even (and, I think, still can't) buy one, much less actually connect one to anything -- see for example Sydney Morning Herald and NZ Herald. Why?
To answer my own question, someone replied and said that Adobe Reader supports opening documents at the page you were last viewing ("Restore last view settings when reopening documents") but even better, I found a new menu option in the latest version that was buggering up the O'Reilly scripts that used to work. In the JavaScript panel, check "Enable menu items JavaScript execution privileges" and then bookmarks work again. Woohoo.
Excellent. Now can we have a reader that lets me save a bookmark so I can come back to the same place later? I can't believe that nobody else wants to do that?
I did have some Javascript from an O'Reilly book that worked in an earlier version of Adobe Reader but it's broken in the latest version. Foxit Reader 2.2 doesn't seem to have this feature. Are there any others?
I even remember one cracking contest where the owner of the machine gave out the root password to the target machine. (quick google: nope) The one I remember was a Mac running LinuxPPC. I was running it too, at the time, so it was an interesting competition.
Also, does anyone else share the feeling that the extra commentaries and features on DVDs are pretty much completely worthless?
Yep, except for the first Black Books DVD, where it sounds a lot like the cast are gradually getting very pissed as they discuss what's going on. It's hilarious.
And if you do that then it's even easier to recover the original, just open it up in GIMP and remove the layer you drew the black boxes on. "Flattening" an image means getting rid of all the separate layers and making it one single composite image, which is what you'd want if you were trying to hide something.
If you install and run it on a machine that already has Thunderbird installed, it *WILL* mess up your existing Thunderbird profile.
Interesting, in what way? I installed and ran Eudora on Windows XP, noticed it was using my existing T'bird profile, decided to go back to T'bird, and other than the columns in the Inbox being rearranged I'm not seeing anything different. Oh and the New Mail sound is from Ren & Stimpy now.
Who gives a fuck anyway? Do those things play Oggs yet?
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Other than a single sentence right at the bottom of TFA, yours is the first post that has actually hinted at what the hell the "Storm Worm" might be. Thanks! And no thanks to the writers of the original article or the/. submitter.
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I'd recommend the Wallee case/wall mount for the kitchen: http://www.thewallee.com/ We've got one on a kitchen cupboard and it makes the ipad the perfect kitchen PC, once you disable the auto-off. We use it all the time.
Heh, that'll teach me for reading Slashdot on a new laptop without logging in. The EzeScan comment was mine.
the first phones that are NOT designed to be disposable every one or two years, unlike all (most) previous cell phones on the market before iPhone came along.
What utter bollocks. I've just replaced my Treo 650 that I bought second-hand more than four years ago. It's had one replacement battery (you're probably not familiar with that concept) and it went to a friend of mine who's still using the Treo 180 I gave him when I bought the 650. He'll get a few more years out of the 650, I'm betting.
Blackberries also seem to have a decent lifetime and they've been round a lot longer than the iphone.
Picasa imports into dated folders based on the date you import them, not the date they were taken.
The thing I like about Picasa is that it doesn't touch where your images are, or even the images themselves. I can't stand programs that insist on moving your shit around (iPhoto). I've never tried importing, I can copy images off a card quicker than it can.
Yes, I just love how windows has umpteen APIs that all overlap...
Surely you're taking the piss. ALSA, various versions of OSS, PulseAudio enough for you?
Parent has it only partially correct, but here's your citation: http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx Word 6.0 for Mac was built from the same codebase as the Windows product, looked quite a lot like a Windows product, and used to occasionally throw Windows-style errors. The number of floppy disks required to install it on a Mac was equal to the number of disks for the Windows version plus 7 (?), which was the same number of floppies that Win 3.11 took. Hence why you'll see people claim it was emulated.
>UID: 4-digits >Physical prowess: Olympic level
Life just isn't fair!
It's OK, at least you can spell!
Oh come on, somebody mod this up!
ExpertsExchange pages do have all the content on them, and it's not "cloaked" in the traditional sense.
Yep, it is. Try it. Find one of their results through Google and you can scroll down to see the answers. Reload the same page without the Google referrer and bing! Answers gone.
Since the second World War, the US hasn't intentionally killed civilians.
The 3630 secret bombing raids over Cambodia, maybe? You can't carpet bomb a countryside and claim you're not intentionally killing people.
Close, wrong country though. Trademe is great but it's a New Zealand site.
That said, the only feature removed that comes to mind immediately is the File Types association dialog box from the Folder Options control panel / dialog.
Thanks for confirming what I'd thought; I've only been running Vista a couple of weeks and I couldn't find the damn thing anywhere.
I agree that too much is made of CD rot, but it definitely does exist. I have two music CDs - from a total collection of roughly 5 or 600 - that have been kept in their cases for their entire lives and are both now unplayable - one has a pinprick-sized "burn hole" right through the foil layer and one has a brown mark that looks like a coffee stain covering pretty much the entire rim of the disk. Both disks were fine when I bought them.
Ubuntu 7.10 boots to the LiveCD on my main (Dell) laptop, with the attached LCD running at 1920x1200. Great! Install to a partition, reboot, the attached screen no longer runs at anything greater than 1600-ish, even after I poke around in xorg.conf. No idea why.
I tried it on a Compaq laptop (which runs FreeBSD perfectly, including my wifi card). The wifi doesn't work at all, and the installer dies silently (or sometimes with a Python error) right at the end of the install, also freezing the live X environment as soon as you move the mouse. Just to be sure, I tried it with Kubuntu and Xubuntu as well, with the same results.
For now I've gone with a straight Debian install and that's working great. But it's definitely put me off playing with Ubuntu again for a while.
To answer my own question, someone replied and said that Adobe Reader supports opening documents at the page you were last viewing ("Restore last view settings when reopening documents") but even better, I found a new menu option in the latest version that was buggering up the O'Reilly scripts that used to work. In the JavaScript panel, check "Enable menu items JavaScript execution privileges" and then bookmarks work again. Woohoo.
Excellent. Now can we have a reader that lets me save a bookmark so I can come back to the same place later? I can't believe that nobody else wants to do that?
I did have some Javascript from an O'Reilly book that worked in an earlier version of Adobe Reader but it's broken in the latest version. Foxit Reader 2.2 doesn't seem to have this feature. Are there any others?
I agree the site design is unusual, but the big white link right in the middle of the page saying ENTER was a giveaway for me.
Yep, except for the first Black Books DVD, where it sounds a lot like the cast are gradually getting very pissed as they discuss what's going on. It's hilarious.
And if you do that then it's even easier to recover the original, just open it up in GIMP and remove the layer you drew the black boxes on. "Flattening" an image means getting rid of all the separate layers and making it one single composite image, which is what you'd want if you were trying to hide something.
Interesting... and did you in fact gain any extra inches?
Interesting, in what way? I installed and ran Eudora on Windows XP, noticed it was using my existing T'bird profile, decided to go back to T'bird, and other than the columns in the Inbox being rearranged I'm not seeing anything different. Oh and the New Mail sound is from Ren & Stimpy now.
Who gives a fuck anyway? Do those things play Oggs yet?
Other than a single sentence right at the bottom of TFA, yours is the first post that has actually hinted at what the hell the "Storm Worm" might be. Thanks! And no thanks to the writers of the original article or the /. submitter.