sorry this is off topic in general, but direct question to your post. You say that the 650H locks up alot/don't work. My 650 locks up all the time, but doesn't say 'H' I'm thinking it might be labled wrong. All the '650's i have seen are black plastic ends. Also the picture on the box is black, mine is gray. Perhaps mine is a '650H' but some moron put '650' on???
My buddies black 650 works fine and automagically under redhat, mine seems to work under RH, but just seems to lockup after a random number of minutes, only way to get it working again is reboot. Then it works fine??? Any ideas or thoughts on what I can try???
I'm I the only one who noticed that one of the articles said microsoft would be publishing the source code??? Not saying open source, but publishing, meaning many more people besides coders at MS get to see the source code?? QUOTE: 'Microsoft is also publishing the system's source code. "We are trying to be transparent in all this," says Allchin.'
HAHA its the code they use to get the date!
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Keep reading eventually I get to a point. Ya so just mark everything in my thread off topic...gotta stop posting stuff after a few beers and so late at nite, my system time is a year off. Unemployed IT worker has to roll back system clock untill he can scrape together enough cash to buy his software. The problem with this java script is it checks my system clock to see what the date should be. So what about all the security freaks out there that totally shut off java? What do you see? Or what good is coding a web site to create content based on untrustable source data?
...browser cach has been cleared less than a week ago it also says at the top about the prereg ending soon. not sure what the deal is...static number not updated?
I agree with you for the most part. The thing that I really like to see is hardware that is able to run linux. Its the including of win-hardware(winmodem anyone?) that stinks. Question is how much stuff is hard to figure out, make drivers for and such, without company support. And how much is it not possible to figure out without support. I don't know enough to answer those questions...maybe someone can.
How long does something like this stay secret...serveral people must have the list, and many want it. In order to block the items on the list serveral sys admin's or similar people must have the list. Being that this is front page news on/. , it can also be said that many people would like to see the list. Hence it is only a matter of time. Correct?
Is not a pelican a bird, how friggin odd that a plane design would endup looking somewhat like a bird. Although I know alot of people argue that it would look better shaped more like a hawk, or eagle, or a penguin at least(joke laugh). Personally I don't give a crap, as long as its faster and more manuverable than the other guys.
i love those "billing padding services" The best is when every other month another one shows up on your bill...gotta love it. I want the FCC to require all these extra fees to be included in your base monthly fee...no extra lines on your bill. Because all they have to do is take the ones in the base fee and make them a seperate line w/o lowering the the base fee. that way someone calls about the increase, and its, oh thats FCC fee blah blah blah....big corps sux.
Is that a true naming system, will books of the sky actually call the star buy the name that it was givin? If so thats neat, I've hear of it before but didn't know the web site. Or is it only called that in starregistry.com's database???
When your studying engineering its something you just know. As much as I'd love to switch to the metric system, boy is it easier to use. If you use the standard system you should know that, I'd be depressed if any US college grad didn't know that. Oh well thats enought off topic though.
I wanted an intenet phone line, before I got broadband, being in a big city my ISP is a local call. So I didn't want any long distance service on the 3rd line, cuz they charge something, even if you make zero long distance calls. Well then they said they where required to charge like $3 or was it $5 a month no have no long distance carrier. A charge not to be able to do something, like the DOT charging people who don't have a car. That is insane. Corperations all suck, all they car about is making money, time to go amish.(oh wait, then i can't get my/. fix OH NO!!) At least most open source companies don't try and suck you dry.
There are those commercial that show sex or starving people, those offend the crap out of me. That and the much much louder commercials, where normal talking is like yelling in a show. I watch TV when others are asleep, I have to mute the f#$% TV when commercials come on. OK maybe the sex ones don't bother me, but some of the gross ones do, even if they warn before showing it, I'm to damd lazy to turn my head, also saying "don't look" is like really saying "LOOK AT ME"
I'll buy the OS less PC and use my same monitor and keyboard, To me it looks like the same computer(tower is under desk) I just replaced a worn out part of it(the tower) So I'll call it the same computer, so I'm not breaking the license, just reinstalling it on the same computer after a rebuild. Hell I'm a dumb consumer, monitor = computer, tower = CPU, I just bought a new CPU the computer is the same. How can that be illegal.
Mod parent up, I am one of those people. Those people who use XP off campus, but am still part of the schools bulk license. Note that this is legal and OK under the MS license. My question is how does MS know if I am allowed to be part of the college license. If I gave the CD to my friend there is no way that MS would know he is not allowed to use it under the college license, only he and I would know it was wrong. Not that I did that, but I don't see how they could tell the difference, and I'm also not sure where it talks about how warez will not work with this, if its legit at all.
We'll at $200 plus $200 more for the linux kit i'd never leave the living room. It does come w/ a 40gig drive + keyboard + mouse + ethernet...not a bad setup. ssh to server to update website/access to the net / and just power cycle for counsle gaming!!!
Sorry to respond to my own post but I've been working on the problem myself. Adware full scan before removeing kazaa 105 items, after uninstalling 89 items. Almost all are brilliant digital stuff, a few that are from random web sites, I think are just cookies. I think most of the 89 left still came aboard with kazaa.
A side note, I have noticed that IE seems to crash more when kazaa is running. Is it becuase of something sneeky that its trying to do, and doesn't do it well?
If one gets kazzalite off kazaa, that means that he/she already has kazaa. Will uninstalling kazaa(original) get rid of all the extra crap. I bet not, but what if one also runs ad-aware, will that take care of everything. Maybe someone who knows about spyware/kazaa can answer.
Ok so eventually you would have alot of computing power. BUT, the thing cost $5k and has less computing power than a $.5k emachine. They are embedded type cards which typically have less juice than full size PCs of the same mhz. Doing parrallel processing also typically results in less power than a single chip of the same mhz (4x250 is less than 1000mhz in resulting power) So these cards at 266mhz really wouldn't have much power at all for the money. Still neat type of system and I like the KVM type card in it. It looks like you could have 4 systems in the size of one PC.
I agree that X doesn't support stuff as well as 9 does. I have a mac serial printer that works fine but X doesn't support serial devices(at least printers). Makes me mad, but that is the way things go. Unfortunatly there is no incentive for companies to support hardware that is no longer made. Or software that doesn't run on the current OS version. So sorry to say thats the way it is, won't change, so deal with it.
Untill there are laws against spam legal action won't do much. I mean read some posts about how effective this really is. Here is a question, why not fight dirty with the spammers. I'm sure alot of people here know how to DoS a site. I'm asking TWO things, one is it ok to screw with these guys. second how to do it, someone want to organize an anti spam crack team. Setup to take down spamming servers.
I have to admit I have done this. I was tricked into reading some spam. (subject that was something that didn't look like spam) And it was porn or something dumb...So I ssh'd into a few boxes, work and home and a third broad band site and flood ping the site for a while. It didn't take the server down but did fill up there pipe for a while. But is doing so ethical? Isn't it like taking a gun away from a killer, or am I on Crack(TM) ?
OK so I haven't read the GPL license, but doesn't it also say that it doesn't come with a warrenty. Maybe I'm wrong, but if not you are wrong, because that would matter to people who use it. Not just those who change/redistribute it.
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In one of my programming classes an instructor had a phrase that applies to this. "Bullet proof your code" Meaning whatever the user enters the program should work right.
Problems often come up in programing for input. Normally you have an expected range of input, and if your program works at all and the input is in the expected range you get the expected output. BUT what if the use enters the ABSOLUTE maximum value, is your variable size large enough? what about the absolute min, often zero, does it still work right. Your not going to try and divide by that zero or something that will fail. What if a negative number is entered.
Those are all basic unput checking questions...but its the general idea. Bullet proof your code, or at least try to make it so.
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sorry this is off topic in general, but direct question to your post. You say that the 650H locks up alot/don't work. My 650 locks up all the time, but doesn't say 'H' I'm thinking it might be labled wrong. All the '650's i have seen are black plastic ends. Also the picture on the box is black, mine is gray. Perhaps mine is a '650H' but some moron put '650' on???
My buddies black 650 works fine and automagically under redhat, mine seems to work under RH, but just seems to lockup after a random number of minutes, only way to get it working again is reboot. Then it works fine??? Any ideas or thoughts on what I can try???
I'm I the only one who noticed that one of the articles said microsoft would be publishing the source code??? Not saying open source, but publishing, meaning many more people besides coders at MS get to see the source code?? QUOTE: 'Microsoft is also publishing the system's source code. "We are trying to be transparent in all this," says Allchin.'
Keep reading eventually I get to a point.
Ya so just mark everything in my thread off topic...gotta stop posting stuff after a few beers and so late at nite, my system time is a year off. Unemployed IT worker has to roll back system clock untill he can scrape together enough cash to buy his software.
The problem with this java script is it checks my system clock to see what the date should be. So what about all the security freaks out there that totally shut off java? What do you see? Or what good is coding a web site to create content based on untrustable source data?
I have posted a mirror of what I get from here...take a look on the 3rd line down 379 days.. My mirror of what I get @ H2K2.net
...browser cach has been cleared less than a week ago it also says at the top about the prereg ending soon. not sure what the deal is...static number not updated?
I'm I the only one who noticed that the page says 379 days untill h2k2...early registration is VERY VERY early!
I agree with you for the most part. The thing that I really like to see is hardware that is able to run linux. Its the including of win-hardware(winmodem anyone?) that stinks. Question is how much stuff is hard to figure out, make drivers for and such, without company support. And how much is it not possible to figure out without support. I don't know enough to answer those questions...maybe someone can.
How long does something like this stay secret...serveral people must have the list, and many want it. In order to block the items on the list serveral sys admin's or similar people must have the list. Being that this is front page news on /. , it can also be said that many people would like to see the list. Hence it is only a matter of time. Correct?
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Is not a pelican a bird, how friggin odd that a plane design would endup looking somewhat like a bird. Although I know alot of people argue that it would look better shaped more like a hawk, or eagle, or a penguin at least(joke laugh). Personally I don't give a crap, as long as its faster and more manuverable than the other guys.
i love those "billing padding services" The best is when every other month another one shows up on your bill...gotta love it. I want the FCC to require all these extra fees to be included in your base monthly fee...no extra lines on your bill. Because all they have to do is take the ones in the base fee and make them a seperate line w/o lowering the the base fee. that way someone calls about the increase, and its, oh thats FCC fee blah blah blah....big corps sux.
Is that a true naming system, will books of the sky actually call the star buy the name that it was givin? If so thats neat, I've hear of it before but didn't know the web site. Or is it only called that in starregistry.com's database???
When your studying engineering its something you just know. As much as I'd love to switch to the metric system, boy is it easier to use. If you use the standard system you should know that, I'd be depressed if any US college grad didn't know that. Oh well thats enought off topic though.
I'm getting married on the 26th! Oh well guess I'll have to move the wedding up a week to take the cruise as our honeymoon.
I wanted an intenet phone line, before I got broadband, being in a big city my ISP is a local call. So I didn't want any long distance service on the 3rd line, cuz they charge something, even if you make zero long distance calls. Well then they said they where required to charge like $3 or was it $5 a month no have no long distance carrier. A charge not to be able to do something, like the DOT charging people who don't have a car. That is insane. Corperations all suck, all they car about is making money, time to go amish.(oh wait, then i can't get my /. fix OH NO!!) At least most open source companies don't try and suck you dry.
There are those commercial that show sex or starving people, those offend the crap out of me. That and the much much louder commercials, where normal talking is like yelling in a show. I watch TV when others are asleep, I have to mute the f#$% TV when commercials come on. OK maybe the sex ones don't bother me, but some of the gross ones do, even if they warn before showing it, I'm to damd lazy to turn my head, also saying "don't look" is like really saying "LOOK AT ME"
I'll buy the OS less PC and use my same monitor and keyboard, To me it looks like the same computer(tower is under desk) I just replaced a worn out part of it(the tower) So I'll call it the same computer, so I'm not breaking the license, just reinstalling it on the same computer after a rebuild. Hell I'm a dumb consumer, monitor = computer, tower = CPU, I just bought a new CPU the computer is the same. How can that be illegal.
Mod parent up, I am one of those people. Those people who use XP off campus, but am still part of the schools bulk license. Note that this is legal and OK under the MS license. My question is how does MS know if I am allowed to be part of the college license. If I gave the CD to my friend there is no way that MS would know he is not allowed to use it under the college license, only he and I would know it was wrong. Not that I did that, but I don't see how they could tell the difference, and I'm also not sure where it talks about how warez will not work with this, if its legit at all.
We'll at $200 plus $200 more for the linux kit i'd never leave the living room. It does come w/ a 40gig drive + keyboard + mouse + ethernet...not a bad setup. ssh to server to update website/access to the net / and just power cycle for counsle gaming!!!
Sorry to respond to my own post but I've been working on the problem myself. Adware full scan before removeing kazaa 105 items, after uninstalling 89 items. Almost all are brilliant digital stuff, a few that are from random web sites, I think are just cookies. I think most of the 89 left still came aboard with kazaa.
A side note, I have noticed that IE seems to crash more when kazaa is running. Is it becuase of something sneeky that its trying to do, and doesn't do it well?
If one gets kazzalite off kazaa, that means that he/she already has kazaa. Will uninstalling kazaa(original) get rid of all the extra crap. I bet not, but what if one also runs ad-aware, will that take care of everything. Maybe someone who knows about spyware/kazaa can answer.
Ok so eventually you would have alot of computing power. BUT, the thing cost $5k and has less computing power than a $.5k emachine. They are embedded type cards which typically have less juice than full size PCs of the same mhz. Doing parrallel processing also typically results in less power than a single chip of the same mhz (4x250 is less than 1000mhz in resulting power) So these cards at 266mhz really wouldn't have much power at all for the money. Still neat type of system and I like the KVM type card in it. It looks like you could have 4 systems in the size of one PC.
I agree that X doesn't support stuff as well as 9 does. I have a mac serial printer that works fine but X doesn't support serial devices(at least printers). Makes me mad, but that is the way things go. Unfortunatly there is no incentive for companies to support hardware that is no longer made. Or software that doesn't run on the current OS version. So sorry to say thats the way it is, won't change, so deal with it.
Untill there are laws against spam legal action won't do much. I mean read some posts about how effective this really is. Here is a question, why not fight dirty with the spammers. I'm sure alot of people here know how to DoS a site. I'm asking TWO things, one is it ok to screw with these guys. second how to do it, someone want to organize an anti spam crack team. Setup to take down spamming servers.
I have to admit I have done this. I was tricked into reading some spam. (subject that was something that didn't look like spam) And it was porn or something dumb...So I ssh'd into a few boxes, work and home and a third broad band site and flood ping the site for a while. It didn't take the server down but did fill up there pipe for a while. But is doing so ethical? Isn't it like taking a gun away from a killer, or am I on Crack(TM) ?
OK so I haven't read the GPL license, but doesn't it also say that it doesn't come with a warrenty. Maybe I'm wrong, but if not you are wrong, because that would matter to people who use it. Not just those who change/redistribute it.
In one of my programming classes an instructor had a phrase that applies to this. "Bullet proof your code" Meaning whatever the user enters the program should work right.
Problems often come up in programing for input. Normally you have an expected range of input, and if your program works at all and the input is in the expected range you get the expected output. BUT what if the use enters the ABSOLUTE maximum value, is your variable size large enough? what about the absolute min, often zero, does it still work right. Your not going to try and divide by that zero or something that will fail. What if a negative number is entered.
Those are all basic unput checking questions...but its the general idea. Bullet proof your code, or at least try to make it so.