Dell thinks the software included with the printers sets them apart from the competition, said Tim Peter, vice president and general manager of Dell's imaging and printing group. Users receive prompts to replace cartridges when the ink level falls below a certain mark and a link to Dell's Web site where replacement black and color cartridges can be ordered appears on the user's screen.
Great. Lets just add some more junk to load up in Windows startup. If you buy a Dell with 256 RAM, the average home user (like my mom) will have a total of 2 megs left after all the crap in these name brand PC's load up. This just copies Lexmark anyway. Last Lexmark printer I installed for someone had about 5 new command lines for programs added to start-up, with 4 of them not even needed to operate the printer.
Great. So after the the other 42 programs in your start up load up, you get this addi
I didn't read the technical specs on their set up. But I imagine it's one of the largest peer-to-peer file sharing networks in the world. Imagine 5000 people on a LAN with their hard-drives just sharing away.
Ooops. Now Ive done it. First Napster....now our Lan-parties.
The organizers of this event have to be simply amazing.
We are having our 12th lan party this weekend and it's extremely difficult to organize 20-40 people on a network in one weekend, more or less hundreds. There are so many issues from bad network cards, proper game patches, prizes, sponsors, release forms for minors, - to just keeping with the tournament agenda. We generally charge $10-$15 and feed everyone lunch and dinner(the party lasts from 10 am till midnight).
There have been many events where we didn't make what we spent just for renting the location. But it comes down to fun, and yes, the fee is a small price to pay for gathering a group of geeks in a cramped room for 15 hours for a massive frag fest!
I run a Cisco 675e for my DSL and the sad part about this, for every one of these Alcatel's that have a vulneriblity, there are probably 2 cisco's out there without an executive or enable password set. Maybe Alcatel is just keeping up with with the abilities of 90% of our DSL users, which is slim to none.
PRICELESS" (Reg. No. 2,370,508); "THERE ARE SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY, FOR EVERYTHING ELSE THERE'S MASTERCARD" (Reg. No. 2,259,941); and THERE ARE SOME THINGS MONEY CAN'T BUY. FOR EVERYTHING ELSE THERE'S MASTERCARD." (Reg. No. 2,297,299)
Id just throw a semi-colon in there and call it a day.
There are some things money can't buy; for everything else there's Mastercard
Any ISP offering DSL service is almost certainly regulated already because most of the DSL providers just move into switch thats already there. Where I live, Qwest owns all the switches, but they have the fun of sharing them with other companies such as DTG or Mcleod because they are considered a monopoly if they do not. When you become that intertwined with a large multi-national phone company, Im sure there are many federal regulations you must live by. Anyone who knows if Im correct, please post.
As for deregulation, those 'silly Californians' wouldn't be in near the crunch they are had there been a true deregulation of the power utilities.
Great, thats all we need is more of the CA government's great regulation. Perhaps they could force companies to charge a fixed rate to consumers for internet access as well as electricity, yet force them to pay the market price for their resources. It all makes sense if you live there I guess.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I wonder if they will let us Total Annihilation freaks test pilot these bad boys.
I better go practice up.
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Let's ask the audience. Who wants to be a millionaire electronic voting seems fairly straightforward. Let's use their system!
Anyway, whatever happenned to the simplest solution is the best one?
At my voting precinct it was a bubble ballot and a #2 pencil. Anyone who is unable to comprehend the simplicity of that needs serious help. And of course they are tallied by an electronic scanner that counts them (gasp) like a computer.
They have already declared Cal for Gore, yet Bush leads by over 30,000 votes with only 16% precincts reported???????????????? Clearly the networks are confused.
In fact, the most important unknown factor is damage administered to the brain. Cryonics has been touted for many years (I remember when I was much younger, MTV had a big news episode on the fact that Michael Jackson has already payed a company to freeze him when he dies).
Though we have lots of people on ICE right now, no-one has ever been brought back. It's generally agreed that the freezing process does damage to brain, but we have no human mice to test the extent of it. It remains to be seen what affects the cyronics (especially a period of time longer than a few minuts) will have on motor functions, short term memory, and long term memory.
The article doesn't really mention any of these things. I think the technology is great and has a huge lifesaving potential, but we are no where near the point of suspended animation being a main stream burial practice. Perhaps we have taken the point of the article out of context. It's a huge leap for cyronics, but an even greater discovery for the revival of people caught in such incidents as avalanches, cold weather exposure, or being trapped in near freezing water.
Wouldn't the density and composite make-up of an meteor make as much (or more) of a difference in atmospheric break-up?
Considering how vast the universe is, we cannot possibly know all the elements and compounds that come together billions of miles from us to form who knows what.
After saying that, Ill stand at ground zero and await that 40 ton gold meteor to hit me before Ill stand where the 20 ton diamond is dropping. Bad analogy I know...but statistically speaking, a pile of lunar rock isnt the only thing floating around out there.
Very nice. Technically, Clinton was responsible for the Philly event and the WTO protests (and any other rabid police beating in the last 8 years). Why? Because he put '100,000' new offiers out there. Remember his campaign? That was a big promise he made...and about the only one he kept.
Right. There is no hunger or homeless in Europe.
I lived in England for almost a year. Those skinny people dressed in rags sitting on cardboard boxes in the subway stations in downtown London are actually quite happy. Thats why they asked for money all the time. They were really happy.
Well, he definately wouldn't want to send spam emails advertising that he would sue spammers.
Or would he? That would be an interesting marketing technique.
I set up POS's for check and credit card systems locally using SCO Openserver. We have now have evolved to a more economic Linux Redhat. Most of the new instore systems at retail stores, grocery stores and restaraunts around here use a Win NT platform, so we rarely get to interface with them, but our sfw does allow for it (If we had the source for their systems). The biggest problem you will face isn't finding an independant linux/unix pos system, but finding one that will interface with your credit card side, check side, and the normal cash/inventory/upc scanner system. The register itself only solves 1/3 of your problem if all it does is cash transactions. As far as linux being ideal for a central POS, YES IT IS!. We have had no problems (aside from TERM settings, which can be picky) with the networks. I recently installed a system at a local grocery store for credit/check transactions. 16 lanes using verifone t340's. The 340's are networked using basic phone wire to a verifone 1200, which serves as a router. A serial cable from the 1200 to the Unix/Linux PC finishes off the hardware side. As far as the sfw goes, it's a basic database that updates nightly to a host system in my office. I currently have 20 of these systems up and running. If you want some more info on it, feel free to email me. Ill be more than happy to help you out.
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Of course I did. Not really the point of my post though.
Dell thinks the software included with the printers sets them apart from the competition, said Tim Peter, vice president and general manager of Dell's imaging and printing group. Users receive prompts to replace cartridges when the ink level falls below a certain mark and a link to Dell's Web site where replacement black and color cartridges can be ordered appears on the user's screen.
Great. Lets just add some more junk to load up in Windows startup. If you buy a Dell with 256 RAM, the average home user (like my mom) will have a total of 2 megs left after all the crap in these name brand PC's load up. This just copies Lexmark anyway. Last Lexmark printer I installed for someone had about 5 new command lines for programs added to start-up, with 4 of them not even needed to operate the printer. Great. So after the the other 42 programs in your start up load up, you get this addi
I didn't read the technical specs on their set up. But I imagine it's one of the largest peer-to-peer file sharing networks in the world. Imagine 5000 people on a LAN with their hard-drives just sharing away.
Ooops. Now Ive done it. First Napster....now our Lan-parties.
The organizers of this event have to be simply amazing.
We are having our 12th lan party this weekend and it's extremely difficult to organize 20-40 people on a network in one weekend, more or less hundreds. There are so many issues from bad network cards, proper game patches, prizes, sponsors, release forms for minors, - to just keeping with the tournament agenda. We generally charge $10-$15 and feed everyone lunch and dinner(the party lasts from 10 am till midnight).
There have been many events where we didn't make what we spent just for renting the location. But it comes down to fun, and yes, the fee is a small price to pay for gathering a group of geeks in a cramped room for 15 hours for a massive frag fest!
I run a Cisco 675e for my DSL and the sad part about this, for every one of these Alcatel's that have a vulneriblity, there are probably 2 cisco's out there without an executive or enable password set. Maybe Alcatel is just keeping up with with the abilities of 90% of our DSL users, which is slim to none.
Id just throw a semi-colon in there and call it a day.
There are some things money can't buy; for everything else there's Mastercard
Any ISP offering DSL service is almost certainly regulated already because most of the DSL providers just move into switch thats already there. Where I live, Qwest owns all the switches, but they have the fun of sharing them with other companies such as DTG or Mcleod because they are considered a monopoly if they do not. When you become that intertwined with a large multi-national phone company, Im sure there are many federal regulations you must live by. Anyone who knows if Im correct, please post.
As for deregulation, those 'silly Californians' wouldn't be in near the crunch they are had there been a true deregulation of the power utilities.
Great, thats all we need is more of the CA government's great regulation. Perhaps they could force companies to charge a fixed rate to consumers for internet access as well as electricity, yet force them to pay the market price for their resources. It all makes sense if you live there I guess.
How do I make my winmodem work on Linux? There definately needs to be a hardware 'do's and do nots' section.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I wonder if they will let us Total Annihilation freaks test pilot these bad boys.
I better go practice up.
Let's ask the audience. Who wants to be a millionaire electronic voting seems fairly straightforward. Let's use their system!
Anyway, whatever happenned to the simplest solution is the best one? At my voting precinct it was a bubble ballot and a #2 pencil. Anyone who is unable to comprehend the simplicity of that needs serious help. And of course they are tallied by an electronic scanner that counts them (gasp) like a computer.
They have already declared Cal for Gore, yet Bush leads by over 30,000 votes with only 16% precincts reported???????????????? Clearly the networks are confused.
I wonder if St. Bernards will start carrying EDTA instead of rum in their little barrels?
In fact, the most important unknown factor is damage administered to the brain. Cryonics has been touted for many years (I remember when I was much younger, MTV had a big news episode on the fact that Michael Jackson has already payed a company to freeze him when he dies). Though we have lots of people on ICE right now, no-one has ever been brought back. It's generally agreed that the freezing process does damage to brain, but we have no human mice to test the extent of it. It remains to be seen what affects the cyronics (especially a period of time longer than a few minuts) will have on motor functions, short term memory, and long term memory. The article doesn't really mention any of these things. I think the technology is great and has a huge lifesaving potential, but we are no where near the point of suspended animation being a main stream burial practice. Perhaps we have taken the point of the article out of context. It's a huge leap for cyronics, but an even greater discovery for the revival of people caught in such incidents as avalanches, cold weather exposure, or being trapped in near freezing water.
Wouldn't the density and composite make-up of an meteor make as much (or more) of a difference in atmospheric break-up?
Considering how vast the universe is, we cannot possibly know all the elements and compounds that come together billions of miles from us to form who knows what.
After saying that, Ill stand at ground zero and await that 40 ton gold meteor to hit me before Ill stand where the 20 ton diamond is dropping. Bad analogy I know...but statistically speaking, a pile of lunar rock isnt the only thing floating around out there.
Thats sad. I always wanted a reunion of the main cast members. Obi was always my fav too.
Very nice. Technically, Clinton was responsible for the Philly event and the WTO protests (and any other rabid police beating in the last 8 years). Why? Because he put '100,000' new offiers out there. Remember his campaign? That was a big promise he made...and about the only one he kept.
Right. There is no hunger or homeless in Europe. I lived in England for almost a year. Those skinny people dressed in rags sitting on cardboard boxes in the subway stations in downtown London are actually quite happy. Thats why they asked for money all the time. They were really happy.
Well, he definately wouldn't want to send spam emails advertising that he would sue spammers. Or would he? That would be an interesting marketing technique.
I set up POS's for check and credit card systems locally using SCO Openserver. We have now have evolved to a more economic Linux Redhat. Most of the new instore systems at retail stores, grocery stores and restaraunts around here use a Win NT platform, so we rarely get to interface with them, but our sfw does allow for it (If we had the source for their systems). The biggest problem you will face isn't finding an independant linux/unix pos system, but finding one that will interface with your credit card side, check side, and the normal cash/inventory/upc scanner system. The register itself only solves 1/3 of your problem if all it does is cash transactions. As far as linux being ideal for a central POS, YES IT IS!. We have had no problems (aside from TERM settings, which can be picky) with the networks. I recently installed a system at a local grocery store for credit/check transactions. 16 lanes using verifone t340's. The 340's are networked using basic phone wire to a verifone 1200, which serves as a router. A serial cable from the 1200 to the Unix/Linux PC finishes off the hardware side. As far as the sfw goes, it's a basic database that updates nightly to a host system in my office. I currently have 20 of these systems up and running. If you want some more info on it, feel free to email me. Ill be more than happy to help you out.