I remember I got the C-Kermit source code from college back in 1988. I had to do crazy things to upload the code to a Dual S100 Unix computer at work. I had dial into work via modem and upload each source file using "cat filename" on the remote system and doing ASCII uploads from home. It took me several days but the code compiled and worked so I had Kermit at work now.
You still write checks for payments? I set up payments on my bank account and so I just login to ATT's website or use the ATT application on my iPhone to see how much I owe.
I had to get a new debit card a few years ago as someone got a hold of the card number and PIN code. I suspect I used a tampered ATM machine at a super market one day and I was losing $300.00 a day for 4 days until I logged in and saw those fraudulent transactions. I immediately called B of A and they refunded the money after a couple of days. They started an investigation and then sent me a letter about a month later saying that I didn't have to return any of the I was refunded. Not sure how they researched it but the ATM transaction were made late at night or early in the morning while I was asleep.
I bought an HP 4P laser printer which had 600DPI and it was over $900.00 in 1994. I still have it today and it still works. I also bought an HP Laserjet 1300 but it had problems after 4 years of light use. Now I have a Xerox Phaser 3250DN printer so I can print from any machine on my local network. I'm hoping it lasts longer than the HP 1300.
I'm logging a little over 34 miles a day when I bike to work round trip and have my bike equipped with a rack so I can carry waterproof Ortlieb panniers. I have a head and tail light and wear a bright safety green jacket so I'm visible on the road even in low light situations. I carry some extra bike clothes in case it rains in one pannier, and have my street closes in the other pannier. Since I live up in the Pacific Northwest we can get lots of rain and so no bike is complete IMHO without proper fenders being installed. I keep a towel and toiletry kit at work and have showers available in the building I work in. I also have a spare set of shoes at work so I don't need to carry any shoes with me when I bike except my bike shoes which I wear. I know of another colleague in my building that keeps a spare suit case of clothes under his desk so they don't even need panniers and can get by with a backpack although you eventually need to take the suitcase them to do laundry.
We covered this is High School Civics when I lived in California. Just because you see a guy outside in your yard doesn't give you the right to blow the guy away with a gun. If you did you'd better be sure you drag the body into your home. That was years ago before all of this fancy forensics stuff. Nowadays you probably couldn't hide the fact that you killed someone outside and dragged the body inside.
Why can't I just put a Verizon SIM card in my Nokia 3200?
Verizon uses a CDMA network which does not use a SIM card or at least it did not when I was a Verizon customer several years ago.
Some of my neighbors use WEP or no encryption at all. In scanning all WIFI networks in range of my laptop from my home, my WIFI network is the only one using WPA-PSK. I'm in the burbs but I've noticed more networks using WPA in urban areas but it's not even close to 100% yet.
I was on a United Boeing 777 from Chicago to Seattle and visibility was so bad in Seattle that our flight wouldn't have been able to land except that the 777 has an autoland capability. It was a gentle landing but it was weird since the fog was so thick I could see anything out of the window and could only tell we landed when I felt the landing gear touchdown on the runway.
I really liked CBASIC when I was working with CP/M-80 and in fact it was the only high level language I had on CP/M. I did most of my hacking on CP/M using assembly language. I did manage to find a CP/M assembly language book which gave an introduction to 8080 programming and took me through the CP/M basics of setting up the CPU registers and making BDOS calls. By the end of the book I had coded a working program. My system actually had a Z80 CPU in it and later on I purchased a Z80 assembler to use instead of the 8080 one supplied with CP/M.
> And to be true to the facts, the US has never been invaded by land, air or sea,..
You might want to take a history class or read up on some facts before posting. The U.S. was invaded by the British who burned Washingon DC during the War of 1812.
While, I do agree that Norman is on crack... the on/off button on the rear view mirror has been around for a while (my "new" car, that I bought used this year, has one). The mirror has an optical sensor and dims the view when someone is tailgating with their huge SUV lights beaming straight into your car.
The automatic rear view mirror has been around for many years. I had a 1989 Ford Thunderbird with an automatic rear view mirror. It had a switch to toggle between (off/manual) or auto. It also had a dial on it to adjust the light sensor's sensitivity. I was surprised to see some newer vehicles including an "auto" mirror since most cars never had them and I thought it was just a fade that never caught on when I had my T-Bird. When I sold my T-Bird and got a Subaru Legacy I was back to a manual rear view mirror and quite frankly I don't miss the auto rear view mirror even if it was a cool gadget to have in a car.
My wife went through this some time ago with her first GSM phone from AT&T Wireless. I opted for the cheapest phone which was a tiny phone from Seimens and it didn't work worth a hoot. She'd be in a hotel at a conference and everyone one could make calls on their cell phones except for her. She won't say what happened exactly but somehow the phone ended up getting dropped into a toilet and so it no longer worked. We headed over to an AT&T retail store and replaced her phone with one from Nokia and it made a huge difference. I no longer had to listen to my wife griping about her GSM phone. She kept the phone for several years and eventually upgraded to a Cingular plan with rollover minutes and got a quad-band Motorola GSM clam shell phone. I will never skimp and get the cheapest phone a plan offers when choosing a cellular phone plan after my past experience with my wife's phone.
I stopped using the foam and gel type shaving cream a few years ago and have been using Neutrogena Men Skin Clearing Shave Cream. It's a cream but doesn't foam up so it's just a thin layer of cream. For years I couldn't shave more than every other day as my skin was irritated a flaked quite badly if I shaved everyday. Since I switched creams I find I can now shave everyday without irritation. I also use non-alcohol after shave balm so there's no sting since there's no alcohol in it.
I have a Casio G-Shock Wave Ceptor model 2688 that does this and it has a recharable battery in it for secondary power. I don't know how long the battery is supposed to last but I'm guessing over time it will degrade and will eventually need to be replaced at some point. Still I really like the watch and when I travel I only change the timezone and never adjust the time. The limitation is that it attempts to receive time signals from NIST's atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado and I find though if I'm deep in large building like a hotel or traveling outside the US that the watch fails to receive a WWVB signal. The watch is more than accurate enough for me and so not receiving a WWVB signal for a few weeks isn't really a problem.
If you don't like the job your consultants are doing give them the boot. Here in the U.S. it's quite easy to get rid of contract workers. Heck I've worked for a few companies that liked contractors since they don't whine when they're terminated since it goes with the job. I myself have worked contracts before and as a contractor I expect to be at a company for a certain amount of time and then the job is over. Sometimes I've been told ahead of time when my contract is ending and sometimes not but again it goes with the job.
This was the same problem I had with the exact same Dell model of laptop. Since my laptop was a company issued one I just when through out support person in the office and the mobo was replaced under warranty.
I don't get those kind of problems when installing Windows XP. It takes 30 minutes, 1 install of SP2, a couple of drivers installs and a reboot and I'm back to normal.
Hmm...Well I had hard drive die in a WinXP Pro system and it took 3 hours to get WinXP installed and running. The machine isn't hot rod but it's a 1+GHZ Athlon system and I had the original CD included with the system that is WinXP Pro 2002.
1) It takes nearly an hour to load XP Pro from the CD.
2) Reboot go to online updates and install 20 patches.
3) Reboot
4) Go back to online updates and download and install SP2 which takes ~45 minutes
5) Reboot
6) Spent up to another hour downloading and installing all of the patches released since SP2 which is ~65 patches
This was the same issue I faced with a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop purchase last year. There was an option for either Intel or ATI for graphics and I went with the Intel 915GM since I knew I could get X11 running with that chip. I had no idea whether the ATI card would actually work with Linux. I installed SuSE Linux on the thing and haven't looked back.
When I deploying critical servers I almost always had them setup with hardware RAID-5. In some cases with some IBM Blades I only had space for two disks in the array and settled on hardware RAID-1. The reason I always went with a hardware RAID solution was so I could hotswap a failed drive and not have any downtime with our systems. Sure it would be slow with a drive out in the RAID-5 array but so what since the system stayed up. Hardware RAID wasn't a subsitute for regular backups though and we had nightly tape backups going for those systems that needed it with the tapes be stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes.
Hmm...Isn't this kind of similar to what the Ford Motor Company did about the exploding fuel tank problem with their Pinto? It was a known issue that the fuel tank could rupture if the Pinto was rear ended. The defect was a known issue but Ford's financial analysis at the time concluded it wasn't worth it to fix the problem and it would be cheaper to pay damage claims when people died as a result of this defect.
If it's too cold I'd be worried about whatever lubricants the car might have might freeze up solid in extreme cold. That's certainly an issue in very cold climates where gear lube can freeze solid. There are synthetic lubricants which can stay fluid at colder temperatures compared to conventional lubricants but they too will freeze if it's cold enough.
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I remember I got the C-Kermit source code from college back in 1988. I had to do crazy things to upload the code to a Dual S100 Unix computer at work. I had dial into work via modem and upload each source file using "cat filename" on the remote system and doing ASCII uploads from home. It took me several days but the code compiled and worked so I had Kermit at work now.
You still write checks for payments? I set up payments on my bank account and so I just login to ATT's website or use the ATT application on my iPhone to see how much I owe.
I had to get a new debit card a few years ago as someone got a hold of the card number and PIN code. I suspect I used a tampered ATM machine at a super market one day and I was losing $300.00 a day for 4 days until I logged in and saw those fraudulent transactions. I immediately called B of A and they refunded the money after a couple of days. They started an investigation and then sent me a letter about a month later saying that I didn't have to return any of the I was refunded. Not sure how they researched it but the ATM transaction were made late at night or early in the morning while I was asleep.
I bought an HP 4P laser printer which had 600DPI and it was over $900.00 in 1994. I still have it today and it still works. I also bought an HP Laserjet 1300 but it had problems after 4 years of light use. Now I have a Xerox Phaser 3250DN printer so I can print from any machine on my local network. I'm hoping it lasts longer than the HP 1300.
I'm logging a little over 34 miles a day when I bike to work round trip and have my bike equipped with a rack so I can carry waterproof Ortlieb panniers. I have a head and tail light and wear a bright safety green jacket so I'm visible on the road even in low light situations. I carry some extra bike clothes in case it rains in one pannier, and have my street closes in the other pannier. Since I live up in the Pacific Northwest we can get lots of rain and so no bike is complete IMHO without proper fenders being installed. I keep a towel and toiletry kit at work and have showers available in the building I work in. I also have a spare set of shoes at work so I don't need to carry any shoes with me when I bike except my bike shoes which I wear. I know of another colleague in my building that keeps a spare suit case of clothes under his desk so they don't even need panniers and can get by with a backpack although you eventually need to take the suitcase them to do laundry.
We covered this is High School Civics when I lived in California. Just because you see a guy outside in your yard doesn't give you the right to blow the guy away with a gun. If you did you'd better be sure you drag the body into your home. That was years ago before all of this fancy forensics stuff. Nowadays you probably couldn't hide the fact that you killed someone outside and dragged the body inside.
Verizon uses a CDMA network which does not use a SIM card or at least it did not when I was a Verizon customer several years ago.
The Steve Ballmer version of this chair will automatically throw itself across the room. :)
I for one predict an increased demand for noise reduction headphones so you don't have to listen to the idiot next to you on their phone.
Some of my neighbors use WEP or no encryption at all. In scanning all WIFI networks in range of my laptop from my home, my WIFI network is the only one using WPA-PSK. I'm in the burbs but I've noticed more networks using WPA in urban areas but it's not even close to 100% yet.
I was on a United Boeing 777 from Chicago to Seattle and visibility was so bad in Seattle that our flight wouldn't have been able to land except that the 777 has an autoland capability. It was a gentle landing but it was weird since the fog was so thick I could see anything out of the window and could only tell we landed when I felt the landing gear touchdown on the runway.
I really liked CBASIC when I was working with CP/M-80 and in fact it was the only high level language I had on CP/M. I did most of my hacking on CP/M using assembly language. I did manage to find a CP/M assembly language book which gave an introduction to 8080 programming and took me through the CP/M basics of setting up the CPU registers and making BDOS calls. By the end of the book I had coded a working program. My system actually had a Z80 CPU in it and later on I purchased a Z80 assembler to use instead of the 8080 one supplied with CP/M.
> And to be true to the facts, the US has never been invaded by land, air or sea,..
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You might want to take a history class or read up on some facts before posting. The U.S. was invaded by the British who burned Washingon DC during the War of 1812.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washingto
My wife went through this some time ago with her first GSM phone from AT&T Wireless. I opted for the cheapest phone which was a tiny phone from Seimens and it didn't work worth a hoot. She'd be in a hotel at a conference and everyone one could make calls on their cell phones except for her. She won't say what happened exactly but somehow the phone ended up getting dropped into a toilet and so it no longer worked. We headed over to an AT&T retail store and replaced her phone with one from Nokia and it made a huge difference. I no longer had to listen to my wife griping about her GSM phone. She kept the phone for several years and eventually upgraded to a Cingular plan with rollover minutes and got a quad-band Motorola GSM clam shell phone. I will never skimp and get the cheapest phone a plan offers when choosing a cellular phone plan after my past experience with my wife's phone.
I stopped using the foam and gel type shaving cream a few years ago and have been using Neutrogena Men Skin Clearing Shave Cream. It's a cream but doesn't foam up so it's just a thin layer of cream. For years I couldn't shave more than every other day as my skin was irritated a flaked quite badly if I shaved everyday. Since I switched creams I find I can now shave everyday without irritation. I also use non-alcohol after shave balm so there's no sting since there's no alcohol in it.
I have a Casio G-Shock Wave Ceptor model 2688 that does this and it has a recharable battery in it for secondary power. I don't know how long the battery is supposed to last but I'm guessing over time it will degrade and will eventually need to be replaced at some point. Still I really like the watch and when I travel I only change the timezone and never adjust the time. The limitation is that it attempts to receive time signals from NIST's atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado and I find though if I'm deep in large building like a hotel or traveling outside the US that the watch fails to receive a WWVB signal. The watch is more than accurate enough for me and so not receiving a WWVB signal for a few weeks isn't really a problem.
If you don't like the job your consultants are doing give them the boot. Here in the U.S. it's quite easy to get rid of contract workers. Heck I've worked for a few companies that liked contractors since they don't whine when they're terminated since it goes with the job. I myself have worked contracts before and as a contractor I expect to be at a company for a certain amount of time and then the job is over. Sometimes I've been told ahead of time when my contract is ending and sometimes not but again it goes with the job.
This was the same problem I had with the exact same Dell model of laptop. Since my laptop was a company issued one I just when through out support person in the office and the mobo was replaced under warranty.
1) It takes nearly an hour to load XP Pro from the CD.
2) Reboot go to online updates and install 20 patches.
3) Reboot
4) Go back to online updates and download and install SP2 which takes ~45 minutes
5) Reboot
6) Spent up to another hour downloading and installing all of the patches released since SP2 which is ~65 patches
7) Reboot
8) 3 hours have now passed.
This was the same issue I faced with a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop purchase last year. There was an option for either Intel or ATI for graphics and I went with the Intel 915GM since I knew I could get X11 running with that chip. I had no idea whether the ATI card would actually work with Linux. I installed SuSE Linux on the thing and haven't looked back.
When I deploying critical servers I almost always had them setup with hardware RAID-5. In some cases with some IBM Blades I only had space for two disks in the array and settled on hardware RAID-1. The reason I always went with a hardware RAID solution was so I could hotswap a failed drive and not have any downtime with our systems. Sure it would be slow with a drive out in the RAID-5 array but so what since the system stayed up. Hardware RAID wasn't a subsitute for regular backups though and we had nightly tape backups going for those systems that needed it with the tapes be stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes.
Hmm...Isn't this kind of similar to what the Ford Motor Company did about the exploding fuel tank problem with their Pinto? It was a known issue that the fuel tank could rupture if the Pinto was rear ended. The defect was a known issue but Ford's financial analysis at the time concluded it wasn't worth it to fix the problem and it would be cheaper to pay damage claims when people died as a result of this defect.
If it's too cold I'd be worried about whatever lubricants the car might have might freeze up solid in extreme cold. That's certainly an issue in very cold climates where gear lube can freeze solid. There are synthetic lubricants which can stay fluid at colder temperatures compared to conventional lubricants but they too will freeze if it's cold enough.