Copernic desktop search let's you select the extension of the files to search for each category. It has a very nice and polished interface and personally like it more than google or msn or yahoo desktop searches.
I tried Copernic for awhile. I had very little luck with it.
It missed over half the files (of multiple types) on my workstation and it routinely dragged my workstation to a screeching halt. I tried setting it to only index when idle, but it's never idle. There didn't seem to be an option to schedule an index for, say, 3am.
I'd like to see a desktop search tool that first and foremost indexes *all* file names (not just ones with supported extensions), then indexes *all* supported file types (not just half the.jpgs on my system).
The fact of the matter is that banks are open for businesses. The rest of us are thrown the internet and phone banking bone to shut us up as we're not valued customers.
Don't forget that many banks also now charge a $3 fee to deal with a real live teller rather than an ATM.
KD is a great game, but it was *way* too short. Ten levels? It only really gets good on the last level! I'd at least like to see a "free play" level, where it's not timed and you can just keep rolling stuff up forever (or until you've rolled up the whole universe).
Yes to everything except number 3, as far as I know.
I got my wife a Canon i8500 printer for Christmas to print scrapbook pictures with (so she needed high quality). I was so impressed with it, I bought myself a Canon MP390 and a Canon flatbed scanner.
All of which go nicely with my Canon Powershot G5 camera. Can you tell I'm pretty well sold on Canon?
Let's hope that's the case. I generally do all config CLI anyway, but there are some utilities that are Windows-only, like the IPSU utility for setting up access points.
Side note: I just set up one of their new 1841 routers. The graphical config for that completely refuses to run with Firefox. It also won't run with IE under Wine.
Ok, so someone explain to me why Cisco's web-based and desktop-based management tools are almost always Windows-only? Not only Windows-only, but frequently don't run right under anything but Internet Explorer.
Guess I'll continue to stick to CLI and console cables for configuration and management.
As usual, my home town of Detroit isn't in the list, nor is my current town, Indianapolis, in spite of both of them being fairly large population centers./still waiting for XM traffic for Indy...
Copernic's Privacy Policy reveals that, "Copernic Technologies, Inc. works with third parties that transmit advertisements to the Copernic Agent and Copernic Desktop Search product families and Copernic Meta."
It also says this:
# Keywords and result contents processed by Copernic Desktop Search Copernic Desktop Search does not allow transmission of keywords or result contents to Copernic Technologies, Inc. or any of its partner for searches conducted by the user on his computer or corporate or home network. If the software ever requires collection and processing of data, such as user's profile, location, search history, fields of interest and tastes, these data should be processed only by the user's computer and not be transmitted deliberately to Copernic Technologies, Inc. or any of its partner.
I'd like to know how they reconcile the two. CDS does interface to web searches, though, so perhaps that's what they use.
Sounds a lot like "Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation" I always prefered Begin v1 better than the one at that link, though. Begin 1 is still floating around somewhere, but I couldn't find a link to it.
To an extent that is true. However, Hollywood has a history of buying the rights to a novel and throwing away everything except the title. There are many good novels that were made into horrible unrelated movies when they could have been condensed very easily. Bourne Identity is one that comes immediately to mind. It's one thing to modify or remove a plot point to shorten the movie or keep the action flowing. It's another thing altogether to throw away everything in the story but the names.
In comparison to a copyright, yes. Copyrights are automatic (more or less). Registered copyrights just require a fee and some documentation. Patents require a review process (ok, a *bad* review process, but still harder to get than a copyright).
How hard would it be to impliment filtering that scanned email bodies for links to China, Korea, and Taiwan and then filter those emails out? Would it be hard to impliment this in spamassassin or such?
Just how far will adware companies go to continue to attempt to bombard us with their ads?
I remember reading this short story once about an ad-infested world where there were ads on every available surface. On your toilet paper, on your pancakes, on every square inch of wall, *everywhere*. One image was the protagonist attempting to shave (with difficulty) by looking through a letter "O" on his mirror. He finally gets fed up and he meets a woman who offers him a secret place to go to get away from ads for a few hours at a time. The twist was that the tiny one-room ad-free apartment was actually a government-run re-education facility to brainwash "ad-hating dissidents" to start accepting ads again.
Anyone know this story or remember the name? Now that us TiVo people are considered TV thieves, I'm starting to feel the story to be prophectic.
If was superb it would not have been cancelled, and the studio would be only to happy to milk it for revenue.
Superb != Popular. The problem is that the networks need to appeal to the lowest common denominator. In the U.S., the majority of the television watching populace is not interested in a program that makes them think, hence the popularity of shows like Fear Factor and Oprah.
until you go to an atm or restaurant or store with an improperly configured machine, that prints your whole card number on the slip, and not just the last few digits.
Hey, guess what? Some machines print out the first eight and some print out the last four. I was cleaning a bunch of ATM receipts out of my car a few weeks ago and discovered that by combining several receipts, my entire account number and name was completely recoverable. Shred those puppies!
We, the consumers are locked into a rut where we don't quite have the money to start pushing the 6 month product cycle. Until we start upgrading our phone everytime a new model comes out, the carriers are still going to maintain high prices with slow product upgrades.
You're right about the blame ratio. Still, most consumers can't upgrade their phone every six months because virtually all US carriers lock consumers into a two-year contract by offering subsidized phones. Breaking the contract means you still have to pay the pro-rated amount of the contract remaining, plus the cost of the phone. And even if you do get out of the contract, most of the carriers refuse to activate a phone that they didn't provide to you. It becomes *extremely* cost-prohibitive to replace your phone every 6-12 months.
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Copernic desktop search let's you select the extension of the files to search for each category. It has a very nice and polished interface and personally like it more than google or msn or yahoo desktop searches.
.jpgs on my system).
I tried Copernic for awhile. I had very little luck with it.
It missed over half the files (of multiple types) on my workstation and it routinely dragged my workstation to a screeching halt. I tried setting it to only index when idle, but it's never idle. There didn't seem to be an option to schedule an index for, say, 3am.
I'd like to see a desktop search tool that first and foremost indexes *all* file names (not just ones with supported extensions), then indexes *all* supported file types (not just half the
The fact of the matter is that banks are open for businesses. The rest of us are thrown the internet and phone banking bone to shut us up as we're not valued customers.
Don't forget that many banks also now charge a $3 fee to deal with a real live teller rather than an ATM.
KD is a great game, but it was *way* too short. Ten levels? It only really gets good on the last level! I'd at least like to see a "free play" level, where it's not timed and you can just keep rolling stuff up forever (or until you've rolled up the whole universe).
I can't tell from the website. Is the film in English or German?
Yes to everything except number 3, as far as I know.
I got my wife a Canon i8500 printer for Christmas to print scrapbook pictures with (so she needed high quality). I was so impressed with it, I bought myself a Canon MP390 and a Canon flatbed scanner.
All of which go nicely with my Canon Powershot G5 camera. Can you tell I'm pretty well sold on Canon?
Let's hope that's the case. I generally do all config CLI anyway, but there are some utilities that are Windows-only, like the IPSU utility for setting up access points.
Side note: I just set up one of their new 1841 routers. The graphical config for that completely refuses to run with Firefox. It also won't run with IE under Wine.
Ok, so someone explain to me why Cisco's web-based and desktop-based management tools are almost always Windows-only? Not only Windows-only, but frequently don't run right under anything but Internet Explorer.
Guess I'll continue to stick to CLI and console cables for configuration and management.
Good lord! Why did't you just boot with Knoppix or BartPE or something?! Why was it necessary to reformat?
What book was it?
I'd like a pony, too.
As usual, my home town of Detroit isn't in the list, nor is my current town, Indianapolis, in spite of both of them being fairly large population centers. /still waiting for XM traffic for Indy...
Copernic's Privacy Policy reveals that, "Copernic Technologies, Inc. works with third parties that transmit advertisements to the Copernic Agent and Copernic Desktop Search product families and Copernic Meta."
It also says this:
# Keywords and result contents processed by Copernic Desktop Search
Copernic Desktop Search does not allow transmission of keywords or result contents to Copernic Technologies, Inc. or any of its partner for searches conducted by the user on his computer or corporate or home network. If the software ever requires collection and processing of data, such as user's profile, location, search history, fields of interest and tastes, these data should be processed only by the user's computer and not be transmitted deliberately to Copernic Technologies, Inc. or any of its partner.
I'd like to know how they reconcile the two. CDS does interface to web searches, though, so perhaps that's what they use.
I'm still waiting for the last-minute name change to "Return of the Sith".
(If you got that, you're older than I am.)
Oh, yeah! I remember that! Personally, I like Begin, better, though. Remember NetTrek on Apple Mac classics? I wish that were still around.
Sounds a lot like "Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation" I always prefered Begin v1 better than the one at that link, though. Begin 1 is still floating around somewhere, but I couldn't find a link to it.
To an extent that is true. However, Hollywood has a history of buying the rights to a novel and throwing away everything except the title. There are many good novels that were made into horrible unrelated movies when they could have been condensed very easily. Bourne Identity is one that comes immediately to mind. It's one thing to modify or remove a plot point to shorten the movie or keep the action flowing. It's another thing altogether to throw away everything in the story but the names.
I just don't read salon.com. Problem solved.
Difficult to obtain, indeed.
In comparison to a copyright, yes. Copyrights are automatic (more or less). Registered copyrights just require a fee and some documentation. Patents require a review process (ok, a *bad* review process, but still harder to get than a copyright).
How hard would it be to impliment filtering that scanned email bodies for links to China, Korea, and Taiwan and then filter those emails out? Would it be hard to impliment this in spamassassin or such?
SA already does URI scanning in the body.
Just how far will adware companies go to continue to attempt to bombard us with their ads?
I remember reading this short story once about an ad-infested world where there were ads on every available surface. On your toilet paper, on your pancakes, on every square inch of wall, *everywhere*. One image was the protagonist attempting to shave (with difficulty) by looking through a letter "O" on his mirror. He finally gets fed up and he meets a woman who offers him a secret place to go to get away from ads for a few hours at a time. The twist was that the tiny one-room ad-free apartment was actually a government-run re-education facility to brainwash "ad-hating dissidents" to start accepting ads again.
Anyone know this story or remember the name? Now that us TiVo people are considered TV thieves, I'm starting to feel the story to be prophectic.
If was superb it would not have been cancelled, and the studio would be only to happy to milk it for revenue.
Superb != Popular. The problem is that the networks need to appeal to the lowest common denominator. In the U.S., the majority of the television watching populace is not interested in a program that makes them think, hence the popularity of shows like Fear Factor and Oprah.
It doesn't seem that they're in any hurry to weave a microscopic carpet yet.
Can you imagine a self-cleaning carpet? You drop crumbs on it and the fibers work it cilia-like toward a vaccuum duct in the wall? Sweeeeet....
until you go to an atm or restaurant or store with an improperly configured machine, that prints your whole card number on the slip, and not just the last few digits.
Hey, guess what? Some machines print out the first eight and some print out the last four. I was cleaning a bunch of ATM receipts out of my car a few weeks ago and discovered that by combining several receipts, my entire account number and name was completely recoverable. Shred those puppies!
How about this? There are several linked off that NSA page besides this one.
We, the consumers are locked into a rut where we don't quite have the money to start pushing the 6 month product cycle. Until we start upgrading our phone everytime a new model comes out, the carriers are still going to maintain high prices with slow product upgrades.
You're right about the blame ratio. Still, most consumers can't upgrade their phone every six months because virtually all US carriers lock consumers into a two-year contract by offering subsidized phones. Breaking the contract means you still have to pay the pro-rated amount of the contract remaining, plus the cost of the phone. And even if you do get out of the contract, most of the carriers refuse to activate a phone that they didn't provide to you. It becomes *extremely* cost-prohibitive to replace your phone every 6-12 months.