If I wanted to make a HUD for say, a car, what are the options for actually making the screen? Can you get transparent displays, or is reflecting a TFT screen of the windshield bright enough to see during daylight?
It's excellent! I've been using it for a year or two now in the UK and have had no problems. It's really easy to use, it has an excellent autofocus system that you can actually *trust* and use all the time (unlike some!).
I can't really fault it. Well one minor thing: it's made of plastic - it could be better if it was metal or magnesium, but that would just make it much heavier. The EOS 300 (often called Rebel-something in other countries?) I think is Canon's best selling SLR anyway - which says quite a lot on it's own.
In fact I love it so much, that I've just this minute put it on eBay so I can upgrade to the EOS 300D (digital) which is even better (albeit about 8 times more expensive!)
We bought a license for SmoothWall, tried to get it to work, contacted support, experienced Richard Morrell, promptly binned the product and decided that spending any amount of money was better than having to talk to Richard Morrell. So we bought a competitors product and have been fine ever since.
His absence probably makes the product worth looking into again.
I hardly think an open Guest account is a security problem with Exchange server. It's more a competance problem with the server's administrator. A lot of systems have a Guest account - if it's enabled, Guest's will get in - that's what those accounts are for!
I haven't tested this myself, but recently some users of my site have reported that they can no longer see gallery images (but can see all the other images on the site).
I suspect that this is because the new version of Norton blocks the images because the path they are in contains the word "adverts" - or perhaps because the images are requested using information in a query string:
Unfortunatly - these are not actually 'adverts' - they are content uploaded by the users of the site (conference venues) to help other users (conference organisers) see pictures of their converence venue.
Now I'm going to have to recode the site so that it uses a different folder and doesn't pass information in the query string! GRRRR!
Why on earth would you want to fake the server that a site is running on?
This makes perfect sense for browsers, but no sense for web servers.
> So, no, those numbers represent a ceiling and almost certainly the real number is much lower than it.
"almost certain" == "uncertain" (as people here keep telling me). Many people use Linux caching appliances in front of their IIS systems. Not all of these are transparent and some make the output appear to have come from Apache on Linux. It works both ways. In fact you can even get muddled responses like "Microsoft IIS on Linux".
The numbers won't represent a ceiling, because they exclude all non internet facing development servers and servers Netcraft hasn't been told about yet. The numbers for both Apache and IIS are both likely to be much higher.
> Umm, "slightly wrong" doesn't make sense. You are wrong. > Totally wrong if you insist on an adverb.
No - if you look at the graph - I'm correct, but the figures show finer detail. Whichever you look at my statement still stands - the graph is misleading. Totally wrong would have meant that there HAD been a huge fall in IIS usage and my statement was entirely incorrect. But this is not the case.
> Well, it's not like nearly the highest it's ever been makes a lot of sense either...
It does if you're not as thick as pig shit. It makes perfect sense to the rest of us. Exactly which part of that very simple statement can you fail to understand? IIS usage was the highest it's ever been last month - and it has since fallen by about 1%. So it's nearly at it's peak. Pretty bloody easy to understand if you ask me - but that's probably why you posted as a Coward.
MS had 4.92 million sites last month, and it's 4.91 million this month (1.06% down) but my point still stands - it's mainly the fact that Apache has gone up from 13.52 million to 14.37 million active sites ( a gain 846294) that makes the graph show a swing from Apache to Linux. It's not really a change from Apache TO IIS - its mainly just loads more Apache sites. The fall in IIS usage is so insignificant that it doesn't even register on that graph!
If you read the other/. comments - you'll see that graph is misleading many people on here. Many users seem to think that IIS usage is falling rapidly, when in fact it's nearly the highest it's ever been!
Looking at the second graph, gives you a much clearer idea of what's going on - an obvous 'spike' in Apache users - while IIS usage doesn't change by a statistically significant amount (just the usual wobble perhaps).
A few months more data will be needed to draw any conclusions on whether or not IIS usage is actually significantly falling.
I don't think things like the Blaster worm have help Microsoft's image where security is concerned, but favourable independent reports of the security of the new Windows 2003 platform should balance that out in the long term.
But IIS usage is NOT going down though! The netcraft graph is a graph of relative usage of each system and adds up to 100%. If you look at the bottom the linked page at the second graph, you can see that IIS usage hasn't decreased at all - it's just that Apache usage has gone up quite a bit recently (ie, there are more total servers tested by Netcraft).
The machines in the article bore no resemblance to the sorts of machines people would normally buy. Who on earth would pay that much for an Athlon 64 system, when you can get one for half that price? The Mac however, can't be had for half that price.
> If you compare the prices for the AthlonFX to the dual G5, > you will see a similar price/ performance ratio
Yeah - if you're blind and look the other way you will.
How on earth do you figure that? A single Athlon 64 machine is way cheaper than any G5 and beats it in all the tests (single processor - 'cos obviously comparing a dual G4 to a single Athlon 64 is a useless comparison). A G4 may look cool, but nobody is ever going to argue that it gives a good price/performance ratio (well the might if they're a Slashdotter, but they'll lose).
> More important, 64-bit drivers for common hardware, such as printers, > will be scarce when the OS debuts."
Why on earth would need a 64 bit driver for a printer? Surely you only need to use 64 bit drivers for things like video cards? Presumably since it can handle 32 bit software, it can also handle the normal 32 bit drivers and upgrading them to 64 bits is only required if you want to get a gain in performance?
> Second, kazaa was not intended as a tool for illegal fileswapping. > It got abused for that because it was possible.
Rubbish. Even in the original Kazaa, the whole user interface is designed to let you easily find illegal files (having sections for software/mp3/video etc). Hardly ever does anyone download an MP3 completely legimately - if someone's making a program to let people swap MP3's, they know exactly what it's going to be used for.
Well I guess that's the difference - in the UK you don't pay to receive text messages unless they're special text messages designed to charge you for something (reverse SMS billing/micropayments). Normal texts are free to receive and there's no monthly cost - just 5-20p (depending on tarriff) to send a text message. You pay a bit more if your text message has a picture or sound attachment...
So if you get spammed - it's free, but annoying. Thankfully I hardly ever get any spams, and if I want, I can opt to only receive texts from people who are in my phonebook - meaning it'll ignore all the spams anyway.
I presume that if the CD was already in the drive when the computer boots (or if it's inserted before the OS has finished loading) then the CD won't autorun anyway, so you'll be able to rip the tracks without even having to press shift or perform any other workarounds.
If this is the case, then it's possible that computer user could copy all the tracks without even realising the CD is protected as they'll never see the LaunchCD program load.
This is probably a Nokia engineers back door! She probably got a text message which contained the phrase "DIE DIE DIE" and this signalled the phone to short the lithium battery:)
Is it true they don't have text messages (SMS) in America - or was someone making that up?
How many nanoseconds do you think it will take before someone releases a patch to get rid of this stupid irritating behaviour? Hopefully Microsoft themselves will 'leak' an alternate DLL that allows us to have a current IE, but without this stupid warning poping up every single time someone's got a bit of Flash on their page.
What was the patent anyway? "Allowing embedded content to load without telling the user with a yellow pop-up"? I can't think of anything sensible they could have patented, which would result in MS having to implement this behaviour.
So, in the meantime, can everyone go here and hit reload until it don't-reload-no-more, cos if there was ever a case for a company to deserve a slashdotting, now is it...:)
This is one good example where enforcing the patent clearly isn't in the interests of the consumer (not that it's ever supposed to be). But now loads of web developers are going to have to go and put in horrible hacks and change code so that users aren't pestered by yet more pop-up messages and warnings that scare them away from using the Internet.
Presumably all the other browsers will follow suit in time?
It could be worse - some countries still measure temperature in Fahrenheit!
weather.com (American) has the option to display temperates in "English" units or Metric units even though in England we haven't used non-metric temperatures for ages (eg on TV) and Fahrenheit isn't an 'English' measurement anyway and the only place I've ever seen Fahenheit used on TV is in America. How stupid is that...
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If I wanted to make a HUD for say, a car, what are the options for actually making the screen? Can you get transparent displays, or is reflecting a TFT screen of the windshield bright enough to see during daylight?
How do the HUDs in fighter planes work?
I can't really fault it. Well one minor thing: it's made of plastic - it could be better if it was metal or magnesium, but that would just make it much heavier. The EOS 300 (often called Rebel-something in other countries?) I think is Canon's best selling SLR anyway - which says quite a lot on it's own.
In fact I love it so much, that I've just this minute put it on eBay so I can upgrade to the EOS 300D (digital) which is even better (albeit about 8 times more expensive!)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i
Nick...
We bought a license for SmoothWall, tried to get it to work, contacted support, experienced Richard Morrell, promptly binned the product and decided that spending any amount of money was better than having to talk to Richard Morrell. So we bought a competitors product and have been fine ever since.
His absence probably makes the product worth looking into again.
Red sky at night, Shepherds delight.
11am orange light, Shepherd's alight.
I hardly think an open Guest account is a security problem with Exchange server. It's more a competance problem with the server's administrator. A lot of systems have a Guest account - if it's enabled, Guest's will get in - that's what those accounts are for!
Great - as if the artifically occuring ones weren't enough.
Nick...
I haven't tested this myself, but recently some users of my site have reported that they can no longer see gallery images (but can see all the other images on the site).
1 00&h=100" width=100 height=100>
I suspect that this is because the new version of Norton blocks the images because the path they are in contains the word "adverts" - or perhaps because the images are requested using information in a query string:
eg: <img src="images/adverts/thumbnail.aspx?img=foo.gif&w=
Unfortunatly - these are not actually 'adverts' - they are content uploaded by the users of the site (conference venues) to help other users (conference organisers) see pictures of their converence venue.
Now I'm going to have to recode the site so that it uses a different folder and doesn't pass information in the query string! GRRRR!
Why on earth would you want to fake the server that a site is running on?
This makes perfect sense for browsers, but no sense for web servers.
> So, no, those numbers represent a ceiling and almost certainly the real number is much lower than it.
"almost certain" == "uncertain" (as people here keep telling me). Many people use Linux caching appliances in front of their IIS systems. Not all of these are transparent and some make the output appear to have come from Apache on Linux. It works both ways. In fact you can even get muddled responses like "Microsoft IIS on Linux".
The numbers won't represent a ceiling, because they exclude all non internet facing development servers and servers Netcraft hasn't been told about yet. The numbers for both Apache and IIS are both likely to be much higher.
> Umm, "slightly wrong" doesn't make sense. You are wrong.
> Totally wrong if you insist on an adverb.
No - if you look at the graph - I'm correct, but the figures show finer detail. Whichever you look at my statement still stands - the graph is misleading. Totally wrong would have meant that there HAD been a huge fall in IIS usage and my statement was entirely incorrect. But this is not the case.
> Well, it's not like nearly the highest it's ever been makes a lot of sense either...
It does if you're not as thick as pig shit. It makes perfect sense to the rest of us. Exactly which part of that very simple statement can you fail to understand? IIS usage was the highest it's ever been last month - and it has since fallen by about 1%. So it's nearly at it's peak. Pretty bloody easy to understand if you ask me - but that's probably why you posted as a Coward.
OK - I'm slightly wrong.
/. comments - you'll see that graph is misleading many people on here. Many users seem to think that IIS usage is falling rapidly, when in fact it's nearly the highest it's ever been!
MS had 4.92 million sites last month, and it's 4.91 million this month (1.06% down) but my point still stands - it's mainly the fact that Apache has gone up from 13.52 million to 14.37 million active sites ( a gain 846294) that makes the graph show a swing from Apache to Linux. It's not really a change from Apache TO IIS - its mainly just loads more Apache sites. The fall in IIS usage is so insignificant that it doesn't even register on that graph!
If you read the other
Looking at the second graph, gives you a much clearer idea of what's going on - an obvous 'spike' in Apache users - while IIS usage doesn't change by a statistically significant amount (just the usual wobble perhaps).
A few months more data will be needed to draw any conclusions on whether or not IIS usage is actually significantly falling.
I don't think things like the Blaster worm have help Microsoft's image where security is concerned, but favourable independent reports of the security of the new Windows 2003 platform should balance that out in the long term.
But IIS usage is NOT going down though! The netcraft graph is a graph of relative usage of each system and adds up to 100%. If you look at the bottom the linked page at the second graph, you can see that IIS usage hasn't decreased at all - it's just that Apache usage has gone up quite a bit recently (ie, there are more total servers tested by Netcraft).
The machines in the article bore no resemblance to the sorts of machines people would normally buy. Who on earth would pay that much for an Athlon 64 system, when you can get one for half that price? The Mac however, can't be had for half that price.
Yes - I often think how inefficient your cars are.
> If you compare the prices for the AthlonFX to the dual G5,
> you will see a similar price/ performance ratio
Yeah - if you're blind and look the other way you will.
How on earth do you figure that? A single Athlon 64 machine is way cheaper than any G5 and beats it in all the tests (single processor - 'cos obviously comparing a dual G4 to a single Athlon 64 is a useless comparison). A G4 may look cool, but nobody is ever going to argue that it gives a good price/performance ratio (well the might if they're a Slashdotter, but they'll lose).
> More important, 64-bit drivers for common hardware, such as printers,
> will be scarce when the OS debuts."
Why on earth would need a 64 bit driver for a printer? Surely you only need to use 64 bit drivers for things like video cards? Presumably since it can handle 32 bit software, it can also handle the normal 32 bit drivers and upgrading them to 64 bits is only required if you want to get a gain in performance?
> Second, kazaa was not intended as a tool for illegal fileswapping.
> It got abused for that because it was possible.
Rubbish. Even in the original Kazaa, the whole user interface is designed to let you easily find illegal files (having sections for software/mp3/video etc). Hardly ever does anyone download an MP3 completely legimately - if someone's making a program to let people swap MP3's, they know exactly what it's going to be used for.
Well I guess that's the difference - in the UK you don't pay to receive text messages unless they're special text messages designed to charge you for something (reverse SMS billing/micropayments). Normal texts are free to receive and there's no monthly cost - just 5-20p (depending on tarriff) to send a text message. You pay a bit more if your text message has a picture or sound attachment...
So if you get spammed - it's free, but annoying. Thankfully I hardly ever get any spams, and if I want, I can opt to only receive texts from people who are in my phonebook - meaning it'll ignore all the spams anyway.
I presume that if the CD was already in the drive when the computer boots (or if it's inserted before the OS has finished loading) then the CD won't autorun anyway, so you'll be able to rip the tracks without even having to press shift or perform any other workarounds.
If this is the case, then it's possible that computer user could copy all the tracks without even realising the CD is protected as they'll never see the LaunchCD program load.
This is probably a Nokia engineers back door! She probably got a text message which contained the phrase "DIE DIE DIE" and this signalled the phone to short the lithium battery :)
Is it true they don't have text messages (SMS) in America - or was someone making that up?
Nick...
How many nanoseconds do you think it will take before someone releases a patch to get rid of this stupid irritating behaviour? Hopefully Microsoft themselves will 'leak' an alternate DLL that allows us to have a current IE, but without this stupid warning poping up every single time someone's got a bit of Flash on their page.
:)
What was the patent anyway? "Allowing embedded content to load without telling the user with a yellow pop-up"? I can't think of anything sensible they could have patented, which would result in MS having to implement this behaviour.
So, in the meantime, can everyone go here and hit reload until it don't-reload-no-more, cos if there was ever a case for a company to deserve a slashdotting, now is it...
This is one good example where enforcing the patent clearly isn't in the interests of the consumer (not that it's ever supposed to be). But now loads of web developers are going to have to go and put in horrible hacks and change code so that users aren't pestered by yet more pop-up messages and warnings that scare them away from using the Internet.
Presumably all the other browsers will follow suit in time?
Nope - Jewel cases aren't 12x12cm and aren't even square.
It's much more like the size of the paper inserts in the cover of a Jewel case (which is a couple of mm less than a 12x12 square).
Nick...
Yeah. You didn't read the article or follow the links.
:)
If you miss it after going that, then you're just stupid
It could be worse - some countries still measure temperature in Fahrenheit!
weather.com (American) has the option to display temperates in "English" units or Metric units even though in England we haven't used non-metric temperatures for ages (eg on TV) and Fahrenheit isn't an 'English' measurement anyway and the only place I've ever seen Fahenheit used on TV is in America. How stupid is that...
> if only some kind researchers could get us all out of wearing pants at the office
Using the British definition of the word "pants" (underwear/briefs) this proposition seems EVEN LESS sensible!