Ad Muncher is quite possibly the best advertising blocker out there, hands down. I haven't seen an ad in years and it eliminates the need for an anti-spyware application as you'll never come across those annoying smiley banners again. It has a continuously updated filtering system that stops all the pop-ups and ads out there while not breaking websites. For a one-time fee of 25$, it's a steal.
Oh, it doesn't steal any of your precious megahertz or RAM either. It's a well written program. Try the demo out for 30 days, you won't be disappointed.
Nope, try 32 GB SD(HC). Don't forget that there's two main types of SD slots though: SD and SDHC, and they're not really compatible with each other (SD can't read SDHC).
I would say that, considering most Asus motherboards allow you to boot off virtually anything USB these days; yes, you should be able to hook up an external optical drive and reinstall as you please.
I find this to be a pretty neat idea, IMHO, but only if the following options were introduced to eliminate potential disasters.
1) Allow the owner to pair with more than one machine/iTunes setup, perhaps with a PIN (set by the owner) of some sort as a means of security. This would work if the PIN entry was done on the iPod though, or else people not using iTunes would be out of luck. iTunes server-auth could work too. 2) If the iPod's charging mechanism were to be accidentally turned off (you forgot your PIN, etc.) then reactivation would still be possible if I were to dock my iPod on my legit machine back home with the right codes.
This option should also be able to be turned off in case one were to sell his iPod to a new user (in iTunes, "Change iPod Owner" function before you ship it off to someone...) or else we'd be stuck with the device forever.
I hope you're kidding about loving Maxtor drives. Just two days ago I got another dead Maxtor hard drive. Pretty much all the drives that were sold in the past 5 years have died. I have a whole stack of Maxtor 20/40 GB model hard drives at work from all the clients I service.
This is true, yes, but you can always slipstream your controller drivers into a Windows XP CD without much trouble (that is, if you have another computer nearby to perform such a task) to completely bypass the use of a floppy.
There are already DVD/DVD-RW units out there that are SATA-based. I know for a fact that Dell has been shipping all their computers without IDE connectors on motherboards for the past 6 months (floppy drive excluded). It's about time.
Not true. If you're using the Corporate version of Symantec Antivirus, you can allow Alexa on your computer by simply excluding it from your searches (see exclusions). There will be Alexa listed as "adware/spyware". Enable the ignore option on it and you should be fine.
I've heard of Alexa when it first came out in the mid 90's (think early 1997). I recall many people adopting it for its search engine capabilities and ranking features ("What's popular on the web today?"). Think of this as the pre-Google era, when searching through millions of pages was a daunting task and you didn't know where to surf when you first connected to the Internet via dial-up. You'd install the toolbar through word-of-mouth (or you saw some flash banner ad...) thinking that it will help you find what you're looking for on the web. I guess the toolbar just stuck around and webmasters/SEO 'experts' picked it up a while back thinking it's great data to judge website traffic. True SEO experts will never worry about Alexa data, as it's very easy to manipulate it. To some extent, you COULD say that Alexa's rankings are semi-accurate (although not precise in any way). If you have 1-2 million toolbars active and you want to see what's hot out there, Alexa isn't a bad place to start, but just like Slashdot's own poll system; "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
Alexa is a ranking system to measure how popular a certain website is on the Internet. A user, however, must have the Alexa toolbar installed for Alexa to measure site rankings accordingly. As of right now, Slashdot is ranked 558 out of 1 million+ sites that Alexa tracks.
Note: you don't need to install the toolbar to figure out Alexa rankings. Check out the Search Status extension for Firefox. I have mine sitting at the bottom right corner of the browser to display me PageRank and Alexa rankings.
This news post reminds me of Dumbing Down Our Kids by Charles Sykes. Here's the list:
Rule 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you screw up, it's not your parents' fault so don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way by paying your bills, cleaning your room, and listening to you tell how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the bloodsucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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I've never seen so many smiley faces around here on /. Quick, someone post a story about Vista before we all get too friendly with each other.
... you placed the tracking devices on your arch-nemesis' car.
Ad Muncher is quite possibly the best advertising blocker out there, hands down. I haven't seen an ad in years and it eliminates the need for an anti-spyware application as you'll never come across those annoying smiley banners again. It has a continuously updated filtering system that stops all the pop-ups and ads out there while not breaking websites. For a one-time fee of 25$, it's a steal.
Oh, it doesn't steal any of your precious megahertz or RAM either. It's a well written program. Try the demo out for 30 days, you won't be disappointed.
Nope, try 32 GB SD(HC). Don't forget that there's two main types of SD slots though: SD and SDHC, and they're not really compatible with each other (SD can't read SDHC).
I would say that, considering most Asus motherboards allow you to boot off virtually anything USB these days; yes, you should be able to hook up an external optical drive and reinstall as you please.
I find this to be a pretty neat idea, IMHO, but only if the following options were introduced to eliminate potential disasters.
1) Allow the owner to pair with more than one machine/iTunes setup, perhaps with a PIN (set by the owner) of some sort as a means of security. This would work if the PIN entry was done on the iPod though, or else people not using iTunes would be out of luck. iTunes server-auth could work too.
2) If the iPod's charging mechanism were to be accidentally turned off (you forgot your PIN, etc.) then reactivation would still be possible if I were to dock my iPod on my legit machine back home with the right codes.
This option should also be able to be turned off in case one were to sell his iPod to a new user (in iTunes, "Change iPod Owner" function before you ship it off to someone...) or else we'd be stuck with the device forever.
My bad; I should have mentioned it was the Dimension series. On the same topic, the Optiplex also carries onboard parallel and serial ports.
I hope you're kidding about loving Maxtor drives. Just two days ago I got another dead Maxtor hard drive. Pretty much all the drives that were sold in the past 5 years have died. I have a whole stack of Maxtor 20/40 GB model hard drives at work from all the clients I service.
This is true, yes, but you can always slipstream your controller drivers into a Windows XP CD without much trouble (that is, if you have another computer nearby to perform such a task) to completely bypass the use of a floppy.
There are already DVD/DVD-RW units out there that are SATA-based. I know for a fact that Dell has been shipping all their computers without IDE connectors on motherboards for the past 6 months (floppy drive excluded). It's about time.
Not true. If you're using the Corporate version of Symantec Antivirus, you can allow Alexa on your computer by simply excluding it from your searches (see exclusions). There will be Alexa listed as "adware/spyware". Enable the ignore option on it and you should be fine.
I've heard of Alexa when it first came out in the mid 90's (think early 1997). I recall many people adopting it for its search engine capabilities and ranking features ("What's popular on the web today?"). Think of this as the pre-Google era, when searching through millions of pages was a daunting task and you didn't know where to surf when you first connected to the Internet via dial-up. You'd install the toolbar through word-of-mouth (or you saw some flash banner ad...) thinking that it will help you find what you're looking for on the web. I guess the toolbar just stuck around and webmasters/SEO 'experts' picked it up a while back thinking it's great data to judge website traffic. True SEO experts will never worry about Alexa data, as it's very easy to manipulate it. To some extent, you COULD say that Alexa's rankings are semi-accurate (although not precise in any way). If you have 1-2 million toolbars active and you want to see what's hot out there, Alexa isn't a bad place to start, but just like Slashdot's own poll system; "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
So you're saying the majority of Digg readers are idiots for installing a toolbar that is considered spyware among the community? :)
Alexa is a ranking system to measure how popular a certain website is on the Internet. A user, however, must have the Alexa toolbar installed for Alexa to measure site rankings accordingly. As of right now, Slashdot is ranked 558 out of 1 million+ sites that Alexa tracks.
Note: you don't need to install the toolbar to figure out Alexa rankings. Check out the Search Status extension for Firefox. I have mine sitting at the bottom right corner of the browser to display me PageRank and Alexa rankings.
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This news post reminds me of Dumbing Down Our Kids by Charles Sykes. Here's the list:
Rule 1: Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you screw up, it's not your parents' fault so don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way by paying your bills, cleaning your room, and listening to you tell how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the bloodsucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
For those who don't know what Evolution is. Screenshots.
Are they now going to implement a new algorithm called PeopleRank(TM)?
Anyone recall the exploit where you pop in an autorun CD into Windows 9x to circumvent protected screensavers? Yep, it's back!
...Steamy bullshit.
Play Myst.
I meant to say he works at the WD building in Lake Forest, CA. He resides in Irvine. :)
My uncle is a researcher at Western Digital in Irvine, CA. He showed me his patents today ironically, check out "Disk drive employing spindle motor commutation time variation for reducing acoustic noise" over at USPTO. He explained it to me step by step, and it's quite interesting. Just wanting to share...