At our office we turned off auto-answer on the fax machine proper and set up FAX receiving on a PC plugged into the FAX line to receive them. Now all the incoming faxes are just saved in the computer. The ones we want we print out, the spam you can just delete.
Scotty didn't exchange the formula for a small run of transparent aluminum, it would have taken years for the plant to study the formula and tool up their factory to produce the stuff. He traded the formula for a large, thick sheet of plexiglass or similar that the company would have had on hand or actually be able to manufacture at that time.
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All floppy disks eventually crap out, regardless of modifications. It was and is a poor medium in which to assume any amount of storage stability exists.
Not on the local machine. For local displays it doesn't use any networking at all. It uses UNIX pipes which are very fast and also DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) to talk directly to the video hardware.
I wish this myth would disappear. X only uses networking when using it over a network.
I gave serious consideration to doing this exact mod to my TI-85 in highschool some 10 years ago, but could never bring myself to risk breaking my precious calculator.
It's still interesting purely for its hack value, but the opensource EasyCalc for PalmOS does most of the things that I used my TI calc for and it's much faster even on lower end PDAs. Plus the other applications and games are far richer than their TI-Basic or z-asm equivalents (if there were equivalents).
The summary indicates the article is referring to use of power (electrical outlets) not wireless access. WEP would clearly have no place if preventing this.
I managed to download them all very early this morning, but I had an incredibly hard time to get it to compile... it didn't seem to have any idea where it's headers were. Hopefully this will be fixed for the announced release.
Fredericton, New Brunswick has had this implemented since last autumn. Wireless G service is available for free throughout the entire downtown core courtesy of the city. They are slowly expanding the service area, too. I've used it on a friends notebook and it is blazingly fast.
I think I might be experiencing a similar problem on 2.6.1... even when the system should be idle, the hard drive is active for about half a second every 5 seconds or so. No space is being taken up on my drives, but if I do an lsof I can see a file descriptor (/proc/[pid_of_lsof]/fd) that's very large and is larger every time I check it.
On a probably unrelated issue, I came home yesterday to my machine with the hard drive running CONSTANTLY and I was unable to elicit a response from the system. I had to hit the reset switch. Everything seemed fine after that, and again, no used HD space was unaccounted for.
I have a friend in an high-speed inaccessible area of Nova Scotia and he just signed up with Direc. The area has been getting a lot of wind and snow lately and his connection seems really intermittent while that's going on. He also complained that the router crashed at least once for no apparent reason requiring a power cycle to correct it.
He told me it cost him $1200 for installation and $90 a month for unlimited use. (That's in Canadian currency).
It doesn't seem like an ideal solution but it's better than nothing (or dialup). One thing he hasn't complained about is the speed, so I'd guess that's pretty good when it's working.
Man, hearing that hubble is 13 years old makes me (on the virge of turning 25) feel old. I was 12 when it was launched but it doesn't seem that long ago.
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Obligatory reference to this TNG episode (one of my favorites) that deals with this very subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
In all seriousness I keep an 8" TANDY floppy disk in a drawer to amaze people with. The uninitiated tend to believe it's a novelty item.
I would mod this up if I could. Oil has saved the tracks off many a CD for me in the past. I recommend 3-in-1 small machine oil.
At our office we turned off auto-answer on the fax machine proper and set up FAX receiving on a PC plugged into the FAX line to receive them. Now all the incoming faxes are just saved in the computer. The ones we want we print out, the spam you can just delete.
Is that true, or did you just make that up to get me even more annoyed that I couldn't find a Wii yet?
Scotty didn't exchange the formula for a small run of transparent aluminum, it would have taken years for the plant to study the formula and tool up their factory to produce the stuff. He traded the formula for a large, thick sheet of plexiglass or similar that the company would have had on hand or actually be able to manufacture at that time.
All floppy disks eventually crap out, regardless of modifications. It was and is a poor medium in which to assume any amount of storage stability exists.
X. Is not. Network Based.
Not on the local machine. For local displays it doesn't use any networking at all. It uses UNIX pipes which are very fast and also DRI (Direct Rendering Interface) to talk directly to the video hardware.
I wish this myth would disappear. X only uses networking when using it over a network.
I gave serious consideration to doing this exact mod to my TI-85 in highschool some 10 years ago, but could never bring myself to risk breaking my precious calculator.
It's still interesting purely for its hack value, but the opensource EasyCalc for PalmOS does most of the things that I used my TI calc for and it's much faster even on lower end PDAs. Plus the other applications and games are far richer than their TI-Basic or z-asm equivalents (if there were equivalents).
I recently sold my TI-85 and accessories for $50.
The summary indicates the article is referring to use of power (electrical outlets) not wireless access. WEP would clearly have no place if preventing this.
I've heard that something in XP SP2 called "Zero Configuration" can cause wi-fi connections to drop and be otherwise problematic.
It's a service that shows up in the Services Admin Applet as "Wireless Zero Configuration". Turn it off and change it to manual and see how you fare.
Most people I know have already switched to USB mice. It's the keyboards I'd be concerned about. Still, good point.
"Bootable Media doesn't not contain valid authentication signature"
Damn Microsoft and their clever double-negative legalease.
It is mostly funded by the city budget. However it may be partially subsidized by a government project called "Smart Communities".
I managed to download them all very early this morning, but I had an incredibly hard time to get it to compile... it didn't seem to have any idea where it's headers were. Hopefully this will be fixed for the announced release.
Fredericton, New Brunswick has had this implemented since last autumn. Wireless G service is available for free throughout the entire downtown core courtesy of the city. They are slowly expanding the service area, too. I've used it on a friends notebook and it is blazingly fast.
Where do you get this information?
The ATSC spec definitely includes a 1080p format.
Regardless, I suspect the video will be stored on the HD-DVDs in an interlaced format (1080i) like current DVDs (480i).
The summary says that the ports to knock on are closed. Portscanning shouldn't reveal which ones are available to be knocked on.
My bad... seems that 492699657 is the node number, not the size. the preceding 0 is the size.
So I guess that's not my culprit. I still wonder what's keeping my drive running when it should be idle...
I have very little free as well. And my situation seems worse in the same conditions you mention (system in X, locked for the night).
/proc/7518/fd
Maybe you should check lsof as well?
the entry looks like this on my system:
lsof 7518 root 4r DIR 0,3 0 492699657
Nope, nothing in /var/log/messages about DMA (except the DMA enabled messages from kernel boot).
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I'll be putting on 2.6.2 when I get home. We'll see if that makes a difference.
I'm not running anything like [folding|seti|yeti|etc]@home that should be keeping the system active. Not that I'm aware of anyway
How does this memory leak manifest itself?
I think I might be experiencing a similar problem on 2.6.1... even when the system should be idle, the hard drive is active for about half a second every 5 seconds or so. No space is being taken up on my drives, but if I do an lsof I can see a file descriptor (/proc/[pid_of_lsof]/fd) that's very large and is larger every time I check it.
On a probably unrelated issue, I came home yesterday to my machine with the hard drive running CONSTANTLY and I was unable to elicit a response from the system. I had to hit the reset switch. Everything seemed fine after that, and again, no used HD space was unaccounted for.
Anyone else have any ideas?
I think you mean "S-video and composite".
Composite is the single RCA plug video cable, and like you say, isn't suitable for HD content.
Component on the other hand, is three cables (Y/Pr/Pb) and is definitely suitable for HD content.
I have a friend in an high-speed inaccessible area of Nova Scotia and he just signed up with Direc. The area has been getting a lot of wind and snow lately and his connection seems really intermittent while that's going on. He also complained that the router crashed at least once for no apparent reason requiring a power cycle to correct it.
He told me it cost him $1200 for installation and $90 a month for unlimited use. (That's in Canadian currency).
It doesn't seem like an ideal solution but it's better than nothing (or dialup). One thing he hasn't complained about is the speed, so I'd guess that's pretty good when it's working.
Man, hearing that hubble is 13 years old makes me (on the virge of turning 25) feel old. I was 12 when it was launched but it doesn't seem that long ago.
*sigh*
Where's my walker?