As a recent convert from Windows and Trillian, Adium really impressed me. Fast, non-bloated, gorgeous UI, very customizable. The only thing that Trillian has it beat on is support of video and audio chat.
Also, it satisfies my need of having an animated Domo-kun in my dock letting me know if I have any IMs.
Consider it a surprise server stress test, keeps the admins on their toes.
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I have not tried the new version yet but in the old version moving the mouse to the top right corner of the screen would pop up the controls. Took me a while to figure that one out...
9. Your school wants to do a mural in teh entry hall to the school and they want to use Curious George. Is it okay to project these two cartoon characters on to the wall to enlarge them and trace around them? NO!!
First, we went over all this yesterday. Second, if they were paying someone to install a hard drive I would assume their technical skill is not at a level where they could perform a reliable drive wipe, or even know what one was.
I don't understand why someone would breathe free air when you can buy pure medical grade oxygen for only a few dollars a tank! People spend tens of thousands of dollars on healthcare but won't spend a few measily dollars on purified clean air?
Anyway I think you can see where I'm going with this. Why pay when you can have it for nothing?
I use an old celeron running windows with azureus and a bunch of plugins as a remote downloader. The web interface and automatic queing are huge time savers. The system's uptime is measured in weeks with Azureus running 24/7 with no slowdowns. No complaints here!
I could not agree more. This is one documentary that everyone should see.
It's a pretty comprehensive look at the history and motivations BEHIND the threats we are facing, from both the terrorists and the American government. Yes, at times it's not even trying to be objective, but still a lot of the events and facts that are presented are historical record and are considered far too little today.
If only this was shown in American prime-time, people may start thinking more critically about the moves we are taking now...
I still shiver now when I hear the song "Baby it's cold outside".
Did anyone else hear Yoda call one of the clone troopers "Commander Cody"? I think this is a reference to the old Commander Cody sci-fi serials, which Lucas says partly inspired him to go into sci-fi like Star Wars.
You can see quite a few episodes of this serial in the early Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episodes such as "Commander Cody and the Radar Men from the Moon".
This would probably be considered "tampering with an official document" and be against the law, or at least make it more difficult to travel when they notice your suspiciously "defective" passport.
I will just keep mine wrapped in a few layers of aluminium foil until I am standing in line at immigrations thank you.
I can also see, after the media catches on about identity theft via RFID passports some enterprising company will begin selling lead lined passport covers or something similar. This also begs the question why the covers are not lined with an RF blocking material so the chip can only be read when the passport is open in the first place.
This does a little bit to explain why my friends in the US often say "SMS? Whats SMS?".
I just recently started seeing commercials for ringtones on American TV, while it seems like 90% of European TV commercials have been for annoying ringtones for years now! I find it funny that on the American versions of the "Jamster" (Jamba in Germany) adverts they have to have a short blurb explaining what an SMS is.
Except there is no way of PROVING that the "healing rock" does NOT actually heal some people.
As far as I know with software it is a little easier to test it to see exactly what it does and does not do. If it claims to "remove spyware" and does not, it is a pretty open and shut case that the company selling it is misrepresenting what it does.
I believe the ICE already offered this service in first class. At least there were some advertising brochures laying around that mentioned somthing about this. Tip: If you reserve a seat with a table there is a standard wall outlet under it that delivers 220v so you can be gaming or watching movies on your laptop the whole trip without worrying about batteries. This has become my preferred way of traveling inside Europe. The addition of wifi makes the the PERFECT form of travel!
I will never forget the hot Florida summer my girlfriend and I spent indoors hooked watching British and Australian Big Brother... I'm not kidding, I downloaded about 40 GB worth a month off of usenet as it was posted, quite fun to keep track of with the time differences. Marco should have won.
I have a T-Mobile MDA III (aka Qtek 9090 aka Blue Angel) and while Skype works great on a WiFi connection GPRS just does not have enough sustained bandwidth to get a decent call going. This is unfortunatly true even in the middle of the city where the cell towers are.
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As a recent convert from Windows and Trillian, Adium really impressed me. Fast, non-bloated, gorgeous UI, very customizable. The only thing that Trillian has it beat on is support of video and audio chat.
Also, it satisfies my need of having an animated Domo-kun in my dock letting me know if I have any IMs.
Consider it a surprise server stress test, keeps the admins on their toes.
I have not tried the new version yet but in the old version moving the mouse to the top right corner of the screen would pop up the controls.
Took me a while to figure that one out...
How about Jose Padilla?
It's true.
Don't worry, proof of prior art exists: the entire Internet.
This is the networking equivalent of patenting the fork.
Hey they forget the TM for "Curious George"!
Bust 'em Captain Copyright!
Although on closer inspection you linked to it in your second link. Well mod me +5 foot in mouth.
But seriously, I almost think the artist that created it was making a joke of the whole thing.
Not to mention the goatse.
If you RTFA the reviewer is supprised at the lack of vents on the bottom of the machine and mentions that heat was never a problem.
Of course if you had it on your lap it would probably just crush your legs before it would burn your vitals.
First, we went over all this yesterday. Second, if they were paying someone to install a hard drive I would assume their technical skill is not at a level where they could perform a reliable drive wipe, or even know what one was.
I don't understand why someone would breathe free air when you can buy pure medical grade oxygen for only a few dollars a tank! People spend tens of thousands of dollars on healthcare but won't spend a few measily dollars on purified clean air?
Anyway I think you can see where I'm going with this. Why pay when you can have it for nothing?
By the way, AntiVir Personal for me.
I use an old celeron running windows with azureus and a bunch of plugins as a remote downloader. The web interface and automatic queing are huge time savers. The system's uptime is measured in weeks with Azureus running 24/7 with no slowdowns. No complaints here!
...got something that can find Sarah Connor.
I usually don't but I did today.
I could not agree more. This is one documentary that everyone should see.
It's a pretty comprehensive look at the history and motivations BEHIND the threats we are facing, from both the terrorists and the American government. Yes, at times it's not even trying to be objective, but still a lot of the events and facts that are presented are historical record and are considered far too little today.
If only this was shown in American prime-time, people may start thinking more critically about the moves we are taking now...
I still shiver now when I hear the song "Baby it's cold outside".
We removed the Beethoven Symphonies torrent due to BBC license restrictions.
You made a mistake posting this link. Looks like the attention got it removed.
Did anyone else hear Yoda call one of the clone troopers "Commander Cody"? I think this is a reference to the old Commander Cody sci-fi serials, which Lucas says partly inspired him to go into sci-fi like Star Wars.
You can see quite a few episodes of this serial in the early Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episodes such as "Commander Cody and the Radar Men from the Moon".
from Adobe lawyers in three, two, one....
Well I should have RTFA about the RFID. They DID suggest RF blocking fibers in the cover.
This would probably be considered "tampering with an official document" and be against the law, or at least make it more difficult to travel when they notice your suspiciously "defective" passport.
I will just keep mine wrapped in a few layers of aluminium foil until I am standing in line at immigrations thank you.
I can also see, after the media catches on about identity theft via RFID passports some enterprising company will begin selling lead lined passport covers or something similar. This also begs the question why the covers are not lined with an RF blocking material so the chip can only be read when the passport is open in the first place.
Hm, all of the icons look like the same "broken image" icon to me...
Slashdotted to hell.
This does a little bit to explain why my friends in the US often say "SMS? Whats SMS?".
I just recently started seeing commercials for ringtones on American TV, while it seems like 90% of European TV commercials have been for annoying ringtones for years now! I find it funny that on the American versions of the "Jamster" (Jamba in Germany) adverts they have to have a short blurb explaining what an SMS is.
Except there is no way of PROVING that the "healing rock" does NOT actually heal some people.
As far as I know with software it is a little easier to test it to see exactly what it does and does not do. If it claims to "remove spyware" and does not, it is a pretty open and shut case that the company selling it is misrepresenting what it does.
I believe the ICE already offered this service in first class. At least there were some advertising brochures laying around that mentioned somthing about this. Tip: If you reserve a seat with a table there is a standard wall outlet under it that delivers 220v so you can be gaming or watching movies on your laptop the whole trip without worrying about batteries. This has become my preferred way of traveling inside Europe. The addition of wifi makes the the PERFECT form of travel!
I will never forget the hot Florida summer my girlfriend and I spent indoors hooked watching British and Australian Big Brother... I'm not kidding, I downloaded about 40 GB worth a month off of usenet as it was posted, quite fun to keep track of with the time differences. Marco should have won.
I have a T-Mobile MDA III (aka Qtek 9090 aka Blue Angel) and while Skype works great on a WiFi connection GPRS just does not have enough sustained bandwidth to get a decent call going. This is unfortunatly true even in the middle of the city where the cell towers are.