I thought that one of the reasons to move to micro-usb was that the parts most likely to be damaged are now on the easier to replace cable side, as opposed to mini-usb where the springs were on the device side. So I would think that the likelihood of device side damage was already less than with mini-usb.
Thanks, I'd missed that since they still don't list any severs among the supported OSes. As far as I can tell, they still don't officially support it, but it works.
I actually like their streaming plan - they have lots of documentaries, classic & foreign films, and enough kids' stuff to keep the rugrats happy.I just switched from the $9.99 1 DVD at a time to the $7.99 streaming only plan; if something new comes out on DVD I can always get it from Redbox or something. The loss of Starz may make me rethink things though, it's nice to have those newer things available. With kids I don't have time to watch a whole lot of stuff anyway, and I find that my tolerance for ads has gone way down after years of DVRs & no-ad streaming, so I don't really see Hulu as an alternative. Maybe I'll check out Blockbuster at some point, but my ingrained dislike of them still hasn't faded enough.
I have used a pair of QNAP TS-109s (older model) to do this - they can use whatever ports you want & they can be set to rsync on whatever schedule you like. According to this: http://www.qnap.com/images/products/comparison/Comparison_NAS.html the TS-112s will do everything you want, & newegg has them for $160, otherwise the TS-119P+ (can take 2.5" or 3.5" drives) is $250 or so. You need to add the drives. Their web interface is pretty nice, and mine are still going strong after 3+ years.
Just keep your receipt; Seagate is giving you a 5 year warranty on the 3TB drives.
I have lots of hard drives here which are 4+ years old, I have only had one fail in the past year. I'm sure the oldest drive that's still working here is 8+ years old, and there were lots more that just got cycled out.
I've only played around with Asterisk so far, but I was looking semi-seriously at the FreeSwitch based Cudatel boxes. If you're doing real stuff, might be worth looking at just to get something which (should) be configured properly from the get go. Wouldn't be worth it just for home or something small.
Well, you know how forums can amplify the complaints, but the general consensus is that the transmission is just not quite beefy enough for the weight of the van, it's more of an Accord size trans. The new ones may be different. I have 100k on my 2003 and it has been a great car, and if I never read the forums I probably wouldn't worry about it at all.
There wasn't actually a $500m investment; there was a $575m loan guarantee. According to the LA Times:
"That left U.S. taxpayers holding the financial bag for nearly three-quarters of that loan guarantee, about $390 million.... The taxpayers have not had to cover any of the company’s loans."
You don't need a webpage, but it makes everything easy for the users - they know how to open IE, they go to the same page where you've shown them how to check their webmail, and they can click on Connect To a Computer. Their desktop magically appears before them. It's purely a matter of ease of use, but I like that there are no extra ports open.
I guess I'm too old, thanks for bringing me up to date. Of course being old I have an Odyssey which has a notoriously weak transmission, so that also makes me wary about stressing it too much.
I'd buy one, but a lot of people wouldn't - once you've tried stuff like pinch to zoom, you don't want to be stuck with simple touchscreens. A ~$200 ipod touch would be a better experience for most non geeks than a $150 cheapo tablet. I still have a Palm which I use regularly, so I know where you're coming from, but I really don't think anyone is going to get very far selling resistive tablets today.
Name a SINGLE component at the specs I called for that would kill those numbers, just one. A 1Ghz dual ARM? shouldn't be a problem. 4Gb of NAND? Dirt cheap. 512Mb of DDR3? beyond dirt cheap, Android? Free. And the $149 model would frankly most likely be the more profitable one,
IPS Display + touch screen is $130 by itself. And don't even think of going resistive screen on us. OK, technically that's two components, but they're what matter most.
I don't have any strong feelings about the ribbon one way or another - my uses for Word and Excel are pretty basic usually. I can say, however, that the general "I don't know anything about computers" users here prefer the ribbon & don't like to go back to a machine with 2003 on it.
You really don't want to put an automatic from "D" into "1" at any kind of speed. Those lower ranges are there for driving in adverse conditions, not for engine braking. Some cars do have "manual/auto" modes, but those are the exception. Just let your foot off, the automatic will engine brake for you. Then use your brakes, they're cheaper to replace.
Remote Web Workplace (SBS 2003 & 2008) uses https - you first connect to a page where you can either use Outlook Web Access or RDP over the https connection. It's actually pretty nice, given strong passwords.
I have a Nook, but I don't consider it a tablet; I know I could root it, but the e-ink is not really built for doing most stuff that a full tablet does. So really you're talking $250 for the Nook Color, which is a tablet. But yeah, even the ipad is $500 & no data plan for the best selling option.
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Despite the summary being ipad only, the actual IT guy looking into this in the article is very clear that it's tablets in general.
I thought that one of the reasons to move to micro-usb was that the parts most likely to be damaged are now on the easier to replace cable side, as opposed to mini-usb where the springs were on the device side. So I would think that the likelihood of device side damage was already less than with mini-usb.
The South East UK is not the developing world, though you wouldn't know it from the plumbing ;)
These designs are for rural China, India & Africa.
Thanks, I'd missed that since they still don't list any severs among the supported OSes. As far as I can tell, they still don't officially support it, but it works.
most other commercial antivirus software, which may scan a drive much faster, but also significantly slows down *everything* at *all* times.
I'll just give a shout out here for ESET NOD32 - it stays out of the way, and consistently gets good marks in comparison tests. I have no complaints.
That's true, but MSE isn't licensed for/won't install on servers so it doesn't apply.
Why struggle with the lame duck that is windows?
One word: Exchange.
I actually like their streaming plan - they have lots of documentaries, classic & foreign films, and enough kids' stuff to keep the rugrats happy.I just switched from the $9.99 1 DVD at a time to the $7.99 streaming only plan; if something new comes out on DVD I can always get it from Redbox or something. The loss of Starz may make me rethink things though, it's nice to have those newer things available. With kids I don't have time to watch a whole lot of stuff anyway, and I find that my tolerance for ads has gone way down after years of DVRs & no-ad streaming, so I don't really see Hulu as an alternative. Maybe I'll check out Blockbuster at some point, but my ingrained dislike of them still hasn't faded enough.
I have used a pair of QNAP TS-109s (older model) to do this - they can use whatever ports you want & they can be set to rsync on whatever schedule you like. According to this: http://www.qnap.com/images/products/comparison/Comparison_NAS.html the TS-112s will do everything you want, & newegg has them for $160, otherwise the TS-119P+ (can take 2.5" or 3.5" drives) is $250 or so. You need to add the drives. Their web interface is pretty nice, and mine are still going strong after 3+ years.
Just keep your receipt; Seagate is giving you a 5 year warranty on the 3TB drives.
I have lots of hard drives here which are 4+ years old, I have only had one fail in the past year. I'm sure the oldest drive that's still working here is 8+ years old, and there were lots more that just got cycled out.
I've only played around with Asterisk so far, but I was looking semi-seriously at the FreeSwitch based Cudatel boxes. If you're doing real stuff, might be worth looking at just to get something which (should) be configured properly from the get go. Wouldn't be worth it just for home or something small.
Well, you know how forums can amplify the complaints, but the general consensus is that the transmission is just not quite beefy enough for the weight of the van, it's more of an Accord size trans. The new ones may be different. I have 100k on my 2003 and it has been a great car, and if I never read the forums I probably wouldn't worry about it at all.
There wasn't actually a $500m investment; there was a $575m loan guarantee. According to the LA Times:
"That left U.S. taxpayers holding the financial bag for nearly three-quarters of that loan guarantee, about $390 million. ... The taxpayers have not had to cover any of the company’s loans."
So nothing has actually been paid yet.
You don't need a webpage, but it makes everything easy for the users - they know how to open IE, they go to the same page where you've shown them how to check their webmail, and they can click on Connect To a Computer. Their desktop magically appears before them. It's purely a matter of ease of use, but I like that there are no extra ports open.
I guess I'm too old, thanks for bringing me up to date. Of course being old I have an Odyssey which has a notoriously weak transmission, so that also makes me wary about stressing it too much.
I'd buy one, but a lot of people wouldn't - once you've tried stuff like pinch to zoom, you don't want to be stuck with simple touchscreens. A ~$200 ipod touch would be a better experience for most non geeks than a $150 cheapo tablet. I still have a Palm which I use regularly, so I know where you're coming from, but I really don't think anyone is going to get very far selling resistive tablets today.
The first non-bird species of reptile?
In fairness, TFA talks about "non-avian reptiles", but I agree that the construction is awkward.
Desperately poor? They're only 40bn in debt, which pales in comparison to the USA.
As a % of GDP, they're actually quite close in terms of debt - 49% vs 58% for the US (US is closer to (90% by some measures).
For an interesting comparison of debt ratios, see:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/01/28/the-10-countries-with-the-most-debt
Name a SINGLE component at the specs I called for that would kill those numbers, just one. A 1Ghz dual ARM? shouldn't be a problem. 4Gb of NAND? Dirt cheap. 512Mb of DDR3? beyond dirt cheap, Android? Free. And the $149 model would frankly most likely be the more profitable one,
IPS Display + touch screen is $130 by itself. And don't even think of going resistive screen on us. OK, technically that's two components, but they're what matter most.
I don't have any strong feelings about the ribbon one way or another - my uses for Word and Excel are pretty basic usually. I can say, however, that the general "I don't know anything about computers" users here prefer the ribbon & don't like to go back to a machine with 2003 on it.
Yeah, TPLs are good - the first thing I do now on any machine I'm messing with for family is add fanboy's ie9 tpl.
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/ie.html
You really don't want to put an automatic from "D" into "1" at any kind of speed. Those lower ranges are there for driving in adverse conditions, not for engine braking. Some cars do have "manual/auto" modes, but those are the exception. Just let your foot off, the automatic will engine brake for you. Then use your brakes, they're cheaper to replace.
Oh, Altavista sucked, just not as bad as the rest. I switched lickety-split.
Remote Web Workplace (SBS 2003 & 2008) uses https - you first connect to a page where you can either use Outlook Web Access or RDP over the https connection. It's actually pretty nice, given strong passwords.
For 600 fucking bucks, plus data plan?! Guess I'm an idiot, because I don't get it. That seems like paint-eating level of stupid to me.
Try more like "less than 150 bucks"; here's one.
I have a Nook, but I don't consider it a tablet; I know I could root it, but the e-ink is not really built for doing most stuff that a full tablet does. So really you're talking $250 for the Nook Color, which is a tablet. But yeah, even the ipad is $500 & no data plan for the best selling option.