I have a minivan with DVD player and I have to say, yes, we do need such things in our cars. On trips around town with the kids, it's great for them to be able to watch Elmo or The Magic School Bus. I'd rather let them watch movies in the car than TV at home anyday, and while their home viewing will be curtailed as their schoolwork gets more demanding, I can't see any problem with movies and video games (when they're older) while we're driving somewhere.
2) To pay someone else, have payment go directly from your associated checking account. There is no need to carry a positive balance on PayPal.
I wouldn't even do that - I haven't verified my bank account, so they can't take money out of it, only put money in. If I want to buy something, I use a credit card, if I sell something I move the money to my checking account.
Even better, start trading babysitting with other parents in your neighborhood. They're in the same boat as you, and it's nice for either mom or dad to go over & watch someone else's tv for an evening. Then you go out & one of them comes over. It's great because it's free, and particularly because other parents are more geared up to especcially young kids. If a baby wakes up and is inconsolable, a parent will bow to the inevitable and give you a call rather than being afraid of being a failure like a teenager might. We've worked it on a quid pro quo basis with a few people, and also expanded it a bit recently using babysitterexchange.com (it's free & run by parents, so you can't complain too much that it's IE only & sometimes is down). On the high tech side, I'd say you don't really need much but whatever you decide to do, get it done before junior arrives because you sure won't have time afterwards... I'd get one of the Phillips rechargeable baby monitors & leave it at that.
I would suggest that one big difference that you fail to point out is that all the parents cared enough about their kids' education to go to the extra effort of sending them to your school. I went to a private school, and even the dumbest kids went to college, because they HAD to do the work. The parents were in touch with what their kids were doing, and if they slacked they were al over them. If the parents aren't doing that, then you're certainly not going to have as high a level of overall achievement.
Me too. I enabled WEP when I first got my wireless router, but the first time I had to dig out the password for a friend who was over I thought "why not just let anyone use it?" None of my neigbors are leeching that I've seen, but if they have a guest with a laptop who wants to check their mail, I say go for it. I'm sure happy to pick up a connection while travelling, just to save on having to dial up.
If hemp paper is really cheaper/easier to produce, why hasn't it taken over the European market? You always hear these wonderful claims for the stuff, but I don't hear of any countries that are making widespread use of it. That makes me question the validity of the claims.
Sure it's getting bigger - it's doing more. I've got Mandrake 10 running on a Celeron 500 with 128mb - it's not fast, but neither would XP be. It does a lot of stuff, though, right from the get-go. I don't need to get Photoshop, Dreamweaver (ok, Quantas doesn't do nearly as much yet, but for my needs it's fine) etc, I can plug my camera in & have it be recognized, it's getting to a really useable state. There are lighter weight options, but I can deal with the slowness for now. I've been trying different desktops since RH 5 or so & Mandrake 10 is the first one that might get me using Linux more than W2K at home. (And if I can get 3d Home Architect to run under WINE my wife will switch too!) I'm happy that I can still run ipcop on a 486, but for a desktop nowadays I don't mind either providing the power or dealing with some sluggishness, the environment is finally getting to the point where I'm ready to switch.
Yeah, but that's just because of all the taxes. So if the government didn't decide to just forego that income, you'd have to add another $3/gal in Europe...
Of course, your III has a Canon SX engine, so the most important part wasn't made by HP... I'm still happily using a IID so I can save paper by printing on both sides.
The Canon 2080c does double sided well - you can set them so they discard pages of less than a given % of black, so you can toss in a mixture of single & double sided pages & the software tosses out the blanks. I've been happy with them for the larger scanning jobs, they can output multipage tifs or pdfs, rotate the image etc.They're closer to $500-600 though I think...
I did a quick google search & found this: http://www.nvbt.nl/hot-metalen4.html which does indeed show an increased level of mercury in the brains of cadavers with amalgam fillings.
I'm happy I never became "Verified" with them, despite being asked to do so every time I use my account. As far as I can tell, "Verified" means "we can take money out of your checking account" which I'm not into. If I buy something, I use my credit card, if I sell something, I transfer my balance out ASAP (I'm usually only selling stuff for $100 or less anyway).
My W2K box has no virus scanner either; I just run a free one online every 6 months or so to verify that nothing's snuck on there. It never has had any viruses. It was on Service Pack 1 until a couple of months ago, too. Of course, it's behind a Linux firewall.
Well, I don't know about that, but I do know that I did my taxes in Firefox with TurboTax online (under Windows, admittedly) and it worked fine, so I imagine that you could do that with Firefox under Linux. I've used the online service for 5 or so years now, it works well, I get a pdf of the whole form at the end and they remember my basic information from one year to the next. No need to get a boxed cd for something you'll use for a week or so, and certainly no need to maintain a windows box for that sole purpose.
Yeah, my thought exactly. I love my Audrey, it's been happily blinking away in my dining room for 3+ years now, best $130 I ever spent on a computer. If one of these could be put to some useful purpose & only cost $100, I'd get one in a second.
That's a great idea. Unhappily, some places are stuck with a major piece of software which requires that the user have admin rights (oh, and for good measure, that Word macro protection is turned off). Our business runs on this software, there are no reasonable alternatives, and so we all run as admin. The user's group tries to pressure the vendor into doing the right thing, but they'd rather add bells & whistles than improve the core functionality.
I agree, I've read at least 100 books on my IIIx & it doesn't bother my eyes at all. The main thing is, my book is always there, so if there's a little down time I can read a few pages. There's no way I'd lug an iBook to the bathroom at work...
Do you know of any client that will let you throttle your downstream bandwidth? I sometimes download new distros at work, and I've found I can usually bring things to a crawl for everyone else if I use bt. If I could throttle the downstream as well as the upstream I could get a reasonable speed but not mess everyone else up.
I don't run antivirus on my W2K box at home - it's behind a linux firewall, and my wife & I don't open random junk. I do an online scan once a year or so, and I've never yet had a virus. I have set it to do automatic updates, though.
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I have a minivan with DVD player and I have to say, yes, we do need such things in our cars. On trips around town with the kids, it's great for them to be able to watch Elmo or The Magic School Bus. I'd rather let them watch movies in the car than TV at home anyday, and while their home viewing will be curtailed as their schoolwork gets more demanding, I can't see any problem with movies and video games (when they're older) while we're driving somewhere.
2) To pay someone else, have payment go directly from your associated checking account. There is no need to carry a positive balance on PayPal.
I wouldn't even do that - I haven't verified my bank account, so they can't take money out of it, only put money in. If I want to buy something, I use a credit card, if I sell something I move the money to my checking account.
Even better, start trading babysitting with other parents in your neighborhood. They're in the same boat as you, and it's nice for either mom or dad to go over & watch someone else's tv for an evening. Then you go out & one of them comes over. It's great because it's free, and particularly because other parents are more geared up to especcially young kids. If a baby wakes up and is inconsolable, a parent will bow to the inevitable and give you a call rather than being afraid of being a failure like a teenager might. We've worked it on a quid pro quo basis with a few people, and also expanded it a bit recently using babysitterexchange.com (it's free & run by parents, so you can't complain too much that it's IE only & sometimes is down).
On the high tech side, I'd say you don't really need much but whatever you decide to do, get it done before junior arrives because you sure won't have time afterwards... I'd get one of the Phillips rechargeable baby monitors & leave it at that.
From the article is appears that they've gone from $26 to $18...
If anyone wades through all the chapters and links (the printer friendly pages stop around chapter 6) can the post a link to a text file?
I would suggest that one big difference that you fail to point out is that all the parents cared enough about their kids' education to go to the extra effort of sending them to your school. I went to a private school, and even the dumbest kids went to college, because they HAD to do the work. The parents were in touch with what their kids were doing, and if they slacked they were al over them. If the parents aren't doing that, then you're certainly not going to have as high a level of overall achievement.
I had a client whose main Netware server had 450+ days uptime when we finally took it down to add a UPS. They never ever seemed to lose power.
Me too. I enabled WEP when I first got my wireless router, but the first time I had to dig out the password for a friend who was over I thought "why not just let anyone use it?" None of my neigbors are leeching that I've seen, but if they have a guest with a laptop who wants to check their mail, I say go for it. I'm sure happy to pick up a connection while travelling, just to save on having to dial up.
If hemp paper is really cheaper/easier to produce, why hasn't it taken over the European market? You always hear these wonderful claims for the stuff, but I don't hear of any countries that are making widespread use of it. That makes me question the validity of the claims.
Sure it's getting bigger - it's doing more. I've got Mandrake 10 running on a Celeron 500 with 128mb - it's not fast, but neither would XP be. It does a lot of stuff, though, right from the get-go. I don't need to get Photoshop, Dreamweaver (ok, Quantas doesn't do nearly as much yet, but for my needs it's fine) etc, I can plug my camera in & have it be recognized, it's getting to a really useable state. There are lighter weight options, but I can deal with the slowness for now. I've been trying different desktops since RH 5 or so & Mandrake 10 is the first one that might get me using Linux more than W2K at home. (And if I can get 3d Home Architect to run under WINE my wife will switch too!) I'm happy that I can still run ipcop on a 486, but for a desktop nowadays I don't mind either providing the power or dealing with some sluggishness, the environment is finally getting to the point where I'm ready to switch.
Yeah, but that's just because of all the taxes. So if the government didn't decide to just forego that income, you'd have to add another $3/gal in Europe...
Of course, your III has a Canon SX engine, so the most important part wasn't made by HP...
I'm still happily using a IID so I can save paper by printing on both sides.
The Canon 2080c does double sided well - you can set them so they discard pages of less than a given % of black, so you can toss in a mixture of single & double sided pages & the software tosses out the blanks. I've been happy with them for the larger scanning jobs, they can output multipage tifs or pdfs, rotate the image etc.They're closer to $500-600 though I think...
I did a quick google search & found this:h does indeed show an increased level of mercury in the brains of cadavers with amalgam fillings.
http://www.nvbt.nl/hot-metalen4.html
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I'm happy I never became "Verified" with them, despite being asked to do so every time I use my account. As far as I can tell, "Verified" means "we can take money out of your checking account" which I'm not into. If I buy something, I use my credit card, if I sell something, I transfer my balance out ASAP (I'm usually only selling stuff for $100 or less anyway).
I love QNX.
It's what makes my Audrey tick!
My W2K box has no virus scanner either; I just run a free one online every 6 months or so to verify that nothing's snuck on there. It never has had any viruses. It was on Service Pack 1 until a couple of months ago, too. Of course, it's behind a Linux firewall.
Well, I don't know about that, but I do know that I did my taxes in Firefox with TurboTax online (under Windows, admittedly) and it worked fine, so I imagine that you could do that with Firefox under Linux. I've used the online service for 5 or so years now, it works well, I get a pdf of the whole form at the end and they remember my basic information from one year to the next. No need to get a boxed cd for something you'll use for a week or so, and certainly no need to maintain a windows box for that sole purpose.
Yeah, my thought exactly. I love my Audrey, it's been happily blinking away in my dining room for 3+ years now, best $130 I ever spent on a computer. If one of these could be put to some useful purpose & only cost $100, I'd get one in a second.
That oil doesn't go to waste, it gets sent to the rendering plant & purified for use in animal food, etc.
That's a great idea. Unhappily, some places are stuck with a major piece of software which requires that the user have admin rights (oh, and for good measure, that Word macro protection is turned off). Our business runs on this software, there are no reasonable alternatives, and so we all run as admin. The user's group tries to pressure the vendor into doing the right thing, but they'd rather add bells & whistles than improve the core functionality.
I agree, I've read at least 100 books on my IIIx & it doesn't bother my eyes at all. The main thing is, my book is always there, so if there's a little down time I can read a few pages. There's no way I'd lug an iBook to the bathroom at work...
Do you know of any client that will let you throttle your downstream bandwidth? I sometimes download new distros at work, and I've found I can usually bring things to a crawl for everyone else if I use bt. If I could throttle the downstream as well as the upstream I could get a reasonable speed but not mess everyone else up.
If you had kids, you'd want a minivan anyway, unless you cared about your image...
I don't run antivirus on my W2K box at home - it's behind a linux firewall, and my wife & I don't open random junk. I do an online scan once a year or so, and I've never yet had a virus. I have set it to do automatic updates, though.