If you can find out where I can buy the equivalent of the Logitech MX900 mouse, please do!
I've been looking for a large right handed bluetooth mouse without a dongle for my portable with integrated Bluetooth. Other than the tiny models like the logitech v270 that make my hands cramp or other models where I have to buy a dongle or a recharger caddy, there really isn't much choice.
You missed the Radtech BT500 (http://www.radtech.us/Products/BT500.aspx), but thanks for the other pointers.
Have you tried buying a bluetooth mouse without also having to buy an associated dongle recently? Bluetooth mice pretty much seem to have disapeared from the market. I'd like to buy the equivalent of my old Logitech MX900 except without the docking station for my Lattitude 810 that has integrated Bluetooth. However, bluetooth mice seem to have gone out of style and MK900 is no longer for sale by itself. I could only buy it if I was willing to buy their high end keyboard, USB docking station & mouse combo then toss the keyboard (whose multimedia extensions won't work with my Ubuntu installation) and the USB docking/recharging station.
I'll likely be trying out Apple's Mighty mouse, and if it works acceptably with Ubuntu, buying one.
Nah, I sometimes work with/for the people that manage the proxies. It's mostly a matter of "if it works don't fix it" as they have more than enough to do elsewhere. From their point of view, we pay good money to Websense to determine what should be filtered out (once we have selected the content categories which sould be blocked).
I don't normally believe in hidden conspiracies but did you ever wonder why Websense doesn't have an easy to select category to filter out all the ads & popups? Porn, Entertainment, etc, yeah, real easy to filter out. But not the flashing red text on a yellow background that pushes buying MS's latest bugware...
Fortunately we now use a transparent proxy so the explicit proxy conf is no longer needed and my hosts file works once more.
It's ironic that I get more unwanted popups and ads when I'm at work than I do at home. At home, there's no proxy so the hosts entries that point to localhost block them, yet at work the websense proxy that is supposed to block all the non-work related sites lets all that junk through...
Unless you're using a corporate web proxy. If an explicit (ie: non transparent) proxy is setup on your machine, no domain lookups are performed and all requests are sent to the proxy.
Microsoft refuses to supply the hotfix if Windows is an OEM installation. They say call the OEM. After spending 8 hours on the phone, I've found it easier to install Linux+Vmware. This bug has been out for over 9 months. With the growing number of systems using more than 1Gb, you'd think Microsoft would have elevated it from a limited issue hotfix to a patch downloadable uing windows update. You'd be wrong...
Windows also has problems entering hibernation mode on workstations using more than 1Gb of memory. To diminish our electric bills, we have taken to hibernating our workstations when leaving for the evening. On workstations with over 1Gb of memory this no longer possible once any serious work has taken place and the memory has become fragmented. When running windows inside Vmware under Linux this isn't a problem.
The difference in this instance is that it's not a crowd, as such. It's a large grouping of individuals
Sorry, I don't agree. In just about any case where people are able to pass anonymously, their personal sense of responsability for their actions diminishes in direct proportion with the number of individuals composing that group. Witness mobs in RL, PvP guilds picking on newbies in online games and flamewars back on Usenet. You can say that it won't happen, but unless steps are taken to stop people from hiding their unsocial behavior behing the mass of others, it'll always degenerate into a mob sooner or later.
Agreed. The scariest thing I've ever seen was an angry Mob. Taken individually, pretty much everyone can be reasoned with, but once a critical point is reached, crowds loose all common sense.
I contend that you could understand the situation if you wanted to, but you're just to lazy to do more than bitch from the safety of your armchair.
Even if we were to capture ben laden, enough of his organiziation is bound to be left around the world to guarantee that the repressive policies that have come since 9/11 are going to continue. I don't like it any more than you appear to, but I don't see any way back to an open trusting society the way it supposedly "used to be".
Rise & shine sunshine, the real world awaits you...
Of all the wiretaps authorized every year almost all are upon US citizens. The guy selling crack to teenages is a US citizen. The mafiosi ordering a hit on a gambler who hasn't payes up is a US citizen. The gangbanger planning revenge on a rival gang is a US citizen.
In an ideal world the wouldn' need to spy on anyone. Unfortunately we do not live in an ideal world and the government will spy on us. The cop watching traffic is spying on us. The TSA official checking if your name is on a watchlist is spying on you. The NSA listening to overseas phone conversations searching for Al Qaeda is spying on us.
This all happens legally according to rules & laws we as a people have validated by voting those who made the laws into place. That the government "is at war" with those of it's citizens who do not obey it's laws should be no surprise.
We use our laptops for 3 years before replacing them with new models. During those three years all repairs are taken care of by the manufacturers under support contracts. After this peiod the old PC's are either reemployed internally in non-critical applications or cleaned up and sold off to employées.
When the over 3 year old laptops we have kept break down they are sent to our corporate junkyard. We mix and match pieces when we can to salvage one a few out those that are broken.
When looking over the pile of broken down old portables, non-functional screens account for over 20%. 3 problems occur:
- failed inverters
- failed fluorecsent tubes
- cracked screens
As the laptops are essentially worthless in a corporate sense if we can't cannibalize the part from another old laptop we don't go to the expense of buying them but, if I had to, I would go here. Screentec has the most extensive list of replacement parts for laptop screens that I have found.
Try upgrading your RAM to 2Gb & then trying to hibernate. XP SP2 currently has an unresolved bug that prevents it from entering hibernation. I'd been procrastinating for years. I was using Windows as my main OS & running Linux under VMWare. Once MS made it impossible for me to only reboot when updates made it neccesary, I finally jumped to Linux as my main OS.
Nobody cares about you making copies of something you already own for personal use
Not true. The dark secret in the heart of many RIAA execs is that they want everyone to abandon the notion of "owning" music and accept the idea that they must pay the RIAA every time they listen to a song.
Thanks for replying Derek. As my introduction to usenet was on a Multics machine, I have been lurking for a looong time. I still read the same newsgroups (with Emacs+Gnus so that I can score the trolls & crossposts down & the interesting posters up), but the number of posts has been going steadily downward for years.
The only reason I lurk instead of posting is that as space is not my profession, I'm an merely a very interested amateur & don't have much of value to add to the very interesting discussions. I prefer not adding to the noise unless I have what I consider to be an interesting question which no-one has addressed.
Yeah, well thats not what has happened. Instead of being used to further space exploration, research into scramjets is used as a kind of social services for aerospace workers the way the shuttle has been for 25 years. BMDO's dream of a cheap, reusable low tech Delta Clipper was transformed into Lockheed's expensive high-tech & technology testbed called VentureStar. Don't see too many of those flying around, do you.
As Derek Lyons mentionned elsewhere, in industrial quantities, LOX is 20 times cheaper than gasoline. Instead of spending money to eliminate what is cheap, we should be using lots of cheap low-tech tech in a big dumb booster!
Derek, I was a long time lurker in sci.space.* & a few other newsgroups where I valued your input. Ever since usenet more or less dried up & withered away, I have been wondering where all the interesting people (Henry Spencer, Brian Trosko, Frank Cray, Mike Combs, Cary Sublette, Scott Lowther, I could go on & on) went. Is there a website regrouping any of that old community that you know of?
As over 75% of the shuttle's accelleration is exo-atmospheric where scramjets are useless, this is a good thing. Adding a poorly accelerating scramjet to the rockets needed for take-off + accelleration to scramjet speeds and the rockets needed to function outside the atmosphers only buys you a vehicle that will never attain orbit.
I'll keep saying this every time scramjets come up.
Scramjets are neither new nor really useful technology. Testbeds have been flying since the late 60's but the major problem with scramjets is that they are a very complicated solution to a very narrow problem. Decades of research have only shown that hypersonic combustion is extremely complicated & that more money is needed to "solve" the problem.
First off, thay cannot begin functioning unassisted. They need rockets to get them up to hypersonic speeds so all scramjets are more properly rocket/scramjets. Two propulsion systems == at least twice the complications and probably close to 2.5 times the mass.
Too low and atmospheic friction is an insurmountable obstacle.
Too high and not enough oxygen is present.
Compared to rockets they have really poor acceleration. Compared to rockets which exit the atmosphere as quickly as structurally possible (The shuttle has to throttle down it's main engines for around 30 seconds shortly after launch so as to limit stresses), a scramjet would need minutes dragging itself through a narrow stretch of atmosphere. Drag costs alone completely annul any advantage a scramjet is supposed to gain.
Other than a possible use as a sustainer motor for a certain class of long range upper atmospheric missiles (AWACS killers), their only practical use is serving as a substitute social security program for aerospace workers.
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If you can find out where I can buy the equivalent of the Logitech MX900 mouse, please do!
I've been looking for a large right handed bluetooth mouse without a dongle for my portable with integrated Bluetooth. Other than the tiny models like the logitech v270 that make my hands cramp or other models where I have to buy a dongle or a recharger caddy, there really isn't much choice.
You missed the Radtech BT500 (http://www.radtech.us/Products/BT500.aspx), but thanks for the other pointers.
> How is this news?
Have you tried buying a bluetooth mouse without also having to buy an associated dongle recently? Bluetooth mice pretty much seem to have disapeared from the market. I'd like to buy the equivalent of my old Logitech MX900 except without the docking station for my Lattitude 810 that has integrated Bluetooth. However, bluetooth mice seem to have gone out of style and MK900 is no longer for sale by itself. I could only buy it if I was willing to buy their high end keyboard, USB docking station & mouse combo then toss the keyboard (whose multimedia extensions won't work with my Ubuntu installation) and the USB docking/recharging station.
I'll likely be trying out Apple's Mighty mouse, and if it works acceptably with Ubuntu, buying one.
Nah, I sometimes work with/for the people that manage the proxies. It's mostly a matter of "if it works don't fix it" as they have more than enough to do elsewhere. From their point of view, we pay good money to Websense to determine what should be filtered out (once we have selected the content categories which sould be blocked).
I don't normally believe in hidden conspiracies but did you ever wonder why Websense doesn't have an easy to select category to filter out all the ads & popups? Porn, Entertainment, etc, yeah, real easy to filter out. But not the flashing red text on a yellow background that pushes buying MS's latest bugware...
Fortunately we now use a transparent proxy so the explicit proxy conf is no longer needed and my hosts file works once more.
It's ironic that I get more unwanted popups and ads when I'm at work than I do at home. At home, there's no proxy so the hosts entries that point to localhost block them, yet at work the websense proxy that is supposed to block all the non-work related sites lets all that junk through...
Unless you're using a corporate web proxy. If an explicit (ie: non transparent) proxy is setup on your machine, no domain lookups are performed and all requests are sent to the proxy.
Microsoft refuses to supply the hotfix if Windows is an OEM installation. They say call the OEM. After spending 8 hours on the phone, I've found it easier to install Linux+Vmware. This bug has been out for over 9 months. With the growing number of systems using more than 1Gb, you'd think Microsoft would have elevated it from a limited issue hotfix to a patch downloadable uing windows update. You'd be wrong...
heh, read my sig
Windows also has problems entering hibernation mode on workstations using more than 1Gb of memory. To diminish our electric bills, we have taken to hibernating our workstations when leaving for the evening. On workstations with over 1Gb of memory this no longer possible once any serious work has taken place and the memory has become fragmented. When running windows inside Vmware under Linux this isn't a problem.
Agreed. The scariest thing I've ever seen was an angry Mob. Taken individually, pretty much everyone can be reasoned with, but once a critical point is reached, crowds loose all common sense.
I wouldn't label less than 100 lines of script and apache config file contents worthy of over two years of development...
If he publishes the real code to his "freedb2" then he'll be worthy of respect. Until then...
A method for the dead to feed off the living springs to mind...
I contend that you could understand the situation if you wanted to, but you're just to lazy to do more than bitch from the safety of your armchair.
Even if we were to capture ben laden, enough of his organiziation is bound to be left around the world to guarantee that the repressive policies that have come since 9/11 are going to continue. I don't like it any more than you appear to, but I don't see any way back to an open trusting society the way it supposedly "used to be".
Rise & shine sunshine, the real world awaits you...
Of all the wiretaps authorized every year almost all are upon US citizens. The guy selling crack to teenages is a US citizen. The mafiosi ordering a hit on a gambler who hasn't payes up is a US citizen. The gangbanger planning revenge on a rival gang is a US citizen.
In an ideal world the wouldn' need to spy on anyone. Unfortunately we do not live in an ideal world and the government will spy on us. The cop watching traffic is spying on us. The TSA official checking if your name is on a watchlist is spying on you. The NSA listening to overseas phone conversations searching for Al Qaeda is spying on us.
This all happens legally according to rules & laws we as a people have validated by voting those who made the laws into place. That the government "is at war" with those of it's citizens who do not obey it's laws should be no surprise.
When the over 3 year old laptops we have kept break down they are sent to our corporate junkyard. We mix and match pieces when we can to salvage one a few out those that are broken.
When looking over the pile of broken down old portables, non-functional screens account for over 20%. 3 problems occur:
- failed inverters
- failed fluorecsent tubes
- cracked screens
As the laptops are essentially worthless in a corporate sense if we can't cannibalize the part from another old laptop we don't go to the expense of buying them but, if I had to, I would go here. Screentec has the most extensive list of replacement parts for laptop screens that I have found.
Try upgrading your RAM to 2Gb & then trying to hibernate. XP SP2 currently has an unresolved bug that prevents it from entering hibernation. I'd been procrastinating for years. I was using Windows as my main OS & running Linux under VMWare. Once MS made it impossible for me to only reboot when updates made it neccesary, I finally jumped to Linux as my main OS.
Naaah, Nasa's public relations got nothing to worry about from him. He's as believable as Charles Manson.
Not true. The dark secret in the heart of many RIAA execs is that they want everyone to abandon the notion of "owning" music and accept the idea that they must pay the RIAA every time they listen to a song.
Gollum? Is that really you?
Thanks for replying Derek. As my introduction to usenet was on a Multics machine, I have been lurking for a looong time. I still read the same newsgroups (with Emacs+Gnus so that I can score the trolls & crossposts down & the interesting posters up), but the number of posts has been going steadily downward for years.
The only reason I lurk instead of posting is that as space is not my profession, I'm an merely a very interested amateur & don't have much of value to add to the very interesting discussions. I prefer not adding to the noise unless I have what I consider to be an interesting question which no-one has addressed.
Thanks again,
Pat
As Derek Lyons mentionned elsewhere, in industrial quantities, LOX is 20 times cheaper than gasoline. Instead of spending money to eliminate what is cheap, we should be using lots of cheap low-tech tech in a big dumb booster!
Wow, a voice of authority in the wilderness!
Derek, I was a long time lurker in sci.space.* & a few other newsgroups where I valued your input. Ever since usenet more or less dried up & withered away, I have been wondering where all the interesting people (Henry Spencer, Brian Trosko, Frank Cray, Mike Combs, Cary Sublette, Scott Lowther, I could go on & on) went. Is there a website regrouping any of that old community that you know of?
As over 75% of the shuttle's accelleration is exo-atmospheric where scramjets are useless, this is a good thing. Adding a poorly accelerating scramjet to the rockets needed for take-off + accelleration to scramjet speeds and the rockets needed to function outside the atmosphers only buys you a vehicle that will never attain orbit.
I'll keep saying this every time scramjets come up.
Scramjets are neither new nor really useful technology. Testbeds have been flying since the late 60's but the major problem with scramjets is that they are a very complicated solution to a very narrow problem. Decades of research have only shown that hypersonic combustion is extremely complicated & that more money is needed to "solve" the problem.
First off, thay cannot begin functioning unassisted. They need rockets to get them up to hypersonic speeds so all scramjets are more properly rocket/scramjets. Two propulsion systems == at least twice the complications and probably close to 2.5 times the mass.
Too low and atmospheic friction is an insurmountable obstacle.
Too high and not enough oxygen is present.
Compared to rockets they have really poor acceleration. Compared to rockets which exit the atmosphere as quickly as structurally possible (The shuttle has to throttle down it's main engines for around 30 seconds shortly after launch so as to limit stresses), a scramjet would need minutes dragging itself through a narrow stretch of atmosphere. Drag costs alone completely annul any advantage a scramjet is supposed to gain.
Other than a possible use as a sustainer motor for a certain class of long range upper atmospheric missiles (AWACS killers), their only practical use is serving as a substitute social security program for aerospace workers.