I was a big proponent of databank watches. My last one was a Casio PC-Unite, replete with IR transceiver, PC sync program (Windows only, alas) and a Palm applet to sync with the Palm. Unfortunately, it was killed in a tragic furniture accident. (caught the edge of the case on the edge of a cabinet and literally peeled the cover off) Since I couldn't find another one locally, I bought a Casio Wave-ceptor. It syncs to WWV every morning. Maybe not a geeky, but considerably less expensive than the PC-Unite ($38 vs. $129) and when I tell someone what time it is, I know I'm right.
Then I note that UNIX limits passwords to 8 bytes. A measly 64 bits.
64 bits? There are 92 printable ASCII characters. An 8-character password using 92 possible characters leaves 736 possibilities, or just over 9 bits. Cascading down (92*8+92*7...) adds up to 3,312, which is still less than 12 bits.
I don't think I can sleep well knowing that all that stands between my data and some hacker is such a small string.
A quick look at my XP testing box shows no such "Shop For Music Online" feature anywhere, even in folders with music files. This is a Windows Media Player-installed shell extension, isn't it?
"You won't know where applications end and the operating system begins." Ick!
I have not seen any unattended open-for-business gas stations, but the various pay-at-the-pump devices do reduce the need for staff and overall expenses.
Here in Ohio, I see lots of stations that close up the C-store at night, but leave the pay-at-the-pumps on 24/7.
That's the text/plain part you see. The "advertisement" is in the text/html part.
Not necessarily. When the nonsense pieces first began arriving, I saw a lot of them that had no text/html part, but only a series of gibberish words. It's only been the last couple of weeks that I've noticed both 2-part gibberish pieces and pieces that lead with a link before the (other) garbage. Some of them also have an image link in the plaintext section. I've been feeding all the ones in my inbox to 'sa-learn --spam', so the number isn't growing very fast for me.
Even with broadband, there still is a use for dialup, especially for travel.
Good point. A few months ago, I found myself on a road trip without net access at the hotel. Hopped out and picked up an AT&T Prepaid Internet CD. 20 hours for 20 bucks. One one hand, it's pretty much ports 80 and 443. You're supposed to use their SMTP and POP3. On the other hand, my home router does port forwarding (80 -> 22) and my ISP only blocks incoming 23. On the gripping hand, a week into the 2.5 week trip, I found out that the hotel has 802.11b, but they just don't talk about it. Considering there was no WEP and no authentication, I can sorta understand their reticence.
I'm coming up on another trip, but this time I have a Sony Ericsson T610, a USB Bluetooth dongle and T-Mobile's all-you-can-drink GPRS for $4.99 additional a month. Still no through-connect to port 22, but as I said, the router does port forwarding. Anyway, there's a 5-star sushi bar right next to the hotel. Road life doesn't always suck.
Sorry, I don't know if the Point brewery is in T-Mobile's service footprint.
Who in their right mind would think that rap music in an ad run on a classic rock station in the south is a way to sell a product?
That's Clear Channel. The same outfit that runs ads for their own classic oldies stations on their alternapop stations. (and if I'd wanted to hear oldies...)
Case in point why the only "radio" I listen to now is either NPR or something coming in over CAT5.
I'd be happy if they stopped supporting everything except XP starting today, with no notice whatsoever.
So would I, if they also terminated all OEM licensing so that XP and only XP can be sold and distributed from this point forward. Anything short of that and I will never be able to convince my managers that we need to stop developing (no, not just supporting) for this obsolete crap! As it sits, I need to keep three codebases for my drivers: 98, NT and 2K+. At least 98 and 2K+ can be kept fairly close (thanks, Walter!), but the PHBs want all the new whiz-bang ideas to work under NT too. As the sales manager puts it, "We have an OEM license. We can sell NT systems forever!". And yes, that is a real quote.
When just a sprout, I had a copy of Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. The wierd part is that I distinctly remember my copy containing the track Twinkle, twinkle little Earth, and also remember noticing that after 'Bilbo Baggins' got to be something of a hit, later pressings of 'Two Sides' no longer had that track.
FAT is positively not good for flash drives because these systems will begin to fail have a set number of writes to a specific area of the memory.
As I understand it, the IDE emulation in modern Compact Flash "disk drives" handles wear leveling at a level below the logical filesystem. JFFS is used for devices that have a bare flash chip on board (like this one).
Worked for me when I wanted to rid myself of 2 big boxes of junk (486 SBC, anyone?).
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I first read it in 1978, having gotten it from some book'o'the-month club. That was pretty early in my programming career, and I've kept the book's axioms in the forefront of my mind ever since. My favorite (from pg. 65 of the Second Edition) is
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
If that's not software engineering in a nutshell, I don't know what is.
I know I know, offtopic. I just found it hilarious that I got a check for 28 friggin' cents!
Hilarious, yes. But I think I had more laughs getting a refund from U.S. West for $0.09, complete with a 10-minute call from one of their representatives who told me I was going to receive that check and explained exactly why. I figure it had to cost at least $30.00 to send me 9 cents.
Well, my experience with streamripping net radio is that while the bitrate may not be '--alt-preset extreme', the quality of reproduction is pretty consistent. And I don't look at CDRs full of Radio Paradise as a replacement for proper additions to my collection, just as a good replacement for the largely useless broadcast radio programming. And while I can usually tell between 128kb streamrips and the 192kb set I have in the truck, I do have to listen carefully to distinguish. And 128kb is still better than FM.
We are talking about listening in a car here. Can you really differentiate 128kb vs. 192kb at 70 mph on your in-dash unit? (if so, you not only have golden ears, you're driving something way better than my beater!)
Although I do have a CD player in my car, I like to hear new things that I haven't heard before, and it gets expensive buying new CD's all the time
If you have an MP3 CD player in your car (they're down to less than $200 these days) and a CD burner, grab yourself a copy of streamripper and aim it at your favorite Shoutcast stream for about 10 hours. Then trim the saved stuff to ~670MB and burn to a CD-R. (128kb streams usually run around 9-10 hours per CD-R) Now you have a source of new material for substantially less than buying new (even bargain) CDs. I've been doing this for years.
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You still have to trust that the kiosk isn't bugged. There could be a sniffer built into the keyboard, or the PS-2 cables you plug into your cube could lead to another computer instead of to the keyboard and mouse.
When security is the issue, ask yourself if you are paranoid enough.
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I was a big proponent of databank watches. My last one was a Casio PC-Unite, replete with IR transceiver, PC sync program (Windows only, alas) and a Palm applet to sync with the Palm. Unfortunately, it was killed in a tragic furniture accident. (caught the edge of the case on the edge of a cabinet and literally peeled the cover off) Since I couldn't find another one locally, I bought a Casio Wave-ceptor. It syncs to WWV every morning. Maybe not a geeky, but considerably less expensive than the PC-Unite ($38 vs. $129) and when I tell someone what time it is, I know I'm right.
Err... because the server software only runs on Windows?
"You won't know where applications end and the operating system begins." Ick!
Again?
I'm coming up on another trip, but this time I have a Sony Ericsson T610, a USB Bluetooth dongle and T-Mobile's all-you-can-drink GPRS for $4.99 additional a month. Still no through-connect to port 22, but as I said, the router does port forwarding. Anyway, there's a 5-star sushi bar right next to the hotel. Road life doesn't always suck.
Sorry, I don't know if the Point brewery is in T-Mobile's service footprint.
Case in point why the only "radio" I listen to now is either NPR or something coming in over CAT5.
When just a sprout, I had a copy of Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. The wierd part is that I distinctly remember my copy containing the track Twinkle, twinkle little Earth, and also remember noticing that after 'Bilbo Baggins' got to be something of a hit, later pressings of 'Two Sides' no longer had that track.
Worked for me when I wanted to rid myself of 2 big boxes of junk (486 SBC, anyone?).
Well, my experience with streamripping net radio is that while the bitrate may not be '--alt-preset extreme', the quality of reproduction is pretty consistent. And I don't look at CDRs full of Radio Paradise as a replacement for proper additions to my collection, just as a good replacement for the largely useless broadcast radio programming. And while I can usually tell between 128kb streamrips and the 192kb set I have in the truck, I do have to listen carefully to distinguish. And 128kb is still better than FM.
We are talking about listening in a car here. Can you really differentiate 128kb vs. 192kb at 70 mph on your in-dash unit? (if so, you not only have golden ears, you're driving something way better than my beater!)
(For Even More Information You Can Use) Hop over to Thread-Advisory.com. Instantly discover the Fung Shui of Terror, along with tools to Spread The Fear to your own desktop.
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They're "golden" rings, not gold rings. You know, like the "Golden Dollar"?
1. Make rings out of pot metal.
2. Apply cheesy chromate finish.
3. PROFIT!!
When security is the issue, ask yourself if you are paranoid enough.