I just bought an iBook this weekend. On first bootup, it asked me to setup the wireless network and enter the WEP password. I tried so many times to enter it and it would say incorrect password. It was only deep in a manual somewhere that I found out I had to prefix the password with a dollar sign if entered in hex. Nowhere during the install did it say that. And here I thought Macs were the easiest to use!
The CueCat can decode quite a few barcodes. I got the Oreilly's "hacking hardware" a few weeks ago and de-clawed a CueCat and tried it on many barcodes from products and from glabels. Did you know that by cutting off one pin on an IC in the CueCat, it outputs unencoded numbers and text so no special program is needed to read barcodes?
He is just John Asscroft asking for how to encrypt the top secret database of foreign lobbyists. Doesn't want to risk it on that nearly failing hard drive so he is planning to back it up.
I'd like to get an Apple notebook but an Powerbook is out of my price range. If I get a recent iBook do the problems still exist or have the manufacturing issues been resolved?
It is a very thin book but I have only skimmed through it. The name of the book basically comes from this idea...
If you were for example painting a big house or something it my take one man two months to complete. But if you had two men then it takes one month. The more people you add the faster the job it done. So we often talk about how many man months are needed to complete a job. But that are many tasks that cannot be made faster by adding more people. Brooks states that programming is one of those tasks. Adding too many people to the programming effort will only make it take longer because of interdependencies, communication and coordination required. The programmer and time are not fungible. We cannot simple expect to complete a project that takes 1 man 18 months with 18 men in 1 month. As you add more men the time improvements become less and less.
There is some book on robotics I read that uses a Palm Pilot as the brain of a robot. The catch is that you have to build a simple serial to parallel convertor so you can interface the Palm to the servos and sensors. An old plam can be gotten for $20-$30 and it has an IR sensor, display, fast cpu and lots of memory compared to a microcontroller.
I didn't say all drugs have to be free...I just said that those developed through public funding. Companies are free to patent drugs they developed and funded themselves. Why should the government interfere with the free market?
You need to understand that there are approximate solutions to many of these problems anyway. Computer scientists talk about a problem being NP but in the real world maybe a 90% optimal solution may be good enough.
I once made more than the usual amount of money on a harddrive on ebay but the buyer was very specific about the model number he wanted. Apparently he had a drive with a bad pcb that he wanted to swap out to recover data. I didn't exactly recover anywhere near the purchase cost but it was nice change for such a small capacity drive.
The common saying with free software is "who can you sue when something goes wrong." Well you can sue Netgear in this case but in a class action suit only the lawyers get rich. The most compensation the actual victims will get is a $10 rebate on the next Netgear purchase. What you really want is the problem not to have occured in the first place. I believe that if this was truely open source software, there are enough paranoid enough people reviewing the code for back doors like this before it went to far. Personally I prefer to deal with people or companies I can trust than that I can sue.
On a side note I noticed that this SOHO NAS server I bought also has a password hidden in its firmware. Fortunately it requires some minor hardware modifications to enable a serial port needs to be made before this is possible so the security implications are minimal.
I work at a company that makes flash memory card components. Often the problem is not the card speed but that of the interface it plugs into. That USB 2.0 card reader may say it goes at 480 Mb/s but they never say anything about the media interface which is much slower. We really have to search hard to find a fast card reader.
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I just bought an iBook this weekend. On first bootup, it asked me to setup the wireless network and enter the WEP password. I tried so many times to enter it and it would say incorrect password. It was only deep in a manual somewhere that I found out I had to prefix the password with a dollar sign if entered in hex. Nowhere during the install did it say that. And here I thought Macs were the easiest to use!
Would this imply that Microsoft is using the same algorithm as Google?
Have you tried asking Comcast tech support about SMTP performance? I have Comcast broadband and most email takes a few seconds to recieve at the most.
The CueCat can decode quite a few barcodes. I got the Oreilly's "hacking hardware" a few weeks ago and de-clawed a CueCat and tried it on many barcodes from products and from glabels. Did you know that by cutting off one pin on an IC in the CueCat, it outputs unencoded numbers and text so no special program is needed to read barcodes?
"The reason why could suggest a solution."
He is just John Asscroft asking for how to encrypt the top secret database of foreign lobbyists. Doesn't want to risk it on that nearly failing hard drive so he is planning to back it up.
No the message given out there is "Competition (from Linux for example) brings price reductions."
'Are Americans really that stupid as to need an explanation for what the term "Word-of-Mouth" means?'
Well look who we elected as president.
For those not familiar with the three envelope joke: The three envelopes
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I'd like to get an Apple notebook but an Powerbook is out of my price range. If I get a recent iBook do the problems still exist or have the manufacturing issues been resolved?
It is a very thin book but I have only skimmed through it. The name of the book basically comes from this idea...
If you were for example painting a big house or something it my take one man two months to complete. But if you had two men then it takes one month. The more people you add the faster the job it done. So we often talk about how many man months are needed to complete a job. But that are many tasks that cannot be made faster by adding more people. Brooks states that programming is one of those tasks. Adding too many people to the programming effort will only make it take longer because of interdependencies, communication and coordination required. The programmer and time are not fungible. We cannot simple expect to complete a project that takes 1 man 18 months with 18 men in 1 month. As you add more men the time improvements become less and less.
The reason Slackware is release 10 is because they jumped numbers a few years back because they thought they were falling back in the "numbers game."
Maybe. Yes.
There is some book on robotics I read that uses a Palm Pilot as the brain of a robot. The catch is that you have to build a simple serial to parallel convertor so you can interface the Palm to the servos and sensors. An old plam can be gotten for $20-$30 and it has an IR sensor, display, fast cpu and lots of memory compared to a microcontroller.
I didn't say all drugs have to be free...I just said that those developed through public funding. Companies are free to patent drugs they developed and funded themselves. Why should the government interfere with the free market?
should be free. It should be free without any restrictions on its use.
You need to understand that there are approximate solutions to many of these problems anyway. Computer scientists talk about a problem being NP but in the real world maybe a 90% optimal solution may be good enough.
[Jaba] sit ...
Sitting
[Jaba] wait
Waiting
[Jaba] wait
Waiting
[Jaba] wait
Waiting
[Jaba] wait
Waiting
You are getting hungry
[Jaba] eat small critter
Yumm
[Jaba] yank chain on scantly clad women
Those who want a remake of Ultima 4 for Linux/OSX/Windows can get it at http://xu4.sourceforge.net/
Then why is it when I go to a museum some random images are passed of as art?
I once made more than the usual amount of money on a harddrive on ebay but the buyer was very specific about the model number he wanted. Apparently he had a drive with a bad pcb that he wanted to swap out to recover data. I didn't exactly recover anywhere near the purchase cost but it was nice change for such a small capacity drive.
The common saying with free software is "who can you sue when something goes wrong." Well you can sue Netgear in this case but in a class action suit only the lawyers get rich. The most compensation the actual victims will get is a $10 rebate on the next Netgear purchase. What you really want is the problem not to have occured in the first place. I believe that if this was truely open source software, there are enough paranoid enough people reviewing the code for back doors like this before it went to far. Personally I prefer to deal with people or companies I can trust than that I can sue.
On a side note I noticed that this SOHO NAS server I bought also has a password hidden in its firmware. Fortunately it requires some minor hardware modifications to enable a serial port needs to be made before this is possible so the security implications are minimal.
I work at a company that makes flash memory card components. Often the problem is not the card speed but that of the interface it plugs into. That USB 2.0 card reader may say it goes at 480 Mb/s but they never say anything about the media interface which is much slower. We really have to search hard to find a fast card reader.
My eyes have full screen anti-aliasing when I remove my glasses. No more jaggies!