Another power it leaves in control of the station is the ability to air commercials
The only problem with that is there is too little show left at the end of the commercials. Because of that, the TIVO and such will still be there to skip blocks of commercials. Some people have too busy of a schedule to waste it on commercials. They are just there for the content right now. They have other things to do later and don't spend the time watching commercials.
Yes, maybe corporations are evil, but for the most part, when you buy something, it keeps working. I have a computer running Windows 95 that runs just as well as when we first bought it.
Good example of software that still functions as when it was new. I too have a Windows 95 machine. People ask why I don't upgrade it. It's simple. It's a Laptop. It can hold a maximum of 72 Meg of EDO memory. An OS upgrade would realy cramp the memory and it's performance. Why don't I replace the obsolete laptop? That's simple also. I play keyboard. That laptop has a built in MPU-401 interface. That interface is rare on new laptops. That laptop has a real RS-232 port which I use with the GPS and mapping software. Many of the new USB equipped laptops don't come with an RS232 port.
Am I missing out on wireless, USB, and such? Nope. I have more than one laptop. The new hardware does not replace the functionality of the old hardware, so I have both. I would be upset if for some reason Microsoft decided my laptop had to be upgraded and made it no longer support the LAN card or modem.
The diffrence is Windows 95 when installed works just like it did when new. Same for Windows for Workgroups. Intuit's software no longer functions as it did new.. Online bill pay is broken. That should work between the bank and the end user. It should not be something Intuit gets in the middle of and act like the troll under the bridge. That's what the beef is. They broke it. It's not a case of them no longer supporting it.
.. to just producing a decent product and letting the market decide if it wants it or not?
If Ford motor company came over and smashed a few features of my 68 Mustang, such as the rear view mirror and tail lights, just because it still ran fine, I would be upset.
How is a software company smashing features of their own products going to reflect on the company reputation. It's one thing to no longer support an end of life product, but to take someting that works and break it is another thing entirely. This puts Intuit's reputation on the line. The line looks a lot like a chopping block to any future consideration of business with Intuit.
Not enough studies have been done to prove/disprove anything.
Power measurements have been taken. Cell phones send a signal. A key has no battery. It does not transmit any more power than it can capture from it's environment.
On top of still actually needing an imprint of the key to gain entry of the car! So really you'd need to stand next to the person, have them somehow give you the key long enough to make an imprint and then fabricate your own to steal their car.
It's called Valet Parking. Theifs have been known to to copy keys while a temp hire for valet parking. Now some of the more desirable cars are no longer safe to let the valet park.
Where I live it's usually over a $100 to get a new transponder key made and some dealerships charge around $60-$70 to make you a new one.
If you don't loose your keys, you can save a bunch of money. Blanks are easy to find on the Internet. I have a Prius. Blanks were about $20 each. This is much cheaper than what the dealer wanted. On the Prius, the key isn't really programed. It's simply seral numbered. The car is then programmed to accept a particular key. You can do this yourself if you have the master keys. Almost any key shop will cut your supplied blank for very little. My spare keys cost me a buck each to have cut. Finding a blank key that you can custom program to an existing accepted serial number for my car would take some expensive hardware. Copying the serial number of the key into a new chip is only half the difficulty. Getting the alarm shut off so you can enter the car undetected to hack the physical ignition cylinder is the next challange.
All but the most high tech thief would find it difficult to sniff the key, copy it to a writable blank, and then using the blank to take the car. As a defense, I can always add a bunch of extra transponder keys that have been lost to my keyring. Reading a bunch of wrong codes could make it more difficult. Anytime when I now trade in a car, I'm keeping the spare keys just to keep them on my keyring to confuse sniffers.
I remember during the blaster virus, some of our laptops were getting infected so fast, we had to make sure the remote users did NOT get online, and we had to send them the security update and blaster cleaner on disk.
Set up a segment behind a router that only permits packets from Microsoft's IP range. Un-patched systems go there to get patched before being permitted online.
They can be contacted by email as well, links are in their website.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it's just like all the other ones I tried. Follow it and it dead ends on my Dell printer listing it as Comming Soon. So far I haven't found any real info other than wait and maybe we will be able to do it soon. In the meantime, I gave the printer away and continue to refill the ones I can refill.
In Australia we are lucky to have a company called "Calidad" that sells a bunch of ink refills in various sizes and very low prices, and for printers with sealed/chipped cartridges, they sell replacement cartridges again at a fraction of the price.
We have AtlasCopy. They sell supplies and ink. You can get bulk ink if that's all you need. What is missing is finding information on refilling Dell printers. I came up empty. I'll refill the printers I have instructions for and not waste my time on the other ones. I'm just trying to save money on ink, not engineer a solution for a printer and it's flavor of chip. I'm not equiped to reverse engineer chipped carts.
Since you mentioned Calidad, do they have information on refilling Dell carts?
For every listing backed by proof, post a large ad in the New York Times saying "THIS ISP SUPPORTS SPAMMERS"
I don't have that kind of money. I don't think Microsoft does either. My recycle bin only holds a couple cubic feet of stuff, so getting rid of the enclopedia size paper would also be a problem.
More and more of our hosting companies (they usually provide email services too) suddenly find themselves in different RBLs
Unfortunately for most Americans, we simply do not know anybody in Russia.
I have recieved e-mail from the.ru country. Needless to say, it was 100% junk. For me a filter on.ru is a simple and effective filter that only hits spam and has deleted no valid e-mail.
Unfortunately when the filter is placed further upstream, it does get mail to other users that may be something other than spam. And as you stated, it's the pits if you are in.ru and you do have contacts outside the country.
I suppose you expect me to do the English-Metric conversion in my head.
Nope. Google is your friend. My point is most carts will not hold near a pint of ink. Most ink cartridges will fit inside a pint beer mug with lots of room left over. The ink in a cartridge sells for about the same price as a pint bottle of ink. I only buy a cartridge when it wears out and needs replaced. I don't replace them simply because they are empty.
The Dell printer has no information online on the quanity of ink in a cartridge, the yield of a cartridge, or defeating the cartridge chip for refilling. Therefore when the printer ran out of ink, the printer was no longer useful and was donated to become someone else's problem.
The printers I can service with easy to find supplies and refilling information, I keep. Those whose operation promises to be locked down, get the boot.
I did say something. My HP722c works fine. I refill it. My HP950 uses a cart that still shows empty after refilling it. There is a way to reset it. The color carts for the HP950 is more than twice the price of the cart for the HP722c.
I vote with my wallet. I haven't bought a new cart for the 950 in over a year. I've bought new carts for the 722 when they degraded bad enough to warrant replacement.
My wife got a new Dell computer last year. It came with a Dell all in one scanner, fax, printer. It's carts are postage stamp size. They cost the same as the HP carts. They can't be picked up at the local store so Shipping and Handeling charges increase the price. When it ran out of ink, the printer got donated. We have never bought it more ink and never plan to. Any new printer purchase will be after research on the cost of supplies and page yield. As more people notice the ink is costing more than gold, more people will pay attention to the cost of supplies. I already have.
I buy my black in in Pint bottles. A pint of black ink is about the same price as a replacement 42 mL cartridge.
If it's an email claiming to be your bank or other financial institution and they ask you to click on a link contained therein, don't do it. Go to your web browser and type in the link manually.
Don't follow the link regardless. Use your old proven bookmark to go to your bank's site, then try to find the link from there. If you can't find the link from the existing bookmark, notify the bank and forward the e-mail to the bank's fraud department. They would love to hear from you.
Wow! I had some spyware overwrite the windows etc/hosts file every time I rebooted, and I couldn't remove it.
More users need to learn to use tripwire. It should be part of most AV packages. The Hosts file should not change except when the user changes it. The best bet is to put it in the router instead of the PC where it can be easly modified.
The other big problem is the bad habbit of Windows trying to run everything bright and flashy by default. A browser should be more of a browser instead of a command interface for websites.
after all, they have tons of money and if they settle, it will only cause harm to their competitors as they don't have tons of money
And this is different than a protection racket how?
You pay them and they never go away. They get stronger and start squeezing others. I'd rather see them wither and die. It's well known how the problem grows. Ever been to Yellowstone National Park. Why do you think there are "don't feed the bears" signs everywhere?
If you feed the bears, they simply become a big problem.
Please don't advise feeding the bears and hope they go away.
I just want open source drivers for those chipsets so I can automagically get wireless working on centrino laptops.
You mean like this?
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1606326,00. as p
Google is your friend.
Clip from the article;
Intel Corp. posted the version 0.1 "pre-beta" Linux driver code for its 802.11b/g Wi-Fi on SourceForge last Friday, complementing the 802.11b Linux driver code that has already been made available. An Intel representative said the final driver code is tentatively scheduled for the second half of 2004.
To them it does, as they've been interested in projecting a particular value of the Centrino brand, being low power consumption.
That's what it looks like to a lot of people. It's more than that. Anybody can make a low power low performance processor and hook it up to a wireless NIC. There are three parts required in order for a manufacture to put the Centrino logo on a laptop.
The explination direct from the manufacture explaining it is here;
http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/centrino/ in dex.htm
In a nutshell, it's the integration of power management, wireless, and a low power CPU while still providing high performance. The Mobile Pentium is just one of the 3 components. That's why there are some laptops with the Mobile Processor that may come with wireless, but are still not a Centrino system. If battery size and battery life are important to you, the Centrino does make a real difference.
I just took a look at the rate of the penalty. It's actualy $15.00 which is more than the price of my dial-up. It's more than the price of a good replacement hard drive every year.
Read it and weep here;
http://www.comcastspecial.com/
Non TV price $57.99/mo. (thereafter) TV subscriber price $42.99/mo. (thereafter)
Of course, they could just as easily change the invoice around to charge $10 more on the internet service, and credit $10 for combined service.
Actualy that is what they do. However since I don't have cable TV at all, I feel the pinch of the extra cost of not getting the combined discount. The raw price is just a little too high for me. I'm not even the least bit interested in basic cable TV. I just want Internet for the same price as the neighbors get it.
Slashdot Mirror
Another power it leaves in control of the station is the ability to air commercials
The only problem with that is there is too little show left at the end of the commercials. Because of that, the TIVO and such will still be there to skip blocks of commercials. Some people have too busy of a schedule to waste it on commercials. They are just there for the content right now. They have other things to do later and don't spend the time watching commercials.
Yes, maybe corporations are evil, but for the most part, when you buy something, it keeps working. I have a computer running Windows 95 that runs just as well as when we first bought it.
Good example of software that still functions as when it was new. I too have a Windows 95 machine. People ask why I don't upgrade it. It's simple. It's a Laptop. It can hold a maximum of 72 Meg of EDO memory. An OS upgrade would realy cramp the memory and it's performance. Why don't I replace the obsolete laptop? That's simple also. I play keyboard. That laptop has a built in MPU-401 interface. That interface is rare on new laptops. That laptop has a real RS-232 port which I use with the GPS and mapping software. Many of the new USB equipped laptops don't come with an RS232 port.
Am I missing out on wireless, USB, and such? Nope. I have more than one laptop. The new hardware does not replace the functionality of the old hardware, so I have both. I would be upset if for some reason Microsoft decided my laptop had to be upgraded and made it no longer support the LAN card or modem.
Just like they did Win95 and WFW
The diffrence is Windows 95 when installed works just like it did when new. Same for Windows for Workgroups. Intuit's software no longer functions as it did new.. Online bill pay is broken. That should work between the bank and the end user. It should not be something Intuit gets in the middle of and act like the troll under the bridge. That's what the beef is. They broke it. It's not a case of them no longer supporting it.
.. to just producing a decent product and letting the market decide if it wants it or not?
If Ford motor company came over and smashed a few features of my 68 Mustang, such as the rear view mirror and tail lights, just because it still ran fine, I would be upset.
How is a software company smashing features of their own products going to reflect on the company reputation. It's one thing to no longer support an end of life product, but to take someting that works and break it is another thing entirely. This puts Intuit's reputation on the line. The line looks a lot like a chopping block to any future consideration of business with Intuit.
Not enough studies have been done to prove/disprove anything.
Power measurements have been taken. Cell phones send a signal. A key has no battery. It does not transmit any more power than it can capture from it's environment.
On top of still actually needing an imprint of the key to gain entry of the car! So really you'd need to stand next to the person, have them somehow give you the key long enough to make an imprint and then fabricate your own to steal their car.
It's called Valet Parking. Theifs have been known to to copy keys while a temp hire for valet parking. Now some of the more desirable cars are no longer safe to let the valet park.
Where I live it's usually over a $100 to get a new transponder key made and some dealerships charge around $60-$70 to make you a new one.
If you don't loose your keys, you can save a bunch of money. Blanks are easy to find on the Internet. I have a Prius. Blanks were about $20 each. This is much cheaper than what the dealer wanted. On the Prius, the key isn't really programed. It's simply seral numbered. The car is then programmed to accept a particular key. You can do this yourself if you have the master keys. Almost any key shop will cut your supplied blank for very little. My spare keys cost me a buck each to have cut. Finding a blank key that you can custom program to an existing accepted serial number for my car would take some expensive hardware. Copying the serial number of the key into a new chip is only half the difficulty. Getting the alarm shut off so you can enter the car undetected to hack the physical ignition cylinder is the next challange.
All but the most high tech thief would find it difficult to sniff the key, copy it to a writable blank, and then using the blank to take the car. As a defense, I can always add a bunch of extra transponder keys that have been lost to my keyring. Reading a bunch of wrong codes could make it more difficult. Anytime when I now trade in a car, I'm keeping the spare keys just to keep them on my keyring to confuse sniffers.
I remember during the blaster virus, some of our laptops were getting infected so fast, we had to make sure the remote users did NOT get online, and we had to send them the security update and blaster cleaner on disk.
Set up a segment behind a router that only permits packets from Microsoft's IP range. Un-patched systems go there to get patched before being permitted online.
They can be contacted by email as well, links are in their website.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it's just like all the other ones I tried. Follow it and it dead ends on my Dell printer listing it as Comming Soon. So far I haven't found any real info other than wait and maybe we will be able to do it soon. In the meantime, I gave the printer away and continue to refill the ones I can refill.
In Australia we are lucky to have a company called "Calidad" that sells a bunch of ink refills in various sizes and very low prices, and for printers with sealed/chipped cartridges, they sell replacement cartridges again at a fraction of the price.
We have AtlasCopy. They sell supplies and ink. You can get bulk ink if that's all you need. What is missing is finding information on refilling Dell printers. I came up empty. I'll refill the printers I have instructions for and not waste my time on the other ones. I'm just trying to save money on ink, not engineer a solution for a printer and it's flavor of chip. I'm not equiped to reverse engineer chipped carts.
Since you mentioned Calidad, do they have information on refilling Dell carts?
For every listing backed by proof, post a large ad in the New York Times saying "THIS ISP SUPPORTS SPAMMERS"
I don't have that kind of money. I don't think Microsoft does either. My recycle bin only holds a couple cubic feet of stuff, so getting rid of the enclopedia size paper would also be a problem.
More and more of our hosting companies (they usually provide email services too) suddenly find themselves in different RBLs
.ru country. Needless to say, it was 100% junk. For me a filter on .ru is a simple and effective filter that only hits spam and has deleted no valid e-mail.
.ru and you do have contacts outside the country.
Unfortunately for most Americans, we simply do not know anybody in Russia.
I have recieved e-mail from the
Unfortunately when the filter is placed further upstream, it does get mail to other users that may be something other than spam. And as you stated, it's the pits if you are in
(2) Buy first snowplow dealership in Hell.
;-)
Even if it freezes over, it's not in my travel plans.
I suppose you expect me to do the English-Metric conversion in my head.
Nope. Google is your friend. My point is most carts will not hold near a pint of ink. Most ink cartridges will fit inside a pint beer mug with lots of room left over. The ink in a cartridge sells for about the same price as a pint bottle of ink. I only buy a cartridge when it wears out and needs replaced. I don't replace them simply because they are empty.
The Dell printer has no information online on the quanity of ink in a cartridge, the yield of a cartridge, or defeating the cartridge chip for refilling. Therefore when the printer ran out of ink, the printer was no longer useful and was donated to become someone else's problem.
The printers I can service with easy to find supplies and refilling information, I keep. Those whose operation promises to be locked down, get the boot.
so I never said anything.
I did say something. My HP722c works fine. I refill it. My HP950 uses a cart that still shows empty after refilling it. There is a way to reset it. The color carts for the HP950 is more than twice the price of the cart for the HP722c.
I vote with my wallet. I haven't bought a new cart for the 950 in over a year. I've bought new carts for the 722 when they degraded bad enough to warrant replacement.
My wife got a new Dell computer last year. It came with a Dell all in one scanner, fax, printer. It's carts are postage stamp size. They cost the same as the HP carts. They can't be picked up at the local store so Shipping and Handeling charges increase the price. When it ran out of ink, the printer got donated. We have never bought it more ink and never plan to. Any new printer purchase will be after research on the cost of supplies and page yield. As more people notice the ink is costing more than gold, more people will pay attention to the cost of supplies. I already have.
I buy my black in in Pint bottles. A pint of black ink is about the same price as a replacement 42 mL cartridge.
If it's an email claiming to be your bank or other financial institution and they ask you to click on a link contained therein, don't do it. Go to your web browser and type in the link manually.
Don't follow the link regardless. Use your old proven bookmark to go to your bank's site, then try to find the link from there. If you can't find the link from the existing bookmark, notify the bank and forward the e-mail to the bank's fraud department. They would love to hear from you.
Wow! I had some spyware overwrite the windows etc/hosts file every time I rebooted, and I couldn't remove it.
More users need to learn to use tripwire. It should be part of most AV packages. The Hosts file should not change except when the user changes it. The best bet is to put it in the router instead of the PC where it can be easly modified.
The other big problem is the bad habbit of Windows trying to run everything bright and flashy by default. A browser should be more of a browser instead of a command interface for websites.
after all, they have tons of money and if they settle, it will only cause harm to their competitors as they don't have tons of money
And this is different than a protection racket how?
You pay them and they never go away. They get stronger and start squeezing others. I'd rather see them wither and die. It's well known how the problem grows. Ever been to Yellowstone National Park. Why do you think there are "don't feed the bears" signs everywhere?
If you feed the bears, they simply become a big problem.
Please don't advise feeding the bears and hope they go away.
I just want open source drivers for those chipsets so I can automagically get wireless working on centrino laptops.
. as p
You mean like this?
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1606326,00
Google is your friend.
Clip from the article;
Intel Corp. posted the version 0.1 "pre-beta" Linux driver code for its 802.11b/g Wi-Fi on SourceForge last Friday, complementing the 802.11b Linux driver code that has already been made available. An Intel representative said the final driver code is tentatively scheduled for the second half of 2004.
To them it does, as they've been interested in projecting a particular value of the Centrino brand, being low power consumption.
/ in dex.htm
That's what it looks like to a lot of people. It's more than that. Anybody can make a low power low performance processor and hook it up to a wireless NIC. There are three parts required in order for a manufacture to put the Centrino logo on a laptop.
The explination direct from the manufacture explaining it is here;
http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/centrino
In a nutshell, it's the integration of power management, wireless, and a low power CPU while still providing high performance. The Mobile Pentium is just one of the 3 components. That's why there are some laptops with the Mobile Processor that may come with wireless, but are still not a Centrino system. If battery size and battery life are important to you, the Centrino does make a real difference.
Just supply the Western Union wire transfer information
Transaction number 10 digit
Secret Question such as "What is my favorite book?"
Secret Question Answer such as "Gone with the Wind"
Hint, your money will match the book title.
I just took a look at the rate of the penalty. It's actualy $15.00 which is more than the price of my dial-up. It's more than the price of a good replacement hard drive every year.
Read it and weep here;
http://www.comcastspecial.com/
Non TV price $57.99/mo. (thereafter)
TV subscriber price $42.99/mo. (thereafter)
I don't count the intro teaser price.
Of course, they could just as easily change the invoice around to charge $10 more on the internet service, and credit $10 for combined service.
Actualy that is what they do. However since I don't have cable TV at all, I feel the pinch of the extra cost of not getting the combined discount. The raw price is just a little too high for me. I'm not even the least bit interested in basic cable TV. I just want Internet for the same price as the neighbors get it.
After the Slashdot article on VOIP, you didn't click on a Vontage ad? I did. I clicked on a bunch of competitors ads.
Sometimes a well placed ad is good. Unfortunately ads in general like spam. Lots of useless products that take next to $0 to produce.
Finding a valid ad for a reputible product has become difficult due to the bad S/N ratio.
If I want to re-Finance, I start with my Credit Union. I know they have been in business for a while and their reputation is established.
Getting the same from some random online advertiser is a shot in the dark.
Phantom clicks > No Sales > Advertisers Decrease > Price Per Click Drops > Google goes bust > Phantom Clicks Stops...