What would be great is something like a UFS/FFS filesystem drive for Windows!
And the Mac OS X users wouldn't complain about it either. OS X already supports UFS.
NTFS is a tough nut to crack. At least HFS+ has specs available. I'm not sure because I've never looked at the code, but there may even be source code for an HFS+ file system in the Darwin project. There are at least two commercial HFS+ file system drivers for Windows, but that could leave Linux users in the cold. (Does Linux have HFS+ support yet?)
Don't rush out to buy fiber unless you need the noise isolation
...or the distance. In any case, don't go thinking you're "future-proofing" yourself by stringing fiber through the walls of your house. Because while there's only one kind of Cat 5e copper, there's at least two kinds of fiber (single mode and multi-mode) to deal with. And some corollary of Murphy's Law will predict that whichever kind of fiber that you've spent money to install without an immediate need will be the wrong kind when the need arrives.
The only kind of "pipe" which is truly future-proof is an empty one, with air inside. One inch is a nice size. And maybe a length of nylon lanyard to help pull something through.
It's limited to 100 meters, but for communities, home networks and any switched network
Dammit, and I'm about 160 meters from my DSL head end. I guess I won't be getting 1000BT delivered to my house any time soon. Gives me more time to afford that gig module for the Cisco switch in my house, though.
The _original_ films now only exist as worn VHS tapes.
That's odd. I could swear my laserdiscs were of the original films. Aside from the "A New Hope" title, that is. I hear that got inserted in the years between the original theatrical release and the video release. Damn, I wish I knew what happened to the ancient bootleg VHS copy that my family used to have way back when.
I'd like to see GL try to "insert" Natalie Portman into my own laserdisc copies. If he comes anywhere near them, he's gonna get a bowl of hot grits down his pants.
Now, how do you block FLASH from a server. That would be good, as a lot of ads are going Flash:-(
I do indeed wish Mozilla could block flash from specific servers like it can block pictures.
But since it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon, my solution is to simply move the Flash plug-in out of the plug-ins folder (a folder called "plug-outs" is good for this) until I want to use it, and then I just move it back to the plug-ins folder. No need to restart Mozilla, though you sometimes might have to click the "install the plug-in" icon, close the window that pops up, then click on the "after you've installed the plug-in" icon.
There's an easy way to make a relatively strong password that is also relatively easy to remember. How many of you have ever tried to make a cheezy D&D character name generator by having it generate cvccvc combinations (like say, keztul)? They can come up with some pretty wierd... but still pronounceable... stuff.
So start with a random cvccvc (c=consonant v=vowel) combination. Yes, I know it's not quite as good as a fully random alpha combination (by a factor of 275625), but it's a lot easier to remember. Then add a punctuation character (especially a shifted one like !@#$%^&*() ) and you will get something like "kez#tul". That's a pretty decent password right there.
If you have a truly fascist password policy to satisfy, change a letter to a l33t5p33k digit, and maybe make one letter uppercase. In this case, the result could be "k3z#t00L".
If you come up with three or four cvccvc pseudo-words, you can even use them for various security levels. One for r00t passwords, one for "normal" passwords, and one for web passwords (like slashdot, etc.).
I once had an experience sort of like B. After playing Spy Hunter a lot (this was back in the days when it was new), one day I had a momentary urge to drive into the back of a red 18-wheeler. Of course it didn't put its ramp down.
Silly boy. Everyone knows that yellow is the fastest color. Red, being the second fastest color, is used for decals.
FWIW, A few months I saw a ricecar with a ton of decals on it, some of them even referring to decal companies. One of the decals said "VINYL INCREASES HORSEPOWER". I am not making this up. This was one riceboy who knew how silly ricecaring was, and loved it anyhow.
I saw Ebert's show last night, and he said that he thought the bootleg cam copy actually looked better than when he watched it on a (non-digital) theatre screen, possibly because the cam softened all the digital effects.
Anyhow, I'm not going to watch it, but that's because I haven't watched the SE versions or EP 1, and I plan to stay a Han Solo Firstist and Jar-Jar free.
Am I the only/.'er to proudly have never seen Episode 1? Not only that, but I never watched Star Wars SE, with the Ministry of Truth's "new improved truth" that Han Solo didn't shoot first. All I know about Episode 1, I learned from Wierd Al Yankovic.
And to back up my beliefs, I have two different non-SE widescreen versions of all three movies (notice I didn't say four) on glorious laserdisc.
So all those of you who still haven't seen Episode 1, come out of the closet and admit to the world: I am Jar-Jar free!
I've noticed a wireless base station at the back of my local Home Depot. I seem to recall it had a directional antenna pointed at the cash register area. (And by extension, towards the parking lot as well.) I hope they have enough clue to use at least minimal encryption.
The hell with parking lots. Get an iPaq or Zaurus with an 802.11b card and you could walk around the store with it turned on and hidden in your pocket. For as long as the batteries held out, anyhow.
They should just go back to the Color Classic form factor and forget about all this space-shuttle-nosecone concept.
That's fine if you don't mind going back to a 9 inch monitor. The "nosecone" is the most efficient way to cover up the neck of the big CRT. Otherwise you'd have a "Color Classic form factor" that takes up a two-foot square on your desktop.
Damn right. Compared to Go, chess is for wimps. Computers do so well in chess because there are relatively few moves to consider at each point, and brute-force searches are possible. At any given point in Go, there are hundreds of legal moves, and sometimes the best move can be very obscure. More thinking time generally does not make for a better move by a Go playing program.
The current "best" Go programs can be easily defeated by moderately strong human players, nowhere near the pro level. To use the catch phrase from the movie Mr. Baseball, they all "have a hole in their swing". If a human who knows their holes plays them, the programs are toast, even with (and maybe sometimes because of) a heavy handicap.
A million dollar prize (that expired a couple of years ago) for a program as strong as a beginner pro hasn't helped.
You'd be an asshole too if you worked register there. I have never been in a best buy where each register didn't have at least two people waiting in line. I've stopped shopping there since twice they've had register wait times of over 15 minutes or more.
That's the one thing I hate most about Best Buy. I'm surprised you only had two people waiting in line. Of course it seems like when I go in, the line isn't so bad, but by the time I reach the checkout lines they're all three or four deep, and at least one has a problem that needs a manager.
But refusing to sell an item at a "typo" price less than cost isn't as bad as trying to create their own video format with heavy encryption, requiring a phone line, and with a 48-hour viewing window price that's more than most video rental stores. As for the phone droids called up to confirm the price, they were probably looking at the same database, or even the same web page. That kind of phone droid is one level below your average nationwide ISP tech support desk, and we all know how smart those are.
My mom wants one of those new iMacs, and I don't think she'll consider OS X web browsers to be slow. Because right now she's using a 6100 with AOL 4.0. Now that's slow.
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Yep, looks like he's trolling.
And the Mac OS X users wouldn't complain about it either. OS X already supports UFS.
NTFS is a tough nut to crack. At least HFS+ has specs available. I'm not sure because I've never looked at the code, but there may even be source code for an HFS+ file system in the Darwin project. There are at least two commercial HFS+ file system drivers for Windows, but that could leave Linux users in the cold. (Does Linux have HFS+ support yet?)
Unless they're IBM GXP hard drives, that is.
...or the distance. In any case, don't go thinking you're "future-proofing" yourself by stringing fiber through the walls of your house. Because while there's only one kind of Cat 5e copper, there's at least two kinds of fiber (single mode and multi-mode) to deal with. And some corollary of Murphy's Law will predict that whichever kind of fiber that you've spent money to install without an immediate need will be the wrong kind when the need arrives.
The only kind of "pipe" which is truly future-proof is an empty one, with air inside. One inch is a nice size. And maybe a length of nylon lanyard to help pull something through.
Dammit, and I'm about 160 meters from my DSL head end. I guess I won't be getting 1000BT delivered to my house any time soon. Gives me more time to afford that gig module for the Cisco switch in my house, though.
Yes. To George's ego.
That's odd. I could swear my laserdiscs were of the original films. Aside from the "A New Hope" title, that is. I hear that got inserted in the years between the original theatrical release and the video release. Damn, I wish I knew what happened to the ancient bootleg VHS copy that my family used to have way back when.
I'd like to see GL try to "insert" Natalie Portman into my own laserdisc copies. If he comes anywhere near them, he's gonna get a bowl of hot grits down his pants.
I do indeed wish Mozilla could block flash from specific servers like it can block pictures.
But since it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon, my solution is to simply move the Flash plug-in out of the plug-ins folder (a folder called "plug-outs" is good for this) until I want to use it, and then I just move it back to the plug-ins folder. No need to restart Mozilla, though you sometimes might have to click the "install the plug-in" icon, close the window that pops up, then click on the "after you've installed the plug-in" icon.
So start with a random cvccvc (c=consonant v=vowel) combination. Yes, I know it's not quite as good as a fully random alpha combination (by a factor of 275625), but it's a lot easier to remember. Then add a punctuation character (especially a shifted one like !@#$%^&*() ) and you will get something like "kez#tul". That's a pretty decent password right there.
If you have a truly fascist password policy to satisfy, change a letter to a l33t5p33k digit, and maybe make one letter uppercase. In this case, the result could be "k3z#t00L".
If you come up with three or four cvccvc pseudo-words, you can even use them for various security levels. One for r00t passwords, one for "normal" passwords, and one for web passwords (like slashdot, etc.).
I once had an experience sort of like B. After playing Spy Hunter a lot (this was back in the days when it was new), one day I had a momentary urge to drive into the back of a red 18-wheeler. Of course it didn't put its ramp down.
FWIW, A few months I saw a ricecar with a ton of decals on it, some of them even referring to decal companies. One of the decals said "VINYL INCREASES HORSEPOWER". I am not making this up. This was one riceboy who knew how silly ricecaring was, and loved it anyhow.
Anyhow, I'm not going to watch it, but that's because I haven't watched the SE versions or EP 1, and I plan to stay a Han Solo Firstist and Jar-Jar free.
That would be "fi-wi". As in Fixed-Wired.
And to back up my beliefs, I have two different non-SE widescreen versions of all three movies (notice I didn't say four) on glorious laserdisc.
So all those of you who still haven't seen Episode 1, come out of the closet and admit to the world: I am Jar-Jar free!
I've noticed a wireless base station at the back of my local Home Depot. I seem to recall it had a directional antenna pointed at the cash register area. (And by extension, towards the parking lot as well.) I hope they have enough clue to use at least minimal encryption. The hell with parking lots. Get an iPaq or Zaurus with an 802.11b card and you could walk around the store with it turned on and hidden in your pocket. For as long as the batteries held out, anyhow.
That's fine if you don't mind going back to a 9 inch monitor. The "nosecone" is the most efficient way to cover up the neck of the big CRT. Otherwise you'd have a "Color Classic form factor" that takes up a two-foot square on your desktop.
If it was so easy, why would the programs keep losing after those nine handicaps? Chess is for wimps because computers can be made to play it so well.
A Sonnet G4... into a 6100? Do the words "good money after bad" mean anything to you?
I just want the DVD box set already, dammit. And while they're at it, could they please get UHF released, too?
The current "best" Go programs can be easily defeated by moderately strong human players, nowhere near the pro level. To use the catch phrase from the movie Mr. Baseball, they all "have a hole in their swing". If a human who knows their holes plays them, the programs are toast, even with (and maybe sometimes because of) a heavy handicap.
A million dollar prize (that expired a couple of years ago) for a program as strong as a beginner pro hasn't helped.
...until the site you want to use gets slashdotted. And right when I was just about to look up a different RFC (2321 FWIW), too.
I don't know what math you use, but in my math, 129 + 200 = 329 and 399 - 200 = 199.
That's the one thing I hate most about Best Buy. I'm surprised you only had two people waiting in line. Of course it seems like when I go in, the line isn't so bad, but by the time I reach the checkout lines they're all three or four deep, and at least one has a problem that needs a manager.
But refusing to sell an item at a "typo" price less than cost isn't as bad as trying to create their own video format with heavy encryption, requiring a phone line, and with a 48-hour viewing window price that's more than most video rental stores. As for the phone droids called up to confirm the price, they were probably looking at the same database, or even the same web page. That kind of phone droid is one level below your average nationwide ISP tech support desk, and we all know how smart those are.
My mom wants one of those new iMacs, and I don't think she'll consider OS X web browsers to be slow. Because right now she's using a 6100 with AOL 4.0. Now that's slow.