We've been getting telemarking calls for someone (who apparently had our number at some point) for something like 2 years. It was really fun about a month ago when the collection agencies started calling for her...
Microsoft Bob: While it was a horrible failure as a product, it did teach Microsoft much about human computer interaction, what their customers want, and how to market products better. End the end, it was probably a pretty cheap "failure."
And the project still lives on as the Office Assistant in Office.
I got something similar from register.com (to it's credit, it had the words "domain transfer" in several places).
Weird part was they were offering, along with all my domains (not just the one about to expire), but they were offering me a domain name that belongs to someone else... I hope that was an honest accident...
I read an article (I wish I had a link to it) where they studied the cleanliness of many things in the house, and it turns out that the toilet seat is one of the cleanest things in the house. It's so smooth that it's hard for anything to stick to it. The Average cutting board has orders of magnitude more bacteria than a toilet seat...
I've shipped a lot of computers and almost always, UPS (pronounced Oops), would jiggle lots of cards and sockets. I rarely ship anything that doesn't have a seating problem with it on the other end.
We used to get our PCs shipped from Mass. to Calif. (long story) and about every other one had loose cards or CPUs by the time we got it. Pretty soon I opened every one and reseated the cards and CPUs (slot 1 PIIIs). I might as well have assembeled them myself. They all always worked though...
Not really big iron, but my small office was receiving a shipment of 3 (or so) PCs. The shipping guy tried to bring them all in at once, and managed to drop them all over the parking lot. (the receptionist was watching).
The irony of the situation: We had been recently bought out by a Massachusetts company (we were in California), and they specified that we should order PCs with a Mass. office that they had a contract with. The Mass. office was a brach office of a California company (but we still had to have the PCs shipped from Mass).
Back when I was working on an OS, I found that there were some instructions that were incompletely/improperly emulated by bochs and plex86.
I don't mean this to sound a rude as it's probably going to, but why couldn't you just fix Bochs/plex86? Would that be harder than working around instructions that you want to use?
I think the point of the Schneier quote is that once the same "password" is used for more than one thing it becomes less secure. It is input more often in more places. Everytime you set up a password with someone, you take a chance that the person you give it to, or the equiptment used can't be trusted. If you're interested in *strong* security, you don't take any chances.
To my understanding, the AirPort card is a relabeled Lucent/Orinoco card.
If you're looking at attaching an external antenna, you're probably better off attaching it to an AirPirt card. Not only is the AP card cheaper (last I checked), but it has also the socket to attach an antenna to (which aren't on many (any?) other current cards).
I thought the law said that they can only charge your credit card when the item is shipped... I may be remembering incorrectly, but if it's true, it seems that they are charging the cards before shipping...
As I geek, I have some problems with the way the window manager works. I've become used to switching between two arbitrary windows that I'm working with using Alt-Tab (I use this both in Windows and Linux with KDE). The equivelent in OS X is Cmd-Tab which switches between *applications*, and always in the same order (rather than the stack model that Win and KDE use, keeping the most recent ones closer to the top of the stack).
That and I miss focus follows mouse.
If anyone can tell me how to quickly switch between to arbitrary windows in OS X (using the keyboard) I'd love to hear it.
Slashdot Mirror
It was difficult to copy VHS->VHS before the DMCA. So why do we need another law? Does it help that it's more illegal now?
The word is copyrighted. It is a right to copy. (this isn't intended as a flame. I'll be the first to admit that I make mistakes too)
We've been getting telemarking calls for someone (who apparently had our number at some point) for something like 2 years. It was really fun about a month ago when the collection agencies started calling for her...
Microsoft Bob: While it was a horrible failure as a product, it did teach Microsoft much about human computer interaction, what their customers want, and how to market products better. End the end, it was probably a pretty cheap "failure."
And the project still lives on as the Office Assistant in Office.
I got something similar from register.com (to it's credit, it had the words "domain transfer" in several places).
Weird part was they were offering, along with all my domains (not just the one about to expire), but they were offering me a domain name that belongs to someone else... I hope that was an honest accident...
Larry Ellison *is* on the Apple board...
I read an article (I wish I had a link to it) where they studied the cleanliness of many things in the house, and it turns out that the toilet seat is one of the cleanest things in the house. It's so smooth that it's hard for anything to stick to it. The Average cutting board has orders of magnitude more bacteria than a toilet seat...
Yep. I used to use Moz + IJB over a year ago, and it should still work unless they've broken it.
I've shipped a lot of computers and almost always, UPS (pronounced Oops), would jiggle lots of cards and sockets. I rarely ship anything that doesn't have a seating problem with it on the other end.
We used to get our PCs shipped from Mass. to Calif. (long story) and about every other one had loose cards or CPUs by the time we got it. Pretty soon I opened every one and reseated the cards and CPUs (slot 1 PIIIs). I might as well have assembeled them myself. They all always worked though...
Not really big iron, but my small office was receiving a shipment of 3 (or so) PCs. The shipping guy tried to bring them all in at once, and managed to drop them all over the parking lot. (the receptionist was watching).
:-)
The irony of the situation: We had been recently bought out by a Massachusetts company (we were in California), and they specified that we should order PCs with a Mass. office that they had a contract with. The Mass. office was a brach office of a California company (but we still had to have the PCs shipped from Mass).
Company names left out to protect the guilty
Back when I was working on an OS, I found that there were some instructions that were incompletely/improperly emulated by bochs and plex86.
I don't mean this to sound a rude as it's probably going to, but why couldn't you just fix Bochs/plex86? Would that be harder than working around instructions that you want to use?
I think the point of the Schneier quote is that once the same "password" is used for more than one thing it becomes less secure. It is input more often in more places. Everytime you set up a password with someone, you take a chance that the person you give it to, or the equiptment used can't be trusted. If you're interested in *strong* security, you don't take any chances.
To my understanding, the AirPort card is a relabeled Lucent/Orinoco card.
If you're looking at attaching an external antenna, you're probably better off attaching it to an AirPirt card. Not only is the AP card cheaper (last I checked), but it has also the socket to attach an antenna to (which aren't on many (any?) other current cards).
Too bad it's a Flash only site...
And IIRC, it's been available for quite some time.
I thought the law said that they can only charge your credit card when the item is shipped... I may be remembering incorrectly, but if it's true, it seems that they are charging the cards before shipping...
Getting a little OT here...
As I geek, I have some problems with the way the window manager works. I've become used to switching between two arbitrary windows that I'm working with using Alt-Tab (I use this both in Windows and Linux with KDE). The equivelent in OS X is Cmd-Tab which switches between *applications*, and always in the same order (rather than the stack model that Win and KDE use, keeping the most recent ones closer to the top of the stack).
That and I miss focus follows mouse.
If anyone can tell me how to quickly switch between to arbitrary windows in OS X (using the keyboard) I'd love to hear it.
Thundercougarfalconbird!
You forget they spent the last two months fixing their security, so this is no longer a concern. All their code is perfect now.
I run Linux and Qtopia on my ipaq...
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/ipaq.html
(of course, I did pay for the CE license...)
"Windows 95 is not based on DOS"
I used one a long time ago (~1996, back then the max speed was 56K). Telnet sessions had a noticable latency, but were usable.
(but not in the Marx dictatorship sense)
Have you ever read Marx? True communism in the Marxist sense basically is a working Anarchy...
So did the Sun 3/60... but I was only 4 LEDs, IIRC
Last time I used a Ricochet modem the ping time wasn't that great (but that was to a base station, not modem to modem).