Try Avast Antivirus. The home version is free for personal use and keeps itself more up-to-date than any other AV I've ever used. The scanning engine is light and fast. The pro version for businesses is extremely powerful and flexible and runs $40.
They're also beta-testing a Linux A/V client, they actually FIX BUGS when people post them to their forum, and all-in-all a few of the other A/V companies could learn from them when it comes to ease-of-use, auto-updating, and product support...
That player is very nice, but it will won't play infinity.S3M "Infinity / Necros" correctly. Only ST3, FT2, and a dos player I can't remember the name of (ran in 640x480x16 with a neat VIS and srolled smoothly down to the tracklist with the mouse, that's all I remember) played it correctly. Under Windows the closest I've found to playing it is ModPlug.
And there ARE Windows trackfile players that will use the soundfont capabilities of the SBLive to mix the samples. I just can't remember any of them now.
Well I didn't really want to burn my only $20 bill just in case these guys were right. But if there is some kind of metallic object that explodes hidden in Jackson's right eye, it should have at least heated up in that amount of time.
From the article: So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties in a stack, not spread out on a carasoul.
Now, looking at the second picture, and knowing a bit about how microwaves heat stuff... looks to me like the approximate center of the stack charred up nicely in the microwave. Notice the bills near the top and bottom of the stack are nearly untouched. The reason the center of the bills charred in the same place in all the bill is because it was the center of the stack.
I sincerely hope this article is intended as a joke, or at the very least "we did something really dumb and we're going to at least make it funny" situation.
And for the record, I just zapped a $20 bill for 20 seconds and it's barely even warm, on Jackson's right eye or anywhere else.
NAV Corporate 7.6 kicks ass. Did you know in the 8.0 version they've put in the stupid product activation and have taken it back to 1-year subscriptions? They don't make mention of that fact when you order it, either.
And the uninstall/reinstall to get another year hasn't worked since NAV 2001, I don't think...
Yes, except that the newest version of NAV, 2004, has broken approximately 50% of the machines I've seen it installed on. And not just Windows ME (which -shipped- broken) but 2000 and XP as well. God help you if you run 98SE and try to activate a (legitimately) downloaded version. I've seen more systems come into my shop due to NAV issues in the past 3 months than I have in for the past 3 years. Symantec has really shot themselves in the foot; a bloated, buggy product in combination with product activation.
I've been sending my clients to the nice people at Avast. Haven't heard a complaint yet...
Yeap, the second law of thermodynamics IS a problem. Let's see, efficiently convert ethanol into hydrogen? Fine. Have a fuel cell that efficiently converts hydrogen into power we can use? Great.
But it uses no fossil fuels? Well, maybe not directly, but... let's see, where do we get ethanol? Hmm. Well, most of it comes from corn. Corn treated with heat. That heat comes from natural gas, usually. So there's a fossil fuel. What else? Corn has to be harvested. Usually this involves tractors, harvesters, and other large pieces of farm equipment that generally run on.. d'oh! More fossil fuel!
According to the US Dept. of Energy, creating ethanol takes about 29% more energy than it provides. Since most of that energy going into the ethanol-creation process is fossil fuel-based, we'd probably be better off just burning the fossil fuels directly. Using ethanol just burns them up even faster.
'lang=us' is what you type at the boot prompt to get US keyboard support in the OS. On the English versions of Knoppix, typing this at the boot prompt isn't a problem. On a German-booting version, typing 'lang=us' could present problems unless you know how to get the = sign.
Except that we ARE licensed to share and modify it. We may not (if they hypothetically changed the license on us) be able to share and modify FUTURE versions, but every version/release up until today is still fair game.
Now see, I've got the exact opposite point of view. Stimulant medication is a great boon to me; without it, I can't achieve jack. ADD for me is like a glass wall that separates me from what I know I'm capable of doing. Without the medication, I have constant cool ideas that I never keep in my head long enough to actually act on. That's the ADD. With the medication, I have constant cool ideas that I can actually pick and choose from, act on, and accomplish. It also allows me to develop an interest in things that don't normally interest me, which may seems trivial, but it allows me to do the important, dull, daily stuff required by Real Life that would ordinarily drive me bonkers trying to do.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with medication; cases of habit-forming addiction to stim medications are the exception, not the rule, and frequently brought on by a less-than-knowledgable doctor. But don't think that just because you didn't have a good experience with the medication that medication is a bad thing; for the majority of us ADDer, it's the only way to function effectively in the real world.
Bet Albert Einstein could've accomplished even more if someone had thought to give him the Ritalin diet pills that were available at the time.
Well what are you supposed to do, then? Tell people to move their homes out of harm's way? Or better yet....
"That's right folks, next Monday is gonna be a big one! But don't worry, since it's probably just your property and not you that will be damaged, you might as well just stay right where you are."
Mediacom spans IL, eastern IA, and parts of MO and WI. Their cable internet access rates are actually some of the highest in the country for the service they offer. $55/month for 1.5Mb down/128Kb up. If you get other cable service from them it's something like $45/month + the rest of the bill. If you're a business, you'll pay $100 minimum for the exact same service and bandwidth.
In western IL/eastern IA there is also DSL available from McLeodUSA and Qwest. Rates and speeds are pretty comparable: About $40/month for 384Kb/256Kb. One thing that's actually starting to take off around here is wireless broadcast access. The pricing is pretty comparable to DSL, but you don't have to be in a certain location to get it, as long as you have line of site on the broadcast tower. I believe the main provider of this is Dynamic Broadband, formerly Web Unwired.
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And Metacrawler, the cool engine that actually searched all of the OTHER engines, then organized and displayed the results. One of the most amazingly useful things on the web at the time. Then they got bought by go.com, I think, which got bought by Disney... I just checked, Metacrawler is still around, but predictably it's all paid links. Sad...
I wonder if this post will show up during the trial...
"SCO: (Radiating righteous indignation) See? See?! According to Slashdot comment #7890057, this Disc2 guy on Slashdot says he's been copying our code! See? We TOLD YOU! Judge: (Laughing hysterically)"
I read it with the Magician's Nephew preceding the Last Battle, but after all the other books. I have to say I agree with you. As a kid reading these books, finding out at last, WHY there was a lantern out in the middle of nowhere, and where the Witch came from was just.. well, magical. And since I was into astronomy as a kid I knew what Charn's red sun meant, as well. The idea of all those worlds, in all those pools... the Magician's Nephew has always been my favorite Narnia book, and reading it first destroys the magic of it, I think.
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AOL spams snail mail at their own cost. Spammers spam e-mail at the cost of those who operate the mail servers.
Try Avast Antivirus. The home version is free for personal use and keeps itself more up-to-date than any other AV I've ever used. The scanning engine is light and fast. The pro version for businesses is extremely powerful and flexible and runs $40.
They're also beta-testing a Linux A/V client, they actually FIX BUGS when people post them to their forum, and all-in-all a few of the other A/V companies could learn from them when it comes to ease-of-use, auto-updating, and product support...
"I forgot the passphrase. Sorry."
That player is very nice, but it will won't play infinity.S3M "Infinity / Necros" correctly. Only ST3, FT2, and a dos player I can't remember the name of (ran in 640x480x16 with a neat VIS and srolled smoothly down to the tracklist with the mouse, that's all I remember) played it correctly. Under Windows the closest I've found to playing it is ModPlug.
And there ARE Windows trackfile players that will use the soundfont capabilities of the SBLive to mix the samples. I just can't remember any of them now.
Well I didn't really want to burn my only $20 bill just in case these guys were right. But if there is some kind of metallic object that explodes hidden in Jackson's right eye, it should have at least heated up in that amount of time.
From the article:
So we chose to 'microwave' our cash, over $1000 in twenties in a stack, not spread out on a carasoul.
Now, looking at the second picture, and knowing a bit about how microwaves heat stuff... looks to me like the approximate center of the stack charred up nicely in the microwave. Notice the bills near the top and bottom of the stack are nearly untouched. The reason the center of the bills charred in the same place in all the bill is because it was the center of the stack.
I sincerely hope this article is intended as a joke, or at the very least "we did something really dumb and we're going to at least make it funny" situation.
And for the record, I just zapped a $20 bill for 20 seconds and it's barely even warm, on Jackson's right eye or anywhere else.
NAV Corporate 7.6 kicks ass. Did you know in the 8.0 version they've put in the stupid product activation and have taken it back to 1-year subscriptions? They don't make mention of that fact when you order it, either.
And the uninstall/reinstall to get another year hasn't worked since NAV 2001, I don't think...
Yes, except that the newest version of NAV, 2004, has broken approximately 50% of the machines I've seen it installed on. And not just Windows ME (which -shipped- broken) but 2000 and XP as well. God help you if you run 98SE and try to activate a (legitimately) downloaded version. I've seen more systems come into my shop due to NAV issues in the past 3 months than I have in for the past 3 years. Symantec has really shot themselves in the foot; a bloated, buggy product in combination with product activation.
I've been sending my clients to the nice people at Avast. Haven't heard a complaint yet...
Yeap, the second law of thermodynamics IS a problem. Let's see, efficiently convert ethanol into hydrogen? Fine. Have a fuel cell that efficiently converts hydrogen into power we can use? Great.
But it uses no fossil fuels? Well, maybe not directly, but... let's see, where do we get ethanol? Hmm. Well, most of it comes from corn. Corn treated with heat. That heat comes from natural gas, usually. So there's a fossil fuel. What else? Corn has to be harvested. Usually this involves tractors, harvesters, and other large pieces of farm equipment that generally run on.. d'oh! More fossil fuel!
According to the US Dept. of Energy, creating ethanol takes about 29% more energy than it provides. Since most of that energy going into the ethanol-creation process is fossil fuel-based, we'd probably be better off just burning the fossil fuels directly. Using ethanol just burns them up even faster.
A source for more ethanol numbers: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031128.html
Or, right after step 5 (the reboot) a deep-rooted bug in your hardware or the kernel completely blows up the filesystem. Oops.
It's rare, sure, and unlikely. But it's a real risk.
Be nice to use Knoppix first, since it doesn't touch your native filesystem if you don't want it to.
'lang=us' is what you type at the boot prompt to get US keyboard support in the OS. On the English versions of Knoppix, typing this at the boot prompt isn't a problem. On a German-booting version, typing 'lang=us' could present problems unless you know how to get the = sign.
Except that we ARE licensed to share and modify it. We may not (if they hypothetically changed the license on us) be able to share and modify FUTURE versions, but every version/release up until today is still fair game.
Yeah, someone's gonna have to go punch the reset button at the console.... volunteers?
... so I can make a normalmap out of it, dump it into Celestia and watch it bring my computer to a screeching halt.
Talk about fun!
Now see, I've got the exact opposite point of view. Stimulant medication is a great boon to me; without it, I can't achieve jack. ADD for me is like a glass wall that separates me from what I know I'm capable of doing. Without the medication, I have constant cool ideas that I never keep in my head long enough to actually act on. That's the ADD. With the medication, I have constant cool ideas that I can actually pick and choose from, act on, and accomplish. It also allows me to develop an interest in things that don't normally interest me, which may seems trivial, but it allows me to do the important, dull, daily stuff required by Real Life that would ordinarily drive me bonkers trying to do.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with medication; cases of habit-forming addiction to stim medications are the exception, not the rule, and frequently brought on by a less-than-knowledgable doctor. But don't think that just because you didn't have a good experience with the medication that medication is a bad thing; for the majority of us ADDer, it's the only way to function effectively in the real world.
Bet Albert Einstein could've accomplished even more if someone had thought to give him the Ritalin diet pills that were available at the time.
Well what are you supposed to do, then? Tell people to move their homes out of harm's way? Or better yet....
"That's right folks, next Monday is gonna be a big one! But don't worry, since it's probably just your property and not you that will be damaged, you might as well just stay right where you are."
I can just picture that.
Mediacom spans IL, eastern IA, and parts of MO and WI. Their cable internet access rates are actually some of the highest in the country for the service they offer. $55/month for 1.5Mb down/128Kb up. If you get other cable service from them it's something like $45/month + the rest of the bill. If you're a business, you'll pay $100 minimum for the exact same service and bandwidth.
In western IL/eastern IA there is also DSL available from McLeodUSA and Qwest. Rates and speeds are pretty comparable: About $40/month for 384Kb/256Kb. One thing that's actually starting to take off around here is wireless broadcast access. The pricing is pretty comparable to DSL, but you don't have to be in a certain location to get it, as long as you have line of site on the broadcast tower. I believe the main provider of this is Dynamic Broadband, formerly Web Unwired.
And Metacrawler, the cool engine that actually searched all of the OTHER engines, then organized and displayed the results. One of the most amazingly useful things on the web at the time. Then they got bought by go.com, I think, which got bought by Disney... I just checked, Metacrawler is still around, but predictably it's all paid links. Sad...
I wonder if this post will show up during the trial...
"SCO: (Radiating righteous indignation) See? See?! According to Slashdot comment #7890057, this Disc2 guy on Slashdot says he's been copying our code! See? We TOLD YOU!
Judge: (Laughing hysterically)"
If they hadn't made agreements that for the first year of their existance, only Compaq could include them on OEM machine, they might have caught on.
Instead, they were limited to a single brand while ZIP was everywhere.
I read it with the Magician's Nephew preceding the Last Battle, but after all the other books. I have to say I agree with you. As a kid reading these books, finding out at last, WHY there was a lantern out in the middle of nowhere, and where the Witch came from was just.. well, magical. And since I was into astronomy as a kid I knew what Charn's red sun meant, as well. The idea of all those worlds, in all those pools... the Magician's Nephew has always been my favorite Narnia book, and reading it first destroys the magic of it, I think.
I particularly liked the water drop animation at the end of the second movie... reminded me very strongly of Dune.
I'm a big green bug who won't be kind
when I shoot my laser at your big behind...
I'm a big green mantis, who's feeling blue
'til the day comes when I CONQUER YOU!
</Zorak>
I wonder if this is part of the answer.
Yeah, send 'em into the organ banks. Mind you, if my arm falls off, I'm not sure I'd like to know my new one might have come from a spammer...