...since, at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, the only guy able to easily get connected to a WiFi access point and use the public wireless network that had been set up was using.... gasp... a PowerBook!
"I have tried to get an Orinoco Wireless WiFi (Allchin pronounced it "Wiffy" at least seven times in his market department written presentation) and I can't get it to work with Windows 2000. Alex hasn't managed with Windows XP. No one else in the press section has connected to the Internet with their 802.11 cloud. Allchin couldn't connect to Wiffy. But Peter has connected to the Internet with the same card with his PowerBook == as Peter says, with Apple everything is either easy or impossible. Using the Orinoco card with his PowerBook was easy. With Windows 200o so far it has been impossible... (But that eventually worked see below.)"
"I have managed to get on the Internet. The local network is WINHWC2002. Yesterday it was WinHEC2002. It is case sensitive. Except that Peter's Apple didn't have that problem. He got on yesterday and he's still on today, in a hall that no one else can get on because of very weak signals. Astonishing."
With a couple of Macs, some X10 modules, some deft AppleScripting, and the proper cables, I've got my whole house behaving like a well-oiled machine.
The only thing that separates me from true techie nirvana is a TiVo that, out of the box, will let me connect it via a Cat-5 cable to my LAN at home so I'd have the option of programming it/managing it with a web interface. I love my TiVo, but I hate how tedious it is to use the remote to do that stuff when I could be using a mouse and keyboard.
Being able to archive shows to a computer via Ethernet would be nice as well, but I'm really hurting for a more efficient way to bend the TiVo to my will.
Yes, Server has a lot of this stuff. The Server Admin tool is great for administering most things, especially Apache. And you can still edit httpd.conf by hand if you want to - Apache just runs off of multiple config files. It'd be nice if it was easy to write and add modules for Server Admin (for things like mySQL); perhaps this will come later.
Well, the Admin stuff on AppleShare IP is pretty modular in nature-- if you have Apple Remote Access Server installed, the ASIP installer picks up on this and adds an Admin module for it in the Admin app. And it's also possible in ASIP to manually strip out the modules you don't use so the server doesn't have unneeded functionality and it doesn't appear in the Admin app.
Considering how similar ASIP is to X Server, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that it is similarly modular.
It was a very cool show, until FOX ruined it by ripping off other sci-fi movies and by replacing John Rhys-Davies with Kari Wuhrer, in a shameless T&A ploy. It didn't get any better on the Sci Fi Channel, and new episodes stopped being produced. After a while, even the reruns stopped being shown.
It's a real shame. Hopefully they'll release the 2-hour pilot and at least the first couple of seasons on DVD at some point. I still have a videotape of the pilot buried somewhere in my house. Gotta find that.:-(
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...I'm gonna send him two letters with stock picks and Super Bowl & World Series winners. "...and if you could just drop one of these in a mailbox when you arrive, I'd really appreciate it... thanks!":-)
One for my dad, if he goes back to the early 60's, and one for me if he only goes back to the early 90's. Maybe my dad will throw his out, but I've been dreaming about doing that for so long that I'd certainly believe what I was reading if a mysterious letter in my own handwriting suddenly showed up in my mailbox one day.
Because there is no better product endorsement than to be seen in public "eating your own dogfood," or "putting your money where your mouth is." Conversely, there's nothing worse you can do to hurt a company's reputation than to work for them and be seen using the products of their competitor. This makes people wonder, "If Company A's product is supposed to be so good, how come a Company A employee, who probably gets it cheaper than Joe Schmoe consumer (or even free), still chooses Company B's competing product?"
This is why people who work at car dealerships are given demo cars for personal use. Would you want to buy a GM car from a salesman who drives to the dealership every day in a Toyota? Would you find his pitch about how GM cars are superior to all others very believable, when his personal funds went to buy a non-GM car?
I remember reading a couple months ago (and just Googled the article, 2nd from the top) that highly-paid Pepsi shill Britney Spears was photographed with Coca Cola products. Twice, in a rather short time frame. Pepsi publicly pooh-poohed this, but you can be sure that their PR people are chugging Pepto Bismol over it, because she holds sway over a nation of twelve year-old girls who want to be her-- which would entail them consuming Coke when they're not busy filming a commercial for Pepsi.:-)
This is why it's news when Microsoft chooses someone else's product to run something, or when they fail when trying to replace a competing product with their own and end up proving that said Microsoft product doesn't live up to its marketing hype (e.g. Hotmail's original failed NT conversion). In this particular case, it's just a boneheaded mistake-- nobody thought to say, "Oh, by the way, let's make sure that our anti-UNIX site is running on IIS," but it's still noteworthy if for not other reason than because of the almost comical irony.
Why would you need a remote? It's not like you've got to get up and walk across the room to trigger the spraying of your ass-- you're already sitting right there on the thing!
The only use I can see for a remote control would be if it was RF so it worked through walls and closed doors. You could sure have some fun with unsuspecting friends then.:-)
In a victory for a team of Philadelphia lawyers, a federal judge in St. Louis has struck down as unconstitutional a federal law that bans unsolicited advertisements sent by fax, but says nothing about unwanted faxes that don't meet the law's definition of "advertisement."
The ruling is a victory for a team of lawyers from Cozen O'Connor - Arthur W. Lefco, Michael P. Broadhurst and Julie G. DiSalvio - who represented Fax.com Inc. and challenged the constitutionality of a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The fax number for the Philadelphia offices of Cozen & O'Connor is 215-665-2013. Start forwarding all the spam you get to their fax machine, and see how long they continue to not have a problem with unsolicited faxes needlessly consuming their electricity, paper, and toner, and tying up their fax machine from receiving/sending legitimate correspondence.
Yeah, I think an ultra-glossy black iBook would look really cool.
Myself, I'm happy with the white... though I have thought about redoing the top panel of mine in an arctic-camouflage look, just to differentiate it a little bit.
The SleevCase is basically an envelope of about 1/2 inch of foam padding. The opening has one velcro strap that goes over it. There is just enough excess length to the case that if you velcro it tightly, it effectively completely encloses the iBook in a foam cocoon. And it fits wonderfully in my backpack, I have no trouble at all getting it out or putting it away quickly, while the (top-loading) case remains in the backpack. I think you can get a model with loops for a shoulder strap, but mine is just bare bones, never meant to be used outside of my backpack.
Take it from someone who made this decision almost a year ago. The 12" iBook is *much* more durable than the TiBook.
The TiBook is too flexible; if picked up in one hand, it will bend-- in early models, it could bend enough for the battery contacts to lose contact with the battery. The iBook is made to be used by young kids in school, and put up with what they can dish out-- this makes it the ideal machine for a support tech like me who's out on the road all the time. My iBook goes with me everywhere in my backpack. I have no doubts it'd be fine in there by itself, though I did indulge in a padded SleevCase from Waterfield Designs to provide a little more protection. I highly recommend their cases, they ship quickly and are responsive to their customers-- they very quickly made a 'top loader' version of their iBook SleevCase when asked, so I don't even need to take the case out of my backpack, and I still have the 'side loader' model for when I take the iBook somewhere without my backpack.
In the History Channel's WTC documentary, they showed large backup generators whose purpose was to briefly power the entire complex in an outage. There were also large tanks of diesel fuel to supply the generators. I'd say it's likely that setup was in 7 WTC or one of the other ancillary buildings.
The designing mechanical engineer is haunted to the core over this.
Yeah, that was disturbingly apparent. The poor bastard looked like Death in those interviews. I remember wondering the first time I saw it if we'd be hearing about his suicide in the near future-- he obviously (and wrongly, IMHO) feels incredibly responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths.
...the report more or less concludes that the buildings collapsed because of the way they were designed, but withstood the damage for as long as they did before collapsing because of the way they were designed. Talk about, "Damned if you do, damned it you don't."
The worst-case disaster scenario for those towers was a 707 accidentally blundering into one, not a bunch of crazy religious-zealot, martyr-wannabe motherfuckers purposely plowing a much larger, fully-fueled aircraft into it at full speed.
If anyone who lost someone in the collapse even thinks of trying to sue anyone involved in the design or construction of the twin towers, they ought to be drawn and quartered. Sure, they could build a building that could stand up to worse than the WTC got, but proofing it against everything would cost a mint and leave a few phone booths' worth of usable space per floor. Don't forget that there wouldn't be any windows. The rent would be so expensive that nobody would be able to afford to put an office in it.
IMHO, when you step back and look at the big picture, you simply cannot fault the design of the buildings for the fact that they catastrophically failed in the face of an unprecedented, unimagined, deliberate action that was well beyond the scope of their design.
The best example of bad bundled software was @Home's-- it was crap, plain and simple. Wow, you mean you're giving me OLD versions of IE and OE that kill my existing bookmarks, reset my homepage, and wreak other havoc? All just so the browser and mail program have your stupid animated logo instead of the default one? Oh, I can't wait to install it!
Way back when I got my cable modem (now replaced by DSL), Comcast sent out hardware guys and software guys separately. Mind you, this was long before the days of the self-install kit. The hardware guys did their job, but when the software guy showed up I didn't let him in the door. "Just gimme the config sheet with the server addresses, and be on your way," I said. And he did, and I amazingly survived for years with only the default IE throbber to watch while pages loaded.
The only useful app in that whole shitty bundle was the one that tested the @Home servers so I could find out exactly what was wrong before calling up to yell at the support monkeys.
Even worse, the Comcast.net software was even bigger shit-- almost every one of my clients who used @Home had their systems pretty well screwed by running that damned installer. Though on the plus side, I made quite a bit of money un-fucking things for them.:-)
and an 'in-flight recorder' for my car. When some jerk cuts me off and I ram him, or some cop claims I didn't signal a turn, I'd like to have proof to back up my claims of innocence. Of course, it should have an 'erase' button just in case...
I'd love to have a small camera looking forward out my windshield, kinda like what the cops have, but slightly different. Say, it only retains the last 15 minutes or so, and records for two minutes after an impact before automatically stopping. I can almost hear FOX already developing "World's Wildest Civilian Dash-Cam Videos."
Of course, I still want complete control of the tape so I can erase it if it will show the accident is *my* fault.:-) I would never want some legally-mandated thing where the cops confiscate the media and hold it for the accident investigation before handing it over to the insurance company.
As for a TiVo for radio, well, how would that work? You have no visual cues to know when to stop fast-forwarding. Other than that, though, I'd kinda enjoy being able to listen to the Stern show in 25 minutes while avoiding all the shitty commercials and zapping uninteresting/annoying guests. I can get through both episodes of his E! show in about 15 minutes without having to sit through any crappy "Girls Gone Wild XXVIII," "Playboy Mansion Parties," or "Make Your Cock Bigger With This Pill" commercials.:-)
Instead of outright jamming the signal, create emitters that force (future) phones into 'vibrate' mode-- calls/pages/whatever will still be able to be received, but without disturbing those around the recipient.
Now, if someone whose phone was forced into vibrate mode takes a call while sitting in the theater during the movie, then their fellow moviegoers should be allowed to freely dispense with some angry mob justice.
And rude assholes with cellphones ARE a problem that should be dealt with severely. Last week I caught a very early matinee of "40 Days and 40 Nights"-- I was the ONLY person in the theater, until two theater employees came in and sat down for a bit, fairly far along in the film. Wouldn't you know one of the idiots had a cellphone that rang at full volume, five minutes later?
Way back when I first got my Tandy 1000, I got a disk full of BASIC programs and games from I know not where. One of them played "Ever Onward" while displaying the lyrics on the screen, line by line. I played this so often (hey, I was about 12 years old and it was a catchy tune) that I still remember them, but they are not the same as the lyrics on that site. Instead, it was this verse:
There's a feeling everywhere Of bigger things in store Of new horizons coming into view Our aim is clear to make each year Exceed the one before Staying in the lead in everything we do The will to win is built right in It will not be denied And we will go ahead, we know By working side by side
And this was followed by the chorus, and that was it.
I wonder if what I have is a 'bootleg' version? And I wonder if I still have that old 5 1/4" floppy buried somewhere in my house and can find a machine to read it.
Interland got me for $60 with their faux-invoice back in December. The domain name I thought I was renewing was originally registered in my behalf by a third party, so I was unaware that Interland wasn't the correct registrar.
It gets better-- they cashed that $60 check long ago, but my domain records still indicate that my domain will expire at the end of this coming April. I never got any sort of acknowledgement from them. AND, in the last couple of months they have sent me two more identical "YOUR DOMAIN NAME WILL EXPIRE SOON" notices, probably in the hopes that I'll be dumb enough to pay those, too.
On the entire mailing, it only says "This is not an invoice" in one spot, in fairly small print, buried in a block of text. Clearly not in compliance with the postal regulations you linked to. I just finished filling out a mail fraud complaint on the USPS web site. Anyone else who fell for Interland's little scheme should go fill it out, too.
Well the Repair Extension Program is over (though it didn't end too long ago), and Apple is no longer (to my knowledge) offering trade-in deals for 5300 and 190 series PowerBooks, so you're probably SOL at this point. But if you've already accepted that you took a bath on it, I don't see any harm in putting it on eBay.
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...since, at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, the only guy able to easily get connected to a WiFi access point and use the public wireless network that had been set up was using.... gasp... a PowerBook!
So says Jerry Pournelle, anyway:
"I have tried to get an Orinoco Wireless WiFi (Allchin pronounced it "Wiffy" at least seven times in his market department written presentation) and I can't get it to work with Windows 2000. Alex hasn't managed with Windows XP. No one else in the press section has connected to the Internet with their 802.11 cloud. Allchin couldn't connect to Wiffy. But Peter has connected to the Internet with the same card with his PowerBook == as Peter says, with Apple everything is either easy or impossible. Using the Orinoco card with his PowerBook was easy. With Windows 200o so far it has been impossible... (But that eventually worked see below.)"
"I have managed to get on the Internet. The local network is WINHWC2002. Yesterday it was WinHEC2002. It is case sensitive. Except that Peter's Apple didn't have that problem. He got on yesterday and he's still on today, in a hall that no one else can get on because of very weak signals. Astonishing."
~Philly
With a couple of Macs, some X10 modules, some deft AppleScripting, and the proper cables, I've got my whole house behaving like a well-oiled machine.
The only thing that separates me from true techie nirvana is a TiVo that, out of the box, will let me connect it via a Cat-5 cable to my LAN at home so I'd have the option of programming it/managing it with a web interface. I love my TiVo, but I hate how tedious it is to use the remote to do that stuff when I could be using a mouse and keyboard.
Being able to archive shows to a computer via Ethernet would be nice as well, but I'm really hurting for a more efficient way to bend the TiVo to my will.
~Philly
He should have put Office on those PCs too, to see how long it took the little urchins to begin hating Clippy!
Yes, Server has a lot of this stuff. The Server Admin tool is great for administering most things, especially Apache. And you can still edit httpd.conf by hand if you want to - Apache just runs off of multiple config files. It'd be nice if it was easy to write and add modules for Server Admin (for things like mySQL); perhaps this will come later.
Well, the Admin stuff on AppleShare IP is pretty modular in nature-- if you have Apple Remote Access Server installed, the ASIP installer picks up on this and adds an Admin module for it in the Admin app. And it's also possible in ASIP to manually strip out the modules you don't use so the server doesn't have unneeded functionality and it doesn't appear in the Admin app.
Considering how similar ASIP is to X Server, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see that it is similarly modular.
~Philly
What makes Spider-Man so special that HE must be hyphenated but Batman, Superman, Aquaman, et al are not?
:-)
I would think if any of the super heroes would be hyphenated, it would be Wonder Woman (or is that Wonder Wo-Man?), since she's a liberated chick.
~Philly
I wouldn't be caught dead in a concrete submarine until they get their shit together with concrete surface ships.
~Philly
It was a very cool show, until FOX ruined it by ripping off other sci-fi movies and by replacing John Rhys-Davies with Kari Wuhrer, in a shameless T&A ploy. It didn't get any better on the Sci Fi Channel, and new episodes stopped being produced. After a while, even the reruns stopped being shown.
:-(
It's a real shame. Hopefully they'll release the 2-hour pilot and at least the first couple of seasons on DVD at some point. I still have a videotape of the pilot buried somewhere in my house. Gotta find that.
...I'm gonna send him two letters with stock picks and Super Bowl & World Series winners. "...and if you could just drop one of these in a mailbox when you arrive, I'd really appreciate it... thanks!" :-)
One for my dad, if he goes back to the early 60's, and one for me if he only goes back to the early 90's. Maybe my dad will throw his out, but I've been dreaming about doing that for so long that I'd certainly believe what I was reading if a mysterious letter in my own handwriting suddenly showed up in my mailbox one day.
~Philly
..this IS news, and here's why:
:-)
Because there is no better product endorsement than to be seen in public "eating your own dogfood," or "putting your money where your mouth is." Conversely, there's nothing worse you can do to hurt a company's reputation than to work for them and be seen using the products of their competitor. This makes people wonder, "If Company A's product is supposed to be so good, how come a Company A employee, who probably gets it cheaper than Joe Schmoe consumer (or even free), still chooses Company B's competing product?"
This is why people who work at car dealerships are given demo cars for personal use. Would you want to buy a GM car from a salesman who drives to the dealership every day in a Toyota? Would you find his pitch about how GM cars are superior to all others very believable, when his personal funds went to buy a non-GM car?
I remember reading a couple months ago (and just Googled the article, 2nd from the top) that highly-paid Pepsi shill Britney Spears was photographed with Coca Cola products. Twice, in a rather short time frame. Pepsi publicly pooh-poohed this, but you can be sure that their PR people are chugging Pepto Bismol over it, because she holds sway over a nation of twelve year-old girls who want to be her-- which would entail them consuming Coke when they're not busy filming a commercial for Pepsi.
This is why it's news when Microsoft chooses someone else's product to run something, or when they fail when trying to replace a competing product with their own and end up proving that said Microsoft product doesn't live up to its marketing hype (e.g. Hotmail's original failed NT conversion). In this particular case, it's just a boneheaded mistake-- nobody thought to say, "Oh, by the way, let's make sure that our anti-UNIX site is running on IIS," but it's still noteworthy if for not other reason than because of the almost comical irony.
~Philly
Why would you need a remote? It's not like you've got to get up and walk across the room to trigger the spraying of your ass-- you're already sitting right there on the thing!
:-)
The only use I can see for a remote control would be if it was RF so it worked through walls and closed doors. You could sure have some fun with unsuspecting friends then.
~Philly
In a victory for a team of Philadelphia lawyers, a federal judge in St. Louis has struck down as unconstitutional a federal law that bans unsolicited advertisements sent by fax, but says nothing about unwanted faxes that don't meet the law's definition of "advertisement."
The ruling is a victory for a team of lawyers from Cozen O'Connor - Arthur W. Lefco, Michael P. Broadhurst and Julie G. DiSalvio - who represented Fax.com Inc. and challenged the constitutionality of a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
The fax number for the Philadelphia offices of Cozen & O'Connor is 215-665-2013. Start forwarding all the spam you get to their fax machine, and see how long they continue to not have a problem with unsolicited faxes needlessly consuming their electricity, paper, and toner, and tying up their fax machine from receiving/sending legitimate correspondence.
~Philly
Yeah, I think an ultra-glossy black iBook would look really cool.
Myself, I'm happy with the white... though I have thought about redoing the top panel of mine in an arctic-camouflage look, just to differentiate it a little bit.
~Philly
The SleevCase is basically an envelope of about 1/2 inch of foam padding. The opening has one velcro strap that goes over it. There is just enough excess length to the case that if you velcro it tightly, it effectively completely encloses the iBook in a foam cocoon. And it fits wonderfully in my backpack, I have no trouble at all getting it out or putting it away quickly, while the (top-loading) case remains in the backpack. I think you can get a model with loops for a shoulder strap, but mine is just bare bones, never meant to be used outside of my backpack.
~Philly
Take it from someone who made this decision almost a year ago. The 12" iBook is *much* more durable than the TiBook.
The TiBook is too flexible; if picked up in one hand, it will bend-- in early models, it could bend enough for the battery contacts to lose contact with the battery. The iBook is made to be used by young kids in school, and put up with what they can dish out-- this makes it the ideal machine for a support tech like me who's out on the road all the time. My iBook goes with me everywhere in my backpack. I have no doubts it'd be fine in there by itself, though I did indulge in a padded SleevCase from Waterfield Designs to provide a little more protection. I highly recommend their cases, they ship quickly and are responsive to their customers-- they very quickly made a 'top loader' version of their iBook SleevCase when asked, so I don't even need to take the case out of my backpack, and I still have the 'side loader' model for when I take the iBook somewhere without my backpack.
~Philly
In the History Channel's WTC documentary, they showed large backup generators whose purpose was to briefly power the entire complex in an outage. There were also large tanks of diesel fuel to supply the generators. I'd say it's likely that setup was in 7 WTC or one of the other ancillary buildings.
And now a quick Google search reveals this: Engineers Suspect Diesel Fuel in Collapse of 7 World Trade Center.
~Philly
The designing mechanical engineer is haunted to the core over this.
Yeah, that was disturbingly apparent. The poor bastard looked like Death in those interviews. I remember wondering the first time I saw it if we'd be hearing about his suicide in the near future-- he obviously (and wrongly, IMHO) feels incredibly responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths.
~Philly
...the report more or less concludes that the buildings collapsed because of the way they were designed, but withstood the damage for as long as they did before collapsing because of the way they were designed. Talk about, "Damned if you do, damned it you don't."
The worst-case disaster scenario for those towers was a 707 accidentally blundering into one, not a bunch of crazy religious-zealot, martyr-wannabe motherfuckers purposely plowing a much larger, fully-fueled aircraft into it at full speed.
If anyone who lost someone in the collapse even thinks of trying to sue anyone involved in the design or construction of the twin towers, they ought to be drawn and quartered. Sure, they could build a building that could stand up to worse than the WTC got, but proofing it against everything would cost a mint and leave a few phone booths' worth of usable space per floor. Don't forget that there wouldn't be any windows. The rent would be so expensive that nobody would be able to afford to put an office in it.
IMHO, when you step back and look at the big picture, you simply cannot fault the design of the buildings for the fact that they catastrophically failed in the face of an unprecedented, unimagined, deliberate action that was well beyond the scope of their design.
~Philly
"Litigious Assholes Inside"
~Philly
The best example of bad bundled software was @Home's-- it was crap, plain and simple. Wow, you mean you're giving me OLD versions of IE and OE that kill my existing bookmarks, reset my homepage, and wreak other havoc? All just so the browser and mail program have your stupid animated logo instead of the default one? Oh, I can't wait to install it!
:-)
Way back when I got my cable modem (now replaced by DSL), Comcast sent out hardware guys and software guys separately. Mind you, this was long before the days of the self-install kit. The hardware guys did their job, but when the software guy showed up I didn't let him in the door. "Just gimme the config sheet with the server addresses, and be on your way," I said. And he did, and I amazingly survived for years with only the default IE throbber to watch while pages loaded.
The only useful app in that whole shitty bundle was the one that tested the @Home servers so I could find out exactly what was wrong before calling up to yell at the support monkeys.
Even worse, the Comcast.net software was even bigger shit-- almost every one of my clients who used @Home had their systems pretty well screwed by running that damned installer. Though on the plus side, I made quite a bit of money un-fucking things for them.
~Philly
and an 'in-flight recorder' for my car. When some jerk cuts me off and I ram him, or some cop claims I didn't signal a turn, I'd like to have proof to back up my claims of innocence. Of course, it should have an 'erase' button just in case ...
:-) I would never want some legally-mandated thing where the cops confiscate the media and hold it for the accident investigation before handing it over to the insurance company.
:-)
I'd love to have a small camera looking forward out my windshield, kinda like what the cops have, but slightly different. Say, it only retains the last 15 minutes or so, and records for two minutes after an impact before automatically stopping. I can almost hear FOX already developing "World's Wildest Civilian Dash-Cam Videos."
Of course, I still want complete control of the tape so I can erase it if it will show the accident is *my* fault.
As for a TiVo for radio, well, how would that work? You have no visual cues to know when to stop fast-forwarding. Other than that, though, I'd kinda enjoy being able to listen to the Stern show in 25 minutes while avoiding all the shitty commercials and zapping uninteresting/annoying guests. I can get through both episodes of his E! show in about 15 minutes without having to sit through any crappy "Girls Gone Wild XXVIII," "Playboy Mansion Parties," or "Make Your Cock Bigger With This Pill" commercials.
~Philly
Instead of outright jamming the signal, create emitters that force (future) phones into 'vibrate' mode-- calls/pages/whatever will still be able to be received, but without disturbing those around the recipient.
Now, if someone whose phone was forced into vibrate mode takes a call while sitting in the theater during the movie, then their fellow moviegoers should be allowed to freely dispense with some angry mob justice.
And rude assholes with cellphones ARE a problem that should be dealt with severely. Last week I caught a very early matinee of "40 Days and 40 Nights"-- I was the ONLY person in the theater, until two theater employees came in and sat down for a bit, fairly far along in the film. Wouldn't you know one of the idiots had a cellphone that rang at full volume, five minutes later?
~Philly
does it also count down from 24 hours, so your kid always knows exactly how long he's got to get the President out of New York?
~Philly
Way back when I first got my Tandy 1000, I got a disk full of BASIC programs and games from I know not where. One of them played "Ever Onward" while displaying the lyrics on the screen, line by line. I played this so often (hey, I was about 12 years old and it was a catchy tune) that I still remember them, but they are not the same as the lyrics on that site. Instead, it was this verse:
There's a feeling everywhere
Of bigger things in store
Of new horizons coming into view
Our aim is clear to make each year
Exceed the one before
Staying in the lead in everything we do
The will to win is built right in
It will not be denied
And we will go ahead, we know
By working side by side
And this was followed by the chorus, and that was it.
I wonder if what I have is a 'bootleg' version? And I wonder if I still have that old 5 1/4" floppy buried somewhere in my house and can find a machine to read it.
~Philly
Interland got me for $60 with their faux-invoice back in December. The domain name I thought I was renewing was originally registered in my behalf by a third party, so I was unaware that Interland wasn't the correct registrar.
It gets better-- they cashed that $60 check long ago, but my domain records still indicate that my domain will expire at the end of this coming April. I never got any sort of acknowledgement from them. AND, in the last couple of months they have sent me two more identical "YOUR DOMAIN NAME WILL EXPIRE SOON" notices, probably in the hopes that I'll be dumb enough to pay those, too.
On the entire mailing, it only says "This is not an invoice" in one spot, in fairly small print, buried in a block of text. Clearly not in compliance with the postal regulations you linked to. I just finished filling out a mail fraud complaint on the USPS web site. Anyone else who fell for Interland's little scheme should go fill it out, too.
~Philly
Well the Repair Extension Program is over (though it didn't end too long ago), and Apple is no longer (to my knowledge) offering trade-in deals for 5300 and 190 series PowerBooks, so you're probably SOL at this point. But if you've already accepted that you took a bath on it, I don't see any harm in putting it on eBay.
~Philly