Indeed. My Airport Extreme, and my Expresses (Expressae?) haven't changed. Airport utility 6.0 is simply dumbed down for the average consumer. Simply download Airport Utility 5.6 from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482 and presto, IPv6 "magically reappears". Along with syslog and a few other useful utilities.
I worked in a office where about once a year one of the employees would "spill" coffee on her laptop..usually a week or so after she noticed a deployment of new laptops in some other department. [...]
This ruse doesn't work on ThinkPads. Co-worker spilled an entire litre of water directly onto the keyboard of a company owned running laptop. Hell to pay if laptop ruined. Unplug, pull out battery, pull disk drive, dry face-down on cookie rack for 24 hours. Reassemble, reboot. Laptop worked for another 18 months. IT department never knew.
You do realize that this particular law is in place in Ontario and Quebec because we were following suit from Alberta and BC?
There is currently no provincial regulation prohibiting the use of electronic handheld devices whilst operating a vehicle in Alberta. Apparently some people in eastern canada have the central Alberta hamlet of Sherwood Park confused with the entire province of Alberta. "Yeah, it's out west somewhere." Just one more reason for our western annoyance with Torontonians and Ontario in general.
In Edmonton, Zeller's carries Wii. I don't normally think of Zeller's when buying electronics (who does???) but the very first Zeller's I called had three in stock. It was like, 10 AM on a Thursday... I just walked in, they got the Wii from the back for me (they don't keep them out front), I paid, and off I went. Took about 15 minutes.
I believe they came to our little cul-de-sac in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) a short while ago. I was standing at our front window with the blinds open, trying to help the dog, who was quite exercised about the strangers in front of her house, figure out who these nuts were. Two women were taking photos of every house. They took what appeared to be several snapshots of each house. I'm sure dog and I both appear in their photo(s) of my house as we were clearly visible thru the window. However, you probably can't really make out our faces as they were taking photos in the *middle of a snowstorm*.
The business model:
1. Drive minivan thru snowstorm 2. Park minivan without proper snowtires in deep snow in unplowed cul-de-sac 3. Exit vehicle, hang on to open door for dear life 4. take detailed flash photos of cute snow-covered houses, fluffy snowflakes and irritated labrador retriever 5. re-enter vehicle, make futile attempt to remove snow from car seat 6. remove remaining tread from tires by spinning them trying to get out of unplowed cul-de-sac 7. Upload crummy photos into SQL database 8. Profit!
I encourage you to read the fine print -- your spouse may be covered. However, she may need to work until delivery. And I mean *until delivery*.
While living in the US, I became pregnant with our first child. Even though I was working full time and insured, my pregnancy was not covered because I became pregnant during a three month 'grace period'. Apparently the 'grace period' was for the insurance company, not me or my baby.
To make a long story short: I arrived at work at 8:15 AM the day before my due date. Had several meetings and a minor router hardware install. I left to drive myself to an ob-gyn checkup at about 4PM. My water broke on the way (yes, it is possible to drive while in labour. No tickets, either.) I delivered my son later that night and went home the next day. Due to lack of planning, spouse missed much of the fun. Poor guy.
I was able to get all my costs covered by showing that that abnormal braxton-hicks contractions and precipitous labour (yup, that quick) occured due to stress and inadequate working conditions. Took six months, but we got it through.
kid seems to be okay... other than being a typical smart-aleck geeklet.
Breaking in your washer (Re:Use a bit of care...)
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My mothers old washing machine lasted 26 years before giving up. When I went and bought a new washing machine for myself 5 years ago, I was expecting it to last for at least 10 years. It lasted 3! And I'm >ingle, have no kids, etc...
And therein may be the problem -- a washer must be carefully broken in for maximum life.
Start with walnut sized items, such as binkies and duplo blocks, that cause no harm and can be easily fished out. Gradually move on to small items that can be caught under the agitator, such as miniature stuffed animals or lego, and begin including items which have small hard pointy bits that will break under centrifugal force and be sucked into the pump, such any happy meal toy. Finish your breakin period with a load containing jeans with the pockets full of 8-12 wax crayons (crayola best, also good for breaking in the dryer) and a torn dog blanket. The crayons, dog hair and blanket should form an unbalanced mass that causes the washer to vibrate violently or even start walking during the spin cycle. You can consider your machine broken in at this point.
I used this method and got four cross-country moves and 16 years out my last washer. You can too!!
I wonder why they're stopping at preventing installation by requiring a key tied to a MAC address or serial number. The logical end to this would be to tie the license to the MAC address or CPU serial number on execution (boot time) with a key received from the 'install server' and slipped into the startup code to prevent unauthorized execution or redistribution via disk copying systems like Norton Ghost or similar share/freeware.
At my work, we don't 'install' systems, we create a system image and do 'em 50 at a time with multicast Ghost (even faster than a bunch of Sophomore CS students at a Linux InstallFest). The systems are all legal (got two file cabinets full of paperwork to prove it) but they all run off the same license key. It would seem to me with this new scheme, we're suddenly illegal...
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Indeed. My Airport Extreme, and my Expresses (Expressae?) haven't changed. Airport utility 6.0 is simply dumbed down for the average consumer. Simply download Airport Utility 5.6 from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482 and presto, IPv6 "magically reappears". Along with syslog and a few other useful utilities.
People have been losing data since "the cloud" was a card reader attached to an MVT system in another building.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of an undergrad on a bicycle" -- me
I worked in a office where about once a year one of the employees would "spill" coffee on her laptop..usually a week or so after she noticed a deployment of new laptops in some other department. [...]
This ruse doesn't work on ThinkPads. Co-worker spilled an entire litre of water directly onto the keyboard of a company owned running laptop. Hell to pay if laptop ruined. Unplug, pull out battery, pull disk drive, dry face-down on cookie rack for 24 hours. Reassemble, reboot. Laptop worked for another 18 months. IT department never knew.
You do realize that this particular law is in place in Ontario and Quebec because we were following suit from Alberta and BC?
There is currently no provincial regulation prohibiting the use of electronic handheld devices whilst operating a vehicle in Alberta. Apparently some people in eastern canada have the central Alberta hamlet of Sherwood Park confused with the entire province of Alberta. "Yeah, it's out west somewhere." Just one more reason for our western annoyance with Torontonians and Ontario in general.
In Edmonton, Zeller's carries Wii. I don't normally think of Zeller's when buying electronics (who does???) but the very first Zeller's I called had three in stock. It was like, 10 AM on a Thursday... I just walked in, they got the Wii from the back for me (they don't keep them out front), I paid, and off I went. Took about 15 minutes.
I believe they came to our little cul-de-sac in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) a short while ago. I was standing at our front window with the blinds open, trying to help the dog, who was quite exercised about the strangers in front of her house, figure out who these nuts were. Two women were taking photos of every house. They took what appeared to be several snapshots of each house. I'm sure dog and I both appear in their photo(s) of my house as we were clearly visible thru the window. However, you probably can't really make out our faces as they were taking photos in the *middle of a snowstorm*.
The business model:
1. Drive minivan thru snowstorm
2. Park minivan without proper snowtires in deep snow in unplowed cul-de-sac
3. Exit vehicle, hang on to open door for dear life
4. take detailed flash photos of cute snow-covered houses, fluffy snowflakes and irritated labrador retriever
5. re-enter vehicle, make futile attempt to remove snow from car seat
6. remove remaining tread from tires by spinning them trying to get out of unplowed cul-de-sac
7. Upload crummy photos into SQL database
8. Profit!
I encourage you to read the fine print -- your spouse may be covered. However, she may need to work until delivery. And I mean *until delivery*.
While living in the US, I became pregnant with our first child. Even though I was working full time and insured, my pregnancy was not covered because I became pregnant during a three month 'grace period'. Apparently the 'grace period' was for the insurance company, not me or my baby.
To make a long story short: I arrived at work at 8:15 AM the day before my due date. Had several meetings and a minor router hardware install. I left to drive myself to an ob-gyn checkup at about 4PM. My water broke on the way (yes, it is possible to drive while in labour. No tickets, either.) I delivered my son later that night and went home the next day. Due to lack of planning, spouse missed much of the fun. Poor guy.
I was able to get all my costs covered by showing that that abnormal braxton-hicks contractions and precipitous labour (yup, that quick) occured due to stress and inadequate working conditions. Took six months, but we got it through.
kid seems to be okay... other than being a typical smart-aleck geeklet.
And therein may be the problem -- a washer must be carefully broken in for maximum life.
Start with walnut sized items, such as binkies and duplo blocks, that cause no harm and can be easily fished out. Gradually move on to small items that can be caught under the agitator, such as miniature stuffed animals or lego, and begin including items which have small hard pointy bits that will break under centrifugal force and be sucked into the pump, such any happy meal toy. Finish your breakin period with a load containing jeans with the pockets full of 8-12 wax crayons (crayola best, also good for breaking in the dryer) and a torn dog blanket. The crayons, dog hair and blanket should form an unbalanced mass that causes the washer to vibrate violently or even start walking during the spin cycle. You can consider your machine broken in at this point.
I used this method and got four cross-country moves and 16 years out my last washer. You can too!!
I wonder why they're stopping at preventing installation by requiring a key tied to a MAC address or serial number. The logical end to this would be to tie the license to the MAC address or CPU serial number on execution (boot time) with a key received from the 'install server' and slipped into the startup code to prevent unauthorized execution or redistribution via disk copying systems like Norton Ghost or similar share/freeware. At my work, we don't 'install' systems, we create a system image and do 'em 50 at a time with multicast Ghost (even faster than a bunch of Sophomore CS students at a Linux InstallFest). The systems are all legal (got two file cabinets full of paperwork to prove it) but they all run off the same license key. It would seem to me with this new scheme, we're suddenly illegal...