> For one thing, as far as I know, Vodaphone doesn't make phones, they sell services
They may not make phones, they do however sell them and no doubt have a say in their design.
> Lack of services doesn't make the phone itself simpler.
It's not just a reduced set of available network services, they've designed the phone to be easier to use: "Both phones have a large screen with legible text and symbols, and three dedicated buttons for direct access to the main screen, contacts and messages."
> The pictures in the articles shows the same gimmick phones with more screen than phone that everyone here is complaining about
Admitedly they have large screens, but I don't think that in itself is a bad thing. Clearer screens can help usability.
I wonder if this explains why I've been getting ocassional 'SERVFAIL' messages back for google.com from my localnet dns resolver. Where quering via other dns resolvers and google directly has been fine at the same time.
It's happened at least half a dozen times in the last couple of weeks, queries for anything in google.com stop resolving and a clear out of the cache for google.com on the nameserver gets it going again.
If it happens again I'll investigate further to see what's actually been cached.
Why? I will never undertand why Gentoo users persist in running an 'emerge -up world' to upgrade all their packages in one go, then wonder why they've got a nightmare of configuration changes to work through.
The only reason to upgrade a package should be that there is something wrong with it such as a security vulnerability or you need functionality from the new version.
If you want to upgrade Apache, then you should do just that, upgrade Apache. It will pull in any updated dependancies it needs, usually just a few or none, then upgrade Apache. This gives you the chance to read through any messages regarding the configuration files and a chance to make these changes, restart the webserver and check everything is working okay, before moving on an upgrading anything else.
Updating 70 odd packages just because there are newer versions out is just asking for trouble.
The simplest example is copy-and-paste. You can always do this. But the X-Windows scheme is quick and simple (and doesn't involve the keyboard at all); just three quick clicks or a click-swipe-release-click. OSX is materially slower, though slightly faster sometimes than Windows.
The lack of a decent terminal including normal select/copy functionality is the main issue holding me back from using my Mac for anything development related. I tend to work on remote servers using vi so am freqeuently cutting and pasting between terminal windows.
Having to use the keyboard to execute copy/paste is a major time drag compared to just being able to select the text and have it copy it to the pasteboard.
Does anyone know a termial app for the Mac that supports copy to pasteboard on select?
I've tried iTerm which kinda works, you can cut and paste inside the same window but you can't paste to another iTerm window.
The BBC is planning to offer a TV on demand service over the internet blogcritics.org article.
They are working to introduce a service where the last 7 days of shows are available for download in a similar fasion to their online radio player.
Additionally they are hoping to introduce a service where archive content is also available for download, featuring old shows that no longer have the same broadcast restrictions as recent content.
TV on demand is already available through networks such as HomeChoice which offer both recent archive (spaced, black books etc..) content and some of the shows broadcast in the last 7 days (from EastEnders to 'The Sky At Night'), all provided over a ADSL/LLU network.
To me, all this suggest that the BBC is looking to embrace the new delivery technologies now available. I wouldn't be surpried if they found articles like this Guardian piece to be encouraging, in indiating the public's desire to adopt more flexible viewing choices.
>Why aren't there any adventure games made anymore?
'Runaway: A Road Adventure' was recently released by GMX Media. I'm yet to try it myself but I have been looking forward to it for some time and it appears to have received good reviews. I was surprised to see no mention of it in replies to this article. Has anyone got any comments about it?
Seconded. Here's another couple of great Opera features;
Opera features full 'resume-from-where-you-left-off' behaviour. All your tabs are restored from previous sessions with full browse back/forward histories.
It also maintains a 'recently closed' list of tabs that have been closed. A godsend if you accidentally close a tab down.
It's also supports <link rel="top"...> tags in the header of a html page. Used by many forums to ease navigation. A toolbar shows up with 'next' 'previous' etc.. buttons.
I'd recommend Opera to anyone who was looking for a better browser.
In any case, if the quality of your shutdown screen is important to you (and who doesn't think that's important) I think that a digital input would improve the image.;)
Yup a digital cable clears any of the flickering problems I found using an analogue signal. The shutdown screen is rock solid as is everything else.
Definetly worth the extra cash for the digital input version of the LCD display.
No offence but isn't this pretty much the same as this article, which is still on the home page at the time of writing, which includes an update on a ZdNet article about the PIII recall.
I wouldn't say that advertising on the ISS would be a complete waste of money.
I'm sure that once it's nearer to being completed there will be lots of TV coverage and plenty of chance to get your logo seen and associated with the space program (although why Pizza Hut want's to associate itself with space launches is beyond me).
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed,-snip-
So is my computer oppening more and more windows when I try to leave pr0n sites a sign of a failing computer?
According to this netsizer site there are 18.2m users of the internet in the UK (click the java world map, then go to europe).
However, a recent consumer association (I think) survey reported that 40% of UK households now have internet access. That would make about 25m and then you need to include the number of people that have access at work etc..
Whilst the method they use may return a acurate(ish) report on the number of hosts on the internet, I can't see how they have extrapolated the number of users.
In a recent survey, 45% of those surveyed admited that they lied in surveys.
It's is generally accepted that sans-serif (eg ariel) fonts are easier to read on screen then serif fonts (eg times), and vice-verse with respect to printed output.
Gamespot have just put up a short preview of this game here, amongst other stuff it is claiming this game will be released on PS2, Dreamcast and Mac along with the PC.
This RPG is entirlely sepearte from the MMORPG in development with Verant, you can see the LucasArts press release here (since they don't seem to link to it themselves anymore), you can find more info about it on my webpage about SW On-line.
Meanwhile the Star Wars Combine is creating a totally free Star Wars on-line RPG, it's well worth a look.
In the UK directory enquires won't give an address from a 'phone number and they also generally won't give out the phone number unless you know the address AND the name of the person the 'phone is registered to.
There was (probably still is) a CD called UK-InfoDisk that did reverse lookup, although I think they may have had to withdraw that facility.
Don't forget that before computers as we know them existed, humans that computed tables (log, sine, that kind of thing) were called computers.
I would say that a stick would not be a computer since it only helps you to compute and it is actually you that is doing the computing (i.e. adding up the number of lengths of sticks). The stick itself does not perform a logical function.
Newsnight just ran with this story as the leed. The actuall had the bloke on the TV trying to defend himself along with some punter from 'The Federation for Free Speech on the Internet in the UK' (Or something like that).
At least Paxman had done some research for a change and pointed out that Dr Godfery had made of bit of a name for himself by doing things like this, however the initial video was the usual Newsnight one-sided story completly missing the point.
The free speech bloke made some intesting points though and the whole think managed to make Dr Godfery look a bit of a fool. YAY.
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> Quake 2 was the first game designed for and supporting 3d acceleration out of the box.
Needlesly picky comment coming up...
One of the first, but not _the_ first. According to GameSpot QuakeII was released 30th Nov 1997.
Shadows of the Empire, which was 3d card only, came out on 31th Aug 1997.
Also Jedi Knight which supported 3d acceleration was released 30th Sept 1997.
I'm sure there are other examples.
> For one thing, as far as I know, Vodaphone doesn't make phones, they sell services
They may not make phones, they do however sell them and no doubt have a say in their design.
> Lack of services doesn't make the phone itself simpler.
It's not just a reduced set of available network services, they've designed the phone to be easier to use:
"Both phones have a large screen with legible text and symbols, and three dedicated buttons for direct access to the main screen, contacts and messages."
> The pictures in the articles shows the same gimmick phones with more screen than phone that everyone here is complaining about
Admitedly they have large screens, but I don't think that in itself is a bad thing. Clearer screens can help usability.
Vodafone (UK) have just released, a simpler range of phones, with just phone and text services. Endoreed by Richard & Judy, no less.
Just goes to show other markets haven't been forgotten about.
Which pretty much matches the deployment of each type of webserver.
l _2005_web_server_survey.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/04/01/apri
Netcraft stats are best taken with a pinch of salt, but they're good enough for this comparison.
"stuff like Gallery and SpamAssassin which I don't consider critical for security updates."
Um. Perhaps you should.
Any internet facing aplication should be conisdered critical when it comes to security updates.
I wonder if this explains why I've been getting ocassional 'SERVFAIL' messages back for google.com from my localnet dns resolver. Where quering via other dns resolvers and google directly has been fine at the same time.
It's happened at least half a dozen times in the last couple of weeks, queries for anything in google.com stop resolving and a clear out of the cache for google.com on the nameserver gets it going again.
If it happens again I'll investigate further to see what's actually been cached.
> I run a sync and then emerge -up world
Why? I will never undertand why Gentoo users persist in running an 'emerge -up world' to upgrade all their packages in one go, then wonder why they've got a nightmare of configuration changes to work through.
The only reason to upgrade a package should be that there is something wrong with it such as a security vulnerability or you need functionality from the new version.
If you want to upgrade Apache, then you should do just that, upgrade Apache. It will pull in any updated dependancies it needs, usually just a few or none, then upgrade Apache. This gives you the chance to read through any messages regarding the configuration files and a chance to make these changes, restart the webserver and check everything is working okay, before moving on an upgrading anything else.
Updating 70 odd packages just because there are newer versions out is just asking for trouble.
The simplest example is copy-and-paste. You can always do this. But the X-Windows scheme is quick and simple (and doesn't involve the keyboard at all); just three quick clicks or a click-swipe-release-click. OSX is materially slower, though slightly faster sometimes than Windows.
The lack of a decent terminal including normal select/copy functionality is the main issue holding me back from using my Mac for anything development related. I tend to work on remote servers using vi so am freqeuently cutting and pasting between terminal windows.
Having to use the keyboard to execute copy/paste is a major time drag compared to just being able to select the text and have it copy it to the pasteboard.
Does anyone know a termial app for the Mac that supports copy to pasteboard on select?
I've tried iTerm which kinda works, you can cut and paste inside the same window but you can't paste to another iTerm window.
I've also tried GLTerm to no avail.
Any ideas?
The BBC is planning to offer a TV on demand service over the internet blogcritics.org article.
They are working to introduce a service where the last 7 days of shows are available for download in a similar fasion to their online radio player.
Additionally they are hoping to introduce a service where archive content is also available for download, featuring old shows that no longer have the same broadcast restrictions as recent content.
TV on demand is already available through networks such as HomeChoice which offer both recent archive (spaced, black books etc..) content and some of the shows broadcast in the last 7 days (from EastEnders to 'The Sky At Night'), all provided over a ADSL/LLU network.
To me, all this suggest that the BBC is looking to embrace the new delivery technologies now available. I wouldn't be surpried if they found articles like this Guardian piece to be encouraging, in indiating the public's desire to adopt more flexible viewing choices.
>Why aren't there any adventure games made anymore?
'Runaway: A Road Adventure' was recently released by GMX Media. I'm yet to try it myself but I have been looking forward to it for some time and it appears to have received good reviews. I was surprised to see no mention of it in replies to this article. Has anyone got any comments about it?
http://www.runaway-game.com
Seconded. Here's another couple of great Opera features;
Opera features full 'resume-from-where-you-left-off' behaviour. All your tabs are restored from previous sessions with full browse back/forward histories.
It also maintains a 'recently closed' list of tabs that have been closed. A godsend if you accidentally close a tab down.
It's also supports <link rel="top"...> tags in the header of a html page. Used by many forums to ease navigation. A toolbar shows up with 'next' 'previous' etc.. buttons.
I'd recommend Opera to anyone who was looking for a better browser.
Yup a digital cable clears any of the flickering problems I found using an analogue signal. The shutdown screen is rock solid as is everything else.
Definetly worth the extra cash for the digital input version of the LCD display.
It's an 8110
Pictures here: http://www.nokiainfo.f2s.com/the_matrix.html
No offence but isn't this pretty much the same as this article, which is still on the home page at the time of writing, which includes an update on a ZdNet article about the PIII recall.
I wouldn't say that advertising on the ISS would be a complete waste of money.
I'm sure that once it's nearer to being completed there will be lots of TV coverage and plenty of chance to get your logo seen and associated with the space program (although why Pizza Hut want's to associate itself with space launches is beyond me).
From the Microsoft support article listed above
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed,-snip-
So is my computer oppening more and more windows when I try to leave pr0n sites a sign of a failing computer?
According to this netsizer site there are 18.2m users of the internet in the UK (click the java world map, then go to europe).
However, a recent consumer association (I think) survey reported that 40% of UK households now have internet access. That would make about 25m and then you need to include the number of people that have access at work etc..
Whilst the method they use may return a acurate(ish) report on the number of hosts on the internet, I can't see how they have extrapolated the number of users.
In a recent survey, 45% of those surveyed admited that they lied in surveys.
It's is generally accepted that sans-serif (eg ariel) fonts are easier to read on screen then serif fonts (eg times), and vice-verse with respect to printed output.
Don't ask me why, it just is.
Gamespot have just put up a short preview of this game here, amongst other stuff it is claiming this game will be released on PS2, Dreamcast and Mac along with the PC.
This RPG is entirlely sepearte from the MMORPG in development with Verant, you can see the LucasArts press release here (since they don't seem to link to it themselves anymore), you can find more info about it on my webpage about SW On-line.
Meanwhile the Star Wars Combine is creating a totally free Star Wars on-line RPG, it's well worth a look.
In the UK directory enquires won't give an address from a 'phone number and they also generally won't give out the phone number unless you know the address AND the name of the person the 'phone is registered to.
There was (probably still is) a CD called UK-InfoDisk that did reverse lookup, although I think they may have had to withdraw that facility.
Now that Mozilla has a 'only accept images from originating server' option you can easily browse without ads.
Ho, ho, how ironic.
Don't forget that before computers as we know them existed, humans that computed tables (log, sine, that kind of thing) were called computers.
I would say that a stick would not be a computer since it only helps you to compute and it is actually you that is doing the computing (i.e. adding up the number of lengths of sticks). The stick itself does not perform a logical function.
Newsnight just ran with this story as the leed. The actuall had the bloke on the TV trying to defend himself along with some punter from 'The Federation for Free Speech on the Internet in the UK' (Or something like that).
At least Paxman had done some research for a change and pointed out that Dr Godfery had made of bit of a name for himself by doing things like this, however the initial video was the usual Newsnight one-sided story completly missing the point.
The free speech bloke made some intesting points though and the whole think managed to make Dr Godfery look a bit of a fool. YAY.
IANAL Yes this is exactly the same in the UK.