With the latest cell phones having better speakers in them, why don't they just have the damn thing beep once and announce in a human voice "You have a call"?
Are you being facetious or are you serious? I bought a motorola t720 (which is a piece of crap) last christmas that does that by default.
I really miss my startac.
Several people have suggesting buying 8 disks and slapping them in a cheap pc. The question is, how do you keep the disks from dying from overheating? I tried putting 3 seagate fireball 60gig drives next to each other in a server 2 years ago, and the middle one died after a week from heat. I've got 100gig, 160gig, and 150gig drives in a network file server, each seperated by an empty hd bay. I haven't had a problem so far, but each of these typically runs too hot to touch, even with the case open and a floor fan pointed at the drives. I guess they're cheap for a reason.
I installed ad-aware, and it did find a lot of junk (mostly cookies, but one odd IE extension), but it didn't fix the problem, so I dug a little deeper. Unfortunately, the cause turned out to be even more sinister than spyware: my own stupidity.
Whenever I setup a machine at home, I always set the domain name to home.net (or, in this case, option domain-name "home.net"; in dhcpd.conf) but I forgot to make the local dns server authoritative for the home.net domain. So what happens when windows can't find a host X? It searches again with X.localdom. So ilikekittens.com turns into ilikekittens.com.home.net, which ds1.domainspa.com is happy to tell me is located at 67.96.63.112.
I didn't have the problem under linux because nslookup there will only retry X.localdom if X contains no periods. (and konqueror seems to ignore localdom altogether)
The interesting question is, why is IE totally unable to lookup hosts sans domain name even if no domain name is set on the local machine? If I strip home.net from dhcpd.conf and the dns host list, nslookup on win has no problem telling me tivo is 10.0.0.7, but IE cannot find http://tivo/ui ??
At least I don't have to see that damn search page ever again.
Whenever I mistype something with IE, I end up on a page that says 'SEARCH! Info, Jobs, Games, Music....E V E R Y T H I N G !!!'. I was all ready to blame by rat bastard ISP, but I tried ilikekittens.com with konqueror and just got an unknown host error. Fantastic, I guess I have some evil spyware on my win box. On linux, nslookup/dig gives nothing, but on win, nslookup gives 67.96.63.112 for the ilikekittens/rat-bastard-search-page ip. Anyone know what spyware might have done this? If you want to look at it, turn off pop-ups or javascript first, or use lynx or wget.
I find that the knowledge that someone can easily see what's on your computer screen makes us (myself and the programmers I oversee) more likely to stay on task.
Ha! Sadly, this is not always the case. I was once on a project where everyone was seated in cubes with their backs to each other. This made it painfully obvious when one member (lets call this person Robin) was surfing the web constantly and doing very little work. As time passed, Robin became more efficient by spending more than six hours a day on the phone with Robin's significant other WHILE surfing the web.
While it may be argued that this was more of a management problem than a cube vs office problem (since management was aware, but did little to solve the problem), it still was severely demoralizing to team members seated closest to Robin.
It should be noted that after a few members complained and management had a word with Robin, Robin quickly became the fastest alt-tabber in the west. It should also be noted that by the time Robin noticed anyone walking over to Robin's desk, they saw what was on the screen, so alt-tabbing only made it painfully more obvious that Robin wasn't working. (this has the unfortunate side effect that those of us who use several workspaces and switch between them often also appear to be slacking)
While the danger of a hijacking is exceedingly small, I am a pilot, and would sooner crash into a hill or lake than allow someone to force me to harm even more people.
You seem to imply that the airline pilots were in control of the airplanes that crashed into the world trade center and pentagon. At best, they were probably asked to fly to the new york airport and then moved to the back of the plane or executed, at which point the terrorists would have taken over and flown by sight. Assuming the pentagon was hit by a dulles flight, you could probably navigate by sight immediately after takeoff.
Flying a plane you don't intend to land really isn't hard at all.
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With the latest cell phones having better speakers in them, why don't they just have the damn thing beep once and announce in a human voice "You have a call"?
Are you being facetious or are you serious? I bought a motorola t720 (which is a piece of crap) last christmas that does that by default.
I really miss my startac.
Panasonic toughbook batteries do.
Ever consider doing a howto for this setup? I'm especially intrigued by the 'A/V-to-cat5 distribution system'.
Several people have suggesting buying 8 disks and slapping them in a cheap pc. The question is, how do you keep the disks from dying from overheating? I tried putting 3 seagate fireball 60gig drives next to each other in a server 2 years ago, and the middle one died after a week from heat. I've got 100gig, 160gig, and 150gig drives in a network file server, each seperated by an empty hd bay. I haven't had a problem so far, but each of these typically runs too hot to touch, even with the case open and a floor fan pointed at the drives. I guess they're cheap for a reason.
I installed ad-aware, and it did find a lot of junk (mostly cookies, but one odd IE extension), but it didn't fix the problem, so I dug a little deeper. Unfortunately, the cause turned out to be even more sinister than spyware: my own stupidity.
Whenever I setup a machine at home, I always set the domain name to home.net (or, in this case, option domain-name "home.net"; in dhcpd.conf) but I forgot to make the local dns server authoritative for the home.net domain. So what happens when windows can't find a host X? It searches again with X.localdom. So ilikekittens.com turns into ilikekittens.com.home.net, which ds1.domainspa.com is happy to tell me is located at 67.96.63.112.
I didn't have the problem under linux because nslookup there will only retry X.localdom if X contains no periods. (and konqueror seems to ignore localdom altogether)
The interesting question is, why is IE totally unable to lookup hosts sans domain name even if no domain name is set on the local machine? If I strip home.net from dhcpd.conf and the dns host list, nslookup on win has no problem telling me tivo is 10.0.0.7, but IE cannot find http://tivo/ui ??
At least I don't have to see that damn search page ever again.
Whenever I mistype something with IE, I end up on a page that says 'SEARCH! Info, Jobs, Games, Music....E V E R Y T H I N G !!!'. I was all ready to blame by rat bastard ISP, but I tried ilikekittens.com with konqueror and just got an unknown host error. Fantastic, I guess I have some evil spyware on my win box. On linux, nslookup/dig gives nothing, but on win, nslookup gives 67.96.63.112 for the ilikekittens/rat-bastard-search-page ip. Anyone know what spyware might have done this? If you want to look at it, turn off pop-ups or javascript first, or use lynx or wget.
I find that the knowledge that someone can easily see what's on your computer screen makes us (myself and the programmers I oversee) more likely to stay on task.
Ha! Sadly, this is not always the case. I was once on a project where everyone was seated in cubes with their backs to each other. This made it painfully obvious when one member (lets call this person Robin) was surfing the web constantly and doing very little work. As time passed, Robin became more efficient by spending more than six hours a day on the phone with Robin's significant other WHILE surfing the web.
While it may be argued that this was more of a management problem than a cube vs office problem (since management was aware, but did little to solve the problem), it still was severely demoralizing to team members seated closest to Robin.
It should be noted that after a few members complained and management had a word with Robin, Robin quickly became the fastest alt-tabber in the west. It should also be noted that by the time Robin noticed anyone walking over to Robin's desk, they saw what was on the screen, so alt-tabbing only made it painfully more obvious that Robin wasn't working. (this has the unfortunate side effect that those of us who use several workspaces and switch between them often also appear to be slacking)
You seem to imply that the airline pilots were in control of the airplanes that crashed into the world trade center and pentagon. At best, they were probably asked to fly to the new york airport and then moved to the back of the plane or executed, at which point the terrorists would have taken over and flown by sight. Assuming the pentagon was hit by a dulles flight, you could probably navigate by sight immediately after takeoff.
Flying a plane you don't intend to land really isn't hard at all.