The Problem with the images is that they are just too many of them for a normal responsive download. The slashdot effect really isn't to blame. I saw this story on wired several days ago and went to check it out and even then on my dial up service got tired of waiting for the images to load.
There are a toal of 15 graphics associated with most of the auction items.
The only image necessary for this auction is the one that has the actual picture of the item which is the one below that is not named with a number. For this particular auction it is 41KB in size while the total of the rest of the unnecessary images are 98KB of useless junk and this doesn't even count the rest of the page
Re:Software Burning Difficult? (or, XP reference)
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Mod me down if you like but Windows XP has this basic capability built in and every one thinks its a bad thing....
Here is what happens when i insert a blank CDR in the disc drive.
Windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file:
blank CD
What do you want windows to do
1 Open writable CD folder using Windows explorer
2 take no action
Select if you want a default action to occur
Personally I dont use the built in software because I have other hapits but just to see if it could work I created a shortcut to the CDDRIVE and placed the shortcut on the desktop then dragged and dropped music files to the shortcut and lo and behold they were waiting to be burned.
To do the actual burning I opened the shortcut and selected write these files to CD.
bobs your uncle
Now on to CDRW if the media costs come down and preformatted disks are cheap and they dont damage easily then I would probably use more of them. My own experience is they dont hold up as well to general everyday use...
Hell we have machines at work that came loaded with win98 and are running win 95. Why you ask? well the older boxes work fine with win 95 so why change them. The newer boxes are downgraded to win 95 because we then only support a consistent platform. Hell we retired a 486 box last week. It still worked fine for the apps it needed to run
Like the Mormon's and the obsession with genealogical records. With outtheir dogged determination far fewer family histories would be as easily available today.
If you can run Outlook and connect to an exchange server then this $100.00 option is a good thing. We are a small company mostly office 96 and windows 95. For $100.00 I can start a semi-painless migration away from windows.
For the first time, those contemplating an operating system change will be able to keep their investment in their existing software, thereby overcoming the largest impediment to deploying a new operating system
If the current set of applications will run on this product I can then start a gradual migration to linux based software. once we get far enough along the older Windows based software will be gradually pahased out.
If He was born in 1975 he would be 26 this year. Reagan was elected in 1980 and served two terms through early 1989 So our very astute poster was around 5 when Reagan entered office and around 13 when he left office
Passport is an online service that makes it possible for you to use your e-mail address and a single password to sign in--securely--to any Passport participating Web site or service.
It may not be "DVD Quality", it sure as hell looks pretty damn good to me, but the signal I'm pulling from the Sat to the south is a hell of a lot better than what my crappy cable company is feeding me....
I'm not apologizing for Microsoft but YOU can cnage the shortcut keys to fit your needs. I did this at work for everyone who was used to Wordperfect shortcuts when the powers that be decided to switch to Office several years ago.
Under Office XP its pretty easy to do go to tools, customize, select keyboard and then customize to your hearts content. For your Control F problems just select the Edit category and then the EditFind Command. Current mapping is CTRL+F, which you don't want, so click the little button called remove and poof its gone.
Then find the command you want to assign the shortcuts you are familure with and press the keys and click assign.
And Bobs your Uncle, its changed
I'm not being flip just curious, At work i just downloaded and installed 5.2 because I was curious how it would live in a microsoft 95 environment.
Don't laugh, I have to use the same software the rest of the company uses. We don't suffer from version itus, but lately it has become more of a pain to deal with newer file formats that peolple tend to send documents in. FWIW, all the machines run word version 7? on Windows 95.
So to test the conversion capabilities in a rather unofficial and quick manner I created a.doc file and.xls under Microsoft Office XP. The files were saved in several formats from XP native.doc and.xls and then backwords in several of the preceding versions format.
Star Office opened every file with out a problem. It then was able to save the file in a format that our existing MS office products could handle.
I havn't used the product enough to tell if it can replace our existing installed base but I got the go-ahead for a short term usability test. ie. I get to use it as my primary Office Suite for the next month or so in an evaluation mode..
If it works out we will have saved approx 40x300=$12,000 in upgrade fees.
The big reason you havn't seen a big push for smartcards in the US is beacuse of patents...When the existing patents run out you will see smart cards all over the place.
The older article was about an overlaying of banner adds on a page by a company that produces a password keeper program. Users were often unaware of what the program was doing. BR>This new story is about two different programs who are disfiguring pages with colors and links and then selling keywords which in some cases are to porn sites..
While HP may not be the first to market. I think the pricepoint they are introducing it at will have a significant impact.
Me personally I will wait untill the cost of the blanks drop below $5.00 US. By then the price of the recorders will have, hopefully, dropped significantly
It boils down to fundemental differences in opinion as to what the role of Government should be. I am opposed to the intrusion of Federal and State Government into my private life, at any level. Hard to avoid it it seems but I can still hold this Philosophical opinion. Creeping government intrusion into "Free Software" would be an anathema to "Free Software"
The Federal Highway system evolved from a military need/want to have a means to move troops within the borders of the US.
The telephone system has been a private enterprise for quite some time now.
The Post Office no longer recieves Federal subsidies.
The answer is not to "throw some tax money at the problem". If the Government was using a *nix varient as the primary operating system and a *office suite, then it would be very simple to notate that correspondance with govt agencies by vendors and business should be in a file format that the choosen govt office suite could deal with, then your criteria for "Businesses that want to do work with the government would be required to submit files in GovOS-compatible format." would come to fruition. Without any Federal money needed to purchase software. Set up and training will still require money.
Yup that is the problem, but I'll worry about that later...Right No I am just converting and storing...
maybe some nice soul will do the quick calculations on how long it wil take to listen to 90 gigs with approx three quarters of the songs encoded at 320 kbps and the balance at 160 kbps
Ahem...Just cause I have 90 gigs plus or minus a gig of mp3's doesn't make me a trader, admittedly I'm not average either....I transfered approx half the CD's I own and have 65 megs or so on hard disk. The rest of the CD's are slowly being converted to Disk and then its on to the 400 or so LP's.
I have maybe 30 or 40 songs I downloaded but on a 56k modem line just more trouble than its worth...
Re:Now THIS is a cool case
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Yeah and you can get one from him for only $1700.00
I think what it boils down to is that Compaq gets the OS from Microsoft at a price way below what it sells in the stores retail for. If Compaq was paying retail and shipping the Windows CD and license with the Computer then Compaq could pretty much put what they dam well please on the system.
Other Vendors such as Emachines includes tons of usless junk all over the desktop. I think it boils down to what the aggrement is between Microsoft and Compaq.
Have you ever tried to price a dell system without an Office suite. Real hard to do most of the time unless you go searching in the Education of Big Business Workstation sections...
Well I wouldn't have done it if I had to pay for the phone charges
Back in the day before unlimited time I was paying by the minute for a long distance phone line, because there was no local number to call and by the minute for GEnie, Delphi, Aohell, or Compuserve which ever system I was using in a particular month. So I feel your pain:)
...We ended up getting a second line just for the computer so now its no problem with inbound calls.
I have boxed copies of Redhat 6 and several different versions of mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 as well as Free BSD 4.x but the local walmart/staples/officemax hadn't recieved 8.0 yet and I din't feel like ordering it thru the mail so I just d'loaded it...
A couple of weeks after Mandrake Gnu/Linux 8.0 was released I left my Puter on non stop for around 6 days to get the two ISO's over a 56k dial up I got droppped a couple of times but whenever that happened I just resumed the download. I think I took a break for about a day between the first ISO and the second becasue we were expecting an incoming call and didn't have a second line.
So it ispossible
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There are a toal of 15 graphics associated with most of the auction items.
The only image necessary for this auction is the one that has the actual picture of the item which is the one below that is not named with a number. For this particular auction it is 41KB in size while the total of the rest of the unnecessary images are 98KB of useless junk and this doesn't even count the rest of the page
8KB 66x180
27KB 242x180
3KB 16x180
27KB 276x80
2KB 66x52
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Mod me down if you like but Windows XP has this basic capability built in and every one thinks its a bad thing....
Here is what happens when i insert a blank CDR in the disc drive.
Windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file:
blank CD
What do you want windows to do
1 Open writable CD folder using Windows explorer
2 take no action
Select if you want a default action to occur
Personally I dont use the built in software because I have other hapits but just to see if it could work I created a shortcut to the CDDRIVE and placed the shortcut on the desktop then dragged and dropped music files to the shortcut and lo and behold they were waiting to be burned. To do the actual burning I opened the shortcut and selected write these files to CD.
bobs your uncle
Now on to CDRW if the media costs come down and preformatted disks are cheap and they dont damage easily then I would probably use more of them. My own experience is they dont hold up as well to general everyday use...
ymmv
Hell we have machines at work that came loaded with win98 and are running win 95.
Why you ask? well the older boxes work fine with win 95 so why change them. The newer boxes are downgraded to win 95 because we then only support a consistent platform.
Hell we retired a 486 box last week. It still worked fine for the apps it needed to run
Like the Mormon's and the obsession with genealogical records. With outtheir dogged determination far fewer family histories would be as easily available today.
tigerdirect.com has alot of cheap PC systems. Everything from emachines to IBM netfinity servers
For A cheap roll your own they also have some barebones sytems
Cygwin/XP
If He was born in 1975 he would be 26 this year.
Reagan was elected in 1980 and served two terms through early 1989
So our very astute poster was around 5 when Reagan entered office and around 13 when he left office
So of course he could remember Reagan
http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/09/27/technology/ circuits/27ROBO.html
Passport is an online service that makes it possible for you to use your e-mail address and a single password to sign in--securely--to any Passport participating Web site or service.
and both of them were nuts
It may not be "DVD Quality", it sure as hell looks pretty damn good to me, but the signal I'm pulling from the Sat to the south is a hell of a lot better than what my crappy cable company is feeding me....
I'm not apologizing for Microsoft but YOU can cnage the shortcut keys to fit your needs.
I did this at work for everyone who was used to Wordperfect shortcuts when the powers that be decided to switch to Office several years ago.
Under Office XP its pretty easy to do go to tools, customize, select keyboard and then customize to your hearts content.
For your Control F problems just select the Edit category and then the EditFind Command. Current mapping is CTRL+F, which you don't want, so click the little button called remove and poof its gone. Then find the command you want to assign the shortcuts you are familure with and press the keys and click assign.
And Bobs your Uncle, its changed
I'm not being flip just curious, At work i just downloaded and installed 5.2 because I was curious how it would live in a microsoft 95 environment.
.doc file and .xls under Microsoft Office XP. The files were saved in several formats from XP native .doc and .xls and then backwords in several of the preceding versions format.
Don't laugh, I have to use the same software the rest of the company uses. We don't suffer from version itus, but lately it has become more of a pain to deal with newer file formats that peolple tend to send documents in. FWIW, all the machines run word version 7? on Windows 95.
So to test the conversion capabilities in a rather unofficial and quick manner I created a
Star Office opened every file with out a problem. It then was able to save the file in a format that our existing MS office products could handle.
I havn't used the product enough to tell if it can replace our existing installed base but I got the go-ahead for a short term usability test. ie. I get to use it as my primary Office Suite for the next month or so in an evaluation mode..
If it works out we will have saved approx 40x300=$12,000 in upgrade fees.
The big reason you havn't seen a big push for smartcards in the US is beacuse of patents...When the existing patents run out you will see smart cards all over the place.
BR>This new story is about two different programs who are disfiguring pages with colors and links and then selling keywords which in some cases are to porn sites..
RTFATWLBYPSS
Now remove the quotes
and you get a decent list to pursue...
Me personally I will wait untill the cost of the blanks drop below $5.00 US. By then the price of the recorders will have, hopefully, dropped significantly
It boils down to fundemental differences in opinion as to what the role of Government should be. I am opposed to the intrusion of Federal and State Government into my private life, at any level. Hard to avoid it it seems but I can still hold this Philosophical opinion. Creeping government intrusion into "Free Software" would be an anathema to "Free Software"
The Federal Highway system evolved from a military need/want to have a means to move troops within the borders of the US.
The telephone system has been a private enterprise for quite some time now.
The Post Office no longer recieves Federal subsidies.
The answer is not to "throw some tax money at the problem". If the Government was using a *nix varient as the primary operating system and a *office suite, then it would be very simple to notate that correspondance with govt agencies by vendors and business should be in a file format that the choosen govt office suite could deal with, then your criteria for "Businesses that want to do work with the government would be required to submit files in GovOS-compatible format." would come to fruition. Without any Federal money needed to purchase software. Set up and training will still require money.
maybe some nice soul will do the quick calculations on how long it wil take to listen to 90 gigs with approx three quarters of the songs encoded at 320 kbps and the balance at 160 kbps
I have maybe 30 or 40 songs I downloaded but on a 56k modem line just more trouble than its worth...
Yeah and you can get one from him for only $1700.00
I think what it boils down to is that Compaq gets the OS from Microsoft at a price way below what it sells in the stores retail for. If Compaq was paying retail and shipping the Windows CD and license with the Computer then Compaq could pretty much put what they dam well please on the system. Other Vendors such as Emachines includes tons of usless junk all over the desktop. I think it boils down to what the aggrement is between Microsoft and Compaq. Have you ever tried to price a dell system without an Office suite. Real hard to do most of the time unless you go searching in the Education of Big Business Workstation sections...
Back in the day before unlimited time I was paying by the minute for a long distance phone line, because there was no local number to call and by the minute for GEnie, Delphi, Aohell, or Compuserve which ever system I was using in a particular month. So I feel your pain
I have boxed copies of Redhat 6 and several different versions of mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 as well as Free BSD 4.x but the local walmart/staples/officemax hadn't recieved 8.0 yet and I din't feel like ordering it thru the mail so I just d'loaded it...
A couple of weeks after Mandrake Gnu/Linux 8.0 was released I left my Puter on non stop for around 6 days to get the two ISO's over a 56k dial up I got droppped a couple of times but whenever that happened I just resumed the download. I think I took a break for about a day between the first ISO and the second becasue we were expecting an incoming call and didn't have a second line. So it is possible