Microsoft has regional offices all over the globe. On the activation screen, you pick which country you're in, out of a list of around 100, and they provide a local, or at least in-country, phone number (oftentimes a toll-free number.)
If they ever mass-produce the Eyetap, it wouldn't be so bad.
The Eyetap is a discrete retinal projector that sits over a single eye. It's thin (half-inch wide) and has an arm that goes back behind your ear. Cord goes down the back of your neck.
I've seen pictures of it on the proof-of-concept site and its more of an "what's that? hmm I dunno" than a "omgnerd look at that guy hes got a computer on his face"
Until the thing died *finally* I used an IBM 4019L printer.
Yes. THAT 4019L. Vintage 1985, toner cartridges that went for 10,000 pages (I replaced the toner ONCE. It used the factory-sale cartridge from 1985 until 2000) and loved it.
It was slow as shit, had 512kb of internal memory, wouldn't print any graphics, took freaking ages to do anything, but it was a tank, and it had amazing print quality on text.
My understanding is, at the densities we're talking about, the force of gravity is stronger than the nuclear forces of the atoms -- you get funny things like electron orbits being heavily deformed.
A spinning neutron star that's charged on one side more than another due to gravity pulling electrons around, would induce a magnetic field. Probably a damn strong one too, seeing the forces involved.
Ignoring the possibility that such a thing would kill a person, I had to wonder.
I was taking an EEG the other day as a guinea pig for a psychology grad student. Obviously, since he had lots and lots of moving lines and fancy bar graphs on his screen, *something* was leaking out of my skull when I thought, and being detected.
Thus, I hit upon the interesting idea: Hook the EEG electrodes up to an RF amplifier and suitably shaped antenna -- would the "stronger" waves, many orders of magnitude stronger, be picked up through the skulls of the other person, and suggest or induce behavior?
As scifi as it sounds, I think my uneducated perspective puts it within the realm of "well, your design is good, but unfortunately it just doesn't work like that in real life" rather than "you moron, that breaks every law of physics, including 3 that haven't even been discovered yet!"
I bet these new "stealth" spy apps just add themselves to the SFC watchlist. System files are generally excluded from scans, and the OS defends them with its life when they're modified.
Babylon 5 never ceases to amaze me, even though its now what, a decade old? The story that deals with real issues (lots of politics), the world which was amazingly thoroughly detailed, and the special effects which gave a harsh, "real" look to even the most fanciful of ships.
JMS should definitely write/direct/produce/whatever a new Star Trek. (or, hell with that, a new B5.)
Close but not quite -- taxes based on use are a great idea, especially for something like this.
But -- this isn't the way to do it.
Why not require mandatory vehicle inspections every year, like many states do already, and simply log the engine odometer between visits? Then, at the end of the year, you get a bill based on how much driving you've done. If they're smart, they could even make it come out of their state income tax refund, or something.
Pedels and steering = input devices. Turn signal = email client ebreak = reset button ignition = power button windshield wipers = the McAfee Security Center that comes preinstalled on every PC under the sun these days.
That's not a whole lot of stuff to know about, honestly. And it leaves users still clueless about the important stuff.
Honestly, with games like those, they are either games that expect to talk directly to the hardware (which NT doesn't really allow) or they're games which *would* run but the application programmer coded it not to.
When a lot of those games came out, NT systems didn't have things like...DirectX.
Thus, the programmers would read the OS descriptor string saying NT, and abort() because "this can't provide the APIs we need" While this logic did indeed work at the time it was occurring, it's not valid any more. But try telling that to a developer in 1996-1998, that the NT product line would become the primary one.
Most of the legacy game issues aren't because the game *can't* run under the modern platform (FF7PC for example. It works fine after its been hacked to not check for/lied to about certain things), its that the programmers who wrote them didn't implement the platform checks in a way that allowed forward-compatability.
Yasser Arafat was just like every other Muslim who plays in politics, in that he tells the Jihadis one thing, and tells the Western Infidels another -- and everyone believes him.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, in that, operating system notifications should always take focus over anything any application is doing.
This applies on the logon screen because that is actually an application, logonui.exe. As for it not telling you...it's not feasible for it to display the entire Event Log entry right there. I believe it does tell you where to look for specifics, however.
(That error for me always comes up on my server, because Apache tries to start itself before RRAS has brought up any network interfaces: thus, there are no valid bindings, and the service terminates abnormally. 2 minutes later it's fine, but it still generates that notification.)
A colleague of mine once challenged me to break into his computer system. (I had full physical access to the machine while doing so.) He claimed "It's so secure, even a professional hacker couldn't get in!"
He stepped out to use the restroom, for maybe 3 minutes total. By the time he'd returned, I was on his laptop, and had a nice scrolling list of all the colorful titles of pornography which no normal person would willingly look at scrolling down the terminal -- all from his "My Shared Folder" type thing.
I've never seen someone turn so red before. But from that day forward, nobody ever failed to defer to me as the expert. All I had to do was look at that individual and he'd chime in enthusiastically with whatever it was I was pushing at the time.
Pissed-off administrators make for strange politics; )
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Microsoft has regional offices all over the globe. On the activation screen, you pick which country you're in, out of a list of around 100, and they provide a local, or at least in-country, phone number (oftentimes a toll-free number.)
Nice try, but, your complaints aren't valid.
On my system, while there are 8 usb ports onboard -- there are only 4 seperate busses.
That means that each bus, has two physical ports on it.
You're sharing busses whether or not you even know it.
Doh.
That's a pain...although I suppose it makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying.
Simplest way:
Share the drive with SAMBA. Windows (and probably every other modern OS) supports Ethernet-over-Firewire.
Mount SAMBA share with IP-over-Firewire.
Problem solved.
Note, that before LNP, there were quite a few exchanges which were typically cellular-only.
In my area code (561), the 632, 512, and 236 exchanges were all purely cell phones, and there were several others I can't remember offhand.
Now it's a little murkier, but even still, *most* numbers in those exchanges are cellular phones.
If they ever mass-produce the Eyetap, it wouldn't be so bad.
The Eyetap is a discrete retinal projector that sits over a single eye. It's thin (half-inch wide) and has an arm that goes back behind your ear. Cord goes down the back of your neck.
I've seen pictures of it on the proof-of-concept site and its more of an "what's that? hmm I dunno" than a "omgnerd look at that guy hes got a computer on his face"
Until the thing died *finally* I used an IBM 4019L printer.
Yes. THAT 4019L. Vintage 1985, toner cartridges that went for 10,000 pages (I replaced the toner ONCE. It used the factory-sale cartridge from 1985 until 2000) and loved it.
It was slow as shit, had 512kb of internal memory, wouldn't print any graphics, took freaking ages to do anything, but it was a tank, and it had amazing print quality on text.
"pls note the intent of my e-mails posting"
that from the new court judgement you guys just had, about harvesting e-mails?
(just interested, it reminded me of it.)
IIRC, that's the Fire Code. The breaker needs to be able to unconditionally kill all power inside the facility. Thus -- it kills the power post-UPS.
My understanding is, at the densities we're talking about, the force of gravity is stronger than the nuclear forces of the atoms -- you get funny things like electron orbits being heavily deformed.
A spinning neutron star that's charged on one side more than another due to gravity pulling electrons around, would induce a magnetic field. Probably a damn strong one too, seeing the forces involved.
BartPE would make a great starting point for such a tool.
So would Knoppix. BartPE being natively Windows, and having the ability to do virus removal as well as rootkit checking.
Ignoring the possibility that such a thing would kill a person, I had to wonder.
I was taking an EEG the other day as a guinea pig for a psychology grad student. Obviously, since he had lots and lots of moving lines and fancy bar graphs on his screen, *something* was leaking out of my skull when I thought, and being detected.
Thus, I hit upon the interesting idea: Hook the EEG electrodes up to an RF amplifier and suitably shaped antenna -- would the "stronger" waves, many orders of magnitude stronger, be picked up through the skulls of the other person, and suggest or induce behavior?
As scifi as it sounds, I think my uneducated perspective puts it within the realm of "well, your design is good, but unfortunately it just doesn't work like that in real life" rather than "you moron, that breaks every law of physics, including 3 that haven't even been discovered yet!"
I bet these new "stealth" spy apps just add themselves to the SFC watchlist. System files are generally excluded from scans, and the OS defends them with its life when they're modified.
Babylon 5 never ceases to amaze me, even though its now what, a decade old? The story that deals with real issues (lots of politics), the world which was amazingly thoroughly detailed, and the special effects which gave a harsh, "real" look to even the most fanciful of ships.
JMS should definitely write/direct/produce/whatever a new Star Trek. (or, hell with that, a new B5.)
hah. I have LM and NTLM rainbow tables. SHA-1 tables might be useful for some other things, though.
Touche, sir.
I'm still not a fan of the GPS, though.
Close but not quite -- taxes based on use are a great idea, especially for something like this.
But -- this isn't the way to do it.
Why not require mandatory vehicle inspections every year, like many states do already, and simply log the engine odometer between visits? Then, at the end of the year, you get a bill based on how much driving you've done. If they're smart, they could even make it come out of their state income tax refund, or something.
GPS tracking devices are not the way to do it.
Doesn't Linspire come with a licensed DVD player now?
Or something like that?
Pedels and steering = input devices.
Turn signal = email client
ebreak = reset button
ignition = power button
windshield wipers = the McAfee Security Center that comes preinstalled on every PC under the sun these days.
That's not a whole lot of stuff to know about, honestly. And it leaves users still clueless about the important stuff.
Honestly, with games like those, they are either games that expect to talk directly to the hardware (which NT doesn't really allow) or they're games which *would* run but the application programmer coded it not to.
When a lot of those games came out, NT systems didn't have things like...DirectX.
Thus, the programmers would read the OS descriptor string saying NT, and abort() because "this can't provide the APIs we need" While this logic did indeed work at the time it was occurring, it's not valid any more. But try telling that to a developer in 1996-1998, that the NT product line would become the primary one.
Most of the legacy game issues aren't because the game *can't* run under the modern platform (FF7PC for example. It works fine after its been hacked to not check for/lied to about certain things), its that the programmers who wrote them didn't implement the platform checks in a way that allowed forward-compatability.
Didn't Oracle try speed-based licensing (something about per-MHz) around 2000?
Yasser Arafat was just like every other Muslim who plays in politics, in that he tells the Jihadis one thing, and tells the Western Infidels another -- and everyone believes him.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, in that, operating system notifications should always take focus over anything any application is doing.
This applies on the logon screen because that is actually an application, logonui.exe. As for it not telling you...it's not feasible for it to display the entire Event Log entry right there. I believe it does tell you where to look for specifics, however.
(That error for me always comes up on my server, because Apache tries to start itself before RRAS has brought up any network interfaces: thus, there are no valid bindings, and the service terminates abnormally. 2 minutes later it's fine, but it still generates that notification.)
It's still the southern ski in Northern states, although at a bit of a different angle.
Broadcast satellites are, generall, in geostationary orbit above the Equator, which is south of *everywhere* in the United States.
A colleague of mine once challenged me to break into his computer system. (I had full physical access to the machine while doing so.) He claimed "It's so secure, even a professional hacker couldn't get in!"
He stepped out to use the restroom, for maybe 3 minutes total. By the time he'd returned, I was on his laptop, and had a nice scrolling list of all the colorful titles of pornography which no normal person would willingly look at scrolling down the terminal -- all from his "My Shared Folder" type thing.
I've never seen someone turn so red before. But from that day forward, nobody ever failed to defer to me as the expert. All I had to do was look at that individual and he'd chime in enthusiastically with whatever it was I was pushing at the time.
Pissed-off administrators make for strange politics; )