iPodders everywhere know about iSkins. It's a fitted silicon suit for iPod. Awesome protection. Why can't I have one for my tiBook? I want a fancy clear silicone casing that fits around my computer and just stays there all of the time. It could have cutouts for the ports and CD drive. If anyone knows of one out there, or knows how I can make one, please do tell me!
I have to put a plug in for the Kensington Saddlebag. It runs about $35-$65. This bag is very nice because it can be carried as a shoulder bag or a cross-the-chest bag or a backpack. Plus it has a very comfortable carrying handle. There's TONS of interior space, enough for me to regularly carry all of the regular laptop accoutrements, geek gadgets (mp3 player, palm and keyboard, cellphone) as well as one or two (BIG) textbooks and a few notebooks.
The biggest bonus, however, is that Kensington will replace it if it's damaged or broken. No questions. I am pretty rough with shoulder straps and one of the shoulder straps came loose, but didn't break. They replaced it even though they considered it "cosmetic" damage.
I've only have one problem with the design. If you overload the outer pockets with gadgets and other miscellany, the bag gets front-heavy and has a tendency to fall over. That can cause huge problems when it's sitting on the edge of a table.
I don't know exactly how this is setup, but my father has some type of high-security flag set with the credit agencies. I found out about when he cosigned for a loan with me. He owns his own business and his business had identity-theft problems a few years back.
So basically how it works, is that there's a phone number specified on his credit report and a secret question and answer. So if anyone makes an attempt to check my father's credit history, or take out credit in his name or SSN, the creditor must call the listed phone number and my father must answer the phone. They identify themselves and what creditor they're representing. Then they ask the security question and my father gives the correct answer. Now business can proceed as usual.
It gets more secure when the security question/answer must be changed each time it's used. Plus, changing the phone number requires a 30-day written notice.
I think that's a GREAT idea... Why don't more people implement that? Once I get some actual credit, instead of just Student Loans, I'm going to put that security measure on MY credit!
When you register and pay to become an Apple Premiere developer you get 10 Apple Premier Hardware Discounts (Coupons From GOD)! These entitle you to SERIOUS discounts on any one computer system (and yes, an iPod does count as a computer system or part of a computer system.)
Here's the prices using your PHDC: 10Gig $239.00 20 Gig $319.00 40 Gig $399.00
The only catch - it costs $3000 to become an Apple Premier Developer. BUT, if you know someone who is a premier developer you can sign up for a free Apple developer account and have them transfer you one of their premier hardware discount coupons. BINGO! Serious discounts.
Soundproofing in residential situations isn't always about making the inside of the house quiet as a tomb. It's also about preventing noises from inside that house from escaping to the outside environment. That's not going to get rid of the loud and crowded streets noises, and the jumbo jets around airports noises. Soundproofing will, however, stop my neighbor from banging on the wall every time I play my stereo, AND it will help me from waking up every Sunday night at 2am when my neighbor comes home drunk to fsck his wife!
Hmm... I would have assumed that a "big-10 university" would have enterprise level support. A quick call to the rep to get the repair guy onsite... not go through the common support line along with all the small mom & pop shops.
You're correct, we do have enterprise level support contracts with Dell. To get the rep to come out to our site, we first have to wade through Dell's dedicated education support lines and THEY get to send out the Dell guy. He's the third-level of competence I mentioned in my previous post.
Just as a side note, on the recent "This American Life" compilation CD there is a track of David Sedaris himself retelling that story. Check it out at http://www.thislife.org/
Corporate customers of Dell (of which I am one) REJOYCE! I'm a tech monkey for a big-10 university and I personally support 60+ machines, all but a handfull are Dell's. It's bad enough that we fork out bou-kou bucks for tech support but we use it much more frequently than standard home users. Usually we are technically competent, much moreso than the Indian at the other end of the phone line. So when we are VERY SURE that a memory stick is dead or a CD drive needs replacing, we still have to trudge through about 3 levels of "esclation" until we get to either a technically competent person or someone who speaks English well enough to send us a replacement part.
Comparing this to the older America-based call centers, we had about a 60% chance of getting some college CS major making a few extra bucks at a Dell Call Center. These people were able to realize when they were talking with someone technically competent and address the questions appropriately.
6. You don't want to use 3rd party software to manage files.
Although it has major other faults, the Archos jukebox has one selling point - No third-party software is necessary to upload and download files. It's just a hard drive that plays mp3s (and other stuff in later models). You can load and unload mp3s from it using Explorer, or mount it in Linux. Copy your mp3s just like any other files and play them. There is no necessary uploading software and no download controls. It's fully linux-compatible.
When I was researching MP3 players last May, this was a big selling point of the Archos.
Pick up the book, "Coming Home to Eat," by Gary Paul Nabhan. He's a researcher with Northern Arizona University who details his experiences restoring the native diets of the O'odham, Seri and Yaqui tribes, as well as his presonal adventure living one year on foods produced within 100 miles of his home in Flagstaff.
I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, "Using OSX is like having the ultimate Linux distro..."
Back when OSX first came out, I was a die-hard Linux user and a die-hard Mac opponent. I tried OSX and thought it was Linux on crack. I bought a TiBook.
My advisor (a die-hard Mac fan) said to me, "You're coming over to our (Mac) world!" I looked at him and said, "Nope, you Mac people are coming over to my (Linux) world."
I've always wanted a voice recorder that would recognize when I said, "Remind me..." and would record the next few seconds after that. Think of how many times people say something like, "Remind me to pick up the dry cleaning after work." Speech-to-text would allow the device to start a new to-do, give it the text of "pick up dry cleaning" and set the time as "5:00pm today." Heck, if we can even get it to set an alarm that would be WONDERFUL!
I agree that, in many cases, the damages awarded are far from representative of actual damages. (Even actual damages + emotional damages) But, in cases like this, the actual award that reaches the hand of the prosecution, minus lawyer fees and minus compensatory time lost (the money you would have made if you were working your job instead of being in court) makes that $1000 unsatisfactory compensation.
In this picture what in the world is Bill holding in his hand? Bill - you nicotine fiend! I didn't know you were a smoker! Maybe this is a stock photograph from an image archive of Phillip Morris and Microsoft "Axis of Evil" merger discussions.
HU? I don't know if I'm smoking crack, but I connect r/w/x to remote drives through samba, NFS, Ftp and sftp on a daily basis. The only time I have serious ftp/sftp problems is when I'm logged in remotely as a user with more restrictive permissions that what is on my machine. But usually controlling the username/permissions to the mountpoint (local) fixes all the problems.
Our economy was driven into the ground by two things: 1. 9/11 2. The war on Iraq. If you notice, the economy started to recover after 9/11 but then the decision to go to "war" in Iraq and driven the economy down even further.
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Dude, I've gotta get one of those... What's it listed for on priceline.com?
You bring up an interesting point about Technology nowadays. So many reviews of new gadgets are hideously male-dominated. The comparison that irks me is the "fits comfortably in a shirt pocket" standard that is somehow being held to all MP3 players, cell phones and PDAs. Frankly, I don't know many women that keep PDAs, Cell phones, or mp3 players in their pockets. Women don't mind carrying purses that hold their gadgets. And when you're stuffing your gadgets into a purse, the size doesn't much matter, but the weight does.
And the thumboards... I would think they would give large-handed people issues, but all keyboards, thumboards, and other sorts of button-based input devices give hell to women with longer fingernails. Even if a woman's nails aren't raptor-claw length, the slightest length will fudge things up.
Well I guess this is why I like Julie and Judie at The Gadgeteer so much. They strive to have a mix of male and female reviewers and they make sure not to laden their reviews with sexist bias.
Let me recommend a book for anyone having serious issues with inventing and memorizing secure passwords.
William Steig wrote a wonderful series of books which were like cryptograms. When you read a seemingly random string of numbers and letters you would have a full sentence.
For example: CDB! (See the bee!) D B S A B-Z B (The bee is a busy bee.) O, S N-D! (Oh, yes indeed!)
The phrases become increasingly complicated and start adding numbers and symbols.
CDB has been the definitive guide to helping me choose passwords that are secure and I will easily remember them. For example, on one machine that was sitting underneath a poster of Corn from around the world, the password WAS (And is no longer...) e10a3-rfrn. (eating an ear of corn).
Let me give you one big tip: Books with CDs are a big MFing ripoff.
Intro Anthro Brooks, Smith: New: 99.85, Used (No CD) 12.95
Go onto Amazon or Bigwords or your local used textbook store and buy the book without the stupid CD. Then find the one rich asshole who has brand new books and borrow his CD, copy, distribute!
I never bought a single book with CD in all of college, but I used all of the "additional CD materials."
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I think you're transforming your desires for an iPod into anger and frustration directed at those people who do own an iPod.
iPodders everywhere know about iSkins. It's a fitted silicon suit for iPod. Awesome protection. Why can't I have one for my tiBook? I want a fancy clear silicone casing that fits around my computer and just stays there all of the time. It could have cutouts for the ports and CD drive. If anyone knows of one out there, or knows how I can make one, please do tell me!
I have to put a plug in for the Kensington Saddlebag. It runs about $35-$65. This bag is very nice because it can be carried as a shoulder bag or a cross-the-chest bag or a backpack. Plus it has a very comfortable carrying handle. There's TONS of interior space, enough for me to regularly carry all of the regular laptop accoutrements, geek gadgets (mp3 player, palm and keyboard, cellphone) as well as one or two (BIG) textbooks and a few notebooks.
The biggest bonus, however, is that Kensington will replace it if it's damaged or broken. No questions. I am pretty rough with shoulder straps and one of the shoulder straps came loose, but didn't break. They replaced it even though they considered it "cosmetic" damage.
I've only have one problem with the design. If you overload the outer pockets with gadgets and other miscellany, the bag gets front-heavy and has a tendency to fall over. That can cause huge problems when it's sitting on the edge of a table.
I don't know exactly how this is setup, but my father has some type of high-security flag set with the credit agencies. I found out about when he cosigned for a loan with me. He owns his own business and his business had identity-theft problems a few years back.
So basically how it works, is that there's a phone number specified on his credit report and a secret question and answer. So if anyone makes an attempt to check my father's credit history, or take out credit in his name or SSN, the creditor must call the listed phone number and my father must answer the phone. They identify themselves and what creditor they're representing. Then they ask the security question and my father gives the correct answer. Now business can proceed as usual.
It gets more secure when the security question/answer must be changed each time it's used. Plus, changing the phone number requires a 30-day written notice.
I think that's a GREAT idea... Why don't more people implement that? Once I get some actual credit, instead of just Student Loans, I'm going to put that security measure on MY credit!
When you register and pay to become an Apple Premiere developer you get 10 Apple Premier Hardware Discounts (Coupons From GOD)! These entitle you to SERIOUS discounts on any one computer system (and yes, an iPod does count as a computer system or part of a computer system.)
Here's the prices using your PHDC:
10Gig $239.00
20 Gig $319.00
40 Gig $399.00
The only catch - it costs $3000 to become an Apple Premier Developer. BUT, if you know someone who is a premier developer you can sign up for a free Apple developer account and have them transfer you one of their premier hardware discount coupons. BINGO! Serious discounts.
Soundproofing in residential situations isn't always about making the inside of the house quiet as a tomb. It's also about preventing noises from inside that house from escaping to the outside environment. That's not going to get rid of the loud and crowded streets noises, and the jumbo jets around airports noises. Soundproofing will, however, stop my neighbor from banging on the wall every time I play my stereo, AND it will help me from waking up every Sunday night at 2am when my neighbor comes home drunk to fsck his wife!
Just as a side note, on the recent "This American Life" compilation CD there is a track of David Sedaris himself retelling that story. Check it out at http://www.thislife.org/
Corporate customers of Dell (of which I am one) REJOYCE! I'm a tech monkey for a big-10 university and I personally support 60+ machines, all but a handfull are Dell's. It's bad enough that we fork out bou-kou bucks for tech support but we use it much more frequently than standard home users. Usually we are technically competent, much moreso than the Indian at the other end of the phone line. So when we are VERY SURE that a memory stick is dead or a CD drive needs replacing, we still have to trudge through about 3 levels of "esclation" until we get to either a technically competent person or someone who speaks English well enough to send us a replacement part.
Comparing this to the older America-based call centers, we had about a 60% chance of getting some college CS major making a few extra bucks at a Dell Call Center. These people were able to realize when they were talking with someone technically competent and address the questions appropriately.
6. You don't want to use 3rd party software to manage files.
Although it has major other faults, the Archos jukebox has one selling point - No third-party software is necessary to upload and download files. It's just a hard drive that plays mp3s (and other stuff in later models). You can load and unload mp3s from it using Explorer, or mount it in Linux. Copy your mp3s just like any other files and play them. There is no necessary uploading software and no download controls. It's fully linux-compatible.
When I was researching MP3 players last May, this was a big selling point of the Archos.
Pick up the book, "Coming Home to Eat," by Gary Paul Nabhan. He's a researcher with Northern Arizona University who details his experiences restoring the native diets of the O'odham, Seri and Yaqui tribes, as well as his presonal adventure living one year on foods produced within 100 miles of his home in Flagstaff.
ISBN: - 0-393-32374-9
I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, "Using OSX is like having the ultimate Linux distro..."
Back when OSX first came out, I was a die-hard Linux user and a die-hard Mac opponent. I tried OSX and thought it was Linux on crack. I bought a TiBook.
My advisor (a die-hard Mac fan) said to me, "You're coming over to our (Mac) world!" I looked at him and said, "Nope, you Mac people are coming over to my (Linux) world."
I've always wanted a voice recorder that would recognize when I said, "Remind me..." and would record the next few seconds after that. Think of how many times people say something like, "Remind me to pick up the dry cleaning after work." Speech-to-text would allow the device to start a new to-do, give it the text of "pick up dry cleaning" and set the time as "5:00pm today." Heck, if we can even get it to set an alarm that would be WONDERFUL!
I agree that, in many cases, the damages awarded are far from representative of actual damages. (Even actual damages + emotional damages) But, in cases like this, the actual award that reaches the hand of the prosecution, minus lawyer fees and minus compensatory time lost (the money you would have made if you were working your job instead of being in court) makes that $1000 unsatisfactory compensation.
In this picture what in the world is Bill holding in his hand? Bill - you nicotine fiend! I didn't know you were a smoker! Maybe this is a stock photograph from an image archive of Phillip Morris and Microsoft "Axis of Evil" merger discussions.
HU? I don't know if I'm smoking crack, but I connect r/w/x to remote drives through samba, NFS, Ftp and sftp on a daily basis. The only time I have serious ftp/sftp problems is when I'm logged in remotely as a user with more restrictive permissions that what is on my machine. But usually controlling the username/permissions to the mountpoint (local) fixes all the problems.
And YES, you wicked trolls, I AM using a Mac.
Want good pens? Look at Levenger. It's a catalog/web store dedicated to writers and readers. Their pen selection can be found here.
Can I point out something to you:
The Dow Jones Index 1990-1999
The Dow Jones Index 2000-2009
Please note the current US administration is proudly featured over the top of the chart.
Here's another good one: The NASDAQ
The NASDAQ from Oct 97 - Sept 03.
Our economy was driven into the ground by two things: 1. 9/11 2. The war on Iraq. If you notice, the economy started to recover after 9/11 but then the decision to go to "war" in Iraq and driven the economy down even further.
Dude, I've gotta get one of those... What's it listed for on priceline.com?
Red Herring has their own NYTimes entry point/partner link:
&partner=MOREOVER
I guess we can stop abusing &partner=GOOGLE now.
Disclaimer: IAAGF (I am a geeky female)
You bring up an interesting point about Technology nowadays. So many reviews of new gadgets are hideously male-dominated. The comparison that irks me is the "fits comfortably in a shirt pocket" standard that is somehow being held to all MP3 players, cell phones and PDAs. Frankly, I don't know many women that keep PDAs, Cell phones, or mp3 players in their pockets. Women don't mind carrying purses that hold their gadgets. And when you're stuffing your gadgets into a purse, the size doesn't much matter, but the weight does.
And the thumboards... I would think they would give large-handed people issues, but all keyboards, thumboards, and other sorts of button-based input devices give hell to women with longer fingernails. Even if a woman's nails aren't raptor-claw length, the slightest length will fudge things up.
Well I guess this is why I like Julie and Judie at The Gadgeteer so much. They strive to have a mix of male and female reviewers and they make sure not to laden their reviews with sexist bias.
I once sneezed beer onto a CDR. I would think that was much more "biocomputing-like" but the cd never worked again.
Let me recommend a book for anyone having serious issues with inventing and memorizing secure passwords.
William Steig wrote a wonderful series of books which were like cryptograms. When you read a seemingly random string of numbers and letters you would have a full sentence.
For example:
CDB! (See the bee!)
D B S A B-Z B (The bee is a busy bee.)
O, S N-D! (Oh, yes indeed!)
The phrases become increasingly complicated and start adding numbers and symbols.
CDB has been the definitive guide to helping me choose passwords that are secure and I will easily remember them. For example, on one machine that was sitting underneath a poster of Corn from around the world, the password WAS (And is no longer...) e10a3-rfrn. (eating an ear of corn).
CDB!
I was seriously worried that this article was a propoganda push for M$ Passport.
Now we're talking security!
Let me give you one big tip: Books with CDs are a big MFing ripoff.
Intro Anthro Brooks, Smith: New: 99.85, Used (No CD) 12.95
Go onto Amazon or Bigwords or your local used textbook store and buy the book without the stupid CD. Then find the one rich asshole who has brand new books and borrow his CD, copy, distribute!
I never bought a single book with CD in all of college, but I used all of the "additional CD materials."