Indeed, and he pushed to get it aired on network TV, at the cost of giving up some awards.
This Celsius 41.11 seems to be solely trying to make money off the success of F9/11. If they want to "get the facts straight," they wouldn't force us to pay $20 for them.
And what the hell does C44.11 mean, anyways? The daily temperature in Iraq? . I mean, 41.11C is 105.998F, they could have at least had it convert properly. I bet Ray Bradbury is really rolling in his err... near grave)
You are correct: you didn't say their account was deleted, however the post in which you replied to did.
Your post carried the implication that Hotmail deletes accounts because you agreed with it, though this doesn't appears to be intentional.
That said, you bring an interesting issue to light: Hotmail has apparently lowered the inactivity time from never, to 90 days, to 60 days, to now apparently 30 days.
I can already see it becoming two weeks, one week, 3 days, 2 days, 1 day, half a day, 4 hours, etc.
You will see this happen as Microsoft pushes more devices for you to use that will check your hotmail.
"s3xy_t33n_luvbnny463@hotmail.com hasn't logged in the last 2.3 minutes to check he's still got no mail? Delete his 53 gigaquads of storage space!"
They don't delete your accounts -- they deactivate it.
I've had an account since 1996, back before Microsoft ever touched it. My account has been deactived so many times, that I only reactivate it when for whatever reason, I know mail is going to it.
It's funny, as I use the account as my MSN Messenger name, so you would think by logging into MSN Messenger (or any Passport site), I am in effect, PROVING I am not inactive.
In any event, I do not have the 250mb, probably because I reactived it just last week. I wonder if a new account would receive the 250 megs or not. That said, I wonder if when I get the 250mb, will it disappear in 90 (60?) days when I don't bother to check my mail?
I experienced this exact phenominon during a month's vacation I took to British Columbia. I would be up at dawn every day, feeling refreshed, and ready to experience the playground that is the world. I had some of the most restless and relaxing sleeps ever.
After a while, I did have access to the Internet, but only checked it due to it being the only method of communication with respect to a party in a forest one night.
I never felt the need to use the computer, and I never felt like I was alone, or out of the loop (in fact, I felt I was IN the loop, as most of my friends were not there experiencing the greatness I was).
That said, I returned and fell right back into my self-appointed claim for the title of King of the Internet(TM).
Besides, this isn't new or anything. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works both explain why this is not only normal, but if it didn't happen, we wouldn't be here to wax idiotically about it on Slashdot.
Sure there is! If you setup your AP to not need authentication, clients will connect automatically (either automagically, or when the users selects your AP for use).
I know D-Link makes routers that have this support as well, and in fact, I own one. I have yet to test it out, because for whatever reason, it could not maintain the PPPoE connection with my ISP.
So I turned off all the routing features, and now it's but a lonely switch off on the fringe of my LAN.
The joke is that is exactly what happened the first time I tried installing qmail. It wouldn't work for hours upon hours, and then all of a sudden, mail was flowing through as if it was destined to.
And then, one day, qmail stopped, and would never start again.
Coincidentally, the Gmail beta became available that very day.
I think 2.4Ghz cordless phones would be a better example than processors.
In fact, cordless phones are already the problem. There's enough talk that they need a new spectrum for 802.11, or a new spectrum for phones, or a new spectrum for both, or whatever, as the spectrum is crowded to shit.
Using the logic that they don't want you operating your own APs because they interfere with the the school's AP, would suggest they would also tell you to not use 2.4GHz cordless phones (which is actually feasible if they have a digital phone system, and provide the students with their own phone).
I suspect the real intentions of the school are that they don't want people using their own APs due to all the potential problems when people connect to them (either knowingly or unknowingly). The school could have SSIDs of "UofTAP", and all someone has to do is create one with the same SSID, and they now control the ntwork connection of potentially a large number of students.
Imagine the calls to the helldesk when your SP2 download turns out to be lesbian porn.
Mine handles most of the services for my LAN. DHCP, DNS, and one of those clients that updates your dynamic host. Ideally it would also be a router and firewall, but I have one of those hardware dealies.
Up until a few weeks ago, when I found the majority of the parts in the trash, the box was a P 100, with 32 MB of RAM.
I'm running Slack 8 on it, and it runs perfectly well. Once upon a time, when it was the P 100, it ran Win95B, and had a security camera attached that was known by those not in the know as a "web cam."
The original box has seen me through tough times, such as the time the 500 MB drive in my P90 died (literally smoked poured out of the case), and I resorted to using my 386 and Slack 3. This turned out to not really be a viable option, since I had to do web development for IE4. This box decided to make itself known to me, so I took it in from the cold.
The latest BIOSes are also able to handle booting from a USB memory key as well.
For years, my main desktop PC didn't have a floppy in it (I had removed it for various reasons, and never got around to replacing it). Things like a network, CD-Rs and now DVD-Rs actually did make floppies useless in my house. I only reinstalled the (a) floppy drive, because I grew tired of the hole in the front of my computer. I was thinking about getting one of those 6- or 7-in-1 card readers that also had a slim floppy drive in them for the sake of saying I had one. I never did get one though.
I've found that floppies are only of use for firmware, or drivers (especially when working with HP servers, as for some reason, the install program always wants to format a disk and install the drivers there). Again, with things like a bootable CD drive, a bootable USB drive, and fuck, booting from the network, I personally don't see floppies having any use anymore, except for legacy reasons. Even my BIOS outright tells me floppies are legacy, so it must be true!
Using that logic, you can say the same for Linux, which is probably why there is heated debate about whether Linux is "ready" for the desktop.
That said, Mac OS X Server and "normal" are different products. Yes, you can install Server, and still use it like it was a desktop, which is fine if you need the extra functionality.
HOWEVER, the Microsoft Server products are not intended on following that reasoning. The products are for different needs, different users, different requirements. I heard you cannot install DirectX on Windows Server 2003, without hacking the registry. This does not sound like an OS meant to play games, audio, or video!
Which brings us full circle back to the original point.
BESIDES, Windows 2003 Server costs a boat load of money more than Windows XP does. You only BUY it, if you're serious about using it for it's intended purpose. Nobody in their right mind will spend thousands of dollars on a license, just to watch their fucking DVDs.
And if they are, may I direct them all towards me and my bank account's deposit feature.
I can reasonably guess that the original person claiming to not be able to get WMP 10 installed is using a pirated copy (otherwise they are not sane, as per my previous point), in which case, he shouldn't expect ANYTHING to work as it should.
I personally prefer the route Microsoft has taken, by selling different versions of the "same" software: You buy only the features you want. That's not to say Microsoft has implemented this properly (the "lesser" versions shouldn't be crippled, but that's just my opinion), of course.
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You only switch to IE's useagent when you encounter a page which says you need to "upgrade your browser to IE 4.0+"
(From IE Tools ->) Internet Options -> Advanced -> Browsing -> Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates.
A dialog appears, and asks if you want to update if there are updates available.
I remember thinking "Google: That's a rip off of the name of a line of plush platipi toys."
Indeed, and he pushed to get it aired on network TV, at the cost of giving up some awards.
This Celsius 41.11 seems to be solely trying to make money off the success of F9/11. If they want to "get the facts straight," they wouldn't force us to pay $20 for them.
And what the hell does C44.11 mean, anyways? The daily temperature in Iraq? . I mean, 41.11C is 105.998F, they could have at least had it convert properly. I bet Ray Bradbury is really rolling in his err... near grave)
Wouldn't the FBI just ask the IRS? Isn't reporting a false address on your tax returns illegal?
Not with anything faster than a 28.8!
You are correct: you didn't say their account was deleted, however the post in which you replied to did.
Your post carried the implication that Hotmail deletes accounts because you agreed with it, though this doesn't appears to be intentional.
That said, you bring an interesting issue to light: Hotmail has apparently lowered the inactivity time from never, to 90 days, to 60 days, to now apparently 30 days.
I can already see it becoming two weeks, one week, 3 days, 2 days, 1 day, half a day, 4 hours, etc.
You will see this happen as Microsoft pushes more devices for you to use that will check your hotmail.
"s3xy_t33n_luvbnny463@hotmail.com hasn't logged in the last 2.3 minutes to check he's still got no mail? Delete his 53 gigaquads of storage space!"
What ads? http://amsn.sourceforge.net/
They don't delete your accounts -- they deactivate it.
I've had an account since 1996, back before Microsoft ever touched it. My account has been deactived so many times, that I only reactivate it when for whatever reason, I know mail is going to it.
It's funny, as I use the account as my MSN Messenger name, so you would think by logging into MSN Messenger (or any Passport site), I am in effect, PROVING I am not inactive.
In any event, I do not have the 250mb, probably because I reactived it just last week. I wonder if a new account would receive the 250 megs or not. That said, I wonder if when I get the 250mb, will it disappear in 90 (60?) days when I don't bother to check my mail?
I had some of the most restless and relaxing sleeps ever
That is to say, the most RESTFUL. I must appologise, as I have been up all night, using the Internet.
I experienced this exact phenominon during a month's vacation I took to British Columbia. I would be up at dawn every day, feeling refreshed, and ready to experience the playground that is the world. I had some of the most restless and relaxing sleeps ever.
After a while, I did have access to the Internet, but only checked it due to it being the only method of communication with respect to a party in a forest one night.
I never felt the need to use the computer, and I never felt like I was alone, or out of the loop (in fact, I felt I was IN the loop, as most of my friends were not there experiencing the greatness I was).
That said, I returned and fell right back into my self-appointed claim for the title of King of the Internet(TM).
There's a BSD port for Microsoft SQL Server?
Besides, this isn't new or anything. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works both explain why this is not only normal, but if it didn't happen, we wouldn't be here to wax idiotically about it on Slashdot.
I believe the GPS sattelites actually are equipped with such sensors.
Now to wait for the geocache: Difficulty/Terrain 5/5.
Just because it's poisonous, doesn't mean they won't eat it.
Sure there is! If you setup your AP to not need authentication, clients will connect automatically (either automagically, or when the users selects your AP for use).
I know D-Link makes routers that have this support as well, and in fact, I own one. I have yet to test it out, because for whatever reason, it could not maintain the PPPoE connection with my ISP.
So I turned off all the routing features, and now it's but a lonely switch off on the fringe of my LAN.
The joke is that is exactly what happened the first time I tried installing qmail. It wouldn't work for hours upon hours, and then all of a sudden, mail was flowing through as if it was destined to.
And then, one day, qmail stopped, and would never start again.
Coincidentally, the Gmail beta became available that very day.
I think 2.4Ghz cordless phones would be a better example than processors.
In fact, cordless phones are already the problem. There's enough talk that they need a new spectrum for 802.11, or a new spectrum for phones, or a new spectrum for both, or whatever, as the spectrum is crowded to shit.
Using the logic that they don't want you operating your own APs because they interfere with the the school's AP, would suggest they would also tell you to not use 2.4GHz cordless phones (which is actually feasible if they have a digital phone system, and provide the students with their own phone).
I suspect the real intentions of the school are that they don't want people using their own APs due to all the potential problems when people connect to them (either knowingly or unknowingly). The school could have SSIDs of "UofTAP", and all someone has to do is create one with the same SSID, and they now control the ntwork connection of potentially a large number of students.
Imagine the calls to the helldesk when your SP2 download turns out to be lesbian porn.
Mine handles most of the services for my LAN. DHCP, DNS, and one of those clients that updates your dynamic host. Ideally it would also be a router and firewall, but I have one of those hardware dealies.
Up until a few weeks ago, when I found the majority of the parts in the trash, the box was a P 100, with 32 MB of RAM.
I'm running Slack 8 on it, and it runs perfectly well. Once upon a time, when it was the P 100, it ran Win95B, and had a security camera attached that was known by those not in the know as a "web cam."
The original box has seen me through tough times, such as the time the 500 MB drive in my P90 died (literally smoked poured out of the case), and I resorted to using my 386 and Slack 3. This turned out to not really be a viable option, since I had to do web development for IE4. This box decided to make itself known to me, so I took it in from the cold.
I have a P2 200Mhz, though it has 128 MB of RAM.
I found it in the garbage.
The latest BIOSes are also able to handle booting from a USB memory key as well.
For years, my main desktop PC didn't have a floppy in it (I had removed it for various reasons, and never got around to replacing it). Things like a network, CD-Rs and now DVD-Rs actually did make floppies useless in my house. I only reinstalled the (a) floppy drive, because I grew tired of the hole in the front of my computer. I was thinking about getting one of those 6- or 7-in-1 card readers that also had a slim floppy drive in them for the sake of saying I had one. I never did get one though.
I've found that floppies are only of use for firmware, or drivers (especially when working with HP servers, as for some reason, the install program always wants to format a disk and install the drivers there). Again, with things like a bootable CD drive, a bootable USB drive, and fuck, booting from the network, I personally don't see floppies having any use anymore, except for legacy reasons. Even my BIOS outright tells me floppies are legacy, so it must be true!
Nevermind that, there's also the fact there's now a paper-trail (or electronic-trail, if you will).
When people send an e-mail in, there's a record of it happening (this is why helldesks employ the use of ticketing and logging software).
Far too often when things are agreed duing a verbal conversation, shit doesn't get done.
"Say Stan, did you print off those reports I asked for?"
"You didn't ask me for shit, crackhead!"
At least with the e-mail, they can go back and be like, "Oh yeah. I said I'd get those to you for today. The e-mail system has made a liar out of me."
It's too bad they're not on DVD yet.
Using that logic, you can say the same for Linux, which is probably why there is heated debate about whether Linux is "ready" for the desktop.
That said, Mac OS X Server and "normal" are different products. Yes, you can install Server, and still use it like it was a desktop, which is fine if you need the extra functionality.
HOWEVER, the Microsoft Server products are not intended on following that reasoning. The products are for different needs, different users, different requirements. I heard you cannot install DirectX on Windows Server 2003, without hacking the registry. This does not sound like an OS meant to play games, audio, or video!
Which brings us full circle back to the original point.
BESIDES, Windows 2003 Server costs a boat load of money more than Windows XP does. You only BUY it, if you're serious about using it for it's intended purpose. Nobody in their right mind will spend thousands of dollars on a license, just to watch their fucking DVDs.
And if they are, may I direct them all towards me and my bank account's deposit feature.
I can reasonably guess that the original person claiming to not be able to get WMP 10 installed is using a pirated copy (otherwise they are not sane, as per my previous point), in which case, he shouldn't expect ANYTHING to work as it should.
I personally prefer the route Microsoft has taken, by selling different versions of the "same" software: You buy only the features you want. That's not to say Microsoft has implemented this properly (the "lesser" versions shouldn't be crippled, but that's just my opinion), of course.