Ah, the one thing that ISPs have that they can use to lead you around by the nose: your email address. Contact with friends and family.
That's why, early on, I decided to go with NetIdentity, a third party email service that has normal pop3/smtp access.
It's paid off tremendously. I thought having a big broadband ISP would save me from having to switch around so much, but twice my cable company has up and been bought out or cable boundries redrawn and I'm stuck with someone else. I've had the same email address for nearly six years too, but have been through seven ISPs in that time.:)
I've got a 9500 Pro, and the client randomly locks up on me, every other day or so. Though I'm not shelling out money for a new video card.
And usually, I'll start with the costume creation screen, and once I find something I like, go back and choose the archetype and origin. I tend to pick rather unique names, so I haven't run into any name conflicts yet.
Turning off the preview pane isn't enough sometimes. Why take a chance that a message that looks like it might either be from a trusted contact, or a virus/spam?
In Outlook Express, you can right-click on a message, properties, and view the headers in the Details tab. If that's not enough info for you, hit the Message Source button and you'll be treated to a beautiful non-rendered view of the entire message, including any html code. If it's unreadable there, then you have got a virus, spam, or (even worse) an AOL user.
I'm too lazy to set up a filter, so I manually scan for spam like this.
Same thing happened to me. I just got an NEC 8x -/+ R/RW drive, and got some cheap Ritek 8x +R media. The media works fine at 8x, and the drive burns fine at 8x.. just not with each other. (I gave a couple of my blanks to a friend with a Plextor writer, and it wrote them fine at 8x. He gave me some of his blanks, and I wrote them fine at 8x. My blanks in my writer only write at 4x.)
No word on a firmware update. I had to do a LOT of googling around, and all I could find was a hacked firmware which removed region restrictions (not interested).
So, I've got 90-odd 8x media on my hands that I can only write at 4x. It'd be more expensive to ship them back for a refund (minus a restocking fee, and if they allow a refund at all) and buy 4x media than it would be to just keep them. In the meantime, I can just sit and hope for a firmware update.
(Who knows when they're going to come out with/R, *R, and ^R formats? Gah!)
I've been waiting for this to come about ever since reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein. In it, a computer (as in the kind you build a room around, not the kind you carry into a room, it's an old book) renders its own videophone calls to simulate a person's office, including all the proper background noise, even taking into account the general location of where the office should be, and computing noise based on traffic reports. (And even those little white lies, such as his "secretary" picking up, "He's in a meeting right now," *flushing sound in background* "Oh, looks like he's just finishing up, would you like to hold?")
Please Mozilla, please hit 1.0 soon, pretty pretty please...
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I've had BeOS running fine on my laptop. Well, almost fine, it wouldn't recognize the mobile S3 Virge in there, but I got a nice driver somewhere that allowed it to do 800x600 and 16-bit color, but slowly. The card does have no 3D support, I've had 3DMark 99 tell me that. Picked right up on my Yamaha 715 sound, and 3Com something-or-other 10bT pcmcia card. Started and shut down nice and fast, faster than any Windows or Linux I threw at it. Of course, then there was application availability, but I'm pretty sure that's been talked to death.
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Some people believe that cell phones can start fires. Even though there's no evidence, some people still believe it's better safe than sorry.
Just nod and smile, nod and smile.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd buy a Woz.
Ah, the one thing that ISPs have that they can use to lead you around by the nose: your email address. Contact with friends and family.
:)
That's why, early on, I decided to go with NetIdentity, a third party email service that has normal pop3/smtp access.
It's paid off tremendously. I thought having a big broadband ISP would save me from having to switch around so much, but twice my cable company has up and been bought out or cable boundries redrawn and I'm stuck with someone else. I've had the same email address for nearly six years too, but have been through seven ISPs in that time.
I've got a 9500 Pro, and the client randomly locks up on me, every other day or so. Though I'm not shelling out money for a new video card.
And usually, I'll start with the costume creation screen, and once I find something I like, go back and choose the archetype and origin. I tend to pick rather unique names, so I haven't run into any name conflicts yet.
Turning off the preview pane isn't enough sometimes. Why take a chance that a message that looks like it might either be from a trusted contact, or a virus/spam?
In Outlook Express, you can right-click on a message, properties, and view the headers in the Details tab. If that's not enough info for you, hit the Message Source button and you'll be treated to a beautiful non-rendered view of the entire message, including any html code. If it's unreadable there, then you have got a virus, spam, or (even worse) an AOL user.
I'm too lazy to set up a filter, so I manually scan for spam like this.
Same thing happened to me. I just got an NEC 8x -/+ R/RW drive, and got some cheap Ritek 8x +R media. The media works fine at 8x, and the drive burns fine at 8x.. just not with each other. (I gave a couple of my blanks to a friend with a Plextor writer, and it wrote them fine at 8x. He gave me some of his blanks, and I wrote them fine at 8x. My blanks in my writer only write at 4x.)
/R, *R, and ^R formats? Gah!)
No word on a firmware update. I had to do a LOT of googling around, and all I could find was a hacked firmware which removed region restrictions (not interested).
So, I've got 90-odd 8x media on my hands that I can only write at 4x. It'd be more expensive to ship them back for a refund (minus a restocking fee, and if they allow a refund at all) and buy 4x media than it would be to just keep them. In the meantime, I can just sit and hope for a firmware update.
(Who knows when they're going to come out with
I've been waiting for this to come about ever since reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein. In it, a computer (as in the kind you build a room around, not the kind you carry into a room, it's an old book) renders its own videophone calls to simulate a person's office, including all the proper background noise, even taking into account the general location of where the office should be, and computing noise based on traffic reports. (And even those little white lies, such as his "secretary" picking up, "He's in a meeting right now," *flushing sound in background* "Oh, looks like he's just finishing up, would you like to hold?")
Please Mozilla, please hit 1.0 soon, pretty pretty please...
I've had BeOS running fine on my laptop. Well, almost fine, it wouldn't recognize the mobile S3 Virge in there, but I got a nice driver somewhere that allowed it to do 800x600 and 16-bit color, but slowly. The card does have no 3D support, I've had 3DMark 99 tell me that.
Picked right up on my Yamaha 715 sound, and 3Com something-or-other 10bT pcmcia card. Started and shut down nice and fast, faster than any Windows or Linux I threw at it.
Of course, then there was application availability, but I'm pretty sure that's been talked to death.