Shame they didn't go one step further and make them wireless.
I heard of this great new technology, something about Frequency Modulation or whatever. Apparently some genius figured out how to transmit sound *wirelessly* (no shit!) for miles, even without line of sight!
I'm sure we'll read about that in Slashdot sooner or later. If you don't catch the first article, you'll be sure to see the dupe.
Actually, IBM has partnered with another firm and software is available that'll encrypt every byte on the drive.
I own a T42 and I must say, it's quite handy to have. You can set the fingerprint scan in one of three ways (or a combination):
1 - on boot
2 - Windows login, locally attached to your profile
3 - Windows login, profile fed from a server
Naturally, the encryption only works with method #1, but it will protect from having the drive moved to a different machine. What I haven't figured out is what happens if the machine is toast but the drive is fine. I guess that's what backups are for.
...doesn't make it illegal. At least not yet. My understanding of the recent court rulings was that in Canada, downloading is allowed. It is considered an extension of fair-use, given that it is already legal here for me to make a copy of a friend's store-bought CD. I cannot give away the copy, and I cannot make a copy and give it to a friend, but I can make a copy of the original CD for personal use, completely legally. This is why we pay a levy on blank CDs. Uploading music remains illegal. So if you download commercial music, take it out of your share folders and you should be fine (IANAL of course).
What pisses me off about this study is the statistic on how many people made audio CDs in the last 6 months. Uh hello - that's what the levy is for. To even suggest that that is illegal is unfair.
For my part, the music files in my collection are all obtained through original CDs. Either mine (I *do* purchase a significant amount of music), or borrowed originals (again, copy made for personal use is legal). I do not share the files I rip. I'm considering getting more from the library too. Although I don't download music, I still believe it to be completely legal in Canada.
On a side note, the CRIA pisses me off. As an example of their greediness, they've gone so far as to send threatening letters to dentists, telling them they can't play the radio in their offices (or their on-hold music) because they haven't paid a licensing fee. It's considered entertainment for commercial purposes (regardless of the fact that they already get royalties from the stations) and want to double-dip. The dentists I know have had to purchase some royalty-free loops for their on-hold music, and have stopped playing the radio in their offices.
I didn't find that, actually (no, I'm not Italian). The rules were pretty straightforward, and once I figured that out driving there was easy (in all cities but Sorrento - that was hell).
Keep the hell out of the passing lane if you're not passing. If you see someone coming up behind you, get out of their way (switch lanes to the right if you can). Everybody was doing that, and everybody got to drive as fast as they wanted. Nobody needed to weave or cut anyone off. I did not see any accidents during our 3-week trip.
Yeah, sure. When my wife and I were in Italy last year on our honeymoon, I was told the maximum was 130km/h.
Then again, nobody seemed to be following it. We went up to 185 and were often passed like we weren't moving. Turns out you're more likely to be pulled over for blocking the passing lane, or passing on the right.
I would never have tried going that fast in Toronto - I'd lose my license in a minute. Over there everybody was doing it. And it was fun.
I guess that's why it takes 5 hours to compile in Gentoo, then.
And I guess that's why I "emerge ccache" - only the changed files need to be compiled. Surely that would speed it up more than just a bit. Set your cache to a large size and you'd be good to go.
I don't remember spending 5 hours to compile anything after I set up the machine initially.
I miss batch files too. I discovered AutoIt a few years back, though, and it's proven to be quite good at more than a few things. It's come a long way now, but even 5 years ago it was quite usable for just about everything I had wanted to batch up in Windows.
When I had an office, I had a 30 day rule. If I didn't touch it in 30 days, it was gone. It worked really well, and I had virtually nothing in my office.
I tried that too. That worked well until I got audited.
And I love Firefox. I do. And I try to get everyone I know using it.
But would it kill the developers to fix one really annoying, yet increasingly serious bug?
I'm speaking of large file download support. I ran across this when trying to download the Knoppix 4 DVD, which is 3GB, to a filesystem that supports files up to 4GB. Basically it starts downloading fine, but after the first two GB the progress bar goes wonky (reading negative file size downloaded) and the file on disk gets corrupted. I guess it's a signed int problem or somesuch.
I checked with Bugzilla (no link from/. allowed) and indeed, this sucker is confirmed and has been known for over a year.
Yeah, yeah, I know BT is better except I was downloading at work where the firewall won't let me use that. But it was shameful that I ended up having to use IE to download that.iso file.
And THEN you need to hire about 30 circus midgets, paint them orange, with green hair and stripey suits, so that whenever a potential customer gets locked into a server cage they can magically appear and sing a little song...
With apologies to Roald Dahl...
Oompa Loompa, Doobidie Doo
Another Stupid Dumbass, Locked-in Are You!
Oompa Loompa, What do you See?
Don't let him out, he's a PHB!
Your CO detector. They are just as important as your fire/smoke alarms, and in some areas (such as Toronto) they are now required by law. Particularly if you're going to be using a whole load of gas appliances. Carbon Monoxide is bad m'kay?
What's to keep games from including newer/special versions of the dlls?
Think about the implications of that. Any game that does this risks breaking another application that was developed/tested using the DLLs that came with the OS.
Any company that screws around with your machine's config in that way had better be careful, or they could get lynched.
That also means that you'd have to give the user the option to use the default OpenGL drivers. Which means you'd have to test your own app under both. Or, optionally, you have your own set of drivers that only you use, but that means you have to check if it's compatible with all the video card drivers out there (because goodness knows, ATI and Nvidia aren't likely to care about your proprietary OpenGL implementation).
You guys actually get, like, a real.... document? Like with writing in it, describing in some detail what people actually want?
I thought they were myths.
Where I work, people's minds change, sometimes on a weekly or even daily basis. Sometimes it's a good idea to plan ahead to be able to keep up with those changes.
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Shame they didn't go one step further and make them wireless.
I heard of this great new technology, something about Frequency Modulation or whatever. Apparently some genius figured out how to transmit sound *wirelessly* (no shit!) for miles, even without line of sight!
I'm sure we'll read about that in Slashdot sooner or later. If you don't catch the first article, you'll be sure to see the dupe.
Believe it or not, I didn't have much trouble running it in Wine on Gentoo.
Don't know about MacOS though.
Actually, IBM has partnered with another firm and software is available that'll encrypt every byte on the drive.
I own a T42 and I must say, it's quite handy to have. You can set the fingerprint scan in one of three ways (or a combination):
1 - on boot
2 - Windows login, locally attached to your profile
3 - Windows login, profile fed from a server
Naturally, the encryption only works with method #1, but it will protect from having the drive moved to a different machine. What I haven't figured out is what happens if the machine is toast but the drive is fine. I guess that's what backups are for.
3b) - if you are a terrorist and Steven Seagal is on board, don't spit in his soup. That's just inviting trouble.
Unless you don't think The Toronto Star is major.
...doesn't make it illegal. At least not yet. My understanding of the recent court rulings was that in Canada, downloading is allowed. It is considered an extension of fair-use, given that it is already legal here for me to make a copy of a friend's store-bought CD. I cannot give away the copy, and I cannot make a copy and give it to a friend, but I can make a copy of the original CD for personal use, completely legally. This is why we pay a levy on blank CDs. Uploading music remains illegal. So if you download commercial music, take it out of your share folders and you should be fine (IANAL of course).
What pisses me off about this study is the statistic on how many people made audio CDs in the last 6 months. Uh hello - that's what the levy is for. To even suggest that that is illegal is unfair.
For my part, the music files in my collection are all obtained through original CDs. Either mine (I *do* purchase a significant amount of music), or borrowed originals (again, copy made for personal use is legal). I do not share the files I rip. I'm considering getting more from the library too. Although I don't download music, I still believe it to be completely legal in Canada.
On a side note, the CRIA pisses me off. As an example of their greediness, they've gone so far as to send threatening letters to dentists, telling them they can't play the radio in their offices (or their on-hold music) because they haven't paid a licensing fee. It's considered entertainment for commercial purposes (regardless of the fact that they already get royalties from the stations) and want to double-dip. The dentists I know have had to purchase some royalty-free loops for their on-hold music, and have stopped playing the radio in their offices.
I didn't find that, actually (no, I'm not Italian). The rules were pretty straightforward, and once I figured that out driving there was easy (in all cities but Sorrento - that was hell).
Keep the hell out of the passing lane if you're not passing. If you see someone coming up behind you, get out of their way (switch lanes to the right if you can). Everybody was doing that, and everybody got to drive as fast as they wanted. Nobody needed to weave or cut anyone off. I did not see any accidents during our 3-week trip.
Yeah, sure. When my wife and I were in Italy last year on our honeymoon, I was told the maximum was 130km/h.
Then again, nobody seemed to be following it. We went up to 185 and were often passed like we weren't moving. Turns out you're more likely to be pulled over for blocking the passing lane, or passing on the right.
I would never have tried going that fast in Toronto - I'd lose my license in a minute. Over there everybody was doing it. And it was fun.
I guess that's why it takes 5 hours to compile in Gentoo, then.
And I guess that's why I "emerge ccache" - only the changed files need to be compiled. Surely that would speed it up more than just a bit. Set your cache to a large size and you'd be good to go.
I don't remember spending 5 hours to compile anything after I set up the machine initially.
I miss batch files too. I discovered AutoIt a few years back, though, and it's proven to be quite good at more than a few things. It's come a long way now, but even 5 years ago it was quite usable for just about everything I had wanted to batch up in Windows.
Check it out.
You laugh, but these guys actually DO use the CN Tower for their UltraFast Wireless service.
Unfortunately when I looked into it they were maxed out and only offered me DSL instead.
When I had an office, I had a 30 day rule. If I didn't touch it in 30 days, it was gone. It worked really well, and I had virtually nothing in my office.
I tried that too. That worked well until I got audited.
if they see a working prototype, they'll try to force me to roll it out as productive immediately
You think that's bad? I've had project managers try to do that to me when they saw a Powerpoint mockup of a new app!
And I love Firefox. I do. And I try to get everyone I know using it.
/. allowed) and indeed, this sucker is confirmed and has been known for over a year.
.iso file.
But would it kill the developers to fix one really annoying, yet increasingly serious bug?
I'm speaking of large file download support. I ran across this when trying to download the Knoppix 4 DVD, which is 3GB, to a filesystem that supports files up to 4GB. Basically it starts downloading fine, but after the first two GB the progress bar goes wonky (reading negative file size downloaded) and the file on disk gets corrupted. I guess it's a signed int problem or somesuch.
I checked with Bugzilla (no link from
Yeah, yeah, I know BT is better except I was downloading at work where the firewall won't let me use that. But it was shameful that I ended up having to use IE to download that
Silly hosers, everyone knows that Canadians get their milk from a bag not a carton, eh.
Actually, we respect freedom of choice. My grocery store carries both bags AND cartons.
Then again, we can't get our milk in jugs.
And THEN you need to hire about 30 circus midgets, paint them orange, with green hair and stripey suits, so that whenever a potential customer gets locked into a server cage they can magically appear and sing a little song...
With apologies to Roald Dahl...
Oompa Loompa, Doobidie Doo
Another Stupid Dumbass, Locked-in Are You!
Oompa Loompa, What do you See?
Don't let him out, he's a PHB!
This guy seems to have figured it out. I tried it out and it seems to show all of the tropical storm data I want.
Alternatively, you can also use X-Planet cloud map overlays. Set your refresh to once every few hours, and you can see the storms that way too.
Your CO detector. They are just as important as your fire/smoke alarms, and in some areas (such as Toronto) they are now required by law. Particularly if you're going to be using a whole load of gas appliances. Carbon Monoxide is bad m'kay?
Surprise! I got married last year.
Yeah, a rarity, I suppose. I've got a wife who appreciates my inner geek. A jewel she is.
If it's a laptop, you don't have to sit on the edge of the couch, you can pick it up and put it in your lap!
That does work. Unfortunately my sperm are not enjoying being cooked by the heat.
Are you on the same medication I am?
What's to keep games from including newer/special versions of the dlls?
Think about the implications of that. Any game that does this risks breaking another application that was developed/tested using the DLLs that came with the OS.
Any company that screws around with your machine's config in that way had better be careful, or they could get lynched.
That also means that you'd have to give the user the option to use the default OpenGL drivers. Which means you'd have to test your own app under both. Or, optionally, you have your own set of drivers that only you use, but that means you have to check if it's compatible with all the video card drivers out there (because goodness knows, ATI and Nvidia aren't likely to care about your proprietary OpenGL implementation).
For example, I work in a bizzare housing complex near a Canadian public university.
This wouldn't be U of Toronto Scarborough Campus, would it? That whole place is a freaking bomb shelter.
Cue the Clippy jokes. Ideally put them all under this thread to keep them contained, please.
You guys actually get, like, a real.... document? Like with writing in it, describing in some detail what people actually want?
I thought they were myths.
Where I work, people's minds change, sometimes on a weekly or even daily basis. Sometimes it's a good idea to plan ahead to be able to keep up with those changes.