One of the key considerations that went into the design of the Rotor's shared source license is that a programmer should be able to look at the Rotor source without becoming tainted. Indeed, one of Microsoft's goals for Rotor is to be a guide for anyone who implements the ECMA CLI whether for an open source or proprietary project. Nevertheless, it will be some time before open source project organizers have had a chance to form an opinion about the Rotor's shared source license. So, if you are an active contributor to a project that overlaps with Rotor, you should check with the project organizers before looking at the source code.
Dan Gillmore: I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won't be your customer.
Right On! This my major peeve! Why should we do business with an entity that begins the relationship with an insult? They insult the customer's integrity when the truth is that they're the one who are lacking.
Two examples: 1) I WILL NOT shop at a CDW location because they INSIST in order for you, the customer to enter, that you turn over your bag with YOUR valuables (cell phone, PDA, laptop? $2000 worth?) to a minimum wage shlub in a cheap uniform. I actually had one say to me,"You have to GIVE ME YOUR STUFF if you want to BUY SOMETHING!" I declined that deal and took my money elsewhere.
They practically strip search you on the way out after you buy something. (AFTER you pay, you have the items and the paperwork reviewed by the security guard before you get YOUR stuff back.)
BTW, CDW, my Fortune 50 employer would OK my purchase of a lot of stuff from you. I don't purchase from you. You keep telling me you think I'm a thief.
2) I just wrestled for three weeks with a brand new Directv/TiVo that insisted the Directv access card wasn't valid. It had a bad card reader but it took a attempted card replacement to figure that out. I BOUGHT the thing. As a customer I was arranging to PAY for the service but I couldn't convince it that I wasn't trying to steal.
I walked out of a CD store because of similar "strip search" policy. I had already decided to slow down CD purchases since they're overpriced and now copy protected.
I also hate it when you have to fight with some scheme to activate software that you bought. They need to be less concerned with the possibility that we will use the product without paying for it and more concerned that we want to use the product at all!
We HAVE TO refuse to do business with companies that assume we're thieves!
...a move over to Outlook. I'm not sure what finally happened (I left before that decision was made) but the Outlook people had to explain why it was a good idea in the face of the LOVEBUG and other vbscript ilk (It managed to crash several of the other companies servers)
Didn't ya hear? The Exchange server gurus fixed that problem. When the virus scanners on the servers couldn't keep up, they BANNED ATTACHMENTS entirely. Well, not entirely, but only.xls and.doc files are allowed as attachments. Not even.zip files get through.
The company I worked for was merged (read: acquired) and afterwards they sent out teams to research our company procedures and systems to determine the "Best Practice" for the merged company. They pretend that best practice is really that, but it means, "what we in the acquiring company were doing before we bought your sorry outfit."
Unless it's "take us over" like it was when AT&T bought NCR, I hope Compaq employees will learn to like what's left of HP OpenMail over Exchange.
I would check for power problems.
I once had a similar situation, where you could actually hear something when the monitor screens would shrink a bit. One quiet night I figured out that it was the power hungry Sun SparcPrinter on the same power circuit that was firing up the fuser periodically. It was causing brown-outs.
If all of your flickering monitors are on the same circuit, or worse, the same surge protector, try changing that.
I have had surge protectors that were "used up" and were spiking the power on their own. Try taking the surge protectors out.
You might try monitoring the power voltage with a mulitmeter to see if you see a change when the flicker happens.
Try testing with a small online UPS for one monitor to see if that cures the problem. Note that it cannot be a standby UPS. Those won't cure brown outs. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/power/ext/ups/types.htm
You cannot have read this far without thinking about toasting marshmallows on a stick over a campfire, right? The fire's heat both melts the gelatin and caramelizes the sugar, producing a hot, caramel-flavored goo that yin-yangs your tongue with heat and sweet. But as in all cooking, there is a right way and a wrong way. Wrong way: Hold the marshmallow just above the flames until it catches fire, and let it burn until it has a crisp, black crust. Don't be deterred by the fact that the crust is made of indigestible carbon laced with bitter-tasting and probably carcinogenic tars. Right way: Wait until the fire has died down to glowing coals and then hold the marshmallow high over them, rotating it until it slowly develops a nice, uniform tan color. (Patience, patience.) If it should catch fire, blow it out immediately, let it cool for a few seconds, and continue toasting.
Hey, in my urban Boy Scout troop we set them on fire on purpose! We had to exorcise our pyromaniac tendencies, and better on a camping trip than in an abandoned building in the city.
I have more of a weakness for Chocolate-Mashmallow Eggs than Peeps. I can go through a few dozen if I let myself at 'em.
That was my first real PC! I still own two of them, and a Kaypro, and they still will boot faster than any current PC.
The Osborne was the first "portable" (really, luggable) computer. The first with a built-in monitor (only 3" viewable, diagonally). The case was a from a portable sewing machine.
But they weighed only 25 pounds!
We didn't have or need anti-theft devices in those days. Most thieves didn't know what it was.
I've deployed a lot of small data centers. Your choices in what to buy are actually easier than you think. You can calculate your power and cooling needs down to the last BTU and KVa, and then you have to buy equipment in a size they make them in! Just go the smaller end of the lines.
You'll end up with a 3 ton or 5 ton air conditioner. Liebert air conditioners can also humidify/dehumidify and heat/cool. There is a market for used Lieberts if you want to save some money. Call your local A/C contractor.
A 3Kva UPS would be a good size unless you want more standby time in which case you could go for a 5 Kva or maybe two 3's for redundancy.
..and there's the deep. dark secret of Outlook.pst files that space is never reclaimed until you
manually run the well-hidden compress utility.
Even if you delete items from the folder from within Outlook the space the deleted items used is still gone until you compress to reclaim it. Nobody compresses, so the file grows and grows.
Besides - if its not on the server or the defendants machine (IANAL) - its tough to use as evidence
Actually the courts have held that the legal discovery process is concerned with data that is on servers, not desktops. We were told by the lawyers that the courts have held that servers ARE controlled by the company but desktops are not.
What the lawyers are concerned about is when they get a court order for discovery that says "present every document regarding issue Y or company X." They are required to come up with EVERYTHING and report back that there's nothing else in places the company controls that the company can put it's hands on. They are not expected to search every desktop, but they are expected to seach common controlled resources like file servers.
My place has suggested that everyone store their.pst files on their home directory so that could make things interesting.
Burt Rutan envisons a
Space Tourism venture that works partly as a raffle. The company would create three new astronauts every week. One of those will have paid big money. The other two will have paid a reasonable $x,000 (it was $5000 in 1996).
The spacecraft has three seats. You can guarantee a seat by paying $100,000+ for a ticket. Otherwise you pay $5,000 for a chance.
For a chance for a seat on each flight 10 people pay $5,000.
For each weekly flight all eleven go the training site in the Carribean. They are instructed in the three crew positions on the spacecraft. At the end of the fourth day of training the 10 candidates draw straws. Two of them get seats in the spacecraft. The other 8 have gotten a very nice Carribean vacation for $5,000.
The two and the $100,000 passenger get seats on the spacecraft launched on the
Proteus for an Alan Shepard style 15 minute sub-orbital flight that lands in the same Carribean. The flight includes ten minutes of free weightlessness.
Rutan's vision was the commercial application of his entry for the X-Prize. The X-Prize competition is dormant because it never got a sponsor for the $1 Million prize.
Hey! I had all the HINs locked up. I worked for a company that deployed (Regional) Health Information Networks.
We had CHIN, Chicago Health Information Network.
HINT, of Tennessee.
HINOV, Of Ohio Valley. (Cincinatti and into Kentucky)
and....
RHINNO, Regional Health Information Network of Northern Ohio. (Cleveland and Akron)
On my network diagram used in our exhibit booth I labled the example "Your RHIN." I wondered of anybody would pick up that that was a common hospital term.
You have to report the problem to the credit card company within 30 days of receiving your credit card bill.
I'd bet that if you were promised to get your free DSL installed in 60-90 days, you'd expect that you only needed the DSL modem then so you wouldn't report the fraud.
Windows Media Player does reports your playlists back to Microsoft secretly if you don't stop it. Download and run ZoneAlarm, fire up a CD with Media Player, and wait for the warning.
The ZoneAlarm warning is probably reporting Media Player downloading the CD data from Gracenote or whoever.
According to article in Wired Microsoft admits caching the information on what you play, but they say it never goes out. The cache removes the necessity for Media Player from going out again for the information.
By using a canard airfoil that stalled before the main wing, they designed an aircraft whose nose would remain high during a stall. (There was a Scientific American article years ago that described all this)
The canard design does NOT allow the "nose" to "remain high," it prevents the nose from GETTING too high.
The canard provides a good portion (40% on modern designs) of the airplane's lift and it is, indeed set at a higher angle of attack than the main wing. If the nose is raised both wings go to higher of angles of attack. The more-angled canard stalls first, which removes the lift that is holding up the nose, so the aircraft automatically lowers the nose and prevents the main wing from ever getting to a critical angle and stalling. Thanks to that built-in mechanism carnard designs are called "stall-proof."
Burt Rutan, the designer of the
Voyager airplane that flew non-stop around the world, has developed modern composite aircraft with canard designs, which he credits to the Wright Brothers, his entire professional life.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration defines the term UNICOM as the radio handle of the managing authority of an airport, usually the airport's Fixed Base Operator (FBO), the airport's local "service station." That use goes back to the earliest days of aviaton radio in the 1920s.
Could someone elaborate on this? If the Tivo
programming fails to account for live sports
running over the alloted time, that's a big
flaw. Come to think of it, if it only gets
schedule info late at night over a phone line,
this would have to happen. Another good reason
they should move to an always-connected broadband
solution.
Each TiVo calls in once every 24 hours and stores two weeks worth of the TV schedule.
It IS possible to get a TiVo to use a broadband connection for updates, using TiVoNET
I don't know how any system could tell in advance how long a sporting event is going to be. Would you expect the TiVo to check in over the net to get an instruction like "add 10 minutes to the recording time and check back here in 15 minutes?" . There are tens of thousands of TiVos. That would make a LOT of network traffic.
The answer is to add extra time to the recording, which TiVo does let you do in the recording options.
you'd need an O/S that was designed from the beginning to be multi-tasking and multi-user....something like...uhhhh...*nix!
I don't get what the breakthrough is. Many moons ago I deployed and supported 400 users with 20" color screens and keyboards and mice, with the full office-like suite of applications (with shared licenses) all running off one or the other of two Sun 4/330's runing SunOS (BSD Unix) over 10BaseT. It was called "an X-terminal." It performed so well that users would favor them over PCs.
The coolest thing was getting a shipment of 30 new desktops in the morning and having them all working in front of the users by lunch time. Those were the days...before we got this advanced new easy-to-deploy, easy-to-train stuff like Windows.
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At my work you will be fired for playing games.
They fired a very hard working IT operations director who I don't think ever got a straight four hours of sleep due to escalation pages.
They also "walked out"a call center rep for playing games.
Some companies value their ancient culture and have a zero tolerance policy. We were told to limit web surfing at work to 15 minutes a day.
I'll play the games at home.
The cops in Arlington. VA ARE using GPS and "other" technologies to in a "bait cars" catch car thieves.
You know what they say about ASSUMEing.
It may mean that you get to access that 60GB at 200Kbps over localtalk.
Goldtouch has not only several versions of Ergonomic keyboards but also an Ergonomic Mouse and mouse pad.
Two examples: 1) I WILL NOT shop at a CDW location because they INSIST in order for you, the customer to enter, that you turn over your bag with YOUR valuables (cell phone, PDA, laptop? $2000 worth?) to a minimum wage shlub in a cheap uniform. I actually had one say to me,"You have to GIVE ME YOUR STUFF if you want to BUY SOMETHING!" I declined that deal and took my money elsewhere.
They practically strip search you on the way out after you buy something. (AFTER you pay, you have the items and the paperwork reviewed by the security guard before you get YOUR stuff back.)
BTW, CDW, my Fortune 50 employer would OK my purchase of a lot of stuff from you. I don't purchase from you. You keep telling me you think I'm a thief.
2) I just wrestled for three weeks with a brand new Directv/TiVo that insisted the Directv access card wasn't valid. It had a bad card reader but it took a attempted card replacement to figure that out. I BOUGHT the thing. As a customer I was arranging to PAY for the service but I couldn't convince it that I wasn't trying to steal.
I walked out of a CD store because of similar "strip search" policy. I had already decided to slow down CD purchases since they're overpriced and now copy protected.
I also hate it when you have to fight with some scheme to activate software that you bought. They need to be less concerned with the possibility that we will use the product without paying for it and more concerned that we want to use the product at all!
We HAVE TO refuse to do business with companies that assume we're thieves!
Where do you want to go today????
..Somewhere where things work!
The company I worked for was merged (read: acquired) and afterwards they sent out teams to research our company procedures and systems to determine the "Best Practice" for the merged company. They pretend that best practice is really that, but it means, "what we in the acquiring company were doing before we bought your sorry outfit."
Unless it's "take us over" like it was when AT&T bought NCR, I hope Compaq employees will learn to like what's left of HP OpenMail over Exchange.
I would check for power problems. I once had a similar situation, where you could actually hear something when the monitor screens would shrink a bit. One quiet night I figured out that it was the power hungry Sun SparcPrinter on the same power circuit that was firing up the fuser periodically. It was causing brown-outs.
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If all of your flickering monitors are on the same circuit, or worse, the same surge protector, try changing that.
I have had surge protectors that were "used up" and were spiking the power on their own. Try taking the surge protectors out.
You might try monitoring the power voltage with a mulitmeter to see if you see a change when the flicker happens.
Try testing with a small online UPS for one monitor to see if that cures the problem. Note that it cannot be a standby UPS. Those won't cure brown outs. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/power/ext/ups/types.ht
I have more of a weakness for Chocolate-Mashmallow Eggs than Peeps. I can go through a few dozen if I let myself at 'em.
The Osborne was the first "portable" (really, luggable) computer. The first with a built-in monitor (only 3" viewable, diagonally). The case was a from a portable sewing machine. But they weighed only 25 pounds!
We didn't have or need anti-theft devices in those days. Most thieves didn't know what it was.
I've deployed a lot of small data centers. Your choices in what to buy are actually easier than you think. You can calculate your power and cooling needs down to the last BTU and KVa, and then you have to buy equipment in a size they make them in! Just go the smaller end of the lines.
You'll end up with a 3 ton or 5 ton air conditioner. Liebert air conditioners can also humidify/dehumidify and heat/cool. There is a market for used Lieberts if you want to save some money. Call your local A/C contractor.
A 3Kva UPS would be a good size unless you want more standby time in which case you could go for a 5 Kva or maybe two 3's for redundancy.
Liebert makes great UPSs, too. The APC Matrix line is a pretty good design because you can hot-swap the batteries yourself.
4 tiles up by 4 tiles wide is 16 tiles, not 4.
170 mm length by 170 mm width is 28900 square mm.
Anyway the original posting says 170mm square, which is correct, not 170 square mm.
enuf.
..and there's the deep. dark secret of Outlook .pst files that space is never reclaimed until you
manually run the well-hidden compress utility.
Even if you delete items from the folder from within Outlook the space the deleted items used is still gone until you compress to reclaim it. Nobody compresses, so the file grows and grows.
What the lawyers are concerned about is when they get a court order for discovery that says "present every document regarding issue Y or company X." They are required to come up with EVERYTHING and report back that there's nothing else in places the company controls that the company can put it's hands on. They are not expected to search every desktop, but they are expected to seach common controlled resources like file servers.
My place has suggested that everyone store their
Burt Rutan envisons a Space Tourism venture that works partly as a raffle. The company would create three new astronauts every week. One of those will have paid big money. The other two will have paid a reasonable $x,000 (it was $5000 in 1996).
The spacecraft has three seats. You can guarantee a seat by paying $100,000+ for a ticket. Otherwise you pay $5,000 for a chance. For a chance for a seat on each flight 10 people pay $5,000.
For each weekly flight all eleven go the training site in the Carribean. They are instructed in the three crew positions on the spacecraft. At the end of the fourth day of training the 10 candidates draw straws. Two of them get seats in the spacecraft. The other 8 have gotten a very nice Carribean vacation for $5,000.
The two and the $100,000 passenger get seats on the spacecraft launched on the Proteus for an Alan Shepard style 15 minute sub-orbital flight that lands in the same Carribean. The flight includes ten minutes of free weightlessness.
Rutan's vision was the commercial application of his entry for the X-Prize. The X-Prize competition is dormant because it never got a sponsor for the $1 Million prize.
Hey! I had all the HINs locked up. I worked for a company that deployed (Regional) Health Information Networks.
We had CHIN, Chicago Health Information Network.
HINT, of Tennessee.
HINOV, Of Ohio Valley. (Cincinatti and into Kentucky)
and....
RHINNO, Regional Health Information Network of Northern Ohio. (Cleveland and Akron)
On my network diagram used in our exhibit booth I labled the example "Your RHIN." I wondered of anybody would pick up that that was a common hospital term.
You have to report the problem to the credit card company within 30 days of receiving your credit card bill.
I'd bet that if you were promised to get your free DSL installed in 60-90 days, you'd expect that you only needed the DSL modem then so you wouldn't report the fraud.
According to article in Wired Microsoft admits caching the information on what you play, but they say it never goes out. The cache removes the necessity for Media Player from going out again for the information.
The canard provides a good portion (40% on modern designs) of the airplane's lift and it is, indeed set at a higher angle of attack than the main wing. If the nose is raised both wings go to higher of angles of attack. The more-angled canard stalls first, which removes the lift that is holding up the nose, so the aircraft automatically lowers the nose and prevents the main wing from ever getting to a critical angle and stalling. Thanks to that built-in mechanism carnard designs are called "stall-proof."
Burt Rutan, the designer of the Voyager airplane that flew non-stop around the world, has developed modern composite aircraft with canard designs, which he credits to the Wright Brothers, his entire professional life.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration defines the term UNICOM as the radio handle of the managing authority of an airport, usually the airport's Fixed Base Operator (FBO), the airport's local "service station." That use goes back to the earliest days of aviaton radio in the 1920s.
At O'Hare airport UNICOM is on the 122.95 frequency.
Fighting over the first use of the term UNICOM is like fighting over who owns "home page."
It IS possible to get a TiVo to use a broadband connection for updates, using TiVoNET
I don't know how any system could tell in advance how long a sporting event is going to be. Would you expect the TiVo to check in over the net to get an instruction like "add 10 minutes to the recording time and check back here in 15 minutes?" . There are tens of thousands of TiVos. That would make a LOT of network traffic.
The answer is to add extra time to the recording, which TiVo does let you do in the recording options.
He also is(was?) the author of the "User's Column" in BYTE magazine.
I haven't seen nor heard of him in the last decade, although I did talk to him on the phone once. (I did tech support and called him back.)
you'd need an O/S that was designed from the beginning to be multi-tasking and multi-user. ...something like...uhhhh...*nix!
I don't get what the breakthrough is. Many moons ago I deployed and supported 400 users with 20" color screens and keyboards and mice, with the full office-like suite of applications (with shared licenses) all running off one or the other of two Sun 4/330's runing SunOS (BSD Unix) over 10BaseT. It was called "an X-terminal." It performed so well that users would favor them over PCs.
The coolest thing was getting a shipment of 30 new desktops in the morning and having them all working in front of the users by lunch time. Those were the days...before we got this advanced new easy-to-deploy, easy-to-train stuff like Windows.