So last night I was playing Wow for a while and the performance in Orgrimmar was pretty bad. I figured I'd up the ram in my main maachine to fix the problem.
Pulled the ram from another machine, dropped it in and rebooted windows. Windows XP then informed me I had made substantial changes to the machine since I installed XP Pro on it and told me I had to re-activate it.
If this causes me, at a future date, to have issues because another minor change triggers the Activate windows, and it fails for some reason and I can't get security updates I am going to sue their ass.
Thankfully I have a Mac. (If I had Priated XP I wouldn't even have this concern. I'm sick of being treated like shit after spending a few hundred on stuff.)
While your right; with a proper setup you should get much better than that when downloading via bittorrent.
I've had transfer rates of over 350KBytes per second. I do better than that when downloading from a company such as Microsoft, but not everybody can afford the bandwidth they pay for.
The biggest problem with Bittorrent is having a machine behind a NAT that other clients can't connect with.
According to a description I saw to Fast-Forward within a song you have to hold the fast-forward button; to skip to the next song you press/release it quickly.
It's a knock-off, just like a Rolex is a knock-off of it's cheaper cousins, the Rolex clone.
I laugh whenever I see people discussing Konfabulator, looking over how it is implemented, and how Dashboard is implemented under Tiger is like calling a Porche a knockoff of a 1970's Honda Civic.
They may look similar, but they are not the same thing.
Whomever dreamt up "Solution" in the IT world should be shot. (I don't think it was Microsoft or Apple).
I had a client who wanted to send invoices out as PDF documents via Email. They have a system in place already that generates Invoice forms on laser printers and wanted it duplicated and produced as PDF/email. (a timeline of yesterday of course).
So, I call up the company that wrote the Forms software they were already using as their new version supported creation of PDF documents as well as emailing them. Should be easy right? Wrong.
Couldn't buy the software, instead the company wanted to provide a "Solution", the salesperson wouldn't even give an idea of the price for the 'solutions', but demanded we wade through a web demo with him for an afternoon before it was to be discussed.
So, after having a little back and forth phone tag / negotiations we said forget it and I found a nice piece of software which could convert PCL to PDF and supported PDF Encryption / Access restrictions.
Dropped the program onto the server, spent an afternoon making adjustments to the process to add email support and presto; PDF Documents via Email.
At one time it did make a difference. File-scoped variables were handled via pointer references, while true globals were handled as far pointers. (actually making true globals less efficient.)
course those were the days of segmentation, and all the enjoyable things that resulted in.
I work for a small company. 2 people in Manitoba, Canada; 4 in VIrginia, 1 in Rhode Island.
I work from home some days; I seldom work with 'coworkers'. So, in many ways the article isn't a big deal to me; but to some people the idea of working all day in a coffee shop at their dream job (Programming) sounds pretty good.
Really though, the article is a puff-piece meant to attract business to the company.
Me, I just want the real-time satellite surveillance capabilities they have. (Which aren't even possible; you would have to use a high-altitude blimp to accomplish it).
I almost choked when I found the option to allow, or not illegal dates.
For instance, you can tell it to access 02/31/2005 as a valid date. Actually, you have to modify the flag so it doesn't accept dates like that. (this was several years ago, probably depricated by now).
While I can understand the appeal of allowing arbitrary, but invalid dates (for unusual circumstances) it should NOT be the default for the class.
Seriously, I have a logitech keyboard hooked to my pc/mac (on an usb switch) and haven't noticed any issues with the keyboard. (Ok, the lack of an Eject key, but that was rectified by mapping the media key to Eject).
WHat type of keyboard, and what language configuration do you have? (standard keys like ~, | work fine on this keyboard on either machine).
ok, you have a high density of Access points, but you said it didn't work, not that it performed poorly.
If you do a search on the Internet you'll find several documents refering to a 4 channel configuration with minimal overlap (4%). The actual amount of interference caused by that layout is minimal due to the actual nature of the signal. (As opposed to the simplified version people have in there heads of why channels 1, 6 and 11 are the only ones to use).
Within an apartment you should be able to get a strong enough signal as long as all your immediate neighbors aren't on the same channel as you, and assuming your walls are not paper-thin.
If your trying to receive your signal across the street you will have issues.
On the other hand I only have 2 or 3 neighbors with access points and atleast one of them isn't clueless (WEP enabled) (even if it does suck)).
It -used- to be a requirement to use Cisco equipment, and a cursory look around the net turns up usage of ERP/EIRP/EIGRP as meaning the same thing. As well as the fact it seems to be a reference to the protocol BGP/BGRP replaced.
And if they really want to use a PC they can get Microsoft's Remote desktop tool for the Mac and use it to control the PC in the house. It works quite well.
As someone who gets his tv listings, for his Tivo for free I'd like to chime in.
I'd pay the monthly fee to get the listings. Every few weeks I have minor hassles to deal with because of my method of getting the tvlistings, I'd gladly get rid of the problem by paying for the listings if I could. (I'm in Canada, tivo service isn't offered)
The listings are provided, for free, by a company which is being overly generous and will someday change it's tune. The emulation software has occasional issues which make me think the tivo will stop working fully at some point.
I would be more than happy to pay tivo for listings. (Actually, I already have, I bought the lifetime subscription)
I realize a lot of people do not like PDF; but any other format is asking for grief from end-users.
A company I currently do a lot of work for is slowly migrating towards PDF, each step a long the way has been pretty smooth. It's easy enough for the users to understand they 'print to PDF' to make a presentation version of a document.
I don't believe intermediate documents (works in process) should be stored in open formats. Not enough open formats support enough features, you would simply end up with a half dozen, or more 'open formats' and have more difficulties than necessary for everyone involved.
As described it is important you have the finished documents in a format that can be read without difficulty. PDF meets that need, as well as allowing re-printing of an archived document long after you've replaced the original program that created the document with something newer and different.
My employer has provided solutions for Intranet websites to upload the documents (as PDF) and allow the users to view them on kiosks. Having a universal viewer like PDF is much better than using multiple add-on viewers for different document types. (Excel/Word, etc).
If I were presenting drawings, as opposed to Documents I'd probably add SVG to the mix. But for presentation of a document as was originally intended PDF can't be beat.
Any standard application can print to PDF on a Mac. (running OS X). PDF is inherent to printing. (Very cool, means every program can use the built in viewer for print-preview and what the print-preview shows is what actually prints... unlike certain Microsoft applications under windows)
The only issue with PDF is the tendancy to be one-way. But there are programs out there designed to convert PDF documents to other formats.
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OS X has built in support for VNC.
Amazing, but true.
Go to Sharing in preferences and enable Apple Remote Desktop
Choose "Access Privledges" and set the VNC may control screen with password.
Then connect with a VNC client.
So last night I was playing Wow for a while and the performance in Orgrimmar was pretty bad. I figured I'd up the ram in my main maachine to fix the problem.
Pulled the ram from another machine, dropped it in and rebooted windows. Windows XP then informed me I had made substantial changes to the machine since I installed XP Pro on it and told me I had to re-activate it.
If this causes me, at a future date, to have issues because another minor change triggers the Activate windows, and it fails for some reason and I can't get security updates I am going to sue their ass.
Thankfully I have a Mac.
(If I had Priated XP I wouldn't even have this concern. I'm sick of being treated like shit after spending a few hundred on stuff.)
While your right; with a proper setup you should get much better than that when downloading via bittorrent.
I've had transfer rates of over 350KBytes per second.
I do better than that when downloading from a company such as Microsoft, but not everybody can afford the bandwidth they pay for.
The biggest problem with Bittorrent is having a machine behind a NAT that other clients can't connect with.
Without quality control it's usually possible to beat a company, or organization to the punch.
(And doesn't mean it is necessarily inferior in quality either).
But it is a little unfair.
And the guy who has his boss pile projects on him never have an opportunity to do anything but try and catch up.
According to a description I saw to Fast-Forward within a song you have to hold the fast-forward button; to skip to the next song you press/release it quickly.
Sounds workable.
It's a knock-off, just like a Rolex is a knock-off of it's cheaper cousins, the Rolex clone.
I laugh whenever I see people discussing Konfabulator, looking over how it is implemented, and how Dashboard is implemented under Tiger is like calling a Porche a knockoff of a 1970's Honda Civic.
They may look similar, but they are not the same thing.
Whomever dreamt up "Solution" in the IT world should be shot.
(I don't think it was Microsoft or Apple).
I had a client who wanted to send invoices out as PDF documents via Email. They have a system in place already that generates Invoice forms on laser printers and wanted it duplicated and produced as PDF/email. (a timeline of yesterday of course).
So, I call up the company that wrote the Forms software they were already using as their new version supported creation of PDF documents as well as emailing them. Should be easy right? Wrong.
Couldn't buy the software, instead the company wanted to provide a "Solution", the salesperson wouldn't even give an idea of the price for the 'solutions', but demanded we wade through a web demo with him for an afternoon before it was to be discussed.
So, after having a little back and forth phone tag / negotiations we said forget it and I found a nice piece of software which could convert PCL to PDF and supported PDF Encryption / Access restrictions.
Dropped the program onto the server, spent an afternoon making adjustments to the process to add email support and presto; PDF Documents via Email.
At one time it did make a difference. File-scoped variables were handled via pointer references, while true globals were handled as far pointers. (actually making true globals less efficient.)
course those were the days of segmentation, and all the enjoyable things that resulted in.
I agree with you; somewhat.
I work for a small company. 2 people in Manitoba, Canada; 4 in VIrginia, 1 in Rhode Island.
I work from home some days; I seldom work with 'coworkers'.
So, in many ways the article isn't a big deal to me; but to some people the idea of working all day in a coffee shop at their dream job (Programming) sounds pretty good.
Really though, the article is a puff-piece meant to attract business to the company.
Have you looked to find a scanner/Fax solution?
If a colour fax can meet your needs I think your problem is half-way to being solved.
You're right, that software kicks.
Me, I just want the real-time satellite surveillance capabilities they have. (Which aren't even possible; you would have to use a high-altitude blimp to accomplish it).
I almost choked when I found the option to allow, or not illegal dates.
For instance, you can tell it to access 02/31/2005 as a valid date. Actually, you have to modify the flag so it doesn't accept dates like that. (this was several years ago, probably depricated by now).
While I can understand the appeal of allowing arbitrary, but invalid dates (for unusual circumstances) it should NOT be the default for the class.
Starter Edition will be the least pirated version of Windows ever.
Obviously this means it will be a "success".
Don't know what you're talking about.
Seriously, I have a logitech keyboard hooked to my pc/mac (on an usb switch) and haven't noticed any issues with the keyboard.
(Ok, the lack of an Eject key, but that was rectified by mapping the media key to Eject).
WHat type of keyboard, and what language configuration do you have? (standard keys like ~, | work fine on this keyboard on either machine).
ok, you have a high density of Access points, but you said it didn't work, not that it performed poorly.
If you do a search on the Internet you'll find several documents refering to a 4 channel configuration with minimal overlap (4%). The actual amount of interference caused by that layout is minimal due to the actual nature of the signal. (As opposed to the simplified version people have in there heads of why channels 1, 6 and 11 are the only ones to use).
Within an apartment you should be able to get a strong enough signal as long as all your immediate neighbors aren't on the same channel as you, and assuming your walls are not paper-thin.
If your trying to receive your signal across the street you will have issues.
On the other hand I only have 2 or 3 neighbors with access points and atleast one of them isn't clueless (WEP enabled) (even if it does suck)).
It -used- to be a requirement to use Cisco equipment, and a cursory look around the net turns up usage of ERP/EIRP/EIGRP as meaning the same thing. As well as the fact it seems to be a reference to the protocol BGP/BGRP replaced.
You shouldn't date co-workers as it might interfere with business.
You shouldn't date customers as it might interfere with business.
Shouldn't meet people online, you never know if you can trust them.
Get a date a bar gets older after 25, long term relationship it isn't.
That leaves what? Church (for the religious), a few sports (where it's mixed groups) Or some additions group or something.
If anybody actually listened to all the advice the human race would have ceased to exist a few thousand years ago.
And if they really want to use a PC they can get Microsoft's Remote desktop tool for the Mac and use it to control the PC in the house. It works quite well.
CBC is not run by the Canadian government. It's FUNDED by the Canadian government.
If the CBC were run by the government they wouldn't send so much time bashing the government. (Sometimes rightfully, sometimes not.)
Personally I think we should cut all their funding since they run advertisements just like any other station.
We use Tivo's.
You just need a little patience, and a service emulator.
Not perfect, but it will do.
As someone who gets his tv listings, for his Tivo for free I'd like to chime in.
I'd pay the monthly fee to get the listings. Every few weeks I have minor hassles to deal with because of my method of getting the tvlistings, I'd gladly get rid of the problem by paying for the listings if I could. (I'm in Canada, tivo service isn't offered)
The listings are provided, for free, by a company which is being overly generous and will someday change it's tune. The emulation software has occasional issues which make me think the tivo will stop working fully at some point.
I would be more than happy to pay tivo for listings. (Actually, I already have, I bought the lifetime subscription)
How is playing mpeg2 files a pain in the ass?
seriously, I have a Mac and have no difficulty playing DVD's, nor creating them, so how can playing MPEG2 be a problem?
I realize a lot of people do not like PDF; but any other format is asking for grief from end-users.
A company I currently do a lot of work for is slowly migrating towards PDF, each step a long the way has been pretty smooth. It's easy enough for the users to understand they 'print to PDF' to make a presentation version of a document.
I don't believe intermediate documents (works in process) should be stored in open formats. Not enough open formats support enough features, you would simply end up with a half dozen, or more 'open formats' and have more difficulties than necessary for everyone involved.
As described it is important you have the finished documents in a format that can be read without difficulty. PDF meets that need, as well as allowing re-printing of an archived document long after you've replaced the original program that created the document with something newer and different.
My employer has provided solutions for Intranet websites to upload the documents (as PDF) and allow the users to view them on kiosks. Having a universal viewer like PDF is much better than using multiple add-on viewers for different document types. (Excel/Word, etc).
If I were presenting drawings, as opposed to Documents I'd probably add SVG to the mix. But for presentation of a document as was originally intended PDF can't be beat.
Any standard application can print to PDF on a Mac. (running OS X). PDF is inherent to printing. (Very cool, means every program can use the built in viewer for print-preview and what the print-preview shows is what actually prints... unlike certain Microsoft applications under windows)
The only issue with PDF is the tendancy to be one-way. But there are programs out there designed to convert PDF documents to other formats.