AT my previous employer I watched my boss walk up to the servers and hit the power switch on the server he thought he had just shutdown remotely. He had to stand there holding the power button while we shutdown all the tasks on the server, he had already toggled the switched when he realised it wasn't the right machine.
Worst mistake I made? browsed a website infected with a virus while I was at a client site. Didn't get kicked out, or fired.... (actually suprised, in spite of the fact I didn't really do anything wrong; was looking up work material).
Your friends uncle is rather lucky if there was no follow up. Boats are registered and as such it could readily be tracked down to him. He probbaly could have ben forced to serve jail time on either side of the border. Never mind that pissing off americans has gotten people kidnapped from their own countries are more than one occasion. (Although atleast one such incident resulted in a Deputy serving time in a Canadian prison... oooops.).
I don't either. If my browser is larger than about 80% of my screen it's because some idiot hardcoded their website, or a link opened a window hardcoded to my resolution.
I typically run about 70% of the screen I think; but thats a single screen on a dual monitor setup.
I watched the video for the new version of OmniWeb and wasn't particularly impressed. The preview consumes a lot of space, space I use for other things. (Sometimes it's just so I can have access to the windows behind, but hey, thats how I work.) (Haven't adapted to Expose yet I suppose.) And the column shows about the same number of previews as I might have Tabs in another browser. (I have 5 at the moment). The preview is 'neat', but like the previews in the pdf viewer, functional? perhaps, but not terribly so. (
I had the pleasure of setting up a Lexmark all in one printer/fax/scanner on New Years day. The only saving grace was I knew about it in advance.
Me, i wouldn't have bought a lexmark. I'm not a fan. And it was refurbished. Not high on my list of recommendations.
Set it up, removed the old fax, and the old printer. No significant problems setting up and installing it. But the computer was dog slow. 32Megs of RAM with a billion applets running in the system tray.
I specificly did NOT start looking into the reason it was slow. I could have been there for hours trying to clean things up.
(Doesn't help they had corel's office applications installed with their start up panel... ugh.. probably pre-loaded 30Megs of crap...).
My girlfriend almost made us dive in and start cleaning up the mess, but I got her to back off a bit before we got sucked into it neck deep...
I had a cheap DVD player, played all the DVD's I threw at it, never a problem playing them. It had 1 quirk, which while annoying wasn't the end of the world: it would pop up the subtitles even if you didn't want them at the beginningg off the movie. Easy enough to disable for the rest of the movie. Not the end of the world.
Now, I have a Toshiba DVD player because I wanted the component outputs for my new tv. You know what? the Toshiba handles layer switching very badly. The low-end DVD player never paused or glitched at a layer transition, this one does about 40% of the time.
Guss what? If I see a cheap DVD player with component output I'll likely buy it instead. The Toshiba has some nice features, but the layer switch is annoying as it often happens towards the end of the movie.
(Note: the cheap DVD player I woned is still in use, I gave it to my parents when I bought the Toshiba DVD player.)
Just to confuse things they've located those under the options for the tool. ie: go into Safari to change the setting of the default browser. (or IE I suppose).
Actually, for systems storing time/date as a single value, not a parsed string it has everything to do with math manipulations on dates, and virtually nothing to do with anything else. Adding 30 days to such a value is easy, parsing out the effective date from that is also easy.
A database (and development environment) I use is based on days, and seconds. They are independant and seperate (they have no DATE-TIME fields.) I had to do some funny footwork to deal with some values in seconds which overlap the end of the month.
For the sake of argument lets assume he can record audio at the same quality level as a phoneline. (Probably can record higher than that actually...)
So, per audio channel he can reliably encode 56Kbps. So, 112Kbps using both audio channels. That works out to 14000 Bytes per second, 840,000 bytes per minute and 50,400,000 bytes per hour.
I'm dumbfounded. Thats 48Megabytes per hour of recordable tape.
Amusingly enough that all cancels out and gets you aproximately 48 minutes of 128Kbps MP3...
And you wonder why they are so slow at providing GPS access to the users? The last thing they want is users to publish the co-ordinates of all the dead spots.
She's been bugging me to buy the game for most of the year, bought it for her for Christmas and she played it till 1 in the morning on boxing day. (After playing it for the entire day).
Without comment as to the other points; actually a visible colour is a good idea.
Black isn't horrible, but I can't imagine dropping a camo unit in the bush and trying to find it.
My unit, the GPS48 as mentioned is white. Seems to be a marine thing. But I am glad it is, it makes it highly visibble if it is dropped while hiking. As for durability, all the garmin units I've seen and used have been quite durable. There are complaints about the durability of their PDA unit, but then, it -is- a PDA.
(Note: I bought the GPS 48 when it was being discontinued, saved about $80 or so over the GPS 12XL which is its virtual twin; except the Navigational aids in the 48; which i don't have a need for anyway).
The Garmin 12XL is an excelent unit, I picked one up for my dad a few years ago. (gift from my mom to him, I picked the unit). It has been excelent.
I have the GPS 48; basicly the marine version of the 12XL; different antena hookup, and has additional navigation aids. It has worked well in the time I have had it, although the internal battery is toast. I sent garmin email and they confirmed that it is still covered. They expect the internal battery to last a lot longer than it did, so even though the waranty is up they will cover it. THAT is what i call customer service.
(That said i haven't been quick to send in the unit, the internal battery hasn't been an issue for my usage, yet.)
The series-2 tivo's do sort the recordings by show.
I don't know how fast the guide is in the series-2 as opposed to the UltimateTV unit, but they seem fine on the series-2 to me. Maybe the series 1 was slower?
I have this recipe I'm supposed to use to make fudge. It's very good fudge. I on the other hand am very reluctant to start making it. Why? Because it is damn difficult to make work. Everything has to be done correctly or you get nothing of value.
I have no doubt an H-bomb would be significantly more difficult than the fudge. The ingrediants are more dangerous too, last time I heard cocoa hadn't killed anyone.
But I'm blathering... off to make fudge anyway... you never know, it might work...
I've bought no-name Lithium Ion rechargables for a prior cellphone. It was $13; the motorola one for the same phone: $80 at the time.
But, ask Nokia how they feel about off-brand rechargable Lithium Ion batteries... or the several customers of theirs that have had them explode. You get what you pay for I suppose.
I would strongly suggest Dallas Semiconductor's 1-wire products.
It's actuall 1 signal wire, and ground, but you connect multiple devices on the same circuit, they are connected in parallel.
DS18S20 - Temperature range: -40C to +85C. (0 is freezing, and 20 is about average room temperaure) $2.57/each. $2.28/each for 25+, etc
These particular ones can run with parasitic power, but they have many other options, with various temperature ranges, pricing and pinouts.
If you really want to be cool you can buy a TINI unit, (processor board that supports the 1-wire bus and is probably via Java; giving yourself if you desire a web interface to the temperature probes and NOT tie up a PC for it.). I have an older TINI unit, it has a serial port, ethernet and supports 2 1-wire bus' The newer ones should have similar funcionality.
The problem with this method is you have to poll the joystick port in a tight loop.
If your doing it under windows you might be ok with the joystick routines, but they may not poll fast enough to get a good resolution. You would be better off putting together a simple circuit to toggle a couple of transistors instead. Even if it setup as an alarm (below X temperature). Then you can poll the button lines instead of the analog, and the poll loop doesn't have to be tight.
But, since he isn't looking for accuracy he should be ok anyway.
Me, I much prefer the Dallas Semiconductor method; use their 1-wire devices and their serial adapter. (maybe they have USB now?). I have 2 temperature probes from them, 1 you poll for the temperture, the other has a real time clock, can log temperature at configurable intervals, etc. It has a built in battery and can log a significant number of temperatures. Can log maximum and minimum temperature events, etc. (This particular device could, for instance, be attached to a crate and then checked at the receiving end to verify the crate was not subjected to unusual temperatures. Each device has it's own serial number as well.).
I showed off my G5 (1.6) to a friend of mine, who spent lunch earlier in the day harrasing my about buying a Mac, and he was totally impressed with the case.
The case is sweet. It's almost sad that it's hiding under my desk.
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AT my previous employer I watched my boss walk up to the servers and hit the power switch on the server he thought he had just shutdown remotely. He had to stand there holding the power button while we shutdown all the tasks on the server, he had already toggled the switched when he realised it wasn't the right machine.
Worst mistake I made? browsed a website infected with a virus while I was at a client site. Didn't get kicked out, or fired.... (actually suprised, in spite of the fact I didn't really do anything wrong; was looking up work material).
Your friends uncle is rather lucky if there was no follow up. Boats are registered and as such it could readily be tracked down to him. He probbaly could have ben forced to serve jail time on either side of the border. Never mind that pissing off americans has gotten people kidnapped from their own countries are more than one occasion. (Although atleast one such incident resulted in a Deputy serving time in a Canadian prison... oooops.).
I don't either. If my browser is larger than about 80% of my screen it's because some idiot hardcoded their website, or a link opened a window hardcoded to my resolution.
I typically run about 70% of the screen I think; but thats a single screen on a dual monitor setup.
I watched the video for the new version of OmniWeb and wasn't particularly impressed. The preview consumes a lot of space, space I use for other things. (Sometimes it's just so I can have access to the windows behind, but hey, thats how I work.) (Haven't adapted to Expose yet I suppose.)
And the column shows about the same number of previews as I might have Tabs in another browser. (I have 5 at the moment). The preview is 'neat', but like the previews in the pdf viewer, functional? perhaps, but not terribly so. (
I had the pleasure of setting up a Lexmark all in one printer/fax/scanner on New Years day. The only saving grace was I knew about it in advance.
Me, i wouldn't have bought a lexmark. I'm not a fan. And it was refurbished. Not high on my list of recommendations.
Set it up, removed the old fax, and the old printer. No significant problems setting up and installing it. But the computer was dog slow. 32Megs of RAM with a billion applets running in the system tray.
I specificly did NOT start looking into the reason it was slow. I could have been there for hours trying to clean things up.
(Doesn't help they had corel's office applications installed with their start up panel... ugh.. probably pre-loaded 30Megs of crap...).
My girlfriend almost made us dive in and start cleaning up the mess, but I got her to back off a bit before we got sucked into it neck deep...
I bought a Mac (1.6Ghz G5) back in November.
I've spent the last ~2 months getting to know it. I could have spent the last 2 months fighting with Windows.
I prefered learning something new. Isn't that why I had this hobby in the first place?
While I have had a few minor issues with the Mac it has been very much a pleasure compared to Windows.
I had a cheap DVD player, played all the DVD's I threw at it, never a problem playing them. It had 1 quirk, which while annoying wasn't the end of the world: it would pop up the subtitles even if you didn't want them at the beginningg off the movie. Easy enough to disable for the rest of the movie. Not the end of the world.
Now, I have a Toshiba DVD player because I wanted the component outputs for my new tv. You know what? the Toshiba handles layer switching very badly. The low-end DVD player never paused or glitched at a layer transition, this one does about 40% of the time.
Guss what? If I see a cheap DVD player with component output I'll likely buy it instead. The Toshiba has some nice features, but the layer switch is annoying as it often happens towards the end of the movie.
(Note: the cheap DVD player I woned is still in use, I gave it to my parents when I bought the Toshiba DVD player.)
Just to confuse things they've located those under the options for the tool. ie: go into Safari to change the setting of the default browser. (or IE I suppose).
Actually, for systems storing time/date as a single value, not a parsed string it has everything to do with math manipulations on dates, and virtually nothing to do with anything else. Adding 30 days to such a value is easy, parsing out the effective date from that is also easy.
A database (and development environment) I use is based on days, and seconds. They are independant and seperate (they have no DATE-TIME fields.) I had to do some funny footwork to deal with some values in seconds which overlap the end of the month.
For the sake of argument lets assume he can record audio at the same quality level as a phoneline. (Probably can record higher than that actually...)
So, per audio channel he can reliably encode 56Kbps. So, 112Kbps using both audio channels. That works out to 14000 Bytes per second, 840,000 bytes per minute and 50,400,000 bytes per hour.
I'm dumbfounded. Thats 48Megabytes per hour of recordable tape.
Amusingly enough that all cancels out and gets you aproximately 48 minutes of 128Kbps MP3...
And you wonder why they are so slow at providing GPS access to the users? The last thing they want is users to publish the co-ordinates of all the dead spots.
Girlfriend. Of 5 years.
She's been bugging me to buy the game for most of the year, bought it for her for Christmas and she played it till 1 in the morning on boxing day. (After playing it for the entire day).
Seriously. My GF loves it.
And while it might be part of the DOA franchise, really it's hard to call it a sequel.
Without comment as to the other points; actually a visible colour is a good idea.
Black isn't horrible, but I can't imagine dropping a camo unit in the bush and trying to find it.
My unit, the GPS48 as mentioned is white. Seems to be a marine thing. But I am glad it is, it makes it highly visibble if it is dropped while hiking. As for durability, all the garmin units I've seen and used have been quite durable. There are complaints about the durability of their PDA unit, but then, it -is- a PDA.
(Note: I bought the GPS 48 when it was being discontinued, saved about $80 or so over the GPS 12XL which is its virtual twin; except the Navigational aids in the 48; which i don't have a need for anyway).
Having a unit work indoors doesn't tell you ifit will work in tree cover; it might be a good hint but I wouldn't trust that.
Trees contain, or hold a lot of water and that is what will generally kill the signal.
The Garmin 12XL is an excelent unit, I picked one up for my dad a few years ago. (gift from my mom to him, I picked the unit). It has been excelent.
I have the GPS 48; basicly the marine version of the 12XL; different antena hookup, and has additional navigation aids. It has worked well in the time I have had it, although the internal battery is toast. I sent garmin email and they confirmed that it is still covered. They expect the internal battery to last a lot longer than it did, so even though the waranty is up they will cover it. THAT is what i call customer service.
(That said i haven't been quick to send in the unit, the internal battery hasn't been an issue for my usage, yet.)
The series-2 tivo's do sort the recordings by show.
I don't know how fast the guide is in the series-2 as opposed to the UltimateTV unit, but they seem fine on the series-2 to me. Maybe the series 1 was slower?
Only in America...
The rest of the world thinks your insane.
You would put only 2.8% down on a home? Are you INSANE????
As for me, I would NEVER buy a condo. I know too many people that have been screwed by the condo organizations.
I've had my Series 2 for a year and have NOT expierences any problems with it. (80hr Unit with 80G drive; standard).
In all my reading of the tivocommunity groups I haven't seen mentioned on an on going problem; although I have not been there for a couple of months.
Don't put the unit in a closed up tv standad and don't expect to be able tp upgrade the HD without dealing with excess heat.
I have this recipe I'm supposed to use to make fudge. It's very good fudge. I on the other hand am very reluctant to start making it. Why? Because it is damn difficult to make work. Everything has to be done correctly or you get nothing of value.
I have no doubt an H-bomb would be significantly more difficult than the fudge. The ingrediants are more dangerous too, last time I heard cocoa hadn't killed anyone.
But I'm blathering... off to make fudge anyway... you never know, it might work...
I've bought no-name Lithium Ion rechargables for a prior cellphone. It was $13; the motorola one for the same phone: $80 at the time.
But, ask Nokia how they feel about off-brand rechargable Lithium Ion batteries... or the several customers of theirs that have had them explode. You get what you pay for I suppose.
I would strongly suggest Dallas Semiconductor's 1-wire products.
It's actuall 1 signal wire, and ground, but you connect multiple devices on the same circuit, they are connected in parallel.
DS18S20 - Temperature range: -40C to +85C. (0 is freezing, and 20 is about average room temperaure) $2.57/each. $2.28/each for 25+, etc
These particular ones can run with parasitic power, but they have many other options, with various temperature ranges, pricing and pinouts.
If you really want to be cool you can buy a TINI unit, (processor board that supports the 1-wire bus and is probably via Java; giving yourself if you desire a web interface to the temperature probes and NOT tie up a PC for it.). I have an older TINI unit, it has a serial port, ethernet and supports 2 1-wire bus' The newer ones should have similar funcionality.
The problem with this method is you have to poll the joystick port in a tight loop.
If your doing it under windows you might be ok with the joystick routines, but they may not poll fast enough to get a good resolution. You would be better off putting together a simple circuit to toggle a couple of transistors instead. Even if it setup as an alarm (below X temperature). Then you can poll the button lines instead of the analog, and the poll loop doesn't have to be tight.
But, since he isn't looking for accuracy he should be ok anyway.
Me, I much prefer the Dallas Semiconductor method; use their 1-wire devices and their serial adapter. (maybe they have USB now?). I have 2 temperature probes from them, 1 you poll for the temperture, the other has a real time clock, can log temperature at configurable intervals, etc. It has a built in battery and can log a significant number of temperatures. Can log maximum and minimum temperature events, etc. (This particular device could, for instance, be attached to a crate and then checked at the receiving end to verify the crate was not subjected to unusual temperatures. Each device has it's own serial number as well.).
The 'buttonless' mice make a click too.
They arn't buttonless, the button is the entire top of the mouse.
They are still (crappy) 1 button mice.
I showed off my G5 (1.6) to a friend of mine, who spent lunch earlier in the day harrasing my about buying a Mac, and he was totally impressed with the case.
The case is sweet. It's almost sad that it's hiding under my desk.