I installed POPFile on my parents computers; I was worried because I thought the interface (web interface) would be confusing to them; since you couldn't do everything within the email client itself.
Works great. My father, who gets far more spam than the average person (why I don't know) has virtually 100% success rate.
As I understand it, I was looking into it for a SD card for my handheld, the 'faster' memory cards are really on faster for reading. Not writing, they may be a few percent faster, or slower for writing depending on the specifics. (in some cases the larger capacity seems to take longer, in others it's less.. no idea why).
But the net result is, the faster cards are only really faster at being read. Usefull for a PDA, not very usefull for a camera. (I expect the write-faster capability of this new card is based on some temporary ram storage on the card, the buffer gets dumped while the camera can be used to snap another picture or two.).
The rest of Canada just gets annoyed at the extra expense of requiring french labels on products in places where French is almost non-existant. The requirements for French language skills on some jobs; often restricting the jobs to Quebecois only as a non-native French speaker is virtually eliminated at the outset.
It doesn't help that with Federal requirements of bilingual for specific government jobs, and the fact that French, outside quebec is taught so poorly (it is; few exceptions). doesn't help.
I have version 2 of the WAP11; while I've only had it for 9 months it has been rock solid. I did a single firmware update to increase security on it, (allowing me to tun off Beacons) it hasn't had any issues at all. Very happy with it.
I'm also happy with the PCCard I have from Linksys, it has good range and has worked fine, I've had that for about a year. (note: I did notice a lot of people had range issues with their older cards...)
People can complain all they want about Linksys being low quality, but I've never had significant issues with their stuff. The price its right and it works.
I must really be missing something; as far as I can tell the original purpose was to allow a PROPRIETARY library to be replaced, at run time, with an LGPL'd library. Doing so (10+ years ago) would allow for testing and validation of a library against already existing code...
Then, it was determined that libraries are usefull, but the license for a library shouldn't "infect" a program simply because the library is used; it is a replaceable part and theoritically interchangeable with something else. (new version; or DIFFERENT implementation entirly).
And this, is EXACTLY what JAR files are for. To allow, at runtime, the replacement of any code module.
Any other interpretation in my mind is somebody on crack.
'course I'm only a programming and understand the term 'linking' as such... not some lawyer with a screwed up dictionary...
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The audio problem described is actually a recently introduced bug. Even then, it isn't 2-3 seconds. it is probably less than 1 second (atleast for me). Some cable boxes take longer to synch the sound/video and the tivo can sometimes exagerate it; this only occurs when changing channels though.
I sat down and tried to figure out how to spend a few hundred million dollars to create such an application and a department to handle it. Obviously I cannot be a government employee, because I couldn't figure out how to spend anything more than a fraction of the money...
I have 2 gigabytes of maps covering about 60-70% of Canada, and about 95% of the more populated areas. On these maps, which I georeferenced, is virtually every power station in the country. (a long with every road...)
All available for free from the Government of Canada. (Although, georeferencing is your problem...)
I have several hundred megabytes of data for points of interest used for aligning maps. Many of these points are structures visible from satelite images (to help georeference said images) and again, are identified & (in this case intentionally) georeferenced.
Ever dam, bridge, pipeline, tunnel and railroad track in Canada constructed 5 years ago, or earlier, is probably on these. (and, some much more recent as well.)
While the data I have doesn't show me all the powerlines and all the phonecables on a specific street I'm sure most of the information is available somewhere...
Had somebody used the terminology 'Radio Link' instead of Bluetooth it wouldn't be so damn hard to explain.
Bluetooth as a name is next to useless. It conveys no meaning in itself. Even 802.11b is more meaningfull. (it atleast looks like a standard; for what may be unknown).
In many places (including BC) it is illegal to have a pool in a backyard without a reasonable means to keep the neighboring kids out of it.
In many ways there isn't mnuch different between that and an unecrypted network. It is an attraction to people without the willpower to keep from frelling with it.
One of the theories regarding twins is that it occurs because the DNA at some stage is damaged and no longer matches. So, it is posible to be a twin without identical DNA... but, most (all?) DNA tests only use a small fragment of the DNA sequence for comparisons; they picked part of the DNA which varies greatly with individuals, but it may, or may not be an exact match in twins.
Your right about GMRS though. Not legal in Canada, and as Canadian/American agreements there are issues with using some spectrum near the border. (HAM radio operators have different antena restrictions depending on how close they are to the border, and if the particular part of the spectrum overlaps with a different use across the border.)
After reading this story I decided to set it up so I could stream to my PocketPC. I just got it a couple of weeks ago so I figured it could be fun.
I currently have a Wireless network; it connects my Tivo in the living room (I do run a cable on occasion; but had a USB based 802.11b adapter and HAD to try it on the tivo... works like a charm.
So, I play MP3's with the Tivo; the software to server up the MP3 is a bit different than Shoutcast or Icecast. I hoped I could make it work with my PocketPC anyway. (note: I sorta did, see below).
Problems mentioned by others: Streaming the SAME song at the same time creates sound problems between rooms. Yep, it does. I had a thought on how to fix it, but it would require extentisve software patches. Basicly, the streaming source would TimeStamp the song with a start time; This would cause all units to wait until that moment to start playing the song. If all machines are time-synched to the same source it -could- work; although it may need a fudge-factor to adjust for unknown timing issues. (set a slight delay on the server so all devices SHOULD catch up; have MP3 players skip-ahead to catch up with shared streams.)
Back to the pocketPC.. finding a good (PocketPC 2002 based) program which can play streamed MP3s is a challenge! Most of the players like to access the files directory; or use specific servers (See Microsoft).
I aquired one which seems to have come out of Russia or something; unknown name; it mostly works but the interface is lacking. It doesn't play all the streams for some unknown reason. To make it work as well as it does requires a Playlist which lists all the URLs to access the individual songs. There is currently no way to query the information from the server to get the song list. (the url format is: http://192.168.1.102:8081/TiVoConnect/TivoMus ic/[F olderName].lnk/[song name])
I tried using Shoutcast but was rather turned off by it Re-sampling to do MP3s. Stupid, and, for my purposes, useless. (If I had reason to inject other tracks/sounds it would be ok. ie: play DJ)). Also, I would have to configure a Shoutcast server for each different stream; dumb.
The server software for the Tivo stuff is 'open'. They provide docs on their website, as well as using standard methods, XML formatted data, etc. I may have to try and put something together to deal with it instead.
Gartner provides self-fullfilling prophesies to the 'decision makers'.
If you release 4 products that are identical except for branding Gartner will find a way to declair one of them the winner, and, low and behold, 6-8 months later they'll be right...
Gartner has it's uses, but when you spend $1500 on a report and fail to take it's advise you look like an idiot...
Rule 1: What I earn is mine. Rule 2: What she earns is hers. Rule 3: Money spent on a relationship isn't a bad thing. I've paid for vacations where we had agreed to share the cost, and then never bothered to reconcile the money afterwards. Why? Why bother with the hassle. It wouldn't have been fun without her. Rules 4: She spends NONE of my money on stupid things. Thats my job. Rule 5: I pay for dinner out, I hate to cook. I'm not a fan of her cooking either. (raw steak isn't my thing:) [my problem= my money](in truth, we split it 80/20)
If your other half doesn't make as much money, and my gf doesn't, then let her spend it on whatever she likes and you can cover the necessities.
If it is on par, then split the costs and do it equitably. (60/40, 50/50 or whatever).
If she makes significantly less than you, or basicly nothing, then you might want to figure out some form of allowance. Again, she can do whatever she wants with it. (I admit it, it would drive me nuts).
None of the above implies you should not spend disposable income generously; on her and yourself. But don't let her back you in a corner if it's your money and you think it would be a waste.
If the above is unworkable; your screwed, bail now.
When they were 'starting out'? Sorry, but it wasn't THAT long ago I had problems with their card.
NVidia has a proven track record on driver development. They have a proven track record on performance. Why throw that away for such a small difference in price/performance? It's the same reason why people continue to buy Apple systems.
There are 2 companies I've never had significant driver issues with; Matrox and Nvidia. But I stoppped buy Matrox when they couldn't compete based on 3D performance for games.
All the ATI cards I've bought, and that friends have bought had driver issues more often than any other brand I have ever owned. I don't have time to waste my life making sure I always have the latest and greatest drivers; and then Uninstalling them to downgrade to the working version because the latest doesn't work on my configuration.
Come back to me in 5 years and I'll consider ATI... by then I might actually want to replace the video card I bought last year.
Don't know about you, but I'd spend the extra $100 on Nvidia; I've wasted a lot more than that on trying to deal with ATI and their buggy drivers in the past.
(I'll acknowledge that some say they have since improved. Well, that doesn't get me back the money I spent on their older cards does it?)
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I installed POPFile on my parents computers; I was worried because I thought the interface (web interface) would be confusing to them; since you couldn't do everything within the email client itself.
Works great. My father, who gets far more spam than the average person (why I don't know) has virtually 100% success rate.
I learned a long time ago, NEVER give Tech support the answert to the problem.
I mean, sure, if you work together to solve the problem and you fix it (new/unique) then geat, no problem.
But when you call up support NEVER give them an escape route. They will take it.
AIW is useless anyway. If you want to record video it's much better to go with an mpeg2 capable card.
AIW relies way too much on CPU power; which means you can readily drop frames if you actually use it for anything while it's working. Useless.
As I understand it, I was looking into it for a SD card for my handheld, the 'faster' memory cards are really on faster for reading. Not writing, they may be a few percent faster, or slower for writing depending on the specifics. (in some cases the larger capacity seems to take longer, in others it's less.. no idea why).
But the net result is, the faster cards are only really faster at being read. Usefull for a PDA, not very usefull for a camera.
(I expect the write-faster capability of this new card is based on some temporary ram storage on the card, the buffer gets dumped while the camera can be used to snap another picture or two.).
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Word,
Excel...
The rest of Canada just gets annoyed at the extra expense of requiring french labels on products in places where French is almost non-existant. The requirements for French language skills on some jobs; often restricting the jobs to Quebecois only as a non-native French speaker is virtually eliminated at the outset.
It doesn't help that with Federal requirements of bilingual for specific government jobs, and the fact that French, outside quebec is taught so poorly (it is; few exceptions). doesn't help.
I have version 2 of the WAP11; while I've only had it for 9 months it has been rock solid. I did a single firmware update to increase security on it, (allowing me to tun off Beacons) it hasn't had any issues at all. Very happy with it.
I'm also happy with the PCCard I have from Linksys, it has good range and has worked fine, I've had that for about a year. (note: I did notice a lot of people had range issues with their older cards...)
People can complain all they want about Linksys being low quality, but I've never had significant issues with their stuff. The price its right and it works.
I must really be missing something; as far as I can tell the original purpose was to allow a PROPRIETARY library to be replaced, at run time, with an LGPL'd library. Doing so (10+ years ago) would allow for testing and validation of a library against already existing code...
Then, it was determined that libraries are usefull, but the license for a library shouldn't "infect" a program simply because the library is used; it is a replaceable part and theoritically interchangeable with something else. (new version; or DIFFERENT implementation entirly).
And this, is EXACTLY what JAR files are for. To allow, at runtime, the replacement of any code module.
Any other interpretation in my mind is somebody on crack.
'course I'm only a programming and understand the term 'linking' as such... not some lawyer with a screwed up dictionary...
The audio problem described is actually a recently introduced bug. Even then, it isn't 2-3 seconds. it is probably less than 1 second (atleast for me). Some cable boxes take longer to synch the sound/video and the tivo can sometimes exagerate it; this only occurs when changing channels though.
I sat down and tried to figure out how to spend a few hundred million dollars to create such an application and a department to handle it. Obviously I cannot be a government employee, because I couldn't figure out how to spend anything more than a fraction of the money...
I'm siting here laughing at the article.
I have 2 gigabytes of maps covering about 60-70% of Canada, and about 95% of the more populated areas. On these maps, which I georeferenced, is virtually every power station in the country. (a long with every road...)
All available for free from the Government of Canada. (Although, georeferencing is your problem...)
I have several hundred megabytes of data for points of interest used for aligning maps. Many of these points are structures visible from satelite images (to help georeference said images) and again, are identified & (in this case intentionally) georeferenced.
Ever dam, bridge, pipeline, tunnel and railroad track in Canada constructed 5 years ago, or earlier, is probably on these. (and, some much more recent as well.)
While the data I have doesn't show me all the powerlines and all the phonecables on a specific street I'm sure most of the information is available somewhere...
Had somebody used the terminology 'Radio Link' instead of Bluetooth it wouldn't be so damn hard to explain.
Bluetooth as a name is next to useless. It conveys no meaning in itself. Even 802.11b is more meaningfull. (it atleast looks like a standard; for what may be unknown).
In many places (including BC) it is illegal to have a pool in a backyard without a reasonable means to keep the neighboring kids out of it.
In many ways there isn't mnuch different between that and an unecrypted network. It is an attraction to people without the willpower to keep from frelling with it.
One of the theories regarding twins is that it occurs because the DNA at some stage is damaged and no longer matches. So, it is posible to be a twin without identical DNA... but, most (all?) DNA tests only use a small fragment of the DNA sequence for comparisons; they picked part of the DNA which varies greatly with individuals, but it may, or may not be an exact match in twins.
FRS is free in Canada as well.
Your right about GMRS though. Not legal in Canada, and as Canadian/American agreements there are issues with using some spectrum near the border. (HAM radio operators have different antena restrictions depending on how close they are to the border, and if the particular part of the spectrum overlaps with a different use across the border.)
After reading this story I decided to set it up so I could stream to my PocketPC. I just got it a couple of weeks ago so I figured it could be fun.
s ic/[F olderName].lnk/[song name])
I currently have a Wireless network; it connects my Tivo in the living room (I do run a cable on occasion; but had a USB based 802.11b adapter and HAD to try it on the tivo... works like a charm.
So, I play MP3's with the Tivo; the software to server up the MP3 is a bit different than Shoutcast or Icecast. I hoped I could make it work with my PocketPC anyway. (note: I sorta did, see below).
Problems mentioned by others: Streaming the SAME song at the same time creates sound problems between rooms. Yep, it does. I had a thought on how to fix it, but it would require extentisve software patches. Basicly, the streaming source would TimeStamp the song with a start time; This would cause all units to wait until that moment to start playing the song. If all machines are time-synched to the same source it -could- work; although it may need a fudge-factor to adjust for unknown timing issues. (set a slight delay on the server so all devices SHOULD catch up; have MP3 players skip-ahead to catch up with shared streams.)
Back to the pocketPC.. finding a good (PocketPC 2002 based) program which can play streamed MP3s is a challenge! Most of the players like to access the files directory; or use specific servers (See Microsoft).
I aquired one which seems to have come out of Russia or something; unknown name; it mostly works but the interface is lacking. It doesn't play all the streams for some unknown reason. To make it work as well as it does requires a Playlist which lists all the URLs to access the individual songs. There is currently no way to query the information from the server to get the song list. (the url format is:
http://192.168.1.102:8081/TiVoConnect/TivoMu
I tried using Shoutcast but was rather turned off by it Re-sampling to do MP3s. Stupid, and, for my purposes, useless. (If I had reason to inject other tracks/sounds it would be ok. ie: play DJ)).
Also, I would have to configure a Shoutcast server for each different stream; dumb.
The server software for the Tivo stuff is 'open'. They provide docs on their website, as well as using standard methods, XML formatted data, etc. I may have to try and put something together to deal with it instead.
Gartner provides self-fullfilling prophesies to the 'decision makers'.
If you release 4 products that are identical except for branding Gartner will find a way to declair one of them the winner, and, low and behold, 6-8 months later they'll be right...
Gartner has it's uses, but when you spend $1500 on a report and fail to take it's advise you look like an idiot...
Without knowing the specifics I'll assume the bandwidth is adaquate... but the buffering is probably not.
Wireless can be affected by noise, and retries can allow the streaming buffers to be depleted. increase the buffer sizes and see if it helps.
And keep in mind, if your on wireless network you probably have HALF available bandwidth.
Thats also the most dangerous thought when dveloping software. (specificly, redeveloping software).
While I'm in the source file I might as well fix...
Secondary note.. all points are voided within 28 days...
Can I get extra points for finding a GF that is proud of the fact she has yet to see Titanic? (and, because of that, neither have I...)
My rules
:) [my problem= my money](in truth, we split it 80/20)
Rule 1: What I earn is mine.
Rule 2: What she earns is hers.
Rule 3: Money spent on a relationship isn't a bad thing. I've paid for vacations where we had agreed to share the cost, and then never bothered to reconcile the money afterwards. Why? Why bother with the hassle. It wouldn't have been fun without her.
Rules 4: She spends NONE of my money on stupid things. Thats my job.
Rule 5: I pay for dinner out, I hate to cook. I'm not a fan of her cooking either. (raw steak isn't my thing
If your other half doesn't make as much money, and my gf doesn't, then let her spend it on whatever she likes and you can cover the necessities.
If it is on par, then split the costs and do it equitably. (60/40, 50/50 or whatever).
If she makes significantly less than you, or basicly nothing, then you might want to figure out some form of allowance. Again, she can do whatever she wants with it. (I admit it, it would drive me nuts).
None of the above implies you should not spend disposable income generously; on her and yourself. But don't let her back you in a corner if it's your money and you think it would be a waste.
If the above is unworkable; your screwed, bail now.
When they were 'starting out'? Sorry, but it wasn't THAT long ago I had problems with their card.
NVidia has a proven track record on driver development. They have a proven track record on performance. Why throw that away for such a small difference in price/performance? It's the same reason why people continue to buy Apple systems.
There are 2 companies I've never had significant driver issues with; Matrox and Nvidia. But I stoppped buy Matrox when they couldn't compete based on 3D performance for games.
All the ATI cards I've bought, and that friends have bought had driver issues more often than any other brand I have ever owned. I don't have time to waste my life making sure I always have the latest and greatest drivers; and then Uninstalling them to downgrade to the working version because the latest doesn't work on my configuration.
Come back to me in 5 years and I'll consider ATI... by then I might actually want to replace the video card I bought last year.
No; I don't throw good money after bad. It'll be a long while before I buy an ATI card again.
And as long as Nvidia compares on performance, which they do, and their drivers arn't buggy, that won't change.
Don't know about you, but I'd spend the extra $100 on Nvidia; I've wasted a lot more than that on trying to deal with ATI and their buggy drivers in the past.
(I'll acknowledge that some say they have since improved. Well, that doesn't get me back the money I spent on their older cards does it?)