Personally I think that the harddrive players are too little and too much at the same time. I either want a device that can hold all of my music, which is several hundred GB of data My 40 GB iRiver HD player currently holds 4000 songs (at ~50% capacity). Most people think that's a huge amount.
I'd be inclined to say you're not a typical user. How many songs are you storing anyway? And in what format/bitrate? 100's of GB sounds great for a movie player, but for sound...?
I've visited many 3rd world countries and they're all better places to live than Cuba. Your education and life expectancy figures are probably provided by the Cuban government itself. That government is especially good at one thing: lying to its people and to everyone else. They're masters of hypocrisy. You seem to be an obedient servant.
When Cuba finally shakes of this disease people like you will be exposed as what they are:
You're must be joking. I've been to Cuba too and I found it a horribly backward country suffering under a terrible and corrupt dictatorship.
The country is full of murals saying how wonderful they are and how they defeated the US. The people are piss poor and you see disabled people walking around on improvised crutches made out of branches. Everything is a lie in Cuba...
If only the US would understand it's their embargo that's keeping Fidel in the saddle.
This is getting boring. Submissions like yours are posted in every MS vs Linux thread and contrary to their own predictions, they're usually modded up.
The OS sceptic viewpoint is very much present on Slashdot so please stop playing the underdog.
The lack of a built in voice recorder is precisely one of the reasons why I did not buy an iPod.
Most other MP3 players (like my iRiver) have excellent sound recorders on board without needing attachments.
My GF records all her lectures on her Clie (the only thing we still use it for, the recording qualitity is great) and then puts them up for download for her school friends. The easy of sharing is what makes the real difference.
I was thinking more along the lines of the thumb driven tiny joysticks on my Garmin Etrex Vista GPS, my Nokia 9300 and my mother's Konica X31 camera.
I kinda like those, they're small, easy to control movement in 4 directions and can be pressed for enter. A pretty cool device for controlling menus with one thumb.
Cruise control, perhaps, but *intelligent* cruise control. I guess we must be in different countries, cause 'round here the limits tend to change a lot. Having some computer intelligence and satellite guidance would come in handy in complicated Holland.
Normal cruise control would be great if I could commute at a convenient constant 120kph, but alas...
I've been getting a lot of tickets lately and I've been thinking about a similar device that monitors my location and controls a speed limiter in my car that ensures I can't drive too fast.
I'm not a great fan of government controls, so I'd like to be able to switch the device off if I want to and switch it on if I like to keep my eyes on the road instead of watching my speedometer all the time. Or maybe I could overclock it slightly...
IMHO speed monitoring will get better and better in the coming years. How big and expensive does a camera with a small speed detector and a wireless link for uploading its data have to be? Maybe there will be a speedcam in every lamp post in the future.
I sure hope I will have my speed limiter by then;)
You got my hopes up. I installed adblock (already running flashblock and anidisable) and tried again. The same marquee rolled done on the 'Small Business' page (the "Save up to $1,500 on select Servers..." line expands automatically). Maybe they have different policies for different ip source domains (I'm Dutch, maybe they're out to get us again;).
Adblock didn't help here.
I'll keep it installed and see what it does in daily use although I share the opinion that I don't want to block all ads, just the annoying moving, endlessly animating and floating and popping ones...
I considered getting a PB 12" a year ago but I decided against it mostly because the price difference with my current Dell X300 was too great.
It would have been even greater if I added extended warranty to the PB. The Dell came with 3 years NBD on site included.
You may not be able to imagine it but my business is so small that I'm the only employee so keeping two laptops around would have been a bit of a waste.
As it is the Dell's harddisk broke down and they *did* fix it the next day on-site.
I find that fairly important for a laptop. I know a friend who bought an HP laptop that broke down within two weeks. He had to send it in and got it back only 3 weeks later...
All right, I'll take you up on this. All my Dutch language queries have been polluted for the last year or so by a Dutch search engine (Kelkoo) that manages to be the first hit almost on every search.
That's actually very easy. Your own server is responsible for adding the topmost 'Received:' line to the mail header so the IP address (recorded by your server) in that line is always the one that sent you the spam in the last place.
A spammer can add as many bogus lines underneath it as he wants. Fact remains that almost all spam is sent directly from the spammer's machine (usually a zombie) to the target's mail server.
I have automatic code that blocks any machine sending me an X number of spam mails in a certain time frame and that helps a lot.
That's not a bad idea, in fact I've been thinking about just that last week. You might think that any legitimate sending mail server would listen to port 25 itself, but I'm afraid that's not necessarily true.
It also wouldn't be very difficult - if everybody started doing that - for the bad guys to adapt the zombies to open up port 25 and pretend to be an smtp server.
In the mean time try the following trick: You'd be surprised how many spammers use a HELO string that has *your* IP or hostname in it (no legitimate sender should do that). Block those. Saved me from 1300 spammer connections in the last 24 hours alone...
I have ~5000 on my 40GB iRiver H140 (works great, thank you). I LIKE having a lot of music on my player. I have it on shuffle permanently so that I'm regularly surprised by the next song.
Shuffle... You guys remember Apple's shuffle commercials, so you see that shuffling is actually a good idea. Now, with the small amount of songs that fit on an iPod shuffle, shuffling isn't that useful, but with the 10.000 that fit on my iRiver or a comparable Size iPod I think it's great.
I'm starting to think there are basically two types of audio player users. Those who want to carry it all and those who just want the songs they currently enjoy.
[BTW: These discussions are starting to bother me. Everytime there is a iPod or Apple newspost the Apple fundamentalists start closing the ranks and attack any perceived enemy. Pathetic, really]
There are so many Eurpean providers, it's hard to say. I know there's a Dutch providers that offers cal groups. People in a family or company calling each other mobile for free. Of course, you need to be with the same provider.
Polymorphic: Useless because the scanner would check for the original binaries. If the checksum doesn't match a know good list -> alert. Viruses don't bother with polymorphism anymore since scanner manufacturers defeat these schemes easily these days.
Stealth: ALL rootkits are stealth (hide their presence). That's the whole point of a rootkit.
Dead space: Rubbish, data in dead space is never executed. It would have to be bootstrapped by normally visible code which is detected in the usual ways.
Bad sector: See dead space
Virtual system: See stealth
All in all I'd say your post is somewhat overrated;)
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I hope you're joking, just like the person that just modded me interesting ;)
WebObjects was used to build the Itunes music store!
(dupes within a post, that's a first, or isn't it...?)
Personally I think that the harddrive players are too little and too much at the same time. I either want a device that can hold all of my music, which is several hundred GB of data
My 40 GB iRiver HD player currently holds 4000 songs (at ~50% capacity). Most people think that's a huge amount.
I'd be inclined to say you're not a typical user. How many songs are you storing anyway? And in what format/bitrate? 100's of GB sounds great for a movie player, but for sound...?
I've visited many 3rd world countries and they're all better places to live than Cuba. Your education and life expectancy figures are probably provided by the Cuban government itself. That government is especially good at one thing: lying to its people and to everyone else. They're masters of hypocrisy. You seem to be an obedient servant.
;)
When Cuba finally shakes of this disease people like you will be exposed as what they are:
Idiots...
You're must be joking. I've been to Cuba too and I found it a horribly backward country suffering under a terrible and corrupt dictatorship.
The country is full of murals saying how wonderful they are and how they defeated the US. The people are piss poor and you see disabled people walking around on improvised crutches made out of branches. Everything is a lie in Cuba...
If only the US would understand it's their embargo that's keeping Fidel in the saddle.
This is getting boring. Submissions like yours are posted in every MS vs Linux thread and contrary to their own predictions, they're usually modded up.
The OS sceptic viewpoint is very much present on Slashdot so please stop playing the underdog.
(yes, I agree the original article sucks)
Well duh, Gmail doesn't do IMAP...
I'll stick with Fastmail, thank you.
The lack of a built in voice recorder is precisely one of the reasons why I did not buy an iPod.
Most other MP3 players (like my iRiver) have excellent sound recorders on board without needing attachments.
My GF records all her lectures on her Clie (the only thing we still use it for, the recording qualitity is great) and then puts them up for download for her school friends. The easy of sharing is what makes the real difference.
I was thinking more along the lines of the thumb driven tiny joysticks on my Garmin Etrex Vista GPS, my Nokia 9300 and my mother's Konica X31 camera.
I kinda like those, they're small, easy to control movement in 4 directions and can be pressed for enter. A pretty cool device for controlling menus with one thumb.
X.
Cruise control, perhaps, but *intelligent* cruise control. I guess we must be in different countries, cause 'round here the limits tend to change a lot. Having some computer intelligence and satellite guidance would come in handy in complicated Holland.
Normal cruise control would be great if I could commute at a convenient constant 120kph, but alas...
X.
I've been getting a lot of tickets lately and I've been thinking about a similar device that monitors my location and controls a speed limiter in my car that ensures I can't drive too fast.
;)
I'm not a great fan of government controls, so I'd like to be able to switch the device off if I want to and switch it on if I like to keep my eyes on the road instead of watching my speedometer all the time. Or maybe I could overclock it slightly...
IMHO speed monitoring will get better and better in the coming years. How big and expensive does a camera with a small speed detector and a wireless link for uploading its data have to be? Maybe there will be a speedcam in every lamp post in the future.
I sure hope I will have my speed limiter by then
X.
You got my hopes up. I installed adblock (already running flashblock and anidisable) and tried again. The same marquee rolled done on the 'Small Business' page (the "Save up to $1,500 on select Servers..." line expands automatically). Maybe they have different policies for different ip source domains (I'm Dutch, maybe they're out to get us again ;).
Adblock didn't help here.
I'll keep it installed and see what it does in daily use although I share the opinion that I don't want to block all ads, just the annoying moving, endlessly animating and floating and popping ones...
Unfortunately those floaters aren't done in flash. They're css & javascript AFAIK. They *are* getting more annoying every day. (I am using flashblock)
Try visiting dell.com and click on 'Small business', even there...
I considered getting a PB 12" a year ago but I decided against it mostly because the price difference with my current Dell X300 was too great.
It would have been even greater if I added extended warranty to the PB. The Dell came with 3 years NBD on site included.
You may not be able to imagine it but my business is so small that I'm the only employee so keeping two laptops around would have been a bit of a waste.
As it is the Dell's harddisk broke down and they *did* fix it the next day on-site.
I find that fairly important for a laptop. I know a friend who bought an HP laptop that broke down within two weeks. He had to send it in and got it back only 3 weeks later...
All right, I'll take you up on this. All my Dutch language queries have been polluted for the last year or so by a Dutch search engine (Kelkoo) that manages to be the first hit almost on every search.
I just filed the report w/keyword...
That's actually very easy. Your own server is responsible for adding the topmost 'Received:' line to the mail header so the IP address (recorded by your server) in that line is always the one that sent you the spam in the last place.
A spammer can add as many bogus lines underneath it as he wants. Fact remains that almost all spam is sent directly from the spammer's machine (usually a zombie) to the target's mail server.
I have automatic code that blocks any machine sending me an X number of spam mails in a certain time frame and that helps a lot.
That's not a bad idea, in fact I've been thinking about just that last week. You might think that any legitimate sending mail server would listen to port 25 itself, but I'm afraid that's not necessarily true.
It also wouldn't be very difficult - if everybody started doing that - for the bad guys to adapt the zombies to open up port 25 and pretend to be an smtp server.
In the mean time try the following trick: You'd be surprised how many spammers use a HELO string that has *your* IP or hostname in it (no legitimate sender should do that). Block those. Saved me from 1300 spammer connections in the last 24 hours alone...
Man, I'm disappointed. I just thought I'd figured out why those Mozilla guys took so long making there browser: They weren't using VB!!!
(seriously, I think we all knew that)
No, it wasn't, that last part was just a rant about the general trend of these 'iPod' discussions. Sorry if I gave that impression.
Why, with all the hundreds of flash based MP3 players out there, has 'shuffle' suddenly become the generic name for them?
Geez...
I have ~5000 on my 40GB iRiver H140 (works great, thank you). I LIKE having a lot of music on my player. I have it on shuffle permanently so that I'm regularly surprised by the next song.
Shuffle... You guys remember Apple's shuffle commercials, so you see that shuffling is actually a good idea. Now, with the small amount of songs that fit on an iPod shuffle, shuffling isn't that useful, but with the 10.000 that fit on my iRiver or a comparable Size iPod I think it's great.
I'm starting to think there are basically two types of audio player users. Those who want to carry it all and those who just want the songs they currently enjoy.
[BTW: These discussions are starting to bother me. Everytime there is a iPod or Apple newspost the Apple fundamentalists start closing the ranks and attack any perceived enemy. Pathetic, really]
There are so many Eurpean providers, it's hard to say. I know there's a Dutch providers that offers cal groups. People in a family or company calling each other mobile for free. Of course, you need to be with the same provider.
Yep, and it's the biggest surprise for us Europeans that you Americans don't. That, and the paying-to- receive-mobile-calls thing...
Useful article thus...
Polymorphic: Useless because the scanner would check for the original binaries. If the checksum doesn't match a know good list -> alert. Viruses don't bother with polymorphism anymore since scanner manufacturers defeat these schemes easily these days.
;)
Stealth: ALL rootkits are stealth (hide their presence). That's the whole point of a rootkit.
Dead space: Rubbish, data in dead space is never executed. It would have to be bootstrapped by normally visible code which is detected in the usual ways.
Bad sector: See dead space
Virtual system: See stealth
All in all I'd say your post is somewhat overrated
And then there's the Nokia 9300. Newer, smaller, cheaper and better looking than the 9500.
A much better deal if you can do without the camera & Wifi of the Nokia 9500.
http://nokia.com/phones/9300
http://nokia.com/phones/9500