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I got it off of ebay, brand new in the box. It runs windows mobile 2003, it's an older phone... It'll check email at scheduled intervals (mine's set for every 5 minutes), I run AgileMessenger (free) to keep in touch with people on AOL Instant Messenger, viewers for Word/Excel/Powerpoint, has a nice calendar program, a Secure Digital slot, etc etc. Only thing it lacks is bluetooth, which to me isn't really that important anyway.
It's a rather large phone, but it FEELS like a phone, which I love. I've used Treo's before and they just weren't comfortable to hold when having a long conversation.
Oh yeah, and it has a fairly easy to use QWERTY keyboard that folds out from behind the regular phone buttons..
I'm not sure how true this is, but i remember reading it before... and it said to email the lyrics to yourself. That way you have a copy of the lyrics with time and date stamped all over it. I'd think emailing yourself an mp3 or sheet music (if your band does that kind of thing... the couple i've been in havent) to yourself could protect the music in the same way
My totally uneducated guess type advice on how to spread the word you exist? become friends with everyone at your popular music shop. they'd probably know everyone who's anyone in the local music scene. From there get to know people from WELL KNOWN local bands that play similar music and try to set up some shows where you can open for them. Unless you're an amazingly awesome band I doubt anyone's going to pay to download your music. There's a lot of places now that will do small runs of bulk cds, I know musiciansfriend.com does it or has ads for a place that does it. Once you get known doing shows, get a few hundred CDs pressed up and sell them for $5 at your shows. If you did free mp3s (dont do ogg unless every major player supports it cuz how many of your nongeek friends even heard the word before?) then I'm sure if you were good enough you could move some CDs off your own website. Don't halfass on the CDs, 4 track recorded songs can be made to sound good enough to play loud on home/car stereos. Digital recorders are getting very cheap now too. Put effort into it... no matter how good your music is and how talented you guys are, if the recordings are shitty so aren't your record sales.
My old latitude pentium 75's trackball is still working flawlessly and you can go from typing to mousing no problem at all. Don't even have to move your hands off homerow. Probably the most comfortable combination i've ever used before.
All the MIDI ringtones I want for free on my T616. When I first got it I downloaded a crapload of songs to it... and finally after the novelty of being a walking musical jukebox dbag I settled on the "Old Phone" ringtone which, still loud and obnoxious, at least sounds like a phone. The only downside is it's just the standard midi phone ringing sound, and every time a phone rings on TV or radio, I think it's mine.
One of my employees just got a cellphone and every time someone calls her she lets the ringtone play out right up until it'd go to voicemail, then she'll answer it. I told her today, from now on it's either going on vibrate or it's not coming in the store.
I agree, if someone could find anywhere that sold brand new, in the box laptops that could match the specs or beat it, for $500, I'd be shocked. I'd be happy with a laptop like that for the price just to throw Windows* on it and do what I need with it. If I want to play games I'll use my desktop that's made for gaming. I'm sure the people that are buying their discount pcs/laptops from walmart aren't exactly technophiles that care if they have the latest hardware as long as they can run Gearhead Garage and watch streaming porn while drinking their Bud in their living room that turns into a kitchen when you lift up the little folding counter thing and all those other redneck stereotypes because people who live in trailers are fun to make fun of and etc.
* Right now I'm on a 120mhz tablet with 32mb of ram and Windows 98 and I have two IE windows open, instant messenger, am downloading an email attachment while listening to mp3s and it's not struggling at all. My debian pc with a k6/300 or something along those lines and 64mb of would grind to a halt if i attempted it on there
Sorry man but as of now Bush is back up to +145k votes in Ohio with 99% reported, and it's just been going up. I think it's a lost cause now. Look on the bright side, in four more years Bush can never be president again!!! Unless of course something unspeakable happens and he decides to declare himself emporor or something, which sadly I can almost see him doing. While making that freakin corny grin like he just let a SBD go.
You modded me troll when theres all these other post more deserving of a Redunant!!! I remember a time when I used to post at +2, those were the days:(
67 messages a day?! I get that a minute. I saved all my spam since 1982 on tape backups and I have about 3 terabytes of spam!! Not only that but I hand plotted it to show the subject and size of spam received in relation to the date on a 3d graph!! What a wuss!
Is there an over/under on how many more posts like these are made and get modded up??? I'd like to get in on the action.
From what I understand, basically you collect a big list of emails (or chat names, I don't know how much that goes on anymore) and e-mail them with an e-mail that you're from such and such company, and that they lost this or that information or you need to update it. Then they click a link in the email to go to the authentic looking but fake page, put their information in, and it gets sent to a file or email account the phisher set up.
I remember back when I used to go on Prodigy chat (I know AOL had these programs too, probably Compuserve also) there were all sorts of stupid chat room disrupting programs. One of the features a lot of them had was a "Phisher" which would collect peoples names off of the "Whos Chatting" list things in the rooms, and once you get a big enough collection you type in your scam line (ex "Greetings! I'm from the Prodigy(R) Billing Support Department. We've been having some issues with your account, and need you to certify your billing information. To accomplish this we will need your current billing address and the type, number, and expiration date of the credit card you have signed up for our services with." and click a button.
It'd automatically instant message everyone on the list with the message, and 5 minutes later or so you'll have a crapload of replies ranging from their info, to very colorful takes on the phrase "no i will not give it to you, idiot", to the CHAT Host telling you you're now suspended from chat. Usually you're doing it from accounts you've already phished, so it doesn't matter that you got suspended, because you probably just picked up 10 or more accounts anyways.
The worst part of Prodigy as opposed to AOL was that on Prodigy you could have more than one user signed on at a time. If you phished a master account, you set yourself up your own account and no one's the wiser. Unlike AOL which AFAIK only allows one screen name on at a time, and tells you when someone's already signed on. That might've changed now, who knows? On Prodigy though, you could IM people by account numbers OR chat names (account numbers and chat names were separate, accounts were ABCD12(A-F), and A was the master. There used to be some good chat logs floating around from people who set up a "user account" (letters B-F) and IMed the master account that they phished earlier.
It was amazing the amount of people that would bite, especially on Prodigy where most people had their user ID shown in their Chat Info (like an AOL profile but more basic) so you could pick out the master accounts and not deal with the regular users.
Basically you've got your "pond", which is the email addresses or chat names, your "fishing pole and bait" which would be the email or instant message, and you "cast it out" and wait around to see what you can catch. No idea where the PH- came from, but I have a good idea judging from how the super leet hackers typed back then.
Sorry for the livejournaling, but thinking back to the days of Prodigy chat made me a little nostalgic.:)
Who's fault is it that it took you a year and you couldn't find a job? I lost my job last May. I swallowed my pride, lived with my parents, and spent up my savings taking a couple months off. At the end of July things were getting tight, and I realized it's going to take a while to find a new job to go to. So I applied at (oh the horror) a DINER and started last August. It was $11/hour less than what I was making at my old job, but it kept money in my pocket AND the bank, and I haven't hit any financial hardships. I'm still there and got a dollar and some change in raises, and I'm about to move back out on my own. The owner knows very well that when I find a new job I'm leaving, and as long as I keep showing up and doing my job and give him some notice, he's fine with that. I hate Bush as much as you but c'mon, it's not his fault. You're just making whiney excuses as to why you're too proud to work a "shitty" job.
We got our first computer when I was 8 and I used to go on the old Prodigy BBSes (back when it still ran in DOS) and figured out how to type on my own and took out BASIC (mostly AppleBasic since my school was still using old apples) books from the library. In 6th grade they did a typing class on Apple IIe's and I was already way ahead of most people in there, but it was only a 1 semester class and was basically meaningless since home pc's were still pretty unmainstream from what I remember. By the time Prodigy went to windows and had Chat, I knew the keyboard and the basic homerow stuff. Senior year of highschool we were forced to take a half semester of typing/word processing. They did a speed test the first day of class, typing however you felt comfortable typing, and I was in the high 90s low 100s. I think the next closest was 80wpm from a fellow computer geek. That class was the easiest 100 I've ever gotten. It was excersizes like typing D E D F over and over, and everyone would get in trouble for not doing it "proper" except me, I'd just be there with 3 fingers hitting them as fast as possible to finish the lessons and use the rest of the period as a study hall.
It was an old, old one and it made a horrible screetching kind of noise any time it was set to 800x600. It was capable of 1024x768 but it only did it a couple times, usually it'd just make the screetch noise even worse and the video would go a little crazy. I was sitting there doing nothing, probably sitting on Prodigy chat, when all the sudden it started making the screetch noise bad, then sparks started flying out of the side. I reached on the side (because I'm super smart) and flicked the power off and when I did, there was a surge of sparks and a small flame, like small to the point if I wasn't standing up to see it through the vents I never would've known it was there, that quickly went out on its own. It was one of those moments where at the time I peed my pants but about ten minutes later after I hooked up a different monitor I realized it was one of the cooler things I've seen in a while. It didn't really get abused, just got old, but whatever. I dropped my old dell 75mhz laptop down a 4 or 5 stairs while running and it still works fine (as does the trackball that I haven't cleaned since I got it 5 years ago.. those things were made freakin bulletproof back then).
"Goddamnit, didn't I tell you to read badastronomy.com?"
You said conspiracy theorists should go there. I wondered the same thing, where's the stars? I didn't wonder it in the sense of WHY ARE THERE NO STARS THEY FAKED IT OH NO! panicky hate the government way, and wouldn't have clicked the link if I didn't see this post a few scrolls down...
Well a long long time ago, a meteor impacted Pluto and broke a piece off which was containing Plutonian life, and it landed on Mars, which was then colonized.
I'm sure its been covered before but I must've missed it, but what is the difference between a normal phone call and a walkie talkie phone call aside from the fact we have to hear twice as much of a conversation we don't want to be hearing in the first place? I was at a wake tonight and sure enough BEEPBEEP loud walkie talkie talking BEEPBEEP.
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I got it off of ebay, brand new in the box. It runs windows mobile 2003, it's an older phone...
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It'll check email at scheduled intervals (mine's set for every 5 minutes), I run AgileMessenger (free) to keep in touch with people on AOL Instant Messenger, viewers for Word/Excel/Powerpoint, has a nice calendar program, a Secure Digital slot, etc etc. Only thing it lacks is bluetooth, which to me isn't really that important anyway.
It's a rather large phone, but it FEELS like a phone, which I love. I've used Treo's before and they just weren't comfortable to hold when having a long conversation.
Oh yeah, and it has a fairly easy to use QWERTY keyboard that folds out from behind the regular phone buttons..
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I'm not sure how true this is, but i remember reading it before... and it said to email the lyrics to yourself. That way you have a copy of the lyrics with time and date stamped all over it.
I'd think emailing yourself an mp3 or sheet music (if your band does that kind of thing... the couple i've been in havent) to yourself could protect the music in the same way
Thats awesome i get one post modded down and now i'm stuck in the bottom with the trolls
My totally uneducated guess type advice on how to spread the word you exist?
become friends with everyone at your popular music shop. they'd probably know everyone who's anyone in the local music scene.
From there get to know people from WELL KNOWN local bands that play similar music and try to set up some shows where you can open for them. Unless you're an amazingly awesome band I doubt anyone's going to pay to download your music.
There's a lot of places now that will do small runs of bulk cds, I know musiciansfriend.com does it or has ads for a place that does it. Once you get known doing shows, get a few hundred CDs pressed up and sell them for $5 at your shows.
If you did free mp3s (dont do ogg unless every major player supports it cuz how many of your nongeek friends even heard the word before?) then I'm sure if you were good enough you could move some CDs off your own website.
Don't halfass on the CDs, 4 track recorded songs can be made to sound good enough to play loud on home/car stereos. Digital recorders are getting very cheap now too. Put effort into it... no matter how good your music is and how talented you guys are, if the recordings are shitty so aren't your record sales.
My old latitude pentium 75's trackball is still working flawlessly and you can go from typing to mousing no problem at all. Don't even have to move your hands off homerow. Probably the most comfortable combination i've ever used before.
All the MIDI ringtones I want for free on my T616. When I first got it I downloaded a crapload of songs to it... and finally after the novelty of being a walking musical jukebox dbag I settled on the "Old Phone" ringtone which, still loud and obnoxious, at least sounds like a phone.
The only downside is it's just the standard midi phone ringing sound, and every time a phone rings on TV or radio, I think it's mine.
One of my employees just got a cellphone and every time someone calls her she lets the ringtone play out right up until it'd go to voicemail, then she'll answer it. I told her today, from now on it's either going on vibrate or it's not coming in the store.
How many hard drive cables have you gone through?
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Still not the greatest deal, but AFAIK there's nothing comparable pricewise thats brand new?
I agree, if someone could find anywhere that sold brand new, in the box laptops that could match the specs or beat it, for $500, I'd be shocked.
I'd be happy with a laptop like that for the price just to throw Windows* on it and do what I need with it. If I want to play games I'll use my desktop that's made for gaming.
I'm sure the people that are buying their discount pcs/laptops from walmart aren't exactly technophiles that care if they have the latest hardware as long as they can run Gearhead Garage and watch streaming porn while drinking their Bud in their living room that turns into a kitchen when you lift up the little folding counter thing and all those other redneck stereotypes because people who live in trailers are fun to make fun of and etc.
* Right now I'm on a 120mhz tablet with 32mb of ram and Windows 98 and I have two IE windows open, instant messenger, am downloading an email attachment while listening to mp3s and it's not struggling at all.
My debian pc with a k6/300 or something along those lines and 64mb of would grind to a halt if i attempted it on there
Seriously though, kudos to the guys at lik-sang.com for having not folded like a house of cards in a hurricane as soon as this story was posted here.
They were prepared for the slashdotting, the submitter works for them...
Sorry man but as of now Bush is back up to +145k votes in Ohio with 99% reported, and it's just been going up. I think it's a lost cause now. Look on the bright side, in four more years Bush can never be president again!!!
Unless of course something unspeakable happens and he decides to declare himself emporor or something, which sadly I can almost see him doing.
While making that freakin corny grin like he just let a SBD go.
$2000?! I just paid $80 shipped for a tablet, sure it's 200mhz but it can play mp3s no problem.
You modded me troll when theres all these other post more deserving of a Redunant!!! I remember a time when I used to post at +2, those were the days :(
67 messages a day?! I get that a minute. I saved all my spam since 1982 on tape backups and I have about 3 terabytes of spam!! Not only that but I hand plotted it to show the subject and size of spam received in relation to the date on a 3d graph!! What a wuss!
Is there an over/under on how many more posts like these are made and get modded up??? I'd like to get in on the action.
So far outside of the whole storage capacity thing, my old Rio can do the same things!
Project log!!! Just another fun *log word for people who don't want to sound girly for writing in a diary.
From what I understand, basically you collect a big list of emails (or chat names, I don't know how much that goes on anymore) and e-mail them with an e-mail that you're from such and such company, and that they lost this or that information or you need to update it. Then they click a link in the email to go to the authentic looking but fake page, put their information in, and it gets sent to a file or email account the phisher set up.
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I remember back when I used to go on Prodigy chat (I know AOL had these programs too, probably Compuserve also) there were all sorts of stupid chat room disrupting programs. One of the features a lot of them had was a "Phisher" which would collect peoples names off of the "Whos Chatting" list things in the rooms, and once you get a big enough collection you type in your scam line (ex "Greetings! I'm from the Prodigy(R) Billing Support Department. We've been having some issues with your account, and need you to certify your billing information. To accomplish this we will need your current billing address and the type, number, and expiration date of the credit card you have signed up for our services with." and click a button.
It'd automatically instant message everyone on the list with the message, and 5 minutes later or so you'll have a crapload of replies ranging from their info, to very colorful takes on the phrase "no i will not give it to you, idiot", to the CHAT Host telling you you're now suspended from chat. Usually you're doing it from accounts you've already phished, so it doesn't matter that you got suspended, because you probably just picked up 10 or more accounts anyways.
The worst part of Prodigy as opposed to AOL was that on Prodigy you could have more than one user signed on at a time. If you phished a master account, you set yourself up your own account and no one's the wiser. Unlike AOL which AFAIK only allows one screen name on at a time, and tells you when someone's already signed on. That might've changed now, who knows? On Prodigy though, you could IM people by account numbers OR chat names (account numbers and chat names were separate, accounts were ABCD12(A-F), and A was the master. There used to be some good chat logs floating around from people who set up a "user account" (letters B-F) and IMed the master account that they phished earlier.
It was amazing the amount of people that would bite, especially on Prodigy where most people had their user ID shown in their Chat Info (like an AOL profile but more basic) so you could pick out the master accounts and not deal with the regular users.
Basically you've got your "pond", which is the email addresses or chat names, your "fishing pole and bait" which would be the email or instant message, and you "cast it out" and wait around to see what you can catch. No idea where the PH- came from, but I have a good idea judging from how the super leet hackers typed back then.
Sorry for the livejournaling, but thinking back to the days of Prodigy chat made me a little nostalgic.
Who's fault is it that it took you a year and you couldn't find a job? I lost my job last May. I swallowed my pride, lived with my parents, and spent up my savings taking a couple months off. At the end of July things were getting tight, and I realized it's going to take a while to find a new job to go to. So I applied at (oh the horror) a DINER and started last August. It was $11/hour less than what I was making at my old job, but it kept money in my pocket AND the bank, and I haven't hit any financial hardships. I'm still there and got a dollar and some change in raises, and I'm about to move back out on my own. The owner knows very well that when I find a new job I'm leaving, and as long as I keep showing up and doing my job and give him some notice, he's fine with that. I hate Bush as much as you but c'mon, it's not his fault. You're just making whiney excuses as to why you're too proud to work a "shitty" job.
We got our first computer when I was 8 and I used to go on the old Prodigy BBSes (back when it still ran in DOS) and figured out how to type on my own and took out BASIC (mostly AppleBasic since my school was still using old apples) books from the library. In 6th grade they did a typing class on Apple IIe's and I was already way ahead of most people in there, but it was only a 1 semester class and was basically meaningless since home pc's were still pretty unmainstream from what I remember. By the time Prodigy went to windows and had Chat, I knew the keyboard and the basic homerow stuff. Senior year of highschool we were forced to take a half semester of typing/word processing. They did a speed test the first day of class, typing however you felt comfortable typing, and I was in the high 90s low 100s. I think the next closest was 80wpm from a fellow computer geek. That class was the easiest 100 I've ever gotten. It was excersizes like typing D E D F over and over, and everyone would get in trouble for not doing it "proper" except me, I'd just be there with 3 fingers hitting them as fast as possible to finish the lessons and use the rest of the period as a study hall.
It was an old, old one and it made a horrible screetching kind of noise any time it was set to 800x600. It was capable of 1024x768 but it only did it a couple times, usually it'd just make the screetch noise even worse and the video would go a little crazy. I was sitting there doing nothing, probably sitting on Prodigy chat, when all the sudden it started making the screetch noise bad, then sparks started flying out of the side. I reached on the side (because I'm super smart) and flicked the power off and when I did, there was a surge of sparks and a small flame, like small to the point if I wasn't standing up to see it through the vents I never would've known it was there, that quickly went out on its own. It was one of those moments where at the time I peed my pants but about ten minutes later after I hooked up a different monitor I realized it was one of the cooler things I've seen in a while. It didn't really get abused, just got old, but whatever. I dropped my old dell 75mhz laptop down a 4 or 5 stairs while running and it still works fine (as does the trackball that I haven't cleaned since I got it 5 years ago.. those things were made freakin bulletproof back then).
"Goddamnit, didn't I tell you to read badastronomy.com?"
You said conspiracy theorists should go there. I wondered the same thing, where's the stars? I didn't wonder it in the sense of WHY ARE THERE NO STARS THEY FAKED IT OH NO! panicky hate the government way, and wouldn't have clicked the link if I didn't see this post a few scrolls down...
Well a long long time ago, a meteor impacted Pluto and broke a piece off which was containing Plutonian life, and it landed on Mars, which was then colonized.
How do you connect without dialing? Just curious. Really my biggest question is why a walkie talkie? Why not just make it work like a normal phone?
I'm sure its been covered before but I must've missed it, but what is the difference between a normal phone call and a walkie talkie phone call aside from the fact we have to hear twice as much of a conversation we don't want to be hearing in the first place? I was at a wake tonight and sure enough BEEPBEEP loud walkie talkie talking BEEPBEEP.
Ship's ahoy!