I also am looking at the Toshiba. My other consideration is the dell 8200. One of the two main differences that I can see is that the dell has a 16X10X32 CD-RW while the toshiba has a 8x8x? CD-RW. The other difference is the screen on the Dell's is supposed to be ultra clear and extreamly bright.
I had some questions that no one can seam to answer about the Toshiba's Graphics system, would you (or anybody else) be interested is trying to answer them? 1. What do you think of the Toshiba display? How is the level of brighness. Can you see it in sunlight or is it for indoor use only? 2. How well does the graphics card do in terms of image quality at 1024x768 @ 80Hz+ on an external monitor? 3. Can you realy play a DVD to a TV set with good image quality or does it act jerky and have trouble puting up a clear image? 4. How easy is it to run an external display and an internal display at the same time with different views?
Can't you use hdparm to tell the disk to power off? If you can then doing so should write all the data to the disk. It would also be required to unmount the partition (/mnt/hdd?) prior to removeing the drive so it should sync the data at that point.
If disk gometry is the only reason that the HD can not be swapped, then assuming that you have a budget, but 2 or more identical drives to swap. That way the disk is physicaly the same and all you end up changing is the contents.
No it is not a closed system. Power from an outside source(in the form of Electricity) is being brought in. Then it is run through a resistor (otherwise known as CPU/RAM/etc). This creates heat.
True.
But what I would like to see is the ability to block specific advertisers. Lets say that I do not what to see any ads from company X, if I do not see ads from company X then I would see more ads that are relevant to me and that I am more likely to click on. Advertisers would also like this since it gets them exposure to people who want to see their ads, and not to people who have no interest.
I would also like to be able to specify categories of ads to see (or not see). Such as: New Ads (ads that have been on slashdot for less than X amount of time. I should even be able to chose to see ads for companies that I have blocked, if they are new.), ads from a specific company (i.e. M$, thinkgeek, sourceforge, etc), ads for a type of product (i.e. Any kind of caffeine drink, or for computer equipment).
I would also like to be able to block a specific ad regardless of company. For instance I have seen the hooded sweatshirt ad for thinkgeek more than enough. They do not make them in my size, I am tired of seeing them and it is time to move on to newer and better ads. Since I can't/won't buy from that ad Advertisers only benefit from me not waiting their impressions.
You might also allow advertisers to override my preferences (at a premium cost) if they think that they just have a product that will change the world and I must see it. But I should get extra credit for that.
One last think, you used to have a list of advertisers and the ads they showed, bring it back that way if I see an ad and want to find it after I have left the page I can look through all the ads and find it. It would be really nice if you tracked what ads I had viewed (and in what order, or at least by date) so I could narrow down the number of ads I looked through. I think that advertisers would be very happy to learn that I came back a week after seeing their ad to click on it and find more information or but it. (Hey Taco, it's a value added service to you advertisers.)
Check out the atomic time sync program over at analogx.com, You just have to make sure that one computer has correct time and all the others can get their time from it using this (free) program.
Check out http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/a ts.htm, the program can get it's time from you, the NIST servers (i.e. use a laptop to get the time from the internet and then use it's corrected time to set the time on your primary server.) or from your GPS solution.
I could get a T1 equivalent for this rate, but my phone company put in cheap RSU's that do not support regular dsl.
I also went through 3 DSL ISP's (even the phone company) over a 2 year period before speakeasy was finanly able to actualy get the install working.
I may be paying higher than most anyone but I will not be draged back to dialup. Ever.
Do not go with LCD, unless power is an issue. They have tubes of their own. The backlight(s) behind the LCD, of which there are between 1-5 do break. And if you are driving over rough train they will break even faster.
It does not quite reach 300 feet, but it might work and its only $50. The site is http://www.pcliquidator.com/wirelesslankit.htm , I have bought other things from them before and been happy.
BTW: no I do not work for them, nor am I related in any way that I know of.:)
The short answer is: no. Basicaly if you do not make money on a deal, you can not write that money off on your taxes. At least that is how guru.com explains it.
there is a sight that does exactly this. it is at http://www.brightmail.com/ I use it on my primary account and it works very well. It does have a slight learning curve (i.e. it catches "spam" that is acutaly mailing lists.) but onece you train it to ignore those items it works like a charm.
I would assume that a major reason is that it may be usable for college credit. Also people tend to look at self learnging as inferior to "proffesionaly led, instructional training".
I find it funny that now day's people assume that if a gun is brought to school it is for the purpose of harming another. As late as 1970 many Highschools in this country had a shooting team. Wow, a state sponsored, fire arms awarness club. What a thought. And you know what is better yet? Members of the school shooting club where encouraged to bring their riffles and amunition to school with them. (that's right I said they brought a gun and the ammo to use it to school).
I ask you how many storys to you remember from any time prior to 1950 where anyone walked into a school and started shooting. I don't remember any. Why is there this quadry? At that time kid's brought guns to school, and where tought two things, to use the guns safely and responsabily, and disipline, yet there where no shootings with armed kids walking arround school. Now we have zero tolarance rules that allow things like a 10 year old being expeled from school because she had a 10 inch chain connectin her walet to her tweaty bird key chain. Kid's afraid to come to school. Guns are universaly considered "bad".
What changed? The schools, the kids, society?
I don't know, but I do know that gun's are not the problem, not are kids. The problem is a system that does not require accountability, responsability, or even reasonability (now there is a rare concept).
What do you think?
Post a response (please no flaims about how guns are evil).
Actualy, that is not true. Your caller ID block does not work with 911, toll free numbers (800, 877, 866, etc), and 900#'s.
Don't believe me? E-Mail me at root@TechKnowWizards.com and I will respond with my 800 number, call it and I will email you the phone number you called from.
As a mater of fact you do not violate the law by opening the MS program. In some country's there is no copy right (or any other kind of protection) for (so called) Trade Secrets. That means if a foreign native (say of China) opened the file (in China) and post's the information no law has been broken. That foreign native is not liable to abritrary US law.
As to copy rights (or any other kind of rights), you can not take over a public standard and copy right it. It is the equivalent of me buying a copy of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, changing one leter and copy righting it as my own. Actualy in the US I believe that you can not even create derived works baised on someone elses book, let alone copyright and sell that derived work. (Don't believe me? Try writing a derivative of the Dune series and see what happens to you.) Why does that not apply to published (non microsoft) computer protocols?
No, No, No. That was the football team, not a cult. Nevermind that they plan, plot and scheme (with the help of a teacher!) to hurt and maime others (on school time, and with school funds!). After all, they do it all in the name of organized sports and under the auspices of the School, so it must be OK.....
This is the.ch domain? Then what ever company has licensed the right to register the.ch domains form the (suisse?) will make a discision. NSI is only good for.com,.net,.org. we seem to keep forgeting that NSI is not the God of the network naming bussness. They controll a very small number of potential domains.
So IBM shows NSI a type writen leter "from" you, postmarked your city, offering the domain name for sale. OR they show an email that "you" sent to them offering the site for sale.
If you know anything about the internet [and I am assuming you do, and that you just did not think of this angle, because you have an honest mind;)] then you will know how easy it is to forge an email. You would then be left in the possition of proving that you did NOT send the email, a nearly impossible task. As to the paper form, anyone can send the leter, from your town, using your return address, and then YOU have to prove that you did not do it. That is why the system you proposed is not a good one. It only works in a totaly lawfull society. Not to say that all big busness is corrupt, but if a mid level buricrat saves his company even a half a million dollers in legal fees, then he will very probably be looking forward to a significant promotion. Not that all busness are crooks, but it only takes one crooked man or woman to realy ruin your day!
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I also am looking at the Toshiba. My other consideration is the dell 8200. One of the two main differences that I can see is that the dell has a 16X10X32 CD-RW while the toshiba has a 8x8x? CD-RW. The other difference is the screen on the Dell's is supposed to be ultra clear and extreamly bright.
I had some questions that no one can seam to answer about the Toshiba's Graphics system, would you (or anybody else) be interested is trying to answer them?
1. What do you think of the Toshiba display? How is the level of brighness. Can you see it in sunlight or is it for indoor use only?
2. How well does the graphics card do in terms of image quality at 1024x768 @ 80Hz+ on an external monitor?
3. Can you realy play a DVD to a TV set with good image quality or does it act jerky and have trouble puting up a clear image?
4. How easy is it to run an external display and an internal display at the same time with different views?
Can't you use hdparm to tell the disk to power off? If you can then doing so should write all the data to the disk. It would also be required to unmount the partition (/mnt/hdd?) prior to removeing the drive so it should sync the data at that point.
If disk gometry is the only reason that the HD can not be swapped, then assuming that you have a budget, but 2 or more identical drives to swap. That way the disk is physicaly the same and all you end up changing is the contents.
No it is not a closed system. Power from an outside source(in the form of Electricity) is being brought in. Then it is run through a resistor (otherwise known as CPU/RAM/etc). This creates heat.
So if it is not turned on, how do we activate it?
Yes, I believe they would.
to achieve the status of derivative work you must ad something significant to the code. Keyword significant.
True.
But what I would like to see is the ability to block specific advertisers. Lets say that I do not what to see any ads from company X, if I do not see ads from company X then I would see more ads that are relevant to me and that I am more likely to click on. Advertisers would also like this since it gets them exposure to people who want to see their ads, and not to people who have no interest.
I would also like to be able to specify categories of ads to see (or not see). Such as: New Ads (ads that have been on slashdot for less than X amount of time. I should even be able to chose to see ads for companies that I have blocked, if they are new.), ads from a specific company (i.e. M$, thinkgeek, sourceforge, etc), ads for a type of product (i.e. Any kind of caffeine drink, or for computer equipment).
I would also like to be able to block a specific ad regardless of company. For instance I have seen the hooded sweatshirt ad for thinkgeek more than enough. They do not make them in my size, I am tired of seeing them and it is time to move on to newer and better ads. Since I can't/won't buy from that ad Advertisers only benefit from me not waiting their impressions.
You might also allow advertisers to override my preferences (at a premium cost) if they think that they just have a product that will change the world and I must see it. But I should get extra credit for that.
One last think, you used to have a list of advertisers and the ads they showed, bring it back that way if I see an ad and want to find it after I have left the page I can look through all the ads and find it. It would be really nice if you tracked what ads I had viewed (and in what order, or at least by date) so I could narrow down the number of ads I looked through. I think that advertisers would be very happy to learn that I came back a week after seeing their ad to click on it and find more information or but it. (Hey Taco, it's a value added service to you advertisers.)
Just my two bits. What do you think?
Who do you prefer for external devices like you described? I am in the market for a unit like that.
Check out http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/a ts.htm, the program can get it's time from you, the NIST servers (i.e. use a laptop to get the time from the internet and then use it's corrected time to set the time on your primary server.) or from your GPS solution.
I could get a T1 equivalent for this rate, but my phone company put in cheap RSU's that do not support regular dsl.
I also went through 3 DSL ISP's (even the phone company) over a 2 year period before speakeasy was finanly able to actualy get the install working.
I may be paying higher than most anyone but I will not be draged back to dialup. Ever.
Do not go with LCD, unless power is an issue. They have tubes of their own. The backlight(s) behind the LCD, of which there are between 1-5 do break. And if you are driving over rough train they will break even faster.
What is your definition of cheap for these buttons?
where can you find readers for $50?
It does not quite reach 300 feet, but it might work and its only $50. The site is http://www.pcliquidator.com/wirelesslankit.htm , I have bought other things from them before and been happy.
:)
BTW: no I do not work for them, nor am I related in any way that I know of.
Thanks, I appreciate the correction.
The short answer is: no. Basicaly if you do not make money on a deal, you can not write that money off on your taxes. At least that is how guru.com explains it.
there is a sight that does exactly this. it is at http://www.brightmail.com/ I use it on my primary account and it works very well. It does have a slight learning curve (i.e. it catches "spam" that is acutaly mailing lists.) but onece you train it to ignore those items it works like a charm.
I would assume that a major reason is that it may be usable for college credit. Also people tend to look at self learnging as inferior to "proffesionaly led, instructional training".
I find it funny that now day's people assume that if a gun is brought to school it is for the purpose of harming another. As late as 1970 many Highschools in this country had a shooting team. Wow, a state sponsored, fire arms awarness club. What a thought. And you know what is better yet? Members of the school shooting club where encouraged to bring their riffles and amunition to school with them. (that's right I said they brought a gun and the ammo to use it to school).
I ask you how many storys to you remember from any time prior to 1950 where anyone walked into a school and started shooting. I don't remember any. Why is there this quadry? At that time kid's brought guns to school, and where tought two things, to use the guns safely and responsabily, and disipline, yet there where no shootings with armed kids walking arround school. Now we have zero tolarance rules that allow things like a 10 year old being expeled from school because she had a 10 inch chain connectin her walet to her tweaty bird key chain. Kid's afraid to come to school. Guns are universaly considered "bad".
What changed? The schools, the kids, society?
I don't know, but I do know that gun's are not the problem, not are kids. The problem is a system that does not require accountability, responsability, or even reasonability (now there is a rare concept).
What do you think?
Post a response (please no flaims about how guns are evil).
Actualy, that is not true. Your caller ID block does not work with 911, toll free numbers (800, 877, 866, etc), and 900#'s.
Don't believe me? E-Mail me at root@TechKnowWizards.com and I will respond with my 800 number, call it and I will email you the phone number you called from.
As a mater of fact you do not violate the law by opening the MS program. In some country's there is no copy right (or any other kind of protection) for (so called) Trade Secrets.
That means if a foreign native (say of China) opened the file (in China) and post's the information no law has been broken. That foreign native is not liable to abritrary US law.
As to copy rights (or any other kind of rights), you can not take over a public standard and copy right it. It is the equivalent of me buying a copy of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, changing one leter and copy righting it as my own. Actualy in the US I believe that you can not even create derived works baised on someone elses book, let alone copyright and sell that derived work. (Don't believe me? Try writing a derivative of the Dune series and see what happens to you.) Why does that not apply to published (non microsoft) computer protocols?
No, No, No. That was the football team, not a cult. Nevermind that they plan, plot and scheme (with the help of a teacher!) to hurt and maime others (on school time, and with school funds!). After all, they do it all in the name of organized sports and under the auspices of the School, so it must be OK.....
This is the .ch domain? Then what ever company has licensed the right to register the .ch domains form the (suisse?) will make a discision. NSI is only good for .com, .net, .org. we seem to keep forgeting that NSI is not the God of the network naming bussness. They controll a very small number of potential domains.
So IBM shows NSI a type writen leter "from" you, postmarked your city, offering the domain name for sale. OR they show an email that "you" sent to them offering the site for sale.
;)] then you will know how easy it is to forge an email. You would then be left in the possition of proving that you did NOT send the email, a nearly impossible task. As to the paper form, anyone can send the leter, from your town, using your return address, and then YOU have to prove that you did not do it. That is why the system you proposed is not a good one. It only works in a totaly lawfull society. Not to say that all big busness is corrupt, but if a mid level buricrat saves his company even a half a million dollers in legal fees, then he will very probably be looking forward to a significant promotion. Not that all busness are crooks, but it only takes one crooked man or woman to realy ruin your day!
If you know anything about the internet [and I am assuming you do, and that you just did not think of this angle, because you have an honest mind