> Seagate's pushbutton drive is capable of storing all of the following, combined: a 25-DVD movie collection, 15,000-song music collection, 15,00-photo image library, 50-hours worth of video, and 50 computer games, with 300GB left over
Bah, these measurements tell me nothing. How many Libraries Of Congress can I store on this thing?! That's what I need to know!
> the average UK house Your description is of an old cat-lady's house, not the average UK house.
> there are cables going between the TV/Computers/Hifi Those are hazards for people too. Secure them to the crack where the wall and floor meet where possible. Tape them down elsewhere.
> there's an area around the birdcage that needs extra work as it won't clean on the first pass My Roomba can detect dirt. A little blue 'dirt detected' LED comes on and it switches to a spiral "spot" pattern until the area is clean. Then again, ew. Put down some paper under the birdcage. I don't suppose you have dog droppings laying around the flat too?
> There's the a discarded coke bottle that needs picking up So pick it up. Your mother doesn't live with you does she? Roomba won't pick up your dirty clothes from all over the floor either. Nor that week old tuna fish sandwich behind the couch.
> Not to mention the hallway is too narrow for the roomba If it's too narrow for the Roomba then it's WAY too narrow for people to navigate. I suggest you change your designation of that area from 'hallway' to 'closet'. It's easier than removing the clutter.
That was a neat video, but ultimately I was dissapointed when the gnat crawling on the right-side electrode never crawled into the circuit to get zapped.
>..."principles"... >..."principals", a word that shares its derivation with "prince"...
Aaaaaugh! Oh God! Oh God! Make it stop! I know what you want me to say! DO IT TO HER! DO IT TO HER! DO IT TO THE ONE I LOVE! Correct HER spelling! Just don't correct my spelling anymore!
Of course I will remove this sig if it offends any officials in the NSA, FBI, CIA, Executive, Judicial, or Legislative branches, the military, the police, local government, Freemasons, Royal Order of the Moose lodge, the school principle, or any other entity who may view this message via Carnivore, DCS-1000, Echelon, or any other eavesdropping program.
> a site that might pop up in searches for Barbie dolls or Teletubbies but actually features sexually explicit photographs
However, if the site featured Barbie dolls having sex with Teletubbies, then popping up in searches for Barbie dolls and Teletubbies would be perfectly appropriate.
Come on you Einsteinian caveman! Clearly the sending terminal is quantumly entangled with the receiving terminal, thus providing the key via spooky-action-at-a-distance(tm).
> The chair I use is from 1960 has a steel metal frame and is quite comfy. The other advantage is I can throw it down a flight of stairs and still use it.
So tell me more about these cracked warez, those MP3s, those brand new Hollywood movies, that child porn, and those terrorist plans you intercepted... Are you messenging me on AT&T? I don't know you. Who is this? Don't come here, I'm closing the window! Prank caller, prank caller!
Doesn't anyone at the RIAA understand that they are creating a class of people who will go to great lengths to see them destroyed? You can be assured there will be teams of very smart very angry people making sure no DRM the RIAA *ever* creates will go un-cracked for longer than a few months. These smart angry people will come up with clever unstoppable ways to distribute music for free, even if it's illegal.
> Don't connect to the network > Don't connect to the network > Don't connect to the network
Isn't working behind a NAT router just as effective?
> Point your My Documents folder to the place your datafiles are.
That takes care of my documents, but what about all my application preferences, Outlook's database, my bookmarks ("favorites"), etc. All stored in Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data, etc. I have found no easy way to move the entire Documents and Settings tree or just a user's tree to another place - besides searching the entire registry for the directory and changing it anywhere you find it, and hoping. Has anyone tried making a "junction point" (like a symbolic link) at Documents And Settings/<user> to another partition?
> about 20 minutes per PC to restore them to working condition
That's without any applications, or with an unchanging set of applications. Add much more time to install or upgrade tens of applications.
I didn't have the foresight to make a Ghost image of my system from the factory. It's a DELL and the restore-to-factory-from-secret-hidden-partition doesn't work once I added a new partition to the drive (with Partition Magic). So now it looks like I have to: 1. Make sure I have up to date backups of my data (always a good idea) 2. Purchase another copy of Windows even though I already paid for one 3. Dig through my records collecting all the keys to all my applications 4. Spend an entire day reinstalling Windows and all my applications. Anyone who says it only takes an hour to reinstall Windows must have a secret version I don't have access to. I have to babysit the install through ten reboots and many hours.
Is this the best way?!
What about after that? I can Ghost the Windows partition, but I'd still have to reinstall any applications installed after the Ghost was made. And it's no use putting the applications in another partition because the applications depend on cruft in the registry.
>> A fancy full flash dinamic website could be far less harder to find than a plain ugly mostly text website > Your post could be far less harder to read.
Hey, the parent poster was raised by wolves, you insensitive clod!
> Once you add removeability in the equation the cost of backup to disk for disaster (offsite or fire safe) recovery is much higher than tape.
An external IDE case with USB 2.0 and Firewire ports is about $50 at CompuUSA. Now explain to me how adding 'removeability' to the equation makes disk much more expensive than tape?
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> rather than risk loosing site for life
> I would much rather loose appendages or other sensory organs
It looks like it's too late to save your spelling organ.
Is this what you were looking for?
> it had a hero battling with himself, discovering the truth about his path and his very existence, his identity. Think "Fight Club" and "Memento."
... hey that's pretty...
The main character in Memento never did discover any truth about his self. At least not for longer than
> How about Megabs?
Are those 6 minute MegaAbs?
> Seagate's pushbutton drive is capable of storing all of the following, combined: a 25-DVD movie collection, 15,000-song music collection, 15,00-photo image library, 50-hours worth of video, and 50 computer games, with 300GB left over
Bah, these measurements tell me nothing.
How many Libraries Of Congress can I store on this thing?! That's what I need to know!
> the average UK house
Your description is of an old cat-lady's house, not the average UK house.
> there are cables going between the TV/Computers/Hifi
Those are hazards for people too. Secure them to the crack where the wall and floor meet where possible. Tape them down elsewhere.
> there's an area around the birdcage that needs extra work as it won't clean on the first pass
My Roomba can detect dirt. A little blue 'dirt detected' LED comes on and it switches to a spiral "spot" pattern until the area is clean.
Then again, ew. Put down some paper under the birdcage. I don't suppose you have dog droppings laying around the flat too?
> There's the a discarded coke bottle that needs picking up
So pick it up. Your mother doesn't live with you does she? Roomba won't pick up your dirty clothes from all over the floor either. Nor that week old tuna fish sandwich behind the couch.
> Not to mention the hallway is too narrow for the roomba
If it's too narrow for the Roomba then it's WAY too narrow for people to navigate. I suggest you change your designation of that area from 'hallway' to 'closet'. It's easier than removing the clutter.
That was a neat video, but ultimately I was dissapointed when the gnat crawling on the right-side electrode never crawled into the circuit to get zapped.
> ..."principles"... ..."principals", a word that shares its derivation with "prince"...
>
Aaaaaugh! Oh God! Oh God! Make it stop! I know what you want me to say! DO IT TO HER! DO IT TO HER! DO IT TO THE ONE I LOVE! Correct HER spelling! Just don't correct my spelling anymore!
Oh.... what have I done... I've been broken...
Haha! Thank you for my new sig.
Of course I will remove this sig if it offends any officials in the NSA, FBI, CIA, Executive, Judicial, or Legislative branches, the military, the police, local government, Freemasons, Royal Order of the Moose lodge, the school principle, or any other entity who may view this message via Carnivore, DCS-1000, Echelon, or any other eavesdropping program.
This can navigate stairs?!
Don't let the Daleks get a hold of this or we don't stand a chance against them!
It wouldn't be difficult to impliment a better authentication scheme than passwords, without the cost of smart-cards or biometrics.
Just use Challenge/Response. Have a simple little app that takes a password, a challenge text, and generates a response text.
When logging in instead of asking 'Username:', 'Password:' the system would ask 'Username:', 'If I said 'xyz' what would you say:'
The user enters the challenge text into his little app, and the response is put right into the copy/paste buffer.
The user's password is never sent across any network.
> a site that might pop up in searches for Barbie dolls or Teletubbies but actually features sexually explicit photographs
However, if the site featured Barbie dolls having sex with Teletubbies, then popping up in searches for Barbie dolls and Teletubbies would be perfectly appropriate.
> how is the key shared with the end terminal?
Come on you Einsteinian caveman! Clearly the sending terminal is quantumly entangled with the receiving terminal, thus providing the key via spooky-action-at-a-distance(tm).
>He has a mansion and a yacht
Heh. I get that reference, now can you get this one?
And a string a po-lopo-nies.
> The chair I use is from 1960 has a steel metal frame and is quite comfy. The other advantage is I can throw it down a flight of stairs and still use it.
Steve? Steve Ballmer, is that you?
So tell me more about these cracked warez, those MP3s, those brand new Hollywood movies, that child porn, and those terrorist plans you intercepted...
Are you messenging me on AT&T? I don't know you. Who is this? Don't come here, I'm closing the window! Prank caller, prank caller!
Doesn't anyone at the RIAA understand that they are creating a class of people who will go to great lengths to see them destroyed?
You can be assured there will be teams of very smart very angry people making sure no DRM the RIAA *ever* creates will go un-cracked for longer than a few months. These smart angry people will come up with clever unstoppable ways to distribute music for free, even if it's illegal.
I'm not saying its right. But that is the effect.
> Don't connect to the network
> Don't connect to the network
> Don't connect to the network
Isn't working behind a NAT router just as effective?
> Point your My Documents folder to the place your datafiles are.
That takes care of my documents, but what about all my application preferences, Outlook's database, my bookmarks ("favorites"), etc. All stored in Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data, etc.
I have found no easy way to move the entire Documents and Settings tree or just a user's tree to another place - besides searching the entire registry for the directory and changing it anywhere you find it, and hoping.
Has anyone tried making a "junction point" (like a symbolic link) at Documents And Settings/<user> to another partition?
> about 20 minutes per PC to restore them to working condition
That's without any applications, or with an unchanging set of applications. Add much more time to install or upgrade tens of applications.
How does the ordinary user do this?
I didn't have the foresight to make a Ghost image of my system from the factory. It's a DELL and the restore-to-factory-from-secret-hidden-partition doesn't work once I added a new partition to the drive (with Partition Magic).
So now it looks like I have to:
1. Make sure I have up to date backups of my data (always a good idea)
2. Purchase another copy of Windows even though I already paid for one
3. Dig through my records collecting all the keys to all my applications
4. Spend an entire day reinstalling Windows and all my applications. Anyone who says it only takes an hour to reinstall Windows must have a secret version I don't have access to. I have to babysit the install through ten reboots and many hours.
Is this the best way?!
What about after that? I can Ghost the Windows partition, but I'd still have to reinstall any applications installed after the Ghost was made. And it's no use putting the applications in another partition because the applications depend on cruft in the registry.
> wanting to fill up dead space
Ok, now that's gross. I didn't know necrophilia was that big a problem.
This sounds amazing!
I'll be installing one of these in the dashboard of my flying car later this year when they both come out.
By the way, my car runs on cold fusion.
And the in-dash computer plays Duke Nukem Forever.
"BANG! Howdy."
The hard to find porn flick that Howdy Doodie made early in his career.
>> A fancy full flash dinamic website could be far less harder to find than a plain ugly mostly text website
> Your post could be far less harder to read.
Hey, the parent poster was raised by wolves, you insensitive clod!
> Once you add removeability in the equation the cost of backup to disk for disaster (offsite or fire safe) recovery is much higher than tape.
An external IDE case with USB 2.0 and Firewire ports is about $50 at CompuUSA.
Now explain to me how adding 'removeability' to the equation makes disk much more expensive than tape?
> Mother do you think they'll like this sig?
I'll eat some Karma just to tell you how clever your sig is.
Now I'm playing a big Pink Floyd playlist...