I'm curious. With the newspapers in major trouble right now, if they can't make money on internet offerings and go out of business, will the quality of media decline? The newspapers usually have better reporting than the television news. I'm not a huge fan of the media, but they do have an important purpose in any elected system. Seeing people say they'll never pay for an internet service makes me worry about that.
Motel 6 is horrible. I like to call them "Motel 666". I used to be in a cycling club, and we almost always used Motel 666 when going to races. There wasn't a single trip that year that Motel 666 didn't somehow screw up our reservations, usually in new and creative ways. I assume we kept using them because they were cheap, but I'm not sure it was worth the aggravation. One quick example of the problems we encountered: one time they lost our reservations, so we booked new rooms, then they woke us at 3 a.m. to ask if we still wanted the other rooms after they found the original reservations.
Really? I take 100, 150 pictures in a couple hours if it's an interesting subject. And that doesn't include the obviously bad pictures that I delete immediately. I filled a 512 MB memory card (roughly 170 pictures with my 6 MP DSLR) at one museum last summer, and I nearly filled a 1 GB memory card at another museum a few weeks before that...
Not according to the article: "The program's vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a maliciously crafted Excel file. Then, a hacker could run unauthorized code. Symantec has detected that the exploit can leave a Trojan horse on the infected system, which it calls "Trojan.Mdropper.AC."
That Trojan, which works on PCs running the Vista and XP operating systems, is capable of downloading other malware to the computer."
The report says: "Systems Affected: Windows Vista, Windows XP"
Does it have a memory stick slot? If so you can get the files off it using that. Then you have to figure out how to get them into something you can use, but at least the files will be safe...
I still use my Sony Clie SJ-20 that I bought about 5.5 years ago... I think it has Palm OS 3.0 or 3.1 on it. Works great for what I use it for; I don't carry a laptop or a smart phone. But, yeah, it's a dead platform.
I liked Pinball Construction Set, but since my brother had a real pinball (he still has that game, along with a couple dozen others now), it seemed weak.
Pinball on computer is never quite right. I think the reason is that they don't model the spin of the ball.
They did fix one thing in this version that several people complained about: GE 4.3 for Linux required a certain processor flag (SSE2) that 32 bit AMD processors don't have. Strangely, they did not require it for the Windows version; I was able to use GE 4.3 on this AMD Sempron without a problem under Windows.
Fortunately, GE 5.0 doesn't require that flag under Linux. I'm glad they fixed it, because I wasn't going to upgrade my desktop computer just to run the latest GE. GE 4.3 Linux requirements update.
So it appears the team does listen to feedback. I hope they'll listen to this new concern as well.
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We have achived this moment about 4-5 years ago. Actually, we're already one computer generation past "fast enough" for most office applications.
Exactly. I have a 5-year-old laptop with a Pentium 2.4 gigahertz processor, but even with today's software (latest versions of OO.org, Firefox, Google Earth, etc.) it runs just fine. Sure, a newer computer would be somewhat faster, but this is not "so slow it's painful" like my Pentium 133 was 5 years after I bought it.
It works well enough that I recently put in a larger hard drive and a new battery to keep it useful for the foreseeable future, because I do not intend to replace it until it dies (or until I have all kinds of 'extra' money to blow on a laptop). And I'm seriously considering trying to find someone to pay to get suspend/resume working on it under Linux (I believe it has a quirky BIOS since ACPI was still fairly new back then; BSD was also unable to successfully resume on it).
I watched it on the official website using the Moonlight thing from an earlier Slashdot story. Other than some a/v sync issues (which seemed to be on the server end, because they occasionally fixed it), it worked great, and I watched the entire speech.
Talk about your missed opportunities. One man's decision could have thinned out the chaff from an entire generation. Chaff who probably ended up voting for Bush and McPalin. Ouch.
I was certain this was going to end with, "...probably ended up posting on Slashdot." Oh well.
I need the help desk to install software and fix hardware problems (or, at least, they TRY to fix hardware problems via remote... it doesn't work very well). I should've mentioned it was at work, and the machines are fairly locked down.
It's not that often that they need to remote to my machine, but I don't want to go through 5 minutes of shutting down plus 10 minutes of booting up (yes, I've timed it), plus all the time to restart the applications I was using, when I need to call the help desk.
I used to use Dvorak - did for about 10 years. What made me switch back?
First, I wasn't really any faster with Dvorak than Qwerty.
Second, Windows is messed up. When I had the Dvorak keyboard loaded at work, if I called the help desk and they tried to log into my machine, their typing would come out as though they'd typed Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard - gibberish. I would have to reboot before calling the help desk. There were other weird things, too - if I logged in then changed the keyboard layout, Windows' password prompt would still be whatever the keyboard was when I logged in.
I should have mentioned that I recommended wallet software a couple years back during the annual IT survey. Nothing came of it, of course. So, many people have a list of passwords hanging at their desks. I don't know what the rest of the people do.
At work I have something like 15-18 passwords to deal with, all changeable every 60 days. I use four each day just to log in (although two of them are the same) to my machine. That doesn't include logging into up to three different servers all with different passwords. Add various company portals, document repositories, and web interfaces to things like my personnel data, and it's just too many passwords to remember.
Just about all of these are 60 day intervals, and of course they aren't changing at the same time.
Write them down? The temptation is incredible. I don't want to spend 15-20 minutes on the phone (mostly on hold, waiting for the next available representative) to reset my password every time I need to use a system that I haven't used in a couple weeks. And God help you if you forget your Lotus Notes password.
Why do I mention this? Because the TSA and if the FAA and airlines have their way, private pilots will be history...
This statement doesn't make a lot of sense in light of the fact that the FAA recently made it even easier to get a pilot's license. Granted it's limited, but it IS available and requires only half the time and money compared to a traditional pilot's license.
Actually, I'd like that. My dryer has an automatic dry cycle, so I never know exactly how long it'll run, and the washer and dryer are in a back room that makes the alarms inaudible in the rest of the house (I have to go through the uninsulated garage to get to them, so leaving the doors open isn't an option). Now, I just watch the time and check on them when I think they should be finished, but a text message would be nice.
The parent post shows the precise reason to move to the not-so-brain-dead SI units. First of all, when someone writes "football" on slashdot. Is he referring to what is commonly known as "football" all over the world, i.e. "soccer" or what is commonly referred to all over the world as "american football"?
Even reading the few words in the summary is enough to indicate this is about American football. Unless international football (aka soccer) now has first down lines...which it didn't, at the last game I attended a couple weeks ago.
I like your setup, but I have a question: Have you ever had a card fail? I had a CF card fail a while back, fortunately at write time, not read time, but I figure there's a chance I won't be able to read a card when I get home...which would be very frustrating (but I'm not a pro so it wouldn't be a problem like it would be for you). In my case, the card was a "professional" series (I think Lexar brand), and they replaced it without question and offered data recovery service. On the rare occasion that I buy memory cards, I buy pro-series cards for the lifetime warranty, and I try to spread around to different brands in the hopes of reducing the chances of multiple failures at the same time.
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I'm curious. With the newspapers in major trouble right now, if they can't make money on internet offerings and go out of business, will the quality of media decline? The newspapers usually have better reporting than the television news. I'm not a huge fan of the media, but they do have an important purpose in any elected system. Seeing people say they'll never pay for an internet service makes me worry about that.
If it's not going to crash, I'd say quite a long time.
Motel 6 is horrible. I like to call them "Motel 666". I used to be in a cycling club, and we almost always used Motel 666 when going to races. There wasn't a single trip that year that Motel 666 didn't somehow screw up our reservations, usually in new and creative ways. I assume we kept using them because they were cheap, but I'm not sure it was worth the aggravation. One quick example of the problems we encountered: one time they lost our reservations, so we booked new rooms, then they woke us at 3 a.m. to ask if we still wanted the other rooms after they found the original reservations.
Really? I take 100, 150 pictures in a couple hours if it's an interesting subject. And that doesn't include the obviously bad pictures that I delete immediately. I filled a 512 MB memory card (roughly 170 pictures with my 6 MP DSLR) at one museum last summer, and I nearly filled a 1 GB memory card at another museum a few weeks before that...
R-12 comes to mind.
Not according to the article: "The program's vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a maliciously crafted Excel file. Then, a hacker could run unauthorized code. Symantec has detected that the exploit can leave a Trojan horse on the infected system, which it calls "Trojan.Mdropper.AC."
That Trojan, which works on PCs running the Vista and XP operating systems, is capable of downloading other malware to the computer."
The report says: "Systems Affected: Windows Vista, Windows XP"
It has supposedly been tried. See the infamous "troll investigation" post.
You're comparing different situations. We know NYCL is actually a lawyer. We know nothing about the AC. (And the post is +5 now anyway.)
Does it have a memory stick slot? If so you can get the files off it using that. Then you have to figure out how to get them into something you can use, but at least the files will be safe...
I still use my Sony Clie SJ-20 that I bought about 5.5 years ago... I think it has Palm OS 3.0 or 3.1 on it. Works great for what I use it for; I don't carry a laptop or a smart phone. But, yeah, it's a dead platform.
I liked Pinball Construction Set, but since my brother had a real pinball (he still has that game, along with a couple dozen others now), it seemed weak.
Pinball on computer is never quite right. I think the reason is that they don't model the spin of the ball.
They did fix one thing in this version that several people complained about: GE 4.3 for Linux required a certain processor flag (SSE2) that 32 bit AMD processors don't have. Strangely, they did not require it for the Windows version; I was able to use GE 4.3 on this AMD Sempron without a problem under Windows.
Fortunately, GE 5.0 doesn't require that flag under Linux. I'm glad they fixed it, because I wasn't going to upgrade my desktop computer just to run the latest GE. GE 4.3 Linux requirements update.
So it appears the team does listen to feedback. I hope they'll listen to this new concern as well.
We have achived this moment about 4-5 years ago. Actually, we're already one computer generation past "fast enough" for most office applications.
Exactly. I have a 5-year-old laptop with a Pentium 2.4 gigahertz processor, but even with today's software (latest versions of OO.org, Firefox, Google Earth, etc.) it runs just fine. Sure, a newer computer would be somewhat faster, but this is not "so slow it's painful" like my Pentium 133 was 5 years after I bought it.
It works well enough that I recently put in a larger hard drive and a new battery to keep it useful for the foreseeable future, because I do not intend to replace it until it dies (or until I have all kinds of 'extra' money to blow on a laptop). And I'm seriously considering trying to find someone to pay to get suspend/resume working on it under Linux (I believe it has a quirky BIOS since ACPI was still fairly new back then; BSD was also unable to successfully resume on it).
He did say "many cases", not "all cases".
In my case, DSL was available for $17.99/month, versus $19.99 for dialup. No contract. I've since switched to FIOS, but $17.99 was pretty sweet.
I watched it on the official website using the Moonlight thing from an earlier Slashdot story. Other than some a/v sync issues (which seemed to be on the server end, because they occasionally fixed it), it worked great, and I watched the entire speech.
Talk about your missed opportunities. One man's decision could have thinned out the chaff from an entire generation. Chaff who probably ended up voting for Bush and McPalin. Ouch.
I was certain this was going to end with, "...probably ended up posting on Slashdot." Oh well.
I need the help desk to install software and fix hardware problems (or, at least, they TRY to fix hardware problems via remote... it doesn't work very well). I should've mentioned it was at work, and the machines are fairly locked down.
It's not that often that they need to remote to my machine, but I don't want to go through 5 minutes of shutting down plus 10 minutes of booting up (yes, I've timed it), plus all the time to restart the applications I was using, when I need to call the help desk.
I used to use Dvorak - did for about 10 years. What made me switch back?
First, I wasn't really any faster with Dvorak than Qwerty.
Second, Windows is messed up. When I had the Dvorak keyboard loaded at work, if I called the help desk and they tried to log into my machine, their typing would come out as though they'd typed Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard - gibberish. I would have to reboot before calling the help desk. There were other weird things, too - if I logged in then changed the keyboard layout, Windows' password prompt would still be whatever the keyboard was when I logged in.
The headaches of dealing with it got old.
I should have mentioned that I recommended wallet software a couple years back during the annual IT survey. Nothing came of it, of course. So, many people have a list of passwords hanging at their desks. I don't know what the rest of the people do.
At work I have something like 15-18 passwords to deal with, all changeable every 60 days. I use four each day just to log in (although two of them are the same) to my machine. That doesn't include logging into up to three different servers all with different passwords. Add various company portals, document repositories, and web interfaces to things like my personnel data, and it's just too many passwords to remember.
Just about all of these are 60 day intervals, and of course they aren't changing at the same time.
Write them down? The temptation is incredible. I don't want to spend 15-20 minutes on the phone (mostly on hold, waiting for the next available representative) to reset my password every time I need to use a system that I haven't used in a couple weeks. And God help you if you forget your Lotus Notes password.
Why do I mention this? Because the TSA and if the FAA and airlines have their way, private pilots will be history...
This statement doesn't make a lot of sense in light of the fact that the FAA recently made it even easier to get a pilot's license. Granted it's limited, but it IS available and requires only half the time and money compared to a traditional pilot's license.
Actually, I'd like that. My dryer has an automatic dry cycle, so I never know exactly how long it'll run, and the washer and dryer are in a back room that makes the alarms inaudible in the rest of the house (I have to go through the uninsulated garage to get to them, so leaving the doors open isn't an option). Now, I just watch the time and check on them when I think they should be finished, but a text message would be nice.
The parent post shows the precise reason to move to the not-so-brain-dead SI units. First of all, when someone writes "football" on slashdot. Is he referring to what is commonly known as "football" all over the world, i.e. "soccer" or what is commonly referred to all over the world as "american football"?
Even reading the few words in the summary is enough to indicate this is about American football. Unless international football (aka soccer) now has first down lines...which it didn't, at the last game I attended a couple weeks ago.
I like your setup, but I have a question: Have you ever had a card fail? I had a CF card fail a while back, fortunately at write time, not read time, but I figure there's a chance I won't be able to read a card when I get home...which would be very frustrating (but I'm not a pro so it wouldn't be a problem like it would be for you). In my case, the card was a "professional" series (I think Lexar brand), and they replaced it without question and offered data recovery service. On the rare occasion that I buy memory cards, I buy pro-series cards for the lifetime warranty, and I try to spread around to different brands in the hopes of reducing the chances of multiple failures at the same time.
Really? I used to do this from time to time and never had a problem. See this page on their site.
Like Brandybuck said, with a CD?
Or a USB drive?
Or a network connection?