except the tool would probably be made available to the mass market, you just won't be able to go to your local autozone and purchase one. on my car i need a special tool to screw my rear brake piston in if i ever want to do work on the brakes. luckily instead of being forced to go to my dealer and paying insane prices, i can just buy the tool (or a clone) and do the work myself.
I live in Norfolk, VA but grew up in NJ and frequently went to NYC. If anyone that grew up down here tried to drive in the city (as one of my friends wanted to do in my new car when we visited new york..), I would not expect them to last very long before they got into an accident. It will probably anger them more when they find out they are at fault solely because they are out of state.
You are thinking of Windows XP, Windows 2000 comes with Media Player 6.2 (or.3). Installing PowerDVD (or any other dvd player software) gives that version no advantage in playing DVDs. Windows Media Player 7, 8 and 9 on the otherhand do have the feature that you mention.
Those bastards closed my account back in 1998 saying I was spamming and 'using illegal warez tools' on their shell server (I wasn't, and they never showed me proof...). Ever since then I have not looked at nac in high regard.
MSN Messeneger -> Preferences -> Uncheck launch MSN messenger with windows. I don't see it running on my machine anymore. I could remove it, but its only going to free up 3mb of space max (when i really really really need that 3mb of space i'll know where to recover it). So I don't see what the big deal is. oh wait its slashdot.
I usually set 4 alarms in my room, one on on my computer (Winamp Alarm, very good when used with a song that builds up its loudness like Massive Attack - Angel), one on my cell phone (which has an alarm that sounds like my bosses ring), and two alarm clocks.
I set my computer to go off first at a loud volume which makes me get up quickly to turn it off. About 5 minutes later one of my alarm clocks go off followed nearly immediately by the other one in case I turn off the first alarm in my sleep. Usually I will be awake by now, but if I am going to be late I have my backup alarm on my cell phone go off. This usually scareshocks me into waking up (because who wants their boss calling them to say a critical service is down when you're supposed to be at work?). And that is my morning.. everyday..
Why not use FreeBSD instead of redhat? My home gateway has been a 486-33 with 32megs of ram since 97 running FreeBSD with natd. I have never had a problem with gamespy refreshing servers (in fact I have had on numerous occasions three machines refreshing servers with gamespy at once).
Point being, you can do some insanely cooler things with very little hardware and FreeBSD. But i'm probably going to be modded as flaimbait.
except in most states you cannot get a ticket without a cop visually estimating your speed. now they can still sit on the side, clock you and say yea i thought she/he was going xxx mph. unless the cop is at an angle where it is hard to determine that then you generally cannot contest it.
an interesting note is that the chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel has radar stations every 5 or so miles which clock the speed of motorists as they pass. you can speed past these stations as fast as you want, but the base station will know that there is a car speeding and they can send a state trooper out to pull you over (after they have clocked you.. and they usually sit hidden by the tunnel entrance or in an emergency pull off spot). i know this because i have done extensive testing on the bridge (i haven't been pulled over, but i coerced another car into speeding down the bridge and HE got pulled over:)
we used to max out our cable modems at 10mbit/sec when rcn first deployed cable modems in our town. it was insane. then after nearly 3 months of unusable internet service they put a cap on our modems of slightly above 3mbit/sec. soon after i went to college, when I came back we were blessed with 1.5mbit 2-way modems (it was cable down, analog up before). all this time we only paid $40/mo for the modem and service and were allowed to do whatever we want except run an open proxy/relay. It was a shame when they left our town a few months ago:(
get winamp5, its the best of winamp2 (everything) and the best of winamp3 (skin support). it even supports plugins for 2 and 3. won't fix the codec problem discussed here though..
I presume its an attempt to kill FAT, maybe because MS found some hideous flaw in it they do not want responsibility for.
And I presume you have never looked at the FAT specs because FAT itself is a hideous flaw. I believe the only reason why all media comes preformatted is because FAT is only filesystem that all operating systems can read natively without any special third party addons.
But.. could you connect to a remote modem using your voice? I was able to connect to other modems at 14.4k but could only have remote modems connect to me at 2400 baud. Yea, I was a geek when I was a kid...
alas you are only a teenager and you have yet to learn what 'the real world' is really like. in 'the real world' you can't read info on SCO's fradulent actions at the expensive of someone else. in 'the real world' you may find sites you need to access blocked while you are away from home. of course not everywhere in 'the real world' is like that, but just because you think you know more than the smartass admin doesn't mean he has to go out of his way and adjust his work to satisfy you
Once upon a time I was developing stuff for the Diamond Stealth S220 (rendition verte 2200 chipset) for BeOS. A developer found my random postings about my driver and contacted me asking to develop for XFree86. I sent a response to the developers and never heard a thing back from them. I think this is the real reason why X still sucks after years of development. After reading Harry's post, I agree with his actions..
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The grandfather poster is a Theif. That was actually Andrew's post to amazon. We can all mod him to -1 now kthx
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except the tool would probably be made available to the mass market, you just won't be able to go to your local autozone and purchase one. on my car i need a special tool to screw my rear brake piston in if i ever want to do work on the brakes. luckily instead of being forced to go to my dealer and paying insane prices, i can just buy the tool (or a clone) and do the work myself.
-dk
Extended reading on data communication over power lines
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I live in Norfolk, VA but grew up in NJ and frequently went to NYC. If anyone that grew up down here tried to drive in the city (as one of my friends wanted to do in my new car when we visited new york..), I would not expect them to last very long before they got into an accident. It will probably anger them more when they find out they are at fault solely because they are out of state.
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And don't get me started about boston drivers.
You are thinking of Windows XP, Windows 2000 comes with Media Player 6.2 (or .3). Installing PowerDVD (or any other dvd player software) gives that version no advantage in playing DVDs. Windows Media Player 7, 8 and 9 on the otherhand do have the feature that you mention.
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GOOGLE LINK
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Win2k does not have a DVD player.
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I found an easier way to get around most (not all) captcha's. Using your imagination, i'm sure you can figure out what I did :-)
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Those bastards closed my account back in 1998 saying I was spamming and 'using illegal warez tools' on their shell server (I wasn't, and they never showed me proof...). Ever since then I have not looked at nac in high regard.
-dk
MSN Messeneger -> Preferences -> Uncheck launch MSN messenger with windows. I don't see it running on my machine anymore. I could remove it, but its only going to free up 3mb of space max (when i really really really need that 3mb of space i'll know where to recover it). So I don't see what the big deal is. oh wait its slashdot.
-dk
You are forgetting they run the slave servers as well.
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I usually set 4 alarms in my room, one on on my computer (Winamp Alarm, very good when used with a song that builds up its loudness like Massive Attack - Angel), one on my cell phone (which has an alarm that sounds like my bosses ring), and two alarm clocks.
:-(
I set my computer to go off first at a loud volume which makes me get up quickly to turn it off. About 5 minutes later one of my alarm clocks go off followed nearly immediately by the other one in case I turn off the first alarm in my sleep. Usually I will be awake by now, but if I am going to be late I have my backup alarm on my cell phone go off. This usually scareshocks me into waking up (because who wants their boss calling them to say a critical service is down when you're supposed to be at work?). And that is my morning.. everyday..
-dk
PS. I slept through all of my alarms today
Why not use FreeBSD instead of redhat? My home gateway has been a 486-33 with 32megs of ram since 97 running FreeBSD with natd. I have never had a problem with gamespy refreshing servers (in fact I have had on numerous occasions three machines refreshing servers with gamespy at once).
Point being, you can do some insanely cooler things with very little hardware and FreeBSD. But i'm probably going to be modded as flaimbait.
functional smp comes to mind...
-dk
except in most states you cannot get a ticket without a cop visually estimating your speed. now they can still sit on the side, clock you and say yea i thought she/he was going xxx mph. unless the cop is at an angle where it is hard to determine that then you generally cannot contest it.
:)
an interesting note is that the chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel has radar stations every 5 or so miles which clock the speed of motorists as they pass. you can speed past these stations as fast as you want, but the base station will know that there is a car speeding and they can send a state trooper out to pull you over (after they have clocked you.. and they usually sit hidden by the tunnel entrance or in an emergency pull off spot). i know this because i have done extensive testing on the bridge (i haven't been pulled over, but i coerced another car into speeding down the bridge and HE got pulled over
-dk
we used to max out our cable modems at 10mbit/sec when rcn first deployed cable modems in our town. it was insane. then after nearly 3 months of unusable internet service they put a cap on our modems of slightly above 3mbit/sec. soon after i went to college, when I came back we were blessed with 1.5mbit 2-way modems (it was cable down, analog up before). all this time we only paid $40/mo for the modem and service and were allowed to do whatever we want except run an open proxy/relay. It was a shame when they left our town a few months ago :(
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I told you so.
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Thanks for the funny mod, but It really does exist
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get winamp5, its the best of winamp2 (everything) and the best of winamp3 (skin support). it even supports plugins for 2 and 3. won't fix the codec problem discussed here though..
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chmod 700 /var/yp
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I presume its an attempt to kill FAT, maybe because MS found some hideous flaw in it they do not want responsibility for.
And I presume you have never looked at the FAT specs because FAT itself is a hideous flaw. I believe the only reason why all media comes preformatted is because FAT is only filesystem that all operating systems can read natively without any special third party addons.
-dk
But.. could you connect to a remote modem using your voice? I was able to connect to other modems at 14.4k but could only have remote modems connect to me at 2400 baud. Yea, I was a geek when I was a kid...
-dk
no digital cable? and you call yourself a geek...
-dk
alas you are only a teenager and you have yet to learn what 'the real world' is really like. in 'the real world' you can't read info on SCO's fradulent actions at the expensive of someone else. in 'the real world' you may find sites you need to access blocked while you are away from home. of course not everywhere in 'the real world' is like that, but just because you think you know more than the smartass admin doesn't mean he has to go out of his way and adjust his work to satisfy you
-dk
Once upon a time I was developing stuff for the Diamond Stealth S220 (rendition verte 2200 chipset) for BeOS. A developer found my random postings about my driver and contacted me asking to develop for XFree86. I sent a response to the developers and never heard a thing back from them. I think this is the real reason why X still sucks after years of development. After reading Harry's post, I agree with his actions..
-dk