The problem is that you have your contrast and brightness turned up too high. Probably because you needed to compenstate for the stupid defacto standard of black on white. Black text on a light background is perfect for paper. A monitor is not paper.
Any house with 2, 3, or more probably has at least one person in it who knows about security.
I'll take that wager too.
Unfortunately I know of more then a few households with multiple computers that were no better off then houses with single computers. In some cases it was worst because they were useing WiFi without so much as wep enabled. In most cases the computer salesmen had sold them on the idea that "They didn't have to worry because of the firewall." As a result I was there to remove the spam bots and spyware.
I don't see how IPv6 will affect the zoombie computer problem one way or the other.
Just when you started getting bored of all the movie remakes, now Hollywood is pillaging older movies for games. I think part of the problem is the current copyright craziness. It is easy and low risk to buy solid rights to an old movie. The higher risk alternative is to develop an idependant game or movie and get sued out of existance, because the game or movie might slightly resemble some old movie that nobody but the lawyers care about.
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give 'em all a year or two to retune
This is not a simple process. In some cases it is basically impossible. Many of the transmitters are hand tuned devices hardwired to a specific frequency. When it comes to TV many stations are using 20 and 30 year old (and older) transmitters. Legacy problems like this exist all over the spectrum. The frequency bands do need to be reallocated, but who is going to foot the huge bill?
I switch from coffee to boring tea. I went from one day drinking three cups of coffee to the next day drinking a similar ammont of tea. There is a chemical in tea that is similar to caffine, but not nearly as strong. The tea prevented the headaches. I was able to quit tea cold turkey after about a week. Now I drink a lot of water instead. I think drinking water is a psycological depedancy.
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If you are taking 3 or 4 beer a night to sleep, you have a health problem. You could be an alcoholic, or just an insomniac. One beer before trying to sleep is too many.
There is some controversy regarding naps. Some research suggests that humans should take a 2 hour nap in late afternoon. And take a long 8 hour sleep at night. The 2 hour nap is problematic. Most of us are working at that time.
Personally some of the best sleep I ever had was durring university. I would usually have a nap after class, waking up at 5 for supper.
Several posts have listed the standard best practices:
reduce caffine intake
exercise
change in diet
regular schedule
A regular sleep schedule is deffinately the most important. However if making those changes do not help then you should book time with a doctor. Some people suffer from hard core insomnia and will require a little help to get back on track. Some times insomnia is a symtom of a larger problem. At any rate lack of sleep will cause many other health problems.
There have been some posts suggesting various "home brew" remedies. I caution against taking any of those. Some, like alcohol, are dentremental to proper sleep. Others, such as many of the herbals, do work, but if your insomina is only a symptom of a larger problem the home brew remedy could complicate the problem. Especially if the problem is a hermone or chemical imbalance. Generally once insomniacs get their sleep patterns under control they only have to take a sleeping pill (or similar) infrequently. If a person has to take something every night to sleep then they deffinately need to see a doctor. Preferably a sleep specialist.
The Internet is packed full of information on sleeping disorders. Good information can be found from several respected organizations. If you go to a doctor it is always good to research what they are telling you.
This is well known and most people experience it. For most people it is two hours after your usuall sleep time. Some researchers refer to it as "dead time."
Research has found that alcohol induced sleep (even if just one beer) is not as good as real sleep. The alcohol prevents your brain from going into a deep REM sleep.
because RS-232 requires both positive and negative relative to ground... somethign like +/- 24v
I thought that the old official spec was +/- 18v or more up to 24v. RS-232 is one of the more abused specs. Since the first PC clone the unofficial spec has been +/- 12v, as that is all the power supply provides. More recently the unofficial spec has been +/- 8v. Now most devices will accept +/- 5v. As you mentioned some devices will even work with TTL levels.
TTL to RS-232 converstion is pretty easy. If you aren't interested in putting a few BJTs together Maxxim (and others) makes a single chip solution. I think you can even get one that runs off of 5v and ground.
Despite cries to the contrary, players have been asking for longer games. I have read a few reviews (by gamers) that have rated a game as "high quality, but a little short." It is not just the impatient players asking for longer games either. Even those who intend to replay the game have been wishing for longer games. It may be only a minority of players complaining, but the developers are listening. As result there have also been complaints of repetition: "There may be 60 hours of gameplay, but you have seen everything after the first 10."
it's just a different way of configuring a firewall.
Maybe for home users. Any good firewall blocks all packets (traveling in any direction) by default. The better packet filtering docs for Linux or BSD all start with default deny rules. Any sane company with a firewall will only allow a few outgoing ports.
This is a really tough question. $3500/year is inexpensive compared to many other operating expenses. The big question is: Does the policy provide any real protection? I have seen a few policies and the list of exception cases was greater then what was actually covered. Even in the event of a real claim there were enough loop holes that it was unlikely that Insurance agency would pay out. Loop holes such as vague descriptions of "proper procedures and safeguards." I have yet to see a policy that properly protects data. Part of the problem is that it is very hard to assign value to data. What is the value of a customer list? You have to compare the new policy to existing policies. Is there any overlap?
Every company is different. In order to determine if such a policy is good for your company you are going to have to read the policy fine print and asses if the policy protects against real threats to your bussiness.
If you are looking to backup data in the 5GB range a DVD burner is a good option. As required create and verify two discs. Store one disc locally and mail the second disc to your mother. You will gain the benefit of an offsite backup, and would it kill you to write a letter to your mother more often?
when SGI aquired Cray in 1996, SGI also aquired the T3E running Unicos on 2048 processors. The Origin 2000 ran IRIX on 128 processors in 1997 and later 512 in 1999 IIRC. ASCI Blue Mountain (1998) was a 6144 processor machine based on the same tech as the Origin 2000. I do not know if this machine runs a single image of IRIX, but I believe it does.
SGI has been playing in this NUMA market ever since they bought Cray about a decade ago. The T3 had a similar number of Alpha processors. The current Origin scales to 1024 MIPS processors. I believe both systems ran IRIX. The T3 may have used UNICOS. The point is the only thing new here is Linux on a 1024 processors. And even then SGI already has a 256 Itanium Linux system.
There is no chunk of DNA that determines race. There is a study that found that the DNA variance amount a particular race was just as great as the variance amoung all humans. Given the DNA of a random group of people you would not be able to sort the individual DNA according to race. The study went on to show that given a random white guy, their DNA was just as likely to more similar to a random black guy's then to another random white guy's DNA.
This is akin to trying to determine what a house will look like when all you are shown is a big pile of lumber.
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The problem is that you have your contrast and brightness turned up too high. Probably because you needed to compenstate for the stupid defacto standard of black on white. Black text on a light background is perfect for paper. A monitor is not paper.
Any house with 2, 3, or more probably has at least one person in it who knows about security.
I'll take that wager too.
Unfortunately I know of more then a few households with multiple computers that were no better off then houses with single computers. In some cases it was worst because they were useing WiFi without so much as wep enabled. In most cases the computer salesmen had sold them on the idea that "They didn't have to worry because of the firewall." As a result I was there to remove the spam bots and spyware.
I don't see how IPv6 will affect the zoombie computer problem one way or the other.
Just when you started getting bored of all the movie remakes, now Hollywood is pillaging older movies for games. I think part of the problem is the current copyright craziness. It is easy and low risk to buy solid rights to an old movie. The higher risk alternative is to develop an idependant game or movie and get sued out of existance, because the game or movie might slightly resemble some old movie that nobody but the lawyers care about.
give 'em all a year or two to retune
This is not a simple process. In some cases it is basically impossible. Many of the transmitters are hand tuned devices hardwired to a specific frequency. When it comes to TV many stations are using 20 and 30 year old (and older) transmitters. Legacy problems like this exist all over the spectrum. The frequency bands do need to be reallocated, but who is going to foot the huge bill?
From what we know, there's no downside.
Do you hear that? It is all of Australia laughing.
What a beutiful flame. The best part is that the dumb shmuck was modded as insightfull.
As seen on Ars Technica it is legit.
You misunderstand me. I like many a beer, and have rarely turned down a drink. However if you are drinking to go to sleep then you have a problem.
I switch from coffee to boring tea. I went from one day drinking three cups of coffee to the next day drinking a similar ammont of tea. There is a chemical in tea that is similar to caffine, but not nearly as strong. The tea prevented the headaches. I was able to quit tea cold turkey after about a week. Now I drink a lot of water instead. I think drinking water is a psycological depedancy.
If you are taking 3 or 4 beer a night to sleep, you have a health problem. You could be an alcoholic, or just an insomniac. One beer before trying to sleep is too many.
Don't nap.
There is some controversy regarding naps. Some research suggests that humans should take a 2 hour nap in late afternoon. And take a long 8 hour sleep at night. The 2 hour nap is problematic. Most of us are working at that time.
Personally some of the best sleep I ever had was durring university. I would usually have a nap after class, waking up at 5 for supper.
reduce caffine intake
exercise
change in diet
regular schedule
A regular sleep schedule is deffinately the most important. However if making those changes do not help then you should book time with a doctor. Some people suffer from hard core insomnia and will require a little help to get back on track. Some times insomnia is a symtom of a larger problem. At any rate lack of sleep will cause many other health problems.
There have been some posts suggesting various "home brew" remedies. I caution against taking any of those. Some, like alcohol, are dentremental to proper sleep. Others, such as many of the herbals, do work, but if your insomina is only a symptom of a larger problem the home brew remedy could complicate the problem. Especially if the problem is a hermone or chemical imbalance. Generally once insomniacs get their sleep patterns under control they only have to take a sleeping pill (or similar) infrequently. If a person has to take something every night to sleep then they deffinately need to see a doctor. Preferably a sleep specialist.
The Internet is packed full of information on sleeping disorders. Good information can be found from several respected organizations. If you go to a doctor it is always good to research what they are telling you.
If I don't go to bed then, I'll magically refresh
This is well known and most people experience it. For most people it is two hours after your usuall sleep time. Some researchers refer to it as "dead time."
Research has found that alcohol induced sleep (even if just one beer) is not as good as real sleep. The alcohol prevents your brain from going into a deep REM sleep.
You should get a perscription for a real sleeping pill.
because RS-232 requires both positive and negative relative to ground ... somethign like +/- 24v
I thought that the old official spec was +/- 18v or more up to 24v. RS-232 is one of the more abused specs. Since the first PC clone the unofficial spec has been +/- 12v, as that is all the power supply provides. More recently the unofficial spec has been +/- 8v. Now most devices will accept +/- 5v. As you mentioned some devices will even work with TTL levels.
TTL to RS-232 converstion is pretty easy. If you aren't interested in putting a few BJTs together Maxxim (and others) makes a single chip solution. I think you can even get one that runs off of 5v and ground.
Despite cries to the contrary, players have been asking for longer games. I have read a few reviews (by gamers) that have rated a game as "high quality, but a little short." It is not just the impatient players asking for longer games either. Even those who intend to replay the game have been wishing for longer games. It may be only a minority of players complaining, but the developers are listening. As result there have also been complaints of repetition: "There may be 60 hours of gameplay, but you have seen everything after the first 10."
Does this not directly violate the paragraph 6 of the GPL?
there's tons of companies out there with a wildcard accept+NAT rule down at the bottom of their outgoing policy.
:-)
I am sure there are. Those firewalls would not classify as "any good firewall."
it's just a different way of configuring a firewall.
Maybe for home users. Any good firewall blocks all packets (traveling in any direction) by default. The better packet filtering docs for Linux or BSD all start with default deny rules. Any sane company with a firewall will only allow a few outgoing ports.
The correct term is egress filtering.
This is a really tough question. $3500/year is inexpensive compared to many other operating expenses. The big question is: Does the policy provide any real protection? I have seen a few policies and the list of exception cases was greater then what was actually covered. Even in the event of a real claim there were enough loop holes that it was unlikely that Insurance agency would pay out. Loop holes such as vague descriptions of "proper procedures and safeguards." I have yet to see a policy that properly protects data. Part of the problem is that it is very hard to assign value to data. What is the value of a customer list? You have to compare the new policy to existing policies. Is there any overlap?
Every company is different. In order to determine if such a policy is good for your company you are going to have to read the policy fine print and asses if the policy protects against real threats to your bussiness.
If you are looking to backup data in the 5GB range a DVD burner is a good option. As required create and verify two discs. Store one disc locally and mail the second disc to your mother. You will gain the benefit of an offsite backup, and would it kill you to write a letter to your mother more often?
when SGI aquired Cray in 1996, SGI also aquired the T3E running Unicos on 2048 processors. The Origin 2000 ran IRIX on 128 processors in 1997 and later 512 in 1999 IIRC. ASCI Blue Mountain (1998) was a 6144 processor machine based on the same tech as the Origin 2000. I do not know if this machine runs a single image of IRIX, but I believe it does.
SGI has been playing in this NUMA market ever since they bought Cray about a decade ago. The T3 had a similar number of Alpha processors. The current Origin scales to 1024 MIPS processors. I believe both systems ran IRIX. The T3 may have used UNICOS. The point is the only thing new here is Linux on a 1024 processors. And even then SGI already has a 256 Itanium Linux system.
There is no chunk of DNA that determines race. There is a study that found that the DNA variance amount a particular race was just as great as the variance amoung all humans. Given the DNA of a random group of people you would not be able to sort the individual DNA according to race. The study went on to show that given a random white guy, their DNA was just as likely to more similar to a random black guy's then to another random white guy's DNA.
This is akin to trying to determine what a house will look like when all you are shown is a big pile of lumber.