what connection were you using on the power supply? the 2 pin snap-in plug or the 3 pin cable? I personally have never noticed this issue with the Titanium or the Aluminum Powerbooks using either connection.
You want to know why you are struggling to keep costs down? Your 400 person company has a VP of IS, a Director IT and god knows how many other people in the IT dept!
In the company I work for, the location I am in has 400+ employees, most of them being remote VPN users. Do you know how many people are in the IT dept? One. That would be Me, Myself and I. 75% of my day is spent twiddling my thumbs reading Slashdot and Digg while waiting for the occasional trouble call. Loading and managing Firefox across all of my systems would not use one penny of my budget. Ever heard of imaging and roaming profiles?
My systems stay up, my users do not and can not load their systems with crap even though EVERYONE is local Admin and I administer all laptops, desktops, servers and warehouse control systems with ease.
there are MANY more sports channels other than the ESPNs. I myself rarely watch the ESPNs except for college football/basketball and even my college football viewing is starting to wane.
the sports I am usually watching are simply not shown on the ESPNs...this would be Soccer for which I *NEED* FSC, GolTV, Deportes (yes, its ESPN, but you have to buy this channel separately), FSW and sometimes Telefutura. now, if I could get Sky or Setanta without the need for satellite (and by that I mean Dish and DirectTV as neither of them carry both channels) that would be extra bonus.
I've had comcast internet for about 3 years and was never given any software cd to install. the technician who installed the line called up someone on the other end, gave them the modem serial number and my address/phone # and everything "just worked". this happened in my old apt and in the house I bought last spring. once he got off the line, I hooked up my laptop (in the apt it was a windows laptop, in the house it was my powerbook), set the ethernet port to dhcp and I was online ready to go.
granted, i have yet to go to their comcast.net website as I have no need to. my comcast account is linked to my gmail account so any email they send me is to my gmail account. hell, I wouldnt even know my comcast.net login anyways....
everyone (reveiwers, commercials, etc) keep mentioning that you can watch youtube videos, but flash is not on the iphone. um, youtube videos are flash movies! is the youtube widget on the iphone a standalone flash player that doesnt integrate with safari?
I was going to post about WRIR but saw your post. I'm a Richmond resident and long time listener.
other than NPR, WRIR (and very occasionally URs 90.1) is the only radio I listen to. my one peeve is that reception is quite poor where I live (Fulton Hill) and where I work (RIC). at home it doesnt matter too much as I can stream online, but not at work.
not quite. the idea is great. they work great at first but once the calibration starts going (and it will) thats when you start having the problems. yes, you can reset the calibration and continue to use the device but you will find that you are resetting the calibration more and more often. the units we work with have little watch style batteries that keep the calibration settings. maybe that is the cause of the problems, maybe not.
regardless, this is not new technology! how many voting stories have we seen that mention the touch screen loosing its calibration?
other than in a POS or evoting application, I honestly do not see why why people want a touchscreen.
I'm talking about a laptop/tablet configuration. yes, the idea sounds great and people will say that their productivity will increase, yada, yada, yada, but MOST people who say this have never used one or experienced the frustration when their touchscreen goes out of calibration, which will happen ALOT!!!
I support a salesforce of about 200 who use various touchscreen PCs from HP Ipaq to Fujitsu tablets and laptops. at first they were ecstatic about the touchscreens then they slowly figured out that it was actually quicker for them to use the mouse/keyboard instead of having to touch the screen x/y on this side of this form and -x/y on this side of another button, etc in order to put in their orders. the screen doesnt go out of calibration uniformly across the whole screen, but generally in 5 different ways in the 4 corners and in the middle. this is a nightmare to use and to support!
most of the new "smallish" laptops that have come out the past year or so have switched to the 1.8" form factor. pretty much the only laptops that still use 2.5" HD are 13+ inch "full size" units.
NPR ran a story about OLPC this morning and from the report, the price increase was due to hardware changes that Libya, Uraguay and at least another country had requested, not due to the "dollars" worth, exchange rates or being over budget.
maybe this a PPC thing (all of my Macs are various G4s) but you can not open a.pdf in the browser window. when you click a link to a.pdf, new Firefox windows will spawn and the only way to make it stop is to quit Firefox. to view a.pdf, we have to right-click the link and save, then view it in Preview.
having 5 or more systems is not that out of the ordinary.
* on KVM at my desk *Mac Mini(G4) - audio server; connects to Airtunes Express in living room and bedroom *Linux NAS - file server *Linux firewall/router *Windows 2000 - remote to office only Powerbook - my main comp eMac - fiancees comp
remote desktop/VNC runs on each machine so I can access from my Powerbook as needed
I think I'm one of the very few (if any) that thought Serenity was much better than Firefly. the series just didnt grab me like other scifi tv series (Farscape, Stargate, new-BSG)
I also thought that Star Wars eps 2 and 3 were also much better than 4-6. funny thing is I grew up as a kid seeing Star Wars 4-6 in the theatres. I never thought they were that good though...well, the story itself was decent but you have to admit that the acting in ALL 6 was mediocre at best. funny thing, I have only managed to stay awake for Star Wars ep 3 in its entirety. I have yet to be able to make it through any of the other 5 Star Wars movies in their entirety...they knock me out fast!
and now I can't install software or run a executable from a network drive because of it. 2003 Server SP2 is not just a rollup of previous patches and hotfixes, it contains something extra...
I keep seeing people say this, but from experience, the corporate world DOES NOT work this way. HP and Fujitsu do not provide roadmaps for their products. I'm not sure about Dell and IBM as I dont handle those accounts. The only companies I know of that DO provide roadmaps of their products are the CPU guys, Intel and AMD.
Honestly, for desktops, laptops and servers what would a roadmap get you? (PHB voice)"Hey Jim, next year Dell is going to introduce a new desktop that will maximize our CSR performance 10 fold while reducing our training expenditures by half!"(/end PHB voice)
while a Mac does have this trialware by default, when you reinstall from the included DVDs, you have the option to NOT INSTALL any of these apps!. big difference than with Dell/HP/Compaq/Gateway/eMachines restore discs...
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what connection were you using on the power supply? the 2 pin snap-in plug or the 3 pin cable?
I personally have never noticed this issue with the Titanium or the Aluminum Powerbooks using either connection.
maybe you are just allergic to Apple?
You want to know why you are struggling to keep costs down?
Your 400 person company has a VP of IS, a Director IT and god knows how many other people in the IT dept!
In the company I work for, the location I am in has 400+ employees, most of them being remote VPN users. Do you know how many people are in the IT dept? One. That would be Me, Myself and I.
75% of my day is spent twiddling my thumbs reading Slashdot and Digg while waiting for the occasional trouble call.
Loading and managing Firefox across all of my systems would not use one penny of my budget. Ever heard of imaging and roaming profiles?
My systems stay up, my users do not and can not load their systems with crap even though EVERYONE is local Admin and I administer all laptops, desktops, servers and warehouse control systems with ease.
I LOVED Star Blazers!
there are MANY more sports channels other than the ESPNs.
I myself rarely watch the ESPNs except for college football/basketball and even my college football viewing is starting to wane.
the sports I am usually watching are simply not shown on the ESPNs...this would be Soccer for which I *NEED* FSC, GolTV, Deportes (yes, its ESPN, but you have to buy this channel separately), FSW and sometimes Telefutura.
now, if I could get Sky or Setanta without the need for satellite (and by that I mean Dish and DirectTV as neither of them carry both channels) that would be extra bonus.
a audio cd is redbook 16bit/44.1Khz
most studios record at 24bit/92Khz (if not higher) and are then resampled/dithered down to redbook.
so, the resulting mp3 is really about 5% of the original studio recording.
I have no issues paying my Comcast bills online through Firefox on either OSX or Ubuntu.
then again, I dont use any Firefox extensions/plugins...
are you *sure* you dont have some weird extension running that could be causing this issue?
I've had comcast internet for about 3 years and was never given any software cd to install. the technician who installed the line called up someone on the other end, gave them the modem serial number and my address/phone # and everything "just worked".
this happened in my old apt and in the house I bought last spring. once he got off the line, I hooked up my laptop (in the apt it was a windows laptop, in the house it was my powerbook), set the ethernet port to dhcp and I was online ready to go.
granted, i have yet to go to their comcast.net website as I have no need to. my comcast account is linked to my gmail account so any email they send me is to my gmail account.
hell, I wouldnt even know my comcast.net login anyways....
everyone (reveiwers, commercials, etc) keep mentioning that you can watch youtube videos, but flash is not on the iphone. um, youtube videos are flash movies!
is the youtube widget on the iphone a standalone flash player that doesnt integrate with safari?
funny, considering the linked BBC article says there WAS a earthquake in April in a nearby province (?Ayness?)
I was going to post about WRIR but saw your post.
I'm a Richmond resident and long time listener.
other than NPR, WRIR (and very occasionally URs 90.1) is the only radio I listen to.
my one peeve is that reception is quite poor where I live (Fulton Hill) and where I work (RIC).
at home it doesnt matter too much as I can stream online, but not at work.
thanks for the hard work and keep it up!
I have a home security system through ADT/Honeywell called Firstline that doesnt require a landline.
it hass a cellular transmitter up in my attic.
not quite.
the idea is great. they work great at first but once the calibration starts going (and it will) thats when you start having the problems. yes, you can reset the calibration and continue to use the device but you will find that you are resetting the calibration more and more often.
the units we work with have little watch style batteries that keep the calibration settings.
maybe that is the cause of the problems, maybe not.
regardless, this is not new technology! how many voting stories have we seen that mention the touch screen loosing its calibration?
other than in a POS or evoting application, I honestly do not see why why people want a touchscreen.
I'm talking about a laptop/tablet configuration.
yes, the idea sounds great and people will say that their productivity will increase, yada, yada, yada, but MOST people who say this have never used one or experienced the frustration when their touchscreen goes out of calibration, which will happen ALOT!!!
I support a salesforce of about 200 who use various touchscreen PCs from HP Ipaq to Fujitsu tablets and laptops. at first they were ecstatic about the touchscreens then they slowly figured out that it was actually quicker for them to use the mouse/keyboard instead of having to touch the screen x/y on this side of this form and -x/y on this side of another button, etc in order to put in their orders.
the screen doesnt go out of calibration uniformly across the whole screen, but generally in 5 different ways in the 4 corners and in the middle. this is a nightmare to use and to support!
most of the new "smallish" laptops that have come out the past year or so have switched to the 1.8" form factor. pretty much the only laptops that still use 2.5" HD are 13+ inch "full size" units.
NPR ran a story about OLPC this morning and from the report, the price increase was due to hardware changes that Libya, Uraguay and at least another country had requested, not due to the "dollars" worth, exchange rates or being over budget.
maybe this a PPC thing (all of my Macs are various G4s) but you can not open a .pdf in the browser window. when you click a link to a .pdf, new Firefox windows will spawn and the only way to make it stop is to quit Firefox. .pdf, we have to right-click the link and save, then view it in Preview.
to view a
I have no other complaints about Firefox on OS X.
having 5 or more systems is not that out of the ordinary.
* on KVM at my desk
*Mac Mini(G4) - audio server; connects to Airtunes Express in living room and bedroom
*Linux NAS - file server
*Linux firewall/router
*Windows 2000 - remote to office only
Powerbook - my main comp
eMac - fiancees comp
remote desktop/VNC runs on each machine so I can access from my Powerbook as needed
I think I'm one of the very few (if any) that thought Serenity was much better than Firefly.
the series just didnt grab me like other scifi tv series (Farscape, Stargate, new-BSG)
I also thought that Star Wars eps 2 and 3 were also much better than 4-6.
funny thing is I grew up as a kid seeing Star Wars 4-6 in the theatres. I never thought they were that good though...well, the story itself was decent but you have to admit that the acting in ALL 6 was mediocre at best. funny thing, I have only managed to stay awake for Star Wars ep 3 in its entirety.
I have yet to be able to make it through any of the other 5 Star Wars movies in their entirety...they knock me out fast!
(go ahead, mod me down as "different")
if you had volume licensing with SA (software assurance) you could legally put XP on the Vista machine without purchasing an additional license.
the new SG-1 episodes airing this spring are the last half of season 10.
my cheapo DVD player and my TV both have component...thats how I connect them.
as I'm looking to replace both, I'm having a hard time finding DVD players and TVs that DONT have component.
and now I can't install software or run a executable from a network drive because of it.
2003 Server SP2 is not just a rollup of previous patches and hotfixes, it contains something extra...
I keep seeing people say this, but from experience, the corporate world DOES NOT work this way.
HP and Fujitsu do not provide roadmaps for their products. I'm not sure about Dell and IBM as I dont handle those accounts. The only companies I know of that DO provide roadmaps of their products are the CPU guys, Intel and AMD.
Honestly, for desktops, laptops and servers what would a roadmap get you?
(PHB voice)"Hey Jim, next year Dell is going to introduce a new desktop that will maximize our CSR performance 10 fold while reducing our training expenditures by half!"(/end PHB voice)
yeah right....
isnt this just "On Demand", but for a PC instead of TV?
while a Mac does have this trialware by default, when you reinstall from the included DVDs, you have the option to NOT INSTALL any of these apps!.
big difference than with Dell/HP/Compaq/Gateway/eMachines restore discs...