Funny you should mention the HP DeskJet 600 series, because just this week my HP DeskJet 612 printer suddenly died. I had it hooked up to my Mandrake 8.2 workstation and one day it just wouldn't print. I attributed it to my so far inexpertness in Linux... went into PrintDrake, restarted CUPS, reinstalled the printer, all to no avail. Tried it on a nearby Windows XP Pro machine, and it wouldn't even detect the printer during the Plug-n-Play test.
Oh well, perhaps it's time to consider a laser printer.
A very effective downside to that "utopia" is that in case of a system error, you have no physical paper money to prove anything. If the computer or some operator messes up, it's your word against the computer's.
There is also a chance of an electric fire, if the wiring is old.
Re:Jabber : great concept, awful reality.
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I think that you're exaggerating -- my client, Psi, never crashes, and I almost never get disconnected from the server, although it has happened once or twice to me, after I was idle the whole night.
It's my opinion that running Jabber in a company is a great idea -- it organized properly and good clients are chosen, it could be a godsend.
While we're on this subject, can you recommend a good IMAP server? I've been wanting to use my server as my primary e-mail address because it has TMDA, but instead I use FastMail thanks to their IMAP accessibility.
Installing IMAP onto my server will give me the best of both worlds.
The CD was purchased in the U.S.A. at a Wal*Mart Supercenter. It was the American version, without any stickers or warnings. However, it did not need any because the CD is perfectly fine and seems to comply to all CD standards as far as I know.
A friend and I both bought Céline Dion's latest CD ("A New Day Has Come") in one of the first few days that it came out, brought it home, played it on the computer, ripped it to PCM using Exact Audio Copy and encoded it to Ogg Vorbis... this CD did absolutely nothing to the computer. The ripped files are perfect without any artifacts.
There is an interesting solution to this problem, because many people (including myself) suffer from this.
Go to www.toolsforselling.com and download their KEYMAKER. It's for Windows only, but pretty effective.
It allows you to memorize just ONE master password, then for every separate service, you enter your master password plus the name of the service and optionally the username.
It will then calculate the appropriate password based on all your input. Quite interesting. Try it!
I know what _every_ button on my TV remote does, but I'm still suspicious about those "Scroll Lock", "Break", and "SysRq" keys on my PC keyboard.
I can clear up the purpose of buttons for you, since I was also confused by them for a looong time.
Back in the old days, before GUI, when everyone used Unix, Irix, and other text-only operating systems, the "Scroll Lock" allowed a user to literally scroll up on the screen to see text outside the scope of the monitor.
This button still works in text mode of Linux, Unix, etc. In FreeBSD, for example, it allows me to scroll up about three screenfuls. While I am in "scroll lock" mode, all forthcoming screen output is paused; when I release scroll lock, it all appears.
The Break button allows you to suspend DOS programs so that, for example, you could read fast-scrolling output. Again, when you release that button, everything returns to normal -- the program continues execution.
Pressing Ctrl-Break exits a DOS program.
The "Prt Scrn" key allows you to take a screenshot of a Windows (and possibly XWindows... not sure) session. Pressing that button places the full-screen image into the clipboard, which you can then paste into some image editor.
I am sure that there are some other uses of these buttons, but these are the only ones that I am familiar with.
<< Trillian is v.nice nowadays. If only it supported Jabber too - the windows Jabber client was kind of crappy last time I tried it. >>
I used the 3l33t powers that my $10 donation gave me to e-mail the developers with the suggestion to add the Jabber protocol to its suite.
If enough people do the same, they'll have no choice but to comply... please consider doing this even if you don't have a registration code -- your suggestion will still be read.
They just have to create an account, log on, search for songs they own the rights to, download them from people that don't have the rights to distribute them, and bam..
The fix is simple! Let's just stop sharing all files, shut down KaZaA, Morpheus, and whatnot, to prevent them from downloading evidence!!!
(Oh, wait...)
I would think that it would be better for everyone if you scheduled a "maintenance downtime" ahead of time (maybe at night?), so that all users would be aware of it, then upgrade the kernel, instead of waiting for some crash (that might happen at the worst possible time) and keep the system down for longer than it needs to be (inconveniencing everyone else) just so that you could maintain higher uptime.
A bit self-centered, no?
That would be nice for some situations, but for general SSH usage, it's imperative that each keystroke is immediately sent rather than queued.
For example, in a text editor, to move around (I use pico) you'd have to press the arrow key and enter. Arrow key, enter.
This isn't meant to be flamebait, but maybe instead of putting spell checkers in every device to make it more "convenient" to the average American, perhaps we can put forth more effort to learning how to spell without help.
I believe it's possible to restrict the use of Prt Scrn key while the eBook (or whatever) window is active, if someone wants to go that low.
True, you can use commercial software that takes screenshots for you using your own assigned key combination, most users don't even realize this.
OR, another thing eBook makers can do is clear the PC's clipboard every second. This way even if you take the screenshot, it's immediately erased.
OR, they can allow you to take a screenshot, but have a barely visible "watermark" in the background saying that this image is copyrighted by and is VERY illegal to view.
Re:My 'Data' Light has been going steady since Fri
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I did buy a full version of Windows 2000 Professional, because there are some Windows programs I like that aren't available on Linux/UNIX. Fortunately, I opted out of installing IIS -- the only Web server I run is Apache on my FreeBSD machine.
Sadly, e-mail filters are only useful if you can implement them at the provider's level (e.g. the web interface of Yahoo! Mail) -- if you use a POP account like I do, then you will still be required to download everything that was fed into the SMTP server, and only THEN (after you spent your time downloading junk) will it be filtered.
Sad.
That would be very nice; however, it doesn't solve the problem at hand at all: the mail server is still required to accept it (be it encrypted or not) and you are still required to download it, wasting your bandwidth and time -- you don't know whether it is encrypted or isn't until you've DOWNLOADED it and LOOKED AT IT, which is the advertisers' goal.
I used to suffer with these damn pop-ups every day while using Internet Explorer (as I am sure other people also do), but you can disable popup windows (NOT target="_blank" settings) by going into Internet Options and Scripting of Java Applets and Active Scripting.
Nice, simple, and effective.
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Funny you should mention the HP DeskJet 600 series, because just this week my HP DeskJet 612 printer suddenly died. I had it hooked up to my Mandrake 8.2 workstation and one day it just wouldn't print. I attributed it to my so far inexpertness in Linux... went into PrintDrake, restarted CUPS, reinstalled the printer, all to no avail.
Tried it on a nearby Windows XP Pro machine, and it wouldn't even detect the printer during the Plug-n-Play test.
Oh well, perhaps it's time to consider a laser printer.
A very effective downside to that "utopia" is that in case of a system error, you have no physical paper money to prove anything. If the computer or some operator messes up, it's your word against the computer's.
There is also a chance of an electric fire, if the wiring is old.
I think that you're exaggerating -- my client, Psi, never crashes, and I almost never get disconnected from the server, although it has happened once or twice to me, after I was idle the whole night.
It's my opinion that running Jabber in a company is a great idea -- it organized properly and good clients are chosen, it could be a godsend.
While we're on this subject, can you recommend a good IMAP server? I've been wanting to use my server as my primary e-mail address because it has TMDA, but instead I use FastMail thanks to their IMAP accessibility.
Installing IMAP onto my server will give me the best of both worlds.
Heh, about a week ago I downloaded and installed Apache 1.3.24, PHP 4.1.2 as a dynamic module, and SSL support.
Now I will have to upgrade.
Oy, vey.
The CD was purchased in the U.S.A. at a Wal*Mart Supercenter. It was the American version, without any stickers or warnings. However, it did not need any because the CD is perfectly fine and seems to comply to all CD standards as far as I know.
A friend and I both bought Céline Dion's latest CD ("A New Day Has Come") in one of the first few days that it came out, brought it home, played it on the computer, ripped it to PCM using Exact Audio Copy and encoded it to Ogg Vorbis... this CD did absolutely nothing to the computer. The ripped files are perfect without any artifacts.
I don't know what this report is talking about.
There is an interesting solution to this problem, because many people (including myself) suffer from this.
Go to www.toolsforselling.com and download their KEYMAKER. It's for Windows only, but pretty effective.
It allows you to memorize just ONE master password, then for every separate service, you enter your master password plus the name of the service and optionally the username.
It will then calculate the appropriate password based on all your input. Quite interesting. Try it!
I know what _every_ button on my TV remote does, but I'm still suspicious about those "Scroll Lock", "Break", and "SysRq" keys on my PC keyboard.
I can clear up the purpose of buttons for you, since I was also confused by them for a looong time.
Back in the old days, before GUI, when everyone used Unix, Irix, and other text-only operating systems, the "Scroll Lock" allowed a user to literally scroll up on the screen to see text outside the scope of the monitor.
This button still works in text mode of Linux, Unix, etc. In FreeBSD, for example, it allows me to scroll up about three screenfuls. While I am in "scroll lock" mode, all forthcoming screen output is paused; when I release scroll lock, it all appears.
The Break button allows you to suspend DOS programs so that, for example, you could read fast-scrolling output. Again, when you release that button, everything returns to normal -- the program continues execution.
Pressing Ctrl-Break exits a DOS program.
The "Prt Scrn" key allows you to take a screenshot of a Windows (and possibly XWindows... not sure) session. Pressing that button places the full-screen image into the clipboard, which you can then paste into some image editor.
I am sure that there are some other uses of these buttons, but these are the only ones that I am familiar with.
All throughout reading the article, the movie "Erin Brockovich" kept playing in my head...
Déjà vu...
<< Trillian is v.nice nowadays. If only it supported Jabber too - the windows Jabber client was kind of crappy last time I tried it. >>
I used the 3l33t powers that my $10 donation gave me to e-mail the developers with the suggestion to add the Jabber protocol to its suite.
If enough people do the same, they'll have no choice but to comply... please consider doing this even if you don't have a registration code -- your suggestion will still be read.
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http://www.perez-franco.com/symbulator/download/r
128 kbps MP3 isn't CD quality at all.
;-)
Not true! Not true!
Microsoft says that 64 Kbps is CD quality!
Get your facts straight!
They just have to create an account, log on, search for songs they own the rights to, download them from people that don't have the rights to distribute them, and bam.. The fix is simple! Let's just stop sharing all files, shut down KaZaA, Morpheus, and whatnot, to prevent them from downloading evidence!!! (Oh, wait...)
I would think that it would be better for everyone if you scheduled a "maintenance downtime" ahead of time (maybe at night?), so that all users would be aware of it, then upgrade the kernel, instead of waiting for some crash (that might happen at the worst possible time) and keep the system down for longer than it needs to be (inconveniencing everyone else) just so that you could maintain higher uptime.
A bit self-centered, no?
That would be nice for some situations, but for general SSH usage, it's imperative that each keystroke is immediately sent rather than queued.
For example, in a text editor, to move around (I use pico) you'd have to press the arrow key and enter. Arrow key, enter.
This isn't meant to be flamebait, but maybe instead of putting spell checkers in every device to make it more "convenient" to the average American, perhaps we can put forth more effort to learning how to spell without help.
I believe it's possible to restrict the use of Prt Scrn key while the eBook (or whatever) window is active, if someone wants to go that low.
True, you can use commercial software that takes screenshots for you using your own assigned key combination, most users don't even realize this.
OR, another thing eBook makers can do is clear the PC's clipboard every second. This way even if you take the screenshot, it's immediately erased.
OR, they can allow you to take a screenshot, but have a barely visible "watermark" in the background saying that this image is copyrighted by and is VERY illegal to view.
I did buy a full version of Windows 2000 Professional, because there are some Windows programs I like that aren't available on Linux/UNIX. Fortunately, I opted out of installing IIS -- the only Web server I run is Apache on my FreeBSD machine.
I recommend using GoldWave software as your WAV recorder. It's free, easy to use, and excellent. It allows you to make any WAV quality *you* want.
Heh, I managed to crash NIALL by typing three dots. ("...")
Sadly, e-mail filters are only useful if you can implement them at the provider's level (e.g. the web interface of Yahoo! Mail) -- if you use a POP account like I do, then you will still be required to download everything that was fed into the SMTP server, and only THEN (after you spent your time downloading junk) will it be filtered.
Sad.
That would be very nice; however, it doesn't solve the problem at hand at all: the mail server is still required to accept it (be it encrypted or not) and you are still required to download it, wasting your bandwidth and time -- you don't know whether it is encrypted or isn't until you've DOWNLOADED it and LOOKED AT IT, which is the advertisers' goal.
I used to suffer with these damn pop-ups every day while using Internet Explorer (as I am sure other people also do), but you can disable popup windows (NOT target="_blank" settings) by going into Internet Options and Scripting of Java Applets and Active Scripting.
Nice, simple, and effective.