Streaming was a fun thing for free...but when my billing time in Sept comes up, I'm dropping to the 3 at a time out for $19.99. It isn't worth the almost extra $8/mo it would cost me to add streaming back on.
Sounds like a plan. I've been a Netflix subscriber since 2002, and in all that time, I've streamed one movie. It worked well enough (no glitches while streaming to a Wii over WiFi), but there's so much more available on DVD.
But most network over powerline inhome systems network signals will not go through the transformer on the pole. He would have to have access to power after the pole.
Most homes share a transformer with a few of their neighbors. There are 46 homes on my street, but only 4 transformers (if I'm interpreting the aerial photo in Google Maps correctly). Odds are fairly good that you and your next-door neighbors are on the same transformer.
As someone who also mostly reads books in bed, it's hard to beat physical "next/previous page" buttons conveniently located on the edge of the device (as in Kindle).
Tapping the left or right edge of the screen is sufficient to change pages with the iBooks app. I think that also works with Stanza...not so sure if the Kindle app supports it, or if it only knows swipe-left/right. With an iPhone at least, tapping either side with the thumb of the hand that's holding it is easy enough.
Is there any reason we can't create a Linux distro that literally replaces iOS, using the same techniques as the Jailbreak to get it up and running?
I had my iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android for a little while. Android didn't run particularly well, mostly because there wasn't much support in it for the iPhone's hardware, but it booted up and some apps worked slowly.
If you can get Android running on an iDevice, I don't see why you couldn't get a more standard Linux system running. Again, the sticking point would be figuring out how to talk to the hardware.
Can someone give me a good reason to use Thunderbird or any other mail client.
You need something to access your mail server, and Thunderbird blows the doors off of Outlook. I've set up SquirrelMail on my personal mail server for those times when I only have access to a browser (which isn't often, considering that the mail app on my iPhone speaks IMAPS), but a proper email client (whether desktop or mobile) is just easier to use IMHO. At work, I have Thunderbird talking to our Exchange server with Lightning and DavMail, so I could most likely uninstall Outlook altogether if I wanted.
I have a Gmail account, but it's pretty much a spam dumpster. I could migrate my mail over to it if I were so inclined, but $firstname@$lastname.us is a more memorable email address than blahblah@gmail.com.
The reason that Republicans want you to show ID when you vote is to suppress the voting of people who are more likely to vote for Democrats. The level of voter fraud, that is people who are not eligible to vote voting, is so minuscule in this country it's not an issue. In Ohio in 2004 they looked for that and only found 4 out of millions of votes. Yes it could effect an election that comes down to 1 or 2 votes but how often does that happen?
The reason Democrats don't want you to have to show ID is that it's harder for them to cheat their way to a win (2004 Washington governor's election, anybody?) if would-be voters are all being checked. Felons, illegal aliens, etc. voting only serve to dilute your legitimate vote; why anyone would want to allow that is beyond me.
In all seriousness, and without much in the way of research just yet: why not preemptively install GRUB, or some other boot loader, even if the machine is only a single boot Win system?
I wouldn't trust that all trace of an MBR- or boot-sector-resident virus is eliminated without something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024. If you have the time, shred -vzn 0/dev/sda obliterates everything on the disk.
Also, I have no instructions for iPhone, as I do not own one, nor know if the network type is even user-selectable on them
Settings -> Network -> Enable 3G -> Off.
Didn't know Android made things that complicated. (Punching numbers into the phone app to change device settings? WTF?) My wife has an Atrix, but I've not dug around in it too much.
Safari should not randomly reload a page just because it feels like it (yeah, sure, its out of ram, so lets reload pages when you switch to them - bang goes my half filled form, or the page copy I had highlighted),
This. I ended up looking into some of the alternative browsers that are available...ended up settling on iCab. Tabs never reload for no good reason, and the adblocker is kinda nice to have (the adblock methods I'd run across for Safari never worked well). It'll set you back $2, but it's worth it IMHO.
Why iCab runs so much better than Safari when they use the same rendering engine, I couldn't say.
My wife just bought a Kindle. Evidently you can manage up to 6 Kindles where (in theory) you can share eBooks between the managed devices.
It's fairly seamless. I don't have a Kindle, but I have the Kindle app for iOS installed on a couple of iPhones and have used their desktop app on Windows in the past. When you buy a book, you tell Amazon which device should receive it. If you need/want to read it on a different device, you switch over to the "archived items" list, from which you can pull up everything you've ever purchased, and have it sent to you.
As for Amazon's implementation of DRM, go to the last post in this forum thread for a zipfile that has DRM-removal tools for most ebook formats currently in use. Everything I've gotten from Amazon has been decrypted, if necessary (many of their free downloads are plain old Mobipocket files without any DRM). I've also converted them to ePub format so I can read them in iBooks...pretty much just use the Kindle app to buy and download. The aforementioned zipfile includes Calibre plugins to seamlessly import DRM'd Kindle books.
I wonder if a large portion of that is people connecting with smartphones/iphones. Might be something to look for next time you fly.
This. I usually have my phone out for reading ebooks, playing games, and watching movies, but the handful of times they've had free WiFi on flights, I haven't hesitated to connect. I usually have a USB battery pack with me, so running down the phone's battery isn't an issue.
Apple innovated a reset key adjacent to the Return/Enter key (Apple ][). Type, type, type, *BEEP* NOOOoooooooo!
You had to hold down Control for Reset to do anything, though, so it wasn't nearly as destructive as you let on. Pressing Reset by itself does nothing.
(That's how my IIe and IIGS behave, anyway, though I'd swear my II+ has the same behavior as well.)
The problem will come with easier shop lifting and scanning lower priced items and putting higher priced items in the cart.
TFA addressed this and other possible forms of shrink. Occasional spot checks of customers' purchases didn't turn up significant amounts of "five-finger discounts." They had more losses from their cashiers fat-fingering quantities and prices at the registers.
I've never done anything with.Net myself, but from my (rather limited) personal experience, I haven't been able to get apps from the Windows side to run properly under Linux.
I've built some simple command-line apps in VS2008 and run the resulting binaries under Mono. I redid my website a while back with ASP.NET; it's served up by a Gentoo VPS running Apache and Mono. The menus it uses are generated by an off-the-shelf menu control. The only bits of weirdness I've run across so far have to do with database connectivity, and that's mainly due to VS2008 wanting to generate SQL code in the particular flavor that SQL Server uses; a few manual edits here and there will get it running with MySQL while maintaining compatibility with SQL Server.
Then what is the generic term that covers Verizon FiOS service, FiOS service offered by companies such as Frontier that serve former Verizon territories, and AT&T's similar service?
VDSL. AT&T calls its VDSL service U-verse; my parents switched to it a while back.
And HDMI port weirds me out. HDMI is a very recent interface, requiring a TV set made in a last three years or so.
Considering that HDMI is electrically compatible with DVI, there's a much wider range of compatible devices. TVs at least as far back as 2004 started carrying DVI inputs (had one on a 30" LCD TV I bought that year), and of course the ground is thick with computer monitors with DVI inputs. I'd think a used 15" or 17" 1024x768 or 1280x1024 LCD would be dirt-cheap by now.
Try running bash without grep and awk some time. bash is smaller because it calls other programs.
What are the odds those packages will be missing? They're small enough (236K for sed, 264K for grep, 924K for gawk, and 3504K for coreutils, which contains things like head, tail, sort, and uniq) that the only reason you'd leave them out is if you're really crunched for space and intend to use something like BusyBox instead...oh, wait, looks like even BusyBox includes cut-down versions of grep, sed, awk, etc. BusyBox doesn't include a cut-down version of Perl, though.
Best solution? A private "cloud". Perhaps a way to stream from a computer or a NAS one's MP3 stash over an encrypted connection to one's smartphone or MP3 player.
For the iPhone, PlugPlayer will stream music from any UPnP source on your network. AirTunes will transcode video on-the-fly to a compatible format and stream it to you (there is a server component to it that needs a reasonably-powerful machine; in my case, a WinXP VM running on a MythTV backend is sufficient). Open the appropriate ports on your router and you have access to your media anywhere you can get 3G or WiFi.
Notice that those posting their memories have UID's under 10000.
Don't know that I arrived here when I could've still gotten a 4-digit uid (signed up in '98, lurked for maybe a year before that).
Kermit saw occasional use on my IIe starting in 1989 or so. Kermit-65 provided a decent free VT100 emulation as well as file-transfer capabilities. It wasn't too long before someone slipped me a copy of ProTERM, though (and not too long after that that I forked over the $100 asking price for it...it was worth it). The dial-up connections I used (terminal servers and BBSes alike) were mostly 8-bit-clean, so I tended to use ZMODEM if it was available.
I had an SLS version first. I think there may have been a Slackware version at the time. I wanted to limit the headaches of installing it, so I chose a distribution with a relatively small number of floppy disks, and optional floppy sets.
Another advantage SLS had over Slackware was that it could be installed from 5.25" floppies. Since I didn't yet have a 3.5" floppy drive for my machine (at the time, a 386SX-25 with 4 MB of RAM and 120 MB of disk), I downloaded the 5.25" floppy images (think there were about 20-30 of them in all) and installed from that.
After upgrading the graphics from Hercules monochrome to VGA (though still monochrome as a color monitor would've been a bit spendy), I got X running on it. I figured out an 800x600 50Hz modeline that worked with my 640x480-only mono VGA monitor if I tweaked the vertical hold knob a bit. Good times.
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FTFY. At least your nick's appropriate.
Sounds like a plan. I've been a Netflix subscriber since 2002, and in all that time, I've streamed one movie. It worked well enough (no glitches while streaming to a Wii over WiFi), but there's so much more available on DVD.
Most homes share a transformer with a few of their neighbors. There are 46 homes on my street, but only 4 transformers (if I'm interpreting the aerial photo in Google Maps correctly). Odds are fairly good that you and your next-door neighbors are on the same transformer.
Tapping the left or right edge of the screen is sufficient to change pages with the iBooks app. I think that also works with Stanza...not so sure if the Kindle app supports it, or if it only knows swipe-left/right. With an iPhone at least, tapping either side with the thumb of the hand that's holding it is easy enough.
I had my iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android for a little while. Android didn't run particularly well, mostly because there wasn't much support in it for the iPhone's hardware, but it booted up and some apps worked slowly.
If you can get Android running on an iDevice, I don't see why you couldn't get a more standard Linux system running. Again, the sticking point would be figuring out how to talk to the hardware.
You need something to access your mail server, and Thunderbird blows the doors off of Outlook. I've set up SquirrelMail on my personal mail server for those times when I only have access to a browser (which isn't often, considering that the mail app on my iPhone speaks IMAPS), but a proper email client (whether desktop or mobile) is just easier to use IMHO. At work, I have Thunderbird talking to our Exchange server with Lightning and DavMail, so I could most likely uninstall Outlook altogether if I wanted.
I have a Gmail account, but it's pretty much a spam dumpster. I could migrate my mail over to it if I were so inclined, but $firstname@$lastname.us is a more memorable email address than blahblah@gmail.com.
The reason Democrats don't want you to have to show ID is that it's harder for them to cheat their way to a win (2004 Washington governor's election, anybody?) if would-be voters are all being checked. Felons, illegal aliens, etc. voting only serve to dilute your legitimate vote; why anyone would want to allow that is beyond me.
As for elections that come down to one or two votes, North Las Vegas just had one earlier this month.
I wouldn't trust that all trace of an MBR- or boot-sector-resident virus is eliminated without something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024. If you have the time, shred -vzn 0 /dev/sda obliterates everything on the disk.
Settings -> Network -> Enable 3G -> Off.
Didn't know Android made things that complicated. (Punching numbers into the phone app to change device settings? WTF?) My wife has an Atrix, but I've not dug around in it too much.
1.92 Mbps down, 1.56 Mbps up, 295 ms ping time is what I'm getting from the office right now.
(Setup: iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.2 (jailbroken), AT&T, about a mile or so north of downtown Las Vegas.)
This. I ended up looking into some of the alternative browsers that are available...ended up settling on iCab. Tabs never reload for no good reason, and the adblocker is kinda nice to have (the adblock methods I'd run across for Safari never worked well). It'll set you back $2, but it's worth it IMHO.
Why iCab runs so much better than Safari when they use the same rendering engine, I couldn't say.
That last question would pose a problem if you asked it of the average /.er, unfortunately.
It's fairly seamless. I don't have a Kindle, but I have the Kindle app for iOS installed on a couple of iPhones and have used their desktop app on Windows in the past. When you buy a book, you tell Amazon which device should receive it. If you need/want to read it on a different device, you switch over to the "archived items" list, from which you can pull up everything you've ever purchased, and have it sent to you.
As for Amazon's implementation of DRM, go to the last post in this forum thread for a zipfile that has DRM-removal tools for most ebook formats currently in use. Everything I've gotten from Amazon has been decrypted, if necessary (many of their free downloads are plain old Mobipocket files without any DRM). I've also converted them to ePub format so I can read them in iBooks...pretty much just use the Kindle app to buy and download. The aforementioned zipfile includes Calibre plugins to seamlessly import DRM'd Kindle books.
I wonder if a large portion of that is people connecting with smartphones/iphones. Might be something to look for next time you fly.
This. I usually have my phone out for reading ebooks, playing games, and watching movies, but the handful of times they've had free WiFi on flights, I haven't hesitated to connect. I usually have a USB battery pack with me, so running down the phone's battery isn't an issue.
You had to hold down Control for Reset to do anything, though, so it wasn't nearly as destructive as you let on. Pressing Reset by itself does nothing.
(That's how my IIe and IIGS behave, anyway, though I'd swear my II+ has the same behavior as well.)
TFA addressed this and other possible forms of shrink. Occasional spot checks of customers' purchases didn't turn up significant amounts of "five-finger discounts." They had more losses from their cashiers fat-fingering quantities and prices at the registers.
Amazon collects tax it has actually presences in, such as Washington State.
Not all of them. I live in Nevada. Amazon has a distribution center in Nevada. I've never been charged sales tax on purchases from Amazon.
I've built some simple command-line apps in VS2008 and run the resulting binaries under Mono. I redid my website a while back with ASP.NET; it's served up by a Gentoo VPS running Apache and Mono. The menus it uses are generated by an off-the-shelf menu control. The only bits of weirdness I've run across so far have to do with database connectivity, and that's mainly due to VS2008 wanting to generate SQL code in the particular flavor that SQL Server uses; a few manual edits here and there will get it running with MySQL while maintaining compatibility with SQL Server.
VDSL. AT&T calls its VDSL service U-verse; my parents switched to it a while back.
Considering that HDMI is electrically compatible with DVI, there's a much wider range of compatible devices. TVs at least as far back as 2004 started carrying DVI inputs (had one on a 30" LCD TV I bought that year), and of course the ground is thick with computer monitors with DVI inputs. I'd think a used 15" or 17" 1024x768 or 1280x1024 LCD would be dirt-cheap by now.
What are the odds those packages will be missing? They're small enough (236K for sed, 264K for grep, 924K for gawk, and 3504K for coreutils, which contains things like head, tail, sort, and uniq) that the only reason you'd leave them out is if you're really crunched for space and intend to use something like BusyBox instead...oh, wait, looks like even BusyBox includes cut-down versions of grep, sed, awk, etc. BusyBox doesn't include a cut-down version of Perl, though.
Perhaps because perl's about an order of magnitude larger:
# quickpkg bash perl /usr/portage/packages/app-shells/bash-4.1_p9.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages/dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r6.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages/app-shells/bash-4.1_p9.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages/dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r6.tbz2
# du
1120
12372
For the iPhone, PlugPlayer will stream music from any UPnP source on your network. AirTunes will transcode video on-the-fly to a compatible format and stream it to you (there is a server component to it that needs a reasonably-powerful machine; in my case, a WinXP VM running on a MythTV backend is sufficient). Open the appropriate ports on your router and you have access to your media anywhere you can get 3G or WiFi.
Don't know that I arrived here when I could've still gotten a 4-digit uid (signed up in '98, lurked for maybe a year before that).
Kermit saw occasional use on my IIe starting in 1989 or so. Kermit-65 provided a decent free VT100 emulation as well as file-transfer capabilities. It wasn't too long before someone slipped me a copy of ProTERM, though (and not too long after that that I forked over the $100 asking price for it...it was worth it). The dial-up connections I used (terminal servers and BBSes alike) were mostly 8-bit-clean, so I tended to use ZMODEM if it was available.
Another advantage SLS had over Slackware was that it could be installed from 5.25" floppies. Since I didn't yet have a 3.5" floppy drive for my machine (at the time, a 386SX-25 with 4 MB of RAM and 120 MB of disk), I downloaded the 5.25" floppy images (think there were about 20-30 of them in all) and installed from that.
After upgrading the graphics from Hercules monochrome to VGA (though still monochrome as a color monitor would've been a bit spendy), I got X running on it. I figured out an 800x600 50Hz modeline that worked with my 640x480-only mono VGA monitor if I tweaked the vertical hold knob a bit. Good times.