It's no longer crashing my phone, but it still won't display webpages. As soon as it tries to display a page...OK, looks like I wrote too soon, as it just rebooted my phone when I tried to start it again. Earlier, when it tried to display a page, it'd briefly throw up a bar mentioning some sort of EULA for a couple of seconds, then exit back to the app list.
I have a subscription, and that's paid for with online bill payment.
Buying a coffee?
I brew my own, from freshly-ground beans. I even have a roaster and can go from green beans to coffee in 15-20 minutes, but I've not fired it up in a while. Friends don't let friends buy Charbucks.
In any case, last time I was in one, even Charbucks takes plastic.
Buying a bus ticket?
What are those? I drive to work...and yes, the gas pump takes plastic. It's more convenient than cash, as you'd have to go inside to pay cash, pump your gas, and then go back inside for your change.
How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
No. I start a tab and pay for whatever I ate and drank at the end.
In what bizarro world is the parent poster a troll? Once it did its setup thing on my Treo 650, it rebooted. More often than not, it reboots the phone as soon as you try to start it. If you do manage to get it running, it reboots as soon as it actually tries to display something from a website. Last time I checked, displaying stuff from websites was the primary function of a web browser.
After deleting the copy I had installed in the phone's memory, I tried running it from an SD card. It behaved the same way there. Grr.
I should've saved the previous version before installing this one, but I rarely used it. Blazer was more functional and easier to use for most things. For updating my On Tap in Vegas page when out and about, I found that Links running in an SSH session would work.
Then buy a phone which has durability as a feature. Nextel has a bunch of motorola phones that will survive all kinds of abuse.
I had an i1000 fly out my car's window onto a freeway overpass once (don't ask me how it happened, as it wasn't intentional). I parked in the nearest lot, walked out onto the overpass, and picked up the phone. Fortunately it hadn't fallen down to the freeway and gotten run over; it had landed near the edge of the road. It was a bit scuffed up, but it still worked like nothing had happened. Not bad for having been ejected from a vehicle moving at 40-50 mph.
Capacitors (excepting electrolytics) won't be breaking in your lifetime. Even those are fairly durable, provided you aren't using one of these...
Bad electrolytics on motherboards aren't the only capacitors that tend to go bad. The paper capacitors that were used in old radios and TVs tended to allow moisture through the wax or molded-plastic coating, at which point they'd go bad. If you run across a device that uses these, the first thing you should do is go through and replace the capacitors.
Those billions of dollars of lawyers cost money. If I was sued by RIAA I'd go pro se and drag it out for as long as humanly possible.
That wouldn't be a bad idea for someone who's retired, but what about those of us who have to earn a living? The time you'd spend in court is time you're not at work. Not only can most people not afford lawyers to go up against the Media Mafia, they probably can't afford the time off from work to aggressively pursue the matter themselves, which means they're even more frakked than you might at first imagine.
Oh, and album art isn't part of the AAC standard, that's in a different directory on iTunes.
There's more than one way to tag files: there's whatever the AAC standard provides, and there's what iTunes does. The two may well be different. iTunes retrieves album art from the file, along with the other metadata. Try adding/removing album art from a file with iTunes...note that the filesize changes. If iTunes maintained its album art in a separate directory, the filesize wouldn't change.
No. Since my MythTV box is closest to my CD collection, it's what I used when I finally got around to ripping my CDs to put them on my iPod. MythMusic (MythTV's CD ripper) is a bit limited in its features, though (can't do anything else in the frontend while it's ripping), so I used K3B to rip the CDs, FAAC to encode, and a little command-line tagger I wrote to mass-tag the ripped music.
The only thing I've not yet figured out is why MythMusic won't show album art (which is in most of my collection). I think it might expect album art to be maintained with the other metadata in its own database instead of just displaying it from the source file. Maybe the music-import feature needs to check for album art, and extract it if present.
Do Americans not have manual gearboxes, or are you saying they're stupid?
They're not nearly as common here as on the other side of the pond. You'll find them mainly in big trucks, sports cars, and econoboxes.
How do they get down steep hills without engine braking?
Engine braking works with an automatic. I've never seen one that doesn't let you shift to a lower gear if you want it.
How do they select the highest possible gear when driving in icy conditions?
As long as you don't stab the gas (which you won't be doing on ice anyway), an automatic will do that by itself. In any case, ice on the roads is rarely a problem in Las Vegas.
How do you accelerate quickly to overtake without dropping a gear and flooring it?
An automatic will do that by itself when you floor it. It may even drop down two gears, in some circumstances.
What are automatics actually good for?
I'm guessing you've never driven one. I'm not saying they're perfect (they require a little more maintenance), but modern automatic transmissions can actually be more fuel-efficient than manual transmissions (if I'm not mistaken, all of the hybrids on the market ship with automatics). They're definitely easier for novice drivers to handle (so says someone who learned to drive in a Chevette with a manual transmission, who had to first learn how to let out the clutch without stalling before getting on with actually driving the car).
If I were to buy something like a Corvette or a Solstice, I would insist on a manual transmission. For a daily driver, though, an automatic gets the job done.
It's definitely easier to steer with the left hand and hold a drink with the right hand when you have an automatic.:-)
Only in Europe would they be coming up with ways to enable women to urinate while standing up while trying to convince men that it'd be a good idea to sit down instead.:-P
Better to have everyone pay into an education system at their level of ability, and have everyone take out of it based on their need and inherent abilities.
Wow, your last sentance sounded uncomfortable close to Orwell.
s/Orwell/Marx/, right? (Karl, not Groucho.)
I could also point out that their best and brightest are coming here to study instead of staying home and taking the freebie (and that the reverse is not happening to nearly the same extent), but that would be piling on. Drawing parallels between post-secondary education and health care here vs. there would also be piling on.
TANSTAAFL.
(Now watch as some neocom mods me down for stating the obvious...)
I have been tempted to go down to my local BestBuy dressed up as a sheep herder with a Sony Logo on my chest and just wander around the idiots waiting outside in the rain for days.
No rain here in Las Vegas, but people are camped out in front of the local Fry's. They've actually pitched tents on the sidewalk in front of the store. Back at the office, we had a few good laughs at their expense.
I wonder how the airlines are going to keep inappropriate video (i.e. porn or even just movies like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Alive") from appearing on the seat-back displays.
...and how would that be any different than if you brought those movies with you and played them on your notebook or portable DVD player?
If it's pr0n, they'll tell you to put it away, just like they would if you were "reading" Hustler, or something like that. Otherwise, they're most likely not going to bother. Nobody complained when I watched Airplane! on a flight back east earlier this year.:-)
I heard that back in the day when cellphones were only used by the rich & famous, one could here tasty gossip with cellphone-band scanners...
The UHF tuner on your TV used to stop at channel 83 or 84. It now stops at channel 69; channels 73-77 and 80-83 overlapped with the frequencies used for analog cellular service (and which might still be used in some areas for digital service). Given that some cheap TVs provided continuous tuning of the UHF band (simpler mechanical construction that way), you might've been able to use your TV to eavesdrop on someone's cellphone conversation.
Hardly anybody uses analog cellular anymore except as a fallback when digital service isn't available (and only CDMA phones do that; GSM phones are digital-only), so tracking down an old TV for cellular eavesdropping in most areas would be a disappointment today.
Don't forget about people using NDISWrapper, which is the only way to get such cards working on Linux at all unless someone has written a driver recently.
There is a native driver, but neither it nor ndiswrapper work worth a damn with my AMD64 Gentoo install. For the time being, I've given up on getting Linux WiFi working and just hang a Linksys WTR54GS off the network jack when I need to connect to someone's wireless network.
The fact that you can add words does not mean that you must.
Indeed. I think that, more often than not, some people tack on superfluous verbiage just to engage in the written equivalent of "hearing themselves talk." It's a nasty habit acquired in school. When the teacher asked for a 500-word essay on some random topic, the offenders started throwing in meaningless junk just to drive the word count up. It saved them from having to do some real research and come up with something insightful.
(Insert snide comment about what the kids who did the above are now doing here.)
But a gun only has one purpose: To hurt living things.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns. The closest my guns have gotten to killing anybody is putting holes in paper that had Osama's ugly mug printed on it.
I'm free to keep and bear arms. You're free to become a red stain on the carpet if you choose victim disarmament for yourself.
Of the 819 that were blocked by rblsmtpd (that'd be ~78% of inbound mail attempts), 609 were blocked for bad reverse DNS (567) or a known dynamic IP address (42).
So basically 609 of those could easily have been legitimate messages. Your setup may be good for you, but it would throw away way too much legitimate mail for a business.
A properly-configured mail server will have a valid PTR record. It's not going to sit on a dynamic IP address, either, since you'd have to change MX records every time the address changes. Other than incompetent admins, the only people likely to try sending mail directly from those addresses are spammers, whether directly or by compromising someone else's box ("my other computer is your Windows desktop").
If you're on a dynamic IP, use your ISP's mail server. (They might well force you to use theirs...I know Cox blocks TCP port 25 outside its network for residential accounts.) If you (or they) don't have properly-configured DNS info, fix it.
Unfortunately, you may not receive the spam, but it's still sent.
That may not be entirely true, depending on where and how the filtering is done. If you're using qmail and its rblsmtpd, an SMTP session from an RBL-listed host gets cut off with a 451 before the sender starts sending the message. The exchange looks something like this:
After that, the connection is closed. The spammer hasn't had a chance to start sending yet. It's still using some CPU time and a small amount of bandwidth, but not nearly as much as with an anti-spam countermeasure that acts on the message only after it's been received in full (like anti-spam software on your desktop).
Mine is more like 1 real email for every 200 spam messages...
You need better spam filtering. I usually see no more than two or three spams a day in my inbox, usually for weight-loss snake oil. I don't see too many pump-and-dumpers; maybe they're being filtered out more successfully.
That's not to say that my server isn't getting bombarded with spam. For the first half of today, qmail-smtpd recorded 1054 attempts at receiving a message from somebody. Of those, only 235 were let through as legit. I've fired only two of those off to SpamCop, so that means 99%+ of what gets into my inbox is legit.
Of the 819 that were blocked by rblsmtpd (that'd be ~78% of inbound mail attempts), 609 were blocked for bad reverse DNS (567) or a known dynamic IP address (42). Of the remainder, 133 were listed at Spamhaus, 74 were listed at SpamCop, and 3 were listed at blackholes.us.
These numbers are for what's basically a personal server; only I receive mail through it at this time. Most of the (legit) traffic is from various email lists to which I'm subscribed. I'd think the numbers would scale up for a server that's used by a larger number of people, though.
And judging by my recent reading of the various newsgroups and forums, it's not just T-Mobile that does this -- pretty much they all do.
Sprint doesn't. I moved my apps and data from my Tungsten T to my Treo 650 with no problems (and I've had some of those apps since I started with a PalmPilot Pro some 8 or 9 years ago). If a website offers up an uncompressed.prc, I can tap it in Blazer to download & install it; otherwise, I can unpack the zipfile on my computer and either HotSync it over or copy it to an SD card and run and/or install it from there.
The same applies to Java apps (once you have the JVM installed), but native apps for Palm OS usually run better (Google Maps is pretty smooth).
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It's no longer crashing my phone, but it still won't display webpages. As soon as it tries to display a page...OK, looks like I wrote too soon, as it just rebooted my phone when I tried to start it again. Earlier, when it tried to display a page, it'd briefly throw up a bar mentioning some sort of EULA for a couple of seconds, then exit back to the app list.
They take plastic.
I have a subscription, and that's paid for with online bill payment.
I brew my own, from freshly-ground beans. I even have a roaster and can go from green beans to coffee in 15-20 minutes, but I've not fired it up in a while. Friends don't let friends buy Charbucks.
In any case, last time I was in one, even Charbucks takes plastic.
What are those? I drive to work...and yes, the gas pump takes plastic. It's more convenient than cash, as you'd have to go inside to pay cash, pump your gas, and then go back inside for your change.
No. I start a tab and pay for whatever I ate and drank at the end.
After deleting the copy I had installed in the phone's memory, I tried running it from an SD card. It behaved the same way there. Grr.
I should've saved the previous version before installing this one, but I rarely used it. Blazer was more functional and easier to use for most things. For updating my On Tap in Vegas page when out and about, I found that Links running in an SSH session would work.
I had an i1000 fly out my car's window onto a freeway overpass once (don't ask me how it happened, as it wasn't intentional). I parked in the nearest lot, walked out onto the overpass, and picked up the phone. Fortunately it hadn't fallen down to the freeway and gotten run over; it had landed near the edge of the road. It was a bit scuffed up, but it still worked like nothing had happened. Not bad for having been ejected from a vehicle moving at 40-50 mph.
Bad electrolytics on motherboards aren't the only capacitors that tend to go bad. The paper capacitors that were used in old radios and TVs tended to allow moisture through the wax or molded-plastic coating, at which point they'd go bad. If you run across a device that uses these, the first thing you should do is go through and replace the capacitors.
That wouldn't be a bad idea for someone who's retired, but what about those of us who have to earn a living? The time you'd spend in court is time you're not at work. Not only can most people not afford lawyers to go up against the Media Mafia, they probably can't afford the time off from work to aggressively pursue the matter themselves, which means they're even more frakked than you might at first imagine.
That sounds too much like "mohel." :-P
There's more than one way to tag files: there's whatever the AAC standard provides, and there's what iTunes does. The two may well be different. iTunes retrieves album art from the file, along with the other metadata. Try adding/removing album art from a file with iTunes...note that the filesize changes. If iTunes maintained its album art in a separate directory, the filesize wouldn't change.
No. Since my MythTV box is closest to my CD collection, it's what I used when I finally got around to ripping my CDs to put them on my iPod. MythMusic (MythTV's CD ripper) is a bit limited in its features, though (can't do anything else in the frontend while it's ripping), so I used K3B to rip the CDs, FAAC to encode, and a little command-line tagger I wrote to mass-tag the ripped music.
The only thing I've not yet figured out is why MythMusic won't show album art (which is in most of my collection). I think it might expect album art to be maintained with the other metadata in its own database instead of just displaying it from the source file. Maybe the music-import feature needs to check for album art, and extract it if present.
They're not nearly as common here as on the other side of the pond. You'll find them mainly in big trucks, sports cars, and econoboxes.
Engine braking works with an automatic. I've never seen one that doesn't let you shift to a lower gear if you want it.
As long as you don't stab the gas (which you won't be doing on ice anyway), an automatic will do that by itself. In any case, ice on the roads is rarely a problem in Las Vegas.
An automatic will do that by itself when you floor it. It may even drop down two gears, in some circumstances.
I'm guessing you've never driven one. I'm not saying they're perfect (they require a little more maintenance), but modern automatic transmissions can actually be more fuel-efficient than manual transmissions (if I'm not mistaken, all of the hybrids on the market ship with automatics). They're definitely easier for novice drivers to handle (so says someone who learned to drive in a Chevette with a manual transmission, who had to first learn how to let out the clutch without stalling before getting on with actually driving the car).
If I were to buy something like a Corvette or a Solstice, I would insist on a manual transmission. For a daily driver, though, an automatic gets the job done.
It's definitely easier to steer with the left hand and hold a drink with the right hand when you have an automatic. :-)
Only in Europe would they be coming up with ways to enable women to urinate while standing up while trying to convince men that it'd be a good idea to sit down instead. :-P
s/Orwell/Marx/, right? (Karl, not Groucho.)
I could also point out that their best and brightest are coming here to study instead of staying home and taking the freebie (and that the reverse is not happening to nearly the same extent), but that would be piling on. Drawing parallels between post-secondary education and health care here vs. there would also be piling on.
TANSTAAFL.
(Now watch as some neocom mods me down for stating the obvious...)
No rain here in Las Vegas, but people are camped out in front of the local Fry's. They've actually pitched tents on the sidewalk in front of the store. Back at the office, we had a few good laughs at their expense.
You can't make this sh*t up.
If it's pr0n, they'll tell you to put it away, just like they would if you were "reading" Hustler, or something like that. Otherwise, they're most likely not going to bother. Nobody complained when I watched Airplane! on a flight back east earlier this year. :-)
The UHF tuner on your TV used to stop at channel 83 or 84. It now stops at channel 69; channels 73-77 and 80-83 overlapped with the frequencies used for analog cellular service (and which might still be used in some areas for digital service). Given that some cheap TVs provided continuous tuning of the UHF band (simpler mechanical construction that way), you might've been able to use your TV to eavesdrop on someone's cellphone conversation.
Hardly anybody uses analog cellular anymore except as a fallback when digital service isn't available (and only CDMA phones do that; GSM phones are digital-only), so tracking down an old TV for cellular eavesdropping in most areas would be a disappointment today.
There is a native driver, but neither it nor ndiswrapper work worth a damn with my AMD64 Gentoo install. For the time being, I've given up on getting Linux WiFi working and just hang a Linksys WTR54GS off the network jack when I need to connect to someone's wireless network.
Indeed. I think that, more often than not, some people tack on superfluous verbiage just to engage in the written equivalent of "hearing themselves talk." It's a nasty habit acquired in school. When the teacher asked for a 500-word essay on some random topic, the offenders started throwing in meaningless junk just to drive the word count up. It saved them from having to do some real research and come up with something insightful.
(Insert snide comment about what the kids who did the above are now doing here.)
The default eye "candy" in WinXP is obnoxious enough; I crank it down to something that looks more like Win2K. Will Vista do that?
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns. The closest my guns have gotten to killing anybody is putting holes in paper that had Osama's ugly mug printed on it.
I'm free to keep and bear arms. You're free to become a red stain on the carpet if you choose victim disarmament for yourself.
A properly-configured mail server will have a valid PTR record. It's not going to sit on a dynamic IP address, either, since you'd have to change MX records every time the address changes. Other than incompetent admins, the only people likely to try sending mail directly from those addresses are spammers, whether directly or by compromising someone else's box ("my other computer is your Windows desktop").
If you're on a dynamic IP, use your ISP's mail server. (They might well force you to use theirs...I know Cox blocks TCP port 25 outside its network for residential accounts.) If you (or they) don't have properly-configured DNS info, fix it.
That may not be entirely true, depending on where and how the filtering is done. If you're using qmail and its rblsmtpd, an SMTP session from an RBL-listed host gets cut off with a 451 before the sender starts sending the message. The exchange looks something like this:
220 alfter.us ESMTP
HELO spammer.com
250 alfter.us
MAIL FROM: spammer@spammer.com
250 ok
RCPT TO: me@alfter.us
451 Blocked - see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?65.54.195.216
After that, the connection is closed. The spammer hasn't had a chance to start sending yet. It's still using some CPU time and a small amount of bandwidth, but not nearly as much as with an anti-spam countermeasure that acts on the message only after it's been received in full (like anti-spam software on your desktop).
You need better spam filtering. I usually see no more than two or three spams a day in my inbox, usually for weight-loss snake oil. I don't see too many pump-and-dumpers; maybe they're being filtered out more successfully.
That's not to say that my server isn't getting bombarded with spam. For the first half of today, qmail-smtpd recorded 1054 attempts at receiving a message from somebody. Of those, only 235 were let through as legit. I've fired only two of those off to SpamCop, so that means 99%+ of what gets into my inbox is legit.
Of the 819 that were blocked by rblsmtpd (that'd be ~78% of inbound mail attempts), 609 were blocked for bad reverse DNS (567) or a known dynamic IP address (42). Of the remainder, 133 were listed at Spamhaus, 74 were listed at SpamCop, and 3 were listed at blackholes.us.
These numbers are for what's basically a personal server; only I receive mail through it at this time. Most of the (legit) traffic is from various email lists to which I'm subscribed. I'd think the numbers would scale up for a server that's used by a larger number of people, though.
Sprint doesn't. I moved my apps and data from my Tungsten T to my Treo 650 with no problems (and I've had some of those apps since I started with a PalmPilot Pro some 8 or 9 years ago). If a website offers up an uncompressed .prc, I can tap it in Blazer to download & install it; otherwise, I can unpack the zipfile on my computer and either HotSync it over or copy it to an SD card and run and/or install it from there.
The same applies to Java apps (once you have the JVM installed), but native apps for Palm OS usually run better (Google Maps is pretty smooth).
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