In September, while travelling between Bern(CH) and Frisco.
I had the sweet surprise to see some Wifi logo in SFO.
I then open my iBook and check for a network, which I find.
I try to browse and find a web page which asks me to pay 25$.
Bullshit!
How do they believe they will sell such access, especially to people who need at most one hour accesses ???
The Denver airport (passed through it each way between LAS and PHF recently) has big banners hanging in its gate areas touting wireless access. No mention is made anywhere that they charge for access...and since the connection was constantly going up and down, there wasn't even a default webpage that can be called up. (A few weeks later, I found the AT&T Wireless page that said it would've cost $10 to connect. At the time, I just went back to doing offline stuff.)
Part 97 also doesn't allow encryption, so you can forget about secure communications. Depending on what you need to do with your wireless connection, this could be a problem.
Yea, when my son was around that age he was so used to me re-winding movies and stepping through frame-by-frame to see certain FX he would want me to re-wind the news too.
When the traffic info comes up on the radio on the way home and I don't catch it until it's almost over, I think an "instant-replay" button on the car stereo would be a Good Thing.
From the article: NEVER LET IT GET ABOVE 55C IN MY OPINION ON AIRCOOLING
When I had the stock heatsink/fan on my 1800+, it would IDLE at over 55C, and peak at around 63C under a full load.
My dual MP2100 rig (on a Tyan S2466N-4M with a pair of Vantec Aeroflow coolers) gets into the mid-50s when TMPGEnc is running. At idle, it drops into the mid-40s. If you're idling in the mid-to-upper 50s on a single-processor rig (especially at a slower clock speed), something is wrong with your cooling. Did you leave out the thermal grease or something like that?
Are overclocked CPUs more sensitive to heat, or is this just a "to be safe" recommendation? AMD says they're good up to 85C.
What AMD specifies is an "absolute maximum." It's similar to the red line on your car's tachometer...if you go past it, you'll probably break something. Getting near it (without going over) won't necessarily break things, but it'll wear out (yes, processors can wear out) more rapidly. At the very least, you'll most likely end up with a glitchy system that bluescreens/panics frequently, especially under heavy load.
While the recommendation to keep your processor's temperature under the double nickel might be a bit conservative for some people, keeping things as cool as possible is generally a Good Thing.
Umm, they just diappeared? You do agree that there were WMD at one time, right?
Sure, back in 1991, before the UN made them disarm.
How about 1998, when your pal Bill Clinton told the world that Saddam was flouting the sanctions against him? Regime change in Iraq has been our stated policy since then. That he failed to act on the information and opportunities that presented themselves to him (such as Sudan offering bin Laden on a plate) will forever remain a black spot (one of many) on his administration.
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Its some of the scummiest software I have ever seen, and unfortuantly there is no other player which plays their media.
How many sites use only Real, though? I haven't run across any lately...if they offer Shoutcast and/or Windows Media streaming, I'll go with one of those. I don't have any of Real's stuff installed on any of my computers, and I don't think I'm missing anything. (That Real is the most expensive way to stream stuff is no doubt part of the reason.)
I don't think that the words "car" and "efficiency" belong in the same sentence.
I'd like to see you bike 15 miles each way when it's 110 (or hotter) outside. Then again, your coworkers wouldn't as they'd be stuck with your b.o. all day.
you want an answer? A- remove the airbags and trigger sensors from your car... or B- drive like a sane person.
If I could've bought my truck without airbags, I would've. I suspect that removing/disabling the airbags (beyond using the key-operated passenger airbag switch on the dash) would land you in the same kind of hot water you'd get for removing or gutting a catalytic converter.
And yes, "because everyone is doing it" is a perfectly good excuse for speeding, because if I drive the speed limit than I am going slow enough compared to the regular traffic that I am a HAZARD.
Here in Nevada, people driving at or below the speed limit have been ticketed for obstructing traffic...you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, so you might as well go with the flow.
(Most traffic goes 10 over on the surface streets. On freeways, traffic mostly runs from 10 over to 20 over...how far over is mostly dependent on whether the speed limit is 65 or 55. If you're out in the sticks where the speed limit is 75, most traffic ends up being a little bit under or over.)
Sure, digital cameras are expensive. But they have advantages...
One more advantage that some digital cameras can have is that they can enable you to get pictures that would've been difficult or impossible with film cameras. I have one of the swivel-body Nikons (a Coolpix 9500, IIRC)...you can aim the lens where you want it to go and keep the display facing you. It's easy to compose and shoot with the camera held over your head, with the camera down on the ground looking up, etc. I've gotten several pictures with the camera held in unusual ways that I would never have gotten with my old Pentax K1000.
(I just need to figure out WTF happened to the battery and charger...they seem to have stopped working, and $10 for a 2CR5 that lasts an hour or two sucks. That's about what three rolls of film cost, so the cost saving isn't happening right now. The little type 76 button cell in the K1000 lasts for years and years, by comparison.)
But the article said that this is a charter school (in the US they call them private schools, I think)
Charter schools != private schools. They're public schools that are allowed to operate outside most of the school district's bureaucracy and procedures...principals and teachers get more autonomy in determining how their school should be run. They frequently have some sort of academic or vocational specialization, as well...you could have a school for math/science geeks, a school for art geeks, etc.
The Administration (White House) *HAS* expressed support for the bill. The expected road block is in the House, not the White House. Sorry, can't blame this one on Bush.
Since when have Slashbots ever let the truth get in the way of bashing that which they hate?
What is it with all of you Ogg Vorbis fanatics? Unfortunately, my iPod and my set-top player only like AAC or MP3. Does anyone make a portable Ogg player?
AeroPlayer actually supported Ogg Vorbis before it supported MP3.
Michael Moore made a huge deal about it last year when he thought he wouldn't win Best Documentary. "Bowling for Columbine" was for a mainstream audience, and not enough "mainstream" voters had seen the others in his category.
Never mind that it didn't even belong in the documentary category. I thought documentaries were supposed to be about that which is real or true...Bowling for Columbine is neither.
I certainly didn't like patching OpenSSH on a machine I can only reach via SSH.
nohup/etc/init.d/sshd restart is a fairly safe way to load an updated OpenSSH on most systems. On my LFS boxen, the connection will drop right after you hit Return, but you can log back in right away and the new daemon will be active. On my Gentoo boxen,/etc/init.d/sshd restart is sufficient...the current connection keeps running on the old daemon until you close it, while new connections will use the new daemon.
(You could also just reboot the machine after updating OpenSSH, but that's the girly-man way of updating.:-P )
I have never had a problem with a Windows hotfix or service patch, with Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Win2K SP3 and 4 broke my webcam, an Orange Micro iBot. When a filter graph with the camera in it was stopped, the computer would bluescreen. (About a year or so after the release of SP3, Orange Micro got around to issuing an updated driver that wouldn't bluescreen.:-| Until then, the workaround was to copy ohci1394.sys from a system still on SP2.)
Those files, of course, are no more useable than AAC
Not really - there are FAR FAR more MP3 players out there that support WMA than there are that support AAC.
Is anybody actually using the WMA support in those devices, though? I have a Rio Volt SP90 which supports WMA, but all I've ever played on it are MP3s and red-book CDs.
These days, though, my preferred player is a Palm Tungsten T running AeroPlayer. It supports MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It plays neither WMA nor AAC. Given that AACs purchased from the iTunes Music Store can be burned in red-book format to a CD-RW and ripped to MP3 or Ogg and given that you most likely don't have this capability with any of the services that use WMA, Microsoft's argument doesn't carry much water with me. Hell, I'd be surprised if DRM'd WMA files would play on the Rio Volt anyway.
but i love microsoft's mappoint. it has pretty good maps and shows where theres construction on roads and the time periods the construction goes through. (i.e. there is construction for the next 20 miles on i-40 east from august 2, 2002 to october 4, 2004) and it has an easy to use interface, but i haven't tried it with anything but IE so it will probably kill mozilla or something.
This MapPoint is better yet...load it onto your notebook and you can take it with you to look up addresses and routes without a connection to the Internet.
BTW, the site you mentioned works just fine with Mozilla.
i've also used expedia.com which i have found to be horrible
That's odd...Expedia is what I've used ever since AOHell bought MapQuest, and I've never had any issues with it. I think Expedia's map service runs off the same database as MapPoint, so you should get the same info out of both. (It looks like MapPoint's large size is larger than Expedia's, which could be an advantage.)
.BAT are very limited and the syntax is ugly. Use.VBS instead, ie VB script batch file.
Better yet, install Cygwin and write a shell script, just like you would on a UN*X box. Why go to the bother of figuring out a non-portable scripting method when you can learn one language and write scripts that run on Win32, Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, etc.?
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The Denver airport (passed through it each way between LAS and PHF recently) has big banners hanging in its gate areas touting wireless access. No mention is made anywhere that they charge for access...and since the connection was constantly going up and down, there wasn't even a default webpage that can be called up. (A few weeks later, I found the AT&T Wireless page that said it would've cost $10 to connect. At the time, I just went back to doing offline stuff.)
Part 97 also doesn't allow encryption, so you can forget about secure communications. Depending on what you need to do with your wireless connection, this could be a problem.
When the traffic info comes up on the radio on the way home and I don't catch it until it's almost over, I think an "instant-replay" button on the car stereo would be a Good Thing.
My dual MP2100 rig (on a Tyan S2466N-4M with a pair of Vantec Aeroflow coolers) gets into the mid-50s when TMPGEnc is running. At idle, it drops into the mid-40s. If you're idling in the mid-to-upper 50s on a single-processor rig (especially at a slower clock speed), something is wrong with your cooling. Did you leave out the thermal grease or something like that?
What AMD specifies is an "absolute maximum." It's similar to the red line on your car's tachometer...if you go past it, you'll probably break something. Getting near it (without going over) won't necessarily break things, but it'll wear out (yes, processors can wear out) more rapidly. At the very least, you'll most likely end up with a glitchy system that bluescreens/panics frequently, especially under heavy load.
While the recommendation to keep your processor's temperature under the double nickel might be a bit conservative for some people, keeping things as cool as possible is generally a Good Thing.
How about 1998, when your pal Bill Clinton told the world that Saddam was flouting the sanctions against him? Regime change in Iraq has been our stated policy since then. That he failed to act on the information and opportunities that presented themselves to him (such as Sudan offering bin Laden on a plate) will forever remain a black spot (one of many) on his administration.
I thought UNIX didn't have GONADs...
It's the trigger on your HERF gun. That'll fix it permanently. :-)
How many sites use only Real, though? I haven't run across any lately...if they offer Shoutcast and/or Windows Media streaming, I'll go with one of those. I don't have any of Real's stuff installed on any of my computers, and I don't think I'm missing anything. (That Real is the most expensive way to stream stuff is no doubt part of the reason.)
WhereTF are you going to take a shower while at work? Last time I checked, the average office isn't suitably equipped. Go troll somewhere else.
I'd like to see you bike 15 miles each way when it's 110 (or hotter) outside. Then again, your coworkers wouldn't as they'd be stuck with your b.o. all day.
"It's not just people selling to other people, you know. It's people selling to other people...over teh Intarweb!"
What really is too bad is that the USPTO gets bamboozled with claims such as this.
If I could've bought my truck without airbags, I would've. I suspect that removing/disabling the airbags (beyond using the key-operated passenger airbag switch on the dash) would land you in the same kind of hot water you'd get for removing or gutting a catalytic converter.
Here in Nevada, people driving at or below the speed limit have been ticketed for obstructing traffic...you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, so you might as well go with the flow.
(Most traffic goes 10 over on the surface streets. On freeways, traffic mostly runs from 10 over to 20 over...how far over is mostly dependent on whether the speed limit is 65 or 55. If you're out in the sticks where the speed limit is 75, most traffic ends up being a little bit under or over.)
One more advantage that some digital cameras can have is that they can enable you to get pictures that would've been difficult or impossible with film cameras. I have one of the swivel-body Nikons (a Coolpix 9500, IIRC)...you can aim the lens where you want it to go and keep the display facing you. It's easy to compose and shoot with the camera held over your head, with the camera down on the ground looking up, etc. I've gotten several pictures with the camera held in unusual ways that I would never have gotten with my old Pentax K1000.
(I just need to figure out WTF happened to the battery and charger...they seem to have stopped working, and $10 for a 2CR5 that lasts an hour or two sucks. That's about what three rolls of film cost, so the cost saving isn't happening right now. The little type 76 button cell in the K1000 lasts for years and years, by comparison.)
Charter schools != private schools. They're public schools that are allowed to operate outside most of the school district's bureaucracy and procedures...principals and teachers get more autonomy in determining how their school should be run. They frequently have some sort of academic or vocational specialization, as well...you could have a school for math/science geeks, a school for art geeks, etc.
Since when have Slashbots ever let the truth get in the way of bashing that which they hate?
For a non-graphing calculator, the TI-68 0wn3d. Too bad the display on mine cracked when my backpack fell off my bike...:-(
AeroPlayer actually supported Ogg Vorbis before it supported MP3.
Never mind that it didn't even belong in the documentary category. I thought documentaries were supposed to be about that which is real or true...Bowling for Columbine is neither.
nohup /etc/init.d/sshd restart is a fairly safe way to load an updated OpenSSH on most systems. On my LFS boxen, the connection will drop right after you hit Return, but you can log back in right away and the new daemon will be active. On my Gentoo boxen, /etc/init.d/sshd restart is sufficient...the current connection keeps running on the old daemon until you close it, while new connections will use the new daemon.
(You could also just reboot the machine after updating OpenSSH, but that's the girly-man way of updating. :-P )
Win2K SP3 and 4 broke my webcam, an Orange Micro iBot. When a filter graph with the camera in it was stopped, the computer would bluescreen. (About a year or so after the release of SP3, Orange Micro got around to issuing an updated driver that wouldn't bluescreen. :-| Until then, the workaround was to copy ohci1394.sys from a system still on SP2.)
Is anybody actually using the WMA support in those devices, though? I have a Rio Volt SP90 which supports WMA, but all I've ever played on it are MP3s and red-book CDs.
These days, though, my preferred player is a Palm Tungsten T running AeroPlayer. It supports MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It plays neither WMA nor AAC. Given that AACs purchased from the iTunes Music Store can be burned in red-book format to a CD-RW and ripped to MP3 or Ogg and given that you most likely don't have this capability with any of the services that use WMA, Microsoft's argument doesn't carry much water with me. Hell, I'd be surprised if DRM'd WMA files would play on the Rio Volt anyway.
You sure they wouldn't use sharks for that purpose? Maybe even mutant sea bass, if they can't get sharks?
This MapPoint is better yet...load it onto your notebook and you can take it with you to look up addresses and routes without a connection to the Internet.
BTW, the site you mentioned works just fine with Mozilla.
That's odd...Expedia is what I've used ever since AOHell bought MapQuest, and I've never had any issues with it. I think Expedia's map service runs off the same database as MapPoint, so you should get the same info out of both. (It looks like MapPoint's large size is larger than Expedia's, which could be an advantage.)
Better yet, install Cygwin and write a shell script, just like you would on a UN*X box. Why go to the bother of figuring out a non-portable scripting method when you can learn one language and write scripts that run on Win32, Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, etc.?