Our identity was stolen to the tune of $13K. Apparently the trail started with an inactive discover card account. Somehow the first person (there were eventually many) phoned discover and got them to change the billing address from my house to some place on staten island. As far as I knew this card was inactive and unused.
One thing all the credit card companies and bureaus (Equifax, etc) told us to do is to call their fraud hotlines and put a block on each card that keeps anyone from changing the mailing address. ( no I don't remember what happens if I actually DO want to move...I've been here 20 years and I aint movin...con sarn it)
I had a slave drive with about 4GB of family photos. This included years of photos of my kids, and many irreplacable photos of my wifes mother who has since passed away. [ this is known as foreshadowing ]
I built a brand new system and took that drive out and put it into another XP system as a slave....no problems at all. Then we had a power failure. I have 9 computers in my house, many with several drives, every system was fine, with the exception of that one drive. XP decided that this drive was no longer formatted.
I took my lumps from the wife and began to look into data recovery. I tried SalvageNTFS, ScroungeNTFS and a demo from OnTrack. I forget the actual status that each tool reported but suffice it to say that none of them were successful and I just moved on. I did keep the drive though. A few weeks ago I stuffed it into what is to be a new webserver and put in a knoppix live cd. *poof* got everything back...every photo was recovered.
Can't explain it, but I'm keeping a Knoppix CD in my box of tricks from now on.
You have a computer on your desk and a monitor on your desk. They have two power cords. My pic frame is just a computer (the mini-itx board) and the monitor (bare LCD panel) stuffed into one box. They were designed to be powered seperately. That's why I had to splice the cords together into one.
The bare motherboard has no power supply. I bought a motherboard/power supply "bundle" from min-box that includes the ac/dc converter which provides +12V in a single round plug. The bundle includes a small daughter card that plugs into the white molex (?) power connector on the mobo and provides all the other voltages necessary.
The LCD also came with it's own ac/dc transformer that also supplied +12V. Having two power cords was a pain and unacceptable, so I cut and spliced them together. That is why you only see one cord.
I built one for my wife last year (mothers day). I was lucky enough to get a very very cheap 17" LCD. I used a Mini-ITX board and a used laptop hard drive . It's running a very trimmed down version of fedora with no X. I use fbv to view the pictures, a wireless usb to load them and a simple php program to manage how the photos are displayed (yes, it's running apache)
Wife factor is very high, especially because I had it professionally framed, which cost more than the motherboard!
with her blessing, I don't even get a finders fee:)
We work together with about 3000 engineers/scientist. Everyone in her age range (lets say over 35) is either married or divorced and *very* creepy.
The problem is that she is so athletic and active that she hangs around with a much younger crowd that realistically is not right for a long term relationship. I'll bet not one guy in 10 her age can keep up with her.
Yes, "pimping her out" on/. is pretty non-traditional but where better to find a matching geek!
However, she is a single geek with a masters degree who plays volleyball and who might be interested in dating a like minded, athletic, non-smoking, sane, intelligent person in the new england area.
email me at gary dot huntress at gmail for details
The gathering storm against bittorrent users has already started to worry me. I have been using suprnova to find torrents of TV shows only, no movies. I'm essentially time shifting content that I could almost as easily have "tivo"-ed myself.
A recent example is that a friend of mine missed last week's episode of her favorite show, ER. I got a torrent the next day and burned her a DVD.
I wish that type of usage was considered "fair use" but it's not.
Every year our lab got a highly anticipated visit from the SGI road show team. A big black Kenworth 18 wheeler with an equally glossy black trailer.
Inside was a collection of workstations all running very impressive (at the time) GL demos with realtime "twist this knob and rotate the champagne glass" kind of stuff.
We have at least three Origin 2000 systems, one is 96 node...so you know the demos must have helped at least some:)
If it wasn't for our Origins running Matlab I probably would not have tried linux until much later. The only reason I tried linux was to use X and run Matlab remotely.
I've worked at a govt lab for over 20 years. Well over half our products are software (sometimes the rest seems to be powerpoint presentations). When I was hired I made inqueries to several other software development groups about "where are our common libraries? Where is the FFT I should use? where is our standard MLE routine? Where should I put the code for the detection algorithm that I just wrote?"
There was no answer then and there is still no answer today. We have over 3000 people and not only do we not share libraries it is virtually impossible to actually exchange source.
When we hear rumors of someone elses code that might possibly be useful (and this happens infrequently, and unofficially via the grapevine) we have to make "official" requests through an unfortunately large hierarchy. We are usually met with "why do you want this? This was developeed with funds from program XYZ and you can't use it. This model has not been validated and we can't release it...."
And this is internal to ONE organization! When we make similar requests to our external sister labs of equal size and bureaucratic depth the problem scales exponentially.
It's very frustrating and I wish I could come up with a way to fix it.
I don't want to yank my player out of the dash when I want to add songs. I want to drive my car into my garage and have it present on my home network. Then from my desktop I will drag/drop songs to the car.
Why the heck is it taking the auto industry so long to add simple network connectivity to cars? I know it's a price sensitive market, and potentially a security problem, but I've been anticipating this "no brainer" option for years....where is it???
My friend (Match username 'lkeri') used Match.com for about a year with limited success. I think she ended up meeting about a dozen people but never really hooked up with her ideal match.
The good news is she didn't get overwhelmed by psychos. I think the services do well filtering them out for your protection.
I think overall it was a good experience for casual dating, but unfortunately if you're looking for a long term relationship it's going to be a lot harder.
(note, she's got a masters degree in engineering, gainfully employed, and is an awesome athlete....Guys, what are you waiting for????)
Comcast allegedly has a magic number that triggers an abuse letter to subscribers. It's been purported to be around 100GB of transfer per month.
I assume that the Tivo/netflix movies will be high quality and so probably won't be less than 4GB for a feature.
So in a house with 3 teens and 5 computers I wonder how hard it would be to reach this cap via 10+ movies per month, heavy MMPORPG usage, the new comcast video mail, etc
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman because it changed my attitude about accepting things as they are. I'm not cynical but I'm now more likely to question what is presented to me as fact. I really think this book increased my curiosity about many things.
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What's wrong with "securifying"? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
One thing all the credit card companies and bureaus (Equifax, etc) told us to do is to call their fraud hotlines and put a block on each card that keeps anyone from changing the mailing address. ( no I don't remember what happens if I actually DO want to move...I've been here 20 years and I aint movin...con sarn it)
I built a brand new system and took that drive out and put it into another XP system as a slave....no problems at all. Then we had a power failure. I have 9 computers in my house, many with several drives, every system was fine, with the exception of that one drive. XP decided that this drive was no longer formatted.
I took my lumps from the wife and began to look into data recovery. I tried SalvageNTFS, ScroungeNTFS and a demo from OnTrack. I forget the actual status that each tool reported but suffice it to say that none of them were successful and I just moved on. I did keep the drive though. A few weeks ago I stuffed it into what is to be a new webserver and put in a knoppix live cd. *poof* got everything back...every photo was recovered.
Can't explain it, but I'm keeping a Knoppix CD in my box of tricks from now on.
He should be featured in "The Big Book of British Smiles"
You have a computer on your desk and a monitor on your desk. They have two power cords. My pic frame is just a computer (the mini-itx board) and the monitor (bare LCD panel) stuffed into one box. They were designed to be powered seperately. That's why I had to splice the cords together into one.
The LCD also came with it's own ac/dc transformer that also supplied +12V. Having two power cords was a pain and unacceptable, so I cut and spliced them together. That is why you only see one cord.
The front (image is an underwater photo of an octopus)
The back guts held together with industrial velcro
Wife factor is very high, especially because I had it professionally framed, which cost more than the motherboard!
According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz they have 8 way chips already.
with her blessing, I don't even get a finders fee :)
/. is pretty non-traditional but where better to find a matching geek!
We work together with about 3000 engineers/scientist. Everyone in her age range (lets say over 35) is either married or divorced and *very* creepy.
The problem is that she is so athletic and active that she hangs around with a much younger crowd that realistically is not right for a long term relationship. I'll bet not one guy in 10 her age can keep up with her.
Yes, "pimping her out" on
However, she is a single geek with a masters degree who plays volleyball and who might be interested in dating a like minded, athletic, non-smoking, sane, intelligent person in the new england area.
email me at gary dot huntress at gmail for details
The gathering storm against bittorrent users has already started to worry me. I have been using suprnova to find torrents of TV shows only, no movies. I'm essentially time shifting content that I could almost as easily have "tivo"-ed myself.
A recent example is that a friend of mine missed last week's episode of her favorite show, ER. I got a torrent the next day and burned her a DVD.
I wish that type of usage was considered "fair use" but it's not.
Inside was a collection of workstations all running very impressive (at the time) GL demos with realtime "twist this knob and rotate the champagne glass" kind of stuff.
We have at least three Origin 2000 systems, one is 96 node...so you know the demos must have helped at least some :)
If it wasn't for our Origins running Matlab I probably would not have tried linux until much later. The only reason I tried linux was to use X and run Matlab remotely.
When we hear rumors of someone elses code that might possibly be useful (and this happens infrequently, and unofficially via the grapevine) we have to make "official" requests through an unfortunately large hierarchy. We are usually met with "why do you want this? This was developeed with funds from program XYZ and you can't use it. This model has not been validated and we can't release it...."
And this is internal to ONE organization! When we make similar requests to our external sister labs of equal size and bureaucratic depth the problem scales exponentially.
It's very frustrating and I wish I could come up with a way to fix it.
Can you provide a reference that it is illegal?
Seriously, this is not a troll....I see this statement often and I want to know if it's an urban myth or not.
Why the heck is it taking the auto industry so long to add simple network connectivity to cars? I know it's a price sensitive market, and potentially a security problem, but I've been anticipating this "no brainer" option for years....where is it???
Anxiety \Anx*i"e*ty\ - n ; finding yourself behind a pinto and in front of an Audi 5000
Boo! That match.com link was a timed session.
Take the time to look at her beach volleyball bikini picture! Just because she's a geek and an athlete doesn't mean she's not really cute!
Go to match.com, select "get started", then "search" at the top, then enter her username "lkeri". No evil registration required!!
I think overall it was a good experience for casual dating, but unfortunately if you're looking for a long term relationship it's going to be a lot harder.
(note, she's got a masters degree in engineering, gainfully employed, and is an awesome athlete....Guys, what are you waiting for????)
Comcast allegedly has a magic number that triggers an abuse letter to subscribers. It's been purported to be around 100GB of transfer per month.
I assume that the Tivo/netflix movies will be high quality and so probably won't be less than 4GB for a feature.
So in a house with 3 teens and 5 computers I wonder how hard it would be to reach this cap via 10+ movies per month, heavy MMPORPG usage, the new comcast video mail, etc
"Microwave Until Hot"
yep, and I'm an engineer too
I thought OLEDs were "the new hotness" too because they allegedly will be able to create them with very generic inkjet printing technology.
The challenge mentioned here is still open, and remains so even after all the comments about how easy it must be that were made here
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman because it changed my attitude about accepting things as they are. I'm not cynical but I'm now more likely to question what is presented to me as fact. I really think this book increased my curiosity about many things.
He won, get over it. Unless you happen to have some information that the US Supreme Court overlooked?