Amazon now apparently provides web-hosting services. I've only skimmed, since I wanted to type this fast, but, hypothetically, but couldn't it be someone hosted? The fact that I can't navigate to that page from the main Amazon page sends up a red flag to me.
ET wasn't so much 'boring' as 'unplayable'. The first time I played, I never figured out you could just lift out of the hole and kept resetting every time I fell into one.
Even after I figured that out, it was pretty dang unplayable.
How many users actually know what Internet Explorer is?
How many of those users will hear about this message?
How many of those users will know where to get an alternative browser?
I hear you. I'm getting a pretty bad headache explaining to my relatives (My parents, little sister, uncle, and grandparents all use AOL) that despite what they think, they're still using IE when they browse with the AOL software, and that if they insist on staying with AOL (which they do), they should minimize the AOL window once they log in and load up mozilla, which I already installed and set up for them.
My relatives are intelligent people, but, I just can't make them understand that AOL uses IE when nothing anywhere in it mentions IE.
Don't you think you are overreacting a smidgion? Sure, the grandparent post isn't in the friendliest language, but there's a difference between "I don't like the radio and choose to listen to my own collections" and "I don't like the radio and mock anyone who does."
Personally, I have to agree with the grandparent. My local radio stations do nothing but play something like 10 songs over and over, which isn't really that appealing to me. So I could care less if the big companies have found another way to exploit the system.
I'm a little bit leary, as my current plextor dvd burner has been giving me trouble. Out of the box, it was defective (could burn, but could not read, either CD or DVD). Sent it in, got a replacement. It's been four months, and I'm already seening signs that this one is acting up. There's a data dvd that it can't read (that my ancient 1x dvd drive can) and a DVD+RW that THIS DRIVE burned a month ago isn't readable now. I'm wondering if the model has some defects.
There are a few things that aren't quite up to speed in 2.6, such as my nforce2 drivers.
That said, the whole idea of numbering system for linux kernels is that a user/company can keep using known stable kernels until they are comfortable/able to switch to the next kernel set.
There are still businesses out there running 2.2 and 2.0, from what I read on slashdot.
That quote is out of context. Harriman is talking about the weeds that prevent normal golfcourse creeping bentgrass from growing evenly:
But, as Harriman points out, kneeling to stroke a patch adjoining the bentgrass test site, the silky smoothness can get interrupted by a coarse weed -- a yellow grass that grows vertically in bunches, like an artichoke.
On a putting green that acts as a speed bump, deflecting the ball and frustrating even the most talented golfer.
"Tiger Woods hates this stuff," Harriman says.
Honestly, it shouldn't be much of a problem with spreading:
Harriman, Scotts' chief research scientist, counters that numerous studies by the company indicate the grass is unlikely to spread. The grass seeds are dispersed by flowering blossoms -- but the closely shorn turf on a golf course is never allowed to grow tall enough to flower.
The only thing left is testing to be completely sure. No big deal, just a bunch of FUD from people who don't know how this stuff works.
Well, the nvidia Nforce2 chipset's support is pretty good in 2.4 and coming along well in 2.6, so it SHOULD be ok. It'll just take a bit of extra effort.
..back in the day. Our first computer was a 386 that ran dos and intially a gui called dosshell.
The way my father set it up was to put all the games on floppy disks, then write on the disk's label the filename of the.exe needed to execute the game.
Then, he simply taught me to switch to the A: drive, type the filename, and hit enter. I could then enjoy all the games I wanted when the computer was free.
Later, of course, he turned dosshell back on so I could get a feel for mouse work, but that initial dos introduction to computers certainly put me ahead of many of my classmates in later years.
Their main setup is in Sioux City, Iowa, where I grew up. They employ about half the town, or did at least. For the last year or so, they've been periodically firing large groups of people. In fact, last month they announced they are consolidating something like 5 buildings worth of people into one building and selling/leasing/whatever the other 4.
So it doesn't come as a surprise that this is happening. I'm rooting for them, but their reputation for low-quality is working against them.
He's stolen credit card numbers, and caused, according to the article, $3 million in losses. He then says it is only to show the danger of using credit cards insecurely.
Just like the firearm example, he's doing something illegal to, supposedly, prove a point.
There's an ATM on the Purdue University campus that's extremely poorly-designed. For one thing, it's has an annoying low cash withdrawl limit per day, like fifty dollars or seventy five dollars.
It also does not stock one dollar bills. If you, therefore, try to withdraw $3 from the machine, it will crash and reboot. When it comes back online, it will be using a default, higher cash limit.
Q: When a client says "How can your systems be instant?"
A: Simply, because most operations that occur on other systems take time to load or render. We eliminated the so called "wait-time" a few years ago with inventing our TXK modeling for our Hard Drive systems. Where many systems today are built with just the "fastest" processor, we dive deeper into incorporating the true components that allow every application you run, to run at the fastest speed possible.
I found that. I was checking on the OTHER lan card that is onboard, which is 3com based. It, however, wasn't added to the 2.4 kernel until like 2.4.23, so it might not have gotten into 2.6. I was informed it wasn't in 2.6.1, and I don't see anything about it in the changelog. Guess I'll just switch to the nforce one for now. Makes little difference to me.
Is there a handy place to find a listing of ALL changes since 2.6.0? I missed the change logs for a couple version and am trying to figure out if my nforce2 stuff was ever added (wasn't in 2.6.1).
That's all well and good for the guy who casts the tie breaking vote in his district, but for the guy who is in the 'landslide' district and is voting against the landslider winner, his vote has no impact at all.
It raises the "value" of some votes, but it can't raise the value of all votes.
My parents are both in their late 50s. They do not to computers readily, nor do they learn quickly. But they do learn. I've shown my parents, carefully, the results that happen from each action. Install spyware or adware? The computer is slow. Open unknown attachments? Get a virus. Fail to update Windows/Norton/AdAware, get taken advantage of. By now, they can operate pretty close to self-sufficiency. About once or twice a month I'll get an e-mail or an IM if they want to double-check a course of action with me, but 90% of the time they choose correctly with my input in those cases anyway.
In short, stop underestimating people just because they didn't grow up around personal computers. A little bit of time and help can go a long way.
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Amazon now apparently provides web-hosting services. I've only skimmed, since I wanted to type this fast, but, hypothetically, but couldn't it be someone hosted? The fact that I can't navigate to that page from the main Amazon page sends up a red flag to me.
That was at least INTENDED to be parody. I've watched it, and enjoyed it decently. It's only when it FORCES the jokes that it gets downright rotten.
ET wasn't so much 'boring' as 'unplayable'. The first time I played, I never figured out you could just lift out of the hole and kept resetting every time I fell into one.
Even after I figured that out, it was pretty dang unplayable.
I had one of those. I could get up to 3 or 4 cookies, but then, yeah, eye-glaze time.
I'm from the midwest, and I've never heard such a thing. Odd.
I hear you. I'm getting a pretty bad headache explaining to my relatives (My parents, little sister, uncle, and grandparents all use AOL) that despite what they think, they're still using IE when they browse with the AOL software, and that if they insist on staying with AOL (which they do), they should minimize the AOL window once they log in and load up mozilla, which I already installed and set up for them.
My relatives are intelligent people, but, I just can't make them understand that AOL uses IE when nothing anywhere in it mentions IE.
Don't you think you are overreacting a smidgion? Sure, the grandparent post isn't in the friendliest language, but there's a difference between "I don't like the radio and choose to listen to my own collections" and "I don't like the radio and mock anyone who does."
Personally, I have to agree with the grandparent. My local radio stations do nothing but play something like 10 songs over and over, which isn't really that appealing to me. So I could care less if the big companies have found another way to exploit the system.
I'm a little bit leary, as my current plextor dvd burner has been giving me trouble. Out of the box, it was defective (could burn, but could not read, either CD or DVD). Sent it in, got a replacement. It's been four months, and I'm already seening signs that this one is acting up. There's a data dvd that it can't read (that my ancient 1x dvd drive can) and a DVD+RW that THIS DRIVE burned a month ago isn't readable now. I'm wondering if the model has some defects.
If it wasn't, you could give a whole new emphasis to the computer term "zombie". :)
There are a few things that aren't quite up to speed in 2.6, such as my nforce2 drivers.
That said, the whole idea of numbering system for linux kernels is that a user/company can keep using known stable kernels until they are comfortable/able to switch to the next kernel set.
There are still businesses out there running 2.2 and 2.0, from what I read on slashdot.
Well, the nvidia Nforce2 chipset's support is pretty good in 2.4 and coming along well in 2.6, so it SHOULD be ok. It'll just take a bit of extra effort.
..back in the day. Our first computer was a 386 that ran dos and intially a gui called dosshell.
.exe needed to execute the game.
The way my father set it up was to put all the games on floppy disks, then write on the disk's label the filename of the
Then, he simply taught me to switch to the A: drive, type the filename, and hit enter. I could then enjoy all the games I wanted when the computer was free.
Later, of course, he turned dosshell back on so I could get a feel for mouse work, but that initial dos introduction to computers certainly put me ahead of many of my classmates in later years.
Now, when zealots are done beating a dead horse, they can boot up the body and talk about it on slashdot! Think about all the time this will save!
Their main setup is in Sioux City, Iowa, where I grew up. They employ about half the town, or did at least. For the last year or so, they've been periodically firing large groups of people. In fact, last month they announced they are consolidating something like 5 buildings worth of people into one building and selling/leasing/whatever the other 4.
So it doesn't come as a surprise that this is happening. I'm rooting for them, but their reputation for low-quality is working against them.
In this case...yeah.
He's stolen credit card numbers, and caused, according to the article, $3 million in losses. He then says it is only to show the danger of using credit cards insecurely.
Just like the firearm example, he's doing something illegal to, supposedly, prove a point.
The only time I've ever seen stop errors in XP is when the hardware was really low-quality, or the system was riddled with adware/spyware.
I assume they're getting some pretty cheap parts for these machines.
There's an ATM on the Purdue University campus that's extremely poorly-designed. For one thing, it's has an annoying low cash withdrawl limit per day, like fifty dollars or seventy five dollars.
It also does not stock one dollar bills. If you, therefore, try to withdraw $3 from the machine, it will crash and reboot. When it comes back online, it will be using a default, higher cash limit.
Quality machines abound.
I liked this part of his FAQ:
Q: When a client says "How can your systems be instant?"
A: Simply, because most operations that occur on other systems take time to load or render. We eliminated the so called "wait-time" a few years ago with inventing our TXK modeling for our Hard Drive systems. Where many systems today are built with just the "fastest" processor, we dive deeper into incorporating the true components that allow every application you run, to run at the fastest speed possible.
Bizarre.
I found that. I was checking on the OTHER lan card that is onboard, which is 3com based. It, however, wasn't added to the 2.4 kernel until like 2.4.23, so it might not have gotten into 2.6. I was informed it wasn't in 2.6.1, and I don't see anything about it in the changelog. Guess I'll just switch to the nforce one for now. Makes little difference to me.
Ah, thank you very much. I've been looking for that for a while now.
Looks like they added some stuff in 2.6.3, but not all of it yet.
Is there a handy place to find a listing of ALL changes since 2.6.0? I missed the change logs for a couple version and am trying to figure out if my nforce2 stuff was ever added (wasn't in 2.6.1).
That's all well and good for the guy who casts the tie breaking vote in his district, but for the guy who is in the 'landslide' district and is voting against the landslider winner, his vote has no impact at all.
It raises the "value" of some votes, but it can't raise the value of all votes.
My parents are both in their late 50s. They do not to computers readily, nor do they learn quickly. But they do learn. I've shown my parents, carefully, the results that happen from each action. Install spyware or adware? The computer is slow. Open unknown attachments? Get a virus. Fail to update Windows/Norton/AdAware, get taken advantage of. By now, they can operate pretty close to self-sufficiency. About once or twice a month I'll get an e-mail or an IM if they want to double-check a course of action with me, but 90% of the time they choose correctly with my input in those cases anyway.
In short, stop underestimating people just because they didn't grow up around personal computers. A little bit of time and help can go a long way.
You make a good point. I guess I should have said, IF I'm going to buy anything, it would be the box set.