I've not had that much trouble with power supplies, but people seem to be more willing to drop the extra $10-$15 on a halfway decent power supply (which is all you really need) than they are on the extra $25-$40 or so for good quality RAM. Perhaps it's becaue they look at the price of their ram, then notice that they can buy the next size up in the value ram for the same price.
Still, RAM errors are one of the most annoying to track down too. At least with bum power supplies you can put a multimeter in there and read the voltages. Heck, most BIOSes these days include some voltage monitoring that will at least tell you if the lines are in the right ballpark.
A similar thing happened with my wife's credit cards at Target. She has her two bank issued cards. She tried using the debit first and it came back denied. So she tried using the credit card, it also came back denied. I had to pull out my card to finish the purchase. This was embarrassing for her (she had plenty of money in the bank and no balance on the credit card) so she called her bank the next day. It turns out they were doing maintence the previous night and the whole system was down for 30 minutes. She asked if the maintence times were posted anywhere, but the teller told her that they were considered classifed.
Lesson of the story: Always carry a backup card (or plain old checks) from a different bank.
OTOH, not buying "value ram" can mean a LOT for your system stability. Only hard drives fail more often for me than value ram.
Of course you don't need the overpriced ram with heatsinks and LCD displays on the side. You just need to buy good quality (Kingston, Crucial, etc...) DIMMs.
They do offer good performance for a reasonable size (perhaps one of the best regular style laptops I've ever used), but it's just not in the same league as those old viao picturebooks. Those things almost fit in your pocket. Sure the screen was some obnoxious resolution (1024x400 or something, you had to scroll it up and down) and the battery life was crummy unless you had the extended battery bar attached, but man, those things were portable. You didn't need a special laptop case for them, just toss them in your backpack/briefcase and go.
IMHO, the perfect microlaptop would be maybe half the size of the D610, have a 576x1024 screen, a built-in power supply (no brick!), and some way to store the power cable in the laptop. It'd also need wireless. Preferably halfway decent battery life. obviously you'll have to give up good graphics, a fast processor, the optical drive, perhaps even the PC-CARD slot to fit all of that in, but I think it'd find quite a niche.
So much for hoping that Dongles would go the way of the dodo as serial and parallel ports get phased out. Man I hate those things. It's not like you don't find cracked pirate copies of Autocad all over the net or anything either.
Heck, government guys mail around 50MB Powerpoint files without even blinking. Most of them never delete them either. If your Exchange server is more than a couple of years old, I wouldn't be surprised at that amount of data at all.
Tactics Ogre? Final Fantasy Tactics was much better IMHO. Maybe they thought the list was getting a little too heavy with Final Fantasy titles? TO is a fine game, but FFT is superior IMHO.
The downside is that you can assume that most level 60 players at least have a good idea of how their characters work and how the function in a team (not always true sadly). If you have people starting off day 1 with their level 60, they are much more likely to play terribly and make the game experiance worse for everyone on their team.
I do wish more MMOs came with a Newgame+ feature, so when you max out one character and roll and alt, they gain levels twice as fast or have some out of the gate bonus. It can be disheartning to switch from your giant monster slaying tweaked out superchar to some level 1 that has to kill bugs and rats with his one skill.
That was the Moscow police, they said that they couldn't navigate the copyright maze (read: they were paid off) to prosecute. At the end they said that they were still open to civil suits if any of the major record companies had an objection to a service that pretty much gives away their music in an easy to pirate form.
Allofmp3.com is not a radio station, statutory licenses don't apply. That's why internet radio stations need a special exception (and high licensing fee).
It's only a matter of time until they get sued by one of the big record companies IMHO.
Yeah, one of the big things that all of these worms have done is to make it so you can scan any random machine on the internet without much fear of raising any alarms. My machines get portscanned multiple times a day from stupid unpatched windows users, attempting to track them down is pointless. It's not like the old days where a portscan made someone sit up and take notice.
One thing Rhapsody got right is that they never claim to be a music store. They sold themselves as an online radio service, which people were willing to accept the "you don't keep the music" model with.
I had Rhapsody for awhile. I thought it was underwhelming. One of the odd things you can do is say "I'd like to make a radio station of Weird Al Yankovic (or whoever)", but the thing is, if you did this you would get almost no Weird Al songs at all. Rather, Rhapsody would pick a bunch of songs that it thought were similar and play those instead.
In the end, I didn't see the big advantage over regular (free) internet radio, and dropped the service.
Of course AllofMP3 does this by not actually buying any of the music it sells. We keep production costs down by stealing it! You might as well buy those CDs that "fell off of the back of the truck" from the guy on the corner.
From what I can tell, talk about legal loopholes is BS too, Russia is a signatory to the Berne convention, which makes allofmp3 very much illegal.
That's one situation where you would mix the 10 and 192.168 nets, but that still doesn't explain why the example packet was like that.
I can think of only 2 possible explanations:
1. It's phony
2. The guy who got the CD was really cagey and locked out all of the republican sites (maybe he already saw the traffic go out once and he wanted to avoid doing it again?) by adding bogus addresses into his hosts table.
The mix of 192.168 and 10. nets is rather unusual. I'm not sure what to make of it. I could see one of them being a 192.168 if the user is running a NAT, but the 10 net surely isn't going anywhere.
My guess is that the mouse has a wire that attaches to the back of the keyboard, and the whole unit then wirelessly connects back to your computer.
Typing at an angle does look really awkward though, especially for a keyboard that's going to be on your knees. My right wrist hurts just looking at it.
Sony may also release an addon that allows the PS2 to achieve low earth orbit to compete with Burt Rutan. Seriously, was there anything in that article that wasn't just a complete WAG?
This would be a great time for Steve Jobs to step forward and remind everybody that there is only one version of MacOS, you don't have to cross reference your need chart to the features matrix of like you do with Vista.
That's great for people in Russia, but when you import into the US you fall under US copyright laws. Besides, Russia is a signatory to the Berne convention, which would make allofmp3 illegal in Russia too. Like I said, they're still around because it's hard to track down who to sue in Russia, not because they're actually legal.
The point is that not even the label is seeing any of the money from Allofmp3.com. The whole "untested legal loophole" is just doublespeak for "we havn't been sued yet because we're run by the Russian mafia". Give it time. They'll be in court eventually.
I had to snicker a bit when you said "It's legal". Seriously, how dumb do you think the average person is? It's just a way to pay to pirate music. It's a lot more convienet than most other pirate channels, but its still piracy. Unless you can somehow convince me that the artist (or even the label!) gets any of that $1.76 and actually agreed to have their music on there I'm going to call bullcrap on you.
How in the world are they planning to lock it to a player? This is the first I've heard about it, so I'm really curious. Obviously you can't have home players burning stuff on the disc (that would jack the price up into the stratosphere for the first gen players), and I've not heard anything about players needing to phone home yet. Am I really that far out of the loop? It's really hard to lock out a read-only media.
Annoyingly, I've never been able to track down a magic number checker like file(1) for Windows that doesn't involve pulling up a Cygwin terminal (and even then I had to compile it by hand). It's one of those easy to write (well, mostly port) programs that I'm hoping to get around to someday.
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I've not had that much trouble with power supplies, but people seem to be more willing to drop the extra $10-$15 on a halfway decent power supply (which is all you really need) than they are on the extra $25-$40 or so for good quality RAM. Perhaps it's becaue they look at the price of their ram, then notice that they can buy the next size up in the value ram for the same price.
Still, RAM errors are one of the most annoying to track down too. At least with bum power supplies you can put a multimeter in there and read the voltages. Heck, most BIOSes these days include some voltage monitoring that will at least tell you if the lines are in the right ballpark.
A similar thing happened with my wife's credit cards at Target. She has her two bank issued cards. She tried using the debit first and it came back denied. So she tried using the credit card, it also came back denied. I had to pull out my card to finish the purchase. This was embarrassing for her (she had plenty of money in the bank and no balance on the credit card) so she called her bank the next day. It turns out they were doing maintence the previous night and the whole system was down for 30 minutes. She asked if the maintence times were posted anywhere, but the teller told her that they were considered classifed.
Lesson of the story: Always carry a backup card (or plain old checks) from a different bank.
OTOH, not buying "value ram" can mean a LOT for your system stability. Only hard drives fail more often for me than value ram.
Of course you don't need the overpriced ram with heatsinks and LCD displays on the side. You just need to buy good quality (Kingston, Crucial, etc...) DIMMs.
I'm writing this comment on a Dell D610. :)
They do offer good performance for a reasonable size (perhaps one of the best regular style laptops I've ever used), but it's just not in the same league as those old viao picturebooks. Those things almost fit in your pocket. Sure the screen was some obnoxious resolution (1024x400 or something, you had to scroll it up and down) and the battery life was crummy unless you had the extended battery bar attached, but man, those things were portable. You didn't need a special laptop case for them, just toss them in your backpack/briefcase and go.
IMHO, the perfect microlaptop would be maybe half the size of the D610, have a 576x1024 screen, a built-in power supply (no brick!), and some way to store the power cable in the laptop. It'd also need wireless. Preferably halfway decent battery life. obviously you'll have to give up good graphics, a fast processor, the optical drive, perhaps even the PC-CARD slot to fit all of that in, but I think it'd find quite a niche.
So much for hoping that Dongles would go the way of the dodo as serial and parallel ports get phased out. Man I hate those things. It's not like you don't find cracked pirate copies of Autocad all over the net or anything either.
Heck, government guys mail around 50MB Powerpoint files without even blinking. Most of them never delete them either. If your Exchange server is more than a couple of years old, I wouldn't be surprised at that amount of data at all.
Tactics Ogre? Final Fantasy Tactics was much better IMHO. Maybe they thought the list was getting a little too heavy with Final Fantasy titles? TO is a fine game, but FFT is superior IMHO.
The downside is that you can assume that most level 60 players at least have a good idea of how their characters work and how the function in a team (not always true sadly). If you have people starting off day 1 with their level 60, they are much more likely to play terribly and make the game experiance worse for everyone on their team.
I do wish more MMOs came with a Newgame+ feature, so when you max out one character and roll and alt, they gain levels twice as fast or have some out of the gate bonus. It can be disheartning to switch from your giant monster slaying tweaked out superchar to some level 1 that has to kill bugs and rats with his one skill.
That was the Moscow police, they said that they couldn't navigate the copyright maze (read: they were paid off) to prosecute. At the end they said that they were still open to civil suits if any of the major record companies had an objection to a service that pretty much gives away their music in an easy to pirate form.
Allofmp3.com is not a radio station, statutory licenses don't apply. That's why internet radio stations need a special exception (and high licensing fee).
It's only a matter of time until they get sued by one of the big record companies IMHO.
Yeah, one of the big things that all of these worms have done is to make it so you can scan any random machine on the internet without much fear of raising any alarms. My machines get portscanned multiple times a day from stupid unpatched windows users, attempting to track them down is pointless. It's not like the old days where a portscan made someone sit up and take notice.
One thing Rhapsody got right is that they never claim to be a music store. They sold themselves as an online radio service, which people were willing to accept the "you don't keep the music" model with.
I had Rhapsody for awhile. I thought it was underwhelming. One of the odd things you can do is say "I'd like to make a radio station of Weird Al Yankovic (or whoever)", but the thing is, if you did this you would get almost no Weird Al songs at all. Rather, Rhapsody would pick a bunch of songs that it thought were similar and play those instead.
In the end, I didn't see the big advantage over regular (free) internet radio, and dropped the service.
Of course AllofMP3 does this by not actually buying any of the music it sells. We keep production costs down by stealing it! You might as well buy those CDs that "fell off of the back of the truck" from the guy on the corner.
From what I can tell, talk about legal loopholes is BS too, Russia is a signatory to the Berne convention, which makes allofmp3 very much illegal.
That's one situation where you would mix the 10 and 192.168 nets, but that still doesn't explain why the example packet was like that.
I can think of only 2 possible explanations:
1. It's phony
2. The guy who got the CD was really cagey and locked out all of the republican sites (maybe he already saw the traffic go out once and he wanted to avoid doing it again?) by adding bogus addresses into his hosts table.
The mix of 192.168 and 10. nets is rather unusual. I'm not sure what to make of it. I could see one of them being a 192.168 if the user is running a NAT, but the 10 net surely isn't going anywhere.
I'm not entirely sure who they're targeting with those machines. I mean did you look at the graphics options?
My guess is that the mouse has a wire that attaches to the back of the keyboard, and the whole unit then wirelessly connects back to your computer.
Typing at an angle does look really awkward though, especially for a keyboard that's going to be on your knees. My right wrist hurts just looking at it.
Sony may also release an addon that allows the PS2 to achieve low earth orbit to compete with Burt Rutan. Seriously, was there anything in that article that wasn't just a complete WAG?
Sony to compete with other companies, film at 11!
This would be a great time for Steve Jobs to step forward and remind everybody that there is only one version of MacOS, you don't have to cross reference your need chart to the features matrix of like you do with Vista.
That's great for people in Russia, but when you import into the US you fall under US copyright laws. Besides, Russia is a signatory to the Berne convention, which would make allofmp3 illegal in Russia too. Like I said, they're still around because it's hard to track down who to sue in Russia, not because they're actually legal.
The point is that not even the label is seeing any of the money from Allofmp3.com. The whole "untested legal loophole" is just doublespeak for "we havn't been sued yet because we're run by the Russian mafia". Give it time. They'll be in court eventually.
I had to snicker a bit when you said "It's legal". Seriously, how dumb do you think the average person is? It's just a way to pay to pirate music. It's a lot more convienet than most other pirate channels, but its still piracy. Unless you can somehow convince me that the artist (or even the label!) gets any of that $1.76 and actually agreed to have their music on there I'm going to call bullcrap on you.
Wait? So it IS popular? That would make sense to me given all of the iPods over there. I guess the original poster's sample wasn't big enough.
How in the world are they planning to lock it to a player? This is the first I've heard about it, so I'm really curious. Obviously you can't have home players burning stuff on the disc (that would jack the price up into the stratosphere for the first gen players), and I've not heard anything about players needing to phone home yet. Am I really that far out of the loop? It's really hard to lock out a read-only media.
Annoyingly, I've never been able to track down a magic number checker like file(1) for Windows that doesn't involve pulling up a Cygwin terminal (and even then I had to compile it by hand). It's one of those easy to write (well, mostly port) programs that I'm hoping to get around to someday.