Well for all those who seem to have forgotten Rogers isn't exactly the most reliable ISP, living in toronto I used to be with Shaw until they did there little switch (the consumer has no choice of course) and I for one got better service with them.
Regularly pepole don't have access for a couple of days, and unlike Shaw rogers does not refund you for this, remember this story?, it barely helps you! They have already increased costs by forcing users with more than one computer (and not clever enough to set up NAT) to paay for more than one ip.
One more thing to all those americans who say "That's only $80 CDN, let them increase it":
I don't think we should be punished just because our currency happens to be at an all time low to the US $
Canadians get PAID in CDN $, we don't go around converting to US$
We get PAID less
This is not a good thing, and may I remind people that Shaw/Rogers have been providing cable internet access for half a decade now, and I certainly don't see it hurting either one of them financially.
This is great, and I was really into linux on the psion when my screen flexi-cable gave out. And no this is not unusual, it is a design defect and catches all psion 5/5mx's eventually. want to know the really sad part? Psion insists on replacing the whole screen for $250.
If your thinking of buying a psion 5/5mx just be aware that it dosn't last very long, there are planty of other faults, don't get me wrong I loved the machine and psion, I owned a psion 3a before it, but I finally just got fed up with Psion's consistantly bad reliability.
0.61 cm per pixel is certainly not enough to read a newspaper headline, or even tell the type of cars/trucks on the road the colour swaths are impressive though. Too bad it was slashdotted immediately;)
For those of you who are really having a lot of trouble getting anywhere with the link, I can tell you from the 2 or three I downloaded before all hell broke loose they aren't that much more impressive than the 1m resolution ones.
Yes, I realise that but I was only trying to point out that the US isn't trading with us just to make us 'happy' or something which is the impression I got from this thread, they obviously need something we have (maybe snow? please!) and we need their money, especially with our economy so focused on trade with the US.
Of course trying to point out anything like that in this thread is useless because it's just flame anyway so I'll shutup;-)
We'll be experiencing that shallowness of pocket too when the effect trickles through so that's not good news for us either:-(
No I'm saying apparently US needs Canadian goods more than Canadians need US goods, of course that's a rough analysis because it could be something like things the US buy from us cost more on average than things we buy from the US, but in general the US spends more on us than we do on them...and I certainly don't mind that;)
I think we'd both be up the creek if there was no trade between us!
Whichever country has the trade deficit (a nation's excess of imports over exports) in the relationship would be the best indicator of that...and I'll give you a clue, it's not Canada;)
Wow, I can't believe that the U.S. actually is forming a "coalition" just like I was thinking, it has yet to be seen if this coalition will operate as I thought it should but in any case I think I underestimated Bush and/or his advisers.
I'd like to say I have a whloe new respect for them.
The people who died today in what seems more impossible than fiction (ie. Tom Clancy's novels) should be honoured by a well thought and purposful response. Nearly all world leaders have condemed this, and for good reasons. This almost universal sympathy should be used to promote international proccesses to hinder terrorism.
Although many previous US targets have been attacked in acts of terrorisim none touch the hearts of people around the world in such a way, this act of terrorism did not only target a military installation or represetative building or person of a country, instead it struck at thousands of civilians in the heart of a major city, no-one even those who may normally criticise the US can help by feeling sympathy for those people and anger that this was even possible, if so many people can be killed in the heart of the current superpower, then what is to stop a similair incident in any other country? Defense against terrorism has proven to be harder than defending against the military might of another nation.
Unlike a normal war there is no sure way to target the enemy in a war against terrorism, but terrorists must live somewhere. This event could be used to rally a global alliance/movement against terrorism, that would aim to prevent any country from being able to harbour terrorists. Harbouring terrorists must be made unattrative to all those countries that harbour them hopefully through peaceful methods (eg. economic embargo/military threats) but only if neccessary a forceful method that minimizes the innocent casualties that happen in nearly any military operation.
Am I being unrealistic in hoping for a peaceful and beneficial result? After today what is realistic? If Tom Clancy had written a book with 4 suicide planes instead of 1 I'm sure it would have been critisized as totally unrealistic.
Of course this is just my 2 cents CDN, but I just hope Bush does not take a quick or unthought revenge which could easily start a war between countries.
How many people started with the IBM PC original?
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Well the PC is the same age as me, 20 years old. I doubt many people would have predicted it of all the computers at the time to trigger such a massive computing presence at home.
My first computer was an IBM PC (the original), I can still remember what a luxury I thought it was to have two floppy drives so I could keep Dos on A: and play frogger off B:! Ah...the good old days...errr... well frogger anyway!
I'd be interested to know what started most slashdotters fascination with computing, I doubt it was the IBM PC. Only reason I had one was because my parents were both accountants and you didn't use a Mac for accounting;-)
Use PHP and reconfigure apache to do this easily
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I reconfigured apache to recognise.ida as a php file and then wrote a php script which does esentially what the above script does, only automatically and logs ip's it's sent to.
Also no checking whether the host is still alive since it's almost instantaneous.
If anyone wants the php script I can post it although all it involves is using fopen to open the URL that sends the same message as above.
Reconfiguring apache is easy look in your configuration files for the PHP section.
I'm getting more than one codered attempt per 5 minutes and have over 4500 so far. Guess that's what I get for being on @Home;-)
It's not much of a suprise since as I recall the problem with the Canadarm 2 was a backup system anyway, baring any major problems the arm would of worked wthout the fix, but of course in a space environment a piece of equiptment without a backup system is not a good idea, especially with the costs of sending any replacments parts and not being able to get a multi-million job done.
Of course there were probably a lot of Canadians (including me) that were crossing their fingers;), but hey I'm sure a lot of Americans do to every time a shuttle launches!
I have owned a handheld from 1994, my first handheld being the psion 3a, having only 256kb of ram it was amazing what I could do on it, (at the time) the psion 3a was an amazing. The only fault I could ever find was the design of the hinge which eat away at the screen power cable and eventually cuts through it, but this was easy to repair myself.
I eventually moved on to the series 5, which was also amazing at the time, the touch screen was a bonus with such an excellent keyboard, and the ability to run linux on it later on was a blessing. Just as I was really getting into using linux on the series 5 though my screen went...and I learned that the series 5 also had a problem with the hinge...but more serious.
Anyone who has ever had this problem and looked inside thier series 5 (or 5mx which has the EXACT same problem) will wonder how the Psion engineers could have ever expected the Series 5 to last after good use of the hinge, the lcd printed circuit cable is strechted and bent to it's limits every time the unit is opended/closed.
Unfortunatley due to the nature of the cable I could not repair it (though many have tried unsuccesfully see here). ON calling the psion repair centre for my area (Canada/Toronto) I told them of the cable but they would insist on replacing only the screen (the most expensive part) for around $250. This being this year and the psion 5 being outdated I could not dream of spending so much on it. I called other psion repair centres in the US and Canada (of which there are very few) but no one would replace just the cable.
And that is why now I have the iPaq, after swearing to myself I would never leave Epoc based handhelds and I would never buy a Windows CE based one. I bought the iPaq because I know Compaq deals with thier design defects, the only slightly serious one I know of being the screen dust problem (with which they will replace your ipaq if you are under warranty) and also for their amazing support of thier userbase (eg handhelds.org)
I contend that Psion has only itself to blame for losing the handheld war, despite having a huge group of dedicated followers, they did nothing to keep them (anybody remember the Series 5 promised ROM upgrade?), they do not support thier handhelds well and seem to ignore design defects as long as they will not cause trouble during the warranty period (All of the Series 3x, Series 5, Series 5mx have had a design defect related to the hinge), and finally due to their lack of product development (taking nearly 3 years to produce the Series 5mx from the Series 5 was NOT impressive).
To anyone thinking of buying a Psion, I think they sould be aware of the design defects before hand, and although Epoc is excellent, what use is it if your handheld dosn't work?
Slashdot Mirror
Regularly pepole don't have access for a couple of days, and unlike Shaw rogers does not refund you for this, remember this story?, it barely helps you! They have already increased costs by forcing users with more than one computer (and not clever enough to set up NAT) to paay for more than one ip.
One more thing to all those americans who say "That's only $80 CDN, let them increase it":
I don't think we should be punished just because our currency happens to be at an all time low to the US $
Canadians get PAID in CDN $, we don't go around converting to US$
We get PAID less
This is not a good thing, and may I remind people that Shaw/Rogers have been providing cable internet access for half a decade now, and I certainly don't see it hurting either one of them financially.
If your thinking of buying a psion 5/5mx just be aware that it dosn't last very long, there are planty of other faults, don't get me wrong I loved the machine and psion, I owned a psion 3a before it, but I finally just got fed up with Psion's consistantly bad reliability.
err...I mean 0.61m/61cm ;)
For those of you who are really having a lot of trouble getting anywhere with the link, I can tell you from the 2 or three I downloaded before all hell broke loose they aren't that much more impressive than the 1m resolution ones.
Of course trying to point out anything like that in this thread is useless because it's just flame anyway so I'll shutup ;-)
We'll be experiencing that shallowness of pocket too when the effect trickles through so that's not good news for us either :-(
I think we'd both be up the creek if there was no trade between us!
Sorry, should always include a link wih a post! See here for the figures in September 2001
Whichever country has the trade deficit (a nation's excess of imports over exports) in the relationship would be the best indicator of that...and I'll give you a clue, it's not Canada ;)
'Stealth' Canoes (they must be invisible to radar come on
Somehow I don't think we'd win a war either so I wouldn't worry ;)
I'd like to say I have a whloe new respect for them.
Although many previous US targets have been attacked in acts of terrorisim none touch the hearts of people around the world in such a way, this act of terrorism did not only target a military installation or represetative building or person of a country, instead it struck at thousands of civilians in the heart of a major city, no-one even those who may normally criticise the US can help by feeling sympathy for those people and anger that this was even possible, if so many people can be killed in the heart of the current superpower, then what is to stop a similair incident in any other country? Defense against terrorism has proven to be harder than defending against the military might of another nation.
Unlike a normal war there is no sure way to target the enemy in a war against terrorism, but terrorists must live somewhere. This event could be used to rally a global alliance/movement against terrorism, that would aim to prevent any country from being able to harbour terrorists. Harbouring terrorists must be made unattrative to all those countries that harbour them hopefully through peaceful methods (eg. economic embargo/military threats) but only if neccessary a forceful method that minimizes the innocent casualties that happen in nearly any military operation.
Am I being unrealistic in hoping for a peaceful and beneficial result? After today what is realistic? If Tom Clancy had written a book with 4 suicide planes instead of 1 I'm sure it would have been critisized as totally unrealistic.
Of course this is just my 2 cents CDN, but I just hope Bush does not take a quick or unthought revenge which could easily start a war between countries.
My first computer was an IBM PC (the original), I can still remember what a luxury I thought it was to have two floppy drives so I could keep Dos on A: and play frogger off B:! Ah...the good old days ...errr... well frogger anyway!
I'd be interested to know what started most slashdotters fascination with computing, I doubt it was the IBM PC. Only reason I had one was because my parents were both accountants and you didn't use a Mac for accounting ;-)
Also no checking whether the host is still alive since it's almost instantaneous.
If anyone wants the php script I can post it although all it involves is using fopen to open the URL that sends the same message as above. Reconfiguring apache is easy look in your configuration files for the PHP section.
I'm getting more than one codered attempt per 5 minutes and have over 4500 so far. Guess that's what I get for being on @Home ;-)
It's not much of a suprise since as I recall the problem with the Canadarm 2 was a backup system anyway, baring any major problems the arm would of worked wthout the fix, but of course in a space environment a piece of equiptment without a backup system is not a good idea, especially with the costs of sending any replacments parts and not being able to get a multi-million job done.
;), but hey I'm sure a lot of Americans do to every time a shuttle launches!
Of course there were probably a lot of Canadians (including me) that were crossing their fingers
I eventually moved on to the series 5, which was also amazing at the time, the touch screen was a bonus with such an excellent keyboard, and the ability to run linux on it later on was a blessing. Just as I was really getting into using linux on the series 5 though my screen went...and I learned that the series 5 also had a problem with the hinge...but more serious.
Anyone who has ever had this problem and looked inside thier series 5 (or 5mx which has the EXACT same problem) will wonder how the Psion engineers could have ever expected the Series 5 to last after good use of the hinge, the lcd printed circuit cable is strechted and bent to it's limits every time the unit is opended/closed.
Unfortunatley due to the nature of the cable I could not repair it (though many have tried unsuccesfully see here). ON calling the psion repair centre for my area (Canada/Toronto) I told them of the cable but they would insist on replacing only the screen (the most expensive part) for around $250. This being this year and the psion 5 being outdated I could not dream of spending so much on it. I called other psion repair centres in the US and Canada (of which there are very few) but no one would replace just the cable.
And that is why now I have the iPaq, after swearing to myself I would never leave Epoc based handhelds and I would never buy a Windows CE based one. I bought the iPaq because I know Compaq deals with thier design defects, the only slightly serious one I know of being the screen dust problem (with which they will replace your ipaq if you are under warranty) and also for their amazing support of thier userbase (eg handhelds.org)
I contend that Psion has only itself to blame for losing the handheld war, despite having a huge group of dedicated followers, they did nothing to keep them (anybody remember the Series 5 promised ROM upgrade?), they do not support thier handhelds well and seem to ignore design defects as long as they will not cause trouble during the warranty period (All of the Series 3x, Series 5, Series 5mx have had a design defect related to the hinge), and finally due to their lack of product development (taking nearly 3 years to produce the Series 5mx from the Series 5 was NOT impressive).
To anyone thinking of buying a Psion, I think they sould be aware of the design defects before hand, and although Epoc is excellent, what use is it if your handheld dosn't work?