the router will probably do everything needed, but you need at least one machine 'wired' into it to set up the AP in the first place. once it is configured properly, you'll still need at least one machine wired to the AP in case something goes wrong.
zero false positives that you know about. you don't know for sure that there are zero false positives unless you look through all of your rejected mail. which you probably don't because that's the point of using the filter in the first place.
right... i sampled the 'teeny-boppers' from a 4-year engineering school. aren't all 20-something-year-old-engineer-wannabees teeny-boppers?
the point of a survey of a sample of MORE THAN ONE is that unusual behavior is averaged out. this is the reason of conducting a survey of more than one. looking through my results, there are cases where individuals consider sampling to be the most important. on the other hand, there are more individuals that consider sampling to be the least important reason.
FYI: 78% of those sampled download rock, followed by 76% blues, 70% country (yuck), 59% rap/hip-hop. 'teeny-bopping' was not a genre i asked about, but it was not written in by anyone as their most commonly downloaded genre.
i am just about finished conducting a study on why individuals share music. as part of this study, i also try to find out why people download these files.
of the following reasons regarding why people download music files in mp3 or similar format:
1) Cheaper than CDs
2) More convenient than buying CDs
3) Not worth buying CD for 1-2 songs
4) To sample songs
5) Instant access to songs
the results indicate that answer 4 is the least important of these reasons - by a long shot. the most important reason was found to be answer 2, followed very closely by answer 5.
the results also show that the availability of free music causes considerably more people to reduce the amount of cds they purchase - not the widely-viewed, non-sensical concept that seems to be floating around that people buy more cds because of fileswapping. of those surveyed (students attending a technical institute), the feeling that music file-swapping helps sales is widely held, but almost nobody responded to the survey to indicate that they personally did this. everyone assumes that everyone else uses this service for music sampling, but in reality, it seems that this is not the case.
if you're interested in any more of the research findings, let me know.
as a side note, how did this so-called 'story' make it to the front page of/.? the/. title and blurb do not actually represent what the article says. not only do/. readers not read the article - apparently the posters don't read the articles they post about either.
i know there are more linux servers out there than windows. that is my point. i look at the netcraft every couple of months. the last time you checked a malicious script-kiddy's site, they compromised more windows HTTP servers than linux HTTP servers. wow. but i was under the impression that sendmail under *nix was the most compromised server on the internet - hence all the spam we all love. remember - most spam you recieve went through at least one compromised sendmail server. there are more types of servers than HTTP.
I mean for crying out loud, 2000 server came with IIS enabled, WTF?
are you complaining that a server OS came with a server enabled? a RH server installation comes with tons of servers by default also - what's your point? but regardless, if you don't check to see what's running out-of-box, that says something about you (or your sysadmin)
oh - and as far as my rebooting issues go, i reboot XP every time i download winXP updates/bug-fixes (about once per month). do you not patch your 2.4X kernel? or do just you not reboot your *nix machine after a kernel patch is applied? if not, this is a sign of your incompetence. XP has crashed a few times, but not since i flashed my bios to fix the issue.
the exe is simply a self-extracting executable. 'snowboard.exe' is 16.6MB and contains a 17MB wmv file. humph... is it really worth compressing when it will save so little space?
do you know why viruses/worms/trojans are designed with windows in mind? of course you'll reply with the knee-jerk "because it's so easy", but you won't think of the biggest reason. so i'll tell you. it's because of the huge market base of windows. imagine someone trying to get his name out there by damaging machines - is he going to attack the linux population? apple population? windows population? let's think about that for a sec... of course he'll go for a windows exploit. the market base dictates that he do this. and if i'm not mistaken, there have been numerous non-windows trojans/worms/viruses anyway. there are more windows viruses, but remember that there are more linux servers exploited than windows servers exploited.
An OS only needs to be rebooted to solve your problems
what are you trying to say here? if my windows box isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. wow. amazing. similarly, if my linux box isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. similarly, if my mac isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. similarly, if my sunblade isn't running as expected, i'll reboot... look at that... rebooting is not exclusive to windows.
interestingly enough, the 'idiot in corner' chose the most predictable 'human random' number (of 1-10)
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page 2. once you're there, links to page 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 should work as well. looks like some kind of scripting error on their part. the extra '/' character was borking access to the next pages.
capacitor (isn't that what those little metal cylinders on the mobo are called???)
yes.
It melted through the plastic in about.2 seconds and sent 1,000,000 volts through the chip
you must have some pretty damned good equiptment... if i'm lucky i can get press start/stop on my watch in about.16 seconds. were you expecting it to fry and therefore were timing it? also, considering that the wall where the machine was plugged in has a RMS voltage of merely 110V, 1.000.000 volts seems awfully high. good thing you had your DVM looking at voltage across the chip at that particular time... otherwise you would have missed this amazing occurance!
gee - sounds like you attend a pretty crappy school. did you know that you're actually supposed to look into a school before you apply? if you'de done your research properly, you wouldn't be going to a school where you're expected to shut up and listen but rather ask questions and make comments.
please tell me where you go so i can make sure my kids don't go there. thanks
we all know how the electoral system works. the electoral college makes is so that populous states don't dominate federal gov't. instead, it puts more control in the hands of not-as-populous states than they really deserve... it gives a vote from nebraska more weight than mine in new york.
also - could you please point out where in your 2nd link that it indicates that an election winner lost the popular vote? the only thing i'm seeing like that is that lincoln had less votes than the sum of all other candidates. if this is the case, he did win the popular vote (because he had the highest of all individual candidates).
i've had one of these for years...
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it's called a laptop. all i need to do is place my laptop on top of the tv set. voila. throw the s-vid out into the tv and we're ready to roll. cost - ~$2800US
granted, my laptop doesn't have video on demand or a digital vcr, but my desktop with an ati radeon all-in-wonder gets awfully close. this box even has tv-pausing. once again, throw the s-vid out into the tv and we're all done. cost - ~$1800US
but unlike the "tivo++", these machines are not limited to what they can do. tell me this... can you/. with a "tivo++"?
i'm sorry... what? could you explain how a pre-compiled binary executes any faster than an identical user-compiled binary? if you're compiling for the same arcitecture with the same library base as the disributed-binary at compile time, it will be identical.
Would you expect to be able to charge for a media player in today's marketplace? Good luck!
why wouldn't someone charge for a media player? doesn't real one cost money (after 14 day trial)? how about quicktime 6 pro? and of course, we can't forget about windvd!
based on your question, one could easily argue that microsoft has no future because a free alternative is available.
taking part in silly projects like seti@home is about the closest we'll ever get to helping accomplish something in space
my tax dollars are helping to accomplish things in space... no? my tax $$ helped blow up a mars lander and a mars orbiter! now that's accomplishing things!
there tend to be lots of macs at art schools (for good reasons, admittedly), but at the tech school i'm currently attending, there aren't many of them around. i personally have 2 pcs set up right now. i know 1 person that had a mac, but she tossed it and got a p4.
i'm not sure how succesful apple was with this that particular strategy. the kids may have wanted apples because that's what they knew from school, but the parents were the ones buying the machines (while the kids were still in school). and back then, the parents were already buying 486 and pentium machines. by the time the kids 'grew up', they were used to their parent's wintel boxes. it was a good idea, but i'm not sure exactly how well it worked out. apple certainly hasn't gained market share since then - they have probably lost a considerable amount.
Apple made a big footprint in schools, why not Linux?
if i recall correctly, apple made massive donations to educational institutions in the mid-late 80's as a buisness strategy. the idea was to get the elementary school kids used to the apple machines so they would buy them when they were older.
since linux is an os and not an architecture, 'linux' can not be given to schools in the same way. linux is a free os (assuming no professional support), but the machines to run it on are not free. and even if an oem donated machines to a school, chances are they would be shipped with windows.
why pull out the roots when you can simply snip the leaves? i feel sorry for the poor ISPs who are constantly going to have "snip leaves" as they pop back up somethere else.
"lindows is a gigantic pile of shit... not because the product is exactly horrible, but because of the smarmy brainless dipshit slimeball assbags who are promoting it"
always nice to see an unopinionated technical review of this caliber.
if copyright is such a big deal for you, the material in question should not be available online. if i'm not allowed to copy it, how am i supposed to view it? my browers must download it into a cache on my own disk in order for me to view it. the last time i cleaned my cache is over a year ago. that means that if i viewed your copyrighted material within the past year, i illegaly have a copy of it on my own disk. but i don't like reading things on my screen, so i printed it. now i have it in hard copy too.
what it all boils down to is this: if your copyright is such a big deal, it should not be available online. you can add the copyright tag and the no-cache tag but you didn't. google should not have to ask you permission to distribute it because the whole concept behind the internet is freely available information. if permission is not given, this should be added to the page in a meta-crawler friendly manner. the default is that if it's available, it can be distributed. add the tags, wait until you are re-crawled, and your copyrighted material will be "safe"
in order to prevent the caching of your copyrighted material, you should have indicated this on the page. remember - google does not try to interpret copyright info from the content of the page. you have to indicate this using html tags. you have the copyright tag at your disposal. if you don't want it cached, you can always use "meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"". note that you can also indicate when a cache should expire. how is the google spider supposed to know things are copyrighted if you never tell it that? it's only "illegal" if you specifically tell them it's copyrighted and should not be cached.
of course, the "average user" wouldn't deal with the "nagging" either. if the "average user" sees something that says "sign up here for better service", they sign up. they sign up, the nagging stops.;-)
1) if you're bitching and moaning about messenger because it's MS bundled software, why are you using outlook?
2) good for you - you read the warning. but did you first read the "important" that tells you to back up the registry before playing with it? if you mess up, you can boot into safe mode (if not regular mode) and load the backup. destroying the registry for messenger will not kill the OS. the same warning and "important" appear on any page that deal with the registry. deleting the wrong keys could be fatal. borking messenger or snood or even word in the registry will not destroy the OS.
3) i followed the instructions. i did not type anything wrong. messenger never shows up. my default email client is outlook. there is no problem with outlook. if the messenger API is not activated, then that particular feature will not work in outlook. that does not mean that outlook will not work. just the messenger API feature ("wait", you say, "isn't that what i was trying to accomplish in the first place?"). learn to read. hell, it even tells you how to stop messenger from starting when outlook/outlook express is run. my advice to you: read the whole paragraph, not just what you consider to be key words.
check here. if you'd stop complaining about it and ask the knowledgebase, you would have had the answer. and yes, the average literate pc user can follow these instructions.
There might be a cool registry hack
it's not a hack - it's editing the registry. this is one of the reasons of having a registry in the first place. believe it or not, if there were a "disable messenger" option in messneger, this is all it would do.
oh no... you mean i actually have to touch the keyboard? i got windows because i thought i would never have to do that!
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the router will probably do everything needed, but you need at least one machine 'wired' into it to set up the AP in the first place. once it is configured properly, you'll still need at least one machine wired to the AP in case something goes wrong.
zero false positives that you know about. you don't know for sure that there are zero false positives unless you look through all of your rejected mail. which you probably don't because that's the point of using the filter in the first place.
right... i sampled the 'teeny-boppers' from a 4-year engineering school. aren't all 20-something-year-old-engineer-wannabees teeny-boppers?
the point of a survey of a sample of MORE THAN ONE is that unusual behavior is averaged out. this is the reason of conducting a survey of more than one. looking through my results, there are cases where individuals consider sampling to be the most important. on the other hand, there are more individuals that consider sampling to be the least important reason.
FYI: 78% of those sampled download rock, followed by 76% blues, 70% country (yuck), 59% rap/hip-hop. 'teeny-bopping' was not a genre i asked about, but it was not written in by anyone as their most commonly downloaded genre.
i am just about finished conducting a study on why individuals share music. as part of this study, i also try to find out why people download these files.
/.? the /. title and blurb do not actually represent what the article says. not only do /. readers not read the article - apparently the posters don't read the articles they post about either.
of the following reasons regarding why people download music files in mp3 or similar format:
1) Cheaper than CDs
2) More convenient than buying CDs
3) Not worth buying CD for 1-2 songs
4) To sample songs
5) Instant access to songs
the results indicate that answer 4 is the least important of these reasons - by a long shot. the most important reason was found to be answer 2, followed very closely by answer 5.
the results also show that the availability of free music causes considerably more people to reduce the amount of cds they purchase - not the widely-viewed, non-sensical concept that seems to be floating around that people buy more cds because of fileswapping. of those surveyed (students attending a technical institute), the feeling that music file-swapping helps sales is widely held, but almost nobody responded to the survey to indicate that they personally did this. everyone assumes that everyone else uses this service for music sampling, but in reality, it seems that this is not the case.
if you're interested in any more of the research findings, let me know.
as a side note, how did this so-called 'story' make it to the front page of
i know there are more linux servers out there than windows. that is my point. i look at the netcraft every couple of months. the last time you checked a malicious script-kiddy's site, they compromised more windows HTTP servers than linux HTTP servers. wow. but i was under the impression that sendmail under *nix was the most compromised server on the internet - hence all the spam we all love. remember - most spam you recieve went through at least one compromised sendmail server. there are more types of servers than HTTP.
I mean for crying out loud, 2000 server came with IIS enabled, WTF?
are you complaining that a server OS came with a server enabled? a RH server installation comes with tons of servers by default also - what's your point? but regardless, if you don't check to see what's running out-of-box, that says something about you (or your sysadmin)
oh - and as far as my rebooting issues go, i reboot XP every time i download winXP updates/bug-fixes (about once per month). do you not patch your 2.4X kernel? or do just you not reboot your *nix machine after a kernel patch is applied? if not, this is a sign of your incompetence. XP has crashed a few times, but not since i flashed my bios to fix the issue.
the exe is simply a self-extracting executable. 'snowboard.exe' is 16.6MB and contains a 17MB wmv file. humph... is it really worth compressing when it will save so little space?
do you know why viruses/worms/trojans are designed with windows in mind? of course you'll reply with the knee-jerk "because it's so easy", but you won't think of the biggest reason. so i'll tell you. it's because of the huge market base of windows. imagine someone trying to get his name out there by damaging machines - is he going to attack the linux population? apple population? windows population? let's think about that for a sec... of course he'll go for a windows exploit. the market base dictates that he do this. and if i'm not mistaken, there have been numerous non-windows trojans/worms/viruses anyway. there are more windows viruses, but remember that there are more linux servers exploited than windows servers exploited.
An OS only needs to be rebooted to solve your problems
what are you trying to say here? if my windows box isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. wow. amazing. similarly, if my linux box isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. similarly, if my mac isn't running as expected, i'll reboot. similarly, if my sunblade isn't running as expected, i'll reboot... look at that... rebooting is not exclusive to windows.
interestingly enough, the 'idiot in corner' chose the most predictable 'human random' number (of 1-10)
page 2. once you're there, links to page 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 should work as well. looks like some kind of scripting error on their part. the extra '/' character was borking access to the next pages.
capacitor (isn't that what those little metal cylinders on the mobo are called???)
.2 seconds and sent 1,000,000 volts through the chip
.16 seconds. were you expecting it to fry and therefore were timing it? also, considering that the wall where the machine was plugged in has a RMS voltage of merely 110V, 1.000.000 volts seems awfully high. good thing you had your DVM looking at voltage across the chip at that particular time... otherwise you would have missed this amazing occurance!
yes.
It melted through the plastic in about
you must have some pretty damned good equiptment... if i'm lucky i can get press start/stop on my watch in about
gee - sounds like you attend a pretty crappy school. did you know that you're actually supposed to look into a school before you apply? if you'de done your research properly, you wouldn't be going to a school where you're expected to shut up and listen but rather ask questions and make comments.
please tell me where you go so i can make sure my kids don't go there. thanks
we all know how the electoral system works. the electoral college makes is so that populous states don't dominate federal gov't. instead, it puts more control in the hands of not-as-populous states than they really deserve... it gives a vote from nebraska more weight than mine in new york.
also - could you please point out where in your 2nd link that it indicates that an election winner lost the popular vote? the only thing i'm seeing like that is that lincoln had less votes than the sum of all other candidates. if this is the case, he did win the popular vote (because he had the highest of all individual candidates).
it's called a laptop. all i need to do is place my laptop on top of the tv set. voila. throw the s-vid out into the tv and we're ready to roll. cost - ~$2800US
/. with a "tivo++"?
granted, my laptop doesn't have video on demand or a digital vcr, but my desktop with an ati radeon all-in-wonder gets awfully close. this box even has tv-pausing. once again, throw the s-vid out into the tv and we're all done. cost - ~$1800US
but unlike the "tivo++", these machines are not limited to what they can do. tell me this... can you
i'm sorry... what? could you explain how a pre-compiled binary executes any faster than an identical user-compiled binary? if you're compiling for the same arcitecture with the same library base as the disributed-binary at compile time, it will be identical.
Would you expect to be able to charge for a media player in today's marketplace? Good luck!
why wouldn't someone charge for a media player? doesn't real one cost money (after 14 day trial)? how about quicktime 6 pro? and of course, we can't forget about windvd!
based on your question, one could easily argue that microsoft has no future because a free alternative is available.
taking part in silly projects like seti@home is about the closest we'll ever get to helping accomplish something in space
my tax dollars are helping to accomplish things in space... no? my tax $$ helped blow up a mars lander and a mars orbiter! now that's accomplishing things!
there tend to be lots of macs at art schools (for good reasons, admittedly), but at the tech school i'm currently attending, there aren't many of them around. i personally have 2 pcs set up right now. i know 1 person that had a mac, but she tossed it and got a p4.
i'm not sure how succesful apple was with this that particular strategy. the kids may have wanted apples because that's what they knew from school, but the parents were the ones buying the machines (while the kids were still in school). and back then, the parents were already buying 486 and pentium machines. by the time the kids 'grew up', they were used to their parent's wintel boxes. it was a good idea, but i'm not sure exactly how well it worked out. apple certainly hasn't gained market share since then - they have probably lost a considerable amount.
Apple made a big footprint in schools, why not Linux?
if i recall correctly, apple made massive donations to educational institutions in the mid-late 80's as a buisness strategy. the idea was to get the elementary school kids used to the apple machines so they would buy them when they were older.
since linux is an os and not an architecture, 'linux' can not be given to schools in the same way. linux is a free os (assuming no professional support), but the machines to run it on are not free. and even if an oem donated machines to a school, chances are they would be shipped with windows.
why pull out the roots when you can simply snip the leaves? i feel sorry for the poor ISPs who are constantly going to have "snip leaves" as they pop back up somethere else.
"lindows is a gigantic pile of shit... not because the product is exactly horrible, but because of the smarmy brainless dipshit slimeball assbags who are promoting it"
always nice to see an unopinionated technical review of this caliber.
if copyright is such a big deal for you, the material in question should not be available online. if i'm not allowed to copy it, how am i supposed to view it? my browers must download it into a cache on my own disk in order for me to view it. the last time i cleaned my cache is over a year ago. that means that if i viewed your copyrighted material within the past year, i illegaly have a copy of it on my own disk. but i don't like reading things on my screen, so i printed it. now i have it in hard copy too.
what it all boils down to is this: if your copyright is such a big deal, it should not be available online. you can add the copyright tag and the no-cache tag but you didn't. google should not have to ask you permission to distribute it because the whole concept behind the internet is freely available information. if permission is not given, this should be added to the page in a meta-crawler friendly manner. the default is that if it's available, it can be distributed. add the tags, wait until you are re-crawled, and your copyrighted material will be "safe"
in order to prevent the caching of your copyrighted material, you should have indicated this on the page. remember - google does not try to interpret copyright info from the content of the page. you have to indicate this using html tags. you have the copyright tag at your disposal. if you don't want it cached, you can always use "meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"". note that you can also indicate when a cache should expire. how is the google spider supposed to know things are copyrighted if you never tell it that? it's only "illegal" if you specifically tell them it's copyrighted and should not be cached.
of course, the "average user" wouldn't deal with the "nagging" either. if the "average user" sees something that says "sign up here for better service", they sign up. they sign up, the nagging stops. ;-)
1) if you're bitching and moaning about messenger because it's MS bundled software, why are you using outlook?
2) good for you - you read the warning. but did you first read the "important" that tells you to back up the registry before playing with it? if you mess up, you can boot into safe mode (if not regular mode) and load the backup. destroying the registry for messenger will not kill the OS. the same warning and "important" appear on any page that deal with the registry. deleting the wrong keys could be fatal. borking messenger or snood or even word in the registry will not destroy the OS.
3) i followed the instructions. i did not type anything wrong. messenger never shows up. my default email client is outlook. there is no problem with outlook. if the messenger API is not activated, then that particular feature will not work in outlook. that does not mean that outlook will not work. just the messenger API feature ("wait", you say, "isn't that what i was trying to accomplish in the first place?"). learn to read. hell, it even tells you how to stop messenger from starting when outlook/outlook express is run. my advice to you: read the whole paragraph, not just what you consider to be key words.
check here. if you'd stop complaining about it and ask the knowledgebase, you would have had the answer. and yes, the average literate pc user can follow these instructions.
There might be a cool registry hack
it's not a hack - it's editing the registry. this is one of the reasons of having a registry in the first place. believe it or not, if there were a "disable messenger" option in messneger, this is all it would do.
oh no... you mean i actually have to touch the keyboard? i got windows because i thought i would never have to do that!