I use a Versapoint RF keyboard, they usually sell for around $150. They advertise 100ft range - I have never tried mine at this distance but I do use it at 20-30 feet through a wall and it works great, I highly recommend it. It also has a built in mouse, which was what sold me for it over a Gyration keyboard.
Also worth mention (as it relates directly to this article) is the new Drive eRazer product from WiebeTech, which performs a low level overwrite of a drive making it safe for disposal. It has the benefits of being faster than most software drive erasers and it doesn't even need a computer to attach to.
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I am a little biases as I do work for the company;)
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Jackal was probably my favorite NES game of them all, I played it so much that even to this day I'll catch myself once in awhile huming the music to the ending credits. In fact a few months ago I fired it up on an emulator for old time's sake (hadn't played it in probably 10 years) and beat it all the way through single player without having to use a continue. God that felt good;)
People keep shoving down my throat that "nobody wants big-bad-bloated mozilla anymore firefox is the future!!111 omg" when I know for a fact many people prefer the Mozilla Suite and will defend it to the end. I think it would have been nice for the Mozilla foundation to have had some kind of vote to get a more formal count to justify their actions.
I have still yet to see a single, solid reason on why Firefox is supposedly better.
Is 10 megs really that much harder to download then 5? Is it?
Mozilla has about a 1.5 second dry startup time on my two year old computer, is that too much time to wait?
Do you Firefox users actually prefer editing a 10 page config file rather than having a nicely-laid out preferences window? I hope you realize the only reason so many useful settings have been stripped from Firefox is because they think its users are too stupid to handle them. I don't know about you, but this is insulting to me.
Why should I have to download 10 different inconsistently-maintained extensions for Firefox just to restore the functionally that Mozilla has had for years? And why do I have to redownload half the extensions again nearly every time there's a new release of Firefox that breaks them all? "but hey, extensions are l33t!" you say? Newsflash: Nearly every extension made for Firefox works fine in Mozilla, and has for a long time.
God don't get me started on the "brilliant" idea of having a separate search box. I thought the idea of Firefox was making things simpler, not making them more kludgy.
Plain and simple, Firefox is a dumbed-down toy to satisfied the 10-second-attention-spanned mouth breathers. Firefox will not, and never will, fill the void left by the disbanding of Mozilla.
My dad raced a pinto back in the late 70's and 80's. With a 302 it's best times were in the 10.9's I think.
Pic 1 Pic 2 - look close, you can see me (prolly 8 years old or so)!
Pic 3
Perhaps Google should just go all out and buy Netscape from AOL (which hasn't been doing anything with it anyway) and directly support Mozilla that way. Google+Mozilla, a nerd's dream come true! Then Google branded Open Office and a Google branded Linux distro, and then the world!
Why couldn't your fancy VoIP phone digitally transmit your exact pre-programmed address and detailed directions to your house whenever it initates a call to an emergency number? If your phone was being used somewhere else other than your house, why couldn't it be some standard for the router that's carrying your connection to insert its location into the call so there'd be a rough idea where you're at?
Hardware CPU Intel Celeron (Covington) 400.912 MHz RAM 96MB PC100 Hard disk Maxtor 6.4GB ATA/66 5400 RPM Motherboard Soyo SY-6BE+ ATX Display adapter SiS 6326 4MB AGP Pole display Emax Universal 104 Parallel DB-25 Monitor IBM 9" Monochrome 4694 Video Display PSU Generic 235W
Isn't this a pretty typical computer? Actually, probably a faster computer than many of the geeks on slashdot have? It's plenty better than my 486 personal web server.
Way to put the programmers that write this "redundant" software out of their _paying_ jobs. Just remember, the studios aren't doing this for the good and benefit of humanity, they're doing it to save a few bucks. If this was a story about outsourcing jobs to India, they'd be getting flamed rather than applauded.
I've noticed that since I installed SP2, if I open up a large number of tabs quickly in Mozilla (like I've always done without any problem at all) it now hangs the program to the point it's unusable for a VERY long time. Even if I load only 3 or so tabs quickly, I notice a large slowdown in the UI's responsiveness. I had no idea what was causing it until I saw this mention on TCP/IP limitting, I'm sure it's probably the cause.
I really like how each result found has a button to quickly/easily provide feedback about it.
Feedback:
Is exactly what I was looking for
Has nothing to do with my search
Shows inappropriate content (e.g., adult site)
Shows illegal content
Is not fresh (information is out-of-date)
Is spam or junk
Contains a dead link (title link does not lead to a page or site)
Is missing a description or the description is too short
Has a description that doesn't match page content
Other
and
If you expected a specific website in the search results but it wasn't there, enter the web address (URL) here:
Google's version of such a thing (like yahoo's) is just a comment box that gives you the feeling that nobody really ever reads. This looks like something a script could handle/automate and actually do something about.
Of course it would have to be intelligent enough to wait for a significant about of 'feedback' from a variety of IPs to avoid companies trying to harm the rank of their competitors.
You mean like how AOL gets away with charging $25/mo for dialup access yet still constantly bombards you with advertisements every time you sign on/sign off?
I've been keeping my Slackware partition sync'd with slackware-current since 7.1 without any problems. What more, I've had virtually zero stability issues all these years.
One of the Windows labs in our CS department has Comet Cursor installed on every machine - from the hard drive mirror image the lab assistants used to install from!
I've been using the release clients for the last month or so, and the coolest feature is definitely the desktop visualizations!
Instructions:
Turn on the default visualization plugin (Advanced Visualization Studio) and then go to Configure Plugin. From there go to Settings then Display and check both the 'Overlay mode' and 'Set desktop to color' boxes.
Winamp will then render the visualizations as your Desktop wallpaper! I was showing this off at the last lan party I went to and got quit a few oooh's and ahhh's. You can also get some neat effects by changing the overlay color to various other things. White, black, and that one particular gray color that Microsoft uses on everything are good colors to try.
Note I've only tried this on Windows XP... don't know if it works on everything else. Also, the window opacy settings are something to look at too. (Right click on winamp and go to Window Settings towards the bottom)
Ironically, I'm sometimes required to buy music blanks to use for data. Just try to find a data blank that's 650MB/74 minutes instead of 700MB/80 minutes - I haven't been able to find a single one in years. The thing is, a lot of really old CD-ROM drives, (like when I wanted to put Linux on my 486) won't read 700MB CDs. So instead I have to buy the somewhat more expensive 650MB music blanks and then the ol 486 can read them just fine.
Actually the comparison is more like:
Buying 15 songs I really like for $15 vs. buying a CD with maybe 2 songs I like and 13 songs of crappy filler for $15. Which do you think is better?
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I use a Versapoint RF keyboard, they usually sell for around $150. They advertise 100ft range - I have never tried mine at this distance but I do use it at 20-30 feet through a wall and it works great, I highly recommend it. It also has a built in mouse, which was what sold me for it over a Gyration keyboard.
<disclaimer> ;)
I am a little biases as I do work for the company
</disclaimer>
I think this may be a lot more appealing if it takes advantage of the h.264 support in the upcoming version of Flash Player
Jackal was probably my favorite NES game of them all, I played it so much that even to this day I'll catch myself once in awhile huming the music to the ending credits. In fact a few months ago I fired it up on an emulator for old time's sake (hadn't played it in probably 10 years) and beat it all the way through single player without having to use a continue. God that felt good ;)
Of course you can play the real thing: IF Quake (recycled from here). Too bad it was never finished.
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I have still yet to see a single, solid reason on why Firefox is supposedly better.
- Is 10 megs really that much harder to download then 5? Is it?
- Mozilla has about a 1.5 second dry startup time on my two year old computer, is that too much time to wait?
- Do you Firefox users actually prefer editing a 10 page config file rather than having a nicely-laid out preferences window? I hope you realize the only reason so many useful settings have been stripped from Firefox is because they think its users are too stupid to handle them. I don't know about you, but this is insulting to me.
- Why should I have to download 10 different inconsistently-maintained extensions for Firefox just to restore the functionally that Mozilla has had for years? And why do I have to redownload half the extensions again nearly every time there's a new release of Firefox that breaks them all? "but hey, extensions are l33t!" you say? Newsflash: Nearly every extension made for Firefox works fine in Mozilla, and has for a long time.
- God don't get me started on the "brilliant" idea of having a separate search box. I thought the idea of Firefox was making things simpler, not making them more kludgy.
Plain and simple, Firefox is a dumbed-down toy to satisfied the 10-second-attention-spanned mouth breathers. Firefox will not, and never will, fill the void left by the disbanding of Mozilla.end rant, commence modding
I'm a Sorny kind of guy.
But does it make the internet go faster?!?!
My dad raced a pinto back in the late 70's and 80's. With a 302 it's best times were in the 10.9's I think.
Pic 1
Pic 2 - look close, you can see me (prolly 8 years old or so)!
Pic 3
Perhaps Google should just go all out and buy Netscape from AOL (which hasn't been doing anything with it anyway) and directly support Mozilla that way. Google+Mozilla, a nerd's dream come true! Then Google branded Open Office and a Google branded Linux distro, and then the world!
Why couldn't your fancy VoIP phone digitally transmit your exact pre-programmed address and detailed directions to your house whenever it initates a call to an emergency number? If your phone was being used somewhere else other than your house, why couldn't it be some standard for the router that's carrying your connection to insert its location into the call so there'd be a rough idea where you're at?
Way to put the programmers that write this "redundant" software out of their _paying_ jobs. Just remember, the studios aren't doing this for the good and benefit of humanity, they're doing it to save a few bucks. If this was a story about outsourcing jobs to India, they'd be getting flamed rather than applauded.
P.S. Windows firewall is totally disabled
Umm... look again?
Feedback:
and
If you expected a specific website in the search results but it wasn't there, enter the web address (URL) here:
Google's version of such a thing (like yahoo's) is just a comment box that gives you the feeling that nobody really ever reads. This looks like something a script could handle/automate and actually do something about.
Of course it would have to be intelligent enough to wait for a significant about of 'feedback' from a variety of IPs to avoid companies trying to harm the rank of their competitors.
You mean like how AOL gets away with charging $25/mo for dialup access yet still constantly bombards you with advertisements every time you sign on/sign off?
I've been keeping my Slackware partition sync'd with slackware-current since 7.1 without any problems. What more, I've had virtually zero stability issues all these years.
One of the Windows labs in our CS department has Comet Cursor installed on every machine - from the hard drive mirror image the lab assistants used to install from!
Instructions: Turn on the default visualization plugin (Advanced Visualization Studio) and then go to Configure Plugin. From there go to Settings then Display and check both the 'Overlay mode' and 'Set desktop to color' boxes.
Winamp will then render the visualizations as your Desktop wallpaper! I was showing this off at the last lan party I went to and got quit a few oooh's and ahhh's. You can also get some neat effects by changing the overlay color to various other things. White, black, and that one particular gray color that Microsoft uses on everything are good colors to try.
Note I've only tried this on Windows XP ... don't know if it works on everything else. Also, the window opacy settings are something to look at too. (Right click on winamp and go to Window Settings towards the bottom)
Ironically, I'm sometimes required to buy music blanks to use for data. Just try to find a data blank that's 650MB/74 minutes instead of 700MB/80 minutes - I haven't been able to find a single one in years. The thing is, a lot of really old CD-ROM drives, (like when I wanted to put Linux on my 486) won't read 700MB CDs. So instead I have to buy the somewhat more expensive 650MB music blanks and then the ol 486 can read them just fine.
Actually the comparison is more like:
Buying 15 songs I really like for $15 vs. buying a CD with maybe 2 songs I like and 13 songs of crappy filler for $15. Which do you think is better?
bash$ wget http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_1000_dl .zip/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/trailer_final_1000_dl .zip. connected.
--22:18:03-- http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline
=> `trailer_final_1000_dl.zip'
Resolving progressive1.stream.aol.com... done.
Connecting to progressive1.stream.aol.com[205.188.228.162]:80..
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 99,292,202 [application/zip]
22:19:10 (1.40 MB/s) - `trailer_final_1000_dl.zip' saved [99292202/99292202]
bash$
Whoa.
I've been callled twice today from recruiters (one this morning and one just a little bit ago). Has anyone else been getting this a lot today?