There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams
Which is precicely why I stopped running all those types of programs about 5 years ago. Not only does it use more electricity, it also creates more heat, and this room gets hot enough between my linux and windows boxes already... and I do try to turn my windows machine off when I can. Funny how things change once I start paying the electric bill.:)
I have daemon tools 4.03H installed and spybot's showing nothing... doing a google search mentions something about a search bar that's bundled with DT, but it's a very simple process to uncheck the box during the install process. I certainly didn't install it.
I personally have never wanted more than one or two images mounted. I just use it so I don't have to play discjockey when I want to play a game. I guess I never found selecting a different image every now and then a big deal.
I don't think I've uninstalled it that much--maybe once before and upgrade... I don't ever remember having a problem.
I've always considered daemon tools one of the great "free" utilities out there.
I personally like the taste of diet sunkist and diet mt dew. I like the real stuff better, but if I only buy the diet stuff, I find I don't drink quite as much, and seeing as how caffeine and artificial sweeteners probably aren't the best for yout anyway, it works out. It's also easier on the wallet--this also works out great since I'm cheap.
Started working out and cut out the high sugar sodas over a year ago, and I'm by far in the best shape of my life.
This kind of what I do. I'll help them out the first few times right away, then I'll make myself more busy, waiting longer and longer get back to them--things have been rather hectic here anyway so it's not a lie.
They either eventually a) figure the problem out on their own, b) call someone else who isn't as busy, c) wait for me to come over/call them back and talk them through it days later. I've found that c doesn't happen very often for me, and if it does, then that's fine with me, since then I can help them out when it's most convenient for me.
There was this Slashdot article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/223524 6 about a man taking his products OUT of WalMart to avoid the cheapening of his high quality lawn equipment (the cheapening of the brand, and the price gap/struggle in WalMart lawn centers without knowledgeable staff to enable the high-quality products to shine)
I thought this was interesting as well, until I found out that Snapper is owned by Simplicity, which is owned by Briggs & Straton, which already sells lawn mowers to Walm-Mart and the they probably don't want to compete against themselves. I'm not sure if I trust Snapper's motives for not selling to Wal-Mart--sometimes things aren't as they seem.
This is really nothing new, I've been complaining about MSIE ignoring Content-Type http headers since at least MSIE4.
My conspiracy theory has always been that it allows someone with an improperly configured server to just "work" with only IE, while the rest of the world is going, "huh, all I see is html code, maybe I should just switch to Internet Explorer". There's other cases of IE ignoring the Content-Type, try renaming a.jpg to.html, it will still render it as a jpg. I'm sure there's many other examples as well, possibly some dangerous ones.
I just started working out a little over a year go, and I'm in the best shape of my life at 30 years old. My cousin with the urging of my wife got me into it, I now work out (mostly weight lifting) with him ideally 4 times a week at his house. Lately it's been more like 2-3 times a week, but I'm working on that.
We do supersets, so there's a fair amount of cardio involved as well, so we get the best of both worlds. I lost maybe 10-15 pounds in the first couple of months without really thinking that I would. It's now probably forever a part of my life. I love it. It get to relax and think about my day, while feeling that I'm accomplishing something.
The hardest part was getting started and in a routine. I think what motivated me was that no one expected me to stick with it, not even myself, so I felt I had something to prove. It's easy to just quit, in the end, Nike's slogan says it all, just do it. No questions, if ands, or buts, just do it.
The worst part now is that I wish I would have started when I was 16 or so--oh well. It's never too late.
I wonder how big the anti phishing database is. Is it only 5 megs or something? If so, then maybe it could just be downloaded via a built in rsync client daily or weekly, or provide some type of binary patch so you don't have to download the entire 5 megs when you update it. Maybe this method wouldn't really work well, maybe the updates wouldn't happen fast enough
Here's another idea: maybe more of a whitelist is a better idea. I visit my banks website, I add it to my trusted list. Now whenever I go back, I get a super special anti-fish thing there that I look for. If I don't see the special trusted website logo, then I know I'm going to the wrong place. This may require a bit too much education on the users side tho. Of course, there's already the padlock, as someone else here said, sensitive site's logon pages should be on a secure page. If I don't see the padlock, then I don't trust the site with my username and pass.
anti-phishing technology is a good idea in some form or another, but a central db just doesn't seem like the way to go. It's the first thing I disabled when I installed the IE7 beta.
Don't forget about SACD. The annoying thing about SACD is that it supposedly supports hybrids that should work in both SACD and normal CD players. But still the only good album you can buy is Dark Side of the Moon. Oh well, I only wasted maybe $40 or so on that SACD capable dvd player.
I don't have a problem with thinking outside of the box. I used the parachute idea as well in 6th grade and it worked very well--although I think i got an A. The problem I have with the expendable part of the mug is that it isn't reusable--you drop it once and the bottom of the mug is broken up into piece. Sure it holds liquid, but can you still set it down on desk without fear of it tipping over? And if it drops again, what's going happen to it?
I have a 5.1 system for my home theater, all Cambridge Soundworks stuff for my speakers, model sixes for the front, "the surround" for the back, a "center channel plus, and a 12 inch powered cube for the sub, mostly bought of off eBay acutioned off by CSW (reburfished with full warranties)--all powered by a nice Harmon Kardon amp I got on sale. It's sounds terrific, and until one of my friends buys something I deem better, I won't upgrade. (kidding... kind of)
I just have a regular stereo system for my computer, a nice sony rack system I bought like 15 years ago in high school, sounds great. It even has dual tape decks with sychro highspeed dubbing! It's all I need--even when playing FPS's. I bought a mixing board awhile back so more than one computer can share the speakers.
I did something like this once when I was in high school, only not doing the bridge, but just wiring each speaker separately. positive of each speaker goes to the right positive, neg of each speaker goes to the left positive. It's basically the same thing from the sounds of it, but you don't have that extra wire connecting the two rear speakers. The downside is you have to stuff two wires in one wire hole.
If I remember right, it had a neat echo effect, and cut out most of the bass, basically making it a crude surround--so it sounds like the same thing you're talking about.
I have a pretty simple setup as well; basically just have two machines.
One linux box (Athlon XP 2600+) running the world: router(using QoS), firewall, fileserver, email, imapd, web server, database, dns, dhcp, teamspeak, web cam, bittorrent tracker, game server du jour, and usually runs a full gnome desktop basically just doing web browsing, email, irc and whatever. This is the only machine that stays on all the time. It's a little bit overkill, but it's nice having a snappy web browsing machine that's always on.
Then I have another machine (Athlon 64) running Windows XP that I use for work, and play games on.
A netgear switch connecting everything.
And a cable modem for that internet thing.
Plus the wife has her desktop and her work laptop. And sometimes another random machine or two I may be working on for someone else, playing with trying out a new linux dist, or whatever.
All wired of course--nothing beats a good old fashioned wire. We also have wireless--sort of... well at least our kind neighbors do.:)
The first computer I ever used was a TRS-80 (model 4 I believe) that my dad brought home for the summer of '84, before 4th grade. I mostly played games but also did some very basic, basic programming. Eventually my dad purchased an Apple IIe, which was stolen, and then we upgraded to an Apple IIgs. While I used each of those comptuers a fair amount, playing games and writing many hello world programs.
My first computer that I owned was an Amiga 600 which I bought in high school sometime, maybe in 92/93 or so with 2 megs of chip ram, and eventually a hard drive. I bought it after seeing my friend's Amiga 1000 and all the great games it could do. Plus, I could hook this computer up to my TV so I didn't have to buy a monitor, which I couldn't afford. I still have this computer to this day and last time I used it a few years back, it worked great still. I only had a 2400 baud modem at the time, and my Mom complained constantly about me tying up the phone line, downloading junk off the Amiga Atrium, a local BBS. Oh, and jpegs, it would take literally minutes to render them, one line at a time.
I was always the odd ball guy with an Amiga, as pretty much everyone else I knew had PC's. But I always had the coolest and most fun games with the smoothest graphics--even in college--until my roomate showed me Doom, damn it. I knew then I had to have a PC, bought a DIGITAL P90 with my hard earned money for the low low price of $2400, complete with 15 inch monitor. This computer is long gone, it's junk. But my Amiga 600... what can I say, I hope to have it forever, it was my first love.
Indeed. I bought a 6800 GT awhile back when they first came out which was $400, upgrading from a GF3. I found it was way more card than I needed at the time to play doom 3 and whatever other games that were out at the time. It's still more than adequate even now.
I now wish would have waited for a cheaper card. (but the 6600 series wasn't announced yet). In the end, I justified the card by me being enganged, so I figured I might not be able to upgrade for a awhile.
I did however play a similar game with my motherboard, I went for the cheaper socket 754 boards and chips, and saved myself over $100 by doing so, basically the savings I had will pay for a new motherboard in the future when I want to upgrade to a faster cpu, and I end up with more extra hardware.
After that I vowed to do the same thing with video cards, buy cheaper cards, more often. I then have more hardware sitting around to upgrade my linux server, sell to friends, or whatever.
My fav is the NES Advantage, but yeah, the NES Max was a great controller as well, most controllers of today still have that general shape, with a few buttons and analog sticks added.
This is one thing that always bugged me. I first started out on Atari, then got an NES, and I never did like gamepad controls. So I bought an NES advantage. It was an awesome, very durable arcade stick. Once I outgrew my NES, and bought an Amiga 600 in high school, I took apart the NES Advantage and soldered on an Amiga joystick wire to it, I still have it to this day, and use it every once in a great while when I pull out my A600 or NES.
I never have found such an Arcade stick for the PC, I've been looking for awhile for a fairly compact USB 6-8 button arcade stick. Sure you can buy flight sticks all you want, but not a simple arcade stick. You can buy huge behemoth 2 - 4 stick mame consoles designed to fit into a cabinet, but I really don't have room for something that huge on my desk.:) Maybe what I want exists, but I certainly haven't been able to find it after searching the web every 6 months or so for something that will fit the bill.
From what I hear XBox 360 controllers are USB 2.0 compliant, so I have high hopes there will hopefully be a nice arcade stick produced someday that will work on a PC. Right now, all I can find is an overpriced, hideous, Dead or Alive 4 stick for the 360.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams
Which is precicely why I stopped running all those types of programs about 5 years ago. Not only does it use more electricity, it also creates more heat, and this room gets hot enough between my linux and windows boxes already... and I do try to turn my windows machine off when I can. Funny how things change once I start paying the electric bill. :)
I agree that one is nice, but it could use collapsable sections and reduced minimum width. The design is classic, yet updated.
I have daemon tools 4.03H installed and spybot's showing nothing... doing a google search mentions something about a search bar that's bundled with DT, but it's a very simple process to uncheck the box during the install process. I certainly didn't install it.
I personally have never wanted more than one or two images mounted. I just use it so I don't have to play discjockey when I want to play a game. I guess I never found selecting a different image every now and then a big deal.
I don't think I've uninstalled it that much--maybe once before and upgrade... I don't ever remember having a problem.
I've always considered daemon tools one of the great "free" utilities out there.
crap, and I liked that stuff... stupid fat americans.
-- gid
I personally like the taste of diet sunkist and diet mt dew. I like the real stuff better, but if I only buy the diet stuff, I find I don't drink quite as much, and seeing as how caffeine and artificial sweeteners probably aren't the best for yout anyway, it works out. It's also easier on the wallet--this also works out great since I'm cheap.
Started working out and cut out the high sugar sodas over a year ago, and I'm by far in the best shape of my life.
This kind of what I do. I'll help them out the first few times right away, then I'll make myself more busy, waiting longer and longer get back to them--things have been rather hectic here anyway so it's not a lie.
They either eventually a) figure the problem out on their own, b) call someone else who isn't as busy, c) wait for me to come over/call them back and talk them through it days later. I've found that c doesn't happen very often for me, and if it does, then that's fine with me, since then I can help them out when it's most convenient for me.
There was this Slashdot article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/223524 6 about a man taking his products OUT of WalMart to avoid the cheapening of his high quality lawn equipment (the cheapening of the brand, and the price gap/struggle in WalMart lawn centers without knowledgeable staff to enable the high-quality products to shine)
I thought this was interesting as well, until I found out that Snapper is owned by Simplicity, which is owned by Briggs & Straton, which already sells lawn mowers to Walm-Mart and the they probably don't want to compete against themselves. I'm not sure if I trust Snapper's motives for not selling to Wal-Mart--sometimes things aren't as they seem.
Everybody to the Limit!
This is really nothing new, I've been complaining about MSIE ignoring Content-Type http headers since at least MSIE4.
.jpg to .html, it will still render it as a jpg. I'm sure there's many other examples as well, possibly some dangerous ones.
My conspiracy theory has always been that it allows someone with an improperly configured server to just "work" with only IE, while the rest of the world is going, "huh, all I see is html code, maybe I should just switch to Internet Explorer". There's other cases of IE ignoring the Content-Type, try renaming a
I just started working out a little over a year go, and I'm in the best shape of my life at 30 years old. My cousin with the urging of my wife got me into it, I now work out (mostly weight lifting) with him ideally 4 times a week at his house. Lately it's been more like 2-3 times a week, but I'm working on that.
We do supersets, so there's a fair amount of cardio involved as well, so we get the best of both worlds. I lost maybe 10-15 pounds in the first couple of months without really thinking that I would. It's now probably forever a part of my life. I love it. It get to relax and think about my day, while feeling that I'm accomplishing something.
The hardest part was getting started and in a routine. I think what motivated me was that no one expected me to stick with it, not even myself, so I felt I had something to prove. It's easy to just quit, in the end, Nike's slogan says it all, just do it. No questions, if ands, or buts, just do it.
The worst part now is that I wish I would have started when I was 16 or so--oh well. It's never too late.
Maybe you called the wrong number or looked the wrong place. The n series from Dell Small Business comes with FreeDOS or RedHat EL.
Most people I talk to say to buy from Dell Business, not Home.
I wonder how big the anti phishing database is. Is it only 5 megs or something? If so, then maybe it could just be downloaded via a built in rsync client daily or weekly, or provide some type of binary patch so you don't have to download the entire 5 megs when you update it. Maybe this method wouldn't really work well, maybe the updates wouldn't happen fast enough
Here's another idea: maybe more of a whitelist is a better idea. I visit my banks website, I add it to my trusted list. Now whenever I go back, I get a super special anti-fish thing there that I look for. If I don't see the special trusted website logo, then I know I'm going to the wrong place. This may require a bit too much education on the users side tho. Of course, there's already the padlock, as someone else here said, sensitive site's logon pages should be on a secure page. If I don't see the padlock, then I don't trust the site with my username and pass.
anti-phishing technology is a good idea in some form or another, but a central db just doesn't seem like the way to go. It's the first thing I disabled when I installed the IE7 beta.
Don't forget about SACD. The annoying thing about SACD is that it supposedly supports hybrids that should work in both SACD and normal CD players. But still the only good album you can buy is Dark Side of the Moon. Oh well, I only wasted maybe $40 or so on that SACD capable dvd player.
I don't have a problem with thinking outside of the box. I used the parachute idea as well in 6th grade and it worked very well--although I think i got an A. The problem I have with the expendable part of the mug is that it isn't reusable--you drop it once and the bottom of the mug is broken up into piece. Sure it holds liquid, but can you still set it down on desk without fear of it tipping over? And if it drops again, what's going happen to it?
-- gid
I have a 5.1 system for my home theater, all Cambridge Soundworks stuff for my speakers, model sixes for the front, "the surround" for the back, a "center channel plus, and a 12 inch powered cube for the sub, mostly bought of off eBay acutioned off by CSW (reburfished with full warranties)--all powered by a nice Harmon Kardon amp I got on sale. It's sounds terrific, and until one of my friends buys something I deem better, I won't upgrade. (kidding... kind of)
I just have a regular stereo system for my computer, a nice sony rack system I bought like 15 years ago in high school, sounds great. It even has dual tape decks with sychro highspeed dubbing! It's all I need--even when playing FPS's. I bought a mixing board awhile back so more than one computer can share the speakers.
Of course as soon as you do that, they'll invent 10.1--which of course, consists of a ceiling speaker and another speaker embedded in your floor.
I did something like this once when I was in high school, only not doing the bridge, but just wiring each speaker separately. positive of each speaker goes to the right positive, neg of each speaker goes to the left positive. It's basically the same thing from the sounds of it, but you don't have that extra wire connecting the two rear speakers. The downside is you have to stuff two wires in one wire hole.
If I remember right, it had a neat echo effect, and cut out most of the bass, basically making it a crude surround--so it sounds like the same thing you're talking about.
I have a pretty simple setup as well; basically just have two machines.
:)
One linux box (Athlon XP 2600+) running the world: router(using QoS), firewall, fileserver, email, imapd, web server, database, dns, dhcp, teamspeak, web cam, bittorrent tracker, game server du jour, and usually runs a full gnome desktop basically just doing web browsing, email, irc and whatever. This is the only machine that stays on all the time. It's a little bit overkill, but it's nice having a snappy web browsing machine that's always on.
Then I have another machine (Athlon 64) running Windows XP that I use for work, and play games on.
A netgear switch connecting everything.
And a cable modem for that internet thing.
Plus the wife has her desktop and her work laptop. And sometimes another random machine or two I may be working on for someone else, playing with trying out a new linux dist, or whatever.
All wired of course--nothing beats a good old fashioned wire. We also have wireless--sort of... well at least our kind neighbors do.
The first computer I ever used was a TRS-80 (model 4 I believe) that my dad brought home for the summer of '84, before 4th grade. I mostly played games but also did some very basic, basic programming. Eventually my dad purchased an Apple IIe, which was stolen, and then we upgraded to an Apple IIgs. While I used each of those comptuers a fair amount, playing games and writing many hello world programs.
My first computer that I owned was an Amiga 600 which I bought in high school sometime, maybe in 92/93 or so with 2 megs of chip ram, and eventually a hard drive. I bought it after seeing my friend's Amiga 1000 and all the great games it could do. Plus, I could hook this computer up to my TV so I didn't have to buy a monitor, which I couldn't afford. I still have this computer to this day and last time I used it a few years back, it worked great still. I only had a 2400 baud modem at the time, and my Mom complained constantly about me tying up the phone line, downloading junk off the Amiga Atrium, a local BBS. Oh, and jpegs, it would take literally minutes to render them, one line at a time.
I was always the odd ball guy with an Amiga, as pretty much everyone else I knew had PC's. But I always had the coolest and most fun games with the smoothest graphics--even in college--until my roomate showed me Doom, damn it. I knew then I had to have a PC, bought a DIGITAL P90 with my hard earned money for the low low price of $2400, complete with 15 inch monitor. This computer is long gone, it's junk. But my Amiga 600... what can I say, I hope to have it forever, it was my first love.
Indeed. I bought a 6800 GT awhile back when they first came out which was $400, upgrading from a GF3. I found it was way more card than I needed at the time to play doom 3 and whatever other games that were out at the time. It's still more than adequate even now.
I now wish would have waited for a cheaper card. (but the 6600 series wasn't announced yet). In the end, I justified the card by me being enganged, so I figured I might not be able to upgrade for a awhile.
I did however play a similar game with my motherboard, I went for the cheaper socket 754 boards and chips, and saved myself over $100 by doing so, basically the savings I had will pay for a new motherboard in the future when I want to upgrade to a faster cpu, and I end up with more extra hardware.
After that I vowed to do the same thing with video cards, buy cheaper cards, more often. I then have more hardware sitting around to upgrade my linux server, sell to friends, or whatever.
My fav is the NES Advantage, but yeah, the NES Max was a great controller as well, most controllers of today still have that general shape, with a few buttons and analog sticks added.
I never really got the attraction of the D-pad.
This is one thing that always bugged me. I first started out on Atari, then got an NES, and I never did like gamepad controls. So I bought an NES advantage. It was an awesome, very durable arcade stick. Once I outgrew my NES, and bought an Amiga 600 in high school, I took apart the NES Advantage and soldered on an Amiga joystick wire to it, I still have it to this day, and use it every once in a great while when I pull out my A600 or NES.
:) Maybe what I want exists, but I certainly haven't been able to find it after searching the web every 6 months or so for something that will fit the bill.
I never have found such an Arcade stick for the PC, I've been looking for awhile for a fairly compact USB 6-8 button arcade stick. Sure you can buy flight sticks all you want, but not a simple arcade stick. You can buy huge behemoth 2 - 4 stick mame consoles designed to fit into a cabinet, but I really don't have room for something that huge on my desk.
From what I hear XBox 360 controllers are USB 2.0 compliant, so I have high hopes there will hopefully be a nice arcade stick produced someday that will work on a PC. Right now, all I can find is an overpriced, hideous, Dead or Alive 4 stick for the 360.
I still like the idea of the thirst bar in battlefield 1942.
Found this link on Digg the other day.