My Toshiba does that...you'd think they'd fix it or something. What I wonder is if it's a hardware issue (touchstick gets stuck just a bit off center) or software.
I agree, these types of jokes are so much better if you can put up an actual file for download.
I remember the lzip (lossy zip) compression files from a few years ago...that was one of the best April Fools Day joke I've ever seen. Check out some of the files in the tarball, README, for instance. The idea of lossy file compression could work out in the future though..if only they could fix that blue-shift...
Yeah; I mis-read your comment and thought you were talking about the area code...As you pointed out (in your most recent reply) area codes don't matter which is why I thought it might be flamebait; of course if you live in some backword town that doesn't need as many phone numbers as, say, Philadelphia, I figured it was possible you weren't aware of that -- so I posted my comment about area codes. BUT, looking back I made a mistake and mis-read things; so I appoligize for the incorrectness of my comment.
You may be interested in this link which claims to have full mobility between landline and cell phone numbers...
How about adding something that would sync to a Palm device? This is probably quite a bit off-topic as the original question was regarding server-side solutions that could be accessed by any application. But I'm curious -- how hard would it be to integrate a calendar, stored online somewhere with the server the original poster is asking about, with a Palm device. I assume that the only hurdle would be finding a client programm that speaks both to the Palm and the server -- does such a thing exist? If not, why not?
Is this also why my phone (T-Mobile) doesn't ever go in to roam -- it would rather not have signal at all than be on a different network (even though their fine print somewhere states that it may roam and it's free for me, etc...)?
I'm curious for more information on this "subsidy lock" of which you speak. Can you provide more information - what is it, how does it work, how can it be unlocked, etc?
I'm not sure if this is flamebait or if you're serious, so I'll risk it.
I have some friends in the Philadelphia area who have cell phones with the same area code as some landlines in the area. The area code is 267 and their provider is T-Mobile.
My laptop (purchased at Circuit City with the 3-year extended warranty) died -- a couple of times. My hard drive went; two times, I think. The first time it was still under Toshiba's warrantly (Circuit City's picked up after Toshiba's one year ran out) - they fixed it and had it back within a week, no questions asked, no problems. They even fixed my broken keyboard (a key fell off because a book fell on it while I was shipping it back). Try Circuit City (actually contracted out to GE-Zurich or something) a year or two later and you wouldn't believe the trouble I had. I was without my laptop -- my only computer at the university, the one with all my projects on -- for four weeks, on the phone with tech support for the first two or three of those nightly (on top of coursework, etc). The tech support dudes ranged from following the book (yes, I can hear the clicking. We still have to verify that your hard drive is going bad [by running scandisk three times and coming up with more bad cluster counts each time]) to complete idiots (Whoops, I just deleted your records, the previous three records of scandisk are gone, you'll have to do it again -- and if you've ever run scandisk on a dying drive, you know that it takes forever -- I ran it for about 30 hours each time. I finally gave up and fudged the numbers, I think, for the last one...by then I'd run scandisk no less than 8 times.
Anyway; is it worth the money for a laptop? Probably yes. Is it worth the hassle? Possibly not. It all depends, but if my screen would have died I would have hated to pay for it myself.
I went with a friend to buy a stereo system at Best Buy the other day and the salesdude told us he didn't get any commision on sales of these warranties. For not getting commision he was sure push about it though. And a pain to deal with.
Despite the problems associated with getting advanced users to patrol newbie message boards and find such reports and take the time to reproduce and report the bug, newbies are invaluble (as is being stated elsewhere in this thread) in reporting true bugs.
Just because the programmer or QC person hasn't tried something in testing doesn't mean the newbie, fresh off of handholding by AOL, won't be able to crash it.
As a college student (soon to be graduate) studying broadcasting and television production, I've heard of SNG and it's use for a number of years. The mid-eighties, I think (without bothering to look at my class notes or textbook) is when Satellite News Gathering really took off because costs were down and FCC licensing got less strict.
The thing is, this isn't the same form of SNG -- conventional SNG involves a video feed (along with an audio channel or two and maybe a cell phone call) going out via conventional analog or digital video to a bird and being beamed back down. This, it sounds like, is converting the video to a computer file and essentially emailing that file back via a satellite internet connection. More like wireless networking than traditional SNG.
Re:Write again to the ethics committee
on
On Taking the Data?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
I wouldn't write them again with a warning like this. They've been warned, they shouldn't be in the situation in the first place; if you can stand the fallout and socialogical side effects of being the one who brings this to light go for it -- call in the feds or whoever you Canadians have to report things like this to. There have got to be privacy laws that are being violated here.
On a side note; what is so interesting about a bunch of data that you're being encuraged to dip in and help yourself to some of it?
Thanks for the advice. I am running windows 2000 as well, and have tried what you suggest. Explorer sometimes works (enough; say, to launch the client to connect to localhost) but never works completely..often it won't let me switch to the the explorer window and the taskbar/start menu get hosed pretty bad. A logout fixes the problems though. A lot better than my old 98 system that just hard locked out of the blue every now and then...
Dang -- typed up a huge reply and lost it. Since I'm too tired to re-type the whole thing; here's my summary:
Most people aren't going to want to remember their password. What happens if someone looses their private key (misplaced, corrupt data...there are a ton of things that could go wrong.) It's hard enough for people to keep track of paper; much less a disk/USB keyring thing/whatever the private key would be on. Much less keep it safe from being stolen.
Just a few thoughts. Users are pretty clueless; you'll either end up with "password" or a post-it note with the password written down taped on their monitors, stuck in their wallets, or under the keyboard. And people will be afraid of loosing/breaking their private key and leave it at home; making an additional thing to remember when going for that new car, new job, bank transation...
That said, a private key system would be great because figuring out someone's SSN is amazingly easy, I'm sure. Many universities and colleges use them for student numbers, account logins (well, part of it anyway)...all I'd need to do is pay attention in line while picking up some financial aid papers, or paycheck, or registering for classes, or registering to graduate...the list goes on much longer than I'd like.
Oh, yeah; what you said about third parties not having much incentive to keep it a secret is slightly wrong. My university doesn't care who finds it out. I'm tagged by my SSN no matter what I do (see a few examples above); it's printed on my paycheck and I'm required to write it on pretty much anything I send them. And I'm sure most universities are worse. Ugh!
ah, here is the link I was looking for...there seems to be a good bit of discussion going on regarding this. The point made by b-baggins about the nanotube making a nasty blade is something I hadn't thought about -- since it's so strong, whatever it hits would be like getting sliced with a razor blade or piano wire (I would think).
My suggestion would be to line the cable with explosives, and vaporize it if it started falling.
I think I've seen a proposal before for something similar to what you are suggesting. The article I read suggested putting explosives at the bottom or a quarter way up or so -- my memory is hazy on the details -- and if there ever were a huge problem; fire off the explosives and most of it drifts (or whips) off in to space. The rest would fall gently (or crash) in to the ocean. No big deal, really. Especially when you consider the size of the nanotubes...someone posted something about being a micron thick....I'd love to see one of these built, and soon!!
Hey, I saw your sig -- you don't happen live in Paradise, do you? I'm about an hour north and we've had a truckload of beautiful snow (but now it's turned to mud) clogging up our driveway....
This is a Unix email virus. It works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of Unix, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
All you really need to do this is to split each of the signals, run it to a seperate sound board, the output of which feeds either a computer or stand alone CD recorder. Then you just get a huge pile of cd-r media and racks of cd duplicators...[near] instant copies. Not hard and can be done rather cheaply -- the biggest cost would probably be the duplicators -- we've got a 1x7 that runs at 24x that cost over a grand, as I recall -- you could easily get 20 or 30 thousand in duplicators.
My Latitude CPx is falling apart - not due to abuse but to poor design. There is no frame or any sort of reinforcement inside; the only structure is the cheap, thin plastic case. I've taken apart a few Thinkpads and they're solid. Apples are too. Dell laptops are bad designs built of cheap materials.
Yeah; I've got three friends who've got the same Latitude CPx or CPi (or something very similar) series laptops -- two completely fell apart at the hinges, the other is on its way to falling apart as well.
that said; I also know people who have relatively new top-of-the-line Dell laptops and they seem extremely solid...
Out of curiosity, why would one want to make a laptop a firewall? I can see a need for a personal firewall setup, but to have the machine primaraly be used as as a companies firewall, it seems a bit... expensive.
I said that just for the sake of example to demostrate the fact that Linux boxes are often used for a wide variety of things ranging from single-purpose firewalls to a multi-function desktop box (used for mail, ftp, web servers; typing documents; editing audio files; etc). Although I'll agree that to use a brand-new Dell laptop for a firewall would be wasteful; however, this discussion can be applied to any Dell computer anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
My Toshiba does that...you'd think they'd fix it or something. What I wonder is if it's a hardware issue (touchstick gets stuck just a bit off center) or software.
I agree, these types of jokes are so much better if you can put up an actual file for download.
I remember the lzip (lossy zip) compression files from a few years ago...that was one of the best April Fools Day joke I've ever seen. Check out some of the files in the tarball, README, for instance. The idea of lossy file compression could work out in the future though..if only they could fix that blue-shift...
Yeah; I mis-read your comment and thought you were talking about the area code...As you pointed out (in your most recent reply) area codes don't matter which is why I thought it might be flamebait; of course if you live in some backword town that doesn't need as many phone numbers as, say, Philadelphia, I figured it was possible you weren't aware of that -- so I posted my comment about area codes. BUT, looking back I made a mistake and mis-read things; so I appoligize for the incorrectness of my comment.
You may be interested in this link which claims to have full mobility between landline and cell phone numbers...
How about adding something that would sync to a Palm device? This is probably quite a bit off-topic as the original question was regarding server-side solutions that could be accessed by any application. But I'm curious -- how hard would it be to integrate a calendar, stored online somewhere with the server the original poster is asking about, with a Palm device. I assume that the only hurdle would be finding a client programm that speaks both to the Palm and the server -- does such a thing exist? If not, why not?
Is this also why my phone (T-Mobile) doesn't ever go in to roam -- it would rather not have signal at all than be on a different network (even though their fine print somewhere states that it may roam and it's free for me, etc...)?
My mistake -- I should have read your messages a little closer before replying. I see now that I was in error on the matter...
I'm curious for more information on this "subsidy lock" of which you speak. Can you provide more information - what is it, how does it work, how can it be unlocked, etc?
I'm not sure if this is flamebait or if you're serious, so I'll risk it.
I have some friends in the Philadelphia area who have cell phones with the same area code as some landlines in the area. The area code is 267 and their provider is T-Mobile.
Isn't that illegal..or at least morally and ethically wrong? I guess big businesses can do whatever they want.
My laptop (purchased at Circuit City with the 3-year extended warranty) died -- a couple of times. My hard drive went; two times, I think. The first time it was still under Toshiba's warrantly (Circuit City's picked up after Toshiba's one year ran out) - they fixed it and had it back within a week, no questions asked, no problems. They even fixed my broken keyboard (a key fell off because a book fell on it while I was shipping it back). Try Circuit City (actually contracted out to GE-Zurich or something) a year or two later and you wouldn't believe the trouble I had. I was without my laptop -- my only computer at the university, the one with all my projects on -- for four weeks, on the phone with tech support for the first two or three of those nightly (on top of coursework, etc). The tech support dudes ranged from following the book (yes, I can hear the clicking. We still have to verify that your hard drive is going bad [by running scandisk three times and coming up with more bad cluster counts each time]) to complete idiots (Whoops, I just deleted your records, the previous three records of scandisk are gone, you'll have to do it again -- and if you've ever run scandisk on a dying drive, you know that it takes forever -- I ran it for about 30 hours each time. I finally gave up and fudged the numbers, I think, for the last one...by then I'd run scandisk no less than 8 times.
Anyway; is it worth the money for a laptop? Probably yes. Is it worth the hassle? Possibly not. It all depends, but if my screen would have died I would have hated to pay for it myself.
Just my $0.02...
I went with a friend to buy a stereo system at Best Buy the other day and the salesdude told us he didn't get any commision on sales of these warranties. For not getting commision he was sure push about it though. And a pain to deal with.
Despite the problems associated with getting advanced users to patrol newbie message boards and find such reports and take the time to reproduce and report the bug, newbies are invaluble (as is being stated elsewhere in this thread) in reporting true bugs. Just because the programmer or QC person hasn't tried something in testing doesn't mean the newbie, fresh off of handholding by AOL, won't be able to crash it.
As a college student (soon to be graduate) studying broadcasting and television production, I've heard of SNG and it's use for a number of years. The mid-eighties, I think (without bothering to look at my class notes or textbook) is when Satellite News Gathering really took off because costs were down and FCC licensing got less strict.
The thing is, this isn't the same form of SNG -- conventional SNG involves a video feed (along with an audio channel or two and maybe a cell phone call) going out via conventional analog or digital video to a bird and being beamed back down. This, it sounds like, is converting the video to a computer file and essentially emailing that file back via a satellite internet connection. More like wireless networking than traditional SNG.
I wouldn't write them again with a warning like this. They've been warned, they shouldn't be in the situation in the first place; if you can stand the fallout and socialogical side effects of being the one who brings this to light go for it -- call in the feds or whoever you Canadians have to report things like this to. There have got to be privacy laws that are being violated here.
On a side note; what is so interesting about a bunch of data that you're being encuraged to dip in and help yourself to some of it?
Thanks for the advice. I am running windows 2000 as well, and have tried what you suggest. Explorer sometimes works (enough; say, to launch the client to connect to localhost) but never works completely..often it won't let me switch to the the explorer window and the taskbar/start menu get hosed pretty bad. A logout fixes the problems though. A lot better than my old 98 system that just hard locked out of the blue every now and then...
thanks again for your advice!!
I just did, and do all to often when explorer crashes and I need to copy and paste whatever I'm in the middle of (in order to save it).
Dang -- typed up a huge reply and lost it. Since I'm too tired to re-type the whole thing; here's my summary:
Most people aren't going to want to remember their password. What happens if someone looses their private key (misplaced, corrupt data...there are a ton of things that could go wrong.) It's hard enough for people to keep track of paper; much less a disk/USB keyring thing/whatever the private key would be on. Much less keep it safe from being stolen.
Just a few thoughts. Users are pretty clueless; you'll either end up with "password" or a post-it note with the password written down taped on their monitors, stuck in their wallets, or under the keyboard. And people will be afraid of loosing/breaking their private key and leave it at home; making an additional thing to remember when going for that new car, new job, bank transation...
That said, a private key system would be great because figuring out someone's SSN is amazingly easy, I'm sure. Many universities and colleges use them for student numbers, account logins (well, part of it anyway)...all I'd need to do is pay attention in line while picking up some financial aid papers, or paycheck, or registering for classes, or registering to graduate...the list goes on much longer than I'd like.
Oh, yeah; what you said about third parties not having much incentive to keep it a secret is slightly wrong. My university doesn't care who finds it out. I'm tagged by my SSN no matter what I do (see a few examples above); it's printed on my paycheck and I'm required to write it on pretty much anything I send them. And I'm sure most universities are worse. Ugh!
ah, here is the link I was looking for...there seems to be a good bit of discussion going on regarding this. The point made by b-baggins about the nanotube making a nasty blade is something I hadn't thought about -- since it's so strong, whatever it hits would be like getting sliced with a razor blade or piano wire (I would think).
Hey, I saw your sig -- you don't happen live in Paradise, do you? I'm about an hour north and we've had a truckload of beautiful snow (but now it's turned to mud) clogging up our driveway....
odd, it works for me in 0.53b
All you really need to do this is to split each of the signals, run it to a seperate sound board, the output of which feeds either a computer or stand alone CD recorder. Then you just get a huge pile of cd-r media and racks of cd duplicators...[near] instant copies. Not hard and can be done rather cheaply -- the biggest cost would probably be the duplicators -- we've got a 1x7 that runs at 24x that cost over a grand, as I recall -- you could easily get 20 or 30 thousand in duplicators.
Yeah; I've got three friends who've got the same Latitude CPx or CPi (or something very similar) series laptops -- two completely fell apart at the hinges, the other is on its way to falling apart as well.
that said; I also know people who have relatively new top-of-the-line Dell laptops and they seem extremely solid...
I said that just for the sake of example to demostrate the fact that Linux boxes are often used for a wide variety of things ranging from single-purpose firewalls to a multi-function desktop box (used for mail, ftp, web servers; typing documents; editing audio files; etc). Although I'll agree that to use a brand-new Dell laptop for a firewall would be wasteful; however, this discussion can be applied to any Dell computer anyway.