A local ABC affiliate here in Seattle did a news story on it a little while ago. For the most part, the couple of people they interviewed seemed to think it was pretty effective. Here's the story
If you are comfortable working with Java, and feel like writing up your own viewer application, check out Java Advanced Imaging.
It offers some pretty cool tiling caching strategies for displaying large images. We've written an app that opens up images that are in the order of several hundred MB, and it handles them pretty well.
You actually still need a licensed copy of Microsoft Office. A brief exceprt from the newsforge review
"This product only makes sense for people who already have a Microsoft Office CD. If you don't, stick with StarOffice or pay Microsoft USD $370 plus tax for the suite. But if you do have Office 97 or 2000 laying around, Codeweaver's Crossover Office will let you fire up Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access in Linux, and even surf the Internet with Explorer, or check your mail with Outlook."
As much as AOL sucks, here's one upside that I have yet to find in another ISP. Travel to Germany, they've got a local phone number to call, travel to Argentina, they've got a local number, travel to Iceland, they've got a local number, you get the idea. If you are not travelling all over the place then please please please do not use AOL. If you are travelling, it's worth looking at as a "roaming" isp. Here's the link to their International Access Numbers.
What a bunch of crap. If you search ebay for auctions that are closed, there has never been a PS2 on ebay for $24. Here's a link ebay
There are quite a few pages of items at $24, but none are a full blown system. (mainly 8MB mem cards etc).
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A local ABC affiliate here in Seattle did a news story on it a little while ago. For the most part, the couple of people they interviewed seemed to think it was pretty effective. Here's the story
It offers some pretty cool tiling caching strategies for displaying large images. We've written an app that opens up images that are in the order of several hundred MB, and it handles them pretty well.
"This product only makes sense for people who already have a Microsoft Office CD. If you don't, stick with StarOffice or pay Microsoft USD $370 plus tax for the suite. But if you do have Office 97 or 2000 laying around, Codeweaver's Crossover Office will let you fire up Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access in Linux, and even surf the Internet with Explorer, or check your mail with Outlook."
As much as AOL sucks, here's one upside that I have yet to find in another ISP. Travel to Germany, they've got a local phone number to call, travel to Argentina, they've got a local number, travel to Iceland, they've got a local number, you get the idea. If you are not travelling all over the place then please please please do not use AOL. If you are travelling, it's worth looking at as a "roaming" isp. Here's the link to their International Access Numbers.
Dynamic DNS offers a fairly reliable, free dynamic dns service.
Also copy ShockwaveFlash.class to the mozilla plugins directory. I'm running Moz 0.9.7 with both plugins working fine.
"The ad looked legitimate. Then he went back and noticed instead of saying pictured below it only said picture below".
As unfortunate as that is, I thought it was funny as sh**. Here's the link
What a bunch of crap. If you search ebay for auctions that are closed, there has never been a PS2 on ebay for $24. Here's a link ebay There are quite a few pages of items at $24, but none are a full blown system. (mainly 8MB mem cards etc).
peace.