As a practicing pulmonary doctor, I see patients that claim a wide variety of environmental sensitivies. My one patient was an engineer who thought her computer "was releasing chemicals that were killing her" did the following.
She placed her computer case in a plastic storage bin and placed it in the crawl space under her bedroom. She then bought extension cables for everything and ran the cables up into her living space. I wish I had the pictures she brought in... but her setup included a desk mounted power switch as well.
Once she moved her computer out of her bedroom she decided that her light bulbs were releasing harmful chemicals. It was obviously her light bulbs because she had moved basically everything else out of her bedroom.
Of course, she slept with her cat... but her cat couldn't be causing her allergies. Of course not.
I actually use yahoo's sync to backup by outlook contacts, calender, and to-do list. It's cheesy as hell, but it certainly does the job.
How can I publish my events on a remote server? You can publish events from the calendar to an FTP server or a webDAV enabled webserver. You can also use the calendar to subscribe to these events as well.
If I can figure out what the heck a webDAV enabled webserver is, maybe I can drop yahoo...
Does anybody know if converting "free" products over to non-English languages is worth it? Several of my clients have asked if they should pay to translate their subject-based ad-carrying websites over to different languages?
Does Japan spend more money on internet stuff than China, for example?
I think security (especially patches for known exploits) should be as public as possible. The trouble-makers scan the security mailing lists more than the average device owner.
If you have a glaring security hole, you better tell everybody to patch it because you risk losing your rep. Reference: Microsoft's previous security plan.
I love it when I got a company's webpage and they say... "We found out about the error yesterday and we are posting the fix today. Thanks for your support."
I don't think it is surprising that apple fans (iPod, iTunes folks) are energetically against competition for their little cash cow. They want to support apple. They know that this working well for apple; they don't want anybody to rock the boat.
Realone is trying to break apple fans from apple loyality... and it just isn't going to work. Of course I am stereotyping but Apple's success is based in their loyal, vocal, energetic community.
The linux community and the apple communities are a lot alike in this manner.
What is interesting is that trolling the site got success...
The deluge of anti-RealNetworks sentiment prompted the company to take down the original petition and replace it with one without a comment section, but where the names of those who signed up were visible. Most signed up as 'Real sucks' or something similar. The ability to see names was then removed.
Proprietary is anticompetitive by definition. Apple is banking that proprietary is profitable. I'll guess we'll see if they are right.
Reliability rivaling that of wired connections and effortless connectivity at real-world distances is why Belkin's True MIMO products have ushered in a new era in wireless."
When I can wirelessly play my PS2 and download torrents at the same time, I'll be in heaven. As much as I love wireless, I think we are far from the reliability and connectivity of a hard wire.
Held linux back? Is the goal of linux to beat windows?
When somebody learns about linux do you want to introduce them to a buggy GUI interface that requires them to spend more and more money to install lindows-blessed programs?
I would rather walk them into my work's (hospital's) server room... or pull-up their uptime stats. Stuff like that is impressive.
Your average joe that buys a computer a wal-mart wants to know how to run Doom 3... it's futile.
Still, others regard the industry's gender crisis as the product of a more challenging problem--its image as nerd central. At Intel, where she chairs women's initiatives, Liu finds herself trying to convince visiting teens and Girl Scout troops that's a bad rap. "We're trying to show girls that this is something cool and fun," she says, "and that we look like regular people. We're not weird or geeky." The National Academy of Engineering has also launched a website called "Engineer Girl!" with jazzy graphics and job stories of fun-loving young female engineers trying to make a difference.
We're not weird or geeky?
Let's be a realistic here. I am a ubercool kinda dude, and most of my "nerd friends" are as well. My fellow geeks that I work with have played professional sports, won skateboarding contests, gone to medical school, and been in successful rock bands.
These are very cool guys and gals for the most part... however, we are all still geeks. It's like saying that doctors shouldn't express their type A personality... we want doctors who are type A!
To be a good computer person, you have to enjoy staring at code on a screen! That messes with your brain!
Trying to change the image of your average geek is pointless. Pay us more and give us more benefits... that will get more people into our field!
One of our users posted a walkthrough of this fix this morning. Supposedly there is a new beta version of aim that has been released without this exploit... but I've not seen it yet.
No doubt. Several friends of mine were in an excellent band 5 or 6 years ago. The won several contests and had a huge local following.
Several companies were fighting to sign them. They signed... but the company decided that they were not young enough. So the company just held on to their contract and their music to insure that nobody else could profit from them either.
By the time they got out of their contract, they were out of their prime.
They still perform now, and they enjoy making money by doing bars and small concerts; however, they missed that one golden chance that many bands have to make a mint quickly.
Warner has released DualDisc albums by R.E.M., P.O.D., Barenaked Ladies, Donald Fagen, and Linkin Park. The CD side of the disc contains standard two-channel, 16-bit/44.1kHz audio, while the DVD side features a high-resolution, 5.1-channel mix of the album. BMG, on the other hand, has music videos on the DVD side of its Usher release. Sony has released DualDiscs by AC/DC, Audioslave, David Bowie, and Good Charlotte. RCA has issued an EP-length DualDisc by the Calling.
Sounds like tons of people are using it to me!
My belief is that record companies are looking for new high-bandwidth ways to sell media. Sure anybody can listen to the song from mp3 or the radio... but it's much nicer to have the video and additional content right in front of you.
DVD Plus and DualDisc are based on the same concept--hybrid discs with a DVD on one side and a CD on the other--and Warner sold its patent on the technology to Dierks, though the label retained the license to manufacture products under the Warner name.
It is simple enough. DVD on one side; CD on the other. Everybody is happy......except not. Now this interesting technology is tied up in patent and copyright fights.
SSH and IM alone are worth the money to me. Once I installed the development kit, I couldn't quit playing with this thing!
Yes, the "phone" part is sub-par... if they fix that, then they are going to sell a billion of these things. Since I often manage systems remotely, this little baby is worth its weight in gold.
(Sorry, I've plugged my own site twice in two days on here. I'm usually not such a whore.)
XP SP2 limits the createPopup functionality to the viewport of the current page.
As SP2 fixes this bug, it proves that microsoft has known about and hidden the information about this bug for a while. What a bunch of bastards!
I think everybody poor person that has fallen for this should receive some form of compensation from microsoft. They knowingly left a dangerous door open without warning people. Bastards.
Hell, I run an XP-related website and this kinda crap even pisses me off.
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As a practicing pulmonary doctor, I see patients that claim a wide variety of environmental sensitivies. My one patient was an engineer who thought her computer "was releasing chemicals that were killing her" did the following.
She placed her computer case in a plastic storage bin and placed it in the crawl space under her bedroom. She then bought extension cables for everything and ran the cables up into her living space. I wish I had the pictures she brought in... but her setup included a desk mounted power switch as well.
Once she moved her computer out of her bedroom she decided that her light bulbs were releasing harmful chemicals. It was obviously her light bulbs because she had moved basically everything else out of her bedroom.
Of course, she slept with her cat... but her cat couldn't be causing her allergies. Of course not.
Gesh... just another day at the office.
Davak
Yeah, sync is a big thing these days.
/Off to google
I actually use yahoo's sync to backup by outlook contacts, calender, and to-do list. It's cheesy as hell, but it certainly does the job.
How can I publish my events on a remote server?
You can publish events from the calendar to an FTP server or a webDAV enabled webserver. You can also use the calendar to subscribe to these events as well.
If I can figure out what the heck a webDAV enabled webserver is, maybe I can drop yahoo...
Davak
Does anybody know if converting "free" products over to non-English languages is worth it? Several of my clients have asked if they should pay to translate their subject-based ad-carrying websites over to different languages?
Does Japan spend more money on internet stuff than China, for example?
Davak
We are just going to have to agree to disagree.
I think security (especially patches for known exploits) should be as public as possible. The trouble-makers scan the security mailing lists more than the average device owner.
btw, great pics on your site.
If you have a glaring security hole, you better tell everybody to patch it because you risk losing your rep.
Reference:
Microsoft's previous security plan.
I love it when I got a company's webpage and they say... "We found out about the error yesterday and we are posting the fix today. Thanks for your support."
AC
I don't think it is surprising that apple fans (iPod, iTunes folks) are energetically against competition for their little cash cow. They want to support apple. They know that this working well for apple; they don't want anybody to rock the boat.
Realone is trying to break apple fans from apple loyality... and it just isn't going to work. Of course I am stereotyping but Apple's success is based in their loyal, vocal, energetic community.
The linux community and the apple communities are a lot alike in this manner.
What is interesting is that trolling the site got success...
The deluge of anti-RealNetworks sentiment prompted the company to take down the original petition and replace it with one without a comment section, but where the names of those who signed up were visible. Most signed up as 'Real sucks' or something similar. The ability to see names was then removed.
Proprietary is anticompetitive by definition.
Apple is banking that proprietary is profitable. I'll guess we'll see if they are right.
Davak
Whoa...
I need some ubergeek translation on this one. Is this a complicated, better method for verifying against known published source code?
Davak
Lucky, heck... until these problems are figured out, we are suggesting to our users not to allow Microsoft to install this puppy.
Microsoft has released an executable and there is a registry hack to prevent SP2 from being automatically updated to SP2.
It's bad enough to install this thing for yourself; you know to be looking for bugs.
However, if this thing rolls across several users' systems in the middle of the night, admins are going to have a bitch the next morning.
I'm not saying that we are not going to ever install SP2. We just want to be able to control and how and when...
XP SP2 is not yet available on CD
:)
Dial-up killing you?
Davak
a very limited set of IPs with high-bandwidth connections is dishing out the bulk of the spam
Crush those sites. Turn them off. Then repeat the study.
We should treat spam like a disease... and perform meaningful research on it.
Davak
Reliability rivaling that of wired connections and effortless connectivity at real-world distances is why Belkin's True MIMO products have ushered in a new era in wireless."
When I can wirelessly play my PS2 and download torrents at the same time, I'll be in heaven. As much as I love wireless, I think we are far from the reliability and connectivity of a hard wire.
Anybody know if the increase number of signals increases the amount of interference?
XP SP2: Are P2P, Port Scanning, and Port-Opening Programs Slower?
Check for the error code!
By design SP2 limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts. Who cares? This mostly stops trojans.
Run the event checker as described in the article above. You'll prove to yourself that you don't have a problem.
Held linux back? Is the goal of linux to beat windows?
When somebody learns about linux do you want to introduce them to a buggy GUI interface that requires them to spend more and more money to install lindows-blessed programs?
I would rather walk them into my work's (hospital's) server room... or pull-up their uptime stats. Stuff like that is impressive.
Your average joe that buys a computer a wal-mart wants to know how to run Doom 3... it's futile.
Davak
Typo police:
What we really need to do is just teach people how to do unix correctly.
And oh, yes... you can apt-get with lindows/linspire. Thank god.
Davak
Is lindows (aka linspire) the real salvation of linux? A pretty graphical interface? High processor requirements? A prioritary installation process?
How is this better than windows again?
What is we really just teach people how to do unix correctly?
Davak
Still, others regard the industry's gender crisis as the product of a more challenging problem--its image as nerd central. At Intel, where she chairs women's initiatives, Liu finds herself trying to convince visiting teens and Girl Scout troops that's a bad rap. "We're trying to show girls that this is something cool and fun," she says, "and that we look like regular people. We're not weird or geeky." The National Academy of Engineering has also launched a website called "Engineer Girl!" with jazzy graphics and job stories of fun-loving young female engineers trying to make a difference.
We're not weird or geeky?
Let's be a realistic here. I am a ubercool kinda dude, and most of my "nerd friends" are as well. My fellow geeks that I work with have played professional sports, won skateboarding contests, gone to medical school, and been in successful rock bands.
These are very cool guys and gals for the most part... however, we are all still geeks. It's like saying that doctors shouldn't express their type A personality... we want doctors who are type A!
To be a good computer person, you have to enjoy staring at code on a screen! That messes with your brain!
Trying to change the image of your average geek is pointless. Pay us more and give us more benefits... that will get more people into our field!
One of our users posted a walkthrough of this fix this morning. Supposedly there is a new beta version of aim that has been released without this exploit... but I've not seen it yet.
Walkthrough of registry fix for AIM hack
Look like a good reason to upgrade to trillian to me.
Davak
No doubt. Several friends of mine were in an excellent band 5 or 6 years ago. The won several contests and had a huge local following.
Several companies were fighting to sign them. They signed... but the company decided that they were not young enough. So the company just held on to their contract and their music to insure that nobody else could profit from them either.
By the time they got out of their contract, they were out of their prime.
They still perform now, and they enjoy making money by doing bars and small concerts; however, they missed that one golden chance that many bands have to make a mint quickly.
The record companies are bastards.
Davak
Warner has released DualDisc albums by R.E.M., P.O.D., Barenaked Ladies, Donald Fagen, and Linkin Park. The CD side of the disc contains standard two-channel, 16-bit/44.1kHz audio, while the DVD side features a high-resolution, 5.1-channel mix of the album. BMG, on the other hand, has music videos on the DVD side of its Usher release. Sony has released DualDiscs by AC/DC, Audioslave, David Bowie, and Good Charlotte. RCA has issued an EP-length DualDisc by the Calling.
Sounds like tons of people are using it to me!
My belief is that record companies are looking for new high-bandwidth ways to sell media. Sure anybody can listen to the song from mp3 or the radio... but it's much nicer to have the video and additional content right in front of you.
Davak
DVD Plus and DualDisc are based on the same concept--hybrid discs with a DVD on one side and a CD on the other--and Warner sold its patent on the technology to Dierks, though the label retained the license to manufacture products under the Warner name.
...except not. Now this interesting technology is tied up in patent and copyright fights.
It is simple enough. DVD on one side; CD on the other. Everybody is happy...
And we'll probably never see it.
Davak
Hello? This is slashdot!
The features we care about most is the ability to tweak it and hack it.
Hiptop_sidekick tweaks and walkthroughs
SSH and IM alone are worth the money to me. Once I installed the development kit, I couldn't quit playing with this thing!
Yes, the "phone" part is sub-par... if they fix that, then they are going to sell a billion of these things. Since I often manage systems remotely, this little baby is worth its weight in gold.
(Sorry, I've plugged my own site twice in two days on here. I'm usually not such a whore.)
Davak
The cheats and consoelc commands have changed some since the alpha version. One of our users posted a pretty good list here:
:)
Doom 3 Console Commands and cheats
If you figure out any more, please let me know.
I didn't really get that old doom feeling until I turned on noclip and walked through a few walls anyway.
We keep a running review of a few of the free webmail systems.
Free WebMail Spam and Storage Battles
So far yahoo, excite, and gmail are running about the same...
We'll be updating it again in a couple of days... prelim data looks very similiar. I am shocked how poorly lycos does.
Davak
XP SP2 limits the createPopup functionality to the viewport of the current page.
As SP2 fixes this bug, it proves that microsoft has known about and hidden the information about this bug for a while. What a bunch of bastards!
I think everybody poor person that has fallen for this should receive some form of compensation from microsoft. They knowingly left a dangerous door open without warning people. Bastards.
Hell, I run an XP-related website and this kinda crap even pisses me off.
Davak