Acer sucks quality-wise, however....
ATI and nVidia sell quite a few GPUs to notebook manufacturers that do not stick to the reference designs.
Toshiba & HP are other nVidia / ATI notebooks that won't take the default Mobility/ForceWare drivers.
one maybe two reboots, all without runing windowsupdate direct. Only trick is to run the BITS 2.0, Installer 3.1, and WUAgent 2.0 installers first. Our RIS'd machines have this run on first boot:-
Yes, VLk is replaced by MAK (multiple Activation Keys) or KMS (Key Management Servers)
MAK's (like the VLK) are the same for every computer that gets installed. However if the key is reported stolen, MS can stop *further* acitvations. Currently activated PCs will run fine.
KMS uses a PC running Vista or Longhorn to run a server that locally activates PCs out of a pool. It runs on DNS and is mostly automatic, however if a KMS activated machine can't talk to the KMS server for 180 days, it will revert to a deactivated machine.
The uni mailing lists are fuming, as there is no 2003 version of KMS yet, and there's no real ACLs meaning kids cam come an activate their machines off College KMSs (haha for 180 days time, but still, thats licenses being used up from your pool)
My $20 256MB generic MP3 + WMA Flash drive records mp3's from an inbuilt mic. just set the autorun.inf to copy the resulting "record01.mp3" to a location for later renaming and upload.
For $2000 you could buy these for the whole school faculty...
The current governments and "intelligence" agencies are preying on the knee-jerk reaction the grandparent showed. Fundamentalism has been a human trait too long to be just Islam-based. Even GWB slipped up and mentioned "crusade"!
I'm not saying don't think, I'm saying think for yourself without glibly accepting the "millions" figures the scaremongers tout. Grandparent, please, PLEASE do not accept the kool-aid from the guys in black suit and black vans... Even if their message comes courtesy of FOX.
Locksmiths can buy a pick gun from locksmith suppliers. It's looks like a handheld staple gun, and you slot the straight strenghtened steel tip (looks like a small metal cable tie) into the gun.
It works by bumping the whole steel tip up about a 16th of an inch, at which point you twist the entire gun anti-clockwise to open the lock while all the pins have been knocked just as the article describes.
This came as part of a back-of-the-magazine locksmith "diploma":)
I'd rather support wired computers... especially over the phone
1) plug purple keyboard cable into purple socket on the back of the computer, making sure the little coloured lug inside the plug is aligned with the matching hole in the socket.
vs
1) find decent batteries (not the no-name trash normally bundled) 2) plug wireless basestation in usb 3) load drivers 4) click next until it goes away (possibly waiting for system restore points and driver warnings) 5) press the connect buttons on both the base station and keyboard 6) find out why mouse has dropped off
This Government has added unneeded sedition laws, reamed our IP laws to match the US, and sat on it's hands while Telstra has hampered broadband in Australia.
And let's not get started on Iraq (war/AWB/BHP/DFAT), Slave labour (sorry "Industrial Relations reform"), and racial divisiveness and fear-mongering.
I'll admit that we boohoo'd this when the Liberal's floated the idea, and we'll boohoo it this time as well - but choosing to waste votes because of this is a travesty.
OK. Personally, I wouldn't mind having the Liberals as a majority in the upper house, but at the moment the "we wont vote for Labour" attitude has given a double-majority to an egocentric drunk-with-power Party whose line is "Australian People's Mandate"
They are obviously thinking more of the Australian People's "Man-Date":S
I agree with the view on critics. The main problem is it's too crowded with websites with no business plan that exist purely being paid for by companies that will pull advertising if they get a bad review.
Film critics are usually paid for by another income stream (newspapers, magazines, art reviews, etc)
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for that...
I've added it to my DNS server, along with targetpoint.com, doubleclick.net, fastclick.net, yeildmanager.com, extreme-dm.com, and revsci.net zones.
cddb.com.dns
; Zone records
;
@ A 212.91.252.38
* A 212.91.252.38
Acer sucks quality-wise, however.... ATI and nVidia sell quite a few GPUs to notebook manufacturers that do not stick to the reference designs. Toshiba & HP are other nVidia / ATI notebooks that won't take the default Mobility/ForceWare drivers.
Except Australian 240V 50Hz AC 15V 5A Adapters....
In the school I work at, everyone has 3 year-old Satellite A10s, and the minimum wait time through Toshiba is 4 weeks.
Naturally, we bought two floating spares, then swap them out whenever a warranty is required.
Google for updatehf.vbs
/quiet /passive /norestart /quiet /passive /norestart /quiet /passive /norestart
one maybe two reboots, all without runing windowsupdate direct.
Only trick is to run the BITS 2.0, Installer 3.1, and WUAgent 2.0 installers first.
Our RIS'd machines have this run on first boot:-
WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU.exe
WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe
WindowsUpdateAgent20-x86.exe
rundll32.exe iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess
cscript updatehf.vbs
Yes, VLk is replaced by MAK (multiple Activation Keys) or KMS (Key Management Servers)
MAK's (like the VLK) are the same for every computer that gets installed. However if the key is reported stolen, MS can stop *further* acitvations. Currently activated PCs will run fine.
KMS uses a PC running Vista or Longhorn to run a server that locally activates PCs out of a pool. It runs on DNS and is mostly automatic, however if a KMS activated machine can't talk to the KMS server for 180 days, it will revert to a deactivated machine.
The uni mailing lists are fuming, as there is no 2003 version of KMS yet, and there's no real ACLs meaning kids cam come an activate their machines off College KMSs (haha for 180 days time, but still, thats licenses being used up from your pool)
When marking posts redundant, it's best to check the fricken posting time compared to others...
Bah!
Are they refining mini Telsa coils?
Bout fricken' time ^_^
Kazakhstan is the most popular country of the first GIS project at the secondary college I work at. It's not even released in Australia yet :P
Just in time to deflect notice from the fact we've now sacrificed more US servicemen and women in the sensless war, than Al Queda took on 9/11.
abuse@e360insight.com and postmaster@e360insight.com are always favorites :P
$50AU when I bought it a year ago ~ $20US now :P
My $20 256MB generic MP3 + WMA Flash drive records mp3's from an inbuilt mic.
just set the autorun.inf to copy the resulting "record01.mp3" to a location for later renaming and upload.
For $2000 you could buy these for the whole school faculty...
Which DVD player do you have?
Mine wont let me skip the FBI warning or any *shudder* crappy Tom Hanks movie previews.
There are a lot of pissed Harry Potter fans...
Hmmph! The amount of effort the question deserved...
:S )
(That and OpenVPN is a higher on Google than SSL-Explorer
http://openvpn.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer
*sigh*
You're thinking of SORBS
:P
spamhaus is actually quite responsive, even with the inherant delays of communicating from Western Australia
I have never had SORBS remove a wrong ISP block... well, not until a week later and I'm pretty sure it's not in response to me.
The current governments and "intelligence" agencies are preying on the knee-jerk reaction the grandparent showed.
Fundamentalism has been a human trait too long to be just Islam-based. Even GWB slipped up and mentioned "crusade"!
I'm not saying don't think, I'm saying think for yourself without glibly accepting the "millions" figures the scaremongers tout. Grandparent, please, PLEASE do not accept the kool-aid from the guys in black suit and black vans... Even if their message comes courtesy of FOX.
This isn't news...
:)
Locksmiths can buy a pick gun from locksmith suppliers. It's looks like a handheld staple gun, and you slot the straight strenghtened steel tip (looks like a small metal cable tie) into the gun.
It works by bumping the whole steel tip up about a 16th of an inch, at which point you twist the entire gun anti-clockwise to open the lock while all the pins have been knocked just as the article describes.
This came as part of a back-of-the-magazine locksmith "diploma"
As a taxpayer, I *want* stuff happening at the Perth Convention Centre...
:P
It hasn't been all doom and gloom, but it'll be good to have something local.
Advertising locally would have been a good idea too
I'd rather support wired computers... especially over the phone
1) plug purple keyboard cable into purple socket on the back of the computer, making sure the little coloured lug inside the plug is aligned with the matching hole in the socket.
vs
1) find decent batteries (not the no-name trash normally bundled)
2) plug wireless basestation in usb
3) load drivers
4) click next until it goes away (possibly waiting for system restore points and driver warnings)
5) press the connect buttons on both the base station and keyboard
6) find out why mouse has dropped off
Whoah!
:S
This Government has added unneeded sedition laws, reamed our IP laws to match the US, and sat on it's hands while Telstra has hampered broadband in Australia.
And let's not get started on Iraq (war/AWB/BHP/DFAT), Slave labour (sorry "Industrial Relations reform"), and racial divisiveness and fear-mongering.
I'll admit that we boohoo'd this when the Liberal's floated the idea, and we'll boohoo it this time as well - but choosing to waste votes because of this is a travesty.
OK. Personally, I wouldn't mind having the Liberals as a majority in the upper house, but at the moment the "we wont vote for Labour" attitude has given a double-majority to an egocentric drunk-with-power Party whose line is "Australian People's Mandate"
They are obviously thinking more of the Australian People's "Man-Date"
Amen, brother! Amen.
I agree with the view on critics. The main problem is it's too crowded with websites with no business plan that exist purely being paid for by companies that will pull advertising if they get a bad review.
Film critics are usually paid for by another income stream (newspapers, magazines, art reviews, etc)
Lol - says the person using Gmail(Beta)
Yep. Fixed it first time!
Thanks.