I was just wondering how your experience at Apple's internship program was. I'm looking into their internship program and the more I read the better is looks. Did you enjoy your time there? Did you walk away with news skills or valuable experiences? They're showing up here at SJSU on Oct 8th. Geez I need to get workin on my resume. Put some more Mac stuff on there.
For me and my family Apple warranty services have been a lifesaver. My mom is a little out of the loop on the whole computer thing and she bought a PowerBook G4. So far she has broken the computer twice. The first time she blocked the vent and fried the power supply and the second time she dropped it cracked the 2 main parts of the case and the breaking the DVD drive. Just right there in less than a year is $700 for my silly mom if she wouldn't have been on warranty. When her warranty expires she will be buying Applecare. If you just have a desktop that sits are your house all day then it's probably pretty dumb to get Applecare, but if you have a laptop that goes back and forth to college, or a fourth grade classroom where students tend to drop things, then it's a lifesaver. Just my two cents.
I'm beggining to think it would be really easy to build a racing computer seat. Recaros have a carbon fiber frame. Just buy a shitty chair with a tild base at Office Depot or something and then bolt it up into the Recaro. It would be about 800 bucks without the 5 point seat belts.
I'm not sure if everyone realizes how much this sucks. I buy HP printers through Dell for 4 all technology high schools. It's a lot of high output B&W lasers and expensive color laser printers. I could always get a great deal on the printers through our Premier account with Dell, but the education prices through HP were garbage. Now I'm going to have to pay a lot more to get HP printers. Those Xerox printers are looking even better. Especially the free B&W toner on the color laser printers for life. Not bad
Well seeing as how the new developer betas (not the one of the main page) of Winamp have some pretty nice video support in the friendly UI I love I'm set without WMP. I just uninstalled it. Not as much because I'm afraid of MS doing something to my computer, but because this article reminds me I haven't used it recently.
I just picked up a pile of those at a garage sale, but no player. Jaws and Rocky and all kind of great movies. Like every big movie of the time on those things. Pretty funky lookin disks.
The bulbs we use at my school in our Proxima projectors cost 400 bucks. The ones in our overhead projectors cost 75. Still a lot, but no where close to a "normal" projectors cost.
Tip for blocking AIM on Windows. Deploy all your computers with login.oscar.com in the hostfile and have it point to 127.0.0.1. This is what I have done for my school and it pretty much kills AIM. That or make a static entry in your DNS server that points to some bogus address. There's way to deal with AOL. It is quite good at getting past firewalls, but there are still ways...
At my school we are about to setup Imagecast 4.6 by Storagesoft. We already use it to deploy hard drive images of all our computers (greatest product ever and it smokes Ghost), but no we're looking at deploying their small management console. It does all the usual like allow us to send messages to computers, shut them down and all that good stuff, but now it comes with VNC built in so from our server we can monitor the screen of any computer. This isn't even the the products real use. Just a side feature. Just think what real snooping client/server apps are up to.
Here's how you do odometer fraud and don't get caught. I have an Acura Integra pocket rocket and I'm swapping out my parts for the JDM counterparts. JDM = Japanese Domestic Market. It's like everyone on slashdot that swaps out the beige cases for the metallic ones. Just a spiffy little all show thing to do. Well anyways I busted by gauges at 111k so I went and got the JDM ones. In CA all you have to do is get this sticker (which I need to go pick up) that says your old mileage and the starting mileage for the new odometer. So what's to keep me from knocking a few thousand Km off where the new one starts (yes Km it's JDM not USDM). The records for where my car's mileage was at during each tune-up is sitting at the DMV, but how are they to know where this new gauge cluster was at? I'm not saying I'm going to do this, but you could. Also you can disconnect the wires at the ECU that control the gauges and it just won't work. Then you need and external tach to judge how fast your going on by rpm @ gear. That's a pain though. Not worth it.
I was only affected by the rolling power outages once. I was in school. It was a nice hot day and they turned the power off. A) School got nice and hot B) I got to a 100% computer high school so we couldn't do any work and Lotus Notes went down so the entry I was doing was lost. Not a good way to make a future voter happy. Also I too heard the so-cal didn't get hit that bad. Funny considering we provide more power and we also provide the majority of the water for the state. I'm voting to split CA. So-cal is a giant leech.
The problem with DSL is there's good DSL and bad DSL
Good DSL:
Static IP with one user per SLAM at the CO. NO PPPoe shit No dialup No platform incompatibilities No problems
Bad DSL:
PPPoe with dynamic IP and dialup w/ more than one user on the SLAM. Slow Doesn't work on all platforms. Not reliable.
I've dealt with many different DSL connections through my friends. I'd say my original Napa, CA Pacbell DSL is the best. I got this stuff when DSL first came to my town and I dont plan on ever leaving. I pay the higher 50 a month, but now they charge 60 for this stuff. It dies once a year for like 10 minutes. I couldn't ask for better access.
A good one I ran into recently was from Microsoft. They sent a rep out to our school and showed us all this really cool software in the form of videos. It was a full circle product for education. It delivered content, allow content creation, allow teacher/student interaction, taimed the web, reported grades, and even beamed grades to parents pocketpcs. It was great. We asked them to bring the app in and show it to us in real life. It turned out it's Encarta Class Server. They left one little thing out. All the features in the video dont exist. It was a big pipe dream. The server app sucked. The client app sucked. The content was garbage. We couldn't help but laugh at them.
-Tim
Apple's claims are BS, but remember photoshop is heavily optimized for both Macs and Windows boxes. Altivec and PPC optimization on the Mac side and that damn MMX stuff on the Windows side. It's not a grea comparison since testing through an app has so many variables, but it's what works best for Apple and the graphics ppl want to see it. If they didn't then Apple wouldn't use it.
Thanks to the good US of A all schools that want to get their e-rate must now filter their web access. I got to a school that has had open access for years on a special agreement with the district which filters via a Cisco Pix firewall and websense (grr). Anyways even though we dont spend out days looking at porn (for the most part) we're filtered now. I figured out a nice way to get us around this. The law states that the schools must block sites, but doesn't say they have to do a good job. I have a Redhat 7.2 box setup running Squid and I'm working to get Squidguard up to block a list of about 100,000 sites. Only porn and not using expressions. This is a pathetic amount of sites and does no real good, but since our students dont look at it and we are blocking it will allow us to get our e-rate. Loop-holes are your friend
I've just deployed XP to 250 workstations in a technology school. The machines here get hit and hit hard and I can say that they have performed much better than 2000 did. The management features are nice, the performance is better than 2k once your turn the gui down (shit OS X rip), and it's stable (except for IE since IE 6.0 sucks).
-Tim
How many people do you see running Office XP on a Windows 3.1 machine. Apple maintained API compatibility from 1984 to OS X. Not bad considering in that time period you'd have DOS, Windows to 3.1 then 95. It's not the app that's "making people upgrade". It's the app that's allowing people that have wanted to upgrade for a while to do it. 98 to XP or 2k or NT might be an architectual change, but it's the same application API so you better hope that will work, but then again 95 has the same API and MS has broken compatibility with 95 all over the board.
Funnier is the people that forget what they buy
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I've been an eBay seller for 3 years. I started off selling stupid things like Apple IIe manuals. I've gotten pretty good at it too an in my 3 years I've probably sold about 1000+ items. Not bad for an 18 year old (yea technically I should only have had an account for like 2 months now). Well anyways in those 3 years I've learned 3 things:
Ebay buyers are stupid
Ebay buyers are stupid
Ebay buyers are stupid
Why? I have a form for people to fill out and return if they use a money order. 1 out of 10 of my money order based transcations come without that form and I'd say probably 1 in 20 of those come without an address on the money order or the envelope. Now lets think about this. No mention of what item you bid on, what your ebay ID is or what your address is. How do these people think I figure out what they're paying for. Worse than getting ripped off buy a seller is ripping yourself off on ebay. I try to figure them out, but most of the $$$ I just keep since I dont have a clue what it goes to.
-Tim
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I was just wondering how your experience at Apple's internship program was. I'm looking into their internship program and the more I read the better is looks. Did you enjoy your time there? Did you walk away with news skills or valuable experiences? They're showing up here at SJSU on Oct 8th. Geez I need to get workin on my resume. Put some more Mac stuff on there.
-Tim
I really wanna read the exact wording of this thing. I'm interested in seeing what I just clicked accept to. -Tim
Please don't take my Lotus Notes away. Then I'll HAVE TO use Exchange. Shit Lotus is the only thing keeping Exchange from ruling (spoiling) the world.
-Tim
For me and my family Apple warranty services have been a lifesaver. My mom is a little out of the loop on the whole computer thing and she bought a PowerBook G4. So far she has broken the computer twice. The first time she blocked the vent and fried the power supply and the second time she dropped it cracked the 2 main parts of the case and the breaking the DVD drive. Just right there in less than a year is $700 for my silly mom if she wouldn't have been on warranty. When her warranty expires she will be buying Applecare. If you just have a desktop that sits are your house all day then it's probably pretty dumb to get Applecare, but if you have a laptop that goes back and forth to college, or a fourth grade classroom where students tend to drop things, then it's a lifesaver. Just my two cents.
-Tim
I'm beggining to think it would be really easy to build a racing computer seat. Recaros have a carbon fiber frame. Just buy a shitty chair with a tild base at Office Depot or something and then bolt it up into the Recaro. It would be about 800 bucks without the 5 point seat belts.
I'm not sure if everyone realizes how much this sucks. I buy HP printers through Dell for 4 all technology high schools. It's a lot of high output B&W lasers and expensive color laser printers. I could always get a great deal on the printers through our Premier account with Dell, but the education prices through HP were garbage. Now I'm going to have to pay a lot more to get HP printers. Those Xerox printers are looking even better. Especially the free B&W toner on the color laser printers for life. Not bad
Well seeing as how the new developer betas (not the one of the main page) of Winamp have some pretty nice video support in the friendly UI I love I'm set without WMP. I just uninstalled it. Not as much because I'm afraid of MS doing something to my computer, but because this article reminds me I haven't used it recently.
I just picked up a pile of those at a garage sale, but no player. Jaws and Rocky and all kind of great movies. Like every big movie of the time on those things. Pretty funky lookin disks.
Vader blew up plantets Bush just blows up towns. Close enough.
The bulbs we use at my school in our Proxima projectors cost 400 bucks. The ones in our overhead projectors cost 75. Still a lot, but no where close to a "normal" projectors cost.
Tip for blocking AIM on Windows. Deploy all your computers with login.oscar.com in the hostfile and have it point to 127.0.0.1. This is what I have done for my school and it pretty much kills AIM. That or make a static entry in your DNS server that points to some bogus address. There's way to deal with AOL. It is quite good at getting past firewalls, but there are still ways...
At my school we are about to setup Imagecast 4.6 by Storagesoft. We already use it to deploy hard drive images of all our computers (greatest product ever and it smokes Ghost), but no we're looking at deploying their small management console. It does all the usual like allow us to send messages to computers, shut them down and all that good stuff, but now it comes with VNC built in so from our server we can monitor the screen of any computer. This isn't even the the products real use. Just a side feature. Just think what real snooping client/server apps are up to.
-Tim
www.newtechhigh.org
So the RIAA is once again saying their sticking up for the artists, but how much exactly did the artists get out of this one. 4...5...maybe 6 dollars?
Here's how you do odometer fraud and don't get caught. I have an Acura Integra pocket rocket and I'm swapping out my parts for the JDM counterparts. JDM = Japanese Domestic Market. It's like everyone on slashdot that swaps out the beige cases for the metallic ones. Just a spiffy little all show thing to do. Well anyways I busted by gauges at 111k so I went and got the JDM ones. In CA all you have to do is get this sticker (which I need to go pick up) that says your old mileage and the starting mileage for the new odometer. So what's to keep me from knocking a few thousand Km off where the new one starts (yes Km it's JDM not USDM). The records for where my car's mileage was at during each tune-up is sitting at the DMV, but how are they to know where this new gauge cluster was at? I'm not saying I'm going to do this, but you could. Also you can disconnect the wires at the ECU that control the gauges and it just won't work. Then you need and external tach to judge how fast your going on by rpm @ gear. That's a pain though. Not worth it.
Science blows my mind. Too bad theres bad stuff that happens as well as good
I was only affected by the rolling power outages once. I was in school. It was a nice hot day and they turned the power off. A) School got nice and hot B) I got to a 100% computer high school so we couldn't do any work and Lotus Notes went down so the entry I was doing was lost. Not a good way to make a future voter happy. Also I too heard the so-cal didn't get hit that bad. Funny considering we provide more power and we also provide the majority of the water for the state. I'm voting to split CA. So-cal is a giant leech.
The problem with DSL is there's good DSL and bad DSL Good DSL: Static IP with one user per SLAM at the CO. NO PPPoe shit No dialup No platform incompatibilities No problems Bad DSL: PPPoe with dynamic IP and dialup w/ more than one user on the SLAM. Slow Doesn't work on all platforms. Not reliable. I've dealt with many different DSL connections through my friends. I'd say my original Napa, CA Pacbell DSL is the best. I got this stuff when DSL first came to my town and I dont plan on ever leaving. I pay the higher 50 a month, but now they charge 60 for this stuff. It dies once a year for like 10 minutes. I couldn't ask for better access.
Can someone point me to a good site that describes what SOAP is?
A good one I ran into recently was from Microsoft. They sent a rep out to our school and showed us all this really cool software in the form of videos. It was a full circle product for education. It delivered content, allow content creation, allow teacher/student interaction, taimed the web, reported grades, and even beamed grades to parents pocketpcs. It was great. We asked them to bring the app in and show it to us in real life. It turned out it's Encarta Class Server. They left one little thing out. All the features in the video dont exist. It was a big pipe dream. The server app sucked. The client app sucked. The content was garbage. We couldn't help but laugh at them. -Tim
Apple's claims are BS, but remember photoshop is heavily optimized for both Macs and Windows boxes. Altivec and PPC optimization on the Mac side and that damn MMX stuff on the Windows side. It's not a grea comparison since testing through an app has so many variables, but it's what works best for Apple and the graphics ppl want to see it. If they didn't then Apple wouldn't use it.
Sweet first post
Thanks to the good US of A all schools that want to get their e-rate must now filter their web access. I got to a school that has had open access for years on a special agreement with the district which filters via a Cisco Pix firewall and websense (grr). Anyways even though we dont spend out days looking at porn (for the most part) we're filtered now. I figured out a nice way to get us around this. The law states that the schools must block sites, but doesn't say they have to do a good job. I have a Redhat 7.2 box setup running Squid and I'm working to get Squidguard up to block a list of about 100,000 sites. Only porn and not using expressions. This is a pathetic amount of sites and does no real good, but since our students dont look at it and we are blocking it will allow us to get our e-rate. Loop-holes are your friend
I've just deployed XP to 250 workstations in a technology school. The machines here get hit and hit hard and I can say that they have performed much better than 2000 did. The management features are nice, the performance is better than 2k once your turn the gui down (shit OS X rip), and it's stable (except for IE since IE 6.0 sucks). -Tim
How many people do you see running Office XP on a Windows 3.1 machine. Apple maintained API compatibility from 1984 to OS X. Not bad considering in that time period you'd have DOS, Windows to 3.1 then 95. It's not the app that's "making people upgrade". It's the app that's allowing people that have wanted to upgrade for a while to do it. 98 to XP or 2k or NT might be an architectual change, but it's the same application API so you better hope that will work, but then again 95 has the same API and MS has broken compatibility with 95 all over the board.
I've been an eBay seller for 3 years. I started off selling stupid things like Apple IIe manuals. I've gotten pretty good at it too an in my 3 years I've probably sold about 1000+ items. Not bad for an 18 year old (yea technically I should only have had an account for like 2 months now). Well anyways in those 3 years I've learned 3 things: Ebay buyers are stupid Ebay buyers are stupid Ebay buyers are stupid Why? I have a form for people to fill out and return if they use a money order. 1 out of 10 of my money order based transcations come without that form and I'd say probably 1 in 20 of those come without an address on the money order or the envelope. Now lets think about this. No mention of what item you bid on, what your ebay ID is or what your address is. How do these people think I figure out what they're paying for. Worse than getting ripped off buy a seller is ripping yourself off on ebay. I try to figure them out, but most of the $$$ I just keep since I dont have a clue what it goes to. -Tim