And on mars, too. I still like flash for a mobile player that stands up to a workout. The idea of bouncing around on a run or a ski trail with a HDD in my pocket gives me the willies. People seem to be happy though, so I know it is my own HDD paranoia. But there is a place for the Shuffle and the like. And it is true that tiny HDDs are cool as bees as on rollerskates. Fact is all this stuff is great. 500 pictures on a card, your music collection in a package the size of a cigaret box. Whoa. Now, Where is my robot? My office is a mess. Cheers,
It was with an older camera. If I was deleting snaps and the power went off (auto power save shutdown) then the card would not reboot in the camera in many cases. To read the remaining pictures I had to use an adapter -- PCMCIA or USB both worked. Remember this: if your card malfunctions in the camera then all is NOT lost. The FAT table on the card was screwed and pictures were all out of order. Sometimes they had duplicate names! It was messy, but not a disaster as no pictures were lost. Once I figured out the pattern I disabled the power save function if I was deleting lots of pictures. Problem solved.
After snagging the data I could reformat under windows using vanilla floppy FAT, which is the format these cards usually use. No need to worry much. Newer cameras I have had did not have this problem since the cards were big enough not to delete on the fly. Still, if I have to do a rare major delete marathon on my new camera I disable auto off, but only out of paranoia. But the damage I report here is the kind of thing that happens if you pull your card without unmounting it. Anyway no big deal to have your CF card go wonky, but a pain -- especially if it is on Mars. They reformatted and it booted fine. Rovers have kicked ass ever since.
As much as I prefer flash for an MP3 player over a HDD I admit that funny stuff happens to it. I have had some camera CF cards do peculiar things. Especially if there is a power problem when they are writing. Remember the mars rover was hamstrung for awhile with a flash problem. They sorted it though.
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I use Ultrafunk Popcorn, a completely textbased POP client, to vet my mail server before I use Thunderbird (or any other Mime enabled pop client)to bring in the mail. Popcorn loads in a snap. It only dowloads headers, unless told to do otherwise, so I can delete suspicious mails en masse with a few clicks. If I am unsure of something I never fear to open it since Popcorn lacks any of the decoders that transform the ASCII mail into nastyness. Even an open virus will sit there as text as far as I can figure. Anyway, Popcorn only opens the first fifty lines of any mail unless otherwise instructed. It leaves everything on the server, of course, unless deleted. And deleted is really deleted.
I do get spam because I am lazy and still post my real address on things from time to time. I tried Mailwasher (same theory) but I like Popcorn better. It can also be used in an internet cafe. Even more secure under this circumstance than webmail. Download, configure, check mail, delete whole program directory. It is green so no registry shadow. My hosting company uses Brightmail so not a lot gets through in the first place. Spam comes in waves it seems as new counter strategies get developed by the scumbuckets.
BTW I have no connection whatsoever to Ultrafunk, just a happy customer sharing his experience. Unfortunately I just found while creating the link that Popcorn is in eclipse. See the low down here: http://www.ultrafunk.com/
These purchasing algorithims are fine in theory. JUST ASK ME FIRST. It's the difference between sex and rape. (And, no, a shyster-twisted EULA in a minute scroll bar does not count as asking.) No one reads those through.
For something as important as this (provided this iTunes debacle is true) the setup dialog can ask you. And what about offering a bonus coupon to opt into a service like this? True, Amazon does this tracking thing, but they are very up front about it.
Tracking your purchases is something any good saleman does. But he asks. And he has a relationship with you. "Nice to see you again, Mr Woolman. We have more of those hand laid silk neckties you like so much. I put some aside for you as we agreed last time you were in."
"Thanks, Wiggins. That was thoughtful. I'll take three."
I uninstalled iTunes a while ago. It registered as the default player for all my MP3s without asking and then would not let them go when I tried to change the file association to my preferred player (Winamp) After a few tries getting the association changed I uninstalled it. Remember that Hannibal Lecter ATE the rude.
One reason I like OSS is that it is generally polite about what it does. Commercial software is like a vacuum cleaner salesman. Once the foot is in the door it messes up everything and then is hard to get rid of. Real Player is famous for this. Remember THAT sleazoid tracking scandal?
Ever install Irfanview? Not OSS but freeware. Isn't it pleasant the way it asks you which files you want to register to it. Then it double checks. Anyway, like grandma said, polite software is good software.
Okay, the specific heat for veg oil is lower than glycol or water, but better than air. Since oil is an insulator it would not short the board if it leaked. We all remember the guy who dropped his whole rig into an aquarium of oil. And he is still reporting it works fine. That is pretty radical, but it seems to me that a controlled oil system could do pretty well cooling one of these nastyhot P4s. Mine runs warm with no overclocking at all. You might stain the carpet, but you would not have as big a chance of cooking the board.
Wonder if you could simply replace the antifreeze in one of these stock hydro systems with peanut oil and see what happens. Or maybe someone has already made a proper oil cooler. Tell me if you know of one... I'll be interested to hear.
Oh, by the way, the old VWs threw the engine oil into a heat exchanger where air blew across it. So, strictly speaking, they were were oil cooled.
Hmmmm. Think they could cook a rootkit into the firmware so the drive will poison your box?
Or what about a nice rootkit embedded in all blank media. Yummy.
No, sarcasm aside, I am not too keen on Sony these days. They have content to protect so they dare not build any hardware that gets in their own IP pocket. It's a conflict they lack the balls to resolve.
Remember the copy protection craze in the 80s? Microsoft blew it off and became a giant due, in part, to viral spread. Hopefully HD DVD (which Redmond is supporting) will win because it is more open. People do not want and will not buy hobbled hardware. And HD DVD is backwards compatable...always a plus in my book.
I think I'll try HD DVD or maybe wait till the holographic discs hit the market. No way to Blue Root.
In Singapore, where selling chewing gum is illegal, they have bells in the taxis that chime when the speed is too high. I have never had a quiet taxi ride in from the airport. Ting, ting, ting. The driver doubts I'll report him since I'm a foreigner. Would a Singaporean report him? I don't know.
Heck, who needs a bell or a force feedback pedal? Why not have a GPS enabled black box that records your speeds and locations then compares it against a map that includes details of the speed limits? Upload those coords every month or loose your driving "privileges". Too many violations and your insurance goes up and you get points or, in Singapore, maybe a caning. Criminals who needed to drive fast would fiddle their boxes. People who just wanted to drive fast would hack their boxes and suddenly they would be in a different league than, say, a speeder.
Why stop with cars. What about a government-sponsored site logger to log where you go on the net? Why not just subpoena my Amazon records, or my Google searches. And where is Gator these days? Changed the name and making money hand over fist.
Hey I've got it. What about a computer license? Whoa. There's a thought. We need ham radio licenses don't we? We should have internet licenses. I'm writing my congressman now or the Canadians will beat us to it.
After all, use of the internet is a privilege, not a right. Three more bad words in a tech forum and you're limited to 1200 baud downloads for a month Mr. Potty Key.
Joking aside, it is the culture of control that is, to my mind, so insidious. (Don't mind us. We're watching. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.) Well, fine, FOR NOW.
This driving plan.. This little bit of well intentioned, but invasive technology won't end road culture. It might even save a few lives if it makes it through to implementation (which I doubt). A CCTV in a mall makes sense, but where does it stop. At the parking lot. Okay. Maybe. How about at the long red light at the edge of town that should flash yellow at three in the morning, but doesn't? Want a hidden red light camera there to fatten the city coffers? Well, maybe some of you do. Count me out.
But what bothers me about this nasty Canadian scheme is the idea that you take away the volition from the driver and give it to a system. (I understand that the driver can override it in an emergency. That is NOT the point.) Do it enough and people stop being as accountable for their own actions. It's natural. "Damn, girl, we're off the GPS grid for some reason. Let's let her rip while we can. See what this buggy can do. School zone? I could give a rat's ass. Let's BOOGEY." Most people obey the law. They do it from within and because they care about what their friends think; that is, unless they are watched all the time by the authorities. Then they abrogate the responsibility.
I spent a long time in the former Soviet Union. People there are still having a hard time adjusting to not being watched. (In Russia they are back in the comfort zone, I fear.) You want to see some bad driving. Go to Georgia. The one in the Caucasus. They may be driving badly, but they are going in the right direction.
Next.. Magnetically controlled zippers that only open in the highway restroom, motels or your home. Ice boxes that lock when you have had four beers. Let's brainstorm, slashdotters and see just how much resposibility we can deprive people of.
Cool with Google News, Gmail etc, but I hate it when BIOS's and hardware driver updates languish in beta forever. Guess the manufacturers figure that you have the widget so you can twist in the wind.
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True enough. Nothing against flash. Cannot wait for the near instant boot a flash based computer would have. b
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Always like to learn a neat detail. I knew they rebooted and solved the problem. Cheers, b
It was with an older camera. If I was deleting snaps and the power went off (auto power save shutdown) then the card would not reboot in the camera in many cases. To read the remaining pictures I had to use an adapter -- PCMCIA or USB both worked. Remember this: if your card malfunctions in the camera then all is NOT lost. The FAT table on the card was screwed and pictures were all out of order. Sometimes they had duplicate names! It was messy, but not a disaster as no pictures were lost. Once I figured out the pattern I disabled the power save function if I was deleting lots of pictures. Problem solved.
After snagging the data I could reformat under windows using vanilla floppy FAT, which is the format these cards usually use. No need to worry much. Newer cameras I have had did not have this problem since the cards were big enough not to delete on the fly. Still, if I have to do a rare major delete marathon on my new camera I disable auto off, but only out of paranoia. But the damage I report here is the kind of thing that happens if you pull your card without unmounting it. Anyway no big deal to have your CF card go wonky, but a pain -- especially if it is on Mars. They reformatted and it booted fine. Rovers have kicked ass ever since.
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As much as I prefer flash for an MP3 player over a HDD I admit that funny stuff happens to it. I have had some camera CF cards do peculiar things. Especially if there is a power problem when they are writing. Remember the mars rover was hamstrung for awhile with a flash problem. They sorted it though.
I use Ultrafunk Popcorn, a completely textbased POP client, to vet my mail server before I use Thunderbird (or any other Mime enabled pop client)to bring in the mail. Popcorn loads in a snap. It only dowloads headers, unless told to do otherwise, so I can delete suspicious mails en masse with a few clicks. If I am unsure of something I never fear to open it since Popcorn lacks any of the decoders that transform the ASCII mail into nastyness. Even an open virus will sit there as text as far as I can figure. Anyway, Popcorn only opens the first fifty lines of any mail unless otherwise instructed. It leaves everything on the server, of course, unless deleted. And deleted is really deleted.
I do get spam because I am lazy and still post my real address on things from time to time. I tried Mailwasher (same theory) but I like Popcorn better. It can also be used in an internet cafe. Even more secure under this circumstance than webmail. Download, configure, check mail, delete whole program directory. It is green so no registry shadow. My hosting company uses Brightmail so not a lot gets through in the first place. Spam comes in waves it seems as new counter strategies get developed by the scumbuckets.
BTW I have no connection whatsoever to Ultrafunk, just a happy customer sharing his experience. Unfortunately I just found while creating the link that Popcorn is in eclipse. See the low down here: http://www.ultrafunk.com/
These purchasing algorithims are fine in theory. JUST ASK ME FIRST. It's the difference between sex and rape. (And, no, a shyster-twisted EULA in a minute scroll bar does not count as asking.) No one reads those through.
For something as important as this (provided this iTunes debacle is true) the setup dialog can ask you. And what about offering a bonus coupon to opt into a service like this? True, Amazon does this tracking thing, but they are very up front about it.
Tracking your purchases is something any good saleman does. But he asks. And he has a relationship with you. "Nice to see you again, Mr Woolman. We have more of those hand laid silk neckties you like so much. I put some aside for you as we agreed last time you were in."
"Thanks, Wiggins. That was thoughtful. I'll take three."
I uninstalled iTunes a while ago. It registered as the default player for all my MP3s without asking and then would not let them go when I tried to change the file association to my preferred player (Winamp) After a few tries getting the association changed I uninstalled it. Remember that Hannibal Lecter ATE the rude.
One reason I like OSS is that it is generally polite about what it does. Commercial software is like a vacuum cleaner salesman. Once the foot is in the door it messes up everything and then is hard to get rid of. Real Player is famous for this. Remember THAT sleazoid tracking scandal?
Ever install Irfanview? Not OSS but freeware. Isn't it pleasant the way it asks you which files you want to register to it. Then it double checks. Anyway, like grandma said, polite software is good software.
Wonder if you could simply replace the antifreeze in one of these stock hydro systems with peanut oil and see what happens. Or maybe someone has already made a proper oil cooler. Tell me if you know of one... I'll be interested to hear.
Oh, by the way, the old VWs threw the engine oil into a heat exchanger where air blew across it. So, strictly speaking, they were were oil cooled.
It's a Sony!
Hmmmm. Think they could cook a rootkit into the firmware so the drive will poison your box?
Or what about a nice rootkit embedded in all blank media. Yummy.
No, sarcasm aside, I am not too keen on Sony these days. They have content to protect so they dare not build any hardware that gets in their own IP pocket. It's a conflict they lack the balls to resolve.
Remember the copy protection craze in the 80s? Microsoft blew it off and became a giant due, in part, to viral spread. Hopefully HD DVD (which Redmond is supporting) will win because it is more open. People do not want and will not buy hobbled hardware. And HD DVD is backwards compatable...always a plus in my book.
I think I'll try HD DVD or maybe wait till the holographic discs hit the market. No way to Blue Root.
Heck, who needs a bell or a force feedback pedal? Why not have a GPS enabled black box that records your speeds and locations then compares it against a map that includes details of the speed limits? Upload those coords every month or loose your driving "privileges". Too many violations and your insurance goes up and you get points or, in Singapore, maybe a caning. Criminals who needed to drive fast would fiddle their boxes. People who just wanted to drive fast would hack their boxes and suddenly they would be in a different league than, say, a speeder.
Why stop with cars. What about a government-sponsored site logger to log where you go on the net? Why not just subpoena my Amazon records, or my Google searches. And where is Gator these days? Changed the name and making money hand over fist.
Hey I've got it. What about a computer license? Whoa. There's a thought. We need ham radio licenses don't we? We should have internet licenses. I'm writing my congressman now or the Canadians will beat us to it.
After all, use of the internet is a privilege, not a right. Three more bad words in a tech forum and you're limited to 1200 baud downloads for a month Mr. Potty Key.
Joking aside, it is the culture of control that is, to my mind, so insidious. (Don't mind us. We're watching. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.) Well, fine, FOR NOW.
This driving plan.. This little bit of well intentioned, but invasive technology won't end road culture. It might even save a few lives if it makes it through to implementation (which I doubt). A CCTV in a mall makes sense, but where does it stop. At the parking lot. Okay. Maybe. How about at the long red light at the edge of town that should flash yellow at three in the morning, but doesn't? Want a hidden red light camera there to fatten the city coffers? Well, maybe some of you do. Count me out.
But what bothers me about this nasty Canadian scheme is the idea that you take away the volition from the driver and give it to a system. (I understand that the driver can override it in an emergency. That is NOT the point.) Do it enough and people stop being as accountable for their own actions. It's natural. "Damn, girl, we're off the GPS grid for some reason. Let's let her rip while we can. See what this buggy can do. School zone? I could give a rat's ass. Let's BOOGEY." Most people obey the law. They do it from within and because they care about what their friends think; that is, unless they are watched all the time by the authorities. Then they abrogate the responsibility.
I spent a long time in the former Soviet Union. People there are still having a hard time adjusting to not being watched. (In Russia they are back in the comfort zone, I fear.) You want to see some bad driving. Go to Georgia. The one in the Caucasus. They may be driving badly, but they are going in the right direction.
Towards liberty.
Next.. Magnetically controlled zippers that only open in the highway restroom, motels or your home. Ice boxes that lock when you have had four beers. Let's brainstorm, slashdotters and see just how much resposibility we can deprive people of.
Cool with Google News, Gmail etc, but I hate it when BIOS's and hardware driver updates languish in beta forever. Guess the manufacturers figure that you have the widget so you can twist in the wind.