Quicktime player (on windows anyway) is the most hideous media player I've ever used. Maybe it's better on Mac, but if the interface is the same I can't see it. It's such a bloated piece of junk I refuse to install it on my machines, if mplayer can't render a quicktime.mov, well too bad.
Except that there's absolutely no mention of recent version of Gecko (or any at all that I can see) on that survey. Who's the one spouting irrelevent bile?
Simply set Hotmail's spam filter to Exclusive. Allow no incoming mail. If you're expecting an auto-reply from a form you plan to submit shortly, set it back to normal.
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They *still* licence TCP/IP AFAIK. About 6 months ago, my company (for which I am not in IT) decided it would be useful to access our server remotely. It ran SCO, with a proprietary business software package called Sylk. Everyone involved assumed TCP/IP was included in the OS, as it's now pretty much a given (hell a lot of microcontrollers include tcp/ip stacks). Sylk was consulted, and told us we'd need to pay almost $10k CDN for a TCP/IP licence, for the single server (at the time, we were using a single server at each location, updating data via modem at midnight).
Thankfully, the system has now been upgraded to Linux. We save tons in SCO licence costs, get better functionality, and best of all, it's stable. The SCO box had to be rebooted nightly to clear stale processes, and had frequent crashes while running. And this was only running what appears to be a collection of shell scripts (or simple C programs) using flat file databases. I'd hate to see how it did in a more intensive environment.
Most business (who are the prime targets) and a lot of personal items are logged somehow by serial #. Be it by a receipt you kept in your files (what? you don't keep receipts for big-ticket items that are prone to early failure?), or an inventory control system, it doesn't matter. The serial number on most laptops is burned into the bios; not to mention that if it were scratched off it'd be pretty darn suspicious. It wouldn't be incredibly difficult to identify, it also wouldn't be difficult to store some sort of 'I'm stolen' tag on the HD and have the BIOS display a big STOLEN screen and refuse to boot.
At least CNN was up, I was checking it all day at work. It was dreadfully congested, but worked most of the time. It had to have been the deadest day ever at that job (ugh ISP tech support). Everyone assumed all their problems were related to Sept 11 (even though we were in western Canada).
Lovely CDR levy, even big box retailers are campaigning against it. It's pretty much the most blatantly ignorant legislation on this issue so far. A portion of every CDR sale is supposed to go to musicians...even if the CDR is not exclusively used for music. Retailers have to lower their margins to be competitive, and 'legitimate' users of the media have ot pay more. Go figure.
You mean like Apple, meeting their month target on the new iTunes project in the first week? People use P2P becuase it's *easy* not because they don't think they should have to pay for music. If I can sit in my living room and download a track I just heard on the radio in a minute or two, without leaving my chair, I'm a lot more likely to do it. The fact I have to pay 99c or whatever for the track is irrelevent, people are lazy, not necessarily cheap. Besides, these days, buying singles is a good idea as albums generally suck ass.
It is 100% true that the record companies need to get organized, work together, and provide a legit way for their music to be distributed on the internet. Following in Apple's footsteps...with no DRM and rather light legal restrictions. Either that, or Apple will become the new leader in online music distribution, which is very possible if word gets out.
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I'm on a business class ADSL connection in my area. I could very easily be a business running an internal SMTP server. It's obviously some sort of dialup-pool RBL, but these are too strict imo. Confirmed sources only...
ECS offers 8mbit/1mbit for about $150 if you're willing to shell out that much, or 4mbit/768kbit for $65. Both packages include 5 static IPs. I'm planning on switching from Telus, mainly due to this insane transparent proxy they've installed that's always fucking up. I'm not too optimistic about the bandwidth, however; Telus had problems getting me my 1.5mbit stable...
X is safe, the proper name is X Window System, the major implementation, XFree86, is generally referred to as such in filenames. Too bad, that'd be even more fun;)
Re:ReactOS not a bad idea -- it will serve a purpo
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I actually swap drives no a live system..in Windows no less, and it works almost seamlessly, most of ht time. Remove cd burner from device manager, unplug IDE cable, swap to DVD, scan for hardware changes. The system crashes if you boot with the DVD drive, swap and try to use ASPI though:/. And sometimes it just locks up.
Sorry about the formatting on that post, I didn't realize I had HTML formatting selected.
*Bangs head on desk*
I guess that preview button does have a purpose...
I don't think that the lack of SMS use in North America is at all due to market saturation. I'm from Canada, and every network includes SMS with their digital service, at a cost of about 10c a message. I have it, as do most of my friends, and we all have since digital was rolled out (I'd guess around 1999). It's for the most part useless to me. It costs me 20c a minute to talk on the phone...and I get free evenings and weekends, which is when I use it the most..or 20c to recieve and send a pair of SMS messages. SMS is limited to 200 characters or some such, doesn't work properly cross network (I know this does work in Europe, but that's not what this thread is about), and takes 30 seconds to type in, even with T9. It's much faster and cheaper to hold a 30 second voice conversation.
That said, I do occasionaly send messages to friends from work, where cell phones are banned...however I use their provider's web interface to do this as it doesn't cost me anything and I don't have to chance getting reprimanded for turning my cell on in the building.
SMS does have some interesting applications for notification, but not really for communication IMHO. I set up the service monitor on my server to email my SMS gateway address if a service goes down...bingo...go anywhere notification. That bank account stuff sounds really neat, and I'd love to have something along those lines, even if it was via email, as I could route that to my SMS.
Rather than SMS being a missing feature on North American networks, I think it's more that people here don't need it. Calling someone and talking for 30 seconds, you can say a lot more for around the same cost, and save your fingers.
Is that not exactly what he said RedHat did for him?
On the other hand, if you were willing to shell out the money required for a really nice x86 workstation and some of the high end compositing software supported under Linux, you'd definitely be good to go...
Or he could shell out the larger sum of money for a (new, when he's already got an x86) Mac and Final Cut Pro.
Jesus you Mac fanatics are annoying. Yes Apple makes fine hardware, and steals decent OSs, but jesus people, it's not even relevent to this discussion.
I sure hope that licence doesn't apply to 2000 Server+...It would boggle the mind how many licences would need to be purchased to run a large site on IIS. I know, I know, IIS is evil, and I agree, but there are large sites running it.
Google didn't turn up anything useful for Kakepad, and it's not on Freshmeat either. As it sounds like a replacement for notepad, I'm intrigued. URL please.
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Quicktime player (on windows anyway) is the most hideous media player I've ever used. Maybe it's better on Mac, but if the interface is the same I can't see it. It's such a bloated piece of junk I refuse to install it on my machines, if mplayer can't render a quicktime .mov, well too bad.
Except that there's absolutely no mention of recent version of Gecko (or any at all that I can see) on that survey. Who's the one spouting irrelevent bile?
Simply set Hotmail's spam filter to Exclusive. Allow no incoming mail. If you're expecting an auto-reply from a form you plan to submit shortly, set it back to normal.
They *still* licence TCP/IP AFAIK. About 6 months ago, my company (for which I am not in IT) decided it would be useful to access our server remotely. It ran SCO, with a proprietary business software package called Sylk. Everyone involved assumed TCP/IP was included in the OS, as it's now pretty much a given (hell a lot of microcontrollers include tcp/ip stacks). Sylk was consulted, and told us we'd need to pay almost $10k CDN for a TCP/IP licence, for the single server (at the time, we were using a single server at each location, updating data via modem at midnight). Thankfully, the system has now been upgraded to Linux. We save tons in SCO licence costs, get better functionality, and best of all, it's stable. The SCO box had to be rebooted nightly to clear stale processes, and had frequent crashes while running. And this was only running what appears to be a collection of shell scripts (or simple C programs) using flat file databases. I'd hate to see how it did in a more intensive environment.
Try this, if you have LWP installed: perl -e 'use LWP; while(1) { HTTP::Request->new( GET => "http://sco.com/somecrapfile" ) }'
Most business (who are the prime targets) and a lot of personal items are logged somehow by serial #. Be it by a receipt you kept in your files (what? you don't keep receipts for big-ticket items that are prone to early failure?), or an inventory control system, it doesn't matter. The serial number on most laptops is burned into the bios; not to mention that if it were scratched off it'd be pretty darn suspicious. It wouldn't be incredibly difficult to identify, it also wouldn't be difficult to store some sort of 'I'm stolen' tag on the HD and have the BIOS display a big STOLEN screen and refuse to boot.
I thought u only had the right to use deadly force if you were threatened... Good 'ol yanks...
At least CNN was up, I was checking it all day at work. It was dreadfully congested, but worked most of the time. It had to have been the deadest day ever at that job (ugh ISP tech support). Everyone assumed all their problems were related to Sept 11 (even though we were in western Canada).
Nope (the Quarter Pounder is called a Quarter Pounder), obviously the switch here was recent enough that McD's decided to keep the old name.
Lovely CDR levy, even big box retailers are campaigning against it. It's pretty much the most blatantly ignorant legislation on this issue so far. A portion of every CDR sale is supposed to go to musicians...even if the CDR is not exclusively used for music. Retailers have to lower their margins to be competitive, and 'legitimate' users of the media have ot pay more. Go figure.
You mean like Apple, meeting their month target on the new iTunes project in the first week? People use P2P becuase it's *easy* not because they don't think they should have to pay for music. If I can sit in my living room and download a track I just heard on the radio in a minute or two, without leaving my chair, I'm a lot more likely to do it. The fact I have to pay 99c or whatever for the track is irrelevent, people are lazy, not necessarily cheap. Besides, these days, buying singles is a good idea as albums generally suck ass.
It is 100% true that the record companies need to get organized, work together, and provide a legit way for their music to be distributed on the internet. Following in Apple's footsteps...with no DRM and rather light legal restrictions. Either that, or Apple will become the new leader in online music distribution, which is very possible if word gets out.
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Connected to mail.sf.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
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I'm on a business class ADSL connection in my area. I could very easily be a business running an internal SMTP server. It's obviously some sort of dialup-pool RBL, but these are too strict imo. Confirmed sources only...
www.ecscorp.net It was rather difficult to find in the first place, I get the feeling they're not a huge provider..the best kind ;)
ECS offers 8mbit/1mbit for about $150 if you're willing to shell out that much, or 4mbit/768kbit for $65. Both packages include 5 static IPs. I'm planning on switching from Telus, mainly due to this insane transparent proxy they've installed that's always fucking up. I'm not too optimistic about the bandwidth, however; Telus had problems getting me my 1.5mbit stable...
Link me ;)
X is safe, the proper name is X Window System, the major implementation, XFree86, is generally referred to as such in filenames. Too bad, that'd be even more fun ;)
I actually swap drives no a live system..in Windows no less, and it works almost seamlessly, most of ht time. Remove cd burner from device manager, unplug IDE cable, swap to DVD, scan for hardware changes. The system crashes if you boot with the DVD drive, swap and try to use ASPI though :/. And sometimes it just locks up.
Oh well, saves me a reboot.
Sorry about the formatting on that post, I didn't realize I had HTML formatting selected. *Bangs head on desk* I guess that preview button does have a purpose...
I don't think that the lack of SMS use in North America is at all due to market saturation. I'm from Canada, and every network includes SMS with their digital service, at a cost of about 10c a message. I have it, as do most of my friends, and we all have since digital was rolled out (I'd guess around 1999). It's for the most part useless to me. It costs me 20c a minute to talk on the phone...and I get free evenings and weekends, which is when I use it the most..or 20c to recieve and send a pair of SMS messages. SMS is limited to 200 characters or some such, doesn't work properly cross network (I know this does work in Europe, but that's not what this thread is about), and takes 30 seconds to type in, even with T9. It's much faster and cheaper to hold a 30 second voice conversation. That said, I do occasionaly send messages to friends from work, where cell phones are banned...however I use their provider's web interface to do this as it doesn't cost me anything and I don't have to chance getting reprimanded for turning my cell on in the building. SMS does have some interesting applications for notification, but not really for communication IMHO. I set up the service monitor on my server to email my SMS gateway address if a service goes down...bingo...go anywhere notification. That bank account stuff sounds really neat, and I'd love to have something along those lines, even if it was via email, as I could route that to my SMS. Rather than SMS being a missing feature on North American networks, I think it's more that people here don't need it. Calling someone and talking for 30 seconds, you can say a lot more for around the same cost, and save your fingers.
It's really whiskey
Use a Mac, it Just Works.
Is that not exactly what he said RedHat did for him?
On the other hand, if you were willing to shell out the money required for a really nice x86 workstation and some of the high end compositing software supported under Linux, you'd definitely be good to go...
Or he could shell out the larger sum of money for a (new, when he's already got an x86) Mac and Final Cut Pro. Jesus you Mac fanatics are annoying. Yes Apple makes fine hardware, and steals decent OSs, but jesus people, it's not even relevent to this discussion.
I sure hope that licence doesn't apply to 2000 Server+...It would boggle the mind how many licences would need to be purchased to run a large site on IIS. I know, I know, IIS is evil, and I agree, but there are large sites running it.
Google didn't turn up anything useful for Kakepad, and it's not on Freshmeat either. As it sounds like a replacement for notepad, I'm intrigued. URL please.
Umm...How about noooooo... Mozilla rocks Opera in every way. Especially being open source.
Tried it, then tried SecureCRT. Never went back to SecureCRT (not to mention it costs $$ and is not open source).