And God help you if you want to access more then 2 devices at a time.
Exactly why it is nice to have a board with more than 2 IDE controllers. As long as you hook all devices to their own controller, there's no problem accessing more than 2 devices, which you should know, I know as someone who just finished writing a UltraDMA driver for a custom OS.
If you don't believe me, go ahead and compare a 3.9 ms SCSI drive to a 3.9ms IDE drive..oh wait, they don't exist.
And this is where a RAID controller kicks in.
So take your SCSI elitism and buy your drive for 5 times what it should cost. All the best.
It had 'platinum' inlays. After a couple of days my wife got a rash. Now, she wears a titanium watch all the time, so she's not alergic to that. She also has been wearing the platinum engagement ring for several months, so she's not alergic to that either. She is however alergic to tons of other metals, like white gold (or the nickel they use in it).
When she contacted the company, all they said was, ok, return them, insisting that it was real titanium & platinum. To be fair,- they did refund us promptly, but the ease at which they did it makes me suspicious.
What I'm trying to say is, how do you know for sure that things are actually made of the material you are paying for? I guess especially when you buy stuff online it's pretty risky.
And it kind of sucks to have to return your wedding rings:(.
Most low-end sound cards have a S/N ration of around 90 dB, which is completely unacceptable for even the weekend audiophile
A weekend audiophile wouldn't even consider doing D/A in the PC since you can get SPDIF (aka Optical/Coax) digital output.
With an optical out (or the coax works just fine too) a PC is a perfect playback device, except that the PC itself makes noise. I solved this by using a fanless calm PC enclosure, with a solid state drive, pulling the audio over the network of a server in the garage.
It's actually pretty weird to turn on a PC that makes no noise whatsoever for the first time. You can stick your head in, there's just silence. You need the LED's to confirm the damn thing is on:-)
I think it's time to talk with your money. Become an EFF member.
Obviously Joe Average does not see the relevance of this, and I don't think you and I personally are going to convince them. We need to have people handle that who can.
Organisations like the EFF have the right people and can do things such as counter-lobby all the (in my opinion rediculous, and should be unlawful) lobbying the record and motion pictures industry is doing.
It would certainly help if they got 10$ for every nasty comment made about the RIAA/MPAA here.
In the meantime, it would be nice if them P2P networks where finally used for things other than distributing copyrighted material. We need to stop giving those assholes amunition.
Maybe you should try to find out [google.com] more about it on your own, dude....if youre too lazy RTFM yourself, then I guess you have to take his word for it.
Well, why don't you enlighten us some more? Which of the links on Google describes the use of P2P that generates all those GB's of network data? (which is what we are talking about here)
What is it exactly that's being distributed (legally) so franctically?
All these wind-laden statements don't really do it for me.
That's ok, it's just an indication of what HE does with P2P. If the only thing you do with apple pie is you-know-what, you might indeed find it hard to believe that some people actually just eat it.
To continue your analogy,- last time I checked most people had their weewee in the pie and not a lot where eating it. That's the difference.
But by all means, continue to live in your illusion.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with onload and onunload events in JavaScript (probably why they came up with this scam).
You could, for example, create a frameset and make one of the frame source links an '.exe'. Mozilla brings up a window where you want to save this file just fine. (just tested with Moz 0.9.9)
Initially I wrote a C++Builder app that uses the IE engine, and I got it to the point where it would absolutely never open a pop-up window. It displays the link of the last attempt, which you can then click to open that link. BUT, some of these sites are tricky, and use a crazy technique to open the pop-up. Which basically results in a Javascript error if you don't open a new window. For some reason IE feels the need to bring up a dialog-box to report this and ask if you want to continue to run scripts. (I've not found a way to get rid of this).
So although a step in the right direction, it's still not perfect, and I've had to postpone work on it.
The bottom line though,- write your browser manufacturer about the following:
Say that you feel the browser has bother-some behaviour. Ask them to please NOT: - open new windows from automatically generated script events. This includes not only onload & onunload, but also timers for example. The only time a new window may be opened is when I, the user, specifically requests so. - allow scripts to modify the look n feel of the browser. It's unacceptable that scripts can change the size/position of the browser for example. I've recently seen pop-up windows which had NO border what so ever,- the entire window was HTML. How difficult could it be to impersonate a browser and do all kinds of bad stuff once you start allowing that behaviour. - have dialog boxes that do NOT include some sort of [ ] Do not display this message again. - do not automatically start the download of 'foreign' mime-types, such as.exe's. If you don't know how to render it, leave it alone.
(please note that Mozilla indeed complies with most of these items)
In other words: when I'm browsing, I give the website I'm visiting a canvas (the area inside my browser window), and that's all they get until I request so otherwise.
I've debated wheter the Flash plugins that have a truck drive across a webpage should not be allowed either, but I concluded that that's the choice of the website. If they want to obfuscate their content,- fine. I will just go away and never come back.
a) that did not used to be a crazy price for nice office space in the bay area.
b) finding office space AT ALL, has been very challenging for a large period (not anymore). A lot of times it was just a matter of taking whatever you could get your hands on.
b) they did not move the entire company to the bay area,- any large enough company in our industry has to have some form of representation here. So they did the best thing: leave most of the people in more affordable places and get a nice presentable place here as the 'interface'.
So what's your idea of properly handling this situation? You have any better ideas?
"The landlord reportedly padlocked..." "the Utah office reportedly confirmed..." "Appeals were reportedly made..." "... and Harris was reportedly initially..." "Otherwise Lineo was reportedly supposed..." "The message was reportedly pretty..."
This "shit" ain't news. Bunch of "ass-whipes" posting stories like this.
"Sphincter-boy" Michael must have been desperate to "ejaculate" something onto the front page. I bet he couldn't find his "rectum" if he wasn't talking so much out of it.
In the meantime, Taco should spend a little more time on "poop-hole" optimization, because this site is slower than an "turd(tle)" with "constipation". Deep in the "bowels" of the code it must be possible to remove the obstruction and make things flow like an elephant with "diarrhea".
Well, I better quit my "feces" slinging, or they will kick me off.
Interesting thing, on the webpage (not the license) it reads the following:
People developing their own CLI implementations will find the Shared Source CLI an indispensable guide and adjunct to the ECMA standards.
Someone better archive that, because you can just wait for 'tainting' issues to come up, and this is prove that they actually encouraged it.
This is also an issue with providing source to kids in school,- will they now never be able to work on competing products because of tainting? I know some Open Source projects dont want input from people considered tainted (e.g. seen source @ the big evil).
Man all these negative comments start to piss me off.
First of all, have a look at the product: the screenshots speak for themselves,- a very clean, feature rich looking package. Excellent job if you ask me, and the pricetag is certainly right, considering the VERY generous license. This company should be praised, especially considering that they obviously where screwed by the fact that Be went down.
Also, why don't you read the f*cking FAQ: Q: Is gobeProductive compatible with Microsoft Office? A: gobeProductive opens files created in Word and Excel. gobeProductive can also output files in Word and Excel format, but some data created by gobeProductive's extra features might not translate well into Word and Excel format
Comments such as if I can't read the data everyone else is sending me I have no other choice but XP office.
are thus plain stupid (and don't deserve to be modded up to +4). First of all the product DOES support it, second of all, if we had to follow your fatalistic viewpoint, we are going to be stuck with M$ office foreever. They've done a good enough job in obscuring their file-formats that probably no product ever will achieve 100% compatibility.
So long as M$ holds on to that monopoly we are going to be subject to their ritual 'office tax' whenever they feel like it. Office has had features way beyond my needs for years now. I still need to upgrade every time just to stay compatible with others, and that sucks.
I received a couple of these as well. The difference with the Verisign one is that the Verisign logo they used is seen everywhere. It doesn't claim clearly that this is a letter FROM Verisign, there's just the logo, again, which is the same as you'd see on every other secure website.
In other words, it took me quite a while to figure out who this letter was actually from. In fact, I wasn't 100% certain when I tossed it.
This is by far the most deceptive piece of junkmail I've received. And you are right, thank the stupid people for that.
That being said, I'll never do business with Verisign,- first they charge me an arm and a leg, so I get to put their logo on my website. Next thing they are going after my customers by getting them confused with the logo seen on my website.
I played a bowling game in Boston once that used a bowling ball sized trackball to run a ball through a bizarre 3D bowling lane.
The Metreon in San Francisco has an Arcade hall that has this game. You basically control how a bowling ball rolls through the streets of San Francisco, trying to miss cable-cars etc.
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Oh, you should look @ pricewatch,- 160GB for $197, that's $2364,- instead of $3108!!!
Not bad! I'm building a terraserver myself to store all my DVDs(unmodified, so no loss of quality or extra stuff).
the difference between the newest IDE and the newest SCSI is far more then marginal.
That's right,- at least if you are talking about the price tag.
188 GB SCSI: $999,-
160 GB IDE: 197,-
And God help you if you want to access more then 2 devices at a time.
Exactly why it is nice to have a board with more than 2 IDE controllers. As long as you hook all devices to their own controller, there's no problem accessing more than 2 devices, which you should know, I know as someone who just finished writing a UltraDMA driver for a custom OS.
If you don't believe me, go ahead and compare a 3.9 ms SCSI drive to a 3.9ms IDE drive..oh wait, they don't exist.
And this is where a RAID controller kicks in.
So take your SCSI elitism and buy your drive for 5 times what it should cost. All the best.
Yeah, but those don't exist in 160GB versions :(
Wow, I didn't know people looked that happy in church!
;)
It seems though that some racial profiling was done when selecting the people for this church.
12 * 160 GB = is almost 2 TB!!!
And the sound of a 747 taking of comes @ no extra charge!
Yeah, we got titanium rings for our wedding.
:(.
It had 'platinum' inlays. After a couple of days my wife got a rash. Now, she wears a titanium watch all the time, so she's not alergic to that. She also has been wearing the platinum engagement ring for several months, so she's not alergic to that either. She is however alergic to tons of other metals, like white gold (or the nickel they use in it).
When she contacted the company, all they said was, ok, return them, insisting that it was real titanium & platinum. To be fair,- they did refund us promptly, but the ease at which they did it makes me suspicious.
What I'm trying to say is, how do you know for sure that things are actually made of the material you are paying for? I guess especially when you buy stuff online it's pretty risky.
And it kind of sucks to have to return your wedding rings
Most low-end sound cards have a S/N ration of around 90 dB, which is completely unacceptable for even the weekend audiophile
:-)
A weekend audiophile wouldn't even consider doing D/A in the PC since you can get SPDIF (aka Optical/Coax) digital output.
With an optical out (or the coax works just fine too) a PC is a perfect playback device, except that the PC itself makes noise. I solved this by using a fanless calm PC enclosure, with a solid state drive, pulling the audio over the network of a server in the garage.
It's actually pretty weird to turn on a PC that makes no noise whatsoever for the first time. You can stick your head in, there's just silence. You need the LED's to confirm the damn thing is on
I think it's time to talk with your money. Become an EFF member.
Obviously Joe Average does not see the relevance of this, and I don't think you and I personally are going to convince them. We need to have people handle that who can.
Organisations like the EFF have the right people and can do things such as counter-lobby all the (in my opinion rediculous, and should be unlawful) lobbying the record and motion pictures industry is doing.
It would certainly help if they got 10$ for every nasty comment made about the RIAA/MPAA here.
In the meantime, it would be nice if them P2P networks where finally used for things other than distributing copyrighted material. We need to stop giving those assholes amunition.
Maybe you should try to find out [google.com] more about it on your own, dude. ...if youre too lazy RTFM yourself, then I guess you have to take his word for it.
Well, why don't you enlighten us some more? Which of the links on Google describes the use of P2P that generates all those GB's of network data? (which is what we are talking about here)
What is it exactly that's being distributed (legally) so franctically?
All these wind-laden statements don't really do it for me.
That's ok, it's just an indication of what HE does with P2P. If the only thing you do with apple pie is you-know-what, you might indeed find it hard to believe that some people actually just eat it.
To continue your analogy,- last time I checked most people had their weewee in the pie and not a lot where eating it. That's the difference.
But by all means, continue to live in your illusion.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with onload and onunload events in JavaScript (probably why they came up with this scam).
/. I got so angry that I started working on my own browser.
.exe's. If you don't know how to render it, leave it alone.
You could, for example, create a frameset and make one of the frame source links an '.exe'. Mozilla brings up a window where you want to save this file just fine. (just tested with Moz 0.9.9)
A pain in the fuckin arse, it is. Last time there was an article about this crap on
Initially I wrote a C++Builder app that uses the IE engine, and I got it to the point where it would absolutely never open a pop-up window. It displays the link of the last attempt, which you can then click to open that link. BUT, some of these sites are tricky, and use a crazy technique to open the pop-up. Which basically results in a Javascript error if you don't open a new window. For some reason IE feels the need to bring up a dialog-box to report this and ask if you want to continue to run scripts. (I've not found a way to get rid of this).
So although a step in the right direction, it's still not perfect, and I've had to postpone work on it.
The bottom line though,- write your browser manufacturer about the following:
Say that you feel the browser has bother-some behaviour. Ask them to please NOT:
- open new windows from automatically generated script events. This includes not only onload & onunload, but also timers for example. The only time a new window may be opened is when I, the user, specifically requests so.
- allow scripts to modify the look n feel of the browser. It's unacceptable that scripts can change the size/position of the browser for example. I've recently seen pop-up windows which had NO border what so ever,- the entire window was HTML. How difficult could it be to impersonate a browser and do all kinds of bad stuff once you start allowing that behaviour.
- have dialog boxes that do NOT include some sort of [ ] Do not display this message again.
- do not automatically start the download of 'foreign' mime-types, such as
(please note that Mozilla indeed complies with most of these items)
In other words: when I'm browsing, I give the website I'm visiting a canvas (the area inside my browser window), and that's all they get until I request so otherwise.
I've debated wheter the Flash plugins that have a truck drive across a webpage should not be allowed either, but I concluded that that's the choice of the website. If they want to obfuscate their content,- fine. I will just go away and never come back.
AH, enough ranting for an early morning.
a) that did not used to be a crazy price for nice office space in the bay area.
b) finding office space AT ALL, has been very challenging for a large period (not anymore). A lot of times it was just a matter of taking whatever you could get your hands on.
b) they did not move the entire company to the bay area,- any large enough company in our industry has to have some form of representation here. So they did the best thing: leave most of the people in more affordable places and get a nice presentable place here as the 'interface'.
So what's your idea of properly handling this situation? You have any better ideas?
"The landlord reportedly padlocked ..." ..." ..." ..." ..." ..."
"the Utah office reportedly confirmed
"Appeals were reportedly made
"... and Harris was reportedly initially
"Otherwise Lineo was reportedly supposed
"The message was reportedly pretty
And all that in 4 short paragraphs.
Well, that *would* be ironic to the people who planned and made the change then, wouldn't it?
It would be ironic if things did NOT go according to plan or as expected.
Having security issues with IIS and NOT expecting/having planned for it sounds stupid, not ironic.
Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced shortly thereafter
;)
Been listening to Alanis much lately?
Dictionary.com says this about ironically: "contrary to plan or expectation"
Anybody that works in this industry for two days or more would know that things must have happened exactly as planned, or at least as to be expected.
it's Free Advertising Day?
Damn, I'll pick up some spare Karma!
Me too! Me too!
Although, I'd prefer +1 Informative.
Yeah, what kind of "crap" is this?
This "shit" ain't news. Bunch of "ass-whipes" posting stories like this.
"Sphincter-boy" Michael must have been desperate to "ejaculate" something onto the front page. I bet he couldn't find his "rectum" if he wasn't talking so much out of it.
In the meantime, Taco should spend a little more time on "poop-hole" optimization, because this site is slower than an "turd(tle)" with "constipation". Deep in the "bowels" of the code it must be possible to remove the obstruction and make things flow like an elephant with "diarrhea".
Well, I better quit my "feces" slinging, or they will kick me off.
"toilet paper".
<sarcasm>
Next year, they may want to reconsider their timing of an April Fools joke.
</sarcasm>
Somewhere in the middle there should be
- Change brand name to hop-on.com
- Change brand name to iHop-on
- Change brand name back to hop-on
Interesting thing, on the webpage (not the license) it reads the following:
People developing their own CLI implementations will find the Shared Source CLI an indispensable guide and adjunct to the ECMA standards.
Someone better archive that, because you can just wait for 'tainting' issues to come up, and this is prove that they actually encouraged it.
This is also an issue with providing source to kids in school,- will they now never be able to work on competing products because of tainting? I know some Open Source projects dont want input from people considered tainted (e.g. seen source @ the big evil).
Man all these negative comments start to piss me off.
First of all, have a look at the product: the screenshots speak for themselves,- a very clean, feature rich looking package. Excellent job if you ask me, and the pricetag is certainly right, considering the VERY generous license. This company should be praised, especially considering that they obviously where screwed by the fact that Be went down.
Also, why don't you read the f*cking FAQ:
Q: Is gobeProductive compatible with Microsoft Office?
A: gobeProductive opens files created in Word and Excel. gobeProductive can also output files in Word and Excel format, but some data created by gobeProductive's extra features might not translate well into Word and Excel format
Comments such as if I can't read the data everyone else is sending me I have no other choice but XP office.
are thus plain stupid (and don't deserve to be modded up to +4). First of all the product DOES support it, second of all, if we had to follow your fatalistic viewpoint, we are going to be stuck with M$ office foreever. They've done a good enough job in obscuring their file-formats that probably no product ever will achieve 100% compatibility.
So long as M$ holds on to that monopoly we are going to be subject to their ritual 'office tax' whenever they feel like it. Office has had features way beyond my needs for years now. I still need to upgrade every time just to stay compatible with others, and that sucks.
Sjeesj, at least give these guys a change.
I received a couple of these as well. The difference with the Verisign one is that the Verisign logo they used is seen everywhere. It doesn't claim clearly that this is a letter FROM Verisign, there's just the logo, again, which is the same as you'd see on every other secure website.
In other words, it took me quite a while to figure out who this letter was actually from. In fact, I wasn't 100% certain when I tossed it.
This is by far the most deceptive piece of junkmail I've received. And you are right, thank the stupid people for that.
That being said, I'll never do business with Verisign,- first they charge me an arm and a leg, so I get to put their logo on my website. Next thing they are going after my customers by getting them confused with the logo seen on my website.
With all that talk about beer I first read:
We (the collective us) have been rushing at a breakneck speed down the tunnel of complete medication.
I played a bowling game in Boston once that used a bowling ball sized trackball to run a ball through a bizarre 3D bowling lane.
The Metreon in San Francisco has an Arcade hall that has this game. You basically control how a bowling ball rolls through the streets of San Francisco, trying to miss cable-cars etc.