Help me out here, please. I'm a Mac person and use my PC only to play Second Life, and I'm wondering if my PC is protected long enough to get it set up.
I have WinXP/Home *SP1* that I got OEM when I bought some hardware from newegg a few years ago. The PC I built sat idle (turned off) for a couple years until recently, when I re-built it to play Second Life.
I've had to re-install windows twice recently. Once when I re-built the machine with newer components and once after my hard drive failed.
Each time I do this I am starting with *SP1*, and it takes a long while of windows update, windows update, windows update, etc. before it even gets to updating to SP2, then there are more updates and more updates and...
All the time I am installing windows (about an hour and a half) I am connected through a linksys router/firewall, and once SP2 is finally installed windows firewall is turned on.
Tell me, all-knowing ones, is this machine compromised by the time I have it updated or does the linksys firewall protect me?
Most of the comments that get seen are predictable. Post something contrary to groupthink and get moderated troll or off-topic.
Oh, but there's meta-moderation to deal with the abusers. Whatever. The same people that only want to see certain viewpoints also judge the moderation. That works. Not!
I lost interest in slashdot (and let my sponsorship lapse) when I lost moderation privileges. I was never told I was black listed. I simply stopped receiving mod points. It doesn't really matter if the editors or the hive mind blacklisted me; the result is the same. The moderation system here is not an asset, it's just a tool for the status quo. It's not even available if you don't pass some test of conformity.
It pains me to read some other forums because the quality of the commentary is so bad. Slashdot is capable of so much more, but it takes more time than I have to find the good through the parrotry.
Go ahead, mod me down. Whatever.
Audio apps (e.g. Logic) running on similarly-clocked dual G5s and Core Duos are about on-par in performance, but that's comparing a full tower to a notebook. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new PowerMacs will do.
1280x720 (720P) is a format that a lot of flat-panel TVs understand (including mine). He's probably playing Doom on a very large monitor. In Windows. On a Mac. What a strange world we live in.
For the once or twice per year you actually use a suburban to transport seven people, rent one. For the other 364 days that you commute in it alone, drive something more responsible. You will save a lot of money.
Subscribers get the article in advance and are offered a chance to submit any major problems with it before it goes live for non-subscribers. Does anyone submit dupe-ness as a major problem, and if so, is that not a good reason to pull an article?
But on the other hand, their innovative new Xbox 360 will do everything you wanted to do in the living room and will change the way the living room is.
If you live for toys, perhaps. Slashdot has a habit of thinking there's a huge market of People Like Us. Striking it big in the console market, even if you believe consoles will do so much more next time around, does not compare to striking it big in OS and business applications. The next Xbox will not save Microsoft. Not that I think they need saving.
The only electronic device in my living room is a lamp. What will the Xbox do for my living room?:-)
The automobile has revolutionized our society - changed family life, geography, etc. The car's impact has been huge. While not everything the car has brought us has been good, on the whole, I'd say it's been worth it.
This is prime American mediocrity (yes, I'm American). If you think hearing road noise anywhere you go, even your living room, is okay, then you have lost sight of how beautiful the world could be. If you think there is anything at all redeeming about traffic jams and long commutes and car payments and strip malls and sprawlmarts and traffic lights and acres and acres of blacktop, then you are part of America's mediocrity problem.
They announced months ago they would start this in April, and it was reported here, yet when it happens/. feels betrayed. Go figure.
I would have bought one over Christmas break but I knew this was coming. I also would have subscribed to additional cable programming, but won't do that without a useful PVR.
TV is becoming an activity for people who truly have nothing useful or interesting to do. Who else has the patience for such crap?
If you hear the phone ring and walk to it to check the caller ID, the damage is already done: you've been interrupted. Picking up the phone to dispatch some telemarketer is actually the fun part.
Prior to your daughter's difficulties did you spend your money on medical research and other good causes, or did you spend it on games and computers and cell phones and big macs? Even now, do you not squander your wealth on luxuries and toys? Why do you expect more of other people?
For some reason I pay exactly my maximum bid more often than I'd expect. An example...
Current bid is $7. Bid increment $.25. I bid $10. Ebay informs me that I'm the current high bidder at $10.
If I am to believe this, the previous high bid was less than $10, because he'd still be winning if it was $10 (first bid wins ties), and more than $9.50, because otherwise I'd be winning with a $9.75 bid. So he apparently bid between $9.51 and $9.99. An odd bid, no?
Okay, I can believe this happened. Once. Maybe twice. Three times, a stretch. But it's happened more than that.
In an SE with a 6" LCD? It's been done with ITX boards a number of times. Boring. This one is better. He used a CRT that fit the Mac perfectly. Much more elegant...
Another moderator that doesn't get it. Let me explain it to you humorless wankers...
A watch that detects wifi is curious, maybe even useful to some dorks, but it's not cool. A keychain that detects wifi is curious but not cool. A PDA that detects wireless isn't even curious.
This ring is cool because it's a ring. Ever hear of a secret decoder ring? Why do you think it keeps coming up here? Were you never a kid? Are you not even a nerd?
There's already reason to order from Amazon when some of their third-party sellers have the same item. The fewer businesses that have your shipping info the less junk mail you'll receive. I already look for the item directly from Amazon, because they already have my address. I'm getting catalogs from some of their third-party sellers and I'd rather not.
In July and August my site made the rounds of church bulletins and newsletters and had its highest traffic in two years. This non-geek crowd racked up the following browser stats:
June usage: 3.38 GB, unique visitors: 4806
88.8% Internet Explorer
5.2% Mozilla
2.1% Netscape
2.1% Safari
0.7% Opera
July usage: 16.42 GB, unique visitors: 19088
88.5% Internet Explorer
5.9% Mozilla
2.8% Netscape
1.4% Safari
0.7% Opera
August usage: 12.38 GB, unique visitors: 15448
78.3% Internet Explorer
14.1% Mozilla
2.8% Netscape
1.9% Safari
1.6% Opera
September (14 days) usage: 1.82 GB, unique visitors: 2680
87.2% Internet Explorer
6.3% Mozilla
2.9% Netscape
1.9% Safari
0.8% Opera
Even the low September usage stats represent a statistically useful sample, and it appears non-IE usage is returning to pre-mozilla-fanfare patterns.
Allofmp3 offers some tracks uncompressed, but most are compressed. Worse, they only encode in one format and at one bitrate and then transcode to obtain the format and bitrate you request. That's why for some tracks they also offer an additional-cost option to encode from the uncompressed data, implying that otherwise your encoding comes from already-compressed data.
Worse yet, you will find no documentation telling you which of the available bitrates is the "original". Is it the 384k CBR or is it the 320k VBR? How 'bout the tracks for which neither of those is available. How do you pick the one that is "the original source" to avoid double-lossy encoding?
Some review site claimed to have the answer (it's been referenced here before). If I recall they said it was 320k VBR mp3. So ideally you'd select that format to get tracks that are encoded only once. Problem is, just try to find tracks at that bitrate. They're rare, meaning the review is probably wrong and you still don't know which file to download to get the one that is only encoded once.
Male compsci types tend to be pretty head-strong. It can be pretty difficult for a woman to get ahead in the field when her peers are so much more aggressive. Then there's the whole good ol' boy network thing, which is as strong in IT as anywhere.
All that can discourage women already in the field, but it can also discourage their daughters. Do you think mom's job looks attractive when she comes home complaining that a room full of men wouldn't let her run her meeting, or interrupted her presentation with chest-pounding attention-getting nonsense? Do you think she raves about her male co-workers gathering in packs for career-enhancing back-scratching? Do you think she praises the model of fairness that is the performance appraisal process?
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Thank you. This looks like it will save me a lot of grief the next time I have to re-install Windows.
I have WinXP/Home *SP1* that I got OEM when I bought some hardware from newegg a few years ago. The PC I built sat idle (turned off) for a couple years until recently, when I re-built it to play Second Life.
I've had to re-install windows twice recently. Once when I re-built the machine with newer components and once after my hard drive failed.
Each time I do this I am starting with *SP1*, and it takes a long while of windows update, windows update, windows update, etc. before it even gets to updating to SP2, then there are more updates and more updates and...
All the time I am installing windows (about an hour and a half) I am connected through a linksys router/firewall, and once SP2 is finally installed windows firewall is turned on.
Tell me, all-knowing ones, is this machine compromised by the time I have it updated or does the linksys firewall protect me?
Thanks,
Amy
Actually, clothing is all photoshop work. There is scripting in the game, but fashion doesn't use scripting.
Overheard in mission control...
"That was cool! What else can we crash?"
Oh, but there's meta-moderation to deal with the abusers. Whatever. The same people that only want to see certain viewpoints also judge the moderation. That works. Not!
I lost interest in slashdot (and let my sponsorship lapse) when I lost moderation privileges. I was never told I was black listed. I simply stopped receiving mod points. It doesn't really matter if the editors or the hive mind blacklisted me; the result is the same. The moderation system here is not an asset, it's just a tool for the status quo. It's not even available if you don't pass some test of conformity.
It pains me to read some other forums because the quality of the commentary is so bad. Slashdot is capable of so much more, but it takes more time than I have to find the good through the parrotry. Go ahead, mod me down. Whatever.
Audio apps (e.g. Logic) running on similarly-clocked dual G5s and Core Duos are about on-par in performance, but that's comparing a full tower to a notebook. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new PowerMacs will do.
1280x720 (720P) is a format that a lot of flat-panel TVs understand (including mine). He's probably playing Doom on a very large monitor. In Windows. On a Mac. What a strange world we live in.
For the once or twice per year you actually use a suburban to transport seven people, rent one. For the other 364 days that you commute in it alone, drive something more responsible. You will save a lot of money.
Subscribers get the article in advance and are offered a chance to submit any major problems with it before it goes live for non-subscribers. Does anyone submit dupe-ness as a major problem, and if so, is that not a good reason to pull an article?
The only electronic device in my living room is a lamp. What will the Xbox do for my living room? :-)
I would have bought one over Christmas break but I knew this was coming. I also would have subscribed to additional cable programming, but won't do that without a useful PVR.
TV is becoming an activity for people who truly have nothing useful or interesting to do. Who else has the patience for such crap?
If you hear the phone ring and walk to it to check the caller ID, the damage is already done: you've been interrupted. Picking up the phone to dispatch some telemarketer is actually the fun part.
I don't know what Linus' financial situation is, but I'm gonna guess he ain't living in his mom's basement. I doubt if he's swayed much by free stuff.
Prior to your daughter's difficulties did you spend your money on medical research and other good causes, or did you spend it on games and computers and cell phones and big macs? Even now, do you not squander your wealth on luxuries and toys? Why do you expect more of other people?
By the same logic, you could be curing world hunger instead of buying games and computers and cellphones and big macs.
Current bid is $7. Bid increment $.25. I bid $10. Ebay informs me that I'm the current high bidder at $10.
If I am to believe this, the previous high bid was less than $10, because he'd still be winning if it was $10 (first bid wins ties), and more than $9.50, because otherwise I'd be winning with a $9.75 bid. So he apparently bid between $9.51 and $9.99. An odd bid, no?
Okay, I can believe this happened. Once. Maybe twice. Three times, a stretch. But it's happened more than that.
Odd?
Mac ITX
Do that with a Mini.
Amy
A watch that detects wifi is curious, maybe even useful to some dorks, but it's not cool. A keychain that detects wifi is curious but not cool. A PDA that detects wireless isn't even curious.
This ring is cool because it's a ring. Ever hear of a secret decoder ring? Why do you think it keeps coming up here? Were you never a kid? Are you not even a nerd?
Amy
Amy
There's already reason to order from Amazon when some of their third-party sellers have the same item. The fewer businesses that have your shipping info the less junk mail you'll receive. I already look for the item directly from Amazon, because they already have my address. I'm getting catalogs from some of their third-party sellers and I'd rather not.
June usage: 3.38 GB, unique visitors: 4806
88.8% Internet Explorer
5.2% Mozilla
2.1% Netscape
2.1% Safari
0.7% Opera
July usage: 16.42 GB, unique visitors: 19088
88.5% Internet Explorer
5.9% Mozilla
2.8% Netscape
1.4% Safari
0.7% Opera
August usage: 12.38 GB, unique visitors: 15448
78.3% Internet Explorer
14.1% Mozilla
2.8% Netscape
1.9% Safari
1.6% Opera
September (14 days) usage: 1.82 GB, unique visitors: 2680
87.2% Internet Explorer
6.3% Mozilla
2.9% Netscape
1.9% Safari
0.8% Opera
Even the low September usage stats represent a statistically useful sample, and it appears non-IE usage is returning to pre-mozilla-fanfare patterns.
Amy
Worse yet, you will find no documentation telling you which of the available bitrates is the "original". Is it the 384k CBR or is it the 320k VBR? How 'bout the tracks for which neither of those is available. How do you pick the one that is "the original source" to avoid double-lossy encoding?
Some review site claimed to have the answer (it's been referenced here before). If I recall they said it was 320k VBR mp3. So ideally you'd select that format to get tracks that are encoded only once. Problem is, just try to find tracks at that bitrate. They're rare, meaning the review is probably wrong and you still don't know which file to download to get the one that is only encoded once.
Amy
Amy
All that can discourage women already in the field, but it can also discourage their daughters. Do you think mom's job looks attractive when she comes home complaining that a room full of men wouldn't let her run her meeting, or interrupted her presentation with chest-pounding attention-getting nonsense? Do you think she raves about her male co-workers gathering in packs for career-enhancing back-scratching? Do you think she praises the model of fairness that is the performance appraisal process?
Amy