now, I've only done this on ONE machine but, this past week I was assisting a relative to format a new harddrive. The HD utility disk was had become corrupted to I had to go to the harddrive manufacture's site (western digital) and get a new one. They didn't have floppy *.iso where you could use DOS's rawrite so the only way to make a floppy was to download the DOS executable. Unfortunately, it hung after launching it under XP. Luckily, my uncle also had a win98 laptop that I was able to network-transfer the exe and create the floppy
Anybody care to explain the purpose (if any) for the Sys Req button (shared by Print Screen). My impression of it is that it may have had some use way back in the day before my time, but can't think of any purpose today.
sometimes just buying hardware implies agreement to software terms. For example toshiba laptops have a sticker on the plastic wrap stating that just by taking the computer out, you've accepted the EULA for ALL software bundled with the computer. I had a time trying to find an 'official' MS EULA, only to find a generalized 'over-encampassing' license devised by Toshiba buried in the stack of the manual, and other junk. (AOL, trial MS Games)
Taxing Internet access makes more sense than taxing phones or food or other staples of life because it is generally the well-off that can afford access to it.
Last I checked, I dont pay sales tax for my groceries..at least in my state.
That's a great analogy..I'll add this though:
Investigations from the NTSB and all will force Hyundai to recall all their affected cars and fix the brake problem. Don't expect such actions against Microsoft.
IMO, AOL never made 'access the mass internet' their selling point. (I heard that with 8.0 you can't minimize the AOL and open up IE to access sites)
Instead they emphasized on instant messages, and exclusive AOL chats and games...stuff the kiddies like. Now the AOL users are getting older, and probably now prefer better connectivity than all the time-wasting games. They dont want their hands held anymore. Perhaps users have been enlightened to using URLS and google instead of "AOL keyword"(tm)
this would be a good idea to do if you have it takes a minute or two to draw hot water through the tap. Everytime I take a shower, its a waste of perfectly good (but cold) water before I can actually jump in.
Never used the feature, but I recall DVD having the selling point of parental controls, where someone could set a content rating limit (G,PG, high sex/violence) and if a scene exceeded the limit, it would just skip it.
syncronized commercial breaks aren't as bad as syncronized crap music. You know..when you change the station because they're playing a song that's not your taste only to find the EXACT SAME FSCKING song playing on the next station. Often, it's less than 30 seconds off.
the commercial FM dial has been essentially reduced to six musical formats: Pop/rock, hip-hop, country, classical, Spanish-language and variations on the theme of "adult contemporary," ".
What ever happened to jazz music? Here in Jacksonville FL I used to be able to enjoy smooth jazz on the FM...until it was bought out by f*&$ing KissFM a few years ago...and KissFM got crappy fast, and brought down the local top40 station to their low level.
Just my rant.(dont mod me). Now I depend on live365.
so they (RIAA) get a piece of the price I pay for CD-R media. I only buy CD-R media when they're at least 1/2 off after rebate, so they only get 1/2 of their 'tax'.
Gee..and we thought rubbernecking was already bad enough on the side of the highway we're presently driving on at the time, now people can slow down to watch car crashes that happened elsewhere
I think that your situation shows how we all should PGP sign all our emails...
Being part of a mailing list, I too have had virus messages sent to people with my name (incorrectly) forged in the FROM field. I was very angry indeed. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to research into using PGP, but it'll be on my New Years list;-)
Instead of mailing out AOL CD's with AOL install softare, how about just blank-CDr's with a huge AOL advert on the label? They'll give out something everyone can use, as well as expanding their exposure (if that is possible). In addition, when we share our photos and other files with family and friends, they'll see the AOL ad too...unless of course you slap on your own label on top of it.
I can make you have to enter in a 25 character password, changed daily. Extremely inconvenient - and really doesn't add to security, since you'll just write it down all the time.
A real world (sort of) example:
http://www.hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?reque st =147
I the problem is that many of the relatively new (and sometimes but not necessarilly younger) computer users don't appreciate the value of their computers. If you grew up back when computers were in excess of $4000 for a 386 with 130MB HDD you'd understand computers aren't as expendible as say..a toaster or microwave. Nobody needs a 2+Ghz CPU and GeForce 4 Ti to type documents, listen/rip music, and browse the web. A Pentium provides enough power for that.
Personally, for everything I own, I'll try to FIX it first before jumping to buy a newer, shinier one. Among the people I know, I can't think of anyone else who does this (spoiled ingrates...). I'll admit I still have several 486 mobos my dad grabed from work a few years ago after being replaced. They still work, so I'll either keep them or sell 'em cheap. They're not going in the trash.
In the instructions made to install Kazaa (Full)without adware (cydoor, et al), one of the things to do was to delete the ~/KaZaa/db folder and replace that with a dummy file by opening notepad and saving a blank file as "db" (no extention). As a result of this, all downloaded files in (~/Kazaa/My Shared Files) would appear to have "failed" in Kazaa, and the downloaded files would remain in their *.dat files. It would also NOT include them in your list of files shared. You'd then have to rename the files with extentsions before exiting Kazaa or else you'd lose them.
So...if you want to download on P2P you could probably take these measures and be okay
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now, I've only done this on ONE machine but, this past week I was assisting a relative to format a new harddrive. The HD utility disk was had become corrupted to I had to go to the harddrive manufacture's site (western digital) and get a new one. They didn't have floppy *.iso where you could use DOS's rawrite so the only way to make a floppy was to download the DOS executable. Unfortunately, it hung after launching it under XP. Luckily, my uncle also had a win98 laptop that I was able to network-transfer the exe and create the floppy
hmm..I see cat-tarl, and pig-up..uh.I think I'll just order me a Tab. Oops, the computer is starting, time for work
Anybody care to explain the purpose (if any) for the Sys Req button (shared by Print Screen). My impression of it is that it may have had some use way back in the day before my time, but can't think of any purpose today.
sometimes just buying hardware implies agreement to software terms. For example toshiba laptops have a sticker on the plastic wrap stating that just by taking the computer out, you've accepted the EULA for ALL software bundled with the computer. I had a time trying to find an 'official' MS EULA, only to find a generalized 'over-encampassing' license devised by Toshiba buried in the stack of the manual, and other junk. (AOL, trial MS Games)
Taxing Internet access makes more sense than taxing phones or food or other staples of life because it is generally the well-off that can afford access to it.
Last I checked, I dont pay sales tax for my groceries..at least in my state.
the day shall come when AOL gives out it's software on pen-drive(whatever that is) media you can just format and use like new
That's a great analogy..I'll add this though:
Investigations from the NTSB and all will force Hyundai to recall all their affected cars and fix the brake problem. Don't expect such actions against Microsoft.
IMO, AOL never made 'access the mass internet' their selling point. (I heard that with 8.0 you can't minimize the AOL and open up IE to access sites) Instead they emphasized on instant messages, and exclusive AOL chats and games...stuff the kiddies like. Now the AOL users are getting older, and probably now prefer better connectivity than all the time-wasting games. They dont want their hands held anymore. Perhaps users have been enlightened to using URLS and google instead of "AOL keyword"(tm)
this would be a good idea to do if you have it takes a minute or two to draw hot water through the tap. Everytime I take a shower, its a waste of perfectly good (but cold) water before I can actually jump in.
Never used the feature, but I recall DVD having the selling point of parental controls, where someone could set a content rating limit (G,PG, high sex/violence) and if a scene exceeded the limit, it would just skip it.
syncronized commercial breaks aren't as bad as syncronized crap music. You know..when you change the station because they're playing a song that's not your taste only to find the EXACT SAME FSCKING song playing on the next station. Often, it's less than 30 seconds off.
the commercial FM dial has been essentially reduced to six musical formats: Pop/rock, hip-hop, country, classical, Spanish-language and variations on the theme of "adult contemporary," ".
..and KissFM got crappy fast, and brought down the local top40 station to their low level.
What ever happened to jazz music? Here in Jacksonville FL I used to be able to enjoy smooth jazz on the FM...until it was bought out by f*&$ing KissFM a few years ago.
Just my rant.(dont mod me). Now I depend on live365.
so they (RIAA) get a piece of the price I pay for CD-R media. I only buy CD-R media when they're at least 1/2 off after rebate, so they only get 1/2 of their 'tax'.
Gee..and we thought rubbernecking was already bad enough on the side of the highway we're presently driving on at the time, now people can slow down to watch car crashes that happened elsewhere
you had to list your cell phone number? It'll be a very sad day when solicitors start calling my cell using my minutes that I pay for
I think that your situation shows how we all should PGP sign all our emails...
;-)
Being part of a mailing list, I too have had virus messages sent to people with my name (incorrectly) forged in the FROM field. I was very angry indeed. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to research into using PGP, but it'll be on my New Years list
One Beowulf cluster, to rule all clusters.
Here's an Idea for AOL:
Instead of mailing out AOL CD's with AOL install softare, how about just blank-CDr's with a huge AOL advert on the label? They'll give out something everyone can use, as well as expanding their exposure (if that is possible). In addition, when we share our photos and other files with family and friends, they'll see the AOL ad too...unless of course you slap on your own label on top of it.
remember the old taping the sounds a quarter makes when insterted in the coin slot and playing it back into the phone to get free longdistance?
Has this actually worked in the past? I'd like to know as this is the first I've ever heard of this.
Does it support Ogg Vorbis?....oh wait it does!!
I can make you have to enter in a 25 character password, changed daily. Extremely inconvenient - and really doesn't add to security, since you'll just write it down all the time.
e st =147
A real world (sort of) example:
http://www.hackles.org/cgi-bin/archives.pl?requ
I the problem is that many of the relatively new (and sometimes but not necessarilly younger) computer users don't appreciate the value of their computers. If you grew up back when computers were in excess of $4000 for a 386 with 130MB HDD you'd understand computers aren't as expendible as say..a toaster or microwave. Nobody needs a 2+Ghz CPU and GeForce 4 Ti to type documents, listen/rip music, and browse the web. A Pentium provides enough power for that.
Personally, for everything I own, I'll try to FIX it first before jumping to buy a newer, shinier one. Among the people I know, I can't think of anyone else who does this (spoiled ingrates...). I'll admit I still have several 486 mobos my dad grabed from work a few years ago after being replaced. They still work, so I'll either keep them or sell 'em cheap. They're not going in the trash.
what about BAPH (born again Pheonix)
In the instructions made to install Kazaa (Full)without adware (cydoor, et al), one of the things to do was to delete the ~/KaZaa/db folder and replace that with a dummy file by opening notepad and saving a blank file as "db" (no extention). As a result of this, all downloaded files in (~/Kazaa/My Shared Files) would appear to have "failed" in Kazaa, and the downloaded files would remain in their *.dat files. It would also NOT include them in your list of files shared. You'd then have to rename the files with extentsions before exiting Kazaa or else you'd lose them.
So...if you want to download on P2P you could probably take these measures and be okay
Smithers: Mr. Burns, this tree can't take anymore barrels of radioactive waste
..let's hope the boys scouts don't find out
Mr. Burns: Pish-posh...that tree over there held 6 barrels.