After a year or two, the power adapter broke and I took it back to the store where I had bought an extended warranty. They offered $186 IIRC as a refund based on the age of it, saying that I should have been able to get something comparable for that much at the time, given the inevitable progression of technology. Palm, in reality, was still selling the same old TX for the same price, I think it was $300.
My issues were pretty much all software anyway. They had the capability to release software updates, but they chose to avoid releasing updates except for the daylight savings change.
Massively. It was good on paper but Palm never updated the software on it so the browser was piss-poor, network implementation felt last-minute, and they forgot to design the software for the hardware - mainly, the touchscreen calibration utility hadn't been updated to deal with the lower part of the screen (320x480 vs 320x320). My digitizer was a bit off, evidently, and the calibration utility should have let me correct for it, but it didn't, so it was impossible to use the onscreen keyboard. I had the choice of buying third party software to recalibrate the entire screen area, or correct for the error when typing by always tapping above the key I wanted.
I went through 3 Palm OS PDAs (m100, Sony TJ35, T|X) and I'm glad Palm is dead. Devices like the iPod touch are the new PDA.
As I understand it, it was intended to be turned off to slow the machine down when doing things like playing DOS games that would run at insane (unplayable) speed if allowed to use the PC's full processing power. In other words, it was meant to be on most of the time. The only machine I've seen with a working turbo function was an old 386, most turbo buttons (and the LED displays that often accompany them) aren't connected to anything.
Gangster: Give me your password!
Administrator: Never!
*Gangster grabs cleaver and puts in position to take off admin's pinky finger*
Administrator: Gagh! It's 50Trexler! Don't cut off my finger! Ahhh!
...and so on and so forth...
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how much do you really understand about American politics?
More than you'd probably expect.
Politically, we're heavily influenced by the US government - for example, it's a safe assumption that the recriminalization of marijuana here was at least partially called on by threats from the US that border security would be heavily tightened (as you probably know, we have an effectively unprotected border at the moment). That's actual Canadian law influenced by the US.
Nearly everything I use is either US-built or was imported from the US (most Asian-built stuff likely ends up in a US warehouse somewhere before crossing our border). Laws on pretty much anything can affect me here.
We don't like to admit it, but we are heavily dependent on the United States. Nothing short of a trade embargo is likely to end it, really.
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I'm 14 and Canadian. I can't vote in any of our own elections, let alone American ones. Yet I'm affected by the US government, including the president - both because the US is an extremely significant trade partner of Canada, and because of the US's general influence on international politics. Damn right I want to be heard.
Er, it can search inside files. You can sort the results any way you want, just like any other file listing in explorer. I hate MS and Windows as much as any other slashdotter, but the truth is the truth.
Actually in my experience (one of my domains had its main MX server down but backup OK), spammers only try the first MX server. Could be a very useful tactic, really - set up a bogus first server.
Honestly, I don't understand all this about painfully long compile times. Even on my bloody shitbox, which is a fileserver running on a Pentium MMX 166 with 32MB of RAM, compiling is no big deal. On my more powerful machines, it's nothing. The PII 350 headless box spends maybe an hour a week compiling new packages.
You do know that you can compile in the background, right? And it doesn't break anything? You can even compile KDE 3.2.2 from within KE 3.2.1 - there's no productivity loss whatsoever.
(yes I am running Gentoo, just in case this post is ambiguous)
The public library here in Kingston, ON (Canada) is the same - free memberships for residents of Kingston, funded part by taxes and part by the Friends of the Library. The only fees are late fees, and since you can renew over the internet and most likely the phone, they aren't a big deal.
I was quite surprised to hear that the library where wrathcretin lives charges for "rentals".
I use a combination of eMule, BitTorrent, and DC++. eMule is great for small files like MP3s and files that have been out for a long time (and therefore BT won't have many peers). BitTorrent is great, naturally, for big stuff that's popular. DC++, I just use for use with friends on my private registered-users-only hub.
1.a) A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking.
b) Such a container and its contents. (among various other definitions)
This bit particularly:
MD4 was developed by Rivest in 1990. The message is padded to ensure that its length in bits plus 448 is divisible 512. A 64-bit binary representation of the original length of the message is then concatenated to the message. The message is processed in 512-bit blocks in the Damgård/Merkle iterative structure, and each block is processed in three distinct rounds. Attacks on versions of MD4 with either the first or the last rounds missing were developed very quickly by Den Boer and Bosselaers and others. Dobbertin has shown how collisions for the full version of MD4 can be found in under a minute on a typical PC. Clearly, MD4 should now be considered broken.
MD5 was developed by Rivest in 1991. It is basically MD4 with "safety-belts" and while it is slightly slower than MD4, it is more secure. The algorithm consists of four distinct rounds, which have a slightly different design from that of MD4. Message-digest size, as well as padding requirements, remains the same. Den Boer and Bosselaers have found pseudo-collisions for MD5, but there are no other known cryptanalytic results.
And for the love of god, no dedicated place for the computer itself to go. I've only been the family sysadmin for a few years, yet I can't even begin to count the number of times that I've been down in the basement working on my mother's computer, which is stuck in this tiny little niche with only a single tiny hole for the cables. It's impossible to do anything to that damned computer.
If I need to plug something in, anything, I can't see back there and therefore have to pull the PC out. When I put the thing back in after changing hardware, I've got to plug in every damned cable without being able to see what the hell I'm doing. Hell, ever bent a pin on the PS/2 plug for a keyboard? How about a french one that's just a little bit hard, just a TEENSY bit hard, to replace?
Other problems with that damned desk: -It's too small. -There's only space for one ATX computer, while I need space for two, leaving the other one sitting on top of a filing cabinet (KVM is taken care of by a KVM switch)
Addition: The flash drive or whatever, is a bit less clearly marked, but is still the drive that appears when plugged in, and thus clearly connected to the physical device. The CD drive is reasonably clearly marked, as CD-ROM or CD-RW drive or whatever. Don't see anything where Gnome does things better.
Files stored on this computer: Shared Documents | Edwards's Documents
Desktop: My Documents...
Are you saying that "Personal Folder" is any more intuitive than "My Documents", along with the various "My Pictures" and such that are clearly marked inside it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we not talking about the exact same thing - a directory for the user's documents, that is easily accessible from the file explorer and often the desktop - just with a different name?
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After a year or two, the power adapter broke and I took it back to the store where I had bought an extended warranty. They offered $186 IIRC as a refund based on the age of it, saying that I should have been able to get something comparable for that much at the time, given the inevitable progression of technology. Palm, in reality, was still selling the same old TX for the same price, I think it was $300.
My issues were pretty much all software anyway. They had the capability to release software updates, but they chose to avoid releasing updates except for the daylight savings change.
Massively. It was good on paper but Palm never updated the software on it so the browser was piss-poor, network implementation felt last-minute, and they forgot to design the software for the hardware - mainly, the touchscreen calibration utility hadn't been updated to deal with the lower part of the screen (320x480 vs 320x320). My digitizer was a bit off, evidently, and the calibration utility should have let me correct for it, but it didn't, so it was impossible to use the onscreen keyboard. I had the choice of buying third party software to recalibrate the entire screen area, or correct for the error when typing by always tapping above the key I wanted.
I went through 3 Palm OS PDAs (m100, Sony TJ35, T|X) and I'm glad Palm is dead. Devices like the iPod touch are the new PDA.
Nope, that's a feature. No joke. Pressing Hold while holding Home captures a screenshot and pops it in the camera roll.
Best. Typo. Ever.
As I understand it, it was intended to be turned off to slow the machine down when doing things like playing DOS games that would run at insane (unplayable) speed if allowed to use the PC's full processing power. In other words, it was meant to be on most of the time. The only machine I've seen with a working turbo function was an old 386, most turbo buttons (and the LED displays that often accompany them) aren't connected to anything.
Gangster: Give me your password!
Administrator: Never!
*Gangster grabs cleaver and puts in position to take off admin's pinky finger*
Administrator: Gagh! It's 50Trexler! Don't cut off my finger! Ahhh!
...and so on and so forth...
More than you'd probably expect.
Politically, we're heavily influenced by the US government - for example, it's a safe assumption that the recriminalization of marijuana here was at least partially called on by threats from the US that border security would be heavily tightened (as you probably know, we have an effectively unprotected border at the moment). That's actual Canadian law influenced by the US.
Nearly everything I use is either US-built or was imported from the US (most Asian-built stuff likely ends up in a US warehouse somewhere before crossing our border). Laws on pretty much anything can affect me here.
We don't like to admit it, but we are heavily dependent on the United States. Nothing short of a trade embargo is likely to end it, really.
I'm 14 and Canadian. I can't vote in any of our own elections, let alone American ones. Yet I'm affected by the US government, including the president - both because the US is an extremely significant trade partner of Canada, and because of the US's general influence on international politics. Damn right I want to be heard.
When you're a student without rich parents, the computer room is the bathroom.
Er, it can search inside files. You can sort the results any way you want, just like any other file listing in explorer. I hate MS and Windows as much as any other slashdotter, but the truth is the truth.
Actually in my experience (one of my domains had its main MX server down but backup OK), spammers only try the first MX server. Could be a very useful tactic, really - set up a bogus first server.
Honestly, I don't understand all this about painfully long compile times. Even on my bloody shitbox, which is a fileserver running on a Pentium MMX 166 with 32MB of RAM, compiling is no big deal. On my more powerful machines, it's nothing. The PII 350 headless box spends maybe an hour a week compiling new packages.
You do know that you can compile in the background, right? And it doesn't break anything? You can even compile KDE 3.2.2 from within KE 3.2.1 - there's no productivity loss whatsoever.
(yes I am running Gentoo, just in case this post is ambiguous)
The public library here in Kingston, ON (Canada) is the same - free memberships for residents of Kingston, funded part by taxes and part by the Friends of the Library. The only fees are late fees, and since you can renew over the internet and most likely the phone, they aren't a big deal.
I was quite surprised to hear that the library where wrathcretin lives charges for "rentals".
I use a combination of eMule, BitTorrent, and DC++. eMule is great for small files like MP3s and files that have been out for a long time (and therefore BT won't have many peers). BitTorrent is great, naturally, for big stuff that's popular. DC++, I just use for use with friends on my private registered-users-only hub.
More bullshit? Sherriff Joe is mentioned exactly once on Amnesty's site.
I can't find such a top list (although I didn't look very hard), but Maricopa County Jails are mentionened roughly 600 times
*looks through the catalogs of various RIAA members*
Music?
Cup, from dictionary.com:
1.a) A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking.
b) Such a container and its contents.
(among various other definitions)
The basic option, nothing checked, is the black and white screen. The $123 one is "Bistable", allegedly shatterproof or whatever.
Not that it's anything more than a scam anyway.
This bit particularly:
MD4 was developed by Rivest in 1990. The message is padded to ensure that its length in bits plus 448 is divisible 512. A 64-bit binary representation of the original length of the message is then concatenated to the message. The message is processed in 512-bit blocks in the Damgård/Merkle iterative structure, and each block is processed in three distinct rounds. Attacks on versions of MD4 with either the first or the last rounds missing were developed very quickly by Den Boer and Bosselaers and others. Dobbertin has shown how collisions for the full version of MD4 can be found in under a minute on a typical PC. Clearly, MD4 should now be considered broken.
MD5 was developed by Rivest in 1991. It is basically MD4 with "safety-belts" and while it is slightly slower than MD4, it is more secure. The algorithm consists of four distinct rounds, which have a slightly different design from that of MD4. Message-digest size, as well as padding requirements, remains the same. Den Boer and Bosselaers have found pseudo-collisions for MD5, but there are no other known cryptanalytic results.
I thought ed2k used MD4, not MD5.
And for the love of god, no dedicated place for the computer itself to go. I've only been the family sysadmin for a few years, yet I can't even begin to count the number of times that I've been down in the basement working on my mother's computer, which is stuck in this tiny little niche with only a single tiny hole for the cables. It's impossible to do anything to that damned computer.
/me spits
If I need to plug something in, anything, I can't see back there and therefore have to pull the PC out. When I put the thing back in after changing hardware, I've got to plug in every damned cable without being able to see what the hell I'm doing. Hell, ever bent a pin on the PS/2 plug for a keyboard? How about a french one that's just a little bit hard, just a TEENSY bit hard, to replace?
Other problems with that damned desk:
-It's too small.
-There's only space for one ATX computer, while I need space for two, leaving the other one sitting on top of a filing cabinet (KVM is taken care of by a KVM switch)
Her next computer is a laptop.
/me notes the hotmail address
I think you lost your geek credentials a few years back.
Addition: The flash drive or whatever, is a bit less clearly marked, but is still the drive that appears when plugged in, and thus clearly connected to the physical device. The CD drive is reasonably clearly marked, as CD-ROM or CD-RW drive or whatever. Don't see anything where Gnome does things better.
Files stored on this computer:
...
Shared Documents | Edwards's Documents
Desktop:
My Documents
Are you saying that "Personal Folder" is any more intuitive than "My Documents", along with the various "My Pictures" and such that are clearly marked inside it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we not talking about the exact same thing - a directory for the user's documents, that is easily accessible from the file explorer and often the desktop - just with a different name?
First off, in WinXP, the control panel is not part of my computer.
Second, I see no additional "clutter" in the Windows or KDE way of doing things. Nothing's any more cyptic.