The import feature crashed a couple of times for me too. Well, it hanged rather than crashed. I have years worth of cookies, passwords and such; I think this had something to do with it. The 3rd time of trying worked fine.
v1.0 also had problems overriding Avant Browser fully. I fixed this eventually.
The funny thing is I'm still using FF. Got to love this spellchecker.
Re:Speaking of filters...
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Hacking Vodka
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· Score: 4, Informative
If you wish to survive on urine you must evaporate the water off first.
Dig a large hole.
Piss in said hole or in a small container and place that in the hole.
Place a clean empty contain in the hole. Use this to collect your 'fresh' water.
Cover the hole with polythene; tranparent is best. Weigh it down at the corners to stop it falling in.
Place a small stone in the centre of the polythene to form an angle for the condenced water to run down. Your clean empty container should be under this.
Other green plants can be added to the hole to increase moisure.
I tried this 20 years during a hot sunny day in the UK - hardly desert conditions, I know. I had almost half a cup of water of drinking water at the end of the day. I was was not brave enough to try it without water purification tablets though.
It would buy you an extra day or so and better than drinking your own piss without doubt.
Journalists are my second most favourite type of people next to Editors.
Please may I have my modding rights back now?
Please?
Re:schools and computer literacy
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IT Literacy Test
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· Score: 1
When I was last job hunting, about 5 years ago, the job agencies used tests like this. They were a little more sophisticated than yours though.
At one agency I was able to see the full results at the end. The Word(tm) processing test showed in percentages whether I'd used the Function Keys, Right click > context menu, keyboard shortcuts, menu bar, tool bar etc. Using keyboard shortcuts gave a better final score than using tool bar buttons.
Getting high scores on the remaining tests, in all the agencies, was a breeze after that. Although there were a couple of times my methods didn't work and I failed a question.
We've had electronic signs that tell you if there are free spaces in the multi-story carparks for over 20 years. This is in the good old UK, in a small town at that.
We all get better at the things we do over time so why hasn't the editing gotten any better over the last few years? If anything it has become worse. It is sloppy and lazy.
The only thing that keeps Slashdot in the Favorites is the members and their comments.
Try as I might, I cannot find any relevent links, but I am sure Ludwig van Beethoven used Direct Bone Conduction to help him hear. He used one end of a broom stick on the piano and rested the other end on his upper teeth. This helped him hear the vibrations of each note.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure I'm not. I remember seeing it on the TV. Can anyone back me up?
If you call the police for a minor accident they may caution you for wasting their time. I've been there, done that... Not made the call, mind you. The other party did that.
The only time you need to inform the police is when someone is injured or an animal (domestic) is injured. The rest of the time you should only inform your insurance company.
"This page currently has its access restricted to members of the beta program"
Probably too late now...
Re:My 8 year old pc runs W2K, in your face!
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How Cheap Can A PC Be?
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· Score: 2, Funny
I have the same set up (P3-450), bought at roughly the same time. I have more memory and recently added a DVD burner. Runs XP fine. I get 10fps on a lot of games. Gmail suffers from some 'lag'.
I keep meaning to upgrade but can never justify the expense... it burns DVDs in 12-15 minutes - the same speed as my friend's P4.
I remember that someone crammed in a chess program into that.
I remember waiting 20 minutes for the CPU to take its turn on the highest level... 20 minutes to work out that the opening move was P-K4! It brings a smile to my face just thinking about it.
I'd post the URL for the test page but it wouldn't let me select the text in the address bar. None of the buttons on/. worked. In fact no links worked in any of the tabs I had open. Nothing worked.
After opening the Citybank page I typed a ZIP code in. The text indicator stopped flashing straight away and none of the text I type appeared in the INPUT box; it appeared on the test page in a text area.
I'd like to know how it works on a password field but the test page is now slashdotted. Asterisks or the actual keystrokes?
Reminds me of the old days with FRAMESETs and using JavaScipt to fill in forms.:)
The last time I voted was over the Internet. There was even a story about it on here.
There were zero hiccups. It worked well. Everyone was happy.
Re:DSpam with qmail / vpopmail
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DSPAM v3.2 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I'll admit I don't really understand your post.
All these new spam removal programs are all very well and good but from an end user's point of view, all I would like to know is:
How long am I going to have to put up with emails like this?
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at somewhere.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
info@somewhere.com This address no longer accepts mail.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
...
COMPLETE COPY OF NETSKY VIRUS
...
------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C0CA80.6B015D10--
I've had well over a thousand of these types of email in the last 30 days.
DSPAM v3.2 is probably a rock solid application in the right hands.
"FTP connection to the Xbox with XISO extraction software (available free)."
QUIX is an easier solution. It has some extra features too; like renaming the game title in the default.xbe file. It saves getting the hex editor out.
"Thankfully, all the pirates *wont* be able to play on Xbox Live (as it requires an unmodified kernel and is checked at logon). There is some justice..."
Who needs XBOX live? There is a tunneling application you use so that the XBOX believes it is on a LAN (but is actually on the internet). It works well and is also free. It shares my PC's internet connection through a crossover cable. I forget the name and cannot risk Googling it from here.
Wiring up a car stereo is easy. It's no different than pluging in the speakers of a house stereo. Removing the trim to hide wires is the hardest part but even 'shop monkeys' can do this easily enough.
Are you also saying that my Alpine is worse than the piece of crap that came with my Honda? I don't think so.
Our local hospital has a similar setup to this and everything worked great.
There was no credit card option. You just fed some coins into a machine down the hall in return for a pre-paid card. This was great because visitors could bring pre-paid card instead of useless grapes.
It was a differt box to the one in your picture. It didn't crash once in the 8 days we were there.
A group of us chipped in some money to pay for a webserver with FTP access for a year. We've installed a forum on there and we chat about music on it. The outside world cannot gain access without the proper passwords*. Good albums and tunes are uploaded to the server and this is how we share our music.
I see this as the future if P2P clients are killed.
*FTP access requires a password. HTTP downloads require authentication. Albums and tunes are encrypted. Extremely short filenames are used. Not even our host can tell what the files are.
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The import feature crashed a couple of times for me too. Well, it hanged rather than crashed. I have years worth of cookies, passwords and such; I think this had something to do with it. The 3rd time of trying worked fine.
v1.0 also had problems overriding Avant Browser fully. I fixed this eventually.
The funny thing is I'm still using FF. Got to love this spellchecker.
If you wish to survive on urine you must evaporate the water off first.
Dig a large hole.
Piss in said hole or in a small container and place that in the hole.
Place a clean empty contain in the hole. Use this to collect your 'fresh' water.
Cover the hole with polythene; tranparent is best. Weigh it down at the corners to stop it falling in.
Place a small stone in the centre of the polythene to form an angle for the condenced water to run down. Your clean empty container should be under this.
Other green plants can be added to the hole to increase moisure.
I tried this 20 years during a hot sunny day in the UK - hardly desert conditions, I know. I had almost half a cup of water of drinking water at the end of the day. I was was not brave enough to try it without water purification tablets though.
It would buy you an extra day or so and better than drinking your own piss without doubt.
Journalists are my second most favourite type of people next to Editors.
Please may I have my modding rights back now?
Please?
When I was last job hunting, about 5 years ago, the job agencies used tests like this. They were a little more sophisticated than yours though.
At one agency I was able to see the full results at the end. The Word(tm) processing test showed in percentages whether I'd used the Function Keys, Right click > context menu, keyboard shortcuts, menu bar, tool bar etc. Using keyboard shortcuts gave a better final score than using tool bar buttons.
Getting high scores on the remaining tests, in all the agencies, was a breeze after that. Although there were a couple of times my methods didn't work and I failed a question.
We've had electronic signs that tell you if there are free spaces in the multi-story carparks for over 20 years. This is in the good old UK, in a small town at that.
It's no big deal.
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I thought is had something to do with athletic sprint racing. Like the 100 metre dash. I had images of DoubleClick running like the clappers.
I will now read the summary and the article.
Not as new as you and me?
He's right though and we all know it.
We all get better at the things we do over time so why hasn't the editing gotten any better over the last few years? If anything it has become worse. It is sloppy and lazy.
The only thing that keeps Slashdot in the Favorites is the members and their comments.
I believe it was happening way before that.
Try as I might, I cannot find any relevent links, but I am sure Ludwig van Beethoven used Direct Bone Conduction to help him hear. He used one end of a broom stick on the piano and rested the other end on his upper teeth. This helped him hear the vibrations of each note.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure I'm not. I remember seeing it on the TV. Can anyone back me up?
Wrong. So so wrong.
If you call the police for a minor accident they may caution you for wasting their time. I've been there, done that... Not made the call, mind you. The other party did that.
The only time you need to inform the police is when someone is injured or an animal (domestic) is injured. The rest of the time you should only inform your insurance company.
Why was I expecting to see nice clothes, styled haircut, good body language and confidence?
Bill Gates look-a-like? Oh yes.
Smug? Oh yes.
Side parting? Step out of the eighties please.
No sound here but I expect a monotone drone.
Un-fucking-believable... or not.
"This page currently has its access restricted to members of the beta program"
Probably too late now...
I have the same set up (P3-450), bought at roughly the same time. I have more memory and recently added a DVD burner. Runs XP fine. I get 10fps on a lot of games. Gmail suffers from some 'lag'.
I keep meaning to upgrade but can never justify the expense... it burns DVDs in 12-15 minutes - the same speed as my friend's P4.
It's a shame the story wasn't posted 32 minutes later...
Two jokes for the price of one.
I remember that someone crammed in a chess program into that.
I remember waiting 20 minutes for the CPU to take its turn on the highest level... 20 minutes to work out that the opening move was P-K4! It brings a smile to my face just thinking about it.
...but pretty obvious something is not right.
/. worked. In fact no links worked in any of the tabs I had open. Nothing worked.
:)
I'd post the URL for the test page but it wouldn't let me select the text in the address bar. None of the buttons on
After opening the Citybank page I typed a ZIP code in. The text indicator stopped flashing straight away and none of the text I type appeared in the INPUT box; it appeared on the test page in a text area.
I'd like to know how it works on a password field but the test page is now slashdotted. Asterisks or the actual keystrokes?
Reminds me of the old days with FRAMESETs and using JavaScipt to fill in forms.
In the UK we have voting on the Internet...
The last time I voted was over the Internet. There was even a story about it on here.
There were zero hiccups. It worked well. Everyone was happy.
I'll admit I don't really understand your post.
All these new spam removal programs are all very well and good but from an end user's point of view, all I would like to know is:
How long am I going to have to put up with emails like this?
I've had well over a thousand of these types of email in the last 30 days.
DSPAM v3.2 is probably a rock solid application in the right hands.
There's no reason why it wont work in the USA. I play USA games on my modded PAL XBOX.
I shall not be buying it nor downloading it. Not my cup of tea.
"FTP connection to the Xbox with XISO extraction software (available free)."
QUIX is an easier solution. It has some extra features too; like renaming the game title in the default.xbe file. It saves getting the hex editor out.
"Thankfully, all the pirates *wont* be able to play on Xbox Live (as it requires an unmodified kernel and is checked at logon). There is some justice..."
Who needs XBOX live? There is a tunneling application you use so that the XBOX believes it is on a LAN (but is actually on the internet). It works well and is also free. It shares my PC's internet connection through a crossover cable. I forget the name and cannot risk Googling it from here.
Yes! My current PC has a bigger hard drive this this one! In your face modern handheld PC!
I always like a swift 'fuck off'. It solves so many of lifes little problems.
That's nonsense.
Wiring up a car stereo is easy. It's no different than pluging in the speakers of a house stereo. Removing the trim to hide wires is the hardest part but even 'shop monkeys' can do this easily enough.
Are you also saying that my Alpine is worse than the piece of crap that came with my Honda? I don't think so.
Our local hospital has a similar setup to this and everything worked great.
There was no credit card option. You just fed some coins into a machine down the hall in return for a pre-paid card. This was great because visitors could bring pre-paid card instead of useless grapes.
It was a differt box to the one in your picture. It didn't crash once in the 8 days we were there.
We recently did this.
A group of us chipped in some money to pay for a webserver with FTP access for a year. We've installed a forum on there and we chat about music on it. The outside world cannot gain access without the proper passwords*. Good albums and tunes are uploaded to the server and this is how we share our music.
I see this as the future if P2P clients are killed.
*FTP access requires a password. HTTP downloads require authentication. Albums and tunes are encrypted. Extremely short filenames are used. Not even our host can tell what the files are.