I have GSM in the States and I have better coverage than anyone I know - with the exception of corporate Nextel customers. For regular voice calls, I'd never leave T-Mobile (unless Nextel prices dropped by 50%).
I realized a while back that things are radically different between regions. For example, I live in New Jersey, and SPRINT COVERAGE SUCKS. Yet I hear all these wonderful reports from the West Coast that Sprint has nearly flawless coverage.
So don't jump to conclusions about a carrier's entire network based on your experience in what may be a limited area.
I don't know how any honest person could make a decent living working for commission in retail electronics.
I worked in the training department of a certain nationwide "computer superstore" (yes, THAT one) while some of my friends worked on the floor. The only printers that sold were the ones that offered kickbacks from the manufacturer. Same thing with computers - you'd see four salespeople trying sell a POS computer system because in the A.M. meeting the store manager had promised $x per machine.
And yes, the competition! One saleswoman was actually PAYING the cashiers to put uncommissioned sales under her ID. Unsurprisingly, she had the top sales each week.
Making up garbage about virus infections and hackers to pressure people into buying warranties... sigh, *I* just couldn't live with myself.
That's correct - Bochs at this point is an OS development tool, *NOT* a replacement for VMWare or Win4Lin.
Those of you seeking Windows emulation should look at Plex86 (link was posted earlier) - which takes advantage of Bochs. On the mailing list archives you'll find instructions for getting Windows NT and Windows 98 running (saw a mention of Win2k as well). Plex86 might not be ready for general use, but power users should find it useful.
I think they're just trying to inform the average user that he or she might be sharing files without realizing it. These people are unknowingly giving away up a massive amount of bandwidth.
Optimum Online doesn't seem to have a good method of tracking or enforcing these rules. I've been running servers off my home OOL cable connection for over a year, and they've never said a thing, though I've contacted technical support for other unrelated issues.
Anyone else have any problems with running servers on Optimum Online? I'm running POP/SMTP/HTTPS/SSH services for my own use.
I'd be interesting to hear stories from people who have been told to shut down servers or reduce their bandwidth usage.
*IF* they choose fight the MPAA, we will FINALLY find out whether the DMCA has stripped us of our fair use rights. I think this is far more meaningful than the ElcomSoft trial.
As we've all read a thousand times, this is no different than the movie studio's rabid reaction to the introduction of VCR's - a product that can duplicate video media and *might* be used for piracy.
This is the fight we've been waiting for: Fair Use vs. the DMCA. Only one will be left standing.
(So I'm being a little dramatic, sue me, I realize that the DMCA has a crapload of other stuff that will remain even if parts of it are struck down.)
read the faq - slashdot doesn't log ip's - say whatever the hell you want, we have a moderation system that removes comments from the eyes of most slashdot visitors
Posting AC so I can mod you up--I had no idea that Outlook (other than OE) could do that. Thanks!
I didn't think it was possible until one of my friends proved me wrong by doing it. My sister is always at 98% or 99% disk usage on Hotmail, so I installed Outlook on her PC to let her download her messages. It worked, much to my surprise.
When Microsoft acquired Hotmail they probably immediately started working on integrating it into Windows and Office.
What the hell would that accomplish? The spam is being sent to a phone number, which is tied to the SIM card. You can swap phones a hundred times but those SMS messages will follow you as long as your phone doesn't change.
(Using Windows...) Install Outlook 2k or higher to download your Hotmail messages to your local machine. Install CloudMark and say goodbye to 99% of your spam. This will also remove any space limits imposed by Hotmail, as your mail will now be sitting on your own hard drive.
If you don't like Yahoo, start YOUR OWN portal/webmail/community system.
All you need is broadband a box running Linux. Horde has pretty much everything you'd need, and there's plenty of free stuff out there to make up for any shortcomings.
I'm running Horde off my cable connection - they block port 80 but I don't care because I do everything via SSL anyway.
And in the process you'll learn a hell of a lot about networking and Linux.
I vaguely remember Yahoo sending an opt-in message to my phone with a code that had to be typed back into the website. They're not stupid, you know.:)
A far easier method would be to up a shell script to continuously send interesting messages to $phoneno@$provider.com. I have yet to see any providers offer spam protection (but that might change if Euro-style SMS spam starts in the U.S.)
Exactly, Voicestream's policy was that you could send/receive 10 SMS msgs per month, and an additional $2.95/month allowed you send/receive 200 per month.
If you go over your quota, the cost was either 10 cents or 25 cents per message.
If you're in the U.S., GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN - the tech job market (and the economy in general) are in horrible shape. My friends are coming out of college with CS/IS/MIS degrees and finding NOTHING!
And if you stay in CS, may God have mercy on your soul.
Websites I've designed, my graphic design work, my papers from high school & college, older copies of my resume', pictures I've scanned or taken with a digital camera, source code, help files and how-to's I've amassed, every e-mail I've sent or received since 1996, a recipe (I have only one), bits and pieces of poetry that I hope to someday get published, etc. etc. etc.
The value of information is subjective - one man's garbage is another man's treasure (or something like that).
Schools simply don't have the programs for technology education, and even in the high schools there is, at best, only a typing and a Microsoft Word class, and if you are extremely lucky and well funded, a class that will teach Q-Basic.
Dude, I don't know where you are, but when I graduated from high school in 1997, every school in the county had programming classes. The richer schools were using Borland C++, the rest of us had to do with some flavor of UNIX.
These are middle-class towns in Bergen County, New Jersey. Is this a "Northeast Elite" thing?
I've got two Win2k machines at home, I consider them both pretty uncrashable. Nobody's saying that browsing the web, playing games, typing papers, etc. is going to crash your Win2k box.
It's when you're running Oracle 8i on a Win2k Server and it's being hit a few hundred times per minute. Or you're running Oracle Application Server or IIS or Apache on Win2k and you're trying to serve 20-30 hits per second. THAT'S when Windows (ANY Windows) is pushed to its limits.
Right now I've got Outlook, Reflections, and Access running. Word isn't on my task bar but I know it's running because of Outlook. I have more than a dozen windows open for remote files, I'll need Excel soon, the pcAnywhere, FTP, then then SQL Navigator, etc. etc. - I HAVE to reboot every 3-4 days, my machine just starts hanging randomly.
It's wonderful that you and your kid haven't had any problems, but have you really pushed Windows hard? When a program crashes in Windows, I can *sometimes* kill the process and keep going. But I also *sometimes* have hit the reset button.
Linux is nice because the OS is almost impossible to crash (I haven't been able to do it). I've got a Linux web server at work for our intranet running since September. Sometimes Apache crashes, but I can telnet in and enter a single command to bring it back. Or just walk to the box and click "restart" on the graphical Red Hat process manager.
Windows in a networked, high-workload environment, WILL GO DOWN, it's as easy as that. Linux *might* go down two, three times a year. And HP-UX can keep handling over a hundred clients and constant calls to its Oracle database for more than a year. (And when it does have to brought down, it's because of Oracle processes gone wild.)
I know someone mentionned the excellent hardware detection found in Knoppix, but I'd like to know why other distributions don't have this level of simplicity? I mean, Knoppix is literally plug and play - pop it into the CD, walk away, and BAM there's KDE on the screen.
WHY do I have to go through xf86config to get my distro up and running???? You gotta find your monitor's documentation, double-check what video card you have, look up how much memory, blah blah blah. Yet Knoppix does this AUTOMATICALLY???? (Or is that automagically?) Knoppix has been out for a while, their hardware detection should be implemented in every distribution!!
2) There's a friendly boot disk that has all the tools to reset admin passwords on a single floppy: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.h tml - it works well, I've used it on a box at work we could not otherwise access.
2) Not that Knoppix has this, but why would this be a dangerous addition? You can reset the admin password by editing a single file - the boot disk above just makes it a snap. If we start eliminating utilities in the name of preventing "hackers" from abusing them, then we might as well disable shell, network, and disk access as well.
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I realized a while back that things are radically different between regions. For example, I live in New Jersey, and SPRINT COVERAGE SUCKS. Yet I hear all these wonderful reports from the West Coast that Sprint has nearly flawless coverage.
So don't jump to conclusions about a carrier's entire network based on your experience in what may be a limited area.
No offense, Dug, but you're a total moron.
I don't know how any honest person could make a decent living working for commission in retail electronics.
I worked in the training department of a certain nationwide "computer superstore" (yes, THAT one) while some of my friends worked on the floor. The only printers that sold were the ones that offered kickbacks from the manufacturer. Same thing with computers - you'd see four salespeople trying sell a POS computer system because in the A.M. meeting the store manager had promised $x per machine.
And yes, the competition! One saleswoman was actually PAYING the cashiers to put uncommissioned sales under her ID. Unsurprisingly, she had the top sales each week.
Making up garbage about virus infections and hackers to pressure people into buying warranties... sigh, *I* just couldn't live with myself.
They blocked port 80 during the Code Red days - tech support confirmed this.
Those of you seeking Windows emulation should look at Plex86 (link was posted earlier) - which takes advantage of Bochs. On the mailing list archives you'll find instructions for getting Windows NT and Windows 98 running (saw a mention of Win2k as well). Plex86 might not be ready for general use, but power users should find it useful.
Optimum Online doesn't seem to have a good method of tracking or enforcing these rules. I've been running servers off my home OOL cable connection for over a year, and they've never said a thing, though I've contacted technical support for other unrelated issues.
Anyone else have any problems with running servers on Optimum Online? I'm running POP/SMTP/HTTPS/SSH services for my own use.
I'd be interesting to hear stories from people who have been told to shut down servers or reduce their bandwidth usage.
As we've all read a thousand times, this is no different than the movie studio's rabid reaction to the introduction of VCR's - a product that can duplicate video media and *might* be used for piracy.
This is the fight we've been waiting for: Fair Use vs. the DMCA. Only one will be left standing.
(So I'm being a little dramatic, sue me, I realize that the DMCA has a crapload of other stuff that will remain even if parts of it are struck down.)
read the faq - slashdot doesn't log ip's - say whatever the hell you want, we have a moderation system that removes comments from the eyes of most slashdot visitors
I didn't think it was possible until one of my friends proved me wrong by doing it. My sister is always at 98% or 99% disk usage on Hotmail, so I installed Outlook on her PC to let her download her messages. It worked, much to my surprise.
When Microsoft acquired Hotmail they probably immediately started working on integrating it into Windows and Office.
my bad yo
Correction: ...as long as your phone number doesn't change.
What the hell would that accomplish? The spam is being sent to a phone number, which is tied to the SIM card. You can swap phones a hundred times but those SMS messages will follow you as long as your phone doesn't change.
(Using Windows...) Install Outlook 2k or higher to download your Hotmail messages to your local machine. Install CloudMark and say goodbye to 99% of your spam. This will also remove any space limits imposed by Hotmail, as your mail will now be sitting on your own hard drive.
All you need is broadband a box running Linux. Horde has pretty much everything you'd need, and there's plenty of free stuff out there to make up for any shortcomings.
I'm running Horde off my cable connection - they block port 80 but I don't care because I do everything via SSL anyway.
And in the process you'll learn a hell of a lot about networking and Linux.
A far easier method would be to up a shell script to continuously send interesting messages to $phoneno@$provider.com. I have yet to see any providers offer spam protection (but that might change if Euro-style SMS spam starts in the U.S.)
If you go over your quota, the cost was either 10 cents or 25 cents per message.
I don't think that T-Mobile altered this policy.
Check this out. Disclaimer: I didn't know anything about it, but this is best hit I got on Google. It's a fascinating topic that I knew nothing about.
I'm in a Computer Science degree program
If you're in the U.S., GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN - the tech job market (and the economy in general) are in horrible shape. My friends are coming out of college with CS/IS/MIS degrees and finding NOTHING!
And if you stay in CS, may God have mercy on your soul.
The value of information is subjective - one man's garbage is another man's treasure (or something like that).
Dude, I don't know where you are, but when I graduated from high school in 1997, every school in the county had programming classes. The richer schools were using Borland C++, the rest of us had to do with some flavor of UNIX.
These are middle-class towns in Bergen County, New Jersey. Is this a "Northeast Elite" thing?
It's when you're running Oracle 8i on a Win2k Server and it's being hit a few hundred times per minute. Or you're running Oracle Application Server or IIS or Apache on Win2k and you're trying to serve 20-30 hits per second. THAT'S when Windows (ANY Windows) is pushed to its limits.
Right now I've got Outlook, Reflections, and Access running. Word isn't on my task bar but I know it's running because of Outlook. I have more than a dozen windows open for remote files, I'll need Excel soon, the pcAnywhere, FTP, then then SQL Navigator, etc. etc. - I HAVE to reboot every 3-4 days, my machine just starts hanging randomly.
It's wonderful that you and your kid haven't had any problems, but have you really pushed Windows hard? When a program crashes in Windows, I can *sometimes* kill the process and keep going. But I also *sometimes* have hit the reset button.
Linux is nice because the OS is almost impossible to crash (I haven't been able to do it). I've got a Linux web server at work for our intranet running since September. Sometimes Apache crashes, but I can telnet in and enter a single command to bring it back. Or just walk to the box and click "restart" on the graphical Red Hat process manager.
Windows in a networked, high-workload environment, WILL GO DOWN, it's as easy as that. Linux *might* go down two, three times a year. And HP-UX can keep handling over a hundred clients and constant calls to its Oracle database for more than a year. (And when it does have to brought down, it's because of Oracle processes gone wild.)
WHY do I have to go through xf86config to get my distro up and running???? You gotta find your monitor's documentation, double-check what video card you have, look up how much memory, blah blah blah. Yet Knoppix does this AUTOMATICALLY???? (Or is that automagically?) Knoppix has been out for a while, their hardware detection should be implemented in every distribution!!
2) There's a friendly boot disk that has all the tools to reset admin passwords on a single floppy: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.h tml - it works well, I've used it on a box at work we could not otherwise access.
2) Not that Knoppix has this, but why would this be a dangerous addition? You can reset the admin password by editing a single file - the boot disk above just makes it a snap. If we start eliminating utilities in the name of preventing "hackers" from abusing them, then we might as well disable shell, network, and disk access as well.
awesome link - inspired me to search google for a home-made alternative to "protect" my RFID badge.