The included earbuds have a proprietary plug which allows them to double as the antenna
I guess that's one way to lock in the accessories. I would hope that this thing has an adaptor for regular headphones/earbuds, otherwise breaking/losing these could suck... and you can't replace them with a better pair of standard ones.
If one of the things that contributes to the early death of OLEDs is oxygen, why not just build them in a closed-type system? Existing monitors are already built with a vaccuum, any reason an OLED diplay couldn't be stuck against a glass/clear-plastic screen inside an airtight enclosure?
Amen to that. Here at work we have offsite backups done over-net. At one point, an error on the mainboard of the backup server caused nasty corruption on the RAID disks housing the backups. Yes, it's got redundant disks, but when you've got redundant disks with corrupt filesystems they're still useless.
So the backup machine comes down for - say - a week, whilst the board is being tested/replaced (dual-CPU board, not so readily available). A day before she's set to give live again, one of our sites gets the home directories accidentally "rm -fr'ed" (not to all webmin users, it sucks, and if you are deleting a user make sure his home directory is not somehow/home). So even with backups, and RAID on the backup server... bad timing can nail anyone.
Many internet cafe's will - for a small fee - burn you a CD of your data. Of course, for hotmail you would have to paste your emails into word, notepad, whatever - but many of the less-computer-literate type have mastered the copy+paste functions.
It's a pain in the butt, but for some better than losing any "important" data.
I don't subscribe to cable. Were there a decent anime station I might, but I like mine pure "uncensored, and subbed not dubbed"
However, if DVD's are truely so expensive in Japan, it just proves that there is definately a lot of money in the industry, and that it's probably the allocation that is going awry (aka somebody is greedy)
With various distros I've noticed that DMA mode is off by default. While in CLI mode, I noticed that copying files between drives/etc was extremely slow in 'nix. Disk loads in GUI were similarly sad...
I played around with the util "hdparm" a bit, and enabled DMA mode (hdparm -d1/dev/hda). Viola, a very noticable speed increase in disk access. On many machines it required compiling a "VIA chipset support" (or other compatible with your hardware) into the kernel under section "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support."
OK, so that's $24.48 for three episodes. So 130 / 3 = 43. And 43x$24.48=$1052.64
Yes indeedy, over a grand for 130 episodes... and I'll bet there are more.
Now throw into the equation that many places sell what *look* to be legit boxed copies, and turn out to be illegal lower-quality copies or perhaps fansubs.
Inu is an awesome series, but I'm not sure it's $1500 to me or most people...
Except that, historically, look and feel have been unpatentable. Well, actually almost anything seems to be patentable due to grand idiocy at the USPTO, but the patents would be invalid.
Fun for all ages, for either gender. Seriously, I've seen kids and adults of either gender get addicted to this. It doesn't take a huge amount of skill and it's pretty easy to pick up the basics of gameplay.
Assuming that your statement is correct, then I'm sure hoping that somebody mods you up. I've always wondered how tabloids etc got away with their crap.
However, what makes one "public" in this case. Shouldn't it be a voluntary action by occupation (movie actors, politicians) rather than sudden uprising of a cult following (Linus is awesome, but it was/is still a form of cult following - not the evil kind though).
Seems to me that victims of circumstance (such as a family whose daughter was kidnapped sometime ago and got heavy exposure in the rags afterwards) should not be exposed to distressing controversy and publicity due to circumstances beyond their control.
Yes, but how many younger individuals do you know whom would find it a really cool idea to nail somebody using neat stuff like night-vision goggles?
"And I put on my trusty night-vision, and then, wham - right beside the hot chick there was some dork with a video cam. So I walk up to him and I'm like... sir... will you please come with me"
I dunno, but night-vision sounds a bit cooler than "pirating" a movie to the net.
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I got an interesting one yesterday. It came into my hotmail account, which is set to "only allow users from my contact list." The address, which wasn't in my list, was listed as from microsoft.com. It was a bit hard to read due to heavy obfuscation (to avoid filters), but it seemed to be advertising underage pr0nography.
I'm assuming that it didn't come from an actual MS address... but one must wonder since if hotmail is simply allowing any email claiming to be from @microsoft.com that's pretty dumb. Not sure how to view headers in hotmail either, and I don't really feel like forwarding something so file to my home account to check them.
MS's online contact thing isn't working either, so I can't ask them. Anyone have any ideas?
(normally I wouldn't bother, but the fact that this spam is particularly vile and somehow manages to bypass a whitelist makes it a special case for stomping)
WEP is not secure, but in 99% of cases, it's secure *enough*.
That within the 1% of cases where it isn't secure enough, the results can be scary. The issue being, you don't know what your WiFi is being jacked for. Sure, it could just be the script kiddy logging in as "god" to play a joke... it could also be a spammer. Or it could could be somebody pulling a credit-card scam. Or it could be somebody that guy that was caught driving around leeching of local WiFi's with his laptop to download kiddie pr0n.
Point is... you not only have to weigh the risks of being cracked, but the risks of what happens when you are cracked.
Doesn't any of these apply. Seems you can't really make much money off a big lie if that big lie happens to be about somebody else and you get sued for it. I hate lawyers, but this sounds like a good time to call one.
Problem is, that so much crap like this floats around, Linus et al are probably just used to ignoring it. Sometimes though I wish they'd step up and show that not all actions are without consequence.
Actually, I've heard that - though increased power may heat the chip a bit more - Athlon 64's are a little nicer on the heat end. Why? Much bigger surface area of the processor die. My XP2500, which has reached temperatures of 95celcius (before I installed a new fan), isn't very big on the die. The last AMD64 I saw, quite a big processor. Therefore there's a lot more surface area for heat dissipation to the heatsink/fan.
Which makes me wonder, if the dedicated instruction sets in your current GPU's were eventually to be included in a CPU, would this not be a major performance increase gaming-wise since it would eliminate the need for data to transfer through the PCI/AGP bus?
Of course, the CPU's would have to be "gamer CPUs" since for standard non-gaming applications this would only be a lot of bloat.
Isn't this somewhat akin to what 3dnow etc was supposed to be about?
I've heard similar from a friend about an indivual who was dressed in mail for an SCA meet or something similar. Walked into a 7-11 and grabbed some munchies, while the teller and other customer are looking a bit nervous. Walks up to make his order, and feels a bump from the guy beside him. Guy beside him screams, and runs out the door.
The tell is like "That's weird, that guy was holding the place up. Give me a moment while I call the cops." So the cops come, and ask buddy about the object stuck in his side. He's was a little amazed to find a knife which had been jabbed into his side, but stuck in the armour without coming near flesh.
I think chainmail should become standard equipment for late-night Sev drop-ins.
Nay, Nay... having somebody else build it would take away all the fun - I'm just looking for info on how others got started:-)
I've used small CD distros such as "Timos rescue CD set" (no X11 though), but I've not tried Damn Small... though I think I remember hearing about it. I'll give that one a shot - thanks for the advice.
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The included earbuds have a proprietary plug which allows them to double as the antenna
I guess that's one way to lock in the accessories. I would hope that this thing has an adaptor for regular headphones/earbuds, otherwise breaking/losing these could suck... and you can't replace them with a better pair of standard ones.
If one of the things that contributes to the early death of OLEDs is oxygen, why not just build them in a closed-type system? Existing monitors are already built with a vaccuum, any reason an OLED diplay couldn't be stuck against a glass/clear-plastic screen inside an airtight enclosure?
Amen to that. Here at work we have offsite backups done over-net. At one point, an error on the mainboard of the backup server caused nasty corruption on the RAID disks housing the backups. Yes, it's got redundant disks, but when you've got redundant disks with corrupt filesystems they're still useless.
/home). So even with backups, and RAID on the backup server... bad timing can nail anyone.
So the backup machine comes down for - say - a week, whilst the board is being tested/replaced (dual-CPU board, not so readily available). A day before she's set to give live again, one of our sites gets the home directories accidentally "rm -fr'ed" (not to all webmin users, it sucks, and if you are deleting a user make sure his home directory is not somehow
Many internet cafe's will - for a small fee - burn you a CD of your data. Of course, for hotmail you would have to paste your emails into word, notepad, whatever - but many of the less-computer-literate type have mastered the copy+paste functions.
It's a pain in the butt, but for some better than losing any "important" data.
I've heard that if yours "thingamjig" leaks too often you can go blind...
On QWERTYUIOP the I and O are side by side. You shouldn't attribute to misunderstanding what can be interpreted due to typo.
I don't subscribe to cable. Were there a decent anime station I might, but I like mine pure "uncensored, and subbed not dubbed"
However, if DVD's are truely so expensive in Japan, it just proves that there is definately a lot of money in the industry, and that it's probably the allocation that is going awry (aka somebody is greedy)
With various distros I've noticed that DMA mode is off by default. While in CLI mode, I noticed that copying files between drives/etc was extremely slow in 'nix. Disk loads in GUI were similarly sad...
/dev/hda). Viola, a very noticable speed increase in disk access. On many machines it required compiling a "VIA chipset support" (or other compatible with your hardware) into the kernel under section "ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support."
I played around with the util "hdparm" a bit, and enabled DMA mode (hdparm -d1
Worked very well for me. Give it a shot.
Agreed there. But it's also running a bit long. Last time I checked the net there were about 130 eps and I'm sure that number has grown since.
And look at the price outside of Japan... here's a sample from the yahoo anime nation store
OK, so that's $24.48 for three episodes. So 130 / 3 = 43. And 43x$24.48=$1052.64
Yes indeedy, over a grand for 130 episodes... and I'll bet there are more.
Now throw into the equation that many places sell what *look* to be legit boxed copies, and turn out to be illegal lower-quality copies or perhaps fansubs.
Inu is an awesome series, but I'm not sure it's $1500 to me or most people...
Except that, historically, look and feel have been unpatentable. Well, actually almost anything seems to be patentable due to grand idiocy at the USPTO, but the patents would be invalid.
A good relationship, on the other hand,is a completely different story
And sometimes either one, if neglected, leaves you having a relationship with your "other hand"
Wat? So fa I ha'ent no'iced any bad sid' effets of being a compolsuv cunilingus giver!
For now... you've still got a few advantages: you can pee standing up for example.
Fun for all ages, for either gender. Seriously, I've seen kids and adults of either gender get addicted to this. It doesn't take a huge amount of skill and it's pretty easy to pick up the basics of gameplay.
Just make sure you don't mix it up with your other business-card CD's when you give 'em to clients.
Hmmm... this candidate looks very interesting, but I'm not sure what this "fragging noobs" thing is or how it fits in with our business strategy...
Assuming that your statement is correct, then I'm sure hoping that somebody mods you up. I've always wondered how tabloids etc got away with their crap.
However, what makes one "public" in this case. Shouldn't it be a voluntary action by occupation (movie actors, politicians) rather than sudden uprising of a cult following (Linus is awesome, but it was/is still a form of cult following - not the evil kind though).
Seems to me that victims of circumstance (such as a family whose daughter was kidnapped sometime ago and got heavy exposure in the rags afterwards) should not be exposed to distressing controversy and publicity due to circumstances beyond their control.
Yes, but how many younger individuals do you know whom would find it a really cool idea to nail somebody using neat stuff like night-vision goggles?
"And I put on my trusty night-vision, and then, wham - right beside the hot chick there was some dork with a video cam. So I walk up to him and I'm like... sir... will you please come with me"
I dunno, but night-vision sounds a bit cooler than "pirating" a movie to the net.
I got an interesting one yesterday. It came into my hotmail account, which is set to "only allow users from my contact list." The address, which wasn't in my list, was listed as from microsoft.com. It was a bit hard to read due to heavy obfuscation (to avoid filters), but it seemed to be advertising underage pr0nography.
I'm assuming that it didn't come from an actual MS address... but one must wonder since if hotmail is simply allowing any email claiming to be from @microsoft.com that's pretty dumb. Not sure how to view headers in hotmail either, and I don't really feel like forwarding something so file to my home account to check them.
MS's online contact thing isn't working either, so I can't ask them. Anyone have any ideas?
(normally I wouldn't bother, but the fact that this spam is particularly vile and somehow manages to bypass a whitelist makes it a special case for stomping)
WEP is not secure, but in 99% of cases, it's secure *enough*.
That within the 1% of cases where it isn't secure enough, the results can be scary. The issue being, you don't know what your WiFi is being jacked for. Sure, it could just be the script kiddy logging in as "god" to play a joke... it could also be a spammer. Or it could could be somebody pulling a credit-card scam. Or it could be somebody that guy that was caught driving around leeching of local WiFi's with his laptop to download kiddie pr0n.
Point is... you not only have to weigh the risks of being cracked, but the risks of what happens when you are cracked.
Doesn't any of these apply. Seems you can't really make much money off a big lie if that big lie happens to be about somebody else and you get sued for it. I hate lawyers, but this sounds like a good time to call one.
Problem is, that so much crap like this floats around, Linus et al are probably just used to ignoring it. Sometimes though I wish they'd step up and show that not all actions are without consequence.
Actually, I've heard that - though increased power may heat the chip a bit more - Athlon 64's are a little nicer on the heat end. Why? Much bigger surface area of the processor die. My XP2500, which has reached temperatures of 95celcius (before I installed a new fan), isn't very big on the die. The last AMD64 I saw, quite a big processor. Therefore there's a lot more surface area for heat dissipation to the heatsink/fan.
Which makes me wonder, if the dedicated instruction sets in your current GPU's were eventually to be included in a CPU, would this not be a major performance increase gaming-wise since it would eliminate the need for data to transfer through the PCI/AGP bus?
Of course, the CPU's would have to be "gamer CPUs" since for standard non-gaming applications this would only be a lot of bloat.
Isn't this somewhat akin to what 3dnow etc was supposed to be about?
As soon as the muggers see what weird crap you're into they'll probably run away and leave their own wallets to appease you...
I've heard similar from a friend about an indivual who was dressed in mail for an SCA meet or something similar. Walked into a 7-11 and grabbed some munchies, while the teller and other customer are looking a bit nervous. Walks up to make his order, and feels a bump from the guy beside him. Guy beside him screams, and runs out the door.
The tell is like "That's weird, that guy was holding the place up. Give me a moment while I call the cops." So the cops come, and ask buddy about the object stuck in his side. He's was a little amazed to find a knife which had been jabbed into his side, but stuck in the armour without coming near flesh.
I think chainmail should become standard equipment for late-night Sev drop-ins.
Nay, Nay... having somebody else build it would take away all the fun - I'm just looking for info on how others got started :-)
I've used small CD distros such as "Timos rescue CD set" (no X11 though), but I've not tried Damn Small... though I think I remember hearing about it. I'll give that one a shot - thanks for the advice.