I'd like to learn more about this Scientology thing, but $350,000 is a bit too much for me right now. How much for just the trip to South America and a glass of Jim Jones Kool Aid?
McCoy: Just once, I'd like to beam down on some planet and say. "Behold, for I am the arch angel Gabriel!"
Spock: I fail to see the humor in that doctor.
Something even more amusing would be the discovery of aliens that take offence to the fact we don't believe in their god and start blowing us up. Oh wait, that happens right here...
A few years ago my friend and I decided to set up a network between our houses. We ran about 200 feet of 10BASE2 along a fence and used an old 486 DX33 box on each end as transparent bridges between the cable and out LAN segments. Every once in a while we'd get a close lightning strike in the summer and it would fry one of the combo cards we used. Fortunately, they were old Linksys NE2000 compatable ISA cards I picked up used for about $2 each. I'd go through about 1 or 2 every year. I tried using a spark gap type arrestor, but it wasn't enough, besides a few bucks a year was worth it.
I believe Microsoft's official policy on desktop support is "Please contact your vendor." One of the reasons Dell, Compaq, HP, etc. get discounts on Windows licenses is that the PC vendor has to deal with support issues.
I'm not sure what's worse; the fact that I am getting depressed about using up 128 billion bytes, or the fact that I'd be able to fill up a terabyte pretty quickly if I had that much space.
Hard drive space is like living space. The more room you have, the more crap you tend to accumulate. If I moved into an airship hanger, I'd fill it up in a couple weeks. A few months ago I bought another 80 GB drive to divide up my stuff and lessen the load on my old 80 GB drive; I quickly filled both up and now they're around 99% capacity.
If you really need to use the half-assed metaphor of reinventing the wheel, consider this: Wheels are different, and they are made different because they have different purposes.
I think my half assed metaphor makes perfect sense in this case. Nobody reinvented the wheel when they started manufacturing cars instead of bicycles: they simply modified an old idea.
Just like all wheels are round and can roll, browsers display content, whether it be HTML, Flash, or plain old text. Why recreate the same old code when you can just modify what's been written already? There's no reason you can't modify Mozilla to act like Konqueror, or vise-versa. One of the core principals of Open Source is to share ideas and code, why not take advantage of that?
Bring an old Graflex but make sure you chain it to your ankle so you don't lose it in a flood. You need to use chain because it's kind of heavy, and make sure you lock it.
And I prefer Stan Wagon's new invention, the xheel over the old wheel. Sure, they're square, and new roads will have to be build to accomodate them, but think of all the new jobs that will be created. I can't wait for the IPO.
My automotive stable includes a 1970 Dodge Dart with a Slant-6. Fits my 6'4" tall body comfortably, starts every morning with the legendary Chrysler gear-reduction "dive bomber" starter motor and a satisfying click-click-click of the solid lifters, gets 28MPG and blows as clean on the emissions test as a 1990-spec.
You can get rid of the clickety click by adjusting the valve lash to within specs. According to my Chiltons, it's.010" Intake,.020" Exhaust. My old Volare was as quiet as a hydraulic lifter car until the body rusted out and I had to junk it.
I think the key is the frequency used. While standard wall mount 50-60 Hz transformers have to big and bulky, the ones that run from 20K - 40KHz in switching power supplies can be much smaller. Combine this with some sort of ferrous antennas and you may be able to "transmit" power over some distance, perhaps even unidirectionally.
Another way would be an infrared laser and a solar cell, but I don't think you can get much power out of it.
You would have to be pretty close to do it since you are competing with a 50KW station most of the time.
With 10+ stations in every market, I highly doubt they get info on your radio by any broadcast signal. They probably get it by listening to stray signals coming from the superheterodyne circuit in the recievers. It's very weak in modern equipment (heavy RF sheilding and FM on chip technology), but it can be detected. All you would need to screw it up is an old "transistor" radio (one with seperate transistors, not ICs) and a few solar cells. Place it next to the sign and it will swamp the detector .
It's probably more like a "profitable design quirk". Symantec has at least a half dozen different versions of NAV with multiple install and configuration options, the only difference being cost. Peachtree has some network-centric accounting software aimed at small to mid sized companies, so I assume they limit by design as well.
The SMB protocol and NTFS are two distinctly different things. On Win2K with NTFS, you have security rights associated with the filesystem (i.e. what you can do to a file or folder on that machine even logged in locally), and share rights associated with the share (i.e. what you can do to a file or folder over the network). Many admins prefer to leave the share rights alone (so the "Everyone" group has full access), and then restrict per user access at the filesystem. This way someone who normally has no rights to a particular file/folder can't bypass the restriction by logging into the server locally.
Samba can pretty much duplicate an NT4 box as far as shares go, but to get NTFS style ACLs in Linux you need the 2.6 kernel and the various utils.
For instance, the single EXE nav2002 install wont install from a share.
To install NAV over a network you need the corporate edition. The same goes for other apps designed for home users and small companies. If it's not a local drive, they refuse to run and/or install. It's not just an issue of licenses either; there are lots of issues with file locking and allowing multiple users to access the same data files that the developers have to address before allowing network install and/or use.
Most people will have Mistake Edition preloaded on a previous PC and have no way of installing it on the new one. They'll probably bring it back and complain about "No internet thingy" and Walmart will be happy to install XP for $100+.
Most low end PCs I've seen from Dell and Compaq don't even come with a restore CD; they'll have a hidden partition with a ghost image that will only work with the PC it came with.
Nope, you lost. In fact, I think I just saw your car stripped to the frame and sitting on crates in Brooklyn. I hoped you pressed "5" for theft insurance or Yahoo will be sending you a bill.
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I'd like to learn more about this Scientology thing, but $350,000 is a bit too much for me right now. How much for just the trip to South America and a glass of Jim Jones Kool Aid?
McCoy: Just once, I'd like to beam down on some planet and say. "Behold, for I am the arch angel Gabriel!"
Spock: I fail to see the humor in that doctor.
Something even more amusing would be the discovery of aliens that take offence to the fact we don't believe in their god and start blowing us up. Oh wait, that happens right here...
A few years ago my friend and I decided to set up a network between our houses. We ran about 200 feet of 10BASE2 along a fence and used an old 486 DX33 box on each end as transparent bridges between the cable and out LAN segments. Every once in a while we'd get a close lightning strike in the summer and it would fry one of the combo cards we used. Fortunately, they were old Linksys NE2000 compatable ISA cards I picked up used for about $2 each. I'd go through about 1 or 2 every year. I tried using a spark gap type arrestor, but it wasn't enough, besides a few bucks a year was worth it.
I believe Microsoft's official policy on desktop support is "Please contact your vendor." One of the reasons Dell, Compaq, HP, etc. get discounts on Windows licenses is that the PC vendor has to deal with support issues.
They're just doing what they've always done; releasing the original source code without the changes they made.
I'm not sure what's worse; the fact that I am getting depressed about using up 128 billion bytes, or the fact that I'd be able to fill up a terabyte pretty quickly if I had that much space.
Hard drive space is like living space. The more room you have, the more crap you tend to accumulate. If I moved into an airship hanger, I'd fill it up in a couple weeks. A few months ago I bought another 80 GB drive to divide up my stuff and lessen the load on my old 80 GB drive; I quickly filled both up and now they're around 99% capacity.
A.K.A. SurplusComputers
Old rack mount systems, SCSI drives, motherboards, and a lot of cheapo tools.
If you really need to use the half-assed metaphor of reinventing the wheel, consider this: Wheels are different, and they are made different because they have different purposes.
I think my half assed metaphor makes perfect sense in this case. Nobody reinvented the wheel when they started manufacturing cars instead of bicycles: they simply modified an old idea.
Just like all wheels are round and can roll, browsers display content, whether it be HTML, Flash, or plain old text. Why recreate the same old code when you can just modify what's been written already? There's no reason you can't modify Mozilla to act like Konqueror, or vise-versa. One of the core principals of Open Source is to share ideas and code, why not take advantage of that?
Bring an old Graflex but make sure you chain it to your ankle so you don't lose it in a flood. You need to use chain because it's kind of heavy, and make sure you lock it.
And I prefer Stan Wagon's new invention, the xheel over the old wheel. Sure, they're square, and new roads will have to be build to accomodate them, but think of all the new jobs that will be created. I can't wait for the IPO.
I think the Supreme Court will declare this bill unconstitutional due to bad nettiquet:
To: The Senate
From: The Supreme Court
RE: Anti Spyware Bill
When writing bills, please refrain from using all caps, IT'S LIKE YELLING.
Netscape comes with a fully functional AIM client, and it pretty much runs on everything.
My automotive stable includes a 1970 Dodge Dart with a Slant-6. Fits my 6'4" tall body comfortably, starts every morning with the legendary Chrysler gear-reduction "dive bomber" starter motor and a satisfying click-click-click of the solid lifters, gets 28MPG and blows as clean on the emissions test as a 1990-spec.
.010" Intake, .020" Exhaust. My old Volare was as quiet as a hydraulic lifter car until the body rusted out and I had to junk it.
You can get rid of the clickety click by adjusting the valve lash to within specs. According to my Chiltons, it's
I think the key is the frequency used. While standard wall mount 50-60 Hz transformers have to big and bulky, the ones that run from 20K - 40KHz in switching power supplies can be much smaller. Combine this with some sort of ferrous antennas and you may be able to "transmit" power over some distance, perhaps even unidirectionally.
Another way would be an infrared laser and a solar cell, but I don't think you can get much power out of it.
No law against midgets, just squirrels (in Springfield anyway). YMMV
You would have to be pretty close to do it since you are competing with a 50KW station most of the time.
With 10+ stations in every market, I highly doubt they get info on your radio by any broadcast signal. They probably get it by listening to stray signals coming from the superheterodyne circuit in the recievers. It's very weak in modern equipment (heavy RF sheilding and FM on chip technology), but it can be detected. All you would need to screw it up is an old "transistor" radio (one with seperate transistors, not ICs) and a few solar cells. Place it next to the sign and it will swamp the detector .
Just wait 'till they start displaying ads based on the radio station/CD/MP3/WMV/AAC you happen to be listening to at the time.
I wonder what they would spam me with while listening to Suicide Commando or Wumpscut.
It's probably more like a "profitable design quirk". Symantec has at least a half dozen different versions of NAV with multiple install and configuration options, the only difference being cost. Peachtree has some network-centric accounting software aimed at small to mid sized companies, so I assume they limit by design as well.
The SMB protocol and NTFS are two distinctly different things. On Win2K with NTFS, you have security rights associated with the filesystem (i.e. what you can do to a file or folder on that machine even logged in locally), and share rights associated with the share (i.e. what you can do to a file or folder over the network). Many admins prefer to leave the share rights alone (so the "Everyone" group has full access), and then restrict per user access at the filesystem. This way someone who normally has no rights to a particular file/folder can't bypass the restriction by logging into the server locally.
Samba can pretty much duplicate an NT4 box as far as shares go, but to get NTFS style ACLs in Linux you need the 2.6 kernel and the various utils.
For instance, the single EXE nav2002 install wont install from a share.
To install NAV over a network you need the corporate edition. The same goes for other apps designed for home users and small companies. If it's not a local drive, they refuse to run and/or install. It's not just an issue of licenses either; there are lots of issues with file locking and allowing multiple users to access the same data files that the developers have to address before allowing network install and/or use.
You forgot the link.
Most people will have Mistake Edition preloaded on a previous PC and have no way of installing it on the new one. They'll probably bring it back and complain about "No internet thingy" and Walmart will be happy to install XP for $100+.
Most low end PCs I've seen from Dell and Compaq don't even come with a restore CD; they'll have a hidden partition with a ghost image that will only work with the PC it came with.
It doesn't have to be just food y'know.
How about condoms, panties, or even a blow up doll? If you can change the price tags, maybe break out the crayolas and offer a Linux license for $699.
One simple acronym: CB
CB Radio is simple, it's been around for many years, and while it's not exactly open source, it is available for everyone.
Nope, you lost. In fact, I think I just saw your car stripped to the frame and sitting on crates in Brooklyn. I hoped you pressed "5" for theft insurance or Yahoo will be sending you a bill.