You can use Tuner Free MCE to get (rudimentary) integration between Media Center and Hulu. It's not great, but it's better then using a web browser from 10ft away.
Actually, I've worked several jobs where working life did run to that timetable, so that people didn't get caught up in the morning rush caused by every job insisting that you should be sitting at your desk by 9am for no particular reason. It led to people not being exhausted by the time they got into the office because they'd been force to stand on the train with their head in somebody's armpit.
My brother recently finished secondary school in the UK, and for several years before he left the school had an automated system that would send a text message to my parents if he missed registration for any lesson, and request a response. If one wasn't received, then it moved onto making voice calls to secondary contacts.
It has a bit of a big brother feel to it, but it does mean that the parents can't claim that they didn't know it was happening.
You can have that. Mobile safari supports the local storage extensions to HTML being developed by WhatWG, which is designed for exactly the purpose you described.
Download some forms when you have a connection, go offline and fill them in, and then synchronise when you get back. You can see it working with Google Mail and Reader, as well as quite a few other pieces of software, already.
One of key principles of agile is that you always have deliverable software, which plays right into needing to deliver working software at certain milestones.
A well run agile project will be delivering software every couple of weeks though, which also means that every couple of weeks you can hand something to the money men, and to play testers. They can then actually play the game, and pick up any major flaws much earlier in the process, making it feasible to actually do something about it.
I don't know if they were using agile, but one of the best examples of this sort of adaptation I've heard of in the context of games is Mirror's Edge, which originally was going to be a fairly generic first person shooter. At some point in development they realised that the leaping off buildings bits were much more fun, and refocused the game on them.
The point isn't about licensing, its about knowing whether or not the software you're downloading is going to install a keylogger, or start datamining your home directory.
With the Linux model of having a central software repository for your distribution, you can be fairly safe in knowing that isn't going to happen. If it does happen, they can push a security release to the repository, and fix the problem.
The Windows/Mac OS model of downloading arbitrary executables from the Internet however relies entirely on you trusting the owner of a website not to screw you over. This is dealt with to an extent by virus scanners, but they are a band aid to prevent the worst problems, rather then a solution.
Here in Europe, at least we have doors that can be closed:)
Sadly every office I've worked at in the UK has been a big open plan floor, with very little private, quiet space.
The area I'm currently in has people who play music through speakers, a football table, people using speakerphones, and the general noise of approximately 40 people nearby.
Without headphones, I would never get anything done, despite the fact I prefer to work without music.
Media Browser solves a lot of the problems with playing downloaded video, providing a far better interface for browsing things then the default Media Centre one. I had the same problem with the almost unusable video browser in MCE 7, but now that I'm using Media Browser I'm a lot happier.
I've still not found anything to do music nicely, but I'm not really bothered about that personally, since I stream that to an AirTunes base station from iTunes.
It is possible they sold the ISK online, converting it into hard cash.
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And that is the crux of the matter really. I spent a long time messing around MythTV, and various frontends for it, but in the end I just installed Windows 7, and used MCE, which has been faultless since I did so.
It also has the benefit of working as a really, really, powerful games console.
Leaving the admin interfaces exposed is fairly common practice for ISPs, since it allows them to reflash and do maintenance on routers they are responsible for.
The good ones have the competence to limit that access to the IP range that maintenance will be happening from though.
Most of the people I know who have phones using keypads and a 2-inch screen don't use them for browsing the web, and have no intention to do so.
If I'm building a mobile web application, I'm going to target the touch screen devices, because those are what people who actually use mobile phones to browse the web are using.
Modern smartphones can handle just about anything you throw at them. The UI is the problem, since what works on a 22" widescreen monitor, with a keyboard and mouse, doesn't work on a 9" touchscreen.
We're not going to see alternative mobile UIs going away any time soon, and that in my opinion is a good thing. The desktop version will work if you really want all the features that it comes with, but it's not going to be the optimal way of using things.
Native mobile applications are also a big factor here, and are often a far better choice so long as you have the man power (or money) to produce them, since they give you a far more targetted UI, which can integrate with a phone's hardware features to provide something even smoother.
There aren't that many of them - certainly most of the web applications I've seen are checking for a session cookie, not checking what IP address you're coming from.
It's been requested a couple of times, but quite quickly disabled, because people coming in through proxies which use bonded lines aren't as rare as you might think, and people would keep getting their session dropped.
Thus I'm not at all surprised that a non-technical member of the intelligence/law community could fall for a phishing e-mail.
The question is, why is someone that "non-technical" in charge of cybercrime for the FBI? I'm not asking that he be able to crack his way into anyone's computer, but it would be nice if he had a little awareness of these things.
As someone who has lived in London, and still spends 5 days a week there at work, a big part of the environment that draws people here is the mixture of different cultures, and the way they blend together into new things.
Most record contracts include a clause that you're studio time is paid for out of the money made from the albums, so Sony didn't provide facilities, they hired the facilities to the artist.
There are parties other then the Tories who are "not Labour" - why do people insist on believing we're a two party state? If more people would use their votes for some of the smaller parties, maybe we'd actually see something useful happening in parliament, instead of two groups of people with more or less identical policies flinging shit around like monkeys.
Britain's typically have 35 or 37.5 hour weeks, often including lunch.
I wish we did! My contract states 40 hours a week, with an hour for lunch not counted in that time.
In practice lunch is 15 minutes to grab something to eat, and then back to my desk, and I rarely leave the office on time. We used to have reasonable hours, but those days are over.
Using the special URL, the old password is removed and a new one generated in its place with no confirmation required.
While you're right in saying the attacker can't access the admin's account, the admin themselves also can't access it, because their password has already been reset to something else, and they'll have to get the new one. It seems more like a minor inconvenience to me, then a massive bug which will end the world, but still a flaw.
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You can use Tuner Free MCE to get (rudimentary) integration between Media Center and Hulu. It's not great, but it's better then using a web browser from 10ft away.
Actually, I've worked several jobs where working life did run to that timetable, so that people didn't get caught up in the morning rush caused by every job insisting that you should be sitting at your desk by 9am for no particular reason. It led to people not being exhausted by the time they got into the office because they'd been force to stand on the train with their head in somebody's armpit.
My brother recently finished secondary school in the UK, and for several years before he left the school had an automated system that would send a text message to my parents if he missed registration for any lesson, and request a response. If one wasn't received, then it moved onto making voice calls to secondary contacts.
It has a bit of a big brother feel to it, but it does mean that the parents can't claim that they didn't know it was happening.
You can have that. Mobile safari supports the local storage extensions to HTML being developed by WhatWG, which is designed for exactly the purpose you described.
Download some forms when you have a connection, go offline and fill them in, and then synchronise when you get back. You can see it working with Google Mail and Reader, as well as quite a few other pieces of software, already.
One of key principles of agile is that you always have deliverable software, which plays right into needing to deliver working software at certain milestones.
A well run agile project will be delivering software every couple of weeks though, which also means that every couple of weeks you can hand something to the money men, and to play testers. They can then actually play the game, and pick up any major flaws much earlier in the process, making it feasible to actually do something about it.
I don't know if they were using agile, but one of the best examples of this sort of adaptation I've heard of in the context of games is Mirror's Edge, which originally was going to be a fairly generic first person shooter. At some point in development they realised that the leaping off buildings bits were much more fun, and refocused the game on them.
The point isn't about licensing, its about knowing whether or not the software you're downloading is going to install a keylogger, or start datamining your home directory.
With the Linux model of having a central software repository for your distribution, you can be fairly safe in knowing that isn't going to happen. If it does happen, they can push a security release to the repository, and fix the problem.
The Windows/Mac OS model of downloading arbitrary executables from the Internet however relies entirely on you trusting the owner of a website not to screw you over. This is dealt with to an extent by virus scanners, but they are a band aid to prevent the worst problems, rather then a solution.
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Sadly every office I've worked at in the UK has been a big open plan floor, with very little private, quiet space.
The area I'm currently in has people who play music through speakers, a football table, people using speakerphones, and the general noise of approximately 40 people nearby.
Without headphones, I would never get anything done, despite the fact I prefer to work without music.
Hey, we could start one off, by supporting a few choice characters. I'm sure that'll go down just fine.
This also helps in situations where your ISP is highjacking responses stating that a domain doesn't exist, and rerouting them to a search engine.
It's all very well having that happen for HTTP requests, but it can cause havoc with things like e-mail.
Media Browser solves a lot of the problems with playing downloaded video, providing a far better interface for browsing things then the default Media Centre one. I had the same problem with the almost unusable video browser in MCE 7, but now that I'm using Media Browser I'm a lot happier.
I've still not found anything to do music nicely, but I'm not really bothered about that personally, since I stream that to an AirTunes base station from iTunes.
It is possible they sold the ISK online, converting it into hard cash.
And that is the crux of the matter really. I spent a long time messing around MythTV, and various frontends for it, but in the end I just installed Windows 7, and used MCE, which has been faultless since I did so.
It also has the benefit of working as a really, really, powerful games console.
Leaving the admin interfaces exposed is fairly common practice for ISPs, since it allows them to reflash and do maintenance on routers they are responsible for.
The good ones have the competence to limit that access to the IP range that maintenance will be happening from though.
I don't think this is actually an issue though.
Most of the people I know who have phones using keypads and a 2-inch screen don't use them for browsing the web, and have no intention to do so.
If I'm building a mobile web application, I'm going to target the touch screen devices, because those are what people who actually use mobile phones to browse the web are using.
Modern smartphones can handle just about anything you throw at them. The UI is the problem, since what works on a 22" widescreen monitor, with a keyboard and mouse, doesn't work on a 9" touchscreen.
We're not going to see alternative mobile UIs going away any time soon, and that in my opinion is a good thing. The desktop version will work if you really want all the features that it comes with, but it's not going to be the optimal way of using things.
Native mobile applications are also a big factor here, and are often a far better choice so long as you have the man power (or money) to produce them, since they give you a far more targetted UI, which can integrate with a phone's hardware features to provide something even smoother.
There aren't that many of them - certainly most of the web applications I've seen are checking for a session cookie, not checking what IP address you're coming from.
It's been requested a couple of times, but quite quickly disabled, because people coming in through proxies which use bonded lines aren't as rare as you might think, and people would keep getting their session dropped.
The question is, why is someone that "non-technical" in charge of cybercrime for the FBI? I'm not asking that he be able to crack his way into anyone's computer, but it would be nice if he had a little awareness of these things.
Hell yes.
As someone who has lived in London, and still spends 5 days a week there at work, a big part of the environment that draws people here is the mixture of different cultures, and the way they blend together into new things.
Most record contracts include a clause that you're studio time is paid for out of the money made from the albums, so Sony didn't provide facilities, they hired the facilities to the artist.
There are parties other then the Tories who are "not Labour" - why do people insist on believing we're a two party state? If more people would use their votes for some of the smaller parties, maybe we'd actually see something useful happening in parliament, instead of two groups of people with more or less identical policies flinging shit around like monkeys.
I wish we did! My contract states 40 hours a week, with an hour for lunch not counted in that time.
In practice lunch is 15 minutes to grab something to eat, and then back to my desk, and I rarely leave the office on time. We used to have reasonable hours, but those days are over.
While you're right in saying the attacker can't access the admin's account, the admin themselves also can't access it, because their password has already been reset to something else, and they'll have to get the new one. It seems more like a minor inconvenience to me, then a massive bug which will end the world, but still a flaw.
You appear to be confusing the cost to produce the disk, and the cost to produce it's contents, and what you're in fact being asked to pay for.
Unless the DVD you buy is completely blank, it cost more then 5 cents to produce.