wow I completely forgot about my main other pasttime (at least in winter) SKIING, lol I ski on the highschool team so there is a lot of skiing there and a season pass so its pretty nice
I think a lot of the wrong people go into programming because they love computers but the straight sit and code isnt right for them. The parent is one of hte people for which the job works.
it seems to me that there are many people who want to be proficient programmers and be able to write any tool they need BUT they dont want to write tools that someone else needs over and over, they might be better suited for a job as a sysadmin. occasionally have to write a tool for themselves, etc.
although one could argue that music (other than pop) is a geek thing too, think of "band geek" refrences. it may be a different kind of geek but I find a lot that go hand in hand.
as a highschool student on summer vacation I currently find my non computer hobbies involve building things, music (school orchestra, irish fiddle, guitar, listening and watching performances), girl, some photography but mostly working with the digital images, and my hobbies would include windsurfing but I am currently boardless but hope to buy a new one soon.
they even offer an uninstaller on their site...the most places I have seen lop come from is bogus cracks
there are lots of crack sites out there filled with them (possibly lop fronts that have a crack for ANYTHING but its always just a lop installer)...you can check the exe in properties, it will say something about lop.com and I know they have the uninstaller on there website and its not even that hard to find...ive had to uninstall it from many school computers.
its not directly an IE problem as it also affects mozilla, is installed with a downloaded exe, and affects your dns settings, not browser only
umm...gimp? like every other post says(and the other half are ones saying why photoshop is better)
I dont have a problem with the gimp, I use photoshop (payed for) because my dad is a photographer. When you actually have a bought version, the support is wonderful and there are a lot more photoshop training confrences/seminars/books than I have seen for the gimp.
that said, if you dont need it for some proprietary image import plugin from a high end camera or just to use the format properly, go with the gimp, its cheaper and you dont have to worry about the whole piracy thing ie: get your computer blown up (unless of course you are a US senetor, then it is ok)
or maybe they forgot to power up the drives and when they turned them on after using their time machine to move into the future they miraculously worked
well...cable may bottleneck in the fact that you have everyone on the same loop but dsl comes together at the telco and they dont guarentee bandwidth eather...just say its becuase of distance and give you an approxomite value.
on the other hand I have cable because it costs less, I get speedy downs although my ups suck...I dont know why its hard for them to give me even HALF of what I get downstream for my uploads, I dont have a real problem with the nat and I can run a temp server for 6 or so people to play CS with no lag (although that includes me connecting through ethernet and my neighbor on the same cable loop). I am scared to leave the server running at all times though since they dont want me to and I get no uploads so it doesnt hold many people...
I would LOVE to have a good dsl connection but as far as I can tell you have to have qwest...no thanks, I tried signing up...payed money...saw hidden charges, waited, got a box installed on the side of my house, waited, called support, got bounced from qwest.net(ISP) support to qwest(Line Provider) support and never once got the damn connection working. I was very close going with a connection through visi because they provided multiple static IP's, free dialup, excelent local support and they even happened to host one of my favorite server boxes colo for nice low pings to me (qwest.net offered NONE of these, and the lowest level service wasnt even always on),but I would still need qwest since I couldnt get a frontier line in my area and they still wanted something like $35 to give me a line (no isp), that got a 640/256 speed cap...add the visi fee to this (which was a very reasonable 19.99 for all the services they offer) and the $7 line tax and some $2 other fees I remember from the first try and it comes out to costing more than my cable connection with about 1850/200...
im in high school now and while I have never been diagnosed with ADHD there is an inkling in the back of my head that I may have it, I do however intake large amouhts of caffiene...but that is exactly how it works for me...I dont have a problem with concepts, I have a problem wiht the stupid busy work where I have to repeat the same thing over and over again (such as when they taught quadratic formula...I had to sing the song every damn day and many problems to put into the formula AND show all work each night..BS), the only class in which I have concept problems is spanish but that may verywell have been caused by a bad teacher because I hadnt done so poorly in the past (this past semester was straight A's except for C+ in spanish).
Unfortinately, I seem to work on long things such as English papers the best when I have the proper balance of caffiene which means they are always completed in the wee hours of the morning no matter when (or how many days ahead) I start them.
the Terapin Mine has 10gb of space that you can store to with your digital camera (also has tons of other ports)
with an ethernet connection (using built in port) or a pcmcia modem you could email your pictures back home whenever you can find a convienient connection. Also backs up to windows and linux and can play movies/music with its built in output ports.
I now remember that photoshop (I think) installs a print to pdf "printer" when it is installed that can be used from any applictaion that supports printing... just print and choose some options/filename and hit ok
At a anual lan here in MN (I think its Hexapalooza) the policy that you agree to when you attend is that if hacks are found installed (or only partially removed) on your computer, your stuff will be auctioned off to the highest bidder...you could potentially buy it back but it would cost you...official advice is to reformat if you have ever had any type of hack just to be safe
The problem with this logic is that that is only 1 XP license so its only good for one PC and AFAIK you can install that copy or red hat on as many computers as you would like, . You could also download the red hat ISO's from somewhere or use a different distro where as there is only one windows XP (3 flavors but just 1)
The point of this whole thing is that Microsoft may be trying to force these nonprofits to use their software rather than open source by giving it away, sure there are free open source distros and distros that cost money, but free microsoft HEY! sounds great until you stop to think about hidden costs such as support and upgrades
well...I have been to a dentist recently and I know they keep my records in a file folder but I also have gone there long enough to watch their other systems expand, they still store stuff in folders but they also have a nice g4 sitting there that--guess what--has a fully updated version of OSX and office. I asked why they had to keep upgrading and they told me plain and simple, old Word cant read new Word documents and old OS cant support new Word and old computer cant support new OS.
Yes they still use old systems that work (next to that g4 they have an electric typewriter with a lot of their letters and invoices stored on it) but thanks to Microsoft not keeping word files the same, they are forced to continue upgrading when others around them do.
I dont think the original poster was refering to to patches
I think they mean what does the orginization do when another version of windows comes out, they wont get free upgrades to windows MP (more pictures) or what happens when office 2003.5 comes out and now thier free vesrsion cant open the documents they need to read.
the point is that Microsoft might not provide these and then the non-profit will be stuck paying full price for the upgrade because now they have no other choice.
Open source alternatives are not necessarily free.
A price could still be charged for the software (albiet less than microsoft) and the company could offer enhanced support at an added cost. Microsoft giving away its software means it is cheaper than even the open source alternatives and if it is available, orginizations may not even begin to research alternatives.
Its not free vs free, its free(but used to be expensive) vs free (in concept, but lower in cost), that is why microsoft would be undercutting the open source alternatives
well...I beta tested it...and I have never been told otherwise that it would be taken away and it still goes, it works wonders for me and they have a 30 day trial and $3 isnt that much to stop spam if you get large amounts
the thing runs fast plays great quality (even can go 4chanel sound), it has some usefull effects (along with the usuall range of creative presets, similar to those in their cards) such as time scaling, which is useful at least to me for many purposes.
The input recording is awesome, it can be used combined with a short cable and a cd player as a portable cd copying device and I have used it with a mic to record lectures and seminars, the recording may not be as simple as pressing record but i'm glad it gives many options such as gain settings, encoding type/quality, and the ability to stop and start recordings on new tracks of a CD
it may not look as nice as an ipod but I find it much more useful than my friends ipod
personally...this case wouldnt seem to complicated...if I was a lawyer and lived by them hell..i'd do it for free...if I wasnt a lawyer and I was them...hell I would fight the case myself it cant be that hard a case...its a matter of proving its a parody
I keep the info for the user account on my counter-strike server box taped on to it (not root but it wouldnt really matter to me either way) simply because I let people take it and use at lans and I could really care less if they made it stop working, its their loss if they break it and there is nothing important on it...just a copy of mandrake 9 with telnetd for starting the server, apache and mysql for intranet stats page, HLDS with CS (and helper scripts) installed, and a bunch of maps...if something bad happens who cares I can just ghost the HD again.
However, writing the pass on the monitor or anything else for general computing is a bad idea, you might as well not have a password. If you need a written password to remember keep it somewhere safe like your wallet or under the footbed of your shoe, if you use it enough you will remember it..think of how many peoples phone numbers you can call off the top of your head/or how many peoples screen names you can remember. If you can use the same password twice a day (ie. log in when you get to work and after lunch) for a month, there is no excuse for not remembering it.
if you need to be REALLY secure give a cardreader a try (just get a keyboard with one built in if you are lazy) and require the card for root access
ok I dont have too much experiance (as I havnt lived long enough to have experianced purchasing a lot of monitors but I have used many different types at school and stuff and several at home:
I right now have a Dell 17inch trinitron flat-crt that works like a dream (almost), it occasionally seems to be refreshing back and forth but that could be that my graphics card runs too hot
I also have a 17inch flatcrt IBM monitor (I think its a G78 or M78) that I was given along with a dual PII computer (and from the same timeframe) that looks beautiful but its dimensions are a bit more deep than the Dell, unfortinately there is an inch long scratch on the glass, does anyone know how to fix this or make it less visable? the monitor works great despite poor storage and its age
the other CRT I have in active use is the one that I was given with a Mac Quadra 610, i may be small and low res and really deep for its size but it works and it works well, apple did and still does make a nice monitor (23inch HD cinema's look so sexy when I have seen them)
and on the topic of apple monitors, I havnt had much experiance with LCD's but I have heard plenty about how sharp the text is (but when you scroll the screen doesnt look too nice) but on my dad's 15inch tibook, text I think looks horrible, it antialiases in a manner that makes some letters look like the bottom row of the eye test card, is there a setting or something to fix this?
fixyourownprinter.com offers replacement rollers but they say they are for if manual feed has problems and I have the optional letter tray for the IIP+
is this the kit that I want? or would I be better off buying a container of the roller fixing liquid they sell to rejeuvinate the rollers?
ive got a IIP plus and hte only problem is the letter tray has a serious jamming problem that stems from static...when the weather gets more humid it should print better but even so, when it feels like grabbing paper, it goes like a champ
I checked through my notes and the lecture recording and it quotes the paper as being published in nature on april 25'th 1953, less than a page long but the most signifigant discovery in biology in the 20th century, fastest ever time from research to nobel prize, 9 years, and the genome project is set to be completed on the aniversary of that publication.
I can cut out this portion from the lecture and put it up somewhere if people want to download it
I heard in a Genetics conference yesterday from a man named Sam Rhine that the aniversary was on the 25th and thats why the human genome project has changed its target completion date to April 25 2003 because it would be exactly 50 years later (this was a date set by groups of hopeful geneticists at the start of the project but not the original offical date) Im gonna check my notes or a recording of the lecture to verify this but it is correct to the best of my beliefs
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wow I completely forgot about my main other pasttime (at least in winter) SKIING, lol I ski on the highschool team so there is a lot of skiing there and a season pass so its pretty nice
it seems to me that there are many people who want to be proficient programmers and be able to write any tool they need BUT they dont want to write tools that someone else needs over and over, they might be better suited for a job as a sysadmin. occasionally have to write a tool for themselves, etc.
although one could argue that music (other than pop) is a geek thing too, think of "band geek" refrences. it may be a different kind of geek but I find a lot that go hand in hand.
as a highschool student on summer vacation I currently find my non computer hobbies involve building things, music (school orchestra, irish fiddle, guitar, listening and watching performances), girl, some photography but mostly working with the digital images, and my hobbies would include windsurfing but I am currently boardless but hope to buy a new one soon.
there are lots of crack sites out there filled with them (possibly lop fronts that have a crack for ANYTHING but its always just a lop installer)...you can check the exe in properties, it will say something about lop.com and I know they have the uninstaller on there website and its not even that hard to find...ive had to uninstall it from many school computers.
its not directly an IE problem as it also affects mozilla, is installed with a downloaded exe, and affects your dns settings, not browser only
I dont have a problem with the gimp, I use photoshop (payed for) because my dad is a photographer. When you actually have a bought version, the support is wonderful and there are a lot more photoshop training confrences/seminars/books than I have seen for the gimp.
that said, if you dont need it for some proprietary image import plugin from a high end camera or just to use the format properly, go with the gimp, its cheaper and you dont have to worry about the whole piracy thing ie: get your computer blown up (unless of course you are a US senetor, then it is ok)
or maybe they forgot to power up the drives and when they turned them on after using their time machine to move into the future they miraculously worked
on the other hand I have cable because it costs less, I get speedy downs although my ups suck...I dont know why its hard for them to give me even HALF of what I get downstream for my uploads, I dont have a real problem with the nat and I can run a temp server for 6 or so people to play CS with no lag (although that includes me connecting through ethernet and my neighbor on the same cable loop). I am scared to leave the server running at all times though since they dont want me to and I get no uploads so it doesnt hold many people...
I would LOVE to have a good dsl connection but as far as I can tell you have to have qwest...no thanks, I tried signing up...payed money...saw hidden charges, waited, got a box installed on the side of my house, waited, called support, got bounced from qwest.net(ISP) support to qwest(Line Provider) support and never once got the damn connection working. I was very close going with a connection through visi because they provided multiple static IP's, free dialup, excelent local support and they even happened to host one of my favorite server boxes colo for nice low pings to me (qwest.net offered NONE of these, and the lowest level service wasnt even always on),but I would still need qwest since I couldnt get a frontier line in my area and they still wanted something like $35 to give me a line (no isp), that got a 640/256 speed cap...add the visi fee to this (which was a very reasonable 19.99 for all the services they offer) and the $7 line tax and some $2 other fees I remember from the first try and it comes out to costing more than my cable connection with about 1850/200...
Unfortinately, I seem to work on long things such as English papers the best when I have the proper balance of caffiene which means they are always completed in the wee hours of the morning no matter when (or how many days ahead) I start them.
with an ethernet connection (using built in port) or a pcmcia modem you could email your pictures back home whenever you can find a convienient connection. Also backs up to windows and linux and can play movies/music with its built in output ports.
All of this in a 7x3.2x1" package
I now remember that photoshop (I think) installs a print to pdf "printer" when it is installed that can be used from any applictaion that supports printing... just print and choose some options/filename and hit ok
At a anual lan here in MN (I think its Hexapalooza) the policy that you agree to when you attend is that if hacks are found installed (or only partially removed) on your computer, your stuff will be auctioned off to the highest bidder...you could potentially buy it back but it would cost you...official advice is to reformat if you have ever had any type of hack just to be safe
The problem with this logic is that that is only 1 XP license so its only good for one PC and AFAIK you can install that copy or red hat on as many computers as you would like, . You could also download the red hat ISO's from somewhere or use a different distro where as there is only one windows XP (3 flavors but just 1)
The point of this whole thing is that Microsoft may be trying to force these nonprofits to use their software rather than open source by giving it away, sure there are free open source distros and distros that cost money, but free microsoft HEY! sounds great until you stop to think about hidden costs such as support and upgrades
Yes they still use old systems that work (next to that g4 they have an electric typewriter with a lot of their letters and invoices stored on it) but thanks to Microsoft not keeping word files the same, they are forced to continue upgrading when others around them do.
I think they mean what does the orginization do when another version of windows comes out, they wont get free upgrades to windows MP (more pictures) or what happens when office 2003.5 comes out and now thier free vesrsion cant open the documents they need to read.
the point is that Microsoft might not provide these and then the non-profit will be stuck paying full price for the upgrade because now they have no other choice.
A price could still be charged for the software (albiet less than microsoft) and the company could offer enhanced support at an added cost. Microsoft giving away its software means it is cheaper than even the open source alternatives and if it is available, orginizations may not even begin to research alternatives.
Its not free vs free, its free(but used to be expensive) vs free (in concept, but lower in cost), that is why microsoft would be undercutting the open source alternatives
well...I beta tested it...and I have never been told otherwise that it would be taken away and it still goes, it works wonders for me and they have a 30 day trial and $3 isnt that much to stop spam if you get large amounts
well if you dont really need it could you mail it to me? I dont have the money for it but I would like to read it
the thing runs fast plays great quality (even can go 4chanel sound), it has some usefull effects (along with the usuall range of creative presets, similar to those in their cards) such as time scaling, which is useful at least to me for many purposes.
The input recording is awesome, it can be used combined with a short cable and a cd player as a portable cd copying device and I have used it with a mic to record lectures and seminars, the recording may not be as simple as pressing record but i'm glad it gives many options such as gain settings, encoding type/quality, and the ability to stop and start recordings on new tracks of a CD
it may not look as nice as an ipod but I find it much more useful than my friends ipod
personally...this case wouldnt seem to complicated...if I was a lawyer and lived by them hell..i'd do it for free...if I wasnt a lawyer and I was them...hell I would fight the case myself it cant be that hard a case...its a matter of proving its a parody
However, writing the pass on the monitor or anything else for general computing is a bad idea, you might as well not have a password. If you need a written password to remember keep it somewhere safe like your wallet or under the footbed of your shoe, if you use it enough you will remember it..think of how many peoples phone numbers you can call off the top of your head/or how many peoples screen names you can remember. If you can use the same password twice a day (ie. log in when you get to work and after lunch) for a month, there is no excuse for not remembering it.
if you need to be REALLY secure give a cardreader a try (just get a keyboard with one built in if you are lazy) and require the card for root access
I right now have a Dell 17inch trinitron flat-crt that works like a dream (almost), it occasionally seems to be refreshing back and forth but that could be that my graphics card runs too hot
I also have a 17inch flatcrt IBM monitor (I think its a G78 or M78) that I was given along with a dual PII computer (and from the same timeframe) that looks beautiful but its dimensions are a bit more deep than the Dell, unfortinately there is an inch long scratch on the glass, does anyone know how to fix this or make it less visable? the monitor works great despite poor storage and its age
the other CRT I have in active use is the one that I was given with a Mac Quadra 610, i may be small and low res and really deep for its size but it works and it works well, apple did and still does make a nice monitor (23inch HD cinema's look so sexy when I have seen them)
and on the topic of apple monitors, I havnt had much experiance with LCD's but I have heard plenty about how sharp the text is (but when you scroll the screen doesnt look too nice) but on my dad's 15inch tibook, text I think looks horrible, it antialiases in a manner that makes some letters look like the bottom row of the eye test card, is there a setting or something to fix this?
fixyourownprinter.com offers replacement rollers but they say they are for if manual feed has problems and I have the optional letter tray for the IIP+ is this the kit that I want? or would I be better off buying a container of the roller fixing liquid they sell to rejeuvinate the rollers?
ive got a IIP plus and hte only problem is the letter tray has a serious jamming problem that stems from static...when the weather gets more humid it should print better but even so, when it feels like grabbing paper, it goes like a champ
I checked through my notes and the lecture recording and it quotes the paper as being published in nature on april 25'th 1953, less than a page long but the most signifigant discovery in biology in the 20th century, fastest ever time from research to nobel prize, 9 years, and the genome project is set to be completed on the aniversary of that publication. I can cut out this portion from the lecture and put it up somewhere if people want to download it
I heard in a Genetics conference yesterday from a man named Sam Rhine that the aniversary was on the 25th and thats why the human genome project has changed its target completion date to April 25 2003 because it would be exactly 50 years later (this was a date set by groups of hopeful geneticists at the start of the project but not the original offical date) Im gonna check my notes or a recording of the lecture to verify this but it is correct to the best of my beliefs