I'd love to hear from anyone whose had a similar experience.
Female emus do that booming thing a lot - it's their way of communicating. They do have an air sac on the lower curve of their neck, but it's hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for because their feathers hang down over that part of their necks.
The noise they make is low and loud, and I'm not surprised you felt it. If you're out in the bush on a quiet night, you can hear them from kilometres away.
I'm connected to the Glebe exchange in central Sydney, but can only seem to sync at speeds around 4-5Mbit.
I had to change out a D-Link DSL300 modem and the P90 I'd been using as a gateway/transparent proxy to get the speed up past 4Mbit/sec. The CPU on the gateway was struggling with Roaring Penguin and Squid, but switching to a Dynalink RTA1320 modem and a P2/300 box solved the problem. Made me feel better about storing so much computer crap in my shed too.
They're a bit patchy. When they get their equipment settled in, it's pretty solid, but when they were setting up their own DSLAMs and routers I had a few connection problems. One good thing is that they're generally pretty up-front with what's happening. You can look at their network's status here: http://www.iinet.com.au/status/fault.cgi
On a good line it's easy enough to see 18+ Mbit but yes, to get the absolute full 24Mbit you do need to be pretty close and on good copper.
I'm on iiNet's ADSL2+ plan (advertised at 12Mbit/sec) and I'm getting consistent speeds at the advertised rate when I download from their own servers (they mirror Linux distros and other useful stuff locally). Outside the iiNet zone though, it's rare to find a server which offers the same rates, so it appears other bottlenecks in the net are coming into play.
I'm only just starting to learn some of its capabilities myself, and already I have no doubt that it'll change the way offices work.
It's a real shame all discussion is being channelled into a narrow "MS feature vs Open Office/Document feature" pissing contest, because the implications of Open Document for document creation, distribution and management are immense. The data handling model for OOo will be a real seachanger as well, once it's understood.
Maybe in a few months when the asstroturfers, shills and FUDsters get out of the way, we'll be able to have a real discussion about Open Office instead of these incessant "my spreadsheet is faster than yours" bitch fights. Then we'll learn a thing or two from the people who actually have the smarts to use it properly.
no doubt they intend to have someone script something together that will read each.DOC and.PDF and convert that into an OpenDocument format, but who reliable will that be?
It's built in to OOo 2. Just select File/Wizards/Document Converter and follow the prompts. The Word converter in 2.0+ has worked exteremely well for us, and the conversion process is painless - set aside a directory structure for OpenDocuments, start the converter and let it go.
then have a team look at each document side-by-side to ensure the conversion was successful
You can switch on logging with the converter and - guess what - it will produce a hyperlinked document listing the original and OpenDocument versions side-by-side so you can check them. I suppose the log will also alert you if the conversion fails, but I can't verify that - none of the ones we've converted so far have had problems.
Gates dropped some spare change and couldn't be bothered to pick it up
Oh come on, be reasonable. Bill's just found another way using with his key competencies. Malaria parasites are bugs after all, and I'm sure he'll be at least as successful at eradicating malaria as he has been at getting rid of Windows bugs.
And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.
AFAIK, no one ever proved that Daniel Dunglas Home was a fraud.
That's a myth that started because the scientist William Crookes investigated Home and claimed he was genuine. Crookes got it wrong about plenty of other fake mediums too, but for some reason, the "infallible" Home myth persists.
Try reading
"The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes" by Gordon Stein, if you're interested.
Of course, we're also forgetting that by the time this article falls off the/. homepage, there will probably be workable text readers for the blind available in Linux and FreeBSD releases.
You'd hope so, but it looks like the OOo Accessibility Project has been dead in the water for more than a year. http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/ Maybe they could use some help.
Btw, the Exeloo self-cleaning toilets over here in Perth have full disabled access, so NYC should be able to do the same.
So how many of the people posting on Slashdot are CRs and what companies do they represent?
It's too big a forum for marketers to ignore completely, so there'd have to be a few either monitoring or contributing. Any brave enough to come out of the closet and tell us about it?
They may question it, but according to the license agreement there are no specified maximum activation numbers
Dunno mate. You may be right about that, but I wasn't going to get down on my knees and beg. These days we just include the cost of the XP license in the contract. The clients haven't complained...
they will always let you reactivate retail software as long as you don't have it installed on another computer.
You may be right, but our experience was a little different. We had one machine which was something of a "woodsman's axe". W'd rejig it to match whatever configuration our clients at the time were using. Microsoft reactivated XP on it a few times, but one time when we called to activate, the support person told us we'd made too many changes and they could no longer activate that copy.
I haven't tried since then and anyway, all our new machines come with OEM Windows. You're SOL with reactivating those ones.
For updates which provide new features not advertised when the product was released, fair enough: a subscription is reasonable.
In this circumstance, a subscription seems reasonable, but every time I've signed on to a software subscription service I've been burned (Macromedia, I'm lookin' at you).
The problem is, the software company already has your money. They don't have to improve their product to presuade you to hand it over. So they don't.
Then you can cheer right back up. the only Insightful moderation was in your own imaginitive little mind.
Hey it's the thought that counts though, so thanks!
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I think the Microsoft moderators are in charge today.
It's actually sort of creepy reading at -1 at the moment. Anything not 100% enthusiastic about Microsoft is being modded troll.
There's always been a lot of astroturfing here, but for some reason they're all crawling out from under their rocks today.
I'd love to hear from anyone whose had a similar experience.
Female emus do that booming thing a lot - it's their way of communicating. They do have an air sac on the lower curve of their neck, but it's hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for because their feathers hang down over that part of their necks.
The noise they make is low and loud, and I'm not surprised you felt it. If you're out in the bush on a quiet night, you can hear them from kilometres away.
I'm connected to the Glebe exchange in central Sydney, but can only seem to sync at speeds around 4-5Mbit.
I had to change out a D-Link DSL300 modem and the P90 I'd been using as a gateway/transparent proxy to get the speed up past 4Mbit/sec. The CPU on the gateway was struggling with Roaring Penguin and Squid, but switching to a Dynalink RTA1320 modem and a P2/300 box solved the problem. Made me feel better about storing so much computer crap in my shed too.
How are you finding the reliability of iiNet?
They're a bit patchy. When they get their equipment settled in, it's pretty solid, but when they were setting up their own DSLAMs and routers I had a few connection problems. One good thing is that they're generally pretty up-front with what's happening. You can look at their network's status here: http://www.iinet.com.au/status/fault.cgi
On a good line it's easy enough to see 18+ Mbit but yes, to get the absolute full 24Mbit you do need to be pretty close and on good copper.
I'm on iiNet's ADSL2+ plan (advertised at 12Mbit/sec) and I'm getting consistent speeds at the advertised rate when I download from their own servers (they mirror Linux distros and other useful stuff locally). Outside the iiNet zone though, it's rare to find a server which offers the same rates, so it appears other bottlenecks in the net are coming into play.
I wasn't aware that OOo had such capabilities
I'm only just starting to learn some of its capabilities myself, and already I have no doubt that it'll change the way offices work.
It's a real shame all discussion is being channelled into a narrow "MS feature vs Open Office/Document feature" pissing contest, because the implications of Open Document for document creation, distribution and management are immense. The data handling model for OOo will be a real seachanger as well, once it's understood.
Maybe in a few months when the asstroturfers, shills and FUDsters get out of the way, we'll be able to have a real discussion about Open Office instead of these incessant "my spreadsheet is faster than yours" bitch fights. Then we'll learn a thing or two from the people who actually have the smarts to use it properly.
no doubt they intend to have someone script something together that will read each .DOC and .PDF and convert that into an OpenDocument format, but who reliable will that be?
It's built in to OOo 2. Just select File/Wizards/Document Converter and follow the prompts. The Word converter in 2.0+ has worked exteremely well for us, and the conversion process is painless - set aside a directory structure for OpenDocuments, start the converter and let it go.
then have a team look at each document side-by-side to ensure the conversion was successful
You can switch on logging with the converter and - guess what - it will produce a hyperlinked document listing the original and OpenDocument versions side-by-side so you can check them. I suppose the log will also alert you if the conversion fails, but I can't verify that - none of the ones we've converted so far have had problems.
Gates dropped some spare change and couldn't be bothered to pick it up
Oh come on, be reasonable. Bill's just found another way using with his key competencies. Malaria parasites are bugs after all, and I'm sure he'll be at least as successful at eradicating malaria as he has been at getting rid of Windows bugs.
And I'm sure after further debate someone else will mention that it was originally an idea first postulated by the ancient greeks, before computers were even invented.
m could easily be construed as a symbolic link...
Actually, I think you'll find the differential gear of the Antikythera mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanis
AFAIK, no one ever proved that Daniel Dunglas Home was a fraud.
That's a myth that started because the scientist William Crookes investigated Home and claimed he was genuine. Crookes got it wrong about plenty of other fake mediums too, but for some reason, the "infallible" Home myth persists.
Try reading "The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes" by Gordon Stein, if you're interested.
Does $5M strike anyone else as cheap? I mean, 60 miles of roads - that's only 15.80 per foot of road
The catch is that they don't tell you which roads are vertical.
Of course, we're also forgetting that by the time this article falls off the /. homepage, there will probably be workable text readers for the blind available in Linux and FreeBSD releases.
You'd hope so, but it looks like the OOo Accessibility Project has been dead in the water for more than a year. http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/ Maybe they could use some help.
Btw, the Exeloo self-cleaning toilets over here in Perth have full disabled access, so NYC should be able to do the same.
Odd that nobody has mentioned Satyajit Ray yet.
/. reader's knowledge of film is greater than your own.
Ray was never really accepted by Bollywood - they often claimed his style was more transnational than Indian.
Maybe the average
I'm paid by Viagra to make impotency jokes and generally ridicule those with erectile dysfunction.
I'd say that's more a public service than advertising. Nice work if you can get it though.
The Indian cinema has found its Kurosawa.
I'd always thought Satyajit Ray was Indian cinema's Kurosawa.
So how many of the people posting on Slashdot are CRs and what companies do they represent?
It's too big a forum for marketers to ignore completely, so there'd have to be a few either monitoring or contributing. Any brave enough to come out of the closet and tell us about it?
They may question it, but according to the license agreement there are no specified maximum activation numbers
Dunno mate. You may be right about that, but I wasn't going to get down on my knees and beg. These days we just include the cost of the XP license in the contract. The clients haven't complained...
they will always let you reactivate retail software as long as you don't have it installed on another computer.
You may be right, but our experience was a little different. We had one machine which was something of a "woodsman's axe". W'd rejig it to match whatever configuration our clients at the time were using. Microsoft reactivated XP on it a few times, but one time when we called to activate, the support person told us we'd made too many changes and they could no longer activate that copy.
I haven't tried since then and anyway, all our new machines come with OEM Windows. You're SOL with reactivating those ones.
For updates which provide new features not advertised when the product was released, fair enough: a subscription is reasonable.
In this circumstance, a subscription seems reasonable, but every time I've signed on to a software subscription service I've been burned (Macromedia, I'm lookin' at you).
The problem is, the software company already has your money. They don't have to improve their product to presuade you to hand it over. So they don't.
If you have to call MS about it, just explain the situation. They'll let you reactivate.
Not in Australia they don't. I've got half a dozen expensive XP coasters from computers whose components are now spread across other machines.
anyone have a good recovery utility for a fubar'd EXT3 drive?
Try FIRE. It's a purpose built forensics live cd, but very handy for recovering data as well. http://fire.dmzs.com/
"Men" is commonly accepted to mean "people".
Only by sexist "people".
The sad thing is you were modded Insightful.
Moderation
50% Interesting
50% Funny
Then you can cheer right back up. the only Insightful moderation was in your own imaginitive little mind.
Hey it's the thought that counts though, so thanks!
Given advances in technology by that point, it should make a great time to put men on Mars.
How long will we have to wait intil we're advanced enough to put women there as well?
If you are going to try to negate an argument, I'd like to at least know why.
Sorry, that's classified. Go away.
+5 funny is still the most satifying moderation.
You must be really pissed to be +3 Insightful right now.