Heh. See, I get those lovely "free or nearly so" spindles most of the time, with a few spindles of the good ones (Nashua 8X) as needed. Not only do I get CD-R's in these purchases, I also get a CD storage mechanism. I get good value.
But really, where do you get cd's just shrinkwrapped? I could go for some of those, considering I have a few empty spindles laying around...
You just watch. Soon, all you people cracking jokes about the home use priviledge will have men in suits knocking on your doors, muttering "Slashdot. Heh, we'll slashdot you" under their breath. Just watch, you know Sir Bill the Lawyerful would do it.
It's touchy when you're poking around in the area of using other people's stuff. Even if you do qualify for "fair use," someone can still accuse you and wreak major havoc on whatever you're trying to create. My suggestion (that is, if hiring a graphic artist is out of the question): Get the Gimp (OSS OS's or Windows ), learn to use the Bezier select tool (try TigerT's tutorial on how to make a 3D box), and whip together some quick icons. Then, if your project (which I'm assuming is independent, if you don't have a graphic artist) catches on and makes some money or something, the icons can be replaced later. You won't have to hassle with fair use at all.
I do a similar thing, but even more thrifty. I save the spindles that I buy CD-R's on (you don't actually buy CD-R's in cases, do you?) and reuse those after they're empty as holders for cds. So handy, and I always manage to have a fresh one whenever I need one! What a coincidence!
Well, you know what I always say. The only good AC is a dead AC. JK! All the ones I've seen tend to troll too much to be quiet. A nice alternative would be surfing at +2.
Queuetue has it right ("three months ago") but I won't hold it against you. Switch. Now. You'll thank yourself. (I use Windows, and now never touch IE or Mozilla regular. When I use Linux Moz-Firebird/Phoenix is my first addition to my installation.) Posting in.5, while downloading.6!
Your statistical reasoning is flawed, however. You're saying that fixing the space shuttle only saves lives of astronauts. You failed to factor in the lives saved by the knowledge gained with the shuttle fleet. I don't think it is neccessary for me to rehash the benefits that the shuttle program has gained for humankind, since they're mentioned repeatedly every time the shuttle is discussed. However, it is important to note that fixing the shuttle not only saves astronaut lives, it saves the lives of those affected by its research.
I'm wondering if that comment was a troll, but I'll bite anyway. The MSIE 5.0 option in Opera just sets the referrer (So you can't be locked out of microsoft's site) to pretend it's IE 5
wow, that's wicked. Very wicked. Let's hope teh 1337 do0ds aren't reading this. Here, though, is the one advantage to AOL: It doesn't render its email using IE (I don't think). Ironic, huh?
Just a little info for ya (if you use windows, I use win2k and am not afraid to admit it, though it's mostly for the program I'm about to mention.)
AnalogX <a href="http://analogx.com">link</a> makes a DSP plugin for Winamp called Ozone (There's also a professional DirectX mastering version). It simulates the desirable qualities of analog/tube amp audio. For a bit of info on how it helps the sound, take for example, my dad's opinion. He was in the music industry for many years in the days of analog, and does not use any form of digital compressed audio (or at least didn't at the time when he made this judgement.) I'm using a SoundBlaster live, on win2k, winamp 2.81 or something thereabouts (the plugin runs on Winamp3 too), nice speakers (4 point digital surround Cambridge SoundWorks 2000Digital). Playing a simple mp3 or ogg file of something that's not completely "pop" saturated (DMB, and James Taylor if I remember correctly) my dad remarked upon hearing the sound before and after turning on this plugin how much richer, warmer, and fuller the sound sounded. In anything related to music, I trust his advice, but even I, the relatively untrained ear (as untrained as one could be being the son of a music major, who built a "media center" that played digital audio through his dad's old-school 70's vintage amp and speakers), could recognize how much better it sounded. It's nearly the only reason I stay using Win2k at home. (got the debian and slackware trio-boot, but miss this plug-in in XMMS. Anyone want to make a wrapper?:-) I realize you can't put back sound that you've lost in compression, but this comes darn near close, especially with a nice Ogg (Santana anyone?)
Oh, and by the way, no relation to the company, except the happy recepient of a birthday present purchased at full price from their online store.:-)
(sorry for the rambling post, too, please forgive, and be gentle on the "win user" bad karma, as well)
Was just reading the linked article before I refreshed/. and now there's this question on the Ask Slashdot list: might be too late for you, but this mod's quick, easy, cheap, and works well:
filter
Best part about it: you can use whatever case you want: just mod it quickly, and it's just how you want it. No compromising to meet case manufacturers' spec lists.
It's called "DisablePagingExecutive". Search for it in the registry guides at winguides.com. Also, rather than AdAware, you might want to try Spybot Search and Destroy, from security.kolla.de It's much better.
BrilliantDigital, everyone's favorite spyware component was bundled with Kazaa for a while (don't know if it still is, but it's icky enough to keep me away). That one not only sold clock cycles, it sold hard drive space too. I remember a C|Net article about it, but I didn't save that one. This is interesting, because instead of keeping the moolah or using it to support their legal defense, this service seems to actually want to pay the artists (pay the labels? most likely, given the situation). Could have possibilities, but I'd still like to keep up my Genome@home team with those extra cycles, thank you very much.
It's got a long board about 6 inches above the main desk surface, with a supporting board, between the two. It's wide enough for 3 monitors side by side (2 for my main box's ti4200 dual head, another for whatever other little box I have hooked up) If you make one (which I think would be a good idea, with your requests), try to do a similar thing. It's a computer desk, but it does not sacrifice working area. It's about twice as wide as the area for your legs, so I've got the other area filled with an industrial ethernet chassis (Cabletron MMAC-M8FNB) and two skinny-ish desktop cases (old vectra's). There's plenty of room on it, especially with the tower stand off to the left of it. If you can picture what i'm saying, try making it. I like mine a lot.
I don't know, but I think the people in charge of Phoenix (which I'm using to post this) should read that page, with all the names in the comments. I'm kinda partial to Aiko (a popular japanese girls' name). Only problem, it's a little hard to spell/pronounce (for the non-computer-31337)
As mentioned in another reply to this message, spamgourmet.com works. But I personally use a combination of spamgourmet (always free) and another service which is free, but you can pay to have limits and ads removed. <br> For services that I sign up for (and expect to get useful email from), I give them an address from Sneakemail.com <a href=http://sneakemail.com>here</a>. This provides those redirectors that parent comment uses. These are set up to always allow email through, unless you tell it otherwise. You can make a new address at sneakemail at any time, and should make a new one for every service you sign up for. They keep a list of the addresses you made with them and a string that you use to identify that email. Two plusses to this: you can disable any one that gets sold, and you can report the seller of the address because you only used that email one time to sign up for one thing. <br> For things that really shouldn't be sending me email at all, save for a confirmation, (like freebies, webhosts, etc) I use the abovementioned <a href=http://spamgourmet.com>SpamGourmet.com</a> . Addresses there are (in default configuration) are created more simply, and are more limited. You sign up for an account, then when signing up for something, give them the address (for example) trollweekly.1.slashdotuser@spamgourmet.com where trollweekly is an identifier for that email, 1 is how many emails to that address will get through unless you change it at spamgourmet, and slashdotuser is your username. A nice thing there, they add a little message to the end of the subject of all emails routed through there like (1 of 5 allowed) indicating how many more will get through. If you're worried that people will figure this out and just make up things.20.slashdotuser@spamgourmet.com you can use their advanced mode. But frankly, no automated process will do that, so it's very unlikely.<br> <br> no relation to the services except as customer. it's a pity I didn't find those services before my email got out there. Hope this helps someone who didn't let their email out. (who let the email out?;-)
Thanks, was a bit tired when I wrote the original comment. If the IIc is the one that's real thin, yes, but I seem to remember my elementary school having IIc's that were huge traditional style ones.
Yeah, that's a 2.88 meg floppy. D'oh! (Like I said, I was tired)
Thanks for the tip with the TRS-80's. I haven't actually tried them recently, can't remember how well they work. That port on the back's just an RCA to a video in on a tv/vcr, isn't it?
Yep. Microsoft EOL (End of Life). Unless you use other Microsoft software that isn't Windows on those, that is. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/d esktop/business/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/desktop/business/default.ms px</a>
and here's why. It would put the little(r) guy out of commission. Just because a business is big enough to pay hundred of dollars of certification fees doesn't mean it's neccessarily fair or honest. For example, one of my customers had power issues with his computer: it would turn on only intermittently. He said "this is the same thing that happened before (medium wisconsin computer company name removed) replaced the power supply and the hard drive." I took it, found that the problem was actually in the power cable. It had been crushed behind/under a desk, and powered on only sometimes when used. In comparison, my cable powered it on all the time. $10 fix, plus labor. This wisconsin computer company gave this person their "broken" parts back after the repairs. Since this person had no use for them, he gave them to me, saying "you may be able to use them for something." Turns out, they weren't bad after all. The company had ripped off this computer-illiterate person, charging him hundreds of dollars for hard drives and power supplies he didn't need. I, an independent, who would not be able to afford big certifications, found and fixed this and several other problems.
Big isn't necessarily better.
(PS. I'm not of legal voting age in the US. Just to put things in perspective)
For the winnt/2k/xp boxxen (which are the only ones left with new patches being made), Languard Network Scanner can tell you which machines have which patches missing, then allow you to deploy them all across the network. For the win98 machines (where no new patches are being made), push a one time autoexec.bat and large-directory-full-of-chained-hotfixes that brings them up to final Microsoft edition, and make sure any new Ghostings/imagings include these patches. corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com was the best source for all the patches, but sadly, it's been discontinued in favor of a program which I haven't evaluated.
Bonus about that Languard tool: it doubles as an awesome network security / rogue client scanner. Give it a shot!
Let's see. Got an Apple ]I[ (That's 3, yes the one with the heat-unseats-chips problem fixable by "whacking it on a desk") with the original hard drive, screen, a few disks that I haven't tried. Got a few TRS-80's, a Commodore 64 portable or something like that, with the printer and a few carts, Apple IIp or whatever the little white portable one was, IIgs Woz edition that works great (got all the manuals, bunch of drives, etc.) and Mac Plus (I think) with no hd/floppy, Mac Classic that (basically) works, Compaq Portable II (needs a little work, missing part of shell), Portable I with little shell, and similar fun stuff. On a less "classic" note, i've got a super-spiffy PS/2 tower thing (It's huge, tall, and heavy) with a gig or two scsi hd, a squirrelcage fan, and a bad 48x6-dx50 that will fixed with parts from another smaller ps/2 with a 2.88 meg hard drive. fun stuff! (XGA-2 card in there too, w00t!) If anyone needs anything like this, just reply.
Oh, and I won't give up my compaq deskpro 286e (with onboard VGA). It's so stable.....
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Heh. See, I get those lovely "free or nearly so" spindles most of the time, with a few spindles of the good ones (Nashua 8X) as needed. Not only do I get CD-R's in these purchases, I also get a CD storage mechanism. I get good value.
But really, where do you get cd's just shrinkwrapped? I could go for some of those, considering I have a few empty spindles laying around...
You just watch. Soon, all you people cracking jokes about the home use priviledge will have men in suits knocking on your doors, muttering "Slashdot. Heh, we'll slashdot you" under their breath. Just watch, you know Sir Bill the Lawyerful would do it.
It's touchy when you're poking around in the area of using other people's stuff. Even if you do qualify for "fair use," someone can still accuse you and wreak major havoc on whatever you're trying to create. My suggestion (that is, if hiring a graphic artist is out of the question): Get the Gimp (OSS OS's or Windows ), learn to use the Bezier select tool (try TigerT's tutorial on how to make a 3D box), and whip together some quick icons. Then, if your project (which I'm assuming is independent, if you don't have a graphic artist) catches on and makes some money or something, the icons can be replaced later. You won't have to hassle with fair use at all.
I do a similar thing, but even more thrifty. I save the spindles that I buy CD-R's on (you don't actually buy CD-R's in cases, do you?) and reuse those after they're empty as holders for cds. So handy, and I always manage to have a fresh one whenever I need one! What a coincidence!
Well, you know what I always say. The only good AC is a dead AC. JK!
All the ones I've seen tend to troll too much to be quiet. A nice alternative would be surfing at +2.
Queuetue has it right ("three months ago") but I won't hold it against you. Switch. Now. You'll thank yourself. (I use Windows, and now never touch IE or Mozilla regular. When I use Linux Moz-Firebird/Phoenix is my first addition to my installation.) Posting in .5, while downloading .6!
Your statistical reasoning is flawed, however. You're saying that fixing the space shuttle only saves lives of astronauts. You failed to factor in the lives saved by the knowledge gained with the shuttle fleet. I don't think it is neccessary for me to rehash the benefits that the shuttle program has gained for humankind, since they're mentioned repeatedly every time the shuttle is discussed. However, it is important to note that fixing the shuttle not only saves astronaut lives, it saves the lives of those affected by its research.
I noticed that Trinity used the exploit, but Tritnity, her alter-ego, did as well! Wow, I should have payed better attention :-)
Yep, it materialized. Not "portable" enough though for most purposes, it seemed to become just a car play station.
I'm wondering if that comment was a troll, but I'll bite anyway. The MSIE 5.0 option in Opera just sets the referrer (So you can't be locked out of microsoft's site) to pretend it's IE 5
wow, that's wicked. Very wicked. Let's hope teh 1337 do0ds aren't reading this. Here, though, is the one advantage to AOL: It doesn't render its email using IE (I don't think). Ironic, huh?
They have two entirely separate renderers and codebases, that's why you're immune.
Just a little info for ya (if you use windows, I use win2k and am not afraid to admit it, though it's mostly for the program I'm about to mention.)
/tube amp audio. For a bit of info on how it helps the sound, take for example, my dad's opinion. He was in the music industry for many years in the days of analog, and does not use any form of digital compressed audio (or at least didn't at the time when he made this judgement.) I'm using a SoundBlaster live, on win2k, winamp 2.81 or something thereabouts (the plugin runs on Winamp3 too), nice speakers (4 point digital surround Cambridge SoundWorks 2000Digital). Playing a simple mp3 or ogg file of something that's not completely "pop" saturated (DMB, and James Taylor if I remember correctly) my dad remarked upon hearing the sound before and after turning on this plugin how much richer, warmer, and fuller the sound sounded. In anything related to music, I trust his advice, but even I, the relatively untrained ear (as untrained as one could be being the son of a music major, who built a "media center" that played digital audio through his dad's old-school 70's vintage amp and speakers), could recognize how much better it sounded. It's nearly the only reason I stay using Win2k at home. (got the debian and slackware trio-boot, but miss this plug-in in XMMS. Anyone want to make a wrapper? :-) I realize you can't put back sound that you've lost in compression, but this comes darn near close, especially with a nice Ogg (Santana anyone?)
:-)
AnalogX <a href="http://analogx.com">link</a> makes a DSP plugin for Winamp called Ozone (There's also a professional DirectX mastering version). It simulates the desirable qualities of analog
Oh, and by the way, no relation to the company, except the happy recepient of a birthday present purchased at full price from their online store.
(sorry for the rambling post, too, please forgive, and be gentle on the "win user" bad karma, as well)
Was just reading the linked article before I refreshed /. and now there's this question on the Ask Slashdot list: might be too late for you, but this mod's quick, easy, cheap, and works well:
filter
Best part about it: you can use whatever case you want: just mod it quickly, and it's just how you want it. No compromising to meet case manufacturers' spec lists.
It's called "DisablePagingExecutive". Search for it in the registry guides at winguides.com. Also, rather than AdAware, you might want to try Spybot Search and Destroy, from security.kolla.de It's much better.
BrilliantDigital, everyone's favorite spyware component was bundled with Kazaa for a while (don't know if it still is, but it's icky enough to keep me away). That one not only sold clock cycles, it sold hard drive space too. I remember a C|Net article about it, but I didn't save that one. This is interesting, because instead of keeping the moolah or using it to support their legal defense, this service seems to actually want to pay the artists (pay the labels? most likely, given the situation). Could have possibilities, but I'd still like to keep up my Genome@home team with those extra cycles, thank you very much.
*replicated
It's got a long board about 6 inches above the main desk surface, with a supporting board, between the two. It's wide enough for 3 monitors side by side (2 for my main box's ti4200 dual head, another for whatever other little box I have hooked up) If you make one (which I think would be a good idea, with your requests), try to do a similar thing. It's a computer desk, but it does not sacrifice working area. It's about twice as wide as the area for your legs, so I've got the other area filled with an industrial ethernet chassis (Cabletron MMAC-M8FNB) and two skinny-ish desktop cases (old vectra's). There's plenty of room on it, especially with the tower stand off to the left of it. If you can picture what i'm saying, try making it. I like mine a lot.
I don't know, but I think the people in charge of Phoenix (which I'm using to post this) should read that page, with all the names in the comments. I'm kinda partial to Aiko (a popular japanese girls' name). Only problem, it's a little hard to spell/pronounce (for the non-computer-31337)
As mentioned in another reply to this message, spamgourmet.com works. But I personally use a combination of spamgourmet (always free) and another service which is free, but you can pay to have limits and ads removed. ;-)
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For services that I sign up for (and expect to get useful email from), I give them an address from Sneakemail.com <a href=http://sneakemail.com>here</a>. This provides those redirectors that parent comment uses. These are set up to always allow email through, unless you tell it otherwise. You can make a new address at sneakemail at any time, and should make a new one for every service you sign up for. They keep a list of the addresses you made with them and a string that you use to identify that email. Two plusses to this: you can disable any one that gets sold, and you can report the seller of the address because you only used that email one time to sign up for one thing.
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For things that really shouldn't be sending me email at all, save for a confirmation, (like freebies, webhosts, etc) I use the abovementioned <a href=http://spamgourmet.com>SpamGourmet.com</a> . Addresses there are (in default configuration) are created more simply, and are more limited. You sign up for an account, then when signing up for something, give them the address (for example) trollweekly.1.slashdotuser@spamgourmet.com where trollweekly is an identifier for that email, 1 is how many emails to that address will get through unless you change it at spamgourmet, and slashdotuser is your username. A nice thing there, they add a little message to the end of the subject of all emails routed through there like (1 of 5 allowed) indicating how many more will get through. If you're worried that people will figure this out and just make up things.20.slashdotuser@spamgourmet.com you can use their advanced mode. But frankly, no automated process will do that, so it's very unlikely.<br>
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no relation to the services except as customer. it's a pity I didn't find those services before my email got out there. Hope this helps someone who didn't let their email out. (who let the email out?
Thanks, was a bit tired when I wrote the original comment. If the IIc is the one that's real thin, yes, but I seem to remember my elementary school having IIc's that were huge traditional style ones.
Yeah, that's a 2.88 meg floppy. D'oh! (Like I said, I was tired)
Thanks for the tip with the TRS-80's. I haven't actually tried them recently, can't remember how well they work. That port on the back's just an RCA to a video in on a tv/vcr, isn't it?
Yep. Microsoft EOL (End of Life). Unless you use other Microsoft software that isn't Windows on those, that is.d esktop/business/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft .com/windows/lifecycle/desktop/business/default.ms px</a>
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and here's why. It would put the little(r) guy out of commission. Just because a business is big enough to pay hundred of dollars of certification fees doesn't mean it's neccessarily fair or honest. For example, one of my customers had power issues with his computer: it would turn on only intermittently. He said "this is the same thing that happened before (medium wisconsin computer company name removed) replaced the power supply and the hard drive." I took it, found that the problem was actually in the power cable. It had been crushed behind/under a desk, and powered on only sometimes when used. In comparison, my cable powered it on all the time. $10 fix, plus labor. This wisconsin computer company gave this person their "broken" parts back after the repairs. Since this person had no use for them, he gave them to me, saying "you may be able to use them for something." Turns out, they weren't bad after all. The company had ripped off this computer-illiterate person, charging him hundreds of dollars for hard drives and power supplies he didn't need. I, an independent, who would not be able to afford big certifications, found and fixed this and several other problems.
Big isn't necessarily better.
(PS. I'm not of legal voting age in the US. Just to put things in perspective)
For the winnt/2k/xp boxxen (which are the only ones left with new patches being made), Languard Network Scanner can tell you which machines have which patches missing, then allow you to deploy them all across the network. For the win98 machines (where no new patches are being made), push a one time autoexec.bat and large-directory-full-of-chained-hotfixes that brings them up to final Microsoft edition, and make sure any new Ghostings/imagings include these patches. corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com was the best source for all the patches, but sadly, it's been discontinued in favor of a program which I haven't evaluated.
Bonus about that Languard tool: it doubles as an awesome network security / rogue client scanner. Give it a shot!
Let's see. Got an Apple ]I[ (That's 3, yes the one with the heat-unseats-chips problem fixable by "whacking it on a desk") with the original hard drive, screen, a few disks that I haven't tried. Got a few TRS-80's, a Commodore 64 portable or something like that, with the printer and a few carts, Apple IIp or whatever the little white portable one was, IIgs Woz edition that works great (got all the manuals, bunch of drives, etc.) and Mac Plus (I think) with no hd/floppy, Mac Classic that (basically) works, Compaq Portable II (needs a little work, missing part of shell), Portable I with little shell, and similar fun stuff. On a less "classic" note, i've got a super-spiffy PS/2 tower thing (It's huge, tall, and heavy) with a gig or two scsi hd, a squirrelcage fan, and a bad 48x6-dx50 that will fixed with parts from another smaller ps/2 with a 2.88 meg hard drive. fun stuff! (XGA-2 card in there too, w00t!) If anyone needs anything like this, just reply.
Oh, and I won't give up my compaq deskpro 286e (with onboard VGA). It's so stable.....
like that 40 jigabyte hard drive you have in your computer, anonycow.
*shakes head*
I guess anonycows can't see past interesting pronounciation. There was a time, in the past, when giga-anything wasn't in the vernacular.