Yeah, that would be freaky if it did happen, but rather unlikely. Fortunately, people plus their accompanying habitation and transportation capule(s) would be a couple of magnitudes larger than Beagle so it will be relatively easy to find their (final) resting place if for some reason all planned communications fail. Besides, by then, there would probably be a handful of satellites in orbit to help track and find any landing site - successful or not.
a lot of posts (rightly) mention that most known tricks to blocking pop-ups will present problems for the small minority of users who want the pop-up (or websites where legitimate pop-ups happen to fall into the filter). Perhaps the solution would be some sort of "opt-in". Similar to opting into the spam blocking at Yahoo Mail (and I suppose Hotmail). A little setting through a web interface to enable or disable the pop-up blocking.
When the keyboard is locked, it's quite hard to accidently turn off the alarm rather than "snooze" (you have to unlock it, which is a two-button task). It's got a battery backup. And it's relatively sturdy, it'll take more of a beating than most alarm clocks. It's also inherently portable. Lastly, it's effectively free. I think the volume increases over time as well, but I'm not entirely certain.
My first question would be, is Apex that bad, or does it look bad because of the volume?
Apex gear sold like hotcakes... didn't they have about 1/3 of the DVD player market for a while? A palette of returned Apex's doesn't sound necesarily bad...
FWIW, most folks I know have various off-brand DVD players. I've heard of few, if any problems.
Yeah, same here. The easy fix was to adjust the horizontal and vertical "size" using the monitor. (I suppose upping the screen resolution would have worked too). Even then, I couldn't see it for more than a couple seconds. Good stuff though!
OK, this post is a little old. I ended up d/l'ing this live CD. It worked GREAT on my KM266 (integrated everything) based system - Knoppix doesn't get the video (fbdev works though) or sound properly. PCLinuxOS 2K4 picks it all up. Very nice. (This probably applies to other recent Via integrated chipsets too)
Yeah, web applications were a mess, and bloody complex to do rather basic tasks. Fortunately, most platforms are getting better, and more conservative with age. For example, your PHP URL trick wouldn't work in a recent default installation of PHP where "register_globals" (the automagic system that makes all variables from HTTP POST, URL's, cookies, and sessions all the 'same') is "Off".
I guess the moral of the story is that the web is young, and web platforms are even younger. With any luck, many of these headaches will disappear with time.
BTW, anyone know of some magical code to block SQL injection vulnerabilities?
Some others have mentioned that Nvidia et al have lower end $100 cards. Don't expect those prices to get much lower. Do expect onboard video on motherboards to get better though. The market for "cheap" video belongs to the onboard chipsets - they don't necessarily have to be pathetically slow either. There are a few motherboards out with separate memory channels for the video, which brings overall performance reasonably close, all other things being equal. Once it's all added up, it's pretty tough for a "standalone" graphics card to compete at the low, low end.
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What type of shows are these? Sheesh, I can never find cheap working laptops like that...
My last used laptop recently died...so I've been on the prowl for a replacement.
Well, PCI-Express isn't too far off. It's a general replacement for PCI at something like AGP8x speeds. This would eliminate the bus as the limiter of the card->memory data transfer. Video card designs, however, may not be set up for high back flow data rates.
Volume + SPEED of selling stuff counts. Walmart gets a few months of credit from their suppliers. More often than not, they've sold their merchandise before even paying for it. Thus, they get to hold other peoples money for investments in stores, or more stuff, in the mean time. Who needs to issue bonds? Just push more volume... Pretty sweet deal if you can swing it...
The problem I see with this is the slow degradation of the machine. Little things can get broken or at least cluttered over time, and since System Restore will loose the older "clean" pseudo-images, in the long run, you can still get burned badly if you rely only on System Restore. Besides, if you have to restore too far back in time, you loose the settings and changes that you want to keep!
Oh, and System Restore isn't bullet proof... it's helped me a few times, and completely failed on others.
It's more advanced, so it might be able to record enough information to for other traffic infractions - which I wouldn't necessarily mind. Running a late yellow is technically legal (as far as a single camera can tell), but just as dangerous as running a red.
It sounds like there could be enough data being recorded to reasonably charge people for dangerous driving with this type of system (given the hypothetical nature of the system at this time, yeah, why not!).
Yep. I'm with the AC. MS Office screws up, but not often on "normal" stuff. Sounds a lot like ID10T errors to me, and those will NOT change going to OO.o
Yeah, at first I thought DirectCD was great. My HD was only 2-3 GB at the time, so a 600 MB removeable disk was awesome... until I had an awkward crash while the disc was "open" - lost everything on it! It's a good thing I wasn't keeping anything important on there, yet!
And the reason you should take it as a taxpayer is that it prevents them from NOT reporting that as revenue. Thus, they will have to pay their legal share of taxes. Thereby indirectly preventing them stealing from you and me (if we were both in the same country...).
Maybe I frequent too many mom and pop stores that can and will do this kind of thing...
A couple people have already mentioned that W2K and Office 2K use something similar - i.e. they hide things that haven't been used for a while. (I'm neutral on it personally, in some programs it works for me, in others it doesn't).
Anyway, I'd add that in Windows 2000, the programs list used to do this behaviour by default, it doesn't in Windows XP - one can only assume that the majority of people found it more confusing than it was worth. In it's place, WinXP puts the most frequently used programs in a separate listing - which works very well for me, since it seems to slowly adjust itself as projects (and their necessary programs) move up and down in priority.
The VPL (Yay, Vancouver!) used to have one machine at the central library with two 5.25inch drives and a big stack of shareware for folks to copy and keep. I think I used it once or twice. At the time all I would have cared about were games (maybe BBS's?) so it wasn't all that interesting to me. In hindsight, it might have been a little ahead of the game! FWIW, I think it was a semi-standardized collection of shareware, I might recognize the name of the... distribution... if I saw it.
I've never understood that little eraser head... it just doesn't work for me, or for the people whose machines I was using. I've tried it on a laptop, and on a scroll mouse. It just doesn't feel or work right. Although, I guess it might work ok if it's only used for up/down left/right scrolling, rather than as a pointer too.
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Yeah, that would be freaky if it did happen, but rather unlikely. Fortunately, people plus their accompanying habitation and transportation capule(s) would be a couple of magnitudes larger than Beagle so it will be relatively easy to find their (final) resting place if for some reason all planned communications fail. Besides, by then, there would probably be a handful of satellites in orbit to help track and find any landing site - successful or not.
1) get 100 000 slaves to build a pyramid
2) buy a magnet, suspend from ceiling on a fishing line
3) profit!
Wait... what happened to step ?
a lot of posts (rightly) mention that most known tricks to blocking pop-ups will present problems for the small minority of users who want the pop-up (or websites where legitimate pop-ups happen to fall into the filter). Perhaps the solution would be some sort of "opt-in". Similar to opting into the spam blocking at Yahoo Mail (and I suppose Hotmail). A little setting through a web interface to enable or disable the pop-up blocking.
When the keyboard is locked, it's quite hard to accidently turn off the alarm rather than "snooze" (you have to unlock it, which is a two-button task). It's got a battery backup. And it's relatively sturdy, it'll take more of a beating than most alarm clocks. It's also inherently portable. Lastly, it's effectively free. I think the volume increases over time as well, but I'm not entirely certain.
My first question would be, is Apex that bad, or does it look bad because of the volume?
Apex gear sold like hotcakes... didn't they have about 1/3 of the DVD player market for a while? A palette of returned Apex's doesn't sound necesarily bad...
FWIW, most folks I know have various off-brand DVD players. I've heard of few, if any problems.
Yeah, same here. The easy fix was to adjust the horizontal and vertical "size" using the monitor. (I suppose upping the screen resolution would have worked too). Even then, I couldn't see it for more than a couple seconds. Good stuff though!
OK, this post is a little old. I ended up d/l'ing this live CD. It worked GREAT on my KM266 (integrated everything) based system - Knoppix doesn't get the video (fbdev works though) or sound properly. PCLinuxOS 2K4 picks it all up. Very nice. (This probably applies to other recent Via integrated chipsets too)
Yeah, web applications were a mess, and bloody complex to do rather basic tasks. Fortunately, most platforms are getting better, and more conservative with age. For example, your PHP URL trick wouldn't work in a recent default installation of PHP where "register_globals" (the automagic system that makes all variables from HTTP POST, URL's, cookies, and sessions all the 'same') is "Off".
I guess the moral of the story is that the web is young, and web platforms are even younger. With any luck, many of these headaches will disappear with time.
BTW, anyone know of some magical code to block SQL injection vulnerabilities?
Some others have mentioned that Nvidia et al have lower end $100 cards. Don't expect those prices to get much lower. Do expect onboard video on motherboards to get better though. The market for "cheap" video belongs to the onboard chipsets - they don't necessarily have to be pathetically slow either. There are a few motherboards out with separate memory channels for the video, which brings overall performance reasonably close, all other things being equal. Once it's all added up, it's pretty tough for a "standalone" graphics card to compete at the low, low end.
What type of shows are these? Sheesh, I can never find cheap working laptops like that...
My last used laptop recently died...so I've been on the prowl for a replacement.
I _guess_ it would have to be a completely dead line. No dialtone from phone company, or alarm systems, or intercoms.
What about ADSL? (man, that's a mind bender of a flow chart)
Well, PCI-Express isn't too far off. It's a general replacement for PCI at something like AGP8x speeds. This would eliminate the bus as the limiter of the card->memory data transfer. Video card designs, however, may not be set up for high back flow data rates.
Volume + SPEED of selling stuff counts. Walmart gets a few months of credit from their suppliers. More often than not, they've sold their merchandise before even paying for it. Thus, they get to hold other peoples money for investments in stores, or more stuff, in the mean time. Who needs to issue bonds? Just push more volume... Pretty sweet deal if you can swing it...
The problem I see with this is the slow degradation of the machine. Little things can get broken or at least cluttered over time, and since System Restore will loose the older "clean" pseudo-images, in the long run, you can still get burned badly if you rely only on System Restore. Besides, if you have to restore too far back in time, you loose the settings and changes that you want to keep!
Oh, and System Restore isn't bullet proof... it's helped me a few times, and completely failed on others.
It's more advanced, so it might be able to record enough information to for other traffic infractions - which I wouldn't necessarily mind. Running a late yellow is technically legal (as far as a single camera can tell), but just as dangerous as running a red.
It sounds like there could be enough data being recorded to reasonably charge people for dangerous driving with this type of system (given the hypothetical nature of the system at this time, yeah, why not!).
Yep. I'm with the AC. MS Office screws up, but not often on "normal" stuff. Sounds a lot like ID10T errors to me, and those will NOT change going to OO.o
How about ODBC (or any linked tables, for that matter?)
I see lots of posts for using a local server that is always. I guess this will work for a lot of techie places... but what about everyone else?
Are there any cheap routers that can send a simple WOL message? Are there any that have been hacked so that someone can add this function?
I think I've found my new retirement goal... =)
I guess I shouldn't really be surprised that it's covered by an insurance policy, rather than a $10M in a bank account.
Still, can you imagine trying to put together a team to do that actuarial calculations for the premiums on that policy?
Yeah, at first I thought DirectCD was great. My HD was only 2-3 GB at the time, so a 600 MB removeable disk was awesome... until I had an awkward crash while the disc was "open" - lost everything on it! It's a good thing I wasn't keeping anything important on there, yet!
And the reason you should take it as a taxpayer is that it prevents them from NOT reporting that as revenue. Thus, they will have to pay their legal share of taxes. Thereby indirectly preventing them stealing from you and me (if we were both in the same country...).
Maybe I frequent too many mom and pop stores that can and will do this kind of thing...
A couple people have already mentioned that W2K and Office 2K use something similar - i.e. they hide things that haven't been used for a while. (I'm neutral on it personally, in some programs it works for me, in others it doesn't).
Anyway, I'd add that in Windows 2000, the programs list used to do this behaviour by default, it doesn't in Windows XP - one can only assume that the majority of people found it more confusing than it was worth. In it's place, WinXP puts the most frequently used programs in a separate listing - which works very well for me, since it seems to slowly adjust itself as projects (and their necessary programs) move up and down in priority.
I think similar features are in KDE.
The VPL (Yay, Vancouver!) used to have one machine at the central library with two 5.25inch drives and a big stack of shareware for folks to copy and keep. I think I used it once or twice. At the time all I would have cared about were games (maybe BBS's?) so it wasn't all that interesting to me. In hindsight, it might have been a little ahead of the game! FWIW, I think it was a semi-standardized collection of shareware, I might recognize the name of the ... distribution... if I saw it.
I've never understood that little eraser head... it just doesn't work for me, or for the people whose machines I was using. I've tried it on a laptop, and on a scroll mouse. It just doesn't feel or work right. Although, I guess it might work ok if it's only used for up/down left/right scrolling, rather than as a pointer too.