I've got a domain or two with them. It's been OK overall. There are a few too many advertisements in the customer sign up (and even registration configuration interface) for my liking. But the price is good.
One note of warning: I had expected DNS service to be included, it is NOT (I think there is an optional fee). It wasn't a big deal in the end, but it did catch me off guard, since other registrars tend to include it (albeit at a higher registration cost).
Others have already commented on how this makes casual forwarding and printing difficult.
Another way this is useful is that it automates the deletion of old emails (I think, I haven't really read the article!). This is very handy if a company is sued. If you don't have diciplined practices of DELETING old files and messages, you can be forced to dig up everything in you computer files and backups to supply the search for incriminating evidence. Using software to delete old messages is a good thing.
Yeah! So folks clean their mouse ball. Of course, it doesn't fix the problem, so they call support! Thankfully optical mice and trackpads are the standard now...
I _think_ some questions were political (something akin to who is the leader of the Republicans), maybe some about drink mixes, and I'm pretty sure music groups from the 70's were in there.
To be honest, I probably got that completely wrong, but I'm sure there are cheat sheets out there for LSL1 codes somewhere on the web.
True. Our local recyling plan doesn't bother to "recycle" the glass stuff. It's just collected and sold (actually, I think it's effectively given away for free) as "filler" for use in the construction of new roads and such - I've always wanted to see that in person, it must look a lot more interesting than spreading sand and gravel around.
I happened to visit mini-itx.com earlier today. I was rather disturbed to read this article about taking a teddy bear, and disassembling and reassembling it as a 800MHz PC. It seems relevant to this topic, in a demented way...
I think they are rather serious about it. But, as you say, not necessarily as a profit generator right now.
First, IT staff who try Solaris on x86 will NOT be any more likely to recommend Sun gear if Solaris x86 is intolerably slow or buggy or whatever. It doesn't need to be the fastest, but it can't be too far behind Linux and I guess Windows.
Also, x86 becomes insurance. It's tough and expensive to design competitive chips - and getting tougher all the time. If somewhere down the line Sun considers giving up on Sparc, then having a reasonably good x86 version gives them options! They can always package up x86 hardware to sell entire systems (i.e. they don't have to drop hardware sales) - yes it's would be difficult to get the same level of uptime on x86 chips, but it's also difficult to design software and hardware.
The first thing I though of when reading the parent comment was the many minutes it took me and my cousin to get into LSL2. We were only 9 years old (+/- 2) at the time, and the "adult filter" - which consisted of questions which most older folks should know the answers - worked pretty well to keep us out.
They would have to be pretty idiot proof riddles to allow general access to a website. You've got to consider age, people where english (or the language of the site) is not necessarily strong, aptitude... pretty tough just to avoid spam!
2.6% of the company for $20-30 million USD (my math was a little rough, but I think I got within an order of magnitude).
It seems a little too small a share to be a prelude to a purchase. My uneducated guess would be that Nintendo is sitting on a lot of cash that it's earned over the years, and this is nothing more than an investment of excess cash (rather than buying t-bills or gold or something).
And companies that just want to hack up a couple graphics twice a year... $100 something for Paint Shop Pro is a good deal for a lot of these people...
For the benefit of those who won't read the article, the author thinks that "orbital module" of the Shenzhou spacecraft will be kept in orbit AND chained together over multiple launches! I.e., it could be a quick and dirty way to put up a long term space station. Very clever.
OK, you had me worried for a bit (no pun intended)!
I had to Google for "HTTP Authentication" to come up with this: Apache reference page. It DOES use MD5, but I don't really know how popular this digest authentication is... I know my web host supports it, but I don't remember how I ended up figuring that out.
Just a quick note, if you use a passworded http directory, your password is NOT sent in clear text on most modern web server configurations. They are usually hashed with MD5 somehow - there's a standard, but I can't seem to Google it right now. (This doesn't encrypt the data, it just secures your password)
Funny how those who write the history books get to influence history itself, eh? Orwell would be proud. =)
Yeah, I didn't know a whole lot about China's exploration until it came up in passing in a university course...
It's a pitty that what little I do know has been pretty much covered by the other responses to your post, it means that I should probably add another book or two to my "to be read" list.
Will they be higher priced than their current chips (a "size" premium) or will they be even lower priced (because they cost less to manufacture - probably)?
Unfortunately, it seems Via's site has been/.'d...
Exactly. This makes them price competitive with the little guys. Plus, they'll probably let customers keep their email address, something that other companies will never be able to offer, for obvious reasons.
And lastly, since they already have all the dialup equipment that they'll ever need (I'm betting their dialup market has already peaked) there isn't a lot of capital investment required.
Yeah, I tried the windows port too. Worked ok, up until the point where I had to print it somehow. Maybe I was using it wrong, but I had to export the graphic to a big.png and print from a graphics program.
That was a couple months ago, perhaps things have improved. The linux version worked well enough...
What happened to nice, short names? Hydrogen, Xeon, Silver, Darmstadtium - one of these doesn't quite fit. I guess there was no word in old latin for element 110...
In many of my courses during university, regular homework averaged about 10% of the final mark for the course. Homework was really a small kick to encourage us to keep up with the course material, more than anything else. Big projects, exams, and class participation (where cheating is easier to catch or not applicable) took the lions share of the course mark. We were often encouraged to work together on the assignments - though verbatim copying was not accepted (if caught)!
I haven't noticed anyone else mention this yet, so... For me, a good text editor is essential. Try EditPlus or UltraEdit (both shareware). Anyone recommend a good free editor?
I suppose it depends on what you do with your machine... but for me, a good editor turns out to be pretty handy.
Anyone know if there is a standard for email receipts?
As others have mentioned, even if the message leaves YOUR server, that really doesn't mean it was read. For me, I try to request a quick (manual) receipt for any important messages where time is of the essence; but it gets ignored most of the time. =)
What would be nice is if there was a standard for email "read" notices. Is there one? I sort of doubt it, considering the hacks I've seen to try and emulate it. Outlook has a proprietary thing that I doubt works. I've also seen what amounts to a webbug being used for HTML messages.
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I've got a domain or two with them. It's been OK overall. There are a few too many advertisements in the customer sign up (and even registration configuration interface) for my liking. But the price is good.
One note of warning: I had expected DNS service to be included, it is NOT (I think there is an optional fee). It wasn't a big deal in the end, but it did catch me off guard, since other registrars tend to include it (albeit at a higher registration cost).
Others have already commented on how this makes casual forwarding and printing difficult.
Another way this is useful is that it automates the deletion of old emails (I think, I haven't really read the article!). This is very handy if a company is sued. If you don't have diciplined practices of DELETING old files and messages, you can be forced to dig up everything in you computer files and backups to supply the search for incriminating evidence. Using software to delete old messages is a good thing.
Yeah! So folks clean their mouse ball. Of course, it doesn't fix the problem, so they call support! Thankfully optical mice and trackpads are the standard now...
I _think_ some questions were political (something akin to who is the leader of the Republicans), maybe some about drink mixes, and I'm pretty sure music groups from the 70's were in there.
To be honest, I probably got that completely wrong, but I'm sure there are cheat sheets out there for LSL1 codes somewhere on the web.
True. Our local recyling plan doesn't bother to "recycle" the glass stuff. It's just collected and sold (actually, I think it's effectively given away for free) as "filler" for use in the construction of new roads and such - I've always wanted to see that in person, it must look a lot more interesting than spreading sand and gravel around.
I happened to visit mini-itx.com earlier today. I was rather disturbed to read this article about taking a teddy bear, and disassembling and reassembling it as a 800MHz PC. It seems relevant to this topic, in a demented way...
I think they are rather serious about it. But, as you say, not necessarily as a profit generator right now.
First, IT staff who try Solaris on x86 will NOT be any more likely to recommend Sun gear if Solaris x86 is intolerably slow or buggy or whatever. It doesn't need to be the fastest, but it can't be too far behind Linux and I guess Windows.
Also, x86 becomes insurance. It's tough and expensive to design competitive chips - and getting tougher all the time. If somewhere down the line Sun considers giving up on Sparc, then having a reasonably good x86 version gives them options! They can always package up x86 hardware to sell entire systems (i.e. they don't have to drop hardware sales) - yes it's would be difficult to get the same level of uptime on x86 chips, but it's also difficult to design software and hardware.
The first thing I though of when reading the parent comment was the many minutes it took me and my cousin to get into LSL2. We were only 9 years old (+/- 2) at the time, and the "adult filter" - which consisted of questions which most older folks should know the answers - worked pretty well to keep us out.
They would have to be pretty idiot proof riddles to allow general access to a website. You've got to consider age, people where english (or the language of the site) is not necessarily strong, aptitude... pretty tough just to avoid spam!
2.6% of the company for $20-30 million USD (my math was a little rough, but I think I got within an order of magnitude).
It seems a little too small a share to be a prelude to a purchase. My uneducated guess would be that Nintendo is sitting on a lot of cash that it's earned over the years, and this is nothing more than an investment of excess cash (rather than buying t-bills or gold or something).
Yeah, I just watched an episode (probably others in the future). I guess it really is all about storyline! Very cool.
And companies that just want to hack up a couple graphics twice a year... $100 something for Paint Shop Pro is a good deal for a lot of these people...
OK.... great, it runs a fan. =)
Didn't they sell these as after market gadgets? Little fans with a small solar panel to be put on the dash...
Interesting link!
For the benefit of those who won't read the article, the author thinks that "orbital module" of the Shenzhou spacecraft will be kept in orbit AND chained together over multiple launches! I.e., it could be a quick and dirty way to put up a long term space station. Very clever.
OK, you had me worried for a bit (no pun intended)!
I had to Google for "HTTP Authentication" to come up with this: Apache reference page. It DOES use MD5, but I don't really know how popular this digest authentication is... I know my web host supports it, but I don't remember how I ended up figuring that out.
Just a quick note, if you use a passworded http directory, your password is NOT sent in clear text on most modern web server configurations. They are usually hashed with MD5 somehow - there's a standard, but I can't seem to Google it right now. (This doesn't encrypt the data, it just secures your password)
Funny how those who write the history books get to influence history itself, eh? Orwell would be proud. =)
Yeah, I didn't know a whole lot about China's exploration until it came up in passing in a university course...
It's a pitty that what little I do know has been pretty much covered by the other responses to your post, it means that I should probably add another book or two to my "to be read" list.
Will they be higher priced than their current chips (a "size" premium) or will they be even lower priced (because they cost less to manufacture - probably)? Unfortunately, it seems Via's site has been /.'d...
Exactly. This makes them price competitive with the little guys. Plus, they'll probably let customers keep their email address, something that other companies will never be able to offer, for obvious reasons.
And lastly, since they already have all the dialup equipment that they'll ever need (I'm betting their dialup market has already peaked) there isn't a lot of capital investment required.
Yeah, I tried the windows port too. Worked ok, up until the point where I had to print it somehow. Maybe I was using it wrong, but I had to export the graphic to a big .png and print from a graphics program.
That was a couple months ago, perhaps things have improved. The linux version worked well enough...
Whoops. You're right, of course. Sorta. =)
I thought it looked wrong when I first typed it...
Did anyone else read it as darn stadium?
What happened to nice, short names? Hydrogen, Xeon, Silver, Darmstadtium - one of these doesn't quite fit. I guess there was no word in old latin for element 110...
In many of my courses during university, regular homework averaged about 10% of the final mark for the course. Homework was really a small kick to encourage us to keep up with the course material, more than anything else. Big projects, exams, and class participation (where cheating is easier to catch or not applicable) took the lions share of the course mark. We were often encouraged to work together on the assignments - though verbatim copying was not accepted (if caught)!
I haven't noticed anyone else mention this yet, so... For me, a good text editor is essential. Try EditPlus or UltraEdit (both shareware). Anyone recommend a good free editor?
I suppose it depends on what you do with your machine... but for me, a good editor turns out to be pretty handy.
Thanks for the info (ditto for the other responses). So, because of spam, I'll never get email read receipts, eh? Great...
Anyone know if there is a standard for email receipts?
As others have mentioned, even if the message leaves YOUR server, that really doesn't mean it was read. For me, I try to request a quick (manual) receipt for any important messages where time is of the essence; but it gets ignored most of the time. =)
What would be nice is if there was a standard for email "read" notices. Is there one? I sort of doubt it, considering the hacks I've seen to try and emulate it. Outlook has a proprietary thing that I doubt works. I've also seen what amounts to a webbug being used for HTML messages.