I uninstalled 0.8 then installed 0.9 When I try to load it, nothing happens. Well I can see it in the task manager consuming 90% of my CPU and it bounces between 7MB used and 18MB used but it won't load. Nor will it stop this behaviour forcing a reset. I cannot kill the process either.
0.8 has worked great for me, I don't know why 0.9 is having a panic attack.
I got burned by a music download service once and until they offer DRM free options I will NEVER buy. In the middle of a download I tripped on the power cord to my cable modem. The store claimed I had purchased even though I had half a file. I phoned and was told that I was screwed. If I goto a store and the power fails in the middle of ringing the goods in neither the store or I lose money / product once power is restored. If that happens online - foosh away goes your money. If your HDD crashes or you have a bad run of CDs trying to burn - foosh away goes your money.
They are basically offering less service and less product for more money. Why do people even bother buying? Goto a used store and buy what you want and compress it.
Holy goddamn. I thought I had seen the last of the blink tag when 1997 left us. Seriously it has been 5+ years since I've ever found a page with a blink tag on it.
Mental note - don't buy Plextor until they learn that 'cool' HTML tricks from 1995 are not a good idea.
You really need to use a thridparty task manager. A lot of newer spyware programs and keyloggers can hide from the MS version but fail to recognize a thridparty viewer like Codestuff Starter (which also happens to show you all the Run keys in the same app)
Remember that dark brown page with black symbols on it? That thing was hard enough to read even when you have the real copy right in your hands. A friend of my father actually transcribed the whole thing onto graph paper just so he wouldn't have to squint at it in the future. Now that is dedication.
I've already seen up to chapter 12. I didn't realize that it an American made show was actually behind Canada for airing. Teletoon showed chapter 11 on the 20th and 12 on the 22nd. 13 is on tomorrow.
I've not bothered to watch, I've just let my HTPC archive them all. Once they are done with I will watch all of them in a row. Much less annoying.
I get all excited when someone emails me a virus. I save it and decompress with UPX then sniff around to see if there is anything of interest. I happily spent an hour looking at this one. I'm not any sort of hacker but I could see some readable text in the message. Nothing exciting.
According to Visa when the place I work started accepting it, it is around.1% for North America. This is from a customer rep so nothing too scientific here.
I've read that losses due to fraud are between $1 and $2 billion for a $200 billion dollar industry.
If the figures are correct, it means that Paypal is 5x more prone to fraud than Visa. This scares me considering I have had two incidents with my card (once stolen and the other an online error thanks to Visa in Germany billing the wrong number.)
When a website requires anything other than an email address I name myself after the websites. If I ever get spam directed to Amazon DotCom I know who sold my address and can block future emails from it. I remain anoymous (Well as close as I can given my email is out there, but it is only a temp address anyway) and a foulup like this would have revealed only that I used a fake name.
You've never seen the prices of medical texts have you? The campus bookstore here has an average price of $400...per book. We are talking a 300 page book for $400.
Good thing I took economics. Economic theory hasn't changed much since the 1970s
In my first two years I dutifully lined up at the campus book store, forked over $350 for 4 books and went home a bit depressed and with sore feet from standing for 6 hours.
Then along came Chapters (Canadian book chain). I discovered that even if they didn't carry a particular book, they would order it for me. Downside? I was bookless for two weeks at the start of a semester but it never really hurt me. Upside? The bookstore on campus always jacked prices by 10% to "cover costs". Chapters sold at MSRP less 15% for having a membership.
So in my next three years I saved a combined total of $520 versus the campus book store. One particular book was $140 on campus. Chapters sold it to me for $60 (The MSRP) and I sold it used for $100. Ingoring the savings, I got free shipping on orders over $60 and they were delivered right to my door. No lineup for me.
>Graphics cards that allow you to watch television on your monitor, by plugging a coax cable into the card. Um sure. That is why you can walk into any store today and still see four different tuners on the shelf. The market for tuner / capture cards is small but exists and thrives. HTPCs are taking off now with people building TIVOlike devices. A tuner card is required.
PS - >Audio Cassettes for data storage You have strange definitions of a flop. The cassette tape was THE means of data storage in the early days of home computing. PET had one, the VIC20, ADAM, TRS80, hell even the IBM XT first came with one.
The good: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - I battled a full bladder and still enjoyed it. Finding Nemo - Pixar just gets better and better at what they do. XMen 2 - Quite entertaining Kill Bill - Fun but not the best Pirates of the Carribean - Suprisingly good movie
The bad: Once Upon A Time In Mexico - I'm told it is good, I disagree Matrix Reloaded - Dissappointing end to a series that started good, went stupid and got worse. Daredevil - Need I say anything? Terminator 3 - Ugh. Not DD level but not much better.
The King of bad movies came out this year. Gigli - I witnessed a few minutes and I am scared for life.
Advantages: 1. Router ability - Hook up a hub to it and you can have several dozen PCs served from one line. 2. A roadblock to your PC. Your IP address isn't the one to your PC, so attacking that IP attacks the firewall, not you. Doing a DOS attack against a firewall user might kill their network connection, but the PCs behind it will still work just fine. 3. Adds an extra step that hackers have to deal with. The effort required to find out that you found some uninteresting box is probably not worth it. 4. If you have a network in the house, you just plug in to the hub and any PC is now protected. 5. Proxy/caching - Smoothwall tends to do a better job at it than Mozilla. Even better is the other PCs on the network take advantage of the cache in place on the firewall to reduce incoming bandwidth. 6. Independant of your PC. Getting compromised with some malicious software is bound to happen to a few people, but the independant box won't be affected so while stuff goes out, nothing comes back in. 7. Recycle old PCs. Admit it, you never thought a P133MHz had any use anymore did you? 8. Blocking - This is very useful on a network. If you don't want people to be visiting a particular IP. Just block it at the linux box and nobody gets to see that IP anymore.
Doesn't the law require that all devices capable of displaying/recording TV must obey the broadcast flag by 2005 on HDTV? This would cause any DVR purchased after 2005 to be essentially junk unless you hack it.
So not only will you disable your fastforward/skip. You will disable the box altogether, or force a low quality version on the person who recorded.
IR can be focused. In fact you can have IR lasers, though it would be hidiously small that it would take practice just to aim the device at the target which would be idiotic.
Science is boring. True, people (myself included) are entertained by documentarys covering major events or discoveries but the vast majority of it is enough to drive most people insane.
Any grad student that has been forced to sit though someone's lecture on how their NMR data yielded a different result from the guys that did it two years ago will understand.
Oh I know, how about a show on how one does titrations and thin layer chomotagraphy. OH BOY!
In case someone really wants to know, you could just find a lecture at a local university and sit in on a class. Few places actually check to see that the students sitting there really are students.
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I saw the story and though - that's a dupe! After searching back 3 years I was convinced that I saw it elsewhere. I stand corrected.
I only just realized that I have been visiting Slashdot for over five years now.
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Running 0.8 under XP.
I uninstalled 0.8 then installed 0.9 When I try to load it, nothing happens. Well I can see it in the task manager consuming 90% of my CPU and it bounces between 7MB used and 18MB used but it won't load. Nor will it stop this behaviour forcing a reset. I cannot kill the process either.
0.8 has worked great for me, I don't know why 0.9 is having a panic attack.
I got burned by a music download service once and until they offer DRM free options I will NEVER buy. In the middle of a download I tripped on the power cord to my cable modem. The store claimed I had purchased even though I had half a file. I phoned and was told that I was screwed. If I goto a store and the power fails in the middle of ringing the goods in neither the store or I lose money / product once power is restored. If that happens online - foosh away goes your money. If your HDD crashes or you have a bad run of CDs trying to burn - foosh away goes your money.
They are basically offering less service and less product for more money. Why do people even bother buying? Goto a used store and buy what you want and compress it.
Holy goddamn. I thought I had seen the last of the blink tag when 1997 left us. Seriously it has been 5+ years since I've ever found a page with a blink tag on it.
Mental note - don't buy Plextor until they learn that 'cool' HTML tricks from 1995 are not a good idea.
You really need to use a thridparty task manager. A lot of newer spyware programs and keyloggers can hide from the MS version but fail to recognize a thridparty viewer like Codestuff Starter (which also happens to show you all the Run keys in the same app)
...they do nothing!
Remember that dark brown page with black symbols on it? That thing was hard enough to read even when you have the real copy right in your hands. A friend of my father actually transcribed the whole thing onto graph paper just so he wouldn't have to squint at it in the future. Now that is dedication.
I've already seen up to chapter 12. I didn't realize that it an American made show was actually behind Canada for airing. Teletoon showed chapter 11 on the 20th and 12 on the 22nd. 13 is on tomorrow.
I've not bothered to watch, I've just let my HTPC archive them all. Once they are done with I will watch all of them in a row. Much less annoying.
I get all excited when someone emails me a virus. I save it and decompress with UPX then sniff around to see if there is anything of interest. I happily spent an hour looking at this one. I'm not any sort of hacker but I could see some readable text in the message. Nothing exciting.
Oh and I love Thunderbird.
According to Visa when the place I work started accepting it, it is around .1% for North America. This is from a customer rep so nothing too scientific here.
I've read that losses due to fraud are between $1 and $2 billion for a $200 billion dollar industry.
If the figures are correct, it means that Paypal is 5x more prone to fraud than Visa. This scares me considering I have had two incidents with my card (once stolen and the other an online error thanks to Visa in Germany billing the wrong number.)
359 7-11 employees are going through their Pepsi stock and taking out all the winners.
Simple solution.
When a website requires anything other than an email address I name myself after the websites. If I ever get spam directed to Amazon DotCom I know who sold my address and can block future emails from it. I remain anoymous (Well as close as I can given my email is out there, but it is only a temp address anyway) and a foulup like this would have revealed only that I used a fake name.
You've never seen the prices of medical texts have you? The campus bookstore here has an average price of $400...per book. We are talking a 300 page book for $400.
Good thing I took economics. Economic theory hasn't changed much since the 1970s
In my first two years I dutifully lined up at the campus book store, forked over $350 for 4 books and went home a bit depressed and with sore feet from standing for 6 hours.
Then along came Chapters (Canadian book chain). I discovered that even if they didn't carry a particular book, they would order it for me. Downside? I was bookless for two weeks at the start of a semester but it never really hurt me. Upside? The bookstore on campus always jacked prices by 10% to "cover costs". Chapters sold at MSRP less 15% for having a membership.
So in my next three years I saved a combined total of $520 versus the campus book store. One particular book was $140 on campus. Chapters sold it to me for $60 (The MSRP) and I sold it used for $100. Ingoring the savings, I got free shipping on orders over $60 and they were delivered right to my door. No lineup for me.
I imagine Amazon would be the same.
>Graphics cards that allow you to watch television on your monitor, by plugging a coax cable into the card.
Um sure. That is why you can walk into any store today and still see four different tuners on the shelf. The market for tuner / capture cards is small but exists and thrives. HTPCs are taking off now with people building TIVOlike devices. A tuner card is required.
PS -
>Audio Cassettes for data storage
You have strange definitions of a flop. The cassette tape was THE means of data storage in the early days of home computing. PET had one, the VIC20, ADAM, TRS80, hell even the IBM XT first came with one.
>Windows 1.0
Strange definition indeed.
Martian Lander
Just like Lunar Lander, just 35x harder.
A friend of my Dad gave him XP Pro as a gift a month ago. He installed it then connected to the net. It took 4 minutes until he was hit by blaster.
He finally had to resort to getting the guy that gave him XP to make a CD up of the patches so he could actually use XP on the net.
Personally I just have to say thanks to my linux firewall.
The good:
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - I battled a full bladder and still enjoyed it.
Finding Nemo - Pixar just gets better and better at what they do.
XMen 2 - Quite entertaining
Kill Bill - Fun but not the best
Pirates of the Carribean - Suprisingly good movie
The bad:
Once Upon A Time In Mexico - I'm told it is good, I disagree
Matrix Reloaded - Dissappointing end to a series that started good, went stupid and got worse.
Daredevil - Need I say anything?
Terminator 3 - Ugh. Not DD level but not much better.
The King of bad movies came out this year.
Gigli - I witnessed a few minutes and I am scared for life.
Advantages:
1. Router ability - Hook up a hub to it and you can have several dozen PCs served from one line.
2. A roadblock to your PC. Your IP address isn't the one to your PC, so attacking that IP attacks the firewall, not you. Doing a DOS attack against a firewall user might kill their network connection, but the PCs behind it will still work just fine.
3. Adds an extra step that hackers have to deal with. The effort required to find out that you found some uninteresting box is probably not worth it.
4. If you have a network in the house, you just plug in to the hub and any PC is now protected.
5. Proxy/caching - Smoothwall tends to do a better job at it than Mozilla. Even better is the other PCs on the network take advantage of the cache in place on the firewall to reduce incoming bandwidth.
6. Independant of your PC. Getting compromised with some malicious software is bound to happen to a few people, but the independant box won't be affected so while stuff goes out, nothing comes back in.
7. Recycle old PCs. Admit it, you never thought a P133MHz had any use anymore did you?
8. Blocking - This is very useful on a network. If you don't want people to be visiting a particular IP. Just block it at the linux box and nobody gets to see that IP anymore.
Doesn't the law require that all devices capable of displaying/recording TV must obey the broadcast flag by 2005 on HDTV? This would cause any DVR purchased after 2005 to be essentially junk unless you hack it.
So not only will you disable your fastforward/skip. You will disable the box altogether, or force a low quality version on the person who recorded.
IR can be focused. In fact you can have IR lasers, though it would be hidiously small that it would take practice just to aim the device at the target which would be idiotic.
Science is boring. True, people (myself included) are entertained by documentarys covering major events or discoveries but the vast majority of it is enough to drive most people insane.
Any grad student that has been forced to sit though someone's lecture on how their NMR data yielded a different result from the guys that did it two years ago will understand.
Oh I know, how about a show on how one does titrations and thin layer chomotagraphy. OH BOY!
In case someone really wants to know, you could just find a lecture at a local university and sit in on a class. Few places actually check to see that the students sitting there really are students.
I saw the story and though - that's a dupe! After searching back 3 years I was convinced that I saw it elsewhere. I stand corrected.
I only just realized that I have been visiting Slashdot for over five years now.
Or is it a 1 pibibytes?
I have a 2x CDROM that I think was made in 1993 or 1994 on a Pentium Pro 166MHz with a 60GB HDD made 9 weeks ago. Firewall box incase you are curious.
I think someone added a zero in there.
300 average homes sounds more sane than 3000.