Hamburgers. No ham. It's a strange world in which we live. You should try going to Germany and ordering a hamburger anywhere other than McDonald's. You'll find that hamburgers, in the country they come from, are, indeed, made of pork, not beef.
More like: "it's a strange country in which we live".
I'd love to hear more hardware details on that file server setup. I'm looking into doing the exact same thing, except I have *zero* experience with Solaris. So any pointers you have would be great, but mostly I'd like to know what motherboard/chipset you ended up with that was cheap and supported.
I've got a MacBook, too, and the squares look different to me as well. At first glance, the second one seems to be seemless, where the first one has obvious banding. However, you can see the banding on the second one as well, if you glance from one side of the screen to the other, while your eyes are moving, rather than stationary, fixed. I guess that's explained by the "time dithering" rather than "spacial dithering". Up until I read this story, I had no idea that such a thing even existed.
Thanks for pointing this out! I've been wishing for a feature like this for a long time, and wondered if there might be an "add-on" that might implement that functionality, and this does the job perfectly!
You've heard of parity files, right? The same technology, Reed-Solomon encoding, is used on DVDs for recovery of scratches. A radial scratch may remove bits from many files (into dust, even), but it will be seamlessly, automatically recovered by any decent drive, if it was burned properly to begin with.
The problem is that many DVDs barely work when they've just been burned, because it's counting on that error correction just to read the files without any physical media errors... just burning errors by poor hardware/firmware.
Are you saying that Parallels is inherently unable to use this capability?
Currently, yes--that's what I'm saying. Parallels, at the moment, does not have support for hardware 3D in Windows. That is something that they're working on.
Frankly, if they're able to get it working, they will have taken away pretty much the only reason to run Boot Camp.
If you forked over $1300 for a brand new notebook, and treated it like with the utmost care, you'd probably be concerned if the plastic got "stained" just by using it with clean hands after just a few weeks... And if you read that hundreds of other people had the same problem, you'd probably be upset, too! I bought my Macbook the day they came out, and the palmrest had turned from white to dark grey within 10 days. You remember the story, but do you remember the conclusion? Apple admitted to a manufacturing defect (where they neglected to apply a coating of some chemical), and repaired the affected machines, including mine. Now it's been over 6 months, and still looks like new.
Apart from that, the EU Commission is not a government of a country - the EU is not a state or nation in any sense. It is 'a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 independent, democratic member states' - to quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU Gee... uh... isn't that how the US of A started out?
I've been using a catch-all for years, but the spammers finally found out about my domain about 6 months ago, and forge it as From: my domain, and the bounces have been coming to me as well. First thing I did was implement SenderID/SPF, hoping that would at least make a dent in it, but no luck. Finally, I took a few hours to go through my email and manually add forwarders for every address I've given out (many 100s), and disabled the catch-all. Not only will I not see the bounces now, but the spammers will have less luck using my domain, since more and more servers implement sender-checking and can reject the spam before it's even sent, as your other reply mentioned.
It doesn't work -- the trackpad driver used with Boot Camp is a generic Windows driver, and apparently the right-click functionality is part of the OS X driver. However, it does work perfectly in Remote Desktop... Haven't had a chance to try Parallels yet, which is a Virtual PC-type of software that may do exactly what you want, without even having to reboot into Windows...
That's a really good idea! I guess that's probably why they did something like that when they designed the CD and DVD formats. Do a little bit of reading, and I think you'll be impressed. Actually, without the error correction technology, the tiniest speck of dust would completely freeze your video or music. After re-reading your post, it sounds like you're suggesting an additional layer of redundancy, but with the way the discs are encoded with error correction right now, an unrecoverable scratch would probably take out the backup, too.
I've been using 2 gig and 4 gig 80x Transcend Compactflash cards in my Rebel XT, and have been very impressed with their speed, and they're a great value. Lexar's 4 gig cost more than twice as much, and the performance of the Transcend card is close enough for me. I would definitely recommend Transcend's cards to anyone looking for good performance on a budget.
My mistake was showing the wife that jAlbum supports skins. She HAD to use the one with flash, no matter how hard I tried to convince her otherwise. It's really not that bad, though. Promise.
for the reply. My host is cheap, but it's not hosted at home, so they can probably spare the bandwidth. And I've never gotten near using up my monthly bandwidth allocation, so it probably wasn't that brave of me after all. By the way, is your name Dutch? I spent a few years in Germany near the border of NL, and we popped over all the time for shopping/movies/dining, etc.
I just put my wife's photography site online yesterday, and it's hosted via domain masking/redirection from godaddy. Anyone with Oprah or Safari have trouble getting to it?
Alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme, not a gene. And a related bit of trivia: Do you know what the antidote for methanol ingestion is? Good old ethanol! See the wiki and scroll down to see why.
IIRC (from what I've read), if you use sunscreen, it will prevent most skin cancer, but also raise your risk of getting much more lethal cancers, like colon or lung. I think I'd rather have the odd skin cancer cut out, personally.
And why does it have to be that way? I've been to theatres in Holland that allowed outside food/beverages, had reasonable prices for their concessions, and their ticket prices were approximately the same as they are here. Any idea why that would be? Me neither.
The HP deskjet 3520 came with full ink carts. I checked before buying it and compared the ml count on the printer box with the replacement carts. And by the way, the B&W cart plus the color cart would have cost more than the printer that included both. If they want me to trash it and buy a brand new one when the ink runs out, then so be it.
Paid $25 for my HP at wal-mart, and planned to just use the B&W cart it came with, and hawk the color cart on e-bay. And when I'm out of black ink, toss it in the trash and buy a new one. Screw HP and their ink $$$ scheme. Hope they're losing money one each one I buy.
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More like: "it's a strange country in which we live".
then why are you measuring your commute in kilometers?
just curious...
I'd love to hear more hardware details on that file server setup. I'm looking into doing the exact same thing, except I have *zero* experience with Solaris. So any pointers you have would be great, but mostly I'd like to know what motherboard/chipset you ended up with that was cheap and supported.
I've got a MacBook, too, and the squares look different to me as well. At first glance, the second one seems to be seemless, where the first one has obvious banding. However, you can see the banding on the second one as well, if you glance from one side of the screen to the other, while your eyes are moving, rather than stationary, fixed. I guess that's explained by the "time dithering" rather than "spacial dithering". Up until I read this story, I had no idea that such a thing even existed.
Thanks for pointing this out! I've been wishing for a feature like this for a long time, and wondered if there might be an "add-on" that might implement that functionality, and this does the job perfectly!
You've heard of parity files, right? The same technology, Reed-Solomon encoding, is used on DVDs for recovery of scratches. A radial scratch may remove bits from many files (into dust, even), but it will be seamlessly, automatically recovered by any decent drive, if it was burned properly to begin with.
The problem is that many DVDs barely work when they've just been burned, because it's counting on that error correction just to read the files without any physical media errors... just burning errors by poor hardware/firmware.
It wouldn't bother me one bit if the monopoly shifted from Microsoft to Google. They both have proven track records, both opposite.
Are you saying that Parallels is inherently unable to use this capability?
Currently, yes--that's what I'm saying. Parallels, at the moment, does not have support for hardware 3D in Windows. That is something that they're working on.Frankly, if they're able to get it working, they will have taken away pretty much the only reason to run Boot Camp.
Hardware 3D.
If you forked over $1300 for a brand new notebook, and treated it like with the utmost care, you'd probably be concerned if the plastic got "stained" just by using it with clean hands after just a few weeks... And if you read that hundreds of other people had the same problem, you'd probably be upset, too! I bought my Macbook the day they came out, and the palmrest had turned from white to dark grey within 10 days.
You remember the story, but do you remember the conclusion? Apple admitted to a manufacturing defect (where they neglected to apply a coating of some chemical), and repaired the affected machines, including mine. Now it's been over 6 months, and still looks like new.
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Apart from that, the EU Commission is not a government of a country - the EU is not a state or nation in any sense. It is 'a supranational and intergovernmental union of 25 independent, democratic member states' - to quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU Gee... uh... isn't that how the US of A started out?
I've been using a catch-all for years, but the spammers finally found out about my domain about 6 months ago, and forge it as From: my domain, and the bounces have been coming to me as well. First thing I did was implement SenderID/SPF, hoping that would at least make a dent in it, but no luck. Finally, I took a few hours to go through my email and manually add forwarders for every address I've given out (many 100s), and disabled the catch-all. Not only will I not see the bounces now, but the spammers will have less luck using my domain, since more and more servers implement sender-checking and can reject the spam before it's even sent, as your other reply mentioned.
It doesn't work -- the trackpad driver used with Boot Camp is a generic Windows driver, and apparently the right-click functionality is part of the OS X driver. However, it does work perfectly in Remote Desktop... Haven't had a chance to try Parallels yet, which is a Virtual PC-type of software that may do exactly what you want, without even having to reboot into Windows...
That's a really good idea! I guess that's probably why they did something like that when they designed the CD and DVD formats. Do a little bit of reading, and I think you'll be impressed. Actually, without the error correction technology, the tiniest speck of dust would completely freeze your video or music.
After re-reading your post, it sounds like you're suggesting an additional layer of redundancy, but with the way the discs are encoded with error correction right now, an unrecoverable scratch would probably take out the backup, too.
that it really is free before you plug in, especially if you're in Germany!
I've been using 2 gig and 4 gig 80x Transcend Compactflash cards in my Rebel XT, and have been very impressed with their speed, and they're a great value. Lexar's 4 gig cost more than twice as much, and the performance of the Transcend card is close enough for me. I would definitely recommend Transcend's cards to anyone looking for good performance on a budget.
My mistake was showing the wife that jAlbum supports skins. She HAD to use the one with flash, no matter how hard I tried to convince her otherwise. It's really not that bad, though. Promise.
for the reply. My host is cheap, but it's not hosted at home, so they can probably spare the bandwidth. And I've never gotten near using up my monthly bandwidth allocation, so it probably wasn't that brave of me after all.
By the way, is your name Dutch? I spent a few years in Germany near the border of NL, and we popped over all the time for shopping/movies/dining, etc.
I just put my wife's photography site online yesterday, and it's hosted via domain masking/redirection from godaddy. Anyone with Oprah or Safari have trouble getting to it?
http://www.photosparks.com/
Alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme, not a gene. And a related bit of trivia: Do you know what the antidote for methanol ingestion is? Good old ethanol! See the wiki and scroll down to see why.
IIRC (from what I've read), if you use sunscreen, it will prevent most skin cancer, but also raise your risk of getting much more lethal cancers, like colon or lung. I think I'd rather have the odd skin cancer cut out, personally.
And why does it have to be that way? I've been to theatres in Holland that allowed outside food/beverages, had reasonable prices for their concessions, and their ticket prices were approximately the same as they are here. Any idea why that would be? Me neither.
The HP deskjet 3520 came with full ink carts. I checked before buying it and compared the ml count on the printer box with the replacement carts. And by the way, the B&W cart plus the color cart would have cost more than the printer that included both. If they want me to trash it and buy a brand new one when the ink runs out, then so be it.
Paid $25 for my HP at wal-mart, and planned to just use the B&W cart it came with, and hawk the color cart on e-bay. And when I'm out of black ink, toss it in the trash and buy a new one. Screw HP and their ink $$$ scheme. Hope they're losing money one each one I buy.