He feels the mama rock's pain via a particularly difficult Vulcan mind meld with her. "Ahhhhhh painnnnn arghhhhhhhhh," I recall him saying. That's how I remember it.
Parent is exactly right, this is about FM modulators, not terrestrial repeaters, which use a different frequency entirely. Both have had licensing issues, for XM and Sirius. FM modulators are little transmitters which allow easy install of XM and Satellite radios, or any accessory, such as mp3 players, without having to wire into the back of your car radio. It's like a cassette adapter, but easier and with somewhat lower sound quality. Many "Plug and Play" satellite radios have these FM mods built-in internally. They have been overpowered and now they are ridiculously underpowered. Seems the manufactures solved the FCC problem the quickest way possible, by removing the internal antenna of the FM mod. Competition between XM and Sirius is fierce, so after the FCC cracked down on the overpowered transmitters, there was no time to get a correctly powered design approved, is the best guess. There is even a ridiculous design proposed, by both XM and Sirius, for paste-on transmitting antennas that go on your vehicle's window near its external antenna. That's how weak the new transmitters are. Meanwhile, you can purchase illegally powerful stand-alone FM transmitters online no problem.
Another solution for the weak transmitters to attach a wire to the "FM out" most of these units have. The wire acts as an antenna. Most common is earphone wire since the plug fits. All other solutions require access to the back of the car radio.
That's what we thought about Marijuana laws in the USA. Sorry to go offtopic, but people get more conservative as they get older and have kids. Forty years on from Woodstock, and pot laws here vary by state, but are quite strict in many. First offense simple possession, loose your driving license for six months, that kind of thing. (Even when not driving.) No longer a felony, but punitive political side steps. I hate pot, but beer causes more violence.
The articles about individual movies can be a lot more interesting than the corrresponding IMDB page. I start with IMDB and maybe go to Wikipedia (or MRQE or Google, etc.) if I have time.
Wikipedia's popularity is snowballed by its high Google ranking for many searches.
Citizendium is hard to pronounce. It doesn't sound like a baby word (Yahoo, Google, Wiki, EBay).
Oh and it still has few stability bugs. It can hang when the network connection (dialup especially) is down at the wrong time, near but not at startup, and this requires Task Manager to kill it. Also, when using one Eudora.exe program directory, and multiple data directories, which is a great feature, you have to be sure to pause a few seconds between startups of the distinct desktop shortcuts, and not to re-index or search them at the same time. Those thread bugs used to be worse.
I'm heavy Eudora user and have over a decade of archived mailboxes. It has always used the unix-mail style text format for mailboxes, with attachments saved separately. (I guess we all know Outlook stores everything in one horrible PST file.)
But... Eudora had terrible problems corrupting mailboxes all through the late 1990's and early 2000's. They finally got it fixed about four years ago. I'd search for an email I knew was there, I could grep it, but it was gone from the message list. Looking at the text file, I'd see the delimiting blank line between messages got crushed. It took them a long time to fix that. Handling nonprintable characters and line endings correctly seems to have been the problem. I think they even let ASCII 26 (x1A) into the files, which acts as an EOF in many Windows/DOS text formats.
As for MIME/HTML, at least in Windows, Eudora handles it two ways. You can choose to use "Microsoft's Viewer" (default) or Eudora's rendering, which has had bugs but now seems stable.
Overall, Eudora has not been as perfect as described here, but much better and safer than Outlook. And right now, it is stable. The almost-current 7.0.1.0 version lasted over a year, I believe. In any case, the release schedule has been slow lately.
From Win95 days... probably the first wooden computer...
http://lapage.com/kunst/
(Archive of the original site.)
The designer was http://blaisegaston.com/ who is still very active, doing high-end furniture, not computers!
Borland C++ 5 was a terrible product. I couldn't believe it came from Borland, since everything else they made since that tiny one-disk Pascal compiler had worked like magic. I was never able to evaluate the C++ 5 compliler because the IDE crashed all the time. So I went back to Delphi for rapid devlopment, and MSVC for macro hell.
Anyway, that was all *before* the Inprise name change at Borland. The internet was starting to boom and Inprise decided to make it expensive to get the Winsock TCP/IP components. Using the $99 (or $199 ?) version, you had to download feeware components to do anything over the net.
Looks like Firefox 1.5.0.6 will be released very quickly to fix a bug in some streaming media links in 1.5.0.5. Specifically, Windows Media ".wmv" when called using "mms://", maybe real using "rm://", does not work.
Breaks streamining video links on http://mlb.com/
Release candidates for Firefox 1.5.0.6 are already on the way.
The pictures came in, over live network TV, one vertical line at a time. From left to right it took several minutes, as I recall it, maybe longer. No image from the planet's surface had ever been seen before. And you just knew it was going to be more interesting than the surface of the Moon.
But despite the live coverage, I don't recall much public interest. Apollo and Skylab had petered out. Watergate maybe. Little unmanned dingbats going to the outer planets, and later Hubble, seemed to get more antention. But I always prefered the "you were there" quality of Viking's pictures from Mars. It was obvious a person could walk around in that landscape, with enough warm clothing.
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I admit I'm casual at work, but it is what I work on.
1. apache processes: PHP as a module is the most common setup I've seen, while mod_perl is a problem, esp. with shared hosting.
2. Sessions. PHP tries some good stuff, including rewriting all your links with the SID if cookies are disabled. But yes, PHP's possible flakiness is worrisome. Perl's still the gold standard for me. But compare trying to do *very* simple Sessions:
PHP:
session_start();// turns on output buffering, handles cookie and non-cookie case @$_SESSION[$ct]++;// read/write a session variable without any special syntax // that's all, session writes when script ends.
Perl: CGI::Session::CookBook ...and you have to worry about not printing before the cookie, etc.
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Since regexes must be quoted, there is a problem with the/e modifier which cannot be fixed.
See: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15050
It comes down to this:
$text=preg_replace("/(.*)/e","'\\1'",$text)
will never work right if $text contains the character ", and
$text=preg_replace('/(.*)/e','"\1"',$text)
will never work right if $text contains the character ',
because a backslash is introduced.
So you have the write a function to remove the \ and put that function in the replacement string.
And plenty of other features are missing that Perl has with m//, s///. For instance, m//g.
In general, Perl is more reliable than PHP, and I prefer it, but PHP does have two advantages:
1. on a typical Linux/Apache system, without mod_perl, Perl spawns a process on every reequest.
2. session-handling.
support for most DOS and Windows 3.1 software in addition to native OS/2 applications
Warp did not run DOOM, or whatever the super popular DOS-based game of the day was. This was a marketing disaster, that IBM had not checked it would run the most popular game before releasing. They'd spent a fortune running ads about how Warp could run all your old Win/DOS apps, as well as newer, better stuff. It was a seamless, IBM rock solid solution for a confusing time. Whoops. Guys wanna play DOOM.
DOOM was programmed with special memory extenders to get around 16-bit (or 8-bit?) limitations in DOS. That was the hangup.
I think it was around this time of year. Guys wanna play DOOM on Christmas!
Dial M for Murder, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, is the best one I've seen. It was at a film festival, and they had the cardboard glasses.
All 3-D movies at IMDB are here
(215 matches).
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He also removed Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the roof of the White House just out of spite.
He feels the mama rock's pain via a particularly difficult Vulcan mind meld with her. "Ahhhhhh painnnnn arghhhhhhhhh," I recall him saying. That's how I remember it.
IIRC, Mozilla even fixed a Gopher security bug recently.
Not only that, it installs without your permission, on a standard windows setup. I had no idea USB drives can autorun like CD's. Anyway, here's the info on the horrible thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 and how to fix it: http://www.google.com/search?q=uninstall+u3 and then I hear this is the good stuff: http://portableapps.com/
It looks like a win32 binary, not a tarball.
Not below 89MHz, below 90MHz.h e_USA#FM_radio_channel_assignments_in_the_US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting_in_t
Parent is exactly right, this is about FM modulators, not terrestrial repeaters, which use a different frequency entirely. Both have had licensing issues, for XM and Sirius. FM modulators are little transmitters which allow easy install of XM and Satellite radios, or any accessory, such as mp3 players, without having to wire into the back of your car radio. It's like a cassette adapter, but easier and with somewhat lower sound quality. Many "Plug and Play" satellite radios have these FM mods built-in internally. They have been overpowered and now they are ridiculously underpowered. Seems the manufactures solved the FCC problem the quickest way possible, by removing the internal antenna of the FM mod. Competition between XM and Sirius is fierce, so after the FCC cracked down on the overpowered transmitters, there was no time to get a correctly powered design approved, is the best guess. There is even a ridiculous design proposed, by both XM and Sirius, for paste-on transmitting antennas that go on your vehicle's window near its external antenna. That's how weak the new transmitters are. Meanwhile, you can purchase illegally powerful stand-alone FM transmitters online no problem.
Another solution for the weak transmitters to attach a wire to the "FM out" most of these units have. The wire acts as an antenna. Most common is earphone wire since the plug fits. All other solutions require access to the back of the car radio.
You can sell it to a pointy-headed boss but it will not make the pointy headed boss's company any better in the long run.
Gopher could present images, sound, etc., as well as those gopher menus and text pages. I used it on a NeXT!
Or http://usps.gov/
The United States Postal Service has not been a government run institution... these facts - www.usps.com
That's what we thought about Marijuana laws in the USA. Sorry to go offtopic, but people get more conservative as they get older and have kids. Forty years on from Woodstock, and pot laws here vary by state, but are quite strict in many. First offense simple possession, loose your driving license for six months, that kind of thing. (Even when not driving.) No longer a felony, but punitive political side steps. I hate pot, but beer causes more violence.
Also the tag can span lines Somthing like
s/<img.*?>//gis
whould be a start.
The articles about individual movies can be a lot more interesting than the corrresponding IMDB page. I start with IMDB and maybe go to Wikipedia (or MRQE or Google, etc.) if I have time.
Wikipedia's popularity is snowballed by its high Google ranking for many searches.
Citizendium is hard to pronounce. It doesn't sound like a baby word (Yahoo, Google, Wiki, EBay).
Oh and it still has few stability bugs. It can hang when the network connection (dialup especially) is down at the wrong time, near but not at startup, and this requires Task Manager to kill it. Also, when using one Eudora.exe program directory, and multiple data directories, which is a great feature, you have to be sure to pause a few seconds between startups of the distinct desktop shortcuts, and not to re-index or search them at the same time. Those thread bugs used to be worse.
I'm heavy Eudora user and have over a decade of archived mailboxes. It has always used the unix-mail style text format for mailboxes, with attachments saved separately. (I guess we all know Outlook stores everything in one horrible PST file.)
But... Eudora had terrible problems corrupting mailboxes all through the late 1990's and early 2000's. They finally got it fixed about four years ago. I'd search for an email I knew was there, I could grep it, but it was gone from the message list. Looking at the text file, I'd see the delimiting blank line between messages got crushed. It took them a long time to fix that. Handling nonprintable characters and line endings correctly seems to have been the problem. I think they even let ASCII 26 (x1A) into the files, which acts as an EOF in many Windows/DOS text formats.
As for MIME/HTML, at least in Windows, Eudora handles it two ways. You can choose to use "Microsoft's Viewer" (default) or Eudora's rendering, which has had bugs but now seems stable.
Overall, Eudora has not been as perfect as described here, but much better and safer than Outlook. And right now, it is stable. The almost-current 7.0.1.0 version lasted over a year, I believe. In any case, the release schedule has been slow lately.
You can read about "Eudora Rescue" here:I mport_From_Eudora#Importing_Eudora_Mail_with_Eudor a_Rescue
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Issues_:_
and here:
http://qwerky.50webs.com/eudorarescue/
I haven't used it since I didn't hear about it until after I stopped seeing ASCII 26's, etc.
From Win95 days... probably the first wooden computer... http://lapage.com/kunst/ (Archive of the original site.) The designer was http://blaisegaston.com/ who is still very active, doing high-end furniture, not computers!
typo: feeware -> freeware, community stuff. lots of good delphi stuff still available.
Borland C++ 5 was a terrible product. I couldn't believe it came from Borland, since everything else they made since that tiny one-disk Pascal compiler had worked like magic. I was never able to evaluate the C++ 5 compliler because the IDE crashed all the time. So I went back to Delphi for rapid devlopment, and MSVC for macro hell. Anyway, that was all *before* the Inprise name change at Borland. The internet was starting to boom and Inprise decided to make it expensive to get the Winsock TCP/IP components. Using the $99 (or $199 ?) version, you had to download feeware components to do anything over the net.
Looks like Firefox 1.5.0.6 will be released very quickly to fix a bug in some streaming media links in 1.5.0.5. Specifically, Windows Media ".wmv" when called using "mms://", maybe real using "rm://", does not work. Breaks streamining video links on http://mlb.com/ Release candidates for Firefox 1.5.0.6 are already on the way.
The pictures came in, over live network TV, one vertical line at a time. From left to right it took several minutes, as I recall it, maybe longer. No image from the planet's surface had ever been seen before. And you just knew it was going to be more interesting than the surface of the Moon. But despite the live coverage, I don't recall much public interest. Apollo and Skylab had petered out. Watergate maybe. Little unmanned dingbats going to the outer planets, and later Hubble, seemed to get more antention. But I always prefered the "you were there" quality of Viking's pictures from Mars. It was obvious a person could walk around in that landscape, with enough warm clothing.
1. apache processes: PHP as a module is the most common setup I've seen, while mod_perl is a problem, esp. with shared hosting.
2. Sessions. PHP tries some good stuff, including rewriting all your links with the SID if cookies are disabled. But yes, PHP's possible flakiness is worrisome. Perl's still the gold standard for me. But compare trying to do *very* simple Sessions:
PHP:Perl:
CGI::Session::CookBook
Since regexes must be quoted, there is a problem with the /e modifier which cannot be fixed.
See: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15050
It comes down to this:
$text=preg_replace("/(.*)/e","'\\1'",$text)
will never work right if $text contains the character ", and
$text=preg_replace('/(.*)/e','"\1"',$text)
will never work right if $text contains the character ',
because a backslash is introduced.
So you have the write a function to remove the \ and put that function in the replacement string.
And plenty of other features are missing that Perl has with m//, s///. For instance, m//g.
In general, Perl is more reliable than PHP, and I prefer it, but PHP does have two advantages:
1. on a typical Linux/Apache system, without mod_perl, Perl spawns a process on every reequest.
2. session-handling.
You must be right. But didn't the bug prevent running the game? In any case, it was a p.r. disaster.
support for most DOS and Windows 3.1 software in addition to native OS/2 applications Warp did not run DOOM, or whatever the super popular DOS-based game of the day was. This was a marketing disaster, that IBM had not checked it would run the most popular game before releasing. They'd spent a fortune running ads about how Warp could run all your old Win/DOS apps, as well as newer, better stuff. It was a seamless, IBM rock solid solution for a confusing time. Whoops. Guys wanna play DOOM. DOOM was programmed with special memory extenders to get around 16-bit (or 8-bit?) limitations in DOS. That was the hangup. I think it was around this time of year. Guys wanna play DOOM on Christmas!
Dial M for Murder, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, is the best one I've seen. It was at a film festival, and they had the cardboard glasses. All 3-D movies at IMDB are here (215 matches).