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What if they are not just waisting time using IM, Chat, etc.? What if they are working on a project. When I was in high school I had many projects that required me to pull late nites on the computer using the internet for research. It is not fair to set a static limit for internet access. Just be a parent. How hard is it to say turn off the computer? If that is too hard just unplug it. Just because they don't have internet access doesn't mean they are going to abandon the computer, games are a great distraction.
The coffee grinder HD is nothing new. I have a 700 series with a fried power management unit and all the HD does is grind. However sometimes I can acctualy get a floppy to boot the thing. When Thinkpads die they go out in the strangest ways.
Basic is a great learning languange. I am glad to see someone create a version that incorporates the simplicity of basic with the power to create usable applications. This is yet another chapter in one of the greatest programming languages.
I use MyDomain.com for my domain registrations, 8.50 a year and I get very little junk mail or spam. If you are that worried though, get a free email account and a PO Box, the 25$ a year for the box will be well worth it.
I have one of these and am very pleased with it. I use mine for everything from mapping to geocaching. I has plenty of memory to store MapSource data (Garmin's maps), is very accurate (down to 2yds at times), and is completely water proof. It also has the added bonus of a barometer and magnetic compass. However, it is most definantly a power hog. Cheap batteries won't even power it with all the features turned on and some of the fonts are a little small. But for the money it is a great buy.
Norton Ghost may be one of the better products on the market today, but it is also the cause of many headaches in my job as a lab manager. Sometimes it works great, and other times it refuses to work. Basicly the moral to this story is just because you spend money on it does not mean it will always work. However, for restoring the condition of the system on every boot, we are using DeepFreeze. It is on of the best investments we ever made.
A gps can be a great tool in the woods, on the trail, and even on the open highway. However, that is not normaly where you are looking for wireless points. In the city a gps can be difficult to use because of all the tall buildings blocking and bouncing the signal. In the suburbs and in resedential areas you will get better reception. So depending on where you are looking it might or might not help you.
I would definantly have some sort of boot disk with networking support. (Novell, TCP, Microsoft, etc.) That can be a valueable tool in extracting files from a toasted machine. Norton Ghost is another useful tool.
Up until recently I had an older cell phone that did not have all these fancy features. The only reason I upgraded was for digital reception. Sometimes, however, I wish I still had the old one. I could hear better and it had a better battery life. They just don't make them like they used to. Even the phone I have now, which is about a year old, is considered ancient. What ever happened to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)?
Garmin had a GPS enabled cellular phone on the market for several years, the NavTalk.
They have since discontinued that device. They do have a new GPS phone, the NavTalk GSM. However, due to the fact that it is GSM and not CDMA it is not an option in the United States.
If you are going to the trouble to maintain a lite version of your site, then it is not that much more work to also have a NS 4 capable version. NS 4 does support some style sheets, just in a very limited and non-standard way. When I design pages that use css I creat several templates. One for Standard browsers, one for text only browsing, and one for old versions of netscape. Then just add the content to the templates. The key differences are that NS 4 uses <LAYER> tags instead of the <DIV> tags that standard browsers use and they do not support the getElementById() function. NS 4 has its own method of manipulating css objects. Also some of the css properties have slightly different names. For a complete reference to NS4 style sheets and other technologies go to the Netscape DevEdge Archive.
Wood really does help. I live in a dorm room and rather than getting cheap plastic shelves for my computers I decided on wooden ones, not only for their strength, but for the warmth of the material. Wood definantly cuts down on the hard look of a computer room.
I was refering to him using it for his own personal use, I must have misunderstood what he was wanting to use it for, I thought he only wanted personal phone access in BFE.
Another option you might look at is amature radio. The licencing for this is much simpler and if you must access the pots they have phone patch devices that you can install.
I guess buying my ups from a friend for $20 was not such a good deal after all. It could have cost me my other computer hardware! Ouch! Thanks for the heads up on the recall.
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What if they are not just waisting time using IM, Chat, etc.? What if they are working on a project. When I was in high school I had many projects that required me to pull late nites on the computer using the internet for research. It is not fair to set a static limit for internet access. Just be a parent. How hard is it to say turn off the computer? If that is too hard just unplug it. Just because they don't have internet access doesn't mean they are going to abandon the computer, games are a great distraction.
Not every one here likes apple! I personaly dispise them, and microsoft. From what I can tell the majority of people here use Linux, not Apple.
The coffee grinder HD is nothing new. I have a 700 series with a fried power management unit and all the HD does is grind. However sometimes I can acctualy get a floppy to boot the thing. When Thinkpads die they go out in the strangest ways.
The National Weather Service has quite a few interesting and useful feeds. Including Hurricane Info and Current Observations.
Basic is a great learning languange. I am glad to see someone create a version that incorporates the simplicity of basic with the power to create usable applications. This is yet another chapter in one of the greatest programming languages.
I use MyDomain.com for my domain registrations, 8.50 a year and I get very little junk mail or spam. If you are that worried though, get a free email account and a PO Box, the 25$ a year for the box will be well worth it.
I have one of these and am very pleased with it. I use mine for everything from mapping to geocaching. I has plenty of memory to store MapSource data (Garmin's maps), is very accurate (down to 2yds at times), and is completely water proof. It also has the added bonus of a barometer and magnetic compass. However, it is most definantly a power hog. Cheap batteries won't even power it with all the features turned on and some of the fonts are a little small. But for the money it is a great buy.
Some people have an aquarium for a screen saver, while others just turn their computer into an aquarium. Nice job, looks great!
Norton Ghost may be one of the better products on the market today, but it is also the cause of many headaches in my job as a lab manager. Sometimes it works great, and other times it refuses to work. Basicly the moral to this story is just because you spend money on it does not mean it will always work. However, for restoring the condition of the system on every boot, we are using DeepFreeze. It is on of the best investments we ever made.
A gps can be a great tool in the woods, on the trail, and even on the open highway. However, that is not normaly where you are looking for wireless points. In the city a gps can be difficult to use because of all the tall buildings blocking and bouncing the signal. In the suburbs and in resedential areas you will get better reception. So depending on where you are looking it might or might not help you.
Petzl sells a small light weight led headlamp called the tikka. This might solve your problem.
I would definantly have some sort of boot disk with networking support. (Novell, TCP, Microsoft, etc.) That can be a valueable tool in extracting files from a toasted machine. Norton Ghost is another useful tool.
Does foobar mean anything?
Up until recently I had an older cell phone that did not have all these fancy features. The only reason I upgraded was for digital reception. Sometimes, however, I wish I still had the old one. I could hear better and it had a better battery life. They just don't make them like they used to. Even the phone I have now, which is about a year old, is considered ancient. What ever happened to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)?
Garmin had a GPS enabled cellular phone on the market for several years, the NavTalk. They have since discontinued that device. They do have a new GPS phone, the NavTalk GSM. However, due to the fact that it is GSM and not CDMA it is not an option in the United States.
If you are going to the trouble to maintain a lite version of your site, then it is not that much more work to also have a NS 4 capable version. NS 4 does support some style sheets, just in a very limited and non-standard way. When I design pages that use css I creat several templates. One for Standard browsers, one for text only browsing, and one for old versions of netscape. Then just add the content to the templates. The key differences are that NS 4 uses <LAYER> tags instead of the <DIV> tags that standard browsers use and they do not support the getElementById() function. NS 4 has its own method of manipulating css objects. Also some of the css properties have slightly different names. For a complete reference to NS4 style sheets and other technologies go to the Netscape DevEdge Archive.
Wood really does help. I live in a dorm room and rather than getting cheap plastic shelves for my computers I decided on wooden ones, not only for their strength, but for the warmth of the material. Wood definantly cuts down on the hard look of a computer room.
I was refering to him using it for his own personal use, I must have misunderstood what he was wanting to use it for, I thought he only wanted personal phone access in BFE.
Another option you might look at is amature radio. The licencing for this is much simpler and if you must access the pots they have phone patch devices that you can install.
I guess buying my ups from a friend for $20 was not such a good deal after all. It could have cost me my other computer hardware! Ouch! Thanks for the heads up on the recall.