I don't know if you RTFA or not, but it's worth reading about Cory's PowerBook problem near the end. Get through three different machines and all your iTunes are locked out, gone, adieu.
iTunes is simply too new for the problem to have hit home to non-ubergeeks who don't buy a new laptop every 10 months. Yet.
Biggest-selling album in the UK in 2003. Used copy-protection of a most objectionable kind (the type that screws up the error correction so it actually sounds worse).
My wife wanted it, and at the time play.com were selling the Canadian (non crippled) import, so I bought that as I refuse to pay for substandard goods. However, this should show that 99% of the general public couldn't give a flying filesystem check about copy protection.
Hydrogen peroxide is quite unstable and decomposes under the right conditions (silver catalyst). It's a fuel all by itself, although you can improve its performance by injecting other fuels, when it acts partly as a fuel and partly as an oxidiser.
I thought the balloon bombs were pretty famous, simply because they caused the only casualties (from enemy action) on the mainland USA during the whole of the war. A picknicking family found one of the bombs, which hadn't gone off, and er...tampered with it until it did, killing them.
The Microsoft founder you love to hate. Slightly less than the other one, that is;-)
But face it, wouldn't you rather be Allen with millions in the bank doing something that interests you, and not Gates with billions in the bank, married to the woman responsible for Bob?
Don't good LCD viewfinders make SLRs redundant for digital cameras? There really isn't much point in having all that moving-mirror hardware; if you must have a bigger image for focusing, electronic viewfinders are available. I speak as someone who also uses a medium format SLR, by the way.
But Apple can't compete with free (and no DRM). Significantly, the BPI (British Phonographic Industries) haven't used the same bully-boy tactics as the RIAA yet, so British P2P users can make their hard drives available with impunity.
I wonder to what extent Apple's business model anticipates a similar crackdown on this side of the pond?
Simple. It can get within 30km of a conventional warship without the other ship seeing it. It, on the other hand could see the other ship 100km away. Given suitable ship-ship missiles, who's going to blow up whom first?
All BT's exchanges have been System X (digital) for a few years now, but pulse-dialling still works in software, should you want it. The main reason some people still have dial phones is that they were hardwired to the wall, and it's an offence to get anyone but BT to install a modern plug-in wall box. At a cost.
What you're describing is what the G2 uses, but it isn't a heat pipe. It's just a small conventional water [1] cooling circuit.
[1] The website doesn't actually say what the liquid is, but as water has an unusually high specific heat capacity, is cheap and non-poisonous, I'd be surprised if they used anything else. A liquid sodium-cooled PC would have the uber-geek factor, but since it melts at 98 deg C it's not all that useful for CPUs:-(
It's been done...and more. One guy dumped all the components of his PC in a polystyrene tub full of liquid paraffin, which is pretty much what you're suggesting. However, he also stuck the evaporator of a fridge in there and got the paraffin down to stupidly low temperatures. The disadvantages: it looked crap and it smelt bad.
My point is that MS make themselves look rather silly when they say they've implemented piracy counter-measures that anyone can prove to be false, and if that isn't FUD I don't know what is. WPA doesn't actually prevent multiple installations as strictly as they say it does, and Windows Update works if you are using a random key, although they spread a myth that they would search their database of issued product keys before allowing you in.
Nor did I say a new patch comes out every week. As most people in here probably know, the second Tuesday of the month is when Windows patches are released. MS occasionally release interim patches if they think there is a risk of an exploit going live.
Hmmm. Works perfectly on my three different XP installations with 256MB RAM. Do you have a *lot* of stuff in your system tray? I've successfully booted XP without a swapfile on systems with only 128MB, although it will refuse to play if you only have 64MB.
1) Set the pagefile to be automatically wiped on shutdown. Windows will do this for you.
2) To delete things properly, turn off paging and disk caching, reboot, then run something like Mutilate to fill all the unused disk space with rubbish. Remember to turn paging and caching back on afterwards or performance will be slooooow.
3) If you're disposing of a PC and you want to sell it with the HDD, it's usually easiest to reformat the HDD in another PC (as a slave) then run a file wiper as above.
4) Running a good file wiper once is perfectly adequate. Physical data recovery techniques using misaligned drive heads to pick up "ghost" images may or may not exist (hence the occasional recommendation to wipe 9 times) but the cost of doing so is so high that it would have to be a matter of national security. Commercial data recovery/forensic services do NOT use physical recovery techniques, they just go for deleted files and slack space.
The problem is that I run a solely Linux household, so it's probably coming from a virus on someone else's computer.
That's just about it. The modus operandi of most current e-mail borne viruses is to raid the Windows address book for a couple of e-mail addresses at random. It uses one as the destination and the other as the spoof "reply to" address, then squirts it off using its own SMTP engine. An offbeat solution for Windows users would be to use Mozilla, then the Windows address book will stay empty and the virus can't spread (although any zombie payload will still work).
The upshot is that someone out there who has at some time e-mailed you, and therefore has your e-mail addy in their Windows address book, has got the virus on their PC. It could be one of your friends or it could be a large company with lax IT security. Nothing you can do about it.
He must have been really miffed when the IKEA guy overtook him. I mean, they just sell cheap stuff that you have to install yourself and the customer service is non-existent.
To be precise, SP1 won't install if you are using one of two well-known keys (the most common of which is the FCKGW- one that went out with the Devils0wn.iso).
Latest word from Redmond is that SP2 will follow a similar rule, except that installations using one of 20 corporate keys will be blocked.
If you used a keygen, SP2 will probably install with no problem. Microsoft have spouted a lot of FUD over their anti-piracy initiatives. For instance, Windows Update shouldn't work unless you are using a legitimately issued key on the MS database, but it obviously does.
To get back vaguely on topic, what SP2 will do to prevent spam is to (a) install a better firewall and turn it on by default and (b) turn on automatic updating. This should protect the most clueless users, but I suspect most of them were using legit copies anyway.
Anyway, to get vaguely back on topic, it's the second Tuesday of the month, so let's see what the MS patch fairy brings us today. Probably another exploit for those nasty spam trojan people.
That's poor practice, made possible by 35mm film/motordrives/someone else paying for the film and processing. Most landscape photographers using 5 x 4 cameras will be lucky to get more than one shot at a scene. Even medium format forces a more considered approach.
Digital's most negative contribution to photography, apart from the rapid obsolescence of the equipment (and the related fact that perfectly nice images from a few years ago can never be printed big enough), is that it encourages an even more scattergun approach than 35mm film. When Cartier-Bresson, who actually did use 35mm, talked of the "decisive moment", he didn't mean firing off 36 frames and hoping the decisive moment was somewhere in there. So many shots are unrepeatable and you have to get it right first time.
The only thing that stops AOL dumping it altogether is the brand name and the portal, and those are fairly meaningless to people getting on the Internet within the last 5 years.
There's no reason why we should be bothered though - Mozilla is a worthy replacement, much more reliable and functional, and the lines of evolution are clear. You could go from NS 4.7 to Mozilla 1.6 and feel right at home. Even the much-derided Mail and News (which I always preferred to the OE mess) is almost the same. When IE gets pop-up blocking I'm still not going back to it.
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iTunes is simply too new for the problem to have hit home to non-ubergeeks who don't buy a new laptop every 10 months. Yet.
My wife wanted it, and at the time play.com were selling the Canadian (non crippled) import, so I bought that as I refuse to pay for substandard goods. However, this should show that 99% of the general public couldn't give a flying filesystem check about copy protection.
Hydrogen peroxide is quite unstable and decomposes under the right conditions (silver catalyst). It's a fuel all by itself, although you can improve its performance by injecting other fuels, when it acts partly as a fuel and partly as an oxidiser.
Thank you. The flying monkeys of the RIAA will soon be arriving at your door with a lawsuit alleging violation of the DMCA ;-)
I thought the balloon bombs were pretty famous, simply because they caused the only casualties (from enemy action) on the mainland USA during the whole of the war. A picknicking family found one of the bombs, which hadn't gone off, and er...tampered with it until it did, killing them.
But face it, wouldn't you rather be Allen with millions in the bank doing something that interests you, and not Gates with billions in the bank, married to the woman responsible for Bob?
Don't good LCD viewfinders make SLRs redundant for digital cameras? There really isn't much point in having all that moving-mirror hardware; if you must have a bigger image for focusing, electronic viewfinders are available. I speak as someone who also uses a medium format SLR, by the way.
ISTR that some huge percentage of Americans have Spanish as their first language, and I bet they don't ALL listen to Ricky Martin ;-)
I wonder to what extent Apple's business model anticipates a similar crackdown on this side of the pond?
So your plate is detected as KEVIN instead of K3 VLN? If not, I can't see the boy racers going for it...
It's a chameleon called Geeko.
Simple. It can get within 30km of a conventional warship without the other ship seeing it. It, on the other hand could see the other ship 100km away. Given suitable ship-ship missiles, who's going to blow up whom first?
All BT's exchanges have been System X (digital) for a few years now, but pulse-dialling still works in software, should you want it. The main reason some people still have dial phones is that they were hardwired to the wall, and it's an offence to get anyone but BT to install a modern plug-in wall box. At a cost.
[1] The website doesn't actually say what the liquid is, but as water has an unusually high specific heat capacity, is cheap and non-poisonous, I'd be surprised if they used anything else. A liquid sodium-cooled PC would have the uber-geek factor, but since it melts at 98 deg C it's not all that useful for CPUs :-(
It's been done...and more. One guy dumped all the components of his PC in a polystyrene tub full of liquid paraffin, which is pretty much what you're suggesting. However, he also stuck the evaporator of a fridge in there and got the paraffin down to stupidly low temperatures. The disadvantages: it looked crap and it smelt bad.
Nor did I say a new patch comes out every week. As most people in here probably know, the second Tuesday of the month is when Windows patches are released. MS occasionally release interim patches if they think there is a risk of an exploit going live.
Hmmm. Works perfectly on my three different XP installations with 256MB RAM. Do you have a *lot* of stuff in your system tray? I've successfully booted XP without a swapfile on systems with only 128MB, although it will refuse to play if you only have 64MB.
2) To delete things properly, turn off paging and disk caching, reboot, then run something like Mutilate to fill all the unused disk space with rubbish. Remember to turn paging and caching back on afterwards or performance will be slooooow.
3) If you're disposing of a PC and you want to sell it with the HDD, it's usually easiest to reformat the HDD in another PC (as a slave) then run a file wiper as above.
4) Running a good file wiper once is perfectly adequate. Physical data recovery techniques using misaligned drive heads to pick up "ghost" images may or may not exist (hence the occasional recommendation to wipe 9 times) but the cost of doing so is so high that it would have to be a matter of national security. Commercial data recovery/forensic services do NOT use physical recovery techniques, they just go for deleted files and slack space.
That's just about it. The modus operandi of most current e-mail borne viruses is to raid the Windows address book for a couple of e-mail addresses at random. It uses one as the destination and the other as the spoof "reply to" address, then squirts it off using its own SMTP engine. An offbeat solution for Windows users would be to use Mozilla, then the Windows address book will stay empty and the virus can't spread (although any zombie payload will still work).
The upshot is that someone out there who has at some time e-mailed you, and therefore has your e-mail addy in their Windows address book, has got the virus on their PC. It could be one of your friends or it could be a large company with lax IT security. Nothing you can do about it.
Oh yeah, IKEA make furniture ;-)
Latest word from Redmond is that SP2 will follow a similar rule, except that installations using one of 20 corporate keys will be blocked.
If you used a keygen, SP2 will probably install with no problem. Microsoft have spouted a lot of FUD over their anti-piracy initiatives. For instance, Windows Update shouldn't work unless you are using a legitimately issued key on the MS database, but it obviously does.
To get back vaguely on topic, what SP2 will do to prevent spam is to (a) install a better firewall and turn it on by default and (b) turn on automatic updating. This should protect the most clueless users, but I suspect most of them were using legit copies anyway.
Anyway, to get vaguely back on topic, it's the second Tuesday of the month, so let's see what the MS patch fairy brings us today. Probably another exploit for those nasty spam trojan people.
Digital's most negative contribution to photography, apart from the rapid obsolescence of the equipment (and the related fact that perfectly nice images from a few years ago can never be printed big enough), is that it encourages an even more scattergun approach than 35mm film. When Cartier-Bresson, who actually did use 35mm, talked of the "decisive moment", he didn't mean firing off 36 frames and hoping the decisive moment was somewhere in there. So many shots are unrepeatable and you have to get it right first time.
Actually, the Carpets were from Oldham. You were probably thinking of the Charlatans.
You want MORE? Tsk, some people are never satisfied.
There's no reason why we should be bothered though - Mozilla is a worthy replacement, much more reliable and functional, and the lines of evolution are clear. You could go from NS 4.7 to Mozilla 1.6 and feel right at home. Even the much-derided Mail and News (which I always preferred to the OE mess) is almost the same. When IE gets pop-up blocking I'm still not going back to it.