Nokia 1100 just came out. I have one. It beeps once, then vibrates to let you know there is a call, the ring volume is adjustable, or you can turn off vibrate. Grayscale LCD. Tiny. Weighs little. Lasts me for days without a recharge, and it recharges quickly when you need it.
I have a Dec 5300 dual 533 I use as my firewall/router/fileserver/battle.net server/shoutcast server. It does it's job fine, but it's a power hungry beast, and compatibility isn't quite up to what you get with the i386 platform. Compiling the kernel was a bitch, but I finally got it up to kernel 2.6 branch. I'm seriously considering switching down to an old P2 or a duron 900 for the power saving and compatibility alone. I don't do heavy lifting, and I don't really take advantage of the 64 bitness, so there is no point except the geek factor.
No, most GPU's will only do part of it, like scaling the image or something. XVideo does this for linux. Most of the decompression is done in the CPU with whatever codec you are using. Divx/xvid is more complex than MPEG-1/2, so it requires a faster machine to keep up.
I find it funny that you are a short-sighted flag waving cheerleader who has to bring clinton up for bush's mistakes. I don't defend clinton. I have a general hatred for politicians, and I wish they had kicked him out of office, BUT; Clinton didn't try to drag the country into unpopular wars on false pretenses. Clinton didn't destroy or highly damage our credability abroad. Clinton isn't a right wing psycho, with a crazy cabinet such as Donald "unknown known unknowns" Rumsfeld, or John "I hate happiness and art, lets clothe the justice statue" Ashcroft. I'd take Clinton over bush any day of the week.
Bush's vision of Nasa's future is a pipe dream. Lets go to Mars, and stop at the moon on the way and use it as a base? Wha exactly are we going to DO on mars? Would it be a triumphant occassion? Sure. Would it really do anything in the long run? Maybe, but I bet not. Going to a planet within our solar system is a LOT different than finding ways to reach beyond that solar system. Don't give me bullshit about testing new technologies, you can send up a rocket and not have to send it to a planet to test engine theories.
Find games you can play with your SO. Currently my g/f and I are in the middle of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance for PS2. Before that I was helping her through Zelda: Wind Waker. Other 2 player gmes that we have enjoyed together: Neverwinter Nights for PC (using teamspeak and some headsets), Cookies and cream PS2, Splashdown and Wave Race (PS2 and GC), DDR, and Super Monkey Ball (GC). Also, single player games that have short play-times to them are good too. Games that you can play for a few minutes, fuck up, and hand over the controller. Like Tony Hawk Pro Skater. This can cause problems if your skill levels are not very close, as one of you will end up hogging the controller (Ok, I admit it, it was me, I'M BETTER)
If wind and solar were really reliable and less expensive, what in God's name makes you think we'd be relying on fossil fuels? The oil lobby is powerful, sure, but the rest of the economy would crush them like a bug if a cheaper source of energy came along. That's capitalism for you.
You mean kind of like what linux does to windows? Who is the richest man in the world again?
I had to scan in a photocopy of an old book written by a prof. I used abbyy Finereader 5.0 and some kind of Cannon fax/printer/scanner solution. The cannon probably wasn't worth more than $200-400, they had it on hand and I borrowed it. It didn't hold the whole book at once (300+ pages, all ugly photocopies), so I did small stacks at a time, and I would scan more pages while editting the scans from the previous stack. Photocopies are fugly, so you have to remove all the little marks and such, and some of the text and equatons came out bad, so I had to kind of paint the document as well. For the most part I would just format the tech and run the OCR on that, and keep the graphs and equations as simple black and white images.
It took a while, but I was about to be about of a job, so I kind of dragged my feet on it. If you have nice source documents, it shouldn't take too long to do this and the OCR software is pretty good nowadays (unlike when I tried it in the early 90's on a grayscale scanner).
Fine reader is real sweet and worth the money. Someone had a similar question on slashdot and it was recommended, and I used it when I had to do this, so I'll pay it forward and recommend it for you.
As you said, the focus is way off. The Lense against the house doesn't burn it donw for the same reason punching someone's arm doesn't slice it off, but using a sword/knife could. It's all about how much energy you put into the surface area.
I don't have a preference. Definately don't go with Hawking Tech. Had 2 fail on me, and then they refused to fix it again because I lost the invoice, even though they had it in their database and it was under warranty.
By far linksys is the most popular, probably followed by DLink or Netgear, but I couldn't guess about reliability, if a customer doesn't know how to check the router status page and make sense of it, I make them remove it.
I guess my personal preference for a router is linux, that's what I run at home. And if you've been into computers a while, you probably have something sitting around collecting dust that could be a router.
That's easy for you to say. From my point of view (1st level tech), I see a lot of idiots who say things have been working fine, it can't POSSIBLY be something on their end, you bypass the router and WHAM, everything works.
I don't ever tell someone it is their fault, I don't ever assume it is the router, but I didn't GIVE you your shitty linksys. If you want my help, you are damn well going to narrow down the problem for me, or I'm sending you to linksys so some indian can lie to you and tell you it is our problem. That will soften you up so the next time I hear from you, you will either cancel service (unlikely if you are in a contract) or you'll just give up and remove the router.
Not to say that you use linksys or anything. I'm not picking on you. I'm just pointing out that yes, I do get smart people (and people who think they are) and it doesn't matter which one you are. I have a job to do and I get in trouble if I deviate too much too often, and you aren't worth it. Just be polite and nod a lot and you will get to second tier that much quicker. Don't take stupid answers from a tech either.
Well your first problem was going to a consumer electronics store for rack equpment. I'm not saying it's impossible, but did you REALLY expect to find medium/higher end server stuff there? I could understand a nice tower. MAYBE something with hot swap. But actual rack equipment?
without use of invasive advertising software or pop-up ads?
Sounds like they may just be using a transparent proxy to add some HTML to the sites you view to show some ads. Could be as simple as a 2 column table with one column for ads and the other for the page you requested.
Time to break out the hosts file. Although this would leave an empty table on one side. There are some proxies available that will actually edit out pages for you, so you could have little proxy wars with the provider.
I know advertising has it's place, but for me personally, they just get in the way, especially when they are flashy and annoying. If the host can't afford to provide without annoying it's visitors, it's time to close up shop, or get a clue.
As if there weren't enough reasons to NOT shop at Walmart, here is another one.
From driving down wages and destroying small businesses to employing illegal aliens to driving near-slave labor in other countries, Walmart is just a HUGE can of worms. Just another notch in the belt IMO.
And those are just the political reasons. Dirty stores. Merchandise and boxes all over the isles.
Make it known that you don't want to shop there, for RFID and the other noted reasons. I'm sure walmart will say it will immensly cut down on theft, but honestly, with the amount of businessnes they do, they probably don't notice it anyway. They will say that this will drive down prices for the consumer, but the consumer hardly benefits from this at all. Walmart will benefit by improved inventory control/tracking/ potentially seeing customer buying habits.
I grew up with a BBS in my room (high school, middle school age), I'm used to the sound of a PC in my room. I have even gotten my girlfriend used to it. I have an alpha server and I can even sleep with that thing pumping away. It has 2 massive fans on the back to cool the swap bays and 2 PSU's, plus the 2 alpha CPU fans. I almost find it soothing.
No, not exactly, because that deals with health, not quality of life based on being bored by spam. You're stretching reading spam into a health issue, and it just doesnt' work. People do things they don't like to do all the time, it's called work. If you're lucky enough to get paid and read spam at work, it's better than shoveling shit, I suppose. Although similar, but less smelly and dirty.
yes, but what if deleting all this spam costs the equivalent of 10,000 lifetimes of people's lives?
If you still say "B", then, well, I hope you never get a job that matters. Certainly don't be president.
I'd rather see one more person alive that could share in complaining about spam. It's not 10,000 lifetomes that would be saved, it's a little bit of time here and there over a lot of people. Shit happens in real life. Are you going to crusade against waiting in line next? How about people waiting for a phone call or a ride from someone, isn't it such a HUGE injustice that they lose a little piece of their lives waiting?
If you feel this time is so important, think about all the time you waste waiting on your computer for anything. Just get up from your desk, go outside, and do something else. Donate your time. Try to fix something that is wrong in the world, and forget computers exist. You will save yourself a lot of time.
The only "green" with Nuclear tech is the glowing. Nevada doesn't seem to happy to be the chosen site of the nuclear disposal site. Now solar, wind power, geothermal and wave powered? Those are green techs. But I suppose you could also take MANUFACTURING into the equation, which has a lot of byproducts and isn't really green, but I suppose using some filthy-tech to make green tech is acceptable for now.
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Nokia 1100 just came out. I have one. It beeps once, then vibrates to let you know there is a call, the ring volume is adjustable, or you can turn off vibrate. Grayscale LCD. Tiny. Weighs little. Lasts me for days without a recharge, and it recharges quickly when you need it.
And you can fit all of 20 polygons on the screen at once! It will be AMAZING!
Proud owner of a Nokia 1100. Small. Not flashy. More durable than a flip phone. Functional.
My girlfriend's flip phone has speed issues, and the games aren't that great anyway. Even if they looked better, the controls suck.
I have a Dec 5300 dual 533 I use as my firewall/router/fileserver/battle.net server/shoutcast server. It does it's job fine, but it's a power hungry beast, and compatibility isn't quite up to what you get with the i386 platform. Compiling the kernel was a bitch, but I finally got it up to kernel 2.6 branch. I'm seriously considering switching down to an old P2 or a duron 900 for the power saving and compatibility alone. I don't do heavy lifting, and I don't really take advantage of the 64 bitness, so there is no point except the geek factor.
No, most GPU's will only do part of it, like scaling the image or something. XVideo does this for linux. Most of the decompression is done in the CPU with whatever codec you are using. Divx/xvid is more complex than MPEG-1/2, so it requires a faster machine to keep up.
What about that whole thing with General 'Buck' Turgidson? Huh? Purity of Essence? The russians and the doomsday machine? HUH?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/ if you just heard a wooshing sound.
I find it funny that you are a short-sighted flag waving cheerleader who has to bring clinton up for bush's mistakes. I don't defend clinton. I have a general hatred for politicians, and I wish they had kicked him out of office, BUT; Clinton didn't try to drag the country into unpopular wars on false pretenses. Clinton didn't destroy or highly damage our credability abroad. Clinton isn't a right wing psycho, with a crazy cabinet such as Donald "unknown known unknowns" Rumsfeld, or John "I hate happiness and art, lets clothe the justice statue" Ashcroft. I'd take Clinton over bush any day of the week.
Bush's vision of Nasa's future is a pipe dream. Lets go to Mars, and stop at the moon on the way and use it as a base? Wha exactly are we going to DO on mars? Would it be a triumphant occassion? Sure. Would it really do anything in the long run? Maybe, but I bet not. Going to a planet within our solar system is a LOT different than finding ways to reach beyond that solar system. Don't give me bullshit about testing new technologies, you can send up a rocket and not have to send it to a planet to test engine theories.
I'm not saying that Microsoft isn't in trouble due to linux, I'm just saying "crush it like a bug" is a little extreme.
Find games you can play with your SO. Currently my g/f and I are in the middle of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance for PS2. Before that I was helping her through Zelda: Wind Waker. Other 2 player gmes that we have enjoyed together: Neverwinter Nights for PC (using teamspeak and some headsets), Cookies and cream PS2, Splashdown and Wave Race (PS2 and GC), DDR, and Super Monkey Ball (GC). Also, single player games that have short play-times to them are good too. Games that you can play for a few minutes, fuck up, and hand over the controller. Like Tony Hawk Pro Skater. This can cause problems if your skill levels are not very close, as one of you will end up hogging the controller (Ok, I admit it, it was me, I'M BETTER)
You mean kind of like what linux does to windows? Who is the richest man in the world again?
I had to scan in a photocopy of an old book written by a prof. I used abbyy Finereader 5.0 and some kind of Cannon fax/printer/scanner solution. The cannon probably wasn't worth more than $200-400, they had it on hand and I borrowed it. It didn't hold the whole book at once (300+ pages, all ugly photocopies), so I did small stacks at a time, and I would scan more pages while editting the scans from the previous stack. Photocopies are fugly, so you have to remove all the little marks and such, and some of the text and equatons came out bad, so I had to kind of paint the document as well. For the most part I would just format the tech and run the OCR on that, and keep the graphs and equations as simple black and white images.
It took a while, but I was about to be about of a job, so I kind of dragged my feet on it. If you have nice source documents, it shouldn't take too long to do this and the OCR software is pretty good nowadays (unlike when I tried it in the early 90's on a grayscale scanner).
Fine reader is real sweet and worth the money. Someone had a similar question on slashdot and it was recommended, and I used it when I had to do this, so I'll pay it forward and recommend it for you.
As you said, the focus is way off. The Lense against the house doesn't burn it donw for the same reason punching someone's arm doesn't slice it off, but using a sword/knife could. It's all about how much energy you put into the surface area.
I don't have a preference. Definately don't go with Hawking Tech. Had 2 fail on me, and then they refused to fix it again because I lost the invoice, even though they had it in their database and it was under warranty.
By far linksys is the most popular, probably followed by DLink or Netgear, but I couldn't guess about reliability, if a customer doesn't know how to check the router status page and make sense of it, I make them remove it.
I guess my personal preference for a router is linux, that's what I run at home. And if you've been into computers a while, you probably have something sitting around collecting dust that could be a router.
No, sorry, you failed. You are running a speed test. You're not checking the signal rate in the modem, it should STILL be bytes * 8.
That's easy for you to say. From my point of view (1st level tech), I see a lot of idiots who say things have been working fine, it can't POSSIBLY be something on their end, you bypass the router and WHAM, everything works.
I don't ever tell someone it is their fault, I don't ever assume it is the router, but I didn't GIVE you your shitty linksys. If you want my help, you are damn well going to narrow down the problem for me, or I'm sending you to linksys so some indian can lie to you and tell you it is our problem. That will soften you up so the next time I hear from you, you will either cancel service (unlikely if you are in a contract) or you'll just give up and remove the router.
Not to say that you use linksys or anything. I'm not picking on you. I'm just pointing out that yes, I do get smart people (and people who think they are) and it doesn't matter which one you are. I have a job to do and I get in trouble if I deviate too much too often, and you aren't worth it. Just be polite and nod a lot and you will get to second tier that much quicker. Don't take stupid answers from a tech either.
Well your first problem was going to a consumer electronics store for rack equpment. I'm not saying it's impossible, but did you REALLY expect to find medium/higher end server stuff there? I could understand a nice tower. MAYBE something with hot swap. But actual rack equipment?
Idiot downloads software that is TGTBT (too good to be true) and it fux0rs the machine. Suprise! Shock! Horror!
Yes, Mac machines are vulnerable just like any other software. no big deal. I'm suprised someone bothered to take the time to make a trojan for Mac.
Worst. Bargraphs. Evurrrrr!
It almost makes you want to cheer on the spammers
without use of invasive advertising software or pop-up ads?
Sounds like they may just be using a transparent proxy to add some HTML to the sites you view to show some ads. Could be as simple as a 2 column table with one column for ads and the other for the page you requested.
Time to break out the hosts file. Although this would leave an empty table on one side. There are some proxies available that will actually edit out pages for you, so you could have little proxy wars with the provider.
I know advertising has it's place, but for me personally, they just get in the way, especially when they are flashy and annoying. If the host can't afford to provide without annoying it's visitors, it's time to close up shop, or get a clue.
As if there weren't enough reasons to NOT shop at Walmart, here is another one.
From driving down wages and destroying small businesses to employing illegal aliens to driving near-slave labor in other countries, Walmart is just a HUGE can of worms. Just another notch in the belt IMO.
And those are just the political reasons. Dirty stores. Merchandise and boxes all over the isles.
Make it known that you don't want to shop there, for RFID and the other noted reasons. I'm sure walmart will say it will immensly cut down on theft, but honestly, with the amount of businessnes they do, they probably don't notice it anyway. They will say that this will drive down prices for the consumer, but the consumer hardly benefits from this at all. Walmart will benefit by improved inventory control/tracking/ potentially seeing customer buying habits.
I grew up with a BBS in my room (high school, middle school age), I'm used to the sound of a PC in my room. I have even gotten my girlfriend used to it. I have an alpha server and I can even sleep with that thing pumping away. It has 2 massive fans on the back to cool the swap bays and 2 PSU's, plus the 2 alpha CPU fans. I almost find it soothing.
No, not exactly, because that deals with health, not quality of life based on being bored by spam. You're stretching reading spam into a health issue, and it just doesnt' work. People do things they don't like to do all the time, it's called work. If you're lucky enough to get paid and read spam at work, it's better than shoveling shit, I suppose. Although similar, but less smelly and dirty.
I'd rather see one more person alive that could share in complaining about spam. It's not 10,000 lifetomes that would be saved, it's a little bit of time here and there over a lot of people. Shit happens in real life. Are you going to crusade against waiting in line next? How about people waiting for a phone call or a ride from someone, isn't it such a HUGE injustice that they lose a little piece of their lives waiting?
If you feel this time is so important, think about all the time you waste waiting on your computer for anything. Just get up from your desk, go outside, and do something else. Donate your time. Try to fix something that is wrong in the world, and forget computers exist. You will save yourself a lot of time.
Dividing crisis and damage to a life across the population? That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a whlie on slashdot.
The only "green" with Nuclear tech is the glowing. Nevada doesn't seem to happy to be the chosen site of the nuclear disposal site. Now solar, wind power, geothermal and wave powered? Those are green techs. But I suppose you could also take MANUFACTURING into the equation, which has a lot of byproducts and isn't really green, but I suppose using some filthy-tech to make green tech is acceptable for now.