On the other hand, it is estimated that the universe will have stars in it for around 100 trillion years. Given that, the lifetime of a star like ours really is a blink of an eye, it's just that we will be one of the first ones to blink.
Still, why would you let them in? There's nothing in it for you. Best case scenario is they poke around for a while, waste some of your time, leave, and that's it. Anything else involves fines, lawsuits, and more wasted time.
Have you seen the interface they use for the Windows drivers? It's like a giant bloated turd cooked up in.NET, which makes even the simplest tasks a chore. Why they moved away from the interface they used back around 2004 I'll never figure out. At least they are stable now.
Plus the cost of the cups, sugar, cream, the electricity to run it, the coffee machine itself. Probably the single biggest cost is the labor of paying someone to take care of all of that.
You do realize that Intel's newest processors the Core i5 and i7, consume either 95W or 130W, depending on the model. The Prescott consumes anywhere from 84-115W, depending on the model. While it's true that a Core i7/i5 can do a lot more in the same amount of time, don't expect any big power savings.
Yes, getting an adapter is not a big deal, but it's a technical hurdle you can't surmount if you don't carry it with you or keep it in your car. My point was that bluetooth is supposed to free us of this nonsense, but I still don't see it making any inroads for home or car stereo equipment.
Probably because a CD quality audio stream is around 1.4mbit/s uncompressed, which is pushing it for a bluetooth connection. I suppose you could send the stream compressed, but then you would require that the receiver be able to decode it, as well as the sending device having to possibly transcode it on the fly.
I would think it would be more effective to either turn in a blank ballot, or do something like write in Mickey Mouse(*). By simply not voting, the assumption is that people are lazy and/or don't care - by taking the time to vote but not actually filling in a valid ballot shows that this is not case. Look at the current situation, the numbers for "didn't vote" has trumped the winning candidate in any election in recent history, yet nothing seems to be changing because of this. Can you imagine what would happen if Mickey Mouse even got 5% of the vote?
The Celeron is probably going to be fine, the Core 2 based ones are plenty fast for most people. Now, the crappy low resolution WXGA monitor would probably drive me batty.
I've never understood why most "Install Windows 7 from USB drive" tutorials on the web have so many extra, unnecessary steps. I've done this install on three different netbooks, across multiple installs on one (beta to RC to RTM), and have never had to do anything more than just copying the files to my USB key.
It probably has something to do with the install DVD having files larger than 2GB on it. I have a copy of the 64bit Pro Edition, and it has a 2.7GB file on it, that's a no-go for for FAT32. Hence why the first guide I found on Google started off with telling you how to format the disk in NTFS (granted, in a rather roundabout way). Perhaps other editions are small enough to work?
Though I also don't understand how the BIOS would know how to boot off the USB drive without you don't something to make it bootable. However, I know some BIOS's can read FAT32 (since they support flashing the BIOS from an image file on a thumbdrive), so maybe they scan the thumbdrive and find the appropiate boot files anyway?
Bestbuy used to be much much better. I grew up in MPLS/SP where it got started and before it became a national chain they had much wider selections of stuff. I really blame the internet for killing their selection of PC parts as I can totally understand no b&m is going to be able to compete in that space.
There are brick and mortar stores competing in that space. If you're ever back in the area, check out Microcenter in St. Louis park. However, it probably takes a larger metro area to support a store like that, if a chain like Best Buy tried to have each store carry a comparable selection of parts, none of them would do enough volume to make it worthwhile to them.
It probably wouldn't be that hard to match the price Acer if you use the absolute cheapest and crappiest parts you can find like Acer does. The only reason most people can't beat a price like that is that they don't even consider the $20 power supplies and the $35 motherboards when they go to pick out their parts.
Under 15"? Are you living in the 80's or something? Netbooks haven't been around long enough to have that big of an impact, and besides I'm sure for every netbook sold, there is another desktop sold with 22-24" screen. I'd put the average at around 17", mostly due to the piles of regular 15-17" laptops around, plus all the older desktops still in use with monitors around 16-19" in size.
Basically how SSH tunneled through DNS works is the hacker sets up a DNS server as the authoritative server for a domain he has control over, say example.com. Then in your network, he can send information to his server by making DNS requests for sub-domains of example.com, in the form of [information he wants to transmit].example.com. His DNS server receives the request, decodes the transmitted information, encodes the information to send back in the response, and sends it upon its way. Your local DNS servers and the ISP DNS servers will happily forward all this information back and forth.
Of course, this is easily detected once the tunnel is opened due to the large amounts of DNS traffic, but almost impossible to block this kind of connection from being initiated while leaving a usable internet connection.
What you think and say mean nothing if you can't back it with facts. If your too lazy to do so, you really can't complain when someone disregards what you say as meaningless, because, in essence, it is.
I'm sure whatever interest they are making by holding that money dwarfs the cost of tracking the card's value, even in the case where the card has something like $1.26 left on it.
Some of the HP Vectras aren't too bad. Standard ATX parts. The cases were roomy, tool-less, quiet and won't cut your hands open unlike the Compaqs. I have some around, they are about 10 years old now. I do have some gripes though: The towers have three 5.25" bays, but the bottom one is blocked by the motherboard so nothing will fit in it. The P3 1Ghz is limited to 512MB of ram. It has 2 slots, you can put in two 256's or a single 512MB. A 512MB + anything else won't post. Bastards. The P3 600Mhz also had a really bad case of bad caps - I actually repaired that computer as it is useful enough as a router that I didn't want to toss it. The P4 1.5Ghz lacks onboard networking too - granted I have plenty of PCI NICs but how many workstation PCs in 2001 didn't have onboard networking?
Perhaps if it was an old PPC iMac. Yes, I know the Intel Macs don't have a BIOS, but I seriously doubt they would be running an x86 chip either if it wasn't for Compaq.
I don't know if I agree. I always thought the brushed aluminum look was cheesy, but nevertheless, Apple has moved away from it which certainly dates the OSX screenshot to the early 2000's.
On the other hand, I've never liked the default XP theme and it certainly has not aged nicely either.
You can still get modern TVs repaired? Pretty much any TV I've seen that's built in the past few years is clearly not meant to be taken apart, and even if you get inside the thing you'll find there's nothing to it - basically one circuit board that does everything and whatever (tube/panel) that is used to generate the picture. Granted, there's a pretty decent chance that it's dead because of shitty Chinese capacitors, but if it's not that then good luck figuring out how to diagnose and fix it.
That's why stop signs are the only road sign that's hexagonal in shape. So even if it is covered in snow, you should still be able to recognize it as a stop sign.
A 100W replacement LED bulb is about 10-15W or so draw for home use, so I would imagine that the LED traffic lights are already putting out that kind of heat already. You'll probably need a larger heater than 5W.
It's also worth noting that this is Microsoft's fault. Other OS's are doing it properly. Microsoft only does it properly when it benefits them.
Back in the old days, what MS-DOS and the harddrive manufacturers claimed matched up fine. It was the harddrive manufacturers who decided to buck convention and redefine what a megabyte so they could advertise their drives as bigger than they really were. Microsoft is just doing what they've been doing for the past 25+ years.
Besides, other OS's still use the binary definitions of kilo- and mega- when it suits them. Compare the results of free -k and free -m on Linux, for example.
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On the other hand, it is estimated that the universe will have stars in it for around 100 trillion years. Given that, the lifetime of a star like ours really is a blink of an eye, it's just that we will be one of the first ones to blink.
The last one I saw had trial versions of iWork and MS Office, and of course the nagging to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Yes, and it's HARD.
Still, why would you let them in? There's nothing in it for you. Best case scenario is they poke around for a while, waste some of your time, leave, and that's it. Anything else involves fines, lawsuits, and more wasted time.
Have you seen the interface they use for the Windows drivers? It's like a giant bloated turd cooked up in .NET, which makes even the simplest tasks a chore. Why they moved away from the interface they used back around 2004 I'll never figure out. At least they are stable now.
Plus the cost of the cups, sugar, cream, the electricity to run it, the coffee machine itself. Probably the single biggest cost is the labor of paying someone to take care of all of that.
You do realize that Intel's newest processors the Core i5 and i7, consume either 95W or 130W, depending on the model. The Prescott consumes anywhere from 84-115W, depending on the model. While it's true that a Core i7/i5 can do a lot more in the same amount of time, don't expect any big power savings.
Probably because a CD quality audio stream is around 1.4mbit/s uncompressed, which is pushing it for a bluetooth connection. I suppose you could send the stream compressed, but then you would require that the receiver be able to decode it, as well as the sending device having to possibly transcode it on the fly.
I would think it would be more effective to either turn in a blank ballot, or do something like write in Mickey Mouse(*). By simply not voting, the assumption is that people are lazy and/or don't care - by taking the time to vote but not actually filling in a valid ballot shows that this is not case. Look at the current situation, the numbers for "didn't vote" has trumped the winning candidate in any election in recent history, yet nothing seems to be changing because of this. Can you imagine what would happen if Mickey Mouse even got 5% of the vote?
(*) see, on topic!
The Celeron is probably going to be fine, the Core 2 based ones are plenty fast for most people. Now, the crappy low resolution WXGA monitor would probably drive me batty.
It probably has something to do with the install DVD having files larger than 2GB on it. I have a copy of the 64bit Pro Edition, and it has a 2.7GB file on it, that's a no-go for for FAT32. Hence why the first guide I found on Google started off with telling you how to format the disk in NTFS (granted, in a rather roundabout way). Perhaps other editions are small enough to work?
Though I also don't understand how the BIOS would know how to boot off the USB drive without you don't something to make it bootable. However, I know some BIOS's can read FAT32 (since they support flashing the BIOS from an image file on a thumbdrive), so maybe they scan the thumbdrive and find the appropiate boot files anyway?
There are brick and mortar stores competing in that space. If you're ever back in the area, check out Microcenter in St. Louis park. However, it probably takes a larger metro area to support a store like that, if a chain like Best Buy tried to have each store carry a comparable selection of parts, none of them would do enough volume to make it worthwhile to them.
It probably wouldn't be that hard to match the price Acer if you use the absolute cheapest and crappiest parts you can find like Acer does. The only reason most people can't beat a price like that is that they don't even consider the $20 power supplies and the $35 motherboards when they go to pick out their parts.
Under 15"? Are you living in the 80's or something? Netbooks haven't been around long enough to have that big of an impact, and besides I'm sure for every netbook sold, there is another desktop sold with 22-24" screen. I'd put the average at around 17", mostly due to the piles of regular 15-17" laptops around, plus all the older desktops still in use with monitors around 16-19" in size.
Then you're vulnerable.
Basically how SSH tunneled through DNS works is the hacker sets up a DNS server as the authoritative server for a domain he has control over, say example.com. Then in your network, he can send information to his server by making DNS requests for sub-domains of example.com, in the form of [information he wants to transmit].example.com. His DNS server receives the request, decodes the transmitted information, encodes the information to send back in the response, and sends it upon its way. Your local DNS servers and the ISP DNS servers will happily forward all this information back and forth.
Of course, this is easily detected once the tunnel is opened due to the large amounts of DNS traffic, but almost impossible to block this kind of connection from being initiated while leaving a usable internet connection.
How would your users visit sites like ask.slashdot.org, if you have the authoritative DNS server for slashdot.org blocked?
What you think and say mean nothing if you can't back it with facts. If your too lazy to do so, you really can't complain when someone disregards what you say as meaningless, because, in essence, it is.
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I'm sure whatever interest they are making by holding that money dwarfs the cost of tracking the card's value, even in the case where the card has something like $1.26 left on it.
Some of the HP Vectras aren't too bad. Standard ATX parts. The cases were roomy, tool-less, quiet and won't cut your hands open unlike the Compaqs. I have some around, they are about 10 years old now. I do have some gripes though: The towers have three 5.25" bays, but the bottom one is blocked by the motherboard so nothing will fit in it. The P3 1Ghz is limited to 512MB of ram. It has 2 slots, you can put in two 256's or a single 512MB. A 512MB + anything else won't post. Bastards. The P3 600Mhz also had a really bad case of bad caps - I actually repaired that computer as it is useful enough as a router that I didn't want to toss it. The P4 1.5Ghz lacks onboard networking too - granted I have plenty of PCI NICs but how many workstation PCs in 2001 didn't have onboard networking?
Perhaps if it was an old PPC iMac. Yes, I know the Intel Macs don't have a BIOS, but I seriously doubt they would be running an x86 chip either if it wasn't for Compaq.
I don't know if I agree. I always thought the brushed aluminum look was cheesy, but nevertheless, Apple has moved away from it which certainly dates the OSX screenshot to the early 2000's.
On the other hand, I've never liked the default XP theme and it certainly has not aged nicely either.
You can still get modern TVs repaired? Pretty much any TV I've seen that's built in the past few years is clearly not meant to be taken apart, and even if you get inside the thing you'll find there's nothing to it - basically one circuit board that does everything and whatever (tube/panel) that is used to generate the picture. Granted, there's a pretty decent chance that it's dead because of shitty Chinese capacitors, but if it's not that then good luck figuring out how to diagnose and fix it.
That's why stop signs are the only road sign that's hexagonal in shape. So even if it is covered in snow, you should still be able to recognize it as a stop sign.
A 100W replacement LED bulb is about 10-15W or so draw for home use, so I would imagine that the LED traffic lights are already putting out that kind of heat already. You'll probably need a larger heater than 5W.
Back in the old days, what MS-DOS and the harddrive manufacturers claimed matched up fine. It was the harddrive manufacturers who decided to buck convention and redefine what a megabyte so they could advertise their drives as bigger than they really were. Microsoft is just doing what they've been doing for the past 25+ years.
Besides, other OS's still use the binary definitions of kilo- and mega- when it suits them. Compare the results of free -k and free -m on Linux, for example.