Beware (from experience) sometimes removing the button is not enough.
Small moist fingers can (and do) still fit in the holes left and make contact shutting down the computer all the same - cover the contact points with electrical tape to be sure:)
But when you need the credit you need it. If its as simple as calling the credit agency and supplying another number to them, aren't the criminals just going to start swapping these numbers as well as credit card numbers?
It doesn't stop anything, just introduces a new charge to pay.
I've done similar to this guy with one of my laptops. it works a treat as long as you position the tablet guts somewhere away from the main power/data cables behind the LCD. (If the cables are across the active surface, the tracking is screwed, mine has a nice area on the screen just able to fit a 6 inch touch panel). The downside to this is the entire screen is not touch sensitive and there isn't a 1:1 relationship.
I ended up writing my own graphic software to work with it, and have since *downgraded* to running it on a pda (loss of pressure sensitivity).
I will end up getting a full tablet one day but it was good playing around with what I had.
We have a fax machine at work mainly because there are an awful lot of shops and businesses who do not have a networked computer nearby. If there is an issue with a document printed from our software, or an adjustment to the flow is wanted, its 1000's of times better to let them make notes on the printout and fax it to us than going through a whole list of hardware/software requirements and assuming the system is configured to work with it and that they know how to find and use the software and to be able to actually scan or export the document directly to file for emailing it over (after switching the internet on first).
It really is simpler to just get them to fax, and there's not been a customer I have spoken with who *couldn't* just fax:)
The baseline Phase VI glove needs replacing. This guy should have called his the emacs glove, it would have 7 hands a kitchen sink and be able to host multiple lifeforms.
You sound like you go through something similar. I have to guide people through typing a colon key every couple of days and 99% don't know what I mean.
"OK, in the host name box, type our domain name followed by a colon, then the number 1"
"Yes, the colon key, hold down your shift key - thats the big key with the up arrows on it - then press the colon key, its the one with with the 2 dots, its next to the "L" key."
Invariably (after hearing them rustling to put the phone on their shoulder) they manage to type a semi colon. I hope I never have to try anything more complex with my users.
Actually when I was at school I took classes in word processing, spreadsheets and DTP (amongst other things).
The skills I learnt then (on a BBC micro) have carried through till today, sure the formatting codes and function names have changed but the basic principles remain the same.
I have skills which are usable on a wide variety of programs and systems and there wasn't even the possibility of a personal laptop anywhere.
I would assume that hiding from a spouse could be "easier" than hiding from the police. Police have the ability to check bank records electoral registers criminal databases and hospital records.
I'm just wondering, why don't we hear anything about the fuel cells anymore? It was in the news daily a couple of years ago and right now I haven't seen any news about it in months.
I don't see it as out of the bag, I see it as free advertising to HD-DVD and digg
Think about the blanket coverage this number is getting, you couldn't pay for something like this. How many people watching the normal news now know that HD-DVD is the high definition format that just wouldn't have known before?
The MPAA overlords must be really happy. Who has most to gain by us "fighting the man" about this number?
Breweries have essentially been doing this for centuries now, the process is methodical and is no more hard work than tending a small garden or cooking your own meals.
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Use a similar password for each site, but customise parts of it
password/.
passwordgm
passwordeb
You don't want to use that for your important sites, just ones which need a password.
The Sims 2 is just like that.
Every few months we trundle off and get a new pack and I don't see the missus for a couple of days afterwards.
Just wait until the British Government start asking for additions
NOW, WASH YOUR HANDS!
Beware (from experience) sometimes removing the button is not enough.
:)
Small moist fingers can (and do) still fit in the holes left and make contact shutting down the computer all the same - cover the contact points with electrical tape to be sure
All new keyboards have a single key Shutdown/sleep thing.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh @ little fingers.
I either rip the bastard thing right off the board or dig out the regkey thingy to disable it.
But when you need the credit you need it.
If its as simple as calling the credit agency and supplying another number to them, aren't the criminals just going to start swapping these numbers as well as credit card numbers?
It doesn't stop anything, just introduces a new charge to pay.
Just give us one time keys.
If I can use a piece of important information only once before it changes then nobody can replay it.
Incidentally, how do you prove you are you to actually put the freeze/unfreeze in place?
I thought the same thing, a flaw is a bug.
A bad implementation can be technically flawless.
If you subscribe you don't appear to get the "nothing to see", I only noticed my sub had expired when I saw it...
I've done similar to this guy with one of my laptops.
it works a treat as long as you position the tablet guts somewhere away from the main power/data cables behind the LCD.
(If the cables are across the active surface, the tracking is screwed, mine has a nice area on the screen just able to fit a 6 inch touch panel).
The downside to this is the entire screen is not touch sensitive and there isn't a 1:1 relationship.
I ended up writing my own graphic software to work with it, and have since *downgraded* to running it on a pda (loss of pressure sensitivity).
I will end up getting a full tablet one day but it was good playing around with what I had.
Who really uses faxes any more anyway?
:)
We have a fax machine at work mainly because there are an awful lot of shops and businesses who do not have a networked computer nearby.
If there is an issue with a document printed from our software, or an adjustment to the flow is wanted, its 1000's of times better to let them make notes on the printout and fax it to us than going through a whole list of hardware/software requirements and assuming the system is configured to work with it and that they know how to find and use the software and to be able to actually scan or export the document directly to file for emailing it over (after switching the internet on first).
It really is simpler to just get them to fax, and there's not been a customer I have spoken with who *couldn't* just fax
Right up until the last line I thought you were talking about Font sizes..
I didn't think you lot would be interested in my dwarf porn searches.
Oh shit, did I just post that out loud?
The baseline Phase VI glove needs replacing.
This guy should have called his the emacs glove, it would have 7 hands a kitchen sink and be able to host multiple lifeforms.
You sound like you go through something similar.
I have to guide people through typing a colon key every couple of days and 99% don't know what I mean.
"OK, in the host name box, type our domain name followed by a colon, then the number 1"
"Yes, the colon key, hold down your shift key - thats the big key with the up arrows on it - then press the colon key, its the one with with the 2 dots, its next to the "L" key."
Invariably (after hearing them rustling to put the phone on their shoulder) they manage to type a semi colon.
I hope I never have to try anything more complex with my users.
Are you sure?
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Actually when I was at school I took classes in word processing, spreadsheets and DTP (amongst other things).
The skills I learnt then (on a BBC micro) have carried through till today, sure the formatting codes and function names have changed but the basic principles remain the same.
I have skills which are usable on a wide variety of programs and systems and there wasn't even the possibility of a personal laptop anywhere.
I would assume that hiding from a spouse could be "easier" than hiding from the police.
Police have the ability to check bank records electoral registers criminal databases and hospital records.
I'm just wondering, why don't we hear anything about the fuel cells anymore? It was in the news daily a couple of years ago and right now I haven't seen any news about it in months.
from yesterday:
The 660 Gallon Brewery Fuel Cell
I don't see it as out of the bag, I see it as free advertising to HD-DVD and digg
Think about the blanket coverage this number is getting, you couldn't pay for something like this.
How many people watching the normal news now know that HD-DVD is the high definition format that just wouldn't have known before?
The MPAA overlords must be really happy.
Who has most to gain by us "fighting the man" about this number?
Breweries have essentially been doing this for centuries now, the process is methodical and is no more hard work than tending a small garden or cooking your own meals.
Father: "Here son, a 3 foot marble cube you wanted, and look your Grandma bought you a chisel"
vs
Father: "Heres a box of lego, it will go nicely with the big duplo bricks you got last year"
assuming the Star chosen is approximately similar to our Sun, if you produce a ring much closer everything would fry.
I thought the same, a circumference of 31,400 kilometers and a width of approximately 53,700 kilometers.
That would be a fucking thick tube.
The whole thing has a radius of about 5000km.
Maybe Ted Stevens was right?
"One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long?"
Easy, make a hole in the spaceship at waist height.
Their finger will be too small and there are no Inanimate Carbon Rods to save the day.
-273 degrees of spaceness is enough to dampen the desire of all but the most eager.
I thought more about Rab C Nesbit