I think environment makes the biggest determination to lifespan.
Storing your discs correctly out of the way from heat and light allows them to last MUCH longer than leaving them on the windowsill or up on a common cd display (the plastic album cases aren't airtight, inside a wallet is certainly better protected)
Could that be to do with timezomes. These submitters and editors are people and sleep occasionally - it might simply be coincidence that they submit with the respective times.
I would say the greater majority of people DON'T submit things. A blogger who has a tech site discovering lots of things (like Roland) would be in the frameset to seek and identify good stories, they are likely MUCH better at presenting them than an amateur poster.
Taco, since your reading, it might be an idea to open up one days submission queue so people can see just how much crap comes through and just how much a semi professional blogger presents their submissions.
A press release about something tech related might be advertising, but its been submitted for the consumption of us. We are consumers and we buy stuff, whats wrong with knowing when a new product has been released?
Its not like we are bombarded with press releases for sanitary towels or other womans crap - its all tech related.
All diagnostics came out clean but it was still randomly unstable.
I removed and resat the HSF with artic silver and checked all airflow was ok - this didn't rectify the problem. I modified the cooling fans to draw from below (it was a desktop machine sat tucked away on its side) still suffering.
I underclocked it to 1.33 and it was rock stable from that day forward (its only just been replaced a couple of months ago).
btw, Linux booted fine under it when Windows was crashing.
Computer: "Oh cripes, I'm about to crash and lose all his work. I'll not tell him cos hes getting irate, it took the repair guy 3 days to panel beat my case."
Computer: Silently drops application and dumps data.
User: !!!
Theres not a lot the computer could actually DO with the information about mood. Its not like it can reprogram itself to bypass the problem. Most people only get frustrated when it does something unexpected (usually crashing losing the entire afternoons work)
Its because the American market doesn't have mobile-phones, they only have expensive knock off "cell-phones". If the companies would release proper mobile-phones over there then your right, the world would be a better place.
I just upgraded my computer, and have left behind a 200gb drive with my life. Its got EVERYTHING small I downloaded and did for the last few years (last time I formatted and installed must have been 2001). All my emails and all my favorites and all my documents - GONE (well, put into offline store)
The last time I did anything like this was when my Amiga died - the harddrive is still around somewhere though.
I go into the old stuff so infrequently that I doubt I will need to dive into it often.
I did however bring the other 200gb drive with the media shares, and I thought about which applications I need, but the historical downloads were just bloat.
Place a few devices FILLED with copies of a 30second advert in each category and wait for the customers to hear. Keep them hidden inside the powered billboards and updated when the signage is changed could allow the public to automatically get localised adverts.
I believe the article blurb has been written from an English POV:) Usage of mobile-phone is practically the norm over here, we only really hear about cellphones from American media.
Thats worth looking at just for the Norton protection. 6 months free isn't to be sniffed at if your caught in a pickle with an internet connection. There are certainly worse things around, thanks for the heads up:)
( Yes, I know lots of free virus checkers exist, but this is one people have heard of;) )
Anywhere we see "get our program, its the XYZ killer app" its usually a bit of a pretender. The killer application for firefox is BROWSING THE FRIKKIN WEB. Stop trying to cloud the waters.
No, It means that light will be travelling faster than the surrounding material. If you shine light through (for instance) glass and out into air, it would appear to have negative refraction, but its all just relative. I think anyway, I haven't done this kind of stuff for a while.
Because Windows in its infinate wisdom looks beyond the filename and looks at the contents of the file, allowing the following:
I save a hacked WMF on the webserver as HeaderPicture.jpg and link it into the webpage with an img tag it will be downloaded as a jpg file, and only then once it gets to my computer does it get handled using the internal WMF code.
It would be easy to block WMF files on the border, but as you can see, not every WMF identifies itself quite so easily.
To block it on the firewall, the IDS will require file content scanning which if I remember rightly would strain the poor processors and hold up all the other good traffic.
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Hopefully this landing won't be another cockup like the Genesis failure or we will be detecting grains of sand from the desert.
You should ALWAYS make a backup of any disk in active use.
The backup should be protected and stored out of the way.
I think environment makes the biggest determination to lifespan.
Storing your discs correctly out of the way from heat and light allows them to last MUCH longer than leaving them on the windowsill or up on a common cd display (the plastic album cases aren't airtight, inside a wallet is certainly better protected)
Could that be to do with timezomes.
These submitters and editors are people and sleep occasionally - it might simply be coincidence that they submit with the respective times.
I would say the greater majority of people DON'T submit things.
A blogger who has a tech site discovering lots of things (like Roland) would be in the frameset to seek and identify good stories, they are likely MUCH better at presenting them than an amateur poster.
Taco, since your reading, it might be an idea to open up one days submission queue so people can see just how much crap comes through and just how much a semi professional blogger presents their submissions.
A press release about something tech related might be advertising, but its been submitted for the consumption of us.
We are consumers and we buy stuff, whats wrong with knowing when a new product has been released?
Its not like we are bombarded with press releases for sanitary towels or other womans crap - its all tech related.
Forget monty python, I'm wondering if you can actually decapitate an xbox 360 power supply.
I had a thunderbird 1.4ghz which did similar.
All diagnostics came out clean but it was still randomly unstable.
I removed and resat the HSF with artic silver and checked all airflow was ok - this didn't rectify the problem.
I modified the cooling fans to draw from below (it was a desktop machine sat tucked away on its side) still suffering.
I underclocked it to 1.33 and it was rock stable from that day forward (its only just been replaced a couple of months ago).
btw, Linux booted fine under it when Windows was crashing.
I agree.
That image looks downright awful - it has to be doctored.
Computer: "Oh cripes, I'm about to crash and lose all his work. I'll not tell him cos hes getting irate, it took the repair guy 3 days to panel beat my case."
Computer: Silently drops application and dumps data.
User: !!!
Theres not a lot the computer could actually DO with the information about mood. Its not like it can reprogram itself to bypass the problem.
Most people only get frustrated when it does something unexpected (usually crashing losing the entire afternoons work)
Its because the American market doesn't have mobile-phones, they only have expensive knock off "cell-phones".
If the companies would release proper mobile-phones over there then your right, the world would be a better place.
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I just upgraded my computer, and have left behind a 200gb drive with my life.
Its got EVERYTHING small I downloaded and did for the last few years (last time I formatted and installed must have been 2001).
All my emails and all my favorites and all my documents - GONE (well, put into offline store)
The last time I did anything like this was when my Amiga died - the harddrive is still around somewhere though.
I go into the old stuff so infrequently that I doubt I will need to dive into it often.
I did however bring the other 200gb drive with the media shares, and I thought about which applications I need, but the historical downloads were just bloat.
Place a few devices FILLED with copies of a 30second advert in each category and wait for the customers to hear.
Keep them hidden inside the powered billboards and updated when the signage is changed could allow the public to automatically get localised adverts.
I believe the article blurb has been written from an English POV :)
Usage of mobile-phone is practically the norm over here, we only really hear about cellphones from American media.
Thats worth looking at just for the Norton protection. :)
;) )
6 months free isn't to be sniffed at if your caught in a pickle with an internet connection.
There are certainly worse things around, thanks for the heads up
( Yes, I know lots of free virus checkers exist, but this is one people have heard of
We now know the answer to the previous slash article:
If DVD Is Dead, What's Next?
google Video store!
Is that the Bill Clinton explanation?
We are the darl. resistance is futile.
I tried to hack it with a First Post and all I got was "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."!
Anywhere we see "get our program, its the XYZ killer app" its usually a bit of a pretender.
The killer application for firefox is BROWSING THE FRIKKIN WEB.
Stop trying to cloud the waters.
No,
It means that light will be travelling faster than the surrounding material.
If you shine light through (for instance) glass and out into air, it would appear to have negative refraction, but its all just relative.
I think anyway, I haven't done this kind of stuff for a while.
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Because Windows in its infinate wisdom looks beyond the filename and looks at the contents of the file, allowing the following:
I save a hacked WMF on the webserver as HeaderPicture.jpg and link it into the webpage with an img tag it will be downloaded as a jpg file, and only then once it gets to my computer does it get handled using the internal WMF code.
It would be easy to block WMF files on the border, but as you can see, not every WMF identifies itself quite so easily.
To block it on the firewall, the IDS will require file content scanning which if I remember rightly would strain the poor processors and hold up all the other good traffic.
Thats what I heard about it all anyway, ymmv
I've never seen an email containing "$sys$fnord". Am I infected?
The google pc MUST come with an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button somewhere on the keyboard or I'm not getting one.