While this is pretty OT, sometimes it's an indicator of something even worse. Like the last time I started getting IRQ not equal to or less BSODs in my SIS integrated system driver. Went on a vacation after getting a few, thought nothing of it, came home to a fried power supply and a motherboard which smoked once the power supply was replaced. (It still worked, but the smoke was a little disconcerting so I went and found another since it was past warranty:-/....)
Of course, that wasn't the "car"'s fault. Well, I'd hope not. Maybe they have some sneaky code written to cycle/kill parts? Ha ha...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! no, I didn't need mental images of that one guy covered in flour and whatever else in the cell/room/whatever... thanks so much for reminding me of that movie:P
Well, fair enough. It likely has *some* sort of schedule. Unfortunately, it always seems to be using CPU time, and from the description from this site and most other sites I have seen, it sounds pretty close to effectively random:P. It's not like you can specifically choose when to run it anyway....
My guess would be locate's index is updated occasionally by a cronjob? I haven't really looked into it. For windows it's a service which runs randomly in the background. I don't know if it's possible to limit it to running at a certain time. It's certainly not the type of thing you'd want to randomly start running while you're playing a CPU/whatever intensive game.
Of course, just like any other service that runs in the background, there is a performance cost to leaving something running and indexing files all the time. For a server it might be useful, but for a home gaming machine for example - why bother? It's just another thing to lag your machine while you're trying to do something.
Except Baystar only contributed $20 million of the $50.
It's still important/would be nice if this little fiasco would cause Royal Bank to follow suit and ask for their $30 back. Of course, that $30 had the lately added clause that it couldn't be used for lawsuits, but I'm still pretty ticked off about it.
Depends on the windows API? It does depend on having a valid ASPI layer, but it doesn't have to be the default windows one. I'm not entirely sure, but you may have some success getting/using the Adaptec one from here.
Someone else mentioned goldenhawks, but another nice (and even smaller if you ignore the help file) cd burner is burnatonce. Nice, relatively simple, and small.
Well, except that with quantum keys there's no way to get a copy of the key without changing the original which will break it for the intended recipient so they'll just switch to a new key immediately.
At least that's what I've gleaned from all the talk about it. I'm by no means knowledgeable in this area:)
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Now now, very few Canadians actually hate Americans. Many joke, but few hate.
As an American living in Canada, I would agree that this is true. Of course it gets old being harassed about being American (fortunately I'm long past that stage now). Also, while few Canadians seem to outright hate Americans, I've run into enough of them that seem to think a large number of Americans are brainless idiots, as though Canada doesn't have its own share (and vice versa).
Frankly, I'm sick of the rivalry whether it be joking, real, or whatever. It goes both ways like anything else...:P
So you send email to their address at GMail, and... okay...
I suppose it could link the contents of the email to your email address/name (which they could already anyway), but it can't place a cookie of any type on your system by receiving an email from you. So, the person you're sending to might be profiled from the email, but that was happening anyway. They made the choice to subject themselves to it.
You're still personally as safe from that as you ever were.
I've been playing with Mandrake 10.0 Community over the last week or so.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't want to play nicely with my USB Wacom. The cursor just jumps around on the left edge of the screen if I leave it plugged in during boot (my other USB and PS/2 mice won't work with it plugged in). Has anyone else worked out the solution to this problem (does this kernel fix it? I see there are 2 or 3 wacom updates in the change log...)
Heh, maybe my mind was just getting into the swing of things but when I read "Violations were a firing offense", the first thing I was pictured was a few scruffy, blindfolded men standing against a brick wall being asked their last requests...
Bombcar pointed out the remote image display setting buried in the prefs dialog which I'd never noticed before. That works pretty well.
But yeah, plaintext by default with some quick button to view it fully if you decide you trust it. I think I saw that feature elsewhere, maybe Evolution? Either way, it would be handy to have in Mozilla as well.
Actually, is it even necessary to reply? I've noticed the image urls in some of my spam emails have had script links. I would guess that simply viewing a html spam email is enough these days...
I really wish mozilla had an option to view html emails as text until you choose otherwise. (Or maybe there is something like that? I haven't seen it though. I would love to know if there is....)
I work for a small company and we recently got VoIP phone setup because a number of us telecommute and we're spread out across the country.
Anyway, our users are really nice, but mostly aren't too technically savvy. We sent a phone and router to one of the more technically challenged ones, and I was walking her through setting up the equipment and trying to get it all working through her PPPoE dsl. In the process of getting the equipment unpacked from the boxes and hooked up, she floored me when she needed me to explain to her what a power adapter was and which end of it plugged into the router and which end plugged into the wall....
I mean.... maybe she was having a blonde moment, I don't know, but... I'm just glad I don't have to do fulltime tech support.:)
I won't argue there is no cheating, but... just to play the devils advocate... When a game first comes out, everyone starts from the same base (well, ignoring prior fps experience). After a few months the people with the most potential start to reach it while the people with a little less skill are pushed down by them (especially when there are younger kids who have nothing better to do than spend 5-8hours a day playing the game =P).
Sure, there are still people cheating and it sucks, but the main reason it gets harder is because people are getting better, unless you really believe the majority of people are cheating.
I've never bothered cheating myself and I don't really know anyone who has... while that doesn't mean people don't cheat, if I've seen so little of it, I personally could only see like 5-15% cheating maybe, not the 50-70%+ people make it sound like. That's enough to be a pain in the ass, but I can't see it being enough to completely ruin the experience or destroy your own playing ability.
On the other hand, I've just about given up on online games as well, but just because people are so much better than I am now and I can't seem to catch up again.
Well, I've tried CS. I haven't played it enough to have a hope of getting decent though. That game is rather painful to play with no skills, especially on that bloody iceworld map which people seem to like so much.:-p
Anyway, I wasn't saying that people don't cheat, just that it's blown way out of proportion. Maybe CS is far worse for it or I'm just blind, but I've never really seen/had "much" of an issue with it in Q3, 2, or even 1. People just get extremely good and it's hard on newbies who have no idea what they're doing:-)
Be that as it may, I don't understand everyone's automatic assumption that so many people are cheating. Granted, I know there are people out there who do cheat, but people have a tendency to blame cheating any time someone is much better than them. If it were anywhere near as bad as some people make it out to be there would be a ratio of like one person not cheating for every 3-50 who are.:-p
Of course, you have to wonder at the accuracy of this method as well. At a glance I didn't notice anything in the article about that. I'm sure they do change color when they detect the chemical, but what density of the weeds would actually be needed to find the majority/all of the landmines? And do the landmines always leak the chemicals, or are some sealed better than others?
Still, I suppose looking for red flowers combined with an existing method would be somewhat safer and more efficient than the way its done now.
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While this is pretty OT, sometimes it's an indicator of something even worse. Like the last time I started getting IRQ not equal to or less BSODs in my SIS integrated system driver. Went on a vacation after getting a few, thought nothing of it, came home to a fried power supply and a motherboard which smoked once the power supply was replaced. (It still worked, but the smoke was a little disconcerting so I went and found another since it was past warranty :-/....)
Of course, that wasn't the "car"'s fault. Well, I'd hope not. Maybe they have some sneaky code written to cycle/kill parts? Ha ha...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! no, I didn't need mental images of that one guy covered in flour and whatever else in the cell/room/whatever... thanks so much for reminding me of that movie :P
Well, fair enough. It likely has *some* sort of schedule. Unfortunately, it always seems to be using CPU time, and from the description from this site and most other sites I have seen, it sounds pretty close to effectively random :P. It's not like you can specifically choose when to run it anyway....
My guess would be locate's index is updated occasionally by a cronjob? I haven't really looked into it. For windows it's a service which runs randomly in the background. I don't know if it's possible to limit it to running at a certain time. It's certainly not the type of thing you'd want to randomly start running while you're playing a CPU/whatever intensive game.
Of course, just like any other service that runs in the background, there is a performance cost to leaving something running and indexing files all the time. For a server it might be useful, but for a home gaming machine for example - why bother? It's just another thing to lag your machine while you're trying to do something.
Just personal preference really...
Shoot, should have previewed that. It munged my tag :-D
Why, has somebody come up with a sky-clock or projected temperature/weather/etc report? :-)
Except Baystar only contributed $20 million of the $50.
It's still important/would be nice if this little fiasco would cause Royal Bank to follow suit and ask for their $30 back. Of course, that $30 had the lately added clause that it couldn't be used for lawsuits, but I'm still pretty ticked off about it.
Depends on the windows API? It does depend on having a valid ASPI layer, but it doesn't have to be the default windows one. I'm not entirely sure, but you may have some success getting/using the Adaptec one from here.
Nah, a modified Segway that can decide to suddenly stop and toss him if it thinks he's going to fast, or maybe it would just do that for fun...
No kidding. Now DVD/screener rips on the other hand... those are a bit of an issue.
Someone else mentioned goldenhawks, but another nice (and even smaller if you ignore the help file) cd burner is burnatonce. Nice, relatively simple, and small.
Well, except that with quantum keys there's no way to get a copy of the key without changing the original which will break it for the intended recipient so they'll just switch to a new key immediately.
:)
At least that's what I've gleaned from all the talk about it. I'm by no means knowledgeable in this area
Now now, very few Canadians actually hate Americans. Many joke, but few hate.
:P
As an American living in Canada, I would agree that this is true. Of course it gets old being harassed about being American (fortunately I'm long past that stage now). Also, while few Canadians seem to outright hate Americans, I've run into enough of them that seem to think a large number of Americans are brainless idiots, as though Canada doesn't have its own share (and vice versa).
Frankly, I'm sick of the rivalry whether it be joking, real, or whatever. It goes both ways like anything else...
So you send email to their address at GMail, and... okay...
I suppose it could link the contents of the email to your email address/name
(which they could already anyway), but it can't place a cookie of any type on
your system by receiving an email from you. So, the person you're sending to
might be profiled from the email, but that was happening anyway. They made
the choice to subject themselves to it.
You're still personally as safe from that as you ever were.
I've been playing with Mandrake 10.0 Community over the last week or so.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't want to play nicely with my USB Wacom. The cursor just
jumps around on the left edge of the screen if I leave it plugged in during boot (my other
USB and PS/2 mice won't work with it plugged in). Has anyone else worked out the
solution to this problem (does this kernel fix it? I see there are 2 or 3 wacom updates in the change log...)
Heh, maybe my mind was just getting into the swing of things but when I read "Violations were a firing offense", the first thing I was pictured was a few scruffy, blindfolded men standing against a brick wall being asked their last requests...
Bombcar pointed out the remote image display setting buried in the prefs dialog which I'd never noticed before. That works pretty well. But yeah, plaintext by default with some quick button to view it fully if you decide you trust it. I think I saw that feature elsewhere, maybe Evolution? Either way, it would be handy to have in Mozilla as well.
Actually, is it even necessary to reply? I've noticed the image urls in some of my spam emails have had script links. I would guess that simply viewing a html spam email is enough these days...
I really wish mozilla had an option to view html emails as text until you choose otherwise. (Or maybe there is something like that? I haven't seen it though. I would love to know if there is....)
Well, how about this...
:)
I work for a small company and we recently got VoIP phone setup because a number of us telecommute and we're spread out across the country.
Anyway, our users are really nice, but mostly aren't too technically savvy. We sent a phone and router to one of the more technically challenged ones, and I was walking her through setting up the equipment and trying to get it all working through her PPPoE dsl. In the process of getting the equipment unpacked from the boxes and hooked up, she floored me when she needed me to explain to her what a power adapter was and which end of it plugged into the router and which end plugged into the wall....
I mean.... maybe she was having a blonde moment, I don't know, but... I'm just glad I don't have to do fulltime tech support.
Well, Halo was fun when I played it.... but I just wish TimeSplitters 2 for the PS2 had online support. That game was fun(ny) as hell multiplayer.
Well, my main issue is with "so many people".
I won't argue there is no cheating, but... just to play the devils advocate... When a game first comes out, everyone starts from the same base (well, ignoring prior fps experience). After a few months the people with the most potential start to reach it while the people with a little less skill are pushed down by them (especially when there are younger kids who have nothing better to do than spend 5-8hours a day playing the game =P).
Sure, there are still people cheating and it sucks, but the main reason it gets harder is because people are getting better, unless you really believe the majority of people are cheating. I've never bothered cheating myself and I don't really know anyone who has... while that doesn't mean people don't cheat, if I've seen so little of it, I personally could only see like 5-15% cheating maybe, not the 50-70%+ people make it sound like. That's enough to be a pain in the ass, but I can't see it being enough to completely ruin the experience or destroy your own playing ability.
On the other hand, I've just about given up on online games as well, but just because people are so much better than I am now and I can't seem to catch up again.
Well, I've tried CS. I haven't played it enough to have a hope of getting decent though. That game is rather painful to play with no skills, especially on that bloody iceworld map which people seem to like so much. :-p
:-)
Anyway, I wasn't saying that people don't cheat, just that it's blown way out of proportion. Maybe CS is far worse for it or I'm just blind, but I've never really seen/had "much" of an issue with it in Q3, 2, or even 1. People just get extremely good and it's hard on newbies who have no idea what they're doing
Be that as it may, I don't understand everyone's automatic assumption that so many people are cheating. :-p
Granted, I know there are people out there who do cheat, but people have a tendency to blame cheating
any time someone is much better than them. If it were anywhere near as bad as some people make it out
to be there would be a ratio of like one person not cheating for every 3-50 who are.
Of course, you have to wonder at the accuracy of this method as well. At a
glance I didn't notice anything in the article about that. I'm sure they do change
color when they detect the chemical, but what density of the weeds would actually
be needed to find the majority/all of the landmines? And do the landmines always
leak the chemicals, or are some sealed better than others?
Still, I suppose looking for red flowers combined with an existing method would be
somewhat safer and more efficient than the way its done now.