The main reason the default is set at 17" is cost of the LCD parts - the main LCD manufacturers are outputting more 17" panels at the moment for a relatively cheap price (compared to last year anyway!).
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How did it go?;-)
Actually after the first mishap it went pretty well! The neighbourhood wasn't safe from my WLDs (Weapons of Little Destruction)...
Of course, my Dad did encourage this behaviour... He told me how he made nitro-glycerine in High School chemistry with some mates. They rigged up an electromagnet with a ball bearing stuck to it above a petri dish of nitro-glycerine and then turned off the power while standing on the far side of the room, blowing out the windows...
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They were a great read and I still chuckle thinking about them now. Speaking as someone who tried to make their own napalm (and nearly set fire to my Dad's garage) I totally approved of their adventures!
I think the best sign of how good these books are is that when I was a kid I wished the Mad Scientists Club was real and I could be a member....
NASA have run out of stuff to exploit from the crashed flying saucers at Area 51 and now they're looking for which star system to send their 'honeypot' radio signals to:-D.
I don't see the point in having a 'do not spam' list for the US, when the majority of spam the rest of us are receiving on this planet comes from the US. Is the US govt seriously going to compile a list for all 6 billion of us?
This proposal still makes it a civil matter for the recipient, having to sue the spammer for damages. What's needed is a federal US law making mass junk emailing a criminal offense. Instead they are just pushing it back onto the people to fight in civil courts. The only winners here are the spammers and lawyers.
When I was back in Melbourne I had a Telstra 512k/256k ADSL link, which cost me AUD$90 a month, capped at 3Gb, dynamic IP address, no servers allowed on your connection, yada yada yada. And it was up and down like a yo-yo.
Here in the UK I now have ADSL from a local ISP (Nildram) at 1Mpbs/256k, costing AUD$100 a month, no cap, static IP address, and you are allowed to host any kind of server you like. And the service is rock-solid.
Basic premiss of this argument: Telstra blows. I rarely use the word 'hate' about anything, but I do HATE Telstra.
I'm not looking forward to moving back in a year's time and having to get such pisspoor service again (but I am looking forward to some sunshine!).
...and Australia is roughly the same size in area as the contiguous United States, so the argument that it is only due to small coverage for telcos in Europe (that some people have been posting) is hogwash.
You can move phone numbers between GSM and CDMA in Australia as well as between Telcos. There are about four-five players competing for mobile telephony in Aus, but they have national reach and aren't fragmented like the mess in the USA.
I've had the misfortune to have two Dell laptops (Inspiron 7000 back in '99, Latitude C840 presently). They were not my choice - work machines. Both have been heavy, cheaply made junk. The Inspiron had multiple hardware repairs before I got rid of it (screen failure, memory, casing). The current Latitude is only 5 months old and the hard drive crapped out last week. It takes the patience of Job to deal with Dell Support, particularly when you are an IT professional and you already know what is wrong! It only took 3 days to argue the drive replacement out of them.
Also I'm not sure why Dell bother putting Nvidia graphics adapters in these 'high-end' laptops. Check out the most recent update available for the Geforce 4 440 Go drivers for the Lat C840 (v28.35 anyone?).
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I know not to expect journalistic integrity or research from News.Com, but this article takes the cake.
First we have a completely unchallenged set of fatuous statements by Microsoft Australia, and then a naked plug by Cisco for their application!
Why not just put a byline like so: "This 'journalist' is too lazy to do any research or challenge statements made by vendors.".
The main reason the default is set at 17" is cost of the LCD parts - the main LCD manufacturers are outputting more 17" panels at the moment for a relatively cheap price (compared to last year anyway!).
How did it go? ;-)
Actually after the first mishap it went pretty well! The neighbourhood wasn't safe from my WLDs (Weapons of Little Destruction)...
Of course, my Dad did encourage this behaviour... He told me how he made nitro-glycerine in High School chemistry with some mates. They rigged up an electromagnet with a ball bearing stuck to it above a petri dish of nitro-glycerine and then turned off the power while standing on the far side of the room, blowing out the windows...
They were a great read and I still chuckle thinking about them now. Speaking as someone who tried to make their own napalm (and nearly set fire to my Dad's garage) I totally approved of their adventures!
I think the best sign of how good these books are is that when I was a kid I wished the Mad Scientists Club was real and I could be a member....
NASA have run out of stuff to exploit from the crashed flying saucers at Area 51 and now they're looking for which star system to send their 'honeypot' radio signals to :-D.
I don't see the point in having a 'do not spam' list for the US, when the majority of spam the rest of us are receiving on this planet comes from the US. Is the US govt seriously going to compile a list for all 6 billion of us?
This proposal still makes it a civil matter for the recipient, having to sue the spammer for damages. What's needed is a federal US law making mass junk emailing a criminal offense. Instead they are just pushing it back onto the people to fight in civil courts. The only winners here are the spammers and lawyers.
When I was back in Melbourne I had a Telstra 512k/256k ADSL link, which cost me AUD$90 a month, capped at 3Gb, dynamic IP address, no servers allowed on your connection, yada yada yada. And it was up and down like a yo-yo.
Here in the UK I now have ADSL from a local ISP (Nildram) at 1Mpbs/256k, costing AUD$100 a month, no cap, static IP address, and you are allowed to host any kind of server you like. And the service is rock-solid.
Basic premiss of this argument: Telstra blows. I rarely use the word 'hate' about anything, but I do HATE Telstra.
I'm not looking forward to moving back in a year's time and having to get such pisspoor service again (but I am looking forward to some sunshine!).
The first thing that comes to my mind is prisoner control, like in Fortress. A GPS device, a receiver and a small amount of explosive....
...and Australia is roughly the same size in area as the contiguous United States, so the argument that it is only due to small coverage for telcos in Europe (that some people have been posting) is hogwash.
Some more information:
http://www.aca.gov.au/consumer_info/publications/b rochures/mnp.htm
You can move phone numbers between GSM and CDMA in Australia as well as between Telcos. There are about four-five players competing for mobile telephony in Aus, but they have national reach and aren't fragmented like the mess in the USA.
I've had the misfortune to have two Dell laptops (Inspiron 7000 back in '99, Latitude C840 presently). They were not my choice - work machines. Both have been heavy, cheaply made junk. The Inspiron had multiple hardware repairs before I got rid of it (screen failure, memory, casing). The current Latitude is only 5 months old and the hard drive crapped out last week. It takes the patience of Job to deal with Dell Support, particularly when you are an IT professional and you already know what is wrong! It only took 3 days to argue the drive replacement out of them.
Also I'm not sure why Dell bother putting Nvidia graphics adapters in these 'high-end' laptops. Check out the most recent update available for the Geforce 4 440 Go drivers for the Lat C840 (v28.35 anyone?).