I can't find the exact article, but you should read this one about the effective USB 2.0 speed. It states that the effective maximum speed is only about 40MB/sec, and that 60MB/sec can't be achieved due to overhead/software limitations; not sure if this is true now.
If you're going to be fair when talking about upgrades, you should mention that Windows doesn't always work correctly after updates. I work in tech support; when IE7 was released and pushed via automatic updates, we had a ton of people calling stating they can't get online. Just like Windows, updates for various distributions of linux don't always work right.
I know most (if not all) can be bypassed without booting into another OS. I was merely expanding on the problem Orange Crush, the person who asked this question on/. Like others, I'm more concerned that she doesn't trust her own son/can't stand up to him. If she really wanted to take it further, she could put it in a lock box of sorts, just enough room to run the wires out.
Password the BIOS and put a lock on the case. Make the only boot device the hard drive. Disallow boot drive selection (if necessary). Unless he breaks the lock or the case, no way he can get around that.
Ok, so they are talking about the "Sponsered Links" section. Well, it's in a beige background, different from the rest of the results. It does say "sponsered links", but granted, that is off to the right of the results.
Remember the 10-limit for open TCP connections per program? They did this because viruses and malware open many TCP connections. "Hey, what about P2P?" "What's P2P?".
You're almost right. The limit is for half-open connections: these are connections in the process of being made; however, this can effectively limit your amount of connections for things like bittorrent, because you connect slower than other peers. When you're constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to new peers every second, it becomes a problem. Hitting an artificial cap on half-open connections causes problems with surfing, too. Some bittorrent programs, like uTorrent, have a setting to limit the amount of half-open connections, so they won't interfere with other web activities. Fortunately, for Vista and XP, which employ the hard limit of half-open connections (tcpip.sys), there are patches available.
Just because Dell didn't make the battery, doesn't mean they're not liable. Dell sold him a complete unit, which came with the battery in question (assuming he wasn't using a replacement battery, DNRFTA). Continuing the bad car analogies that roam the savage wastelands of Slashdot: if you bought a used car, under warranty, from a dealer, and a part broke that just happened to be a third-party part (happens often on used cars), would you be ok with the dealer telling you you're SOL? Yeah, I didn't think so.
There isn't much point in converting xvid/divx/3ivx to h.264 (x264/vc) unless you're just aiming for a smaller file size; no, x264/h264 is for preserving the high quality of a video in a relatively low-size file format. Now that the flash player is getting h.264, I'm hoping it'll get something some might consider more important: mkv support and subtitle support. Ah well, here's to dreams.
If you're someone for whom sex is the most important element of your existence, I'd strongly advocate getting a life.
It's not the imost important element of my existence, but I certainly do enjoy it. You don't. Ah well, we all have things we enjoy and things we don't, right? I consider myself intelligent (I must be since I read slashdot!), but I don't consider myself above 'animal' behavior like so many of these posts imply or directly state. Besides, animals don't talk to each other during sex, so there's at least one thing that sets us apart from the ordinary reproductive animal.
And by the way, having sex once really doesn't show you how enjoyable it can be. You were probably nervous your first time, right? That takes a lot of fun out of it.
The point of this post is: don't just dismiss after having sex once or twice. There's fun to be had by all when it comes to sex.
Electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and damming rivers.
Isn't the electricity generated from fossil-fueled power plants much more efficient than the internal combustion engine? As for nuclear, well there aren't any pollutants released into the air from it. And a river dam? Kills some fish, but does that really hurt anything in the long run?
What planet are you on? You have to pay $500 for the phone, you BUY it, it's yours. It's not like you're renting it. Yes, it may void the warranty, but you can do whatever you want with it.
I thought OpenDNS was the greatest thing, until I noticed if you type in a URL that isn't valid it doesn't deliver the standard "non-existent domain" return, but instead gives you an OpenDNS search results page. Bleh. I'll stick with running Bind on my own server, thank you.
Geeks have longer generation spans than the average population.
That's irrelevant. Most people tend to reproduce in their 20's to 30's, younger depending about how far back you're talking. The lifespan doesn't matter as long as they live long enough to reproduce.
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I had a cop ask me once while I was nervous. I simply replied I don't like cops (this was in Florida). He smiled and laughed and asked why not.
I can't find the exact article, but you should read this one about the effective USB 2.0 speed. It states that the effective maximum speed is only about 40MB/sec, and that 60MB/sec can't be achieved due to overhead/software limitations; not sure if this is true now.
If you're going to be fair when talking about upgrades, you should mention that Windows doesn't always work correctly after updates. I work in tech support; when IE7 was released and pushed via automatic updates, we had a ton of people calling stating they can't get online. Just like Windows, updates for various distributions of linux don't always work right.
I know most (if not all) can be bypassed without booting into another OS. I was merely expanding on the problem Orange Crush, the person who asked this question on /. Like others, I'm more concerned that she doesn't trust her own son/can't stand up to him. If she really wanted to take it further, she could put it in a lock box of sorts, just enough room to run the wires out.
Password the BIOS and put a lock on the case. Make the only boot device the hard drive. Disallow boot drive selection (if necessary). Unless he breaks the lock or the case, no way he can get around that.
Ok, so they are talking about the "Sponsered Links" section. Well, it's in a beige background, different from the rest of the results. It does say "sponsered links", but granted, that is off to the right of the results.
Are they talking about the "Sponsered Links" section at the top? They're clearly marked. Or are they talking about the normal results?
Ha. Remind me never to visit the UK with my brother, then.
Surely you jest, but your question brings to mind another one: what about two people with identical DNA (identical twins)?
Remember the 10-limit for open TCP connections per program? They did this because viruses and malware open many TCP connections. "Hey, what about P2P?" "What's P2P?".
You're almost right. The limit is for half-open connections: these are connections in the process of being made; however, this can effectively limit your amount of connections for things like bittorrent, because you connect slower than other peers. When you're constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to new peers every second, it becomes a problem. Hitting an artificial cap on half-open connections causes problems with surfing, too. Some bittorrent programs, like uTorrent, have a setting to limit the amount of half-open connections, so they won't interfere with other web activities. Fortunately, for Vista and XP, which employ the hard limit of half-open connections (tcpip.sys), there are patches available.
Just because Dell didn't make the battery, doesn't mean they're not liable. Dell sold him a complete unit, which came with the battery in question (assuming he wasn't using a replacement battery, DNRFTA). Continuing the bad car analogies that roam the savage wastelands of Slashdot: if you bought a used car, under warranty, from a dealer, and a part broke that just happened to be a third-party part (happens often on used cars), would you be ok with the dealer telling you you're SOL? Yeah, I didn't think so.
The iPhone has a bigger hard drive, for one.
There isn't much point in converting xvid/divx/3ivx to h.264 (x264/vc) unless you're just aiming for a smaller file size; no, x264/h264 is for preserving the high quality of a video in a relatively low-size file format. Now that the flash player is getting h.264, I'm hoping it'll get something some might consider more important: mkv support and subtitle support. Ah well, here's to dreams.
Slight correction: BitComet is a much newer code base and also without the ad-crap. See: Bitlord.
It's "repel" as in "the body odor of submitter repels women worldwide", as opposed (heh) to repeal, which means, "to remove or reverse a law".
If you're someone for whom sex is the most important element of your existence, I'd strongly advocate getting a life.
It's not the imost important element of my existence, but I certainly do enjoy it. You don't. Ah well, we all have things we enjoy and things we don't, right? I consider myself intelligent (I must be since I read slashdot!), but I don't consider myself above 'animal' behavior like so many of these posts imply or directly state. Besides, animals don't talk to each other during sex, so there's at least one thing that sets us apart from the ordinary reproductive animal.
And by the way, having sex once really doesn't show you how enjoyable it can be. You were probably nervous your first time, right? That takes a lot of fun out of it.
The point of this post is: don't just dismiss after having sex once or twice. There's fun to be had by all when it comes to sex.
You just made it page 1,160,001..... 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ... and I just made it page 1,160,002 ha.
Electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and damming rivers.
Isn't the electricity generated from fossil-fueled power plants much more efficient than the internal combustion engine? As for nuclear, well there aren't any pollutants released into the air from it. And a river dam? Kills some fish, but does that really hurt anything in the long run?
Obvious? MAME = Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
What planet are you on? You have to pay $500 for the phone, you BUY it, it's yours. It's not like you're renting it. Yes, it may void the warranty, but you can do whatever you want with it.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
I thought OpenDNS was the greatest thing, until I noticed if you type in a URL that isn't valid it doesn't deliver the standard "non-existent domain" return, but instead gives you an OpenDNS search results page. Bleh. I'll stick with running Bind on my own server, thank you.
Geeks have longer generation spans than the average population.
That's irrelevant. Most people tend to reproduce in their 20's to 30's, younger depending about how far back you're talking. The lifespan doesn't matter as long as they live long enough to reproduce.
Anyone working on this was likely to be your great-grandfather, not grandfather. New generations usually start every 20-30 years.
I suppose so. Now that I think about it, I usually find the home keys by feeling for the larger keys around them, like shift and enter.