I also hear some electronics. I could hear the HP deskjet I had for many years "scream" when it received a new print job until the mechanism began moving and drown it out. If it was quiet I could hear high pitch beeping from an old thinkpad. In an outbuilding where I have computer gear I could hear a high pitched, nondirectional squeal which I eventually determined came from the mice...which had built a nest under the concrete slab.
Lately I've been trying track down the source of the irritating high pitch sound I hear in my computer room. I've found that the wifi router squeals. As do the modern generation of lightweight, compact wall warts. But none of those are the sole source.
Use an ssh connection for the serial stream.<br> <br> I admire the simplicity of tty-based online banking of the olden days. The client was dirt simple and about as smart. Instead, banks push harder and harder for a big, bloated javascript app running in your browser. The browser doesn't care; it's runs the banks' app just as easily as the one from Eurasian organized crime. And what the browser runs is entirely the user's responsibility even though the "more toys" philosophy of browser development has left the user with little authority over what the browser actually does. <br> I propose that if banks insist on using a web browser that they make their site lynx/links-able then users use their favorite tty app to ssh to the bank where lynx runs on the bank's system.<br>
This calls for your own personal wayback machine, something which archives every instance of every page you load. And useful beyond detecting revisionist history.
No TV here either. For all the alarmist crying which brought about the Feb-June delay, translators and those who watch them were shafted.
tvfool is a joke. The three stations it said I might receive are 30+ miles away on the other side of numerous high ridges. The LP translators I've been watching for decades, on the other hand, it said I could not receive even with a 500 foot high antenna.
I did spend some time outside Saturday...tending a patch of poison oak.
Caveat ebay: If you beat a sniper, you paid too much.
Sealed bidding would come closer to the perfectly rational primate model of behavior than tweaking the close times. If you can't see what other people think something is worth then it can't influence what you think it's worth.
And such a late posting deserves a gratuitous stupid-ebayers story. I just watched an item listed with a starting price of $50 not sell, get relisted with a starting price of $25 and close with a winning bid of $60.
That would explain why at 16:30 my Dell running Fedora 7 would not respond to keyboard or network input but the power light was lit. The most recent long entry was at Dec 31 15:59:39 and was from iptables logging NTP traffic. The old Red Hat 9 system was still playing music, unfazed.
15 years ago, I used to buy CDs. I couldn't listen to the tracks ahead of time, often 90% of the album sucked. But I had to pay the $15 anyway. Now I buy my music legally, online, but I often just buy one song (99 cents), the ones I really like.
Still a chicken/egg problem. How did you hear those songs you bought online before you bought them so that you knew you liked them enough to buy them?
...having to bribe Robert Trujillo under the guise of giving him a million bucks to join...
It was a million dollar advance presumably paid back from his share of future band earnings. Hope he decided to put that million somewhere stable and live off the interest income.
It was like that way back when I had to install RH9 in order to build updated RH9 installation discs.
Respins, an excellent concept, have been destroyed by the underlying packaging tools (yum, looking at you) user to generate them. They've been afflicted by "MyComputer"ism where they have absolutely zero platform independence (must run on the exact arch and OS that is being respun) and require root to run (even when all the/etc and/var paths have been overridden by options).
And since FC4, Fedora has had the additional feature of being incapable of using the install media after installation. So you gotta install everything you want on the first shot.
When I read about this, particularly the $200 for a bank account, I thought about how they pay and realized they probably stole the money for the payment too. It becomes a self-sustaining criminal enterprise. If you're paying a criminal that specializes in ID fraud do you write them a personal cheque or have then charge your credit card?
Round here Grand Jurors apply, provide references, and interview for a year-long term on the jury. These are not draftees who couldn't get out of jury duty.
Slavery is illegal in this country... Slavery is the natural outcome of capitalism. Businesses push as hard and far to take as many rights from a person as they can. If they could take them all, they would.
Like everyone in town, my +4 just indicates my PO Box. I like that granularity.
Best part is if they really stick to the 2Mbs threshhold then not even satellite can qualify as "broadband". Maybe then the true picture will emerge of how pathetic US broadband availability is.
Bought a CLP-510 (cheap for a reason) last year only and got some experience with Samsung's linux driver because it supports only some proprietary Samsung format. The Samsung driver prints by setting up a filter chain which
converts everything to postscript, if not already (ghostscript)
convert postscript into an intermediate standard CMYK format (ghostscript again)
convert the intermediate format into a proprietary binary blob
write the blob to the printer device
Generating the binary blob uses a binary executable that is included with the driver package and is the only "secret sauce". Everything else is standard CUPS and related programs.
The SUID part comes from the Windowsification of the interface. They replace "lpr" with one that bring up a Windows-like printer config GUI. In, fact it, you can't print with it unless you're running X. The GUI writes the user's selections to the PPD in/etc/cups (which requires root permission) as well as to ~/.lpoptions. It also means that the next print user will start with the options selected by the previous user. Also annoying that duplexing (built-in) could not be controlled from software. I'm sure the Windows driver didn't have that problem.
In short order I replaced the 510 with a CLP-550 which supports postscript natively. I didn't bother with the Samsung driver, but when I found that the 550 didn't have enough memory to print a full-page graphic I extracted the needed components and ran the filter chain manually.
I can echo your story with my own where a "I think I'm dying" episode resulted in a $2000+ ER visit. And that's only because of the 20% discount I got for paying immediately. And I discovered there's a separate bill from everyone who as much as says "Hi". These show up in the months afterward.
In my mother's last year she was helivac'd twice (dispatching a helicopter being routine for this rural area). Medicare et al settled the flight bills for a small fraction of the published rate ($10,000 ea). What I live in fear of is being in a traffic accident or some circumstance where I'm unconscious and they load me onto one of these helicopters. And that's just part (don't forget there's also a ground ambulace involved) of the cost to get to the ER where the real expense begins.
In most cases I'm willing and able to pay what insurance/government pay (something I actually do with a doctor I have a long history with). But being uninsured they really try to make up for all the profit they think they lost on insured/indigent patients. I have all the bargaining power of a union of 1 and it shows.
I saw a talking head on NBR recommending buying SCO. Been awhile, don't remember and searches don't reveal who it was. But I would like to know so I can keep an eye out for his other recommendadtions.
Why would the bank hand my money from my account if I didn't authorize it?
1) Because the bank serves commercial interests. Consumers are not allowed to protect their accounts. That would raise the cost of extracting money from the account. My bank claims it's by law, but more likely it's just their policy so the won't annoy their corporate peers.
2) Authorization is now implied by writing a check or otherwise specified in terms of service (cell phone, cable TV, etc.).
If the bank is being defrauded I can't see that as being my problem.
You have 60 days to notice the fraud and complain. Fail to act and it becomes your fraud. I'd argue that the burden of noticing fraud makes it your problem from the beginning.
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Ask Tynt. They know what people have been copying/pasting.
I also hear some electronics.
I could hear the HP deskjet I had for many years "scream" when it received a new print job until the mechanism began moving and drown it out. If it was quiet I could hear high pitch beeping from an old thinkpad. In an outbuilding where I have computer gear I could hear a high pitched, nondirectional squeal which I eventually determined came from the mice...which had built a nest under the concrete slab.
Lately I've been trying track down the source of the irritating high pitch sound I hear in my computer room. I've found that the wifi router squeals. As do the modern generation of lightweight, compact wall warts. But none of those are the sole source.
cnt was always my favorite of the unnecessarily de-voweled identifiers. How many others could get you fired if you said it aloud the way it's written?
Take the next step toward internetification...
Use an ssh connection for the serial stream.<br>
<br>
I admire the simplicity of tty-based online banking of the olden days. The client was dirt simple and about as smart. Instead, banks push harder and harder for a big, bloated javascript app running in your browser. The browser doesn't care; it's runs the banks' app just as easily as the one from Eurasian organized crime. And what the browser runs is entirely the user's responsibility even though the "more toys" philosophy of browser development has left the user with little authority over what the browser actually does.
<br>
I propose that if banks insist on using a web browser that they make their site lynx/links-able then users use their favorite tty app to ssh to the bank where lynx runs on the bank's system.<br>
This calls for your own personal wayback machine, something which archives every instance of every page you load. And useful beyond detecting revisionist history.
No TV here either. For all the alarmist crying which brought about the Feb-June delay, translators and those who watch them were shafted.
tvfool is a joke. The three stations it said I might receive are 30+ miles away on the other side of numerous high ridges. The LP translators I've been watching for decades, on the other hand, it said I could not receive even with a 500 foot high antenna.
I did spend some time outside Saturday...tending a patch of poison oak.
Me too.
Except the colors--I override those.
Caveat ebay: If you beat a sniper, you paid too much.
Sealed bidding would come closer to the perfectly rational primate model of behavior than tweaking the close times. If you can't see what other people think something is worth then it can't influence what you think it's worth.
And such a late posting deserves a gratuitous stupid-ebayers story. I just watched an item listed with a starting price of $50 not sell, get relisted with a starting price of $25 and close with a winning bid of $60.
That would explain why at 16:30 my Dell running Fedora 7 would not respond to keyboard or network input but the power light was lit. The most recent long entry was at Dec 31 15:59:39 and was from iptables logging NTP traffic. The old Red Hat 9 system was still playing music, unfazed.
15 years ago, I used to buy CDs. I couldn't listen to the tracks ahead of time, often 90% of the album sucked. But I had to pay the $15 anyway. Now I buy my music legally, online, but I often just buy one song (99 cents), the ones I really like.
Still a chicken/egg problem. How did you hear those songs you bought online before you bought them so that you knew you liked them enough to buy them?
It was like that way back when I had to install RH9 in order to build updated RH9 installation discs.
/etc and /var paths have been overridden by options).
Respins, an excellent concept, have been destroyed by the underlying packaging tools (yum, looking at you) user to generate them. They've been afflicted by "MyComputer"ism where they have absolutely zero platform independence (must run on the exact arch and OS that is being respun) and require root to run (even when all the
And since FC4, Fedora has had the additional feature of being incapable of using the install media after installation. So you gotta install everything you want on the first shot.
When I read about this, particularly the $200 for a bank account, I thought about how they pay and realized they probably stole the money for the payment too. It becomes a self-sustaining criminal enterprise. If you're paying a criminal that specializes in ID fraud do you write them a personal cheque or have then charge your credit card?
Was nomad some sorta MP3 player? Drawing a blank.
Round here Grand Jurors apply, provide references, and interview for a year-long term on the jury. These are not draftees who couldn't get out of jury duty.
By reading this post you agree to receive many annoying phone solicitations every day for the rest of your natural life.
Won't even display to an 8-bit display since April 2006. 1-bit went a couple years before that. All on their relentless march of incompatibility.
More generally, when it comes to bloat, linux and windows are the same species of pig.
Like everyone in town, my +4 just indicates my PO Box. I like that granularity.
Best part is if they really stick to the 2Mbs threshhold then not even satellite can qualify as "broadband". Maybe then the true picture will emerge of how pathetic US broadband availability is.
- converts everything to postscript, if not already (ghostscript)
- convert postscript into an intermediate standard CMYK format (ghostscript again)
- convert the intermediate format into a proprietary binary blob
- write the blob to the printer device
Generating the binary blob uses a binary executable that is included with the driver package and is the only "secret sauce". Everything else is standard CUPS and related programs.The SUID part comes from the Windowsification of the interface. They replace "lpr" with one that bring up a Windows-like printer config GUI. In, fact it, you can't print with it unless you're running X. The GUI writes the user's selections to the PPD in
In short order I replaced the 510 with a CLP-550 which supports postscript natively. I didn't bother with the Samsung driver, but when I found that the 550 didn't have enough memory to print a full-page graphic I extracted the needed components and ran the filter chain manually.
I can echo your story with my own where a "I think I'm dying" episode resulted in a $2000+ ER visit. And that's only because of the 20% discount I got for paying immediately. And I discovered there's a separate bill from everyone who as much as says "Hi". These show up in the months afterward.
In my mother's last year she was helivac'd twice (dispatching a helicopter being routine for this rural area). Medicare et al settled the flight bills for a small fraction of the published rate ($10,000 ea). What I live in fear of is being in a traffic accident or some circumstance where I'm unconscious and they load me onto one of these helicopters. And that's just part (don't forget there's also a ground ambulace involved) of the cost to get to the ER where the real expense begins.
In most cases I'm willing and able to pay what insurance/government pay (something I actually do with a doctor I have a long history with). But being uninsured they really try to make up for all the profit they think they lost on insured/indigent patients. I have all the bargaining power of a union of 1 and it shows.
I saw a talking head on NBR recommending buying SCO. Been awhile, don't remember and searches don't reveal who it was. But I would like to know so I can keep an eye out for his other recommendadtions.
Why would the bank hand my money from my account if I didn't authorize it?
1) Because the bank serves commercial interests. Consumers are not allowed to protect their accounts. That would raise the cost of extracting money from the account. My bank claims it's by law, but more likely it's just their policy so the won't annoy their corporate peers.
2) Authorization is now implied by writing a check or otherwise specified in terms of service (cell phone, cable TV, etc.).
If the bank is being defrauded I can't see that as being my problem.
You have 60 days to notice the fraud and complain. Fail to act and it becomes your fraud. I'd argue that the burden of noticing fraud makes it your problem from the beginning.
On Fedora Core 5&6, for reasons I cannot determine, bonobo phones google.