It seems like some financial sites don't use case sensitivity for passwords because the want users to be able to use the same password via their phone system, where case sensitivity isn't possible.
This could set an interesting precendent for internet gambling sites. They have generally claimed what they do is legal since the transactions occur on servers outside the US, where US law does not apply. The US government claims it is illegal because the gambler is in the US when he makes his bets, so US law does apply.
But here the government is agreeing in principal with the internet gambling sites, that the law in the place where the servers are located trumps the law where the person supposedly violating the law is physically present.
I recently set up a new PC for Mom. She is still using a dialup connection. I intially set up the PC with Firefox as that's my browser of choice. But I found it didn't play nice with the dialup connection in two ways:
1. When running Firefox, while it kicked off the dialer and the connection was coming up Firefox wouldn't wait for the connection to be ready and would start trying to load the home pages and would time out before the connection was actually ready.
2. When closing Firefox it wouldn't ask if you wanted to close the dialup connection.
IE doesn't have either of these problems. While these may seem trivial, it was easier for me and less complicated for Mom to use IE instead so these things 'just worked'.
If anyone knows how to configure Firefox so it will play better with a dialup connection please respond.
You make a tree in the left-hand pane to orgranize the contents in the right-hand pane. The contents can be text you type or paste in, links to files, links to other nodes in the tree, Web links, etc.
The contents are also searchable so you can find things that cut across the hierarchy you've created. To make your notes available to others, there is a free viewer you can give to people, or you can also export to a website. The exported website includes a javascript tree so it can be navigated the same as the program.
There is s free version for both Windows and Linux that may do everything you need. I use the 'Business' edition that has more features and was less than $50.
As any true techo-nerd, I haven't written a check in years, what with online banking and bill paying, so I have one less reason to remember what year it is.
To expand on that, any RF noise that gets into the cable will appear in phase on both signal conductors, which will result in it being cancelled out in the input circuit of the device the cable is feeding, if the device has balanced inputs.
CMRR (Common Mode Rejection Ratio) is a measure of how well an input circuit cancels out this kind of noise. When looking at the specs for gear this is one of the important but often overlooked numbers to check out.
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I've also been using allofmp3.com for about 6 months and think it's great.
For the last month or two the option to pay by Paypal has been 'temporarily unavailable'.
For those of you using allofmp3.com, how are you paying them? I'm reluctant to use a credit card, and keep hoping they will again allow Paypal before my account runs out.
Once you have a certain amount of space available people come up with all sorts of ideas for it besides email, like offsite data backup, or the GmailFS a mountable file system based on GMail
I've been using Bookpool as one of my main sources for technical books for several years.
They have great prices, ship promptly, and have free shipping for orders over $40.
They routinely have sales for specific publishers. I've bought most of my O'Reilly books there during their sales. Right now they have Apress books for 50% off retail.
If you register with them, you can get email notification of these sales. When I can I try to queue up my book 'wish list' and buy them when they are on sale at Bookpool.
Treepad is a tree-based PIM, organizer, word processor with too many features to list here, that I've been using for about a year.
The combination of organizing your notes in a tree, with hyperlinks between nodes, and a good search feature makes it a great way to keep track of things.
It isn't open source, but there is a free 'lite' version, plus a couple inexpensive full-featured versions (including versions for Linux).
I have to agree with you on this one. Most end users have zero interest in what language was used to develop some program. They just want it to work, look nice, and not surprise them in unpleasant ways.
A lot of thought should go into a program's name, but one of the things that matters the least is trying to reflect in the name the language or GUI kit used to develop it.
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It seems like some financial sites don't use case sensitivity for passwords because the want users to be able to use the same password via their phone system, where case sensitivity isn't possible.
But can the dead vote for American Idol?
JEdit, a free, open source text editor does folding. http://www.jedit.org/
Turn-X,
Are you a recovering BASIC programmer? I noticed the telltale 'goto' in your post!
This could set an interesting precendent for internet gambling sites. They have generally claimed what they do is legal since the transactions occur on servers outside the US, where US law does not apply. The US government claims it is illegal because the gambler is in the US when he makes his bets, so US law does apply.
But here the government is agreeing in principal with the internet gambling sites, that the law in the place where the servers are located trumps the law where the person supposedly violating the law is physically present.
Interesting...
Lots of people roast their own coffee. I have been for a couple years.
Here's one of the better sources for unroasted coffee beans: Sweet Maria's
I recently set up a new PC for Mom. She is still using a dialup connection. I intially set up the PC with Firefox as that's my browser of choice. But I found it didn't play nice with the dialup connection in two ways:
1. When running Firefox, while it kicked off the dialer and the connection was coming up Firefox wouldn't wait for the connection to be ready and would start trying to load the home pages and would time out before the connection was actually ready.
2. When closing Firefox it wouldn't ask if you wanted to close the dialup connection.
IE doesn't have either of these problems. While these may seem trivial, it was easier for me and less complicated for Mom to use IE instead so these things 'just worked'.
If anyone knows how to configure Firefox so it will play better with a dialup connection please respond.
Thanks for the translation/clarification
Anyone know if this thing can write to NTFS volumes? I couldn't tell from the English part of their website and my French ain't so good.
If it can't write to NTFS volumes it wouldn't do me any good.
The Car Talk guys (from NPR) have the Worst Cars of the Millenium as voted on by their listeners.
It's funny and worth a read.
Check out Treepad.
You make a tree in the left-hand pane to orgranize the contents in the right-hand pane. The contents can be text you type or paste in, links to files, links to other nodes in the tree, Web links, etc.
The contents are also searchable so you can find things that cut across the hierarchy you've created. To make your notes available to others, there is a free viewer you can give to people, or you can also export to a website. The exported website includes a javascript tree so it can be navigated the same as the program.
There is s free version for both Windows and Linux that may do everything you need. I use the 'Business' edition that has more features and was less than $50.
As any true techo-nerd, I haven't written a check in years, what with online banking and bill paying, so I have one less reason to remember what year it is.
To expand on that, any RF noise that gets into the cable will appear in phase on both signal conductors, which will result in it being cancelled out in the input circuit of the device the cable is feeding, if the device has balanced inputs.
CMRR (Common Mode Rejection Ratio) is a measure of how well an input circuit cancels out this kind of noise. When looking at the specs for gear this is one of the important but often overlooked numbers to check out.
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The night was saltry.
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw
jeez... lighten up you left-wing zealots... It's just a joke (and a funny one, too).
If you are not too humor impaired to enjoy a more 'balanced' piece of humor check out Jib Jab.
I've also been using allofmp3.com for about 6 months and think it's great.
For the last month or two the option to pay by Paypal has been 'temporarily unavailable'.
For those of you using allofmp3.com, how are you paying them? I'm reluctant to use a credit card, and keep hoping they will again allow Paypal before my account runs out.
Once you have a certain amount of space available people come up with all sorts of ideas for it besides email, like offsite data backup, or the GmailFS a mountable file system based on GMail
If you want to see someone who writes incredibly useful Windows GUI programs in assembler, some in less than 20Kb, check out Gibson Research
I'm always amazed when I go to download one of his programs and it takes less than a second, and that's an uncompressed EXE, not a zip file!
I've been using Bookpool as one of my main sources for technical books for several years.
They have great prices, ship promptly, and have free shipping for orders over $40.
They routinely have sales for specific publishers. I've bought most of my O'Reilly books there during their sales. Right now they have Apress books for 50% off retail.
If you register with them, you can get email notification of these sales. When I can I try to queue up my book 'wish list' and buy them when they are on sale at Bookpool.
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Treepad is a tree-based PIM, organizer, word processor with too many features to list here, that I've been using for about a year.
The combination of organizing your notes in a tree, with hyperlinks between nodes, and a good search feature makes it a great way to keep track of things.
It isn't open source, but there is a free 'lite' version, plus a couple inexpensive full-featured versions (including versions for Linux).
I have to agree with you on this one. Most end users have zero interest in what language was used to develop some program. They just want it to work, look nice, and not surprise them in unpleasant ways.
A lot of thought should go into a program's name, but one of the things that matters the least is trying to reflect in the name the language or GUI kit used to develop it.
I realize this. I also frequent AMG. It's a great site.
But with Rhapsody, I'm one click away from actually HEARING THE MUSIC, once I've found something that looks interesting.
That's what's cool about the combination of integrating the database with the actual streaming audio.