ok, someone posted these instructions on how to fix it (http://www.geocities.com/djyayo/PS2errorFAQ.txt) and i followed those instructions to clean the lense on my ps2 (i bought it soon after they came out, so i have no warranty anyways) and it worked like a charm. all of my ps2 blue cd games that didn't work, now work again, as well as all of the dvds that didn't play before.
huzzah!
i kinda feel like kramer when he used that balm during his coffee lawsuit.
funny, i was unable to watch Tron when i had my memory card (with the updated dvd player) in. i got loads of random artifacts on the screen. lots of yellow shit. when i took the memory card out, and it used the original dvd player software, the movie played just fine. stuck the card back in, and voila, the yellow shit was back. weird. that's the only movie it's done that on so far.
I've been using pghoster.com for a while now. They're pretty damn good and cheap too. Acorn Hosting and Zill.net provide PostgreSQL as well (mainly because they primarily provide OpenACS hosting, which requires PostgreSQL)
I just ordered one. I don't know what coupon the article was referring to, but the best one on the page of coupons was for $15-25 off, and you can only use one, and it only came up as $15 off. No big deal. With the $11.95 "express" 5 day shipping (instead of the regular 10 day shipping) the total came to $195.87.
Now I just need to spend another $100 on a wifi cf card for it and I'll be good to go.
Right after high school I went out to California in the dot-com boom and got working right away. (Making $60K a year with benefits right out of high school was a pretty good feeling) I did some contract work for a publishing company in Palo Alto, and then did contract system administration work at Netscape for a while. Netscape was nice. But I honestly felt a little out of place, because I was 19 then, and everyone else was in the 30's and such. I think I spent a total of 3 or 4 months there before I got sucked into a startup.
But that startup never really went anywhere. So I left with my room mate and moved to Salt Lake City and worked for another startup, and 6 months later that one fizzled. I moved back home and got a job with a real company right before the dot-bomb.
So, the first 2 years of my professional career were spent working on jobs where there really was no substance to my work. It never affected anyone.
The company I work for now has an actual product (and it works!), which I've put about two years of coding and design into, and we've got happy customers that love it. It makes me feel good to have had a hand in something that actually has a positive effect on peoples' lives and makes their work easier. I make less than I did in California, but I'm living in the town I grew up in again, and I'm near my family and friends, and that's well worth it. Also, the job security of working for a real company (not a startup) that has actual revenue is nice to have. Being appreciated is a great feeling.
Yeah, and just across the Charles at the Museum of Science they've had the same sort of system setup as an exhibit for some time now. There are even some fish that you can turn into killer fish.. they wander around the "tank" and eat the other fishies.
Whatever happened to those lovely cards one could install in their Mac that had an Intel processor and software to run a PC OS from the card with the ability to swap the monitor back and forth?
With PC components being so cheap, why aren't there any products like this? I'd rather buy a product like that than pay for MS VPC.
OSX does not have the interface sounds available anymore, and even if they were, those were not the sounds I heard. However, there is a haxie from Unsanity call Xounds that adds this capability to OSX.
I have the same problem with my LCD iMac. It's not attributable to simple CPU usage, but rather the interface. When I drag windows, move scroll bars, access menus, etc., I hear a slight grinding sound (sort of like a hard drive but considerably quieter).
Then again, when I've got iTunes blaring it doesn't really matter.
... I installed 10.2.4 on my G4 iMac when it was released and I've had zero problems with it.
I'm a little more fearful about it touching my powerbook G3 (pismo) though. I've frequently had problems with that machine and updates. I've had to completely backup/wipe/reinstall the damn thing at least 5 times due to problems with OSX. It seems that they give considerably less of a damn about older machines than the do about the cream of the crop.
I'll wait a while before installing it on my powerbook.
If the company is unwilling to negotiate over you stripping dat from their web pages, perhaps there's another way to get what you want? Why not try asking them to implement web services via XML-RPC or SOAP that would provide the data you desire?
a thirteen year old kid writes a virus that emails itself to everyone in your address book. he's found, caught, sentenced and tossed in jail.
a company comes along and writes a piece of "software" that installs itself on your computer without your knowledge, changes your preferences, watches your every move and reports it back to the marketeers, and digs itself into your system so the only way to get it out is to reinstall your entire computer... (oops, by the way, now that you're using Microsoft products, you may just have to buy a new version due to licensing BS)... and the worst that happens to the company is some negative press (which, as we all know, bad press is better than no press at all).
so, why the hell isn't the FBI busting these peoples' door down and arresting them? what is the damn difference between what they do and what script kiddies do?
Disclaimer: I am aware that I am exaggerating, are you?
If you're lazy, then here's the answer: Ingres was a research project at Berkeley, started by Michael Stonebraker (around the time when IBM was still working on their first relational database technology, or shortly after it was publicly introduced). Ingres was forked into a company, Relational Technologies. Ingres/Relational Technologies was later purchased by Computer Associates.
Back at Berkeley the work on Ingres continued, but with a new name Postgres (post-ingres). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and turned into yet another commercial database product. Eventually Illustra was purchased by Informix and integrated into their Informix Universal Server.
Work on the Postgres database continued still at Berkeley. SQL support was added to the database and it was renamed to Postgres95. (Can you guess what year that happened in?)
After Postgres95 the folks involved in the project became interested in getting the open source community involved. At that point the product was renamed PostgreSQL, which is pronounced post-gres-cue-ell.
Yeah, I'm a little peeved at that too. I'm a geek and I don't get to enjoy this project because for some reason they've neglected the NATIVE PLATFORM for the streaming product they're using.
However, there IS a note stating that they are "explorting porting to the MacOS" I think they meant "exploring", and even if they do explore it, are they talking about Mac OS 9 or OSX?
Where I live, tickets are about $9 apiece. I'd be REALLY pissed if they messed up my tickets. I'd really like to know if this is fandango or not, because they're the ones who handle online sales for my local theatres....and like everyone else has said, this guy should call his credit card company and get a refund.
yeah, i was just generalizing. it's mentioned in the book (i've only read the unabridged & uncut version, so i don't know if it's mentioned in the shorter version) that most of the people were basically in hiding, and i dont blame them. a good portion of the people died accidental deaths even after the plague had struck: a man jogging died of a heart attack, a lady died after a gun blew up in her hand while she was attempting to fend off some random guy, etc.
Glen Bateman's character mentions at some point that the people will slowly start pooling together and at some point society will rebuild itself. The first comers, the ones we see in the movie, number only in the thousands or so until after vegas is "removed." when stu returns, the entire elected committee is replaced with new people. he and fran leave to live in maine shortly after because they just dont want to be involved in a large society.
regardless, here's to hoping something like that never happens for real.:)
so, assuming for some reason you can't just find an isp that doesn't suck, why not just write a script that will pull / parse the time from some website and setup a cron job to run it?
So now Randall Flagg's out wandering around in Nevada somewhere... It's only a matter of time until 90% of the population is dead and the rest are fighting for god.
So, it's been mentioned at least twice in comments on this Ask Slashdot post, we need new protocols. So, what about it? Is anyone working on any improvements to our dusty old technology?
Encryption/PKI seems to be where it's at now, and P2P as well. P2P IRC? P2P email? How about it?
If the old toys are broken and laying in the corner, perhaps it's time to build some new ones.
Here's a little note from the p.o.v. of a long-time Mac & Linux user. (not that anyone really cares, but what the heck...)
One of the things I don't miss about Linux is all the quibbling over init scripts, what applications are installed where, how things are compiled, what kernel version is installed, what packages are available, what package manager is used, etc.
Please do not get me wrong, I love Linux. It's a great operating system and works wonderfully both on client and server, and there's hard evidence andd anecdotal evidence on both fronts. It's great to tinker with too. But for someone who just needs to get sh*t done, it *can* (not does, but can) lead to a lot of wasted time.
I spent a few years running Linux on various systems and at the time I was very much interested in tinkering with it, which often led to broken configurations and needing to reinstall. Which is really time consuming.
I started playing around with Mac OS X when I got the public beta and I kept using LinuxPPC as my main OS for some time, but ended up switching over to OSX full time when 10.0 was released (actually even before then) and never turned back. I've installed a few linux distros (yellow dog and debian) on my powerbook a few times and after playing with it a bit I realize that I just don't need it anymore.
Spending time dealing with getting X working nicely, getting sound working, my trackpad, modem, etc. I haven't even attempted to get airport working yet so I don't know if that's a hassle or not. (802.11 is certainly a PITA to setup in Windows at least, but in OSX it's a breeze).
Certainly some of this is griping, but I believe I do have a point. It really doesn't matter where the hell files go, or what type of init scripts you use, or what package manager (though I have to admit, apt is wonderful since it does a whole lot of work for you -- DEPENDENCIES!!!). All I know is that I can go to any Mac running OSX and it's all the same as every other Mac running OSX. It would be nice if Linux distributions were like that too. Sure, the average Linux sysadmin can probably jump from one system to another and figure out where everything s/he needs is, but should they have to? Wouldn't their time be better spent getting actual work done?
If/when I need to deal with someone else's OSX system, I would have certain expectations: the GUI is the same, boot/init scripts go in/Library/StartupItems, apps are in/Applications, useful applications are in/Applications/Utilities, and most system administration is performed via the System Preferences app. (Yeah, I can do most of that stuff from the command, but honestly, I don't want to) I think that linux folks should be able to have certain expectations as well, and have them fulfilled.
For an end-user, the only really important difference between Linux distributions is probably whether or not they can install it quickly and painlessly, and whether it's a joy to use after that (what programs it has matters too).
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE.... and now this comment is posted three times.
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ok, someone posted these instructions on how to fix it (http://www.geocities.com/djyayo/PS2errorFAQ.txt) and i followed those instructions to clean the lense on my ps2 (i bought it soon after they came out, so i have no warranty anyways) and it worked like a charm. all of my ps2 blue cd games that didn't work, now work again, as well as all of the dvds that didn't play before.
huzzah!
i kinda feel like kramer when he used that balm during his coffee lawsuit.
funny, i was unable to watch Tron when i had my memory card (with the updated dvd player) in. i got loads of random artifacts on the screen. lots of yellow shit. when i took the memory card out, and it used the original dvd player software, the movie played just fine. stuck the card back in, and voila, the yellow shit was back. weird. that's the only movie it's done that on so far.
Apple released Safari beta 73 this morning via software update. Enjoy.
I've been using pghoster.com for a while now. They're pretty damn good and cheap too. Acorn Hosting and Zill.net provide PostgreSQL as well (mainly because they primarily provide OpenACS hosting, which requires PostgreSQL)
Wow. I feel ripped off. HSN.com told me I couldn't use that coupon.
I know people really dig MySQL and everything, but seriously, PostgreSQL has all of those features, and it's ready for production use NOW.
I just ordered one. I don't know what coupon the article was referring to, but the best one on the page of coupons was for $15-25 off, and you can only use one, and it only came up as $15 off. No big deal. With the $11.95 "express" 5 day shipping (instead of the regular 10 day shipping) the total came to $195.87.
Now I just need to spend another $100 on a wifi cf card for it and I'll be good to go.
Right after high school I went out to California in the dot-com boom and got working right away. (Making $60K a year with benefits right out of high school was a pretty good feeling) I did some contract work for a publishing company in Palo Alto, and then did contract system administration work at Netscape for a while. Netscape was nice. But I honestly felt a little out of place, because I was 19 then, and everyone else was in the 30's and such. I think I spent a total of 3 or 4 months there before I got sucked into a startup.
But that startup never really went anywhere. So I left with my room mate and moved to Salt Lake City and worked for another startup, and 6 months later that one fizzled. I moved back home and got a job with a real company right before the dot-bomb.
So, the first 2 years of my professional career were spent working on jobs where there really was no substance to my work. It never affected anyone.
The company I work for now has an actual product (and it works!), which I've put about two years of coding and design into, and we've got happy customers that love it. It makes me feel good to have had a hand in something that actually has a positive effect on peoples' lives and makes their work easier. I make less than I did in California, but I'm living in the town I grew up in again, and I'm near my family and friends, and that's well worth it. Also, the job security of working for a real company (not a startup) that has actual revenue is nice to have. Being appreciated is a great feeling.
Yeah, and just across the Charles at the Museum of Science they've had the same sort of system setup as an exhibit for some time now. There are even some fish that you can turn into killer fish .. they wander around the "tank" and eat the other fishies.
Whatever happened to those lovely cards one could install in their Mac that had an Intel processor and software to run a PC OS from the card with the ability to swap the monitor back and forth?
With PC components being so cheap, why aren't there any products like this? I'd rather buy a product like that than pay for MS VPC.
OSX does not have the interface sounds available anymore, and even if they were, those were not the sounds I heard. However, there is a haxie from Unsanity call Xounds that adds this capability to OSX.
I have the same problem with my LCD iMac. It's not attributable to simple CPU usage, but rather the interface. When I drag windows, move scroll bars, access menus, etc., I hear a slight grinding sound (sort of like a hard drive but considerably quieter).
Then again, when I've got iTunes blaring it doesn't really matter.
... I installed 10.2.4 on my G4 iMac when it was released and I've had zero problems with it.
I'm a little more fearful about it touching my powerbook G3 (pismo) though. I've frequently had problems with that machine and updates. I've had to completely backup/wipe/reinstall the damn thing at least 5 times due to problems with OSX. It seems that they give considerably less of a damn about older machines than the do about the cream of the crop.
I'll wait a while before installing it on my powerbook.
If the company is unwilling to negotiate over you stripping dat from their web pages, perhaps there's another way to get what you want? Why not try asking them to implement web services via XML-RPC or SOAP that would provide the data you desire?
a thirteen year old kid writes a virus that emails itself to everyone in your address book. he's found, caught, sentenced and tossed in jail.
a company comes along and writes a piece of "software" that installs itself on your computer without your knowledge, changes your preferences, watches your every move and reports it back to the marketeers, and digs itself into your system so the only way to get it out is to reinstall your entire computer... (oops, by the way, now that you're using Microsoft products, you may just have to buy a new version due to licensing BS) ... and the worst that happens to the company is some negative press (which, as we all know, bad press is better than no press at all).
so, why the hell isn't the FBI busting these peoples' door down and arresting them? what is the damn difference between what they do and what script kiddies do?
Disclaimer: I am aware that I am exaggerating, are you?
I don't know why people bother asking these questions on slashdot when a simple google search will provide perfectly accurate answers. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q =postgresql+history
If you're lazy, then here's the answer: Ingres was a research project at Berkeley, started by Michael Stonebraker (around the time when IBM was still working on their first relational database technology, or shortly after it was publicly introduced). Ingres was forked into a company, Relational Technologies. Ingres/Relational Technologies was later purchased by Computer Associates.
Back at Berkeley the work on Ingres continued, but with a new name Postgres (post-ingres). Postgres was later taken by Illustra and turned into yet another commercial database product. Eventually Illustra was purchased by Informix and integrated into their Informix Universal Server.
Work on the Postgres database continued still at Berkeley. SQL support was added to the database and it was renamed to Postgres95. (Can you guess what year that happened in?)
After Postgres95 the folks involved in the project became interested in getting the open source community involved. At that point the product was renamed PostgreSQL, which is pronounced post-gres-cue-ell.
Yeah, I'm a little peeved at that too. I'm a geek and I don't get to enjoy this project because for some reason they've neglected the NATIVE PLATFORM for the streaming product they're using.
However, there IS a note stating that they are "explorting porting to the MacOS" I think they meant "exploring", and even if they do explore it, are they talking about Mac OS 9 or OSX?
I want to play :(
Where I live, tickets are about $9 apiece. I'd be REALLY pissed if they messed up my tickets. I'd really like to know if this is fandango or not, because they're the ones who handle online sales for my local theatres. ...and like everyone else has said, this guy should call his credit card company and get a refund.
yeah, i was just generalizing. it's mentioned in the book (i've only read the unabridged & uncut version, so i don't know if it's mentioned in the shorter version) that most of the people were basically in hiding, and i dont blame them. a good portion of the people died accidental deaths even after the plague had struck: a man jogging died of a heart attack, a lady died after a gun blew up in her hand while she was attempting to fend off some random guy, etc.
:)
Glen Bateman's character mentions at some point that the people will slowly start pooling together and at some point society will rebuild itself. The first comers, the ones we see in the movie, number only in the thousands or so until after vegas is "removed." when stu returns, the entire elected committee is replaced with new people. he and fran leave to live in maine shortly after because they just dont want to be involved in a large society.
regardless, here's to hoping something like that never happens for real.
so, assuming for some reason you can't just find an isp that doesn't suck, why not just write a script that will pull / parse the time from some website and setup a cron job to run it?
So now Randall Flagg's out wandering around in Nevada somewhere... It's only a matter of time until 90% of the population is dead and the rest are fighting for god.
Bring on the walkin' dude...
So, it's been mentioned at least twice in comments on this Ask Slashdot post, we need new protocols. So, what about it? Is anyone working on any improvements to our dusty old technology?
Encryption/PKI seems to be where it's at now, and P2P as well. P2P IRC? P2P email? How about it?
If the old toys are broken and laying in the corner, perhaps it's time to build some new ones.
...and nobody cares.
Here's a little note from the p.o.v. of a long-time Mac & Linux user. (not that anyone really cares, but what the heck...)
/Library/StartupItems, apps are in /Applications, useful applications are in /Applications/Utilities, and most system administration is performed via the System Preferences app. (Yeah, I can do most of that stuff from the command, but honestly, I don't want to) I think that linux folks should be able to have certain expectations as well, and have them fulfilled.
One of the things I don't miss about Linux is all the quibbling over init scripts, what applications are installed where, how things are compiled, what kernel version is installed, what packages are available, what package manager is used, etc.
Please do not get me wrong, I love Linux. It's a great operating system and works wonderfully both on client and server, and there's hard evidence andd anecdotal evidence on both fronts. It's great to tinker with too. But for someone who just needs to get sh*t done, it *can* (not does, but can) lead to a lot of wasted time.
I spent a few years running Linux on various systems and at the time I was very much interested in tinkering with it, which often led to broken configurations and needing to reinstall. Which is really time consuming.
I started playing around with Mac OS X when I got the public beta and I kept using LinuxPPC as my main OS for some time, but ended up switching over to OSX full time when 10.0 was released (actually even before then) and never turned back. I've installed a few linux distros (yellow dog and debian) on my powerbook a few times and after playing with it a bit I realize that I just don't need it anymore.
Spending time dealing with getting X working nicely, getting sound working, my trackpad, modem, etc. I haven't even attempted to get airport working yet so I don't know if that's a hassle or not. (802.11 is certainly a PITA to setup in Windows at least, but in OSX it's a breeze).
Certainly some of this is griping, but I believe I do have a point. It really doesn't matter where the hell files go, or what type of init scripts you use, or what package manager (though I have to admit, apt is wonderful since it does a whole lot of work for you -- DEPENDENCIES!!!). All I know is that I can go to any Mac running OSX and it's all the same as every other Mac running OSX. It would be nice if Linux distributions were like that too. Sure, the average Linux sysadmin can probably jump from one system to another and figure out where everything s/he needs is, but should they have to? Wouldn't their time be better spent getting actual work done?
If/when I need to deal with someone else's OSX system, I would have certain expectations: the GUI is the same, boot/init scripts go in
For an end-user, the only really important difference between Linux distributions is probably whether or not they can install it quickly and painlessly, and whether it's a joy to use after that (what programs it has matters too).
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE. ... and now this comment is posted three times.