And spelling out book titles with a TV remote? (Arrow to letter > Select Letter > Arrow to next letter > Select Next Letter). No thanks!
TiVo should have been supporting wired HID-compliant USB keyboards since the Series2 first came out instead of still not yet now. The Ouija boards still annoy me when I need to get to a letter in the first column and I accidentally push Left one too many times.
I don't need a Bluetooth module or IR keyboard support. Just a simple long-wired USB keyboard will do fine. Even the Series2 with a USB-Ethernet or USB-WiFi dongle installed has a spare port.
BTW & FYI, check to make sure your Series 1 fan is operating properly. It looks like I'm going to have to replace the fans in two Series2 units, so the older Series1 units may be reaching end of life and start overheating or even failing to restart if the fan doesn't get up to speed.
I'm pretty sure they are talking about buying things other than music and movies.
Yeah, like if you like how the killer used the reciprocating saw to dismember the body on CSI:, buy it now with a ThumbsUp on your TiVo remote.
I'm not shitting you: one of the CSI shows had product placement of a reciprocating saw as a dismemberment tool, first shown prominently in the episode (matching blade marks to bone), then the exact same model was advertised during a commercial break.
I won't like it if it means pop-ups during the show. And I own 8 TiVos (7 subscribed).
I worked at a web design company (now defunct) where the standard way to handle forms data submitted via a secure socket layer was to e-mail them unencrypted to the client's mailbox, which was often an AOL.com address.
And one client (a historical society site) who was quoted too low a price for a hosting plan with SSL had his forms hosted on another client's site (which sold lingerie, massage oils, candles, and Beanie Babies) that did have SSL, and those forms contained credit card information. A frameset was employed to hide the domain disparity. I at least succeeded in insisting that the information be retrieved by sftp instead of being e-mailed, though I suspect they had someone in-house sftp it and then manually e-mail it after I'd left.
Other incompetence included replacing the text alternative links for a server-side imagemap with another server-side imagemap (in order to control the fragile layout across all (i.e. "both") browsers) and encasing the company website in a frameset constraining the content to a 640x480 pane.
Everything they did was done using NetObjects Fusion, which produced excessively bloated nested tables to achieve WYSIWYG fixed layout. I personally recoded the front page of one site by hand and reduced HTML markup size to one eighth of its original size and image weight by far more, simply by replacing nested fixed-table-layout code with a client-side imagemap, something NOF should have been able to do itself.
Its just a matter of time until the release the CherryPal2...
Such as the first viral exploit?
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." -- Douglas Adams
Then there's those that expect to have been opened in a new window, so when they're opened in a tab they resize the whole browser window, affecting all your tabs(*).
How about instead of outright disabling the Back button, just Dark-Age your domain, recording no history until you leave the domain. Back will take you to the site you visited prior and you haven't wasted memory recording history that would just screw up the app if re-accessed. Open a link to elsewhere and history resumes.
(*) When I left a particular web design company, the last thing the boss requested I create was a frameset that was designed to present a page in a frame never larger than 640x480 (today it would have been Javascript to resize the browser window). Plain black frames above, below, and on both sides. I had resisted doing it before and warned that it was not a good idea. The boss used it anyway... on the company's own site. I think they were out of business long before they lost their domain 1.75 years later.
"Please enter the destination number and press #" [My own number] "Checking destination" "Repeats [My own number]" "To send your message now, press #"
Hang up, 3-4 second later, phone vibrates that I have a new message.
I'd rather it require that I actually press # before it sends the message. Maybe the early hang-up was a friend trying to prevent me from drunk-calling an ex-girlfriend and leaving an embarrassing message on her voice mail.
(/wonders if he should head off the inevitable, "You're posting to Slashdot. What ex-girlfriend?" response with some witty self-deprecating rejoinder.)
That's bloody-stupid. Quotation marks imply quotation, and punctuation shows the grammar and syntax of the sentence. If the quoted sentence doesn't have a damned period at the end, put the damned period outside the quotes.
Or, on another point, if what I'm quoting isn't a "sentence", it's not going to be punctuated as if were one.
Maybe that's because we're still using monitors perpendicular to the ground. If we went back to having screens parallel with the ground, like a piece of writing paper, using a touchscreen would be a lot easier in this regard.
And maybe we should also paint all road signs on the road's surface in extra tall letters instead of standing up vertically where they're collision hazards and distract your eyes from the road.
I've said many times before I'd throw my mouse away in an instant if I could have a multi-touch trackpad on my desk. It'd have to be very low profile and about half as big as the one on the MacBook Pro in every direction.
Strange, but I thought a touch pad for a desktop machine should be about the size of a mouse pad.
But then it should also have no buttons, so things like dragging something a distance larger than the pad would need a gesture to support, like walking fingers.
Still, even with two-finger gesture scrolling, I like having a scroll wheel, and would like to have one as a ring on my index finger that I can spin with my thumb (actually, more like a ring inside a ring so it spins in a groove on itself instead of spinning on my finger).
Ah yes, the immutable bit. I remember when it was a way to defeat TiVo's boot image protection, until they got the idea to reboot if the overwrite failed.
Slashdot Mirror
And spelling out book titles with a TV remote? (Arrow to letter > Select Letter > Arrow to next letter > Select Next Letter). No thanks!
TiVo should have been supporting wired HID-compliant USB keyboards since the Series2 first came out instead of still not yet now. The Ouija boards still annoy me when I need to get to a letter in the first column and I accidentally push Left one too many times.
I don't need a Bluetooth module or IR keyboard support. Just a simple long-wired USB keyboard will do fine. Even the Series2 with a USB-Ethernet or USB-WiFi dongle installed has a spare port.
My Series 1 SA doesn't get this (much) spam!
BTW & FYI, check to make sure your Series 1 fan is operating properly. It looks like I'm going to have to replace the fans in two Series2 units, so the older Series1 units may be reaching end of life and start overheating or even failing to restart if the fan doesn't get up to speed.
I'm pretty sure they are talking about buying things other than music and movies.
Yeah, like if you like how the killer used the reciprocating saw to dismember the body on CSI:, buy it now with a ThumbsUp on your TiVo remote.
I'm not shitting you: one of the CSI shows had product placement of a reciprocating saw as a dismemberment tool, first shown prominently in the episode (matching blade marks to bone), then the exact same model was advertised during a commercial break.
I won't like it if it means pop-ups during the show. And I own 8 TiVos (7 subscribed).
What causes more harm to Children? Porn or Religion?
And thus, in companion to this response:
God Addy
Microsoft fails miserably at implementing the DOM2 standards.
Microsoft fails miserably at implementing the HTTP standards! See their treatment of files served as text/plain.
I worked at a web design company (now defunct) where the standard way to handle forms data submitted via a secure socket layer was to e-mail them unencrypted to the client's mailbox, which was often an AOL.com address.
And one client (a historical society site) who was quoted too low a price for a hosting plan with SSL had his forms hosted on another client's site (which sold lingerie, massage oils, candles, and Beanie Babies) that did have SSL, and those forms contained credit card information. A frameset was employed to hide the domain disparity. I at least succeeded in insisting that the information be retrieved by sftp instead of being e-mailed, though I suspect they had someone in-house sftp it and then manually e-mail it after I'd left.
Other incompetence included replacing the text alternative links for a server-side imagemap with another server-side imagemap (in order to control the fragile layout across all (i.e. "both") browsers) and encasing the company website in a frameset constraining the content to a 640x480 pane.
Everything they did was done using NetObjects Fusion, which produced excessively bloated nested tables to achieve WYSIWYG fixed layout. I personally recoded the front page of one site by hand and reduced HTML markup size to one eighth of its original size and image weight by far more, simply by replacing nested fixed-table-layout code with a client-side imagemap, something NOF should have been able to do itself.
Its just a matter of time until the release the CherryPal2...
Such as the first viral exploit?
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." -- Douglas Adams
Then there's those that expect to have been opened in a new window, so when they're opened in a tab they resize the whole browser window, affecting all your tabs(*).
How about instead of outright disabling the Back button, just Dark-Age your domain, recording no history until you leave the domain. Back will take you to the site you visited prior and you haven't wasted memory recording history that would just screw up the app if re-accessed. Open a link to elsewhere and history resumes.
(*) When I left a particular web design company, the last thing the boss requested I create was a frameset that was designed to present a page in a frame never larger than 640x480 (today it would have been Javascript to resize the browser window). Plain black frames above, below, and on both sides. I had resisted doing it before and warned that it was not a good idea. The boss used it anyway... on the company's own site. I think they were out of business long before they lost their domain 1.75 years later.
Mmm, yeah, and I'll forward you another copy of that voice-memo about cover sheets for your TPS reports.
If I can't answer the phone I don't need a message; I'll call you back.
Maybe the person calling doesn't need or want to be called back and can deliver the reason for the call in a voice mail message.
"Please enter the destination number and press #"
[My own number]
"Checking destination"
"Repeats [My own number]"
"To send your message now, press #"
Hang up, 3-4 second later, phone vibrates that I have a new message.
I'd rather it require that I actually press # before it sends the message. Maybe the early hang-up was a friend trying to prevent me from drunk-calling an ex-girlfriend and leaving an embarrassing message on her voice mail.
(/wonders if he should head off the inevitable, "You're posting to Slashdot. What ex-girlfriend?" response with some witty self-deprecating rejoinder.)
I can just hear the promotional jingle now: "Reach out, reach out and snub someone. Reach out, reach out and just say, `Bye!'"
("Let your fingers do the talking; it's a flip!")
When the pixel is off, the primary & secondary mirrors are parallel & reflect all of the incoming light back into the light source.
Just remember to make sure your optics are clean.
Try playing a game with a touchscreen and not a mouse, not as much fun.
Now, I wouldn't say that:
[tap tap tap] "Headsh-- Hea-- Headshot!"
If you'd seen The Dark Knight, you'd have seen this trailer.
That's bloody-stupid. Quotation marks imply quotation, and punctuation shows the grammar and syntax of the sentence. If the quoted sentence doesn't have a damned period at the end, put the damned period outside the quotes.
Or, on another point, if what I'm quoting isn't a "sentence", it's not going to be punctuated as if were one.
And exposure to wrongly-formed language destroys said language.
"Hamburger avec du fromage."
Maybe that's because we're still using monitors perpendicular to the ground. If we went back to having screens parallel with the ground, like a piece of writing paper, using a touchscreen would be a lot easier in this regard.
And maybe we should also paint all road signs on the road's surface in extra tall letters instead of standing up vertically where they're collision hazards and distract your eyes from the road.
('Cause it's not Slashdot without a car analogy.)
I've said many times before I'd throw my mouse away in an instant if I could have a multi-touch trackpad on my desk. It'd have to be very low profile and about half as big as the one on the MacBook Pro in every direction.
Strange, but I thought a touch pad for a desktop machine should be about the size of a mouse pad.
But then it should also have no buttons, so things like dragging something a distance larger than the pad would need a gesture to support, like walking fingers.
Still, even with two-finger gesture scrolling, I like having a scroll wheel, and would like to have one as a ring on my index finger that I can spin with my thumb (actually, more like a ring inside a ring so it spins in a groove on itself instead of spinning on my finger).
I'm just wondering how deep this Platform-as-a-Service will dye my Easter eggs.
chattr +i /path/to/file
Ah yes, the immutable bit. I remember when it was a way to defeat TiVo's boot image protection, until they got the idea to reboot if the overwrite failed.
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Lovely bats, wonderful b bats,
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ats,
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ats,
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ats,
Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-ats,
LOVELY BATS (LOVELY BATS)
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BA-ATS, BA-ATS, BA-AT-MA-A-A-AN!
We could call him "The Decider"!
My PowerBook G4 Titanium?
BTW, it's the 17" model with Gigabit Ethernet. Only the first model had an IR port.
Or Ace Rimmer, Space Adventurer!