I can't believe that no one is seeing why Google wants AOL. Think about it, AOL may be a stinking pile of crap network that is sinking fast, but it still has millions of users, most of whom are oblivious types who will quite happily run whatever software AOL tells them to (and shoves down thier throat with it's automatic updates). Google would love to get thier hands on that user-base, run all their searches through Google, offer them other Google-based services, switch thier browser to FireFox (think the Google/FireFox deal of late), can you imagine how great it would be to take another 10-20% share away from IE in the browser market? Google has so much they can throw at AOL users in terms of thier own services, and with the creative minds at Google I'm sure they can come up with ways to leverage the AOL buyout that I can't even dream of now.
And that's not even taking into account AOL's huge network. AOL/Time Warner may not have been able to run it very well, but Google knows how to make networking systems sing. The AOL network may be crap right now, but I have no doubts that once Google gets control of it that will change dramatically.
So why does Microsoft want AOL? Simple. If Google gets AOL it will hurt Microsoft... badly. Microsoft will pay *anything* to keep that from happening. So while I'd really love to see Google end up with AOL, I fear that Microsoft will be the one who ends up with it, because they have the greater amount of capital to invest in AOL and while Google sees this as a great opportunity, Microsoft sees it as do-or-die.
First off, we already have a universal time. It's called GMT (or UTC or Zulu or whatever you may call it) and you are welcome to set your clocks to it, refer to it sleep by it, wake by it, eat by it, and tell all your friends about it.
Secondly, local time is a reference to what part of the day it is in a ceartain part of the world. You always know that if someone tells you it's midnight that it is dark outside for them and they are likely staying up late and if someone tells you it's 9:00 AM it probably means they just got to work, etc. You can relate to what time people do ceartain things etc and that is universal. If I'm chatting with someone I can ask them what time it is over there and if they say it's 3AM I know that they are nocturnal . 3AM has meaning to me, I know what it is and what it means and it means the same thing anywhere. If we change the system the way you are proposing then time looses that meaning alltogether and we will no longer have an easy reference to determine just what time of day it is over in some other part of the world.
To defend software patents, you must find a software patent that has expired, is useful today, and is unlikely to have been invented independently during the patent period.
Ok, I'll bite... the compuserv.gif image compression format.
...that said, I still think that software patents are a bad thing. While the compuserv gif format would have been unlikely to have been independently invented during the time span it was active, that is simply because you could easily write an image compression format that didn't clash with the compuserv patent (and some people did, most notable is the png format). Unfortunately it takes a long time for browsers to adopt a new format, especially when the leading browser on the market is owned by a convicted monopolist.
RPM only uses MD5 to check for corruption of the type you might find during download. RPM actually uses GPG or PGP to sign the generated RPMs for security, and GPG is (afaik) capable of using nearly any hashing algorythm including ones that are yet to be invented. So as far as security is concerned RPM doesn't use MD5 but rather uses whatever hashing algorythm the GPG key that signed the RPM was generated with.
an excellent source for an electric field this high is a monitor which has voltages internally of 15-20,000 volts (a standard rule of thumb is 1,000 volts per diagonal inch). You often times will feel the hairs being pulled from your hand when it is close to the monitor.
On a rather interesting related note, I used to have an anti-glare filter over my monitor and the glass would accumulate the static charge from the monitor and give me a nasty shock whenever I touched it. I suppose that not being grounded the filter would accumulate the static charge and not have an outlet for it until the screen was touched.
Log into Gmail, click on settings and towards the bottom of the page you'll see this...
New! Get Google Talk so you can call and send instant messages to your friends for free.
"Get Google Talk" is a link to a page with a 404 error, but it shows they are planning to release it.
Confirmed it works. For GAIM users you need to click on "show more options" in the modify account window, then set the screen name to the username part of your gmail address (the part before the @) and the server to gmail.com. Set the password to your gmail password, then further down set the connect server to talk.google.com.
Leave "Use TLS if available" checked, and the other two options unchecked, and leave the port set to 5222. Resource works fine if left set to Gaim. Set the alias to whatever you want.
Granted they did not provide the headers, but they did provide the actual links from the emails, they were just scripted as javascript mouseovers just in case someone might be stupid enough to actually click on one and fill in thier CC details or something. By looking at the links it is easy enough to tell for ceartain which ones were frauds. And yes, the status bar change does not work in Mozilla or Firefox, but you can tell by viewing the source, or the easy way, highlighting the link right clicking on it and selecting view selection source from the context menu.
I hereby revoke your geek license and will take all your money from your CC account as well. Look more carefully, that link goes to curvet.co.kr and it is a classic trick used to mask links in phishing emails.
This means that MS will have to port some software to Linux. Ouch!
No, they don't. But they're giving Linspire a license (at no additional charge, as part of the confidential settlement) to port over the Windows Media codecs. There's no telling what the actual license allows them to do with the libs, though. I imagine that Microsoft would probably disallow distribution of the source, expecially under a GPL or GPL-like license. You will probably see them available for Linspire customers only and only in binary format.
Of course, this is all speculation but I wouldn't count on much for this except that it would be a legal replacement of the dll codecs that Lindows currently uses for WMP compatibility.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for a period of (4) four years from the
Effective Date of this Settlement Agreement, Lindows may use www.lindows.com and
www.lindowsinc.com solely for the purpose of redirecting traffic to other
websites. After (4) four years from the Effective Date of this Settlement
Agreement, Lindows will assign the www.lindowsinc.com and www.lindows.com domain
names to Microsoft by signing the Domain Name Assignment attached hereto as
Exhibit A.
So Linspire gets to use the domain names for four years still as long as it's just to redirect people to the actual Linspire website.
There are ways to get an Enterprise Linux without paying for it. Also can easily get one copy of RHEL or SUSE Enterprise and load it on all your boxes.
Of course, if you're going to shell out the cash for Oracle may as well go all the way and buy the OS as well, otherwise, what's the point?
I once rigged up a really cheap portable CD player to a phone system to play a CD with announcements and music recorded on it when people were put on hold. The CD looped 24/7 for well over a year until I left the company and for all I know it's probably still working.
I have yet to see a late model notebook sold anywhere that doesn't have a power supply that will work on both voltages. While it's a good idea to double check this, the worst you'll end up with here is buying a plug adapter that should end up costing less than $10 at most electronics stores.
As for NTSC vs PAL, that can trip you up so check on that as well, though most TVs sold in european countries should be able to play back an NTSC signal, not all VCRs will be able to record off of one. I had my parents visit me from the states and they brought a video camera (SONY digital handycam) with them that only outputted in NTSC. I could play back the signal fine on my TV, but couldn't dub the tape onto my VCR because the VCR only inputs in PAL. Interesting thing is a picture did show through the VCR, but it was in black and white (the color got lost).
As for bringing over other electronics equipment, check the voltage requirements, some will work and some won't. Also, the point about DVD region encoding is very valid, and you should watch for that the other way around as well (you may be tempted to buy DVDs in the states that won't play back on your DVD player because of region encoding). In some countries (such as New Zealand, where I live) that's not as much of a problem either because DVD players sold here are multiregion. The same applies for NTSC vs PAL encoding fo videos if you want to bring some of those back with you.
It wouldn't surprise me if they're distributing thier source under a license that includes a non-disclosure agreement. After all, nearly all of the companies not offering the source is a bit more than coincidence to me.
Could be done by storing a thumbnail quality photo unencrypted, the unencrypted photo would be good enough for the preview on the tiny LCD screen on the camera, but not good enough for decent prints, or even for anything more usefull than a preview.
Consider that the technology at hand is the ability for IE to interact with other apps, and we all know how much MS likes to support other apps in Windows in any shape or form. Consider that by loosing this case they can pull this interoperability for other apps out of thier browser and claim that they were forced to by the judgement, a good way to get around the anti-trust rulings.
Nahhh, I used to work in a Pac Bell shop as well and they were all PS2 peripherals. And we'd get lots of computers in where the keyboard fuse was blown, usually from hot swapping the keyboard or mouse, or connecting them backwards, or from the mouse cable getting a bad connection and blowing the fuse from the intermittant open. We used to charge $200 for replacing that fuse too, was probably the most lucrative repair we did.
but if MS makes a fuss, just dump the pieces they want to keep to themselves. Mono doesn't live or die on 100% compatibility the way Wine does, for example.
Hrmmm, this would be good, Linux to "embrace and extend".net!
I always wanted to know what would happen if you did:
rm -rf/
...on a running system.
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Actually starters can pull as little as 60 or 70 amps on a smaller engine. Also, the cables don't have to carry as much currrent if you leave them connected to the dead battery for a few minutes before trying to start the car, the dead battery will get enough of a charge to be able to start the car itself.
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You probably didn't get a good enough connection on one side or the other. Connecting to the car's ground is electrically the same as connecting to the negative terminal.
As for sparks, look closer, you won't always see them if it's light out (but don't stick your facce right up to it, not a good thing if there's hydrogen floating around the battery and it decides to ignite).
Also, another good way to avoid sparks near the battery is to use a "Safety" jumper cable which has a connector in the middle. Basically you hook up both the batteries and then plug the two halves of the cable together in the middle, so any spark that occurs happens away fromt he batteries in the middle of the cable and is well insulatedby a good rubber-enclosed plug.
We have a similar problem in New Zealand. The best residential DSL you can get is capped to 1000 Megs with excess megs at 20 cents. I can't even download RH9 without paying well over $100 for it!
Anyways, my problem with it is that it's telecom implementing the cap and charging the excess fees. The ISP who has to pay for the international bandwidth doesn't get that, so the argument that the ISP has to pay for your bandwidth so they have a right to be capping it may be true, except that's not the case here. Telecom is charging for bandwidth when all they provide is connectivity.
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I can't believe that no one is seeing why Google wants AOL. Think about it, AOL may be a stinking pile of crap network that is sinking fast, but it still has millions of users, most of whom are oblivious types who will quite happily run whatever software AOL tells them to (and shoves down thier throat with it's automatic updates). Google would love to get thier hands on that user-base, run all their searches through Google, offer them other Google-based services, switch thier browser to FireFox (think the Google/FireFox deal of late), can you imagine how great it would be to take another 10-20% share away from IE in the browser market? Google has so much they can throw at AOL users in terms of thier own services, and with the creative minds at Google I'm sure they can come up with ways to leverage the AOL buyout that I can't even dream of now. And that's not even taking into account AOL's huge network. AOL/Time Warner may not have been able to run it very well, but Google knows how to make networking systems sing. The AOL network may be crap right now, but I have no doubts that once Google gets control of it that will change dramatically. So why does Microsoft want AOL? Simple. If Google gets AOL it will hurt Microsoft ... badly. Microsoft will pay *anything* to keep that from happening. So while I'd really love to see Google end up with AOL, I fear that Microsoft will be the one who ends up with it, because they have the greater amount of capital to invest in AOL and while Google sees this as a great opportunity, Microsoft sees it as do-or-die.
First off, we already have a universal time. It's called GMT (or UTC or Zulu or whatever you may call it) and you are welcome to set your clocks to it, refer to it sleep by it, wake by it, eat by it, and tell all your friends about it.
Secondly, local time is a reference to what part of the day it is in a ceartain part of the world. You always know that if someone tells you it's midnight that it is dark outside for them and they are likely staying up late and if someone tells you it's 9:00 AM it probably means they just got to work, etc. You can relate to what time people do ceartain things etc and that is universal. If I'm chatting with someone I can ask them what time it is over there and if they say it's 3AM I know that they are nocturnal . 3AM has meaning to me, I know what it is and what it means and it means the same thing anywhere. If we change the system the way you are proposing then time looses that meaning alltogether and we will no longer have an easy reference to determine just what time of day it is over in some other part of the world.
Ok, I'll bite ... the compuserv .gif image compression format.
...that said, I still think that software patents are a bad thing. While the compuserv gif format would have been unlikely to have been independently invented during the time span it was active, that is simply because you could easily write an image compression format that didn't clash with the compuserv patent (and some people did, most notable is the png format). Unfortunately it takes a long time for browsers to adopt a new format, especially when the leading browser on the market is owned by a convicted monopolist.
RPM only uses MD5 to check for corruption of the type you might find during download. RPM actually uses GPG or PGP to sign the generated RPMs for security, and GPG is (afaik) capable of using nearly any hashing algorythm including ones that are yet to be invented. So as far as security is concerned RPM doesn't use MD5 but rather uses whatever hashing algorythm the GPG key that signed the RPM was generated with.
an excellent source for an electric field this high is a monitor which has voltages internally of 15-20,000 volts (a standard rule of thumb is 1,000 volts per diagonal inch). You often times will feel the hairs being pulled from your hand when it is close to the monitor. On a rather interesting related note, I used to have an anti-glare filter over my monitor and the glass would accumulate the static charge from the monitor and give me a nasty shock whenever I touched it. I suppose that not being grounded the filter would accumulate the static charge and not have an outlet for it until the screen was touched.
When the robot can bring the newspaper and mail in and turn over the car every once in a while, not to mention mow the lawn, etc.
Log into Gmail, click on settings and towards the bottom of the page you'll see this... New! Get Google Talk so you can call and send instant messages to your friends for free. "Get Google Talk" is a link to a page with a 404 error, but it shows they are planning to release it.
Confirmed it works. For GAIM users you need to click on "show more options" in the modify account window, then set the screen name to the username part of your gmail address (the part before the @) and the server to gmail.com. Set the password to your gmail password, then further down set the connect server to talk.google.com. Leave "Use TLS if available" checked, and the other two options unchecked, and leave the port set to 5222. Resource works fine if left set to Gaim. Set the alias to whatever you want.
Granted they did not provide the headers, but they did provide the actual links from the emails, they were just scripted as javascript mouseovers just in case someone might be stupid enough to actually click on one and fill in thier CC details or something. By looking at the links it is easy enough to tell for ceartain which ones were frauds. And yes, the status bar change does not work in Mozilla or Firefox, but you can tell by viewing the source, or the easy way, highlighting the link right clicking on it and selecting view selection source from the context menu.
I hereby revoke your geek license and will take all your money from your CC account as well. Look more carefully, that link goes to curvet.co.kr and it is a classic trick used to mask links in phishing emails.
Of course, this is all speculation but I wouldn't count on much for this except that it would be a legal replacement of the dll codecs that Lindows currently uses for WMP compatibility.
So Linspire gets to use the domain names for four years still as long as it's just to redirect people to the actual Linspire website.
There are ways to get an Enterprise Linux without paying for it. Also can easily get one copy of RHEL or SUSE Enterprise and load it on all your boxes. Of course, if you're going to shell out the cash for Oracle may as well go all the way and buy the OS as well, otherwise, what's the point?
I once rigged up a really cheap portable CD player to a phone system to play a CD with announcements and music recorded on it when people were put on hold. The CD looped 24/7 for well over a year until I left the company and for all I know it's probably still working.
Three months, no problem.
I have yet to see a late model notebook sold anywhere that doesn't have a power supply that will work on both voltages. While it's a good idea to double check this, the worst you'll end up with here is buying a plug adapter that should end up costing less than $10 at most electronics stores.
As for NTSC vs PAL, that can trip you up so check on that as well, though most TVs sold in european countries should be able to play back an NTSC signal, not all VCRs will be able to record off of one. I had my parents visit me from the states and they brought a video camera (SONY digital handycam) with them that only outputted in NTSC. I could play back the signal fine on my TV, but couldn't dub the tape onto my VCR because the VCR only inputs in PAL. Interesting thing is a picture did show through the VCR, but it was in black and white (the color got lost).
As for bringing over other electronics equipment, check the voltage requirements, some will work and some won't. Also, the point about DVD region encoding is very valid, and you should watch for that the other way around as well (you may be tempted to buy DVDs in the states that won't play back on your DVD player because of region encoding). In some countries (such as New Zealand, where I live) that's not as much of a problem either because DVD players sold here are multiregion. The same applies for NTSC vs PAL encoding fo videos if you want to bring some of those back with you.
If I had mod points I'd mod that insightful.
It wouldn't surprise me if they're distributing thier source under a license that includes a non-disclosure agreement. After all, nearly all of the companies not offering the source is a bit more than coincidence to me.
Could be done by storing a thumbnail quality photo unencrypted, the unencrypted photo would be good enough for the preview on the tiny LCD screen on the camera, but not good enough for decent prints, or even for anything more usefull than a preview.
Consider that the technology at hand is the ability for IE to interact with other apps, and we all know how much MS likes to support other apps in Windows in any shape or form. Consider that by loosing this case they can pull this interoperability for other apps out of thier browser and claim that they were forced to by the judgement, a good way to get around the anti-trust rulings.
Nahhh, I used to work in a Pac Bell shop as well and they were all PS2 peripherals. And we'd get lots of computers in where the keyboard fuse was blown, usually from hot swapping the keyboard or mouse, or connecting them backwards, or from the mouse cable getting a bad connection and blowing the fuse from the intermittant open. We used to charge $200 for replacing that fuse too, was probably the most lucrative repair we did.
but if MS makes a fuss, just dump the pieces they want to keep to themselves. Mono doesn't live or die on 100% compatibility the way Wine does, for example.
.net!
Hrmmm, this would be good, Linux to "embrace and extend"
rm -rf
Actually starters can pull as little as 60 or 70 amps on a smaller engine. Also, the cables don't have to carry as much currrent if you leave them connected to the dead battery for a few minutes before trying to start the car, the dead battery will get enough of a charge to be able to start the car itself.
You probably didn't get a good enough connection on one side or the other. Connecting to the car's ground is electrically the same as connecting to the negative terminal.
As for sparks, look closer, you won't always see them if it's light out (but don't stick your facce right up to it, not a good thing if there's hydrogen floating around the battery and it decides to ignite).
Also, another good way to avoid sparks near the battery is to use a "Safety" jumper cable which has a connector in the middle. Basically you hook up both the batteries and then plug the two halves of the cable together in the middle, so any spark that occurs happens away fromt he batteries in the middle of the cable and is well insulatedby a good rubber-enclosed plug.
We have a similar problem in New Zealand. The best residential DSL you can get is capped to 1000 Megs with excess megs at 20 cents. I can't even download RH9 without paying well over $100 for it!
Anyways, my problem with it is that it's telecom implementing the cap and charging the excess fees. The ISP who has to pay for the international bandwidth doesn't get that, so the argument that the ISP has to pay for your bandwidth so they have a right to be capping it may be true, except that's not the case here. Telecom is charging for bandwidth when all they provide is connectivity.