But it's easier to do construction, and stay on the moon than it is in LEO.
I think that the moon would be the best jump off point for a trip to Mars, the most expensive part of a Space trip is entering and exiting orbit, it would be easier to leave the lunar surface than it would be to leave LEO, it would also be easier and safer for a construction project to be accomplished on the Moon than in LEO.
I don't know what your past Microsoft expirences are like, but the NT Kernel OSs, XP and 2003 in particular actually have very few bugs in them, I have had some glitches with some olders applications, but the OS themselves and the additional Microsoft producsts have been fairly solid.
In fact the last major Microsoft bug that I have encountered was with the Outlook 2003 Beta where Outlook would crash whenever I had more than 100 messages to download. But that was fixed, with a patch, and was not present in the full product.
There have been some security issues with RPC and messenger, but overall, I consider 2000, XP, and 2003 are fantastic operating systems that are becoming nearly as stable as their Linux competation.
Then iTunes came out and it did everything except better. It probably disabled the Cassidy and Greene software. Who cares?
I know I do, just because you like iTunes doesn't mean that everyone else does. Myself I like the XPlay interface much better.
You know if Microsoft did something like this everyone would be up in arms because they were crushing the competition, now Apple does this and they say it's normal and too be expected.
If this is normal how do you expect other music software will interface with the iPod, magic?
Actually had a similar instance, I was doing the some tests with wirelessly Syncing my PDA, I didn't turn on WEP because I was going to remove it from soon. Well later that week I was working on a W2K server, installing and configuring before updating (I let the lackies do the updates), well right in the middle of my work the machine got blasted.
Knowing that it couldn't come from the outside (I blocked traffic at my border router directed at port 135), I scanned my network, no computers with the blaster installed), only after looking at the DHCP logs if I figure out that someone blasted my network using the WAP that I forgot to remove.
I do find it unusual that you cable service suspended you, my cable service does no such thing. In fact they don't even block traffic targeted at port 135 at the router, which I think would be a big boon for the Grandma type users.
Have to agree with Melonman as an admin that has servers on a Cogent line (luckly I recently got my own IPs recently), I won't shed a tear if SPEWs dies, I might for Spamhaus.
Actually the classes I went too (required pre-req) mostly covered Excel, Access and Powerpoint skills that even the under 25 crowd don't understand.
Personally I go with Office for it's intergration, Solomon, Project, Outlook, Office, Pocket PC, and CRM all work together, something Open Office or any other Office suite doesn't have right now.
Wouldn't you get a bit bored listening to 20MB of music over and over for 16 hours?
I can't complain, I owned the original Rio with a whole 32MB of Flash memory built in (along with the big IEEE-1284 interface). I am never owned any of the media cards.
Though I have upgraded to a 15GB iPod after someone stole the Rio this summer.
Actually Microsoft is pretty even with it's campaign contributions. In 2000 they gave $4.7 Million away in political contributions, only 53% of which went to Republicans.
Hey look I can still read my e-mail, it's called caching mode. See "Use Cached Exchange Mode." Works fine for me.
Now I will admit that that the threading is not as other implementations, but for my purposes its enough for the couple of mailing lists that I am a member of.
ATC is not real time. Data recorders at ATC facilties record once a second and rely on MODE C data fed to ATC by the transponder of the aircraft (some of which have been shown to malfunction).
While FDR information is recorded much more often and directly from the system (details of which can be checked in Part 121 of the FARs, which is beyond the topic if this converstation).
In my state almost every accident must have a police report, and in almost every case in rear-end accidents, the person behind is at fault.
Personally I am more worried about the aspect of these being linked to police computers, I see in some states that it might be used to automaticlly issues tickets.
Accidents in cars are cause by driver carelessness that can be easily be determined by a police investigation, and complemented by witnesses.
Aircraft accidents are almost always just the single aircraft involved, the witnesses/passengers die, and the aircraft breaks up on it's way to the ground.
So no I really don't see much reason to have a black box except are a prelude to having them networked, in the US the pilot unions had a shit fit about having the FDR reviewed are each flight, but we drivers have no such protection.
Planes have black boxes to record aircraft status moments because in some cases the cause is so minor it would be immpossible to tell what cause it without the time line from the Flight Data Recorder.
You must have a Mac then, because Xplay is for Windows only.
In fact Xplay and it's sister product MacDrive was born out of Apple making in Mac only for a while.
I should have said any Windows user that has had an iPod for more than a few months has already switched to easier software such as XPlay.
Frankly why would I use a piece of software where I have to keep my music organized in a way specified by the software, deal with their DRM, and have to load my music multiple times (move into the main folder, add it to a play list, and finally load in onto the iPod). Where as a Windows user I have a fully drag and drop interface, of which I can even transfer my music from my iPod back to my PC easily.
Apple dropped the ball by including Musicmatch plus (horrible music management software IMO) in the box, even if they included a stripped down version of iTunes they wouldn't have as many people jumping ship to better Windows products for the iPod.
That being said I am going to be downloading iTunes for Windows, but only to try out the music store feature.
How much people will use the music store is debateable, but any one who has had the iPod for more than a few months has already switched easier software such as Xplay.
I highly doubt that anyone that I know will get iTunes for anything but the music store./Goes back to listening to his iPod.
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It doesn't cover it too well IMO. It's a descent book, but no where near the best on this subject.
*shrugs*
Been doing that since slammer, but be my little secret.
I think that the moon would be the best jump off point for a trip to Mars, the most expensive part of a Space trip is entering and exiting orbit, it would be easier to leave the lunar surface than it would be to leave LEO, it would also be easier and safer for a construction project to be accomplished on the Moon than in LEO.
Lets not forget sendmail, that abomination of a MTA.
*pats his POSTFIX box that filters all my mail going to my Exchange servers*
In fact the last major Microsoft bug that I have encountered was with the Outlook 2003 Beta where Outlook would crash whenever I had more than 100 messages to download. But that was fixed, with a patch, and was not present in the full product.
There have been some security issues with RPC and messenger, but overall, I consider 2000, XP, and 2003 are fantastic operating systems that are becoming nearly as stable as their Linux competation.
I know I do, just because you like iTunes doesn't mean that everyone else does. Myself I like the XPlay interface much better.
You know if Microsoft did something like this everyone would be up in arms because they were crushing the competition, now Apple does this and they say it's normal and too be expected.
If this is normal how do you expect other music software will interface with the iPod, magic?
As an X Play user I am unhappy to report that it is not working with the iTunes either.
Knowing that it couldn't come from the outside (I blocked traffic at my border router directed at port 135), I scanned my network, no computers with the blaster installed), only after looking at the DHCP logs if I figure out that someone blasted my network using the WAP that I forgot to remove.
I do find it unusual that you cable service suspended you, my cable service does no such thing. In fact they don't even block traffic targeted at port 135 at the router, which I think would be a big boon for the Grandma type users.
Have to agree with Melonman as an admin that has servers on a Cogent line (luckly I recently got my own IPs recently), I won't shed a tear if SPEWs dies, I might for Spamhaus.
Personally I go with Office for it's intergration, Solomon, Project, Outlook, Office, Pocket PC, and CRM all work together, something Open Office or any other Office suite doesn't have right now.
Kind of cool seeing 5 Microsoft articles on the front page, you can't say /. doesn't cover MS, even if 90% of the comments modded up are negative.
I can't complain, I owned the original Rio with a whole 32MB of Flash memory built in (along with the big IEEE-1284 interface). I am never owned any of the media cards.
Though I have upgraded to a 15GB iPod after someone stole the Rio this summer.
See here: http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0701-07.htm
*Runs Outlook 2003*
*Disables Wireless card*
Hey look I can still read my e-mail, it's called caching mode. See "Use Cached Exchange Mode." Works fine for me.
Now I will admit that that the threading is not as other implementations, but for my purposes its enough for the couple of mailing lists that I am a member of.
Didn't think so, not a single one that I went to is a valid URL, and I highly doubt that they were valid to begin with.
How can they be Iraq related if they didn't exsist to begin with?
And a SPAM filter...
Both available in Outlook 2003.
And not going back to the server to check if emails have changed.
Never had an issue with that in either a POP3 nor a Exchange server enviroment. Sounds like you haven't set up you Outlook correctly.
I found it in Dave English's book, Slipping the Surely Bonds.
Search for Oh Shit on this page
http://skygod.com/quotes/lastwords.html
"oh shit."
Most often said in a normal tone, with little emotion. The pilot resigns himself to his coming death.
While FDR information is recorded much more often and directly from the system (details of which can be checked in Part 121 of the FARs, which is beyond the topic if this converstation).
In my state almost every accident must have a police report, and in almost every case in rear-end accidents, the person behind is at fault.
Personally I am more worried about the aspect of these being linked to police computers, I see in some states that it might be used to automaticlly issues tickets.
Aircraft accidents are almost always just the single aircraft involved, the witnesses/passengers die, and the aircraft breaks up on it's way to the ground.
So no I really don't see much reason to have a black box except are a prelude to having them networked, in the US the pilot unions had a shit fit about having the FDR reviewed are each flight, but we drivers have no such protection.
Planes have black boxes to record aircraft status moments because in some cases the cause is so minor it would be immpossible to tell what cause it without the time line from the Flight Data Recorder.
Or it could be linked to a GPS and a central computer and you get a fine everytime that you go over the speed limit.
My phone only works with Sprint, still waiting for someone to figure out how to easily switch carriers on the phone end too.
In fact Xplay and it's sister product MacDrive was born out of Apple making in Mac only for a while.
I should have said any Windows user that has had an iPod for more than a few months has already switched to easier software such as XPlay.
Frankly why would I use a piece of software where I have to keep my music organized in a way specified by the software, deal with their DRM, and have to load my music multiple times (move into the main folder, add it to a play list, and finally load in onto the iPod). Where as a Windows user I have a fully drag and drop interface, of which I can even transfer my music from my iPod back to my PC easily.
Apple dropped the ball by including Musicmatch plus (horrible music management software IMO) in the box, even if they included a stripped down version of iTunes they wouldn't have as many people jumping ship to better Windows products for the iPod.
That being said I am going to be downloading iTunes for Windows, but only to try out the music store feature.
How much people will use the music store is debateable, but any one who has had the iPod for more than a few months has already switched easier software such as Xplay. I highly doubt that anyone that I know will get iTunes for anything but the music store. /Goes back to listening to his iPod.