I'm not sure when you checked, but yes you can block incoming/outgoing text with AT&T. When I did it I just called the customer service line and asked. No problems at all with doing it. But I guess you must've gotten someone who wasn't very helpful about it (I'm sure at the store they will tell you no).
I get people trying to text me and asking why I didn't get their text. I tell them that there texts will just be dropped and to just call me to contact me.
So, lots of eye candy for the casual user. Anyone care to chime in why a geek might want to upgrade?
If you look around Apple's site now any mention of boot camp on Tiger or a download for it has completely disappeared. While it was only in beta, Apple did clearly advertise it with their Macs as a feature available for new Macs. Those who have purchased Intel based Macs with Tiger can no longer get boot camp for their Macs, unless they upgrade to Leopard. Unless, of course, if someone wants to correct me on this, but I can't find anything on it. It just seems typical of Apple to abandon their users like this.
This is exactly why there needs to be a total separation between the two.
True. Ideally it would be nice if they would just provide a list of books needed that would be great. Now that I think about it, I don't see a reason to have a dedicated book store at a university. Sure it's convenient to go pick up a book right before class, and they can try to guarantee how many books there will be based on enrollment. However, there are so many other problems with it. When I mentioned about how the book store used to be, I should have also mentioned that it actually was separate from the university and owned by students (well, moreso a corporation of students). I have no doubt that universities use high priced *required* books to get even more out of their students.
Actually, some student book stores are actually owned by the big US book corporations. I know my school's bookstore was taken over by B&N a couple of years ago and ever since the price has skyrocketed. I tried calling once to find out a book that was going to be used for a class and they just told me that it's against their policy to do that. They haven't stopped me from writing down ISBN numbers, but they do get a little peeved when I do.
Most of the time people will just buy books there, since they don't show up until just before classes start anyways. And they won't tell you what books were ordered for what classes. I'd personally rather have a bookstore owned by the school, then at least I feel like some of my money may be going to benefit the school instead of some corp.
There are some good truly independent stations out there (although not many). KEXP in Seattle is one of those shining examples. They don't really play any ads and have quite a presence broadcasting online as they do over the air in the city.
Not to mention they offer mp3's of performances and new artists as well.
Okay, I don't know why no one is focusing on the fact that this has wifi. Up until the very most recent phones (release in the US) that actually have wifi cards builtin. Go to any (US) carriers and you'll see there are very few that have it. And this is 2007!
Most places I go actually have wifi already, so 3G is then irrelevant. Not to mention the carriers already charge a ridiculous amount for their data plans anyways. Perhaps many would say to then get an internet tablet or UMPC or something similar if wifi is always around, but those don't have phones as well. I had a data plan once for my Treo 650 and I didn't even get EDGE speeds. Trying to look up directions on a GPRS connection is absolutely horrible. If EDGE support isn't available everywhere yet, then I doubt many places will even get 3G speeds.
So what features and issues do people have with Entourage? Is it just stuff I'm not using?
Yes, just try and using public folders with a group of Outlook users. Every time I would view a message in a public folder, the message is actually deleted and recreated (with new timestamp, etc). Then the message shows up as new to everyone else viewing the folder even though they've already read it.
And don't even get me started on using flags! You'll flag one message as complete or for follow up and it will be something completely different on another client. And this is with the latest patches (Office 2004 w/SP2), which already fixed A LOT of things that didn't work such as calendar sharing.
This is the reason I've gone to using a separate Windows machine at work just for email (and admittedly now more for everything else as well).
What are you going to revolt with, rocks and sticks?
Ooh, Oooh. I know! Mentos and Diet Coke?!
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I work at a university and we have to review every Windows laptop before it can join the wireless network (for antivirus software). Lately, I have increasingly seen more and more OEMs bundling Firefox on new laptops. I know the students aren't installing it (well most) as they always say all the software is the same since purchase (including the crapware and trial AV) and just know that they have to click on the red icon for the Internet.
These people don't know how to install software (even a dialog that says to just click next is a pain) so the only way to get them to use it is preinstalled. That's why I'm really glad with 1.5+ FF automatically will install the updates and restart the browser.
I think this is wonderful that Skype is offering this. Although I read in several forums that people with IP's in the range of 70.x.x.x to 79.x.x.x. Not sure if that's true, but I have an IP in the range with Verizon DSL and am prompted with needing to buy skype credit to make a call.
I'm guessing it's due to ISP's that are using packet shaping for VOIP, etc. Anyone else had problems with this, whether with Verizon or other ISPs?
I think that is definitely true as OS X has really come into maturity. I'm currently a CS major and work for my schools IT department. I have started seeing more and more students coming in with Powerbooks (or recently MBPros) to use for programming, etc.
I was one of them when I bought a powerbook last year. There is something to say about having a company offering a supported Unix based OS (well, even if it was kind of screwed up, cough *netinfo* cough).
The other end of the spectrum is the fine arts department who I would never trust with a computer running windows since it would be riddled with spyware, trojans, viruses, and any other malware you can think of. Those are the Mac users that don't get security.
I just want to know why there aren't more smart phones with built in wifi. Sure I get the whole convenience of net access on the phone anywhere, but I'm almost always at someplace that has 802.11b/g. I know there are some, but very few.
I know the obvious answer to this is that the cell phone companies are greedy, but I would be willing to pay more for the phone with wifi instead of using the cell phone companies overpriced slow connection.
I tried doing several things like that with my account, but their editor strips out quite a few tags such as , , etc. What's interesting is the preview works, but after a save/publish it's gone.
Now you can always upload a page seperately which works, but then you won't be able to keep the same style sheet used within Pages. And when you edit the html all you can edit is your content and not the main page layout. I have been able to upload audio, video, etc. The editor isn't too bad actually. Your really limited in what you can do, but I think their trying to target people with no web development skill.
This is I think the greatest problem with financial software. None of them seem to really follow any kind of standard for the database store. Try using several programs at once and you'll see what I mean.
I'm surprised there hasn't been a push for something akin to the OpenDocument standard for financial programs. Then we wouldn't have to worry about creating all these importers, etc to bring in a quicken file as (hopefully) everyone, including the banks, would follow the standard.
No kidding. I remember back with OO.o 1.1 having a problem launching it on my laptop when I would be at work with my laptop that was at the time running FC(1,2?). Fedora had auto-configured cups and automatically added printers found on the network. After running an strace I realized that OO.o would wait until it could contact the printer on my coworkers computer (running cups). It wouldn't even timeout or anything. I don't know why an office suite would need to check something like that, although to give them credit MS Office has a 30 second timeout if it can't connect to a print server (it was an issue of an older version of samba).
We really need a "firefox" version of OO.o or something.
After watching some of the video (still up too), I'm impressed. While eye candy isn't always the best to create just to have it, I think this is more a case of making a more productive experience. The less time it takes to go switching between applications to look at some information the better.
Then again, guess I'll have to go get that high end video card just to run the next distro.:)
I would also add that to be sure to end offending processes, launch a command window and use the "at" command to launch either the task manager or even hijackthis, which has a built in process manager that usually lists all running processes.
This will make the program run with system priviledges. Even being logged in as an admin isn't enough sometimes. Of course, you want to make sure you know what it is you are ending, etc, before you do so. Also, hijackthis is really only good at finding programs that launch at boot, and BHO's. Although it is definitely what I start with.
And no these aren't problems with my own computers, just with the people I work with who barely know how to use a mouse.
Not too mention that all these phone companies seem to keep forgetting that all these wiz-bang camera, gaming, etc devices with phone functionality aren't even allowed in most work places!
If you've looked recently at what phones are available with bluetooth at the various cellular providers you'll quickly find that virtually ALL have cameras builtin.
I could see a real market for a simple low powered phone with either a removable BT module, or builtin. BT is one of the few reasonable features I think a cell phone can have as there are some great BT headsets available. Especially since in some states you can't use the phone while driving unless using a hands free kit.
BT does probably make a problem for battery, though, which is why I was thinking of an addon card.
Haven't ever tried a drill press when running, but I have used a soldering iron.:)
It's always fun to solder the head to the platter while spinning. Screwdrivers also do a nice job of making pretty cool designs into the drive. We've got a few hanging on the wall at my campus computer shop.
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I'm not sure when you checked, but yes you can block incoming/outgoing text with AT&T. When I did it I just called the customer service line and asked. No problems at all with doing it. But I guess you must've gotten someone who wasn't very helpful about it (I'm sure at the store they will tell you no).
I get people trying to text me and asking why I didn't get their text. I tell them that there texts will just be dropped and to just call me to contact me.
True. Ideally it would be nice if they would just provide a list of books needed that would be great. Now that I think about it, I don't see a reason to have a dedicated book store at a university. Sure it's convenient to go pick up a book right before class, and they can try to guarantee how many books there will be based on enrollment. However, there are so many other problems with it. When I mentioned about how the book store used to be, I should have also mentioned that it actually was separate from the university and owned by students (well, moreso a corporation of students). I have no doubt that universities use high priced *required* books to get even more out of their students.
Actually, some student book stores are actually owned by the big US book corporations. I know my school's bookstore was taken over by B&N a couple of years ago and ever since the price has skyrocketed. I tried calling once to find out a book that was going to be used for a class and they just told me that it's against their policy to do that. They haven't stopped me from writing down ISBN numbers, but they do get a little peeved when I do.
Most of the time people will just buy books there, since they don't show up until just before classes start anyways. And they won't tell you what books were ordered for what classes. I'd personally rather have a bookstore owned by the school, then at least I feel like some of my money may be going to benefit the school instead of some corp.
There are some good truly independent stations out there (although not many). KEXP in Seattle is one of those shining examples. They don't really play any ads and have quite a presence broadcasting online as they do over the air in the city.
Not to mention they offer mp3's of performances and new artists as well.
Okay, I don't know why no one is focusing on the fact that this has wifi. Up until the very most recent phones (release in the US) that actually have wifi cards builtin. Go to any (US) carriers and you'll see there are very few that have it. And this is 2007!
Most places I go actually have wifi already, so 3G is then irrelevant. Not to mention the carriers already charge a ridiculous amount for their data plans anyways. Perhaps many would say to then get an internet tablet or UMPC or something similar if wifi is always around, but those don't have phones as well. I had a data plan once for my Treo 650 and I didn't even get EDGE speeds. Trying to look up directions on a GPRS connection is absolutely horrible. If EDGE support isn't available everywhere yet, then I doubt many places will even get 3G speeds.
Yes, just try and using public folders with a group of Outlook users. Every time I would view a message in a public folder, the message is actually deleted and recreated (with new timestamp, etc). Then the message shows up as new to everyone else viewing the folder even though they've already read it.
And don't even get me started on using flags! You'll flag one message as complete or for follow up and it will be something completely different on another client. And this is with the latest patches (Office 2004 w/SP2), which already fixed A LOT of things that didn't work such as calendar sharing.
This is the reason I've gone to using a separate Windows machine at work just for email (and admittedly now more for everything else as well).
Ooh, Oooh. I know! Mentos and Diet Coke?!
I work at a university and we have to review every Windows laptop before it can join the wireless network (for antivirus software). Lately, I have increasingly seen more and more OEMs bundling Firefox on new laptops. I know the students aren't installing it (well most) as they always say all the software is the same since purchase (including the crapware and trial AV) and just know that they have to click on the red icon for the Internet.
These people don't know how to install software (even a dialog that says to just click next is a pain) so the only way to get them to use it is preinstalled. That's why I'm really glad with 1.5+ FF automatically will install the updates and restart the browser.
I think this is wonderful that Skype is offering this. Although I read in several forums that people with IP's in the range of 70.x.x.x to 79.x.x.x. Not sure if that's true, but I have an IP in the range with Verizon DSL and am prompted with needing to buy skype credit to make a call.
I'm guessing it's due to ISP's that are using packet shaping for VOIP, etc. Anyone else had problems with this, whether with Verizon or other ISPs?
I think that is definitely true as OS X has really come into maturity. I'm currently a CS major and work for my schools IT department. I have started seeing more and more students coming in with Powerbooks (or recently MBPros) to use for programming, etc.
I was one of them when I bought a powerbook last year. There is something to say about having a company offering a supported Unix based OS (well, even if it was kind of screwed up, cough *netinfo* cough).
The other end of the spectrum is the fine arts department who I would never trust with a computer running windows since it would be riddled with spyware, trojans, viruses, and any other malware you can think of. Those are the Mac users that don't get security.
Yeah, well at least Microsoft supports linux!
Google is soooo last search engine.
Personally I use Gizoogle. It's da fo shizzle!
I just want to know why there aren't more smart phones with built in wifi. Sure I get the whole convenience of net access on the phone anywhere, but I'm almost always at someplace that has 802.11b/g. I know there are some, but very few.
I know the obvious answer to this is that the cell phone companies are greedy, but I would be willing to pay more for the phone with wifi instead of using the cell phone companies overpriced slow connection.
I tried doing several things like that with my account, but their editor strips out quite a few tags such as , , etc. What's interesting is the preview works, but after a save/publish it's gone.
Now you can always upload a page seperately which works, but then you won't be able to keep the same style sheet used within Pages. And when you edit the html all you can edit is your content and not the main page layout. I have been able to upload audio, video, etc. The editor isn't too bad actually. Your really limited in what you can do, but I think their trying to target people with no web development skill.
Oh, and wipe the hard drive. :)
I'm personally just waiting for someone to boot their OS off of their graphics card. :)
This is I think the greatest problem with financial software. None of them seem to really follow any kind of standard for the database store. Try using several programs at once and you'll see what I mean.
I'm surprised there hasn't been a push for something akin to the OpenDocument standard for financial programs. Then we wouldn't have to worry about creating all these importers, etc to bring in a quicken file as (hopefully) everyone, including the banks, would follow the standard.
"The code base is quite hideous in places"
No kidding. I remember back with OO.o 1.1 having a problem launching it on my laptop when I would be at work with my laptop that was at the time running FC(1,2?). Fedora had auto-configured cups and automatically added printers found on the network. After running an strace I realized that OO.o would wait until it could contact the printer on my coworkers computer (running cups). It wouldn't even timeout or anything. I don't know why an office suite would need to check something like that, although to give them credit MS Office has a 30 second timeout if it can't connect to a print server (it was an issue of an older version of samba).
We really need a "firefox" version of OO.o or something.
After watching some of the video (still up too), I'm impressed. While eye candy isn't always the best to create just to have it, I think this is more a case of making a more productive experience. The less time it takes to go switching between applications to look at some information the better.
:)
Then again, guess I'll have to go get that high end video card just to run the next distro.
I would also add that to be sure to end offending processes, launch a command window and use the "at" command to launch either the task manager or even hijackthis, which has a built in process manager that usually lists all running processes.
This will make the program run with system priviledges. Even being logged in as an admin isn't enough sometimes. Of course, you want to make sure you know what it is you are ending, etc, before you do so. Also, hijackthis is really only good at finding programs that launch at boot, and BHO's. Although it is definitely what I start with.
And no these aren't problems with my own computers, just with the people I work with who barely know how to use a mouse.
Not too mention that all these phone companies seem to keep forgetting that all these wiz-bang camera, gaming, etc devices with phone functionality aren't even allowed in most work places!
If you've looked recently at what phones are available with bluetooth at the various cellular providers you'll quickly find that virtually ALL have cameras builtin.
I could see a real market for a simple low powered phone with either a removable BT module, or builtin. BT is one of the few reasonable features I think a cell phone can have as there are some great BT headsets available. Especially since in some states you can't use the phone while driving unless using a hands free kit.
BT does probably make a problem for battery, though, which is why I was thinking of an addon card.
Okay, I looked at the description and just started thinking, "I swear I've read this before somewhere (well, sort of)". Where did I see this? Oh YEAH!
The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir
Even some of the posts seem to be the same! Someone please tell me I'm not in one of those infinite looping groundhog days.
Haven't ever tried a drill press when running, but I have used a soldering iron. :)
It's always fun to solder the head to the platter while spinning. Screwdrivers also do a nice job of making pretty cool designs into the drive. We've got a few hanging on the wall at my campus computer shop.
A little OT, but it reminds me of the broken AOL CD hanging on the wall at work.
Just in case things get too stressful, it's always there ready for us to slit our wrists with.