One of the target markets for these trucks is construction contractors. Typically these type of workers would drive a full size truck or SUV to carry their tools and materials. They would then use a gasoline generator to power their electric tools at the work site. The 120V outlets provided in these trucks should be able to replace the noisy and polluting pullstart generator with the hybrid drive system already present in the truck. As a result they can use the emissions controlled relatively efficient gasoline engine in the truck to power those tools.
Problem is that sometimes that kind of shit backfires. SUVs are popular because the CAFE regulations effectively banned large cars. As a result, people who would otherwise have purchased a large car now purchase a small truck to use as a car.
http://homephonewiring.com/ is a really good website for understanding the whats and whys about installing proper cabling in your house. The site was a big help to me when I redid all the phone/data cable in my house last year. The guy does sell some stuff on the website, but the information is excellent whether you decide to buy from him or elsewhere. I did end up buying a punchdown block from him and it was a fair price and shipped quickly. Other stuff I got either locally or on Ebay.
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A 7 segment display draws digits out of 7 lines (aka segments)four vertical and three horizontal like so:
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One would assume that a 7 segment display for a phone would have more digits than a watch, but I've got land line phones with no display at all and they work fine.
Actually, access points are often installed in people free envorinments. It usually works best to mount the access points to the ceiling where there are not such things as cubicle walls, lamps, PDA charges, coffee makers and other devices that require AC mains power.
The exception is overhead flouro or HID lighting, but this often runs at a higher voltage (277 in the US) than is provided to the regular recepticles. That would mean runing new 120V (or 240V in other bits of the world) service to the AP locations in addition to the network cable that is also required.
The one drawback to POE is that the places where installing it are most attractive are also places that are likely to run into the 100m segment length limit. Using POE to APs on the ceiling at a convention center or warehouse makes a lot of sense, but often fibre is required to overcome length restrictions on the copper.
If you were about to ask about power over fibre, please think harder.
Toward the end of my undergraduate tenure, I had a wart on my foot and a key to the room in the physics lab where the big dewer of LN2 was stored. So one evening, I filled my coffee mug took it back to my apartment and convinced my roommate the history major to substitute as a physician.
A bit of google searching revealed that the basic procedure for freezing warts off involves dipping a cotton swab into LN2 and then pressing it against the wart until frostbite sets in. Not being total slobs, we had some qtips in the bathroom and we now had a coffee mug full of LN2 to work with.
All I can say about the experience is that at the end my foot hurt and I still had the wart. We did have a lot of fun pouring the leftover LN2 on the kitchen floor and watching the beads skate around.
Makes rather little difference if you use SSL or not. Your SSL connection is between your client and your server. Once it hits your server the admin could log your messages if he/she so desired.
The thing about any form of IM is that the vast, vast majority of traffic is completely inane and nobody would actually want a log of it since reviewing such a lot would subtract IQ points from the reviewer. Therefore you can probably inject your (not inane and stupid....apparently) super sekkret conspiracy plans into the void and nobody will notice.
It will cost some real money (about $3000 list I think), but the best way to do this is to get a pair of Cisco wireless bridges. Either the model 1300 or the model 1400 would be suitable. They can be mounted outdoors and are intended for bridging. If you really want to stick with your sub $100 solution that's fine; just remember that you'll get better quality when you buy quality hardware. It's also entirely possible that you can with a connection that cuts out every now and again if you'll end up saving enough cash to buy a decent used car.
2. IMAP support in Outlook really sucks... in a way i can`t even describe it. Thunderbird is perfect with IMAP, and no need to purge messages manually...
How do you get TB to expunge automatically? Has it been added recently? I attempted to get this to work with 0.7 and gave up in frustration.
It's the kind of game you can probably get away with now and again, especially at the low end of the market. I don't think that companies would get away with it at the mid to high end of the market. The company that wells a 9 graphics card labeled as a 10 is going to get burned when level 10 games don't run well on my machine, but I can get level 11 games to mostly run on my friend's machine with the competing brand's level 10 card.
In the event that everyone scams the benchmark, at least they'll all be scamming it and I'll still have a point of comparison.
I'm not sure they'd have the same motivation. If the benchmark becomes a way for software vendors to spec requirements for a program to run (This program runs best on machines that score level 3.1415927 or higher with MSBenchmark.Net) it's not in the hardware vendors interest to scam the benchmark. If they do, they'll get a reputation for making hardware that can't run the software it should.
My memory of the Beige G3 my wife owned is that it was fairly easy to get apart, but a real SOB to get put back together. As I recall, there were some sharp springy metal bits on the front behind the plastic that covered unused drive slots that got in the way when attempting to replace the cover.
As you say though, it's no worse than most PC cases, and far better than most PC cases of the day.
The ones that have infested my office use the marquee tag rather than javascript. Outlook 2003 defaults to having e-mail in the restricted sites zone. All the scripting options in restricted sites are set to disabled by default.
Seatbelts don't keep me from getting in a car wreck, but that doesn't mean that they aren't a good idea. NAT stops a good portion of nasty things that can happen to a machine on the internet. It won't compensate for Internet Explorer or Outlook, but it will stop blaster and open file shares.
Surely the spammers will just start sending from domain names which don't implement SPF instead of ones that do? It would only be a couple of lines of extra code in their spamming program to ensure it doesn't send mail from SPF protected domains.
I hope that this happens. The point of SPF is to keep the spammers from spoofing my domain. I have SPF records on my domain and I would very much appreciate it if my domain never appeared on the From: line of a spam message.
Actually, most IMAP servers can be configured to send mail. The process usually works by placing a message in an 'Outbox' folder, then the IMAP server will call the MTA for delivery of that message. If the intended recipient is a local user SMTP might not be used at all in the process.
The usual case though is to use IMAP for receiving mail and SMTP for sending mail.
Not exactly. Wi-Fi/WPA/WPA-2 are all industry standards based on the various 802.11? IEEE standards. The difference is that WECA (Wireless Ethernet Compatability Alliance) actually does testing rather than just publishing standards like IEEE does. In order to get the fancy sticker on the package you need to pay a couple of grand and get your product tested to the standards. The benefit of certification is that you have some idea that the product was actaully implemented to the standard correctly.
That said, WPA-2 provides basically zero benefit over WPA. WPA relies on the same RC-4 algorithm as WEP, but has a few patches put in place to resolve the problems it had. The most important one is using a new key for each frame. Given a choice between an algorithm that can be broken given 11MB of data and one that has no known attacks, do you think that it matters which you use to encrypt 1500 bytes? Not really.
The good news about WPA-2/802.11i (same thing, just certified and a less scary name for the PHBs) is that it breaks hardware compatibility, and that means there's a chance that things have been done right this time.
Suppose you buy a used laptop. If it contains various personal data from some college student, aren't you going to get slightly suspicious?
Honestly, no. I'm going to assume that said college student was broke and needed beer money so he pawned it. There have been a number of articles recently about how much personal shit is on used hard drives bought off ebay. Why would I expect used laptops to be any different?
It doesn't matter so much who the president is. Lending rules tend to be set by the states. Some states have better rules than others, but usually you have to play by the rules of where the lender is located. That's why all of the national credit cards are setup as corporations in North Dakota or Deleware. Legislators in ND and DE aren't likely to change their rules for your benefit, because you don't live there and they like collecting taxes on transactions that had nothing to do with their states.
Chances are that you can get a Visa or Master Card issued by a local bank that has terms much more friendly to you when you get into trouble, but if you don't get into trouble the evil out of state banks will be a better deal since your account is subsidized by the fees that would be illegal for your local bank to charge.
So much so that, in order for the phone to make it to market in time, some marketing fuckhead decided to skip the QA altogether.
I bet he's looking for a new job now.
No, he was given an award and a promotion. He cut costs, increased sales and got people to buy a product in spite of the fact that it sucks. Those are the goals of people in marketing. They are not the same goals that customers and engineers. Remember that when you buy shit.
Once you send your data to that box on the pole it is on an untrusted network. You don't know what is going to happen to it or who can look at it so it really doesn't matter if it is encrypted or not.
The main reason you would want to use some sort of encryption in this scenerio is for access control. If the ISP thinks that MAC authenticaiton (which is exceedingly weak) is sufficient to keep too many people from using the service without paying, then it's probably good enough.
Generally it's someplace under the steering wheel. The official name of the port is ODBII (On Board Diagnostics version II). Google Images has lots of pictures of them.
There are a number of products that let you read the information on the port in real time. AutoTap is a popular one, but there are quite a number of others.
An unorthodox tactic for a surprise assassination. Probably better to just keep the real gun in your pocket so they don't know you have it at all, but criminals are stupid.
It does make the gun far less useful for intimidation. It's pretty hard to rob a convenience store or a bank with a gun that everyone believes is fake. Proving otherwise involves actually shooting.
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Sometimes they escape before security gets there: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/wanted/razmilov.htm
I hope that person had the title 'Principle' Quality Manager...
One of the target markets for these trucks is construction contractors. Typically these type of workers would drive a full size truck or SUV to carry their tools and materials. They would then use a gasoline generator to power their electric tools at the work site. The 120V outlets provided in these trucks should be able to replace the noisy and polluting pullstart generator with the hybrid drive system already present in the truck. As a result they can use the emissions controlled relatively efficient gasoline engine in the truck to power those tools.
Problem is that sometimes that kind of shit backfires. SUVs are popular because the CAFE regulations effectively banned large cars. As a result, people who would otherwise have purchased a large car now purchase a small truck to use as a car.
http://homephonewiring.com/ is a really good website for understanding the whats and whys about installing proper cabling in your house. The site was a big help to me when I redid all the phone/data cable in my house last year. The guy does sell some stuff on the website, but the information is excellent whether you decide to buy from him or elsewhere. I did end up buying a punchdown block from him and it was a fair price and shipped quickly. Other stuff I got either locally or on Ebay.
One would assume that a 7 segment display for a phone would have more digits than a watch, but I've got land line phones with no display at all and they work fine.
Actually, access points are often installed in people free envorinments. It usually works best to mount the access points to the ceiling where there are not such things as cubicle walls, lamps, PDA charges, coffee makers and other devices that require AC mains power.
The exception is overhead flouro or HID lighting, but this often runs at a higher voltage (277 in the US) than is provided to the regular recepticles. That would mean runing new 120V (or 240V in other bits of the world) service to the AP locations in addition to the network cable that is also required.
The one drawback to POE is that the places where installing it are most attractive are also places that are likely to run into the 100m segment length limit. Using POE to APs on the ceiling at a convention center or warehouse makes a lot of sense, but often fibre is required to overcome length restrictions on the copper.
If you were about to ask about power over fibre, please think harder.
Toward the end of my undergraduate tenure, I had a wart on my foot and a key to the room in the physics lab where the big dewer of LN2 was stored. So one evening, I filled my coffee mug took it back to my apartment and convinced my roommate the history major to substitute as a physician. A bit of google searching revealed that the basic procedure for freezing warts off involves dipping a cotton swab into LN2 and then pressing it against the wart until frostbite sets in. Not being total slobs, we had some qtips in the bathroom and we now had a coffee mug full of LN2 to work with. All I can say about the experience is that at the end my foot hurt and I still had the wart. We did have a lot of fun pouring the leftover LN2 on the kitchen floor and watching the beads skate around.
The thing about any form of IM is that the vast, vast majority of traffic is completely inane and nobody would actually want a log of it since reviewing such a lot would subtract IQ points from the reviewer. Therefore you can probably inject your (not inane and stupid....apparently) super sekkret conspiracy plans into the void and nobody will notice.
It will cost some real money (about $3000 list I think), but the best way to do this is to get a pair of Cisco wireless bridges. Either the model 1300 or the model 1400 would be suitable. They can be mounted outdoors and are intended for bridging. If you really want to stick with your sub $100 solution that's fine; just remember that you'll get better quality when you buy quality hardware. It's also entirely possible that you can with a connection that cuts out every now and again if you'll end up saving enough cash to buy a decent used car.
In the event that everyone scams the benchmark, at least they'll all be scamming it and I'll still have a point of comparison.
I'm not sure they'd have the same motivation. If the benchmark becomes a way for software vendors to spec requirements for a program to run (This program runs best on machines that score level 3.1415927 or higher with MSBenchmark.Net) it's not in the hardware vendors interest to scam the benchmark. If they do, they'll get a reputation for making hardware that can't run the software it should.
As you say though, it's no worse than most PC cases, and far better than most PC cases of the day.
The ones that have infested my office use the marquee tag rather than javascript. Outlook 2003 defaults to having e-mail in the restricted sites zone. All the scripting options in restricted sites are set to disabled by default.
Seatbelts don't keep me from getting in a car wreck, but that doesn't mean that they aren't a good idea. NAT stops a good portion of nasty things that can happen to a machine on the internet. It won't compensate for Internet Explorer or Outlook, but it will stop blaster and open file shares.
The usual case though is to use IMAP for receiving mail and SMTP for sending mail.
That said, WPA-2 provides basically zero benefit over WPA. WPA relies on the same RC-4 algorithm as WEP, but has a few patches put in place to resolve the problems it had. The most important one is using a new key for each frame. Given a choice between an algorithm that can be broken given 11MB of data and one that has no known attacks, do you think that it matters which you use to encrypt 1500 bytes? Not really.
The good news about WPA-2/802.11i (same thing, just certified and a less scary name for the PHBs) is that it breaks hardware compatibility, and that means there's a chance that things have been done right this time.
Chances are that you can get a Visa or Master Card issued by a local bank that has terms much more friendly to you when you get into trouble, but if you don't get into trouble the evil out of state banks will be a better deal since your account is subsidized by the fees that would be illegal for your local bank to charge.
Once you send your data to that box on the pole it is on an untrusted network. You don't know what is going to happen to it or who can look at it so it really doesn't matter if it is encrypted or not.
The main reason you would want to use some sort of encryption in this scenerio is for access control. If the ISP thinks that MAC authenticaiton (which is exceedingly weak) is sufficient to keep too many people from using the service without paying, then it's probably good enough.
There are a number of products that let you read the information on the port in real time. AutoTap is a popular one, but there are quite a number of others.
It does make the gun far less useful for intimidation. It's pretty hard to rob a convenience store or a bank with a gun that everyone believes is fake. Proving otherwise involves actually shooting.