This is exactly what the FCC just mandated. The television makers will keep putting analogue tuners in and all the TVs made under the new rules will be dual mode.
This is true now, but the last Mac I owned was a beige G3 which had the ADB connector. The only place that the ADB mouse could be plugged in was the keyboard. I evenually fixed this 'problem' by getting a USB card and a USB mouse (with a scroll wheel no less).
I hate the Apple way of tying the keyboard and mouse together. I really think that it's a terrible idea. I like to be able to pick up the keyboard and set it on my lap without the mouse dangling along with it.
The solution of course it to get wireless input devices. I've switched over to using a wireless mouse and keyboard and find that it's much better.
White paper usually refers to a document that is printed in black text on white paper. The idea is to contrast documents that have useful technical information (which are usually printed in boring black text on boring white paper) with the usless documents that you get from marketing (which are all kinds of pretty colors on cool glossy paper).
The joke here is that ars has published an aritcle that has useful technical information, but their website has a black background with white text. Therefore, this is a black paper.
Rubbish. Stores are limited to 6 hours opening on Sundays (with some exceptions). This is a concession to the church - but not necessarily a bad one. Are all stores in all states of the US allowed to open on Sunday (genuine question)?
Pretty much all the laws prohibiting Sunday sales have been repealed. The only one that remains common (about 1/2 the states) is the law forbidding auto sales on Sundays. Most people seem to appreciate this law, because it means that they can look around the car lot on a Sunday and not have to fear the salesmen.
Indeed, Pabst went out of business about two years ago. Their brewery was purchased by a company that makes a beer called City Lager. It's almost as terrible as PBR, but I think that it's only distributed in a very small area near LaCrosse, WI.
In the US more than 95% of the privately held land is owned by only 3% of the population.
I'm interested in the stat that you have in your.sig. Where did that stat come from, how was is calculated (area or $ value) and why did you find it relevant to put in your sig? It seems like a very interesting topic for discussion.
Damnit. You really shouldn't put ideas like that into my head on a Friday. I'm going to spend the weekend working on this, I would have been much better served to get a suggestion like this on Monday when I could do it at work.:)
I have to report the exact same experience with GoDaddy. Everything there worked just fine. I had my own DNS servers configured beforehand and by the 25th, the root servers were pointing to my servers to resolve bump.us.
I really don't understand why the poster thinks that the registrar has anything to do with zone files and MX records. Those things are the responsibility of your DNS provider. Since people other than register.com are able to successfully provide DNS service for.us domains I'd be inclined to blame register.com rather than Neustar or some vast unnamed internet conspiracy.
His biggest problem would be preventing his DDHCP server from allocating IP addresses that someoen else has set staticaly.
This isn't a problem at all. A compliant DHCP server must arp an address 3 times before it issues a lease. Likewise, a proper DHCP client will arp the address before accepting a lease. If anyone answers these arp requests then it is known that the address is in use.
The place where you can get into trouble is if the DHCP server has already issued a lease on a particular address and then someone plugs in a device which is statically configured with that address. Usually when this happens one of the devices is smart enough to shutdown its ethernet port or go back to the DHCP server asking for a new lease.
I've used a couple of different ones and really like having a PDA. I mostly use it for keeping my schedule. A PDA really works well in an Outlook/Exchange environment. It's nice to have something that I can carry with me that is always up to date with my calendar at work.
In addition, I make some use of the addressbook feature (though I find I keep most phone numbers in my cellphone anyway). The todo list gets used quite a bit both for todo things and as a shopping list. I also like having a place to keep notes that I might want while I'm out and about. It's pretty rare that I use the PDA as an information capture device, mostly it's just a data viewing device.
Maps are another really great PDA thing. I my favorite map software is Mapopolis they have pretty good free maps and reasonable prices of more detailed maps.
Overall I'd say that it's a good investment, but I wouldn't want to put more than about $200 into one.
If you have access to a free web to sms gateway (voicestream seems to have one), I have a little perl script that monitors a POP3 server for new mail and sends the From:, Subject: and first body line via sms. You can have a look at it at http://www.bump.us/cellphone/smsmail.html.
If they can't manage that on their own, there's no hope at all.
In a more serious note, I'd try to focus on the similaraties between cmd.exe syntax and bash/sh syntax and possibly get a bit into basic shell programming.
That's exactly my point. I'm a trustworthy person and therefore it's valuable to me to be able to prove that I am said trustworthy person and to make it very difficult for anyone who might wish to impersonate me. I'm highly in favor of good ID cards because I have much more to lose by being impersonated than I have to lose by some nubulous conspiracy of the government, evil corporations and the UN being able to track me by a piece of plastic in my wallet.
In all reality, a drivers license is the most common means used to prove identity in the US. It seems desireable to me to have such a document contain a good deal of information so that upon inspection it can be used to prove the identity of the holder. It seems to me that there is a good deal of value in having the driver's license identification information be as secure and comprehensive as possible.
People call 802.11b devices Wi-Fi because that's the trade mark used on devices which have been certified to be compliant with the standard by the Wireless Ethernet Compatability Alliance (WECA). The thing is that IEEE doesn't really have any authroity to certify devices as fully compliant with their standards or not, so this is best done by a trade group of some sort.
I think that WECA is probably going to be a decent advocate for platform interoperablity. Microsoft is a member of this group, but they don't seem to have a lot of influence since the roster is really dominated by radio and network hardware companies rather than software companies. The board of directors is even more weighted toward the hardware folks. The chairman of the board represents Intersil which makes a only chipsets. Also represented are Intermec, Symbol and Nokia which make hand held wireless devices with smaller CPUs and wouldn't benefit from a driver based MAC.
Could you have found a less immoral and demeaning way to earn some cash? Honestly, has the market for selling crack to school children dried up completely?
Ummm.. AT&T is my cable provider. The only one I have to choose from, of course
If you think that's depressing, I've got a choice and AT&T is the less evil of the two. <shudder>
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Isn't that plan exactly why SMS got so popular? It seems that people found a way to make a micropayment system work more like a flat payment system and were even willing to deal with typing on a 10 key keypad to get this result.
I guess it wouldn't be too big a deal to setup an email filtering program that automatically sends me an SMS message whenever an email arrives marked urgent, or when it has been sent from specific people.
I have a nice little perl app that sends an sms message upon receipt of an e-mail. Since it's written in perl it would be fairly easy to add in some sort of filtering ability.
Everything that you say here is true. Windows installs have gotten easier, especially in the NT line. All the same things are true of a modern Linux install. Red Hat has has the kick start system for unattended installs since at least 1996.
For attended installs, I think that recent Mandrake installs are pretty comparable to a Windows XP installation and a bit easier than a win2k install (the blue screen partition tool in win2k just sucks). And pretty much anything is better than doing a Windows 9x install, I hate those with a passion.
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All I can say is that it's a really sad day when the customer service levels of the phone company are held up as an example that should be emulated.
This is exactly what the FCC just mandated. The television makers will keep putting analogue tuners in and all the TVs made under the new rules will be dual mode.
This is true now, but the last Mac I owned was a beige G3 which had the ADB connector. The only place that the ADB mouse could be plugged in was the keyboard. I evenually fixed this 'problem' by getting a USB card and a USB mouse (with a scroll wheel no less).
The solution of course it to get wireless input devices. I've switched over to using a wireless mouse and keyboard and find that it's much better.
The joke here is that ars has published an aritcle that has useful technical information, but their website has a black background with white text. Therefore, this is a black paper.
Pretty much all the laws prohibiting Sunday sales have been repealed. The only one that remains common (about 1/2 the states) is the law forbidding auto sales on Sundays. Most people seem to appreciate this law, because it means that they can look around the car lot on a Sunday and not have to fear the salesmen.
It would work about as well as an ad supported online petfood store.
Indeed, Pabst went out of business about two years ago. Their brewery was purchased by a company that makes a beer called City Lager. It's almost as terrible as PBR, but I think that it's only distributed in a very small area near LaCrosse, WI.
I'm not that fat.
I'm interested in the stat that you have in your .sig. Where did that stat come from, how was is calculated (area or $ value) and why did you find it relevant to put in your sig? It seems like a very interesting topic for discussion.
Damnit. You really shouldn't put ideas like that into my head on a Friday. I'm going to spend the weekend working on this, I would have been much better served to get a suggestion like this on Monday when I could do it at work. :)
I really don't understand why the poster thinks that the registrar has anything to do with zone files and MX records. Those things are the responsibility of your DNS provider. Since people other than register.com are able to successfully provide DNS service for .us domains I'd be inclined to blame register.com rather than Neustar or some vast unnamed internet conspiracy.
This isn't a problem at all. A compliant DHCP server must arp an address 3 times before it issues a lease. Likewise, a proper DHCP client will arp the address before accepting a lease. If anyone answers these arp requests then it is known that the address is in use.
The place where you can get into trouble is if the DHCP server has already issued a lease on a particular address and then someone plugs in a device which is statically configured with that address. Usually when this happens one of the devices is smart enough to shutdown its ethernet port or go back to the DHCP server asking for a new lease.
In addition, I make some use of the addressbook feature (though I find I keep most phone numbers in my cellphone anyway). The todo list gets used quite a bit both for todo things and as a shopping list. I also like having a place to keep notes that I might want while I'm out and about. It's pretty rare that I use the PDA as an information capture device, mostly it's just a data viewing device.
Maps are another really great PDA thing. I my favorite map software is Mapopolis they have pretty good free maps and reasonable prices of more detailed maps.
Overall I'd say that it's a good investment, but I wouldn't want to put more than about $200 into one.
If you have access to a free web to sms gateway (voicestream seems to have one), I have a little perl script that monitors a POP3 server for new mail and sends the From:, Subject: and first body line via sms. You can have a look at it at http://www.bump.us/cellphone/smsmail.html.
If they can't manage that on their own, there's no hope at all.
In a more serious note, I'd try to focus on the similaraties between cmd.exe syntax and bash/sh syntax and possibly get a bit into basic shell programming.
That's exactly my point. I'm a trustworthy person and therefore it's valuable to me to be able to prove that I am said trustworthy person and to make it very difficult for anyone who might wish to impersonate me. I'm highly in favor of good ID cards because I have much more to lose by being impersonated than I have to lose by some nubulous conspiracy of the government, evil corporations and the UN being able to track me by a piece of plastic in my wallet.
I think that this link which says that google runs on Linux is much more informative than any reference to googel.com.
In all reality, a drivers license is the most common means used to prove identity in the US. It seems desireable to me to have such a document contain a good deal of information so that upon inspection it can be used to prove the identity of the holder. It seems to me that there is a good deal of value in having the driver's license identification information be as secure and comprehensive as possible.
People call 802.11b devices Wi-Fi because that's the trade mark used on devices which have been certified to be compliant with the standard by the Wireless Ethernet Compatability Alliance (WECA). The thing is that IEEE doesn't really have any authroity to certify devices as fully compliant with their standards or not, so this is best done by a trade group of some sort.
I think that WECA is probably going to be a decent advocate for platform interoperablity. Microsoft is a member of this group, but they don't seem to have a lot of influence since the roster is really dominated by radio and network hardware companies rather than software companies. The board of directors is even more weighted toward the hardware folks. The chairman of the board represents Intersil which makes a only chipsets. Also represented are Intermec, Symbol and Nokia which make hand held wireless devices with smaller CPUs and wouldn't benefit from a driver based MAC.
Could you have found a less immoral and demeaning way to earn some cash? Honestly, has the market for selling crack to school children dried up completely?
If you think that's depressing, I've got a choice and AT&T is the less evil of the two. <shudder>
Isn't that plan exactly why SMS got so popular? It seems that people found a way to make a micropayment system work more like a flat payment system and were even willing to deal with typing on a 10 key keypad to get this result.
I have a nice little perl app that sends an sms message upon receipt of an e-mail. Since it's written in perl it would be fairly easy to add in some sort of filtering ability.
For attended installs, I think that recent Mandrake installs are pretty comparable to a Windows XP installation and a bit easier than a win2k install (the blue screen partition tool in win2k just sucks). And pretty much anything is better than doing a Windows 9x install, I hate those with a passion.