My favorite part of DC parking is how you need a computer to determine if a given parking spot is legal. Something like "No parking this side of street Tuesday if it's cloudy or between 6am-12pm except on alternate weekends of months with an R in them or Sundays during church service except Easter and on Saturday once per fortnight starting on the 3rd week of the month."
It looks nice except for that useless Zoom feature smack dab in the middle of the keyboard. Do people really zoom so often that they need that feature so prominently placed? I would think a scroll wheel would be much more useful.
And do they still have the function keys that don't work as function keys until you press the Function-lock button? I used to really like Microsoft's keyboards, but lately they have been ruining the functionality for me.
I was in Office Depot yesterday and a woman had just bought a laptop. A salesperson was offering to "optimize" the laptop and install antivirus for $200. She asked what the optimization was all about and he said it was to remove all of the pre-installed trialware.
I use a Drobo with DroboShare. The Drobo is USB connected and can be used with a single PC. DroboShare is an add-on that the Drobo plugs into to allow it to be connected over a 10/100/1000 Ethernet connection. Since it's USB based, the speed isn't spectacular, but it's fast enough on a Gigabit network to play two DVD images over the network simultaneously.
Drobo holds up to 4 SATA drives and has redundancy, but it's technically not RAID5. Rather than limiting the array size to a multiple of the smallest drive, you get an aggregate of the storage of all the drives minus the size of the largest disk for redundancy. For example, with RAID5, 2x250 GB drives + 2x500 GB drives gives you 750 GB of usable space (4x250 - 1x250 parity) with the 500 GB drives being pretty much wasted since you only get 250 GB out of each. With the Drobo you'd get 1 TB (2x250 + 2x500 - 1x500 parity). You can hot-swap dead drives or add higher capacity drives and it will automatically expand the available space while retaining existing files (unlike RAID5 implementations I've used).
I'm using a Drobo + DroboShare with 4x500 GB Western Digital GreenPower drives, which run absolutely silently and cool. I am completely happy with it. It looks very slick and has a capacity indicator and drive status lights.
Check it out at http://www.drobo.com/ Their Drobolator virtual Drobo shows how much space you'll get from any combination of drives (up to 2.7 TB). Please note I am in no way affiliated with Drobo other than being a very satisfied customer.
I thought there might be a little extra after the credits and I actually waited through the initial set just to see. Unfortunately my bladder was already full to bursting since I didn't want to miss any of the action in the movies, so when the secondary credits started rolling with no bonus footage yet shown, I bolted for the bathroom and missed out.
I was under the impression that the more sophisticated keyloggers actually take a screenshot of the area surrounding mouseclicks. Even an on-screen keyboard that randomly rearranges the keys would be foiled by this method.
The Sci-Fi Channel version was pretty good, but some of the sets were unbelievably bad. I mean a huge planet encompassing desert reduced to a sound stage where it looked like they taped together color laser-printed pictures for the background matte was just unacceptable.
Whatever happened to the idea of a tablet without the excess baggage that a keyboard entails? I'd love to have a small and light tablet-style PC that looks like nothing more than a big screen. Make it dockable so you can attach a keyboard, mouse, external display, etc. You can always use an on-screen keyboard for quick text input in the field. Something like a Nokia N800, but with a bigger screen (at least paperback book size) and more general-purpose (sorry, but Maemo and the handful of applications designed for it just don't do it for me).
I briefly used the first Windows-based version of Word Perfect which had that feature. IIRC, it was confusing when you didn't have that mode turned on. You could be backspacing through text and delete invisible codes rather than characters. It didn't do so hot a job removing codes that were no longer being used, so you could click in the middle of a paragraph and start typing only to have the text show up underlined or bold or in a different font because you clicked on a section with old codes still in it.
Take it a step further and even the phone vendors could make deals with the same companies that work with Dell, etc. to pre-install crapware like time-limited versions of anti-virus to "protect" your Android phone from malicious code. I hope they do a better job at security than Windows. I'm all for letting your phone run any code you can throw at it, but let's hope they do it right.
But just think of all that awful paperwork they'd have to fill out. They wouldn't have time to wiretap everyone and the terrists will win. Oh, the humanity!
In contrast, I had Comcast for 3-4 years. Had to reboot my cable modem maybe 3 times in that same time period. I've never had any problems with torrents, although I'm not a huge downloader. That said, I'm now using RCN in my new apartment and saving maybe $40 a month for the same service.
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But are you running Windows for a children's charity? No? Then you're not in the same league.
Maybe he's worried that it won't fit on punch cards.
My favorite part of DC parking is how you need a computer to determine if a given parking spot is legal. Something like "No parking this side of street Tuesday if it's cloudy or between 6am-12pm except on alternate weekends of months with an R in them or Sundays during church service except Easter and on Saturday once per fortnight starting on the 3rd week of the month."
I was going to suggest the same thing. I switched my Linksys to the DD-WRT firmware (http://www.dd-wrt.com/) and now everything works much smoother.
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It looks nice except for that useless Zoom feature smack dab in the middle of the keyboard. Do people really zoom so often that they need that feature so prominently placed? I would think a scroll wheel would be much more useful. And do they still have the function keys that don't work as function keys until you press the Function-lock button? I used to really like Microsoft's keyboards, but lately they have been ruining the functionality for me.
X.264 must be the new standard for porn.
I was in Office Depot yesterday and a woman had just bought a laptop. A salesperson was offering to "optimize" the laptop and install antivirus for $200. She asked what the optimization was all about and he said it was to remove all of the pre-installed trialware.
I just bought an entire laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) with LED backlighting for less than that.
This is DSi: Special DRM Unit
All the megapixels in the world won't help taking clear pictures when all you have is a fingernail-sized lens with only digital zoom.
I use a Drobo with DroboShare. The Drobo is USB connected and can be used with a single PC. DroboShare is an add-on that the Drobo plugs into to allow it to be connected over a 10/100/1000 Ethernet connection. Since it's USB based, the speed isn't spectacular, but it's fast enough on a Gigabit network to play two DVD images over the network simultaneously.
Drobo holds up to 4 SATA drives and has redundancy, but it's technically not RAID5. Rather than limiting the array size to a multiple of the smallest drive, you get an aggregate of the storage of all the drives minus the size of the largest disk for redundancy. For example, with RAID5, 2x250 GB drives + 2x500 GB drives gives you 750 GB of usable space (4x250 - 1x250 parity) with the 500 GB drives being pretty much wasted since you only get 250 GB out of each. With the Drobo you'd get 1 TB (2x250 + 2x500 - 1x500 parity). You can hot-swap dead drives or add higher capacity drives and it will automatically expand the available space while retaining existing files (unlike RAID5 implementations I've used).
I'm using a Drobo + DroboShare with 4x500 GB Western Digital GreenPower drives, which run absolutely silently and cool. I am completely happy with it. It looks very slick and has a capacity indicator and drive status lights.
Check it out at http://www.drobo.com/ Their Drobolator virtual Drobo shows how much space you'll get from any combination of drives (up to 2.7 TB). Please note I am in no way affiliated with Drobo other than being a very satisfied customer.
I hunger!
But information wants to be free! Really, it told me so!
I thought there might be a little extra after the credits and I actually waited through the initial set just to see. Unfortunately my bladder was already full to bursting since I didn't want to miss any of the action in the movies, so when the secondary credits started rolling with no bonus footage yet shown, I bolted for the bathroom and missed out.
I was under the impression that the more sophisticated keyloggers actually take a screenshot of the area surrounding mouseclicks. Even an on-screen keyboard that randomly rearranges the keys would be foiled by this method.
And I suppose it requires 1.21 jigawatts of electricity to fire.
The Sci-Fi Channel version was pretty good, but some of the sets were unbelievably bad. I mean a huge planet encompassing desert reduced to a sound stage where it looked like they taped together color laser-printed pictures for the background matte was just unacceptable.
Whatever happened to the idea of a tablet without the excess baggage that a keyboard entails? I'd love to have a small and light tablet-style PC that looks like nothing more than a big screen. Make it dockable so you can attach a keyboard, mouse, external display, etc. You can always use an on-screen keyboard for quick text input in the field. Something like a Nokia N800, but with a bigger screen (at least paperback book size) and more general-purpose (sorry, but Maemo and the handful of applications designed for it just don't do it for me).
I briefly used the first Windows-based version of Word Perfect which had that feature. IIRC, it was confusing when you didn't have that mode turned on. You could be backspacing through text and delete invisible codes rather than characters. It didn't do so hot a job removing codes that were no longer being used, so you could click in the middle of a paragraph and start typing only to have the text show up underlined or bold or in a different font because you clicked on a section with old codes still in it.
Take it a step further and even the phone vendors could make deals with the same companies that work with Dell, etc. to pre-install crapware like time-limited versions of anti-virus to "protect" your Android phone from malicious code. I hope they do a better job at security than Windows. I'm all for letting your phone run any code you can throw at it, but let's hope they do it right.
But just think of all that awful paperwork they'd have to fill out. They wouldn't have time to wiretap everyone and the terrists will win. Oh, the humanity!
In contrast, I had Comcast for 3-4 years. Had to reboot my cable modem maybe 3 times in that same time period. I've never had any problems with torrents, although I'm not a huge downloader. That said, I'm now using RCN in my new apartment and saving maybe $40 a month for the same service.
Freudian slip much?