I lived in Acme, PA just south of Kecksburg for about 9 years. I talked to a couple of the firefighters that went into the woods that night before the Army got there. From what I understand, the object that landed was an acorn shaped about the size of a car. It had strange markings around the rim that did not appear to be any language with which the the firefighters were familiar. They knew English and one of them said he would have recognized Russian.
In any case, the little down is making the most of it. There isn't much else in the down. The only industry when I was there was a Pepsi bottling plant. That shut down and was converted later into an aluminum camper manufacturing plant. The only other thing in the town center is the firehall where they have linedancing on Friday nights. The firehall has a giant acorn shaped UFO replica on the top now.;-)
I used to work for GCC Printers. They offer a high quality product for less money than some of their competitors. (I know, I helped write the firmware for several of them.)
I didn't know about 30 second skip for the first year and a half that I owned a TiVo. I turned it on and for me there is no going back. It is much easier to skip over the commercials with it. No counting, no being annoyed when TiVo changes the fast forward speeds with an update (yes they did this once). With the replay button, it is easy to go back if you overshoot, so accuracy isn't a huge issue for me. I don't see any of the commercials, but then there are none that I want to watch. None. Whatever works for you, I'm glad there is a choice in the matter. Three cheers for configurability.
You need to get the Reciever. I bought a nice Onkyo reciever. There are several different price points for similar models based on how many devices you want to connect and how good you want the sound and video quality to be.
The best thing about a good reciever is that you don't have to do your nine button thing to watch a DVD.
Plug your TV into a switched outlet on the back of the reciever. At this point you never use your tv remote again. The TV is basically a monitor and it turns on and off with the reciver.
Plug each of your players into an input on the reciever.
The reciever comes with a learning remote. Program it for each of your devices.
Now to watch a DVD I have to do the following.
Power on the reciever, the tv turns on.
Put the remote into DVD mode
Switch the reciever input to DVD
Press play
The only gripe I have is that steps two and three are separate. Pressing the button on the remote to switch the input to the DVD should also switch the remote mode. The best part is that I have the switching buttons in either mode so you can do steps two and three in either mode. Similarly for the volume, the volume adjusts the volume on the reciever no matter what mode the remote is in. This is all possible because the remote is a learning remote and I've overridden a lot of the default button functionality such as the volume for each device and the mode input button for each device to all operate the reciever.
The change is almost always done in software. I myself use the dvorak layout with a regular qwerty keyboard. You really have to know how to touch type as looking at the keys only confuses you.;-) I am a real geek because I do this and I dare you to say otherwise.
I have also found flourescents that have the same form factor as the typical 60 watt bulb (but use only 15watts of power at the same brightness).
In the last few years, several of my gripes about flourescents are no more:
Upfront Cost: They now cost very little, they have come down from $20 per bulb to $2 per bulb. You no longer have to make an "investment" to go flourescent.
Size: They used to be bigger, They now fit everywhere a regular bulb fits.
Speed of Light: Old flourescents often tooks several seconds to turn on and up to 15 minutes to get to full brightness. Newer ones come on almost instantaneously (300ms maybe) and are plenty bright right away. While they aren't on par yet, its good enough for me.
There is still one area in which I don't use flourescents. Dimmable lights. That means they don't go in my living and dining rooms where I want to dim the lights for TV or a nice dinner. It makes it hard to use them with X10 as well, since all X10 is dimmable. There are some that are dimmable, but they tend to be more expensive and I haven't tried them.
If I were running a messaging service and I found that users were using a version of software that allowed somebody to send them a specially crafted message and take over their computer (think buffer overflow), I would disable that client and tell the user to upgrade.
It looks to me that that may be what Microsoft is doing. They are not just disabling 3rd party software. They are disabling access with some old versions of their own software. If they start dissallowing access by software even when there are no known vulnerabilities in the software, that is when we should get mad.
Your comment made the assumption that this is for Microsoft's security. I believe that it is for user's security. Microsoft is not providing a worthwhile service to the user if their "service" is a public backdoor into the user's computer. Microsoft knows this and they are doing the right thing. They have evidence of ways to crack certain softaware that connects to their servers. They have the ability to close the door on the vulnerability and they are doing so.
As soon as Trillian fixes their bugs and opens a dialog with Microsoft assuring microsoft that the flaws have been fixed, Microsoft will open the service back up.
But then again, I'm probably not paranoid enough for slashdot today.;-)
Networked PostScript printers work so much better on Linux. Windows has only recently (Windows 2K) added built in support for connecting to an LPR network printer. But even so, you have to add network printer as a local printer and map a local port to the network. You'd think they'd have solved these things in Windows XP, but it is sadly not the case.
These programs have large lists of software and automatically download and install the program and all its dependencies when you request an installation. They also can figure out what updates you need and automatically install them.
There are few programs they don't have, and when you find a program they don't have you can usually get the dependencies pretty easily through red carpet or synaptic
Pie chart would be hard. I'll bet you could do a line graph. I'm thinking that you could generate a large table with javascript. You could set each each of the cells to be 1px by 1px. Then turn on the backgrounds of the ones in the line. It'd be a bit of a cludge, but it just might work. (Come to think of it, pie chart might work like this too if you have enough time on your hands).
It is done using only HTML with CSS. There was some reason that the bars come down from the top rather than up from the bottom, but I don't remember what it is right now...
I get a couple requests to use the Lesser Gnu Public License for my Java utilities a week. I say, "I use the GPL to encourage open source development. If I were to use the LGPL, then you could use my libraries without giving me the source to your program.".
If you are really serious about free software. Then you will never use the LGPL.
Their world, the world outside/., revolves around MONEY...
This article shows how unlikely it would be for the SCO lawsuit (or its fallout) to cost a Linux using company any MONEY.
SCO is sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and the article puts it in perspective. The absolute worst that could happen to the average company that has used Linux is that they have to pay a small licensing fee to SCO for the prior use of SCO code. In actuality, SCO will stumble at some point in their crusade. If that scares a business away from Linux, that business needs to do a better job of risk management.
If SCO doesn't own the copyrights that it claims --> Lawsuit fails
If there isn't any infringing code in Linux --> Lawsuit fails
If SCO can't prove that IBM put the code there --> Lawsuit fails
If SCO can't convince a court that they were duped into distributing the infringing code under the GPL in their own Linux distribution --> Lawsuit fails
If SCO can't convince a court that there should be monitary damages --> Lawsuit fails
So what if there is infringing SCO code in Linux and SCO manages to play the duped victim with their own distribution under GPL?
Linux developers replace the code and release a new version. Any infringing sections are rumored to be in the tens (not hundreds or more) lines. This should happen very quickly.
Linux users upgrade to the newest version and would no longer be in violation
SCO could try to sue more people for past offenses, for which they would likely be awarded very little as the infringement is so small and users were not aware of the infringements (even after the lawsuit was announced as SCO isn't telling what infringes).
Why standardize? As a corporate user, I would hate to have to use a mail reader that is not my favorite. More to the point, I can think of several features that mozilla mail should have before I would recommend it to everybody at my company:
Message redirection - Forward a message to another person so that it looks like it came from the orgininal person. Useful for functional addresses common in corporate settings. For example a message was sent to webmaster@ when it should have been sent to support@
Disable new mail sound through filters - Corporate users often get lots of mail that they don't actually need to read. Mozilla filters are pretty good. You can sort this mail to another folder and mark it as read. Unfortunately, you can't the new mail sound still goes off when this happens.
Change SMTP servers easily - Laptop users are often frustrated with mozilla because there is no easy way to switch between predefined smtp servers when they are between home and work.
Change the reply-to on an outgoing message without creating a new account - In mozilla you have to create an account for every email address from which you want to send mail. Creating an account means that you have a new set of mailboxes over on the side of your screen. For corporations that use functional addressing, and have each person with multiple functions, users won't be happy with all the accounts they need to create.
Because they can often charge so much for ink, it is in the best interest of the printer manufacturers to make sure that you print as much as possbile and use as much ink as possible. Ever wonder why photo software comes with a printer? It takes a lot of ink to print a photo.
Built in pages that take a lot of ink to print.
Test Page
Demo Page
Menu Map
Configuration Page
Watch out for full color pages or dark backgrounds.
Bundled software that encourages printing
Photo Software
Presentation Software
Publishing Software
Per job banner pages enabled by default
Composite black (using CMY color toner to make black rather than the cheaper black toner)
Manufacturers often sell the printer itself at below cost, expecting to make profits on the consumables. Consumables don't have to be just ink and toner. They can also be rollers, fusers, and other parts that are expected to wear out.
There are so many players in the inkjet printer space that they are sometimes shooting themselves in the foot by going with this model. No manufacturer can offer printers at cost now because nobody would pay $250 for an inkjet. But at the same time, they lose money like crazy on certain types of buyers. Business travelers often buy a cheap printer at their destination rather than pack one. Consumers often get a new printer with each new computer they buy because the added cost in negligible. There are so many used printers out there, that they often cannot be given away.
The industry itself would benifit from reform in this area. However, to make it happen, all manufacturers will have to charge more for printers and less for cartridges. If even one player sticks with the old model, that player will see all the gains.
A trademark is only good for a certain area and a certain product. There can be an AbsobestWidgets(TM) in Boston and another unrelated AbsobestWidgets(TM) in Phoenix. Delta(TM) can be an airline and an unrelated Delta(TM) can sell faucets. AbsobestWidgets(TM) in Phoenix could not open a new store in Boston without a name change. Delta airlines could not start selling faucets without a name change.
The exception to this is famous marks. Marks that everybody knows and everybody associates with a specific company. Trademarks such as Pepsi, Levis, and McDonalds fall in this category. If you saw a new product under one of these names, you would automatically assume that the product came from the famous company, not from some new entity.
Is spam a famous mark? Yes. But it is also now a famous generic term for email. Hormel should be able to stop anybody from selling a food product under the mark of SPAM. But because spam for email is generic, they should not be able to stop a company against unsolited email from including the generic term for unsolited in their name. In this context it is very unlikely to cause any confusion. Nobody will think that A computer program that deletes unwanted email named SpamDoerAwayWith was made by the makers of the meat.
In my experience, moderators are often more than willing to moderate up posts that say Microsoft is doing a good job, or indeed posts with which they disagree. I have found that it is very common for a moderator to moderate up both a post with which they disagree and the best rebuttal response to it.
I am very sceptical of anonymous cowards posting that something will be modded down although it shouldn't be. I'm guessing that as often as not, it is the original poster trying a bit of reverse psychology.
He said google news not google web search. You can try yourself searching for slashdot microsoft oregon. As you can see, the only thing that comes up now is this story.
My guess is that after some time period it is no longer considered news and a search there will not find it. Slashdot articles more than a couple weeks old won't show up.
In my experience served bandwidth costs about $.30 per GB of transfer (depending on volumes of course). If you have 128kb/s (57MB/hour) stream of music that means that it costs the radio station 2 cents for you to listen for an hour.
While that may not be super expensive, it can add up.
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In any case, the little down is making the most of it. There isn't much else in the down. The only industry when I was there was a Pepsi bottling plant. That shut down and was converted later into an aluminum camper manufacturing plant. The only other thing in the town center is the firehall where they have linedancing on Friday nights. The firehall has a giant acorn shaped UFO replica on the top now. ;-)
Of interest to you is their new color model the Elite Color 16 DN
- 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
- 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
- Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
- Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
- 500-sheet Universal Tray
- PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
- 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
- 256MB RAM standard
- 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
- TCP/IP
- Rendezvous
Order the Elite Color 16 DN- 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
- 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
- Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
- Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
- 500-sheet Universal Tray
- PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
- 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
- 256MB RAM standard
- 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
- TCP/IP
- Rendezvous
- EtherTalk®
- Novell NetWare (IPX/SPX)
- SNMP
Order the Elite Color 16 DNeI didn't know about 30 second skip for the first year and a half that I owned a TiVo. I turned it on and for me there is no going back. It is much easier to skip over the commercials with it. No counting, no being annoyed when TiVo changes the fast forward speeds with an update (yes they did this once). With the replay button, it is easy to go back if you overshoot, so accuracy isn't a huge issue for me. I don't see any of the commercials, but then there are none that I want to watch. None. Whatever works for you, I'm glad there is a choice in the matter. Three cheers for configurability.
The best thing about a good reciever is that you don't have to do your nine button thing to watch a DVD.
- Plug your TV into a switched outlet on the back of the reciever. At this point you never use your tv remote again. The TV is basically a monitor and it turns on and off with the reciver.
- Plug each of your players into an input on the reciever.
- The reciever comes with a learning remote. Program it for each of your devices.
Now to watch a DVD I have to do the following.- Power on the reciever, the tv turns on.
- Put the remote into DVD mode
- Switch the reciever input to DVD
- Press play
The only gripe I have is that steps two and three are separate. Pressing the button on the remote to switch the input to the DVD should also switch the remote mode. The best part is that I have the switching buttons in either mode so you can do steps two and three in either mode. Similarly for the volume, the volume adjusts the volume on the reciever no matter what mode the remote is in. This is all possible because the remote is a learning remote and I've overridden a lot of the default button functionality such as the volume for each device and the mode input button for each device to all operate the reciever.The change is almost always done in software. I myself use the dvorak layout with a regular qwerty keyboard. You really have to know how to touch type as looking at the keys only confuses you. ;-) I am a real geek because I do this and I dare you to say otherwise.
- Get them down to one remote - Nice receiver, learning remote - properly programmed, buttons all labeled
- DVR - TiVo or Replay TV, its a must have. Enable the 30 second skip button on the TiVo remote.
- Adjust the TV properly - turn the sharpness the whole way down, go through all the test patterns and balance the colors.
For the computer:- Open source software - Install software from the Open CD, Linux if they are up for it..
- Decruft the mouse and keyboard (although even most geeks could use this)
- A decent home network, add more computers as needed.
- A nice office chair and good ergonomics - switch them over to the dvorak keybord and make them practice.
For the kitchen:- Print out list of all pizza delivery options
- Stock fridge with Mt. Dew and Guinness.
Personal grooming:Costco has packs of like 8 for about $15 or some such.
In the last few years, several of my gripes about flourescents are no more:
- Upfront Cost: They now cost very little, they have come down from $20 per bulb to $2 per bulb. You no longer have to make an "investment" to go flourescent.
- Size: They used to be bigger, They now fit everywhere a regular bulb fits.
- Speed of Light: Old flourescents often tooks several seconds to turn on and up to 15 minutes to get to full brightness. Newer ones come on almost instantaneously (300ms maybe) and are plenty bright right away. While they aren't on par yet, its good enough for me.
There is still one area in which I don't use flourescents. Dimmable lights. That means they don't go in my living and dining rooms where I want to dim the lights for TV or a nice dinner. It makes it hard to use them with X10 as well, since all X10 is dimmable. There are some that are dimmable, but they tend to be more expensive and I haven't tried them.It looks to me that that may be what Microsoft is doing. They are not just disabling 3rd party software. They are disabling access with some old versions of their own software. If they start dissallowing access by software even when there are no known vulnerabilities in the software, that is when we should get mad.
Your comment made the assumption that this is for Microsoft's security. I believe that it is for user's security. Microsoft is not providing a worthwhile service to the user if their "service" is a public backdoor into the user's computer. Microsoft knows this and they are doing the right thing. They have evidence of ways to crack certain softaware that connects to their servers. They have the ability to close the door on the vulnerability and they are doing so.
As soon as Trillian fixes their bugs and opens a dialog with Microsoft assuring microsoft that the flaws have been fixed, Microsoft will open the service back up.
But then again, I'm probably not paranoid enough for slashdot today. ;-)
Networked PostScript printers work so much better on Linux. Windows has only recently (Windows 2K) added built in support for connecting to an LPR network printer. But even so, you have to add network printer as a local printer and map a local port to the network. You'd think they'd have solved these things in Windows XP, but it is sadly not the case.
These programs have large lists of software and automatically download and install the program and all its dependencies when you request an installation. They also can figure out what updates you need and automatically install them.
There are few programs they don't have, and when you find a program they don't have you can usually get the dependencies pretty easily through red carpet or synaptic
Pie chart would be hard. I'll bet you could do a line graph. I'm thinking that you could generate a large table with javascript. You could set each each of the cells to be 1px by 1px. Then turn on the backgrounds of the ones in the line. It'd be a bit of a cludge, but it just might work. (Come to think of it, pie chart might work like this too if you have enough time on your hands).
Here is their (really nifty) new color product:
Elite Color 16 DN - $2099 ( Order)
- 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
- 16 pages per minute
- 256 MB RAM
- Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
- Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
- 500-sheet Universal Tray
- PostScript 3 and PCL5c
- 136 built-in PostScript fonts/45 built-in PCL fonts
- Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Bi-directional Parallel, USB 2.0
- TCP/IP
Elite Color 16 DNe - $2299 ( Order)http://ostermiller.org/bargraph.html
It is done using only HTML with CSS. There was some reason that the bars come down from the top rather than up from the bottom, but I don't remember what it is right now...
If you are really serious about free software. Then you will never use the LGPL.
This article shows how unlikely it would be for the SCO lawsuit (or its fallout) to cost a Linux using company any MONEY.
SCO is sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and the article puts it in perspective. The absolute worst that could happen to the average company that has used Linux is that they have to pay a small licensing fee to SCO for the prior use of SCO code. In actuality, SCO will stumble at some point in their crusade. If that scares a business away from Linux, that business needs to do a better job of risk management.
- If SCO doesn't own the copyrights that it claims --> Lawsuit fails
- If there isn't any infringing code in Linux --> Lawsuit fails
- If SCO can't prove that IBM put the code there --> Lawsuit fails
- If SCO can't convince a court that they were duped into distributing the infringing code under the GPL in their own Linux distribution --> Lawsuit fails
- If SCO can't convince a court that there should be monitary damages --> Lawsuit fails
So what if there is infringing SCO code in Linux and SCO manages to play the duped victim with their own distribution under GPL?There is no way to type in a new from address while composing. There is only a drop down list that has your accounts in it.
- Test Page
- Demo Page
- Menu Map
- Configuration Page
Watch out for full color pages or dark backgrounds.There are so many players in the inkjet printer space that they are sometimes shooting themselves in the foot by going with this model. No manufacturer can offer printers at cost now because nobody would pay $250 for an inkjet. But at the same time, they lose money like crazy on certain types of buyers. Business travelers often buy a cheap printer at their destination rather than pack one. Consumers often get a new printer with each new computer they buy because the added cost in negligible. There are so many used printers out there, that they often cannot be given away.
The industry itself would benifit from reform in this area. However, to make it happen, all manufacturers will have to charge more for printers and less for cartridges. If even one player sticks with the old model, that player will see all the gains.
The exception to this is famous marks. Marks that everybody knows and everybody associates with a specific company. Trademarks such as Pepsi, Levis, and McDonalds fall in this category. If you saw a new product under one of these names, you would automatically assume that the product came from the famous company, not from some new entity.
Is spam a famous mark? Yes. But it is also now a famous generic term for email. Hormel should be able to stop anybody from selling a food product under the mark of SPAM. But because spam for email is generic, they should not be able to stop a company against unsolited email from including the generic term for unsolited in their name. In this context it is very unlikely to cause any confusion. Nobody will think that A computer program that deletes unwanted email named SpamDoerAwayWith was made by the makers of the meat.
I am very sceptical of anonymous cowards posting that something will be modded down although it shouldn't be. I'm guessing that as often as not, it is the original poster trying a bit of reverse psychology.
My guess is that after some time period it is no longer considered news and a search there will not find it. Slashdot articles more than a couple weeks old won't show up.
While that may not be super expensive, it can add up.