I love my bluetooth phone, headset and other devices and use them all the time...
Features I love and use all the time
Answer calls with a bluetooth headset, even
when I cant find my phone.
Send SMS' using my pc,
Edit phone book entrys using my pc.
Backups of the phone book and sms' on my pc.
Dialing phone using my pc.
Using my phone as a remote control for the pc.
Problems:
Windows support is very laclusture.
Its confusing for newbies.
The protocols are extremely limited in certain cases, such as I cant use my PDA to dial my phone, and then transfer the call to my bluetooth headset. This would enable me to leave the phone permanantly in the bag, but bluetooth wont do it.
A mate used two stepper motors recovered from some old 3.5" floppy drives connected to a laser pointer to make his own pc programmed laser light shows. Worked reasonably well to most extents....
And what happens when you use the Java Update to update your JRE... Do all of these extension in the ext get copied across to the new JRE installation?
I dont know, I want the Evil Patent to destroy the Evil Company, but I want the Evil Company to destroy Evil Patents. Maybe I can hope for a matter-antimatter type relationship and they'll both disappear?
Also windows 95. In windows 3.1, the 486DX100 outperformed the pentium 60. But in windows 95, with multi-taskings, the pentium absolutely shat all over the 486.
Re:Same in UK and China. Any Franch/ USSR example?
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A friend of mine's grandfather was a photographer filming the nuclear testing at Maralinga in South Australia.
Basically he was told to point the camera at the test site and close his eyes for the flash.
What was done at these testings we now know to be attrocious. Planes were flying through nuclear clouds and after landing were scrubbed clean by soldiers wearing shorts and boots only. (The test were performed in desert like areas.)
Hundreds of officers were ordered to stand there and watch the nuclear blasts.
Nuclear clouds floated over and settled on the nearby major city (Adelaide pop of 800,000 or so at the time.).
Civilians were held on an oval 40 kilometers from the test site.
"When they went off there would be this almighty flash which could blind you and it was like a hot towel was being put on the back of your neck.
"After that we were actually told it was all right to turn around to look at them. The last one was hotter than the other two, that's how close we were."
Soon after the explosions, the Maralinga Village was hit by strong wind gusts which coated buildings and equipment with contaminated radioactive dust.
Soldiers toured the local test sites within hours of testing.
Unfortunately at the time very little was known about the dangers. Hence why they were testing. even after almost 50 years the sites have been through a complete cleanup (in the last 10 years) but are still radioactive.
Residents would picnic and visit the areas to watch the nuclear testing.
My friend's grandfather died of cancer. So did many who were at the testing with him. They were exposed to nuclear blasts with out any protections. The worst part is that both the British and Austrlian Governments refuse to have any inquiries into what our Nuclear Veterans suffered, nor will they offer any compensation those those or their families who suffered directly from Nuclear Testing.
Australian Fords are even worse now. The Ford Radio is inbuilt into the dash and facia, non-removable, no longer is a din standard size and in upper market models, also controls the demisters and climate control. That radio is staying there.
The could make that as part of the conditions of hiring a booth at the expo. So yes, they can. They couldnt stop you from standing outside and running a wireless network form there though.
If one of those users wanted "complete control" of the computer - all they have to do is reboot the computer with an OS on a bootable CD (Knoppix, Gnoppix, etc).
No, in 95/98, all they needed to do was click escape at the login box.
Use it as a sales opportunity. I know that this will almost be counted as spam, but your callers are sitting on hold, you have the opportunity to promote your services. Have some background music and a comfortable voice explaining some of the services you provide that might be useful to the callers on hold.
Playing the radio can be bad, while waiting on hold, what if they hear an ad for a competitor?
They will judge your company by what music they hear. Theres a reflex ad going on at the moment where a boardroom full of execs on speaker phone gets put on hold to the heaviest music you ever heard crackling through a phone line. Remember, phone lines arent designed for music, and it wont always come out the other end the best
Also, you must ask, do you have a LICENSE to broadcast that music?? In Australia, the aussie version of the RIAA (ARIA) has on-hold licenses you must purchase for the playing of licensed music. I assume the US would probably be the same.
Maybe get a professional company to do it for you. Someone with the recording talent and licensed music to avoid the licensing costs and problems. These guys know what they are doing: http://www.infotec.com.au/infoonhold/
Wait till the spammers decide to spam your whole domain. They can start with aaaaaaaa@yourdomain.com and keep going till they get to zzzzzzzz@yourdomain.com, and your mailserver will accept and pass on every single one of these emails.
I would recommend not using a catch all account, but if you have the domain, create, delete and rename email accounts as you need to...
Well Metallica did it successfully. Thats why we got stuck with Load and Re-load. They were just doing it half arsed to fulfill the contract with crap.
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Features I love and use all the time
Answer calls with a bluetooth headset, even
when I cant find my phone.
Send SMS' using my pc,
Edit phone book entrys using my pc.
Backups of the phone book and sms' on my pc.
Dialing phone using my pc.
Using my phone as a remote control for the pc.
Problems:
Windows support is very laclusture.
Its confusing for newbies.
The protocols are extremely limited in certain cases, such as I cant use my PDA to dial my phone, and then transfer the call to my bluetooth headset. This would enable me to leave the phone permanantly in the bag, but bluetooth wont do it.
And what happens when you use the Java Update to update your JRE... Do all of these extension in the ext get copied across to the new JRE installation?
Apache Commons has been closed. Nothing lives there now.
2. Most when broken into will release a staining ink which will ruin the contents of the machine.
3. Its very likely that someone will notice you putting an atm onto the back of a truck.
Also windows 95. In windows 3.1, the 486DX100 outperformed the pentium 60. But in windows 95, with multi-taskings, the pentium absolutely shat all over the 486.
Basically he was told to point the camera at the test site and close his eyes for the flash.
What was done at these testings we now know to be attrocious. Planes were flying through nuclear clouds and after landing were scrubbed clean by soldiers wearing shorts and boots only. (The test were performed in desert like areas.) Hundreds of officers were ordered to stand there and watch the nuclear blasts. Nuclear clouds floated over and settled on the nearby major city (Adelaide pop of 800,000 or so at the time.).
Civilians were held on an oval 40 kilometers from the test site.
"When they went off there would be this almighty flash which could blind you and it was like a hot towel was being put on the back of your neck.
"After that we were actually told it was all right to turn around to look at them. The last one was hotter than the other two, that's how close we were."
Soon after the explosions, the Maralinga Village was hit by strong wind gusts which coated buildings and equipment with contaminated radioactive dust.
Soldiers toured the local test sites within hours of testing.
Unfortunately at the time very little was known about the dangers. Hence why they were testing. even after almost 50 years the sites have been through a complete cleanup (in the last 10 years) but are still radioactive.
Residents would picnic and visit the areas to watch the nuclear testing.
My friend's grandfather died of cancer. So did many who were at the testing with him. They were exposed to nuclear blasts with out any protections. The worst part is that both the British and Austrlian Governments refuse to have any inquiries into what our Nuclear Veterans suffered, nor will they offer any compensation those those or their families who suffered directly from Nuclear Testing.
Thats a bit harsh, making him play 3 hours of soccer?
No, in 95/98, all they needed to do was click escape at the login box.
I dont know about you, but airport security had a problem when I tried stuffing a litre bottle of rum down my pants.
Playing the radio can be bad, while waiting on hold, what if they hear an ad for a competitor?
They will judge your company by what music they hear. Theres a reflex ad going on at the moment where a boardroom full of execs on speaker phone gets put on hold to the heaviest music you ever heard crackling through a phone line. Remember, phone lines arent designed for music, and it wont always come out the other end the best
Also, you must ask, do you have a LICENSE to broadcast that music?? In Australia, the aussie version of the RIAA (ARIA) has on-hold licenses you must purchase for the playing of licensed music. I assume the US would probably be the same.
Maybe get a professional company to do it for you. Someone with the recording talent and licensed music to avoid the licensing costs and problems. These guys know what they are doing: http://www.infotec.com.au/infoonhold/
I would recommend not using a catch all account, but if you have the domain, create, delete and rename email accounts as you need to...
Nobody would be blaming Windows if an administrator screwed up. Welcome, you must be new here. Of course we would.