I do. It keeps my kid (and therefore my wife) happy with Blues Clues:)
It's $10/month, where the Tivo is $13/month, and you don't have to buy it. It doesn't have all the Tivo functionality, and at least here there are some minor technical glitches, but it's ok.
Does the "DVR" give out a macrovision-esque signal that would keep me from archiving the shows I want to keep a tape of?
I don't know -- never thought of it.
I tend to doubt it though -- the standard cable box doesn't, does it? (not yet, anyways. Sounds like it's only a matter of time...)
I have two PVRs. One was provided by my cable company.
(It's a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 I think.)
I much prefer my Tivo, but the cable box/PVR is nice too (mostly because it's the cable box as well, and can record two things at once. And it has an 80GB drive, larger than the 20GB my Tivo came with (it has 60GB now.))
Still, I'm planning on switching to DTV soon -- I want two of the Tivos that go with DTV (they're sweet -- they record the mpeg stream directly, so the quality is exactly the same. And of course they can record two things at once, which the SAE 8000 can, but my Tivo cannot.) Anybody know of a good DTV deal that includes two or three DTV Tivos at a good price if I sign up for a year or so?
If you live in a city for instance, there are many who pass within a few yards of you each day who could give you a ride home, buy an item you're trying to sell, or consider you as dating material.
This is sort of what the Cybiko tried to do. Yes, it was marked at teenagers and not adults, but if somebody came near you with one who had programmed in similar interests, it would alert you...
What this article is proposing is basically just an extension of this...
Again, I'm thinking single-engine planes might not be a real comfortable place to be in that situation either....
Correct, but actually the odds of it (loss of an engine) turning into a fatal accident are higher for a twin-engine plane than for a single-engine plane. Here's a reference for you.
In a single engine plane, you're landing, one way or another, and if you're smart, you just land straight ahead, trees or not. That rarely kills you, but it does mess up the plane. (Turning around is often fatal unless you have a lot of speed or altitude.)
In a twin-engine plane, you apply full power to the other engine (during takeoff, it may already be at full power.) This creates a large yaw force that tends to cause the plane to roll, sometimes so much that it can't maintain altitude and it becomes a lawn dart. It can all happen very quickly, and you're probably not very high up, so you don't have much time to correct for it.
The pilot was taking off when the airplane became "disabled". Therefore no altitude to trade for airspeed = instant stall.
Planes don't just stop in mid-air. Even if the engine stopped during takeoff, you've still got all the momentum you've built up until then. As long as you immediately put your nose down and kept your airspeed above the stall speed, you could land the plane (assuming there's something to land on ahead of you. And yes, trees are usually softer than the ground.)
They do teach this stuff when you become a pilot. In fact, they go over it pretty carefully.
Problems happen when people try and turn around and land back on the runway (and don't have enough speed/altitude to do it.) Or when they don't put the nose down and then stall.
You'll need a certain amount of time to deploy the parachute too -- if you stall your plane at 50 feet, it's probably not going to save you.
If you are near VNE you don't need the parachute.
Of course not. Unless you just folded your wing by trying to pull a too high-G turn:)
I was talking about it accidently deploying at the time.
Without the aileron, the plane was mostly uncontrollable
If the aileron totally fell off the plane, I'd expect it to still be controllable (with a little work). But it sounds like (`partially detached') instead it sort of fell half way out and then hung there -- and if it jammed up or down, that could certainly screw you up -- you may start doing rolls and not be able to stop.
Glad to hear it didn't turn out bad. That would likely be a fatal crash.
If you lose your engine in a single engine plane, and you have somewhere reasonably flat to land, you're probably better of just making a normal (emergency, dead-stick) landing.
Even helicopters don't just `fall out of the sky' when the engine shuts off:)
Let's hope these things never deploy accidently. It would get really interesting really fast if one accidently deployed close to the ground (right after takeoff, or before a landing, for example), or while your plane was cruising at 180 mph...
(they must be strong enough to survive a deployment at Vne (Velocity to never exceed), but I can see where it could easily cause structural damage j
The math (100 terabytes, 150 computers, 4 drives per computer) works out to an average of 171 GB/drive. Of course, they said `over 100 TB' so it's actually higher than that.
Obviously they're using IDE drives. Modern ones. And they must have replaced almost everything at once -- there could a mixture of 200 GB and 120 GB drives, but it would have to be mostly 200 GB drives.
Pretty neat, but still doesn't hold a candle to google's massive setup:)
(google must have a *team* of people who's sole job is finding failed computers/drives and replacing them:)
It's a complex piece of software and though the documentation is very comprehensive, it helps to have a good reference work to hand.
Are you kidding? A sysadmin with some experience can successfully configure Tomcat without even really going through the documentation for the very first time in like an hour.
Compared to Weblogic and especially Websphere, it's so incredibly simple it's silly. (Websphere especially is a *nightmare* to install and configure.)
Last time I used Slackware (and yes, it was a long time ago -- it was a nice step up from SLS) it's installer used perl4, and it fit on a floppy. I don't think it was the full perl4 install, but it was enough and it worked well. Very well, actually.
perl5 won't fit on a floppy anymore. Yes, the main executable will --
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 797972 Feb 20 2002/usr/bin/perl
but all the modules won't, and perl isn't *nearly* as much fun without the modules. Yes, I guess you could still use perl4, but it's hard trying to write anything for perl4 now.
But if you do want your basic *nix utilities written in perl, search for `ppt perl power tools' and you'll find lots of them, already written for you. I wouldn't really call it a good way to save disk space, but I have found them useful in the past (mostly as examples, because I do most of my programming in perl.)
Putting an installer on a single floppy is hard. In fact, putting anything useful on a single floppy is hard (and kudos to those that have done so!) but I hope the floppy dies out soon. I hate floppies. Hate hate hate. Don't hold squat, and are so unreliable -- my daughter (age 1.5) takes a while to destroy a CD, but a floppy she ruins in 15 seconds flat:)
Yes, there are Audio CD-Rs and Data CD-Rs. Audio ones cost a lot more, because they have a bit set that lets them work in non-computer burners. (also, part of their cost goes to the recording industry, part of the
DAT TAX.) (Yes, I'm being US-Specific here.)
Every time I see somebody buying Audio CD-Rs, I ask them if they're going to burn them with a computer or a stereo component. They always say computer, and then I tell them to go buy the cheaper data CD-Rs, because they'll work too. And they usually thank me:)
In any event, assuming that every blank CD created is used to pirate their music is incredibly incorrect. 1) in the US, we can make copies of music that we have purchased, for our own use 2) people do record computer files on these as well and 3) people also record music that they've made on them. Some small bands even sell CD-Rs with their own music on them (it costs a lot of money to make CDs `professionally'.) (These people have had problems with selling them on Ebay, however -- Ebay assumes that if it's a CD-R, it must be pirated.)
Actually, Vignette recently announced that they acquired Epicentric.
Recently = approximately nine days ago.
Is that enough time to call something a subsidiary?:) (I wonder if the deal has even been completed yet. I know the paperwork has been signed, but things like that still tend to take time.)
Well.. my mail client pops up and asks me if I would like to send a return receipt to those who ask for it. So do most others, or they simply ignore it.
Most ignore it. Because they should.
Return-Receipt-To: was originally introduced for/by sendmail. sendmail stopped doing it, and so a few clients decided that they'd do it -- but only a few. You cannot rely on it for anything (not that you ever could.)
Problem is that CDR's are not as easy to write to as floppies. Yes, packet writing software can make it almost seem like a floppy, but there's still issues. Zip disks would be better, but they 're not perfect either (especially since they're not found on most PC's.)
For the classroom that was using Knoppix, the best bet is probably to have the students mount a NFS or SMB share, and put their programs there. Either that, ftp them to a file server, or upload them with a browser.
NFS isn't ideal, because every student has the same UID, and therefore could read what other students turned in. The best bet is probably to make a web page that requests your name and lets you upload (turn in) your program, and just hit it with Mozilla (already on Knoppix.)
Wouldn't the temporary files created by the compiler exceed 1.4 MB, the capacity of a "high-density" 3.5 inch floppy disk? Or is one of the objectives of the course to optimize a compilation job for minimal size of intermediate files and of executable files?
Knoppix (and later Redhat distributions, for that matter, don't know about other distributions) create a RAM disk equal to one half the size of your RAM. For Redhat, it's not used unless you explicitly use it (and the memory isn't actually used unless you put something on the RAM disk) but for Knoppix your/tmp and/etc directories are put into this RAM disk. So you have space for temporary files (plenty of space, if you have a decent amount of RAM.)
And what does the grader do when he or she receives a disk that has bad sectors on it? Floppies tend to develop them rather quickly.
Floppies suck. This is always a problem, not restricted to this one circumstance. Hopefully the students know to make more than one copy...
Email is unreliable? The email system in general is desgigned NOT to lose email.
And airplanes are designed not to crash. But it still happens...
Note that recent advances in spam fighting/filtering have greatly reduced the inherent reliability of the email system. It used to be that every box would happily relay your mail if it accidently ended up in the wrong place, for example. And nobody filtered their mail to/dev/null because it wasn't needed. And certainly people didn't hit `d' two hundred times in a row deleting spam.
And return-receipt-to is generally sent by the mail client.. not the daemon.
Incorrect.
Certainly, my mail client (mutt) doesn't send them out. And I don't want them sent out, certainly not without my knowledge. This would be great for spammers to verify addresses...
sendmail used to send them out, but there were security issues with that, and so it's been disabled by default. For many years now, it appears. But there was a time that they were sent out as soon as your message was received by the destination sendmail.
Here's a reference for you. Return-Receipt-To: was a sendmail thing, not in any RFC, except for RFC-1865 (which only mentions it in passing.)
She paid her bills on time, called when there was a problem. The ISP did absolutely everything wrong. Due to an error on their part, they cut her off, and it did not specify in their agreement what their policy is on non-payment.
Yes. They should refund her money for the period that her account was disabled. In the interests of good customer service, they should do even more than that -- give her a few months of free service , for example (except that she's no longer a customer, of course.)
And what was the chances of her actually getting the contract?
I see that she's suing for 2x that... sounds like a great deal -- sue for double what you might have gotten, 1/3rd goes to your lawyer, netting you more money ($87k) than you would have gotten in the first place (assuming that you even got the job!), and you don't have to even work for it!
Nice to know that the US isn't the only place that's sue-happy.
From the C/Net article --
... and adopt instead the practice of deflecting such e-mails back to the senders with notification to the effect that the messages could not be delivered.
If my mail is having a temporary problem, and it can be queued up for me until I can access it again, that's what I want -- I don't want it bouncing. Bouncing email is bad bad bad!
Are these people aware of what they're asking for?
The ISP's contract appears to be pretty clear -- they don't guarantee that everything will work all the time. Pretty standard, I think. It'll be interesting how this turns out (personally, I hope that this goes to court, and the woman loses.)
I wonder what the next step is -- suing your ISP because their spam filter blocked/flagged an email offering you a $65k job? Or even worse -- suing them because they didn't filter your spam for you, and so you accidently deleted the $65k job offer yourself, think it's spam.
People, email is unreliable (and so is postal mail, for that matter.) If you don't get an email (or postal mail receipt) back that acknowledges receipt of that mail (Return-Recept-To: doesn't quite cut it), or your friend doesn't call you and say `thanks!', you cannot be certain that it's been received. Period.
(Return-Receipt-To: isn't good enough because it's sent by the receiving mail daemon when the mail is received, not when the mail is actually read. After receipt, it could be lost to a disk failure, system problem, spam filter, or just accidently deleted.)
That assumes that he's flying at cruising speed for the entire tank of gas -- which he probably isn't doing. If he was, he'd want a small plane instead of a helicopter (cheaper, more efficient.) Still, that's awfully fuel efficient for a helicopter...
As for ultralights, they often use inefficient engines that pollute even more than a full sized car (like lawn-mower engines, which release all kinds of ozone for some reason. And most two-cycle (and some smaller four-cycle) engines spew oil out with their exhaust (but then again, the oil isn't that bad, especially if it's castor oil.))
You know what would REALLY make this `News for Nerds'? If he could somehow power the helicopter with solar power (and no, harvesting the solar power contained in petroleum products doesn't count:)
People have made solar powered airplanes, and solar powered R/C model planes can be bought online, but a helicopter would be even more challenging.:)
(you could use a solar panel to charge the battery of your electric R/C helicopter, but that's not the same...)
You know, every time I see that logo, I think of Arthur from The Tick.
(You can't see it in these pictures, but yes, he does have wings. Good pictures of him seem to be hard to find. images.google.com found a few, but none were really good...)
I've found that even today, typewriters are the best tools for filling out forms. Well, beyond writing it out by hand.
I've tried scanning forms, then editing the scanned files in various tools, but it never worked right.
They may be getting rid of some of those beasts, but the armed forces love forms, so they're going to still need typewriters:)
A friend of mine tells me that the army is trying to go paperless. They now get emailed publications and are specifically prohibited from printing them out -- and they're punished if caught printing them out. Ack!
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It's $10/month, where the Tivo is $13/month, and you don't have to buy it. It doesn't have all the Tivo functionality, and at least here there are some minor technical glitches, but it's ok.
I don't know -- never thought of it.I tend to doubt it though -- the standard cable box doesn't, does it? (not yet, anyways. Sounds like it's only a matter of time ...)
(It's a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 I think.)
I much prefer my Tivo, but the cable box/PVR is nice too (mostly because it's the cable box as well, and can record two things at once. And it has an 80GB drive, larger than the 20GB my Tivo came with (it has 60GB now.))
Still, I'm planning on switching to DTV soon -- I want two of the Tivos that go with DTV (they're sweet -- they record the mpeg stream directly, so the quality is exactly the same. And of course they can record two things at once, which the SAE 8000 can, but my Tivo cannot.) Anybody know of a good DTV deal that includes two or three DTV Tivos at a good price if I sign up for a year or so?
What this article is proposing is basically just an extension of this ...
He asked me for my name, address, zip code.
In a single engine plane, you're landing, one way or another, and if you're smart, you just land straight ahead, trees or not. That rarely kills you, but it does mess up the plane. (Turning around is often fatal unless you have a lot of speed or altitude.)
In a twin-engine plane, you apply full power to the other engine (during takeoff, it may already be at full power.) This creates a large yaw force that tends to cause the plane to roll, sometimes so much that it can't maintain altitude and it becomes a lawn dart. It can all happen very quickly, and you're probably not very high up, so you don't have much time to correct for it.
They do teach this stuff when you become a pilot. In fact, they go over it pretty carefully. Problems happen when people try and turn around and land back on the runway (and don't have enough speed/altitude to do it.) Or when they don't put the nose down and then stall.
You'll need a certain amount of time to deploy the parachute too -- if you stall your plane at 50 feet, it's probably not going to save you.
Of course not. Unless you just folded your wing by trying to pull a too high-G turnI was talking about it accidently deploying at the time.
In any event, sounds like a neat device.
Glad to hear it didn't turn out bad. That would likely be a fatal crash.
If you lose your engine in a single engine plane, and you have somewhere reasonably flat to land, you're probably better of just making a normal (emergency, dead-stick) landing.
Even helicopters don't just `fall out of the sky' when the engine shuts off :)
Let's hope these things never deploy accidently. It would get really interesting really fast if one accidently deployed close to the ground (right after takeoff, or before a landing, for example), or while your plane was cruising at 180 mph ...
(they must be strong enough to survive a deployment at Vne (Velocity to never exceed), but I can see where it could easily cause structural damage j
Obviously they're using IDE drives. Modern ones. And they must have replaced almost everything at once -- there could a mixture of 200 GB and 120 GB drives, but it would have to be mostly 200 GB drives.
Pretty neat, but still doesn't hold a candle to google's massive setup :)
(google must have a *team* of people who's sole job is finding failed computers/drives and replacing them :)
Compared to Weblogic and especially Websphere, it's so incredibly simple it's silly. (Websphere especially is a *nightmare* to install and configure.)
perl5 won't fit on a floppy anymore. Yes, the main executable will --
but all the modules won't, and perl isn't *nearly* as much fun without the modules. Yes, I guess you could still use perl4, but it's hard trying to write anything for perl4 now.But if you do want your basic *nix utilities written in perl, search for `ppt perl power tools' and you'll find lots of them, already written for you. I wouldn't really call it a good way to save disk space, but I have found them useful in the past (mostly as examples, because I do most of my programming in perl.)
Putting an installer on a single floppy is hard. In fact, putting anything useful on a single floppy is hard (and kudos to those that have done so!) but I hope the floppy dies out soon. I hate floppies. Hate hate hate. Don't hold squat, and are so unreliable -- my daughter (age 1.5) takes a while to destroy a CD, but a floppy she ruins in 15 seconds flat :)
Perhaps that's only in Germany or Europe?
Perhaps that's only Audio CD-Rs?
Yes, there are Audio CD-Rs and Data CD-Rs. Audio ones cost a lot more, because they have a bit set that lets them work in non-computer burners. (also, part of their cost goes to the recording industry, part of the DAT TAX.) (Yes, I'm being US-Specific here.)
Every time I see somebody buying Audio CD-Rs, I ask them if they're going to burn them with a computer or a stereo component. They always say computer, and then I tell them to go buy the cheaper data CD-Rs, because they'll work too. And they usually thank me :)
In any event, assuming that every blank CD created is used to pirate their music is incredibly incorrect. 1) in the US, we can make copies of music that we have purchased, for our own use 2) people do record computer files on these as well and 3) people also record music that they've made on them. Some small bands even sell CD-Rs with their own music on them (it costs a lot of money to make CDs `professionally'.) (These people have had problems with selling them on Ebay, however -- Ebay assumes that if it's a CD-R, it must be pirated.)
Recently = approximately nine days ago.
Is that enough time to call something a subsidiary? :) (I wonder if the deal has even been completed yet. I know the paperwork has been signed, but things like that still tend to take time.)
Humorix? Hello, McFly?
For the classroom that was using Knoppix, the best bet is probably to have the students mount a NFS or SMB share, and put their programs there. Either that, ftp them to a file server, or upload them with a browser.
NFS isn't ideal, because every student has the same UID, and therefore could read what other students turned in. The best bet is probably to make a web page that requests your name and lets you upload (turn in) your program, and just hit it with Mozilla (already on Knoppix.)
Knoppix, on the other hand, rocks.
Note that recent advances in spam fighting/filtering have greatly reduced the inherent reliability of the email system. It used to be that every box would happily relay your mail if it accidently ended up in the wrong place, for example. And nobody filtered their mail to /dev/null because it wasn't needed. And certainly people didn't hit `d' two hundred times in a row deleting spam.
Incorrect.Certainly, my mail client (mutt) doesn't send them out. And I don't want them sent out, certainly not without my knowledge. This would be great for spammers to verify addresses ...
sendmail used to send them out, but there were security issues with that, and so it's been disabled by default. For many years now, it appears. But there was a time that they were sent out as soon as your message was received by the destination sendmail.
Here's a reference for you. Return-Receipt-To: was a sendmail thing, not in any RFC, except for RFC-1865 (which only mentions it in passing.)
But no, they shouldn't give her $110k.
I see that she's suing for 2x that ... sounds like a great deal -- sue for double what you might have gotten, 1/3rd goes to your lawyer, netting you more money ($87k) than you would have gotten in the first place (assuming that you even got the job!), and you don't have to even work for it!
Nice to know that the US isn't the only place that's sue-happy.
From the C/Net article --
If my mail is having a temporary problem, and it can be queued up for me until I can access it again, that's what I want -- I don't want it bouncing. Bouncing email is bad bad bad!Are these people aware of what they're asking for?
The ISP's contract appears to be pretty clear -- they don't guarantee that everything will work all the time. Pretty standard, I think. It'll be interesting how this turns out (personally, I hope that this goes to court, and the woman loses.)
I wonder what the next step is -- suing your ISP because their spam filter blocked/flagged an email offering you a $65k job? Or even worse -- suing them because they didn't filter your spam for you, and so you accidently deleted the $65k job offer yourself, think it's spam.
People, email is unreliable (and so is postal mail, for that matter.) If you don't get an email (or postal mail receipt) back that acknowledges receipt of that mail (Return-Recept-To: doesn't quite cut it), or your friend doesn't call you and say `thanks!', you cannot be certain that it's been received. Period.
(Return-Receipt-To: isn't good enough because it's sent by the receiving mail daemon when the mail is received, not when the mail is actually read. After receipt, it could be lost to a disk failure, system problem, spam filter, or just accidently deleted.)
As for ultralights, they often use inefficient engines that pollute even more than a full sized car (like lawn-mower engines, which release all kinds of ozone for some reason. And most two-cycle (and some smaller four-cycle) engines spew oil out with their exhaust (but then again, the oil isn't that bad, especially if it's castor oil.))
You know what would REALLY make this `News for Nerds'? If he could somehow power the helicopter with solar power (and no, harvesting the solar power contained in petroleum products doesn't count :)
People have made solar powered airplanes, and solar powered R/C model planes can be bought online, but a helicopter would be even more challenging. :)
(you could use a solar panel to charge the battery of your electric R/C helicopter, but that's not the same ...)
(You can't see it in these pictures, but yes, he does have wings. Good pictures of him seem to be hard to find. images.google.com found a few, but none were really good ...)
I've tried scanning forms, then editing the scanned files in various tools, but it never worked right.
They may be getting rid of some of those beasts, but the armed forces love forms, so they're going to still need typewriters :)
A friend of mine tells me that the army is trying to go paperless. They now get emailed publications and are specifically prohibited from printing them out -- and they're punished if caught printing them out. Ack!
It's just that the lower bitrate will still get you good quality encoding, where before your quality went to hell as your bitrate went below 700 kbps.