According to Intel, the screen resolution is 800x400. This pales compared to the OLPC's 1200x900 resolution. 800x400 seems barely usable. Additionally, Intel shows students straining to read the screen.
For some reason I actually paid for an extended warranty on the Vaio I bought at Bestbuy. Strangely enough, I got some value out of it...
They replaced a DVD writer that failed, and a keyboard (the P fell off while I was typing). My biggest complaint was that when I picked up my laptop, I needed to wait for about 40 minutes. No geeks were in sight most of that time.
I don't think that the spammers realize that a domain is read by only one person. Frequently, if they know that billg@microsoft.com is a possibly email address, then they will send spam to billg@microsoft,com, and replace billg with plenty of other common names, such as dave@microsoft.com, bill@microsoft.com, etc.
My email addresses also have a catch all. At one point I needed to implement a filter to ignore lots of common names (ie., tom, dick, and harry).
I have received lots of bounces to email that purports to come from my email account but doesn't. There is nothing you can do about it. A common spam technique is to have the from address be a valid address - of someone else.
There are currently not that many other components to get sucked in. Here is a list off the top of my head:
Network processor
Sound
Video input processor
USB (or whatever equivalent but newer technology)
Disk controller
Memory
Gee, most of the servers I use don't have a video card. Some of the servers have serial ports. Others talk over a proprietary fabric - and pretend to have a serial connection (and maybe even VGA). I don't need to walk into the lab to get to the server's virtual consoles.
Coming to think of it, the way we have things set up, the console is inaccessible from the lab - but accessible via terminal concentrators - over the lan.
Cingular decided to raise rates on my phone by $5/month because it was a TDMA phone. I decided to look at my options.
Most months I talk on my cell phone for about 12 minutes.
For less than $100 I could get a phone for a prepaid plan. If I only buy the minimum number of minutes to keep my phone number, Cingular and T-Mobile both charge $100/year. For this, on Cingular you get about 400 minutes/year; on T-Mobile you get at least 1000 minutes per year.
I tried both, and settled on Cingular - as I get better reception in my neighborhood. Overall, I was happier with T-mobile's attitude.
Total cost: $30 for phone - including 40 minutes for a month, and $100/year after that.
Previous rate: $30/month.
I found that by switching to a prepaid plan, my rate is effectively $8.33/month.
The stigma of meeting people online comes from the few nut cases and preditors out there. On the Net, it is difficult to tell anything about the entities with whom you communicate. Is the entity who he says s/he is, is it really a bot, a 13-year old boy pretending to be a 25 year old girl, a sexual preditor pretending to be a 16 year old boy?
That being said, I do know people who have developed long term real-life relationships with people they met on the Net. My sister met the man whom whe married on Bitnet. When they met, she made sure it was in a public location.
I googled for redacted doctuments, chose some pdfs at random, and found that the text is behind the black bars.
When I started searching, I googled for redact. There were two ads for products that remove the text from the pdf as well as create the black bar. One made it clear that the text would be inaccessible from hackers.
So, why aren't these types of tools being used for all redactions?
My first computer was one of the original Compaq "portable computers". If I remember correctly, it weighed about 34 lbs. That was before the day of laptops. I probably moved it more than my current laptops. I lugged it between college and home - a trip that included commuter rail, subway, shuttle bus, airplane, express bus, another commuter train, and several long walks -- along with a clothing bag and numerous books.
Usually, sectors are a power of two, but not always.
In my first real job, I worked for Prime Computer. They stored a bit of data along with each filesystem 512 byte block. If I remember correctly, they stored a forward and a backward link. If the filesystem was corrupted, they could restore many of the files because of the links in the data portion of the disk. This led to 528 byte sectors (if I remember correctly).
Having a weird sector size limited the manufacturers who would supply disks.
This decision also made file deletion slow -- as every block of a file was re-written.
The filesystem supported Several file-organization types. The two most prevelant were sequential access and dynamic access. Sequentlial access files had a pointer from the directory to the file. The file had forward and backward links at the head of each block. To read the 300th block, it would be necessary to read the first 299 blocks before reading the 300th block. To erase the file, each block would need to be read (to obtain the forward link to the next block), and then written.
Dynamic access files would have a table of pointers to disk block - residing in the first blocks of the file. Normal reads wouldn't see the data in the first block directly.
Amazing what cruft sits in my brain after over a decade.
"When I bought my copy, I had a child in Kindergarten. A year later, and he still hasn't used Office -- but my wife and I did."
Since you didn't fulfill any of the items in the criteria I don't see why you just didn't find a pirated copy and use that? I mean if you are not going to obey the license they why bother paying 125 in the first place?
But I did fulfill the criteria of the license. The criteria is that I have a child in school (K-12, and beyond). It is perfectly acceptable to install all three on machines that my son is not using.
The definition of commercial is a bit ambiguous, but I believe that I fulfill that requirement as well.
Microsoft stresses that this version of their Office 2003 is only for non-commercial use. You qualify for this edition so long as you are 1) a full- or part-time student enrolled in a K-12 institution, 2) home-schooled, 3) taking at least 6 credits at an accredited college/university, or 4) a full- or part-time faculty member and work 20+ hours at a school.
When I bought my copy, I had a child in Kindergarten. A year later, and he still hasn't used Office -- but my wife and I did.
Sorry for that advertisement for M$ products.
Oh yeah, I frequently use Open Office -- which is free, does a great job most of the time, and runs on almost everything.
According to the blog where the
ekiga name change was announced,
When communicating using drums, the sender will identify himself at the start of the transmission with the specific notes corresponding to his personal moto, and those of the other correspondant in order to draw his attention. This technic is also used in another communication language, without drums, called Ekiga, which consists in reproducing the notes, without words, emitting the syllable "ke" in a falsetto voice, and repeating it with the corresponding tones.
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I hope that his next girlfriend has a better name. Maybe something like gvideoconference.
The problem with the suggested water filtration method is that there are quite a few parts that could break. It is designed for a community, not a single family.
A more effective method for develping (or undeveloped) regions is Slow sand filtration. It may be used on a small scale -- even as small as one family. It can be implemented with a concrete basin filled with sand. The maintenance costs are minimal. It is simple to run. There is next to nothing to break.
I have an old Minolta SLR camera. It is roughly as old as me (well, it could conceivably be older, I don't really know). All the important controls are manual -- focus, aperature, speed. It takes great pictures. Much better than my wife's auto-everything camera. Not that I have a flash.... but who needs a flash when you can brace the camera against a wall or a knee and take really long exposures?
Upon first hearing the news that Minolta was getting out of the camera business, I thought, time to upgrade.
On the other hand, the only thing I buy for this camera is film.
My one complaint is its size. I guess you can't get everything.
Well now that you mention it, I occasionally need to run IE at work. Instead of booting into Windows, I run IE using Wine under Fedora Core 4.
I wish I could say it worked great. It doesn't. But it works well enough that I can modify server side rule in exchange by using the Web interface. Yes, the web interface works in non-ie browsers, but doesn't handle enhanced mode -- so you can't do things like make rules. And, evolution doesn't implement exchange server side rules.
I also need to use ie to enter my vacation time. Sigh.
IE works under wine. Most of the functionality works. Occasionally something doesn't. The window flashes a lot. It does crash regularly.
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I like how it is listed under the category "Cell phone->No service"
Which would you rather use?
For some reason I actually paid for an extended warranty on the Vaio I bought at Bestbuy. Strangely enough, I got some value out of it...
They replaced a DVD writer that failed, and a keyboard (the P fell off while I was typing). My biggest complaint was that when I picked up my laptop, I needed to wait for about 40 minutes. No geeks were in sight most of that time.
Lubricating the tubes with flat water really sped them up.
I don't think that the spammers realize that a domain is read by only one person. Frequently, if they know that billg@microsoft.com is a possibly email address, then they will send spam to billg@microsoft,com, and replace billg with plenty of other common names, such as dave@microsoft.com, bill@microsoft.com, etc.
My email addresses also have a catch all. At one point I needed to implement a filter to ignore lots of common names (ie., tom, dick, and harry).
I have received lots of bounces to email that purports to come from my email account but doesn't. There is nothing you can do about it. A common spam technique is to have the from address be a valid address - of someone else.
Good luck.
There are currently not that many other components to get sucked in. Here is a list off the top of my head:
Network processor
Sound
Video input processor
USB (or whatever equivalent but newer technology)
Disk controller
Memory
Gee, most of the servers I use don't have a video card. Some of the servers have serial ports. Others talk over a proprietary fabric - and pretend to have a serial connection (and maybe even VGA). I don't need to walk into the lab to get to the server's virtual consoles.
Coming to think of it, the way we have things set up, the console is inaccessible from the lab - but accessible via terminal concentrators - over the lan.
And googlewhack had a 33% acuracy. I tried my questions in the form:
"vote yes on question 1" 2006 massachusetts
as here in Massachusetts, that is how we refer to ballot initiatives.
Cingular decided to raise rates on my phone by $5/month because it was a TDMA phone. I decided to look at my options.
Most months I talk on my cell phone for about 12 minutes.
For less than $100 I could get a phone for a prepaid plan. If I only buy the minimum number of minutes to keep my phone number, Cingular and T-Mobile both charge $100/year. For this, on Cingular you get about 400 minutes/year; on T-Mobile you get at least 1000 minutes per year.
I tried both, and settled on Cingular - as I get better reception in my neighborhood. Overall, I was happier with T-mobile's attitude.
Total cost: $30 for phone - including 40 minutes for a month, and $100/year after that.
Previous rate: $30/month.
I found that by switching to a prepaid plan, my rate is effectively $8.33/month.
Go figure.
Hmm... this sounds too much like a commercial.
The stigma of meeting people online comes from the few nut cases and preditors out there. On the Net, it is difficult to tell anything about the entities with whom you communicate. Is the entity who he says s/he is, is it really a bot, a 13-year old boy pretending to be a 25 year old girl, a sexual preditor pretending to be a 16 year old boy?
That being said, I do know people who have developed long term real-life relationships with people they met on the Net. My sister met the man whom whe married on Bitnet. When they met, she made sure it was in a public location.
What's that got to do with being a Pirate?
I googled for redacted doctuments, chose some pdfs at random, and found that the text is behind the black bars.
When I started searching, I googled for redact. There were two ads for products that remove the text from the pdf as well as create the black bar. One made it clear that the text would be inaccessible from hackers.
So, why aren't these types of tools being used for all redactions?
My first computer was one of the original Compaq "portable computers". If I remember correctly, it weighed about 34 lbs. That was before the day of laptops. I probably moved it more than my current laptops. I lugged it between college and home - a trip that included commuter rail, subway, shuttle bus, airplane, express bus, another commuter train, and several long walks -- along with a clothing bag and numerous books.
Hmm.... Maybe I was nuts.
The joys of OSS.
In my first real job, I worked for Prime Computer. They stored a bit of data along with each filesystem 512 byte block. If I remember correctly, they stored a forward and a backward link. If the filesystem was corrupted, they could restore many of the files because of the links in the data portion of the disk. This led to 528 byte sectors (if I remember correctly).
Having a weird sector size limited the manufacturers who would supply disks.
This decision also made file deletion slow -- as every block of a file was re-written.
The filesystem supported Several file-organization types. The two most prevelant were sequential access and dynamic access. Sequentlial access files had a pointer from the directory to the file. The file had forward and backward links at the head of each block. To read the 300th block, it would be necessary to read the first 299 blocks before reading the 300th block. To erase the file, each block would need to be read (to obtain the forward link to the next block), and then written.
Dynamic access files would have a table of pointers to disk block - residing in the first blocks of the file. Normal reads wouldn't see the data in the first block directly.
Amazing what cruft sits in my brain after over a decade.
Some day, after lots of hard work, they may be able to pass the Turing Test.
The definition of commercial is a bit ambiguous, but I believe that I fulfill that requirement as well.
Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003 costs about $125, and can be run on three different computers.
Microsoft stresses that this version of their Office 2003 is only for non-commercial use. You qualify for this edition so long as you are 1) a full- or part-time student enrolled in a K-12 institution, 2) home-schooled, 3) taking at least 6 credits at an accredited college/university, or 4) a full- or part-time faculty member and work 20+ hours at a school.
When I bought my copy, I had a child in Kindergarten. A year later, and he still hasn't used Office -- but my wife and I did.
Sorry for that advertisement for M$ products.
Oh yeah, I frequently use Open Office -- which is free, does a great job most of the time, and runs on almost everything.
I hope that his next girlfriend has a better name. Maybe something like gvideoconference.
A more effective method for develping (or undeveloped) regions is Slow sand filtration. It may be used on a small scale -- even as small as one family. It can be implemented with a concrete basin filled with sand. The maintenance costs are minimal. It is simple to run. There is next to nothing to break.
This week, Gmail has been extremely slow for me. I switched to html-only mode to speed it up a bit, but it is still slow.
I have an old Minolta SLR camera. It is roughly as old as me (well, it could conceivably be older, I don't really know). All the important controls are manual -- focus, aperature, speed. It takes great pictures. Much better than my wife's auto-everything camera. Not that I have a flash.... but who needs a flash when you can brace the camera against a wall or a knee and take really long exposures?
Upon first hearing the news that Minolta was getting out of the camera business, I thought, time to upgrade.
On the other hand, the only thing I buy for this camera is film.
My one complaint is its size. I guess you can't get everything.
YMMV
Well now that you mention it, I occasionally need to run IE at work. Instead of booting into Windows, I run IE using Wine under Fedora Core 4.
I wish I could say it worked great. It doesn't. But it works well enough that I can modify server side rule in exchange by using the Web interface. Yes, the web interface works in non-ie browsers, but doesn't handle enhanced mode -- so you can't do things like make rules. And, evolution doesn't implement exchange server side rules.
I also need to use ie to enter my vacation time. Sigh.
IE works under wine. Most of the functionality works. Occasionally something doesn't. The window flashes a lot. It does crash regularly.