my experience was similar to yours. i ran setup and noticed the incorrect version right away. i also installed over the the older.8 version. install was fine, but when firefox was opened, some pages loaded slowly, some appeared to freeze the machine, including slashdot (ironic, since that where i learned about firefox in the first place).
help...about reports it as version as.8+ or something like that, so another inconsistency with the version numbering. and, i agree, the theme is lame.
i uninstalled the whole thing and went back to.8, and everything seems back to normal.
myself, i am going to skip this version and wait for the final release.
i have a fujitsu scanpartner fi-4120c desktop scanner. only offers a page feeder, though, no scan bed, so you will need everything to be loose pages.
very fast, and will do both sides in one pass, if you are working with double-sided pages. at 200x200 resolution (you might need higher, ymmv) and scanning double sided pages, i get something like 3 seconds per page (counting one double-sided page as two pages). for software i am just using the included scanner driver and twain software and adobe acrobat.
cdw has it here, i'm sure it can be had for cheaper. i got mine for $800 i think. a little more expensive, but the speed is well worth it in time savings.
look, if you have any more than a few hundred disks total, do what others are recommending and find some sort of hard drive storage system: raid, a couple of external usb drives, whatever.
but, even though i have cd and dvd burners in my computers, it is really quite useful to have a cheap, single disk duplicator handy. i have one i bought a few years back, at a target store (a discount store), no less.
something like this. that's ony $150, similar to what i paid. its very useful to not have to tie up my machine when i'm running some quick copies.
and, they are so dead-simple to use, your non-computer literate friends and family can do it themselves. for example, my mom can't use a computer to save her life, but she owns a single disk duplicator and can use it without my help.
my wife is the same way. she chucks the "news" (which is old, anyway, by the time it gets printed in dead-tree form).
she then uses the grocery game to maximize the savings. seems to work great if you don't mind buying some products in bulk.
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with kismet, you will be able to see the valid mac addresses being used on the network, without being connected to it. from their homepage:
"Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic."
then use something like macchanger, and you're in!
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while i will agree that wep is less secure, i found these comments to be very interesting. if you are up to date on firmware patches, wep might be enough for you.
if you are trying to protect missile launch codes, i might look elsewhere, but for day-to-day crap...
So you pump the substance in a liquid state over the processor, the heat boils it and it turns to a gas, taking much of the heat along with it. The gas passes through a small turbine, which generates electricity to power a peltier cooler, attached to a condensing tank. That cools the gas down to liquid state again, and the liquid is fed back into the system.
hell, why hook up a peltier? power the cpu itself, off its own waste heat output! think of the run-time for your new "perpetual motion powered" laptop!
now, the only question is how do i turn it on with no heat source in the first place... hmm..
or, try one of these icelink units. very cool. keep your stock head unit and your optional steering wheel controls. they also sell mounting brackets that require no drilling into the car. nice if you are leasing...
i live in a tightly populated suburban area and i can see 8 or 10 APs immeditately around my home using simple tools like netstumbler. this doesn't count APs that don't announce their SSID, as well as who-knows-how-many 2.4ghz cordless phones.
my 2.4ghz cordless phones get interference all the time from what i can only assume are everyone elses APs and phones around me.
simultaneous multiple channel use is a bad idea, unless you are out-of-range of others...
The Audi A4 1.8T is in a similar situation, where a chipped car will be significantly faster than it was from the factory, with no real decrease in engine life or reliability. The factories are leaving a lot on the table because they have to deal with a wide range of horrible fuels, awful drivers, and insurance companies.
not to mention that they "down-tune" the same engines for cheaper models in the lineup, so the cheaper cars don't compete with the more expensive models.
the vw/audi 1.8t engine mentioned above is supplied as an engine option for the vw beetle, jetta, and passat, as well as the audi a4 and tt. the horsepower output of these cars has ranged from 150 to 225 across the models with essentially the same engine.
the power output is basically "turned down" on the cheaper models as an approach to marketing. if i can regain the lost power with a simple software upgrade, more power to me! (pun intended!)
"What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you?" he asked. "That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read."
wasn't this one of the promises of the web? is "narrowcasting" in print form really economically feasible?
actually, if you read the pdf data sheet, you will see that the usb drive portion of the unit is removable, so you can replace it with a higher capacity version later on.
"Lunokhod-2 had 3 low-rate TV cameras and 4 panoramic cameras. TV cameras could work at different frame rates: 3.2, 5.7, 10.9 and 21.1 seconds per frame (not frames per second)."
Slashdot Mirror
my experience was similar to yours. i ran setup and noticed the incorrect version right away. i also installed over the the older .8 version. install was fine, but when firefox was opened, some pages loaded slowly, some appeared to freeze the machine, including slashdot (ironic, since that where i learned about firefox in the first place).
.8+ or something like that, so another inconsistency with the version numbering. and, i agree, the theme is lame.
.8, and everything seems back to normal.
help...about reports it as version as
i uninstalled the whole thing and went back to
myself, i am going to skip this version and wait for the final release.
one of the pictures on the site calls it "wifry" :-)
karma whoring clickable link
i have a fujitsu scanpartner fi-4120c desktop scanner. only offers a page feeder, though, no scan bed, so you will need everything to be loose pages.
very fast, and will do both sides in one pass, if you are working with double-sided pages. at 200x200 resolution (you might need higher, ymmv) and scanning double sided pages, i get something like 3 seconds per page (counting one double-sided page as two pages). for software i am just using the included scanner driver and twain software and adobe acrobat.
cdw has it here, i'm sure it can be had for cheaper. i got mine for $800 i think. a little more expensive, but the speed is well worth it in time savings.
look, if you have any more than a few hundred disks total, do what others are recommending and find some sort of hard drive storage system: raid, a couple of external usb drives, whatever.
but, even though i have cd and dvd burners in my computers, it is really quite useful to have a cheap, single disk duplicator handy. i have one i bought a few years back, at a target store (a discount store), no less.
something like this. that's ony $150, similar to what i paid. its very useful to not have to tie up my machine when i'm running some quick copies.
and, they are so dead-simple to use, your non-computer literate friends and family can do it themselves. for example, my mom can't use a computer to save her life, but she owns a single disk duplicator and can use it without my help.
my wife is the same way. she chucks the "news" (which is old, anyway, by the time it gets printed in dead-tree form).
she then uses the grocery game to maximize the savings. seems to work great if you don't mind buying some products in bulk.
with kismet, you will be able to see the valid mac addresses being used on the network, without being connected to it. from their homepage:
"Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic."
then use something like macchanger, and you're in!
while i will agree that wep is less secure, i found these comments to be very interesting. if you are up to date on firmware patches, wep might be enough for you.
if you are trying to protect missile launch codes, i might look elsewhere, but for day-to-day crap...
lol, i agree, that's the funniest comment here! i just about fell off my chair...
So you pump the substance in a liquid state over the processor, the heat boils it and it turns to a gas, taking much of the heat along with it. The gas passes through a small turbine, which generates electricity to power a peltier cooler, attached to a condensing tank. That cools the gas down to liquid state again, and the liquid is fed back into the system.
hell, why hook up a peltier? power the cpu itself, off its own waste heat output! think of the run-time for your new "perpetual motion powered" laptop!
now, the only question is how do i turn it on with no heat source in the first place... hmm..
this was recently the subject of a funny april fool's joke.
well, if cost was no object, there is a phatbox with wi-fi coming sometime...
or, try one of these icelink units. very cool. keep your stock head unit and your optional steering wheel controls. they also sell mounting brackets that require no drilling into the car. nice if you are leasing...
if they maintain the "constitutionally-protected right" to advertise, then i maintain the right to bear arms against fools like this...
you are assuming that i got my phone after they got their APs. :-)
mod up the parent. this is a big problem.
i live in a tightly populated suburban area and i can see 8 or 10 APs immeditately around my home using simple tools like netstumbler. this doesn't count APs that don't announce their SSID, as well as who-knows-how-many 2.4ghz cordless phones.
my 2.4ghz cordless phones get interference all the time from what i can only assume are everyone elses APs and phones around me.
simultaneous multiple channel use is a bad idea, unless you are out-of-range of others...
Surely nobody will enter an admin password requested by an ".mp3" file.
:-)
you must not have met the users on my network.
The Audi A4 1.8T is in a similar situation, where a chipped car will be significantly faster than it was from the factory, with no real decrease in engine life or reliability. The factories are leaving a lot on the table because they have to deal with a wide range of horrible fuels, awful drivers, and insurance companies.
not to mention that they "down-tune" the same engines for cheaper models in the lineup, so the cheaper cars don't compete with the more expensive models.
the vw/audi 1.8t engine mentioned above is supplied as an engine option for the vw beetle, jetta, and passat, as well as the audi a4 and tt. the horsepower output of these cars has ranged from 150 to 225 across the models with essentially the same engine.
the power output is basically "turned down" on the cheaper models as an approach to marketing. if i can regain the lost power with a simple software upgrade, more power to me! (pun intended!)
They have internet access in hell?
Yes, AOL.
and, its on 28.8 dialup to boot!
from the article:
"What if you received a magazine that only had stories and ads that you were interested in and pertained to you?" he asked. "That would be a magazine that everyone would want to read."
wasn't this one of the promises of the web? is "narrowcasting" in print form really economically feasible?
We may well see an attack that wipes out most of the Internet-connected Windows machines in the world in a single day.
:-)
oh man, we can only hope.
(seriously, parent is good post, mod up.)
The fact that they found it means it's already in the wild as someone has had to analize it...
heehee, bend over, here comes a new virus!
boradband?
actually, if you read the pdf data sheet, you will see that the usb drive portion of the unit is removable, so you can replace it with a higher capacity version later on.
so, yes, the device is detachable.
from this page:
"Lunokhod-2 had 3 low-rate TV cameras and 4 panoramic cameras. TV cameras could work at different frame rates: 3.2, 5.7, 10.9 and 21.1 seconds per frame (not frames per second)."
talk about slo-mo...