I don't understand why companies and individuals with a "brand" are so willing to put that brand behind Facebook's. E.g. webcomic artists who say, "see this Facebook exclusive comic", or companies that have Facebook exclusive deals.
Not to mention they alienate themselves from fans/customers that don't use Facebook. Telling me I have to go to Facebook for this or that isn't going to make me get a Facebook account if I don't have one already.
Anyone who doesn't lose their head when they go off will be rendered unable to reproduce instead, allowing for a steady decline in the population. To deal with the labor shortfall, the commercial sector will increase demand for robotic replacements...
I know from personal experience that they generally are not good, and are more work than just telling the user how to access the web-based admin interface. Is there any reason this easy setup wizard couldn't be just part of the web admin? Nope.
Forget the platform restrictions. Since when does one need to "install" a piece of hardware that's supposed to function independently of a computer.
Anytime I see instructions saying I need to install software for a router to work I mentally add "so we can install our spyware on your computer" to the step.
Dude, Sony discontinued this product 7 years ago. I'm sure you've gotten your money's worth out of it.
Why should the functionality be limited by an arbitrary corporate decision and a bit of code? If it fails for a hardware reason, it used to be you could continue to get it repaired for a fee as long as the parts were available.
Having something become junk for a reason that could easily be fixed like this simply creates unnecessary e-waste. Where's Greenpeace now?
My daughter got a Toshiba laptop as a graduation gift from her grandparents, and a few months into her ownership the keyboard died completely. Toshiba would not allow the device to be returned for repair/replacement under their warranty without first paying a phone "technician" $49 for a "repair consultation".
Do you know how often people call their router support line claiming their wireless is no longer working, when the issue is the laptop's Wi-Fi switch is simply not turned on? The repair consultation charge is the Stupid User tax, as most issues that can be resolved over the phone could probably have been resolved by the user on their own if they had RTFM or used available online troubleshooting information. If you were really confident the issue was a hardware defect that required actual repair, the phone support charge shouldn't have phased you (once you knew it was refundable).
The "tech" was a completely clueless English-as-a-second-language phone center guy. They offered to "refund" the $49 if their phone service did not help (hint - their phone procedures were useless with a broken keyboard). They then offered a $29 box to use to send them the laptop for repair/replacement. This company is pure garbage - they want $78 to replace a laptop keyboard that probably costs $5 or less.
1. How is the repair cost $78 when they refunded the $49 phone support charge? 2. The keyboard part cost is a red herring. The $29 box includes the shipping and insurance for your device. Most manufacturers ask you to ship the device to you at your own expense insured as well. And you aren't taking into account the cost of a technician sitting there and dissembling the laptop to replace the part.
Call up your provider and tell them to give you a box with IEEE-1394 access to an unencrypted feed.
You think that will seriously work? The tier 1 and 2 reps aren't in a position to do anything about this. Most know nothing about the government mandates that apply to the company they work for. They only know what their supervisors tell them. And between the government and the people who sign their paychecks, who do you think they're going to listen to?
A law is only a law if someone enforces it.
Until someone actually takes he cablecos to court for this, they will continue to not offer these boxes.
Do you have a source for that? And I mean a real technical authority. Not what some guy said on a random web forum.
The only info I'm seeing from checking some results on Google says there is a minimum for half-duplex GigE connections, related to preventing false positives on collision detection, and possible minimums for PoE connections. And other results were people are making unsourced statements.
Connections under three feet in length are used in data centers all the time to patch between pieces of equipment on racks.
Not only that, it sounds like there would no longer be a general "browser". Want a presence on the Internet? You gotta code your own app now, and have people download it to see your site. Other than that, you have to use one of the corporate world's pre-approved places (like a page on a social-networking site).
The Internet is now a series of "channel" in effect at this point, just like cable TV, almost all controlled by companies....and I bet none of those web apps will spy on their users once installed on the computer. No siree.
Suddenly, it's becoming more clear why Apple did not, as they promised, release the information needed about the protocol to make third-party Facetime clients possible.
They didn't truly own the rights to the methods for the connection.
Whoops you've got this backwards. Things broke as Pidgin moved to newer versions of the MSNP protocol.
So the Pidgin devs forgot the dog wags the tail, not the other way around?
It boils down to the same thing: features stopped working and they didn't want to fix it, instead sending those issues in the "patches welcome" (aka: fit it yourself) bin.
It appears the Pidgin devs have an excuse to never update their MSN support either, now.
Support for the current MSN protocol features has been waiting for some time, with MSN logging-in even breaking a couple of times (because the method being used was from a version of MSN that the network no longer supported). A band-aid patch is applied to get text working again but other features continued to drop off one-by-one. I can't even do group chats reliably anymore with the current support.
IRC is fine as a chatroom protocol. It's not so hot as an IM protocol. Nicks are poor as a way of idenfitying users due to the fact that many users change them to indicate status and in many cases nick ownership is not enforced but nicks are the only identifier you can use to query if a user is online. Further there is no command to take a list of users and give you all their statuses at once and combined with the relatively dumb rate limiting system* this makes updating a buddy list slow even if the nicks are stable.
Some servers, like Rizon, allow users to register their usernames. So that can help as far as the "identifying the user" business. Pidgin lets you use IRC quite a bit like IM. You can add IRC usernames to your buddy list like you would on any IM network, combine them with other logins for a single "online/offline" indicator per person. Talking to a person in a separate tab from the channel you're in makes the entire convo private massages between the two of you. You can also add IRC chatrooms to your buddy list to easily join them.
It's not as good as IM (frankly I like Yahoo best because I can combine multiple types of text formatting in one message), but it's better than having to type text-based commands to do everything.
I have also been caught using colored CAT-5 cables.
This.
Just recently picked up three Cat-6 Ethernet cables from Monoprice and redid my network connections. No longer will I have to figure out which beige cable goes where. Now using bright red to my main desktop, green to the secondary machine (10' each), and got a black 3' cable to the blu-ray player now (this is all on one desk). The colors will stand out compared to all the black power/monitor/usb cables in the mess, too if I'm de-tangling lines..
Also, as to the subject line I've been doing that for years with home entertainment components. Label the power cables at the mains plug/AC adapter (and at the other end if it can be detached from the device). No questions about what I'm unplugging under the desk when I need to move/change something, and no worries about accidentally plugging the wrong AC adapter plug into a device and potentially frying it.
The other thing I'd recommend is shorten cables where you can. The standard cable length may be between four and 10 feet for everything, but if you don't need it save lines. I have a one-foot Ethernet cable connecting the cable modem and the router (they are right next to each other after all).
I live in a decent-sized rather left-leaning city in a conservative state. Voting for me requires getting up "early" since I normally get up and go straight to work out of town, and don't get off until after polls close.
I almost decided to just sleep another 15 minutes and forget about voting. With the electoral college system my vote literally doesn't count for the Presidency. No matter how me or anyone else in my home tome votes our electoral college votes will be going to Romney. Since I no longer watch TV or read the newspaper I'm not current on any of the minor/local office candidates beyond their stupid cards and flyers that end up in my mailbox (which I don't read really). The actual people in office don't seem to have any real effect on my own life. They will all do an equally bad job, just in different ways.
I guess I don't see any point in playing along with this game anymore. The leadership has risen to a level of nobility politics where they can have their intrigues and it makes no difference to me, except when it comes to starting wars and setting taxes.
- fire up the Xbox with the Kinect unhooked, and let it run for a bit, keeping an eye on the packets (I don't know much about Xbox networking, but I would guess anything transmitted outside port 80 would be suspect)
XBox Live runs outside port 80, just as PSN. So you're going to always see "suspect" activity when you're logged in. The Kinect has an additional port (1863) used for video chat. It might be used in this too. So I guess traffic on port 1863 when you're not video chatting would be odd.
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I don't understand why companies and individuals with a "brand" are so willing to put that brand behind Facebook's. E.g. webcomic artists who say, "see this Facebook exclusive comic", or companies that have Facebook exclusive deals.
Not to mention they alienate themselves from fans/customers that don't use Facebook. Telling me I have to go to Facebook for this or that isn't going to make me get a Facebook account if I don't have one already.
Anyone who doesn't lose their head when they go off will be rendered unable to reproduce instead, allowing for a steady decline in the population.
To deal with the labor shortfall, the commercial sector will increase demand for robotic replacements...
They could.
I know from personal experience that they generally are not good, and are more work than just telling the user how to access the web-based admin interface.
Is there any reason this easy setup wizard couldn't be just part of the web admin? Nope.
Forget the platform restrictions. Since when does one need to "install" a piece of hardware that's supposed to function independently of a computer.
Anytime I see instructions saying I need to install software for a router to work I mentally add "so we can install our spyware on your computer" to the step.
Dude, Sony discontinued this product 7 years ago. I'm sure you've gotten your money's worth out of it.
Why should the functionality be limited by an arbitrary corporate decision and a bit of code? If it fails for a hardware reason, it used to be you could continue to get it repaired for a fee as long as the parts were available.
Having something become junk for a reason that could easily be fixed like this simply creates unnecessary e-waste.
Where's Greenpeace now?
Isn't archiving for personal use? As in, I saved a copy of the PDF to my hard drive so I could use it.
It's not about putting it up on a server for everyone to have. That's clearly distribution.
My daughter got a Toshiba laptop as a graduation gift from her grandparents, and a few months into her ownership the keyboard died completely. Toshiba would not allow the device to be returned for repair/replacement under their warranty without first paying a phone "technician" $49 for a "repair consultation".
Do you know how often people call their router support line claiming their wireless is no longer working, when the issue is the laptop's Wi-Fi switch is simply not turned on? The repair consultation charge is the Stupid User tax, as most issues that can be resolved over the phone could probably have been resolved by the user on their own if they had RTFM or used available online troubleshooting information. If you were really confident the issue was a hardware defect that required actual repair, the phone support charge shouldn't have phased you (once you knew it was refundable).
The "tech" was a completely clueless English-as-a-second-language phone center guy. They offered to "refund" the $49 if their phone service did not help (hint - their phone procedures were useless with a broken keyboard). They then offered a $29 box to use to send them the laptop for repair/replacement. This company is pure garbage - they want $78 to replace a laptop keyboard that probably costs $5 or less.
1. How is the repair cost $78 when they refunded the $49 phone support charge?
2. The keyboard part cost is a red herring. The $29 box includes the shipping and insurance for your device. Most manufacturers ask you to ship the device to you at your own expense insured as well. And you aren't taking into account the cost of a technician sitting there and dissembling the laptop to replace the part.
Clearly, Toshiba does not want anybody to fix their own products any more.
There. Fixed that for you.
I can't remember the last time the lack of a repair manual has kept me from operating a device.
You must have not voted at all then, because none of the candidates don't harbor a desire to be a King in name and authority.
Call up your provider and tell them to give you a box with IEEE-1394 access to an unencrypted feed.
You think that will seriously work? The tier 1 and 2 reps aren't in a position to do anything about this. Most know nothing about the government mandates that apply to the company they work for. They only know what their supervisors tell them. And between the government and the people who sign their paychecks, who do you think they're going to listen to?
A law is only a law if someone enforces it.
Until someone actually takes he cablecos to court for this, they will continue to not offer these boxes.
Do you have a source for that? And I mean a real technical authority. Not what some guy said on a random web forum.
The only info I'm seeing from checking some results on Google says there is a minimum for half-duplex GigE connections, related to preventing false positives on collision detection, and possible minimums for PoE connections. And other results were people are making unsourced statements.
Connections under three feet in length are used in data centers all the time to patch between pieces of equipment on racks.
Not only that, it sounds like there would no longer be a general "browser".
Want a presence on the Internet? You gotta code your own app now, and have people download it to see your site.
Other than that, you have to use one of the corporate world's pre-approved places (like a page on a social-networking site).
The Internet is now a series of "channel" in effect at this point, just like cable TV, almost all controlled by companies. ...and I bet none of those web apps will spy on their users once installed on the computer. No siree.
Suddenly, it's becoming more clear why Apple did not, as they promised, release the information needed about the protocol to make third-party Facetime clients possible.
They didn't truly own the rights to the methods for the connection.
AT&T is run by Ferengi right?
They use those humongous ears to better listen in on your communications.
Whoops you've got this backwards. Things broke as Pidgin moved to newer versions of the MSNP protocol.
So the Pidgin devs forgot the dog wags the tail, not the other way around?
It boils down to the same thing: features stopped working and they didn't want to fix it, instead sending those issues in the "patches welcome" (aka: fit it yourself) bin.
I'm at home now and they are showing up. Or at least I see the same pic five or six times at different sizes.
Corporate firewall does strange things?
It appears the Pidgin devs have an excuse to never update their MSN support either, now.
Support for the current MSN protocol features has been waiting for some time, with MSN logging-in even breaking a couple of times (because the method being used was from a version of MSN that the network no longer supported). A band-aid patch is applied to get text working again but other features continued to drop off one-by-one. I can't even do group chats reliably anymore with the current support.
IRC is fine as a chatroom protocol. It's not so hot as an IM protocol. Nicks are poor as a way of idenfitying users due to the fact that many users change them to indicate status and in many cases nick ownership is not enforced but nicks are the only identifier you can use to query if a user is online. Further there is no command to take a list of users and give you all their statuses at once and combined with the relatively dumb rate limiting system* this makes updating a buddy list slow even if the nicks are stable.
Some servers, like Rizon, allow users to register their usernames. So that can help as far as the "identifying the user" business. Pidgin lets you use IRC quite a bit like IM. You can add IRC usernames to your buddy list like you would on any IM network, combine them with other logins for a single "online/offline" indicator per person. Talking to a person in a separate tab from the channel you're in makes the entire convo private massages between the two of you. You can also add IRC chatrooms to your buddy list to easily join them.
It's not as good as IM (frankly I like Yahoo best because I can combine multiple types of text formatting in one message), but it's better than having to type text-based commands to do everything.
Print out "DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THESE WIRES" on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, tape to something in highly visible area.
Done.
google image search with above phrase for implementation examples.
I see no examples of the sign in use.
I have also been caught using colored CAT-5 cables.
This.
Just recently picked up three Cat-6 Ethernet cables from Monoprice and redid my network connections. No longer will I have to figure out which beige cable goes where. Now using bright red to my main desktop, green to the secondary machine (10' each), and got a black 3' cable to the blu-ray player now (this is all on one desk). The colors will stand out compared to all the black power/monitor/usb cables in the mess, too if I'm de-tangling lines..
Also, as to the subject line I've been doing that for years with home entertainment components. Label the power cables at the mains plug/AC adapter (and at the other end if it can be detached from the device). No questions about what I'm unplugging under the desk when I need to move/change something, and no worries about accidentally plugging the wrong AC adapter plug into a device and potentially frying it.
The other thing I'd recommend is shorten cables where you can. The standard cable length may be between four and 10 feet for everything, but if you don't need it save lines. I have a one-foot Ethernet cable connecting the cable modem and the router (they are right next to each other after all).
No matter how me or anyone else in my home tome votes...
Bah. That should be "home town".
Was to the right of the correct keys and transposed the letters at the same time. -__-'
I live in a decent-sized rather left-leaning city in a conservative state. Voting for me requires getting up "early" since I normally get up and go straight to work out of town, and don't get off until after polls close.
I almost decided to just sleep another 15 minutes and forget about voting. With the electoral college system my vote literally doesn't count for the Presidency. No matter how me or anyone else in my home tome votes our electoral college votes will be going to Romney. Since I no longer watch TV or read the newspaper I'm not current on any of the minor/local office candidates beyond their stupid cards and flyers that end up in my mailbox (which I don't read really). The actual people in office don't seem to have any real effect on my own life. They will all do an equally bad job, just in different ways.
I guess I don't see any point in playing along with this game anymore. The leadership has risen to a level of nobility politics where they can have their intrigues and it makes no difference to me, except when it comes to starting wars and setting taxes.
Encrypted light bulb transmissions cause new problems.
Namely kids on 'shrooms standing in front of you house staring at the windows all the time.
Yes, they are. You don't 'own' the meter. If you want to block the transmission, just jam the signal.
Yeah, that will show those cops! It's not like the reading can be read with the naked eye from outside my house, after all.
- fire up the Xbox with the Kinect unhooked, and let it run for a bit, keeping an eye on the packets (I don't know much about Xbox networking, but I would guess anything transmitted outside port 80 would be suspect)
XBox Live runs outside port 80, just as PSN. So you're going to always see "suspect" activity when you're logged in.
The Kinect has an additional port (1863) used for video chat. It might be used in this too. So I guess traffic on port 1863 when you're not video chatting would be odd.