How about a second internal HDD? Not as expensive as you think - it works out to be not much more than CDs per gigabyte if you're not worried about a fast drive or anything. Of course this is no solution for people like me who already have 4 internal HDDs, and my old 4x/2.4x dvd writer is most inadequate (not to mention unreliable with cheap media).
Don't know why this is modded funny. Maybe the BBC article author has mod points.
Like the freezer trick, this can actually help with certain brands of problems, e.g. stuck spindle. And if the drive is dead and gone anyway, what have you to lose?
I did this to get all my extensions working with one of the recent nightlies (think it was 20041026 or 20041022), and it's fine with RC1 too:
Exit FF
Open your extensions.rdf, held in 'extensions' under your profile directory.
For each extension, change the "em:maxVersion" entry to "1.0" (from "0.10" or whatever).
Save, open Firefox again, and re-enable all your extensions.
Worked flawlessly here (on about a dozen extensions), and should work for pretty much any extension, as there were no major changes from PR to RC1, it's mostly bugfixes (except for the single window mode, obviously don't re-enable Aaron Spuler's Single Window extension).
Isn't a coma when your brain decides it can't cope anymore? I'm sure there are other examples. Also there are many ways other than catastrophic failure that can kill given time, e.g. Alzheimer's.
What's wrong with me digging that old celeron-400 out of the corner, installing smoothwall on it, and shoving it away in the cupboard to serve out it's days? Why spend money for no reason? Why not put to use a computer that you would otherwise throw away to destroy the environment just a little bit more?
I'm hoping I've got something wrong here. what does m0n0wall do that smoothwall doesn't?
Or more accurately, very very bad chip design on the part of Intel: They designed the Pentium 4 with clockspeed, and clockspeed alone, in mind. Nevermind how efficient it is, let's make the pipeline as long as possible, because clockspeed sells! After all, to somebody who doesn't know about such things, a 3GHz processor is faster than a 2GHz processor every day, right?
Intel is now realising the folly of this (thanks in no small part to AMD), and Tejas (which was to be the successor to the Prescott and become the Pentium 5) was cancelled back in May. They are concentrating on the Pentium-M (Dothan) architecture and are adding 64-bit extensions and multiple cores (sound like any other chip company you know?), which can be traced back through the Tualatin to the good old Coppermine Pentium 3 and further back still to the debut of the P6 architecture in the Pentium Pro!
Also, see the register article (from five days ago I might add), which agrees with TFA in that this is the fifth week so far this year, not the second as the submitter says.
PayPal payments do seem to go in and out. Maybe paying money into the account in chunks is an advantage - fill up with enough to tide you over if they suddenly have a 'paypal outage'?;-)
I have put $145 into my account through PayPal since February, so it does work at least sometimes...
Ummmm, you were willing to put your credit card details into an unknown site from Russia based on a recommendation from me, a random slashdotter??? It's called PayPal, dude! Oh, and PayPal do accept American Express.
As for the fill up your account beforehand 'flaw', as another poster said, why don't you just pay them the $10 you would pay iTunes, then leave the other $9.50 as a tip. Voila, one payment for one album, and you get to encode it how you like.
Or put it another way; iTunes: 1 payment for 1 album, just as you want. AllOfMP3: 1 payment for 15 albums...
...Or instead of waiting months for tracks 'coming soon', you could get them somewhere better. Cheaper, sooner, any format you like, and no restrictions on use.
No, the problem is genuine (although most don't experience it, and those that do only intermittently). I can tell you from first hand experience it has been in Firefox 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.x (all of them), but not in Phoenix 0.5, Firebird 0.6, 0.6.1, or 0.7.
Interestingly, the bugzilla bug is marked as resolved, so this give hope that it is fixed in 1.0PR. Anybody care to confirm or deny?
One of the reasons (for some ISPs) for giving you a different IP address when you log off/on (aside from address space usage) is to stop you running your own server, and they don't care if it's something low bandwidth like a mailserver.
Expensive/business access packages often come with a certain number of static IPs (e.g. The OSTG Slashdot broadband). Several people from the LUG in my university mentioned some ISPs (in the UK) who are nice enough to give you a static IP if you ask for it nicely enough a couple of months back, interestingly. You might just be lucky if you ask your ISP.
Also, even if you do run your own mailserver on a static IP address or DNS redirect, it is a very good idea to have a secondary MX so that some other computer can receive the mail in case your server is down and then redeliver it to you when your server comes back up. There are some companies who offer this (though price seems to vary hugely, and I've never tried any out myself).
Floppies burn remarkably well... Just be careful of the carpet for the dripping. CDs on the other hand don't burn easily. I've only tried twice and only ended up dripping melted, bubbling plastic onto my hand.
Not much else computer-wise burns. Cable insulation will if you try hard enough, but is rather miserable. Anything metal, needless to say, forget it, and PCBs seem to be made to be flame-retardant (here's a rather shocking example of why).
Needless to say, friends are learning to keep me away from lighters (especially two at once; Setting light to the handle of one lighter with another is very fun... Until it burns through the plastic and reaches the fluid! Big Mistake!)
...But I don't get it. Tossing a salad in a dressing is what you do. Once you put dressing (e.g. oil and vinegar) on it, you don't stir the leaves or whatever around, you 'toss' them.
Yes, I am aware of other meanings of the word, but do you snigger when somebody tosses a ball to you? So what is the joke?
Actually, I think you'll find it is. I recently blew my system away with a really dodgy device driver, and had to reinstall, including Office 2k. Under the startup folder, it placed a shortcut with the name "Microsoft Office", which points to ""D:\Office\M$ Office\Office\OSA9.EXE" -b -l". A little Googling turns up many sites that say this is a program that precaches offcie components to speed up access times. Admittedly, they could be falling into an urban myth, but there are more of them than you, and I think I trust 9,630 websites more than one slashdot user who doesn't back up with evidence. (Sorry to flame slightly.)
Don't know if this helps at all, but since it is basically Mozilla underneath, you may be able to add the Mycroft search 'plugins'. They work great in Firefox, and it mentions Netscape 7 (although not 7.2) on the front page.
I'm sure you already know this, but gaim-vv is a friendly fork concentrating on the video and voice stuff, so at least they're making an attempt to catch up.
As an aside, I can think of many features where the official clients are/have been behind. When logging was big, the official clients couldn't do that! Another good example is buddy pouncing. Not to mention all the plugins...
IMHO, any device capable of running user programs and with any sort of communications should need a firewall. Computers need them, handhelds need them, soon phones (when they become more like PDAs) will need them, everything! It would save a lot of bother if this type of feature were designed into a system from the beginning, when the threat was more theory than any real problem - just think how things would be if computers had had firewalls from the beginning.
Don't laugh. It really does. I very ill-advisedly installed Hare on a Win2k system a year or two back and it completely stuffed it up. Throughput may or may not have been 300% greater, but I couldn't tell, because the machine was virtually unusable - it would take many minutes to switch 'CPU focus' (as it were) in their '88-bit kernel' to another application, so the machine would just sit there for a LONG time whenever I switched apps, completely unusable. I dedicated an hour to the switches it took to navigate to the uninstall program and rebooted, only to find it was still stuffed. Wipe installation time, and dedicate the next day to reinstalling everything... Luckily I primarily booted to linux on that machine, so my trusty Mandrake installation kept me going.
I answered one incorrectly as fraud (the MSN one), and the rest perfect. But I was surprised I actually scored so highly as the test removed all the methods I use to spot fakes:
1) I couldn't see where the links were pointing as they had been removed.
2) I couldn't see the email headers.
3) I had no idea if any personal information (at the most basic level, name) was correct or not. Though I would err slightly on the side of counting any email that has personal details in it as legit, it is obviously fraud if it carries somebody else's name.
4) Am I supposed to be actually subsribed to any of these services or not? If I get something from citibank like that in my inbox, I'm going to mark it as fraud as I have absolutely nothing to do with them. (This is my excuse for the hotmail/MSN one!)
It's very possible most people don't check the first two at all, in which case I have slightly more sympathy with them seeing how confusing it can be now.
Maybe an added layer of security could be to go to the site in question and log in from there manually to check everything?
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How about a second internal HDD? Not as expensive as you think - it works out to be not much more than CDs per gigabyte if you're not worried about a fast drive or anything. Of course this is no solution for people like me who already have 4 internal HDDs, and my old 4x/2.4x dvd writer is most inadequate (not to mention unreliable with cheap media).
Don't know why this is modded funny. Maybe the BBC article author has mod points.
Like the freezer trick, this can actually help with certain brands of problems, e.g. stuck spindle. And if the drive is dead and gone anyway, what have you to lose?
I did this to get all my extensions working with one of the recent nightlies (think it was 20041026 or 20041022), and it's fine with RC1 too:
Worked flawlessly here (on about a dozen extensions), and should work for pretty much any extension, as there were no major changes from PR to RC1, it's mostly bugfixes (except for the single window mode, obviously don't re-enable Aaron Spuler's Single Window extension).
Would these be the same people who are day-in-day-out jamming an external current across their brains?
Thought not. :-P
Isn't a coma when your brain decides it can't cope anymore? I'm sure there are other examples. Also there are many ways other than catastrophic failure that can kill given time, e.g. Alzheimer's.
What happens when you up the voltage on your CPU? That bathtub curve becomes a lot shorter in timespan.
Hope the same doesn't happen with your brain.
What's wrong with me digging that old celeron-400 out of the corner, installing smoothwall on it, and shoving it away in the cupboard to serve out it's days? Why spend money for no reason? Why not put to use a computer that you would otherwise throw away to destroy the environment just a little bit more?
I'm hoping I've got something wrong here. what does m0n0wall do that smoothwall doesn't?
a new method.
holographic optical storage
Caught it about 90secs before it started intermittently saying "PhysOrg is temporarily unavailable."
Or more accurately, very very bad chip design on the part of Intel: They designed the Pentium 4 with clockspeed, and clockspeed alone, in mind. Nevermind how efficient it is, let's make the pipeline as long as possible, because clockspeed sells! After all, to somebody who doesn't know about such things, a 3GHz processor is faster than a 2GHz processor every day, right?
Intel is now realising the folly of this (thanks in no small part to AMD), and Tejas (which was to be the successor to the Prescott and become the Pentium 5) was cancelled back in May. They are concentrating on the Pentium-M (Dothan) architecture and are adding 64-bit extensions and multiple cores (sound like any other chip company you know?), which can be traced back through the Tualatin to the good old Coppermine Pentium 3 and further back still to the debut of the P6 architecture in the Pentium Pro!
What makes you say that? Especially given recent price cuts to "Reduce excess inventories". In fact, just google for Intel excess inventories!
Also, see the register article (from five days ago I might add), which agrees with TFA in that this is the fifth week so far this year, not the second as the submitter says.
Oh, you mean this?
<Sigh>... Why is it people are always remaking movies, is Hollywood not inventive to come up with new plots itself? (Yes, that was rhetorical.)
PayPal payments do seem to go in and out. Maybe paying money into the account in chunks is an advantage - fill up with enough to tide you over if they suddenly have a 'paypal outage'? ;-)
I have put $145 into my account through PayPal since February, so it does work at least sometimes...
Ummmm, you were willing to put your credit card details into an unknown site from Russia based on a recommendation from me, a random slashdotter??? It's called PayPal, dude! Oh, and PayPal do accept American Express.
As for the fill up your account beforehand 'flaw', as another poster said, why don't you just pay them the $10 you would pay iTunes, then leave the other $9.50 as a tip. Voila, one payment for one album, and you get to encode it how you like.
Or put it another way; iTunes: 1 payment for 1 album, just as you want. AllOfMP3: 1 payment for 15 albums...
...Or instead of waiting months for tracks 'coming soon', you could get them somewhere better. Cheaper, sooner, any format you like, and no restrictions on use.
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The poster is "wirelessly connected", you dolt! ;-)
That's more like it. Or better yet, Kerio Personal Firewall.
No, the problem is genuine (although most don't experience it, and those that do only intermittently). I can tell you from first hand experience it has been in Firefox 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.x (all of them), but not in Phoenix 0.5, Firebird 0.6, 0.6.1, or 0.7.
Interestingly, the bugzilla bug is marked as resolved, so this give hope that it is fixed in 1.0PR. Anybody care to confirm or deny?
One of the reasons (for some ISPs) for giving you a different IP address when you log off/on (aside from address space usage) is to stop you running your own server, and they don't care if it's something low bandwidth like a mailserver.
Expensive/business access packages often come with a certain number of static IPs (e.g. The OSTG Slashdot broadband). Several people from the LUG in my university mentioned some ISPs (in the UK) who are nice enough to give you a static IP if you ask for it nicely enough a couple of months back, interestingly. You might just be lucky if you ask your ISP.
Also, even if you do run your own mailserver on a static IP address or DNS redirect, it is a very good idea to have a secondary MX so that some other computer can receive the mail in case your server is down and then redeliver it to you when your server comes back up. There are some companies who offer this (though price seems to vary hugely, and I've never tried any out myself).
Floppies burn remarkably well... Just be careful of the carpet for the dripping. CDs on the other hand don't burn easily. I've only tried twice and only ended up dripping melted, bubbling plastic onto my hand.
Not much else computer-wise burns. Cable insulation will if you try hard enough, but is rather miserable. Anything metal, needless to say, forget it, and PCBs seem to be made to be flame-retardant (here's a rather shocking example of why).
Needless to say, friends are learning to keep me away from lighters (especially two at once; Setting light to the handle of one lighter with another is very fun... Until it burns through the plastic and reaches the fluid! Big Mistake!)
...But I don't get it. Tossing a salad in a dressing is what you do. Once you put dressing (e.g. oil and vinegar) on it, you don't stir the leaves or whatever around, you 'toss' them.
Yes, I am aware of other meanings of the word, but do you snigger when somebody tosses a ball to you? So what is the joke?
Actually, I think you'll find it is. I recently blew my system away with a really dodgy device driver, and had to reinstall, including Office 2k. Under the startup folder, it placed a shortcut with the name "Microsoft Office", which points to ""D:\Office\M$ Office\Office\OSA9.EXE" -b -l". A little Googling turns up many sites that say this is a program that precaches offcie components to speed up access times. Admittedly, they could be falling into an urban myth, but there are more of them than you, and I think I trust 9,630 websites more than one slashdot user who doesn't back up with evidence. (Sorry to flame slightly.)
Don't know if this helps at all, but since it is basically Mozilla underneath, you may be able to add the Mycroft search 'plugins'. They work great in Firefox, and it mentions Netscape 7 (although not 7.2) on the front page.
I'm sure you already know this, but gaim-vv is a friendly fork concentrating on the video and voice stuff, so at least they're making an attempt to catch up.
As an aside, I can think of many features where the official clients are/have been behind. When logging was big, the official clients couldn't do that! Another good example is buddy pouncing. Not to mention all the plugins...
IMHO, any device capable of running user programs and with any sort of communications should need a firewall. Computers need them, handhelds need them, soon phones (when they become more like PDAs) will need them, everything! It would save a lot of bother if this type of feature were designed into a system from the beginning, when the threat was more theory than any real problem - just think how things would be if computers had had firewalls from the beginning.
Don't laugh. It really does. I very ill-advisedly installed Hare on a Win2k system a year or two back and it completely stuffed it up. Throughput may or may not have been 300% greater, but I couldn't tell, because the machine was virtually unusable - it would take many minutes to switch 'CPU focus' (as it were) in their '88-bit kernel' to another application, so the machine would just sit there for a LONG time whenever I switched apps, completely unusable. I dedicated an hour to the switches it took to navigate to the uninstall program and rebooted, only to find it was still stuffed. Wipe installation time, and dedicate the next day to reinstalling everything... Luckily I primarily booted to linux on that machine, so my trusty Mandrake installation kept me going.
Use at your own risk, and I do mean risk!
I answered one incorrectly as fraud (the MSN one), and the rest perfect. But I was surprised I actually scored so highly as the test removed all the methods I use to spot fakes:
1) I couldn't see where the links were pointing as they had been removed.
2) I couldn't see the email headers.
3) I had no idea if any personal information (at the most basic level, name) was correct or not. Though I would err slightly on the side of counting any email that has personal details in it as legit, it is obviously fraud if it carries somebody else's name.
4) Am I supposed to be actually subsribed to any of these services or not? If I get something from citibank like that in my inbox, I'm going to mark it as fraud as I have absolutely nothing to do with them. (This is my excuse for the hotmail/MSN one!)
It's very possible most people don't check the first two at all, in which case I have slightly more sympathy with them seeing how confusing it can be now.
Maybe an added layer of security could be to go to the site in question and log in from there manually to check everything?