Except the sorts of things that rely on the host PC for all/most of their processing (Winprinters/Winmodems), aren't limited by the host PC's CPU. If you've got a Winmodem, doubling the host PCs CPU speed doesn't double performance. If you've got a Winprinter that does 8 PPM, getting a faster host PC CPU doesn't mean that you'll start getting 10 PPM as printer performance is limited by how fast you can physically feed paper or how fast you can get the print head to traverse the page.
If a peripheral is taxing the host CPU enough that upgrading the CPU will increase the performance on that peripheral, it's already taking up too much of the host CPUs time.
Sure, having complaints fall on the non-profit *sounds* like a great idea... until the non-profit gets enough complaints to decide that working with the complaint-generating organization isn't worth working with anymore.
Not exactly the same situation, but one time I got called by a telemarketer trying to sell delivery service for a local dairy. When I started going through the TCPA routine for collecting information and asking to be put on the do-not-call list for them and the company on whose behalf they were calling (this was before the National Do Not Call List existed). The telemarketer ended up putting her supervisor on the line, who got really uppity about how they didn't need to give me their (the outcall agency) company name or their contact information and stated that they didn't need to maintain a do not call list (all required by TCPA). He then hung up on me.
The telemarketer DID get far enough into the sales pitch to tell me name of the company whose services they were trying to sell...
The next day, I called the dairy's corporate headquarters, asked for the marketing department and from there asked who was responsible for outcall telephone marketing operations. I calmly explained what happened on the call and added that of course the agency supervisor refused to provide information about the agency after being rude and failing to comply with telemarketing regulations; after all, the telemarketing supervisor wasn't screwing with his own company's reputation and good name, but rather that of the dairy's.
The person I spoke to at the dairy was very polite, provided me with the information I wanted about the telemarketing org, took my phone number and promised to add it to all of their do not call lists and added that she would be having a rather pointed discussion with the agency's account rep in the next week.
It costs nothing to add your phone number to the National Do Not Call list and applies regardless of where the telemarketer gets your phone number.
Asking the phone company to not publish your phone number: a)usually is done for a monthly fee; b)doesn't apply to the other places that will happily sell your information.
Seems like you're comparing apples to oranges, no?
For what you'd expect to spend on a DVD changer, you should certainly be able to buy enough hard drive storage to fit at least that many DVDs and many more.
How many DVDs are you talking about fitting into that changer, and how much does that changer cost? You can't tell me that's going to cost less than the equivalent hard drive capacity.
970GB storage for 200 DVD capacity - cost $1800 (I'm assuming list price to be generous). 500GB EIDE drives are a bit over $300. Call it 2 drives to fit 200 DVDs - $600-700.
And how much is MS MCE? (I just checked Tigerdirect, which lists it at a bit over $100. You could probably spend a bit more if you don't like/trust Tigerdirect and want to go for a more traditional retail outlet.)
So, I guess, yes, if money is no object (and discounting slower access), sure, MCE and the DVD changer that MCE has support for is definitely the better solution.
Assuming you have a capture card that can capture directly to MPEG2 or MPEG4, you should be able to transfer and play MythTV recordings on anything that understands either of those. I presume a video ipod would be able to play MythTV recordings. (I've got a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 with hardware MPEG2 encoding and an EPIA MII 12000 motherboard, which has VIA Unichrome video for hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding for playback).
"Bog standard DVR usage" sounds pretty mundane until you consider "standard" as the key word in that phrase. Last I heard, Tivos still used a proprietary video format unplayable on anything but the Tivo. I have a 45-60 minute train commute and I fairly regularly transfer recordings off my MythTV box onto my laptop and watch them during my commmute. Oh, and the program guide data feed doesn't require a subscription fee like Tivo does.
A MythTV setup is probably more comparable to commercially available hard-drive based DVRs that are starting to come onto the market for starting around $700, which is about what my MythTV setup cost me to build last year (WinTV PVR-350, EPIA MII 12000 motherboard, 512M memory, 120GB hard drive, 8x Dual-layer DVD+-RW drive, Venus 668B mini-ITX case). The cost would probably be slightly lower now.
I wish he would have given us more information regarding the problems he ran into. I'm talking about system specs, the name and version of the Linux distro used, and more information regarding the software they apparently had so much trouble installing.
RTFA.
SAP install on RHEL 3.0 on SAP-certified IBM servers.
Also in the article:
IBM confirmed that the issues were not hardware related.
Red Hat Australia was contacted and did try to help
Red Hat requested that Crest perform some diagnostic tests, but apparently Crest didn't respond, making it impossible for Red Hat to address the issue.
I think the word you're looking for is "contiguous". Alaska (except for the Alaskan islands) is in the "continental" US, but not in the "contiguous" US.
http://www.alaska.com/about/facts/faq/plan/v-inc lu de/story/4834395p-4772751c.html
I'd bet it's probably not an issue for xmms using winamp skins. I don't believe it's a problem with winamp per se. I believe it's due to winamp's integration with IE.
It really annoying that IE integration can't be disabled or if it's even possible to integrate with another browser.
I don't know exactly how it works, but certain streams will pop open the Winamp browser window to the stream's home page and the stream's home page has popups.
In fact, due to integration with IE, even if you don't use IE for any browsing, someone could set up an enticing stream (**cough**pr0n**cough) and infect a lot of people with malware who think they're safe because they never websurf with IE.
Not if people with laptops (execs, consultants) connect into your firewall-protected network and those laptops got infected at some point when they were on a connection that either wasn't protected by a firewall or had an over liberally configured firewall. There were some organizations pretty heavily hit by Blaster last week that I know aren't running without firewalls. I have a pretty strong hunch that laptops were the infection route.
RE: I see a lot of spam that was probably produced by applications that use an automated signup to yahoo/hotmail/etc. to obtain a temporary email address and leave the actual emailing to those services which will circumvent 'greylisting'.
As pointed out by someone else in the thread, those are most likely not automated Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. signups. They're likely forged addresses.
It would be extremely difficult to do autogenerated signups on Yahoo absent some breakthrough in pattern recognition. Yahoo uses CAPTCHAs to thwart automated mass signups. I'm not sure, but I thought that some of the other free email providers were considering licensing this -- ISTR Hotmail being interested, though I could be wrong.
I'm not counting my checkens yet. 'Stupid portalness' seems to be a disease that comes with age. AltaVista used to be pure, then went the portal route. The same goes for Lycos, Inktomi, and Infoseek.
I haven't used AltaVista in a long time. Some time last year, they added a really annoying REFRESH meta-tag to refresh whatever page you happened to be on at the time so that every few minutes or so -- doubtless to spike their banner-view stats, since every time the page autorefreshes, new banners are also displayed.
In particular, note the following excerpt of IFN's response to those who dare complain about spam sent by IFN customers or spamvertising IFN hosted web sites
Finally, we reserve the right to charge a fee to the complainant to pursue complaints about email messages not in violation of California or federal law.
Yep, since there's a lot of real spam that isn't considered illegal under current California laws and there are currently no federal laws stating that spam is illegal, that essentially boils down to, "Yes, we know our customers may be responsible for spamming (directly from our network or from elsewhere to promote their IFN-hosted web site), but we really don't want to hear about it or take responsibility for our spamming customers, and we'll do whatever we can to discourage people from even filing otherwise appropriate complaints."
Uh. There's a huge difference between having source code available so that people can add whatever kewl gadgety stuff they want into *their own* personal patched version as opposed to working on the dev team and checking those kewl gadgety things back into the main tree just because it's kewl and gadgety.
What could possibly be learned by adding an IRC client into a web browser that couldn't otherwise be learned from playing with other open source IRC clients?
What I want is something like the WA state law, which allows for a "private right of action" against the spammer. This allows the recipient of the spam, not the ISP, to sue. If the spammer doesn't show up in court to defend itself, a default judgement is entered against it, and the judgement can be sold off to a debt collection agency.
Be careful what you ask for, you might not get exactly what you want. There is legislation at the state level either already enacted or well on its way to becoming law that does provide spam recipients with a right of private action. The only problem is that several of those bills have been watered down by friends of direct marketing interests to allow recovery of only $10/per spam by the recipient or some similarly piddly amount. Hardly worth the recipient's time or effort to try and collect.
Voice your desire for effective anti-spam legislation at the state and federal levels by contacting via snail mail (not phone, not e-mail) to your state and federal legislators. Find out who your state and federal legislators are and what their views are at Project Vote Smart.
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Except the sorts of things that rely on the host PC for all/most of their processing (Winprinters/Winmodems), aren't limited by the host PC's CPU. If you've got a Winmodem, doubling the host PCs CPU speed doesn't double performance. If you've got a Winprinter that does 8 PPM, getting a faster host PC CPU doesn't mean that you'll start getting 10 PPM as printer performance is limited by how fast you can physically feed paper or how fast you can get the print head to traverse the page.
If a peripheral is taxing the host CPU enough that upgrading the CPU will increase the performance on that peripheral, it's already taking up too much of the host CPUs time.
Sure, having complaints fall on the non-profit *sounds* like a great idea... until the non-profit gets enough complaints to decide that working with the complaint-generating organization isn't worth working with anymore.
Not exactly the same situation, but one time I got called by a telemarketer trying to sell delivery service for a local dairy. When I started going through the TCPA routine for collecting information and asking to be put on the do-not-call list for them and the company on whose behalf they were calling (this was before the National Do Not Call List existed). The telemarketer ended up putting her supervisor on the line, who got really uppity about how they didn't need to give me their (the outcall agency) company name or their contact information and stated that they didn't need to maintain a do not call list (all required by TCPA). He then hung up on me.
The telemarketer DID get far enough into the sales pitch to tell me name of the company whose services they were trying to sell...
The next day, I called the dairy's corporate headquarters, asked for the marketing department and from there asked who was responsible for outcall telephone marketing operations. I calmly explained what happened on the call and added that of course the agency supervisor refused to provide information about the agency after being rude and failing to comply with telemarketing regulations; after all, the telemarketing supervisor wasn't screwing with his own company's reputation and good name, but rather that of the dairy's.
The person I spoke to at the dairy was very polite, provided me with the information I wanted about the telemarketing org, took my phone number and promised to add it to all of their do not call lists and added that she would be having a rather pointed discussion with the agency's account rep in the next week.
It costs nothing to add your phone number to the National Do Not Call list and applies regardless of where the telemarketer gets your phone number.
Asking the phone company to not publish your phone number: a)usually is done for a monthly fee; b)doesn't apply to the other places that will happily sell your information.
Seems like you're comparing apples to oranges, no?
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For what you'd expect to spend on a DVD changer, you should certainly be able to buy enough hard drive storage to fit at least that many DVDs and many more.
How many DVDs are you talking about fitting into that changer, and how much does that changer cost? You can't tell me that's going to cost less than the equivalent hard drive capacity.
For example:
http://pcworld.about.com/news/Jan192001id38742.ht
970GB storage for 200 DVD capacity - cost $1800 (I'm assuming list price to be generous). 500GB EIDE drives are a bit over $300. Call it 2 drives to fit 200 DVDs - $600-700.
And how much is MS MCE? (I just checked Tigerdirect, which lists it at a bit over $100. You could probably spend a bit more if you don't like/trust Tigerdirect and want to go for a more traditional retail outlet.)
So, I guess, yes, if money is no object (and discounting slower access), sure, MCE and the DVD changer that MCE has support for is definitely the better solution.
Assuming you have a capture card that can capture directly to MPEG2 or MPEG4, you should be able to transfer and play MythTV recordings on anything that understands either of those. I presume a video ipod would be able to play MythTV recordings. (I've got a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 with hardware MPEG2 encoding and an EPIA MII 12000 motherboard, which has VIA Unichrome video for hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding for playback).
"Bog standard DVR usage" sounds pretty mundane until you consider "standard" as the key word in that phrase. Last I heard, Tivos still used a proprietary video format unplayable on anything but the Tivo. I have a 45-60 minute train commute and I fairly regularly transfer recordings off my MythTV box onto my laptop and watch them during my commmute. Oh, and the program guide data feed doesn't require a subscription fee like Tivo does.
A MythTV setup is probably more comparable to commercially available hard-drive based DVRs that are starting to come onto the market for starting around $700, which is about what my MythTV setup cost me to build last year (WinTV PVR-350, EPIA MII 12000 motherboard, 512M memory, 120GB hard drive, 8x Dual-layer DVD+-RW drive, Venus 668B mini-ITX case). The cost would probably be slightly lower now.
Not only was this story submitted and accepted without a useful link, but this interview happened back in July.
Except Grandma often/usually isn't the one doing the installing. FamilyTechSupport (aka me) is.
No crash here, either. Just got a blank page.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
I think the word you're looking for is "contiguous". Alaska (except for the Alaskan islands) is in the "continental" US, but not in the "contiguous" US.
c lu de/story/4834395p-4772751c.html
http://www.alaska.com/about/facts/faq/plan/v-in
I'd bet it's probably not an issue for xmms using winamp skins. I don't believe it's a problem with winamp per se. I believe it's due to winamp's integration with IE.
It really annoying that IE integration can't be disabled or if it's even possible to integrate with another browser.
I don't know exactly how it works, but certain streams will pop open the Winamp browser window to the stream's home page and the stream's home page has popups.
In fact, due to integration with IE, even if you don't use IE for any browsing, someone could set up an enticing stream (**cough**pr0n**cough) and infect a lot of people with malware who think they're safe because they never websurf with IE.
I think it blocks gaim also.
Win32 gaim 0.74 seems happy enough.
Not if people with laptops (execs, consultants) connect into your firewall-protected network and those laptops got infected at some point when they were on a connection that either wasn't protected by a firewall or had an over liberally configured firewall. There were some organizations pretty heavily hit by Blaster last week that I know aren't running without firewalls. I have a pretty strong hunch that laptops were the infection route.
Yeah, but "nu" is French for "naked". French pr0n sites for everyone!
RE: I see a lot of spam that was probably produced by applications that use an automated signup to yahoo/hotmail/etc. to obtain a temporary email address and leave the actual emailing to those services which will circumvent 'greylisting'.
As pointed out by someone else in the thread, those are most likely not automated Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. signups. They're likely forged addresses.
It would be extremely difficult to do autogenerated signups on Yahoo absent some breakthrough in pattern recognition. Yahoo uses CAPTCHAs to thwart automated mass signups. I'm not sure, but I thought that some of the other free email providers were considering licensing this -- ISTR Hotmail being interested, though I could be wrong.
As opposed to phones in the past that brought in more revenue than it cost to keep them maintained.
Do you believe everything you read on the web?!
Here's something citing something straight from the horse's... er... IFN.
http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=670664 883&fmt=text
In particular, note the following excerpt of IFN's response to those who dare complain about spam sent by IFN customers or spamvertising IFN hosted web sites
Yep, since there's a lot of real spam that isn't considered illegal under current California laws and there are currently no federal laws stating that spam is illegal, that essentially boils down to, "Yes, we know our customers may be responsible for spamming (directly from our network or from elsewhere to promote their IFN-hosted web site), but we really don't want to hear about it or take responsibility for our spamming customers, and we'll do whatever we can to discourage people from even filing otherwise appropriate complaints."
Uh. There's a huge difference between having source code available so that people can add whatever kewl gadgety stuff they want into *their own* personal patched version as opposed to working on the dev team and checking those kewl gadgety things back into the main tree just because it's kewl and gadgety. What could possibly be learned by adding an IRC client into a web browser that couldn't otherwise be learned from playing with other open source IRC clients?
Be careful what you ask for, you might not get exactly what you want. There is legislation at the state level either already enacted or well on its way to becoming law that does provide spam recipients with a right of private action. The only problem is that several of those bills have been watered down by friends of direct marketing interests to allow recovery of only $10/per spam by the recipient or some similarly piddly amount. Hardly worth the recipient's time or effort to try and collect.
For a good review of currently enacted and pending anti-spam legislation at both the state and federal levels, check out the Unsolicited E-mail Statutes subsection of the Cyberspace Law Website hosted by John Marshall Law School in Chicago, maintained by Prof. David Sorkin.
Voice your desire for effective anti-spam legislation at the state and federal levels by contacting via snail mail (not phone, not e-mail) to your state and federal legislators. Find out who your state and federal legislators are and what their views are at Project Vote Smart.
--Doug Lim -- Public Education Coordinator - FREE
"Speech isn't free when it comes postage due"
#Jim Nitchals - Founder - Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email
## http://www.spamfree.org/