Both Windows 2000 and XP have the "Windows Time Service" which once per day query an NTP server to set the system clock. By default, Windows 2000 does not have an NTP server set, and XP looks to time.windows.com -- every blasted installation of Windows XP phones home every day to set its clock and who-knows-what-else.
One would expect millions of XP boxes phoning home daily would overload a time server. For myself, I've changed the NTP server to a different server (which I will not name) and had somewhat more reliable time syncing.
The commands are net time/setsntp:some.ntp.server and net time/querysntp, or in the Time and Date properties in XP there's the Internet Time tab.
Where S = # of lines of SCO proprietary code in the Linux kernel (which they won't tell us); L = Total # of lines of code in the Linux kernel; P = Price of a SCO Unix license D = Amount they deserve.
You'll probably find that D is in the range of... a penny.
I'm seeing some people saying "USB 2" and others saying "USB 2.0"; some are saying both.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
Kind of like the difference between Class 1 and Class 1.0 fax machines? Yes, there is a difference.
If I had to guess, I'd say that "USB 2" means the device supports "USB 2" signalling even though its speed is 12 Mbps or less and won't cause the speed of 480 Mbps devices on the same bus to step down (whereas a USB 1.1 device would) and a "USB 2.0" device is capable of speeds greater than 12 Mbps. I could be wrong.
I can see crossing the 7 to differentiate it from a poorly formed T and the Z to differentiate it from a 2, and the obvious zero from oh. How do you differentiate between 1 and I?
In terms of keyboard efficiency, it's my understanding that the QWERTY keyboard is intentionally inefficient. The earliest typewriters had problems with they type bars jamming. To prevent this, the keyboard was laid out in a patter that would slow the typist down.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with it not because it's better, but because it's what everybody uses. Just like M$ Word, VHS, and gasoline powered internal combustion engines.
Being a lefty, I found out that eraseable pens don't work. You end up with a smudged page and a blue hand.
Doesn't really matter whether you're writing @ur$!ve or printing, those eraseable ink pens were the worst. Pencils aren't much better (black instead of blue). But, I agree that cursive was designed for righties, pencils & pens were meant to be drug instead of pulled across the page.
I managed (with a normal pen) to write fairly neat cursive. That was back in the third grade, the grade in which penmanship was taught. Luckily, my third grade teacher was a lefty, too, that's probably why I did as well as I did. I haven't written the sum total of an entire page in cursive since high school.
(Hmmm, what I learned in the first grade, was that pencilmanship? What did the girls learn? penwomanship? Then again, aren't all ships referred to as "she?" Does that mean all this time I thought I was learning penmanship it was really penwomanship? I digress.)
Perhaps, but that part of the world which uses Roman script doesn't use Asian script.
The debate in question here is not about the ability of a person to use a manual writing utensil (pen, pencil, quill), but about the person's ability and necessecity to write Roman script.
Most people here don't have a problem with printing. It's the cursive they curse.
The tech sector has a really hard time giving up obsolete technology. Microsoft has been trying to kill DOS and the 16-bit API for close to ten years now, and with the advent of XP are we finally seeing the old DOS/Win16 apps disappearing.
To free up the broadcast TV spectrum (as we know it -- there may still be a market for a spectrum using a different technology) will take a long time, too. First, the FCC will have to go through a lengthy hearings process to decide whether or not to do it. If they do, expect a process something like this:
FCC opens up a new broadcast spectrum (maybe); sales of new-spectrum TV receivers begin
FCC stops issuing new licenses for the old spectrum
FCC bans sale of current old-spectrum licenses to other parties
Sales of old-spectrum TV sets are stopped
FCC sets date when all old-spectrum licenses expire
EPA goes into crisis mode when all of a sudden millions of TV's end up in landfills, setting off an ecological disaster
Government bans the disposal of old TV's ("You must keep them in your attic forever")
Wally Shumacher, janitor and garage tinkerer, invents new use for old TV's, saving the planet from destruction and making a few bucks in the process (before getting bought out by Microsoft)
Oops, got a little sidetracked there. Anyway, expect it to be a LOOOOOOOONG time before the broadcast spectrum as-we-know-it goes away.
Go to freecolorprinter.com. This is Xerox's program whereby you can apply for a FREE color printer (typically solid ink, but they list laser/toner printers, too). The catch is that you have print a minimum number of pages per month and commit to buy all your consumables from the freecolorprinter website for a period of three years.
It's kind of like a lease: any failures they pay for (you pay for wear parts). After three years, the printer is yours to do with what you will at no cost to you. Use it for a doorstop if you want.
Some of my customers are in this program and are very happy with it.
I'm not a Xerox employee, and I don't get any kind of kickback for recommending it.
...so you will be put on hold for 37 minutes and 23 seconds.
Please start over as our menu options have change (again) since you entered them 5 minutes ago.
Please continue to hold for the next available representative to insult your intelligence.
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Your call may be monitored so our employees can get a good laugh at lunch break.
To reach that department, hang up and dial 1-800-555-1212. The automated system there will tell you the number you need to dial to reach that department.
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Lacking a light bulb (or a heavy one, for that matter) you can use a pencil lead across a transformer of appropriate rating.
Q: How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only two, but the real question is, how did they get in there in the first place?
On the subject of Post-it Notes, 3m offers this history. Very interesting.
Both Windows 2000 and XP have the "Windows Time Service" which once per day query an NTP server to set the system clock. By default, Windows 2000 does not have an NTP server set, and XP looks to time.windows.com -- every blasted installation of Windows XP phones home every day to set its clock and who-knows-what-else.
/setsntp:some.ntp.server and net time /querysntp, or in the Time and Date properties in XP there's the Internet Time tab.
One would expect millions of XP boxes phoning home daily would overload a time server. For myself, I've changed the NTP server to a different server (which I will not name) and had somewhat more reliable time syncing.
The commands are net time
The laser makes sense. Otherwise, you'd need a BEOWULF CLUSTER of LED's.
It had to be said.
B.S. -- Well, you know what that means.
M.S. -- More of the Same.
Ph.D. -- Piled higher, deeper.
American Criminal Liberties Union
Anti-Christian Lambasters, United
Ain't Conservative; Liberal Up!
S / L * P = D
Where
S = # of lines of SCO proprietary code in the Linux kernel (which they won't tell us);
L = Total # of lines of code in the Linux kernel;
P = Price of a SCO Unix license
D = Amount they deserve.
You'll probably find that D is in the range of... a penny.
So... you're saying that he'll be running around in circles instead of just cutting straight across?
(Pi: the ratio of a a circle's circumference to its diameter. But you knew that.)
Very immobile, yes, but what happens to the chip when you drill a hole thru it to mount said aluminum bar?
You may recall a couple of weeks ago this little story. Now this. Perhaps Microsoft was after the antispam technology in RAV?
Check out the Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20 with the Super Bundle (link).
20GB portable hard drive with options up the ying-yang. Card readers and USB and cameras, oh my.
$400US.
As for being away from power, look at solar battery chargers, available at auto parts stores.
I'm seeing some people saying "USB 2" and others saying "USB 2.0"; some are saying both.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
Kind of like the difference between Class 1 and Class 1.0 fax machines? Yes, there is a difference.
If I had to guess, I'd say that "USB 2" means the device supports "USB 2" signalling even though its speed is 12 Mbps or less and won't cause the speed of 480 Mbps devices on the same bus to step down (whereas a USB 1.1 device would) and a "USB 2.0" device is capable of speeds greater than 12 Mbps. I could be wrong.
You forgot USB2 - Ridiculous Speed, right between USB2 - Light Speed and USB2 - Ludicrous Speed.
I can see crossing the 7 to differentiate it from a poorly formed T and the Z to differentiate it from a 2, and the obvious zero from oh. How do you differentiate between 1 and I?
"Do I still get a cookie? (Subtitle: "cookiez roxx0r! lololol!!!111")"
You already have one. Read the Slashdot FAQ and you'll see what I mean.
In terms of keyboard efficiency, it's my understanding that the QWERTY keyboard is intentionally inefficient. The earliest typewriters had problems with they type bars jamming. To prevent this, the keyboard was laid out in a patter that would slow the typist down.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with it not because it's better, but because it's what everybody uses. Just like M$ Word, VHS, and gasoline powered internal combustion engines.
Being a lefty, I found out that eraseable pens don't work. You end up with a smudged page and a blue hand.
Doesn't really matter whether you're writing @ur$!ve or printing, those eraseable ink pens were the worst. Pencils aren't much better (black instead of blue). But, I agree that cursive was designed for righties, pencils & pens were meant to be drug instead of pulled across the page.
I managed (with a normal pen) to write fairly neat cursive. That was back in the third grade, the grade in which penmanship was taught. Luckily, my third grade teacher was a lefty, too, that's probably why I did as well as I did. I haven't written the sum total of an entire page in cursive since high school.
(Hmmm, what I learned in the first grade, was that pencilmanship? What did the girls learn? penwomanship? Then again, aren't all ships referred to as "she?" Does that mean all this time I thought I was learning penmanship it was really penwomanship? I digress.)
Perhaps, but that part of the world which uses Roman script doesn't use Asian script.
The debate in question here is not about the ability of a person to use a manual writing utensil (pen, pencil, quill), but about the person's ability and necessecity to write Roman script.
Most people here don't have a problem with printing. It's the cursive they curse.
OK, would someone please DEFEND cursive? All the top-ranking posts here are DOWN with cursive. Might as well be burning crosses, here.
Then, please, someone mod up the defence.
Not that I'm defending cursive. No way. No how. Good riddance, I say. I just want to hear an argument in favor of it.
To free up the broadcast TV spectrum (as we know it -- there may still be a market for a spectrum using a different technology) will take a long time, too. First, the FCC will have to go through a lengthy hearings process to decide whether or not to do it. If they do, expect a process something like this:
FCC opens up a new broadcast spectrum (maybe); sales of new-spectrum TV receivers begin
FCC stops issuing new licenses for the old spectrum
FCC bans sale of current old-spectrum licenses to other parties
Sales of old-spectrum TV sets are stopped
FCC sets date when all old-spectrum licenses expire
EPA goes into crisis mode when all of a sudden millions of TV's end up in landfills, setting off an ecological disaster
Government bans the disposal of old TV's ("You must keep them in your attic forever")
Wally Shumacher, janitor and garage tinkerer, invents new use for old TV's, saving the planet from destruction and making a few bucks in the process (before getting bought out by Microsoft)
Oops, got a little sidetracked there. Anyway, expect it to be a LOOOOOOOONG time before the broadcast spectrum as-we-know-it goes away.
So if this happens, what will I do with my 9" b&w?
Pong?
Go to freecolorprinter.com. This is Xerox's program whereby you can apply for a FREE color printer (typically solid ink, but they list laser/toner printers, too). The catch is that you have print a minimum number of pages per month and commit to buy all your consumables from the freecolorprinter website for a period of three years.
It's kind of like a lease: any failures they pay for (you pay for wear parts). After three years, the printer is yours to do with what you will at no cost to you. Use it for a doorstop if you want.
Some of my customers are in this program and are very happy with it.
I'm not a Xerox employee, and I don't get any kind of kickback for recommending it.
...so you will be put on hold for 37 minutes and 23 seconds.
Please start over as our menu options have change (again) since you entered them 5 minutes ago.
Please continue to hold for the next available representative to insult your intelligence.
We're sorry, but your call could not be completed as dialed. Please hang up and try using the postal service.
Your call may be monitored so our employees can get a good laugh at lunch break.
To reach that department, hang up and dial 1-800-555-1212. The automated system there will tell you the number you need to dial to reach that department.
Please stay on the line. Your call will be answered in the order of descending bribe amounts.
At any time, you may press "0" to speak to an operator who will push the buttons for you and put you on hold for another 37 minutes and 23 seconds.
Rumor has it that Microsoft is working on a "lite" version of F# to be called "F Micro" or "Fu" for short.
Oh wait, their lawyers already use it. Must be past beta then.