I bought one too, because I liked the 5 year warranty that came with it, and the store had 30%-off from old product offer.
My 4th explorer mouse going.. I've had revisions 1.1, 3.0, 3.1 and currently 4.0.
The cable has design error which causes the cord to wear out at the point where it connects to the mouse, and eventually it'll start clicking and moving around on its own, which is very annoying.
This 4.0 has lasted longer than previous ones, over a year now, but the left button is showing some signs of wear, and it doesn't always accept clicks.
Minimum programming to make it work.. well, I still remember the long fights with X input device to get the IMPS/2 to work.. good thing that's mostly sorted now, and it configures without too much hassle.
I've used MS Natural Keyboard only briefly, but some of my friends vouch that it's awesome to use, and another product worth buying.
I still perfer my Model M though.
> I only get like 300 hits a month (and 2/3 of them are from within my own network). Sigh...
Popularity doesn't always tell how useful certain site is. Maybe your site has content that's useful only for people mostly from near you(in your network).
I still use my rio 500 too, though it shows some wear and tear, the silver color has almost worn off and now it is starting to look like ipod with almost white shade. I've managed to kill the device twice while transferring files to it when the battery was low. Luckily I still managed to find the re-flash prog for the gray checkerscreen problem that was made to fix some bad firmware flash type situation. I tried it and it fixed the player both times. I haven't had any problems with the battery cover. I keep mine always in the elastic container that came with the player. Only thing that annoys me with rio is that it's hard to find management software for it. Anyone who tried the original rioport software understands why it sucked so bad. Most sites with rio tools such as riorio are already gone, but luckily there's still opensource tools on linux side.
I use 3 gmail accounts as backup solution for one critical project. Actually it's just one of the 5 places where I keep copy of the data, so if google decides to ban gmailfs, I still have 4 places to go if I need to retrieve the data from backup.
> they cannot use the thousands of GPL-based drivers included in Linux.
What exactly is stopping that? If the drivers are under GPL, you can grab them and compile them on your target platform, and use them, just don't distribute them in compiled binary. Only downside is that you need to have compiler installed in that system where you plan to use the drivers.
Sun should just "emulate" the linux way of supporting drivers for all the devices they don't support natively yet. The source is there, and since it's GPL, they can get it, read it, and implement something similar so that it wouldn't violate the GPL.
Is that guide location aware aswell? I don't need to know that 911 is emergency number in USA if I need to call 112 for ambulance in rest of the world.
Usually when application requires low current and max lifetime, the led isn't burned constantly, but rather is switched on and off at high frequency, thus creating an image of constantly burning light.
The switching might double the led lifetime since the substrate is on only half of the time, but then again the constant switching might wear the substrate off faster than constant burning, the quality of the substrate used plays important role here, better quality, longer lifetime. Differences might appear even in leds made from same quality substrate used side by side on board.
When I was in high school, we used to order in pizza to the students lounge, when the cafeteria food was something that we didn't appreciate so much. But now that I'm in college and have to pay for my food I've gained some respect to the random cafeteria lunch, it wasn't always good, but atleast it was free.
Ever tried installing windows on machine with only sata drives and no floppy drive?
You'd probably find out that the installer dies when it cannot find your hard drive, and you can't install extra drivers since you dont have a floppy drive.
Well you're right, you cannot set the timezone since the installer doesn't go that far so windows is no go on modern high-end machines without some slipstreaming to the cd.
> can you say that you can use a 6-year old PC without any siginificant upgrades and still run the latest OS and software and be productive with it?
My w2k3 domain controllers are p3 500MHz with 256Mb ram, and those are running without complaining too much.
Performance logs show constant cpu load around 30 to 60% but the system works just fine even under load.
Only significant upgrade was the extra 128Mb ram.
And these machines were closer to $1000 than $2000 per piece when bought.
That is expensive, when comparing Hz/€. You can buy 1GHz machine with 128Mb memory and ethernet for 125€
Benefit on that device is that it is much more compact than normal desktop.
Might be nice to use these in home automation to control lights, open and close shaders etc.
Only reason why I'm using linux on my desktop instead windows or solaris is that it's the only system that currently has working drivers and software for my tv-tuner card.
Device drivers matter alot, atleast to me.
SWIFT has security measures against money laundry so you'd need to have lots of accounts since the directly transferred money sum is limited to 10K or so and each account has transaction limit which cannot be exceeded.
If you try to process sum larger that that, it will be verified by a person in bank before it gets transferred to the target account, so there's delay of couple days in the transfer, if it gets accepted.
In a weird way, I have to give some credit to the botnet operator(s) who are running 50,000 machine botnet. That is, assuming they actually wrote the bot software themselves.
It's not easy to write networking application that would scale well, especially when you have n amount of peers and each peer has unknown amount of bandwidth.
If the machines can cross-communicate without centralized server and scale up to 50 000, that's one nice application.
now, only if they would use them for something else than extortion and crime..
Apparently the suit was filed some time ago.
Back then the site was different, though it's not the same color, but not that far away from the milka.de color.
Imagine your house burning down with all your documents with it. Since you are orphan, you don't have any relatives with neccessary documentation to prove who you are either.
Now you're stuck in a situation without any documentation about who you are. Only option is some trusted person who could identify you. With the "friends" help, you might be able to get new identity card with false name, assuming you know your place of birth and social security number.
I'd assume they would ask alot more questions before actually giving the new ID to verify that you really are who you claim to be.
The company that manufactures the ID's there, (Guessing it's setec ) probably has your old picture in archive, which they could compare to your new picture.
And if you look too much different from the old picture it would probably end the process there.
I don't want to go any further in detail, but I'm just saying, it's not impossible to take over someone elses identity, although it might be lot of work.
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I bought one too, because I liked the 5 year warranty that came with it, and the store had 30%-off from old product offer.
My 4th explorer mouse going.. I've had revisions 1.1, 3.0, 3.1 and currently 4.0.
The cable has design error which causes the cord to wear out at the point where it connects to the mouse, and eventually it'll start clicking and moving around on its own, which is very annoying.
This 4.0 has lasted longer than previous ones, over a year now, but the left button is showing some signs of wear, and it doesn't always accept clicks.
Minimum programming to make it work.. well, I still remember the long fights with X input device to get the IMPS/2 to work.. good thing that's mostly sorted now, and it configures without too much hassle.
I've used MS Natural Keyboard only briefly, but some of my friends vouch that it's awesome to use, and another product worth buying.
I still perfer my Model M though.
video conferencing.. the politically correct way to say, streaming porn
> I only get like 300 hits a month (and 2/3 of them are from within my own network). Sigh...
Popularity doesn't always tell how useful certain site is.
Maybe your site has content that's useful only for people mostly from near you(in your network).
TIFF and JPEG are compressed image types professionals want RAW uncompressed image for maximum quality
I guess adobe photoshop isn't nikon's choice for professional image processing then, or the license was too much for adobe to invest in.
I still use my rio 500 too, though it shows some wear and tear, the silver color has almost worn off and now it is starting to look like ipod with almost white shade.
I've managed to kill the device twice while transferring files to it when the battery was low.
Luckily I still managed to find the re-flash prog for the gray checkerscreen problem that was made to fix some bad firmware flash type situation.
I tried it and it fixed the player both times.
I haven't had any problems with the battery cover. I keep mine always in the elastic container that came with the player.
Only thing that annoys me with rio is that it's hard to find management software for it.
Anyone who tried the original rioport software understands why it sucked so bad.
Most sites with rio tools such as riorio are already gone, but luckily there's still opensource tools on linux side.
all I can say is that's some expensive popcorn
I use 3 gmail accounts as backup solution for one critical project.
Actually it's just one of the 5 places where I keep copy of the data, so if google decides to ban gmailfs, I still have 4 places to go if I need to retrieve the data from backup.
> they cannot use the thousands of GPL-based drivers included in Linux.
What exactly is stopping that?
If the drivers are under GPL, you can grab them and compile them on your target platform, and use them, just don't distribute them in compiled binary. Only downside is that you need to have compiler installed in that system where you plan to use the drivers.
Sun should just "emulate" the linux way of supporting drivers for all the devices they don't support natively yet.
The source is there, and since it's GPL, they can get it, read it, and implement something similar so that it wouldn't violate the GPL.
Is that guide location aware aswell?
I don't need to know that 911 is emergency number in USA if I need to call 112 for ambulance in rest of the world.
Usually when application requires low current and max lifetime, the led isn't burned constantly, but rather is switched on and off at high frequency, thus creating an image of constantly burning light.
The switching might double the led lifetime since the substrate is on only half of the time, but then again the constant switching might wear the substrate off faster than constant burning, the quality of the substrate used plays important role here, better quality, longer lifetime. Differences might appear even in leds made from same quality substrate used side by side on board.
bullshit
The cx88 cards you list are DVB(which is pretty much HDTV standard outside USA) cards and they spit out transport stream which is mpeg2.
The quality is superior compared to the crap analog cards featured here because the transmitted signal is digital, not analog.
When I was in high school, we used to order in pizza to the students lounge, when the cafeteria food was something that we didn't appreciate so much. But now that I'm in college and have to pay for my food I've gained some respect to the random cafeteria lunch, it wasn't always good, but atleast it was free.
Ever tried installing windows on machine with only sata drives and no floppy drive?
You'd probably find out that the installer dies when it cannot find your hard drive, and you can't install extra drivers since you dont have a floppy drive.
Well you're right, you cannot set the timezone since the installer doesn't go that far so windows is no go on modern high-end machines without some slipstreaming to the cd.
> can you say that you can use a 6-year old PC without any siginificant upgrades and still run the latest OS and software and be productive with it?
My w2k3 domain controllers are p3 500MHz with 256Mb ram, and those are running without complaining too much.
Performance logs show constant cpu load around 30 to 60% but the system works just fine even under load.
Only significant upgrade was the extra 128Mb ram.
And these machines were closer to $1000 than $2000 per piece when bought.
That is expensive, when comparing Hz/€. You can buy 1GHz machine with 128Mb memory and ethernet for 125€
Benefit on that device is that it is much more compact than normal desktop.
Might be nice to use these in home automation to control lights, open and close shaders etc.
I bet his ears hurt after few hours of listening, that ipod stuck between the cushion must feel awful.
He should use something like this instead
from AFP website:
Copyright:
©AFP 2005 . All rights reserved. Users may download and print extracts of contents from this website for personal and non-commercial use only, provided they do not remove any copyright, trademarks or other proprietary notices. Except as provided above, users may not reproduce, publish, sell, distribute or in any way commercially exploit contents from this website without the prior written consent of AFP. AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
I think that locks it down properly. Google just violated their copyright by reproducing and publishing their content without consent.
Only reason why I'm using linux on my desktop instead windows or solaris is that it's the only system that currently has working drivers and software for my tv-tuner card.
Device drivers matter alot, atleast to me.
"two pennies of your thoughts"
"humm"
EWGAD *slap*
please think of the humanity and patent this quick
SWIFT has security measures against money laundry so you'd need to have lots of accounts since the directly transferred money sum is limited to 10K or so and each account has transaction limit which cannot be exceeded.
If you try to process sum larger that that, it will be verified by a person in bank before it gets transferred to the target account, so there's delay of couple days in the transfer, if it gets accepted.
In a weird way, I have to give some credit to the botnet operator(s) who are running 50,000 machine botnet. That is, assuming they actually wrote the bot software themselves.
It's not easy to write networking application that would scale well, especially when you have n amount of peers and each peer has unknown amount of bandwidth.
If the machines can cross-communicate without centralized server and scale up to 50 000, that's one nice application.
now, only if they would use them for something else than extortion and crime..
I'm guessing the story goes something like this
Apparently the suit was filed some time ago.
Back then the site was different, though it's not the same color, but not that far away from the milka.de color.
Imagine your house burning down with all your documents with it. Since you are orphan, you don't have any relatives with neccessary documentation to prove who you are either.
Now you're stuck in a situation without any documentation about who you are. Only option is some trusted person who could identify you. With the "friends" help, you might be able to get new identity card with false name, assuming you know your place of birth and social security number. I'd assume they would ask alot more questions before actually giving the new ID to verify that you really are who you claim to be.
The company that manufactures the ID's there, (Guessing it's setec ) probably has your old picture in archive, which they could compare to your new picture.
And if you look too much different from the old picture it would probably end the process there.
I don't want to go any further in detail, but I'm just saying, it's not impossible to take over someone elses identity, although it might be lot of work.