Yeah, but even that isn't an ideal solution. It requires re-downloading and installing FireFox, and it can't even be bothered to clean up after itself. (NO - I don't like the FireFox Installer left on my desktop!)
At least with IE the patches are less than 1MB in general and don't require a whole reinstall of the browser.
No software is running on the PC connected to the internet. That's the beauty of it, because it lets any OS connect. When you connect for the first time, the gateway detects this and sends you to a registration webpage where you enter your university username and password. This identifies your PC, and you're issued with a static IP which follows your computer around.
If, at any point, your computer is identified as a source of viruses, this IP is revoked and you can't access the net any more. Simple, no?
No idea what the software is, but if you email helpdesk@leeds.ac.uk they might tell you.
I work as a "student advisor" at Leeds University and every student is issued with a free license to McAfee Virusscan Enterprise.
When connecting for the first time, they have to enter their university username and password so the IP address can be tied to their MAC address and the computer logged.
If their software detects viral traffic from their PC, they're automatically cut off from the net and a webpage comes up explaining why. They don't get re-connected until myself (or one of my colleagues) verifies they have virus scanning software installed and their PC is clean.
First few weeks of term there were a lot of people cut off, but virus infections now are next to nothing because everyone has the software running.
Apart from this, the internet connection here is extremely good. Fast and reliable, and no port blocking.
I do feel sympathy for you with your height problems. However, having had a fat bastard sitting next to me on planes, I worry more about my comfort than yours.
Especially when you decide you want to rest your flabby arm on MY armrest, and bits of you overflow (mental image forming?) on to my seat.
It's a developer release. I remember it being stated earlier that it's primary purpose is for developers to test apps and drivers on. Hence it doesn't need all the visual features etc completed and running.
It's not a "demo" of Longhorn so people with a craze to see pretty icons on their PC can install it and show it off to friends.
I'd just like to say to any non-British resident that I expressly forbid you to download the new series.
My license fee paid for the Dalek (or at least the sink plunger), and I don't see why anyone other than me should enjoy it. After all, I'm always being told that it's "my BBC."
Anyone interested in an exclusive DVD can get in touch using the usual methods, supplying delivery address and credit card number. Doesn't have to be your card, I'm not picky.
I don't watch Star Trek for the "serious social issues."
I watch it for the spaceships. And Seven of Nine.
There was one Enterprise episode, however, that did leave a marked impression on me, and that was the one with the clone of Trip. It was written and acted perfectly and deserved a better review than it got.
Just create an enclosure that holds the drive and wrap 200 turns of wire around it. Connect that to an oscillating electric source. Probably doesn't need to be more than about 12V.
Even if it doesn't work, it'll give the drive one hell of a headache.
Hard drives aren't big enough for me. You ever tried working with more than an hour or so of uncompressed DV footage? Runs at nearly 1GB/minute, and if you have to edit it, you need yet another drive to dump the finished product on to if it's not going back to the camera. Modern drives are fast enough for what I want to do with them - roll on 1TB and above!
If you can get hold of one, a new Pocket PC with a VGA screen is fantastic for reading eBooks on. No jagged edges on the text, a bright backlight and reasonable battery life work well to give a good reading experience.
If you paid more attention instead of just shooting your mouth off, you'd have noticed that Microsoft came up with the searching idea first and Apple stole it off them.
Don't you remember the ads they put up about it last year? Apple are in it to make money, and they'll do that by whatever slimy tricks they can think of.
My University has a very enlightened policy - no ports whatsoever are blocked and any application will work, which is great for Bittorrent and other applications that need transparent net access.
However, if they receive information from outside the university (ie, from the RIAA) then they will take action and disconnect the user from the network.
This seems reasonable to me as only people actually breaking the law will suffer, and the legitimate users will be allowed to continue.
But ripping and re-encoding is a) slightly obscure to the average iTMS user, b) annoying, and c) (at least in theory) degrades the music quality so that it's unappealing to discerning ears and tech/audio-philes for whom (a) is not a factor.
It's 128kbps. It's unappealing to the discerning listener anyway.
My first year programming professor (Peter Millican) wrote this program to introduce us to Java (and those who had never programmed before to programming).
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/se15/TurtleJava/turt le java.htm
The advantage of using Turtle is that you can actually see what's happening. ie, forward(20), blot, etc.
It's simple, easy to illustrate, and you can do some cool things with recursion. If you download it, go to the help menu and choose some of the code examples.
I think primary school kids would be bored rigid with a "Hello World" program. With this, they can draw faces and see the computer actually "doing something."
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but even that isn't an ideal solution. It requires re-downloading and installing FireFox, and it can't even be bothered to clean up after itself. (NO - I don't like the FireFox Installer left on my desktop!)
At least with IE the patches are less than 1MB in general and don't require a whole reinstall of the browser.
You sure it's not something on your system? On my T40 Thinkpad with a 1.3 Centrino I show roughly 20% CPU usage when scrolling.
What does piss me off is the memory leak that springs up from time to time in FireFox.
No software is running on the PC connected to the internet. That's the beauty of it, because it lets any OS connect. When you connect for the first time, the gateway detects this and sends you to a registration webpage where you enter your university username and password. This identifies your PC, and you're issued with a static IP which follows your computer around.
If, at any point, your computer is identified as a source of viruses, this IP is revoked and you can't access the net any more. Simple, no?
No idea what the software is, but if you email helpdesk@leeds.ac.uk they might tell you.
I work as a "student advisor" at Leeds University and every student is issued with a free license to McAfee Virusscan Enterprise.
When connecting for the first time, they have to enter their university username and password so the IP address can be tied to their MAC address and the computer logged.
If their software detects viral traffic from their PC, they're automatically cut off from the net and a webpage comes up explaining why. They don't get re-connected until myself (or one of my colleagues) verifies they have virus scanning software installed and their PC is clean.
First few weeks of term there were a lot of people cut off, but virus infections now are next to nothing because everyone has the software running.
Apart from this, the internet connection here is extremely good. Fast and reliable, and no port blocking.
Brilliant. You slashdotted the past.
I do feel sympathy for you with your height problems. However, having had a fat bastard sitting next to me on planes, I worry more about my comfort than yours.
Especially when you decide you want to rest your flabby arm on MY armrest, and bits of you overflow (mental image forming?) on to my seat.
Won't kill you to lose a bit of weight.
It's a developer release. I remember it being stated earlier that it's primary purpose is for developers to test apps and drivers on. Hence it doesn't need all the visual features etc completed and running.
It's not a "demo" of Longhorn so people with a craze to see pretty icons on their PC can install it and show it off to friends.
I'd just like to say to any non-British resident that I expressly forbid you to download the new series.
My license fee paid for the Dalek (or at least the sink plunger), and I don't see why anyone other than me should enjoy it. After all, I'm always being told that it's "my BBC."
Anyone interested in an exclusive DVD can get in touch using the usual methods, supplying delivery address and credit card number. Doesn't have to be your card, I'm not picky.
I don't watch Star Trek for the "serious social issues."
I watch it for the spaceships. And Seven of Nine.
There was one Enterprise episode, however, that did leave a marked impression on me, and that was the one with the clone of Trip. It was written and acted perfectly and deserved a better review than it got.
Does that mean the President isn't allowed to just stroll into Area 51 and take a look around?
Just create an enclosure that holds the drive and wrap 200 turns of wire around it. Connect that to an oscillating electric source. Probably doesn't need to be more than about 12V.
Even if it doesn't work, it'll give the drive one hell of a headache.
Hard drives aren't big enough for me. You ever tried working with more than an hour or so of uncompressed DV footage? Runs at nearly 1GB/minute, and if you have to edit it, you need yet another drive to dump the finished product on to if it's not going back to the camera. Modern drives are fast enough for what I want to do with them - roll on 1TB and above!
Only in the Lego version...
The pointless thing is, you have to push a button to get the thing to respond to voice commands...
If you can get hold of one, a new Pocket PC with a VGA screen is fantastic for reading eBooks on. No jagged edges on the text, a bright backlight and reasonable battery life work well to give a good reading experience.
RTFA. The article actually states that the recovery company accessed the contents of the drive WITHOUT taking it apart.
I did think there was something wrong with my LCD monitor until I cleaned the crap off the screen!
220V is the common voltage in Europe and many other parts of the world, so it wouldn't seem to be quite as good as it would appear.
Dr Who is unlikely to be syndicated for quite some time, and I find it unlikely that this is aimed specifically at UK readers.
This means that the majority of the readers this article is aimed at people who must be downloading it illegally.
This honestly isn't a troll, just something that struck me.
If you paid more attention instead of just shooting your mouth off, you'd have noticed that Microsoft came up with the searching idea first and Apple stole it off them.
Don't you remember the ads they put up about it last year? Apple are in it to make money, and they'll do that by whatever slimy tricks they can think of.
My University has a very enlightened policy - no ports whatsoever are blocked and any application will work, which is great for Bittorrent and other applications that need transparent net access.
However, if they receive information from outside the university (ie, from the RIAA) then they will take action and disconnect the user from the network.
This seems reasonable to me as only people actually breaking the law will suffer, and the legitimate users will be allowed to continue.
For some pointless reason Americans like a month long break in the middle of their TV series.
:-)
Confuses the hell out of me, but then us Brits get frightened if something changes.
Actually, the easiest way to get a PIN is to stand behind someone and watch as they punch it in.
Alternatively, find a sweet little old lady and listen carefully at the checkout as she says the PIN out loud: "one...three...three...nine...enter."
But ripping and re-encoding is a) slightly obscure to the average iTMS user, b) annoying, and c) (at least in theory) degrades the music quality so that it's unappealing to discerning ears and tech/audio-philes for whom (a) is not a factor.
It's 128kbps. It's unappealing to the discerning listener anyway.
My first year programming professor (Peter Millican) wrote this program to introduce us to Java (and those who had never programmed before to programming).
t le java.htm
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/se15/TurtleJava/tur
The advantage of using Turtle is that you can actually see what's happening. ie, forward(20), blot, etc.
It's simple, easy to illustrate, and you can do some cool things with recursion. If you download it, go to the help menu and choose some of the code examples.
I think primary school kids would be bored rigid with a "Hello World" program. With this, they can draw faces and see the computer actually "doing something."