Meh. Magnetic fields do not affect SD cards in the slightest. After discovering this, I've used a strong magnet to organise my cards for 2 years now. Just stick 'em to the magnet and you don't lose them. Unless you're thick enough to lose the magnet, in which case you probably shouldn't be let near a computer.
So far, I've never had a single problem. *Crosses fingers, touches wood, etc.*
I'm a home user, and I have an XP Pro box that is connected directly to the internet, but has 47 critical updates to install. Why haven't I installed them? Because at least one causes the computer to crash randomly and I don't know which one it is.
So I have a firewall installed, and Norton (which, for the record, is crap - I'm sick of it popping up a little box saying, "Error: A virus has been detected but could not be removed")
I might try installing SP2 on it, but I still think it'll start it crashing again.
And I always thought that it was the porjectionist that was supposed to bootleg movies. He's let the whole profession down...;)
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However, the thing is, you're going to cause more eyestrain by running an LCD monitor at a low resolution. The text looks blurred and out of focus yet your eyes are instintively trying to bring it in to focus. In... out... in.... out. So your eyes get tired.
Get a big monitor, but run it at it's specified resolution and whack up the font sizes. Also, if you get an LCD, use a DVI input. Then you don't have to worry about refresh rates, IIRC.
Ah, you ought to live in the UK. Here everything has to come with at least a one year manufacturer's warranty (they CAN'T get out of that) and after that the shop is responsible for the product for a further 5 years. I didn't know about the 5 years bit till I read the Trading Standards website.
It's easy enough to fake a scanner than looks at the physical pattern of your finger, but wouldn't those biometric scanners that measure resistance etc over the finger be difficult to fool with a latex mold?
Hotmail and Lycos are missing the point here - people aren't flocking to Google cause of the 1GB of space; it's because of the innovative design; the powerful search; the conversation layout; the lack of intrusive ads etc.
They have to fix the fact that their services are crap before handing out space willy-nilly.
Agreed wholeheartedly. If you hand your details to a website and it then sells them, it's a violation of trust and privacy.
However, I think I read that nearly all spam comes from China, where ye great Communist government is keener to block anti-government propoganda than it is to cut down on the waves of spam radiating from is country. What can we do about it except turn our filters up?
No, it's not an offence to install your own equipment.
I installed a second line myself (BT just switched it on down at the exchange) and after I acccidentally demolished the current routing box into the house (don't ask...) I got a new one free of charge. I just found a BT van and asked the driver for the stuff when he was on his lunch break.
Besides, all the boxes (master and slave) are available at any DIY shop - if it's an offence to install them, why are they for sale? Hell, most even have the official BT logo on.
At least in the UK, installing stuff to do with phone lines is ridiculously easy - you only have two wires, and as it's AC, they work either way round. Only issue is that it hurts if you touch the bare ends.
I'm sure if you dug up the line leading into your house you're probably on dodgy legal ground, but you can do what you like to it within reason once it's in the house. Of course, if you don't have a basic grasp of electrical components and how to use the tools for the telephone sockets, you're perhaps not best equipped to fiddle.
I hate to bitch, but please remember that some sites require their ads to survive. I'm not talking about pop-ups (disgusting things) but plain and simple banner ads.
Do they really upset you that much that you can't even bear to look at them? You are the ones contributing to the growing commercialisation of the internet by forcing sites to resort to subscription services and ways around the pop-up blockers.
And, as a footnote, my own site has no pop-ups and all the ads are selected personally and screened by me. (http://www.pocketgamer.org) - do these ads really ruin your browsing experience?
Sorry, I don't see why my license fee money should be used to provide security updates to those people who steal other people's software. Sure, loads of people hate Microsoft, but that's no reason to steal from them.
Secondly, I have a decent firewall installed and a virus checker. I've never suffered from a virus in 10 years, and nothing dodgy has ever got through my hardware firewall. Blaster? I had the patch installed, and I had no extra traffic on my network cause those machines were patched too. Nothing came in from the outside because of the firewall.
I'm quite pleased with this move by MS - I read today that 98% of software in China is pirated. Interesting how the government will flock to ban websites and games they disagree with, but won't lift a finger to stop piracy. When China's lights go out cause of the newest virus/worm/trogan/nasty thing, I can assure you that I won't feel sorry for them.
Windows Media Player could playback Real Audio files. I like to listen to the BBC radio stations but the BBC won't use anything other than Real. Why should I have to install something so full of spyware just to listen to the radio?
Windows Media Player works, WM10 is nearly 2x quicker on my Tablet than the previous version; it looks prettier, and it works. I like it.
In the UK, where 75% of the cost of fuel goes to the tax man, you most definitely have to pay tax on your biodiesel. (Along with your road tax, but that's another debate!)
How much do you pay for fuel in the US? Over here it's about $1.60 a litre in most places, though it can vary by 10c either way.
I don't suffer from spam as much as I do from emails bouncing back to my inbox from the sender saying "YOU'VE GOT A VIRUS!!!!!"
After checking headers, none of these have come from my server but they have my name and email address as the sender. It pisses me off no end when I get near enough a thousand of these a day when none of them are from me.
That's the reason so much useless traffic is on the net - bounced email reports pinging backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards and, well, you get the idea.
Would it really kill this software to check to make sure that the sender's domain and reported email address match?
I think you're missing the whole point of Star Trek in the 21st century. Going around and meeting alien races is boring. Overcoming cultural differences? Boring.
Enterprise is entertaining when they start blowing things up - the best Star Trek episodes are when the crew are fighting against conflict. For example, IMHO the best Voyager episode was the two parter where they were seriously beaten up by the time ship. The crew left, and you were left wondering "How the hell are they going to get out of this one?"
The best episodes this season have been the clone one and the brain injury - I have to admit that the clone one affected me far deeper than I thought it would, and that surprised me a lot.
No Star Trek episode is entertaining unless they get into a fight. Yes, I'm shallow. So what?
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, it's just scanning your DNA instead.
Obligatory Red Dwarf quote:
"That groinal attachment was supposed to have a lifetime warranty - you've worn in out in a week!"
Meh. Magnetic fields do not affect SD cards in the slightest. After discovering this, I've used a strong magnet to organise my cards for 2 years now. Just stick 'em to the magnet and you don't lose them. Unless you're thick enough to lose the magnet, in which case you probably shouldn't be let near a computer.
So far, I've never had a single problem. *Crosses fingers, touches wood, etc.*
That has to be a record - 30 comments and their server's gone down.
I'm a home user, and I have an XP Pro box that is connected directly to the internet, but has 47 critical updates to install. Why haven't I installed them? Because at least one causes the computer to crash randomly and I don't know which one it is. So I have a firewall installed, and Norton (which, for the record, is crap - I'm sick of it popping up a little box saying, "Error: A virus has been detected but could not be removed") I might try installing SP2 on it, but I still think it'll start it crashing again.
And I always thought that it was the porjectionist that was supposed to bootleg movies. He's let the whole profession down... ;)
However, the thing is, you're going to cause more eyestrain by running an LCD monitor at a low resolution. The text looks blurred and out of focus yet your eyes are instintively trying to bring it in to focus. In... out... in.... out. So your eyes get tired. Get a big monitor, but run it at it's specified resolution and whack up the font sizes. Also, if you get an LCD, use a DVI input. Then you don't have to worry about refresh rates, IIRC.
Ah, you ought to live in the UK. Here everything has to come with at least a one year manufacturer's warranty (they CAN'T get out of that) and after that the shop is responsible for the product for a further 5 years. I didn't know about the 5 years bit till I read the Trading Standards website.
Wouldn't it be easier for him to just hold his breath?
It's easy enough to fake a scanner than looks at the physical pattern of your finger, but wouldn't those biometric scanners that measure resistance etc over the finger be difficult to fool with a latex mold?
Hotmail and Lycos are missing the point here - people aren't flocking to Google cause of the 1GB of space; it's because of the innovative design; the powerful search; the conversation layout; the lack of intrusive ads etc.
They have to fix the fact that their services are crap before handing out space willy-nilly.
So what's new? The British always get ripped off. The 15GB iPod sells in the UK for 250... which is approximately $454.
Agreed wholeheartedly. If you hand your details to a website and it then sells them, it's a violation of trust and privacy.
However, I think I read that nearly all spam comes from China, where ye great Communist government is keener to block anti-government propoganda than it is to cut down on the waves of spam radiating from is country. What can we do about it except turn our filters up?
Won't they have spent far more designing and building the craft then they could even win back from the X-Prize?
"CAUTION: Do not get this product wet. Water ingress in invalidate your warranty."
Is it printed in the Mirror? They had rather a successful run with fake photos of soldiers.
Are you sure the rusty thing isn't copper?
You think you had it tough? I just ported Linux to my slide rule...
No, it's not an offence to install your own equipment.
I installed a second line myself (BT just switched it on down at the exchange) and after I acccidentally demolished the current routing box into the house (don't ask...) I got a new one free of charge. I just found a BT van and asked the driver for the stuff when he was on his lunch break.
Besides, all the boxes (master and slave) are available at any DIY shop - if it's an offence to install them, why are they for sale? Hell, most even have the official BT logo on.
At least in the UK, installing stuff to do with phone lines is ridiculously easy - you only have two wires, and as it's AC, they work either way round. Only issue is that it hurts if you touch the bare ends.
I'm sure if you dug up the line leading into your house you're probably on dodgy legal ground, but you can do what you like to it within reason once it's in the house. Of course, if you don't have a basic grasp of electrical components and how to use the tools for the telephone sockets, you're perhaps not best equipped to fiddle.
I hate to bitch, but please remember that some sites require their ads to survive. I'm not talking about pop-ups (disgusting things) but plain and simple banner ads.
Do they really upset you that much that you can't even bear to look at them? You are the ones contributing to the growing commercialisation of the internet by forcing sites to resort to subscription services and ways around the pop-up blockers.
And, as a footnote, my own site has no pop-ups and all the ads are selected personally and screened by me. (http://www.pocketgamer.org) - do these ads really ruin your browsing experience?
Sorry, I don't see why my license fee money should be used to provide security updates to those people who steal other people's software. Sure, loads of people hate Microsoft, but that's no reason to steal from them.
Secondly, I have a decent firewall installed and a virus checker. I've never suffered from a virus in 10 years, and nothing dodgy has ever got through my hardware firewall. Blaster? I had the patch installed, and I had no extra traffic on my network cause those machines were patched too. Nothing came in from the outside because of the firewall.
I'm quite pleased with this move by MS - I read today that 98% of software in China is pirated. Interesting how the government will flock to ban websites and games they disagree with, but won't lift a finger to stop piracy. When China's lights go out cause of the newest virus/worm/trogan/nasty thing, I can assure you that I won't feel sorry for them.
Windows Media Player could playback Real Audio files. I like to listen to the BBC radio stations but the BBC won't use anything other than Real. Why should I have to install something so full of spyware just to listen to the radio? Windows Media Player works, WM10 is nearly 2x quicker on my Tablet than the previous version; it looks prettier, and it works. I like it.
In the UK, where 75% of the cost of fuel goes to the tax man, you most definitely have to pay tax on your biodiesel. (Along with your road tax, but that's another debate!) How much do you pay for fuel in the US? Over here it's about $1.60 a litre in most places, though it can vary by 10c either way.
I don't suffer from spam as much as I do from emails bouncing back to my inbox from the sender saying "YOU'VE GOT A VIRUS!!!!!"
After checking headers, none of these have come from my server but they have my name and email address as the sender. It pisses me off no end when I get near enough a thousand of these a day when none of them are from me.
That's the reason so much useless traffic is on the net - bounced email reports pinging backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards and, well, you get the idea.
Would it really kill this software to check to make sure that the sender's domain and reported email address match?
I think you're missing the whole point of Star Trek in the 21st century. Going around and meeting alien races is boring. Overcoming cultural differences? Boring.
Enterprise is entertaining when they start blowing things up - the best Star Trek episodes are when the crew are fighting against conflict. For example, IMHO the best Voyager episode was the two parter where they were seriously beaten up by the time ship. The crew left, and you were left wondering "How the hell are they going to get out of this one?"
The best episodes this season have been the clone one and the brain injury - I have to admit that the clone one affected me far deeper than I thought it would, and that surprised me a lot.
No Star Trek episode is entertaining unless they get into a fight. Yes, I'm shallow. So what?
D'oh! I've got just over 11000 error emails in my Inbox.
The server is still up and running - if you refresh it will load.