We've had great luck using EVO in our research group, and I've helped set up "videoconferencing" computers in a few rooms on campus. Take a relatively modern computer with a video card (we've been using nVidia GeForce 9500 GT cards, or something comparable), connect a webcam and a projector, buy a decent echo-canceling microphone/speaker (we've had good luck with Phoenix Audio Quattro2 devices (www.phnxaudio.com)) and you can have a decent videoconferencing setup for not too much money.
EVO also has support for connecting to SIP and H.323 systems, so you can use your EVO setup as a plain H.323 client or allow H.323 users (Polycom systems or whatever) to join your EVO meeting. And all meetings include telephone bridge access so users who have old computers, no microphones, or microphones that cause echo can join the meeting, too. You can also record all the audio and video streams to your hard drive and play the entire meeting back later. All for free.
The EVO website suffers from a bit of poor English, and the user interface is a bit to "happy" for me (lots of colorful icons all over the place), but if you can overlook that, it really is a great system that's been working remarkably well for us.
Regardless of how well-known the secret key combo is, it's still a real dickish move for the window manager to hide the OK buttons on dialog boxes from you. The magical Gnomes in your netbook are laughing as you struggle to deal with their crap.
The first time Ubuntu displays a dialog box that can't entirely fit on the screen, a helpful message should pop up and explain:
1. How to view the entire contents of the window.
2. Where to read more about window management in Ubuntu.
3. How to turn off this particular helpful message (or all helpful messages).
The operating system is certainly capable of detecting when it's put a window on the screen that is too big to fit and can't be resized, and it should instantly provide help with this. Expecting a user to find the help system and drill down to section 2.3.2 is a bit much, especially when their desktop is now stuck on 400x300 (or whatever they've mistakenly selected).
The PhysOrg article is a bit misleading. I work in the Lewis Group on a solar energy project but am somewhat familiar with the nose research. Work on the electronic nose in the group has been ongoing since at least 1994 (one of the first articles our group published on it is here), and a more accurate (but outdated) description of the research is available on the group site. Several other groups have been doing similar research for some time. Current work in the group includes the development of mathematical models to describe sensor response, the use of various nanomaterials as sensors, the development of spatiotemporal sensor arrays, and the creation of piezoelectric chemical vapor sensors. The current research is interesting and exciting, but the tone of the PhysOrg article would have been more approprate had it been written 10-15 years ago.
If you're not comfortable with their website, you can give them a call at 888-567-8688. This number is usually listed somewhere in the fine print at the bottom of the credit offers you receive in the mail. If you call the number, however, they do encourage you to use the website if you can.
I'm not sure that entering the information over the phone is significantly safer than entering it online, but it's nice that they provide both options for folks like you.
Shortly after the Foonet incident discussed in the parent's link, I visited the address believed to be the Foonet datacenter (5407 Taylor Lane Ave, Hilliard, OH 43026) and took a few pictures. So check out the possible datacenter. The yard had been mowed recently, and the car in the driveway was for sale, but it didn't look like anyone was living there at the time.
In Windows Explorer, if you're at C:\Documents and Settings\Some User, you'll see "Some User's Documents" listed. Opening this changes the path in the address bar to C:\Documents and Settings\Some User\My Documents, not C:\Documents and Settings\Some User\Some User's Documents. Also, a directory listing with "dir" shows "My Documents" instead of "Some User's Documents", so it seems that the actual directory's name is "My Documents" for all users, and that this is sometimes shown as "Some User's Documents" in Windows Explorer to avoid (or cause) confusion.
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How does anyone not know what DropBox is?
We've had great luck using EVO in our research group, and I've helped set up "videoconferencing" computers in a few rooms on campus. Take a relatively modern computer with a video card (we've been using nVidia GeForce 9500 GT cards, or something comparable), connect a webcam and a projector, buy a decent echo-canceling microphone/speaker (we've had good luck with Phoenix Audio Quattro2 devices (www.phnxaudio.com)) and you can have a decent videoconferencing setup for not too much money. EVO also has support for connecting to SIP and H.323 systems, so you can use your EVO setup as a plain H.323 client or allow H.323 users (Polycom systems or whatever) to join your EVO meeting. And all meetings include telephone bridge access so users who have old computers, no microphones, or microphones that cause echo can join the meeting, too. You can also record all the audio and video streams to your hard drive and play the entire meeting back later. All for free. The EVO website suffers from a bit of poor English, and the user interface is a bit to "happy" for me (lots of colorful icons all over the place), but if you can overlook that, it really is a great system that's been working remarkably well for us.
You always experience a hardware issue requiring a hard drive replacement every time you upgrade a Mac OS? Yikes!
Regardless of how well-known the secret key combo is, it's still a real dickish move for the window manager to hide the OK buttons on dialog boxes from you. The magical Gnomes in your netbook are laughing as you struggle to deal with their crap.
The first time Ubuntu displays a dialog box that can't entirely fit on the screen, a helpful message should pop up and explain: 1. How to view the entire contents of the window. 2. Where to read more about window management in Ubuntu. 3. How to turn off this particular helpful message (or all helpful messages). The operating system is certainly capable of detecting when it's put a window on the screen that is too big to fit and can't be resized, and it should instantly provide help with this. Expecting a user to find the help system and drill down to section 2.3.2 is a bit much, especially when their desktop is now stuck on 400x300 (or whatever they've mistakenly selected).
You need to use your dictionary to look up "sense of entitlement" instead of just "entitlement".
...and millions of companies realized they didn't need to finance searches for aliens.
The PhysOrg article is a bit misleading. I work in the Lewis Group on a solar energy project but am somewhat familiar with the nose research. Work on the electronic nose in the group has been ongoing since at least 1994 (one of the first articles our group published on it is here), and a more accurate (but outdated) description of the research is available on the group site. Several other groups have been doing similar research for some time. Current work in the group includes the development of mathematical models to describe sensor response, the use of various nanomaterials as sensors, the development of spatiotemporal sensor arrays, and the creation of piezoelectric chemical vapor sensors. The current research is interesting and exciting, but the tone of the PhysOrg article would have been more approprate had it been written 10-15 years ago.
If you're not comfortable with their website, you can give them a call at 888-567-8688. This number is usually listed somewhere in the fine print at the bottom of the credit offers you receive in the mail. If you call the number, however, they do encourage you to use the website if you can. I'm not sure that entering the information over the phone is significantly safer than entering it online, but it's nice that they provide both options for folks like you.
Shortly after the Foonet incident discussed in the parent's link, I visited the address believed to be the Foonet datacenter (5407 Taylor Lane Ave, Hilliard, OH 43026) and took a few pictures. So check out the possible datacenter. The yard had been mowed recently, and the car in the driveway was for sale, but it didn't look like anyone was living there at the time.
If your state publishes sex offender addresses online, that sounds like public information, not private information.
In Windows Explorer, if you're at C:\Documents and Settings\Some User, you'll see "Some User's Documents" listed. Opening this changes the path in the address bar to C:\Documents and Settings\Some User\My Documents, not C:\Documents and Settings\Some User\Some User's Documents. Also, a directory listing with "dir" shows "My Documents" instead of "Some User's Documents", so it seems that the actual directory's name is "My Documents" for all users, and that this is sometimes shown as "Some User's Documents" in Windows Explorer to avoid (or cause) confusion.