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Both of these cut out about once every 30 minutes, for about 5 seconds at a time.
I've experienced this part of your problem, my router would drop every 30 minutes or so for a few seconds. The fix was to update the firmware on the router, you should try that if you still have the same problem.
I've tried eight times in the last four years to be an Opera user, giving it (and other browsers) tryouts twice a year.
I'm sorry to say that Opera, for me at least, has felt like the Edsel of browsers. I'm not trying to start an "if browsers were cars..." thread, but it's the only thing I can relate it to.
The feature set to a new user is completely overwhelming. It's like they took every suggestion from a user survey and that's how the feature set was derived. I've always given them props for having the balls to continue selling a browser when the other choices are free, it's just too clunky for me.
The embedded ad bit never bothered me, I guess I got used to that with Eudora a few years back (work), but the layout to me was just too much. Before you counter in response, I know you can change/add/remove the panels, but I guess my thought is that all the features shouldn't need to be spread out before you. If the UI is intuitive, discovery is easy. If not, well, then you get an interface like this.
I don't think they're the worlds fastest browser as they claim either, in my experience Firefox whomps ass over all comers in speed.
...someone with brains will tell them that a WinXP setup won't cut it, and they'll replace it with a custom AdaOS
We can hope! I use the XP reference as a dating indicator. The article says it would take at least another 20 years to get it working. In the age of NT4, the system I was using- which was installed brand new 3 months before I started on it, was Windows 3.11. One of the other systems was a mainframe networked by satellite to the Philipines. Our terminals were the good ol green on black. Ahh, the good ol days.
Our government couldn't build Skynet if they tried. My first thought when I read this, having worked for the DLA/DoD and Army, was "It will cost three times what they say it will, be done 10 years late (which won't matter because it will have become obsolete 2 years from now) and run Windows XP."
First, I don't pretend to speak for you.
Usually I ignore posts like this.
Certain times, however, I may respond.
Knowing full-well it does no good.
Often, I'm misquoted or misread.
For this I get called an ass?
Fine.
Assume what you want.
Say what you want.
Speak your mind, it's your right.
Hell, mod it down if you like.
Odd that this post got so much flak.
Lots of others were actually controversial.
Except mine is where people over-react.
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oh jesus, whatever princess. Nobody blamed you for anything, nobody lied.
Since this has gone way offtopic and I can see how bad you want the last word, feel free to take it, no doubt you'll think it's a victory of some sort.
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Then, DunbarTheInept, I'm sorry to say that makes you demanding and intolerant. Bummer.
No, we're NOT all thinking it, as several others have already confirmed.
Totally, and on the other side of the coin, some people have agreed with me. So does that validate or invalidate my opinion? Neither- it's an opinion, it doesn't need validation.
I read your rant agaist the other guy
So then you saw the part about "literal" and "figurative" but yet you don't make this distinction either.
What's wrong with saying...
Not a thing. All perfectly valid. They're just not what I said. I will never make the claim that I am perfectly spoken, or written for that matter. I post here somewhat frequently, I read here several times a day, and there is a lot more bullshit coming out of people's mouths that warrant more criticism than what I said, but I welcome it all. Hell, I'll even take the time to write you back. I believe everyone has the right to say what's on their mind, including myself.
I guess I could have summed it all up many posts ago with a simple "Fuck me for trying to be funny and make a point at the same time." But I chose not to, and here we are.
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*yawn* OK, look. READ what I write before you bitch about it, make sure you start at the beginning of the sentence and pay attention to context.
A person is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to dictate the opinions of others.
Exactly, so why do you keep trying to force your point on what I said?
You know, I don't care what you demand, honestly, it's an open forum.
Hey, congratulations- you like the movie. That must mean that everyone did, then?
Hmm, maybe I should add a disclaimer to my sig (notice I said I and not we all) that qualifies all preceding text by the author as opinion unless stated otherwise.
Perhaps it's a fact that there is always one or more people who will take what's said by others as literal and not figurative. Some are people who are just dicks about it, but that's my opinion.
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...and rent Office Space.
Why do we always come back to this movie? Other than a few funny sequences and lines, it's basically boring. Yeah, I said it, but we're all thinking it!
It's because we've got nothing else that even comes close to the sad truth that is our life. It sucks so bad we've elevated the one movie of closest relevance to cult status.
As for books, 80% or more of the people here could fill volumes on the subject with anecdotes about management, TPS reports, shitty office hardware etc, etc, etc and if we did, you can bet they would always be compared to this movie.
Even my company's chief strategist (whatever the fuck that is) think's it's the greatest movie ever and never fails to quote it.
Spinal Tap is closer to geek life than Office Space.
My suggestion is only a partial solution, and like you said- given enough time, everything will fail.
Looking at the solutions mentioned so far, printing hard copies of your pics (be it yourself or from the photo-mart down the road) and archiving them in boxes made for photo archival is probably going to outlast any existing digital method for storage.
I myself have photographs that are 100 years or more in age and they're still in really good condition. I don't think I could say the same in another 80 years about the casettes (my earliest computer medium) I have with old data on them. While they still work now (!!) they probably won't for much longer.
The problem with HD storage is that all hard drives have a 100% failure rate. At some point, a motor will burn out, a platter will suffer some kind of damage or any number of other things. Given enough time, they will all fail.
Most people aren't going to notice this though because they typically replace HDs with a bigger/faster drive before the old one can fail.
One solution to this is to buy one of those huge (GB-wise) external drives, periodically save your data to it and then unplug it.
There are already a number of companies that handle and store archived digital data, data warehousing it's called I believe, for corporations and the gov't. I imagine that once it becomes a need for the average consumer, we'll hear about it.
Last year I bought a new laptop. When I was setting up my apps, I decided to ditch Eudora and look for a better mail client.
I tried out Pegasus Mail, Fox Mail, Mozilla mail, the Thunderbird standalone and PocoMail. PocoMail was the only one that wasn't free, and it was the one I chose in the end.
A number of reasons led to my choice:
1 - Built in spam engine (Bayesian filtering added in 3.1) and the best auto-junkmail filter of the apps I tested, includes learning filters
2 - UI totally configurable
3 - Ease of use. Everything was intuitive; layouts, menu items being where you would think they were, etc.
4 - Internal HTML viewer: it doesn't use embedded IE and thus IE exploits go out the window
5 - Doesn't execute JavaScript or VBScript: only supports PocoScript and only then if you tell it to. NOTE: also not affected by the latest JPG vulerability.
6 - Integrated automatically with both Panda Antivirus and later, Norton without me doing anything special.
I've used it for a little more than a year now and love it. It was worth the $40 I paid for it, and Poco has updates frequently. If you're looking for a new mail client, I would recommend taking a look at it.
If you were an average consumer, how many of the products that you buy are you able to look at and truly assess the quality of? Especially in consumer electronics, how many people can look at the casing of something and determine it is a qaulity item?
What you want is a magic product that costs the same as one cheaply made but lasts forever.
No I don't. I don't give a damn how much it costs to make, and it doesn't have to last forever. I'll pay whatever I think it's worth by looking at the options before me on the market and choosing the one that meets my needs for my budget. If I were to shell out $300 for an X-Box or PS2 (unit plus extra controller and a couple new games) it had better work for more than a few months. We're not talking about a $5 knock off of a Mag-lite, which you would expect probably works, but if it doesn't you're only out $5.
Some things, like cars for instance, have parts that wear out, indeed they are meant to, and that is a known cost of ownership. You're going to have to pay for oil, brakes, so on and so forth. Whould you buy a given model of car if you had to replace the onboard computer every year or overhaul the engine because the maker skimped on vital internal components? Not intentionally, no, but again- could you look at or even DRIVE a car and know that components of it were substandard? NO. Thus, Lemon Laws.
No, no you don't. That's the whole point to consumer protection laws. Companies that mass produce faulty products and sell them to the public should be held liable.
This isn't simply a case of one guy getting a bad system, a lot of people are experiencing the same kinds of failures which would seem to point to either faulty components, bad design or substandard manufacturing. What if it wasn't the drives? What if shitty wiring lead to these people being shocked? Or a poor quality power supply caught fire and burned down their houses? "Hey, whoa- it caught fire and ruined your life AFTER the 90 day warranty, sorry!"
If you really follow the "take your chances" line, then I envy you. Most people can not afford to throw away cash and hope whatever they buy holds up for more than 90 days, much less hope it's a benign failure.
Any attempt to use these stencils with your existing Dremel equipment is considered to be a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act...
Two ways to solve this problem.
1 - Wait for Real to come out with Harmony 2.0, which I hear is supposed to support even more hardware and thus let you use these files with your existing Dremel tools.
Most films shot now are digitized, or shot digitally in the first place.
Most films are not shot digitally, very very few films are shot digitally. Most films are still shot on film.
I wouldn't say older films are forgotten, not at all. Almost all of the studios (the big ones at least) started sending the old, original reels to the massive underground storage facility that I believe is run by Iron Mountain. Here they are kept in controlled temps and dust free.
We need a true retro-car company that ditches all the computer controls for good quality mechanics.
Why not build your own old car? It would be cheaper than paying someone else to do it, and if all of the systems are computer-free, it makes it way easier. The only resemblance to electronics in my current project car is the PCB behind the dash which is just a piece of phenolic sheet with 6 copper strips pressed into it and 6 leads sticking out for the harness to connect to- no chips, no transistors, capacitors or anything else.
I would never EVER knowingly put my life into the hands of a Windows-based vehicle. Sorry, I've used every version since 3.1, I don't want that crap responsible for vital sysems in my car.
As it stands, if my brakes go out- I'll be able to quickly try several things to bring it to a stop and be in control of the other systems at the same time. I don't need Windows saying something like "Fatal call to braking subroutine. Please stop the vehicle and restart." and locking up the rest of the car's systems leaving me there to kiss my ass goodbye.
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Both of these cut out about once every 30 minutes, for about 5 seconds at a time.
I've experienced this part of your problem, my router would drop every 30 minutes or so for a few seconds. The fix was to update the firmware on the router, you should try that if you still have the same problem.
I've tried eight times in the last four years to be an Opera user, giving it (and other browsers) tryouts twice a year.
I'm sorry to say that Opera, for me at least, has felt like the Edsel of browsers. I'm not trying to start an "if browsers were cars..." thread, but it's the only thing I can relate it to.
The feature set to a new user is completely overwhelming. It's like they took every suggestion from a user survey and that's how the feature set was derived. I've always given them props for having the balls to continue selling a browser when the other choices are free, it's just too clunky for me.
The embedded ad bit never bothered me, I guess I got used to that with Eudora a few years back (work), but the layout to me was just too much. Before you counter in response, I know you can change/add/remove the panels, but I guess my thought is that all the features shouldn't need to be spread out before you. If the UI is intuitive, discovery is easy. If not, well, then you get an interface like this.
I don't think they're the worlds fastest browser as they claim either, in my experience Firefox whomps ass over all comers in speed.
We can hope! I use the XP reference as a dating indicator. The article says it would take at least another 20 years to get it working. In the age of NT4, the system I was using- which was installed brand new 3 months before I started on it, was Windows 3.11. One of the other systems was a mainframe networked by satellite to the Philipines. Our terminals were the good ol green on black. Ahh, the good ol days.
Our government couldn't build Skynet if they tried. My first thought when I read this, having worked for the DLA/DoD and Army, was "It will cost three times what they say it will, be done 10 years late (which won't matter because it will have become obsolete 2 years from now) and run Windows XP."
First, I don't pretend to speak for you.
Usually I ignore posts like this.
Certain times, however, I may respond.
Knowing full-well it does no good.
Often, I'm misquoted or misread.
For this I get called an ass?
Fine.
Assume what you want.
Say what you want.
Speak your mind, it's your right.
Hell, mod it down if you like.
Odd that this post got so much flak.
Lots of others were actually controversial.
Except mine is where people over-react.
word.
oh jesus, whatever princess. Nobody blamed you for anything, nobody lied.
Since this has gone way offtopic and I can see how bad you want the last word, feel free to take it, no doubt you'll think it's a victory of some sort.
Then, DunbarTheInept, I'm sorry to say that makes you demanding and intolerant. Bummer.
No, we're NOT all thinking it, as several others have already confirmed.
Totally, and on the other side of the coin, some people have agreed with me. So does that validate or invalidate my opinion? Neither- it's an opinion, it doesn't need validation.
I read your rant agaist the other guy
So then you saw the part about "literal" and "figurative" but yet you don't make this distinction either.
What's wrong with saying...
Not a thing. All perfectly valid. They're just not what I said. I will never make the claim that I am perfectly spoken, or written for that matter. I post here somewhat frequently, I read here several times a day, and there is a lot more bullshit coming out of people's mouths that warrant more criticism than what I said, but I welcome it all. Hell, I'll even take the time to write you back. I believe everyone has the right to say what's on their mind, including myself.
I guess I could have summed it all up many posts ago with a simple "Fuck me for trying to be funny and make a point at the same time." But I chose not to, and here we are.
*yawn* OK, look. READ what I write before you bitch about it, make sure you start at the beginning of the sentence and pay attention to context.
A person is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to dictate the opinions of others.
Exactly, so why do you keep trying to force your point on what I said?
You know, I don't care what you demand, honestly, it's an open forum.
Hey, congratulations- you like the movie. That must mean that everyone did, then?
Hmm, maybe I should add a disclaimer to my sig (notice I said I and not we all) that qualifies all preceding text by the author as opinion unless stated otherwise.
Perhaps it's a fact that there is always one or more people who will take what's said by others as literal and not figurative. Some are people who are just dicks about it, but that's my opinion.
Why do we always come back to this movie? Other than a few funny sequences and lines, it's basically boring. Yeah, I said it, but we're all thinking it!
It's because we've got nothing else that even comes close to the sad truth that is our life. It sucks so bad we've elevated the one movie of closest relevance to cult status.
As for books, 80% or more of the people here could fill volumes on the subject with anecdotes about management, TPS reports, shitty office hardware etc, etc, etc and if we did, you can bet they would always be compared to this movie.
Even my company's chief strategist (whatever the fuck that is) think's it's the greatest movie ever and never fails to quote it.
Spinal Tap is closer to geek life than Office Space.
My suggestion is only a partial solution, and like you said- given enough time, everything will fail.
Looking at the solutions mentioned so far, printing hard copies of your pics (be it yourself or from the photo-mart down the road) and archiving them in boxes made for photo archival is probably going to outlast any existing digital method for storage.
I myself have photographs that are 100 years or more in age and they're still in really good condition. I don't think I could say the same in another 80 years about the casettes (my earliest computer medium) I have with old data on them. While they still work now (!!) they probably won't for much longer.
The problem with HD storage is that all hard drives have a 100% failure rate. At some point, a motor will burn out, a platter will suffer some kind of damage or any number of other things. Given enough time, they will all fail.
Most people aren't going to notice this though because they typically replace HDs with a bigger/faster drive before the old one can fail.
One solution to this is to buy one of those huge (GB-wise) external drives, periodically save your data to it and then unplug it.
There are already a number of companies that handle and store archived digital data, data warehousing it's called I believe, for corporations and the gov't. I imagine that once it becomes a need for the average consumer, we'll hear about it.
Put it on eBay and people will pay 4 times what it's worth, then re-sell it for half what they bought it for 2 months later. Reverse-economics.
So what happens when the computer gets hot?
It smells like corn tortillas, of course.
What I want to know is, can you make nachos from the discs that end up as the inevitable coasters?
Mmmmm, blu-ray disc nachos...
Last year I bought a new laptop. When I was setting up my apps, I decided to ditch Eudora and look for a better mail client.
I tried out Pegasus Mail, Fox Mail, Mozilla mail, the Thunderbird standalone and PocoMail. PocoMail was the only one that wasn't free, and it was the one I chose in the end.
A number of reasons led to my choice:
1 - Built in spam engine (Bayesian filtering added in 3.1) and the best auto-junkmail filter of the apps I tested, includes learning filters
2 - UI totally configurable
3 - Ease of use. Everything was intuitive; layouts, menu items being where you would think they were, etc.
4 - Internal HTML viewer: it doesn't use embedded IE and thus IE exploits go out the window
5 - Doesn't execute JavaScript or VBScript: only supports PocoScript and only then if you tell it to. NOTE: also not affected by the latest JPG vulerability.
6 - Integrated automatically with both Panda Antivirus and later, Norton without me doing anything special.
I've used it for a little more than a year now and love it. It was worth the $40 I paid for it, and Poco has updates frequently. If you're looking for a new mail client, I would recommend taking a look at it.
More info.
Look up caveat emptor
If you were an average consumer, how many of the products that you buy are you able to look at and truly assess the quality of? Especially in consumer electronics, how many people can look at the casing of something and determine it is a qaulity item?
What you want is a magic product that costs the same as one cheaply made but lasts forever.
No I don't. I don't give a damn how much it costs to make, and it doesn't have to last forever. I'll pay whatever I think it's worth by looking at the options before me on the market and choosing the one that meets my needs for my budget. If I were to shell out $300 for an X-Box or PS2 (unit plus extra controller and a couple new games) it had better work for more than a few months. We're not talking about a $5 knock off of a Mag-lite, which you would expect probably works, but if it doesn't you're only out $5.
Some things, like cars for instance, have parts that wear out, indeed they are meant to, and that is a known cost of ownership. You're going to have to pay for oil, brakes, so on and so forth. Whould you buy a given model of car if you had to replace the onboard computer every year or overhaul the engine because the maker skimped on vital internal components? Not intentionally, no, but again- could you look at or even DRIVE a car and know that components of it were substandard? NO. Thus, Lemon Laws.
Good luck with that.
Thanx! You too!
Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances.
No, no you don't. That's the whole point to consumer protection laws. Companies that mass produce faulty products and sell them to the public should be held liable.
This isn't simply a case of one guy getting a bad system, a lot of people are experiencing the same kinds of failures which would seem to point to either faulty components, bad design or substandard manufacturing. What if it wasn't the drives? What if shitty wiring lead to these people being shocked? Or a poor quality power supply caught fire and burned down their houses? "Hey, whoa- it caught fire and ruined your life AFTER the 90 day warranty, sorry!"
If you really follow the "take your chances" line, then I envy you. Most people can not afford to throw away cash and hope whatever they buy holds up for more than 90 days, much less hope it's a benign failure.
Any attempt to use these stencils with your existing Dremel equipment is considered to be a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act...
Two ways to solve this problem.
1 - Wait for Real to come out with Harmony 2.0, which I hear is supposed to support even more hardware and thus let you use these files with your existing Dremel tools.
2 - Use a Foredom instead.
What engineer decided a 1/4" depression would be suitable to hold a cup? Especially in an off-road vehicle, they're useless.
One solution
Not all hacks are hard
I'm going to go all-out l337 and install a water-cooling kit!
Ha! Mine CAME with liquid cooling!
Most films shot now are digitized, or shot digitally in the first place.
Most films are not shot digitally, very very few films are shot digitally. Most films are still shot on film.
I wouldn't say older films are forgotten, not at all. Almost all of the studios (the big ones at least) started sending the old, original reels to the massive underground storage facility that I believe is run by Iron Mountain. Here they are kept in controlled temps and dust free.
We need a true retro-car company that ditches all the computer controls for good quality mechanics.
Why not build your own old car? It would be cheaper than paying someone else to do it, and if all of the systems are computer-free, it makes it way easier. The only resemblance to electronics in my current project car is the PCB behind the dash which is just a piece of phenolic sheet with 6 copper strips pressed into it and 6 leads sticking out for the harness to connect to- no chips, no transistors, capacitors or anything else.
I would never EVER knowingly put my life into the hands of a Windows-based vehicle. Sorry, I've used every version since 3.1, I don't want that crap responsible for vital sysems in my car.
As it stands, if my brakes go out- I'll be able to quickly try several things to bring it to a stop and be in control of the other systems at the same time. I don't need Windows saying something like "Fatal call to braking subroutine. Please stop the vehicle and restart." and locking up the rest of the car's systems leaving me there to kiss my ass goodbye.