It didn't work when I tried earlier but it appears to be back up now. However, the program is having issues with installing on older versions of Symbian (i.e. Nokia 3650), of which Sydus is apparently aware of and is hoping to have some sort of an update out by Monday.
This is coming from the same company that spilled all of my personal information (SSN, account numbers, home address, phone number, etc.) when some of their computers were stolen last year. They then had the audacity to use this as a reason to advertise their credit-monitoring/fraud-prevention services. I can't imagine how bad this would have been if they were actually my bank.
This is good news considering one of my Sony plasmas refused to turn on after only a year (instead flashing an error code). After months of fighting Sony for support, they finally shipped a refurbished replacement from one end of the US to the other. This unit was purchased from Sound Advice as a consumer product and yet was treated as an "industrial" product, from both companies, when the need for support came along.
You missed my point completely. Sure, cutting down a source of frequent writes will increase the life of the drive but he acts like it will last "forever". Even if you just use it for documents and media, I would think parts of the drive would eventually go bad.
Well, I have a TiVo, so I feel your pain with the HMO not playing AAC (almost ALL of my music is from iTMS, these days). I stream music from my iBook using my AirPort Express and I use Salling Clicker with my Nokia 3650 as a slick iTunes remote. I use the TiVo to store all my TV shows and I get all my movie cravings satisfied by renting DVDs through Netflix (which could soon push movies directly to my TiVo over wi-fi).
Several people have already called the slashdotting. They're still alive and kicking! Gotta give em credit for trying. "Mr. President, we're giving her all we can! She just doesn't have enough bandwidth!" "Well, why not just use one of the other Internets?"
That's really sad, man. I had that happen and it scared the crap out of me (I've got a 15GB home directory). One day I logged in and it just sort of stared blankly at me with all the defaults. I blinked, told myself I was having a very bad dream, and logged off. When I logged back in, everything was fine and I breathed a huge sigh of relief! I guess I was one of the "lucky" ones. I keep using it and I haven't had any more issues... yet.
*Because* of Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store, I stopped using P2P over a year ago. Since then, I have purchased 2,080 songs and these licensed songs are the only songs that reside on one of my several iPods. Microsoft's arrogance makes me sick; those bastards need to wake up and smell the Apples.
We see suspicious looking buildings in Iraq and we start an all-out war while screaming "WMDs!". We see giant mushroom-shaped clouds in North Korea and shrug while saying, "Eh... not nuclear?"
does this all the time. They have a nice big field next to a large blank wall where everyone comes to watch movies every month. They call it "Movies on the Lawn" and it is really cool. I'm not sure how they make sure it is legal but... no one has seemed to care so far.
I crushed an Athlon 1GHz T-bird's core with an orb heatsink, it still booted linux, and then had a kernel panic because "no processor could be found." I used to run a Pentium 166MHz MMX at 400MHz with an Athlon heatsink and a case fan strapped/wedged on top and it ran fast/stable. Oh yeah, did I mention that I sanded away the top of the core down to the copper, sanded down the heatsink, and used a special epoxy to bond them together?
a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GameBoy Advance SP so that you can play every game currently on the market with one box!
I'd call it the XcubeStation Advance.:)
So if I keep Dido, Hendrix, The Orb, Slipknot, Pink Floyd, and Beethoven in the same playlist (as I normally do), does that make me an MS-certified Linux developer/security expert that manages databases, projects, and IT departments? Well, that explains everything!
Dear Mr. Johnson,
How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA....
Cats
"A new security report today reveals that all computers are vulnerable to the latest of a series of never-ending security exploits. This latest flaw, which manufacturers are unwilling to disclose the details of at this time, has been proven to exist on all platforms and affects all operating systems. Manufacturers are currently working together to find a solution. Until then, security experts are recommending that users unplug their machines from any cables that connect to the walls. Critics suggest that even this solution has flaws as some are using wireless technologies to circumvent the wires. Industry analysts suggest that the latest exploit is linked to other reports on 'user stupidity' and 'God's wrath on civilization as we know it.'"
I've done plenty of stupid things growing up while tinkering in computers. There was the time when I accidentally turned my thumb into a power switch for an AT power supply. There was also the time that I tried stopping the CPU fan and instead broke the fan. How can I forget the time when I blew up a 50x CD-ROM drive with a cracked Red Hat CD. The list goes on with other random power failures and making things like memory short out.
The best story I can think of is when my friend came crying to me with her computer after letting her "tech-savvy" boyfriend put it together. Apparently he didn't understand that the metal stand-offs are for keeping the motherboard from touching the metal case and when they turned it on... bad things happened. I remember opening the case and laughing hysterically as she whimpered. Believe it or not, that machine still works fine after I re-built it. Sure it has Windows XP and tons of spyware but...:)
You couldn't have asked this question at a better time! I just spent a whole week interviewing potential candidates to be my new boss. The position was for an IT director of a specific college at a state university with a staff of 7 technicians and about 500 users. We were instructed to create a list of questions that we would ask during every interview to be fair. I'm not going to list all 20 questions but I will say we broke it up into two categories: technical questions and management questions. Two of the toughest questions for any of the candidates to answer were:
What is your definition of integrity and how does it apply to being an IT manager?
Name one of your most successful projects and describe how you went about completing it.
followed by:
Name one of your most unsuccessful projects and explain why it failed.
It was an interesting week and it will be a pretty hard decision to make. Many of the candidates gave the same canned-answers so we were left to decide based on their personalities and how comfortable we felt around them. Good luck!
Slashdot Mirror
It didn't work when I tried earlier but it appears to be back up now. However, the program is having issues with installing on older versions of Symbian (i.e. Nokia 3650), of which Sydus is apparently aware of and is hoping to have some sort of an update out by Monday.
That's alright. There'll just be more free bandwidth for me to gobble up! ;)
This is coming from the same company that spilled all of my personal information (SSN, account numbers, home address, phone number, etc.) when some of their computers were stolen last year. They then had the audacity to use this as a reason to advertise their credit-monitoring/fraud-prevention services. I can't imagine how bad this would have been if they were actually my bank.
This is good news considering one of my Sony plasmas refused to turn on after only a year (instead flashing an error code). After months of fighting Sony for support, they finally shipped a refurbished replacement from one end of the US to the other. This unit was purchased from Sound Advice as a consumer product and yet was treated as an "industrial" product, from both companies, when the need for support came along.
You missed my point completely. Sure, cutting down a source of frequent writes will increase the life of the drive but he acts like it will last "forever". Even if you just use it for documents and media, I would think parts of the drive would eventually go bad.
"This type of computer should last just about forever."
Right... except the flash will die after about a million writes. Still, a cool concept indeed!
Well, I have a TiVo, so I feel your pain with the HMO not playing AAC (almost ALL of my music is from iTMS, these days). I stream music from my iBook using my AirPort Express and I use Salling Clicker with my Nokia 3650 as a slick iTunes remote. I use the TiVo to store all my TV shows and I get all my movie cravings satisfied by renting DVDs through Netflix (which could soon push movies directly to my TiVo over wi-fi).
Several people have already called the slashdotting. They're still alive and kicking! Gotta give em credit for trying. "Mr. President, we're giving her all we can! She just doesn't have enough bandwidth!" "Well, why not just use one of the other Internets?"
That's really sad, man. I had that happen and it scared the crap out of me (I've got a 15GB home directory). One day I logged in and it just sort of stared blankly at me with all the defaults. I blinked, told myself I was having a very bad dream, and logged off. When I logged back in, everything was fine and I breathed a huge sigh of relief! I guess I was one of the "lucky" ones. I keep using it and I haven't had any more issues... yet.
*Because* of Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store, I stopped using P2P over a year ago. Since then, I have purchased 2,080 songs and these licensed songs are the only songs that reside on one of my several iPods. Microsoft's arrogance makes me sick; those bastards need to wake up and smell the Apples.
We see suspicious looking buildings in Iraq and we start an all-out war while screaming "WMDs!". We see giant mushroom-shaped clouds in North Korea and shrug while saying, "Eh... not nuclear?"
If you want to run anything but Windows on an emulated PC, you will most likely want to avoid using software... sold by the makers of Windows.
does this all the time. They have a nice big field next to a large blank wall where everyone comes to watch movies every month. They call it "Movies on the Lawn" and it is really cool. I'm not sure how they make sure it is legal but... no one has seemed to care so far.
I crushed an Athlon 1GHz T-bird's core with an orb heatsink, it still booted linux, and then had a kernel panic because "no processor could be found." I used to run a Pentium 166MHz MMX at 400MHz with an Athlon heatsink and a case fan strapped/wedged on top and it ran fast/stable. Oh yeah, did I mention that I sanded away the top of the core down to the copper, sanded down the heatsink, and used a special epoxy to bond them together?
a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GameBoy Advance SP so that you can play every game currently on the market with one box! I'd call it the XcubeStation Advance. :)
A band threatens to release a new album.
*Pictures Bono holding Steve on the ledge while waving around an iPod.*
"Don't make me do it!"
So if I keep Dido, Hendrix, The Orb, Slipknot, Pink Floyd, and Beethoven in the same playlist (as I normally do), does that make me an MS-certified Linux developer/security expert that manages databases, projects, and IT departments? Well, that explains everything!
Dear Mr. Johnson, How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA ....
Cats
I don't remember getting any smarter when I scooted my chair over from my PC to my iBook.
Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Patches by 2010?
"A new security report today reveals that all computers are vulnerable to the latest of a series of never-ending security exploits. This latest flaw, which manufacturers are unwilling to disclose the details of at this time, has been proven to exist on all platforms and affects all operating systems. Manufacturers are currently working together to find a solution. Until then, security experts are recommending that users unplug their machines from any cables that connect to the walls. Critics suggest that even this solution has flaws as some are using wireless technologies to circumvent the wires. Industry analysts suggest that the latest exploit is linked to other reports on 'user stupidity' and 'God's wrath on civilization as we know it.'"
I've done plenty of stupid things growing up while tinkering in computers. There was the time when I accidentally turned my thumb into a power switch for an AT power supply. There was also the time that I tried stopping the CPU fan and instead broke the fan. How can I forget the time when I blew up a 50x CD-ROM drive with a cracked Red Hat CD. The list goes on with other random power failures and making things like memory short out. The best story I can think of is when my friend came crying to me with her computer after letting her "tech-savvy" boyfriend put it together. Apparently he didn't understand that the metal stand-offs are for keeping the motherboard from touching the metal case and when they turned it on... bad things happened. I remember opening the case and laughing hysterically as she whimpered. Believe it or not, that machine still works fine after I re-built it. Sure it has Windows XP and tons of spyware but... :)
10,000 songs in your car for the rest of us.
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http://homepage.mac.com/twalls2/PhotoAlbum8.htm
(last three images)
You couldn't have asked this question at a better time! I just spent a whole week interviewing potential candidates to be my new boss. The position was for an IT director of a specific college at a state university with a staff of 7 technicians and about 500 users. We were instructed to create a list of questions that we would ask during every interview to be fair. I'm not going to list all 20 questions but I will say we broke it up into two categories: technical questions and management questions. Two of the toughest questions for any of the candidates to answer were:
What is your definition of integrity and how does it apply to being an IT manager?
Name one of your most successful projects and describe how you went about completing it.
followed by:
Name one of your most unsuccessful projects and explain why it failed.
It was an interesting week and it will be a pretty hard decision to make. Many of the candidates gave the same canned-answers so we were left to decide based on their personalities and how comfortable we felt around them. Good luck!