I use an SSH tunnel to forward port 8080 on my desktop machine here at work to port 8080 on my Unix workstation at home that's running an HTTP proxy.
Why not use the built in SOCKS proxy in ssh? Run ssh -N -D 8080 <home-machine> then point your Firefox setup to localhost port 8080 as a SOCKS proxy. Then you can ditch the HTTP proxy on your home machine.
I also remote-forward a pseudo-random high port on that remote workstation at home to port 22 on my work desktop machine, giving me the ability to SSH *back in* to work from home
That's a really bad idea. You're just asking to get fired.
He has to run IE because this is the only browser supported for the log-in process.
If IE is only needed for the log-in process then he could close it and run Firefox after logging in. Logging in usually just allows traffic from a certain MAC address to use the network once authenticated.
Most of these sounds come from Flash objects. You can block Flash with FlashBlock. It puts a play button where the Flash object is. As an alternative, I would recommend using NoScript. It allows you to block JavaScript, Flash, Java, and other plugins and then whitelist sites that you go to all of the time. You can enable Flash, Java, and plugins by clicking to play like with FlashBlock. If you are just visiting for a moment then you can temporarily enable for that site just for your browser session. I've found that this fixes all of the sound issues that you are talking about.
only to have some awful noise nearly blow out my speakers from one of their ads, for themselves.
Then install AdBlock and the AdBlock Filterset.G Updater. Ads that play sounds are yet another reason in a long list why I block ads myself. Some people don't agree with blocking ads. Well, make up your own mind on what to do. Personally I take the approach that several bad advertisers ruin it for everyone so I block them all.
Simply because it has been the de facto standard for a decade?
A decade? That interesting since CUPS 1.0 didn't ship until late 1999. That's only a little over five years since the 1.0 release. Not to mention that distros weren't in a hurry to make it part of their default installs. The first distro to support CUPS out of the box was Mandrake 9.1, IIRC, and that didn't ship until early 2003.
Did you post anonymously because you knew that was just a stupid question, or are you just now figuring this out?
Keep it up, genius.;-)
That was uncalled for. It wasn't necessary to talk down to him just because you knew something he didn't. He had a good question and it wasn't stupid. Not everyone knows that there are different types of P4's. I didn't know this until I read your post. I thoght a P4 was a P4.
Could this someday put google in line with companies like Sony?
Sure, someday, provided that Google were to:
install their DRM at some low level into the OS.
hide the installed files and attempt to make them invisible and hard to remove
in the process of installing modify the system to make it less secure than it was
show a EULA and, if the user declines, install the software anyway
deny that everything listed above is true until you are exposed by a person who disassembles the code and documents what your code is doing
show absolutely no remorse or concern for what they have done to users computers until they are confronted with lawsuits and possible government action
try and weasel out of lawsuits by offering non-scarace goods that cost no money to replicate and distribute, such as music downloads, as a settlement to the users they have caused financial harm (paying to get OS cleaned or viruses removed) and inconvenienced.
blatantly demonstrate that they have failed to learn a lesson by stating that they will continue to use such DRM, although from a different vendor, in the future.
So yeah, someday Google could be in line with companies like Sony. However, I think a lot of companies have learned the lesson that Sony seems to still not have learned from their recent experiment with DRM. Google strikes me as the kind of company that doesn't need to be taught that lesson anyway. They've done a pretty good job of not being evil so far.
Put them on my laptop hard drive and mount them with Daemon Tools. That way I can watch movies, concert DVDs, etc. without having to lug around discs that take up room, and can get broken or stolen. Perfect for when I travel out of town and am stuck on an airplane for hours on end.
If The Register is the National Inqurirer, what is The Inquirer?
I haven't read enough of the Inquirer to form an opinion yet. But the Register is most definitely an IT gossip rag, thanks in no small part to that terrible writer Andrew Orlowski.
someone who considers buying a Mac Mini probably belongs to another market segment...
True as well, but the original poster never said that he considered buying a Mac Mini. He just said that he had the idea of an external power supply after looking at the mini.
do you know any other cheap solution to a quiet PC?
You don't list what your budget is so I don't know what cheap means to you. Since you mention any other solution, I'd go for a quite case and look at the Antec P180. You can always put in a new quiet power supply later. I bought this case several weeks ago for $120 and was really impressed by how quiet it is.
You also might want to ask on the forums at Silent PC review. There are people there who have a lot of experience building silent PCs and will be able to let you know if there is an external power supply that would fit your requirements.
...bundle HD-DVD within Vista... the software giant may be planning to offer cash incentives -- in the form "coupons" -- to system vendors or retailers if they agree to support HD-DVD.
Putting that monopoly to use again, I see. Wasn't there supposed to be a court or someone overseeing them to prevent just such abuses?
What a strange way to think of life. Is life all about being "productive"?
For me, yes. Why is that strange? Don't you want to accomplish something in your life? Don't you set goals and then work to achieve them? I do.
I've just started learning German. Having access to the net has certainly helped with that, if not just to read reviews of training materials and find local people who speak the language that I can interact with. I'm going to be more productive in my learning as a result.
I'd have thought the gadgets are supposed to make our lives better, however you wish to define better.
I define better as more productive, among other things. Maybe you should read the definition. You seem to be focused only on the aspect that productivity must produce a tangible good. Personally I'm willing to embrace anything that will help me be more productive in my daily life and therefore improve my quality of life. If I must produce a product then that product is a better me.
Productive.. product. When you're productive you're efficient at producing something. It's not a strange way of extrapolating the word at all, but exactly what the word means.
As others have said, you should design for any size screen. I would also like to encourage you to test your site with different browser font sizes. For people such as myself who are visually impared, being able to change our font size to something larger is very imporant.
When sites are designed using a fixed width such as 800x600, the layout aften depends on assuming a small font size so that elements align properly. My banking site is one such web site. When the font size is increased, elements can overlap to shift to the next line, losing some of the contextual imformation of their placement. At worst the elements may be overlapped by other elements thereby obscuring whatever it is that you needed to see. I see this happen often with navigation items.
My recommendation is that while you are designing your site, use the keyboard shortcuts for font increase and decrease in Firefox to test and make sure that the page looks as expected. Another option would be to create another Firefox profile with the font set to 20 points and the minimum font size set to 14. This is what I use in my Firefox settings. I have a small laptop screen with a resolution of 1400x1050 which, when combined with my poor eyesight, has made a font size like this required for easy reading.
I also want to stress that if the layout of the page breaks a bit, that is fine. Most users that browse with a large minimum font size are used to seeing the page mess up a bit. There are sites such as Slashdot and Wikipedia that continue to look fine at any font size. Others might be using absolute positioning for DIVs and may have navigational and other elements obscured when the font is large. The important thing is to make sure that the elements on your page that make it functional still work. If something isn't aligned correctly but it's not a big deal, don't worry about it. If the navigation is only partially visible because of the larger font size, then you should fix that. For example, last.fm has some display problems when a larger font size is used, but nothing that impeeds navigation or general usability.
Finally, let me stress that you should avoid specifying your font sizes using a fixed method such as pixels or points. Instead, please use a relative font size such as "x-small", ems, or a percentage. There are still many users that use IE. IE will not resize fonts that use a fixed specification such as pixels and points, even when the font size option in the browser is changed from the default.
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It would have been nice to put an explaination in the summary.
What part of expecting a quality, working product when you pay do you not get?
Don't forget to install the Adblock Filterset.G updater.
Sure, someday, provided that Google were to:
So yeah, someday Google could be in line with companies like Sony. However, I think a lot of companies have learned the lesson that Sony seems to still not have learned from their recent experiment with DRM. Google strikes me as the kind of company that doesn't need to be taught that lesson anyway. They've done a pretty good job of not being evil so far.
1. Thou shalt not use Windows. ...
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Can't you be happy with what you have to be happy with?
And how did get your hands on this unreleased piece of software to test it?
Clearly, you must Fosterize before reading the article.
Here's a photo tour. A small review. A larger review.
You also might want to ask on the forums at Silent PC review. There are people there who have a lot of experience building silent PCs and will be able to let you know if there is an external power supply that would fit your requirements.
It's vought's last post. [sniff] We'll miss you, man.
I've just started learning German. Having access to the net has certainly helped with that, if not just to read reviews of training materials and find local people who speak the language that I can interact with. I'm going to be more productive in my learning as a result.
I define better as more productive, among other things. Maybe you should read the definition. You seem to be focused only on the aspect that productivity must produce a tangible good. Personally I'm willing to embrace anything that will help me be more productive in my daily life and therefore improve my quality of life. If I must produce a product then that product is a better me.When sites are designed using a fixed width such as 800x600, the layout aften depends on assuming a small font size so that elements align properly. My banking site is one such web site. When the font size is increased, elements can overlap to shift to the next line, losing some of the contextual imformation of their placement. At worst the elements may be overlapped by other elements thereby obscuring whatever it is that you needed to see. I see this happen often with navigation items.
My recommendation is that while you are designing your site, use the keyboard shortcuts for font increase and decrease in Firefox to test and make sure that the page looks as expected. Another option would be to create another Firefox profile with the font set to 20 points and the minimum font size set to 14. This is what I use in my Firefox settings. I have a small laptop screen with a resolution of 1400x1050 which, when combined with my poor eyesight, has made a font size like this required for easy reading.
I also want to stress that if the layout of the page breaks a bit, that is fine. Most users that browse with a large minimum font size are used to seeing the page mess up a bit. There are sites such as Slashdot and Wikipedia that continue to look fine at any font size. Others might be using absolute positioning for DIVs and may have navigational and other elements obscured when the font is large. The important thing is to make sure that the elements on your page that make it functional still work. If something isn't aligned correctly but it's not a big deal, don't worry about it. If the navigation is only partially visible because of the larger font size, then you should fix that. For example, last.fm has some display problems when a larger font size is used, but nothing that impeeds navigation or general usability.
Finally, let me stress that you should avoid specifying your font sizes using a fixed method such as pixels or points. Instead, please use a relative font size such as "x-small", ems, or a percentage. There are still many users that use IE. IE will not resize fonts that use a fixed specification such as pixels and points, even when the font size option in the browser is changed from the default.