Don't do it while talking on the phone (cradled against your shoulder) and using both hands to work on the machine. I did this once and accidentally dropped the phone into the open computer. Luckily, my pride was hurt more than my computer. (The person on the other end laughed his ass off. "What was that noise?" "Uh, nothing. Seriously.")
...is why I get so much spam which is gibberish. I'm not talking about Portugese (about 1/2 my spam originates from Brazil), I mean actual nonsense, often without links, images, or attachments.
What does someone hope to gain from this? Is it some secret code that will give me a giant viagra-enhanced penis and hot schoolgirls to go with it if I can figure it out? At least for normal spam I can see the motivation.
example: I got mail today with the title "rmw oejectivity" and the body "cwdb". Why?!
You missed the news portion. The news isn't that it saves money, it's that actual school system which presumably does not have a board made up of slahdot readers realizes this, and makes use of it.
The part I found funny was the quote. "By using free and cheaper things, we can do more stuff with the same amount of money!" Well, yes.:)
This is OT, but with regards to your sig, have you seen Bill Maher's new book and adaptation of that poster? Apologies if that's how you came across the original, but if not, check it out.:)
For those of you not reading the article and getting it wrong. This is not about a domain name. Bill Whyman the musician owns billwhyman.com (or at least has it dedicated to him). The CAD is about a story the journalist Bill Whyman wrote:
Mr. Siegel represents Bill Wyman, who left the band in 1993. The attorney had happened to see a short story I'd written about some old Rolling Stones albums as part of the Journal-Constitution's coverage of the band's recent appearance in town. He wasted no time in firing off a letter. "I must ask that you immediately cease and desist from authorizing or permitting any such use of our client's name," he wrote.
Check here, which was the second google hit on "setting the tivo clock".
E-E-Tivo - If in Debug mode (see C-C-E-E 2 below), lets you set the TiVo's clock. Warning: setting this value may cause all of your Guide data to get "expired". If you want to play with this, keep in mind that TiVo may get mad at you for downloading several copies of your Guide data over the course of a couple of days. The best way to fix a messed up clock without reloading all the Guide data is to do the "Make a Test Call" option. The format of the time entry you use is the same as the format for the settime command. (?)
No, it's not ideal that they make you go through a backdoor to do it, but at least it's possible. Also, a test call might (or might not) work even if you weren't subscribed, but there's no real need. I agree that it should just be a menu option somewhere.
Interesting. Can I ask what type of technology it's based on (FPGA or otherwise)? I've done a little (read: very little) work in the area, but I'm mostly a pure-software coder. Also, can I ask what company you work for? I can understand if you can't answer those.:) Sounds interesting, though.
Eminem -- I chose something that I figured a lot of people would find in offensive to have blasting into their phone.:) I'll remain silent about my own opinions, which are pretty eclectic at best.
Yeah, I've done the earbud thing before, but I break my buds a lot faster than 1 per 2 months. I think I just have a tendency to break things in my pockets. Maybe someone could design an earbud case roughly the size of the player (have them facing each other embedded in plastic). The wires aren't usually in danger in my case.
My problem is having too much stuff to carry. I'm not a fan of having 4 things in my pockets and 4 more strapped to my belt, so I don't do it. This product is great, because it's small (I recently replaced my phone with a Treo, since I had stopped carrying my beloved Visor due to space constraints).
My problem is headphones. Even earbuds are fairly large, and easily broken in your pocket. Carrying my music with me everywhere is of no use if I can't listen to it. Are there any good solutions for carrying around headphones in a safe but non-huge way?
Similarly, there needs to be a stereo hands-free kit for my phone (I much prefer hands free) with a 1/8 jack which doubles as headphones for this thing (yes, stereo is useless for the cell). Does such a thing exist?
I guess the truth is I'm just another person waiting for convergence, when I can have my phone, mp3/ogg player, networked PDA, digital wallet, etc. all embedded in one false tooth and hooked wirelessly to the other relevant parts of my head. I guess the problems there start happening when people see me talking to myself in the street, or I accidentally answer the phone by piping Eminem into it at high volume.
Good point. I know someone (fairly geeky) who is building his own MP3 player, but is not having it play ogg because he can't get an off-the-shelf decoder chip, whereas mp3 ones are cheap and easy to come by.
I know the Ogg Vorbis team released their all-integer decoder under a BSD license. Is anyone working on custom ogg (or preferably dual ogg/mp3) decoder chips/ASICs? It could even be a pic or equivalent with some code in ROM, although that would probably be a higher cost/space/power consumption solution.
1) BMG stops releasing "real" CDs in Europe. 2) Everyone and their brother discovers this cd won't play in their car, and can't be put into their collection by Microsoft Media Player. (Disclaimer: I run several OSes, but I know plenty of non-technical people who have digital music collections due to Media Player). 3) One persons somewhere in the world breaks the copy prevention, gets a pre-release copy (see: The Eminem Show), or RIPS IT OFF A US CD. Or even if all of these fail, one person makes a good D->A->D copy. 4) Everyone and their brother discovers that if they download music off the net, they can play it anywhere they want and make their own CDs. 5) CD sales plummet, copyright infringement skyrockets. 6) BMG says, "See? Piracy is up, sales are down, and here's a million dollars. SSSCA2 is a great idea!" Everyone forgets that this is only true in Europe, where the protected CDs are. 7) All hell breaks loose.
-Puk
How did I refrain from referring to a Republican congress in this post? Oops, I guess I didn't.
>>>It is illegal to publish plans for making weapons of mass destruction under the US Patriot Act. Please report to your local police station for incarceration.>>> don't you mean incineration?
The moderation system needs a "+1 Scarily Appropriate".
Yes, I checked out IBM's drive list and find several 7200 RPM scsi drives. I assume they are slightly older models (but up to 40 GB), but they're there. Seagate's page shows some as well -- up to 181 GB. So there goes your "duh" solution.
Also, my post contained that as a question, followed by a statement that I might be wrong in one of my assumptions. I'd like to thank everyone else, all of whom responded to my questions with actual helpful information and reasonable explanations, and did so without being rude. Amazing.
Can someone clear something up for me? I was under the impression that by far the main causes of hard drive failure are mechanical (head crashes, motor failure, etc). Aren't corresponding IDE and SCSI drives mechanically identical, with different electronic interfaces (which could account for the cost difference)? If so, why are there such disparities between the warranties on IDE and SCSI disks?
So am I wrong in my assumption on causes of failure, or in the difference between IDE and SCSI drives? Or do SCSI drives get longer warranties because they are typically used more in the server environment, where admins actually care more about warranties than random end-users do?
And man, does that suck for me. I was set for a near-term purchase of a flash advance linker so I could try my hand at developing for the GBA (I'm a long-time developer, but have no console development experience other than a half-working NES emulator I wrote, which doesn't count as console dev:).
I see that there are still at least 1 or 2 companies selling them (in the US, to boot!), so I think I may have to go buy one now before they get hunted down, too.
I saw a tech show where they spent some time on this a few weeks ago. I swear, every time they say the name, it sounds like "Bowel-Lingual" to me. In fact, I don't think there's any difference in the pronunciation of the two.
I like to think that I can learn something from everyone, but when it comes down to it, there are just some things I don't want to talk to.
Your post got me thinking. I've been reading all the comments on this article and haven't seen one yet that says:
Why doesn't UCSD grow a proverbial sac and stand up for the first amendment rights of their students, in the face of an unjust and unconstitutional law?
That said, I can see why they might choose not to, but they're pulling the old "trading freedom for security" trick just as badly as everyone else.
-Puk
p.s. Just cause I didn't see it doesn't mean no one posted it. Sorry if I'm being redundant.:)
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Don't do it while talking on the phone (cradled against your shoulder) and using both hands to work on the machine. I did this once and accidentally dropped the phone into the open computer. Luckily, my pride was hurt more than my computer. (The person on the other end laughed his ass off. "What was that noise?" "Uh, nothing. Seriously.")
-puk
...is why I get so much spam which is gibberish. I'm not talking about Portugese (about 1/2 my spam originates from Brazil), I mean actual nonsense, often without links, images, or attachments.
What does someone hope to gain from this? Is it some secret code that will give me a giant viagra-enhanced penis and hot schoolgirls to go with it if I can figure it out? At least for normal spam I can see the motivation.
example: I got mail today with the title "rmw oejectivity" and the body "cwdb". Why?!
-puk
You're in trouble if you need to print your printer repairman (but even so, HP tech support will tell you to do so, cause it's on their checklist).
What this really reminds me of is the days where I needed to decompress something all I could find to unzip.zip.
-Puk
What tool/tools are you using to do this? I assume you're not doing it by hand. Sounds like a useful setup.
-Puk
I think the key phrase was "offering for sale". They're not going to sell these services for the less than the cost of power/net/added mainenance/etc.
As long as marginal revenue > marginal cost, it makes sense (from at least a pure-profit point of view).
-Puk
You missed the news portion. The news isn't that it saves money, it's that actual school system which presumably does not have a board made up of slahdot readers realizes this, and makes use of it.
:)
The part I found funny was the quote. "By using free and cheaper things, we can do more stuff with the same amount of money!" Well, yes.
-Puk
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
--Maugham
This is OT, but with regards to your sig, have you seen Bill Maher's new book and adaptation of that poster? Apologies if that's how you came across the original, but if not, check it out. :)
-Puk
For those of you not reading the article and getting it wrong. This is not about a domain name. Bill Whyman the musician owns billwhyman.com (or at least has it dedicated to him). The CAD is about a story the journalist Bill Whyman wrote:
Mr. Siegel represents Bill Wyman, who left the band in 1993. The attorney had happened to see a short story I'd written about some old Rolling Stones albums as part of the Journal-Constitution's coverage of the band's recent appearance in town. He wasted no time in firing off a letter. "I must ask that you immediately cease and desist from authorizing or permitting any such use of our client's name," he wrote.
-Puk
p.s. Capped, not whoring.
Check here, which was the second google hit on "setting the tivo clock".
E-E-Tivo - If in Debug mode (see C-C-E-E 2 below), lets you set the TiVo's clock. Warning: setting this value may cause all of your Guide data to get "expired". If you want to play with this, keep in mind that TiVo may get mad at you for downloading several copies of your Guide data over the course of a couple of days. The best way to fix a messed up clock without reloading all the Guide data is to do the "Make a Test Call" option. The format of the time entry you use is the same as the format for the settime command. (?)
No, it's not ideal that they make you go through a backdoor to do it, but at least it's possible. Also, a test call might (or might not) work even if you weren't subscribed, but there's no real need. I agree that it should just be a menu option somewhere.
-Puk
Interesting. Can I ask what type of technology it's based on (FPGA or otherwise)? I've done a little (read: very little) work in the area, but I'm mostly a pure-software coder. Also, can I ask what company you work for? I can understand if you can't answer those. :) Sounds interesting, though.
-Puk
Eminem -- I chose something that I figured a lot of people would find in offensive to have blasting into their phone. :) I'll remain silent about my own opinions, which are pretty eclectic at best.
Yeah, I've done the earbud thing before, but I break my buds a lot faster than 1 per 2 months. I think I just have a tendency to break things in my pockets. Maybe someone could design an earbud case roughly the size of the player (have them facing each other embedded in plastic). The wires aren't usually in danger in my case.
-Puk
My problem is having too much stuff to carry. I'm not a fan of having 4 things in my pockets and 4 more strapped to my belt, so I don't do it. This product is great, because it's small (I recently replaced my phone with a Treo, since I had stopped carrying my beloved Visor due to space constraints).
My problem is headphones. Even earbuds are fairly large, and easily broken in your pocket. Carrying my music with me everywhere is of no use if I can't listen to it. Are there any good solutions for carrying around headphones in a safe but non-huge way?
Similarly, there needs to be a stereo hands-free kit for my phone (I much prefer hands free) with a 1/8 jack which doubles as headphones for this thing (yes, stereo is useless for the cell). Does such a thing exist?
I guess the truth is I'm just another person waiting for convergence, when I can have my phone, mp3/ogg player, networked PDA, digital wallet, etc. all embedded in one false tooth and hooked wirelessly to the other relevant parts of my head. I guess the problems there start happening when people see me talking to myself in the street, or I accidentally answer the phone by piping Eminem into it at high volume.
Thus endeth the rambling.
-Puk
Good point. I know someone (fairly geeky) who is building his own MP3 player, but is not having it play ogg because he can't get an off-the-shelf decoder chip, whereas mp3 ones are cheap and easy to come by.
;)
I know the Ogg Vorbis team released their all-integer decoder under a BSD license. Is anyone working on custom ogg (or preferably dual ogg/mp3) decoder chips/ASICs? It could even be a pic or equivalent with some code in ROM, although that would probably be a higher cost/space/power consumption solution.
Hey, I could do that.
-Puk
It's been said before, but:
1) BMG stops releasing "real" CDs in Europe.
2) Everyone and their brother discovers this cd won't play in their car, and can't be put into their collection by Microsoft Media Player. (Disclaimer: I run several OSes, but I know plenty of non-technical people who have digital music collections due to Media Player).
3) One persons somewhere in the world breaks the copy prevention, gets a pre-release copy (see: The Eminem Show), or RIPS IT OFF A US CD. Or even if all of these fail, one person makes a good D->A->D copy.
4) Everyone and their brother discovers that if they download music off the net, they can play it anywhere they want and make their own CDs.
5) CD sales plummet, copyright infringement skyrockets.
6) BMG says, "See? Piracy is up, sales are down, and here's a million dollars. SSSCA2 is a great idea!" Everyone forgets that this is only true in Europe, where the protected CDs are.
7) All hell breaks loose.
-Puk
How did I refrain from referring to a Republican congress in this post? Oops, I guess I didn't.
The US government/law enforcement/intelligence agencies would never use their powers to spy on people. Aren't you a PATRIOT?
-Puk
I have a p2/400 with a dual cpu motherboard. So if you have an extra p2/400 lying around, I'll happily send you 50c for it. :)
-Puk
jerrytcow is essentially right. Check the cdrfaq, and mod accordingly.
-Puk
>>>It is illegal to publish plans for making weapons of mass destruction under the US Patriot Act. Please report to your local police station for incarceration.>>> don't you mean incineration?
The moderation system needs a "+1 Scarily Appropriate".
-Puk
Yes, I checked out IBM's drive list and find several 7200 RPM scsi drives. I assume they are slightly older models (but up to 40 GB), but they're there. Seagate's page shows some as well -- up to 181 GB. So there goes your "duh" solution.
Also, my post contained that as a question, followed by a statement that I might be wrong in one of my assumptions. I'd like to thank everyone else, all of whom responded to my questions with actual helpful information and reasonable explanations, and did so without being rude. Amazing.
-Puk
Can someone clear something up for me? I was under the impression that by far the main causes of hard drive failure are mechanical (head crashes, motor failure, etc). Aren't corresponding IDE and SCSI drives mechanically identical, with different electronic interfaces (which could account for the cost difference)? If so, why are there such disparities between the warranties on IDE and SCSI disks?
So am I wrong in my assumption on causes of failure, or in the difference between IDE and SCSI drives? Or do SCSI drives get longer warranties because they are typically used more in the server environment, where admins actually care more about warranties than random end-users do?
Thanks.
-Puk
And man, does that suck for me. I was set for a near-term purchase of a flash advance linker so I could try my hand at developing for the GBA (I'm a long-time developer, but have no console development experience other than a half-working NES emulator I wrote, which doesn't count as console dev :).
I see that there are still at least 1 or 2 companies selling them (in the US, to boot!), so I think I may have to go buy one now before they get hunted down, too.
-Puk
called Bow-Lingual
I saw a tech show where they spent some time on this a few weeks ago. I swear, every time they say the name, it sounds like "Bowel-Lingual" to me. In fact, I don't think there's any difference in the pronunciation of the two.
I like to think that I can learn something from everyone, but when it comes down to it, there are just some things I don't want to talk to.
-Puk
Your post got me thinking. I've been reading all the comments on this article and haven't seen one yet that says:
:)
Why doesn't UCSD grow a proverbial sac and stand up for the first amendment rights of their students, in the face of an unjust and unconstitutional law?
That said, I can see why they might choose not to, but they're pulling the old "trading freedom for security" trick just as badly as everyone else.
-Puk
p.s. Just cause I didn't see it doesn't mean no one posted it. Sorry if I'm being redundant.
I dunno. It only takes about $280,000 to buy a senator.
-Puk