Now that Frisk's F-Prot no longer has a free version (probably at the insistence of F-Secure), I recommend/install AVG on friend & family PC's. It seems to work fine, and everyone seems delighted with it after suffering through Symantec/Norton/McAfee hell.
I still really like F-Prot though, and on my personal laptop I use it, but both my wife and son have AVG.
I'm not sure why it needs to be "clickers" - in a large classroom environment, I'm assuming auditorium style fixed seating, which suggests that keypad for each seat would be the best solution. There are readily available keypad solutions (i.e. crestron) which would support 250+ keypads on a single bus, all individually addressed, and would be far less maintenance intensive than any wireless solution. From 2 to 12 buttons could be done "off the shelf". And no replacement cost for "clickers" walking out the door every class period.
And, if you still needed some # of wireless devices, they could be easily tied into the same system.
How we home automation integrators handle starts with being able to spell, write an understandable sentence, and formulate a logical sequence of steps.
Crestron is http://www.crestron.com/ (the best home automation controllers) HumaneInterface.com is http://www.humaneinterface.com (the leading program/design firm) http://www.kaleidescape.com/ (the referenced DVD server system) http://www.request.com/ (makes a DVD changer controller that interfaces to the excellent Audio Request music server)
TracNet's dbs antenna for yachts retrofitted for auto use is not new. It has been available for high-end customers at least a year down in South Florida. Once again slashdot gets the scoop on old news. The only new part of the story is that the new kvh antenna, the tracvision, is now low profile and actually designed for auto use. KVH is at here
I did a lot of research on the two competing hybrids - The Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius. The Insight had better reviews, was considered to have better technology, and Honda, as a general rule of thumb, has a lower TCO than Toyota.
Then the Civic Hybrid came out, and it not only blew away the Insight (further refinements to the technology, better gas milage, 4 doors!, a backseat, a real trunk, etc), but was also bigger in the cabin than the Prius. I bought one and have been very happy with it.
Performance seems the same as the other Civics, no problems with acceleration or anything. Typically I get 42-47 MPG, depending on how much city traffic I'm stuck in. My average MPG since I bought the car is 46.2MPG
I've been very happy with it (it's about a year old now).
For what it's worth, the new Prius is supposed to be much better than the last two years' models.
Honda supposedly will have a hybrid CRV early next year.
The only reason I'd get rid of the Civic Hybrid, is if a Hybrid Element came out next year.
He backstabbed Robert Oppenheimer for one, and was a nasty man who was largely responsible for Star Wars under Reagan. Morally reprehensible, and with seemingly no concern for anyone on the planet except for himself. I state my opinions as one who met him in the early 80's.
But the hardware quality is poor, the software has stability/lockup problems, it runs WindowsCE, and it's SMB client is not fully compatible with Samba. Cool idea, poorly implemented.
I vaguely recall an article a few months ago about oil of bergamot being a possible carcinogen. That is the main flavouring ingredient in Earl Gray tea that gives it the distinctive flavour. I can't find the article online, but there are several sites that mention one of the components of bergamot oil, 5-MOP, to be phototoxic and photomutagenic. The only reported cases have been when oil of bergamot is used as an aromatherapy oil, however.
There is also a completely different plant, Bergamot Mint, which has leaves that are crushed and used for various purposes. It has a citrusy flavor that is similar, but different than oil of bergamot, which is from the rind of an orange species.
No, I didn't. Thanks for asking. Look up references on the design of the human digestive system and why eating meat is bad for it.
Look up references to the pounds and pounds of putrefying meat that is in the typical colon because of grossly excess meat (and inadequate fiber) consumption.
Try to find a site with pictures. You'll enjoy it.
For those that would suggest the Atkins Diet, which is basically LOTS OF MEAT and NO CARBS! Yes, it appears to work, but it just forces your body to fully process the calories in the meat. It's is not efficient, nor healthy in the long term. The human body (and colon) is designed for a omnivorous diet, not a carnivorous one.
I personally would never choose live-slaughtered dead cow over french fries or a scalded-to-death chicken over a nice loaf of french bread and a glass of red wine.
3) When you eat, eat big foods (cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, cabbage) that fill you up but have low caloric density. Drink a glass of water before you eat.
3) Exercise more. Don't sit if you can walk, don't walk if you can run, don't use the elevator if you can use the stairs, don't use the phone/email if you can walk over to their office/cubicle. If you can ride your bike or walk to work, do it! And realize that you are able to do something that most people wish they could do!
I say these things as someone who weighs the same as I did in High School, 23 years later. (good god, has it been that long!??) Oh, and I'm in way better shape now than I was then.
I love the idea of Mozilla, and tried for almost two years to use it as my only web browser.
I got tired of the bugs, crashes, and loss of email that acompanied using it on a routine basis, and switched to a STABLE browser that has all of the mozilla features I cared about: OPERA.
I hope that at some point mozilla will be good enough to require fewer patches than internet explorer. I doubt that day has come, and mozilla is not on any of my systems until I feel I can trust it not to munge my mail.
Is Timothy 12 years old? Does he think computers began with the PS/2? What kind of misleading subject line is that supposed to be? An article comparing a PS/2 keyboard to a Active Response membrane keyboard does not qualify as a "history of the keyboard".
A quick websearch gives numerous better accounts of 1981-present computer keyboards.
For me personally, a "real" keyboard is a circa 1979 Cherry keyboard, because they are the first ones to make relatively inexpensive ($200) super-well-built keyboards. They used individual, replaceable switches for each key. They were available with an RS232 or parallel interface for hooking to a real computer.
I even used Univac keyboards where a large circuit board was packed with 1n914 diodes for encoding the keys. Keyboards with real metal coiled springs, not plastic leaf springs.
What's wrong about my statement? The people who have shared with me their experiences say that when they get a card, it lasts for a couple weeks or months at best, and $50-$100 plus several days of waiting (and having to go and pick it up) to get a new one when it stops working.
If he does pay $500 per month for life, it probably will still be less than the costs incurred by DISH, DirecTV, and the government in prosecuting him. From that perspective, if he was in fact guilty as found, he got off with a very reasonable sentence.
According to the story, he is not some garage tinkerer who happened upon a novel decryption system for the satellites. He is a **repeat** offender, and his device was designed, manufactured, and again, according to the article, in the process of delivery.
For the programming packages they offer, and the infrastructure they have assembled and maintain for delivery, I think both DirecTV and DISHnetwork are not unreasonably priced. Both of them have pretty good service and support. Even if most of the channels on the big TVRO/Cband satellites was unencrypted, it would take at least a couple years for a homeowner to break even versus getting a DSS system.
Besides, from what I've heard, the pirates charge as much for redoing satellite cards as it would cost to legitimately pay for DirecTV. The money you pay to DirecTV or DISH actually goes to pay for programming and infrastructure, instead of some pirate's new boat or drug habit.
They probably have DC4 (the 4-output version) available at a discount from people who upgraded.
Contact Jon Young @ Arrakis
(For a single zone system, the Audio Request is the winner. Request - they also have zone expanders, but for 6 zones I'd be inclined to go with the Arrakis as an all in one system).
For those people who would be inclined to say "oh, it's expensive. I want something for $100" let me say this: My time retails at $125/hr. Why spend 100+ hours hacking together a system and tweaking interfaces, ultimately having something that mostly works, but will be a lifetime drain on your time, and have no value to anyone else because no one else would be able to fix it or upgrade it? Buy something off the shelf and use it! The Audio Request runs QNX, and you can sign into it and modify it a bit if you want. Both Request and Arrakis have had teams of programmers and engineers working out the bugs and coming up with good interfaces for thousands of hours, not to mention adding new features (request recently added FLAC and album art to their OS). Place a value on your own time, and you'll see that these units are not unreasonably priced.
They're not running out - I think every spammer in hk, tw, kr and especially cn has been given a class A to scatter their mailhosts around. Reclaim all of the spammers addresses and they'll have enough for a few more years.
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Very well explained. I've been using and running unix systems since 1981, and I concur with this explanation.
Now that Frisk's F-Prot no longer has a free version (probably at the insistence of F-Secure), I recommend/install AVG on friend & family PC's. It seems to work fine, and everyone seems delighted with it after suffering through Symantec/Norton/McAfee hell.
I still really like F-Prot though, and on my personal laptop I use it, but both my wife and son have AVG.
Their Sprite 2 is one of the best security recorders available. www.dedicatedmicros.com
I'm not sure why it needs to be "clickers" - in a large classroom environment, I'm assuming auditorium style fixed seating, which suggests that keypad for each seat would be the best solution. There are readily available keypad solutions (i.e. crestron) which would support 250+ keypads on a single bus, all individually addressed, and would be far less maintenance intensive than any wireless solution. From 2 to 12 buttons could be done "off the shelf". And no replacement cost for "clickers" walking out the door every class period.
And, if you still needed some # of wireless devices, they could be easily tied into the same system.
http://www.crestron.com/
http://www.humaneinterface.com/
This has been mentioned on slashdot at least a couple times in the past. Why keep bringing it up every couple years when NOTHING has changed?
How we home automation integrators handle starts with being able to spell, write an understandable sentence, and formulate a logical sequence of steps.
Crestron is http://www.crestron.com/ (the best home automation controllers)
HumaneInterface.com is http://www.humaneinterface.com (the leading program/design firm)
http://www.kaleidescape.com/ (the referenced DVD server system)
http://www.request.com/ (makes a DVD changer controller that interfaces to the excellent Audio Request music server)
aem
Old news, again. Even the USA Today story is two weeks old! The system was announced back in August and has been shipping since October!
Here's the real link for the company: http://www.niro.net/en/. Go Nakamichi-san Go!
TracNet's dbs antenna for yachts retrofitted for auto use is not new. It has been available for high-end customers at least a year down in South Florida. Once again slashdot gets the scoop on old news. The only new part of the story is that the new kvh antenna, the tracvision, is now low profile and actually designed for auto use.
KVH is at here
The system has been shipping for months, and was announced and prototypes shown at CEDIA last year.
It's a nice system and worked well. It is larger than it looks in the photos.
I would generally recommend the Audio Request with a house amp though, if you're willing to spend a couple thousand more.
I did a lot of research on the two competing hybrids - The Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius. The Insight had better reviews, was considered to have better technology, and Honda, as a general rule of thumb, has a lower TCO than Toyota.
Then the Civic Hybrid came out, and it not only blew away the Insight (further refinements to the technology, better gas milage, 4 doors!, a backseat, a real trunk, etc), but was also bigger in the cabin than the Prius. I bought one and have been very happy with it.
Performance seems the same as the other Civics, no problems with acceleration or anything. Typically I get 42-47 MPG, depending on how much city traffic I'm stuck in. My average MPG since I bought the car is 46.2MPG
I've been very happy with it (it's about a year old now).
For what it's worth, the new Prius is supposed to be much better than the last two years' models.
Honda supposedly will have a hybrid CRV early next year.
The only reason I'd get rid of the Civic Hybrid, is if a Hybrid Element came out next year.
He backstabbed Robert Oppenheimer for one, and was a nasty man who was largely responsible for Star Wars under Reagan. Morally reprehensible, and with seemingly no concern for anyone on the planet except for himself. I state my opinions as one who met him in the early 80's.
Not at public events in the context of news reporting.
But the hardware quality is poor, the software has stability/lockup problems, it runs WindowsCE, and it's SMB client is not fully compatible with Samba.
Cool idea, poorly implemented.
There is also a completely different plant, Bergamot Mint, which has leaves that are crushed and used for various purposes. It has a citrusy flavor that is similar, but different than oil of bergamot, which is from the rind of an orange species.
No, I didn't. Thanks for asking. Look up references on the design of the human digestive system and why eating meat is bad for it.
Look up references to the pounds and pounds of putrefying meat that is in the typical colon because of grossly excess meat (and inadequate fiber) consumption.
Try to find a site with pictures. You'll enjoy it.
Quick Addendum
For those that would suggest the Atkins Diet, which is basically LOTS OF MEAT and NO CARBS!
Yes, it appears to work, but it just forces your body to fully process the calories in the meat. It's is not efficient, nor healthy in the long term. The human body (and colon) is designed for a omnivorous diet, not a carnivorous one.
I personally would never choose live-slaughtered dead cow over french fries or a scalded-to-death chicken over a nice loaf of french bread and a glass of red wine.
1) don't eat meat. How many fat vegetarians do you know? The number one way of getting too many calories is to have meat as part of your diet.
Check out the The Physicians Commitee Vegeatarian Started Kit or The PETA Vegetarian Starter Kit.
2) Stop eating excess sugars (i.e. soda, candy).
3) When you eat, eat big foods (cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, cabbage) that fill you up but have low caloric density. Drink a glass of water before you eat.
3) Exercise more. Don't sit if you can walk, don't walk if you can run, don't use the elevator if you can use the stairs, don't use the phone/email if you can walk over to their office/cubicle. If you can ride your bike or walk to work, do it! And realize that you are able to do something that most people wish they could do!
I say these things as someone who weighs the same as I did in High School, 23 years later. (good god, has it been that long!??) Oh, and I'm in way better shape now than I was then.
I love the idea of Mozilla, and tried for almost two years to use it as my only web browser.
I got tired of the bugs, crashes, and loss of email that acompanied using it on a routine basis, and switched to a STABLE browser that has all of the mozilla features I cared about: OPERA.
I hope that at some point mozilla will be good enough to require fewer patches than internet explorer. I doubt that day has come, and mozilla is not on any of my systems until I feel I can trust it not to munge my mail.
Is Timothy 12 years old? Does he think computers began with the PS/2? What kind of misleading subject line is that supposed to be? An article comparing a PS/2 keyboard to a Active Response membrane keyboard does not qualify as a "history of the keyboard".
A quick websearch gives numerous better accounts of 1981-present computer keyboards.
For me personally, a "real" keyboard is a circa 1979 Cherry keyboard, because they are the first ones to make relatively inexpensive ($200) super-well-built keyboards. They used individual, replaceable switches for each key. They were available with an RS232 or parallel interface for hooking to a real computer.
I even used Univac keyboards where a large circuit board was packed with 1n914 diodes for encoding the keys. Keyboards with real metal coiled springs, not plastic leaf springs.
What's wrong about my statement? The people who have shared with me their experiences say that when they get a card, it lasts for a couple weeks or months at best, and $50-$100 plus several days of waiting (and having to go and pick it up) to get a new one when it stops working.
If he does pay $500 per month for life, it probably will still be less than the costs incurred by DISH, DirecTV, and the government in prosecuting him. From that perspective, if he was in fact guilty as found, he got off with a very reasonable sentence.
According to the story, he is not some garage tinkerer who happened upon a novel decryption system for the satellites. He is a **repeat** offender, and his device was designed, manufactured, and again, according to the article, in the process of delivery.
For the programming packages they offer, and the infrastructure they have assembled and maintain for delivery, I think both DirecTV and DISHnetwork are not unreasonably priced. Both of them have pretty good service and support. Even if most of the channels on the big TVRO/Cband satellites was unencrypted, it would take at least a couple years for a homeowner to break even versus getting a DSS system.
Besides, from what I've heard, the pirates charge as much for redoing satellite cards as it would cost to legitimately pay for DirecTV. The money you pay to DirecTV or DISH actually goes to pay for programming and infrastructure, instead of some pirate's new boat or drug habit.
Why reinvent the wheel? If your time is worth $00, then maybe you should.
Personally, I would get a Arrakis Digilink DC6 6-output system for your scenario.
Arrakis
They probably have DC4 (the 4-output version) available at a discount from people who upgraded.
Contact Jon Young @ Arrakis
(For a single zone system, the Audio Request is the winner. Request - they also have zone expanders, but for 6 zones I'd be inclined to go with the Arrakis as an all in one system).
For those people who would be inclined to say "oh, it's expensive. I want something for $100" let me say this: My time retails at $125/hr. Why spend 100+ hours hacking together a system and tweaking interfaces, ultimately having something that mostly works, but will be a lifetime drain on your time, and have no value to anyone else because no one else would be able to fix it or upgrade it? Buy something off the shelf and use it! The Audio Request runs QNX, and you can sign into it and modify it a bit if you want. Both Request and Arrakis have had teams of programmers and engineers working out the bugs and coming up with good interfaces for thousands of hours, not to mention adding new features (request recently added FLAC and album art to their OS). Place a value on your own time, and you'll see that these units are not unreasonably priced.
aem
They're not running out - I think every spammer in hk, tw, kr and especially cn has been given a class A to scatter their mailhosts around. Reclaim all of the spammers addresses and they'll have enough for a few more years.
Asoki Total System Care had this as part of their Systems Maintenance Agent(tm) product 2 years ago.
It's been done before, and better.
This has been mentioned before, and has been around quite awhile (in internet time)!