I also found video calls somewhat spoiled by not working when I had my first 3G phone. Having an "oh cool, I can video call" moment followed directly by "but it doesn't work" kinda put me off.
Having an "I hate this ad" button under every ad, with an opportunity for comment would be useful. Possibly that could be tied in with some way to say you like a particular advert, even if you have no interest in a given product. Kinda like a spam filter
Flash is also (mostly) an open standard http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/. It's just there is lots of it to implement, so the OSS versions are incomplete.
There are also OSS tools. I had a play with BoonEx Dolphin recently, and it did lots of the "internal Facebook" sort of stuff. It was pretty easy to deploy, and allows nice little bits like chat/walls/video/photos. Might be overkill for a small group though.
Places I've worked, Jabber/XMPP is really handy. I found that IM neatly bridges the gap between "warrants a phone call" and "can wait until you check your email". Also it's a far better way to get alert messages.
For a while (when a student), I had a naming convention based off drug names, related vaguely to the box by function. For example weed is the box I used most, shroom was the laptop that had psychedelic errors, a server called coke (really important for my network and the drug cartels) and a router called mule.
Also, suddenly you have to QA infinite combinations of hardware. Apple could reasonably test every system they mention as comparable before release of an OS X upgrade.
If you try to swipe a chip and pin card by cloning the mag-stripe any machine that supports the chip will tell you to use that. That means that you can only use the card out-of-country, and the bank often think it's a little odd if you are using your card in two places a few kmiles (yes that is miles with an SI prefix) apart within hours.
5 character code - 0-99999 = 100,000 possible codes.
In the flash animation above the video (on the passwindow site), there are clearly more than 5 digits. I can see 16 places a digit can be (counting the _ sections of the digit, the uprights overlap).
If I was able to receive multiple challenges from the server, I would repeat the process and cross compare results. This would allow me to determine the key on the card within an almost 100% accuracy
If I was able to have multiple attempts, I can break any password
The fairest system I've seen (it's open source, but I can't remember what it's called) shaped based on packets. Kinda in a $bandwidth/$users = Guaranteed amount each gets. If the upstream pipe is free then you get more than the guaranteed amount. The only ISP I've seen that claims they do this (or any other packet shaping TBH) was UK Free Software Network (now they seem to not offer unlimited).
BTW: If anyone know the program I'm talking about, a link would rock:)
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All the MagSafe supplies I've owned broke after a few months after the pins got stuck into the plug.
I got a cert that works in all the browsers I tested for about $10. That's plenty affordable for someone who can afford a domain.
I've seen this done. Driving a manual car doesn't put people off, it just makes the task they are doing while distracted harder.
The Internet Archive has a project to do this: http://www.archive.org/details/software
How often does a website or IM link you to Windows Help ?
I also found video calls somewhat spoiled by not working when I had my first 3G phone. Having an "oh cool, I can video call" moment followed directly by "but it doesn't work" kinda put me off.
The firewire thing is not really a fair problem to pick, any OS with DMA could be vulnerable.
Wholesale phone minutes is a sleazy business. If you have a good route to an obscure country making loads of calls to it would probably pay off.
I've only seen one ISP with a cap in the UK, excluding mobile broadband.
Uninstalling Symantec products == reinstall
Having an "I hate this ad" button under every ad, with an opportunity for comment would be useful. Possibly that could be tied in with some way to say you like a particular advert, even if you have no interest in a given product. Kinda like a spam filter
Flash is also (mostly) an open standard http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/. It's just there is lots of it to implement, so the OSS versions are incomplete.
There are also OSS tools. I had a play with BoonEx Dolphin recently, and it did lots of the "internal Facebook" sort of stuff. It was pretty easy to deploy, and allows nice little bits like chat/walls/video/photos. Might be overkill for a small group though. Places I've worked, Jabber/XMPP is really handy. I found that IM neatly bridges the gap between "warrants a phone call" and "can wait until you check your email". Also it's a far better way to get alert messages.
Also many of the prepaid deals have free international minutes or some discount deal
All the UK HSDPA modems I've had work out of the box on Fedora (T-mob/Voda, look for the Huawei ones).
It sounds like you are breaking the EU working time directive . You can legally (though maybe not practically) refuse to do it
I often download > 7GB in a day with no trouble with Virgin... Also I share a house, so it's not just me that's using the net
I had that same problem, but then I got a deal and now it's 4p/min to almost anywhere.
Also, if you make an emergency call, any network will let you on. That gives you 3 or 4 times the capacity
For a while (when a student), I had a naming convention based off drug names, related vaguely to the box by function. For example weed is the box I used most, shroom was the laptop that had psychedelic errors, a server called coke (really important for my network and the drug cartels) and a router called mule.
Also, suddenly you have to QA infinite combinations of hardware. Apple could reasonably test every system they mention as comparable before release of an OS X upgrade.
If you try to swipe a chip and pin card by cloning the mag-stripe any machine that supports the chip will tell you to use that. That means that you can only use the card out-of-country, and the bank often think it's a little odd if you are using your card in two places a few kmiles (yes that is miles with an SI prefix) apart within hours.
5 character code - 0-99999 = 100,000 possible codes.
In the flash animation above the video (on the passwindow site), there are clearly more than 5 digits. I can see 16 places a digit can be (counting the _ sections of the digit, the uprights overlap).
If I was able to receive multiple challenges from the server, I would repeat the process and cross compare results. This would allow me to determine the key on the card within an almost 100% accuracy
If I was able to have multiple attempts, I can break any password
Even with those few passwords in there, wouldn't you consider your Google Account (credentials) to be 'important'.
The fairest system I've seen (it's open source, but I can't remember what it's called) shaped based on packets. Kinda in a $bandwidth/$users = Guaranteed amount each gets. If the upstream pipe is free then you get more than the guaranteed amount. The only ISP I've seen that claims they do this (or any other packet shaping TBH) was UK Free Software Network (now they seem to not offer unlimited). BTW: If anyone know the program I'm talking about, a link would rock :)