My wife's a big fan of anime. By extension, I've picked up a taste for it.
Has anyone else noticed that the voice acting they use for the American versions of most Anime is HORRIBLE? There's always some guy talking in a throaty voice, one guy that sounds debonair, one guy that sounds like a big oaf, and then there's always some guy that has some kind of british accent. That's not how the Japanese sounds!
Even when I buy anime on DVD, I still end up watching it in the original Japanese with subtitles, because the English that it ends up being produced in is so horrible. I can stand poor translation, but just don't couple it with poor voice acting.
Anybody know how these relate to possible data uses? It would be nice to see comm chips for cell/wi-fi built inot laptops.
I didn't RTFA, but it seems feasible. Once you start embedding things on the motherboard, you can eliminate more and more hardware instructions by having the OS/driver software perform the logic, dialing, and handshaking stuff.
we almost NEVER get a call about internet not working on a mac
I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but an nmap -O ###.###.###.###/22 scan of my cable subnet indicated that only two out of the 500 or so hosts I found were actually Macs, and only one was OS X. The bulk of the hosts were Win9x, second most prevalent being WinXP/2k. My box was the only NetBSD system turned up.
I'm not bashing Macs, but it could just be that there still aren't a lot of home users out there with them. Coming from a fellow tech support agent, I can guarantee that once you get a bunch of any system on your cable network, you will have more and more people calling in for support on them. Maybe the people who have/are getting Macs right now are the people who somewhat know what they're doing, still.
It always disgusts me to hear folks saying, "My computer got too slow, so I bought a new one", or they treat their spyware/virus ridden machines as if they've got some incurable failure, and replacement is the only means of repair.
What ever happened just to reinstalling Windows? It's completely ignorant to disconnect your Internet connection just because you didn't know how to protect your system at some point.
Happy days: Apple still supports all its products (including keeping parts in stock) for seven years after manufacture.
I'd be happy to know this. Do you have a link to back up this information?
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Why OpenStep on that Sparc?
I wouldn't suggest running Solaris on it, but I've got a SparcStation 5 that has run both NetBSD and Debian Linux during various times of its life. It's held up like a champ with both OSes as a simple fileserver/gateway.
That's not what is meant by short life cycles. I've got a (circa 1989) Mac IIci with a 40mhz 68040 processor, 48MB RAM, and a 2GB hard drive. It's chugging along happily; does that mean it's got a really, really long life cycle?
No.
Long life cycles mean that there will be parts and support available from the OEM. I don't want to buy an expensive server and find out that next year I won't be able to replace a motherboard/cpu on it because the new G6 is out, and they don't make the G5's anymore.
The actual life of a system can far extend the life cycle of a machine. I could well go on for another 5+ years with my 15 year old IIci, but that's not to say I can go to Apple for a motherboard replacement in 2010 when the thing finally dies on me.
Pest Patrol tells me the exact same thing. I'm thinking that Giant and Pest Patrol started with the same databases, at least.
While I realize that it could be used for illegitimate puposes, I don't think it should be labelled so strongly as a "baddie". I use VNC all the time to help maintain my home clients' boxen remotely-- what happens when one of them runs MS-anti spyware or Pest Patrol, and they find/delete the program they gave me permission to install on their machine?
Virtual Server is actually neat. I'm running it, but not for anything mission-critical.
Where it comes in handy is for things like server consolidation, or for a testbed environment. It's like VMWare, but it runs as a service.
Speaking of which, there is VMWare ESX http://www.vmware.com/products/server/esx_features.html
ESX runs using a modified Linux kernel, and it's like an OS that was built to run other OSes. It costs a pretty penny (it's meant for big SMP x86 machines, anyways), but if you need to consolidate or virtualize hardware, it would be a great way to go.
In all the hype, corporate told the IT department at my hospital that every computing device needed to be Y2K compliant. As a result, folks were going around and "Y2K testing" every device that could even be attached to a computer.
Our medical records system ran off of a bunch of Wyse and IBM dumb-terminals, all connecting via serial links to terminal servers, where the session was then sent via IP over to the actual servers. We even used serial line printers to make chart labels.
After one weekend passed, we all come into the office, and EVERY dumb terminal had a "Y2k compliance" sticker on it, as did every keyboard attached to a terminal, and every serial printer had them, too!
I realize that the implications of the bug could have had serious consqequences, but what genius thought devices that don't even care what the date is!?
maybe you need a ruggedized application. not a consumer level cell phone.
Why? Because I carry my phone in my pocket? Because every now and then, I drop stuff, like most normal people?
I'm not working on an oil rig. I don't try to use my phone as a door stop, or to chock the wheel of a vehicle I'm working on. It's not like I'm trying to make mobile calls in the Congo. I just can't stand a phone that a bump here and there can result in permanent damage to the unit.
My comment was simply made to emphasize how delicate these new phones are on the market compared to older phones. The story is true, and the point is true-- the new cellphones, for all their features, are more easily broken.
Cellphones aren't designed to be run over by trucks, or be left out in the snow, but my good-old Nokia survived it. I'm not saying phones need to be built specifically to withstand that, but I would like it if the only side effect of nudging my phone off the table was saying "OOPS!", and then sitting it back on the table. I've seen other phones with slide-out faces and cheap hinges simply fall apart, or crack a hinge in such a manner that you'd have to replace the unit as a "fix".
Even my wife's new cheap Nokia (which actually uses an updated firmware from my old phone) is made of thinner plastic than mine was, and it's just supposed to be a meat-and-potatoes phone, without all of the camera/PDA/vegetable steamer garbage.
It's not a matter of looking after my phone, I feel, it's more a matter of not having to wear kid gloves when I'm using/carrying it. I don't like the fact that a piece of equipment can't stand a decent bit of jarring when it's intended to be portable enough to carry in your pocket.
A few years ago, I got a little Nokia phone, I forget the model number of it. It was a little gray number, and it worked with my PDA through IrDA. And it made phone calls. It was one piece, no flippy-foldy parts, and it worked great for me. I even ran it over with a truck in the mud, and left it out in the snow for 3 days. The only way I found it was because somebody was calling me, and I heard it ringing out in the yard.
Where's my phone that I can just throw in my pocket, rough it up, and still have it work right? With all of these flip-phones, slide phones and their touch screens, camera lenses and hard drives, they don't seem like they're going to hold up to being bumped, jarred, or just tossed into a cargo pocket for a quick bike ride down to the convenience store. I love little gadgets as much as anyone else, but I'm not always going to be able to attach the device to a belt clip, and I don't always care to, anyways.
Can't they work on a good old phone that I could accidentally mistake for a hockey puck, and still have it work right?
College degrees don't bother me too much, but what gets me is previous work experience for jobs that are supposed to be first-level positions.
Why do I need a 2-4 year degree and 2 years experience for a help desk gig? If I was going to be a cable-monkey, how hard is it to show somebody how to make and run CAT5?
I put my time in for college, and prospective employers still would look at me like I was just some Joe off of the street. I thought college was supposed to prepare you to go into the workfield, not some other job?
Additionally, most virii are sent over SMTP ports since they contain their own SMTP servers. I would not be against shutting down direct-from-client SMTP as long as those who run their own mail servers have the option of having their specific connection opened for SMTP traffic.
I'm not going to argue the validity of the policy, but don't most broadband providers disallow "servers" (including mail servers) anyways? I think your idea is a neat idea, but I think that it should be tied to some kind of "Pro" plan with enhanced bandwidth and a static (or guaranteed "stable" dynamic) IP address. Right now, Comcast is doing something similar with a Pro plan, offering 4mb/s bandwidth (up from their standard 3mb/s offering), and a Dynamic IP address that's guaranteed not to change for at least 6 months. But even still, the ToS forbids running a "server" on this plan.
I forget the brand, but I've seen lots of my customers running Bellsouth DSL with modems doing exactly that by default. The cool thing about these modems, though, is that the modems I worked with had a bunch of "advanced" options that users could activate, like port forwarding, etc. It was neat, like you already had a broadband router attached, because you could hook it up to a hub/switch and give all of those clients access.
Of course, the modems had the option to do bridging, so you could use the modem as a "regular" DSL modem, and hook it up to a router or a single machine. Kind of nifty, actually, because those customers are being firewalled, and they never even know.
I thought it might be something like that... Must have been something with how I signed up-- I tried to use my Gmail account, but it wouldn't allow me to use it.
I don't remember what exactly the problem was, but I remember it keeping me from doing anything but keeping me from creating a hotmail account to associate my new Passport to...
Your statement has gotten me curious... Do you even need to use the Hotmail account to keep the Passport active?
I'm in complete agreement about not caring to have another spambox to sift through, and I don't think I've ever actually logged into the Hotmail account I have attached to the Passport I've got. Does it just suffice to use the Passport to log into some sites every now and then?
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Has anyone else noticed that the voice acting they use for the American versions of most Anime is HORRIBLE? There's always some guy talking in a throaty voice, one guy that sounds debonair, one guy that sounds like a big oaf, and then there's always some guy that has some kind of british accent. That's not how the Japanese sounds!
Even when I buy anime on DVD, I still end up watching it in the original Japanese with subtitles, because the English that it ends up being produced in is so horrible. I can stand poor translation, but just don't couple it with poor voice acting.
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too?
I didn't RTFA, but it seems feasible. Once you start embedding things on the motherboard, you can eliminate more and more hardware instructions by having the OS/driver software perform the logic, dialing, and handshaking stuff.
I don't know if anyone else has tried this, but an nmap -O ###.###.###.###/22 scan of my cable subnet indicated that only two out of the 500 or so hosts I found were actually Macs, and only one was OS X. The bulk of the hosts were Win9x, second most prevalent being WinXP/2k. My box was the only NetBSD system turned up.
I'm not bashing Macs, but it could just be that there still aren't a lot of home users out there with them. Coming from a fellow tech support agent, I can guarantee that once you get a bunch of any system on your cable network, you will have more and more people calling in for support on them. Maybe the people who have/are getting Macs right now are the people who somewhat know what they're doing, still.
What ever happened just to reinstalling Windows? It's completely ignorant to disconnect your Internet connection just because you didn't know how to protect your system at some point.
Isn't this type of periodical also referred to simply as a quarterly?
I'd be happy to know this. Do you have a link to back up this information?
I wouldn't suggest running Solaris on it, but I've got a SparcStation 5 that has run both NetBSD and Debian Linux during various times of its life. It's held up like a champ with both OSes as a simple fileserver/gateway.
No.
Long life cycles mean that there will be parts and support available from the OEM. I don't want to buy an expensive server and find out that next year I won't be able to replace a motherboard/cpu on it because the new G6 is out, and they don't make the G5's anymore.
The actual life of a system can far extend the life cycle of a machine. I could well go on for another 5+ years with my 15 year old IIci, but that's not to say I can go to Apple for a motherboard replacement in 2010 when the thing finally dies on me.
Pest Patrol tells me the exact same thing. I'm thinking that Giant and Pest Patrol started with the same databases, at least.
While I realize that it could be used for illegitimate puposes, I don't think it should be labelled so strongly as a "baddie". I use VNC all the time to help maintain my home clients' boxen remotely-- what happens when one of them runs MS-anti spyware or Pest Patrol, and they find/delete the program they gave me permission to install on their machine?
Virtual Server is actually neat. I'm running it, but not for anything mission-critical.s .html
Where it comes in handy is for things like server consolidation, or for a testbed environment. It's like VMWare, but it runs as a service.
Speaking of which, there is VMWare ESX
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/esx_feature
ESX runs using a modified Linux kernel, and it's like an OS that was built to run other OSes. It costs a pretty penny (it's meant for big SMP x86 machines, anyways), but if you need to consolidate or virtualize hardware, it would be a great way to go.
Come on Slashdot editors... this didn't fly over anyone's head-- Of course Apple would *Nix their Webcast-- isn't OS X based on a *Nix?
Our medical records system ran off of a bunch of Wyse and IBM dumb-terminals, all connecting via serial links to terminal servers, where the session was then sent via IP over to the actual servers. We even used serial line printers to make chart labels.
After one weekend passed, we all come into the office, and EVERY dumb terminal had a "Y2k compliance" sticker on it, as did every keyboard attached to a terminal, and every serial printer had them, too!
I realize that the implications of the bug could have had serious consqequences, but what genius thought devices that don't even care what the date is!?
Why? Because I carry my phone in my pocket? Because every now and then, I drop stuff, like most normal people?
I'm not working on an oil rig. I don't try to use my phone as a door stop, or to chock the wheel of a vehicle I'm working on. It's not like I'm trying to make mobile calls in the Congo. I just can't stand a phone that a bump here and there can result in permanent damage to the unit.
Cellphones aren't designed to be run over by trucks, or be left out in the snow, but my good-old Nokia survived it. I'm not saying phones need to be built specifically to withstand that, but I would like it if the only side effect of nudging my phone off the table was saying "OOPS!", and then sitting it back on the table. I've seen other phones with slide-out faces and cheap hinges simply fall apart, or crack a hinge in such a manner that you'd have to replace the unit as a "fix".
Even my wife's new cheap Nokia (which actually uses an updated firmware from my old phone) is made of thinner plastic than mine was, and it's just supposed to be a meat-and-potatoes phone, without all of the camera/PDA/vegetable steamer garbage. It's not a matter of looking after my phone, I feel, it's more a matter of not having to wear kid gloves when I'm using/carrying it. I don't like the fact that a piece of equipment can't stand a decent bit of jarring when it's intended to be portable enough to carry in your pocket.
Where's my phone that I can just throw in my pocket, rough it up, and still have it work right? With all of these flip-phones, slide phones and their touch screens, camera lenses and hard drives, they don't seem like they're going to hold up to being bumped, jarred, or just tossed into a cargo pocket for a quick bike ride down to the convenience store. I love little gadgets as much as anyone else, but I'm not always going to be able to attach the device to a belt clip, and I don't always care to, anyways.
Can't they work on a good old phone that I could accidentally mistake for a hockey puck, and still have it work right?
VroomM! VroooM! WaaaaAAAAAA Screeech! VROOOM!
Darn lameness filter keeping me from doing all caps. Shoo on you, lameness filter.
Yes or No?
Why do I need a 2-4 year degree and 2 years experience for a help desk gig? If I was going to be a cable-monkey, how hard is it to show somebody how to make and run CAT5?
I put my time in for college, and prospective employers still would look at me like I was just some Joe off of the street. I thought college was supposed to prepare you to go into the workfield, not some other job?
You're supposed to start at 10, so we're all left guessing what's number one until the end!
I'd've thought the answer to this question was obvious: Jam it into their eye.
I'm guessing that with the Member ID as low as yours, senility is finally setting in...
Additionally, most virii are sent over SMTP ports since they contain their own SMTP servers. I would not be against shutting down direct-from-client SMTP as long as those who run their own mail servers have the option of having their specific connection opened for SMTP traffic.
I'm not going to argue the validity of the policy, but don't most broadband providers disallow "servers" (including mail servers) anyways? I think your idea is a neat idea, but I think that it should be tied to some kind of "Pro" plan with enhanced bandwidth and a static (or guaranteed "stable" dynamic) IP address. Right now, Comcast is doing something similar with a Pro plan, offering 4mb/s bandwidth (up from their standard 3mb/s offering), and a Dynamic IP address that's guaranteed not to change for at least 6 months. But even still, the ToS forbids running a "server" on this plan.
Many ISPs already do this.
I forget the brand, but I've seen lots of my customers running Bellsouth DSL with modems doing exactly that by default. The cool thing about these modems, though, is that the modems I worked with had a bunch of "advanced" options that users could activate, like port forwarding, etc. It was neat, like you already had a broadband router attached, because you could hook it up to a hub/switch and give all of those clients access.
Of course, the modems had the option to do bridging, so you could use the modem as a "regular" DSL modem, and hook it up to a router or a single machine. Kind of nifty, actually, because those customers are being firewalled, and they never even know.
I thought it might be something like that... Must have been something with how I signed up-- I tried to use my Gmail account, but it wouldn't allow me to use it.
I don't remember what exactly the problem was, but I remember it keeping me from doing anything but keeping me from creating a hotmail account to associate my new Passport to...
Your statement has gotten me curious... Do you even need to use the Hotmail account to keep the Passport active?
I'm in complete agreement about not caring to have another spambox to sift through, and I don't think I've ever actually logged into the Hotmail account I have attached to the Passport I've got. Does it just suffice to use the Passport to log into some sites every now and then?