Surfing the net on my phone is a neat idea, I just can't see anyone using it a great deal. Am I alone here?
No, I only use mine to read BBC News on the go (they have a good mobile site) and to access a little 'hello world' type page on my home server, just as a check that all is well at the house. Anything else is fruitless.
Why does one line in the example end abruptly with $? Has it been copied out of a nano session? Do I need to crack open Wireshark to find out the mystery code?
Sad, sad USians. To them, the world really does begin and end on their shores. Tell me OP, do you really think this list was compiled with a West coast bias in mind? Or do you just think it was 50 products slung together in an afternoon to meet a deadline. Hmm?
Has anyone come across something similar for video? I've seen videodb but that seems more geared to DVD. I want something that will catalogue all my downloaded xvid so I can tell straight away if I had a particular title, instead of hunting through a stack of discs. Hashing or fingerprinting them files in some way would also be good, so I can start to share my collection with other people.
Imagine this: set up a torrent tracker, get your members to catalogue their video collection, combine that into one list of all available video, then if someone wants a particular file, the tracker will be able to ask all members with that file to start seeding.
That's why OP recommended hovering over the link. But people like my Dad wouldn't know the difference between paypal.com & paypal-user.info. And I'm sure he's the type who gets hit by phishing. As others have suggested, maybe it's time for these companies to revert to more traditional, tried & trusted means of communication. It's not like they aren't making stacks of cash every day.
Trouble is, by the time the auction finishes, your stock of uranium will have decayed to half its original amount, and you'll have a lot of explaining to do to your successful eBay bidder...
Maybe we can start calling bits of the US by the state name, cos it's really just the same thing. So there'll be a story about a new start-up with an odd service in say San Francisco and I can come on spouting stuff like "yeah, these guys in Mississippi must be on crack if they think this'll work". Or say a tale of police brutality in New York could be met with "I for one welcome our new Californian police overlords". Let's see how they like it.
Yeah, GP is a rather odd comment. Maybe what he said should be done has been done, and now he can talk about how it's implemented. He's a clever guy, I'm sure MS didn't employ him just so they could get their hands on Process Explorer. I guess this factoid was lost on 'first post'
Of course, in the AOL 'anonymous search terms' scandal, it took some journalists about 4 minutes to work out who one of the searchees were. And that was with no data apart from a bunch of search strings.
copy and pasting commands from a HOWTO isn't really that complicated is it?
Apparently it is, it would seem that some people would rather have the box built and set up for them - and when that option isn't available, instead of just keeping quiet they piss and moan about how the community should be 'falling over themselves' to build these things. I'm sure that one of the driving ideals behind Myth was that you didn't have to rely on companies to do it for you, with their broadcast flags & whatnot, now you can do it yourself. (Aimud at posts above you BTW)
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Maybe this is a job for the smashmyipod crew - they've never failed to raise the funds yet...
Haha, and I bet you put the cones down straight away. See, it works. Enjoy your alcohol-fuelled fun.
So you don't use credit cards then? What with your apparent inherent distrust of any person's ability to keep your details a secret.
But don't planes at that altitude stick to well-defined air corridors?
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Why does one line in the example end abruptly with $? Has it been copied out of a nano session? Do I need to crack open Wireshark to find out the mystery code?
Sad, sad USians. To them, the world really does begin and end on their shores. Tell me OP, do you really think this list was compiled with a West coast bias in mind? Or do you just think it was 50 products slung together in an afternoon to meet a deadline. Hmm?
And what do you do with your so-called 'ethics' when the terms of use of a site include refraining from the use of ad-blockers?
Nostalgic USians could really do with a site like this
Has anyone come across something similar for video? I've seen videodb but that seems more geared to DVD. I want something that will catalogue all my downloaded xvid so I can tell straight away if I had a particular title, instead of hunting through a stack of discs. Hashing or fingerprinting them files in some way would also be good, so I can start to share my collection with other people.
Imagine this: set up a torrent tracker, get your members to catalogue their video collection, combine that into one list of all available video, then if someone wants a particular file, the tracker will be able to ask all members with that file to start seeding.
So in the third world, the internet is a big truck taking sports scores out to the villages. You see, Mr Stevens, you were wrong about those tubes.
Tip: walk to any ATM and change it.
That's why OP recommended hovering over the link. But people like my Dad wouldn't know the difference between paypal.com & paypal-user.info. And I'm sure he's the type who gets hit by phishing. As others have suggested, maybe it's time for these companies to revert to more traditional, tried & trusted means of communication. It's not like they aren't making stacks of cash every day.
Trouble is, by the time the auction finishes, your stock of uranium will have decayed to half its original amount, and you'll have a lot of explaining to do to your successful eBay bidder...
'Dire Straits' would've been best though.
Maybe we can start calling bits of the US by the state name, cos it's really just the same thing. So there'll be a story about a new start-up with an odd service in say San Francisco and I can come on spouting stuff like "yeah, these guys in Mississippi must be on crack if they think this'll work". Or say a tale of police brutality in New York could be met with "I for one welcome our new Californian police overlords". Let's see how they like it.
Yeah, GP is a rather odd comment. Maybe what he said should be done has been done, and now he can talk about how it's implemented. He's a clever guy, I'm sure MS didn't employ him just so they could get their hands on Process Explorer. I guess this factoid was lost on 'first post'
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Of course, in the AOL 'anonymous search terms' scandal, it took some journalists about 4 minutes to work out who one of the searchees were. And that was with no data apart from a bunch of search strings.