The Model M is dishwasher safe, at least so far. I have put two of mine in the dishwasher. No soap, top rack, air dry for a few days. Put the keycaps in the silverware holder.
I thought it was a joke when I first heard it, but I had a keyboard that was in bad enough shape to risk. I now use that keyboard at work. The second one I use at home, and it is due for another dishwasher cycle soon.
Did anyone else notice that it is hard to find a decent set of inputs on laptops these days? The Thinkpads have a trackpoint and a good keyboard. Most other laptops don't. I'd buy a Mac tomorrow if I could type and mouse at full speed.
Hint to hardware folks - Those of use with big fingers find a pad to be a waste of time. An external mouse does not fix the underlying issue. Shitty keyboards don't help, either.
I read with highest scores first, so you might not be the first to point this out, but you are the first I've seen. Please mod down every other post, because this is the first one (I've seen) that is correct.
Yahoo gets a lot of mail. A LOT of mail. A shitload. Take a large number, and multiply it by another large number. Add a zero or two to the end of that number. Imagine getting that many incoming SMTP connections, even over an extended period of time.
Graylisting is unlikely, firewalls talking to each other is very unlikely. What is very, very likely is that they get so much damned mail that sometimes the servers get overloaded. That is why we have MX records. MX records work well, attempting to count responding servers does not work well.
Today I rode my horseless carriage to the general store. I traded some venison for a brand new 'clicker'. Now that wireless is obsolete, I need something to control all my new-fangled devices.
Maybe it is just a generation gap thing. Old people call remote controls clickers, because they used to click. That was a long time ago, folks. Why are we adopting an archaic usage of this word?
If you lost the keys to your car, and the dealer wouldn't give you a new key, would you have a problem getting the locks changed?
Get on the net and find a serial number. There is nothing wrong with this. I've done this many times, legally, including with Fortune 50 companies. Paperwork gets misplaced.
As for this company, why don't you tell us who they are, so we don't buy anything from them?
You guys for the Greens and Libertarians do know you're just throwing your votes away right?
You guys voting for the democrats and republicans do know you are just keeping them in power, right? They could all be out of office in just a few years if people like you would grow a fucking backbone.
There is no working within the system anymore. It is broken. They all need voted out. If you aren't trying to convince other people of this, then you are to blame.
Also, keep in mind that many Libertarians are ex-republicans.
Three more Libertarian votes in 2004, hopefully at least a dozen more by 2008
I've got the bitstream vera fonts and some other installed on my laptop (Gentoo), and I now can't stand going back to Windows because of the horrible fonts. Once you forget how fonts are 'supposed to look', you'll realize how ugly the MS default fonts are.
Switch to classic mode Turn off menu delays Turn off every other stupid effect Install unix command line tools Never use IE or Outlook Install some decent fonts
It might not be as pretty, but it is more functional.
Isn't that the chick that thinks her show is a porn flick? Slow motion chopping of vegetables. Soft focus. Closeups of her pouring liquid from bottles.
The seats with 'crappy viewing angles' at the Uptown are still better than most seats in other theaters. I watched LOTR from a seat on the far side of the theater, and after a couple of minutes I no longer noticed the difference.
It will be a sad day when the Uptown closes. I drive more than an hour to see movies there.
I've used Mandrake on a couple of servers, just because of the hardware support and speed of install. Of course, every service was shut off, and all services were recompiled from source, but they did start out as Mandrake.
I've been using a squiggle for about ten years now. It is the same every time, and it is on my driver's license. I had no problem signing a mortgage, buying a car, getting married, filling out legal paperwork, etc. I only ever get comments on it from the occasional retail clerk that actually compares it to the back of my credit card. Strange.
Sadly, it wouldn't have been much better. As much as I like IBM hardware these days, their software is still lousy, and they never would have supported Linux had OS/2 become mainstream.
I can't tell you how many big shops I've seen this happen to.
What is really fucked up is that people overlook the other question - What happens when the entire network is taken down by some new exploit/bug? What do we do with the MS network then?
(Yes, your firewall might prevent this. It will also prevent it in the Novell case. Better marketing, I guess).
ConsoleOne was a really, really bad idea anyway.
In some parallel universe, Novell ported everything to Linux or BSD ten years ago, and just worried about NDS, not the whole OS. And things worked like Netware 3.11...
All we need to do in Iraq is put a Pizza Hut, 7-11, liquor store and strip club at every major intersection. The same plan would work in Afghanistan if there were any major intersections.
Wow, I am amazed someone has used panaromic mode. My 3020z came with a 16 meg card, which was immediately replaced by 2 128 meg cards. I read about that 'feature', but never bothered.
A great camera otherwise, but the I hope the idiot that came up with that idea rots in marketing hell.
Even if the IRS was allowed to do this (it isn't), they would never guarantee it was correct. Something important to remember: Even if you call the IRS with a tax question, you are still liable if they give you the wrong answer!!!
I know this is off topic, but why are you still with Bank of America? They take money from you every chance they get, and about the only thing they have going for them are ATMs all over the place.
Bank of America seriously pissed me off when they held a $10,000 deposit without notifying me. Never mind that this was an insurance payoff for a totalled vehicle. When I tried to use the money to buy something else, it wasn't there. They told me that the deposit looked suspicious.
I switched to a credit union (actually a few of them) a few years back, and I couldn't be happier. They even pay for the ATM fees when I go somewhere else, and they pay interest on checking accounts.
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Congratulations.
It did get very clean. Very long, hot cycle, but no drying.
But I also have spares in case I killed it.
The Model M is dishwasher safe, at least so far. I have put two of mine in the dishwasher. No soap, top rack, air dry for a few days. Put the keycaps in the silverware holder.
I thought it was a joke when I first heard it, but I had a keyboard that was in bad enough shape to risk. I now use that keyboard at work. The second one I use at home, and it is due for another dishwasher cycle soon.
Did anyone else notice that it is hard to find a decent set of inputs on laptops these days? The Thinkpads have a trackpoint and a good keyboard. Most other laptops don't. I'd buy a Mac tomorrow if I could type and mouse at full speed.
Hint to hardware folks - Those of use with big fingers find a pad to be a waste of time. An external mouse does not fix the underlying issue. Shitty keyboards don't help, either.
I read with highest scores first, so you might not be the first to point this out, but you are the first I've seen. Please mod down every other post, because this is the first one (I've seen) that is correct.
Yahoo gets a lot of mail. A LOT of mail. A shitload. Take a large number, and multiply it by another large number. Add a zero or two to the end of that number. Imagine getting that many incoming SMTP connections, even over an extended period of time.
Graylisting is unlikely, firewalls talking to each other is very unlikely. What is very, very likely is that they get so much damned mail that sometimes the servers get overloaded. That is why we have MX records. MX records work well, attempting to count responding servers does not work well.
While I don't doubt that you are having a problem, are you sure this is Firefox and not an extension?
The uptime on the machine I'm on now is 15 days, and I have 21 tabs open. I also have 5 other Firefox windows open, and I haven't counted those tabs.
Granted, I have 1.5 gigs of memory here, but I haven't seen a memory-related problem in Firefox for quite a while.
Today I rode my horseless carriage to the general store. I traded some venison for a brand new 'clicker'. Now that wireless is obsolete, I need something to control all my new-fangled devices.
Maybe it is just a generation gap thing. Old people call remote controls clickers, because they used to click. That was a long time ago, folks. Why are we adopting an archaic usage of this word?
If you lost the keys to your car, and the dealer wouldn't give you a new key, would you have a problem getting the locks changed?
Get on the net and find a serial number. There is nothing wrong with this. I've done this many times, legally, including with Fortune 50 companies. Paperwork gets misplaced.
As for this company, why don't you tell us who they are, so we don't buy anything from them?
Fuck, Ask Slashdot has gotten stupid.
You guys voting for the democrats and republicans do know you are just keeping them in power, right? They could all be out of office in just a few years if people like you would grow a fucking backbone.
There is no working within the system anymore. It is broken. They all need voted out. If you aren't trying to convince other people of this, then you are to blame.
Also, keep in mind that many Libertarians are ex-republicans.
Three more Libertarian votes in 2004, hopefully at least a dozen more by 2008
Well, that used to be true.
I've got the bitstream vera fonts and some other installed on my laptop (Gentoo), and I now can't stand going back to Windows because of the horrible fonts. Once you forget how fonts are 'supposed to look', you'll realize how ugly the MS default fonts are.
Switch to classic mode
Turn off menu delays
Turn off every other stupid effect
Install unix command line tools
Never use IE or Outlook
Install some decent fonts
It might not be as pretty, but it is more functional.
Isn't that the chick that thinks her show is a porn flick? Slow motion chopping of vegetables. Soft focus. Closeups of her pouring liquid from bottles.
No, I'm not kidding. Watch it sometime.
The seats with 'crappy viewing angles' at the Uptown are still better than most seats in other theaters. I watched LOTR from a seat on the far side of the theater, and after a couple of minutes I no longer noticed the difference.
It will be a sad day when the Uptown closes. I drive more than an hour to see movies there.
This makes me feel old, but Netware 3.11 was the one that never died. Although 4.x was very stable, there were ways to make it crash.
I still have a client running 3.11, which I had to reinstall from floppies a couple of years ago.
I've used Mandrake on a couple of servers, just because of the hardware support and speed of install. Of course, every service was shut off, and all services were recompiled from source, but they did start out as Mandrake.
Blog is a very stupid word, and I'll be happy when it dies.
Text is still not a verb.
Some apps seem to have a help entry that tells you absolutely nothing about the app or how to use it.
A quick check (KDE 3.2):
Konquest: Useless and out of date
Kedit: Nice
Kmplayer: Nothing useful
Kate: Good
Kmenuedit: Sparse, but looks like enough
Not that I think Windows apps have better help, but that doesn't make KDE help any better.
I've been using a squiggle for about ten years now. It is the same every time, and it is on my driver's license. I had no problem signing a mortgage, buying a car, getting married, filling out legal paperwork, etc. I only ever get comments on it from the occasional retail clerk that actually compares it to the back of my credit card. Strange.
Sadly, it wouldn't have been much better. As much as I like IBM hardware these days, their software is still lousy, and they never would have supported Linux had OS/2 become mainstream.
I can't tell you how many big shops I've seen this happen to.
What is really fucked up is that people overlook the other question - What happens when the entire network is taken down by some new exploit/bug? What do we do with the MS network then?
(Yes, your firewall might prevent this. It will also prevent it in the Novell case. Better marketing, I guess).
ConsoleOne was a really, really bad idea anyway.
In some parallel universe, Novell ported everything to Linux or BSD ten years ago, and just worried about NDS, not the whole OS. And things worked like Netware 3.11...
All we need to do in Iraq is put a Pizza Hut, 7-11, liquor store and strip club at every major intersection. The same plan would work in Afghanistan if there were any major intersections.
Wow, I am amazed someone has used panaromic mode. My 3020z came with a 16 meg card, which was immediately replaced by 2 128 meg cards. I read about that 'feature', but never bothered.
A great camera otherwise, but the I hope the idiot that came up with that idea rots in marketing hell.
This is totally fucked up, but completely true.
Please mod parent up. Checkpoint stole money from us, too.
Bank of America seriously pissed me off when they held a $10,000 deposit without notifying me. Never mind that this was an insurance payoff for a totalled vehicle. When I tried to use the money to buy something else, it wasn't there. They told me that the deposit looked suspicious.
I switched to a credit union (actually a few of them) a few years back, and I couldn't be happier. They even pay for the ATM fees when I go somewhere else, and they pay interest on checking accounts.