How about glancing at your battery level once in a while, combined with a general awareness of when you last charged the phone and how much you have been using it?
Any time my phone runs out of juice I will have been expecting it, and not because of some dorky flahing and beeping. Motorola Razrs are the worst. Piercing beeping and nothing you can do about it. Ugh!
I'm an a large site that's running XP SP1 on all of quite a few thousand machines and I'd just like to say that one week notice of termination of support is ridiculous. Yes I know we've had SP2 for years and yes we should have upgraded, but one normally has many months of warning before they pull the support plug. Now we have just one week to test all our apps for SP2 compatibility, distribute the upgrade, and all the rest of it. In a week we are going to have equipment involved in *life or death* decisions running on an unsupported OS.
Yes, I hear you loud and clear: should have upgraded sooner, and you're quite right too. But Microsoft absolutely should not have dropped this on us like this out of the blue.
I am strongly left-handed but when I was introduced to this new-fangled mouse thingy, I always moused with my right hand, probably because that was how my desk was laid out at first, and was not very comfortable mousing with the left. Unfortunately, after a few years of intensive Doom-playing (LH on keyboard, RH on mouse), I got a touch of RSI in my right writst which meant that mousing right-handed became painful and I now mouse exclusively with my left hand. (I only switch over when playing a FPS.)
Anyway, to the point in hand: I'm well aware of and irritated by the "dextrism" that pervades manufacures goods (numeric keypad on the right is my pet peeve) but honestly I had never given the position of the scroll bar a second thought until I read this article. It's just a waste of effort to have to acquire a left-handed version of every common product, and if you've got to the point where you're complaining about where the scroll bar is then you're just overdoing it. I mean, mouse pointer too far from the scroll bar? Give it a nudge and - look! - it's over there, near the scroll bar! Problem solved! Or use the wheel and forget about it. It's not even clear that this is a case of dextrism - the scroll bar has to be somewhere; this is more likely to be influenced by text reading direction than the majority dominant hand.
You have to be able to adapt to the environment you find yourself in. Putting up with default computing environments makes you more comfortable when using random machines and makes your machine a *lot* easier to use should anyone need to do something quickly on it over your shoulder. I've got a left-handed colleague who swaps his mouse buttons and I have to help him with stuff on his computer from time to time. Just can't adapt to it, no matter how many times I use it.
"Dialog" (or "dialogue") is appropriate. The word simply means an exchange of ideas and can involve any number of people, even just one. If you want specifically two people talking, the word is duologue.
Ah you youngsters don't even know you're born! In my day (computer science also at Cambridge) we had to program for the 6502 on BBC Micros. And IBM System/370 assembler. And Pascal. And C. And Snobol. And Lisp. And FORTRAN. And Modula-2. And BCPL. And Prolog. (Continue ad nauseam...)
However, we did also do some honest-to-goodness *computer science* (algorithms, complexity theory, and so on), which I think is going to offer deeper benefits in the long run than your particular choice of programming language.
WinBatch, is a straightforward shareware Windows scripting language that has a very simple learning curve (it's easier than VB to pick up IMHO), and is incredibly powerful.
You can compile to.EXE, do all manner of network, database, and desktop automation. And yes, you can play with the serial ports and much more.
Best of all, there is an extensive tech support database and a lively user community, with active and remarkably prompt involvement from the principal architects of the language.
I speak only as a satisfied customer, but this is really the type of shareware that makes you want to register it. I've done some remarkable things with it.
Suppose at the work location, you must route through a local proxy like Squid to get anywhere. (So the browser has to be configured to use the proxy to connect to anything and, amongst other things, putty.exe from the Windoze command line won't work.)
How do you set up a secure tunnel from workstation through proxy to remote host and then onward to the outside world?
It's not *us* that keeps adding more complexity into the cosmological picture, it's the *universe*. All predictions previously had said that the expansion of the universe should be slowing down, whatever the fine details of the theory were. When it was discovered to be actually speeding up, cosmologists were stunned. No one really knows what dark enery is - the term is little more than a catch-all for "whatever is making the expansion of the universe speed up".
I think that in general terms, "paradigm shifts" in physics become harder and harder to achieve as time goes on, as there is more existing data that still has to fit with the new theory. Maybe we'll get lucky and a proper string theory or LQG will come along and explain everything, including dark energy, but don't hold your breath.
(Dark *matter*, on the other hand, is becoming better understood almost daily. There's little doubt now that it is real "stuff" that clumps together and so on.)
I run my XP box with Power User privileges for a bit more power
...and a bit more risk.
Generally, running as a Power User is unnecessary. Occasionally, you'll find applications that appear to need this, but it's usually fixable by adjusting rights on specific files/directories/registry keys. Sysinternals' RegMon and FileMon are good tools for identifying where apps are bumping up against security. Occasionally you might have to tweak the local security policy but that's all.
You really should be running with LEAST privilege; a Power User can still (for example) walk all over the Program Files directory, and the ability to modify system time can cause havoc and renders any auditing suspect.
You've always got "Run as..." and the tips at Aaron Margolis's blog if you need to temporarily elevate your privs. I haven't had any lasting issues with running at mere User level, and my machine is as secure as a Windoze box gets.
I can do the first 116 from memory. (I would reproduce them here but it's indistinguishable from cheating!) Learned them when I was about 12 and they're stuck in my head, like your first phone number. Anyone else here pointlessly filled their head in this way? What's the/. record?
The current POTUS doesn't use email, it is claimed. He was shocked at the potential that a FOIA request would have to reveal his supposedly private comments. Ironic, really, considering the current topic!
Let's just face it, [h|cr]ackers are here to stay, and so is information security. But Ranum has a more important message that got obsured by the flamebait: forget about trying to enumerate and block every type of evil packet and concentrate on permitting only what people on the network should be doing. As TFA puts it:
Anti-virus, Intrusion detection, Intrusion Prevention, Deep Packet Inspection - they all do the same thing: try to enumerate all the bad things that can happen to a computer. It makes more sense to try to enumerate the good things that a computer should be allowed to do.
Well... Say a platter is 10g. How many platters per drive? TFA doesn't say; let's be generous and say 4. So that's 100kg of spinning 3.5" (~10cm) discs. 7200 rpm?
So that'll be about the same angular momentum as a 1kg wheel with a diameter of 10m spinning at a rate of about 1Hz. Not quite enough to tip over a building...
(Don't worry, I didn't have a sense of humour failure - I'm sure I'm not the only one here who felt compelled to estimate this!)
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How about glancing at your battery level once in a while, combined with a general awareness of when you last charged the phone and how much you have been using it? Any time my phone runs out of juice I will have been expecting it, and not because of some dorky flahing and beeping. Motorola Razrs are the worst. Piercing beeping and nothing you can do about it. Ugh!
I'm an a large site that's running XP SP1 on all of quite a few thousand machines and I'd just like to say that one week notice of termination of support is ridiculous. Yes I know we've had SP2 for years and yes we should have upgraded, but one normally has many months of warning before they pull the support plug. Now we have just one week to test all our apps for SP2 compatibility, distribute the upgrade, and all the rest of it. In a week we are going to have equipment involved in *life or death* decisions running on an unsupported OS.
Yes, I hear you loud and clear: should have upgraded sooner, and you're quite right too. But Microsoft absolutely should not have dropped this on us like this out of the blue.
I am strongly left-handed but when I was introduced to this new-fangled mouse thingy, I always moused with my right hand, probably because that was how my desk was laid out at first, and was not very comfortable mousing with the left. Unfortunately, after a few years of intensive Doom-playing (LH on keyboard, RH on mouse), I got a touch of RSI in my right writst which meant that mousing right-handed became painful and I now mouse exclusively with my left hand. (I only switch over when playing a FPS.)
Anyway, to the point in hand: I'm well aware of and irritated by the "dextrism" that pervades manufacures goods (numeric keypad on the right is my pet peeve) but honestly I had never given the position of the scroll bar a second thought until I read this article. It's just a waste of effort to have to acquire a left-handed version of every common product, and if you've got to the point where you're complaining about where the scroll bar is then you're just overdoing it. I mean, mouse pointer too far from the scroll bar? Give it a nudge and - look! - it's over there, near the scroll bar! Problem solved! Or use the wheel and forget about it. It's not even clear that this is a case of dextrism - the scroll bar has to be somewhere; this is more likely to be influenced by text reading direction than the majority dominant hand.
You have to be able to adapt to the environment you find yourself in. Putting up with default computing environments makes you more comfortable when using random machines and makes your machine a *lot* easier to use should anyone need to do something quickly on it over your shoulder. I've got a left-handed colleague who swaps his mouse buttons and I have to help him with stuff on his computer from time to time. Just can't adapt to it, no matter how many times I use it.
"Dialog" (or "dialogue") is appropriate. The word simply means an exchange of ideas and can involve any number of people, even just one. If you want specifically two people talking, the word is duologue.
- Can it be overclocked?
Oh dear. I read that as "overcocked"...
However, we did also do some honest-to-goodness *computer science* (algorithms, complexity theory, and so on), which I think is going to offer deeper benefits in the long run than your particular choice of programming language.
You can compile to .EXE, do all manner of network, database, and desktop automation. And yes, you can play with the serial ports and much more.
Best of all, there is an extensive tech support database and a lively user community, with active and remarkably prompt involvement from the principal architects of the language.
I speak only as a satisfied customer, but this is really the type of shareware that makes you want to register it. I've done some remarkable things with it.
How do you set up a secure tunnel from workstation through proxy to remote host and then onward to the outside world?
I think that in general terms, "paradigm shifts" in physics become harder and harder to achieve as time goes on, as there is more existing data that still has to fit with the new theory. Maybe we'll get lucky and a proper string theory or LQG will come along and explain everything, including dark energy, but don't hold your breath.
(Dark *matter*, on the other hand, is becoming better understood almost daily. There's little doubt now that it is real "stuff" that clumps together and so on.)
And the publicity generated by the ban (not least here on /.) will ensure that it is duly downloaded by the bucketload.
Hell, I hadn't even heard of LC5 before this announcement!
Yeah you could spoof the response from the timesever, but simply cracking the code is far more elegant.
Generally, running as a Power User is unnecessary. Occasionally, you'll find applications that appear to need this, but it's usually fixable by adjusting rights on specific files/directories/registry keys. Sysinternals' RegMon and FileMon are good tools for identifying where apps are bumping up against security. Occasionally you might have to tweak the local security policy but that's all.
You really should be running with LEAST privilege; a Power User can still (for example) walk all over the Program Files directory, and the ability to modify system time can cause havoc and renders any auditing suspect.
You've always got "Run as..." and the tips at Aaron Margolis's blog if you need to temporarily elevate your privs. I haven't had any lasting issues with running at mere User level, and my machine is as secure as a Windoze box gets.
It's 1/12. Half of the possible edge positions are unreachable from a solved cube, and 1/6 of the corner cubie configurations can't be reached.
Fun fact: probability of being able to solve a cube scrambled by disassembly/reassembly: 1/12.
I can do the first 116 from memory. (I would reproduce them here but it's indistinguishable from cheating!) Learned them when I was about 12 and they're stuck in my head, like your first phone number. Anyone else here pointlessly filled their head in this way? What's the /. record?
The current POTUS doesn't use email, it is claimed. He was shocked at the potential that a FOIA request would have to reveal his supposedly private comments. Ironic, really, considering the current topic!
So that'll be about the same angular momentum as a 1kg wheel with a diameter of 10m spinning at a rate of about 1Hz. Not quite enough to tip over a building...
(Don't worry, I didn't have a sense of humour failure - I'm sure I'm not the only one here who felt compelled to estimate this!)
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