Nothing to do with data lost either... but I did a upgrade on a friends PC and he had a back slot open. Opened the case and found a lot of Cheerios cereal inside the case. Seems the mice liked the heat, and the amazing part was the computer was just fine.:)
I bought an iMac earlier this spring, and the first thing I did was leave the Apple mouse in the box and install a Logitech MX400. And to keep things in content.. Sony should have came up #1 or #2 for their giant *uckup... and they should have faced a giant class action suit.
Have to mod this parent up. The guy is a "billionaire" ok? First off, I know that if I was worth that much I would have some serious bandwidth coming into my house, and wouldn't even bother with "cable" speeds. This guy is a jerk, cheap, getting payed to saying this for profit / attention, OR? (insert theory here)
Dude, I was burned on this one when I was a kid. Seen the ad on the TV and sent them like $19.95 (or whatever) and got a LP that was more flexible than a porn star. PLUS, it was a damn band called the "The Original Artists".. considering I was like 13 at the time, that sucked. Lesson learned.
The US Tiger-Line Data it is based off of (SAME errors in data - I know, I've got the whole Tiger-Line set to use for comparison) clearly states in the massive 369 page "Technical Document" (well I think 369 pages is kinda large) that the data is purposefully innaccurate to ensure that it cannot be used to pinpoint the exact location of any residence to help ensure some level of privacy for each citizen.
But the thing is, on my address lookups the data is like on the wrong side of the street. I don't see a privacy issue here, minus the said crook was a total dumb ass and couldn't check the address across the street. Also, if you use APRS then that data should be accurate, but you can set that off also. (although I'm sure you are aware of this also) As far as "security sensitive areas go, I seriously doubt that a terrorist wouldn't actually case the area physically first.
Well, since we're talking about laptops and mobile graphics, I feel the need to point out that my new MacBook Pro has an nVidia 8600 GT in it. Apple has provided nVidia chips in the MacBook Pro line for a few months now. You can get 128 MB or 256 MB, depending on whether you buy the 15" or 17" model.
Yep, that might be true.. but to get to 256MB in graphics memory you have to spend $2499.00 US. That's just crazy. (MacBook Pro 15") I'm sorry, but I'll just get a iMac and purchase a cheap PC based laptop, and toss Linux on it. Personally, I'd love a MacBook but the bang for the buck just isn't justified. (spec wise, and the pro version is just insane price wise)
I'd agree here. Personally, I'd love a MacBook but I will never buy one until it comes with at least 256MB of dedicated video ram. Are ya reading this Steve? And yes, Nvidia would be a better option.
a) probably made by a US owned Chinese company or a Chinese company that bought technology/equipment from US firms, or licensed from a US company that gets a cut of the profits. b) made for a lot less than any other country could ever DREAM of to produce it
The best bit is - China is only STARTING to become industrialized. They (along with India) have the potential to dominate the entire world economically. Sure, as an American you can "boycott" China. But Europe won't. Russian won't. The third world (which is starving for cheaper goods) won't. The only thing you will be doing is digging your own grave.
But the problem is that alot of the products coming from China suck. Take your typical Wal-Mart clothes for example. Crap ass stitching, they wear out twice as fast, fade, etc. I used to be able to buy stuff without taking it back the next frickin day because of the zipper not being sewn in correctly. I'd rather spend the extra few dollars and get something that is quality made and will last more than 3 months. (or whatever) And, the US companies doing this SUCK also. If they outsource their product and it comes back to bit them in the ass with lower quality stuff, consumers remember this.
...some little SOB passed a magnet over my Etch-a-Sketch, which totally ruined my secure signature. grrrrrr... closely watching those hacker types in the office.
Yep, this idea is as solid as sand. Had to much to drink, or? Christ, my signature is never "exactly" the same, and I sure as hell can't draw.
I just recently installed openSUSE this week. (previously had Kubuntu Feisty installed) My results so far are that the install went good, even though Yast has improved it still doesn't hold a candle compared to apt. (software updates) I'm having some sound and program issues also, that I never had with Kubuntu. (still looking into this though, since it's so damn random) Could be related to the Nvidia drivers. Overall system speed is slower also. I'll more than likely just end up installing Gutsy.
I was under the impression that it was a battery only vehicle from the article.
I definitely would not pay $25K on something that does 8 miles.;-) Personally, I'd love something that even gets good mileage, seats 8, two large dogs, is affordable and doesn't suck going up steep grades. I test drove a Honda Passport and was happy with the power, but the mileage rating wasn't that great.
"It's difficult to say when plug-in hybrids could be commercialized, since it would depend largely on advances in battery technology," said Executive Vice President Masatami Takimoto, in charge of Toyota's powertrain technology, told a news conference.
That's it in a nutshell. Maximum range will have to increase for me. How about if you go out at night, and then consider waiting at stop lights, etc?
Come on, you have to keep those Taiwanese manufacturers busy!
USB to Serial dongle USB to Parallel dongle
Quite nice actually, one little USB hub on the right spot, and just one tiny cable to the PC.
I was going to mention this, but why spend extra money on a adapter? I'd love a current MB that supports USB2, Serial, Parallel, Firewire, Sata, IDE and 2 LAN ports. Dreaming.;)
I really don't have any "fat friends" per say, but I know that personally it's not what I eat that put me overweight, but all the soda and beer that I drank. I only eat like one good meal a day, and it's not fast food. After I stopped drinking all the damn soda and beer, I dropped back to a normal weight. Worked for me.
This really kinda sucks. I have a computer that needs a few legacy items like IDE, Serial and a parallel port. Why? Well, serial port(s) for my ham radio stuff and a parallel port for my perfectly good HP 6L printer. (might be an unknown issue with the IDE side)
I also like to go back and play with a older OS sometimes which doesn't even see a SATA drive. Guess it's time to stock up on a few IDE drives.
DesqView was one of my favorite programs. Running multiple bbs nodes and doing something else at the same time was way cool back in the day. Then a buddy introduced me to Unix.:)
First off, it's a AI program. This will not give you that much practical experience compared to being in a more traditional controlled test environment. I used to run ship fire simulations, with actual fire and smoke in a building setup for this type of deal when I was in the Navy. We actually trained a group of Iranians back in the day, and I remember several trying to get out of the port holes on the building, because they freaked out. (ever see a 2 1/2" hose flying around? this will put a serious hurt on your team if nailed.) I guess my whole point is that actually going into a test environment on a moments notice, donning your equipment and getting a first hand view of smoke/fire is a better experience, IMHO.
He has more money than god, and his hair STILL looks like shit. Get a stylist, man.. You know, funny you mentioned this point, but is Bill wearing a toupee? If not, you have it right. Spend some money on your hair Bill!;)
I'd have to say that the Metallica song whiplash would even make Hilary Clinton smile with this outfit. (turn it up Bill, turn it UP!!!) We might even get lucky, and she'll be so happy that it will keep her out of politics. (one can only wish)
That's thinking. I'm sure your local public access Unix provider has 200,000+ customers either. If you would have rmfr, it's for EMAIL. Not a customer backup drive. I agree it's not much space, but IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR COMPUTER, what's the big deal? I use other email services also, like gmail and yahoo. Hell, I have a old rocketmail address yet. (that was bought out by yahoo)
If you want to provide users with 500MB of space times 200,000 then go for it. I'll be LMAO when I read your bankruptcy listing in the paper. Also, just because 500MB x 200,000 might be a tad minor to some, consider backing this all up times a factor of at least 3. (redundant servers, etc.)
I really don't see how this would work that great, unless Google supplies the ISP the ability to change passwords, add email id's and such. This would have work with the ISP's current software, etc. (blah blah)
I work at a rather large ISP, and I really don't see the advantages. First off, customers always forget passwords, they already get 10MB of space per email account, and we allow 6 total, per account. (6x10=60MB)
The actual problem, is the people that just use the webmail interface, vs using a email client.(outlook, thunderbird, mac mail, etc) They use the email server as a storage space for picture attachments and such and they run out of space. Yep, over quota. Normally I explain to them that they are better off using a email client that actually downloads the mail to their computer, thus the quota issue won't effect them. Also, I recommend a good spam filter, besides the one we provide.;)
I used to work at a startup ISP as the one and only sys admin back in the early 90's. As per my contract I was supposed to get a $3500 bonus after a year. Well, the boss was a sob and decided not to award me this bonus. As you might imagine I was slightly pissed off, and decided to take a week off in protest. He fired my ass, pulled my workstation off the network and locked my hard drive in his safe in case I had setup a nasty cron job. (nope, I'm not that evil) Thing was, guess what system the dat backup was hooked up to for all the servers? You guessed it! It ended up costing them way more than my bonus when a crash happened, since nobody else in the place even had a clue regarding linux, let alone the custom kernel to allow the raid cards to function correctly, etc. Also, not to be bitter or anything, but I hope the $20k chandelier that was in his house fell.
I've used it on and off. I actually bought the retail packages for the 5.x and 7.x releases and always went back to debian. I also gave 10.x series a shot, and for me it's been yast that has sucked compared to apt. Maybe I'm just not patient enough, but yast is slow. As far as I'm concerned, debian based releases are just far easier to maintain. SuSE on the other hand does seem to support more hardware out of the box, (for the most part) and the UI is a tad better from the system/hardware point of view.
I figured that SuSE would be on top by now, but it's not happening at this point and time. (any yes, I realize you can use apt in SuSE.. not the same)
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Nothing to do with data lost either... but I did a upgrade on a friends PC and he had a back slot open. Opened the case and found a lot of Cheerios cereal inside the case. Seems the mice liked the heat, and the amazing part was the computer was just fine. :)
I bought an iMac earlier this spring, and the first thing I did was leave the Apple mouse in the box and install a Logitech MX400. And to keep things in content.. Sony should have came up #1 or #2 for their giant *uckup... and they should have faced a giant class action suit.
Dude, I was burned on this one when I was a kid. Seen the ad on the TV and sent them like $19.95 (or whatever) and got a LP that was more flexible than a porn star. PLUS, it was a damn band called the "The Original Artists".. considering I was like 13 at the time, that sucked. Lesson learned.
Yep, that might be true.. but to get to 256MB in graphics memory you have to spend $2499.00 US. That's just crazy. (MacBook Pro 15") I'm sorry, but I'll just get a iMac and purchase a cheap PC based laptop, and toss Linux on it. Personally, I'd love a MacBook but the bang for the buck just isn't justified. (spec wise, and the pro version is just insane price wise)
I'd agree here. Personally, I'd love a MacBook but I will never buy one until it comes with at least 256MB of dedicated video ram. Are ya reading this Steve? And yes, Nvidia would be a better option.
But the problem is that alot of the products coming from China suck. Take your typical Wal-Mart clothes for example. Crap ass stitching, they wear out twice as fast, fade, etc. I used to be able to buy stuff without taking it back the next frickin day because of the zipper not being sewn in correctly. I'd rather spend the extra few dollars and get something that is quality made and will last more than 3 months. (or whatever) And, the US companies doing this SUCK also. If they outsource their product and it comes back to bit them in the ass with lower quality stuff, consumers remember this.
...some little SOB passed a magnet over my Etch-a-Sketch, which totally ruined my secure signature. grrrrrr... closely watching those hacker types in the office.
Yep, this idea is as solid as sand. Had to much to drink, or? Christ, my signature is never "exactly" the same, and I sure as hell can't draw.
I just recently installed openSUSE this week. (previously had Kubuntu Feisty installed) My results so far are that the install went good, even though Yast has improved it still doesn't hold a candle compared to apt. (software updates) I'm having some sound and program issues also, that I never had with Kubuntu. (still looking into this though, since it's so damn random) Could be related to the Nvidia drivers. Overall system speed is slower also. I'll more than likely just end up installing Gutsy.
I was under the impression that it was a battery only vehicle from the article.
;-) Personally, I'd love something that even gets good mileage, seats 8, two large dogs, is affordable and doesn't suck going up steep grades. I test drove a Honda Passport and was happy with the power, but the mileage rating wasn't that great.
I definitely would not pay $25K on something that does 8 miles.
That's it in a nutshell. Maximum range will have to increase for me. How about if you go out at night, and then consider waiting at stop lights, etc?
I was going to mention this, but why spend extra money on a adapter? I'd love a current MB that supports USB2, Serial, Parallel, Firewire, Sata, IDE and 2 LAN ports. Dreaming.
I really don't have any "fat friends" per say, but I know that personally it's not what I eat that put me overweight, but all the soda and beer that I drank. I only eat like one good meal a day, and it's not fast food. After I stopped drinking all the damn soda and beer, I dropped back to a normal weight. Worked for me.
This really kinda sucks. I have a computer that needs a few legacy items like IDE, Serial and a parallel port. Why? Well, serial port(s) for my ham radio stuff and a parallel port for my perfectly good HP 6L printer. (might be an unknown issue with the IDE side)
I also like to go back and play with a older OS sometimes which doesn't even see a SATA drive. Guess it's time to stock up on a few IDE drives.
DesqView was one of my favorite programs. Running multiple bbs nodes and doing something else at the same time was way cool back in the day. Then a buddy introduced me to Unix. :)
First off, it's a AI program. This will not give you that much practical experience compared to being in a more traditional controlled test environment. I used to run ship fire simulations, with actual fire and smoke in a building setup for this type of deal when I was in the Navy. We actually trained a group of Iranians back in the day, and I remember several trying to get out of the port holes on the building, because they freaked out. (ever see a 2 1/2" hose flying around? this will put a serious hurt on your team if nailed.) I guess my whole point is that actually going into a test environment on a moments notice, donning your equipment and getting a first hand view of smoke/fire is a better experience, IMHO.
That was frick'in funny!! LMAO! Mod this one up.
I'd have to say that the Metallica song whiplash would even make Hilary Clinton smile with this outfit. (turn it up Bill, turn it UP!!!) We might even get lucky, and she'll be so happy that it will keep her out of politics. (one can only wish)
That's thinking. I'm sure your local public access Unix provider has 200,000+ customers either. If you would have rmfr, it's for EMAIL. Not a customer backup drive. I agree it's not much space, but IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR COMPUTER, what's the big deal? I use other email services also, like gmail and yahoo. Hell, I have a old rocketmail address yet. (that was bought out by yahoo)
If you want to provide users with 500MB of space times 200,000 then go for it. I'll be LMAO when I read your bankruptcy listing in the paper. Also, just because 500MB x 200,000 might be a tad minor to some, consider backing this all up times a factor of at least 3. (redundant servers, etc.)
Really? You should actually work at an ISP and provide tech support, and then talk to me about your actual experience.
I really don't see how this would work that great, unless Google supplies the ISP the ability to change passwords, add email id's and such. This would have work with the ISP's current software, etc. (blah blah)
;)
I work at a rather large ISP, and I really don't see the advantages. First off, customers always forget passwords, they already get 10MB of space per email account, and we allow 6 total, per account. (6x10=60MB)
The actual problem, is the people that just use the webmail interface, vs using a email client.(outlook, thunderbird, mac mail, etc) They use the email server as a storage space for picture attachments and such and they run out of space. Yep, over quota. Normally I explain to them that they are better off using a email client that actually downloads the mail to their computer, thus the quota issue won't effect them. Also, I recommend a good spam filter, besides the one we provide.
I used to work at a startup ISP as the one and only sys admin back in the early 90's. As per my contract I was supposed to get a $3500 bonus after a year. Well, the boss was a sob and decided not to award me this bonus. As you might imagine I was slightly pissed off, and decided to take a week off in protest. He fired my ass, pulled my workstation off the network and locked my hard drive in his safe in case I had setup a nasty cron job. (nope, I'm not that evil) Thing was, guess what system the dat backup was hooked up to for all the servers? You guessed it! It ended up costing them way more than my bonus when a crash happened, since nobody else in the place even had a clue regarding linux, let alone the custom kernel to allow the raid cards to function correctly, etc. Also, not to be bitter or anything, but I hope the $20k chandelier that was in his house fell.
I've used it on and off. I actually bought the retail packages for the 5.x and 7.x releases and always went back to debian. I also gave 10.x series a shot, and for me it's been yast that has sucked compared to apt. Maybe I'm just not patient enough, but yast is slow. As far as I'm concerned, debian based releases are just far easier to maintain. SuSE on the other hand does seem to support more hardware out of the box, (for the most part) and the UI is a tad better from the system/hardware point of view.
I figured that SuSE would be on top by now, but it's not happening at this point and time. (any yes, I realize you can use apt in SuSE.. not the same)