I spent about $30 and in a hours time had a aux input in my Ford Ranger. With a stock stereo I installed a modulator that sits between the radio and the antenna. The shuffle works great with the podcasts I download or mp3's I have ripped from CDs I own.
Having said that I absolutely welcome apple going drm free. They will get more of my business overtime instead of Amazon.
I purchased 2 small form factor USB external hard drives. I encrypted both with truecrypt. Since I am a Windows user I use MS's SyncToy to 'backup' the stuff I want to them. Synctoy makes it easy for me. One hard drive sits at work plugged into my PC, one at a bank in a safe deposit box. If my home computer dies and I need access to my data, I VPN into work and mount the encrypted drive or go to the bank and pick the other one up. I have a routine where on a set schedule I take the one from work to the bank and swap it out with the one in the safe deposit box. I take that one, synch up my data and then take it to work.
If one of the hard drive dies I still have the data at home plus on the other external hard drive. If one of the drives dies after the 5 year warranty period ends then I will buy another drive. If USB starts to become obsolete I would save some money up and buy 2 more drives that uses whatever technology we will be using then.
You don't know what technology we will be using to access data 10 or 20 years from now. Use what you think will be around and change later if that turns out not to be the case.
This is what happens when one party has too much power too long. 4 to 8 years of democratic control if it works out that way, will cause those other libertarians to basically say the same thing, just with the parties on opposite sides. Usually.
Either put everyone in a db that was found guilty of a crime and make that accessible to the public or get rid of the db altogether.
If sex offenders are such a threat to the public after serving their jail sentence that the government has to resort to using such a db to track them then obviously the punishment was not enough.
While half the range would be good enough to make it through the day I would never chance having half a charge if I could help it. You never know when the shit will hit the fan like it did several years ago for me.
Driving to work with about a third of a tank of gas I received a call that most of my immediate family was in a major car accident, an experience I would wish on no one. For that day this led to a lot of driving between hospitals, homes and the garage where they took the car.
At some point I had to stop for gas. Pumping the gas I was standing there numb as one usually is in that situation, but I was also irritated that I had to 'waste' time on that day putting petro in the car. From that day on I have never let the gauge get to half a tank.
A crisis like that is relatively rare, but I would rather have a full tank/charge then have to deal with pumping/charging my vehicle when there are more important things to be dealing with.
I really wish sci fi or some other channel would run some mst3k on occasion. What is up with sci fi showing marathons all the time. Nov 22 Sightings: Heartland Ghost Phantom Force 3 hours of Paid Programming 16 hours of Ghost Hunters
Would it hurt to throw in some mst3k or even some godzilla every once in awhile?
Come to think of it, the only thing I ever watch on it anymore is BSG.
One reason Erlich was elected was that he was pro-slots which never passed in the democratic controlled General Assembly. The revenue generated from slots would have gone a long way to addressing the structural deficit.
Slots go on the ballot next year. They are looking at 5 or so potential locations including one in Baltimore City, but not at Pimlico, the one place slots are really needed the most. That is if horse racing is important to ya.
The exception I would think is hard drive technology. While the drives have been getting faster, unless you are running some sort of raid 0 setup HD is the obvious bottleneck. While I could deal with Vista's other issues, waiting on it while the harddrive churned away sent me back to using XP. And this was with 3gigs of ram.
The obvious explanation for Barrett's investment (which will net Intel a measly 2.5% of VMware's shares after the forthcoming IPO) is that Intel believes virtualization will cause people to buy more, not less, hardware.
No the obvious explanation is wrong. The percentage of hardware bought that will run virtual servers will continue to increase.
Intel is protecting and trying to expand their market share. 'Here look at us, we make virtualization better.'
Companies will buy less servers then they would if virtualization did not exist. I know we are.
We invaded Iraq in 98? You speaking of Operation Desert Fox which was a 4 day bombing campaign? I would hardly call bombing Iraq with cruise and air to ground missiles for 4 days an invasion.
"Clinton administration officials said the aim of the mission was to "degrade" Iraq's ability to manufacture and use weapons of mass destruction, not to eliminate it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Fox
While some stockpiles were surely destroyed, the bombing wasn't meant to fix anything, besides maybe taking the media's attention off of impeachment hearings or push the problem over to the next administration.
The inspection teams were not ushered back in until 2002, almost 4 years later.
Best game ever for me will always be UT, Unreal Tournament or UT99 for those that wish to call it that and it doesn't even make the list. UT in 'normal' mode with maybe the relics thrown is the best play. Not the BS low gravity, high firing rate sniper rifle only servers that seem to populate most of the UT servers that are still up on the net today. UT server has been running at work for the past 7 years or so and I don't see why it won't be running 7 years from now.
Resident Evil 4 at #2? I have heard the game was pretty good, but #2 best game ever? I or anyone I know has never played it. I didn't think it was that popular.
I don't see Halo in the top 10 either. Halo never impressed me. Single player mode on the PC to me was boring and there are other PC based games (UT) playing multiplayer that I enjoyed more. Where Halo gets all the fanboys is on the console. I have played it on the xbox and to me it was ok at best. The controls I just could not get use to. After using the keyboard and mouse for FPS, the console controller just sucked. Personally I think Halo was more of a marketing hype success then a truly great game success.
The reason the bill was defeated and the reason why so many people were against it was that the bill would fix nothing. In general people want the feds to enforce the current immigration laws on the books. If the feds enforced the current laws, illegal immigration would not be this huge issue.
I don't know if things have changed with HP but I had an experience some years ago with HP.com that absolutely stunned me.
About 5 years or so ago we bought a HP tape backup library/changer new. 11 months after the manufacture date of the drive I went up on HP.com looking for the part # for the rack mounting kit for the drive and I couldn't find any info.After contacting someone at HP I was directed to the right location on the site. The reason I had difficulties finding the information was that the drive was considered end of life. I was told by HP that within 8 months information about the drive would disappear from their site since it was end of life.
This absolutely shocked me. We had IBM servers approaching 10 years of age and I could go up on IBM's site and get part #s and documentation for. But a 1 year old HP tape drive, good luck! That just never made any sense to me, HD space wasn't that expensive.
I suspect this also includes government networks run by contractors.
A while back I use to be friends with someone who worked for one of these companies that do contract work for the government, for one of those agencies that require Secret or Top Secret clearance along with requiring routine polygraph tests.
I was told stories on occasion how IT jobs would come open and be filled not with individuals that had the technical qualifications but those that had the security clearance.
Heck, my friend who had a clearance and did clerical work was promoted to run the Help Desk and was giving a book to learn on the job. Then again a few years later to administer servers spread around the globe, with no formal training.
I was told the contracting companies would not hire individuals for the clearance jobs unless they already had the clearance. The clearance trumped any sort of job qualification.
I guess it depends on the business and the sector that is being blogged about.
I know at least with hockey and the NHL, bloggers have gotten some access and overall teams and the league have been friendly with the hockey blog community.
Bloggers don't have the continuous access to the players and team like the beat writers do, but they have the potential at more access then the typical fan. The league has even 'employed' some of the 'better' hockey bloggers on their website.
While some of the hockey bloggers have been able to obtain press credentials it is not something I would want to do for several reasons.
1. Between work and school I don't have the time to spend pursuing the story. This is only a hobby for me, at least right now. 2. I don't want to be a reporter, at all. 3. As a blogger I honestly don't think I am really that good, writing articles are very time consuming for me. 4. I am a fan and as a fan I cheer but also criticize many times harshly (especially this year) the team and the league. If I was giving access I think that would affect my POV.
Soundblaster Live was the last external sound card I have had, some years ago.
Currently my pc has SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio, whatever that is. It just works. As a casual gamer I don't see the need to buy an extra sound card and deal with the crap software that comes with it. The onboard sound works good enough for me.
The name SoundBlaster doesn't mean as much as it use to. Creative needs to embrace the embedded sound market.
Verizon seems to be phasing Analog out. Verizon contacted my mom and wanted her to switch off of her analog phone plan to I guess GSM, because her phone would soon stop working, so they said. She just dropped them, picked up a phone from t-mobile and 1,000 minutes good for a year for under $100. For a phone to carry just in case, it seems to be a deal.
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I spent about $30 and in a hours time had a aux input in my Ford Ranger.
With a stock stereo I installed a modulator that sits between the radio and the antenna.
The shuffle works great with the podcasts I download or mp3's I have ripped from CDs I own.
Having said that I absolutely welcome apple going drm free. They will get more of my business overtime instead of Amazon.
I purchased 2 small form factor USB external hard drives. I encrypted both with truecrypt. Since I am a Windows user I use MS's SyncToy to 'backup' the stuff I want to them. Synctoy makes it easy for me. One hard drive sits at work plugged into my PC, one at a bank in a safe deposit box. If my home computer dies and I need access to my data, I VPN into work and mount the encrypted drive or go to the bank and pick the other one up. I have a routine where on a set schedule I take the one from work to the bank and swap it out with the one in the safe deposit box. I take that one, synch up my data and then take it to work.
If one of the hard drive dies I still have the data at home plus on the other external hard drive. If one of the drives dies after the 5 year warranty period ends then I will buy another drive. If USB starts to become obsolete I would save some money up and buy 2 more drives that uses whatever technology we will be using then.
You don't know what technology we will be using to access data 10 or 20 years from now. Use what you think will be around and change later if that turns out not to be the case.
The Disney Christmas day parade is actually shot in November, or was it October. I can't quite remember.
Boss + family got to go down and see it.
So no surprise with the Olympics.
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This is what happens when one party has too much power too long.
4 to 8 years of democratic control if it works out that way, will cause those other libertarians to basically say the same thing, just with the parties on opposite sides.
Usually.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
To 'clean' the drives.
Sledgehammer works good too.
We always take them apart. The magnets are fun to play with.
Maybe Mr. T needs to pay them a visit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1S2tsxVHg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_Dubai
It wouldn't be the first ski slope in Dubai
Either put everyone in a db that was found guilty of a crime and make that accessible to the public or get rid of the db altogether.
If sex offenders are such a threat to the public after serving their jail sentence that the government has to resort to using such a db to track them then obviously the punishment was not enough.
While half the range would be good enough to make it through the day I would never chance having half a charge if I could help it. You never know when the shit will hit the fan like it did several years ago for me.
Driving to work with about a third of a tank of gas I received a call that most of my immediate family was in a major car accident, an experience I would wish on no one. For that day this led to a lot of driving between hospitals, homes and the garage where they took the car.
At some point I had to stop for gas. Pumping the gas I was standing there numb as one usually is in that situation, but I was also irritated that I had to 'waste' time on that day putting petro in the car. From that day on I have never let the gauge get to half a tank.
A crisis like that is relatively rare, but I would rather have a full tank/charge then have to deal with pumping/charging my vehicle when there are more important things to be dealing with.
I really wish sci fi or some other channel would run some mst3k on occasion.
What is up with sci fi showing marathons all the time.
Nov 22
Sightings: Heartland Ghost
Phantom Force
3 hours of Paid Programming
16 hours of Ghost Hunters
Would it hurt to throw in some mst3k or even some godzilla every once in awhile?
Come to think of it, the only thing I ever watch on it anymore is BSG.
One reason Erlich was elected was that he was pro-slots which never passed in the democratic controlled General Assembly.
The revenue generated from slots would have gone a long way to addressing the structural deficit.
Slots go on the ballot next year. They are looking at 5 or so potential locations including one in Baltimore City, but not at Pimlico, the one place slots are really needed the most. That is if horse racing is important to ya.
So glad I moved out of that state 6 years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWyhIuC6oA the best show ever !
The exception I would think is hard drive technology. While the drives have been getting faster, unless you are running some sort of raid 0 setup HD is the obvious bottleneck. While I could deal with Vista's other issues, waiting on it while the harddrive churned away sent me back to using XP. And this was with 3gigs of ram.
Suppose this, suppose that, who cares.
If the benefits or lack of benefits that comes with the job do not fit your lifestyle, find another job.
The obvious explanation for Barrett's investment (which will net Intel a measly 2.5% of VMware's shares after the forthcoming IPO) is that Intel believes virtualization will cause people to buy more, not less, hardware.
No the obvious explanation is wrong. The percentage of hardware bought that will run virtual servers will continue to increase. Intel is protecting and trying to expand their market share. 'Here look at us, we make virtualization better.'
Companies will buy less servers then they would if virtualization did not exist. I know we are.
We invaded Iraq in 98?
You speaking of Operation Desert Fox which was a 4 day bombing campaign? I would hardly call bombing Iraq with cruise and air to ground missiles for 4 days an invasion.
"Clinton administration officials said the aim of the mission was to "degrade" Iraq's ability to manufacture and use weapons of mass destruction, not to eliminate it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Fox
While some stockpiles were surely destroyed, the bombing wasn't meant to fix anything, besides maybe taking the media's attention off of impeachment hearings or push the problem over to the next administration.
The inspection teams were not ushered back in until 2002, almost 4 years later.
Going along with feeling like you're in control of the vehicle is the perceived survivability between the two.
When a car is involved in an accident many times people walk away from the accident.
When a plane has an accident people usually die.
Best game ever for me will always be UT, Unreal Tournament or UT99 for those that wish to call it that and it doesn't even make the list. UT in 'normal' mode with maybe the relics thrown is the best play. Not the BS low gravity, high firing rate sniper rifle only servers that seem to populate most of the UT servers that are still up on the net today. UT server has been running at work for the past 7 years or so and I don't see why it won't be running 7 years from now.
Resident Evil 4 at #2? I have heard the game was pretty good, but #2 best game ever? I or anyone I know has never played it. I didn't think it was that popular.
I don't see Halo in the top 10 either. Halo never impressed me. Single player mode on the PC to me was boring and there are other PC based games (UT) playing multiplayer that I enjoyed more. Where Halo gets all the fanboys is on the console. I have played it on the xbox and to me it was ok at best. The controls I just could not get use to. After using the keyboard and mouse for FPS, the console controller just sucked. Personally I think Halo was more of a marketing hype success then a truly great game success.
Why isn't Tank on the list?
The reason the bill was defeated and the reason why so many people were against it was that the bill would fix nothing.
In general people want the feds to enforce the current immigration laws on the books.
If the feds enforced the current laws, illegal immigration would not be this huge issue.
Yeah Dell Period, for us too.
I don't know if things have changed with HP but I had an experience some years ago with HP.com that absolutely stunned me.
About 5 years or so ago we bought a HP tape backup library/changer new. 11 months after the manufacture date of the drive I went up on HP.com looking for the part # for the rack mounting kit for the drive and I couldn't find any info.After contacting someone at HP I was directed to the right location on the site. The reason I had difficulties finding the information was that the drive was considered end of life. I was told by HP that within 8 months information about the drive would disappear from their site since it was end of life.
This absolutely shocked me. We had IBM servers approaching 10 years of age and I could go up on IBM's site and get part #s and documentation for. But a 1 year old HP tape drive, good luck!
That just never made any sense to me, HD space wasn't that expensive.
I suspect this also includes government networks run by contractors.
A while back I use to be friends with someone who worked for one of these companies that do contract work for the government, for one of those agencies that require Secret or Top Secret clearance along with requiring routine polygraph tests.
I was told stories on occasion how IT jobs would come open and be filled not with individuals that had the technical qualifications but those that had the security clearance.
Heck, my friend who had a clearance and did clerical work was promoted to run the Help Desk and was giving a book to learn on the job. Then again a few years later to administer servers spread around the globe, with no formal training.
I was told the contracting companies would not hire individuals for the clearance jobs unless they already had the clearance. The clearance trumped any sort of job qualification.
If this has changed since 9/11 I don't know.
I guess it depends on the business and the sector that is being blogged about.
I know at least with hockey and the NHL, bloggers have gotten some access and overall teams and the league have been friendly with the hockey blog community.
Bloggers don't have the continuous access to the players and team like the beat writers do, but they have the potential at more access then the typical fan. The league has even 'employed' some of the 'better' hockey bloggers on their website.
While some of the hockey bloggers have been able to obtain press credentials it is not something I would want to do for several reasons.
1. Between work and school I don't have the time to spend pursuing the story. This is only a hobby for me, at least right now.
2. I don't want to be a reporter, at all.
3. As a blogger I honestly don't think I am really that good, writing articles are very time consuming for me.
4. I am a fan and as a fan I cheer but also criticize many times harshly (especially this year) the team and the league. If I was giving access I think that would affect my POV.
Soundblaster Live was the last external sound card I have had, some years ago.
Currently my pc has SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio, whatever that is.
It just works. As a casual gamer I don't see the need to buy an extra sound card and deal with the crap software that comes with it.
The onboard sound works good enough for me.
The name SoundBlaster doesn't mean as much as it use to.
Creative needs to embrace the embedded sound market.
Or similar vendors will sell you a Naked PC. Its just that some assembly will be required.
Verizon seems to be phasing Analog out.
Verizon contacted my mom and wanted her to switch off of her analog phone plan to I guess GSM, because her phone would soon stop working, so they said.
She just dropped them, picked up a phone from t-mobile and 1,000 minutes good for a year for under $100.
For a phone to carry just in case, it seems to be a deal.