Computer Science student. Unplug the monitor of the PC i'm sitting at and plug my laptop into every lab. Connect via wireless. Most of my work/study is done in the university library - group study rooms have ample power points and often not many people, so i sit in there with friends and work. Don't often need to print but i have a printer at home; AFAIK the university has no documented means of printing wireless-ly.
I also had trouble grabbing the download with Chrome, across 2 PC's. Had to open up IE and install some proprietary download manager. Going well now, only been running it for a couple of minutes and already at 20%.
You know, i work part time in a call center for an ISP (yes, i know..) and your post just made me realize something.
There's a sizable amount of calls i deal with that involve viruses/malware/etc. I'd put the OS ratio that i deal with at about 25% Vista, 70% XP and scanning my memory, i'm *pretty* sure that i've almost never had a Vista-related call dealing with malware.
"The classic single-column start menu is no longer available"
*rejoices*
I'll never have to watch friends and family use that 14 year old UI feature^H^H^H^H^H^Heyesore again.
The Australian Government has also launched the first of potentially many blogs blogs asking for input on key issues, including Senator Conroy's "filtering" initiative.
The original release didn't work 100% properly for me with Facebook either. Parts of the site that were "clickable" would be unresponsive to mouse clicks, amongst other things. I haven't thought about this for a while, so it's obviously been fixed in one of the newer releases (i'm using the Developer branch).
(Disclaimer: I've been a long time FF user a while)
For the past few weeks, outside of a work context I've been only using Chrome for home use. I've had the chance to show a lot of un-tech saavy friends it in action. I have found it to be relatively easy to impress them with Chrome: showing them the new tab page, incognito; most of them are even familiar with windows task manager so it's simple to explain the sandboxed tab mode Chrome operates in; and most of all the snap-in/out tab behavior has had a major impression. I've had luck converting friends to Firefox, but it's never formed the same "wow" impression that Chrome has: most of the friends I've showed Chrome have shown genuine interest rather than just installing Firefox because i'm their token "clever nerd friend". It also has the added impression of being made by "Google" - many of my friends have no idea who "Opera" (Software) is, and are not willing to expend the effort into customizing Firefox.
As for Chrome itself, i've been using the dev branch for a few weeks, which is up to about version 4.154. According to wikipedia, the stable branch is up to 3.154: considering it's only been in beta a few weeks it can't be *that* long away from a version 1.0 (then again, it is Google, I think if Gmail had a similar version numbering scheme it would be up to something like 15.154..). Chrome has only crashed on me once in the past few weeks, i'm not seeing any serious stability issues. It feels like a more functional version of Opera (no offense, Opera fans). I'm not sure if anybody will know what i mean here, but I've always felt that Opera had a "smooth" sort of feel to browsing, in opening tabs, navigating, moving through the interface, which is something I have definitely not experienced in IE and to a lesser extent in Firefox. Chrome emulates this and pulls it off even better.
Personally, i think including Chrome OEM is a fantastic idea. The "wow" factor it puts off will get it quick adoption. It's simply something base Firefox doesn't have anymore - at least not over modern implementations of IE and without extensions. If Google can pull this OEM thing off and implement an extension platform even remotely as good as Firefox's, then I think it may gain some serious market share. (I'd also *love* to see an awesomebar implementation in Chrome, with some obviously-needed UI tweaks to suit Chrome's interface, but i have my doubts over whether i will see this day).
To add to OP, with Bigpond's "download limits", if you exceed your cap, you get charged 0.15c per extra megabyte downloaded, which works out to be $150 per a gigabyte see here, in comparison to Westnet for example, another Australian ISP which charges $6/GB (see: here.
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but for most ISP's other than Bigpond, a scheme called "shaping" is in place for nearly all plans, so that when you exceed your download limit, your internet speed gets slowed to 64kbps for the remainder of the month (as opposed to paying for any excess you use). Bigpond have slowly been introducing their plans that "feature" unlimited downloads (shaping) - which have been a defacto standard for most other ISP's for long before. Bigpond sales have also been known to flat out refer to these "Liberty" plans as "unlimited downloads", without explaining the concept of shaping (believe me - I have had to explain this to several people).
As a subsidiary of the previously state-owned monopoly, Bigpond is a joke. I went from 256kbps @ 12GB for $60AU per month (believe me - not my choice) with Bigpond, to ADSL2+ speeds (realistically for me: 1MB/s~) @ 21GB (now 30GB) for $60AU a month with my current ISP (iiNet). On top of that, Bigpond tends to be rated far lower in customer service (see: here) than most other ISPs.
SP1 actually fixed an ongoing no sound problem (for which i had reinstalled the proper drives several times to no avail). I can now browse my network files from my laptop as if they are native to the computer (as opposed to a 3~second delay in changing files previously) and windows explorer no longer locks up when i hit my shortcut to network/sharing center after just logging in.
FYI i believe the no sound issue was actually caused by an automatic windows update.
Australian citizen - went for a holiday in Bali with a friend and his family (who stayed at a different hotel).
Australian customs on the way home said that they "needed to check my phone" to make sure it wasn't a stolen device etc etc.
Found out later that they got my friend to go through every single one of his photos and i presume this is why i spent 30 minutes waiting for mine.
They also opened up a sealed mouse that i bought over there with a USB Bluetooth dongle to check it.
My friends laptop got confiscated for no apparent reason because they needed to check it (going to be sent back).
His older brother (who was on an earlier flight)'s hard drive got confiscated for some porn on it.
Anyway, nothing to add to the discussion except my experience over here.
Right. At my university in Western Australia, its a standard 2nd-year games tech assignment to make a playable model of the university, figure out all the collosion stuff etc etc. Im not a games tech student but i was in a lab with a few last semester and they had taken a photo of the token asian food place and put it in the game (looked pretty horrible..) where you bought guns from instead of food. Its obvious that these guys weren't psychopath killers and a lot of non IT first year students were looking at their game being impressed etc etc.
This was for an assignment they were to submit. I'm also sure they could submit the same thing now without any problem. But i wonder how things would go down if they were in the U S and A?
The 9th Chevron is set to play a big role in the show. Im guessing they get stuck in some random universe, unable to travel home, ala Atlantis season 1. Doesn't really look like anything new; so im betting on it being axed within 2-3 seasons.
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Computer Science student. Unplug the monitor of the PC i'm sitting at and plug my laptop into every lab. Connect via wireless. Most of my work/study is done in the university library - group study rooms have ample power points and often not many people, so i sit in there with friends and work. Don't often need to print but i have a printer at home; AFAIK the university has no documented means of printing wireless-ly.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/film-pirates-put-iinet-in-the-dock/2008/11/20/1226770617457.html
From memory, the trial was due to be held around October 5th.
I also had trouble grabbing the download with Chrome, across 2 PC's. Had to open up IE and install some proprietary download manager. Going well now, only been running it for a couple of minutes and already at 20%.
You know, i work part time in a call center for an ISP (yes, i know..) and your post just made me realize something. There's a sizable amount of calls i deal with that involve viruses/malware/etc. I'd put the OS ratio that i deal with at about 25% Vista, 70% XP and scanning my memory, i'm *pretty* sure that i've almost never had a Vista-related call dealing with malware.
Is it UAC? Something else?
"The classic single-column start menu is no longer available"
*rejoices*
I'll never have to watch friends and family use that 14 year old UI feature^H^H^H^H^H^Heyesore again.
The Australian Government has also launched the first of potentially many blogs blogs asking for input on key issues, including Senator Conroy's "filtering" initiative.
The original release didn't work 100% properly for me with Facebook either. Parts of the site that were "clickable" would be unresponsive to mouse clicks, amongst other things. I haven't thought about this for a while, so it's obviously been fixed in one of the newer releases (i'm using the Developer branch).
http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:http://www.cio.com.au/article/268510/slideshow_--_tech_yesteryear_where_old_computers_find_their_final_resting_place
(Disclaimer: I've been a long time FF user a while)
For the past few weeks, outside of a work context I've been only using Chrome for home use. I've had the chance to show a lot of un-tech saavy friends it in action. I have found it to be relatively easy to impress them with Chrome: showing them the new tab page, incognito; most of them are even familiar with windows task manager so it's simple to explain the sandboxed tab mode Chrome operates in; and most of all the snap-in/out tab behavior has had a major impression. I've had luck converting friends to Firefox, but it's never formed the same "wow" impression that Chrome has: most of the friends I've showed Chrome have shown genuine interest rather than just installing Firefox because i'm their token "clever nerd friend". It also has the added impression of being made by "Google" - many of my friends have no idea who "Opera" (Software) is, and are not willing to expend the effort into customizing Firefox.
As for Chrome itself, i've been using the dev branch for a few weeks, which is up to about version 4.154. According to wikipedia, the stable branch is up to 3.154: considering it's only been in beta a few weeks it can't be *that* long away from a version 1.0 (then again, it is Google, I think if Gmail had a similar version numbering scheme it would be up to something like 15.154..). Chrome has only crashed on me once in the past few weeks, i'm not seeing any serious stability issues. It feels like a more functional version of Opera (no offense, Opera fans). I'm not sure if anybody will know what i mean here, but I've always felt that Opera had a "smooth" sort of feel to browsing, in opening tabs, navigating, moving through the interface, which is something I have definitely not experienced in IE and to a lesser extent in Firefox. Chrome emulates this and pulls it off even better.
Personally, i think including Chrome OEM is a fantastic idea. The "wow" factor it puts off will get it quick adoption. It's simply something base Firefox doesn't have anymore - at least not over modern implementations of IE and without extensions. If Google can pull this OEM thing off and implement an extension platform even remotely as good as Firefox's, then I think it may gain some serious market share. (I'd also *love* to see an awesomebar implementation in Chrome, with some obviously-needed UI tweaks to suit Chrome's interface, but i have my doubts over whether i will see this day).
Well, they do eventually come out of beta, heh.
You mean they're bringing out another Nintendo DSi?!
To add to OP, with Bigpond's "download limits", if you exceed your cap, you get charged 0.15c per extra megabyte downloaded, which works out to be $150 per a gigabyte see here, in comparison to Westnet for example, another Australian ISP which charges $6/GB (see: here.
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but for most ISP's other than Bigpond, a scheme called "shaping" is in place for nearly all plans, so that when you exceed your download limit, your internet speed gets slowed to 64kbps for the remainder of the month (as opposed to paying for any excess you use). Bigpond have slowly been introducing their plans that "feature" unlimited downloads (shaping) - which have been a defacto standard for most other ISP's for long before. Bigpond sales have also been known to flat out refer to these "Liberty" plans as "unlimited downloads", without explaining the concept of shaping (believe me - I have had to explain this to several people).
As a subsidiary of the previously state-owned monopoly, Bigpond is a joke. I went from 256kbps @ 12GB for $60AU per month (believe me - not my choice) with Bigpond, to ADSL2+ speeds (realistically for me: 1MB/s~) @ 21GB (now 30GB) for $60AU a month with my current ISP (iiNet). On top of that, Bigpond tends to be rated far lower in customer service (see: here) than most other ISPs.
You can imagine my concern when i read the title as "Indiana Jones Nuclear Market".
SP1 actually fixed an ongoing no sound problem (for which i had reinstalled the proper drives several times to no avail). I can now browse my network files from my laptop as if they are native to the computer (as opposed to a 3~second delay in changing files previously) and windows explorer no longer locks up when i hit my shortcut to network/sharing center after just logging in. FYI i believe the no sound issue was actually caused by an automatic windows update.
Australian citizen - went for a holiday in Bali with a friend and his family (who stayed at a different hotel). Australian customs on the way home said that they "needed to check my phone" to make sure it wasn't a stolen device etc etc. Found out later that they got my friend to go through every single one of his photos and i presume this is why i spent 30 minutes waiting for mine. They also opened up a sealed mouse that i bought over there with a USB Bluetooth dongle to check it. My friends laptop got confiscated for no apparent reason because they needed to check it (going to be sent back). His older brother (who was on an earlier flight)'s hard drive got confiscated for some porn on it. Anyway, nothing to add to the discussion except my experience over here.
Better unclog your tubes so your internets don't get discovered!
Right. At my university in Western Australia, its a standard 2nd-year games tech assignment to make a playable model of the university, figure out all the collosion stuff etc etc. Im not a games tech student but i was in a lab with a few last semester and they had taken a photo of the token asian food place and put it in the game (looked pretty horrible..) where you bought guns from instead of food. Its obvious that these guys weren't psychopath killers and a lot of non IT first year students were looking at their game being impressed etc etc.
This was for an assignment they were to submit. I'm also sure they could submit the same thing now without any problem. But i wonder how things would go down if they were in the U S and A?
It would cost too much money to replace all the tubes.
Nihon deha, kuruma ga anata wo untensuru! (i know, its bad :p)
Queue PC-cillin bashing.
A more naive self once had it as virus protection several years ago.
Ended up causing a multitude of problems that it shouldn't have.
The 9th Chevron is set to play a big role in the show. Im guessing they get stuck in some random universe, unable to travel home, ala Atlantis season 1. Doesn't really look like anything new; so im betting on it being axed within 2-3 seasons.
They have the radio on computers now?
Perhaps the internet is actually composed of a series of rails?
The Martians still use CFC's.
They ought to bring out a sequel to duck hunt; except this time you control kamikaze pigeons and must fly them into the evil capitalist americans.
*Ducks*
Actually.. scuse' the pun