I'm not sure why I want wireless. Running the cables in my house was very, very fast (less than an hour to do the 4 runs), I don't have any machines that move around.
It cost me $20 for the two NICs (the other two machines had built-in NICs), and the wire was free (spool end retrieved from a dumpster). Wireless would have cost me a couple hundred more, at least, and the only difference would be that I'd get to spend 2 hours installing and configuring wireless stuff instead of about the same time running cables and installing a couple of NICs.
100 Mbps is OK but I'd like faster. Try burning CDs through the network off a server; I have to limit to 16x burn. Even 802.11g would mean I'd have to go back to 8x burn, and I'm not going there! As soon as gigabit switches get cheap, I'm there.
I guess wireless is fine if you're in a rented house/apartment and don't want to drill holes. Other than using my laptop on the deck, I'm not sure what I'd gain, and I know I'd loose some speed that I really need.
Yes, many people use bulk wire and put their own ends on it. For one thing, you can get away with a 1/4" hole drilled on an angle between the baseboard and the carpet if you're just pushing wire through, and if you pull the wire out later you can't even see the hole.
I run cat5 solid core and punch it down to baseboard outlets. Took me all of 45 minutes to run the 4 runs I need for our house including punching down the wires at both ends. Then use factory-built 6 footers between the equipment and the outlet.
- There is nothing on the moon valuable enough as a commodity worth bringing back to Earth
What about power? If we can get to the moon with a small plant that can fabricate solar collectors, the Moon could provide a vast amount of power back to the earth, and we don't have to "ship" the power back.
I saw a presentation on this not too long ago, and it was pretty convincing. Unfortunately it requires investment that won't pay back for a couple of years, and these days it seems nobody wants to do anything that won't pay back in the next quarter's statements, or the next election season.
Dish Network has a phone line hookup, but ours has never been plugged in. You only need to hook it up if you're going to order PPV stuff. Dish doesn't even require it for initial hookup.
For people who abuse the speakerphone - most people, especially people in cubicles have NO BUSINESS even having a speakerphone.
A few drops of superglue dribbled into the edges of the speakerphone button should help matters.
Sometimes, if you REALLY have some time, take the cover off the phone, get to where you can lift the rubber membrane, and put a scrap of paper under the "speaker" button's rubber contact.
A surprising amount of the time, the command prompt is a HELL of a lot faster. Say I want to copy all the MP3 files from a directory to a floppy, and they're mixed with a bunch of other files. In Windows Explorer, there's no way to sort by extension. At the prompt: "copy *.mp3 a:"
I don't know how many times at work I've watched people spend 5 or more minutes going slowly through all the files in Windows Explorer, reading every filename, ctrl-click selecting all the *.blah files, so they can then drag. A couple of times, I've said "You want to see an easier way?" and start/run/cmd, cd \blah, copy *.blah d:\temp. There. 15 seconds, we're done..... blank look.... oh, that's too hard.
Then watch someone trying to navigate to my computer on the network....Network Neighborhood....Microsoft Windows Network....Company Domain.....Workgroup....."Wait, what workgroup are you in?....back out....other workgroup....Ah, there's (my initials).
"So next time, why not click start/run, and type \\(my initials) and you won't have to worry about what workgroup or domain or whatever I'm in?"..... oh, that's too hard.....
YARGH! I swear, people WANT to be stupid. Either that or they think they can catch a disease from the keyboard and not the mouse.
If that's true for you, then you shouldn't be using Netflix. I'm not sure how it's a "scam" when they tell you the scoop, and you agree to it, and what they said is exactly what happens.
I'm a Netflix user, and I'm turning 20 movies a month for my $20, and have been for the 3 months I've been using them. Of course, they'd probably just as soon I went away, they CAN'T be making money on me.
Do you know a place that lets me pay $300 a month for a car rental, and come in whenever I feel like it and trade cars?
Also a $800 a month apartment rental that let me just move around wherever I wanted to when an apartment was available would be nice. Move out of the city during the hot summer months, into town when school started, to the old hometown for December with family, etc.
It doesn't kill the competition, it just costs Wal*Mart a little more to do it, as they'll have to pay royalties. Wal*Mart would be perfectly willing to do this at a loss for a couple of years if they could crush Netflix in the process; the patent will mean a steady flow of cash from Wal*Mart to Netflix, which might actually keep Netflix afloat and a serious competitor. Without the patent, Wal*Mart would likely crush Netflix like a bug.
It's fine for reading text groups. Unless I'm missing something major, it's almost completely useless for downloading large batches of binary files.
Saying an app is better than Outlook (express) is like saying you're a better person than Stalin.
I actually kind of like the mail prog but I haven't found a few things; for instance, it can import messages from Outlook and others, but as far as I can tell, it can't import from standard Unix mail format !!!
LOX is a good substitute, and you can do a lot more cool things with it.
Contrary to popular belief, although you should treat it with respect, LOX does not instantly cause everything to become explosive. Someone at one of our LOX ice cream events once held a blowtorch on some ice cream; it just singed the outside a bit.
Here's a quick rundown of liquid nitrogen safety points. Get some liquid nitrogen, have fun; we've been making ice cream and much more for years. Just read this first and be safe.
Yes, that's true. There should be a response, but only one. It is worthwhile to present the facts, but it's a waste of time to argue with them. It's not possible to prove that a conspiracy doesn't exist. If people are intent on believing, there's no point in arguing with them, you're just wasting their time.
I honestly believe that you could take a conspiracy theorist to the moon and show them the footprints, they would say they were faked by a sophisticated robot.
Talking to them only makes them come up with even stupider theories. The only way to win against them is not to play their game.
I have been a Netflix subscriber for a few months, and I just signed up for the free trial at Walmart and started moving selections from one list to another.
Here's a selection of the movies that were NOT available from Walmart when I tried to populate over:
Anything that wasn't in print as of this month, including about half the Bond films. The Matrix (!) Being John Malchovich (!) Alien, Aliens, many Disney kid's titles, Scooby-Doo and some other Cartoon Network titles, NO Doctor Who at all, only the first 4 out of a couple dozen available Farscape discs, Willow, Goodwill Hunting, old stuff like Buck Privates, All About Eve, Mad Max.
At that point I gave up. I got about 150 movies moved over, and figured I'd keep both subs going for a while to finish off the stuff that Netflix had before moving, but there are too many. I'd have to rent'n'rip as fast as possible for a year with Netflix just to get the stuff that Walmart doesn't have. I'll just stick with Netflix.
Yes, and they don't want it to go to court. That's why the extortion. I'm assuming they know they don't actually have a choice, they're just trying to scare IBM. I don't think they have a chance, and I don't think IBM is going to scare.
I grew up in a small town, as did many of my friends. In nearly every town, a Wal*Mart has moved in and crushed all the local businesses. I know, capitalism, best for the consumer, etc. and all that. But it is turning every place in the US into a McTown, all with exactly the same things in them.
I'm currently a NetFlix subscriber, but I churn 20 movies a month. They lose money big time on me. I'm going to move to Wal*Mart, and if they don't try to throttle me somehow, I'll be more than happy to have them lose money on me.
That bites. I'm a Netflix subscriber. I haven't lost one, but I did have one disappear in the mail for about 3 weeks. Netflix just said "OK, we'll just ship you another disc then. If you report a whole lot of 'missing' DVDs then we reserve the right to suspend your account." I thought that was fair.
I've also had 3 DVDs broken in the mail, but it looks like that's OK by Wal-Mart.
Do you know that the average income in the 2000 census is $65,000 for the U.S.? That means that for every guy making $25,000, there's another making $105,000. And chances are, he's making that $105,000 by underpaying the $25,000 guy. That's capitalism.
Actually, it's more like, for every 100 guys making $25,000, there's one guy making $4,000,000 by underpaying those 100 guys.
Makes sense to me. Sorry Alan dude, I don't have any mod points right now or I'd lift you a bit.
Could instead of couldn't really bugs me. But then, so does apostrophe misuse, spelling that indicates that the person lacks even basic grasp of the mechanics of their language, improper homonym usage, etc. I've just eventually come to realize that you can't help people who LIKE being stupid. They think it absolves them of responsibility.
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I'm not sure why I want wireless. Running the cables in my house was very, very fast (less than an hour to do the 4 runs), I don't have any machines that move around.
It cost me $20 for the two NICs (the other two machines had built-in NICs), and the wire was free (spool end retrieved from a dumpster). Wireless would have cost me a couple hundred more, at least, and the only difference would be that I'd get to spend 2 hours installing and configuring wireless stuff instead of about the same time running cables and installing a couple of NICs.
100 Mbps is OK but I'd like faster. Try burning CDs through the network off a server; I have to limit to 16x burn. Even 802.11g would mean I'd have to go back to 8x burn, and I'm not going there! As soon as gigabit switches get cheap, I'm there.
I guess wireless is fine if you're in a rented house/apartment and don't want to drill holes. Other than using my laptop on the deck, I'm not sure what I'd gain, and I know I'd loose some speed that I really need.
Yes, many people use bulk wire and put their own ends on it. For one thing, you can get away with a 1/4" hole drilled on an angle between the baseboard and the carpet if you're just pushing wire through, and if you pull the wire out later you can't even see the hole.
I run cat5 solid core and punch it down to baseboard outlets. Took me all of 45 minutes to run the 4 runs I need for our house including punching down the wires at both ends. Then use factory-built 6 footers between the equipment and the outlet.
- There is nothing on the moon valuable enough as a commodity worth bringing back to Earth
What about power? If we can get to the moon with a small plant that can fabricate solar collectors, the Moon could provide a vast amount of power back to the earth, and we don't have to "ship" the power back.
Here's an article.
I saw a presentation on this not too long ago, and it was pretty convincing. Unfortunately it requires investment that won't pay back for a couple of years, and these days it seems nobody wants to do anything that won't pay back in the next quarter's statements, or the next election season.
Dish Network has a phone line hookup, but ours has never been plugged in. You only need to hook it up if you're going to order PPV stuff. Dish doesn't even require it for initial hookup.
For people who abuse the speakerphone - most people, especially people in cubicles have NO BUSINESS even having a speakerphone.
A few drops of superglue dribbled into the edges of the speakerphone button should help matters.
Sometimes, if you REALLY have some time, take the cover off the phone, get to where you can lift the rubber membrane, and put a scrap of paper under the "speaker" button's rubber contact.
A surprising amount of the time, the command prompt is a HELL of a lot faster. Say I want to copy all the MP3 files from a directory to a floppy, and they're mixed with a bunch of other files. In Windows Explorer, there's no way to sort by extension. At the prompt: "copy *.mp3 a:"
.... blank look.... oh, that's too hard.
..... oh, that's too hard.....
I don't know how many times at work I've watched people spend 5 or more minutes going slowly through all the files in Windows Explorer, reading every filename, ctrl-click selecting all the *.blah files, so they can then drag. A couple of times, I've said "You want to see an easier way?" and start/run/cmd, cd \blah, copy *.blah d:\temp. There. 15 seconds, we're done.
Then watch someone trying to navigate to my computer on the network....Network Neighborhood....Microsoft Windows Network....Company Domain.....Workgroup....."Wait, what workgroup are you in?....back out....other workgroup....Ah, there's (my initials).
"So next time, why not click start/run, and type \\(my initials) and you won't have to worry about what workgroup or domain or whatever I'm in?"
YARGH! I swear, people WANT to be stupid. Either that or they think they can catch a disease from the keyboard and not the mouse.
I've given up.
If that's true for you, then you shouldn't be using Netflix. I'm not sure how it's a "scam" when they tell you the scoop, and you agree to it, and what they said is exactly what happens.
I'm a Netflix user, and I'm turning 20 movies a month for my $20, and have been for the 3 months I've been using them. Of course, they'd probably just as soon I went away, they CAN'T be making money on me.
Do you know a place that lets me pay $300 a month for a car rental, and come in whenever I feel like it and trade cars?
Also a $800 a month apartment rental that let me just move around wherever I wanted to when an apartment was available would be nice. Move out of the city during the hot summer months, into town when school started, to the old hometown for December with family, etc.
It doesn't kill the competition, it just costs Wal*Mart a little more to do it, as they'll have to pay royalties. Wal*Mart would be perfectly willing to do this at a loss for a couple of years if they could crush Netflix in the process; the patent will mean a steady flow of cash from Wal*Mart to Netflix, which might actually keep Netflix afloat and a serious competitor. Without the patent, Wal*Mart would likely crush Netflix like a bug.
People don't agree, but there's really no argument. The pronunciation was defined by Compuserve in the file spec. It's "jif" like the peanut butter.
That said, I don't argue anymore. I just continue to say "jif" even if everyone around me is saying (hard G) Giff.
It's fine for reading text groups. Unless I'm missing something major, it's almost completely useless for downloading large batches of binary files.
Saying an app is better than Outlook (express) is like saying you're a better person than Stalin.
I actually kind of like the mail prog but I haven't found a few things; for instance, it can import messages from Outlook and others, but as far as I can tell, it can't import from standard Unix mail format !!!
Ditto that. Also maybe the mail/newsreader apps will get attention if they're split out.
I wouldn't even call the newsreader "mediocre" - "barely adequate for a few uses" is more like it.
The email client is OK but it certainly needs attention.
LOX is a good substitute, and you can do a lot more cool things with it.
Contrary to popular belief, although you should treat it with respect, LOX does not instantly cause everything to become explosive. Someone at one of our LOX ice cream events once held a blowtorch on some ice cream; it just singed the outside a bit.
Here's a quick rundown of liquid nitrogen safety points. Get some liquid nitrogen, have fun; we've been making ice cream and much more for years. Just read this first and be safe.
http://www.isber.org/pdfs/karpinski.pdf
What we really need is something that involves BREAKING wind leading to profit. Then you can really enjoy your work.
Yes, that's true. There should be a response, but only one. It is worthwhile to present the facts, but it's a waste of time to argue with them. It's not possible to prove that a conspiracy doesn't exist. If people are intent on believing, there's no point in arguing with them, you're just wasting their time.
I honestly believe that you could take a conspiracy theorist to the moon and show them the footprints, they would say they were faked by a sophisticated robot.
Talking to them only makes them come up with even stupider theories. The only way to win against them is not to play their game.
I have been a Netflix subscriber for a few months, and I just signed up for the free trial at Walmart and started moving selections from one list to another.
Here's a selection of the movies that were NOT available from Walmart when I tried to populate over:
Anything that wasn't in print as of this month, including about half the Bond films.
The Matrix (!)
Being John Malchovich (!)
Alien, Aliens, many Disney kid's titles, Scooby-Doo and some other Cartoon Network titles, NO Doctor Who at all, only the first 4 out of a couple dozen available Farscape discs, Willow, Goodwill Hunting, old stuff like Buck Privates, All About Eve, Mad Max.
At that point I gave up. I got about 150 movies moved over, and figured I'd keep both subs going for a while to finish off the stuff that Netflix had before moving, but there are too many. I'd have to rent'n'rip as fast as possible for a year with Netflix just to get the stuff that Walmart doesn't have. I'll just stick with Netflix.
Yes, and they don't want it to go to court. That's why the extortion. I'm assuming they know they don't actually have a choice, they're just trying to scare IBM. I don't think they have a chance, and I don't think IBM is going to scare.
I grew up in a small town, as did many of my friends. In nearly every town, a Wal*Mart has moved in and crushed all the local businesses. I know, capitalism, best for the consumer, etc. and all that. But it is turning every place in the US into a McTown, all with exactly the same things in them.
I'm currently a NetFlix subscriber, but I churn 20 movies a month. They lose money big time on me. I'm going to move to Wal*Mart, and if they don't try to throttle me somehow, I'll be more than happy to have them lose money on me.
That bites. I'm a Netflix subscriber. I haven't lost one, but I did have one disappear in the mail for about 3 weeks. Netflix just said "OK, we'll just ship you another disc then. If you report a whole lot of 'missing' DVDs then we reserve the right to suspend your account." I thought that was fair.
I've also had 3 DVDs broken in the mail, but it looks like that's OK by Wal-Mart.
Do you know that the average income in the 2000 census is $65,000 for the U.S.? That means that for every guy making $25,000, there's another making $105,000. And chances are, he's making that $105,000 by underpaying the $25,000 guy. That's capitalism.
Actually, it's more like, for every 100 guys making $25,000, there's one guy making $4,000,000 by underpaying those 100 guys.
Info-ZIP and WinRAR, but I guess that's just me...
Heck, I didn't even know PKWare was still in existance, and WinRAR beats WinZIP in every way.
Makes sense to me. Sorry Alan dude, I don't have any mod points right now or I'd lift you a bit.
Could instead of couldn't really bugs me. But then, so does apostrophe misuse, spelling that indicates that the person lacks even basic grasp of the mechanics of their language, improper homonym usage, etc. I've just eventually come to realize that you can't help people who LIKE being stupid. They think it absolves them of responsibility.