How are we supposed to believe the postings ON A BLOG??? Although, I did find one statement particularly true.....the countries affected know us American's will do it all. Pretty sad really.
This is the danger of everyone and there brother adding links to say help the tsunami survivors to their web pages. Everyone should have just link directly to the Red Cross web site or similar organization. This is why I have not donated anything yet because I want to be absolutely certain that when I donate the money, it goes to the right place. I will probably wait until the real money is needed. There's going to be alot of waste now and when everyone forgets about it is when the problem will really start. It will take YEARS to recover the area affected. It's not something that will even be over on December 26th of 2005. This is a once in a lifetime disaster for much of the world. The loss is tremendous. Unfortunately during times such as this, there's always some incredible assholes who think hey I will scam some people. As always, I give IN PERSON. Walk in to the Red Cross in your town and just give them a check or cash. Only then will you know that a good percentage of your money will go where it's needed. Also, don't just give to the Red Cross now. They always need your money. Make it a yearly donation and increase it a bit when the Red Cross is in need of extra help for hurricanes, blizzards, earthquakes, tornadoes and terrorist attacks.
Better yet, if your technically inclined, get your ham license and donate sometime to ARES by training in events and field day. Then when disaster strikes in your area, you'll be ready. I used to think it was ridiculous, but after a bad ice/snowstorm took out people's electric and 2-3 inches of rain falling right after that cause flooding in and around Columubus we'd never be needed but in just 14 days we had 2 activations of ARES to staff the red cross shelters with communciators. I know it won't help the Tsunami victims, but then when something like this hits your town, you can not only donate your money but also your time.
There's not much of an advantage to using this. Current Broadband is not fast enough to come close to needing this for internet. On the other hand for big bulk transfers from machine to machine on the network it would very handy or for streming from machine to machine (Airtunes). Right now though, I will stick with my g AP....of course I said that about my B AP last year....right before I got my WRT54G!:D
Why can't broadcasters broadcast an analogue and digital signal forever? I personally am in the cam that thinks HDTV sucks now and will continue to. Cable Card for HDTV?? PLEASE! I give Cable Card about 6 months before it's cracked.
I have to disagree with this statement in the article. HDTV is not yet common place. 90 percent of homes in my neighborhood have regular TV's. I don't see Hotels putting a plasma HDTV in thier room. When hotels start adding HDTV in form of a plasma screen, ONLY THEN will I consider them to be common place.
This has nothing to do with iTMS. Apple's iTunes ONLY works with the iPod. I really don't care if I can't transfer the AAC's I bought I just want to be able to use iTunes to since my plain jane MP3's.
I have not had anyone complain when plugging in a laptop in any restaurant. I have had issues finding a socket though. Once I found it, they usually did not care if I used it. If someone buys something, it should just be part of the service. If someone just walks in JUST to plug in, well that's a different story.
I know what someone needs to invent....a safe and portable power strip. One that uses a retractable cord and maybe folds in the middle.
OpenOffice=Bloated. Microsoft Office on OSX is pretty good IMHO. I don't know where the submitter got the idea that it's bloated. I run it on a 1 GHz Powerbook and it runs fine. The BIGGEST item I have to bitch about with Apple is that OS X runs best with at least 512MB and can take all you can give it (more you have, less you have to swap). Increase ram and OS X and everything else including Office will run faster.
You know what? A 1 Gig machine with 512 MB runs XP just fine too. We have alot of them at work. In fact, we have a lot of 800 MHz machines that run XP. XP does not have that much bloat when compared to 2000.
Everyone should check out http://www.usgs.gov and see alot of the data collected on this. I know this seems kind of cold to look at the data, but the thing that impressed me the most was the animation they have that shows just how large of an area that this has affected. It's staggering. BILLIONS of dollars will have to be spent over many years to get things back to the way they were on Christmas day. Lives of MILLIONS will be affected in one way or another. The most disturbing thing that I have heard has been the greens blaming this on global warming....um..ok....whatever dudes.
I so wish I had mod points......but this is the way I thought it was going. Even if it does come close to hitting, it is a small object and it should be easy to either deflect or mitigate the damage considering there's 20 sime years to work with it.
Just the same as your rude and obscene request that I should do what you want. You see, you can't legislate good behavior. You can't stop people from being assholes. You stop one thing, and it will just be another thing people can be assholes about.....like telling me I can't go on a date with my wife without my son and be confidant that if something goes wrong, I can be called, if need be.
Probably? They already do. That's the Power 5. Granted, that is not exactly the 970, but it's actually pretty much the same although Poer 5 is better then the 970. IBM may make either blades or desktop AIX or Linux boxes based on this chip. It makes me wonder if they may start using this chip in future HMC's for the full fledged Power 5 series?
iSeries and pSeries are the same now and yes indeed the iSeries supports LPARING. IN fact, they both use Power 5. The old tech used in the AS/400 is pretty much integrated into the iSeries/pSeries. There's no new machine now that will JUST run OS/400.
iSeries = pSeries. In every respect. I can load OS/400, Linux or AIX on our 570. Awesome box. Oh, BTW, IBM had LPAR's sicne at least Power4 (Regatta) and may even have had it in the Power 3's. HMC runs Linux with some special kernel extensions and programs for managing the server. After the server is up, the HMC can literally die and it would not matter. The HMC is a xSeries Xeon based machine. Not sure of the RAM in the HMC but I really don't care. It works so well, I don't have to use the HMC much.
Not just mainframe systems support LPARING. We have 3 LPARS running on our big Power 5 570 server. It's a beefy server. Plenty of ram (106 GB split between LPARS) and 16 processors to divide between LPARS. When AIX 5.3 comes out, you can order a new feature code that adds fractional LPARING....that is you can create a LPAR with as little as 1/10th of a processor. It's not surprising that the next 970 has this built in it. The real competition for UNIX servers in the near future will both be powered by IBM chips. That is, Apple, and IBM. IBM better be careful in how much power they give the 970's because IBM could get a real run for it's money if Apple exploits this ability.
I trust MD5 Checksums more then I do a page that says it's signed by Microsoft, Verisign, or whoever. How many of us have to isntall drivers on Windows XP that pop up and say they are not certified by Microsoft? Utter crap. Code signing works the same was as trusting the website you download the code from. If you don't trust DePaul's website, then that's fine. If your really antsy about making sure what you run is absolutely the code being distrbuted by Mozilla.org, you have to know the MD5 Checksum that Mozilla got when it ran MD5. This also assume you put trust into the MD5 sumer you use. Trust is not something that can be readily handled by software. You can use tools to verify things, but if the tool is faulty and gives you the answer you expect, then it's possible you can still run code that is hostile. Even if you say but it has a Verisign certificate means nothing too because even the criminals can buy certificates or even steal valid ones. The only way you can be certain is if you download only from a web site you trust, or put your trust in the Mozilla project that they only have mirrors that they trust or that they verify are ok. Any of these situations or tools like MD5 sumers are not liekly to even be known by the semi computer illiterate. They also would not know or care about signed software either. They do what they do in real life....they trust IBM and other big companioes including Microsoft although Microsoft is gradually loosing their trust if they have not completely lost any trust they had. My brother has even switched to Firefox but not because of the security features.....he switched because of tabbed browsing and faster web page rendering.
I find Starbucks House Blend tends towards the darker side for what I prefer in a regular drip coffee cup. I LOVE Stauf's House Blend (Local Columbus, OH Micro Roaster). It's so good I don't even have to cut it with cream and sugar. One of the few regular drip cups I can drink black and not want to puke. I have even tried their darker roasts intended for espresso in my regular drip pot and it tastes good too. I REALY perfer a good Cappucino with some good quality beans and just a small shot of vanilla syrup (I am sorry...the gas station and the Dunkin Donut version that they CALL Cappucino is not Cappucino!).
Yes. As of late, it's been around 9-10 dollars a pound or more depending on the country of origin to get some good roasted Arabica beans. In fact I just checked the prcie of my favorite blend and it's higher then I have remembered it being in the past....10.75 per lb. Still not the 39.95 per lb Jamaican Blue Mountain price, but pretty damn expensive. On the other hand it's WAY better then you'd get in any grocery store. Going to have to get some Kaldi's Blend or some Original Espresso for the holidays. Been ages since I have had any good coffee. This dreck I am drinking now from the community pot at work is ok for keeping you awake, but the taste, shall we say, is a bit off....
AMEN! Micro Roasters rock! The local one here(Stauf's...they also own Cup O Joe) used to do all of their roasting in store. Now that they have expanded, they moved most of the roasting operation to a local warehouse, but they still do the roasting instead of having another company do it for them. They still have one of thier Probat roasters in their main store and do roast daily in it mostly for the ambience. Thier original store also has free WiFi!:D
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How are we supposed to believe the postings ON A BLOG??? Although, I did find one statement particularly true.....the countries affected know us American's will do it all. Pretty sad really.
This is the danger of everyone and there brother adding links to say help the tsunami survivors to their web pages. Everyone should have just link directly to the Red Cross web site or similar organization. This is why I have not donated anything yet because I want to be absolutely certain that when I donate the money, it goes to the right place. I will probably wait until the real money is needed. There's going to be alot of waste now and when everyone forgets about it is when the problem will really start. It will take YEARS to recover the area affected. It's not something that will even be over on December 26th of 2005. This is a once in a lifetime disaster for much of the world. The loss is tremendous. Unfortunately during times such as this, there's always some incredible assholes who think hey I will scam some people. As always, I give IN PERSON. Walk in to the Red Cross in your town and just give them a check or cash. Only then will you know that a good percentage of your money will go where it's needed. Also, don't just give to the Red Cross now. They always need your money. Make it a yearly donation and increase it a bit when the Red Cross is in need of extra help for hurricanes, blizzards, earthquakes, tornadoes and terrorist attacks.
Better yet, if your technically inclined, get your ham license and donate sometime to ARES by training in events and field day. Then when disaster strikes in your area, you'll be ready. I used to think it was ridiculous, but after a bad ice/snowstorm took out people's electric and 2-3 inches of rain falling right after that cause flooding in and around Columubus we'd never be needed but in just 14 days we had 2 activations of ARES to staff the red cross shelters with communciators. I know it won't help the Tsunami victims, but then when something like this hits your town, you can not only donate your money but also your time.
There's not much of an advantage to using this. Current Broadband is not fast enough to come close to needing this for internet. On the other hand for big bulk transfers from machine to machine on the network it would very handy or for streming from machine to machine (Airtunes). Right now though, I will stick with my g AP....of course I said that about my B AP last year....right before I got my WRT54G! :D
Um...Comedy Central is not BROADCASTED.....Can I put an antenna up and get com central? No. I have to pay for it.
Why can't broadcasters broadcast an analogue and digital signal forever? I personally am in the cam that thinks HDTV sucks now and will continue to. Cable Card for HDTV?? PLEASE! I give Cable Card about 6 months before it's cracked.
I have to disagree with this statement in the article. HDTV is not yet common place. 90 percent of homes in my neighborhood have regular TV's. I don't see Hotels putting a plasma HDTV in thier room. When hotels start adding HDTV in form of a plasma screen, ONLY THEN will I consider them to be common place.
AFAIK, Centrino would be just as you describe. Turion would be the same but for mobile Athlon's???
This has nothing to do with iTMS. Apple's iTunes ONLY works with the iPod. I really don't care if I can't transfer the AAC's I bought I just want to be able to use iTunes to since my plain jane MP3's.
I have not had anyone complain when plugging in a laptop in any restaurant. I have had issues finding a socket though. Once I found it, they usually did not care if I used it. If someone buys something, it should just be part of the service. If someone just walks in JUST to plug in, well that's a different story.
I know what someone needs to invent....a safe and portable power strip. One that uses a retractable cord and maybe folds in the middle.
Not just cost. It's weight too. I forget the figure, but not painting the tank made it lighter as well allowing them to carry a bigger payload.
Um....no. The unlimited GPRS was a LOOPHOLE. It was never meant to be free. Unlimited GPRS is 19.99 a month.
OpenOffice=Bloated. Microsoft Office on OSX is pretty good IMHO. I don't know where the submitter got the idea that it's bloated. I run it on a 1 GHz Powerbook and it runs fine. The BIGGEST item I have to bitch about with Apple is that OS X runs best with at least 512MB and can take all you can give it (more you have, less you have to swap). Increase ram and OS X and everything else including Office will run faster.
You know what? A 1 Gig machine with 512 MB runs XP just fine too. We have alot of them at work. In fact, we have a lot of 800 MHz machines that run XP. XP does not have that much bloat when compared to 2000.
I have a ATI Remote Wonder and I love this thing. It also works with Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X.
http://remotew.free.fr/linux_en.htm
Everyone should check out http://www.usgs.gov and see alot of the data collected on this. I know this seems kind of cold to look at the data, but the thing that impressed me the most was the animation they have that shows just how large of an area that this has affected. It's staggering. BILLIONS of dollars will have to be spent over many years to get things back to the way they were on Christmas day. Lives of MILLIONS will be affected in one way or another. The most disturbing thing that I have heard has been the greens blaming this on global warming....um..ok....whatever dudes.
I so wish I had mod points......but this is the way I thought it was going. Even if it does come close to hitting, it is a small object and it should be easy to either deflect or mitigate the damage considering there's 20 sime years to work with it.
Just the same as your rude and obscene request that I should do what you want. You see, you can't legislate good behavior. You can't stop people from being assholes. You stop one thing, and it will just be another thing people can be assholes about.....like telling me I can't go on a date with my wife without my son and be confidant that if something goes wrong, I can be called, if need be.
Probably? They already do. That's the Power 5. Granted, that is not exactly the 970, but it's actually pretty much the same although Poer 5 is better then the 970. IBM may make either blades or desktop AIX or Linux boxes based on this chip. It makes me wonder if they may start using this chip in future HMC's for the full fledged Power 5 series?
iSeries and pSeries are the same now and yes indeed the iSeries supports LPARING. IN fact, they both use Power 5. The old tech used in the AS/400 is pretty much integrated into the iSeries/pSeries. There's no new machine now that will JUST run OS/400.
iSeries = pSeries. In every respect. I can load OS/400, Linux or AIX on our 570. Awesome box. Oh, BTW, IBM had LPAR's sicne at least Power4 (Regatta) and may even have had it in the Power 3's. HMC runs Linux with some special kernel extensions and programs for managing the server. After the server is up, the HMC can literally die and it would not matter. The HMC is a xSeries Xeon based machine. Not sure of the RAM in the HMC but I really don't care. It works so well, I don't have to use the HMC much.
Not just mainframe systems support LPARING. We have 3 LPARS running on our big Power 5 570 server. It's a beefy server. Plenty of ram (106 GB split between LPARS) and 16 processors to divide between LPARS. When AIX 5.3 comes out, you can order a new feature code that adds fractional LPARING....that is you can create a LPAR with as little as 1/10th of a processor. It's not surprising that the next 970 has this built in it. The real competition for UNIX servers in the near future will both be powered by IBM chips. That is, Apple, and IBM. IBM better be careful in how much power they give the 970's because IBM could get a real run for it's money if Apple exploits this ability.
I trust MD5 Checksums more then I do a page that says it's signed by Microsoft, Verisign, or whoever. How many of us have to isntall drivers on Windows XP that pop up and say they are not certified by Microsoft? Utter crap. Code signing works the same was as trusting the website you download the code from. If you don't trust DePaul's website, then that's fine. If your really antsy about making sure what you run is absolutely the code being distrbuted by Mozilla.org, you have to know the MD5 Checksum that Mozilla got when it ran MD5. This also assume you put trust into the MD5 sumer you use. Trust is not something that can be readily handled by software. You can use tools to verify things, but if the tool is faulty and gives you the answer you expect, then it's possible you can still run code that is hostile. Even if you say but it has a Verisign certificate means nothing too because even the criminals can buy certificates or even steal valid ones. The only way you can be certain is if you download only from a web site you trust, or put your trust in the Mozilla project that they only have mirrors that they trust or that they verify are ok. Any of these situations or tools like MD5 sumers are not liekly to even be known by the semi computer illiterate. They also would not know or care about signed software either. They do what they do in real life....they trust IBM and other big companioes including Microsoft although Microsoft is gradually loosing their trust if they have not completely lost any trust they had. My brother has even switched to Firefox but not because of the security features.....he switched because of tabbed browsing and faster web page rendering.
I find Starbucks House Blend tends towards the darker side for what I prefer in a regular drip coffee cup. I LOVE Stauf's House Blend (Local Columbus, OH Micro Roaster). It's so good I don't even have to cut it with cream and sugar. One of the few regular drip cups I can drink black and not want to puke. I have even tried their darker roasts intended for espresso in my regular drip pot and it tastes good too. I REALY perfer a good Cappucino with some good quality beans and just a small shot of vanilla syrup (I am sorry...the gas station and the Dunkin Donut version that they CALL Cappucino is not Cappucino!).
Yes. As of late, it's been around 9-10 dollars a pound or more depending on the country of origin to get some good roasted Arabica beans. In fact I just checked the prcie of my favorite blend and it's higher then I have remembered it being in the past....10.75 per lb. Still not the 39.95 per lb Jamaican Blue Mountain price, but pretty damn expensive. On the other hand it's WAY better then you'd get in any grocery store. Going to have to get some Kaldi's Blend or some Original Espresso for the holidays. Been ages since I have had any good coffee. This dreck I am drinking now from the community pot at work is ok for keeping you awake, but the taste, shall we say, is a bit off....
AMEN! Micro Roasters rock! The local one here(Stauf's...they also own Cup O Joe) used to do all of their roasting in store. Now that they have expanded, they moved most of the roasting operation to a local warehouse, but they still do the roasting instead of having another company do it for them. They still have one of thier Probat roasters in their main store and do roast daily in it mostly for the ambience. Thier original store also has free WiFi! :D