First: Those quiet generators generate heat and water. READ THE ARTICLE! This could be used inside.
Second: Look on down the list....they do tell you how long it lasts on how much gas.
Third: I actually agree with ya there. These pressurized tanks only blow up for a reason (like idiotic gues smoking a cigarette during a leak). The just don't blow up on a whim! Just be carful and you should have no problems.
1. Extra PC could be free. All you need is a pentium 2 class machine if you stick to MPEG2. MPEG4 could work if you had a decent processor.
2. Already have WiFi on my Laptop and PDA...cost if you had to buy it is negligible. Also your PVR could be connected directly to the AP (if you get one with a 4 port switch)
3. No monitor needed with a laptop or pda and all you need for a desktop is a card with tv out.
Rich get richer? Not always true. Bill Gates isn't worth as much now as he was just 2 years ago. He lost....ALOT in the stock market.
In any case, I sure as heck don't see the "poor" getting poorer. People are starting to come off the welfare roles because they have no choice. Low and behold, these folks can get JOBS! Sure they may not be big money, but they are jobs and sometimes they make more then they did on welfare. Also, I am much better off now then I ever was in 1998/1999. I make more money then I ever have and I am finally being challenged again in my job. Personally when a job gets boring I like to move on.
I am personally against Election Finance Reform. Election Finance reform is against the first amendement by restricting your speech. If you want to run for office it is possible to get started. You don't necessarily need lots of cash either. The republicans and the democrats have their differences, but one that doesn't exist is money. They both have it.
Listen..IT IS POSSIBLE to make as much money as you want if you work hard enough for it. Do you realize that sometimes those "rich" folks failed sometimes 2-3 times before they made it big? Also, money!=Happiness. Sure I don't make all that I would like but I make enough to keep my happy. Enough to pay the bills and enough leftover to get some toys sometimes. Also consider that Bill G may not have any more hard days now, but I bet he had a lot of hard days before. I don't want to limit companies from making money. I am one of the few that believe Microsoft does not have a monopoly. Sure they have done some questionable things, but it's still possible to buy a pc with Linux on it or OSX on it (albeit there's a real monopoly there with Apple). If Microsoft had a true monopoly, then none of these things would even be interesting or would have ever had support. Linux may not have even been doing as well if it had not been for Windows. If it were a true monopoly, we'd all use Microsoft and Linux may not have been around at all. Also, I don't know of very many Data Centers that use exclusively Windows 2000 servers. Most are a ugly mesh of machines that make things possible. Also, Monopolies have to be proven by the fact that they hurt the consumer. This isn't the case as our story from yesterday about TCO differences between Windows 2000 and Linux shows that it costs less to use Windows (I don't believe it entirely either, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt).
That said, I think that the BT keyboard and mouse not working on a mac is the matter of no drivers. They may have had to make slight changes to the way it's used inorder to make it work with BT. It will only be a matter of time before Micrsoft or someone else gets this going on OS/X,
Sure you say you can do a Tivo cheaper. Maybe. But to me, the advantages of doing this outweigh the advantages of Tivo. I personally don't care for the thumbs uping and thumbs downing. I know what I want to watch and I don't want it recording anything else. Couple other folks mentioned the Freevo project and that interests me alot. But a lot of folks forget what you could do. You could hack the program a bit and add a button that lets you Zap a show to a standard DVD-R. You could use NFS and make a similar pc with a WiFi card in it, but minimal hard drive and a TV out card and have the view your recorded shows on any tv. Or start watching it in the living room, pause and go to the bedroom to finish. You could run samba and then mount a disc and setup a doze machine for your kids and they can watch Seasame Street in their room (no TV needed). I could go on, but I would have a rather long post. The advantages far outweigh they nice package Tivo provides.
You know I am not the biggest Microsoft fan but by what your saying, big corporations or rich folks don't have a right to make money. That's BS. Microsoft got to where it is today by lots of us plunking down our hard earned money. Microsoft did a good job and now your blaming them for it? Same with Apple. If you are so po'd becuase your not getting your fair share, then get off yer keester and work for it! What do you expect the government to HAND you money???? I personally would look for a semi decent paying job that paid more then unemployment first if I was in that situation rather then wait until I only have a week or so left on unemployment. Only way I would take unemployement is as a stop gap until I get my new job as the local department store. Sure, it may not be what I make but it's a job and keeps me from RELYING on the government for every little thing. It isn't the governments job to feed my family it's mine. You should think the same way. Those that are wealthy were not all born with a silver spoon in their mouth. They worked hard to get there. Period.
I have to agree with you on that. I would have LIKED Babylon 5 if I was not on night shift for 90 percent of it's run. I ended up missing it whenever it was on and the local affiliates continually moved it all over the place. Never was in the same place for more then a year. Maybe I will get the first season dvd's. I did watch the first movie and it was very good. After that I couldn't tell you what a Minbari did to a Narn 2 episodes ago that made him pissed (the Narn) this episode and I could not figure out why all of a sudden they were mad. Other then that, I thought the first movie was excellent.
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Being this thing won't be out for a while now, I bet it won't even be out in 2004. First off, Microsoft IS powerful, but if everyone decided no we aren't going to support your silly hardware requirements, then Microsoft will have no choice but to drop it. Also, how many times have we hard of pie in the sky things that are suposed to be in the next version and they still aren't in it. Windows 95 was supposed to do things that XP has not even done yet. Now one thing I wish we would get is some hardware based encryption. Mainframes have had a optional encryption processor for a while and it's only job is encryption. Anytime you need something encrypted, you ship it off to the encryption processor. Being hardware based, it would be tons faster.
That was the sovreign class vessel. They never showed the galaxy class captain's yacht. The episode in the season with out Beverly (season 3 I think) when Picard was going to go get a new heart (his mechanical one was failing and he needed a new one), he and Wesley shared a shuttle ride. It was discussed about building and using the Yacht, but because of money contraints they decided to use a already built shuttle. This was from the tech manual I think.
Yeah. It's called a router. Yeah you don't need mass storage for it, but what else are you going to store your code on and have it be reliable if you use a pc? Flash memory? Running on what kind of BUS? How many PC's have integrated bootable flashram?
Like I said, you don't do this kind of stuff especially in a hospital. You should not do it in business either. Yes, to me, this qualifies as a hack. First off performance would be dog slow. It's just too much stuff to put on the one PCI bus most PC's have especially if you run all of the slots full. Second, cost and setup time would just make it cheaper (and safer) to go with a real router.
Egads no! Dedicated hardware designed for this is the only solution in this kind of case. A PC simply is not. You CAN'T use a hack in a hospital. You should not use a hack like this in a business either, but I understand if it's done this way. Hacks like this can become rather problematic once it's asked to grow. Also most PC's do not have redundancy in power supply and probably doesn't have a raid array (although I have seen a vpr Matrix machine at Best buy with a raid array...Your standard adaptec type included in a lot of MB's now). If I were to do something similar, I would rather do something with AIX or if using Linux, using a server class machine. By the time you do that, you have already spent the money you'd spend on the dedicated stuff.
Why should you be concerned with where you walk in real life then. I mean I don't care if you get your butt kicked if you go walking on OSU's campus when there's a riot. I mean your not supposed to look out for your own well being are you? Wait! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LOOKOUT FOR YOURSELF!
Common sense applies every where and if you visit a site and get more then a pop up you should go elsewhere. Just like if you accidently walk into a seedy neighborhood. You should also READ every word on your screen and not gloss over it. If people actually READ what the glowing screen says instead of just looking at the purty pictures they would not get spyware installed on their machine.
I mean even Open Source has problems with bugs. It's not just a "Microsoft" thing it just seems they have more problems because they have more users and are more often the target.
I guess it's all everyone's fault but your own. You aren't responsible for anything you do now. I mean officer, it wasn't PeeWee's fault for looking at naked children. So you GET REAL and you better start using some more Common Sense.
Not all phones in the US are CDMA anymore, although Verizon is. GSM is making a huge push alond with iDen (Nextel). iDen may not have the most exciting phones, but everyone I know of in business uses them because of the Direct Connect feature.
Except he said he is with Verizon. They are CDMA as far as I know and not GSM. At least that's what the one phone I saw that had anything about the network on it said. Saying that, in my house, I have good reception. At work, I only have 2 lights, at home I have a full meter. I guess Verizon's service is better in my area then in some areas.
I use my PDA constantly. No not every minute of a day, but whenever I need to write something down quickly or get a phone number or even waste a few minutes. My Calendar is there. Contacts, maps for when I go out of town (Pocket Streets), MP3's occasionally, and some games. I also have vxUtil on there which is a nice tool on and off the network (Ping, spread ping, capture html, time synching, and when off, I can figure out netmasks and ip address ranges with ease without having to sketch the patterns out. Calculator is in there too and I save all my travel info in there (Hotel number, Airline, Gate Numbers...). I also use it as a laptop replacement on the road so I don't have to put up with the inane rule that says I must remove my laptop from it's case. With the PDA stuffed in my camera bag, it just goes right thru. I have a modem, WiFi and soon hope to get a ethernet card to sync avantgo at work. I use it to read on the bus too. There are so many uses I can't name them all here. I say go with power because then it will become more of a necessary tool. Some folks don;t use the calendar that much. If that's so, then get a powerful one rather then a palm. PocketPC's are right on the brink of being just fine for most uses. IM's are very useful for keeping LD bills down low. Now if only more airports had WiFi in them.
Better get yer tin foil hat out dude. Seriously, what makes you think this? Sure, the government can manage to keep some secrets. Something like this isn't going to be a danger to National security if it gets out. They aren't going to necessarily sweep this under the carpet. Now a suspected UFO sighting which was really a Top Secret jet should be swept under the covers!
I mean honestly, they were using what is essentially a government network even if it was their own machine. The midshipmen were stupid. I am surprised that their superiors did not catch it before the RIAA did.
Windows ME, no matter what Microsoft says, still has a DOS core left to it. DOS is still there no matter how many ways Microsoft trys to hide it. Also dos was just fine about 10 years ago. Some folks still use it today.
Amen. My Family gets free help. My neighbor used to until I had to go fix something 5 times in one week and then the next time he called/asked me I said my family comes frist, but I would help him out for 20 bucks an hour (Nothing like 100 bucks....I am easy and besides he is my neighbor and I do have to live next to him). As soon as I did that, he stopped calling me. My favorite one was when he asked me three times when someone e-mails him something where does it go when he saves the attachment somewhere. My discovery was....where ever the default dialog points and it looked like it went to My Documents Most common save dialog...noone EVER changes that.....at least the dumb ones never do. They just save everything in My Documents and have no clue on creating another directory and sorting things. My next favorite one was hey AOL or MSN made me download something and all of a sudden it doesn't work or look the same (usually version updates). Or The other one related to those types of things....I can't "connect" to msn 8 (yet they hae a cable modem) so I can't get on the internet. Yet I ask them to fire up a browser...a REAL browser and it works just fine. When ever I hear...my AOL or my MSN doesn't work my first answer is call them! I am not going to try and debug that abomination that is msn 8.
Gateway. No question. They always advertise their system prices including the monitor, and now if you get one you get a 18 inch lcd for the price of the 17 inch lcd. The 500XL is a nice one and it even comes with a DVD-RAM Drive (Yes it can make DVD-R's). You can also get a 3 year warantee for a decent price. In fact, I am probably going to get a new system there. I am getting tired of building them and I also want one under warantee not because I don't know how to fix it, but because I don't want to pay to fix it any more.
NO! I have enough problems keeping my computers secure enough to sleep. No you want me to worry about some script kiddie turning on my wife's curling iron or turning on my oven? No way! I will keep my appliance OFF the internet!:)
Actually thanks to compression, dictionaries can fit in alot smaller space. Try 2.53 MB. That's the size of the dictionary I have in MS Reader format on my e740. I think the problem with voice recognition on handhelds is it just plain doesn't work even on PC's and server like devices. Ever call one of those stupid voice recognition callers? I have on Xerox's tech support line. You have to say the serial number. Rattle it off too fast and it can't understand it. Slur even just a little bit and it screws the letter up. Never mind trying to call one inwith a stuffed up nose! Thing is these things plain don't work. THAT'S why noone has even tried on a PDA yet.
The paranormal and the sop opera stuff is why I have not turned on Sci-Fi in about 3-4 years. Even Farscape is a bit of a strech to me. This is why I did not like B5. In those to shows, I can't sit down and watch it and understand it like I can Enterprise and ST:TNG. If I wanted a soap opera I would not be working 9 to 5!:)
The Paranormal stuff just does not interest me and, in my opinion, a great amount of normal folks. Personally I watched more Sci-Fi when they were all about repeats. Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, The HORRID Glactica 1980 (yeah it sucks, but at least it's not Kolchak the Night Stalker)....good Sci-Fi I grew up with. Even Trek replays were better then what's on now. To me, the paranormal is NOT Sci-Fi. What science is there in Ghosts? We don't even have proof Ghosts exist! I know I know, Warp Drive doesn't exist either, but you know, it might exist. Anyone can see that it could possibly happen. They said we'd never break the sound barrier yet we now have fighter aircraft and passenger aircraft capable of doing just that. They say we will never be able to travel faster then light, but I do believe it will happen (maybe not in my lifetime, but it will happen). Sci-Fi needs to drive Science. Faster then light travel should be a goal of ours if we ever want to see anything outside of our solar system. How does paranormal Sci-Fi drive science? It doesn't. At least not near as much as Star Trek and other shows do. Only thing paranormal Sci-FI does is reduce Sci-Fi's cost to produce shows. Not near as many effects are needed for these types of shows. That's why they are going that direction. It has nothing to do with what's popular.
While I do agree computers can be a good learning tool, I am not certain that kids as young as 3 should be exposed to using a computer. Hear me out before you flame me. 3 year olds are rough with things. Only way I let mine near any of my computers is if I am there with him. Also, I am of the philosophy learn to walk before you run....That means, to me, you must learn how to add, subtract and multiply before using a calculator. For computers, I think you need to learn how to write first, then use it for word processing. Also, maybe intro them to a older machine. Say a Apple II if you can find one still working. Show them basics on how computers work as well as using them to learn other non-technical stuff. Then when the more advanced machines start to do things, they will realize why they do them. Linux could be intro'd, but I feel that even with WINE as good as it is, you'd have problems. If I were to do this, I would do it a few ways....first...
Copy the WHOLE CD image to the hard disk. Setup wine...get it working for you first.
Setup the kids accounts with access only to their programs.
Develop a PERL/gtk or some GUI that they could use to launch these and make it consist only of buttons...this could be lessened up for the older ones..
Once they get older, intro them to GNOME or KDE
Doing these things would make things easier. Also, while not in the list, you could rig up cron jobs to check how long they have been on and restrict access to x amount of time per day. This is something that is near impossible on Windows.
Migrating doesn't always come at the expense of the it guys. Sometimes, the users ask for it. Happening now where I work (we generally don't make a plan and do what the users want...they usualy do what the new stuff.). We are stuck implementing a system that we did not want. The end system in some ways doe alot less then our current system. IT isn't always the driving force behind upgrades. Most of the time it isw the users (or a significant number of them)
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First: Those quiet generators generate heat and water. READ THE ARTICLE! This could be used inside.
Second: Look on down the list....they do tell you how long it lasts on how much gas.
Third: I actually agree with ya there. These pressurized tanks only blow up for a reason (like idiotic gues smoking a cigarette during a leak). The just don't blow up on a whim! Just be carful and you should have no problems.
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1. Extra PC could be free. All you need is a pentium 2 class machine if you stick to MPEG2. MPEG4 could work if you had a decent processor.
2. Already have WiFi on my Laptop and PDA...cost if you had to buy it is negligible. Also your PVR could be connected directly to the AP (if you get one with a 4 port switch)
3. No monitor needed with a laptop or pda and all you need for a desktop is a card with tv out.
Rich get richer? Not always true. Bill Gates isn't worth as much now as he was just 2 years ago. He lost....ALOT in the stock market.
In any case, I sure as heck don't see the "poor" getting poorer. People are starting to come off the welfare roles because they have no choice. Low and behold, these folks can get JOBS! Sure they may not be big money, but they are jobs and sometimes they make more then they did on welfare. Also, I am much better off now then I ever was in 1998/1999. I make more money then I ever have and I am finally being challenged again in my job. Personally when a job gets boring I like to move on.
I am personally against Election Finance Reform. Election Finance reform is against the first amendement by restricting your speech. If you want to run for office it is possible to get started. You don't necessarily need lots of cash either. The republicans and the democrats have their differences, but one that doesn't exist is money. They both have it.
Listen..IT IS POSSIBLE to make as much money as you want if you work hard enough for it. Do you realize that sometimes those "rich" folks failed sometimes 2-3 times before they made it big? Also, money!=Happiness. Sure I don't make all that I would like but I make enough to keep my happy. Enough to pay the bills and enough leftover to get some toys sometimes. Also consider that Bill G may not have any more hard days now, but I bet he had a lot of hard days before. I don't want to limit companies from making money. I am one of the few that believe Microsoft does not have a monopoly. Sure they have done some questionable things, but it's still possible to buy a pc with Linux on it or OSX on it (albeit there's a real monopoly there with Apple). If Microsoft had a true monopoly, then none of these things would even be interesting or would have ever had support. Linux may not have even been doing as well if it had not been for Windows. If it were a true monopoly, we'd all use Microsoft and Linux may not have been around at all. Also, I don't know of very many Data Centers that use exclusively Windows 2000 servers. Most are a ugly mesh of machines that make things possible. Also, Monopolies have to be proven by the fact that they hurt the consumer. This isn't the case as our story from yesterday about TCO differences between Windows 2000 and Linux shows that it costs less to use Windows (I don't believe it entirely either, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt).
That said, I think that the BT keyboard and mouse not working on a mac is the matter of no drivers. They may have had to make slight changes to the way it's used inorder to make it work with BT. It will only be a matter of time before Micrsoft or someone else gets this going on OS/X,
Sure you say you can do a Tivo cheaper. Maybe. But to me, the advantages of doing this outweigh the advantages of Tivo. I personally don't care for the thumbs uping and thumbs downing. I know what I want to watch and I don't want it recording anything else. Couple other folks mentioned the Freevo project and that interests me alot. But a lot of folks forget what you could do. You could hack the program a bit and add a button that lets you Zap a show to a standard DVD-R. You could use NFS and make a similar pc with a WiFi card in it, but minimal hard drive and a TV out card and have the view your recorded shows on any tv. Or start watching it in the living room, pause and go to the bedroom to finish. You could run samba and then mount a disc and setup a doze machine for your kids and they can watch Seasame Street in their room (no TV needed). I could go on, but I would have a rather long post. The advantages far outweigh they nice package Tivo provides.
You know I am not the biggest Microsoft fan but by what your saying, big corporations or rich folks don't have a right to make money. That's BS. Microsoft got to where it is today by lots of us plunking down our hard earned money. Microsoft did a good job and now your blaming them for it? Same with Apple. If you are so po'd becuase your not getting your fair share, then get off yer keester and work for it! What do you expect the government to HAND you money???? I personally would look for a semi decent paying job that paid more then unemployment first if I was in that situation rather then wait until I only have a week or so left on unemployment. Only way I would take unemployement is as a stop gap until I get my new job as the local department store. Sure, it may not be what I make but it's a job and keeps me from RELYING on the government for every little thing. It isn't the governments job to feed my family it's mine. You should think the same way. Those that are wealthy were not all born with a silver spoon in their mouth. They worked hard to get there. Period.
I have to agree with you on that. I would have LIKED Babylon 5 if I was not on night shift for 90 percent of it's run. I ended up missing it whenever it was on and the local affiliates continually moved it all over the place. Never was in the same place for more then a year. Maybe I will get the first season dvd's. I did watch the first movie and it was very good. After that I couldn't tell you what a Minbari did to a Narn 2 episodes ago that made him pissed (the Narn) this episode and I could not figure out why all of a sudden they were mad. Other then that, I thought the first movie was excellent.
Being this thing won't be out for a while now, I bet it won't even be out in 2004. First off, Microsoft IS powerful, but if everyone decided no we aren't going to support your silly hardware requirements, then Microsoft will have no choice but to drop it. Also, how many times have we hard of pie in the sky things that are suposed to be in the next version and they still aren't in it. Windows 95 was supposed to do things that XP has not even done yet. Now one thing I wish we would get is some hardware based encryption. Mainframes have had a optional encryption processor for a while and it's only job is encryption. Anytime you need something encrypted, you ship it off to the encryption processor. Being hardware based, it would be tons faster.
That was the sovreign class vessel. They never showed the galaxy class captain's yacht. The episode in the season with out Beverly (season 3 I think) when Picard was going to go get a new heart (his mechanical one was failing and he needed a new one), he and Wesley shared a shuttle ride. It was discussed about building and using the Yacht, but because of money contraints they decided to use a already built shuttle. This was from the tech manual I think.
Yeah. It's called a router. Yeah you don't need mass storage for it, but what else are you going to store your code on and have it be reliable if you use a pc? Flash memory? Running on what kind of BUS? How many PC's have integrated bootable flashram?
Like I said, you don't do this kind of stuff especially in a hospital. You should not do it in business either. Yes, to me, this qualifies as a hack. First off performance would be dog slow. It's just too much stuff to put on the one PCI bus most PC's have especially if you run all of the slots full. Second, cost and setup time would just make it cheaper (and safer) to go with a real router.
Remember they cancelled another good scifi show they could show this tripe. Dark Angel was infinitely better then Firefly IMHO.
Egads no! Dedicated hardware designed for this is the only solution in this kind of case. A PC simply is not. You CAN'T use a hack in a hospital. You should not use a hack like this in a business either, but I understand if it's done this way. Hacks like this can become rather problematic once it's asked to grow. Also most PC's do not have redundancy in power supply and probably doesn't have a raid array (although I have seen a vpr Matrix machine at Best buy with a raid array...Your standard adaptec type included in a lot of MB's now). If I were to do something similar, I would rather do something with AIX or if using Linux, using a server class machine. By the time you do that, you have already spent the money you'd spend on the dedicated stuff.
Why should you be concerned with where you walk in real life then. I mean I don't care if you get your butt kicked if you go walking on OSU's campus when there's a riot. I mean your not supposed to look out for your own well being are you? Wait! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LOOKOUT FOR YOURSELF!
Common sense applies every where and if you visit a site and get more then a pop up you should go elsewhere. Just like if you accidently walk into a seedy neighborhood. You should also READ every word on your screen and not gloss over it. If people actually READ what the glowing screen says instead of just looking at the purty pictures they would not get spyware installed on their machine.
I mean even Open Source has problems with bugs. It's not just a "Microsoft" thing it just seems they have more problems because they have more users and are more often the target.
I guess it's all everyone's fault but your own. You aren't responsible for anything you do now. I mean officer, it wasn't PeeWee's fault for looking at naked children. So you GET REAL and you better start using some more Common Sense.
Not all phones in the US are CDMA anymore, although Verizon is. GSM is making a huge push alond with iDen (Nextel). iDen may not have the most exciting phones, but everyone I know of in business uses them because of the Direct Connect feature.
Except he said he is with Verizon. They are CDMA as far as I know and not GSM. At least that's what the one phone I saw that had anything about the network on it said. Saying that, in my house, I have good reception. At work, I only have 2 lights, at home I have a full meter. I guess Verizon's service is better in my area then in some areas.
I use my PDA constantly. No not every minute of a day, but whenever I need to write something down quickly or get a phone number or even waste a few minutes. My Calendar is there. Contacts, maps for when I go out of town (Pocket Streets), MP3's occasionally, and some games. I also have vxUtil on there which is a nice tool on and off the network (Ping, spread ping, capture html, time synching, and when off, I can figure out netmasks and ip address ranges with ease without having to sketch the patterns out. Calculator is in there too and I save all my travel info in there (Hotel number, Airline, Gate Numbers...). I also use it as a laptop replacement on the road so I don't have to put up with the inane rule that says I must remove my laptop from it's case. With the PDA stuffed in my camera bag, it just goes right thru. I have a modem, WiFi and soon hope to get a ethernet card to sync avantgo at work. I use it to read on the bus too. There are so many uses I can't name them all here. I say go with power because then it will become more of a necessary tool. Some folks don;t use the calendar that much. If that's so, then get a powerful one rather then a palm. PocketPC's are right on the brink of being just fine for most uses. IM's are very useful for keeping LD bills down low. Now if only more airports had WiFi in them.
Better get yer tin foil hat out dude. Seriously, what makes you think this? Sure, the government can manage to keep some secrets. Something like this isn't going to be a danger to National security if it gets out. They aren't going to necessarily sweep this under the carpet. Now a suspected UFO sighting which was really a Top Secret jet should be swept under the covers!
I mean honestly, they were using what is essentially a government network even if it was their own machine. The midshipmen were stupid. I am surprised that their superiors did not catch it before the RIAA did.
Windows ME, no matter what Microsoft says, still has a DOS core left to it. DOS is still there no matter how many ways Microsoft trys to hide it. Also dos was just fine about 10 years ago. Some folks still use it today.
Amen. My Family gets free help. My neighbor used to until I had to go fix something 5 times in one week and then the next time he called/asked me I said my family comes frist, but I would help him out for 20 bucks an hour (Nothing like 100 bucks....I am easy and besides he is my neighbor and I do have to live next to him). As soon as I did that, he stopped calling me. My favorite one was when he asked me three times when someone e-mails him something where does it go when he saves the attachment somewhere. My discovery was....where ever the default dialog points and it looked like it went to My Documents Most common save dialog...noone EVER changes that.....at least the dumb ones never do. They just save everything in My Documents and have no clue on creating another directory and sorting things. My next favorite one was hey AOL or MSN made me download something and all of a sudden it doesn't work or look the same (usually version updates). Or The other one related to those types of things....I can't "connect" to msn 8 (yet they hae a cable modem) so I can't get on the internet. Yet I ask them to fire up a browser...a REAL browser and it works just fine. When ever I hear...my AOL or my MSN doesn't work my first answer is call them! I am not going to try and debug that abomination that is msn 8.
Gateway. No question. They always advertise their system prices including the monitor, and now if you get one you get a 18 inch lcd for the price of the 17 inch lcd. The 500XL is a nice one and it even comes with a DVD-RAM Drive (Yes it can make DVD-R's). You can also get a 3 year warantee for a decent price. In fact, I am probably going to get a new system there. I am getting tired of building them and I also want one under warantee not because I don't know how to fix it, but because I don't want to pay to fix it any more.
NO! I have enough problems keeping my computers secure enough to sleep. No you want me to worry about some script kiddie turning on my wife's curling iron or turning on my oven? No way! I will keep my appliance OFF the internet! :)
Actually thanks to compression, dictionaries can fit in alot smaller space. Try 2.53 MB. That's the size of the dictionary I have in MS Reader format on my e740. I think the problem with voice recognition on handhelds is it just plain doesn't work even on PC's and server like devices. Ever call one of those stupid voice recognition callers? I have on Xerox's tech support line. You have to say the serial number. Rattle it off too fast and it can't understand it. Slur even just a little bit and it screws the letter up. Never mind trying to call one inwith a stuffed up nose! Thing is these things plain don't work. THAT'S why noone has even tried on a PDA yet.
The paranormal and the sop opera stuff is why I have not turned on Sci-Fi in about 3-4 years. Even Farscape is a bit of a strech to me. This is why I did not like B5. In those to shows, I can't sit down and watch it and understand it like I can Enterprise and ST:TNG. If I wanted a soap opera I would not be working 9 to 5! :)
The Paranormal stuff just does not interest me and, in my opinion, a great amount of normal folks. Personally I watched more Sci-Fi when they were all about repeats. Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, The HORRID Glactica 1980 (yeah it sucks, but at least it's not Kolchak the Night Stalker)....good Sci-Fi I grew up with. Even Trek replays were better then what's on now. To me, the paranormal is NOT Sci-Fi. What science is there in Ghosts? We don't even have proof Ghosts exist! I know I know, Warp Drive doesn't exist either, but you know, it might exist. Anyone can see that it could possibly happen. They said we'd never break the sound barrier yet we now have fighter aircraft and passenger aircraft capable of doing just that. They say we will never be able to travel faster then light, but I do believe it will happen (maybe not in my lifetime, but it will happen). Sci-Fi needs to drive Science. Faster then light travel should be a goal of ours if we ever want to see anything outside of our solar system. How does paranormal Sci-Fi drive science? It doesn't. At least not near as much as Star Trek and other shows do. Only thing paranormal Sci-FI does is reduce Sci-Fi's cost to produce shows. Not near as many effects are needed for these types of shows. That's why they are going that direction. It has nothing to do with what's popular.
Copy the WHOLE CD image to the hard disk. Setup wine...get it working for you first.
Setup the kids accounts with access only to their programs.
Develop a PERL/gtk or some GUI that they could use to launch these and make it consist only of buttons...this could be lessened up for the older ones..
Once they get older, intro them to GNOME or KDE
Doing these things would make things easier. Also, while not in the list, you could rig up cron jobs to check how long they have been on and restrict access to x amount of time per day. This is something that is near impossible on Windows.
Migrating doesn't always come at the expense of the it guys. Sometimes, the users ask for it. Happening now where I work (we generally don't make a plan and do what the users want...they usualy do what the new stuff.). We are stuck implementing a system that we did not want. The end system in some ways doe alot less then our current system. IT isn't always the driving force behind upgrades. Most of the time it isw the users (or a significant number of them)