It's just inside a 3-inch long horizontal slot on the front of the machine. You have to trigger it using the right sized piece of paper. Like most secret codes, it'll take you quite a few tries to get it right...
Seriously, it sounds like this guy hasn't considered simply plugging a coax or composite cable from a DTV receiver into his existing TV. It'll work fine.
Rabbit ears are generally useless for picking up HD signals. Rabbit ears pick up VHF signals, while almost all of the HD broadcasts are done in the UHF range. In order to pickup HD signals you'll need to get either a directional UHF antenna (my Silver Surfer works great), a loop UHF antenna, or one of those grid things that you can stick in your attic.
Actually, Linux IS realtime. But most people don't use it that way, and I'm not sure if there are that many applications really using the realtime extensions...
Realtime support has been included in the mainline kernel for almost a whole four months now. I can't fathom why they aren't already using it on warships...
In fact, it would have been even better if NVIDIA (or ATI for that matter) could have offered a DX10 GPU to pair with Dell's latest revision to their XPS notebook. With no mobile DX10 parts available just yet, however...
So, they're complaining that something that doesn't even exist wasn't included in the machine?!? There's some quality reviewing for you...
It seems that if you had people sign up with some sort of basic survey about where they live, how old they are, their interests, etc. advertisers gladly pay to have commercials interjected into the programming people download.
The reason is really quite simple: If they start offering up content with commercials to other countries, then they are (as far as the law is concerned) doing business in that country. Which suddenly means that they have to get a business license, follow all applicable regulations, pay taxes, etc. More easily said than done.
I find it humorous that the article talks about how the Australian TV networks are "unable or unwilling to change their programming policies", yet makes no mention about the actual core problem here--the licensing of the content. Yes, if a TV show is produced and owned by an American TV network, then the Australian TV network needs to license it from the American company. They can't just decide to air it whenever they feel like it (which is what this article seems to suggest). Whether the problem is the American company not offering up the content for licensing, or whether the Australian companies don't want to pay the fee until it's lowered needs to be mentioned in order for this article to be more than an uninformed gripe. Then again, it is the Register, so it comes as no surprise to me that it's actually missing the point...
I assume it's a way to fit more advertising in a given article, but why not, instead of splitting articles over multiple pages, simply insert more advertising on a single page?
Let's see...10 ads per page spread out over 10 pages? Or 50 ad per page spread out over 2 pages? Both are very annoying, but if I can't even find the article text in a sea of ads, I'll never visit the site again. Then again, Tom's crossed that threshold for me a long time ago...
Their real fear, more than the attorneys' fees, is the judge's finding that the RIAA's arguments for contributory and vicarious infringement claims in cases like this one are not viable.
Well, when you put it like that I really hope the judge sees the light and overturns the previous ruling...
I remember MagnaRAM and RAM Doubler. The best snake oil ever...
I don't know what you're talking about. I installed RAMDoubler on my machine years ago and had it convert my 8MB stick into a 16MB stick. I then pulled that out and sold it for considerably more than the software cost me. Best investment ever...
On a more serious note, RAMDoubler for the Mac was actually a decent piece of software in the OS 7.5 days. It certainly was a better virtual memory manager than the one included with the OS. Can't say anything about the Windows version though...
Why did they choose the 'Ready' prefix for everything? It seems that using 'Hyper' would have actually been a little more descriptive AND cooler sounding. I mean, HyperBoost, HyperBoot, and HyperDrive? Those sound so much better. And I thought these guys were supposedly big into marketing...
was a very early adopter of MP3s. I converted much of my collection in the mid to late 90s when conversion took place at 0.5x real time on standard home PC.
Ahhh, yes, the good old days of mp3. Back when Audioactive was a decent player. Back when the Shockwave export plugin was the ONLY way to encode an mp3 on a Mac (although it ended up in a.swa wrapper). And back when it cost far more to store your mp3s than it did to just go out and buy the actual CDs...
but it certainly wouldn't be based on proximity to him as he describes it.
No, but keep in mind that he could only see the few seats around him. That is unless he's dumb enough to stand up and gawk at the entire plane after crashing their inflight entertainment system (something I'm sure a few slashdotters would probably do).
New water holes way under the ice. Fun. I wonder if we will find even more 'new species' as was reported here:
Of course we'll continue finding unknown species if we continue looking in the water. We know next to nothing about the oceans, and they make up a majority of this planet.
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...now, where'd they put that "B" button...?
It's just inside a 3-inch long horizontal slot on the front of the machine. You have to trigger it using the right sized piece of paper. Like most secret codes, it'll take you quite a few tries to get it right...
Seriously, it sounds like this guy hasn't considered simply plugging a coax or composite cable from a DTV receiver into his existing TV. It'll work fine.
Rabbit ears are generally useless for picking up HD signals. Rabbit ears pick up VHF signals, while almost all of the HD broadcasts are done in the UHF range. In order to pickup HD signals you'll need to get either a directional UHF antenna (my Silver Surfer works great), a loop UHF antenna, or one of those grid things that you can stick in your attic.
Actually, Linux IS realtime. But most people don't use it that way, and I'm not sure if there are that many applications really using the realtime extensions...
Realtime support has been included in the mainline kernel for almost a whole four months now. I can't fathom why they aren't already using it on warships...
In fact, it would have been even better if NVIDIA (or ATI for that matter) could have offered a DX10 GPU to pair with Dell's latest revision to their XPS notebook. With no mobile DX10 parts available just yet, however...
So, they're complaining that something that doesn't even exist wasn't included in the machine?!? There's some quality reviewing for you...
It seems that if you had people sign up with some sort of basic survey about where they live, how old they are, their interests, etc. advertisers gladly pay to have commercials interjected into the programming people download.
The reason is really quite simple: If they start offering up content with commercials to other countries, then they are (as far as the law is concerned) doing business in that country. Which suddenly means that they have to get a business license, follow all applicable regulations, pay taxes, etc. More easily said than done.
I find it humorous that the article talks about how the Australian TV networks are "unable or unwilling to change their programming policies", yet makes no mention about the actual core problem here--the licensing of the content. Yes, if a TV show is produced and owned by an American TV network, then the Australian TV network needs to license it from the American company. They can't just decide to air it whenever they feel like it (which is what this article seems to suggest). Whether the problem is the American company not offering up the content for licensing, or whether the Australian companies don't want to pay the fee until it's lowered needs to be mentioned in order for this article to be more than an uninformed gripe. Then again, it is the Register, so it comes as no surprise to me that it's actually missing the point...
A LiveJournal Blog from a Bad Writer? Why?
I thought the whole thing was pretty self-explanatory...I mean, isn't bad writing why LJ exists in the first place?
Also I don't run as a root.
Maybe not, but I'm willing to bet that whichever user you do run as has control over their own home directory, which is what this program wipes out...
Wow. He's certainly convinced me to give his software a try...
who needs the right brain anyway..
I'm left-handed, you insensitive clod!
So how's it feel when you let the left brain take over? ; )
That may be so, but I gotta say that he did write a damn fine disk repair/recovery utility...
I assume it's a way to fit more advertising in a given article, but why not, instead of splitting articles over multiple pages, simply insert more advertising on a single page?
Let's see...10 ads per page spread out over 10 pages? Or 50 ad per page spread out over 2 pages? Both are very annoying, but if I can't even find the article text in a sea of ads, I'll never visit the site again. Then again, Tom's crossed that threshold for me a long time ago...
I'm holding a protest against picketing this weekend ... anyone care to join in?
Sure. I'll bring the lawn chairs, beer, and Scrabble.
Their real fear, more than the attorneys' fees, is the judge's finding that the RIAA's arguments for contributory and vicarious infringement claims in cases like this one are not viable.
Well, when you put it like that I really hope the judge sees the light and overturns the previous ruling...
I remember MagnaRAM and RAM Doubler. The best snake oil ever...
I don't know what you're talking about. I installed RAMDoubler on my machine years ago and had it convert my 8MB stick into a 16MB stick. I then pulled that out and sold it for considerably more than the software cost me. Best investment ever...
On a more serious note, RAMDoubler for the Mac was actually a decent piece of software in the OS 7.5 days. It certainly was a better virtual memory manager than the one included with the OS. Can't say anything about the Windows version though...
Why did they choose the 'Ready' prefix for everything? It seems that using 'Hyper' would have actually been a little more descriptive AND cooler sounding. I mean, HyperBoost, HyperBoot, and HyperDrive? Those sound so much better. And I thought these guys were supposedly big into marketing...
was a very early adopter of MP3s. I converted much of my collection in the mid to late 90s when conversion took place at 0.5x real time on standard home PC.
.swa wrapper). And back when it cost far more to store your mp3s than it did to just go out and buy the actual CDs...
Ahhh, yes, the good old days of mp3. Back when Audioactive was a decent player. Back when the Shockwave export plugin was the ONLY way to encode an mp3 on a Mac (although it ended up in a
*sniff* You're making me all teary-eyed...
Hey thanks! You just saved me 400 bucks. : D
but it certainly wouldn't be based on proximity to him as he describes it.
No, but keep in mind that he could only see the few seats around him. That is unless he's dumb enough to stand up and gawk at the entire plane after crashing their inflight entertainment system (something I'm sure a few slashdotters would probably do).
Sorry about that. Severe sarcasm is sometimes hard to spot, especially around these parts...
(Shh! No one tell them about VCRs!)
You're forgetting that their response was almost identical when VCRs first came out.
Power up? What they really need to know is where the extra life is hidden.
Just what we need--doctors who wonder why time doesn't slow down when they make a star shape with their scalpel...
New water holes way under the ice. Fun. I wonder if we will find even more 'new species' as was reported here:
Of course we'll continue finding unknown species if we continue looking in the water. We know next to nothing about the oceans, and they make up a majority of this planet.