Electronic screens are at most major bus stops, however the data is available for any bus stop via the web. The mobile interface even has a nice little geolocation feature. It works pretty well.
I use my laptop in lectures simply to take notes, banning laptops would be somewhat of an inconvenience for me. I will admit to doing other things on my laptop during lectures, but not to the detriment of my notes or others.
I am aware of how distracting laptops can be for people behind which is why I tend to sit up the back of the lecture theatre, which is normally where the power sockets are anyway. Most other laptop users in my lectures do this too.
My motherboard (Asus P5Q) allows me to place the BIOS update file onto a USB drive (or floppy, if you wish) and then you just enter the flash tool from the BIOS. No messing around with DOS. Most modern motherboards appear to have this functionality now.
I did exactly the same thing, moving from BT to ADSL24. I'd much rather have a known set limit to use than BT's "Unlimited" (* unless you use more than 20GB/month). They are a lot more open than BT too, although they have had a few reliability issues recently.
I myself live in the UK, and am stuck on 2.5mbit (That's ADSL2+ speeds as well). However, I regularly download huge games off Steam - take GTAIV for example at 16 GB, it only took about a day or so to download.
If you have a 30GB limit, you need to start looking elsewhere. I have 60GB "peak" usage and truly unlimited Offpeak for £30 a month.
While I could go cable, I refuse to go with the only cable company due to their reliability and policies. While 2.5mbit is painfully slow compared to the rest of Europe, it doesn't prevent you from downloading huge games.
Going back to your original claim of having to max your 2mbit connection for a week to get 8GB, this is incorrect. At ~230kb/s (2mbit/s) it would take around 9 to 10 hours to download 8GB of data.
A way to finally contact Google? It's so difficult to get in contact with them normally - even if you're paying them (in the case of AdWords).
Perhaps we can finally start talking to real people at Google, or at least have them read some of our grievances.
I think this is a good idea, Internet access has now become a crucial part of the day to day life of most people and as such is a utility, like water, power and such. However, I don't want to give the Government complete control over my internet, so it should be offered as a 'basic' internet package capped at 256kbit/sec. This is good enough for people that really need to access the internet. You then still have the choice of another provider, with higher speeds if you need/want it. This is intended for those that only need internet because it has been integrated into so many things now - Taxes, Banking, Shopping etc not for Entertainment and such.
I left BT a few months ago after they continued with the trial, despite massive outcry from customers and other internet users. Thankfully, here in the UK it's easy to switch ADSL providers, just request a MAC transfer code and give it to your ISP. I moved to ADSL24, a reseller of Entanet who are very open about their network, while other ISPs like to hide it. I have been extremely satisfied with my new provider, and I am going to make sure that I never give any money to BT again. Bad idea to annoy those younger customers, they've still got quite a lot to spend into the future.
A friend of mine has a Dell Vostro 1700 (17") (and another friend with the 1710), both have 1920x1200 screens. It cost £90 over the 1280x800 option. Not the exact 1920x1080 you are talking about, but nothing wrong with some extra pixels.
I have the Vostro 1500 (15") where the highest is 1680x1050, which is great.
I've been using Pidgin for at least a year now on Windows and it's excellent. Being able to sign into multiple accounts (personal, business etc) is a great advantage. I've had it crash just once. I like the interface, especially chats which do not waste any space by putting name and message on separate lines. Compare this to WLM, which wouldn't even install on my machine.
I moved to a new UK ISP today (away from BT) and included free of charge was a block of 8 static IPv4 addresses, on a 'home' package. Don't know what i'm going to do with all of them...
It seems that it's only BT the ISP that are doing this however, not BT Wholesale, who are required to provide open access to any ADSL provider on the phone lines. Therefore, while my data with my new ISP travels across BT's phone lines, it's switched into my ISP at the local exchange, completely bypassing all of BT's nasties.
It varies, with most networks it's around 10p, but some do offer 'bundles' which work out at 5p per text. The vast majority though pay 10p I suspect. Complete ripoff, I try not to text, especially if I know it's going to be one of those 'conversation' texts.
At least we don't pay for receiving texts/calls. That idea just seems absurd to me.
I had a mail bounced by ORDB earlier, not knowing what it was I put it into google and the only references I could find to it where concerning it's shutdown, so I thought it odd that my mail was bounced. Now however, i'm going to have to find some other way to contact this person, and let them know to remove ORDB.
It seems like a great way to notify people that this service really is dead, but I can forsee this causing a lot of lost emails.
I own a Ferrari 4000 laptop, it's two years old and I still use it on a daily basis. I didn't buy it for it's branding, and I would rather not have the branding however at the time it was one of the few laptops with a real graphics card in it (no intel rubbish!). I want to be able to play games while not at home, anywhere. It's a very durable laptop that has survived many drops and the slot-load CD drive is an excellent idea - I don't know why more laptops don't have them. The only thing i've had to replace during it's intensive life is the hard drive, not exactly Acer's fault.
Next time I buy a laptop, i'm looking at another Ferrari or a machine with a real graphics card at an affordable price. So far the only contender i've seen is Dell's Vostro, but I have a deep dislike of Dell due to previous experiences. I don't expect to be looking for another laptop for a while though while this one is still going strong.
Macs are built around a specific set of hardware, compared to PCs where there are a huge number of possible different components. With Macs, they have been able to write code specific to that hardware so that it stands by very quickly on that set of hardware, but with PCs its very dependant on driver quality. For example, a certain version of the driver for my wireless card would crash the PC if it tried to stand by or hibernate. Now, it only takes a few seconds to standby (and a second to resume) and around 30 seconds to hibernate, although that is mostly a hard drive speed limitation.
I read slashdot on my phone regularly, without downloading huge amounts of data. Get Opera Mini (free) and navigate to slashdot's RSS feed. You get full text articles (and all the comments) in a very lightweight format, plus it is easy to read on a phone.
I took advantage of this too, in effect it gave me free delivery. Certainly swayed me to use their payment system and it's a year long promotion, I wonder what the fees are that google charges retailers in comparison to ordinary card processing services?
Ah, not quite! First you have to get a microchip implanted ($400) so ensure that your pets have the correct equipment to receive this 'revolutionary' treatment. Then, you'd have to pay a $50/month licence fee to continue to use the service, failure to pay this will temporarily disable your pet until the licence fee has been paid. Tampering with the chip will automatically turn your pet against you...
I think i'll stick to the regular flea treatment, thanks
it's when you get thousands of emails an hour that separates the button-clickers from the men
Very true, but at least when I transition to such a system (via education or employment), I won't be starting from scratch, I will have some understanding of proceedures and can apply those to larger high-volume systems. I'd be worried if I started receiving that volume of emails too, since I've either become extremely popular or had a 20x increase in spam, both unlikely!
I don't trust you to secure your mail server.
That would be part of the learning and experimenting I do. I can assure you, it has basic security (i.e is not open to relaying) and through learning and experimenting I'm gradually leaning more about mail server security (amongst other things). It's how I learn about IT (since I don't yet have the opportunity to learn through other sources), through trying things out. It works great for me, but I realise that will not take me up to the full level of a proper education in such matters, which I plan to carry out when the opportunity becomes available to me. I love learning through experimenting, it's how I've learned most of my IT skills in many different areas. I like to try things out, simply reading that 'this should happen when you do this etc.' is uninteresting to me, I like to apply what I've read and take it a bit further
Why would anybody want to run a mail server? It's nothing but a hassle, especially if you want to run one well
I only run it as an experiment and to provide email support to the web apps. It even runs surprisingly well and has been a great way for me to teach myself basic mail server administration.
run a mail server on an old Dell at the end of a cable modem connection is not a compelling reason to allow bot nets to thrive
Which is why I suggested that users should be able to opt in to having their port 25 open. This protects those who get the bot nets installed upon their system and allows 'those 47 nerds' to run their own mail server, everyone wins! (Thankfully, it isn't run on and old dell at the end of a cable modem either, I can't stand dell computers)
Or get a business connection, like you did.
There are other reasons I switched to business, competent support departments who answer your questions quickly and truly all you can eat bandwidth - not 'Unlimited' with a fair usage policy. Plus it was only a little extra than I was paying beforehand for standard residential broadband.
Spam sent within the US comes from zombied machines. That's a problem the ISPs can fix by blocking outbound port 25 traffic except to the ISPs mail relay
That however blocks legitimate users such as myself who run their own mail servers. The solution to this is to block it by default, but allow users to request that it is unblocked, via telephone - not via a website that the spam bot could access once it is on your computer. But then again, most ISPs don't like people running servers on their services anyway.
(Which is why I switched to a business connection)
Thankfully, OpenTTD appears to work on OSX, have a look at their downloads page. In addition, OpenTTD is in my opinion far better than the original TTDLX.
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I noticed this a lot over Christmas, both on TV and in cinemas. However, Microsoft were also pushing Windows 8 rather strongly.
Electronic screens are at most major bus stops, however the data is available for any bus stop via the web. The mobile interface even has a nice little geolocation feature. It works pretty well.
I use my laptop in lectures simply to take notes, banning laptops would be somewhat of an inconvenience for me. I will admit to doing other things on my laptop during lectures, but not to the detriment of my notes or others. I am aware of how distracting laptops can be for people behind which is why I tend to sit up the back of the lecture theatre, which is normally where the power sockets are anyway. Most other laptop users in my lectures do this too.
Don't you people ever need to apply BIOS updates?
My motherboard (Asus P5Q) allows me to place the BIOS update file onto a USB drive (or floppy, if you wish) and then you just enter the flash tool from the BIOS. No messing around with DOS. Most modern motherboards appear to have this functionality now.
I did exactly the same thing, moving from BT to ADSL24. I'd much rather have a known set limit to use than BT's "Unlimited" (* unless you use more than 20GB/month). They are a lot more open than BT too, although they have had a few reliability issues recently.
I myself live in the UK, and am stuck on 2.5mbit (That's ADSL2+ speeds as well). However, I regularly download huge games off Steam - take GTAIV for example at 16 GB, it only took about a day or so to download.
If you have a 30GB limit, you need to start looking elsewhere. I have 60GB "peak" usage and truly unlimited Offpeak for £30 a month.
While I could go cable, I refuse to go with the only cable company due to their reliability and policies. While 2.5mbit is painfully slow compared to the rest of Europe, it doesn't prevent you from downloading huge games.
Going back to your original claim of having to max your 2mbit connection for a week to get 8GB, this is incorrect. At ~230kb/s (2mbit/s) it would take around 9 to 10 hours to download 8GB of data.
A way to finally contact Google? It's so difficult to get in contact with them normally - even if you're paying them (in the case of AdWords). Perhaps we can finally start talking to real people at Google, or at least have them read some of our grievances.
I think this is a good idea, Internet access has now become a crucial part of the day to day life of most people and as such is a utility, like water, power and such. However, I don't want to give the Government complete control over my internet, so it should be offered as a 'basic' internet package capped at 256kbit/sec. This is good enough for people that really need to access the internet. You then still have the choice of another provider, with higher speeds if you need/want it. This is intended for those that only need internet because it has been integrated into so many things now - Taxes, Banking, Shopping etc not for Entertainment and such.
Alternatively, if you register as an "expert" you get free access to every question, solved or not.
I left BT a few months ago after they continued with the trial, despite massive outcry from customers and other internet users. Thankfully, here in the UK it's easy to switch ADSL providers, just request a MAC transfer code and give it to your ISP. I moved to ADSL24, a reseller of Entanet who are very open about their network, while other ISPs like to hide it. I have been extremely satisfied with my new provider, and I am going to make sure that I never give any money to BT again. Bad idea to annoy those younger customers, they've still got quite a lot to spend into the future.
A friend of mine has a Dell Vostro 1700 (17") (and another friend with the 1710), both have 1920x1200 screens. It cost £90 over the 1280x800 option. Not the exact 1920x1080 you are talking about, but nothing wrong with some extra pixels.
I have the Vostro 1500 (15") where the highest is 1680x1050, which is great.
I've been using Pidgin for at least a year now on Windows and it's excellent. Being able to sign into multiple accounts (personal, business etc) is a great advantage. I've had it crash just once. I like the interface, especially chats which do not waste any space by putting name and message on separate lines. Compare this to WLM, which wouldn't even install on my machine.
I moved to a new UK ISP today (away from BT) and included free of charge was a block of 8 static IPv4 addresses, on a 'home' package. Don't know what i'm going to do with all of them... It seems that it's only BT the ISP that are doing this however, not BT Wholesale, who are required to provide open access to any ADSL provider on the phone lines. Therefore, while my data with my new ISP travels across BT's phone lines, it's switched into my ISP at the local exchange, completely bypassing all of BT's nasties.
It varies, with most networks it's around 10p, but some do offer 'bundles' which work out at 5p per text. The vast majority though pay 10p I suspect. Complete ripoff, I try not to text, especially if I know it's going to be one of those 'conversation' texts.
At least we don't pay for receiving texts/calls. That idea just seems absurd to me.
I had a mail bounced by ORDB earlier, not knowing what it was I put it into google and the only references I could find to it where concerning it's shutdown, so I thought it odd that my mail was bounced. Now however, i'm going to have to find some other way to contact this person, and let them know to remove ORDB.
It seems like a great way to notify people that this service really is dead, but I can forsee this causing a lot of lost emails.
I own a Ferrari 4000 laptop, it's two years old and I still use it on a daily basis. I didn't buy it for it's branding, and I would rather not have the branding however at the time it was one of the few laptops with a real graphics card in it (no intel rubbish!). I want to be able to play games while not at home, anywhere. It's a very durable laptop that has survived many drops and the slot-load CD drive is an excellent idea - I don't know why more laptops don't have them. The only thing i've had to replace during it's intensive life is the hard drive, not exactly Acer's fault.
Next time I buy a laptop, i'm looking at another Ferrari or a machine with a real graphics card at an affordable price. So far the only contender i've seen is Dell's Vostro, but I have a deep dislike of Dell due to previous experiences. I don't expect to be looking for another laptop for a while though while this one is still going strong.
Macs are built around a specific set of hardware, compared to PCs where there are a huge number of possible different components. With Macs, they have been able to write code specific to that hardware so that it stands by very quickly on that set of hardware, but with PCs its very dependant on driver quality. For example, a certain version of the driver for my wireless card would crash the PC if it tried to stand by or hibernate. Now, it only takes a few seconds to standby (and a second to resume) and around 30 seconds to hibernate, although that is mostly a hard drive speed limitation.
I read slashdot on my phone regularly, without downloading huge amounts of data. Get Opera Mini (free) and navigate to slashdot's RSS feed. You get full text articles (and all the comments) in a very lightweight format, plus it is easy to read on a phone.
I tried that with my wooden doors, didn't work out too well...
I took advantage of this too, in effect it gave me free delivery. Certainly swayed me to use their payment system and it's a year long promotion, I wonder what the fees are that google charges retailers in comparison to ordinary card processing services?
Ah, not quite! First you have to get a microchip implanted ($400) so ensure that your pets have the correct equipment to receive this 'revolutionary' treatment. Then, you'd have to pay a $50/month licence fee to continue to use the service, failure to pay this will temporarily disable your pet until the licence fee has been paid. Tampering with the chip will automatically turn your pet against you...
I think i'll stick to the regular flea treatment, thanks
I only run it as an experiment and to provide email support to the web apps. It even runs surprisingly well and has been a great way for me to teach myself basic mail server administration.
Which is why I suggested that users should be able to opt in to having their port 25 open. This protects those who get the bot nets installed upon their system and allows 'those 47 nerds' to run their own mail server, everyone wins! (Thankfully, it isn't run on and old dell at the end of a cable modem either, I can't stand dell computers)
There are other reasons I switched to business, competent support departments who answer your questions quickly and truly all you can eat bandwidth - not 'Unlimited' with a fair usage policy. Plus it was only a little extra than I was paying beforehand for standard residential broadband.
That however blocks legitimate users such as myself who run their own mail servers. The solution to this is to block it by default, but allow users to request that it is unblocked, via telephone - not via a website that the spam bot could access once it is on your computer. But then again, most ISPs don't like people running servers on their services anyway.
(Which is why I switched to a business connection)
Thankfully, OpenTTD appears to work on OSX, have a look at their downloads page. In addition, OpenTTD is in my opinion far better than the original TTDLX.