Of course 3dB doubles the power not the perceived volume. Depending on the person 6 to 10dB doubles the perceived volume.

However it is the power of the sound that potentially causes damage, not how loud your brain interprets it as. So a doubling of power could easily lead to halving the safe amount of time to be exposed.

Mod parent up.

Palm hasn't updated Hotsync for the Mac in at least a decade. If it in fact worked under Leopard it was a miracle, as I doubt anyone from Palm even gave it a glance.

Mac Palm users almost all typically ended up getting Mark/Space Missing Sync for Palm OS. I was a late adopter for that, and I did it in 2005. At the time I was helping people with support on Palm OS devices, and the answer to any Mac sync problems was to dump hotsync and get Missing Sync.

To claim that Apple dropped support is pretty ridiculous, and just inflammatory. What next, an article on how Apple refuses to support running 10.6 on a Mac II from the late 80's?

If the university doesn't want you auditing a class you didn't pay for, then they won't let you log in to the system and/or see that class. This has nothing to do with typing a code from the text book. That is all at the publisher level.

The publishers provide universities with course packs called cartridges. I don't deal with blackboard directly, so these may or may not have a charge associated with them. Considering we are talking about blackboard they probably cost a pretty penny.

The publishers then want to make sure all your students are buying their textbook that goes with the cartridge. So they are adding code to ensure that your student had to buy the book in order to get access to all the content in the cartridge. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a system of online registration with many publishers to ensure that the student bought a NEW copy of the book to get access.

This is just the publisher making sure they get all the money from a course that they can.

Maybe he is just very subtle, and this is a stab against python....

It's funny, I noticed this a month or so ago in Shreveport Louisiana. I live in an area where Shreveport is the closest 3G network. At home we have horrible signal fluctuations, but when it works Edge is mostly fine. Before Shreveport went 3G I would get 5 bars and Edge was pretty good (for Edge anyway).

After the 3G switch, I still get 5 bars of service, but the Edge symbol almost never comes on, instead I get the weird little 'dot in a circle' that tells you you are one GPRS, and with a 1st gen iPhone that means no data whatsoever. Calls are great though.

Occasionally the E will appear for a short time, and when it does it is like the Edge network that was there before 3G came. But it only lasts seconds, or sometimes maybe minutes, then goes away again.

At least with this setup I know out of the gate I'm not going to get service when the edge icon is completely missing.

The first time I noticed this I was with some people who had 3G iPhones. With the 3G disabled their phones were doing the exact same thing, so I know it isn't my phone being weird.

This is one of the few times I feel lucky to be nowhere near 3G service, as it would make my fully functional phone not work properly, and I'd be 'incentivized' to upgrade. Now I can keep my working phone, and slightly less expensive data plan for the time being.

I also have a Drobo, and had a Drobo Share. In my situation the Drobo Share didn't make sense to keep.

The Drobo v2 can transfer at over 30MB/s across its firewire. I didn't test the USB, but I imagine it is not too much less than that.

The Drobo Share gets maybe up to 15MB/s, which is half of what the Drobo is capable of. If you want to use a Drobo, use a stripped down machine with a bit of RAM and a streamlined OS just for sharing. That way you can use the throughput of the Drobo more effectively.

Of course at that point you could probably look at freenas and just drop sata drives into the machine you will have to use. If configured right you could probably get more than the 30MB/s the drobo can kick out.

Of course the submitter wants an off the shelf solution, so unless he wants only 15MB/s, which is not very fast for even a small office load, the Drobo is probably out of the question for him.

Of course with the drobo he would get data redundancy, and automounting capability on the macs and the PC with the dashboard software (if using the Drobo Share). But still there are better solutions for his needs.