Comment You Are Disturbing Me. I Am Picking Mushrooms! (Score 1) 584
I decline to asvverr!
Comment This is 2009..... (Score 1) 970
Hate to say this..... but we've been doing this for quite some time now at the MoJ. HP has been doing this for years.
We just toss them out. Don't need to replace them cartridges no more; just hook up a new printer. And you're done...
We just toss them out. Don't need to replace them cartridges no more; just hook up a new printer. And you're done...
Comment All one needs in life. (Score 1) 496
slashdot.org, www.k2climb.net, www.ebay.com.au, en.wikipedia.org and news.google.com.au
Comment Red Tape industries (Score 1) 548
a.k.a. Big Brother Government.
Worldwide.
Comment Quality that lasts. (Score 3, Informative) 533
Getting these things up and running is no surprise to me. It seems that they used quality stuff in them days. I have loads of these oldies that haven't been booted for 10+ years and upon plugging them in they start off as if nothing ever happened. Drives with a ST-506 interface in particular seem to be of an indistructible kind of quality-make.
Feel free to contact me for disks, or as stated; check eBay of contact Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn [http://www.digibarn.com/].
Comment Re:Is it worth it anymore? (Score 2, Funny) 345
Is there any life after news:alt.slack and news:alt.binaries.slack? Hardly!
Comment Support a worthwhile cause (Score 1) 286
My default page has a banner that will direct visitors to the International Campaign for Tibet. A hidden folder serves as storage for the imagery of all stuff from my inheritance that I'm selling off on eBay - again - for the support of Tibet.
Comment Re:Screw all the way (Score 1) 490
Thanks... You just made my day ;-)
China's Battle to Police the Web 171
What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, the BBC turns a lens on the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's strongest methods of controlling the communication and information accessible to the public. 'China does not block content or web pages in this way. Instead the technology deployed by the Chinese government, called Golden Shield, scans data flowing across its section of the net for banned words or web addresses. There are five gateways which connect China to the internet and the filtering happens as data is passed through those ports. When the filtering system spots a banned term it sends instructions to the source server and destination PC to stop the flow of data.'"
Submission + - More concentration to be allowed in Media in USA (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Imagine Fox News *everywhere*.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071218/media_ownership.html
Submission + - Build a Windows Home Server (extremetech.com)
ThinSkin writes: "While our important digital information is dangling at the mercy of our local hard drives, protecting that data with a home server isn't such a bad idea. For roughly $800, computer users can build a low-power, 1 terabyte Windows Home Server to ensure that our data doesn't go bump in the night. ExtremeTech has a primer on building this server, outlining which parts to buy, and also taking readers through each installation step. The cost is about the same as the HP MediaSmart Server EX475, though building a system allows PC users more flexibility and full access to the operating system."
Submission + - Researchers: Beware the IE Cache on a Public Termi (eweek.com)
eweekhickins writes: "If you use IE to access Gmail on public terminals, you may be leaving a lot of sensitive information exposed in the browser's cache. Web application security specialist Cenzic issued an alert for what it argues are vulnerabilities in Gmail and IE that could "severely impact e-mail systems and user privacy." Microsoft has downplayed the risk, insisting this is "not a product vulnerability." Of course it isn't, and the fact that it affects a Google application isn't a concern either."
Submission + - In DRM world, customers have no rights (infoworld.com)
iweditor writes: "Currently in the U.S., the only laws pertaining to Digital Rights Management (DRM) prohibit attempts to tamper with it. No constraints or responsibilities are placed on copyright holders for making sure their DRM doesn't unfairly deprive legitimate customers of their rights. Warning: this product contains DRM. InfoWorld contributor Ed Foster takes up the cause: Instead of vendors and the politicians who serve them telling us not to touch the DRM, we need to send them a warning of our own — those companies that use DRM do so at their peril."
Submission + - Review of XP as an upgrade from Vista
shewfig writes: In a clever review at http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx the benefits of upgrading from Vista to XP (speed, stability) are weighed against the "discontinued" features.
Highlights of the review include:
"I notice that the Reliability Report is also gone, again a sore loss, I really enjoyed charting the downward spiral of my Vista reliability"
"I mentioned how much quicker you could start using programs from a boot in XP; I must admit that, appealing though that feature is, you won't actually find it that useful. XP almost never appears to require a reboot [when compared to Vista], so you hardly ever take advantage of a wonderful improvement like that, which otherwise would save you at least 15-20 minutes a day."
"To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money."
Highlights of the review include:
"I notice that the Reliability Report is also gone, again a sore loss, I really enjoyed charting the downward spiral of my Vista reliability"
"I mentioned how much quicker you could start using programs from a boot in XP; I must admit that, appealing though that feature is, you won't actually find it that useful. XP almost never appears to require a reboot [when compared to Vista], so you hardly ever take advantage of a wonderful improvement like that, which otherwise would save you at least 15-20 minutes a day."
"To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money."
