If she is willing to pay a nominal fee, why not spend that money to upgrade the OS?
Because the computer is too old to run anything newer. So it would be a whole new machine we'd have to buy.
With No-IP's free service, host names expire every 30 days.
They only expire if you're too lazy to visit their website for three minutes to do a captcha when they send you the email saying your domain is about to expire. I've been doing it for months and have had uninterrupted service.
Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
You think your ISP is going to give you static IPs for free just because they have an IPv6 pool to dive into? Chances are it will still be DHCP and rotate occasionally. And the fee an ISP charges for static IP is more per year than paying for a dynamic DNS service.
Please link me to the page where I can sign my mom up for this extended support for XP. I'm sure she'd be willing to pay a nominal fee.
Her Microsoft Security Essentials is now trying to spook her into upgrading too, by becoming a System Tray-based reminder that XP support is about to end.
I'm waiting for her to crack so I can move her over to Linux Mint/Cinnamon.
Oh...you want to *watch* live sports.
He could also play live sports. That would be entertaining and a lot healthier than sitting on the couch listening to how someone else runs around with the ball.
It's probably a hell of a lot more powerful, and being an Intel x64 chip you have a larger variety of operating systems you can run on it.
What about the accepted submission from the 31st?
^ THIS.
Facebook only own the social experience of people who let it own them.
What's a good no-nonsense registrar for major TLDs? It doesn't have to be super cheap. I want to dump Network Solutions because they gave me an unsolicited domain (I had
What happens if you simply refuse to pay the renewal on the
Sign here to be bound by terms we can change any time.
How can that be legal?
It only becomes illegal when a court decides it is. And that requires someone to invest the time and money in taking the corporation, with their high-priced lawyers on retainer, to court. And the people who are effected by this rarely have the time or money to do that, they're too busy struggling to maintain their lives as they are.
You have to know about those terms changes, and companies aren't required to be real proactive about telling you in the U.S. They may simply send you an email saying "we've recently updated our terms and conditions" with a link to the current terms and conditions on the website, but no info on what was changed. So now you have to read through pages and pages of text looking for the new info, assuming you can even understand the legalese.
The acceptance of terms is always simply continuing to use the service, it's not a opt-in affair. If you don't read the terms changes, don't get the email, don't understand what's changed as long as you don't leave you've agreed to them.
MS is walking a fine line as it tries to transition from a company that sees users as the target to be exploited and a company that sees users as the customers.
Really? With Microsoft's new focus on social and free-to-use cloud services, I see them as following Facebook and Google and going the other direction.
Why is no other company writing patches for an operating system they don't have access to the source code for? Gee, I wonder.
I also wrote a program to adjust my video cards 'color temperature' setting depending on the time of day (but it only worked on XP)
Perhaps you'd like to investigate this then.
A few years ago I started using a couple plug strips each with 6 'daylight' florescent bulbs during the winter (in Seattle).
"Daylight" florescent bulbs are just regular fluorescent bulbs with a color temperature of a bluer tone than normal. The actual light spectrum they put out isn't going to be vastly different. It's not the same as those sunlight-mimicking bulbs you're referring to.
Have you tried this same routine with normal color florescent lights by the same manufacturer to see what happens?
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
