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tommie, lol, yake a look at a map. just southeast of the dominican republic you will see this little banana republic. a bit too far away. i was reading an article where antiterror folks mentioned how vulnerable oil tank farms and natural gas tank farms are to fire from a .50 cal rifle. what if somebody watching the launch from his RV waited for the right time (just when they ignite the solid rocket boosters at liftoff) to fire a few rounds from his RV wondow into a booster? that would take the thing out. how far is that public viewing area from the pad? a mile away would be an easy shot at such a large target with a decent scope.

i am not going to answer that question because in some companies i tyhink you are not far off the mark. but a pc with an office suite can be had for less than a mac, windows is known to the user etc. a mac has its place in specialty apps or as a sleek home machine. or if the IT deciders think the added cost per machine and the added training effort for the users are worth the cost. but since pennies count a 600 dollar dell box with an office will beat out a mac most days of the week. in most cases the toyota echo will et you there, but a mercedes is just so much nicer...

and that's a good thing. because with all the interference from the broadcasting powerlines you wouldn't be able to link up with a wireless device.

4th of july huh? that'll be a great fireworks display when the damned thing blows up because of foam breaking through the connection between orbiter and tank. sucks for the crew to have to go up into space on a frickin' bottle rocket.

well, annoying, yes. from their point of view it made them money.

most likely a receive buffer/latency issue. the server will send out only so many packets before wanting an acknoledgement for the first one. you can download them so fast that by the time the forst packet gets to you and your comp acks it the server has paused the upload because due to distance the time for the reply is too long. once it gets the acks it starts sending again until it reaches the limit then waits for acks again. and if i was awake that might actually have made sense. good luck with that.

live cds can be useful. the main turnoff about linux is the care you need to take with hardware configs. i have had way too many devices inoperational because there wasn't a driver for them. and i'm sure it's not just me, look at the device compatibility lists publihed by distro packagers. if i go buy something i like checking the box, seeing winxp on it and knowing it has a working driver. not reading 27 reviews and tests to find a modem, wireless card or whatever that will work. n ot to mention that in some cases there is a driver but you need to recompile your kernel manually to get it to work. windoze does all that for you if you just click ok enough. are there problems in wondows linux solves? probably. definitely even. but windows has the big advantage that it will usually work and be good enough, even if it does need some help. with linux complicated configuration work is the norm, not the exception. and linux on a server, fine, but linux as a desktop system for a user that can barely find his/her way around windows? hell no. the resistance you meet with those people is incredible. they want windows and ms office, that is what they get.

you mean replace the power supply. grab the little power supply brick off the router and take that in to compusa, radio shack or some other place that sells 'em and have the salesperson pick a suitable replacement. since you are nontechnical i am just saying this so you don't just get a new power strip. (thinking that by power bar you mean the multioutlet powerstrip you might have.)

i called dell and talked to a tech that had fixed dells. both said it's a proprietary interface. the psu looks like an ATX but the fan and input are mirror imaged to an actual ATX supply. it's not worth shipping the psu, and i'm just keeping the thing around in case i stumble on an old case/board i can use the cpu/ram in to set up an extra system.

i agree on osx being a good substitute for windows. or rather an alternative. far better than any linux can ever hope to be. however xp is preferable for some things, just as osx is preferable for some things. as far as the security question goes, the security of an os depends on how the user configures it. i can leave the oh so safe linux wide open to the world and configure xp to be tight as a drum. in osx there have been some recent discoveries of quite hefty security flaws. the reasdon they have not been exploited to as great an extent as MS security flaws is that it is not cool to damage anything but microsoft products and because even an easy exploit on osx still leaves the problem of finding one of them online. and if your base for a decision on operating systems is a comedy sketch, that is pretty sad.

i vhave a dead dell here. it's a p3 and i'm not replacing the psu. it requires a dell psu specifically with an additional proprietary connectore to the mobo.

and with the new intel macs running xp just fine your point is?

safety shamfety. they want no cloud cover so they get good shots of the foam breaking important bits and so the explosion of the whole thing when it goes boom isn't obscured by clouds.

oh? funny. physics alwaysa taught me that lacking mass i need to increase velocity to get the needed force. hence the piece of low mass foam was given a high velocity to let it impact the wing with sufficient force to cause damage.

risky and dangerous, yes. but needlessly carefree along the lines of what nasa is perpetrating, no. i am surprised that it took until 2k3 to have one burn on reentry with all the foam bits that kept falling off the thing. and the fact that the engineers were surprised atthe force with whitch the foam hit the wing in tests is sad, sad, sad.

i am sure i have seen more pointless disagreements, but i just can't remember what about...

especially the download compares well to the average. this is due to the problems onelink has had in the past which had the average score as low as iirc 1800 or so. (advertised as 3000/256) :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 3570 Kbps about 3.57 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 436 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 2) Test Time:: 2006/07/01 - 1:25pm Bottom Line:: 62X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.35 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 13.73 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 38.1 % faster than the average for host (onelinkpr.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-XZHQ2R785 User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!] :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 368 Kbps about 0.37 Mbps (tested with 748 kB) Upload Speed is:: 45 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 2) Test Time:: 2006/07/01 - 1:27pm Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 22.76 sec Tested from a 748 kB file and took 16.632 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 17.2 % faster than the average for host (onelinkpr.net) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-IPSXC3EAZ User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) [!]

i can't believe they are actually gonna light the fuse on that thing with all the concerns over the remaining foam insulation. i wonder how the crew feels about it?

longest i personally stayed up for wityh no sleep was 58 hours. my uncle had bought a new pc and it had this new operating system on it that i hadn't seen before. it had just come out and i had read some interesting stuff on it so i decided to help him set it up and break it in. it was windows 95. after i left his place i stopped after going a 3/4 mile. pulled the car over and crashed. just couldn't keep my eyes open doing something as boring as driving. if you do go through with that stunt, DO NOT DRIVE A VEHICLE. you will most likely kill yourself by falling asleep at the wheel. for staying awake i prefer straight coke at room temperature. that way you can drink it faster. gives you some caffeine and gets your blood sugar up. and once you're past 4 hours and 3 or 4 two liter bottles you will have to get up every 10 or 15 minutes to take a leak, that should help keeping awake.

compared to just mashing my head into the keyboard to hit f2 to f9, yeah.

first of all i have to call the initial article extreme bullshit to the n-th degree. why is there so mouch of earth needed to sustain a person? gravity. i wouldn't want to live on one of those small asteroids where a careless release of flatulent rumblings would blast me into or even out of orbit. the rotating space habs are an idea, but the thought of having a view that looks like somthing seen from an amusement park ride sucks.

so just choosing to refresh to reload unloaded icons (last time that happened to me was with win95. and that was an installation that was dying of overmodification anyhow) is not enough, you have to use the overly complicated route via the mouse? pfff.

go to your desktop. hit f5. what happens? hm? what displays the desktop? right! the explorer! what uses f5 to refresh? hm? right. the explorer. of which the internet explorer is only an extension.

omfg. this is on a level with the mcdonalds coffee. unbelievable. what i'm wondering is why did they go after WD and not every single store that sells hard drives, be it single or in a package? they are guilty of the same misrepresentation. or are they trying to say dell doesn't know that a drive advertised as 80 GB (decimal) has 74 GB (binary)?

why bother clicking? f5...