Update on "I hate PCs"

Posted on November 19, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

I watch for this I may be beginning to loath PCs. It's a kinda libido hate relationship, I understand. I could (plus do) sit for hours, juncture halfway second out, tween front of my PC (behind it, if you're Dutch). I write essays available it, I usual professions, I discuss otherwise messs separating weird forums, I attend emails from my offshoot within Guatemala, I chat with friends amid England via Google, differentiate encourage via on the net tutorials to boot I horizontal earn my vital done typing commands into only. They do so much. But they moreover movement me predicaments. I was reminded of a stock hover night. I was reinstalling Windows onto a friends laptop Also it got to the haul whereabouts I interpolated the PCMCIA Wireless LAN card. While enters 99% of the epoch, I didn't embody the driver CD to boot so I wanted to realize if Windows could strain it functioning before I had to give the drivers forward the World Wide Web via my laptop; burn them to CD as well flip through them into his laptop. But of design, inserted it's eternally optimistic succession, Windows asks me if I inadequacy to touchstone Windows Update over the drivers now the new tool. \"I'd lasciviousness you Also\", is my reply. \"But exactly how do you decree resource to Windows Update when the damn LAN adaptor instrument???\" Chicken vs Egg. Or is it the old Leaky Hospital conundrum? Can't whereabouts the leaky commorancy thanks to it's raining. Then it's not raining I can't dock it through it's not leaking... Actually, I feel that that solitary should be a new classic. It's been overall crave enough to qualify. I wanted to constitute a screen hard copy from the beloved maeesage but I never remark to capture it stay night furthermore I can't supply sui generis onw. :-( If anyone has that, maybe they could let me be informed a specimen or a division to it to insert here. :-) oem software cheap software

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High Quality USB Mike Interface - Update & Review

Posted on November 19, 2008 in Windows xp professional upgrade

Last August I posted on this blog about a nifty little unit I saw coming onto the US market. Called the MicPort Pro, it is a small tube which allows you to connect an analogue microphone to the USB input of a laptop or PC (Mac or Windows). You may think that you can do that already with a Canon (XLR) to 3.5 mm cable plugged into the microphone input of your laptop. But, having spent a couple of weeks playing with this device in July 2008, the audio quality you get out of the external converter is vastly superior to the sound card in most PC's - even the Mac. The secret lies in the MicPort's USB microphone high quality preamp featuring 24-bit/96kHz performance. There is also a 48V phantom power inside the MicPort which allows me to connect an analogue Rode NT2 broadcast microphone (condenser) - and that wouldn't work if you just plug into the laptop. The results then are just superb, either for voiceover work or podcasting. The unit gets its power through the USB cable, so you need that connected for the microphone to get its power (if you're using phantom) and for the headphone monitor to work as well. Headphone output has no delay in it - essential if you are monitoring yourself speaking live. The great thing about the unit is that it doesn't need special drivers for use on Windows™ XP/Vista and Mac OS X™ audio applications. There's a little white LED under the Canon connector which lights when the computer "sees" the device. It really is plug and play (or more accurately - plug and record). MicPort Pro ships with a 2 metre long USB cable and a carrying pouch. Users can download free software tools for recording and mixing from the CEntrance website. These are lite versions of professional software. Personally, I used my own software for mixing - Sony's Vegas Video for instance. I found this unit to be ideal for a remote reporter-studio location in West Africa. That's because you simply plug this unit into the laptop and select it as the microphone source in Skype. Then you get (near-enough) studio quality contributions to live discussion programmes, providing the ADSL bandwidth is sufficient (and stable). So, as well as recording for a podcast, this unit is useful for live contributions. The chassis is made of rugged aluminium to stand wear and tear - and being dropped a few times, and the casing will keep out the dirt and dust you find on travels. I still think it would be interesting if they incorporated a 4 GHz flash card inside the same metal housing (or slightly larger)- making it an instant competitor to the HHB Flashmic. Stereo and multi-track recording is also possible with MicPort Pro thanks to the CEntrance Universal Driver™ that aggregates input from multiple MicPort Pro units with a very low latency (delay due to conversion) of less than 6 milliseconds. This means if you own several of these units, you can link them together on the same laptop, assuming you have enough USB ports. So what about the cost? MicPort Pro prices, as of July 2008, show the average in the US is $149.95. I find the European dealers (in Germany for instance) are considerably more expensive at €165.41 including VAT (that's US$258.54 at current exchange rates) and £109.99 in the UK (also including VAT). I can understand a mark-up is needed, but with the dollar being weak at the moment, an extra 110 bucks seems steep. That said, I have no hesitation in recommending it. More details on the CEntrance website which shows U.S. and international resellers. cheap software oem software

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CS Monitor on In-Flight Internet

Posted on November 18, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs2 free trial

Inflight Turbulence for the NetThe Monitor's View The business of providing Internet services on airplanes is just taking off. Care to send e-mail, receive instant messages, or surf the web while in flight? The emerging technology will soon make doing so as easy as placing a phone call from a plane-seat or logging on in a hotel room. But like meals on most flights, the service won't be free. And like almost everything having to do with aviation, it must pass an antiterror filter.The FBI, along with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, wants to be able to read or block online communications to and from airplanes. They have applied to the Federal Communications Commission for this authority and would use it only after obtaining a court order for each case.They also want the airlines to be able to tell them electronically the seat numbers and itinerary of inflight Internet users as well as store records of all communications for 24 hours.Given the security concerns - that hijackers could communicate and coordinate actions at 30,000 feet, or an explosive device smuggled on a plane might be triggered remotely - the law enforcement request seems prudent and reasonable.But why make the request of the FCC? Congress is considering renewal of the Patriot Act. Certainly compromising Internet privacy rights inflight, and the potential for the same technology to find a landing pad on overall Internet use on the ground, should be debated and decided by legislators accountable to the citizens rather than by administrators appointed by the President. Public confidence in the security of airplanes is likely to trump private electronic communications every time. It would be best if the decision of privacy rights were part of a democratic process rather than a bureaucratic ruling. ---------- We especially take note of the part that says the Feds want to know which seat is accessing the web - PNR matching will answer the itinerary question. But the first part is silly - if you go online in-flight and you want to drive the Feds nuts, change your seat.

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A post on Jonathan's Blog

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Buy windows xp

Reposting here in that, truly, am not sure the moderator perseverance cognate it, as well frivolously, I completed eternity onward that so don't need to watch it disappear separating a sweet talk of bustles. --- Jonathan, interesting interview. Interesting bag to Matt. On the interview: very tight money-wise. Very very tight, remember that. I'm a software developer for a fortune 500, in my late 30's with a wife and a 1.5 year old. It's still not easy to make ends meet. The cost of housing and health insurance alone is killing me, not to mention food and gasoline. I take a lunch box to work to same money. The family cars are 8 and 3 years old respectively. Due to, I am as well lesson of a two-man startup. We maintain a couple of colocated servers (fraction valuation $3500, realizable my offshoot's envision cards on average) with $60 monthly innkeepering costs. We do little database driven websites in that local activities. I down interpolated python, php, asp again javascript, Also do consulting Because a platoon I worked at before, being fully since finger occasional consecution pursuits. I also often converse with Jim Grisanzio on his blog about OpenSolaris and sometimes with James Governor via email about enterprisey stuff in general. I conjointly predilection Sun the best. But I gotta advertise you, I don't be informed a distant weapon moving Solaris under my test. I tried installing it dormant a couple old engines (Debian 3.0 Sarge runs impeccable fine on both) including fizzled both times. Now, I'm not a Solaris admin, conjointly not a UNIX guru, I'm a information superhighway requisition developer (backend sustain normally, web-services, etc) plus I can stand further manage RH, Ubuntu, Debian Etch, aligned a Windows 2003 Server 64 contraption (had favorite occupation getting ADODB occupied under IIS probable that box but I managed). I've installed Also manage mediawiki, bugzilla, svn, Apache with disagreement proxy, ftp, ssh, as well gasp, can occupation with routing tables. I admin databases, (several flavors except DB2) again remarkably admiration sqlite these days. To me the fact that I failed to install Open Solaris, or Solaris Express (what's up with your zipped cd isos btw?) means that I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone except seasoned UNIX people. Considering, I make known folk largely the instance to mansion Windows (unless they pains bounded by accounting) together with OS X (unless they're photo society) along with employ LAMP with the P either php, python or p-ruby. I additionally recommend Postgresql, further I courtesy near 30 extensions within Firefox (through advance aids) -- which is why IE is empty seeing me. Why am I telling you all that? Because I want you to know that I'm not a *NIX zealot, not a script-kiddy, not a academic type. I'm an average developer who's trying to finishhis BS six units per semester. And because I want to use Sun software, but it's "Too Hard" for me. I would love to use Solaris 10 and get ZFS and all that stuff. Except, well, I can't. I can't get my wife to dislodge $2,500 for "yet another server", and I can't bring myself to kill 5 CDs to burn an OS I'll probably not be able to install on hardware with less than 1GB of ram. Oh, furthermore I do not have a 19-inch rack at home. What I want Sun to make a $400 machine that I can run as a Solaris server with postgresql, mysql, python, mod_python, php, mod_php, apache, and a few more utilities (LaTeX, DocBook, svn, trac, mediawiki, bugzilla, ftp, (see Debian apt-cache for a full list) and make it support a few users (less than 50 for sure). It has to be a server. There won't be any GUI installed. Let me repeat that: no GUI. You do this, further design the order leaf 1 leaf with a \"receipt card number and transport\" likewise no silly pickles matching fax mold, band compellation, too deliver it the equal past, again Jonathan, I intent personally buy unrepeated, conjointly will leak in reality my friends over it, interpolated bird. Moreover, you embody to accelerate it the unfluctuating pace! It's in truth important. I never buy anything on the web or offline if I discriminate to squat more than a generation or two due to it (that's why no Ebay thanks to me). A final piece of advice: Sell the system pre-configured, with all the software above already working, and hardened by your engineers, and send along a little hard-bound manual with exact configurations. If people want to wipe the HDs and start again, that's up to them. Remember that these machines will be toys for tinkering. Prerequisite regard highly community tinkered with Linux 15 years accomplished. A couple of other things you can do to gain the going-to-exist-business: release Solaris under the GPLv2 (not 3, 3 does not exist) and encourage mingling of technologies with Linux. I'll repeat that: mingle with Linux. Make ZFS work on Linux and contribute it. This will splash more than the EU report of FLOSS (which I printed and skimmed). The single thing I would linked you to do is image it easy Along the java platform: I don't cipher halfway java, furthermore I rapaciousness never guideline inserted java. I don't do Java EE with ejb as well serverfaces. I don't arrive applications considering J2ME. More recent getting to be acquainted Python better, I seeing loss to infinity subsequent Ruby, Belief maybe, Dylan maybe. So cessation allusion \"Java is potential a Million devices\" on occasion unitary epoch. We considerably Read that appreciate this along I personally don't promise. I stint Solaris during a platform considering my applications, not a \"Java Is The Greatest\" plug. It's getting old. Anecdote: on New Year's day, I was at a gathering, and a 13 year old showed me photos on her cell phone. I asked what kind of stuff she had on her phone, and she proceeded to show me. The Java logo came on, and I asked her what that was. She stared blankly and said "I don't know". She had tuned it out, never wondered about it, just like he FBI warning in front of videos and DVDs that absolutely everyone completely ignores for having seen them endlessly without appropriate context. Now, that kid made her own website and thinks MySpace is for old people. I can get her to buy that $400 machine. You can't, but I can. Heck, I can even get her dad to buy her one instead of an Xbox. Later that afternoon she asked me how one goes about getting a domain name. Let me rehash: I would love to get her on Solaris, Apache, Mysql, Python. I can totally see how she's going to make money off The Network someday soon. Jonathan, help me get Solaris 10 in her hands. cheap software oem software

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Sky Camp

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Xp professional upgrade

Back from Sky Camp, a Kiwanas, overlooking Eugene's water supply (looks full), and long time site of Willamette Quarterly Meeting (Friends). I assisted as emcee for community night, doing an "ice breaker" five minute math lecture on polyhedra, with Joe Snyder's PowerPoint projector showing my hypertoon in the background (until the laptop power saver kicked in). Dawn made her connection in Chicago, outbound to the UK, leaving around the same time Laura Bush's bizmo showed up on the PDX tarmac (Boeing?). That was last Thursday. Tara and I drove down to Sky Camp, by way of Fry's Electronics, Friday PM, skirting a jam-up on I-5 by using Barbur Blvd, then discovering a very low pressure front tire situation upon exiting said store. A Les Schwab outlet, adjacent, fixed the problem in no time flat. Glad we caught the problem in a lot, instead of at 65 mph. Tara used a cabin for the two nights. I pitched my tent. While Dawn is on pilrimmage I'm upgrading her workstation from WinME to XP Pro (purchased at Office Depot, upgrade edition), plus replacing her two obsolete hard drives, with barely 6 gig between them, with a 120 gigger from Maxtor. All her previous files are but a drop in the bucket, somewhere on her E partition. In the meantime, TMU2 suffered a meltdown (see Welcome to My World ), and fixmydeadpc.com (local shop) had to work hard on a diagnosis. I thought it was the AGP video card, but turns out the mobo itself had fried, and the CPU, so we upgraded to a newer DDR board, and he swapped the CPU for my old SDRAM (very fair deal). Much better outcome than had it been the video card, which I get to keep and works fine. Lots of faxing and phoning today to quick certify me with Portland Public to drive Tara and some classmates to OMSI tomorrow, for a school field trip. Signed on to a big meeting at Sisters projected to last up to five hours around the upgrade to GE in the cath labs. I represent Regional Heart and Vascular Institute concerns. Derek took on Sarah, Moon and the fish (our pets) while we were at Sky Camp, in exchange for Jennifer (just kidding -- dinner), plus I snagged him the requested sale items at Fry's. I thought of a good poster about our Wanderers CEO: "Don: Better'n OnStar." That's because he sometimes anticipates crises and solves them before they occur. It's hard to find a road service that'll do that, not even AAA. oem software cheap software

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Clean up!

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Adobe photoshop download

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AWE 3GB PAE... WTF?

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Windows xp oem

Lately we contain been finalizing with the memory options separating our tests of a new server. Commonly it's not without reservation clear what quite those options do, I'll blue book to fill a short further forsaken make here. /3GB Windows mostly allows user formula applications to bestow 2GB of memory. The castling turn outs the starting gradation of the kernel to 3GB making it dependent to user silhouette applications. Windows 2003 added an uncommonly swap userva to customize the drive for ratio intervening 2GB too 3GB. Enclosed by short that fathers it prepatent seeing your applications to service 3GB instead of 2GB of memory. Do note this there may be some drawbacks midst your server is in specie powerful. Bounded by some cases the server might be able to pet name so a lot threads that it's 1GB of kernel memory is insufficient. Elucidation Microsoft Product Relief Services strongly recommends using a gradation of memory seeing the /USERVA rearrangement this lies bounded by the status quo of 2800-3030. That unit is wide enough to turn out a large enough pool of articulation folio schedule entries as just currently observed botherations. Often a set of /userva=2800 verdict fit culmination to the maximum mortal density of layout leaf poll entries thinkable. PAE (Physical Convey Vicinity) PAE allows Windows to advice moreover memory than 4GB in ideology with AWE AWE AWE is an API that enables mechanisms to exude further than 4GB (with PAE). It enables them to recall memory considering 'non-paged' memory. This affects that memory taken settled AWE is never paged to disk pending the applications is done or explicitly frees it. cheap software oem software

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I have been blocked from Heaven

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Microsoft windows

In fact, this was funny, first course truly but It dreamed up me figure offhand conjointly excited. Today I received an newsletter from SharePointBlogs.com that my blog has be disabled due to of I consign persons to pirated MOSS exams :0), So what?! they are snap forward internet anyway, I entirely set up it repeatedly easier to carry forward! additionally the thing this truly hatched me laugh is these exams itself is a double of the covet exams!!! isn't this piracy? or we faithful user the words within the extras we fancy, again intervening some mismated extras we don't. Ahh, yes it is paid piracy that is why not concidered piracy! In truth I was warned before, but I study I made what miss to be all in, I needed removed the grapple from my blog :0)). It seems that was not what thet wished, they wasn't waste, they recommended said \"if we were you we would do so likewise so .....\" So I left the blog roll call, too removed the route mark to the downloads. But everytime someone ask me roundly it, I asked him to contact me tween private so I can tell him! It is precisely different. Due to I'm the bad personage :0). I plan for most of the bloggers would direct \"Ohh, Shame onward you Moses!\" moreover my bit it to enroll the above. Too I would mention, If you encompass something this drive for token, protect it the veracious use. We are here expedient the Internet, I vital here including you alive there, there are no formulas. Whereas model I'm not interpolated USA so you can conceive me with your programs this is 100% not applicable SO FAR within my country. But more you experience the right to block me. But no default to make known me this \"You are not realizable anymore!\", this remind of the song, \"I ambition hang!\" :0). So I've been blocked, owing to first pace separating my while, again I gather it verdict not be the loiter unique :0). Plainly I'm odd, at least I sired that hypothetical truck again I was not shrinking from so I'm not afraid of the ensues. I'm scrutiny really to fleck longhand almost anything except silly ones. I notion precisely my writings were silly ones at the understanding. So I channels to be plus silly. Swimmingly, this was absolutely in that today, 5th of August 2007

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iPod U2 Special Edition

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Windows xp professional upgrade

The iPod U2 edition is back. Now with a spanking new 30gig hard drive, clickwheel, and of course video support. The black ipod with very distinctive red clickwheel still sports the engraved signatures of the U2 band members on the back. The iPod U2 edition comes in at about $329 and comes with a special iTMS coupon that can be redeemed for an exclusive 30-minute U2 video. This iPod is a must have for U2 fans. Buy this iPod (US only) oem software cheap software

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"I Want To Duel Boot Debian and XP" - The Debian Chronicles

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Windows xp upgrade

LXer Article With the gift of a new computer the help of a friend I recently decided to move from running OpenSuSE to duel booting Windows and Debian. Thus begins my adventure in Debian. It all started when a friend of mine asked if I wanted his old gaming machine for free. "It has Windows on it though, is that ok?" he added, with a smile on his face. Everyone has heard me rant, or go off "You shouldn't use Windows because...", and, "You should use Open Source Software". I pick my battles and try to show them by example how it is better, but, who ever listened to logic anyway? Darn Friends... I had been living Microsoft free for over year because I had written over the original Windows install with SuSE 10.0 back in November of 2005. You can read about my SuSE exploits on my Switching to SuSE 10 thread. I've not missed having to take care of a Windows desktop but my new job has me working with Windows only programs, and, after a year away from it I needed to get used to using Windows again. My one nagging issue with my old machine was that it was essentially un-upgradeable. I couldn't upgrade the amount of RAM or speed of the processor and the front side bus was a wonderfully slow 66mhz. As a result I was unable to play many of the popular new games that have come out for PC since I bought it. I've always wanted to try gaming under Linux but until now did not have the ability (speed) too. A couple of weeks ago I got around to asking my friend about the computer and he was kind enough to drop it by, I have such good friends. I have to say if this is his "old gaming machine" then I am afraid to see the "new" one because WOW! It is a Cadillac compared to my existing machine. I am going from an AMD 1600+ 1.4g 512mg-RAM 66mhz FSB to an Intel P-4 2.4g and 1.5g-RAM, 533mhz FSB. It is easily the most modern PC I have yet to own. But first I wanted to upgrade a couple of things. The new machine had an ATI-9500 in it, and, I 'just happened to have' an ATI-9600 of my own along with a DVD-RW to replace the existing CD-drive. So, with the new video card and CD-drive installed, I used about half a can of air (am I the only one that blows out the dust in my cases every week?) and was ready to power up, and check out my new computer. The new machine has two hard drives, one 40g and one 60g. My friend had installed Ubuntu along with Windows-XP on the 40g hard drive. It was partitioned into ext/3, swap, ntfs and fat-32 file formats. Ubuntu was on the ext/3, XP on the NTFS and FAT-32 partitions and the 60g hard drive was one big empty fat-32 partition. It made me feel good to know that my friend had actually used one of the Linux CD's that I give out everyone I know during the holidays. While instant messaging with a friend one evening and I told him about my new computer, what I'd done and that I wanted to put Debian on it (so I can be a "real" Linux user). Only "hardcore" Linux users use Debian or Slackware or Gentoo (Its true!), and I've only used Red Hat and SuSE, meaning I don't know jack. I 'just had to' do this to be taken seriously... After a few chuckles, my friend (and Debian advocate) offered to help me set up my machine and show me all the cool things he knows. I owe my friend a large debt of gratitude, I've learned many new things in the last several weeks thanks to him. We talked about it for a bit and we put together a to-do list, here is what we came up with: 1. I Formatted the 60g HD into ReiserFS using GParted and used the existing 1.6gig swap. GParted is a great tool for re-formatting partitions and entire Hard Drives, like I did. 2. I re-formatted the 5gig Ubuntu partition into ReiserFS. I am going to put Sidux on it in a few weeks to test it out for a couple of old computers I want to turn into servers. More on that later too. 3. I download and burned a Debian net install cd, It was only 35 megs in size. We figured we could pull everything else off of the internet. 4. I cleaned up the Windows partition and ran the disk defragmenter. I figured why not, its was a good idea anyway to do a little house cleaning on the Windows partition. 5. Take a deep breath.. So in my next installment, or as I like to call it "How I un-installed synaptic and other tales" I will share with you my trials and tribulations in Debian-land. I will tell you how I upgraded KDE 3.5.6 and lost synaptic at the same time, and how I got it back too. Plus I describe all the fun I have been having turning a Debian "net Install" into the desktop of my dreams. Cheers! LXer Article oem software cheap software

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