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I'm looking to get some kind of portable shortwave radio - like a little travel alarm which could get BBC radio, maybe. An alarm function isnecessary.
I really don't know about any, but if you find your device, please let me know. I could make good use of one of those!.
Little travel alarms are nearly give-aways. Get one of those and buy a separate SWR. Mine is a Grundig YB400PE. These have been on sale recently.
I'd really like to wake up to international news instead of that annoying beeping from my current travel alarm. And you might check the manual for your Grundig, Rane, since it does appear to have an alarm function.
My Radio Shack DX-390 has no travel alarm, though it does have a sleep function. But they don't make it anymore, anyway. I've been fairly happy with it, though it's a bit sensitive to selective fading. It's a pity synchronous AM reception didn't catch on with more manufacturers.
Anyway, I've bookmarked the Grundig page for when I get home.
re#5 hmmm...I own a DX-392 which is basically identical to your reciever but also has a tape recorder...anyways I'm almost certain that there is a travel alarm built-in.
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Well, watayaknow - it does have an alarm. Never paid any attention to that fact as I only use it as a station radio. Well, bring along a separate alarm anyway.....never know when your batteries might die.
I read Passport and I've yet to read a really positive review on those small SWR's. You'd do batter to get a mid-size portable. I have an old Sangean ATS-803A and I've been happy with its performance. The model you might want to check out is the ATS909. Much improved, more goodies and it's got a alarm that'll wake you to either radio or buzzer. You can find it and their other models at www.sangean.com/worldband.html. 73!
I'm really looking for something small, though. That ATS909 weighs a couple *pounds*.
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Yeah, if you're talking about the famed YB, it's great.
YES, AFTER READING THIS ITEM, I CAN CONFIRM IT DOES HAVE AN ALARM FUNCTION.
Re #7: Maybe it's the 370 I have, then. I don't have it in front of me right now to look. I keep it in my bathroom to listen to while I shower. It's got digital tuning and covers AM, FM, and several SW bands. It has no clock, though. Incidentally, I consider digital tuning pretty much essential in a portable shortwave receiver. The tiny slide-rule scales on the analog ones are just too inaccurate and frustrating. Digital tuning also lets you save presets for your favorite stations, so you can quickly scan through and see if any of them are coming in well.
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Check out Popular Communications (a.k.a., PopCom). They always have reviews of various kit in all sizes. 73 does too, but not as much.
Monitoring Times too, but the Passport to world band radio is probably the best dead tree resource.
Are palmtops and palm pilot type devices subject to a TEMPEST attack? What about laptops?
...or desktops with an LCD monitor. Hmm. Google is your friend: from the Cyphernomicon: "Many LCD screens can be read at a distance. The signal is not as strong as that from the worst vdus, but it is still considerable. I have demonstrated attacks on Zenith laptops at 10 metres or so with an ESL 400 monitoring receiver and a 4m dipole antenna; with a more modern receiver, a directional antenna and a quiet RF environment there is no reason why 100 metres should be impossible." [Ross Anderson, Tempest Attacks on Notebook Computers ???, comp.security.misc, 1994-08-31] Source: http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2001/11/15/04252/165
Damn...
I was surprised.
Yeah, I didn't realize that technology was so advanced.
I didn't realize LCDs threw off that much signal.
Ended up going over to Communications Electronics and getting a Sangean ATS 404. According to Ken they stopped carrying the Grundig stuff because of quality problems, or something like that.
Back to the short question: What does algolagny mean? couldn't find it in my shorter OED.
hyperdictionary.com eventually leads to algolagnia defined as sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain.
That's because it doesn't exist. However, CancerWEB's medical dictionary has the following at [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=algolagnia&action=Search+OMD]: algolagnia Form of sexual perversion in which the infliction or the experiencing of pain increases the pleasure of the sexual act or causes sexual pleasure independent of the act; includes both sadism (active algolagnia) and masochism (passive algolagnia).
(CancerWEB's dictionary is linked to from Dictionary.com)
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Oh, so that's what programming in Algol was really about. After all these years, I finally understand.
That might explain Algol, but what about COBOL?
I programmed in COBOL for about four years. It's more of a way of thinking than a programing language.
What does 'lifestyle' mean, as in 'this house reflects your lifestyle', 'lifestyle magazine' and a questionnaire asking which category of website you are likely to visit, one of which is 'lifestyle'. Does it mean interior decorating? Also, is there currently a fashion color? I recall purple, then teal, then everything went black.
An ad in the Observer offers me the choice between buying a condominium or a single family lifestyle.
Our daughter, who is attending a college in Ohio and will be a Senior this Fall, has been called to jury duty in Ann Arbor. She has asked to be excused when she was first called, but only got postponed to mid August. However she has a required summer internship and if chosen for jury duty could have her graduation delayed to finish up requirements. Her inquiries to the Court Clerk's office obtained the answer that there is no exemption for either school or employment - only for medical disabilities. What has been the experience of anyone here, especially college students, in this regard?
Doesn't the college take jury-duty into consideration, like employers are supposed to?
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Sounds like the best thing. I got called for federal duty when I was in college. I think I was a sophomore. The form had a checklist of exemptions and one of them was being a full time student. I checked it, returned it, and got a letter saying I'd been excused. I know the county jury duty here is much more rigid. You have to be damn near dead to be exempt. It used to be that teachers and medical personnel were exempt, but now they have to serve too. I think if you're a student, you can be exempt, but you need some written verification on a school letterhead validating that you are a student.
Is she actually a resident here at this point? She could explain that she lives in Ohio now.
According to George Carlin, you should tell the judge that you're "really good at spotting guilty people". :)
I'm just curious what college?
Is that relevant to this question of jury service?
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No, but nearly as bad tuitionwise...Wittenberg.
No, it wasn't relevant; as I said, I was just curious. I went to Oberlin for two years.
My boss went to Wittenberg.
Bonzo went to Bitburg.
Don't have her lie duriong jury examination. If the judge suspects she is lying to avoid duty, she could be fined or even get jail time.
There are no hardship exemptions for jury duty? You can't ask for your duty to be deferred until the end of classes?
Perhaps if she wanders into the prosecutor's office and makes friends there beforehand (without announcing her purpose), she can get the defense counsel to excuse her without her having to lie in court. I was excused from a panel once when they asked if we knew anyone in the Prosecutor's office just because when I answered I said that the father of a friend of mine had run for Prosecutor (true). He had campaigned as "The Victims' Lawyer," which prompted a peremptory challenge from the defense.
(She could claim she's considering law school and just wanted to see what daily life in a Prosecutor's office was like.)
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(I've always heard that the question period didn't always occur on the first day. She might have to show up every day, just to be told to come back the next day.)
Depends on the way that court has things set up. Some are much more respectful of potential jurors' time than others. YMWV.
I had to show up every Monday for a month and sit around doing nothing while groups of other people were chosen for questioning. About the third Monday they put me in one of those groups and immediately disqualified me for no stated reason. Possibly because I was so nervous they could not hear my answers. The disqualified at least 90% of the people in each group. I hear you can now request 1 week instead of 1 month. I got out of jury duty one year because I was in school in Belgrade. Anyone who had ever been burglarized or knew anyone who had been burglarized or knew any police got disqualified. They could not be impartial.
It occurs to me that it should be possible to get out of jury duty in Ann Arbor by changing driver's license and voter's registration to Ohio.
That's basically what I was getting at.
What is a mullet? I understand it's a kind of haircut, but not what kind.
What are "hair plugs"? I heard of them from a radio commercial for Sirius Satellite Radio, but nowhere else. Did I mis-hear the phrase?
I got on a jury, the one time I was called! I was so happy! (Bruce has been called about four times to my once, and I thought it was never going to happen. So I was very excited and geeked to be called finally.)
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In the "trial by ordeal" scenario above, the defendant was usually only found innocent if they drowned (died) in the trial.
A mullet is long in back and short(er) on top and side. The earliest example I remember is the "shag cut" of the early to middle '70s. Photgraphic examples can be found at http://www.mulletsgalore.com Hair plugs are small plugs of hair transplanted to a bald(ing) person's scalp to replace the lost hair. Same idea as using plugs of grass to start a lawn.
Thanks, Joe! I am culturally challenged.
Why do most Jewish people use "G_d" instead of God. When I first encountered this, I thought it was just that one persons personal preferance, but now I notice most Jews do that.
The best way to avoid invoking the Diety unintentionally is to simply not say the Name. Even in writing.
I was called for jury duty a couple weeks ago. I wasn't selected for the jury, so it took me just one afternoon. (For which the paid me $8.50. Wahoo!) I got far enough to be in the room when the questioned the jurors. I thought two jurors were doing their best to answer questions in such a way as to avoid being called to serve. Both claimed that for personal reasons they would not be willing to pass judgement on another. Both were called to the podium to discuss it privately with the judge, one was dismissed, the other wasn't. A woman who was a former homocide detective was dismissed. A woman who seemed to have trouble following simple logical arguments was not. The case was a drunk driving case, so a woman who was divorced from an alcoholic husband with a history of drunk driving violations was dismissed. A woman who herself had had her license suspended for drunk driving was not. My impression was that it was pretty hard to figure out what would and would not get you dismissed.
Re 68> I'm not sure I understand. And why just the Jewish? Is it a certain belief?
It's specifically a Jewish belief that you shouldn't say the name of God.
The King James Version translates the commandment as, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain" (Ex 20:7a). Christians and Jews interpret the commandment differently. I'm hard-pressed to decide which is the more 'literal' interpretation, though.
Ah, I understand. Like Christians wouldn't say something like "Oh my God". Jews just don't use the word at all. What would be considered a reasonable occasion to take the name of the Lord? When you're praying? It's interesting to see the difference when compared to Hinduism. It's a common belief (I'm not sure whether it's actually written in some scripture) that saying the God's name is actually beneficial to your karma. In prior generations, and even the more old-fashioned people in the present generation, it was pretty common to name kids after reincarnations of Gods and even Bhagwaan, which literally translates to God, because everytime you called them, you were gaining karma points
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you mean your *m-ther*?
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don't be talking about my m_ther!
"First, be sure you really _want_ his attention."
In English you leave out the vowel in God, but since Hebrew is written without vowels, what does one do when writing God in Hebrew?
PRobably the middle letter, Dearie. That's what people do with D---l.
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re #79 - some people I know replace the word "adonai" with "ha-shem", so as to avoid invoking the name.
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(re #82 - the words in question are 'Lord' and 'His (or the) name', respectively.)
The Torah is written typically without vowels. The word "Yahweh" for God is an anglicization of the hebrew acronym for "he whose must not be said" (or something to the same effect). In Hebrew prayer texts, IIRC, I've often seen a double yud (a yud looks like large single quote) in place of the word Adonai, which means God.
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Really, other? I'd gotten a different impression from my study of Hebrew. The Tetragrammaton is The Name. However, in pointed texts it has the vowels of "Adonai", which gives "YeHoWaH", which is transliterated as "Jehovah". Written one way, Read a completely different way.
I have never heard of "The Tetragrammaton," so I don't know what you mean by it. Yahweh and Jehovah both originate from the same acronym I mentioned. Different people use different words/pronunciations. In my (extensive, Reform) experience, it is uncommon for Jews to refer to Jehovah, but more common to use Yahweh. Mostly, the Jews I grew up with just said "God."
Re #74: They don't just avoid taking it in vain, though. They won't even
use the full thing when writing about religious ideas.
"Tetragrammaton" means 'four letters', and refers to YHWH.
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Was my understanding that Jewish Law forbade writing the name of God on anything that could be destroyed. Reckon computer bulletin boards fall in that category.
doesn't everything?
Entropy
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While we were recently looking at the clear night sky on a lake in Michigan (Ludington vicinity), we saw a number of clearly manmade things passing overhead. This leads me to ask the following: 1) There were solitary things passing overhead, "way up there", which in the old days we used to say "that was a satellite". But I really wonder: Can one actually see a satellite with the naked eye? If so, since I can't imagine them having their own illumination, what would illuminate them? Are they so high that the sun can light them from "behind" the earth? If it's not a satellite, then it must be some kind of very (?) high flying aircraft. Commercial? Military? 2) At one point my sons first spotted 3 such things flying *in formation*. Imagine the 3 points of an equilateral triangle in a "wedge" shape. Certainly couldn't / wouldn't be commercial aircraft doing that. Why would the military have 3 such aircraft flying in formation "so far up there"?
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Satellites are illuminated by the sun, depending on the time and point in their orbit. You can see satellites almost anytime somewhere in the sky at night. The synchronous-orbit satellites are several times the earth's diameter high, so they are illuminated most of the time. Would have to know more about the orientation and colors of the 3-point lights to interpret them. However some things do break up in orbit so pieces can orbit near each other for a while.
I had been checking a satellite watchers list and noticed that the ISS was going to pass overhead that evening. I went out and saw two bright lights moving in formation from the northwest to the north-north east. This was the path that was expected that evening, but I couldn't explain why there were two lights. Checking later, I discovered that a shuttle was on a mission and had just separated hours earlier, thus the two bright lights. An interesting bonus.
ah, heavenly bodies
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Not only can you see satellites from the sunlight reflected off of them, certain "birds" (Iridiums in particular) can appear brighter than any star or planet. If someone just launched a satellite, it might be in orbit in close formation with its spent booster and perhaps parts of a payload adapter. That could account for several items moving together across the sky. To be certain, you'd have to check one of the web sites devoted to such things; I suggest heavensabove.com.
These were definitely *3* objects in a well defined formation heading approximately northwest to southeast. > web sites devoted to such things; I suggest heavensabove.com Hmmm, when I go there, I don't see a web site devoted to star gazing, I see a page pull of links to a variety of things, none of which is an obvious selection for star gazing or related diversions.
try http://www.heavens-above.com/
I also take it that when you do see a reflection of sunlight off of a satellite, it is a bigger circle of light that you see than the size of the satellite. The true size would be seen in the last moments of it pasting from *its* daytime to nighttime.
Re #105: The eye does not focus perfectly, especially in the dark when the pupil is wide open. This causes light from bright point sources to hit a circle of receptors intensely enough to cause the impression of a much larger object. The same is true of telescopes. Even the biggest star is too small to resolve to a disc in an image, but the brightest stars leave rather large spots in astrophotographs because of diffraction in the optics.
I'd like to make CDs of exercise routines, primarily my own voice and blank spaces of the appropriate time duration. I was wondering if there was a something inexpensive that would work. I'm using a ThinkPad running Windows XP (ducks as the rotten tomatoes come my way). Any suggestions?
CoolEdit 2000. www.syntrillium.com
I wouldn't call CoolEdit2000 (at $70, I think) "inexpensive" but I
suppose that's subjective.
My suggestions for truly inexpensive solutions:
* use the built-in Sound Recorder applet (there's still one of these
in winXP, right?)
* try Total Recorder from http://www.highcriteria.com/
the standard edition should be more than powerful enough to record
simple .wav files (which can then be turned into CD audio with any
CD mastering software) from a microphone input.
The standard version of Total Recorder is $12.
Sound Recorder applet only records 60 seconds of information. I'll take a look at Total Recorder. Thanks.
I haven't tried 2000, but older versions of Cool Edit would work for most stuff without being registered. You just couldn't use all the functions at once. Since all you need is the ability to record and save, that should be enough. I have CoolEdit 98, and when I start it it gives me some checkboxes to choose what subset of the functionality I'll get to have for that session.
Sorry Mick $70 is inexpensive ;-) But it does have 30 days of free use or some features are turned off...I forget which. I use Cool Edit Pro for some things, it's $250...and I use ProTools for other things, it starts at $400 and goes up to about $10k. So what was that about expensive? ;-) I use the $1000 version of ProTools at home, the $10k version at a couple of the studio where I do work. Get Cool Edit 2000 while you can (at least the demo version) as Syntrillium was bought by Adobe and some changes are coming down the pipe, and they will likely be dropping CE2000. CEP is becoming Adobe Audition (bad name)
Oh, and a short question: Where can I get something electroplated (1 piece, not 1000 pieces) in the ann Arbor area? I'd buy a kit, but it looked to be about $500 (and that's expensive! okay, not as expensive as buying plating equipment like Marsh Plating has, but still...;-) )
Bad news. Adobe will no doubt suck up what used to be a pretty nice software package.
Well, we're hoping for better than that, but the track record...... as for now however, as I understand it, Adobe is using the whole Syntrillium team, so things might be okay.
You can still get CE2K for free, but like previous versions, you can only choose two features to use at a time. Also, there's a free version of ProTools called, well, ProTools Free (go figger!) You can DL it at www.digidesign.com/free. Another good audio editor for free is Audacity. You can get that from audacity.sourceforge.net.
Thanks. I'm still trying to find the right bits and pieces to do what I want now, plus give me a bit of growth room for future creativity.
Well, I'm no expert, but I've been doing a lot of reading and experimenting. Maybe I can help.
I see that Adobe Audition is now available from adobe.com...so there's probably little more than cosmetic differences from CEP 2.1 at this point. Also, CE2k looks to be gone....did anyone here grab a copy of that? I wouln't mind having one in the archives....
Whew! I'm glad I got ahold of CEP. I didin't even know about Adobe's takeeover until I read it here. I've been using CE since they started as shareware.
I've got copies of CE95 and CE98. Nothing newer, though.
I found a copy of CE2000 if anyone needs/wants it.
Goose, I'd like to try it.
try http://people.internet2.edu/~goose/ce2kmain.exe
'nother short question. What's the telnet address to get the weather forecasts at wunderground?
There used to be a finger address for them, before the World-wide Web was
launched. I _thought_ they closed it down a long time ago. The URL
http:/www.wunderground.com
doesn't work for you?
Uh, dropped a slash. The URL is
http://www.wunderground.com
I was able to access the blackbird.wunderground.com menu using the
following telnet address:
telnet://rainmaker.wunderground.com
Yep, "telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com". I use it.
Cool. Thanks. :)
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Okay, what's not eating the Box Elder Bugs? I have seen quite a few around here. Some brave enough to come into the house. I don't recall this as a seasonal thing, like the late autumn buldge in the ladybug population.
Gopher still around?
THe box elder bugs are usually a late summer / fall thing. I'm surprised you haven't noticed them until this year.
I seen them around, particlularly when they come out in the spring. But this is the first time I recall seeing so many. Makes me wonder if the local birdies are sick or sumpthin'.
They seem to go up and down in cycles. Every few years there's an unusually big crop of them.
Yeah. This year, I havent had too many box elder bugs but two years ago, they were *everywhere*.
resp:133 -- SDF (telnet sdf.lonestar.org, www.freeshell.org) has a gopher client, i believe. whether that means it's still around, i'm not sure.
Hey, pvn, let's teach English in China. meet you there.
thanks for the wunderground. I was stuck at my parents using a Powerbook 140 with local shell access. (You would all get a kick out of my mother signing the "shell access agreement". I told her it was one legal document she would never begin to understand, so don't even read it. She's 81, and not much of a hacker.)
Hey, cmcgee, let's teach English in China. meet you there.
Do any grexers have any experiences with publishing their own books? If so, any tips?
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Why not?
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Do you have personal experience with that? Or on using a publisher?
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The technology (and the culture) is changing fast, though. If you want a few thousand copies made the traditional way, then yeah, it's going to be expensive and difficult. On the other hand there's now a machine to print & bind a book on demand, so it would be easier to have a few dozen copies made. Then there's online distribution, which would be even easier.
While I can certainly go searching / surfing the web to see what's out there, I would be appreciative if there were a grexer with specific references based on experience / knowledge could relate them.
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I seen one of those print on demand machines (under utilized)
when I was at Borders. The system IIRC was called Sprite or Sprint.
It uses the same files that would go off to a large press publisher.
Full color, perfect bound trade paperbacks.
Great for text books that could be revised and published
low volume each year. Or that 1967 VW microvan repair manual.
I think the VPs at Borders thought they where going to be printing
Harry Potter paperbacks in a store on demand.
With technology like that, there's no real excuse for anything going "out of print."
The book I have in mind is "what I did on my vacation", with a great many photographs.
Put it on a web page.
Or burn some CDs.
I changed internet settings on my laptop so as to be able to use the internet access offered in some hotels on the roadtrip. Now I can't change it back because it won't let me type in the IP address/subnet mask/etc--the field is white and appears writable, but when I click on it with the mouse I don't get a cursor. Typing blindly, cut-and-pasting don't work; I've restarted a few times. Any suggestions?
When I was a kid, I thought the coolest thing ever would be to get a box of 1000 magnets, as advertised in comic books and the like. I never got one myself. Advance X number of years; other than by going the comic book route, where would one go to get a collection of magnets of different shapes and sizes for a kid or two? (I think I know of some kids who might like such a gift.) Something that comes in the form of a kit, labeled "1000 Experiments To Do With Magnets", allowing you to create your own electric motor, generator, etc., would be just the thing. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Try Edmund Scientific (http://scientificsonline.com/default.asp?) and/or Science Kit and Boreal... (http://sciencekit.com/Default.asp? Item WW3082265 is a bag of 30 magnets for $6.)
Stadium Hardware sells individual magnets of different sizes and shapes at reasonable prices.
Re #156: You didn't mention what OS you're using. Make sure you don't have DHCP or "Obtain an IP address automatically" selected.
re resp:159: Thanks! That Scientifics Online site has quite a few selections of kits, bags and individual magnets which would likely delight any kid. You have very cool insights into scientific toys for kids, and I very much appreciate you sharing them. re resp:160: Good idea; I wonder if even the hardware stores in Lenawee County would have magnets for sale. I was going to hit the stores such as Toys R Us and The Discovery Store. (That would require me to enter the mall, whereas I would rather enter Purgatory.)
I once found some huge magnets (100+ yards in diameter) at an army surplus store.
Were you attracted to them?
The answer could be discgusting.
No, I'm not really interested in magnets like hepjep and his son are.
Re #157:
Take apart some old hard drives.
The old hard drive magnets I used to hold my map onto my gas tank top were quite effective, even at over 100 mph.
I don't have any old hard drives, except one MF/M drive I've kept to take apart and show my kid how a hard drive spins.
I don't think I'd give hard disk magnets to a kid. They're really powerful and it's easy to hurt yourself. I know people who have gotten nasty blood blisters from them.
okay, here's the deal. i use a POP account (no shell) and on my machine i use getmail/pine/procmail. i am phasing out use of this account and want to forward my mail along with an auto-reply. is this even possible to do given this setup? suggestions? bedankt.
re 161: I'm running WinMe. The field appears writable after I uncheck the "Obtain IP automatically" box, but actually is not (as discussed in 156). I can't quite figure out where the DHCP protocol is, and am therefore suspicious that this might be the problem (it's not in the pull-down menu where the TCP/IP and dialup modes are).
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Re 172: This is where Microsoft cheerfully advises you to uninstall and reinstall the network card, not physically but in the Network settings. Actually that's what I'd do myself, too. :(
That matches my labmate PC-guru's advice--planning to do that tonight, since my reinstall CD is at home. His advice was to reinstall the whole OS while I'm at it, since the computer's nearly two years old and apparently you're supposed to do that once a year anyway. I'm trying to decide if I care enough to do that...managed to build up several CD's worth of stuff I'd need to back up if I did.
If that's your only problem I'd wait on the full brain-wipe & reinstall. Just redoing the network device usually fixes a lot of problems.
Yeah, I've been running win2k without re-installing for a few years. Just make sure you keep up the the security patches. The instructor for my PC Troubleshooting class never mentioned having to re-install the OS every so often. Seems to me to be a terrible risk of losing data that way.
I make a real effort to keep my data in the same spot(s), which are religiosly backed up. By not running propietary (Windows) email software I can easily move my email folders onto a new installation.
Thanks for the advice. I'm going to back up everything just because it's a good idea, then un/reinstall just the networking part--not unhappy enough with the way it's running to bother with the whole thing. I'm not great at keeping up with patches, but last I went and checked (mid- July this year) there were a grand total of 6 patches available for winme. 3 sets of duplicates, for internet explorer, microsoft publishing, and something else that I likewise never use. I'll get the IE one once my networking capability's back up.
I'm updating a webpage for a friend who's from russia. My question is how do I make an html page load both cyrillic and english characters? When I go to type some cyrillic letters in wordpad, after I save it then open it back up, the letters change to "????? ???? ?? ?????" (all question marks.)
There's a meta tag which specifices the character set. You can use javascript to detect settings which might indicate which charset to use, and then dynamically produce the appropriate meta tag for that pageview.
thanks dan
Any recommendations/comments about "Affordable Computers" on S. Industrial? My mom's Powerbook 140 died, and I want to get her a refurbished laptop.
Seem like decent people. I've gotten a couple of old/cheap used laptops there for decent prices, but I think the higher-end laptops are overpriced for used. The UM Property Disposition Center has a lot of used Mac stuff for OK prices. Personally I think that buying a used laptop isn't that great a value, given the difficulty of fixing any problems that might come up. You can get newer orphaned or factory-refurb stuff at good prices.
I've purchased several systems from Affordable Computers and been quite satisfied with both the quality and the service. Only new desktop systems though - no used machines or laptops.
Re #184: It depends on how leading-edge you want to be, I think. I got an IBM Thinkpad 770 in good condition off eBay for under $200. It's only a 200 MHz Pentium, though. And of course when you buy off eBay you're always taking your chances.
Laptops in the used market seem to run around $1 per MHz, give or take a bit of slack. I still haven't found a good deal on what I'm after.
You have several choices: