Someone in Maryland bought Car Design Yearbook 7 and Car Design Yearbook 8 13 minutes ago.
It’s almost really exciting! In trying to track down the Eighth and final Car Design Yearbook, the publisher’s website directed me to Book Depository offering FREE Worldwide Shipping. After making my purchase, I was asked by a button if I’d seen Book Depository LIVE. I hadn’t. It’s NEAT because you can watch, in real time where in the world people are buying what books from the site. Just like a villian’s wall map of the world, your view of Earth glides from one country to another as, “Someone in Hong Kong bought Beijing and Shanghai 73 minutes ago.” A picture of the cover and a link to the detail web page are available. I think it’s a clever way to find book reading trends and get gift ideas and let the gliding world map entertain you for a while.
Before 2005, Network Neutrality was less popular in daily vernacular and not pumped so voraciously through the Blog-o-sphere and was understood more commonly as forcing a distinction between websites and services based on packets of information (that all sites send and receive) whose total measure was in excess of some undefined average.
Nothing is messier than arguing a term that changed definition completely – today, people just aren’t sure if they’re for or against it. Today, Net Neutrality is defined as absolute non-discrimination…
I’m a happy and passive member of a Washington D.C. foodie community and get to meet a lot of great people when I go out places. I bring with me tech knowledge and an interest in how these bloggers work and what tools they use to chirp and tweet and blog and post about food and other things edible.
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, I meet someone to whom my rants and tech rabble are meaningless. I love it.
I’ve even spoken with experts and experienced computer users who fear the Social Network driven Web 2.0 “stuff” out there. Good news! Before I got to busy with Ruby on Rails to update the site everyday, I bounced around with Web 2.0 services like Facebook, MyBlogLog, Flock, friendfeed, Flickr, PodCastAlley, MySpace, Seesmic, Ma.Gnolia and OpenID and received absolutely stunning results without more effort. I expect that this won’t fully sway skeptics, but you should hear what benefits came from my work of several days in plumbing the depths on your behalf.
FLICKR – It’s a free resource for digital camera owners to use to share and organize their photos and promote their portfolios far beyond the reach of friends if they choose. Flickr began by mistake when Ludicorp employees, charged with designing a video game as the company’s debut project, developed a rudimentary system for sharing images and photos with co-workers.
Vincent Cerf, the Godfather of the Internet, stated that online videos will move from streaming to being set up for download. What this does to advertising and sites like YouTUBE aren’t discussed here. What is advised is that new users and those thinking of purchasing new computers consider the Hard drive capacity to be more important than ever in coming years.
You can now reach your goals and change your life if you read this article. Read ten sales-energizing tips that are fooling new webmasters into creating ideas that are killing the Internet.
The danger of Web 2.0’s collapse first became clear to me with an unpublished article entitled My Dear John To Web 2.0 In it are examinations of the mentality that has returned Mystery Meat Navigation to the forefront of site design. The height of this absurdity is Microsoft’s desire to be the first Operating System that the next one BILLION computer users see. In a move that is completely at odds with this welcoming ease-of-use is Windows Vista’s utter lack of a “Start” button. Only if you already have familiarity with the product do you know that the Windows Logo is actually the old Start button.
IMHO, a path for certain disaster was clearly laid out. Don’t allow data portability, maintain a closed, mono-culture and victimize your subscribers with advertisments designed for print media. In short, do what AOL did. Today’s report of Facebook making their platform an open source project does surprise me somewhat after all this talk about data portibility.
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Any search for information begins with knowing the right terminology. When trying to start a start-up and attract investors so they provide Seed Money, Venture Capital or VC, you have to show them a few things too. A good idea just isn’t enough when dealing with people who deal with numbers. In walking slowly through this briar patch of trials and errors, we’ve stumbled on to Brent Collins who is more than willing to share advice about starting a start-up that’s nearly one-on-one.
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07.31.06 – After a computer is done beeping, one can hope that the monitor will show the user what the next problem in line is. With such complex circuitry in computers, the diagnostics that are built in become absolutely vital to repairing problems.
So as a chumpy, yet surprisingly popular Part 2, here it is…
BIOS Beeps [Broken Gift 1]
08.02.06 – NOTE: Do not download from the ads on the pages we link you to in this article. All links are the added content.
Squeaks and beeps, very irritating. At times, your computer should actually make some noise. A single beep on start up means that your computer has passed all its ‘Power-ON Self-Tests.’ Those are called POST. When a computer fails a test in POST, it might not be able to display the problem on the monitor, so it beeps.
It’s a very basic thing, but even seasoned tech can’t remember all the meanings of all the beeps. Beeps come from the Motherboard of the computer and BIOS is the system responsible for the beeps. Since there are several different board makers, there are several things that, for example, three short beeps could mean. We’ve gotten computers before that have failed their POST tests but all we hear from clients is akin to, “nothing is on the monitor.”
More helpful to your friendly neighborhood technician is the information about the beeps that you hear. Do you hear one long and two short beeps? Did you hear four short beeps? One case in the repair shop was a constant, single long beep that continued until we pulled the plug. Now let’s learn what that means: Repeating single long beep; board maker – SIS 530 chipset with Socket 7; computer maker – generic Brand X made by her brother years and years ago.
A visit to Google searching SIS 530 Socket 7 reveals 191,000 sites. The first couple tell us this may be an Athlon supporting PCChips motherboard. And this turns out to be wrong. There are two models that look as if they were fairly advanced in their time that support Pentium processors. PCChips’s website, PCChipsUSA.com and their BIOS (Award/AMI) support area is here.
Thankfully, both board models are running AMIBIOS which means that the beep code will be the same no matter which board we’re really looking at. An ‘AMIBIOS beep code’ search brings two pages from BiosCentral with one containing our description here. Another Award/AMI BIOSreference online for discerning which damn board you actually have. Wikipedia delivers impressive little-known stats for American Megatrends, or AMI. As stated in the AMI board site, Phoenix BIOS is often, erroneously lumped with AMIBIOS.
Even before playing detective, we knew what the problem was. Did you figure out what the BIOS was beeping about? After addressing this issue, we were bummed out to discover that the integrated video was, in fact, busted. So what do you know? There will be a part two…
I’m a happy and passive member of a Washington D.C. foodie community and get to meet a lot of great people when I go out places. I bring with me tech knowledge and an interest in how these bloggers work and what tools they use to chirp and tweet and blog and post about food and other things edible.
