...the bad news is that you're fscked if you don't and the HDD goes south.
Here you've hit on why the whole "recovery partition" routine drives me fragging crazy. We get failed drives on a regular basis, and o' course the clients never made a backup/recovery set. Just another way for them to eke the last buck from you.
I've seen more than one manufacturer try to sell those recovery disks at *$80*, while another sells theirs at 12.50. Yet another insists that they have no recovery disks, instead insisting you buy a new "recovery hard drive" with the image already ON it...at a HEFTY premium. Even worse, many of those recovery disks don't have ALL the original software on them, meaning clients complain "but...but...it doesn't have the DVD player anymore!!" I've seen well more than a dozen people in the last year switch to our in-house brands or another brand over this.
My guess is that it'll take a lawsuit or two to straighten them out....
If the decision is made that a town is to be squashed, it will be squashed. May I point out that that such systems seem to be having limited success in the Mess O'Potamia? Tack on that you're asking the military to fire on other Americans and you're GUARANTEED to get soldiers to balk.
Advertising uses men and women differently and you know it. Nope. "Use this product, and you have a shot at this model" works with both sexes... If you need more proof, go to strip clubs for both sexes, and you'll see that boil it all down, we're meat. EITHER sex.
Nothing personal, but you might want to consider getting your hard drive specs elsewhere. I prefer going directly to the manufacturer's site. The 7200.10 specification sheet {in.PDF format} for the Barracuda line is here.
...the loss of Booth Babes, personally. Before I'm ragged for being sexist, count the number of commercials using models of both sexes to sell products.
Tech cons USED to know their crowd and appeal to us before the politically-correct sweep rendered them bland.
one little section in Max Payne... That dreamish sequence where he walks into the dark on that vine-ish looking tightrope... Mayhaps it's jus' 'cause I'm a parent, but hearing that dead baby cry and call out while surrounded by darkness gave my goosebumps goosebumps.
This is exactly what is so wrong with our democracy.
Actually, it's what's so RIGHT about it. I doubt he'll serve on another hospital board again. The guy didn't make it past one term, and his long-term credibility took major hits. No big deal for folks like you and me, but it ruined ANY further political future Thornton had, and that's considered a fate worse than death for a die-hard politician.
IMHO, it beats the hell out of a system where someone can be appointed for life by force of arms.
Hiding illegal acts behind the privacy veil means that when there's a REAL need for privacy, it will not be there to enjoy.
...which leads to the question, how will someone tell if it's illegal or not? Here, let's use the Slashdot-Approved Car Analogy:
How would you like the government to install speed-regulators on cars keeping them from travelling over 70MPH? It's good for public safety, will cut down on high-speed chases and crashes, and will keep people from dying...
What we need isn't law, what we need is a return to personal accountability.
Ok, flash back to mid-90's San Antonio, Texas, and look to the public access TV channel. You'll find the most obnoxious show available at that time, "The Worst Show".
Yes, that was the show's name, and the guy running it REALLY tried to make it as such. Tasteless, obnoxious, and incendiary were a few names thrown at it. Dave Leitt {show owner} pulled out all the stops trying to piss off any organized group he could. Explosions and gunfire abounded, as well as racially/religiously-charged skits designed to offend. All on purpose, mind you; Dave liked tweaking the nose of authority and those mired in political-correctness.
That's what landed him on the Montel Williams show.
The Worst Show {TWS hereafter} had run a skit called simply "The Suicide Skit". If you were to view it, it was a tongue-in-cheek rag on suicide... if you had half a brain cell. Suddenly, every mad soccer mom within 100 miles was freaking out; someone had told their kid HOW to commit suicide. He landed on the MW show, and said later that he had to fight from giggling when he realized just how much powder MW {according to him} uses to keep the chrome-dome glare down. The funniest part in the estimation of most was when one of the infuriated mothers actually turned to Montel and stated "Well, my 12-year-old would NEVER have known how to kill himself if it wasn't for that skit!"
{Personally, I think that any "normal" 12-year-old that doesn't realize that there are things in life that're lethal isn't "normal" to begin with, but I digress...}
Dave was the black sheep candidate, and so let's introduce his main competitor....
William "Dental Bill" Thornton. A local dentist, he was well-connected politically, and was even on the board of the local university hospital board. Dave didn't care about his connections. He instead felt that he was untrustworthy, because of:
Genene Jones. You see, Dave found out from family in the nursing field about the story, and found a bit more. {click the link and brush up here, if possible. Yes, I know it's Slashdot.:P} Jones had actually WORKED at the hospital that Thornton was Chairman of the Board. If you check closely, you'll find that the board had noticed that something was awry with her patients. They deliberated, considered the scandal it'd cause their hospital vs. turning in a child-killer to the police.
They chose to quietly "let her go", rather than show they'd not monitored their nursing staff appropriately.
This was why Dave couldn't stand Thornton, and when Thornton announced he was running for mayor, Dave felt he had to act. He had a popular local public access show, after all; couldn't he use that to garner a vote for mayor? Off he went. Picture it being similar to the "Brewster's Millions" election; he didn't want the job, but he wanted to make it a LOT harder on Thornton to GET it. His main focus for this election turned to forcing a run-off, as it'd cost both candidates {for the most part} to work out-of-pocket at that point. He felt it was morally necessary to "make" Thornton pay for the loss of life....
It worked, too. He got around 530 votes, just enough to force the run-off. Thornton won, yes, but it cost him around $200,000 out of pocket; NOT chump change. Even better, the Jones story got even more publicity, and Thornton quickly degenerated into mush during and after the election, going to far as to call a press conference on local TV announcing that his former Campaign Manager, T.J. Connally, was "stalking" him. He didn't get re-elected.
I voted for Dave after checking/verifying the Jones story for myself. I was one of those 500-something people. We cost the candidate over 200k, and he quickly was shown to be almost totally ineffective as mayor...
Mission Accomplished...with nothing more than a vote...;)
'Cause you don't? Downloading Ubuntu is just a rationalization. I do and did. What rationalization are ya speakin' of?
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Yup. The pre-auth's bit us in the rear a few times, but that order-transfer is the EVIL one. Example: Pizza joint. Cashier takes a phone order and gets CC number. Driver takes the order, cashier transfers it over. The issue? When the wrong driver is transferred to, or swaps deliveries with another driver. You can't transfer the order anymore, by rule. So, now due to PCI compliance, the numbers for the driver deliveries end up bolloxed. We've had clients literally yelling over the phone about this. It'd be nice if they could design the PCI standard with real-world, real-life use in mind.
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I'm going to have to call foul here. Working with point-of-sale systems, we deal with PCI compliance in software regularly, so I've tried to keep up with the PCI regs as it pertains to the software packages we sell.
It's a blatant double-standard. They want to lock down EVERYTHING downstream from them, with accountability, yet even after numerous break-ins, apparently have not applied the same standards to *themselves*.
On the flip side, most of our customers couldn't give a rat's kazoo about compliance, and would do without it 'cause of various inconveniences... {You can only transfer CC-orders twice per order, per spec...} We get buy-in by explaining the penalties if they're caught, and let 'em know that while it may be IMPROBABLE, it's quite possible.
As I and about 500 others used our vote to throw a mayoral election in one of the nation's 10 largest cities, I can tell you without reservation that voting CAN work. As pointed out elsewhere here, you just have to have a sufficient number of pissed-off voters that're ready to put their vote where their mouth is. Details on the above election upon request.
This article is more like saying "OMFG! If you give that key to the security guard, anybody could get it from him and rob your house!!!!"
This article is more like saying "OMFG! Sony hired a security guard, sent him to my house, stuffed him in the attic, and didn't tell us a damn thing!!!"
I had two floppy drives and that's it.
Lucky, you had floppies.:P Try waiting 10 minutes to load a 16K program from cassette, just to find the volume was too low/high and you had to start over. Wish I still had the box, even if you *can* find TRS-80 emulators out there...
Piracy, my rear. If you choose not to verse yourself sufficiently in Linux usage to find/run legal commercial/FOSS games like the rest of us, fine. No need to get pissy 'bout it.
Well said. It's like two teams of kids at Easter, one team wearing black hats, the other white. Let the kids loose in a field full of Easter eggs. Most people like the white-hat team better, as they don't pick up their eggs and throw them at other people. However, that doesn't mean the less-liked team will find fewer eggs, nor refrain from throwing them. I'll have to quote Scotty again:
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain..."
As for the poster's belief that any physical/electronic security is idiot-proof, I'll remind 'em of the next maxim:
"Build an idiot-proof machine, and the universe will build a better idiot."
I hadn't heard anything about this. I actually subscribe to this magazine
I found out the other day, when one of our techs cme in and touted it as one of the best sysadmin mags out. I flipped to the editor's note, turned to the tech, and asked what he was going to read after the mag stopped publication. He blinked and read the note himself: They clearly stated that it was their *last* issue, and that they were stopping publication....
Can anyone with a sub give us the exact wording/page number, please?
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...the bad news is that you're fscked if you don't and the HDD goes south.Here you've hit on why the whole "recovery partition" routine drives me fragging crazy. We get failed drives on a regular basis, and o' course the clients never made a backup/recovery set. Just another way for them to eke the last buck from you.
I've seen more than one manufacturer try to sell those recovery disks at *$80*, while another sells theirs at 12.50. Yet another insists that they have no recovery disks, instead insisting you buy a new "recovery hard drive" with the image already ON it...at a HEFTY premium. Even worse, many of those recovery disks don't have ALL the original software on them, meaning clients complain "but...but...it doesn't have the DVD player anymore!!" I've seen well more than a dozen people in the last year switch to our in-house brands or another brand over this.
My guess is that it'll take a lawsuit or two to straighten them out....
Well, if the foo shits... ;)
2) Who gets to decide what is essentially matters of opinion? 1. Quite a few companies do, some for free!
2. The customer, if their software company does the job right. Anyone else remember the days before "skinnable" apps?
Wait for Gutsy and use clive...
Nothing personal, but you might want to consider getting your hard drive specs elsewhere. I prefer going directly to the manufacturer's site. The 7200.10 specification sheet {in .PDF format} for the Barracuda line is here.
...the loss of Booth Babes, personally. Before I'm ragged for being sexist, count the number of commercials using models of both sexes to sell products.
Tech cons USED to know their crowd and appeal to us before the politically-correct sweep rendered them bland.
"Lawyers make things clearer?!?"
Sorry, but the server power supply blew! Here's the box, g'luck! ;)
one little section in Max Payne... That dreamish sequence where he walks into the dark on that vine-ish looking tightrope... Mayhaps it's jus' 'cause I'm a parent, but hearing that dead baby cry and call out while surrounded by darkness gave my goosebumps goosebumps.
More than one case, apparently. Traced links back here, and other posts also seem to indicate more issues than one...
Note, this is primarily a Sony problem, not Apple. No downmods necessary.Actually, it's what's so RIGHT about it. I doubt he'll serve on another hospital board again. The guy didn't make it past one term, and his long-term credibility took major hits. No big deal for folks like you and me, but it ruined ANY further political future Thornton had, and that's considered a fate worse than death for a die-hard politician.
IMHO, it beats the hell out of a system where someone can be appointed for life by force of arms.
...which leads to the question, how will someone tell if it's illegal or not? Here, let's use the Slashdot-Approved Car Analogy:
How would you like the government to install speed-regulators on cars keeping them from travelling over 70MPH? It's good for public safety, will cut down on high-speed chases and crashes, and will keep people from dying...
What we need isn't law, what we need is a return to personal accountability.Ok, flash back to mid-90's San Antonio, Texas, and look to the public access TV channel. You'll find the most obnoxious show available at that time, "The Worst Show".
Yes, that was the show's name, and the guy running it REALLY tried to make it as such. Tasteless, obnoxious, and incendiary were a few names thrown at it. Dave Leitt {show owner} pulled out all the stops trying to piss off any organized group he could. Explosions and gunfire abounded, as well as racially/religiously-charged skits designed to offend. All on purpose, mind you; Dave liked tweaking the nose of authority and those mired in political-correctness.
That's what landed him on the Montel Williams show.
The Worst Show {TWS hereafter} had run a skit called simply "The Suicide Skit". If you were to view it, it was a tongue-in-cheek rag on suicide... if you had half a brain cell. Suddenly, every mad soccer mom within 100 miles was freaking out; someone had told their kid HOW to commit suicide. He landed on the MW show, and said later that he had to fight from giggling when he realized just how much powder MW {according to him} uses to keep the chrome-dome glare down. The funniest part in the estimation of most was when one of the infuriated mothers actually turned to Montel and stated "Well, my 12-year-old would NEVER have known how to kill himself if it wasn't for that skit!"
{Personally, I think that any "normal" 12-year-old that doesn't realize that there are things in life that're lethal isn't "normal" to begin with, but I digress...}
Dave was the black sheep candidate, and so let's introduce his main competitor....
William "Dental Bill" Thornton. A local dentist, he was well-connected politically, and was even on the board of the local university hospital board. Dave didn't care about his connections. He instead felt that he was untrustworthy, because of:
Genene Jones. You see, Dave found out from family in the nursing field about the story, and found a bit more. {click the link and brush up here, if possible. Yes, I know it's Slashdot. :P} Jones had actually WORKED at the hospital that Thornton was Chairman of the Board. If you check closely, you'll find that the board had noticed that something was awry with her patients. They deliberated, considered the scandal it'd cause their hospital vs. turning in a child-killer to the police.
They chose to quietly "let her go", rather than show they'd not monitored their nursing staff appropriately.
This was why Dave couldn't stand Thornton, and when Thornton announced he was running for mayor, Dave felt he had to act. He had a popular local public access show, after all; couldn't he use that to garner a vote for mayor? Off he went. Picture it being similar to the "Brewster's Millions" election; he didn't want the job, but he wanted to make it a LOT harder on Thornton to GET it. His main focus for this election turned to forcing a run-off, as it'd cost both candidates {for the most part} to work out-of-pocket at that point. He felt it was morally necessary to "make" Thornton pay for the loss of life....
It worked, too. He got around 530 votes, just enough to force the run-off. Thornton won, yes, but it cost him around $200,000 out of pocket; NOT chump change. Even better, the Jones story got even more publicity, and Thornton quickly degenerated into mush during and after the election, going to far as to call a press conference on local TV announcing that his former Campaign Manager, T.J. Connally, was "stalking" him. He didn't get re-elected.
I voted for Dave after checking/verifying the Jones story for myself. I was one of those 500-something people. We cost the candidate over 200k, and he quickly was shown to be almost totally ineffective as mayor...
Mission Accomplished...with nothing more than a voteYup. The pre-auth's bit us in the rear a few times, but that order-transfer is the EVIL one. Example: Pizza joint. Cashier takes a phone order and gets CC number. Driver takes the order, cashier transfers it over. The issue? When the wrong driver is transferred to, or swaps deliveries with another driver. You can't transfer the order anymore, by rule. So, now due to PCI compliance, the numbers for the driver deliveries end up bolloxed. We've had clients literally yelling over the phone about this. It'd be nice if they could design the PCI standard with real-world, real-life use in mind.
I'm going to have to call foul here. Working with point-of-sale systems, we deal with PCI compliance in software regularly, so I've tried to keep up with the PCI regs as it pertains to the software packages we sell.
It's a blatant double-standard. They want to lock down EVERYTHING downstream from them, with accountability, yet even after numerous break-ins, apparently have not applied the same standards to *themselves*.
On the flip side, most of our customers couldn't give a rat's kazoo about compliance, and would do without it 'cause of various inconveniences... {You can only transfer CC-orders twice per order, per spec...} We get buy-in by explaining the penalties if they're caught, and let 'em know that while it may be IMPROBABLE, it's quite possible.As I and about 500 others used our vote to throw a mayoral election in one of the nation's 10 largest cities, I can tell you without reservation that voting CAN work. As pointed out elsewhere here, you just have to have a sufficient number of pissed-off voters that're ready to put their vote where their mouth is. Details on the above election upon request.
Yes, 'cause it's not their knowledge to begin with. Why would someone else NEED to know that I'm downloading Ubuntu?
I'm not saying I don't masturbate. I am saying that it's none of anyone else's business if/when I do.
This article is more like saying "OMFG! Sony hired a security guard, sent him to my house, stuffed him in the attic, and didn't tell us a damn thing!!!"
Lucky, you had floppies.
Piracy, my rear. If you choose not to verse yourself sufficiently in Linux usage to find/run legal commercial/FOSS games like the rest of us, fine. No need to get pissy 'bout it.
Well said. It's like two teams of kids at Easter, one team wearing black hats, the other white. Let the kids loose in a field full of Easter eggs. Most people like the white-hat team better, as they don't pick up their eggs and throw them at other people. However, that doesn't mean the less-liked team will find fewer eggs, nor refrain from throwing them. I'll have to quote Scotty again:
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain..."
As for the poster's belief that any physical/electronic security is idiot-proof, I'll remind 'em of the next maxim:
"Build an idiot-proof machine, and the universe will build a better idiot."
I found out the other day, when one of our techs cme in and touted it as one of the best sysadmin mags out. I flipped to the editor's note, turned to the tech, and asked what he was going to read after the mag stopped publication. He blinked and read the note himself: They clearly stated that it was their *last* issue, and that they were stopping publication....
Can anyone with a sub give us the exact wording/page number, please?