You forgot the people who know nothing, have had a friend install firefox and enable automatic updates in windows. Those are the people that suffer. Trust me, I had 90% of my "friendly tech support" clients phone me in a frenzy asking where their bookmarks went when Microsoft pulled this same crap with IE7.
Agreed. The statement should be change to "We don't need wired ethernet for employee workstations anymore". Wireless (especially N) is more than fast enough for your average office employee (excluding possibly graphics and video artists). The place where wired is still needed is at the backbone (inner-office) and to/from the servers.
The summary calls this a "new" trick, IT IS NOT! They pulled the exact same shit when IE7 came out, trust me. I do tech-support for friends (who know nothing about computers). During one month (when they pushed the update), 90% of the people I helped (I always install firefox for them) phoned and said "What the hell happened to my bookmarks?!?". The first time it happened, it took me a while to figure out that they were not using FireFox, but that their keyboard-shortcut was now bound to IE7!
Microsoft thinks their browser is the best, or at lest good enough for everyone, but when you upgrade an unused program and end up wrecking another one, YOU FUCKED UP!
This is definitely the kind of thing that Opera needs to bring to the EU's attention.
Have you ever played UrbanTerror? It has edge-climbing, wall-jumping, weapon-recoil, the works. The only thing CS has over UrbanTerror at this point (other than player base...) is flashbangs and ragdoll effects, but ragdoll is not really important to gameplay.
Yes, but for some reason (protocols, etc), it does tend to drain batteries quite a bit faster than a standard RF mouse. If anyone knows the actual reason why, I would love to hear it.
I have the v550 nano mouse. Other than being a little small, I love it. The frictionless scroll-wheel is insanely nice for scrolling through websites and my music player (thousands of songs).
I was a little dissapointed that it was RF, but the dongle it uses is TINY and can be just left in the laptop (even when in a bag).
When buying my new laptop (~1 month ago), one of the things I wanted was bluetooth. It turns out that most people didn't use the bluetooth in their laptops, so manufacturers started pulling it from just about every model you can find. Going to the local shops, only about 10% of the laptops had it. For god's sake, there were almost as many with blueray drives as bluetooth!
Those U3 enabled flash drives will STILL autorun. The second partition is made to appear to be a cdrom to windows, which means that windows will still autorun the crap they put on there.
Not only that, but this will give sandisk a semi-legit reason to partitions those bloody things. To this day, the ONLY way to get rid of that damn partition is using a windows utility, and that doesn't even work half the time!
Actually, Nokia took out a patent on a very similar device like this about 6 months to a year ago. The big difference was they used "tubes" of air (in both directions) in order to raise any given part of the screen.
You have 60 servers and you don't have a controlled local repository?? I feel sorry for the shared repos that have to deal with all you guys updating your 60+ servers all at the same time...
Actually, I remember reading a year or so ago about a program that would allow you to run a specified command via ssh on a list of machines. You could do this with a shell-script (pass arguments), but I think the program also did it all in parallel and showed some output as well.
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You forgot the people who know nothing, have had a friend install firefox and enable automatic updates in windows. Those are the people that suffer. Trust me, I had 90% of my "friendly tech support" clients phone me in a frenzy asking where their bookmarks went when Microsoft pulled this same crap with IE7.
Hell, most laptops ship with gigabit ethernet cards any more.
What do you call that, a half-negative...?
Agreed. The statement should be change to "We don't need wired ethernet for employee workstations anymore". Wireless (especially N) is more than fast enough for your average office employee (excluding possibly graphics and video artists). The place where wired is still needed is at the backbone (inner-office) and to/from the servers.
The summary calls this a "new" trick, IT IS NOT! They pulled the exact same shit when IE7 came out, trust me. I do tech-support for friends (who know nothing about computers). During one month (when they pushed the update), 90% of the people I helped (I always install firefox for them) phoned and said "What the hell happened to my bookmarks?!?". The first time it happened, it took me a while to figure out that they were not using FireFox, but that their keyboard-shortcut was now bound to IE7!
Microsoft thinks their browser is the best, or at lest good enough for everyone, but when you upgrade an unused program and end up wrecking another one, YOU FUCKED UP!
This is definitely the kind of thing that Opera needs to bring to the EU's attention.
Thank you, had I not posted as parent, I would mod you +1 informative.
Wow, ioquake3's website STILL hasn't been slashdotted.
GET YOUR DOWNLOADS BEFORE THEY DIE!
Have you ever played UrbanTerror? It has edge-climbing, wall-jumping, weapon-recoil, the works. The only thing CS has over UrbanTerror at this point (other than player base...) is flashbangs and ragdoll effects, but ragdoll is not really important to gameplay.
Garbage bags are bigger. Although the way I play quake3, it should be a body bag!!
Yes, but for some reason (protocols, etc), it does tend to drain batteries quite a bit faster than a standard RF mouse. If anyone knows the actual reason why, I would love to hear it.
I have the v550 nano mouse. Other than being a little small, I love it. The frictionless scroll-wheel is insanely nice for scrolling through websites and my music player (thousands of songs).
I was a little dissapointed that it was RF, but the dongle it uses is TINY and can be just left in the laptop (even when in a bag).
everything has bluetooth inbuilt now
When buying my new laptop (~1 month ago), one of the things I wanted was bluetooth. It turns out that most people didn't use the bluetooth in their laptops, so manufacturers started pulling it from just about every model you can find. Going to the local shops, only about 10% of the laptops had it. For god's sake, there were almost as many with blueray drives as bluetooth!
Those U3 enabled flash drives will STILL autorun. The second partition is made to appear to be a cdrom to windows, which means that windows will still autorun the crap they put on there.
Not only that, but this will give sandisk a semi-legit reason to partitions those bloody things. To this day, the ONLY way to get rid of that damn partition is using a windows utility, and that doesn't even work half the time!
Actually, Nokia took out a patent on a very similar device like this about 6 months to a year ago. The big difference was they used "tubes" of air (in both directions) in order to raise any given part of the screen.
...the rise of movements would dramatically alter the political landscape if voting were to become commonplace.
There, fixed that for you.
Funny, that's what a lot of Ford Pinto owners said.
Well, they learned their lessons eventually.
My point was that you can have the 60 server automatically install all updates if the repository it has access to only has updates you have approved.
Not to us geeks. But remember, the people they are selling these to bought VISTA for gods sake! They'll buy anything...
limited to 3 peers at a time.
There, fixed that for you.
Thank You so much for responding to my post by simply taking what I said and re-wording it...
You have 60 servers and you don't have a controlled local repository?? I feel sorry for the shared repos that have to deal with all you guys updating your 60+ servers all at the same time...
Because as any decent linux-server-farm admin, you have a closely controlled local repository mirror that only has updates you specifically add.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but circlingthesun actually posted the name of it below!
clusterssh
A cron job? Just set the update-manager to run every morning and automatically download AND install all updates.
You sub 7-digit uid guys always do everything the hard way!
Actually, I remember reading a year or so ago about a program that would allow you to run a specified command via ssh on a list of machines. You could do this with a shell-script (pass arguments), but I think the program also did it all in parallel and showed some output as well.
Damned if I can find it...
I wouldn't worry about it. They can't even get to Alaska without a boat!