The temperature on the river Styx must have plummeted. I have found respect for respect for Martha Stewart Living. What next, a rational health plan from tea baggers?
I have many CFLs, several LEDs, all dumb. I am OK with CFLs, and really like the LEDs (at least when they work), but the huge (current) cost does not meet my cost/benefit curve. I need simplicity, I like motion activated lights, I like wall switches, I really do not like to hunt for one more device to allow me to SEE!
they are the descendants of a great intellectual power house, unfortunately they seem to exist solely on the past excretions of those endeavors - or have they actually come up with uswful things like the transistor?
My home desktop runs Seamonkey. I have an archive of many years worth of emails on it, so I use it and Seamonkey as my mail history "way back machine". I do not suggest it is faster or better, but it is easy and, after long use, very comfortable - never had a major glitch with it. I think it is a good program.
Without big corp money behind him he is screwed. They can get pizza defined as a vegetable, he can't get the materials he needs to run a small business. By the way, the government defines a small business in various ways depending on the type of business, but can have up to 1,500 employees and take in $21,000,000 a year. You can see why they do not give a damn about this guy, no money - no political power.
I have to second the time wasted with experts-exchange, but I have learned to avoid that site. My biggest complaint is when I search for an unknown dll or exe file. All the top sites are just shills for scanning programs, many are malware. Try googling any of your services or processes and see haow many links are little more than farms for overpriced scanners. You will see most simply say "having problems with ---.exe" or "---.exe is a possible Trojan, check with XYZ for only$$$" Few results actually tell you anything related to the query. Looking forward to this tool, just wish it followed my Google login.
I for one am am grateful to the author, I now know that I do not need to worry about seeing some TSA person spanking his monkey right there in security.
Actually, I do care. I care that a site is vetted by some entity that is large enough to have something to loose if they host spam, spyware or viruses. Perhaps I value short term security over an unquantifiable, possible loss of privacy. I doubt that I would traverse far and wide over insecure links hosted by individuals or small enterprises. I may be in the minority here-- look at the success of various torrent sites, and the malware they can spread.
Seems the E series is not alone with this problem. According to Wikipedia, Dell had to settle a class action suit over other super heating laptops a few years ago
Dell did respond to the question with what they call a fix. They say the "issues arose under more extreme thermal and usage models" Not sre what that means - perhaps it occurs where people are actually using the laptop.
They also claim not to have banned anyone. Tinkerdude responds with more data, see the Dell blog (Direct2Dell) at http://bit.ly/6IsqaF
The folks at the Wyoming Assistive Technology Project, WYNOT, now called WIND (http://uwyo.edu/wind/watr/), had a number of modified weapons for people with disabilities. Contact them for more information. I also saw a handgun online designed for people who did not have the strength to pull a regular trigger or hold a regular pistol.
Darn, but you are so full of your self. My 20 year old system powering 5 sets of parallel speakers must not be working, maybe I am just hearing echos from days gone by. Seriously, it may not be the best idea, but it can and does work for me. You could also run the speakers in series/parallel (like 2 parallel pair of 2 series speakers) or use matching transformers from a master 70 v line output transformer or any number of other ways. Or you could just be a smart *** and nominate the poster for a Darwin award, much easier, and evidently more fulfilling than being constructive.
Marlin
I think I have another take on this and that would be, we are what we are rewarded for. Let me argue that as we grew up, we perhaps had slightly less rewards for our social interactions, and more rewards for our geek abilities. This reinforced our geekeness over time. Perhaps we associated with other geeks, who were less critical of our lack of social skills. With no negative reinforcement for our oddities in the social realm, they flourish.
I too, wonder about people's names are when they say, if there's anything else I can get you, my name is Sue, I have been known to ask what their names were if I didn't need anything else. Nobody but me seems to think this is funny.
Like floppies, we expect to retrieve our data now and next month. It happens so effortlessly and so reliably that we forget they can go bad. I along with many others, judging by the number of negative reviews, made the mistake of purchasing a Centron DataStickPro. Great design, neat metal case - totally unreliable. Called and emailed the company and when they actually responded, all they wanted, beside a lot of my time was the receipt. They claim to have a life time warranty, all I needed was the receipt. How many of you keep receipts for commodities like USB flash memory?
I guess my point is to remember that these things do fail, like my judgment in buying DataStick.
In googling Unlocker, I see a number of posts suggesting that it installs a trojan which is presented as eBayShortcuts.exe, but which may well take you to an adware download site. Seems to be reported mostly by folks using 1.8.7 and 1.8.6.
Buyer beware
I am one of the millions who regularly used Amazon, to the point where I relied on them- long story short, I did not receive a batch of goodies that were counted on as Xmas gifts. Customer service was borderline. I am disgruntled.
I wonder what the future holds for Amazon? How many folks will be addicted to the price and ease of ordering (as I was) versus those who receive a huge disappointment and and begin to look elsewhere (that's me know). But where are the alternatives to Amazon? MS live search with money back, one of the eBay products, Yahoo or Google shopping? What are your choices for shopping?
I must agree. There have been times when a book was Out of Print, and I photocopied a library copy, but as soon as a used or new copy was available, I bought them. Now, if I were a poor college student, I doubt I would be so honest.
It is hard to argue against a user who is negatively impacted by company wide rules, especially when they will not be involved in any potential exposure to security issues. But the top guys see it a different way, they know the cost of a breach, whether it is ss#s, health information or other supposedly private data. These costs can be huge in money, reputation and even their jobs. I was often the rogue user, so I think I understand. I am also the IT guy in our small branch of a major medical university and I know how it sucks to have rules limit your ability to do a job with the limited available resources.
On the other hand, I have been lucky, our IT organization is very big, but also very good and they try to accommodate user needs, but the university needs still come first.
We are also in the process of securing every portable device with encryption software, I am a bit apprehensive myself. And so it goes
In my shop, I had one user who was being driven buggy by this buzzing coming from here computer speakers and even her digital desk phone. I tried all sorts of things, even disconnecting speakers from her computer. Plugging in to a long extension cord from the opposite wall helped a little -as did holding your mouth right:). It was only last month that I was able to associate this with her PDA Phone. It does not happen with those folks who use simple CDMA Verizon phones, only the GSM data phones. Thanks for the final piece of the puzzle.
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The temperature on the river Styx must have plummeted. I have found respect for respect for Martha Stewart Living. What next, a rational health plan from tea baggers?
Or is that NSA?
Or is it NDA invests in alcohol production?
I have many CFLs, several LEDs, all dumb. I am OK with CFLs, and really like the LEDs (at least when they work), but the huge (current) cost does not meet my cost/benefit curve. I need simplicity, I like motion activated lights, I like wall switches, I really do not like to hunt for one more device to allow me to SEE!
TFA also calls Alcatel-Lucent a troll.
The company that owns Bell Labs a patent troll?
Seems odd....
they are the descendants of a great intellectual power house, unfortunately they seem to exist solely on the past excretions of those endeavors - or have they actually come up with uswful things like the transistor?
My home desktop runs Seamonkey. I have an archive of many years worth of emails on it, so I use it and Seamonkey as my mail history "way back machine". I do not suggest it is faster or better, but it is easy and, after long use, very comfortable - never had a major glitch with it. I think it is a good program.
Might as well put Homer Simpson in charge, same result, less expensive
Without big corp money behind him he is screwed. They can get pizza defined as a vegetable, he can't get the materials he needs to run a small business. By the way, the government defines a small business in various ways depending on the type of business, but can have up to 1,500 employees and take in $21,000,000 a year. You can see why they do not give a damn about this guy, no money - no political power.
I had an experience with VZW, where they could not ID the source of a small charge, basically it was "trust me, would we lie to you?"
I have to second the time wasted with experts-exchange, but I have learned to avoid that site. My biggest complaint is when I search for an unknown dll or exe file. All the top sites are just shills for scanning programs, many are malware. Try googling any of your services or processes and see haow many links are little more than farms for overpriced scanners. You will see most simply say "having problems with ---.exe" or "---.exe is a possible Trojan, check with XYZ for only$$$" Few results actually tell you anything related to the query. Looking forward to this tool, just wish it followed my Google login.
I for one am am grateful to the author, I now know that I do not need to worry about seeing some TSA person spanking his monkey right there in security.
Actually, I do care. I care that a site is vetted by some entity that is large enough to have something to loose if they host spam, spyware or viruses. Perhaps I value short term security over an unquantifiable, possible loss of privacy. I doubt that I would traverse far and wide over insecure links hosted by individuals or small enterprises. I may be in the minority here-- look at the success of various torrent sites, and the malware they can spread.
I showed the article to mywife - she was wondering who the mice called - Mickey, Minnie??
Seems the E series is not alone with this problem. According to Wikipedia, Dell had to settle a class action suit over other super heating laptops a few years ago
Dell did respond to the question with what they call a fix. They say the "issues arose under more extreme thermal and usage models" Not sre what that means - perhaps it occurs where people are actually using the laptop. They also claim not to have banned anyone. Tinkerdude responds with more data, see the Dell blog (Direct2Dell) at http://bit.ly/6IsqaF
On the Dells where I disabled SpeedStep in BIOS, they all defaulted to a very low speed. Or should we say they ran at Dell speed?
The folks at the Wyoming Assistive Technology Project, WYNOT, now called WIND (http://uwyo.edu/wind/watr/), had a number of modified weapons for people with disabilities. Contact them for more information. I also saw a handgun online designed for people who did not have the strength to pull a regular trigger or hold a regular pistol.
Darn, but you are so full of your self. My 20 year old system powering 5 sets of parallel speakers must not be working, maybe I am just hearing echos from days gone by. Seriously, it may not be the best idea, but it can and does work for me. You could also run the speakers in series/parallel (like 2 parallel pair of 2 series speakers) or use matching transformers from a master 70 v line output transformer or any number of other ways. Or you could just be a smart *** and nominate the poster for a Darwin award, much easier, and evidently more fulfilling than being constructive. Marlin
I think I have another take on this and that would be, we are what we are rewarded for. Let me argue that as we grew up, we perhaps had slightly less rewards for our social interactions, and more rewards for our geek abilities. This reinforced our geekeness over time. Perhaps we associated with other geeks, who were less critical of our lack of social skills. With no negative reinforcement for our oddities in the social realm, they flourish. I too, wonder about people's names are when they say, if there's anything else I can get you, my name is Sue, I have been known to ask what their names were if I didn't need anything else. Nobody but me seems to think this is funny.
Like floppies, we expect to retrieve our data now and next month. It happens so effortlessly and so reliably that we forget they can go bad. I along with many others, judging by the number of negative reviews, made the mistake of purchasing a Centron DataStickPro. Great design, neat metal case - totally unreliable. Called and emailed the company and when they actually responded, all they wanted, beside a lot of my time was the receipt. They claim to have a life time warranty, all I needed was the receipt. How many of you keep receipts for commodities like USB flash memory? I guess my point is to remember that these things do fail, like my judgment in buying DataStick.
In googling Unlocker, I see a number of posts suggesting that it installs a trojan which is presented as eBayShortcuts.exe, but which may well take you to an adware download site. Seems to be reported mostly by folks using 1.8.7 and 1.8.6. Buyer beware
I am one of the millions who regularly used Amazon, to the point where I relied on them- long story short, I did not receive a batch of goodies that were counted on as Xmas gifts. Customer service was borderline. I am disgruntled. I wonder what the future holds for Amazon? How many folks will be addicted to the price and ease of ordering (as I was) versus those who receive a huge disappointment and and begin to look elsewhere (that's me know). But where are the alternatives to Amazon? MS live search with money back, one of the eBay products, Yahoo or Google shopping? What are your choices for shopping?
I must agree. There have been times when a book was Out of Print, and I photocopied a library copy, but as soon as a used or new copy was available, I bought them. Now, if I were a poor college student, I doubt I would be so honest.
It is hard to argue against a user who is negatively impacted by company wide rules, especially when they will not be involved in any potential exposure to security issues. But the top guys see it a different way, they know the cost of a breach, whether it is ss#s, health information or other supposedly private data. These costs can be huge in money, reputation and even their jobs. I was often the rogue user, so I think I understand. I am also the IT guy in our small branch of a major medical university and I know how it sucks to have rules limit your ability to do a job with the limited available resources. On the other hand, I have been lucky, our IT organization is very big, but also very good and they try to accommodate user needs, but the university needs still come first. We are also in the process of securing every portable device with encryption software, I am a bit apprehensive myself. And so it goes
In my shop, I had one user who was being driven buggy by this buzzing coming from here computer speakers and even her digital desk phone. I tried all sorts of things, even disconnecting speakers from her computer. Plugging in to a long extension cord from the opposite wall helped a little -as did holding your mouth right :). It was only last month that I was able to associate this with her PDA Phone. It does not happen with those folks who use simple CDMA Verizon phones, only the GSM data phones. Thanks for the final piece of the puzzle.