They don't feel comfortable running RPC over https? You issue a certificate and it's pretty nice and secure.
All our laptop folks connect into the exchange that way. Outlook 2003 and higher support it, works great.
Mail, calendar, contacts, everything.
I don't know about any studies, but I can tell you that on a flight from Paraguay to Brazil earlier this year, a passenger near me turned on his phone (gsm if it matters), and within about 20 seconds the very angry pilot came on the PA telling "whoever just turned on their cellphone turn it off, we are trying to land the plane!!"
So it certainly must do something the pilots can notice.
The metric system is just better, get over it.
While those of us in the "real world" still use imperial/english units for some things (constuction industry, like 2x4's for wood. Height, I don't know how many cm's tall I am, but I know I am 5'11"), we realize the vast upsides of having nice simple system for basically everything else, where just about everything is nice round factors of 10.
Same goes for temperature, who the heck cares what temperature mercury freezes at? Celcius/Kelvin FTW!
There is also a cool video of some guys draining the oil out of a Kawasaki sportbike, and running it at redline.
For some odd reason I can't seem to find it online, but basically they run it until the exhaust eventually catches on fire and the thing seems to die.
The next day they fill it back up with oil, and it starts right up:)
I also maintain a similar number of PC's (60-80), currently all on XP.
I have 2 Vista test machines running Vista, both business, joined to the same domain.
We do use a login script here to map network drives and printers. The script itself runs fine on both Vista and XP, but for some reason wasn't working properly in Vista if automatically run in startup. The script would run (I added a messagebox to it saying it was beginning), but the mappings would not complete.
If I remember correctly, I eventually solved the issue by moving the script from the group policy at the OU level, to one domain wide, and then it worked fine. This was a year ago though, so I may be wrong on that.
I Concur, I'm on Cogeco in the Niagara Falls area, and I quite regularly get 800KB/s total speed while downloading torrents.
My normal http downloads often exceed 1000KB/s.
It's awesome downloading a linux ISO in 20 minutes:)
Well I can relate one story I know of directly. This past summer one of our employees was going from Canada to the US via car, crossing at Port Huron, MI. He was going to a conference in Michigan and had a couple other people speaking at this conference with him. When they got to the border, an alarm went off and they were all hauled into the security office. After several hours they were let go after the guards contacted the doctor of one of the women in the car, and confirmed she had indeed ungergone a stress test with the radioactive fluid earlier that day.
This was the womens own fault as the Doctors office had told her she should not do any international travelling for a couple of days, becuase of this very reason, but she did not listen.
Basically, since Bell owns all the phone lines in Canada, and since there are only a handful of cable companies)which almost neverlap), the government is forcing them offer wholesale rates to other companies that want to run their own ISP, using Bell's "last mile" lines/equipment.
So for example, I can get a DSL internet connection from a company like Primus, who is using Bell's lines/hardware at the street level, then onto their own network after that. They can offer better prices then Bell if they have low overhead.
So true, I remove it from every PC I see too.
I just had a laptop brought to me yesterday, Pentium5 1.7ghz, 1gb ram, slow as a dog.
Disabled norton internet security, and the person is amazed at how fast their system is.
Put on AVG (Though I prefer NOD32 if the person is willing to pay for AV), and all is well.
I have a Toshiba A200 laptop here with a HD-DVD drive and radeon hd 2400 graphics. The drive looks standard size to me, but thats just judging by whats visible with it open, I have no desire to pull this out of the laptop to check.
Speaking of non-service, I got my wife a cell phone a few months ago with Virgil mobile. It's on a $20 a month plan for $250 minutes. Every month, they take their $20 off my credit card, she gets a text saying her account is paid up. 2-3 days later she gets a text saying her account balance is 0.01. We have them send us her call logs, which show only 1 or 2 calls totalling 5-6 minutes, yet somehow the 200 minutes magically dissapear.
I've tried for 3 months to get this resolved, so I'll be dumping them too. Too bad, this is obviously a computer glitch, the rest of their service has been pretty good.
Virgin uses Bell's network, so I can't just swap her phone over to Rogers, though I might be able to swap it onto Bell.
I've been slowly switching all our work phones off of Bell and onto Rogers as contracts expire.
Both are evil, but Rogers is less evil simply because of some of the benefits of GSM.
Will Bell, lets say I want a new handset. I go to a Bellworld store, pick out a phone, pay the $300 for it with no contract, or $50-100 with contract. Now, they charge me a FEE, to switch the phone. I AM BUYING A PHONE FROM YOU!! DO NOT CHARGE ME A PENALTY FOR THE HONOUR OF AN UPGRADE!! It's like $35. I refuse to pay any made up admin fees when purchasing a product.
With Rogers, I buy unlocked phones online, and don't even need to tell Rogers I got a new phone, I just pop the users SIM card into the new phone and off they go.
Rates are still horrible with both, but I get more flexibility with Rogers. Getting unlimited data plans is almost impossible here.
First off, the game is quite good. I beat single player yesterday and enjoyed it a lot.
3/5 is way too low a score, 4/5 is better.
Anyway, the voice on the radio telling you if air support is coming, and relaying any sort of messages from command to your unit, sounds a lot like the voice from Black Hawk Down (the movie). Anyone know if it is the same guy?
Apple has made it much easier to run OSX on PC hardware. Switching from their IBM powerpc chips, to basically the same hardware as all the other PC's out there (with some caveats like EFI), made running OSX on a PC simple.
The Source engine is a pretty good engine, it runs even on hardward of yesteryear. I have an X2 4200, 2gb, and a x1800, and TF2 runs maxed out just fine.
Crysis runs fine on medium, not so hot on high:)
I even got TF2 running ok on my old athlonxp 2800, with a radeon 9700 AIW, for my cousin to use.
Wow, another Descent 3 player. I didn't think I'd ever come across one outside of the DescentBB or in game.
I wish D3 had done better so we'd get a Descent4.
Oh the countless LAN parties of Descent 1/2/3 over the years, Califest, the $50,000K tourney (I won a sound card, a shirt, and a sidewinder force feedback)
I love this Antivirus package, especially compared to the bloated mess that is Norton Antivirus.
NOD32 is relatively small, VERY FAST, consumes very little resources.
I usually tell people who have Norton installed it's worse for their computer then any virus ever could be. I usually uninstall it and put on NOD32 if they are willing to pay for a subscription, or AVG for the freebie folks.
I still don't understand how you can buy a computer, that comes with software, like Windows, and not be given the CD for it. You are not only buying a computer, but also a Windows license with it. Everyone who buys a Windows license (other then VLK customers), should get a CD with their license.
There is also a powertoy available on Windows, called SyncToy. I haven't used it as much (I don't think it will run automatically when it detects you are back "online", you have to tell it to synch, but it does seem to actually synch well. I also set it to run on startup.
We use offline files in our office. We haven't had too many issues with it. One issue was with people who have incredibly complex folder filing systems. They often had paths over 255 characters long, which the offline files tool does not like. We only use offline files for the users own network drive, not any drive shared with others (maybe their AA), so changes being done to both the server file and the offline copy are very unlikely.
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They don't feel comfortable running RPC over https? You issue a certificate and it's pretty nice and secure. All our laptop folks connect into the exchange that way. Outlook 2003 and higher support it, works great. Mail, calendar, contacts, everything.
That sure reeks of a paid ad...
I don't know about any studies, but I can tell you that on a flight from Paraguay to Brazil earlier this year, a passenger near me turned on his phone (gsm if it matters), and within about 20 seconds the very angry pilot came on the PA telling "whoever just turned on their cellphone turn it off, we are trying to land the plane!!"
So it certainly must do something the pilots can notice.
The metric system is just better, get over it. While those of us in the "real world" still use imperial/english units for some things (constuction industry, like 2x4's for wood. Height, I don't know how many cm's tall I am, but I know I am 5'11"), we realize the vast upsides of having nice simple system for basically everything else, where just about everything is nice round factors of 10. Same goes for temperature, who the heck cares what temperature mercury freezes at? Celcius/Kelvin FTW!
There is also a cool video of some guys draining the oil out of a Kawasaki sportbike, and running it at redline. For some odd reason I can't seem to find it online, but basically they run it until the exhaust eventually catches on fire and the thing seems to die. The next day they fill it back up with oil, and it starts right up :)
I also maintain a similar number of PC's (60-80), currently all on XP. I have 2 Vista test machines running Vista, both business, joined to the same domain. We do use a login script here to map network drives and printers. The script itself runs fine on both Vista and XP, but for some reason wasn't working properly in Vista if automatically run in startup. The script would run (I added a messagebox to it saying it was beginning), but the mappings would not complete. If I remember correctly, I eventually solved the issue by moving the script from the group policy at the OU level, to one domain wide, and then it worked fine. This was a year ago though, so I may be wrong on that.
I Concur, I'm on Cogeco in the Niagara Falls area, and I quite regularly get 800KB/s total speed while downloading torrents. My normal http downloads often exceed 1000KB/s. It's awesome downloading a linux ISO in 20 minutes :)
Well I can relate one story I know of directly.
This past summer one of our employees was going from Canada to the US via car, crossing at Port Huron, MI. He was going to a conference in Michigan and had a couple other people speaking at this conference with him. When they got to the border, an alarm went off and they were all hauled into the security office.
After several hours they were let go after the guards contacted the doctor of one of the women in the car, and confirmed she had indeed ungergone a stress test with the radioactive fluid earlier that day.
This was the womens own fault as the Doctors office had told her she should not do any international travelling for a couple of days, becuase of this very reason, but she did not listen.
Yea it was just an example, that a single company owns the line into your house, Bell is just the biggest.
Basically, since Bell owns all the phone lines in Canada, and since there are only a handful of cable companies)which almost neverlap), the government is forcing them offer wholesale rates to other companies that want to run their own ISP, using Bell's "last mile" lines/equipment. So for example, I can get a DSL internet connection from a company like Primus, who is using Bell's lines/hardware at the street level, then onto their own network after that. They can offer better prices then Bell if they have low overhead.
So true, we're long overdue for another Descent game. Interplay is alive again, so maybe we'll get it.
Quite true, the TI 850 is in all sorts of HTC devices, it runs WM6 at a reasonable clip (quicker then WM5 I find).
So true, I remove it from every PC I see too. I just had a laptop brought to me yesterday, Pentium5 1.7ghz, 1gb ram, slow as a dog. Disabled norton internet security, and the person is amazed at how fast their system is. Put on AVG (Though I prefer NOD32 if the person is willing to pay for AV), and all is well.
I have a Toshiba A200 laptop here with a HD-DVD drive and radeon hd 2400 graphics. The drive looks standard size to me, but thats just judging by whats visible with it open, I have no desire to pull this out of the laptop to check.
Speaking of non-service, I got my wife a cell phone a few months ago with Virgil mobile. It's on a $20 a month plan for $250 minutes. Every month, they take their $20 off my credit card, she gets a text saying her account is paid up. 2-3 days later she gets a text saying her account balance is 0.01. We have them send us her call logs, which show only 1 or 2 calls totalling 5-6 minutes, yet somehow the 200 minutes magically dissapear. I've tried for 3 months to get this resolved, so I'll be dumping them too. Too bad, this is obviously a computer glitch, the rest of their service has been pretty good. Virgin uses Bell's network, so I can't just swap her phone over to Rogers, though I might be able to swap it onto Bell.
I've been slowly switching all our work phones off of Bell and onto Rogers as contracts expire. Both are evil, but Rogers is less evil simply because of some of the benefits of GSM. Will Bell, lets say I want a new handset. I go to a Bellworld store, pick out a phone, pay the $300 for it with no contract, or $50-100 with contract. Now, they charge me a FEE, to switch the phone. I AM BUYING A PHONE FROM YOU!! DO NOT CHARGE ME A PENALTY FOR THE HONOUR OF AN UPGRADE!! It's like $35. I refuse to pay any made up admin fees when purchasing a product. With Rogers, I buy unlocked phones online, and don't even need to tell Rogers I got a new phone, I just pop the users SIM card into the new phone and off they go. Rates are still horrible with both, but I get more flexibility with Rogers. Getting unlimited data plans is almost impossible here.
First off, the game is quite good. I beat single player yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. 3/5 is way too low a score, 4/5 is better. Anyway, the voice on the radio telling you if air support is coming, and relaying any sort of messages from command to your unit, sounds a lot like the voice from Black Hawk Down (the movie). Anyone know if it is the same guy?
Apple has made it much easier to run OSX on PC hardware. Switching from their IBM powerpc chips, to basically the same hardware as all the other PC's out there (with some caveats like EFI), made running OSX on a PC simple.
The Source engine is a pretty good engine, it runs even on hardward of yesteryear.
:)
I have an X2 4200, 2gb, and a x1800, and TF2 runs maxed out just fine.
Crysis runs fine on medium, not so hot on high
I even got TF2 running ok on my old athlonxp 2800, with a radeon 9700 AIW, for my cousin to use.
Wow, another Descent 3 player. I didn't think I'd ever come across one outside of the DescentBB or in game. I wish D3 had done better so we'd get a Descent4. Oh the countless LAN parties of Descent 1/2/3 over the years, Califest, the $50,000K tourney (I won a sound card, a shirt, and a sidewinder force feedback)
Pfft... Real men program in Assembly. Uber-men program in direct Binary
I love this Antivirus package, especially compared to the bloated mess that is Norton Antivirus. NOD32 is relatively small, VERY FAST, consumes very little resources. I usually tell people who have Norton installed it's worse for their computer then any virus ever could be. I usually uninstall it and put on NOD32 if they are willing to pay for a subscription, or AVG for the freebie folks.
Thanks for the reminder about freespace, that was a fun game. I'll have to find my old cd's and reinstall it.
I still don't understand how you can buy a computer, that comes with software, like Windows, and not be given the CD for it. You are not only buying a computer, but also a Windows license with it. Everyone who buys a Windows license (other then VLK customers), should get a CD with their license.
There is also a powertoy available on Windows, called SyncToy. I haven't used it as much (I don't think it will run automatically when it detects you are back "online", you have to tell it to synch, but it does seem to actually synch well.
I also set it to run on startup.
We use offline files in our office. We haven't had too many issues with it. One issue was with people who have incredibly complex folder filing systems. They often had paths over 255 characters long, which the offline files tool does not like.
We only use offline files for the users own network drive, not any drive shared with others (maybe their AA), so changes being done to both the server file and the offline copy are very unlikely.