I've been buying online from Sainsbury's (www.sainsburys.co.uk) for most of this year - on the insistence of non-geek friends who told me how convenient the service is - and I'm very happy with their operation.
If you don't like a substitution you can always get them to change it, or check the paperwork at delivery time and refuse to accept it. I have had a few problems but the overall convenience of the service far outweighs them. In any case they do seem to be learning as they go along, and the service seems to be steadily improving.
If this comment is moderated interesting, what
would you have to say to be rated as offensive?
This is the sort of willfully ignorant, xenophobic
rant you might expect to hear from a drunken
redneck idiot. It is precisely attitudes like
this (one American must be worth hundreds of
dirty poor foreigners) that make the United States
unpopular around the world.
ArcServe DOES have a CLI - a program called ArcBatch. For a Netware environment it comes in two flavours - an.EXE file you can run from a workstation or an.NLM you can run on the server. You can either specify a pre-configured job to run at a particular time or load all the settings from an ASCII file.
So far so good. But when I was testing a site for Y2K problems last year ArcBatch would not handle any dates after 31 December 1999 - it would submit the jobs with seeming random dates (e.g. 3 March 1923) and times. I contacted CA tech support and received a snotty fax back saying that my testing methodology (setting server clock to January 4 2000 and seeing what happened) was faulty, that ArcServe got its date and time information "from the queue" so a natural date roll-over would not exhibit these problems, that ArcServe WAS Y2K compliant and finished with the advice to check out their Y2K web page.
So guess what happened January 4 this year? Yep, same problem. Checked the CA web site for patches and upgrades and found a fix for ArcBatch dated December 9!! Weeks after I had been given the brush-off!! Bastards!!
So I can't recommend these bozos to anyone looking for a backup solution.
...check out http://www.stomptokyo.com. They have oodles of bad film reviews, tv reviews, (and they had a piece on the Star Wars holiday special months ago, natch).
Whatever the ergonomic argument for having nips on the d & k instead of the f & j, surely the most important factor is consistency with established practice.
Now if there was no established practice on terminal / typewriter keyboards before the first Mac then fine, use d & k. But if the convention was already to use f & j then it is arrogant and unhelpful to try and break with that convention. Why not go the whole hog and ditch QWERTY in favour of Dvorjak or some entirely new scheme?
I'd be interested to know if anyone can remember what the situation with keyboards was when the first Mac came out.
The reason I resorted to childish (but satisfying) insult was despair at ever reasoning with someone dumb enough to believe in creationism in 1999.
Evolution has been observed - you might try reading a book called "Darwin's Finches" about biologists tracking developments in the finch population in the Galapagos. As the environment changes so do the birds.
I've read Darwin himself, Gould, Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker and can only feel pity for someone so willfully stupid as not to appreciate the beauty, simplicity and truth of evolution.
Then I re-read Corey-the-asshole's post and thoutht better of it. What a stupid wanker! What a cretin! Read some Steven J Gould, or Dawkins, or Dennet and marvel how evolution explains so many facts with beauty and precision.
Point is, the - well let's be honest, US - Brits regard the Americans as our friends, not our fellow Europeans. That's why we are so disloyal to the European ideal.
And does a good European citizen blow up GreenPeace boats? Probably.
"If I was carring a concealed weapon (legally) and saw a someone picking off people I'd certainly intervene."
Well bully for you. I'm sure you're a regular little one-man crime buster in your dreams. In reality, how come the average US citizen is much more likely to be murdered than the average UK citizen? What with all you brave gun-toting assholes and all?
An immature wanker like you who likes to boast about their collection of - ooh REALLY SHARP - knives and swords is a great advertisment for gun control.
A disarmed population makes criminals less likely to use guns. Are you seriously claiming that the USA can boast a lower rate of burglary, rape, car theft etc than most European countries? Of course not. What deters criminals is the risk of getting CAUGHT.
Admirable as America is in many ways, the crime & punishment situation is sick sick sick. Rank countries by the eagerness with which they execute their own citizens and the USA is up there with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Nice company.
Slashdot Mirror
I replaced my old DeskJet 520 with a Canon S750
a year ago and I'm *very* pleased with it.
Solid build quality, cheap ink cartridges, fast
and good-looking output, reliable paper handling
-this printer just does what it says on the tin.
Well worth paying a little extra for.
Toby Poynder
London UK
The quote actually runs "THE LOVE OF money is the
root of all evil" (emphasis mine). Timothy 6:10 if you're interested.
Toby Poynder
London UK
I've been buying online from Sainsbury's (www.sainsburys.co.uk) for most of this year - on the insistence of non-geek friends who told me how convenient the service is - and I'm very happy with their operation.
If you don't like a substitution you can always get them to change it, or check the paperwork at delivery time and refuse to accept it. I have had a few problems but the overall convenience of the service far outweighs them. In any case they do seem to be learning as they go along, and the service seems to be steadily improving.
Toby Poynder
London UK
slashcone - where in Europe do you live?
Toby Poynder
London UK
If this comment is moderated interesting, what
would you have to say to be rated as offensive?
This is the sort of willfully ignorant, xenophobic
rant you might expect to hear from a drunken
redneck idiot. It is precisely attitudes like
this (one American must be worth hundreds of
dirty poor foreigners) that make the United States
unpopular around the world.
Toby Poynder
London, UK
That is an "insightful" comment?
Toby
ArcServe DOES have a CLI - a program called .EXE file you can run from .NLM you can run on the
ArcBatch. For a Netware environment it comes in
two flavours - an
a workstation or an
server. You can either specify a pre-configured
job to run at a particular time or load all the
settings from an ASCII file.
So far so good. But when I was testing a site for
Y2K problems last year ArcBatch would not handle
any dates after 31 December 1999 - it would submit
the jobs with seeming random dates (e.g. 3 March
1923) and times. I contacted CA tech support and
received a snotty fax back saying that my testing
methodology (setting server clock to January 4 2000 and seeing what happened) was faulty, that
ArcServe got its date and time information "from
the queue" so a natural date roll-over would not
exhibit these problems, that ArcServe WAS Y2K
compliant and finished with the advice to check
out their Y2K web page.
So guess what happened January 4 this year? Yep,
same problem. Checked the CA web site for patches
and upgrades and found a fix for ArcBatch dated
December 9!! Weeks after I had been given the
brush-off!! Bastards!!
So I can't recommend these bozos to anyone looking
for a backup solution.
Toby
...check out http://www.stomptokyo.com. They have
oodles of bad film reviews, tv reviews, (and they
had a piece on the Star Wars holiday special
months ago, natch).
Toby
Whatever the ergonomic argument for having
nips on the d & k instead of the f & j, surely
the most important factor is consistency with
established practice.
Now if there was no established practice on
terminal / typewriter keyboards before the first
Mac then fine, use d & k. But if the convention
was already to use f & j then it is arrogant and
unhelpful to try and break with that convention.
Why not go the whole hog and ditch QWERTY in
favour of Dvorjak or some entirely new scheme?
I'd be interested to know if anyone can remember
what the situation with keyboards was when the
first Mac came out.
Toby
Ghandi was killed by a Hindu nationalist - same as those right wing BJP arseholes who seem so keen on destroying mosques at the moment. Toby Poynder
What is the point of having moderators if this
sort of crap is left untouched?
Toby
The reason I resorted to childish (but satisfying)
insult was despair at ever reasoning with someone
dumb enough to believe in creationism in 1999.
Evolution has been observed - you might try
reading a book called "Darwin's Finches" about
biologists tracking developments in the finch
population in the Galapagos. As the environment
changes so do the birds.
I've read Darwin himself, Gould, Dawkins, Dennett,
Pinker and can only feel pity for someone so
willfully stupid as not to appreciate the beauty,
simplicity and truth of evolution.
Toby
I can't believe I am reading shit like this.
Only in America.
Toby
I was going to post a reasonable, argued comment.
Then I re-read Corey-the-asshole's post and thoutht better of it. What a stupid wanker! What a cretin! Read some Steven J Gould, or Dawkins, or Dennet and marvel how evolution explains so many facts with beauty and precision.
Or wallow in your ignorace like Corey-the-turd.
Whatever.
We sent the convicts to Australia
America got the religious nutters
Couldn't have put it better myself?
Toby
Point is, the - well let's be honest, US - Brits
regard the Americans as our friends, not our
fellow Europeans. That's why we are so disloyal
to the European ideal.
And does a good European citizen blow up
GreenPeace boats? Probably.
Toby
"If I was carring a concealed weapon (legally) and
saw a someone picking off people I'd certainly
intervene."
Well bully for you. I'm sure you're a regular
little one-man crime buster in your dreams. In
reality, how come the average US citizen is much
more likely to be murdered than the average UK
citizen? What with all you brave gun-toting
assholes and all?
Portugal 1975
An immature wanker like you who likes to boast
about their collection of - ooh REALLY SHARP - knives and swords is a great advertisment for
gun control.
A disarmed population makes criminals less likely
to use guns. Are you seriously claiming that the
USA can boast a lower rate of burglary, rape,
car theft etc than most European countries? Of
course not. What deters criminals is the risk of
getting CAUGHT.
Admirable as America is in many ways, the crime &
punishment situation is sick sick sick. Rank
countries by the eagerness with which they execute
their own citizens and the USA is up there with
China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Nice company.