Grand Rapids may not be as big as some Michigan cities, but it's not "rural" either. You may be confusing Grand Rapids with Big Rapids (about 50 miles North), which is a tiny little town, marked mostly by an
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It could be Syracuse, but we haven't started yet. I get to go back for "training" on Saturday.
(if you are at Syracuse, you'll have to let me know who you are)
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Netgear now makes a dongle-less card, and they're cheaper than the xircom's. (Don't get me wrong, the Xircom's are great cards, but I've had good luck with Netgear in my desktop, so I thought I'd try them in my laptop)
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I hope you meant Pentium 30, not 300. 300 would be CCC, not XXX
That wasn't a baseball game (at least not the incident I'm thinking of)
Lawless was singing the National Anthem at the Arrowwood Pond in Anaheim CA, prior to game 3 of the Red Wings-Mighty Ducks playoff series in 1997. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8715/freep ress.html has a story. (By the way, the Wings won 5-3, on the road to a Stanley Cup win that year)
Underscores may be your friend, but they don't stop you from recieving spam. I have had a hotmail account with an underscore for about 4 years, and I get roughly 300 spams per week. (Although, I probably disqualify myself, having used this particular address as the contact address for multiple domain registrations.)
It's pretty obvious that a lot of spammers use the part of the address before the @ as the "name" and have some way of customizing the subject of their spams... I have gotten several "M_hockey, you have been preapproved for a credit card" or "M_hockey, get a free sample of viagra"
I find support@domain cuts down on my spam a lot. For example, if I'm registering realplayer, I will use support@real.com. Or if you don't want to piss off their support people, you could always use support@microsoft.com
Detroit's mass transit system largely sucks. (with the possible exception of the mugger^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople mover) The bus system is sporadic, and doesn't connect with itself very well. Routes are not well marked. Hell, I can't even find an official webpage for the system (known as SMART)
If you want an example of a relatively decent mass transit system in a relatively small city (105,000), look at http://www.aata.org (Ann Arbor Transportation Authority)
There are some places in the US where a first offense for Marijuana possession is just a $25 ticket. That's cheaper than the ticket you'll get for doing 5 over the speed limit.
But then you still have problems with AOL. They also market a product known as "Netscape Instant Messanger" (NIM) so you would go from a "confusingly similar" name of one AOL product to another.
Gaffer's Tape uses the same adhesives as duct tape, but is different. First of all, Gaffers Tape leaves nowhere near as much residue as duct tape leaves. Secondly, Gaffer's tape has a dull surface, because the shiny surface of duct tape causes reflections, and is not good for Television.
Ahh... I remember my days of cracking foolproof. Our school computers were set up so you couldn't get to the chooser without unlocking foolproof. The funny thing is they were encouraging us to store all our documents on an AppleShare server. You couldn't get to the server without the chooser. I was in the library one day and I needed to get a file so I asked the librarian to unlock it (I was in a really good mood that day and for some reason was conforming to all their stupid restrictions). The librarian wouldn't unlock it, saying "Why do you need to get to the file server?" One reboot later and foolproof was gone from the system (they hadn't thought to use the SuperINIT or HD Locker). I later was given the password for foolproof on all the computers (I was a student assistant for one of the 4 techs). It wasn't very "fool proof", I probably could have guessed it in about a minute. (The tech I worked for had a clue, but it was one of the other 3 who administered foolproof on the computers. the person who set the passwords had no clue about security, and thought that using the school's address as the password would be secure)
When I'm making a large purchase, of course I research it before buying it. But, if I see an ad for a t-shirt from ThinkGeek or something that looks appealing, I may very well just buy it without researching it. Are there other places that sell t-shirts? Of course. But, for some things it's a matter of convinience.
Umm... The Apollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Sweigert) returned to Earth, safe and sound. The crew that was lost in the launch test mishap was the Apollo 1 crew (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee).
There are times when phone support would be much easier than remote control. For example, I work at a large University. Our clients are mostly students, however we do support departmental offices too. Installing remote control software on every computer would be a HUGE pain in the (well, you know).
However, since you stated that this was for a corporate environment, I'm assuming that you have some amount of control over every computer. I think that using a remote control software in this situation would end up saving a lot of time over phone support. At my high school, we used Network Assistant on the Macs, and were looking into PC Anywhere for the PC's (that ended up not happening, due to school beauracracy) While it's good for spying, it was also easier to fix a lot of problems, rather than doing phone support.
Or, depending on where you drive. There are some states (cough, cough, Michigan, cough, cough) that are pretty well known for their potholes (well, potheads too, but that's a whole 'nother story)
The little blinking lights are cool. The doors in my dorm have peep holes. I used duct tape to tape the light to the door, so people walking by see a flashing red light in the door. I've had a lot of people who either knocked or left a message that it's very cool. I also rigged a switch to it, so I can turn it off and on.
In my local area, both Grex and M-Net provide free basic access, and e-mail. They are both run as a essentially a co-op, with all users having a say in system policy. However, they don't market themselves as ISP's, rather, online communities and BBS's.
Most users who send HTML e-mail have no idea that they're sending the HTML. They don't have to type out all the code, they just use their favorite mail program, which adds the HTML tags on it's own.
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Let me try this again. ... tinly little town, marked mostly by an almost totally unknown University.
Grand Rapids may not be as big as some Michigan cities, but it's not "rural" either. You may be confusing Grand Rapids with Big Rapids (about 50 miles North), which is a tiny little town, marked mostly by an
It could be Syracuse, but we haven't started yet. I get to go back for "training" on Saturday.
(if you are at Syracuse, you'll have to let me know who you are)
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Netgear now makes a dongle-less card, and they're cheaper than the xircom's. (Don't get me wrong, the Xircom's are great cards, but I've had good luck with Netgear in my desktop, so I thought I'd try them in my laptop)
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I hope you meant Pentium 30, not 300. 300 would be CCC, not XXX
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Around here, there's a bagel place that goes by "Barry Bagel's"
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That wasn't a baseball game (at least not the incident I'm thinking of)
p ress.html has a story. (By the way, the Wings won 5-3, on the road to a Stanley Cup win that year)
Lawless was singing the National Anthem at the Arrowwood Pond in Anaheim CA, prior to game 3 of the Red Wings-Mighty Ducks playoff series in 1997. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8715/free
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I hated the class that forced me to use that book, but the book itself is great.
Underscores may be your friend, but they don't stop you from recieving spam. I have had a hotmail account with an underscore for about 4 years, and I get roughly 300 spams per week. (Although, I probably disqualify myself, having used this particular address as the contact address for multiple domain registrations.)
... I have gotten several "M_hockey, you have been preapproved for a credit card" or "M_hockey, get a free sample of viagra"
It's pretty obvious that a lot of spammers use the part of the address before the @ as the "name" and have some way of customizing the subject of their spams
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I find support@domain cuts down on my spam a lot. For example, if I'm registering realplayer, I will use support@real.com. Or if you don't want to piss off their support people, you could always use support@microsoft.com
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Detroit's mass transit system largely sucks. (with the possible exception of the mugger^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople mover) The bus system is sporadic, and doesn't connect with itself very well. Routes are not well marked. Hell, I can't even find an official webpage for the system (known as SMART)
If you want an example of a relatively decent mass transit system in a relatively small city (105,000), look at http://www.aata.org (Ann Arbor Transportation Authority)
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Would it be like the "Automatic Pilot" in Airplane! ?
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There are some places in the US where a first offense for Marijuana possession is just a $25 ticket. That's cheaper than the ticket you'll get for doing 5 over the speed limit.
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But then you still have problems with AOL. They also market a product known as "Netscape Instant Messanger" (NIM) so you would go from a "confusingly similar" name of one AOL product to another.
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Gaffer's Tape uses the same adhesives as duct tape, but is different. First of all, Gaffers Tape leaves nowhere near as much residue as duct tape leaves. Secondly, Gaffer's tape has a dull surface, because the shiny surface of duct tape causes reflections, and is not good for Television.
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Ahh ... I remember my days of cracking foolproof. Our school computers were set up so you couldn't get to the chooser without unlocking foolproof. The funny thing is they were encouraging us to store all our documents on an AppleShare server. You couldn't get to the server without the chooser. I was in the library one day and I needed to get a file so I asked the librarian to unlock it (I was in a really good mood that day and for some reason was conforming to all their stupid restrictions). The librarian wouldn't unlock it, saying "Why do you need to get to the file server?" One reboot later and foolproof was gone from the system (they hadn't thought to use the SuperINIT or HD Locker). I later was given the password for foolproof on all the computers (I was a student assistant for one of the 4 techs). It wasn't very "fool proof", I probably could have guessed it in about a minute. (The tech I worked for had a clue, but it was one of the other 3 who administered foolproof on the computers. the person who set the passwords had no clue about security, and thought that using the school's address as the password would be secure)
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31. Physical signs of aging no longer apparent
Retinol A? Rogaine? Botox? Facelifts & other cosmetic surgery (now suprisingly common)?
Viagra?
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Just remember, in order to truly understand recursion, we must first understand recursion.
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When I'm making a large purchase, of course I research it before buying it. But, if I see an ad for a t-shirt from ThinkGeek or something that looks appealing, I may very well just buy it without researching it. Are there other places that sell t-shirts? Of course. But, for some things it's a matter of convinience.
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Umm ... The Apollo 13 crew (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Sweigert) returned to Earth, safe and sound. The crew that was lost in the launch test mishap was the Apollo 1 crew (Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee).
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There are times when phone support would be much easier than remote control. For example, I work at a large University. Our clients are mostly students, however we do support departmental offices too. Installing remote control software on every computer would be a HUGE pain in the (well, you know).
However, since you stated that this was for a corporate environment, I'm assuming that you have some amount of control over every computer. I think that using a remote control software in this situation would end up saving a lot of time over phone support. At my high school, we used Network Assistant on the Macs, and were looking into PC Anywhere for the PC's (that ended up not happening, due to school beauracracy) While it's good for spying, it was also easier to fix a lot of problems, rather than doing phone support.
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Or, depending on where you drive. There are some states (cough, cough, Michigan, cough, cough) that are pretty well known for their potholes (well, potheads too, but that's a whole 'nother story)
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The little blinking lights are cool. The doors in my dorm have peep holes. I used duct tape to tape the light to the door, so people walking by see a flashing red light in the door. I've had a lot of people who either knocked or left a message that it's very cool. I also rigged a switch to it, so I can turn it off and on.
In my local area, both Grex and M-Net provide free basic access, and e-mail. They are both run as a essentially a co-op, with all users having a say in system policy. However, they don't market themselves as ISP's, rather, online communities and BBS's.
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Most users who send HTML e-mail have no idea that they're sending the HTML. They don't have to type out all the code, they just use their favorite mail program, which adds the HTML tags on it's own.
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