Congratulations. An illegal mexican built your house, and you paid the price: money out of YOUR pocket on repairs, plus YOUR inflated tax bill to pay for his illegal family's medical bills in the emergency room, his anchor baby's birth in the local hospital, his illegal kids' schooling (stealing directly from YOUR kid's education), the crimes committed by his illegal friends and his kids in gangs, and of course the fact that HE and HIS ILLEGAL FAMILY are stealing someone's social security number to run up debt in their name.
The person whose SSN he stole, who will have their lives and credit ruined when he skips out on the bills later? Congratulations - that could be YOU or YOUR kid. The kid killed by his friends or his kids in gangs? Congratulations - that could be YOUR friend or family member.
Wow, this is one problematic Mexican! This guy is like the Dr. Evil of low-wage migrant labor!
These pics are not particularly high-res. There are probably high-res versions of these same images available somewhere, but I couldn't find them. Here are some similar ones, though, suitable for printed pinups:
http://www.uslhc.us/Images
He's not just a senator anymore -- he's a de facto party leader, and gets as much press as he wants. People will pour over his every word. He could and should have used this opportunity to take a stand against widespread civil rights violations. Most democrats would have followed him, too -- nobody's gonna retract their endorsements at this point.
Instead he made a nominal fuss, then caved to the big money. Typical.
Dark *is* fun. Kids know when they're being coddled, and that's enough to turn some kids off a whole genre or reading altogether.
Anyway, Ender's Game is great -- playful but also rife with doom. I didn't always have a huge attention span when I was a youngster, though, so I read all the volumes of Hugo short-story winners I could find. Some great stuff in there.
Box says it supports 2000 and XP and to go to the website for the latest Vista drivers. Oddly enough, I actually want to use it on 2000, so no problem, right?
Run setup.exe from installer CD. Over the course of 4 or 5 "Next" clicks taking about 10 minutes, it uncompresses files, copies things around, and shows me blurbs about features. Then it says my windows version isn't supported.
Go the website. Can't just get a download directory, of course, have to navigate though a hellish javascript drilldown tree. Enter the printer model, and windows 2000 as OS, and it shows exactly one file to download, a 200 megabyte.exe file (yes, of course it includes a dozen lousy bundled programs) described as being for "XP or Vista"
I download it anyway. It crashes when I run it. Bad download? There's no exact file size or md5 sum listed on the website, so who knows? Download it again. Same crash.
Poke around for an older version of the driver download. Try international sites, guess at likely ftp sites (probably a punishable hacking offense), no luck. Finally find a page with a driver download for "IT Professionals" that's supposed to support all their printers and only be a 70 megabyte download. I download it, and the file I get is actually 136 megabytes. Whatever, I install it anyway -- and it works! Wow!
In total, it took about 2.5 hours to get this thing working. Probably would have been easier in XP, but fer crissake, it says 2000 is supported on the box! It's crazy to think how much value the vendor-supplied windows-only drivers SUBTRACT from this printer. This really isn't Microsoft's fault, but it shows one area where a good Linux distro really shines -- drivers built-in, signed packages vetted, downloaded, and verified, and the general confidence that installing a piece of hardware will not include a bunch of extra junk software.
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Anecdote of bygone times: Some years back I actually packed in my luggage a spare tire which I had borrowed and was returning. Very large, very heavy bag. The baggage agent demanded to know what it was, gave me some dirty looks, but let it pass (with no extra fee.) I just can't imagine what they'd think and/or charge if someone tried that today.
Use of PAR seconded -- For me, this is standard operating procedure for backups on DVD media, using about 5% of the disk space for par files.
It won't be a problem to find a drive that can read burned DVDs in 20 years, but it's probably prudent to re-verify the disks every five years or so, and re-burn them if they show rot. If you really want to future-proof the scheme, throw in a copy of the par utilities and sourcecode, a player and codecs for your video files, a virtual machine that can run the player, a live CD that can run the virtual machine, etc, etc.
For example, if you hit WIN+R and type 'CMD", the desktop is your default working directory.
No, it's your user directory, one level up from your desktop. Much harder for crap to end up there by accident, though it does happen (fools are ingenious, etc.)
Running from the WIN+R prompt searches the path like it should, and will not run things from the desktop unless it's been added to the path.
There's plenty of face-egg to go around. Safari's drive-by download functionality is certainly idiotic, but it's just plain dangerous to have the user desktop be the place for 1) program shortcuts 2) random crap that tends to appear automatically and pile up with or without Safari's help (and, in the default config, with file extensions hidden) and 3) the built-in unremovable web browser to try to load libraries from, even though there's not the slightest reason that library files should ever be there.
You can't get around this by avoiding the "special" IE icon, though. You can make a real shortcut, set the working directory to whatever you want, or even launch IE from its own program directory from a command prompt, and it will still consider the desktop to be the current directory.
As a fun experiment,
copy cmd.exe to the desktop and rename it to notepad.exe
launch IE the "safest" way you can think up
view page source
YRMV, but in my tests with IE 6 and 7 in 2k and XP, it will launch the command prompt instead of notepad, and you can see the current directory and the stuff it prepends to the PATH variable.
Until this is fixed in IE, I recommend copying notepad.exe and all your system.DLLs from the system32 directory onto each user's desktop, and use an ACL on each one to make sure your users do not have permission to overwrite them. No, seriously. (Or you could just use another browser.)
Wait wait, better -- you bulk mail out the invitation to "Occupant", but it doesn't include the key. Instead of getting the cars rekeyed, you just have a giant rack of keys, and you hire a guy, Vito Linksysio, to hand out the keys as needed. Now, you *could* give Vito pictures of people who are allowed to borrow the cars, but that's too much trouble. You *could* tell him that people have to know a password to get a car, but that's too much trouble. So you just tell him to hand a key to whoever shows up.
And even though you've mailed the invitation to the entire zip code, you're still shocked, shocked to find that strangers are borrowing the cars. How forward of them!
Suppose you bought a used car lot, but not to sell the cars, just to have a nice inventory onhand for your friends and family who live nearby. You want to make it easy and convenient, so you get all the cars rekeyed so the same key will operate them all. You want to announce this service and distribute the keys, but it's too much trouble to look up each person's mailing address. So you get 1000 copies of the key made and bulk-mail them to everyone in the zip code, addressed to "Occupant", with an invitation that says "Feel free to borrow one of my cars!"
Naturally, you assume that only the friends and family you intended will use the cars. Imagine your surprise when you see strangers borrowing the cars!
Is this bad? Well, it's not doing anyone any harm... as long as you have enough cars left over for your friends and family too... as long as the strangers don't run over pedestrians with your cars and get the cops on your ass... as long as the local car rental company doesn't find out and come break your kees for stealing their business... Hmm, all in all, maybe it'd be safer to give the keys out only to selected individuals!
Sure, 2001-09-11 qualifies as an invasion -- but 1) I think the danger to public safety posed by habeas corpus needs to be a fact proven to the public (or at least to congress), not a fiat of the administration and 2) that was over six years ago, and I'm not about to succumb to "they're everywhere, cells infiltrating our cities, we're at orange again!" sort of fearmongering. A state of neverending invasion? I'm not buying it.
But I don't think "Bush & Co." really care exactly how their actions are justifiable from a constitutional point of view -- they just know they're right. "We're at war. These are (probably) captured enemy soldiers. Must detain & interrogate, because if one American life is lost that indefinite detention and waterboarding could have saved, then we have betrayed our country. (P.S. It's not torture when we do it, because we know we're the good guys.)" The amazing thing is that they have four supremes who agree with this line of thought, but of course they were very carefully vetted.
it just states that it cannot be suspended, except during rebellion or invasion. And even then, only during the rare, exceptionally dire sort of rebellion or invasion wherein habeas corpus threatens public safety. Just having a rebellion or invasion isn't enough.
distribution was costly and the major determinant of market spread was the company's investment in stamping CD's, packaging and delivery Not CDs, more like a stack of 20 floppies, a decently-written paper manual, and a stupid printer port security dongle. Those software boxes actually used to be FULL of stuff.
In this case the shortcut to IE is launching the program with the user's desktop as current directory. Hold the phone -- after several tests using CastrTroy's method, it appears that it doesn't matter one lick what the current directory is: IE will always give preference to executables on the desktop. 1) Eating crow and 2) Yikes! I still think Apple will be able to fix this first, and should.
Red herring. It's got nothing to do with "Active Desktop". It's just the way Windows executables typically look for.dll files -- starting with the current directory and then each path listed in the PATH environment var.
In this case the shortcut to IE is launching the program with the user's desktop as current directory. First of all, it shouldn't -- probably it should be one level up from, there, in the user's home directory. Second, MS might want to rethink the way they hunt for.dll files for system-installed apps. Loading them from a user-writable directory is probably a bad idea. Loading them from a location that tends to fill up with random shit is *definitely* a bad idea.
That said, Apple should take initiative here and change the default download directory, especially after the way they hard-sold the Safari installation to so many people to begin with.
Oh, and the hole-in-the-ozone thing, caused by CFC propellants, is very "eighties". Yes, it's real, and yes, it probably going to be giving penguins cancer for many years to come -- but the crisis that in the headlines these days is the greenhouse effect aka global warming aka global climate change. No weird chemicals involved, just regular "harmless" CO2.
This is part of the reason that global warming took a while to catch on as something to panic about. It's easy to condemn nasty things like sulfur, lead, and carbon monoxide. It's pretty easy to make a case against not-found-in-nature compounds like CFCs. But CO2 is naturally occuring, not stinky or poisonous, and has been described as a harmless (or even beneficial) byproduct of combustion for many decades.
Suppose that the cash goes toward planting trees, research, efficiency upgrades -- something like that. Then it might make sense. But cutting out the middle man might make a lot more sense. I suppose it depends on how much you trust your carbon offset broker.
Personally, I've yet to hear a compelling case as to why (and to whom) I should be making this sort of donation.
Still not quite right,
If I broke into your house and put worthless objects labeled as being someone else's stuff in your room... You could fill the room with P-P-P-PowerBooks!
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Congratulations. An illegal mexican built your house, and you paid the price: money out of YOUR pocket on repairs, plus YOUR inflated tax bill to pay for his illegal family's medical bills in the emergency room, his anchor baby's birth in the local hospital, his illegal kids' schooling (stealing directly from YOUR kid's education), the crimes committed by his illegal friends and his kids in gangs, and of course the fact that HE and HIS ILLEGAL FAMILY are stealing someone's social security number to run up debt in their name.
The person whose SSN he stole, who will have their lives and credit ruined when he skips out on the bills later? Congratulations - that could be YOU or YOUR kid. The kid killed by his friends or his kids in gangs? Congratulations - that could be YOUR friend or family member.
Wow, this is one problematic Mexican! This guy is like the Dr. Evil of low-wage migrant labor!
Sounds like a job for a small, contained nuclear reaction.
These pics are not particularly high-res. There are probably high-res versions of these same images available somewhere, but I couldn't find them. Here are some similar ones, though, suitable for printed pinups: http://www.uslhc.us/Images
Either that, or a $20 charge for "new features"...
He's not just a senator anymore -- he's a de facto party leader, and gets as much press as he wants. People will pour over his every word. He could and should have used this opportunity to take a stand against widespread civil rights violations. Most democrats would have followed him, too -- nobody's gonna retract their endorsements at this point.
Instead he made a nominal fuss, then caved to the big money. Typical.
(Precious tools? Please...)
Dark *is* fun. Kids know when they're being coddled, and that's enough to turn some kids off a whole genre or reading altogether.
Anyway, Ender's Game is great -- playful but also rife with doom. I didn't always have a huge attention span when I was a youngster, though, so I read all the volumes of Hugo short-story winners I could find. Some great stuff in there.
- Box says it supports 2000 and XP and to go to the website for the latest Vista drivers. Oddly enough, I actually want to use it on 2000, so no problem, right?
- Run setup.exe from installer CD. Over the course of 4 or 5 "Next" clicks taking about 10 minutes, it uncompresses files, copies things around, and shows me blurbs about features. Then it says my windows version isn't supported.
- Go the website. Can't just get a download directory, of course, have to navigate though a hellish javascript drilldown tree. Enter the printer model, and windows 2000 as OS, and it shows exactly one file to download, a 200 megabyte
.exe file (yes, of course it includes a dozen lousy bundled programs) described as being for "XP or Vista"
- I download it anyway. It crashes when I run it. Bad download? There's no exact file size or md5 sum listed on the website, so who knows? Download it again. Same crash.
- Poke around for an older version of the driver download. Try international sites, guess at likely ftp sites (probably a punishable hacking offense), no luck. Finally find a page with a driver download for "IT Professionals" that's supposed to support all their printers and only be a 70 megabyte download. I download it, and the file I get is actually 136 megabytes. Whatever, I install it anyway -- and it works! Wow!
In total, it took about 2.5 hours to get this thing working. Probably would have been easier in XP, but fer crissake, it says 2000 is supported on the box! It's crazy to think how much value the vendor-supplied windows-only drivers SUBTRACT from this printer. This really isn't Microsoft's fault, but it shows one area where a good Linux distro really shines -- drivers built-in, signed packages vetted, downloaded, and verified, and the general confidence that installing a piece of hardware will not include a bunch of extra junk software.Anecdote of bygone times: Some years back I actually packed in my luggage a spare tire which I had borrowed and was returning. Very large, very heavy bag. The baggage agent demanded to know what it was, gave me some dirty looks, but let it pass (with no extra fee.) I just can't imagine what they'd think and/or charge if someone tried that today.
Use of PAR seconded -- For me, this is standard operating procedure for backups on DVD media, using about 5% of the disk space for par files.
It won't be a problem to find a drive that can read burned DVDs in 20 years, but it's probably prudent to re-verify the disks every five years or so, and re-burn them if they show rot. If you really want to future-proof the scheme, throw in a copy of the par utilities and sourcecode, a player and codecs for your video files, a virtual machine that can run the player, a live CD that can run the virtual machine, etc, etc.
No, it's your user directory, one level up from your desktop. Much harder for crap to end up there by accident, though it does happen (fools are ingenious, etc.)
Running from the WIN+R prompt searches the path like it should, and will not run things from the desktop unless it's been added to the path.
There's plenty of face-egg to go around. Safari's drive-by download functionality is certainly idiotic, but it's just plain dangerous to have the user desktop be the place for 1) program shortcuts 2) random crap that tends to appear automatically and pile up with or without Safari's help (and, in the default config, with file extensions hidden) and 3) the built-in unremovable web browser to try to load libraries from, even though there's not the slightest reason that library files should ever be there.
You can't get around this by avoiding the "special" IE icon, though. You can make a real shortcut, set the working directory to whatever you want, or even launch IE from its own program directory from a command prompt, and it will still consider the desktop to be the current directory.
As a fun experiment,
- copy cmd.exe to the desktop and rename it to notepad.exe
- launch IE the "safest" way you can think up
- view page source
YRMV, but in my tests with IE 6 and 7 in 2k and XP, it will launch the command prompt instead of notepad, and you can see the current directory and the stuff it prepends to the PATH variable.Until this is fixed in IE, I recommend copying notepad.exe and all your system .DLLs from the system32 directory onto each user's desktop, and use an ACL on each one to make sure your users do not have permission to overwrite them. No, seriously. (Or you could just use another browser.)
Wait wait, better -- you bulk mail out the invitation to "Occupant", but it doesn't include the key. Instead of getting the cars rekeyed, you just have a giant rack of keys, and you hire a guy, Vito Linksysio, to hand out the keys as needed. Now, you *could* give Vito pictures of people who are allowed to borrow the cars, but that's too much trouble. You *could* tell him that people have to know a password to get a car, but that's too much trouble. So you just tell him to hand a key to whoever shows up.
And even though you've mailed the invitation to the entire zip code, you're still shocked, shocked to find that strangers are borrowing the cars. How forward of them!
Suppose you bought a used car lot, but not to sell the cars, just to have a nice inventory onhand for your friends and family who live nearby. You want to make it easy and convenient, so you get all the cars rekeyed so the same key will operate them all. You want to announce this service and distribute the keys, but it's too much trouble to look up each person's mailing address. So you get 1000 copies of the key made and bulk-mail them to everyone in the zip code, addressed to "Occupant", with an invitation that says "Feel free to borrow one of my cars!"
Naturally, you assume that only the friends and family you intended will use the cars. Imagine your surprise when you see strangers borrowing the cars!
Is this bad? Well, it's not doing anyone any harm... as long as you have enough cars left over for your friends and family too... as long as the strangers don't run over pedestrians with your cars and get the cops on your ass... as long as the local car rental company doesn't find out and come break your kees for stealing their business... Hmm, all in all, maybe it'd be safer to give the keys out only to selected individuals!
Sure, 2001-09-11 qualifies as an invasion -- but 1) I think the danger to public safety posed by habeas corpus needs to be a fact proven to the public (or at least to congress), not a fiat of the administration and 2) that was over six years ago, and I'm not about to succumb to "they're everywhere, cells infiltrating our cities, we're at orange again!" sort of fearmongering. A state of neverending invasion? I'm not buying it.
But I don't think "Bush & Co." really care exactly how their actions are justifiable from a constitutional point of view -- they just know they're right. "We're at war. These are (probably) captured enemy soldiers. Must detain & interrogate, because if one American life is lost that indefinite detention and waterboarding could have saved, then we have betrayed our country. (P.S. It's not torture when we do it, because we know we're the good guys.)" The amazing thing is that they have four supremes who agree with this line of thought, but of course they were very carefully vetted.
Nothing that a few swift blows to the back of the head with a five iron can't fix...
Red herring. It's got nothing to do with "Active Desktop". It's just the way Windows executables typically look for .dll files -- starting with the current directory and then each path listed in the PATH environment var.
In this case the shortcut to IE is launching the program with the user's desktop as current directory. First of all, it shouldn't -- probably it should be one level up from, there, in the user's home directory. Second, MS might want to rethink the way they hunt for .dll files for system-installed apps. Loading them from a user-writable directory is probably a bad idea. Loading them from a location that tends to fill up with random shit is *definitely* a bad idea.
That said, Apple should take initiative here and change the default download directory, especially after the way they hard-sold the Safari installation to so many people to begin with.
Oh, and the hole-in-the-ozone thing, caused by CFC propellants, is very "eighties". Yes, it's real, and yes, it probably going to be giving penguins cancer for many years to come -- but the crisis that in the headlines these days is the greenhouse effect aka global warming aka global climate change. No weird chemicals involved, just regular "harmless" CO2.
This is part of the reason that global warming took a while to catch on as something to panic about. It's easy to condemn nasty things like sulfur, lead, and carbon monoxide. It's pretty easy to make a case against not-found-in-nature compounds like CFCs. But CO2 is naturally occuring, not stinky or poisonous, and has been described as a harmless (or even beneficial) byproduct of combustion for many decades.
Suppose that the cash goes toward planting trees, research, efficiency upgrades -- something like that. Then it might make sense. But cutting out the middle man might make a lot more sense. I suppose it depends on how much you trust your carbon offset broker.
Personally, I've yet to hear a compelling case as to why (and to whom) I should be making this sort of donation.
Just to be safe, we'd better make them all females.