I feel your pain. Here we are stuck between Cox and AT&T. Cox experience is about like yours. I can't get anyone out to fix problems even after I prove it is their equipment. As for AT&T, we tried to get a business contract with them at work and after 12 unreturned phone calls our secretary called the cellphone that was listed on the voicemail. The rep screamed at her about how she shouldn't bother him on his cellphone and how she should call back on his main number. Seriously? Is that how you treat a customer that wants to know where to send a 36 month contract for 20+ lines?
An easier solutions is to just install the add to search bar plugin. Details on this plugin and how to get the old google layout back can be found on my website here: how to get rid of the new Google sidebar. You may also want to go to about:config and change http:/// to https:/// under keyword.URL
1. Because Flash doesn't work at all on many web enabled devices
2. Because Flash doesn't work well on the other devices that it does support
3. Because H.264 playback works well and most video cards have built in decoders (unlike Theora)
4. Why are we tying the video tag to any particular format at all? The image tag isn't tied to a particular image format...
yes. I have tried using Ogg Theora. Until it is supported by hardware it is useless on the web. It doesn't even play back videos as well as those in flash containers (which stutter like crazy).
But here is an ingenious idea: let the browser use whatever video support the system has. Patents were never a problem for the img tag. GIF was patent encumbered, but it didn't stop it from being the de facto standard for crappy web animation in the 90s. The video and audio html5 arguments are nonsense. Let users use what the users already have!
Thank you! I wish I had mod points. I am about to jump ship for chrome or safari. The only thing holding me back is the great plugins firefox offers (chrome is catching up) and the fact that chrome's UI is awful. If firefox goes the chrome route I know what I'll be using... (hint: it isn't firefox).
I love firefox in general but as of late it has gotten worse every version. It has serious memory leaks and slowly grinds to a halt until I have to force quit it. The only other program I have on my mac that shows this same behavior is Microsoft Word, and now that Open office is catching up in the native mac app department I am making the transition there as well (I have always loved OO on windows and linux, but the mac version was crap in every way imaginable until recently).
I don't usually reply to anonymous cowards, but just to clear the air... I didn't mean to be harsh - many cellphones have a soft off (such as the iphone) and others can be modified for monitoring purposes by law enforcement. I just wanted to make the point that just because the battery drains doesn't mean you need to live in a tin foil fort in the woods. And yes, I know wikipedia isn't always right. I didn't feel like searching any harder for another link - the wikipedia one worked and made my point. And yes, I am surely right all of the time, so there!
If you just let a disconnected battery sit in a drawer it will drain itself too. It must be wireless electricity doodads in the battery and phone so the phone can send information on you to the secret police even if the battery is pulled. Quick, run before they find out you know too much!
Or maybe batteries just have a tendency to run dead when not in use due to self-discharge. Now get off my tech site.
In other words, avoiding the mail system altogether, which shows that the postal system is slowly becoming antiquated. This program is just a dying industry trying to remain relevant.
Clearly you have something wrong with your setup. We run Fedora on Dell Poweredge file, network, and mail servers and have had very few problems. Some of these servers have multi-year uptimes and the others have been rebooted only for security or performance related upgrades. I mean sure, Samba is a little slow now on a few of the machines, but that is because it serves about 4 times as many people as it was originally designed for and it still isn't slowing "to a crawl".
If you are having problems with HP/Dell you really must be using low end hardware that was never designed to be a server or you have something really poorly configured. Typically I see the poor performance when companies get cheap and don't use high speed/high reliability hard drives or don't have raid setup properly, but that can't be blamed on the OS and as far as hardware goes - you get what you pay for.
You must have one crazy washing machine. I find them in the bottom of the wash all the time and as long as I let them dry out first I haven't had one fail yet. Not that I would recommend running them through the wash intentionally, but....
Not sure about being run over by cars through; a titanium cased one perhaps?
Well unless they screwed up even more than usual, smb and ldap should be safe as they are server-to-client and not peer-to-peer... I can see this having some rather bad side effects on their network routing setups though.... No more netbios m-node etc.
So if the entire world's DNS resolved to the Chinese firewall simultaneously would it DOS them to oblivion and end these shenanigans? I'd give up a day of using the internet to see that go down.
I take personally your accusations about health care. As a young person I had to drop my health coverage because I can not afford it. I rarely go to the doctor; I have been once in the last 3 years so I could get an allergy medication that is now over the counter. Yet despite having good health My policy price kept going up and up and almost every month when I paid it I would get a notice that premiums were increasing and that they were no longer covering x, y, or z. The coverage continued to decline and the prices kept going up until I couldn't afford it anymore. Now I put what I can afford in a savings account in case I have a health problem, but unfortunately if I were to have a major accident right now I would go bankrupt form medical bills and if I end up with a chronic condition I will die from it as I cannot afford medicine or treatment. I am an independent contractor, so I don't get health care through my job, so even if I kept the plan and somehow managed to pay the premium I would likely be dropped if I actually got sick as it is a common practice to do so in the health care industry. I'm glad your health care plan is so great - keep it. But I want coverage too, and if I don't get coverage from somewhere it will be your tax dollars paying for my emergency room visit, so what do you have to lose in this battle?
Mods: My apologies for going a little off topic here - I already killed the karma bonus.
Try this one instead. Not all audio equipment gets better with price, but I have yet to see a low end turntable that worked worth its weight in lead. Also, make sure you get a good stylus. The ones that come with the players are usually pretty bad (the one with this table is okay, but if your records are in bad shape I recommend getting one by audio technica - they have been making them for a long time and it will help avoid skipping).
I have no doubt this thread will be filled with unreasonable answers that won't solve your real-world problems. Here is a real world checklist:
firewall: configure it right!
mail server: scan for known viruses, run blacklists and setup filter that look for unusual traffic patterns, setup company-wide spam identification that notifies the mail server. This will help prevent false positives and identify misses. Block bad filetypes (all password protected compressed formats, all video files, anything remotely executable.
internet: run everything through a proxy that checks for content and have dns check for known bad domains and redirect to 127.0.0.1 if they attempt to go to a forbidden page - this is better than directing to the server because it will prevent you DDOSing your own servers. Set firefox as the default
security: enable DEP on all computers, run basic antispyware and antivirus on all computers (use microsoft security essentials and spybot combo if you can't afford anything else). Turn off macro support on office products unless necessary for a specific user.
lockdown group policy so that desktop and c drive can't be written by users, rename the administrative account and set a password. Make sure that system settings cannot be changed. Use an imaging product to reset the hard drive each boot (such as steadystate) or load the OS from a LAN image
Updates: Set the computers to Wake on lan or wake at a given time for updates. Use fox-it or another alternate pdf viewer whenever possible instead of adobe. Make sure flash is up-to-date, spyware and antivirus is up-to-date and browser and OS are up-to-date
Physical: lock the computer cases and prevent hardware installation by normal users. Prevent external drives if possible (this can be configured under steady state or group policy).
Checkups: check computers once a month with a full scan and monitor network at idle for unusual activity. This can be done for a large organization if you don't work weekends for instance by turning on all the machines and letting them sit idle and looking for unusual port activity or large volumes of data when they should not be updating.
This really isn't an issue - you must remember that components are sharing the bus, not the memory! Also, in many systems the commands are sent in triplicate with a check sum so that if there is electrical interference or a bad connection the data doesn't match and therefore isn't executed.
It isn't.... but Clockwork Orange actually a book first. It was about rebellion and youth and was set in 3 sections of 7 chapters each which added to 21 (the age of maturity according to the author). The last chapter was left out in the original American release by the publisher and that is what Kubrick used to create his screenplay, so the ending many take as sarcastic ("I was cured alright") is actually more serious.
That ASCII wasn't animated, your phone cradle just had a bad connection with your 300 baud modem! That may have sucked to wait for, but you could also get 15+ hours of battery life out of a couple AAs back then (on a TRS-80 at least), so not all that has happened with tech is necessarily a good thing. Not exactly powerful by today's standards, but journalists loved 'em for sending back assignments.
let me correct myself... You actually have to use IE6. I wasn't thinking when I was writing, I must need more coffee! To clarify how this works it just pulls in IE6 specific CSS which will render a big red message for IE6 users and leaves everyone else alone. I worked to maintain IE6 compatibility, but when I added the calendar, the javascript events cause the onhover workaround (an htc file) to stop working, meaning if you click on a calendar date it breaks navigation. I don't think it is fair for me to have to recode things for one 10-year-old browser when it works fine for everyone else.
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I feel your pain. Here we are stuck between Cox and AT&T. Cox experience is about like yours. I can't get anyone out to fix problems even after I prove it is their equipment. As for AT&T, we tried to get a business contract with them at work and after 12 unreturned phone calls our secretary called the cellphone that was listed on the voicemail. The rep screamed at her about how she shouldn't bother him on his cellphone and how she should call back on his main number. Seriously? Is that how you treat a customer that wants to know where to send a 36 month contract for 20+ lines?
An easier solutions is to just install the add to search bar plugin. Details on this plugin and how to get the old google layout back can be found on my website here: how to get rid of the new Google sidebar. You may also want to go to about:config and change http:/// to https:/// under keyword.URL
1. Because Flash doesn't work at all on many web enabled devices
2. Because Flash doesn't work well on the other devices that it does support
3. Because H.264 playback works well and most video cards have built in decoders (unlike Theora)
4. Why are we tying the video tag to any particular format at all? The image tag isn't tied to a particular image format...
yes. I have tried using Ogg Theora. Until it is supported by hardware it is useless on the web. It doesn't even play back videos as well as those in flash containers (which stutter like crazy).
But here is an ingenious idea: let the browser use whatever video support the system has. Patents were never a problem for the img tag. GIF was patent encumbered, but it didn't stop it from being the de facto standard for crappy web animation in the 90s. The video and audio html5 arguments are nonsense. Let users use what the users already have!
Thank you! I wish I had mod points. I am about to jump ship for chrome or safari. The only thing holding me back is the great plugins firefox offers (chrome is catching up) and the fact that chrome's UI is awful. If firefox goes the chrome route I know what I'll be using... (hint: it isn't firefox). I love firefox in general but as of late it has gotten worse every version. It has serious memory leaks and slowly grinds to a halt until I have to force quit it. The only other program I have on my mac that shows this same behavior is Microsoft Word, and now that Open office is catching up in the native mac app department I am making the transition there as well (I have always loved OO on windows and linux, but the mac version was crap in every way imaginable until recently).
I don't usually reply to anonymous cowards, but just to clear the air... I didn't mean to be harsh - many cellphones have a soft off (such as the iphone) and others can be modified for monitoring purposes by law enforcement. I just wanted to make the point that just because the battery drains doesn't mean you need to live in a tin foil fort in the woods. And yes, I know wikipedia isn't always right. I didn't feel like searching any harder for another link - the wikipedia one worked and made my point. And yes, I am surely right all of the time, so there!
If you just let a disconnected battery sit in a drawer it will drain itself too. It must be wireless electricity doodads in the battery and phone so the phone can send information on you to the secret police even if the battery is pulled. Quick, run before they find out you know too much!
Or maybe batteries just have a tendency to run dead when not in use due to self-discharge. Now get off my tech site.
In other words, avoiding the mail system altogether, which shows that the postal system is slowly becoming antiquated. This program is just a dying industry trying to remain relevant.
Clearly you have something wrong with your setup. We run Fedora on Dell Poweredge file, network, and mail servers and have had very few problems. Some of these servers have multi-year uptimes and the others have been rebooted only for security or performance related upgrades. I mean sure, Samba is a little slow now on a few of the machines, but that is because it serves about 4 times as many people as it was originally designed for and it still isn't slowing "to a crawl".
If you are having problems with HP/Dell you really must be using low end hardware that was never designed to be a server or you have something really poorly configured. Typically I see the poor performance when companies get cheap and don't use high speed/high reliability hard drives or don't have raid setup properly, but that can't be blamed on the OS and as far as hardware goes - you get what you pay for.
You must have one crazy washing machine. I find them in the bottom of the wash all the time and as long as I let them dry out first I haven't had one fail yet. Not that I would recommend running them through the wash intentionally, but....
Not sure about being run over by cars through; a titanium cased one perhaps?
Why didn't you just change your dns servers? You can set priority to strict you know.
Well unless they screwed up even more than usual, smb and ldap should be safe as they are server-to-client and not peer-to-peer... I can see this having some rather bad side effects on their network routing setups though.... No more netbios m-node etc.
So if the entire world's DNS resolved to the Chinese firewall simultaneously would it DOS them to oblivion and end these shenanigans? I'd give up a day of using the internet to see that go down.
I've heard Obama blamed for some crazy things, but this takes the cake.
I take personally your accusations about health care. As a young person I had to drop my health coverage because I can not afford it. I rarely go to the doctor; I have been once in the last 3 years so I could get an allergy medication that is now over the counter. Yet despite having good health My policy price kept going up and up and almost every month when I paid it I would get a notice that premiums were increasing and that they were no longer covering x, y, or z. The coverage continued to decline and the prices kept going up until I couldn't afford it anymore. Now I put what I can afford in a savings account in case I have a health problem, but unfortunately if I were to have a major accident right now I would go bankrupt form medical bills and if I end up with a chronic condition I will die from it as I cannot afford medicine or treatment. I am an independent contractor, so I don't get health care through my job, so even if I kept the plan and somehow managed to pay the premium I would likely be dropped if I actually got sick as it is a common practice to do so in the health care industry. I'm glad your health care plan is so great - keep it. But I want coverage too, and if I don't get coverage from somewhere it will be your tax dollars paying for my emergency room visit, so what do you have to lose in this battle?
Mods: My apologies for going a little off topic here - I already killed the karma bonus.
The noise overhead is insane.
Try this one instead. Not all audio equipment gets better with price, but I have yet to see a low end turntable that worked worth its weight in lead. Also, make sure you get a good stylus. The ones that come with the players are usually pretty bad (the one with this table is okay, but if your records are in bad shape I recommend getting one by audio technica - they have been making them for a long time and it will help avoid skipping).
Where do I get one of these keys to the internet they speak of?
I have no doubt this thread will be filled with unreasonable answers that won't solve your real-world problems. Here is a real world checklist: firewall: configure it right! mail server: scan for known viruses, run blacklists and setup filter that look for unusual traffic patterns, setup company-wide spam identification that notifies the mail server. This will help prevent false positives and identify misses. Block bad filetypes (all password protected compressed formats, all video files, anything remotely executable. internet: run everything through a proxy that checks for content and have dns check for known bad domains and redirect to 127.0.0.1 if they attempt to go to a forbidden page - this is better than directing to the server because it will prevent you DDOSing your own servers. Set firefox as the default security: enable DEP on all computers, run basic antispyware and antivirus on all computers (use microsoft security essentials and spybot combo if you can't afford anything else). Turn off macro support on office products unless necessary for a specific user. lockdown group policy so that desktop and c drive can't be written by users, rename the administrative account and set a password. Make sure that system settings cannot be changed. Use an imaging product to reset the hard drive each boot (such as steadystate) or load the OS from a LAN image Updates: Set the computers to Wake on lan or wake at a given time for updates. Use fox-it or another alternate pdf viewer whenever possible instead of adobe. Make sure flash is up-to-date, spyware and antivirus is up-to-date and browser and OS are up-to-date Physical: lock the computer cases and prevent hardware installation by normal users. Prevent external drives if possible (this can be configured under steady state or group policy). Checkups: check computers once a month with a full scan and monitor network at idle for unusual activity. This can be done for a large organization if you don't work weekends for instance by turning on all the machines and letting them sit idle and looking for unusual port activity or large volumes of data when they should not be updating.
This really isn't an issue - you must remember that components are sharing the bus, not the memory! Also, in many systems the commands are sent in triplicate with a check sum so that if there is electrical interference or a bad connection the data doesn't match and therefore isn't executed.
seriously, I can watch the battery on my cellphone die when the bluetooth is on.
It isn't.... but Clockwork Orange actually a book first. It was about rebellion and youth and was set in 3 sections of 7 chapters each which added to 21 (the age of maturity according to the author). The last chapter was left out in the original American release by the publisher and that is what Kubrick used to create his screenplay, so the ending many take as sarcastic ("I was cured alright") is actually more serious.
That ASCII wasn't animated, your phone cradle just had a bad connection with your 300 baud modem! That may have sucked to wait for, but you could also get 15+ hours of battery life out of a couple AAs back then (on a TRS-80 at least), so not all that has happened with tech is necessarily a good thing. Not exactly powerful by today's standards, but journalists loved 'em for sending back assignments.
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what the heck??
stupid mimeograph, I can't read any of this!
let me correct myself... You actually have to use IE6. I wasn't thinking when I was writing, I must need more coffee! To clarify how this works it just pulls in IE6 specific CSS which will render a big red message for IE6 users and leaves everyone else alone. I worked to maintain IE6 compatibility, but when I added the calendar, the javascript events cause the onhover workaround (an htc file) to stop working, meaning if you click on a calendar date it breaks navigation. I don't think it is fair for me to have to recode things for one 10-year-old browser when it works fine for everyone else.