I used to have a 33.6k dialup connection (that's all my modem did). What I ended up doing to speed up my web browsing and such was add as many of the damn advertiser websites into my hosts file. The advantages included never having to wait for a flaky doubleclick to respond, thus speeding up the page loading plus the obvious of never seeing the ads. The other trick I used to use was disable the loading of images and with IE I could at least get a placeholder to show where an image was. This really sped things up.
Neither. The military versions are called HMMV, which people tend to sound as HumVee. The GM product is called H1/H2/H3 Hummer and is based upon the Chevy Suburban Platform. Mainly the entire division is a marketing drone's wet dream as the best Mileage I've seen listed for the Hummer was 12MPG on the highway. Simply put, what killed the division is the low mileage and fuel guzzler tax here in the states because the vehicles simply couldn't get any mileage at all unlike the Real HMMV, that avgs. 20+mpg and the engine is a true multi-fuel capable. Primary is diesel but it will run on damn near anything including gasoline, ethonal and even what American's fondly call beer.
So, if I call someone from my residence and record the conversation without any consent I'll be commiting a crime?
You would be committing a crime if the recording unit does not provide the automatic beep tone every 5 seconds in the U.S.. Furthermore, in some states, if you don't indicate that you are recording a phone conversation, you could be liable for illegally wiretapping a conversation.
You were able to successfully install Win7RC onto a laptop? Damn you must be a ubber geek. My attempt on my Compaq laptop (vista capable) failed miserably with the damn installer looking for a CD/DVD driver that it didn't need since I was able to see the blasted drive and files on the disk.
I'm sorry to say it, but until MS makes it as easy to install as Gentoo, then it's simply not going to work for me.
But that's just it. As a corporation, it is absolutely imperative that you have no brain to qualify for corporate status. Otherwise, you can not legally be defined as a corporation.
Server Virtualization is like Car Pooling. It takes the empty seats in your car and puts a body into them. This means you're efficiently using not only your car but the highway to get people to work.
Don't Need TPM to know what software is running
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Phoenix BIOSOS?
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I administer a large number of workstations, and would love the capacity to know what's running on them,
I administer >10 workstations and know exactly what software is running on them w/o TPM modules and the way I did it is simple. I used the Linux netboot capabilities and remote mounting of/usr/var/home on diskless workstations. The only caveat is to make damn sure that all of them have identical hardware such as motherboards and video cards. You don't need to ensure duplication of CPU's, so long as you use the same series of CPU's or configure you software to use i586 settings. Sure it might be a bit slower and not as optimized as going with cflags="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe" (yes I'm a gentoo user).
Since this is a medical testing device, it must be regulated by the USFDA and meet the minimum requirements for testing accuracy, reliability and consistency, otherwise any conviction based upon the findings of such a device are invalid.
Just thing about a conviction based upon a unit that provides a positive reading, even when you haven't been drinking. What kind of result would that be? Blood in the water for the legal sharks wouldn't it.
Of course since I have Google Analytics and adsense in my hosts file, those websites never gave me any problems this morning. I started this in 1998 when I was on dialup because it sped up the loading of many websites as doubleclick and others simply bogged down.
Book called the "White Plague" written by Frank Herbert in 1982. Very informative and scary in regards to Bio-Terrorism possibilities. In fact, the book is no longer available from my local Library as it was pulled from the shelves about 10 years ago.
The actual issue here revolves around "Eye Witness". Sure a GPS tracker can track a vehicle but can you prove that I was the individual driving it at the time said crime was committed? If you can not, then all you have is a profile, which is inadmissible in court due to it being heresy.
Best off-site solution just might be to get a 1TB hard drive, backup all of your family albums, and critical data ("Frasier" does not count), get a safety deposit box at a bank, and store it there. Once every 4 months swap it out with another drive, and rotate them. This way you can backup your precious documents.
The better solution is to use a 4GB USB flash drive for absolutely critical documents. This includes copies of Mortgage Papers, Life Insurance Policies, Birth and Mariage Certificates, Naturalization Papers and Driver License/State ID cards along with Tax Records for at least the last 3 years along with bank statements. For this to work well, you want to store them in PDF format with Digital Signatures enforced and use an application such as Iris Pro to handle the scanning as it converts directly to PDF. The other advantage is that you can keep several copies of the flash drives for security/disaster purposes.
As part of my personal disaster/evacuation plans, I have a copy in my safe deposit box and 2 in my evacuation bag. They do get updated at least once a quarter when I simply replace them. This allows for a complete recycling of the old drives and as the price continues dropping on larger capacity drives, I ensure that I've always got sufficient room for my critical documents in case of fire/earthquake or other evacuation reason.
This offers two benefits: the first is that Intel gets hit in the wallet where they need to be for their actions. The second is that AMD recovers some of the money lost due to Intel's actions, thus encouraging actual competition by allowing AMD to survive. As a side benefit of this action, ATI would also survive, thus ensuring that Nvidia has effective competition in the graphics card market,
does not mean that OpenBSD and NetBSD are not. The argument the author tries to fly is flawed in so many directions. As the FP stated, Mozilla is able to protect it's brand image from harm by enforcing their trademark. Everyone remember the recent openssl debacle that a debian maintainer was involved with? Provided a patch that shot the entire security of openssl down in flames on all debian related projects and yet the debian name wasn't harmed, just that of the openssl project, even though they didn't screw up.
Hey there boys and girls. I've got the latest Firefox Office Suite for sale. Price is 2 arms and a leg. It includes the latest root kit and keylogger and is a completely closed source proprietary project, which only runs on Microsoft and isn't related to the Mozilla Firefox webbrowser yet I'm using their Logo's and Names without fear of being sued.
That's exactly the kind of threat this article insists on allowing. In fact even MS wouldn't be for the elimination of trademark because then I could legally use all of their artwork/logo's and even the spelling to sell my version of Linux that I'm now Calling Vista 7 by Microsoft. That's my company name so where's the consumer confusion?
after I spotted a virus that was commonly in the wild and they couldn't identify it in my email 10 years ago. In fact I was very disappointed that McAfee didn't block the damn virus with at least a warning as it was a simple executable file. Norton on the other hand properly identified the virus and warned me about the executable nature of the file. Based on that past experience, I've never trusted McAfee as being worth a damn.
is the formula that they use instead of the Please Excuse My Aunt Sally order of Mathematical Operations.
Simply put, there is absolutely no reason to have defined a standard for the mathematical fomula's in spreadsheets because we already have a mathematical standard called Order of Operations, which is Paranthesis, Exponents, Multiplication and Division then Addition and Subtraction or PEMDAS. This is how all Math is taught and if the application does not follow those rules, then it's impossible to determine if the application is generating correct output.
Reason I favor Gentoo Over Debian
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Revolves around those optional features that are compiled into the damn package, pulling in all those extra dependencies. Portage and the Use flags are very good for that. I can specify on a per package basis what optional features I want, which helps keep my system much leaner.
Another issue I've got with many other distros is the continual insistence of starting so many services at boot. To me it's reaching the point that most distros look like a damn windows installation with all the services running. Personally and Professionally, I like the Slackware/OpenBSD thinking that as little as possible starts at system boot. Let the damn Sys-Op/Admin decide what needs to run to provide the functionality the system is supposed to. In my case, the system is a desktop so the only thing that needs to be running is sound, apcupsd, cups, basic networking - ntp client and firewall. I don't even have X running at startup as I'm fairly comfortable working on the CLI having used computers since the Dos 5 days.
I'm a long term KDE 3 user who feels that the current KDE Devs have gotten caught in the same trap that the Window UI devs did. Change for the sake of change instead of fixing the many minor flaws of the current 3.5 UI. Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying they didn't need to rewrite things. What they didn't need to do was change the UI so drastically that it now gets into the users way instead of being as functional as the 3.5 version is. One feature I depend on in 3 is the ability to change dekstops by simply using the scroll wheel on my mouse. I also depend on the ability to configure the background on each desktop independently of each other and they've killed both of those features. I even find that Konqueror works nicely as both my web and file browser so why in hell did they introduce a new file browser that looks like Gnome's?
As I said, I feel that the kde devs are caught in the same trap that the MS devs are. Changing things because it works better, which is rarely the case. Instead keep the UI consistent and rock stable. Don't change things. Instead fix the many issues such as instabilities in the kicker app. What causes it to crash w/o warning? What about Knews? Fix the damn thing so I can download multi-part posts (split files) and combine them into a single for saving along with caching the blasted message headers and any messages I've downloaded to save bandwidth. Did they fix these in kde4? I don't know (he's in left field today). That's what they really needed to do instead of changing the entire UI as they did.
The first was the change from a plain html file for all bookmarks to what ever format they're now using, which occurred around 3.0.4. Didn't make me happy when I suddenly couldn't open the bookmark file to create a custom list for sharing with friends like I prefer.
Now that I'm hearing that a Firefox Plug-in is modifying another plug-in w/o user permission, I have to rate Firefox as Un-Secure on the computers that I'm the support tech (home computers). This means I now have to look into how much of the feature set of noscript I can enable - whitelisting by website for all plug-ins in IE. If it's not to much trouble for me, I may simply export the various user bookmarks from firefox to IE and uninstall firefox from all of the computers, which is going to shock the hell out of those users as I've been a rabid and vocal Opponent of IE.
Yes I've used IE7 and find that the tab mode works acceptably (not as refined as Firefox but it does work) and since my user base doesn't tend to open to many tabs (2 or 3 at most) IE should be able to handle things w/o to much of a system performance hit. Of course as I'm a Gentoo user, I've gradually moved from using firefox as my primary to a more limited role such as Ajax heavy websites and where I need a working flash. Otherwise, I've found that Konqueror works fine for 90 percent of my normal browsing needs due to being able to whitelist websites where javascript is useful such as here and a few others.
I'm a TWC/RR customer and if they suddenly pulled this on me, I'd have their asses in court for a Contract Violation in a damn hurry. My Contract specifically states that I have 256K up and 512K down bandwidth available 24/7 and yes I sometimes push that cap by using BT to seed/share latest Linux Distro. Another issue is that I have up to 6 computers on the same IP with 4 of them being on a WiFi connection but unlike many others, I actually use the minimal security features of the router (Listed Mac Restrictions - Secure Passwords - NO SSID Beacon) along with having the wifi set to 802.11b mode only (salved conflict issues with several "G" routers in neighborhod). Yes it would cost money to get a lawyer to take em to court but in my case and state (California) I'd be able to do so successfully as the state has already ruled that changes in a T.O.S. is not enforceable as a contract provision because any terms changed in a T.O.S forces a change to the contract, which then has to actually be signed for by the customer. The state feels the same way about EULA's, which are unenforceable as they include terminology that basically creates a One Sided Contract, defeating the entire purpose of contract law (meeting of 2 parties in agreement).
The first version of Linux I played with was Caldera 1.3. Not a bad experience as I even managed to get X working. Had an internal 3Comn (USR) hardware modem that I actually managed to get working, which impressed me. Only reason I didn't stick with it at the time was the other family members who also used the computer. Next was a book on Linux that included RH 5 and Star Office 4 and when I finally got a 100M zip drive, I gave Zip Slack a try. Currently I'm using Gentoo since 2003 though I've been forced to switch between Linux and Windows due to school needs. My current setup is pure Gentoo with XP in a VBox 2.1.4 VM for those apps that simply don't have Linux versions.
Interestingly enough is the fact that under the GPL; the code can be forked and used in any other project. It is true that Oracle can change the license from GPL to what ever they want on future versions if and only if they have the copyright to MySQL as one of the assets they purchased.
In the case of Open Office, it was released under the LGPL instead of the GPL, which appears to have been one of the reasons that Sun had many problems getting outside developers involved in the community. From a personal standpoint, though I am not a GPL purist, I switched to using K-Office some time back as it's almost impossible to get Open Office to build reliably under any version of GCC later then 3.4 (Yes I'm a Gentoo User but not a Gentoo Ricer).
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I used to have a 33.6k dialup connection (that's all my modem did). What I ended up doing to speed up my web browsing and such was add as many of the damn advertiser websites into my hosts file. The advantages included never having to wait for a flaky doubleclick to respond, thus speeding up the page loading plus the obvious of never seeing the ads. The other trick I used to use was disable the loading of images and with IE I could at least get a placeholder to show where an image was. This really sped things up.
Neither. The military versions are called HMMV, which people tend to sound as HumVee. The GM product is called H1/H2/H3 Hummer and is based upon the Chevy Suburban Platform. Mainly the entire division is a marketing drone's wet dream as the best Mileage I've seen listed for the Hummer was 12MPG on the highway. Simply put, what killed the division is the low mileage and fuel guzzler tax here in the states because the vehicles simply couldn't get any mileage at all unlike the Real HMMV, that avgs. 20+mpg and the engine is a true multi-fuel capable. Primary is diesel but it will run on damn near anything including gasoline, ethonal and even what American's fondly call beer.
So, if I call someone from my residence and record the conversation without any consent I'll be commiting a crime?
You would be committing a crime if the recording unit does not provide the automatic beep tone every 5 seconds in the U.S.. Furthermore, in some states, if you don't indicate that you are recording a phone conversation, you could be liable for illegally wiretapping a conversation.
You were able to successfully install Win7RC onto a laptop? Damn you must be a ubber geek. My attempt on my Compaq laptop (vista capable) failed miserably with the damn installer looking for a CD/DVD driver that it didn't need since I was able to see the blasted drive and files on the disk.
I'm sorry to say it, but until MS makes it as easy to install as Gentoo, then it's simply not going to work for me.
But that's just it. As a corporation, it is absolutely imperative that you have no brain to qualify for corporate status. Otherwise, you can not legally be defined as a corporation.
Server Virtualization is like Car Pooling. It takes the empty seats in your car and puts a body into them. This means you're efficiently using not only your car but the highway to get people to work.
I administer a large number of workstations, and would love the capacity to know what's running on them,
I administer >10 workstations and know exactly what software is running on them w/o TPM modules and the way I did it is simple. I used the Linux netboot capabilities and remote mounting of /usr /var/home on diskless workstations. The only caveat is to make damn sure that all of them have identical hardware such as motherboards and video cards. You don't need to ensure duplication of CPU's, so long as you use the same series of CPU's or configure you software to use i586 settings. Sure it might be a bit slower and not as optimized as going with cflags="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe" (yes I'm a gentoo user).
Since this is a medical testing device, it must be regulated by the USFDA and meet the minimum requirements for testing accuracy, reliability and consistency, otherwise any conviction based upon the findings of such a device are invalid.
Just thing about a conviction based upon a unit that provides a positive reading, even when you haven't been drinking. What kind of result would that be? Blood in the water for the legal sharks wouldn't it.
Of course since I have Google Analytics and adsense in my hosts file, those websites never gave me any problems this morning. I started this in 1998 when I was on dialup because it sped up the loading of many websites as doubleclick and others simply bogged down.
Book called the "White Plague" written by Frank Herbert in 1982. Very informative and scary in regards to Bio-Terrorism possibilities. In fact, the book is no longer available from my local Library as it was pulled from the shelves about 10 years ago.
The actual issue here revolves around "Eye Witness". Sure a GPS tracker can track a vehicle but can you prove that I was the individual driving it at the time said crime was committed? If you can not, then all you have is a profile, which is inadmissible in court due to it being heresy.
Best off-site solution just might be to get a 1TB hard drive, backup all of your family albums, and critical data ("Frasier" does not count), get a safety deposit box at a bank, and store it there. Once every 4 months swap it out with another drive, and rotate them. This way you can backup your precious documents.
The better solution is to use a 4GB USB flash drive for absolutely critical documents. This includes copies of Mortgage Papers, Life Insurance Policies, Birth and Mariage Certificates, Naturalization Papers and Driver License/State ID cards along with Tax Records for at least the last 3 years along with bank statements. For this to work well, you want to store them in PDF format with Digital Signatures enforced and use an application such as Iris Pro to handle the scanning as it converts directly to PDF. The other advantage is that you can keep several copies of the flash drives for security/disaster purposes.
As part of my personal disaster/evacuation plans, I have a copy in my safe deposit box and 2 in my evacuation bag. They do get updated at least once a quarter when I simply replace them. This allows for a complete recycling of the old drives and as the price continues dropping on larger capacity drives, I ensure that I've always got sufficient room for my critical documents in case of fire/earthquake or other evacuation reason.
This offers two benefits: the first is that Intel gets hit in the wallet where they need to be for their actions. The second is that AMD recovers some of the money lost due to Intel's actions, thus encouraging actual competition by allowing AMD to survive. As a side benefit of this action, ATI would also survive, thus ensuring that Nvidia has effective competition in the graphics card market,
does not mean that OpenBSD and NetBSD are not. The argument the author tries to fly is flawed in so many directions. As the FP stated, Mozilla is able to protect it's brand image from harm by enforcing their trademark. Everyone remember the recent openssl debacle that a debian maintainer was involved with? Provided a patch that shot the entire security of openssl down in flames on all debian related projects and yet the debian name wasn't harmed, just that of the openssl project, even though they didn't screw up.
That's exactly the kind of threat this article insists on allowing. In fact even MS wouldn't be for the elimination of trademark because then I could legally use all of their artwork/logo's and even the spelling to sell my version of Linux that I'm now Calling Vista 7 by Microsoft. That's my company name so where's the consumer confusion?
after I spotted a virus that was commonly in the wild and they couldn't identify it in my email 10 years ago. In fact I was very disappointed that McAfee didn't block the damn virus with at least a warning as it was a simple executable file. Norton on the other hand properly identified the virus and warned me about the executable nature of the file. Based on that past experience, I've never trusted McAfee as being worth a damn.
is the formula that they use instead of the Please Excuse My Aunt Sally order of Mathematical Operations.
Simply put, there is absolutely no reason to have defined a standard for the mathematical fomula's in spreadsheets because we already have a mathematical standard called Order of Operations, which is Paranthesis, Exponents, Multiplication and Division then Addition and Subtraction or PEMDAS. This is how all Math is taught and if the application does not follow those rules, then it's impossible to determine if the application is generating correct output.
Revolves around those optional features that are compiled into the damn package, pulling in all those extra dependencies. Portage and the Use flags are very good for that. I can specify on a per package basis what optional features I want, which helps keep my system much leaner.
Another issue I've got with many other distros is the continual insistence of starting so many services at boot. To me it's reaching the point that most distros look like a damn windows installation with all the services running. Personally and Professionally, I like the Slackware/OpenBSD thinking that as little as possible starts at system boot. Let the damn Sys-Op/Admin decide what needs to run to provide the functionality the system is supposed to. In my case, the system is a desktop so the only thing that needs to be running is sound, apcupsd, cups, basic networking - ntp client and firewall. I don't even have X running at startup as I'm fairly comfortable working on the CLI having used computers since the Dos 5 days.
I'm a long term KDE 3 user who feels that the current KDE Devs have gotten caught in the same trap that the Window UI devs did. Change for the sake of change instead of fixing the many minor flaws of the current 3.5 UI. Don't get me wrong as I'm not saying they didn't need to rewrite things. What they didn't need to do was change the UI so drastically that it now gets into the users way instead of being as functional as the 3.5 version is. One feature I depend on in 3 is the ability to change dekstops by simply using the scroll wheel on my mouse. I also depend on the ability to configure the background on each desktop independently of each other and they've killed both of those features. I even find that Konqueror works nicely as both my web and file browser so why in hell did they introduce a new file browser that looks like Gnome's?
As I said, I feel that the kde devs are caught in the same trap that the MS devs are. Changing things because it works better, which is rarely the case. Instead keep the UI consistent and rock stable. Don't change things. Instead fix the many issues such as instabilities in the kicker app. What causes it to crash w/o warning? What about Knews? Fix the damn thing so I can download multi-part posts (split files) and combine them into a single for saving along with caching the blasted message headers and any messages I've downloaded to save bandwidth. Did they fix these in kde4? I don't know (he's in left field today). That's what they really needed to do instead of changing the entire UI as they did.
The first was the change from a plain html file for all bookmarks to what ever format they're now using, which occurred around 3.0.4. Didn't make me happy when I suddenly couldn't open the bookmark file to create a custom list for sharing with friends like I prefer.
Now that I'm hearing that a Firefox Plug-in is modifying another plug-in w/o user permission, I have to rate Firefox as Un-Secure on the computers that I'm the support tech (home computers). This means I now have to look into how much of the feature set of noscript I can enable - whitelisting by website for all plug-ins in IE. If it's not to much trouble for me, I may simply export the various user bookmarks from firefox to IE and uninstall firefox from all of the computers, which is going to shock the hell out of those users as I've been a rabid and vocal Opponent of IE.
Yes I've used IE7 and find that the tab mode works acceptably (not as refined as Firefox but it does work) and since my user base doesn't tend to open to many tabs (2 or 3 at most) IE should be able to handle things w/o to much of a system performance hit. Of course as I'm a Gentoo user, I've gradually moved from using firefox as my primary to a more limited role such as Ajax heavy websites and where I need a working flash. Otherwise, I've found that Konqueror works fine for 90 percent of my normal browsing needs due to being able to whitelist websites where javascript is useful such as here and a few others.
that's my brother
I'm a TWC/RR customer and if they suddenly pulled this on me, I'd have their asses in court for a Contract Violation in a damn hurry. My Contract specifically states that I have 256K up and 512K down bandwidth available 24/7 and yes I sometimes push that cap by using BT to seed/share latest Linux Distro. Another issue is that I have up to 6 computers on the same IP with 4 of them being on a WiFi connection but unlike many others, I actually use the minimal security features of the router (Listed Mac Restrictions - Secure Passwords - NO SSID Beacon) along with having the wifi set to 802.11b mode only (salved conflict issues with several "G" routers in neighborhod). Yes it would cost money to get a lawyer to take em to court but in my case and state (California) I'd be able to do so successfully as the state has already ruled that changes in a T.O.S. is not enforceable as a contract provision because any terms changed in a T.O.S forces a change to the contract, which then has to actually be signed for by the customer. The state feels the same way about EULA's, which are unenforceable as they include terminology that basically creates a One Sided Contract, defeating the entire purpose of contract law (meeting of 2 parties in agreement).
The first version of Linux I played with was Caldera 1.3. Not a bad experience as I even managed to get X working. Had an internal 3Comn (USR) hardware modem that I actually managed to get working, which impressed me. Only reason I didn't stick with it at the time was the other family members who also used the computer. Next was a book on Linux that included RH 5 and Star Office 4 and when I finally got a 100M zip drive, I gave Zip Slack a try. Currently I'm using Gentoo since 2003 though I've been forced to switch between Linux and Windows due to school needs. My current setup is pure Gentoo with XP in a VBox 2.1.4 VM for those apps that simply don't have Linux versions.
Interestingly enough is the fact that under the GPL; the code can be forked and used in any other project. It is true that Oracle can change the license from GPL to what ever they want on future versions if and only if they have the copyright to MySQL as one of the assets they purchased.
In the case of Open Office, it was released under the LGPL instead of the GPL, which appears to have been one of the reasons that Sun had many problems getting outside developers involved in the community. From a personal standpoint, though I am not a GPL purist, I switched to using K-Office some time back as it's almost impossible to get Open Office to build reliably under any version of GCC later then 3.4 (Yes I'm a Gentoo User but not a Gentoo Ricer).
By using the new Bomb Pumped Gravitic Lasers developed by Admiral of the Red Hemphill.
I had to read that 3x just to catch the difference. Damn I need more coffee. Thank you for starting my day off with a chuckle instead of a rant