I finally get to express my distain for the nonsense spewed forth by the mainstream media in a truly meaningful way! Now if only I could mail it to them...
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So were those deaths caused by Saddam or by the Bushes?
You are stranded on an island, on a path which splits in two directions. One direction takes you to "The Village of Death", the other path takes you to "The Village of Life." There are two tribes of people living on the island, one which ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH and one which ALWAYS LIES. A person is standing at the fork in the road. What is the ONE QUESTION (micro-variants don't count) you can ask this person which will ALWAYS get you to the Village of Life. Remember that you don't know which tribe the person is from.
That's easy. You pick either guy (it doesn't matter which one) and ask him: "If you were the other guy, which way would you tell me to go to get to the village of life?", and then choose the opposite path to the one he tells you.
I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced. If need be, I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support.
Talk is cheap. We're all getting a nice view of this vaunted US "military might" and from where we sit it appears that the US military can't even get the upper hand in a tin-horn 3rd world dictatorship that has been under UN sanctions for the last 12+ years!
I'm also curious to know how long the US would last if it was cut off and isolated from the rest of the world. For a while maybe, but it would cease to be relevant.
It's not actually illegitimate. M$ doesn't really give a damn where you got the source as long as a license was purchased. You have enough of the OEM to retain your OEM license purchased with the laptop. Fujitsu were just being fuckheads about this...it'd be no skin off their ass to send you a CD that you could install using the key on the attached sticker, but apparently they're too damn lazy (both mentally and physically) to come up with an acceptable solution.
Note to self: Do not buy any more Fujitsu products.
I can confirm that XP-2k roaming profiles are a bad idea...I've got a mixed bag of 2k-XP workstations and a 2K domain. Give it time...eventually the profiles will start to get hosed. There are a few admin (office, not IT) staff that I had to give back local profiles on each workstation they used because their roaming profiles got well and truly buggered to the point where they wouldn't even load anymore.
...and my workstation is set to retreive its patches from it, rather than M$'s site?
Currently it contains 1.6GB of what appears to be every M$ update known to man, (including a bunch of crap that I didn't really want, but hey...hard drives are cheap) and they're all.exe files....which leads me to another point: Once the updates are in the wild, they WILL get passed around, and there's nothing M$ can do about it.
"Today," you takee kamikaze airprane far up into sky, over Yankee aircraft carrier, then takee kamikaze prane...down fast! crashing on the deck, killing yourself and all aboard! Before we have a ceremonial sake toast, are there any questions?"
"Honorable general-san!" "Hai?" "Are you out of your fucking mind?"
Well... actually as a guy that does a lot of Windows installs for a living... (unfortnately)
Yeah...unfortunately for your boss! I do it for a living too...and I manage to get it done in a fraction of the time and I don't even use images, and I only bother with one or two package installs.
Windows install 1 - 1.5 hours
20-30 min for Win2k/XP if you are using new hardware. A little longer if it has to format a huge drive. Still, I manage to get XP on a 200Gig SATA drive in less than an hour.
Driver updates and install 1 - 2 hours
Shit man, what drivers take 2 hours to install??? 5-10 min to DL and install the latest video driver (that is if you don't have a local copy!) 5 min to find and install an updated NIC driver, 5 to 10 min for sound...you get the picture.
Windows updates 3 - 8 hours (not kidding)
Bullshit! 20-30 min tops! And that's if you've got an older copy that doesn't have the latest service pack pre-loaded!
Office Install 30 minutes
That's a little better, but it only takes me 10 to pull it from across the network and install.
Office updates (who does that?) 2 hours
You're goofy! 10-15 min to install SR updates and service packs.
Securing and configuring all that crap 1 hour
???
Repeating the securing and configuring for all users on the machine 1 hour per. (Why no "apply this to all users" button for an admin account??)
Ummm...ever hear of roaming profiles? Even if they don't have one, it takes 10 min to set up the average office user.
Anti-virus 20 minutes to 2 hours depending.
30 min to create the package and 2 min to install said package on each workstation from a network share. Easy!
You're not actually getting paid by the hour, are you?
Please tell me what company you work for and I will be sure never to darken their door. I have no interest in involving myself in any company that engages in what is an obviously unethical screening practice.
I bet your company makes people take polygraphs too.
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I finally get to express my distain for the nonsense spewed forth by the mainstream media in a truly meaningful way! Now if only I could mail it to them...
So were those deaths caused by Saddam or by the Bushes?
because it should force the antivirus companies to release a rootkit removal tool/virus definition update covering this little bit of nastiness.
Aw, don't have a camel, man!
Norm Coleman? Is that the same Norm Coleman that got bitch-slapped by George Galloway?
You are stranded on an island, on a path which splits in two directions. One direction takes you to "The Village of Death", the other path takes you to "The Village of Life." There are two tribes of people living on the island, one which ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH and one which ALWAYS LIES. A person is standing at the fork in the road. What is the ONE QUESTION (micro-variants don't count) you can ask this person which will ALWAYS get you to the Village of Life. Remember that you don't know which tribe the person is from.
That's easy. You pick either guy (it doesn't matter which one) and ask him: "If you were the other guy, which way would you tell me to go to get to the village of life?", and then choose the opposite path to the one he tells you.
I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced. If need be, I highly recommend that the US resign from the UN and see how long it holds together without our monetary support.
Talk is cheap. We're all getting a nice view of this vaunted US "military might" and from where we sit it appears that the US military can't even get the upper hand in a tin-horn 3rd world dictatorship that has been under UN sanctions for the last 12+ years!
I'm also curious to know how long the US would last if it was cut off and isolated from the rest of the world. For a while maybe, but it would cease to be relevant.
I heard those things are awfully loud...
Here's one more for your list:
NAFTA: Not Another Fucking Trade Agreement!!
(At least that's what it stands for in Canada!)
It's not actually illegitimate. M$ doesn't really give a damn where you got the source as long as a license was purchased. You have enough of the OEM to retain your OEM license purchased with the laptop. Fujitsu were just being fuckheads about this...it'd be no skin off their ass to send you a CD that you could install using the key on the attached sticker, but apparently they're too damn lazy (both mentally and physically) to come up with an acceptable solution.
Note to self: Do not buy any more Fujitsu products.
First time I've ever been early for work! ...except for all those daylight savings days...lousy farmers!
I can confirm that XP-2k roaming profiles are a bad idea...I've got a mixed bag of 2k-XP workstations and a 2K domain. Give it time...eventually the profiles will start to get hosed. There are a few admin (office, not IT) staff that I had to give back local profiles on each workstation they used because their roaming profiles got well and truly buggered to the point where they wouldn't even load anymore.
Don't know how you got modded as insightful since you obviously didn't read the article...
You're new here, aren't you?
Who the fuck modded this rah-rah USA flag-waving bullshit insightful?!? Go out and shoot yourselves please!
Agreed...I only got two ears. I'd just as soon have a decent pair of headphones.
...and my workstation is set to retreive its patches from it, rather than M$'s site?
.exe files. ...which leads me to another point: Once the updates are in the wild, they WILL get passed around, and there's nothing M$ can do about it.
Currently it contains 1.6GB of what appears to be every M$ update known to man, (including a bunch of crap that I didn't really want, but hey...hard drives are cheap) and they're all
XXX also denotes strong liquor. .sex would probably have been a better choice. Oh well...
...cost of DLing DVD images from a.b.battlestargalactica: zero
"Today," you takee kamikaze airprane far up into sky, over Yankee aircraft carrier, then takee kamikaze prane...down fast! crashing on the deck, killing yourself and all aboard!
Before we have a ceremonial sake toast, are there any questions?"
"Honorable general-san!"
"Hai?"
"Are you out of your fucking mind?"
Well... actually as a guy that does a lot of Windows installs for a living... (unfortnately)
Yeah...unfortunately for your boss!
I do it for a living too...and I manage to get it done in a fraction of the time and I don't even use images, and I only bother with one or two package installs.
Windows install 1 - 1.5 hours
20-30 min for Win2k/XP if you are using new hardware. A little longer if it has to format a huge drive. Still, I manage to get XP on a 200Gig SATA drive in less than an hour.
Driver updates and install 1 - 2 hours
Shit man, what drivers take 2 hours to install??? 5-10 min to DL and install the latest video driver (that is if you don't have a local copy!) 5 min to find and install an updated NIC driver, 5 to 10 min for sound...you get the picture.
Windows updates 3 - 8 hours (not kidding)
Bullshit! 20-30 min tops! And that's if you've got an older copy that doesn't have the latest service pack pre-loaded!
Office Install 30 minutes
That's a little better, but it only takes me 10 to pull it from across the network and install.
Office updates (who does that?) 2 hours
You're goofy! 10-15 min to install SR updates and service packs.
Securing and configuring all that crap 1 hour
???
Repeating the securing and configuring for all users on the machine 1 hour per. (Why no "apply this to all users" button for an admin account??)
Ummm...ever hear of roaming profiles? Even if they don't have one, it takes 10 min to set up the average office user.
Anti-virus 20 minutes to 2 hours depending.
30 min to create the package and 2 min to install said package on each workstation from a network share. Easy!
You're not actually getting paid by the hour, are you?
If his website is running on it...instant deepfryer!
I say it's way past time Canada and the rest of the world told the US to go fuck itself.
African or Euro...ahhh never mind!
I call bullshit!
Please tell me what company you work for and I will be sure never to darken their door. I have no interest in involving myself in any company that engages in what is an obviously unethical screening practice.
I bet your company makes people take polygraphs too.