Step 1 buy a lockable laptop that you can be sure is safe... Panasonic toughbooks can lock closed.
step 2 download the source code to Linux, Xorg, and the GCC c compile and read every line carefully to look for back doors.
Step 3 build by hand a OS that will let the GCC compiler run and compile linux.
step 4 build by hand your filesystem to get your hand built linux kernel to run.......... 8 years later.... you now have a working Computer that is 100% safe, now you need to download truecrypt soruce and inspect this before compiling... Oh wait, you need to update GCC, start over at step 2.
$1500 to have the house insulation upgraded. $6800 to have the AC and furnace changed over to a SEER 18 and a 98% efficient setup. $6500 to have new double pane windows installed $1100 to have the house checked for air leaks and those fixed with caulking.
My winter heating bill IN January when it was 6-10 degrees F outside most of the time in michigan up where we get real snow was $80.00, December was less and Febuary was less.
and you can do all of that in stages. the furnace and AC I got $1500.00 off my taxes because I bought them, that paid for the insulation. The windows we did over the course of a year one window at a time. I had a carpenter show me the first two times, I did the rest except for the big 8'X12' picture windows in the front room.
Stopping restaurants for 2 years paid for the windows, insulation and air leak check and repair. The furnace and AC were paid for by not buying a new car this year, suffering with a 42" 720p plasma, and torturing my family by not going to Florida for a 1 week vacation but staying home. I know I should be turned in for torturing my family.
Most people live in old houses with crap insulation and crap windows that have a 600 year old furnace in the basement that are never maintained properly. Your home is in disrepair, fix it and your heat and AC bills drop like a rock.
Call someone that has aluminum siding and aluminum screens on their home as them how their home from 1950 that was resided in the 70's or 80's works for wifi to the garden or the grotto.. This is not new. Nor is it news to anyone that actually has a clue about Wifi or home building in general.
Insulation boards have had foil backing for decades. a lot of other building products as well.
It's just whiny rich people that notice after moving into their new McMansion. Because they are too damn cheap to buy a second AP for the back yard.
In about 2 years a new line of Desktops and laptops will be announced that used the new A10 processor, this processor will be used to get rid of all those ooky older intel based devices by having the new OS not compatible with it. Thus purging the world of the old product forcibly. Just like how those disgusting old G5 quad core towers still linger about now...
Using old hardware makes Jobs angry.... you wont like him when he's angry....
REal women have no problem talking dirty to fat gross men on the phone... If they are paid, they will be happy to do the far less "ooky" girlfriend you will never see meet or touch thing.
How can you be that bad... do you upon the first date ask her to pop pimples on your back? "Great sushi! can you lance this boil for me?"
and honestly, if you are that type of person, there are fetish circles that do have women that get off on that kind of thing. Sounds like you are searching for a mate in the wrong places.
Not only that but force the PHB to sign a document where he assumes all responsibility for company licensing problems from his employees installing illegal software.
Suddenly the need for them to have Admin rights to install crap disappears.
Here is another side. Short of any vertical applications that are specialized a large company could switch to an all linux environment and gain additional advantages. OO.o is 100% useable in a company environment. Oracle runs under linux well so most of the accounting department will not notice a difference. The whiners that hate change will whine for about 2 weeks.
Problem is most large companies get a sweet deal from Microsoft to ensure they dont do this. Microsoft sales guys for fortune 500 companies work really hard to program and FUD to death the CTO and other executives to keep that nasty evil hacker OS out of their company. There are companies that resist, but most roll over. They like the fact that they can have a idiot (I.E. master of business administration) maintain a department sharepoint webpage with microsoft word and Outlook instead of a nice webserver with a wordpress blog on it that is just as simple to maintain. They get the executives to drink deeply of the new sharepont coolaid and now they repeat it like a mantra. Yay yet another POS in the company that is based on closed and crappy standards so migration away is impossible.
Luckily there are SOME companies that get it. I work for one after suffering with the typical "we love MS for no real reason" type for the past 14 years. Now I love how one IT staff can manage 50 to 100 pc's and laptops on his own. We deploy a IT guy per floor and per department that way they are experts in that departments needs. new app is easy to deploy across the board, new OS updates as well, and we can migrate a user to a new pc or laptop in minutes and everything is where they left it, the apps all are right with the settings. Even the wallpaper is correct. we have replaced 20 desktops over lunch before. they went to lunch and returned to new computers. Most did not notice until later that day or the next day when they looked under the desk and saw a silver tower instead of the black one. Cant do that with windows.
"Unfortunately, where I work they have a policy specifically never to replace PC's unless they have no choice."
Hey boss, yeah, my PC is on fire.... what should I do? I tried pressing Ctl-Alt-Del but I cant find a "fire.exe" process to kill and it's really starting to stink and fill the room with smoke.
Less hassle? I love the $95.00 trip charge I add on to every location call. Make it so they can drop it off and I make a lot less? not a chance in hell. If you make it really cheap and easy for the customer, they get careless and start doing things they were told not to.... hey you're cheap now, let's click on every popup in IE!
OR the fact that IT was so incompetent that her browsing habits and allowing the users to install software should have had the IT managers sacked as well?
So he does something, get's sued and ends up not paying a dime out of his own pocket.
It's scumbaggy because nobody would have donated a dime if he said "I'm hoping for a settlement". It's his own fault for stroking his own ego and making sure he could be identified. He knew that Sony would be on him like bees. A smart move would be to release this crap anonymously or under a unconnected pseudonym that took care to not leave footprints to follow. So total out of pocket costs to him is ZERO plus a nice tax deduction for a donation to the EFF.
That is where the scumbaggyness comes in.
P.S. all you idiots that think your friends "got your back", they don't. they will throw you under the bus fast to save their own hide. This whole situation is a perfect example of this.
Problem is their BLuRay play is one of very FEW that have discreet on and off signals. Required for anyone that has a real home theater or for board room automation. LG being retarded removed discrete on and off ir commands. Panasonic designed all their BLuray players to be for the brain dead and hostile to automation by removing almost all discreet commands.
Only other choice is to go to a $4500.00 denon pro BluRay that does not play a bluray any better than a $199 unit.
you need to upgrade girlfriend to mistress. but this requires first finding a wife that is not tied down to Quaker and Puritanical ideals. I know a guy that has a wife and 3 mistresses, and yes the wife knows about them and he knows about her men...
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Step 1 buy a lockable laptop that you can be sure is safe... Panasonic toughbooks can lock closed.
step 2 download the source code to Linux, Xorg, and the GCC c compile and read every line carefully to look for back doors.
Step 3 build by hand a OS that will let the GCC compiler run and compile linux. ... ... ...
step 4 build by hand your filesystem to get your hand built linux kernel to run.
8 years later.... you now have a working Computer that is 100% safe, now you need to download truecrypt soruce and inspect this before compiling... Oh wait, you need to update GCC, start over at step 2.
Only because you chose to not fix that problem.
$1500 to have the house insulation upgraded.
$6800 to have the AC and furnace changed over to a SEER 18 and a 98% efficient setup.
$6500 to have new double pane windows installed
$1100 to have the house checked for air leaks and those fixed with caulking.
My winter heating bill IN January when it was 6-10 degrees F outside most of the time in michigan up where we get real snow was $80.00, December was less and Febuary was less.
and you can do all of that in stages. the furnace and AC I got $1500.00 off my taxes because I bought them, that paid for the insulation. The windows we did over the course of a year one window at a time. I had a carpenter show me the first two times, I did the rest except for the big 8'X12' picture windows in the front room.
Stopping restaurants for 2 years paid for the windows, insulation and air leak check and repair. The furnace and AC were paid for by not buying a new car this year, suffering with a 42" 720p plasma, and torturing my family by not going to Florida for a 1 week vacation but staying home. I know I should be turned in for torturing my family.
Most people live in old houses with crap insulation and crap windows that have a 600 year old furnace in the basement that are never maintained properly. Your home is in disrepair, fix it and your heat and AC bills drop like a rock.
Call someone that has aluminum siding and aluminum screens on their home as them how their home from 1950 that was resided in the 70's or 80's works for wifi to the garden or the grotto.. This is not new. Nor is it news to anyone that actually has a clue about Wifi or home building in general.
Insulation boards have had foil backing for decades. a lot of other building products as well.
It's just whiny rich people that notice after moving into their new McMansion. Because they are too damn cheap to buy a second AP for the back yard.
Which makes truecrypt your friend. Cant backdoor that one....
well they can have big bubba in cellblock 5 backdoor the key out of you.
In about 2 years a new line of Desktops and laptops will be announced that used the new A10 processor, this processor will be used to get rid of all those ooky older intel based devices by having the new OS not compatible with it. Thus purging the world of the old product forcibly. Just like how those disgusting old G5 quad core towers still linger about now...
Using old hardware makes Jobs angry.... you wont like him when he's angry....
REal women have no problem talking dirty to fat gross men on the phone... If they are paid, they will be happy to do the far less "ooky" girlfriend you will never see meet or touch thing.
How can you be that bad... do you upon the first date ask her to pop pimples on your back? "Great sushi! can you lance this boil for me?"
and honestly, if you are that type of person, there are fetish circles that do have women that get off on that kind of thing. Sounds like you are searching for a mate in the wrong places.
MY ex wife is $29,000+ behind in child support... she get's a stern talking to by the friend of the court.
Wimply thinkpads.... My panasonic toughbook lets me type while splashing away. Freaks out some people bad.
Not only that but force the PHB to sign a document where he assumes all responsibility for company licensing problems from his employees installing illegal software.
Suddenly the need for them to have Admin rights to install crap disappears.
Here is another side. Short of any vertical applications that are specialized a large company could switch to an all linux environment and gain additional advantages. OO.o is 100% useable in a company environment. Oracle runs under linux well so most of the accounting department will not notice a difference. The whiners that hate change will whine for about 2 weeks.
Problem is most large companies get a sweet deal from Microsoft to ensure they dont do this. Microsoft sales guys for fortune 500 companies work really hard to program and FUD to death the CTO and other executives to keep that nasty evil hacker OS out of their company. There are companies that resist, but most roll over. They like the fact that they can have a idiot (I.E. master of business administration) maintain a department sharepoint webpage with microsoft word and Outlook instead of a nice webserver with a wordpress blog on it that is just as simple to maintain. They get the executives to drink deeply of the new sharepont coolaid and now they repeat it like a mantra. Yay yet another POS in the company that is based on closed and crappy standards so migration away is impossible.
Luckily there are SOME companies that get it. I work for one after suffering with the typical "we love MS for no real reason" type for the past 14 years. Now I love how one IT staff can manage 50 to 100 pc's and laptops on his own. We deploy a IT guy per floor and per department that way they are experts in that departments needs. new app is easy to deploy across the board, new OS updates as well, and we can migrate a user to a new pc or laptop in minutes and everything is where they left it, the apps all are right with the settings. Even the wallpaper is correct. we have replaced 20 desktops over lunch before. they went to lunch and returned to new computers. Most did not notice until later that day or the next day when they looked under the desk and saw a silver tower instead of the black one. Cant do that with windows.
Incorrect, AD has an abundance of general shittyness. Almost as much shittyness as Exchange.
"Unfortunately, where I work they have a policy specifically never to replace PC's unless they have no choice."
Hey boss, yeah, my PC is on fire.... what should I do? I tried pressing Ctl-Alt-Del but I cant find a "fire.exe" process to kill and it's really starting to stink and fill the room with smoke.
Less hassle? I love the $95.00 trip charge I add on to every location call. Make it so they can drop it off and I make a lot less? not a chance in hell. If you make it really cheap and easy for the customer, they get careless and start doing things they were told not to.... hey you're cheap now, let's click on every popup in IE!
OR the fact that IT was so incompetent that her browsing habits and allowing the users to install software should have had the IT managers sacked as well?
Accidentally means they did not mean to. 90% of the people out there don't even try to remove the information.
I never connect Apathy with accidental... They chose to be lazy and ignorant, it was on purpose.
And NASA does not need any more money.... Dick Cheney needs to go hunting with most of the senators.... birdshot in the face might wake them up.
WE dont have debtors prison, what backward country do you live in?
You cant go to jail from being sued. he did not break any laws, this is a lawsuit not a criminal case.
So he does something, get's sued and ends up not paying a dime out of his own pocket.
It's scumbaggy because nobody would have donated a dime if he said "I'm hoping for a settlement". It's his own fault for stroking his own ego and making sure he could be identified. He knew that Sony would be on him like bees. A smart move would be to release this crap anonymously or under a unconnected pseudonym that took care to not leave footprints to follow. So total out of pocket costs to him is ZERO plus a nice tax deduction for a donation to the EFF.
That is where the scumbaggyness comes in.
P.S. all you idiots that think your friends "got your back", they don't. they will throw you under the bus fast to save their own hide. This whole situation is a perfect example of this.
Sorry, ad supported for $25.00? get bent.
Free for add supported? then they will generate interest. Whoever though that a pittance discount = the value of the invasive advertising is nuts.
Because it's something he cant do or incapable of learning and is worthless to him so it must be worthless to everyone else.
Problem is their BLuRay play is one of very FEW that have discreet on and off signals. Required for anyone that has a real home theater or for board room automation. LG being retarded removed discrete on and off ir commands. Panasonic designed all their BLuray players to be for the brain dead and hostile to automation by removing almost all discreet commands.
Only other choice is to go to a $4500.00 denon pro BluRay that does not play a bluray any better than a $199 unit.
Not if you freeze them with dry ice and hit them with a hammer...
Yes it works with glued together cases as well.
That's because you used the wrong software..
you need to upgrade girlfriend to mistress. but this requires first finding a wife that is not tied down to Quaker and Puritanical ideals. I know a guy that has a wife and 3 mistresses, and yes the wife knows about them and he knows about her men...
Sometimes pagan women are so hot.....