I moved to sprint a year ago, and that does piss me off. My regional Cell company I was with before at least gave me incoming Text messages for free. That was really handy with Nagios! Now I have family members that love to text all the time, and After I get the third message in a row, I have to call them and say "What are you trying to freaking say? your costing me a fortune!". I know I can get X number of messages for $4 a month, but I refuse, I don't think I should have to pay for incoming messages that I can't control. At least with phone calls, I can choose to answer or not.
Drug companies love to talk about the cost of developing their drugs, but they easily spend more money Marketing their drugs than they do developing them. If there drugs are so good and wonderfull, shouldn't they sell themselves?
Sun has a video out that I'm too lazy to search for here, where they run ZFS on a bunch of pen drives, plugged into a USB 2.0 Hub. Faster, and fault tolerant. Pretty amazing. ZFS is not for just servers. Think of apples "time machine" software. Also, ZFS includes lots of Metadata and checksums, to prevent bit-rot of your files.
I'm not certain, but I do believe if you disclose your personal information to the courts because of the Americans with Disabilities Act; IE, you need to have recesses every 2 hours because of a medication you need for X, that becomes HIPAA covered, doesn't it?
I'm wondering about this too. "Cisco" doesn't censor. Cisco provied the equipment, expertise, training, and most likely "features" that enable the censorship for the goverment.
Many of those "features" are used in the US as well, things like WCCP are used to facilitate censorship by forwarding traffic to a filtering proxy server.
Not bad, really, You just have to fill out forms in triplicate, file them with 2 offices, pay a $8 "processing" fee at each office, along with a $15 application fee, and wait 6-8 weeks to hear back!
Try living outside the willamette valley. I live in southern Oregon. We are no longer allowed to buy studded tires for our cars. Too many people in PDX and the rest of the valley were putting them on their cars and tearing up the highways, when it only snows an inch once a year. So our wonderfull leaders, (who all live there) said no more studs. Where I live, I had 4 feet of snow, most of the winter. The next town is 70 miles away, over a mountain pass, that gets even more snow. Yes, studless tires exist, and they work great in level, straight roads with a little bit of ice or snow. But when your bumper is plowing the snow (in a pickup) because the plows run less often now because of budget cuts, they don't give you the "grip" you need to push through.
Exactly, its a difference of Value that is up to the individual to decide. I might decide to skip support, because I will figure the problems out on my own. I might have a very important app running on my server, and think it is a better value to pay $k a year to them to have my problems fixed quickly, than to sit around (losing $X an hour, or even minute) and try to figure it out on my own.
Very similar to how I can choose to not get an extended warranty from my PC Supplier, or choose to get a 3 year NBD warranty, or for important things, a 4-hour warranty. You choose the level of service that you (and your wallet) are comfortable with.
I have found the aMSN works "somewhat" with the video chat. Slow, jerky, and overall not nearly as easy or nice as the native MSN clients. (could be partly my crappy camera, but many others apparently have the same issues) I live distant from my family (most use MSN messenger), and like to try to do video chats with them. It has been nothing but irritation, trying to get sound and video both working. I have even thought of switching to a different video conferencing tool altogether, but the fact I have Ubuntu, and they have XP makes it hard to find cross platform tools that are solid. (I hate netmeeting, and all its issues). Heck, I wouldn't even mind the aMSN bugs if it worked with other clients as well, I hate having one tool (pidgin) for my other IM clients, and a second one for just MSN.
Sorry, you are correct. I distinctly remember my local wal-mart having big banners that said "Proudly made in America". I miss those days. My GP was not meant to refer to Sam.
My point was more with the current Wal-Mart. People are willing to forgive the "new" wal-mart for destroying local communities, Paying next to nothing, and shutting down industries, importing everything from China, because the prices are low. They can't understand the repurcusions of the self-fullfilling prophesy they are creating.
It will affect ReiserFS the same as it affected the company that wrote the NTFS file system was convicted of their crimes. (being a monopoly).
Or when the creator of Unix (and the C language) was convicted of their crimes (being a monopoly)
Or the same as it affected Union Carbide when they poisoned a whole town killing everyone. (the former president will be jailed for life if he ever sets foot in India).
The thing is.. Things are decided on their merits, and price, etc. Not on their creators. Otherwise, Walmart would be bankrupt!
Right, but what happens when that cop tries to copy c:\windows\system32 (cause IIS defaults to putting its logfiles in there) from the hard drive to the pen drive; that's what step 18 in the carefully laid out instructions say. He really doesn't want to tinker, because evidence has to be gathered a certain way, to be used in court. He got promoted from a different post last year, and has been sent to lots of training on forensics for windows systems.
One would think that a company that could do a complete turn around after it got its 64bit ass handed to it (thanks AMD) would be able to dedicate just a bit of brain-power to their graphics.
However, if that isn't allowed, the companies are trouble.
How on earth would that be different than how health insurance has worked since it was created? Your company now has no idea if you are more likely to get cancer. Now it might now that you had cancer within the last 6th months, but not that you might get it in 10 years. I don't understand what the submitters counter argument is?! How can you "stock up" on insurance?
I found a huge difference by running XUbuntu on my underpowered laptop. And it was really easy to switch to from regular ubuntu. Something like "sudo apt-get install xubuntu-core" I don't remember the exact command.
This scares the crap out of me, but whats going to happen when someone comes back from an international conference with their laptop loaded with customer data for a bank or something heavily regulated. Who gets in trouble for the disk being copied? the bank, the employee, or the fed? And do they let you in if it is an encrypted drive, and you don't give them the key, because it is against disclosure laws?
Your missing one of the best reasons for SP3. I just installed a fresh copy of XPSP2 on a new model of computer to get the images ready. 110 MS patches later, it was caught up! Thank god for Windows Software Update Services or I would have had to download them all from Microsoft. Would have taken all day!
the SR-71 was designed in the 60's, the stealth fighter was designed in the 70's, the F-22 started in the mid 80's, kinda makes you wonder what the hell they're working on now!
I was pretty young, but I don't remember there being nearly as much "public" information about the stealth fighter until it was used in action. It seems there is alot more details about the F-22 before it was in service. Is that because there is more communication with the taxpayers nowadays, or because they don't want you to ask whats in the left hand?
But don't forget that the most sinister part is changing patent law to grant patents for the same length as copyrights, otherwise, by the time the generation grew up, he would have competitors!
Most of the Dell Ultrasharp LCD's do this. I have a HannsG 19"LCD, and It can also swivel 90 deg. I would probably leave it turned if I got a second monitor.
after looking at the reply above to Fedora vs. Ubuntu it appears that the package management has been drastically improved with Apt-Yum. I will have to play with Fedora again.
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I moved to sprint a year ago, and that does piss me off. My regional Cell company I was with before at least gave me incoming Text messages for free. That was really handy with Nagios! Now I have family members that love to text all the time, and After I get the third message in a row, I have to call them and say "What are you trying to freaking say? your costing me a fortune!". I know I can get X number of messages for $4 a month, but I refuse, I don't think I should have to pay for incoming messages that I can't control. At least with phone calls, I can choose to answer or not.
Drug companies love to talk about the cost of developing their drugs, but they easily spend more money Marketing their drugs than they do developing them. If there drugs are so good and wonderfull, shouldn't they sell themselves?
This gives much more information.
Take a look at your celphone bill, they charge about $1000/GB of data!
Sun has a video out that I'm too lazy to search for here, where they run ZFS on a bunch of pen drives, plugged into a USB 2.0 Hub. Faster, and fault tolerant. Pretty amazing. ZFS is not for just servers. Think of apples "time machine" software. Also, ZFS includes lots of Metadata and checksums, to prevent bit-rot of your files.
I'm not certain, but I do believe if you disclose your personal information to the courts because of the Americans with Disabilities Act; IE, you need to have recesses every 2 hours because of a medication you need for X, that becomes HIPAA covered, doesn't it?
I'm wondering about this too. "Cisco" doesn't censor. Cisco provied the equipment, expertise, training, and most likely "features" that enable the censorship for the goverment.
Many of those "features" are used in the US as well, things like WCCP are used to facilitate censorship by forwarding traffic to a filtering proxy server.
Not bad, really, You just have to fill out forms in triplicate, file them with 2 offices, pay a $8 "processing" fee at each office, along with a $15 application fee, and wait 6-8 weeks to hear back!
Try living outside the willamette valley. I live in southern Oregon. We are no longer allowed to buy studded tires for our cars. Too many people in PDX and the rest of the valley were putting them on their cars and tearing up the highways, when it only snows an inch once a year. So our wonderfull leaders, (who all live there) said no more studs. Where I live, I had 4 feet of snow, most of the winter. The next town is 70 miles away, over a mountain pass, that gets even more snow. Yes, studless tires exist, and they work great in level, straight roads with a little bit of ice or snow. But when your bumper is plowing the snow (in a pickup) because the plows run less often now because of budget cuts, they don't give you the "grip" you need to push through.
Ahh Oregon, how I love thee,
since I obviously can't look after myself,
I really appreciate that you are looking out for me,
Exactly, its a difference of Value that is up to the individual to decide. I might decide to skip support, because I will figure the problems out on my own. I might have a very important app running on my server, and think it is a better value to pay $k a year to them to have my problems fixed quickly, than to sit around (losing $X an hour, or even minute) and try to figure it out on my own.
Very similar to how I can choose to not get an extended warranty from my PC Supplier, or choose to get a 3 year NBD warranty, or for important things, a 4-hour warranty. You choose the level of service that you (and your wallet) are comfortable with.
I have found the aMSN works "somewhat" with the video chat. Slow, jerky, and overall not nearly as easy or nice as the native MSN clients. (could be partly my crappy camera, but many others apparently have the same issues) I live distant from my family (most use MSN messenger), and like to try to do video chats with them. It has been nothing but irritation, trying to get sound and video both working. I have even thought of switching to a different video conferencing tool altogether, but the fact I have Ubuntu, and they have XP makes it hard to find cross platform tools that are solid. (I hate netmeeting, and all its issues). Heck, I wouldn't even mind the aMSN bugs if it worked with other clients as well, I hate having one tool (pidgin) for my other IM clients, and a second one for just MSN.
Sorry, you are correct. I distinctly remember my local wal-mart having big banners that said "Proudly made in America". I miss those days. My GP was not meant to refer to Sam.
My point was more with the current Wal-Mart. People are willing to forgive the "new" wal-mart for destroying local communities, Paying next to nothing, and shutting down industries, importing everything from China, because the prices are low. They can't understand the repurcusions of the self-fullfilling prophesy they are creating.
It will affect ReiserFS the same as it affected the company that wrote the NTFS file system was convicted of their crimes. (being a monopoly).
Or when the creator of Unix (and the C language) was convicted of their crimes (being a monopoly)
Or the same as it affected Union Carbide when they poisoned a whole town killing everyone. (the former president will be jailed for life if he ever sets foot in India).
The thing is.. Things are decided on their merits, and price, etc. Not on their creators. Otherwise, Walmart would be bankrupt!
Right, but what happens when that cop tries to copy c:\windows\system32 (cause IIS defaults to putting its logfiles in there) from the hard drive to the pen drive; that's what step 18 in the carefully laid out instructions say. He really doesn't want to tinker, because evidence has to be gathered a certain way, to be used in court. He got promoted from a different post last year, and has been sent to lots of training on forensics for windows systems.
One would think that a company that could do a complete turn around after it got its 64bit ass handed to it (thanks AMD) would be able to dedicate just a bit of brain-power to their graphics.
However, if that isn't allowed, the companies are trouble.
How on earth would that be different than how health insurance has worked since it was created? Your company now has no idea if you are more likely to get cancer. Now it might now that you had cancer within the last 6th months, but not that you might get it in 10 years. I don't understand what the submitters counter argument is?! How can you "stock up" on insurance?
Stop posting on slashdot, and go back to running your campaign for election please!
But what about the servers that are placed in remote sites like small cell towers, where space, and backup power are critical issues.
I found a huge difference by running XUbuntu on my underpowered laptop. And it was really easy to switch to from regular ubuntu. Something like "sudo apt-get install xubuntu-core" I don't remember the exact command.
Uses Xfce.
This scares the crap out of me, but whats going to happen when someone comes back from an international conference with their laptop loaded with customer data for a bank or something heavily regulated. Who gets in trouble for the disk being copied? the bank, the employee, or the fed? And do they let you in if it is an encrypted drive, and you don't give them the key, because it is against disclosure laws?
Your missing one of the best reasons for SP3. I just installed a fresh copy of XPSP2 on a new model of computer to get the images ready. 110 MS patches later, it was caught up! Thank god for Windows Software Update Services or I would have had to download them all from Microsoft. Would have taken all day!
the SR-71 was designed in the 60's, the stealth fighter was designed in the 70's, the F-22 started in the mid 80's, kinda makes you wonder what the hell they're working on now!
I was pretty young, but I don't remember there being nearly as much "public" information about the stealth fighter until it was used in action. It seems there is alot more details about the F-22 before it was in service. Is that because there is more communication with the taxpayers nowadays, or because they don't want you to ask whats in the left hand?
But don't forget that the most sinister part is changing patent law to grant patents for the same length as copyrights, otherwise, by the time the generation grew up, he would have competitors!
Most of the Dell Ultrasharp LCD's do this. I have a HannsG 19"LCD, and It can also swivel 90 deg. I would probably leave it turned if I got a second monitor.
after looking at the reply above to Fedora vs. Ubuntu it appears that the package management has been drastically improved with Apt-Yum. I will have to play with Fedora again.