No, its not going to affect 90%. If they added some of these features to windows 2000, such as the firewall, for starters, then that would really make a big impact. How many buisnesses in the world run win2k instead of windows XP? lots.. Many companies won't upgrade because there isn't enough difference between 2000 and xp to make it worth the effort. this is microsoft's attempt to make it worth the effort to upgrade, excep that they broke compatibility with lots of home grown apps that companies use.
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No powder used to lift the shell, means much more explosive powder that can be used in the shell. If you used 25% of the weight of the shell to lift it before, (I'm making numbers up.. anyone know the real numbers, please correct me) then now you can have a 25% bigger boom.. (roughly).. which makes me happy, i like to see big explosions..
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That article explained alot. My GF asked me to hand her a her red shirt. I did. She said, Thats ruby, i meant the red one. So i handed her one of the other red ones. No, thats rose, On and on this goes, and then i finally tell her to pick the damn red shirt herself, she goes into the closet, takes a look at the 12 "red" shirts she has, and says, "see the red one, stupid". From what my buddies tell me, this is a very common issue, and perhaps these women have been overlooked for so long is that most of the doctors are men, and they just think the women are crazy. (My GF informs me that its really the other way around, we simple men are just blind!)
But of course, if you have glaucoma, a Stroke, resperatory problems, and are a 5'1" old lady that can't see over the dash, you can leagaly drive a RV the same size as a semi, without all those inspections and special licensing and training. And a semi is articulated (axis point in the middle) so it can turn easier than an RV. I always feel safe around truck drivers. Its the old folks driving the Huge RV's that scare the Shit out of me!!
I mean, can it grab more info in a given time span? Does it grab multiple layers or tracks in one rotation? Will it fill the data bus, and keep it full? Cause 50GB is a damn lot of loading otherwise. Seriously though, why do we constantly get disk drives that spin faster, why not just scan more tracks at once? I've keep hearing about bue ray from the perspective of data density, but not speed.
Ask them to give you a non-standard port, such as 1357 (I made it up, don't know if it goes to anything.) If they will set up Port forwarding to your Port 80, you can use a DNS provider, like EverDns.net ( I believe) to do the translation for you, telling clients to connect on that port.
I actually hope they come out with Duke Nuekom forever. Just slap that title on a silly old-fashioned side scrolling game. Then we'd get a whole new range of jokes..
and a bored sysadmin is a dangerous one. My all time favoritte was at an old Dot Com we worked for. New VP of sales comes running up to us needing an account quickly. (of course, nobody had told us he was hired, and in fact, just accepted the job 5 minutes before he was in our office.). So he demands a new account so he can check his portfolio on the web.
We set him up, and tell him his password is blank.
Two minutes later, he comes back awfully upset, demands that we reset his password, cause it wasn't blank. So we do.
2 minutes later, he's really getting pissed. Comes back with the head of IT. We ask him if the caps lock is on? He gets furious, asking how the hell it could matter if the caps was on with a blank password. We respond with, "there is a big difference between a capital B and a little b". He is seething, but slowly the realization creeps in, and he figures out what the hell we meant. Our boss, sits there like a statue, till the sales guy leaves, and then just explodes in laughter so hard he couldn't stand.
ahh, the days of the dot-coms, how I will miss thee...
Any Joe Sixpack who types in an incorrect domain name, because he's got too much BBQ Sauce on his fat fingers, does an MSN Search if there using IE.l..
That would be wonderful, I would love to put linux on the Desktops, instead of just the servers.. However, Our college is in a small, technology inept town. As a community college, we have to teach classes that are relevant to the local careers. There are very few linux machines in this town. Even fewer used as desktops. At a university, this would make sense. Where there are pure science majors and such. But a community college is about employing people in the local community. Literally, 90% of our incoming students do not have a computer at home. It would be a perfect time to teach them computer skills, instead of Windows/Office skills, but that has been shot down by administration every time I suggest it.
I work at a small college, there are 3 of us in the IS dept, and probably about 1000 students. We buy dells for the reason you blame them for, their cheap, however there optiplex line is all hardware compatible. Meaning, if I order a GX270 at the start of the year, at the end of the year, I can still order the GX270 with the same parts.. (most companies will change the sound card, or no longer offer the same motherboard chipset, something small like that.) Because were a small college, I use Symantec ghost constantly. I've even tought the LRC staff how to force a machine to re-ghost itself over the network, without any intervention. (The click a button, and put in a password) Saves alot of time compared compared to them submitting a support case becuase "its broken" and me slogging over to that building and finding theres just a bunch of spyware..
Reboot the PC into safe mode (with networking) load adaware, (or whatever) get its updated def files, and scan.
Doesn't work remotely, but seems to get pretty much all of them.. However, I have seen in the last month one or two running even in safe mode on Win2k. As soon as you reboot back, they re-install about 10 more. Thank god for norton ghost for those nasty ones.
On a side note, is there a huge list of IP's that these spamware come from, or report back to, or whatever? Sure would be handy to ban those IP's at the router..
because the spammers that send 15 million emails to people in country 1 are not breaking the law in country 2. And Country 2 refuses to do anything about it. The ITU (the UN Group) wants to standardize legislation, making it much more difficult to hide in other countries and continue to break the laws of other nations.
Yes, cause who would listen to a part of the UN that is pushing this? the silly ITU.(International Telecommunications Union). These are the guys pushed the standards for telephones, like dialing internationally, and equipment working together.. Bet your local telecom and cell companies all followed the ITU's mandate to the letter, or else they wouldn't interconnect with the rest of the world.. Which is a pretty good idea, if you ask me.
Go to the NOAA Web Site and download all the weather data from your area going back many, many years.. its facinating to take the datasets and plot the ranges in temperature, humidity, etc..
A past company I worked at had several good sized conference rooms, which is normal.. However, every wall in these rooms was a giant white board. Also, several un-official meeting areas had white-board walls too.. That was dang handy for trying to explain things to people at impromptu meetings. And please, take one Conf. room, and put a couch, TV, and comfy chair or two in. makes meetings much more relaxed and productive.
I have a Digital Copy machine here at work. Its a college, so we have lots of copywrited books. In fact, some teachers sometimes copy a page out of a book, and hand it out to students. That is leagal. However, that "Digital" copy machine is also cabable of completely copying a textbook, so should it be outlawed?
I have a Sony DVCam. I can record images of my little nephew running around, and of my trips and stuff, but its digital, so I could make perfect copies of things that I have recorded. I can also set the camcorder up in a theater (if i was so inclined). So should that be illegal?
An iPod can put legally bought songs on it, It can also play pirated MP3's.
Hell, if we want to go far enough, I can kill someone with a hammer, or a computer monitor if i really needed to. Should Craftsman be liable becuase I used their tool outside its scope and purpose? Cause thats what this bill will do to digital copying.
I work at a small community college and we have been swapping out CRT's for LCD's whenever a computer is upgraded. We have found that the extra cost is justified by several factors.
The space savings are significant in the computer labs especially. Students now have room to put their books out in front of them, between themselves and the screen. (we had crowded labs before, the desks are narrow and close together.).
The power savings are good. Before, students would forget to turn off the monitors when class was done. It still happens, but when those LCD's go into powersave mode, they use almost nothing.
The rooms stay sooo much cooler. Our AC was always running in the computer labs before, with 30 17" CRT's going (and PC's). but the LCD's produce so little heat that the room stays nice and cool, and the AC is off more than it is on. (lots of energy savings there).
My back is very thankfull, and every time i have to move a CRT monitor across campus, I am reminded about how thankfull my back is.
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No, its not going to affect 90%. If they added some of these features to windows 2000, such as the firewall, for starters, then that would really make a big impact. How many buisnesses in the world run win2k instead of windows XP? lots.. Many companies won't upgrade because there isn't enough difference between 2000 and xp to make it worth the effort. this is microsoft's attempt to make it worth the effort to upgrade, excep that they broke compatibility with lots of home grown apps that companies use.
No powder used to lift the shell, means much more explosive powder that can be used in the shell. If you used 25% of the weight of the shell to lift it before, (I'm making numbers up.. anyone know the real numbers, please correct me) then now you can have a 25% bigger boom.. (roughly).. which makes me happy, i like to see big explosions..
That article explained alot. My GF asked me to hand her a her red shirt. I did.
She said, Thats ruby, i meant the red one.
So i handed her one of the other red ones.
No, thats rose,
On and on this goes, and then i finally tell her to pick the damn red shirt herself, she goes into the closet, takes a look at the 12 "red" shirts she has, and says, "see the red one, stupid". From what my buddies tell me, this is a very common issue, and perhaps these women have been overlooked for so long is that most of the doctors are men, and they just think the women are crazy. (My GF informs me that its really the other way around, we simple men are just blind!)
Damn, you were so close.. just couldn't resist putting in that last sentance could you? The one that made it a -1 Troll instead of a +5 funny....
But of course, if you have glaucoma, a Stroke, resperatory problems, and are a 5'1" old lady that can't see over the dash, you can leagaly drive a RV the same size as a semi, without all those inspections and special licensing and training. And a semi is articulated (axis point in the middle) so it can turn easier than an RV. I always feel safe around truck drivers. Its the old folks driving the Huge RV's that scare the Shit out of me!!
I mean, can it grab more info in a given time span? Does it grab multiple layers or tracks in one rotation? Will it fill the data bus, and keep it full? Cause 50GB is a damn lot of loading otherwise. Seriously though, why do we constantly get disk drives that spin faster, why not just scan more tracks at once? I've keep hearing about bue ray from the perspective of data density, but not speed.
Ask them to give you a non-standard port, such as 1357 (I made it up, don't know if it goes to anything.) If they will set up Port forwarding to your Port 80, you can use a DNS provider, like EverDns.net ( I believe) to do the translation for you, telling clients to connect on that port.
I actually hope they come out with Duke Nuekom forever. Just slap that title on a silly old-fashioned side scrolling game. Then we'd get a whole new range of jokes..
whats the password to the file server?
why
Cause i need the password to do work
why..........etc...
We set him up, and tell him his password is blank.
Two minutes later, he comes back awfully upset, demands that we reset his password, cause it wasn't blank. So we do.
2 minutes later, he's really getting pissed. Comes back with the head of IT. We ask him if the caps lock is on? He gets furious, asking how the hell it could matter if the caps was on with a blank password. We respond with, "there is a big difference between a capital B and a little b". He is seething, but slowly the realization creeps in, and he figures out what the hell we meant. Our boss, sits there like a statue, till the sales guy leaves, and then just explodes in laughter so hard he couldn't stand.
ahh, the days of the dot-coms, how I will miss thee...
Any Joe Sixpack who types in an incorrect domain name, because he's got too much BBQ Sauce on his fat fingers, does an MSN Search if there using IE.l..
That would be wonderful, I would love to put linux on the Desktops, instead of just the servers.. However, Our college is in a small, technology inept town. As a community college, we have to teach classes that are relevant to the local careers. There are very few linux machines in this town. Even fewer used as desktops. At a university, this would make sense. Where there are pure science majors and such. But a community college is about employing people in the local community. Literally, 90% of our incoming students do not have a computer at home. It would be a perfect time to teach them computer skills, instead of Windows/Office skills, but that has been shot down by administration every time I suggest it.
I work at a small college, there are 3 of us in the IS dept, and probably about 1000 students. We buy dells for the reason you blame them for, their cheap, however there optiplex line is all hardware compatible. Meaning, if I order a GX270 at the start of the year, at the end of the year, I can still order the GX270 with the same parts.. (most companies will change the sound card, or no longer offer the same motherboard chipset, something small like that.) Because were a small college, I use Symantec ghost constantly. I've even tought the LRC staff how to force a machine to re-ghost itself over the network, without any intervention. (The click a button, and put in a password) Saves alot of time compared compared to them submitting a support case becuase "its broken" and me slogging over to that building and finding theres just a bunch of spyware..
Doesn't work remotely, but seems to get pretty much all of them.. However, I have seen in the last month one or two running even in safe mode on Win2k. As soon as you reboot back, they re-install about 10 more. Thank god for norton ghost for those nasty ones.
On a side note, is there a huge list of IP's that these spamware come from, or report back to, or whatever? Sure would be handy to ban those IP's at the router..
Seriously, when are we going to stop legislating absolutely everything.. Do politicians own stock in paper mills?
because the spammers that send 15 million emails to people in country 1 are not breaking the law in country 2. And Country 2 refuses to do anything about it. The ITU (the UN Group) wants to standardize legislation, making it much more difficult to hide in other countries and continue to break the laws of other nations.
Yes, cause who would listen to a part of the UN that is pushing this? the silly ITU.(International Telecommunications Union). These are the guys pushed the standards for telephones, like dialing internationally, and equipment working together.. Bet your local telecom and cell companies all followed the ITU's mandate to the letter, or else they wouldn't interconnect with the rest of the world.. Which is a pretty good idea, if you ask me.
Go to the NOAA Web Site and download all the weather data from your area going back many, many years.. its facinating to take the datasets and plot the ranges in temperature, humidity, etc..
Do you really want to download that ISO on even a T-1 Line? have bittorrent swamp your connection for a month?
Ouch... Maybe they'd have a cheapbytes disk...
A past company I worked at had several good sized conference rooms, which is normal.. However, every wall in these rooms was a giant white board. Also, several un-official meeting areas had white-board walls too.. That was dang handy for trying to explain things to people at impromptu meetings. And please, take one Conf. room, and put a couch, TV, and comfy chair or two in. makes meetings much more relaxed and productive.
Unlike MS certs, which try to let you do things any way you want, making your skillset instantly transferable to any OS.
I have a Sony DVCam. I can record images of my little nephew running around, and of my trips and stuff, but its digital, so I could make perfect copies of things that I have recorded. I can also set the camcorder up in a theater (if i was so inclined). So should that be illegal?
An iPod can put legally bought songs on it, It can also play pirated MP3's.
Hell, if we want to go far enough, I can kill someone with a hammer, or a computer monitor if i really needed to. Should Craftsman be liable becuase I used their tool outside its scope and purpose? Cause thats what this bill will do to digital copying.
But you have to give him props for the semi-recursive naming convention., similar to "Wine Is Not an Emulator", or "Gnu is Not Unix".
On a side note, have SCO ever really looked at the GNU = "Gnu is Not Unix".. seems to spell out why their lawsuit will fail..
The space savings are significant in the computer labs especially. Students now have room to put their books out in front of them, between themselves and the screen. (we had crowded labs before, the desks are narrow and close together.).
The power savings are good. Before, students would forget to turn off the monitors when class was done. It still happens, but when those LCD's go into powersave mode, they use almost nothing.
The rooms stay sooo much cooler. Our AC was always running in the computer labs before, with 30 17" CRT's going (and PC's). but the LCD's produce so little heat that the room stays nice and cool, and the AC is off more than it is on. (lots of energy savings there).
My back is very thankfull, and every time i have to move a CRT monitor across campus, I am reminded about how thankfull my back is.
You forgot to mention read slashdot, or is that assumed under "work"??