I usually do on BigFoot.com, Lycos, Yahoo "People Search", and some white page directories.
My local phone company, which is also my ISP maintains local, provincial and country wide search directories. Not as current as dialing for directory assistance, but usually a month or so behind.
I won't mention which phone company - because that too is too much info, but see if your phone company does this.;-)
I fight back! I don't recieve targeted junk dead-tree mail because I don't own any "club" cards, Air Miles(tm), discount cards or such. I don't fill in store surveys or questionaires no matter the incentive!
My web browsers do not accept cookies, and Cookie Monster helps me with that. Personally, I have no traceable web presence. However, there are always sites that require a username/e-mail address.
For those the answer is simple - I lie! For other sites that require a valid e-mail account, I have throw-away e-mail accounts on Hotmail, Hushmail or Yahoo.
And I check! Regularly, I go to search sites and look myself up. If I find myself, I contact the place where my info originated and ask them to remove it! - this only happened to me once!
When all else fails, I make someone up! My imaginary invisible friend has a web presence! Look him up sometime!
Re:Free Mongolia? Yes, I meant Tibet!
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Sorry, yes I meant Tibet. Brain doesn't move as fast as fingers:-(
But at least I was in Mr. Mao's neighbourhood!
Thanks for the URL's.
Whack-a-Mole style practical joke...
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Since I've seen articles here on how China is embracing Linux...
In order to illustrate how impossible it is to control the web, I would encourage some developer to include a simple comment "Free Mongolia" somewhere in the source code.
Just for the warm feeling it'll give everyone knowing that it'll be on each Chinese Govenrment computer.
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, available now and for a limited time, I present you Dr Chouia's miracle cure for what ails you!
Want to run Wintel programs on your Mac?
Want to run Wintel programs on your Wintel box?
It'll do that and more! It runs Linux programs on Wintel too! It cures bad breath, athletes foot, bad grades, hair loss and the common cold!
It invisibly translates Chinese to Japanese to English! It improves your sex life!
And, as an added feature, at no extra charge to you, we'll pipe/dev/null to \Windows\temp just in case you really wanted that output and have a little extra disk space!
But act fast, because this offer is only good for the next 30 days, or as long as we are in town!
I do hardware certifications for a large oil company. I stress test and benchmark performance to see what is best suited to our harsh environment. I currently work with many of those drives, and have been for about 12 years.
"As of yet I've seen no Maxtor, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Samsung or any other manufacture's hard drive crash"
Then you haven't been watching closely! They are mechanical, they will fail, it's just a matter of when. As for PS/2's, we have a PS/2 mod 50 (386/25) with a 30Mb ESDI drive that is out in a mechanical shop. It's been there for 10 years, covered in dirt and grease, and it's still running!!
I wouldn't buy a Maxtor, Quantum or Fujitsu unless forced at gunpoint. WD, Seagate or IBM, that's it for me. You can't judge a drive from how a few come out of the box. Just like cars, some are lemons from the factory. It depends on the good ones, and how they act over time.
But I do agree with you on the IBM drives! I just got my new U2W LVD drive, 19GB Scsi and it ROCKS!
Ahhh yes. Flamebait from a script kiddie. The best thing to do is ignore you, but I'm not like that.
People with such closed minds really must not enjoy life. No variety. Assuming you're old enough to drive, you must get bored taking the same routes everywhere every day. Never trying new foods etc. Boring.
Learning how to use a computer must have been a challenge for you. Myself, I use every O/S know to man, save for a few obscure or outdated ones. Most of us here know that every O/S has its place, it's strengths and it's weaknesses. When you grow up you'll learn that too.
As for bringing my mother into this, I tried yours about 15 years ago, and she wasn't very good. That's why you're an only child.
I started on Shaw@home over a year ago. That's because my ISP at the time wasn't offering high speed services in my city at the time. Over the last year my bandwidth has been cut down dramatically. In the last six months they converted from a microwave/satellite transmission medium to fiber. The fiber link was finished last summer.
Since then, my bandwidth has gotten WORSE! Mind you, it's still faster than a 56k modem:-). But luckily, my ISP of choice has gotten DSL in my area, and last month I was the first in town to get it installed! Wahoo!
In that time I experemented with different setups, NT with Wingate, Linux as a router/firewall. The network did change from the "early" days when I could do a "net view/domain:*workgroup" and see everyone in the neighbourhood's drives! (all hail Distributed.net!)
I still use things like BlackIce Defender to monitor my systems (I still haven't got scanned ethier from *.home.com) but I notice an increasing number of attempts to break through my firewall. Even some numpty trying to send through my sendmail to "a@aol.com" (he got a nice surprise too!).
My view: Death to Spam! Like a previous post said, they aren't being proactive, they're being re-active!
Let's see here; "Steam Engine". well, the American way of life didn't end, but how about the people that were living there at the time? You know, Native American Indians? Most farmers have been caged into a non-sustainable form of farming. Their land is so expensive to operate, they can't follow the time tested method of crop rotation. All the land must produce all the time. That means they have to use fertilizers to compensate. Those too are expensive. Then they don't get a good price on their crops unless they use pesticides because their tomatoes or whatever don't look good on supermarket shelves. Or they get less than satisfactory yields unless they use herbicides. More $$$! Then, one farmer has to work an unbelieveable amount of land. That require$ machinery. That require$ repair$ and maintainence. (One farmer I know works over 2400 acres of land, himself and his two sons!) Now bugs and weeds have adapted. (We are borg.) Right now, we export grains; wood, meat, steel and many others, to the US and overseas. What happens when we can't feed ourselves? I can see why a farmer would go for the quick fix of GE crops. But what will that do to us in the long run?
Does anyone remember the good old days? When Gopherspace could get you anything you could think of? When the internet was a place for sharing ideas? Who let big business in here anyway? It's all one big commercial now!
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My local phone company, which is also my ISP maintains local, provincial and country wide search directories. Not as current as dialing for directory assistance, but usually a month or so behind.
I won't mention which phone company - because that too is too much info, but see if your phone company does this. ;-)
Cheers!
What do we care that the Yank constitution doesn't protect them!
It never did squat for us! And ours is better anyhow.
Katz needs to do a little more research, and use an editor, preferrabally one not on methadrone.
Ever call in to someplace for tech support? Then you've been talking to one of those machines.
The scary systems are ones that people don't know about. They send chills down my spine.
I fight back! I don't recieve targeted junk dead-tree mail because I don't own any "club" cards, Air Miles(tm), discount cards or such. I don't fill in store surveys or questionaires no matter the incentive!
My web browsers do not accept cookies, and Cookie Monster helps me with that. Personally, I have no traceable web presence. However, there are always sites that require a username/e-mail address.
For those the answer is simple - I lie! For other sites that require a valid e-mail account, I have throw-away e-mail accounts on Hotmail, Hushmail or Yahoo.
And I check! Regularly, I go to search sites and look myself up. If I find myself, I contact the place where my info originated and ask them to remove it! - this only happened to me once!
When all else fails, I make someone up! My imaginary invisible friend has a web presence! Look him up sometime!
But at least I was in Mr. Mao's neighbourhood!
Thanks for the URL's.
In order to illustrate how impossible it is to control the web, I would encourage some developer to include a simple comment "Free Mongolia" somewhere in the source code.
Just for the warm feeling it'll give everyone knowing that it'll be on each Chinese Govenrment computer.
Want to run Wintel programs on your Mac?
Want to run Wintel programs on your Wintel box?
It'll do that and more! It runs Linux programs on Wintel too! It cures bad breath, athletes foot, bad grades, hair loss and the common cold!
It invisibly translates Chinese to Japanese to English! It improves your sex life!
And, as an added feature, at no extra charge to you, we'll pipe /dev/null to \Windows\temp just in case you really wanted that output and have a little extra disk space!
But act fast, because this offer is only good for the next 30 days, or as long as we are in town!
It was in the old InfoMagic distro from ftp.cdrom. You had to run Doom as root, and it infected you that way!
But we've all learned since then not to run as root - rrrriiiight!
I do hardware certifications for a large oil company. I stress test and benchmark performance to see what is best suited to our harsh environment. I currently work with many of those drives, and have been for about 12 years.
"As of yet I've seen no Maxtor, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Samsung or any other manufacture's hard drive crash"
Then you haven't been watching closely! They are mechanical, they will fail, it's just a matter of when. As for PS/2's, we have a PS/2 mod 50 (386/25) with a 30Mb ESDI drive that is out in a mechanical shop. It's been there for 10 years, covered in dirt and grease, and it's still running!!
I wouldn't buy a Maxtor, Quantum or Fujitsu unless forced at gunpoint. WD, Seagate or IBM, that's it for me. You can't judge a drive from how a few come out of the box. Just like cars, some are lemons from the factory. It depends on the good ones, and how they act over time.
But I do agree with you on the IBM drives! I just got my new U2W LVD drive, 19GB Scsi and it ROCKS!
Ahhh yes. Flamebait from a script kiddie. The best thing to do is ignore you, but I'm not like that.
People with such closed minds really must not enjoy life. No variety. Assuming you're old enough to drive, you must get bored taking the same routes everywhere every day. Never trying new foods etc. Boring.
Learning how to use a computer must have been a challenge for you. Myself, I use every O/S know to man, save for a few obscure or outdated ones. Most of us here know that every O/S has its place, it's strengths and it's weaknesses. When you grow up you'll learn that too.
As for bringing my mother into this, I tried yours about 15 years ago, and she wasn't very good. That's why you're an only child.
I started on Shaw@home over a year ago. That's because my ISP at the time wasn't offering high speed services in my city at the time. Over the last year my bandwidth has been cut down dramatically. In the last six months they converted from a microwave/satellite transmission medium to fiber. The fiber link was finished last summer.
Since then, my bandwidth has gotten WORSE! Mind you, it's still faster than a 56k modem :-). But luckily, my ISP of choice has gotten DSL in my area, and last month I was the first in town to get it installed! Wahoo!
In that time I experemented with different setups, NT with Wingate, Linux as a router/firewall. The network did change from the "early" days when I could do a "net view /domain:*workgroup" and see everyone in the neighbourhood's drives! (all hail Distributed.net!)
I still use things like BlackIce Defender to monitor my systems (I still haven't got scanned ethier from *.home.com) but I notice an increasing number of attempts to break through my firewall. Even some numpty trying to send through my sendmail to "a@aol.com" (he got a nice surprise too!).
My view: Death to Spam! Like a previous post said, they aren't being proactive, they're being re-active!
I knew a long time ago that I'd have to spend some evenings and weekend reading those boring books from Sam's or M$ press in order to remain current.
;-). (TNN for the Yanks)
Ohh! And all the useless commands and arguements that I'll never use! I just love that!
I hope that someone writes a guide for these exams that won't snap my eyelids shut faster than CMT
and a little less biased... href=http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/gm world/gmfood/gmfood.html
Let's see here; "Steam Engine". well, the American way of life didn't end, but how about the people that were living there at the time? You know, Native American Indians? Most farmers have been caged into a non-sustainable form of farming. Their land is so expensive to operate, they can't follow the time tested method of crop rotation. All the land must produce all the time. That means they have to use fertilizers to compensate. Those too are expensive. Then they don't get a good price on their crops unless they use pesticides because their tomatoes or whatever don't look good on supermarket shelves. Or they get less than satisfactory yields unless they use herbicides. More $$$! Then, one farmer has to work an unbelieveable amount of land. That require$ machinery. That require$ repair$ and maintainence. (One farmer I know works over 2400 acres of land, himself and his two sons!) Now bugs and weeds have adapted. (We are borg.) Right now, we export grains; wood, meat, steel and many others, to the US and overseas. What happens when we can't feed ourselves? I can see why a farmer would go for the quick fix of GE crops. But what will that do to us in the long run?
Does anyone remember the good old days? When Gopherspace could get you anything you could think of? When the internet was a place for sharing ideas? Who let big business in here anyway? It's all one big commercial now!