You can buy good beer in a store in Ontario?
The mega swill factories own the beer store and make it night impossible for real beer to get offered there. Then the gubberment owns the liquor store and seem to only stock 307857646 brands of the same pre-sunked euro lager.
I guess in behind all the crappy euro lagers you'll find the odd gem, special edition, seasonal offering. Like a hidden Lug Tread, Chimay or Brutal Bitter that didn't sell out 13.8 seconds after hitting the shelf.
They aren't capping you, they are setting you on a speed profile that your line can handle reliably by default. If you want to risk having your DSL go up and down like panties on prom night on your 40 year old copper, rat chewed copper line you can call and ask for it. If you life in a swanky new green field 300 feet from the CO they will set you up at 7mb without the phone call.
Read the fine print. It says "up to" and they only guaranty 1mb/s. You only get 7mb/s if you have an amazing set of copper to the CO AND call up the help desk, wade though the idiots, escalate up to SNet and have them fix your line speed in Lantern.
Oh, you will also have agree to the disclaimer about how they cannot guaranty jack shit on fast path. That makes any other support issues in the future a hassle since the helpdesk will point at that and laugh at you, then roll a tech to your door at your expense to "check your line".
I would love to see one of these "users" start with a fresh XP install. They won't even have network connectivity until they figure out there is another CD around with some drivers on it.
Good eff'n luck.
They won't get a single task done.
System->Administration->Software Sources->Update Tab
Ether:
Change the automatic update settings (like every two weeks)
or
Uncheck everything but security updates
About as complicated as setting up automatic update preferences in windows.
Not only do you have to go to the mfg website to get the drivers but FIRST you have to have a second computer to download the damn network drivers on. Then you have to figure out some way to sneaker net the things onto XP. That was of course, after you opened up your machine to figure out what NIC you have and what brand and model your mother board is. XP is a brain dead POS at installing drivers automagicaly.
Banks should hand out token card that combines with a username and password/pin. You need all 3 to login. So now you need to have a physical object of the users to break in. Something people are much more familiar with protecting.
Username and password authentication is a poor lock. Double especially when you let the user pick the password.
I strongly advise you not to touch a working DSL connection until Bell's labor dispute has been resolved. If you disconnect now, you probably will not get a working, new connection until sometime in December.
Couple hundred sun boxes at work. We still have some running Solaris 5.5. We absolutely do NOT update unless it is required for a business reason... and then it has to all go though Change Management so guaranty its not going to castrate a couple million mail boxes.
I think the DST fiasco last year costs us a few hundred man hours.
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Except for Gruit Ale, which replaced hops with other assorted herbs like Bog Myrtle, Sweet Yarrow, Juniper Berries, Spruce tips and so forth.
You can buy good beer in a store in Ontario? The mega swill factories own the beer store and make it night impossible for real beer to get offered there. Then the gubberment owns the liquor store and seem to only stock 307857646 brands of the same pre-sunked euro lager. I guess in behind all the crappy euro lagers you'll find the odd gem, special edition, seasonal offering. Like a hidden Lug Tread, Chimay or Brutal Bitter that didn't sell out 13.8 seconds after hitting the shelf.
"ReactOS" And should, in theory, be able to use Windows drivers.
They aren't capping you, they are setting you on a speed profile that your line can handle reliably by default. If you want to risk having your DSL go up and down like panties on prom night on your 40 year old copper, rat chewed copper line you can call and ask for it. If you life in a swanky new green field 300 feet from the CO they will set you up at 7mb without the phone call.
Read the fine print. It says "up to" and they only guaranty 1mb/s. You only get 7mb/s if you have an amazing set of copper to the CO AND call up the help desk, wade though the idiots, escalate up to SNet and have them fix your line speed in Lantern. Oh, you will also have agree to the disclaimer about how they cannot guaranty jack shit on fast path. That makes any other support issues in the future a hassle since the helpdesk will point at that and laugh at you, then roll a tech to your door at your expense to "check your line".
Double++ ditto. The crap/adminware that comes installed on the default image at work grinds my laptop to a halt.
There are a number of "safemode" option in the GDM login screen...
I would love to see one of these "users" start with a fresh XP install. They won't even have network connectivity until they figure out there is another CD around with some drivers on it. Good eff'n luck. They won't get a single task done.
In my neighborhood I can see 8 access points. Every one of them encrypted. Granted 6 of them use WEP...
System->Administration->Software Sources->Update Tab Ether: Change the automatic update settings (like every two weeks) or Uncheck everything but security updates About as complicated as setting up automatic update preferences in windows.
Not only do you have to go to the mfg website to get the drivers but FIRST you have to have a second computer to download the damn network drivers on. Then you have to figure out some way to sneaker net the things onto XP. That was of course, after you opened up your machine to figure out what NIC you have and what brand and model your mother board is. XP is a brain dead POS at installing drivers automagicaly.
Banks should hand out token card that combines with a username and password/pin. You need all 3 to login. So now you need to have a physical object of the users to break in. Something people are much more familiar with protecting. Username and password authentication is a poor lock. Double especially when you let the user pick the password.
They buy dedicated pipe off of Bell's ATM network and rent use of Bell's copper, DSLAM's and ATM to get customers to their pipe.
I strongly advise you not to touch a working DSL connection until Bell's labor dispute has been resolved. If you disconnect now, you probably will not get a working, new connection until sometime in December.
Couple hundred sun boxes at work. We still have some running Solaris 5.5. We absolutely do NOT update unless it is required for a business reason... and then it has to all go though Change Management so guaranty its not going to castrate a couple million mail boxes. I think the DST fiasco last year costs us a few hundred man hours.