Who defines "properly" And even if it was to your satisfaction, who's to say in a later revision a monopoly just breaks support for an older format? Happened before and it'll happen again!
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Besides the points already brought up, the product can be re-used over and over again, making it quite the investment that could pay for itself in 2-3 upgrades.
no, People with cracked keys that cannot apply the update will one hour after the release find out what keys are not valid, and reinstall with an alternative. This is a 2-3 hour process.
If someone is brainless enough to find a cracked key that doesn't work, they certainly are brainless enough to put the effort forward to get a key that does work.
2600 just provided a framed part of their site where the decss utility could be downloaded from? They don't actually host the utility, the links, nor the actual code. Every week or so another hosted site in a different country has a mirror of both the links and/or the utilities themselves. This absolves 2600 of linking themselves. The point is moot now, I suppose, but the ramifications of their case are mind-bogglingly easy to surmount.
Don't ever give out your real number, ever. Give a fake number. Businesses will contact you by mail far before they call you for anything significant (missed payment/etc.)
Better yet is not to own a POTS phone, but to get a cell, you save money in the long run because of taxes, fees, etc.
Until the patch kills your machine. There have been numerous incidents where an IE, exchange, and IM patch have killed machines, only to be re-released hours later with an apology (or not,).
The auto-update feature is a dangerous thing. I would wait a week before applying it, unless you have a lab environment to test it in...
What part of me not wanting to read/. movie reviews does my preferences not understand? I MEAN NEVER. YOUR REVIEWS ARE HORRIBLE. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM!
As an all windows shop, (minus a few linux nextworking devices) we will definately be evaluating running mozilla on our windows boxes. We're sick of the breaches and updates.
We're also looking very closely at openoffice and staroffice, as we do not wish to participate in MS's "upgrade advantage."
Linux can only improve in this respect, especially where cost/benefit is concerned.
So how do you determine who gets the royalties? Do I produce 200,000 1-second mp3's and get compensated because I hired a few buddies to download them? What method is used to keep track of royalty payments? If the artists are getting compensated, how can they regulate this without abuse?
If the record industry is getting compensated, what about the movie industry? If the movie industry is getting compennsated, how about the book industry? Gaming? Software? Porn? etc etc
Imporssible to regulate fairly, and will be tossed out. The free market and TCP/IP will decide for us, naturally.
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Because someone taking over my account (after the 90 days) could then impersonate me (i.e. have my password from another online retailer sent to that mailbox, etc) I don't think it's paranoia at all.
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I purposely have done this.
See, I signed up for a hotmail in it's early stages ('97). I used it for everything, including online purchasing, friends, family, you name it. At some point something happened-- one of the forms I filled out, or someone sold my same, and I started to get mail addressed to my real name, at that address. This semi-scared me.
So recently I went to cancel the account. Hotmail by default will consider your account "cancelled" after inactivity of 90 days. I cannot click something that says "Forever, never use this e-mail" My fear is that others will get this e-mail after I have cancelled it, and they will see my real name.
The best solution I have come up with is to fight fire-with-fire. I now sign up for every mailing list I can, each with a different real name. I now belong to over 400 mailing lists(including/.), some legit commercial businesses, some obvious spam. The mailbox fills up roughly every 30 hours. I plan to continue this for a few months, until it will be impossible to distinguish my real name from the fake names. Whomever picks up the account next will be in for a treat as they open their account and start getting thousands of messages a day, random names, and all.
Just bught to netservers, and we also bought a 5 year extended contract with that too. YOu bet your ass we're holding them to supporting us on that for exactly 5 years...
Incorrect. Banks own the first four digits, you are looking at 12 numbers now.
They *are* often sequential, so you are looking at getting a few cards from a single bank and using a range, and the expiry dates are about 1/14 chance, often using each in turn will work. Get a friend at a retail shop to try them all. Not all that hard.
There doesn't need to be a standard. Any webmaster can put a forwarder on their front page to any other page.
If fact, if The Dllas paper wants to be really cue, they should just force people to connect to the DNS equivalent IP address and not ever use DNS for their site!
This is so true. The country has witnessed a great crash, and I know our firm actively seeks out vendors that are doing well, and are local. We got rid of Worldcom as a vendor back in early 2001 when we realized they never responded to our support calls or competitor's bids, CDW early this year when it was obvious they were desperate for our business, (calling us 2-3 times a week, even though we'd only spent a few grand there,) and several other vendors. Many companies lost their relationship with us just on support alone (Gateway business desktops (HDD died constantly), IBM thinkpads(took months to get part replacements), Hp desktops(refused to send in replacement parts, they wanted us to ship them a partially functioning desktop,) because they pared down their support offerings and the result was very obvious.
Depending on your support contract with Dell, they may encourage you to send your PC back to them for repair, or ship parts to you for repair, which is no better than if you had to support it yourself. Usually when I call Dell it's to tell them what exactly is wrong, but they waste my time trying to reconfirm it and have me run stupid diagnostics even when the error is blatently obvious.
I'm going for build-our-own next time around (about 16 months left on the lease). The dell systems were nice I just haven't been too pleased with their pared down support lately.
It's only 10 machines for this first expiration, but it'll give me a good idea for the remaining 40 if it's worth it.
"I will document everything, and present to an outsourcing firm for approval"
Surely a small dot.com uses a third party for assistance on these matters other than their own in-house tech support guy, right? If not, then they have far more things to worry about...
And now Dell outsources to Canada and India, where you can just barely understand through often *thick* accents. While technically competant, their outsourced support is a sign of things getting worse before better in the tech support industry...
It's funny that this just comes out. I've rebuilt three machines in the past week due to Klez.x and Magistr.x viruses on 98 and 95 boxes. All three users had virus protection but had let the subscription lapse. Nice profit for me, too bad for them.
We block about 4-5 viruses a week at the firewall and a few more at the smtp gateway, and usually none inbound at the outlook level. WIthout AV protection we'd be sitting ducks...
It's not the server platform that people are as worried about, it's the client/desktop. Microsoft will still allow admins by default in XP, and whatever client gets the next funky named iteration. It's moot, really, because the user wants control, and MS admins give in to pressure when their users whine when they are the locked down default. So it's not entirely MS's fault, it's the nature of the business.
The security issues will continue to plague them, for many years to come. You can thank Legacy installed base, which now is actually growing, instead of decreasing.
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Who defines "properly" And even if it was to your satisfaction, who's to say in a later revision a monopoly just breaks support for an older format? Happened before and it'll happen again!
Besides the points already brought up, the product can be re-used over and over again, making it quite the investment that could pay for itself in 2-3 upgrades.
no, People with cracked keys that cannot apply the update will one hour after the release find out what keys are not valid, and reinstall with an alternative. This is a 2-3 hour process.
If someone is brainless enough to find a cracked key that doesn't work, they certainly are brainless enough to put the effort forward to get a key that does work.
A minor hindrance.
2600 just provided a framed part of their site where the decss utility could be downloaded from? They don't actually host the utility, the links, nor the actual code. Every week or so another hosted site in a different country has a mirror of both the links and/or the utilities themselves. This absolves 2600 of linking themselves. The point is moot now, I suppose, but the ramifications of their case are mind-bogglingly easy to surmount.
Don't ever give out your real number, ever. Give a fake number.
Businesses will contact you by mail far before they call you for anything significant (missed payment/etc.)
Better yet is not to own a POTS phone, but to get a cell, you save money in the long run because of taxes, fees, etc.
hahah.... Wired even posted the utility IN THEIR NEWS ARTICLE! Way to go!
Until the patch kills your machine. There have been numerous incidents where an IE, exchange, and IM patch have killed machines, only to be re-released hours later with an apology (or not,).
The auto-update feature is a dangerous thing. I would wait a week before applying it, unless you have a lab environment to test it in...
What part of me not wanting to read /. movie reviews does my preferences not understand? I MEAN NEVER. YOUR REVIEWS ARE HORRIBLE. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THEM!
As an all windows shop, (minus a few linux nextworking devices) we will definately be evaluating running mozilla on our windows boxes. We're sick of the breaches and updates.
We're also looking very closely at openoffice and staroffice, as we do not wish to participate in MS's "upgrade advantage."
Linux can only improve in this respect, especially where cost/benefit is concerned.
So how do you determine who gets the royalties? Do I produce 200,000 1-second mp3's and get compensated because I hired a few buddies to download them? What method is used to keep track of royalty payments? If the artists are getting compensated, how can they regulate this without abuse?
If the record industry is getting compensated, what about the movie industry? If the movie industry is getting compennsated, how about the book industry? Gaming? Software? Porn? etc etc
Imporssible to regulate fairly, and will be tossed out. The free market and TCP/IP will decide for us, naturally.
Because someone taking over my account (after the 90 days) could then impersonate me (i.e. have my password from another online retailer sent to that mailbox, etc) I don't think it's paranoia at all.
I purposely have done this.
/.), some legit commercial businesses, some obvious spam. The mailbox fills up roughly every 30 hours. I plan to continue this for a few months, until it will be impossible to distinguish my real name from the fake names. Whomever picks up the account next will be in for a treat as they open their account and start getting thousands of messages a day, random names, and all.
See, I signed up for a hotmail in it's early stages ('97). I used it for everything, including online purchasing, friends, family, you name it. At some point something happened-- one of the forms I filled out, or someone sold my same, and I started to get mail addressed to my real name, at that address. This semi-scared me.
So recently I went to cancel the account. Hotmail by default will consider your account "cancelled" after inactivity of 90 days. I cannot click something that says "Forever, never use this e-mail" My fear is that others will get this e-mail after I have cancelled it, and they will see my real name.
The best solution I have come up with is to fight fire-with-fire. I now sign up for every mailing list I can, each with a different real name. I now belong to over 400 mailing lists(including
It's so sad it's come to this.
start-->run
"%systemroot%downloaded Program files"
right click on active x control and choose remove. This removes it from the restry properly.
Real also doesn't work on Windows with user permissions
IE will prompt you again for playing in the browser unless you go into advanced options to specify not to.
Real also runs various background tasks that eat up memory, spam you, and can bring a low-to medium end system to it's knees.
Here at work we install real only for certain presentations, then uninstall them right away, and they are not allowed on work machines.
Just bught to netservers, and we also bought a 5 year extended contract with that too. YOu bet your ass we're holding them to supporting us on that for exactly 5 years...
Oh yeah, what support. Doh!
Incorrect. Banks own the first four digits, you are looking at 12 numbers now.
They *are* often sequential, so you are looking at getting a few cards from a single bank and using a range,
and the expiry dates are about 1/14 chance, often using each in turn will work. Get a friend at a retail shop to try them all. Not all that hard.
There doesn't need to be a standard. Any webmaster can put a forwarder on their front page to any other page.
If fact, if The Dllas paper wants to be really cue, they should just force people to connect to the DNS equivalent IP address and not ever use DNS for their site!
This is so true. The country has witnessed a great crash, and I know our firm actively seeks out vendors that are doing well, and are local. We got rid of Worldcom as a vendor back in early 2001 when we realized they never responded to our support calls or competitor's bids, CDW early this year when it was obvious they were desperate for our business, (calling us 2-3 times a week, even though we'd only spent a few grand there,) and several other vendors. Many companies lost their relationship with us just on support alone (Gateway business desktops (HDD died constantly), IBM thinkpads(took months to get part replacements), Hp desktops(refused to send in replacement parts, they wanted us to ship them a partially functioning desktop,) because they pared down their support offerings and the result was very obvious.
Depending on your support contract with Dell, they may encourage you to send your PC back to them for repair, or ship parts to you for repair, which is no better than if you had to support it yourself. Usually when I call Dell it's to tell them what exactly is wrong, but they waste my time trying to reconfirm it and have me run stupid diagnostics even when the error is blatently obvious.
I'm going for build-our-own next time around (about 16 months left on the lease). The dell systems were nice I just haven't been too pleased with their pared down support lately.
It's only 10 machines for this first expiration, but it'll give me a good idea for the remaining 40 if it's worth it.
And you shoul dhave replied:
.com uses a third party for assistance on these matters other than their own in-house tech support guy, right? If not, then they have far more things to worry about...
"I will document everything, and present to an outsourcing firm for approval"
Surely a small dot
If he's paid hourly, he could easily roll out 20 desktops a year within his hourly scope.
Also, he can purchase barebones systems, which cost much less than getting case/PS/Motherboard separately, once he gets his specs down.
For such a small shop as he has, it's definately worth it to do it himself... As long as he doesn't mind the issues of having to support himself.
And now Dell outsources to Canada and India, where you can just barely understand through often *thick* accents. While technically competant, their outsourced support is a sign of things getting worse before better in the tech support industry...
It's funny that this just comes out. I've rebuilt three machines in the past week due to Klez.x and Magistr.x viruses on 98 and 95 boxes. All three users had virus protection but had let the subscription lapse. Nice profit for me, too bad for them.
We block about 4-5 viruses a week at the firewall and a few more at the smtp gateway, and usually none inbound at the outlook level. WIthout AV protection we'd be sitting ducks...
This story is false.
Ava was Not there at 9:21 p.m. Pacific time. I shall try again at 9:31.
It's not the server platform that people are as worried about, it's the client/desktop. Microsoft will still allow admins by default in XP, and whatever client gets the next funky named iteration. It's moot, really, because the user wants control, and MS admins give in to pressure when their users whine when they are the locked down default. So it's not entirely MS's fault, it's the nature of the business.
The security issues will continue to plague them, for many years to come. You can thank Legacy installed base, which now is actually growing, instead of decreasing.