I must say....I got really excited. I hoped that someone had finally coded a GOOD cookbook/recipe/mealplanner application, and that it was SO GOOD slashdot picked it up. Open source, minimal bull to get it running, and can export to any format.
1. Submitter mentions constant problems. From this we already know their level. They've taken their test IRL, and already failed.
2. You could spend lots of time creating documentation for them to read and understand, but it wouldn't work and nobody would want to do it.
3. You get a program that solves everything and is the overall cheapest solution you can get: An antivirus that locks most of the vulnerable areas down, while still letting them browse randomly.
Think of the school system. You do not test someone prior to teaching them.
Install an antivirus that locks down their computers: tracking changes in everything except for My Documents and their desktop. Registry changes should also be rare...they shouldn't be installing anything.
On that one monthly test thingie where they compare all the antivirus apps, it apparently ranked pretty high in the last month. Which caused mass confusion and excitement, and why everyone here is recommending it. Including me.
AVG 8.5 installed on a co-worker's computer didn't catch a WONDERFUL webpage spoofing attack that asked for her pin number. Luckily she called me. I went to try Avast, but now it was harder to register and they took out the options to make the program operate silently (ie it forces you to use a dialog box for restart or force a restart, whereas in 4.8 there was an option for "Update on Next Restart", an awesome feature).
Just heard a good review the day prior of MSE and installed it, updated definitions, did a quick scan which found 3 other things, and then a full scan which found the main culprit. It also apparently cleaned (not deleted) a Windows Backup file with the virus on an external drive, ensuring that their backups are actually working properly. I've had Avast delete these on me in the past, losing vital backups.
It takes up little resources, is free for ANYONE (ie, most are only free for Home AND non-commercial use...which means non-profits are shit outta luck), and JUST WORKS.
I've found that Mint is slowly trying to break away from its initial Ubuntu base. They use alot of the code, but they throw in enough customization that it feels better overall. I love it. I just grab the torrent and the windows installer from pendrivelinux.com and persistent install it on a flash drive in 10 minutes.
Your tin foil hat is on too tight, son. Especially when it comes to grocery lists.
I'm not locked into anything actually. We had one client that had to leave the firm and she requested that I transfer all mail to another account. I did so very easily. Your nonsense of them reading my emails is scaredy-cat idiocracy at work.
Their IMAP and POP servers work with my blackberry and outlook just fine, and I don't need more than that. I don't need phone service for such a simple product with no problems.
Your paranoia is troll-like and your arguments are piss poor. Please, go lurk moar in the Exchange cave. My 25 person non-profit couldn't be HAPPIER for the last year with the money they've saved.
I think we'll be sticking with Server 2003 until the cows come home lol.
Asterisk for the phone server. Worked out well. We were severely getting ripped, and our hardware was from the early 90's.
Only thing I had to train people on in OpenOffice was Mail Merge. Everything else they could figure out. But yea....definitely try out LinuxMint if you get a chance. I keep a persistent version on my flash drive at all times, and used pendrivelinux's installer to make it that way. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-linux-mint-8-to-a-flash-drive-in-windows/
I'm interning at a 25 person non-profit. They were putting thousands into Exchange. I did 4 things:
1. Switched them over to Google Apps for free. Saved them loads of money, and they all love having the ease of access. To the exchange admin below, suck it. Seriously, that one outage was nowhere near as bad as the spam problems and other hassles an offsite exchange server created.
2. Got the people who "just couldn't" use gmail's web interface copies of Outlook 2007 through techsoup. Which, after 3 months of switching, was only the secretary and the president.
3. Switched our 5-computer lab for visitors and program members over to linuxmint. It needs no configuration, let alone administration, and its better than the prior windows 2000 by far.
4. Set up Hamachi for remote file access, because nobody used the VPN anyways (cause "my home computer is so slow and full of WeatherBug!").
5. Set up an open source phone server. It was a PITA, but it was WAY better than renting terrible equipment from the phone company.
I've got alot of love for Return of the Living Dead. If you read the IMDB for it, it actually gets good ratings, despite being campy.
First Movie with Running Zombies? Check
Tarman? Check
Running around naked in a cemetary? Check
BBBRRRRAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSS and zombies that eat them? Check
A movie where every line is a memorable quote? Check
Character names like Trash, Scuz and Suicide? Check
Go BUY it from FYE, Amazon, or KMart now. It's more funny than it is scary, but that doesn't detract from it still being a good movie. Alot of zombie movie lovers keep a place in their heart for this movie, even though it isn't a true George Romero movie.
Indeed. The standard battery for my Dell D520 costs $135 from Dell, yet the WONDERFUL knockoff I got from www.laptopbatterystore.com works better than the original and cost $45 (pricegrabber gives the store a pretty good rating too if you google it).
I've stopped buying the official replacement batteries a long time ago.
Dell specifically tells you with their basic on-site warranty that they'll come and fix it after you've talked on the phone with someone and troubleshooted it. If you didn't wanna get on your hands and knees with them, then it would've cost an extra $50 for real on-site service.
I just got an Optiplex 360 with the 3-year basic on-site warranty, and I already utilized it for a bad stick of ram. They had me reseat the ram and troubleshoot a few other things, but the process (from dialing, waiting on hold, and finishing the call) took 25 minutes. I called early enough that we had someone come the same day too.
I'll start off by echoing everyone else: $8/hr is very low for an IT intern at such a place. I'm currently in an internship at a non-profit and getting $10.
Anyways, what you should be doing is whatever they ask you to, and quickly. But in your spare time, finding ways to save the company money is always very helpful. Be sure to talk to people all the time. Talk with your main bosses once a month atleast, even if its just BSing....
I'm more confused why he's trying to convince me to play a game that he rated a 6/10...
ANYTHING that I recommend to others, be it games or anime, usually is an 8/10 or higher. 6/10 is for the bargain bin games that weren't entertaining at all and only for the niche crowds that love X-style game.
I get what you're saying. Pittsburgh typically has huge businss parks in the suburbs around the city already, so alot of businesses (small and medium) love to go there. Our bigger corporations tend to go even further out of the city and buy a huge lot of land, like Bayer (omfg their campus is gigantic), Dick's Sporting Goods, or FedEx. The spaces and roads are already there most of the time for these businesses due to malls or something else nearby; no worries....we leave alot of green untouched:) IIRC, PA has a tree requirement for corporations that develop large plots.
I pay for my own tuition. My parents are dead, but please...if it makes you feel better, think that I'm an alcohol-chugging art major and my parents pay for everything. Keep armchair trolling please!
Actually, Pittsburgh works a bit backwards compared to other cities. The Arts community allows ANY students in a huge discount on most arts events, if the tickets are purchased the day of the event. I distinctly remembering attending CCAC at one point and getting into a Fab Faux concert for 10$ because I'm a student of a college. I flashed my CCAC ID, a friend flashed her Pitt one, another friend flashed her Westminster one, and my girlfriend flashed her Slippery Rock one. THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK....YOU'RE A STUDENT AND YOU GET A DISCOUNT.
Thanks for picking apart my grammar and a few mistakes I made. It makes you look like even more of a douche for commenting and not really understanding how OUR city works.
By the way, if you “could care less” it means that you care at least a small amount, according to classical definitions (which is technically true anyways. People keep bringing this up, yet you don't see protestors like at UCLA; We feel like we're supposed to care about it, but nobody honestly gives a shit). And if you would have at least googled it, you would have realized that Americans tend to use the two phrases interchangeably so much that the Oxford dictionary has recognized the phrases to possibly mean the same thing.
Yea....actually they charge the university a rediculously low bus rate for college students IIRC.
Regardless, at Pitt it would only be a 70$ increase a semester, where our computer lab/technology fee is around 300$:P
The free or cheap events are mainly to fill empty seats in shows or events, so there's no charge. They'd rather us get in for free and spend 6$ on food than not come in at all.
The administration will also have to submit a 5-year plan. Ravenstahl says that document will also not include the tuition tax but it will have to include cuts to public safety, parks and public works.
The mayor and the 5 council members say they are willing to negotiate with the non profits in the city to find a way to add $16 million to the $1.6 million already expected in the form of payments in lieu of taxes. They say if that happens they will kill the tuition tax altogether. Ravenstahl says, “I hate the tax,” however he says he feels he has no other choice. To his critics, Ravenstahl says if they have a better plan he wants to hear it.
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I must say....I got really excited. I hoped that someone had finally coded a GOOD cookbook/recipe/mealplanner application, and that it was SO GOOD slashdot picked it up. Open source, minimal bull to get it running, and can export to any format.
I am dissappoint.
1. Submitter mentions constant problems. From this we already know their level. They've taken their test IRL, and already failed.
2. You could spend lots of time creating documentation for them to read and understand, but it wouldn't work and nobody would want to do it.
3. You get a program that solves everything and is the overall cheapest solution you can get: An antivirus that locks most of the vulnerable areas down, while still letting them browse randomly.
Think of the school system. You do not test someone prior to teaching them.
Install an antivirus that locks down their computers: tracking changes in everything except for My Documents and their desktop. Registry changes should also be rare...they shouldn't be installing anything.
Done.
On that one monthly test thingie where they compare all the antivirus apps, it apparently ranked pretty high in the last month. Which caused mass confusion and excitement, and why everyone here is recommending it. Including me.
It works.
IIRC it's the lightest, free antivirus with an on-access/on-demand scanner already installed.
AVG 8.5 installed on a co-worker's computer didn't catch a WONDERFUL webpage spoofing attack that asked for her pin number. Luckily she called me. I went to try Avast, but now it was harder to register and they took out the options to make the program operate silently (ie it forces you to use a dialog box for restart or force a restart, whereas in 4.8 there was an option for "Update on Next Restart", an awesome feature).
Just heard a good review the day prior of MSE and installed it, updated definitions, did a quick scan which found 3 other things, and then a full scan which found the main culprit. It also apparently cleaned (not deleted) a Windows Backup file with the virus on an external drive, ensuring that their backups are actually working properly. I've had Avast delete these on me in the past, losing vital backups.
It takes up little resources, is free for ANYONE (ie, most are only free for Home AND non-commercial use...which means non-profits are shit outta luck), and JUST WORKS.
I heart it. so. hard.
I've found that Mint is slowly trying to break away from its initial Ubuntu base. They use alot of the code, but they throw in enough customization that it feels better overall. I love it. I just grab the torrent and the windows installer from pendrivelinux.com and persistent install it on a flash drive in 10 minutes.
Your tin foil hat is on too tight, son. Especially when it comes to grocery lists.
I'm not locked into anything actually. We had one client that had to leave the firm and she requested that I transfer all mail to another account. I did so very easily. Your nonsense of them reading my emails is scaredy-cat idiocracy at work.
Their IMAP and POP servers work with my blackberry and outlook just fine, and I don't need more than that. I don't need phone service for such a simple product with no problems.
Your paranoia is troll-like and your arguments are piss poor. Please, go lurk moar in the Exchange cave. My 25 person non-profit couldn't be HAPPIER for the last year with the money they've saved.
I think we'll be sticking with Server 2003 until the cows come home lol.
Asterisk for the phone server. Worked out well. We were severely getting ripped, and our hardware was from the early 90's.
Only thing I had to train people on in OpenOffice was Mail Merge. Everything else they could figure out. But yea....definitely try out LinuxMint if you get a chance. I keep a persistent version on my flash drive at all times, and used pendrivelinux's installer to make it that way. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-linux-mint-8-to-a-flash-drive-in-windows/
Asterisk.
Threw it in an old desktop server, added some magic, and POOF.
It was infinitely cheaper than their current solution.
Comment to your 3rd point:
I will use my free copy of Office 2003 until the day I die.
Similar scenario.
I'm interning at a 25 person non-profit. They were putting thousands into Exchange. I did 4 things:
1. Switched them over to Google Apps for free. Saved them loads of money, and they all love having the ease of access. To the exchange admin below, suck it. Seriously, that one outage was nowhere near as bad as the spam problems and other hassles an offsite exchange server created.
2. Got the people who "just couldn't" use gmail's web interface copies of Outlook 2007 through techsoup. Which, after 3 months of switching, was only the secretary and the president.
3. Switched our 5-computer lab for visitors and program members over to linuxmint. It needs no configuration, let alone administration, and its better than the prior windows 2000 by far.
4. Set up Hamachi for remote file access, because nobody used the VPN anyways (cause "my home computer is so slow and full of WeatherBug!").
5. Set up an open source phone server. It was a PITA, but it was WAY better than renting terrible equipment from the phone company.
They use them at Sewickley Valley Hospital in PA to send stuff around the Lab area on the 6th floor, and to send samples from the 2nd floor upstairs.
People love it. It's worth every penny.
The only realistic use that I can think of is finally building a working version of Ed's computer from Cowboy Bebop. http://imgur.com/5SpiR
And trust me, I've had the SketchUp diagrams for 3 years, waiting for this.
Well luckily we had nixon and ping pong :)
I've got alot of love for Return of the Living Dead. If you read the IMDB for it, it actually gets good ratings, despite being campy.
First Movie with Running Zombies? Check
Tarman? Check
Running around naked in a cemetary? Check
BBBRRRRAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSS and zombies that eat them? Check
A movie where every line is a memorable quote? Check
Character names like Trash, Scuz and Suicide? Check
Go BUY it from FYE, Amazon, or KMart now. It's more funny than it is scary, but that doesn't detract from it still being a good movie. Alot of zombie movie lovers keep a place in their heart for this movie, even though it isn't a true George Romero movie.
Indeed. The standard battery for my Dell D520 costs $135 from Dell, yet the WONDERFUL knockoff I got from www.laptopbatterystore.com works better than the original and cost $45 (pricegrabber gives the store a pretty good rating too if you google it).
I've stopped buying the official replacement batteries a long time ago.
Dell specifically tells you with their basic on-site warranty that they'll come and fix it after you've talked on the phone with someone and troubleshooted it. If you didn't wanna get on your hands and knees with them, then it would've cost an extra $50 for real on-site service.
I just got an Optiplex 360 with the 3-year basic on-site warranty, and I already utilized it for a bad stick of ram. They had me reseat the ram and troubleshoot a few other things, but the process (from dialing, waiting on hold, and finishing the call) took 25 minutes. I called early enough that we had someone come the same day too.
I'll start off by echoing everyone else: $8/hr is very low for an IT intern at such a place. I'm currently in an internship at a non-profit and getting $10.
Anyways, what you should be doing is whatever they ask you to, and quickly. But in your spare time, finding ways to save the company money is always very helpful. Be sure to talk to people all the time. Talk with your main bosses once a month atleast, even if its just BSing....
I'm more confused why he's trying to convince me to play a game that he rated a 6/10...
ANYTHING that I recommend to others, be it games or anime, usually is an 8/10 or higher. 6/10 is for the bargain bin games that weren't entertaining at all and only for the niche crowds that love X-style game.
I get what you're saying. Pittsburgh typically has huge businss parks in the suburbs around the city already, so alot of businesses (small and medium) love to go there. Our bigger corporations tend to go even further out of the city and buy a huge lot of land, like Bayer (omfg their campus is gigantic), Dick's Sporting Goods, or FedEx. The spaces and roads are already there most of the time for these businesses due to malls or something else nearby; no worries....we leave alot of green untouched :) IIRC, PA has a tree requirement for corporations that develop large plots.
Wow....Slashdot's staying extra-classy lately.
I pay for my own tuition. My parents are dead, but please...if it makes you feel better, think that I'm an alcohol-chugging art major and my parents pay for everything. Keep armchair trolling please!
Actually, Pittsburgh works a bit backwards compared to other cities. The Arts community allows ANY students in a huge discount on most arts events, if the tickets are purchased the day of the event. I distinctly remembering attending CCAC at one point and getting into a Fab Faux concert for 10$ because I'm a student of a college. I flashed my CCAC ID, a friend flashed her Pitt one, another friend flashed her Westminster one, and my girlfriend flashed her Slippery Rock one. THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK....YOU'RE A STUDENT AND YOU GET A DISCOUNT.
Thanks for picking apart my grammar and a few mistakes I made. It makes you look like even more of a douche for commenting and not really understanding how OUR city works.
By the way, if you “could care less” it means that you care at least a small amount, according to classical definitions (which is technically true anyways. People keep bringing this up, yet you don't see protestors like at UCLA; We feel like we're supposed to care about it, but nobody honestly gives a shit). And if you would have at least googled it, you would have realized that Americans tend to use the two phrases interchangeably so much that the Oxford dictionary has recognized the phrases to possibly mean the same thing.
Yea....actually they charge the university a rediculously low bus rate for college students IIRC.
Regardless, at Pitt it would only be a 70$ increase a semester, where our computer lab/technology fee is around 300$ :P
The free or cheap events are mainly to fill empty seats in shows or events, so there's no charge. They'd rather us get in for free and spend 6$ on food than not come in at all.
The administration will also have to submit a 5-year plan. Ravenstahl says that document will also not include the tuition tax but it will have to include cuts to public safety, parks and public works.
The mayor and the 5 council members say they are willing to negotiate with the non profits in the city to find a way to add $16 million to the $1.6 million already expected in the form of payments in lieu of taxes. They say if that happens they will kill the tuition tax altogether. Ravenstahl says, “I hate the tax,” however he says he feels he has no other choice. To his critics, Ravenstahl says if they have a better plan he wants to hear it.
http://wduqnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/ravenstahl-well-pass-tax.html
I can't mod up enough....thanks for telling it like it is.
- Pitt Student