I could, however they still only offer a max of 150mbit down and 7mbit upload, and the same ridiculous prices. Unless I go Fiber, which is not feasible for home at $1,000+/mo. There's word Comcast is taking over from Charter in my area. I can hope that they do, then I can be paying the same amount for 100mbit / 20mbit service. All i want is reasonable upload speeds, 4mbit takes me 35+ minutes to upload a 1gb GoPro Video to youtube. Via Comcast with 20mbit it would be done in less than 7 minutes. I can also stream 1080p via my Plex, or my HDHome Run Prime as well since 4mbit doesn't let me do either.
Here's to hoping they can do it. It would put some serious competition out there. Comcast is outpacing Charter right now. Charter in my area has yet to turn on multi channel upstream bonding. They have 8 channel downstream bonding, but not upstream. I have 60mbit down and a pathetic 4mbit upload. They offer 150mbit down / 7mbit upload, 7mbit is barley enough for TCP acknowledgement at 150mbit down. And the 150/7 service is a premium $100/mo+ over 60/4. On top of it, they charge $250 "Install fee". To install what, the operator couldn't answer, I have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, lines fine, install what? It's a config file change. I was buckled down and was going to pay the extra $100 or whatever it was for the upgrade, but the $250 vague install fee I would not pay. Meanwhile, Comcast, in the town next to me offers 100mbit down, 20mbit upload STANDARD and offer 150 for $115/mo. Way cheaper than Charter. If Comcast ups their speed even more to 3.1 speeds, Charter would have to compete.
My point to this would be... what happened? Clearly they saw the trend, even pioneered it, and did not keep up with it. They could easily pair up with a OEM to produce a Android Wear watch, and IMHO a major watch manufacturer would have a leg up on watch design vs tech companies like LG, Samsung, Pebble, etc. Any company like Fossil, Swatch, Timex, etc could produce higher end "luxery" Android Wear watches that some people would buy.
What's funny is back in the day, Fossil was one of the first "Wearable" smart watch manufacturers. I had a original Fossil Abacus watch that ran PalmOS 4.x. Black and white display, and had a docking station that used RS232 to sync to my desktop to transfer applications, sync calendar, contacts, etc. It even had a little mini stylus that slid into the watch band. I had this in 2004, more than 8 years before what I consider the first mainstream wearable smart watch the Pebble came out in late 2012 early 2013. They only had a day of battery, and only displayed the time if you hit a button on it, and did have a backlight. I abandoned it in 2006 once the battery life degraded a bit and wouldn't last more than 8-10 hours. Loved it though, was even used to using graphiti to input characters onto the watch, a concept I wish some newer smart watches had. (Character input and touch screens that is). For anyone that wants to check it out, there's a brief Wiki article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I was attempting to spark a conversation where people people in what environments and situations they are in and whether they had issues or not. I posted I had two upgrades, and two fresh installs, and I could have added that some are in a domain environment, but I did not. I'm sorry I didn't have time to write a thesis in the time I had to make a brief comment. I still do not get the hostility and why this community is so quick to backlash and criticize one comment that neither neither trolling nor off topic.
If you're going to go around policing EVERY comment on the internet that in your own opinion "Doesn't contribute to the conversation", you my friend have quite the task ahead of you. I can understand the fact that people have the need to reply when "Someone is wrong on the internet" ( https://xkcd.com/386/ ) But to extend that to "Someone is not adding anything to the conversation", bravo. I for one think ones time can be put to better efforts.
There was a similar update a few years back when I worked at a repair workshop, it touched the bootloader somehow to the extend that those who had infected MBR's from Viruses would not boot. Kind of a blessing in disguise though, it stopped infected systems from spewing out more crap.
"Idiot"? I really don't get the hostility?
Honestly I was just saying I didn't have the issue on 4 systems. Nothing more. Nothing less. I don't understand how everyone on this entire thread thinks I'm denying the issue and acting hostile towards me. I rarely comment on/, and this is why. Seems everyone bought a jump to conclusions mat.
I have 10 Pro on my own work laptop, personal desktop, and set it up on two systems over the week after and installed this patch no issue. Small data set, but no problems for me. Two were upgrades, two were fresh installs.
Likewise, power steering or power brakes can be disabled via the same method most likely. Especially if they're in electronic parking assist vehicles which typically have electric power steering vs hydraulic. At high speeds power brakes being cut can be dangerous, power steering not so much, more dangerous at lower speeds.
This is why I will never buy a keyless entry car, and prefer manual transmissions, and prefer all driving assistance but ABS to be off. I had traction control nearly kill me once when it tried to correct and reduced engine power after I had already corrected myself.
That being said as well. Someone could just as easily PHYSICALLY clip your brake lines, and they don't even need access to the inside of the vehicle. Or if you live in the Northern US just drive in the winter for 3-5 years and the new chemical treatment they use on the roads in the winter. Already had two family members vehicles, only 6 years old, have lines MELTED through by this stuff, one went while driving.
In 2,000 years historians and archaeologists will be scratching their head wondering why there were so many "Ritual Sacrifices" of cement shoe'd people at what is now the bottom of the Hudson..
It actually does. Commerce and Business support hours, co-manufacturing. When you need to get a hold of someone for a business critical decision, and it's 4:30pm one place, 5:00pm somewhere else, it makes all the difference. Likewise stock market and trading as well. There's actually a movement in the United States to throw the Continental U.S. into 2 time zones, down from 4, for economic reasons so that cities in different time zones that border each other are more in sync. http://news.slashdot.org/story... That has a lot of pro reasons. Granted, that's fixing a hour difference, and this is only half an hour. The effect may not be AS BIG, but still present.
The Unified Korea actually set a Timezone of +8:30 GMT back in 1910. In 1912 when Japan took over, it was reset to Japanese +8:00 GMT. After liberation, South Korea briefly for a year or two went back to +8:30 for a few years in the 50's I believe, but reverted to Japanese +8:00 for economic reasons.
Underpowered engine? C7 Corvettte / 6th Gen Camaro's base V8 LT1's 455hp, 455lb-ft of torque from a Naturally Aspired engine is not underpowered. And the 5th Gen Camaro Z/28 and ZL1 performance trims beat out cars 5x+ its price on Nürburgring, let alone the C7 and C7 Z06 with the same engines.
5th Gen 2010-2015 Zeta based models only were assembled in Canada. Parts are sourced worldwide, including many in the U.S. still. Zeta platform design was done in Australia by Holden for the VE (2007+) Commode. My (Imported) Pontiac G8 (Imported LHD VE Commodore on Zeta) has an powertrain made in the U.S., parts made and assembled in Australia, with parts from South Korea, and New Zealand as well. 3rd brake assembly like on my GTO (Imported LHD Monaro from Australia) used to say Made in New Zealand. Needless to say cars are worldwide manufacturers platform no matter what vehicle you drive, whether the automaker is "Domestic" or "Foreign".
Despite me or my predecessor not loading Flash onto any systems we images and put out, I found it's on about 85% of our user's systems. Today I finally caved after seeing this and pushed the latest MSI from Adobe with this patch included out via GPO. Nearest I figure you're better controlling the beast than letting it run rampant and make sure users stay up to date. Tomorrow I will checking with management and pushing Chrome MSI as well to force users to use Chrome for all non local-Intranet sites.
From "DRM EVERYWHERE, required internet access, and no backwards comparability" to "No more DRM then before, offline whenever, and play all your old games". They should have called the Xbox One the XBox 180.
Rather than respond to each comment I find this easier. My general thought process is there are bigger problems to worry about. I still have one 2003 system on my network, and 3 XP systems. All are secured to the point where they're as locked down as they can be. I'm less concerned with them, than users with brand new fully patched Windows 7 systems that managed to still get malware and viruses on their system, despite a locked down firewall that has virus and security filtering on, a virus and spam filtering email service, antivirus and antimalware on their local system, and adblock installed in their browser. Those are the threats that cause problems. We got hit with a variant of CryptoLocker in late February on a user with a fully patched Windows 7 system. It managed to take out about 100gb of data, that we luckily had backups of so we lost nothing. These are the threats I'm worried about, not what some old past service date server that is attached to nothing and does not have connectivity to anything of value.
DMZ'd, and local firewall is on. Only traffic allowed is port 80. It's virtualized as well. There is absolutely nothing vital on it as well, and its not even joined to our domain. So not much can crawl to it. I admit it's not perfect, something could still hit some old IIS vulnerability if we have a infected machine on our internal network. But all they'd get is the some non confidential manufacturing press status pages. We have local exchange server, also DMZ'd, but it doesn't even touch the internet directly. Only outbound SMTP is allowed to a specific IP range to our "Cloud Spam" service, and only incoming is allowed from it as well.
Nope. The end of the world bell was rung when XP Support ended, and nothing happened. I figure the same for 2003.
We still have our main intranat site on 2003. The replacement plan is still 1-2 years in the works and requires a additional hire. It's internal only and doesn't face the outside world at all, so figure we're fine.
Absolutely the same situation. I still had dial up and bought a boxed version at Staples. 1999-2000. Set it up on a Pentium II system alongside Windows 98.
I do. Just recently. Up until the end of 2014 all our engineering workstation laptops were amm M4x00 series (Some older 4600's, 4700's, and now 4800's). The two M4800's I purchased this year came with Windows 7 Pro licenses with 8.1 Pro. I said why not, gave it a try and installed it. All our major CAD software and programs all run fine, after enabling.Net 3.5 of course. Some older CAD program with specialized drivers for a USB license key HASP didn't work out of the box and required a update for the driver, that's it. I installed ClassicShell on these systems. Works fine. For 3 other regular "plane" non CAD users that run just office, I installed it, used ClassicShell, and no one even knew it was Windows 8.1 Pro vs Windows 7. I asked one user who said they'd refuse to run Windows 8/8.1 use it without telling them, didn't even notice it was Windows 8.1 till I told them. Everything runs fine.. and it's newer, so I wont have to upgrade it later on, so why not?
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I could, however they still only offer a max of 150mbit down and 7mbit upload, and the same ridiculous prices. Unless I go Fiber, which is not feasible for home at $1,000+/mo. There's word Comcast is taking over from Charter in my area. I can hope that they do, then I can be paying the same amount for 100mbit / 20mbit service. All i want is reasonable upload speeds, 4mbit takes me 35+ minutes to upload a 1gb GoPro Video to youtube. Via Comcast with 20mbit it would be done in less than 7 minutes. I can also stream 1080p via my Plex, or my HDHome Run Prime as well since 4mbit doesn't let me do either.
Here's to hoping they can do it. It would put some serious competition out there. Comcast is outpacing Charter right now. Charter in my area has yet to turn on multi channel upstream bonding. They have 8 channel downstream bonding, but not upstream. I have 60mbit down and a pathetic 4mbit upload. They offer 150mbit down / 7mbit upload, 7mbit is barley enough for TCP acknowledgement at 150mbit down. And the 150/7 service is a premium $100/mo+ over 60/4. On top of it, they charge $250 "Install fee". To install what, the operator couldn't answer, I have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, lines fine, install what? It's a config file change. I was buckled down and was going to pay the extra $100 or whatever it was for the upgrade, but the $250 vague install fee I would not pay. Meanwhile, Comcast, in the town next to me offers 100mbit down, 20mbit upload STANDARD and offer 150 for $115/mo. Way cheaper than Charter. If Comcast ups their speed even more to 3.1 speeds, Charter would have to compete.
My point to this would be... what happened? Clearly they saw the trend, even pioneered it, and did not keep up with it. They could easily pair up with a OEM to produce a Android Wear watch, and IMHO a major watch manufacturer would have a leg up on watch design vs tech companies like LG, Samsung, Pebble, etc. Any company like Fossil, Swatch, Timex, etc could produce higher end "luxery" Android Wear watches that some people would buy.
What's funny is back in the day, Fossil was one of the first "Wearable" smart watch manufacturers. I had a original Fossil Abacus watch that ran PalmOS 4.x. Black and white display, and had a docking station that used RS232 to sync to my desktop to transfer applications, sync calendar, contacts, etc. It even had a little mini stylus that slid into the watch band. I had this in 2004, more than 8 years before what I consider the first mainstream wearable smart watch the Pebble came out in late 2012 early 2013. They only had a day of battery, and only displayed the time if you hit a button on it, and did have a backlight. I abandoned it in 2006 once the battery life degraded a bit and wouldn't last more than 8-10 hours. Loved it though, was even used to using graphiti to input characters onto the watch, a concept I wish some newer smart watches had. (Character input and touch screens that is). For anyone that wants to check it out, there's a brief Wiki article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I was attempting to spark a conversation where people people in what environments and situations they are in and whether they had issues or not. I posted I had two upgrades, and two fresh installs, and I could have added that some are in a domain environment, but I did not. I'm sorry I didn't have time to write a thesis in the time I had to make a brief comment. I still do not get the hostility and why this community is so quick to backlash and criticize one comment that neither neither trolling nor off topic.
If you're going to go around policing EVERY comment on the internet that in your own opinion "Doesn't contribute to the conversation", you my friend have quite the task ahead of you. I can understand the fact that people have the need to reply when "Someone is wrong on the internet" ( https://xkcd.com/386/ ) But to extend that to "Someone is not adding anything to the conversation", bravo. I for one think ones time can be put to better efforts.
There was a similar update a few years back when I worked at a repair workshop, it touched the bootloader somehow to the extend that those who had infected MBR's from Viruses would not boot. Kind of a blessing in disguise though, it stopped infected systems from spewing out more crap.
"Idiot"? I really don't get the hostility? Honestly I was just saying I didn't have the issue on 4 systems. Nothing more. Nothing less. I don't understand how everyone on this entire thread thinks I'm denying the issue and acting hostile towards me. I rarely comment on /, and this is why. Seems everyone bought a jump to conclusions mat.
Yea.....? So? Just putting my 2 and reporting my own findings. Not disputing that it causes issues....
I have 10 Pro on my own work laptop, personal desktop, and set it up on two systems over the week after and installed this patch no issue. Small data set, but no problems for me. Two were upgrades, two were fresh installs.
Likewise, power steering or power brakes can be disabled via the same method most likely. Especially if they're in electronic parking assist vehicles which typically have electric power steering vs hydraulic. At high speeds power brakes being cut can be dangerous, power steering not so much, more dangerous at lower speeds. This is why I will never buy a keyless entry car, and prefer manual transmissions, and prefer all driving assistance but ABS to be off. I had traction control nearly kill me once when it tried to correct and reduced engine power after I had already corrected myself. That being said as well. Someone could just as easily PHYSICALLY clip your brake lines, and they don't even need access to the inside of the vehicle. Or if you live in the Northern US just drive in the winter for 3-5 years and the new chemical treatment they use on the roads in the winter. Already had two family members vehicles, only 6 years old, have lines MELTED through by this stuff, one went while driving.
In 2,000 years historians and archaeologists will be scratching their head wondering why there were so many "Ritual Sacrifices" of cement shoe'd people at what is now the bottom of the Hudson..
It actually does. Commerce and Business support hours, co-manufacturing. When you need to get a hold of someone for a business critical decision, and it's 4:30pm one place, 5:00pm somewhere else, it makes all the difference. Likewise stock market and trading as well. There's actually a movement in the United States to throw the Continental U.S. into 2 time zones, down from 4, for economic reasons so that cities in different time zones that border each other are more in sync. http://news.slashdot.org/story... That has a lot of pro reasons. Granted, that's fixing a hour difference, and this is only half an hour. The effect may not be AS BIG, but still present.
The Unified Korea actually set a Timezone of +8:30 GMT back in 1910. In 1912 when Japan took over, it was reset to Japanese +8:00 GMT. After liberation, South Korea briefly for a year or two went back to +8:30 for a few years in the 50's I believe, but reverted to Japanese +8:00 for economic reasons.
Underpowered engine? C7 Corvettte / 6th Gen Camaro's base V8 LT1's 455hp, 455lb-ft of torque from a Naturally Aspired engine is not underpowered. And the 5th Gen Camaro Z/28 and ZL1 performance trims beat out cars 5x+ its price on Nürburgring, let alone the C7 and C7 Z06 with the same engines.
Meant to add the new 6th Gen 2016+ are Alpha based, which is entirely new frame based off Cadillac ATS.
5th Gen 2010-2015 Zeta based models only were assembled in Canada. Parts are sourced worldwide, including many in the U.S. still. Zeta platform design was done in Australia by Holden for the VE (2007+) Commode. My (Imported) Pontiac G8 (Imported LHD VE Commodore on Zeta) has an powertrain made in the U.S., parts made and assembled in Australia, with parts from South Korea, and New Zealand as well. 3rd brake assembly like on my GTO (Imported LHD Monaro from Australia) used to say Made in New Zealand. Needless to say cars are worldwide manufacturers platform no matter what vehicle you drive, whether the automaker is "Domestic" or "Foreign".
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Despite me or my predecessor not loading Flash onto any systems we images and put out, I found it's on about 85% of our user's systems. Today I finally caved after seeing this and pushed the latest MSI from Adobe with this patch included out via GPO. Nearest I figure you're better controlling the beast than letting it run rampant and make sure users stay up to date. Tomorrow I will checking with management and pushing Chrome MSI as well to force users to use Chrome for all non local-Intranet sites.
From "DRM EVERYWHERE, required internet access, and no backwards comparability" to "No more DRM then before, offline whenever, and play all your old games". They should have called the Xbox One the XBox 180.
Rather than respond to each comment I find this easier. My general thought process is there are bigger problems to worry about. I still have one 2003 system on my network, and 3 XP systems. All are secured to the point where they're as locked down as they can be. I'm less concerned with them, than users with brand new fully patched Windows 7 systems that managed to still get malware and viruses on their system, despite a locked down firewall that has virus and security filtering on, a virus and spam filtering email service, antivirus and antimalware on their local system, and adblock installed in their browser. Those are the threats that cause problems. We got hit with a variant of CryptoLocker in late February on a user with a fully patched Windows 7 system. It managed to take out about 100gb of data, that we luckily had backups of so we lost nothing. These are the threats I'm worried about, not what some old past service date server that is attached to nothing and does not have connectivity to anything of value.
DMZ'd, and local firewall is on. Only traffic allowed is port 80. It's virtualized as well. There is absolutely nothing vital on it as well, and its not even joined to our domain. So not much can crawl to it. I admit it's not perfect, something could still hit some old IIS vulnerability if we have a infected machine on our internal network. But all they'd get is the some non confidential manufacturing press status pages. We have local exchange server, also DMZ'd, but it doesn't even touch the internet directly. Only outbound SMTP is allowed to a specific IP range to our "Cloud Spam" service, and only incoming is allowed from it as well.
Nope. The end of the world bell was rung when XP Support ended, and nothing happened. I figure the same for 2003. We still have our main intranat site on 2003. The replacement plan is still 1-2 years in the works and requires a additional hire. It's internal only and doesn't face the outside world at all, so figure we're fine.
Absolutely the same situation. I still had dial up and bought a boxed version at Staples. 1999-2000. Set it up on a Pentium II system alongside Windows 98.
I do. Just recently. Up until the end of 2014 all our engineering workstation laptops were amm M4x00 series (Some older 4600's, 4700's, and now 4800's). The two M4800's I purchased this year came with Windows 7 Pro licenses with 8.1 Pro. I said why not, gave it a try and installed it. All our major CAD software and programs all run fine, after enabling .Net 3.5 of course. Some older CAD program with specialized drivers for a USB license key HASP didn't work out of the box and required a update for the driver, that's it. I installed ClassicShell on these systems. Works fine. For 3 other regular "plane" non CAD users that run just office, I installed it, used ClassicShell, and no one even knew it was Windows 8.1 Pro vs Windows 7. I asked one user who said they'd refuse to run Windows 8/8.1 use it without telling them, didn't even notice it was Windows 8.1 till I told them. Everything runs fine.. and it's newer, so I wont have to upgrade it later on, so why not?