Of course, ISPs' employees have nothing better to do than to notify ~90% of their customers their computers have malware. It boggles my mind the ideas that people come up with (sopa/pipa/acta, logging all connections, etc.) and try to implement about monitoring the Internet with little or no thought to the logistics or funding of their stupid ideas.....
I agree, Unity sucks, didn't like gnome 3, gnome 2 was great, Ubuntu was great until they killed Gnome2. Yea, I know I can install gnome 2 on Ubuntu still, but I seriously lost interest in using Ubuntu when they took something away I used for years, at least let us choose.
My advice is go to Linux Mint 12, based on Ubuntu and has a choice between Gnome3, Gnome2, and MATE. I'm actually using MATE and like it pretty well, it took a little tweaking to get to my liking, but is pretty good. I am still hoping Ubuntu will see the light and give us a choice, which includes Gnome2. I understand the ease of searching for a program for newer users, but for us old schoolers who know where are programs are and have been using menus for years, please leave the option in there.
That is exactly what I expressed to my representatives, they haven't thought SOPA/PIPA out. Hollywood said we need this, here's $$$ for all of you, please pass it, not one thought was given to the people/companies that will have to implement it. What about the costs to the ISP, time, new equipment, labor - you can't just blocking 1000's of sites/IPs without someone adding them, memory and processor power to store and process. What about all the ways it can easily be gotten around?
My senator stated he was worried about the substantial negative impact of online piracy. I suggested he should be more worried about the substantial negative impact Congress' spending is having on this country. Piracy won't stop from SOPA/PIPA, I'd bet it picks up if passed. Just like the war on drugs has done little to impact drug use/sales, SOPA/PIPA will have very little affect on piracy.
The clause in SOPA about endangering the public's health, was just to get the money and support of the pharmaceuticals behind the bill. This bill needs to go away, not be amended.
I don't use AD in my company, nor have I attempted to implement it in the way you seem to be using it. A brief search returned this though it is a couple of years old and might not be relevant to your situation. I have had linux computers in a domain with windows computers, just not as extensively as you seem to be using. Linux might not be a viable option in your environment, perhaps you might want to try it and see on a test machine. Sorry didn't have a more definite answer.
As the IT Director in a company of about 50 desktops/laptops I did exactly that- installed Ubuntu on a couple of managers' (not computer savvy users) computers. ~2 years ago I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on their computers, converting them from XP. Haven't heard a complaint or had any major issue. Their main apps are web/email/documents/spreadsheets and a terminal program into the billing system.
Not only have they not had any problems, they had little to no trouble adjusting. They interact with all of our external suppliers/vendors/salespeople in sending and receiving Word and Excel using Open Office. Almost every other computer in this company has had malware/virus/rootkit problems of some sort (all XP machines).
So not only have I saved the company money on Windows/Office licensing, I also reduced downtime from the potential of malware. As computers are replaced here I'm replacing them with Ubuntu everywhere possible.
Don't be afraid and maybe give Ubuntu a try (or other nix distro) in your organization(s) (and before you flame me, yes I understand that many companies use Windows only software, so you are excluded, there are many organizations that only need web/email/docs/speadsheets/pdfs).
Maybe, and perhaps Mr. Tim Ankers can use these photos with his Merlindown software mentioned here to find signs of Martians and their crashed saucers from the comfort of his chair.
yup, in fact, an ipod that has been RockBox'ed is the only way to use an ipod (IMHO). Works great and no software is required to use it. Move files from it and to it from any almost (w/an OS released in last ~4-5 years) any usb-enabled computer with out the need of additional software. I use it on Ubuntu at home and XP (laptop) if I need to. The maddest I've ever been was when attempting to arrange music in a sensible fashion using iTun3s software. Never again.......
I agree, Dreamweaver8 for linux, I would buy. Quickbooks for linux, I would buy.
I run Ubuntu at work and home, have several BSD and Ubuntu servers at clients' locations, but still have XP on my laptop.
I do billing/invoicing with Quickbooks (don't really like it, but there is none better) and some web design with Dreamweaver on XP because it is simple, fast and painless. I do have Dreamweaver 8 running at the office under wine, it works but is somewhat quirky and can crash randomly. There is nothing that comes close to either program in linux (not nvu, bluefish, etc).
Ipod software is not an issue, cause itunes is worthless to me, ipod would be worthless as well if weren't for rockbox (great job guys).
There are *nix users out there willing to pay for software on linux (adobe are u listening?). I guess the cost vs profit would be too lop-sided or maybe they have enough money already. It is nice to only have to use one windoze box and for the most part rely soley on *nix platforms.
"I don't see no problem,' said [a club-goer], 22. 'That happens every day on the Internet."
Were you drunk at the time? What kind of places do you visit on the net to give this information out every day?
The amount of private info required is WAAY out of control. And the people asking for it are WAAY out of line. I heard that reality shows were very bad, so I looked up a sign up sheet Deal or No Deal (think that was it). It was unbelieveable how much info they wanted to just choose stupid suitcases.
I just installed Rockbox on my 5th Gen Video Ipod......it is great for arranging the music, can actually put songs in folders instead of making playlists for them. The copy straight to ipod is sweet and makes for more sensible arrangement of songs.....PLUS since most of my CD's are ripped to OGG I can now play them without having to convert them to mp3's.......sweet!
Also as far as the linux thing goes: I've tried a bunch of versions of linux since the early 1990's always hoping for the chance to convert from M$ on the desktop (nothing but *BSD on servers) but there has always been "problems" or no comparable linux programs......UNTIL UBUNTU 6.06....switched to it and not looking back....got dreamweaver 8 working through wine, quickbooks working (invoicing), amaROK (itunes replacement), Symantec pcAnywhere (native now since version 11.5 - for the few people I can't convert to VNC), dual screen, etc.......it feels so good to go to work and be productive and not have to put up with Windoze - its crashes, slugishness, anonyances, spyware/anti-virus updates, etc.....
I hear ya. My father is an optometrist. I wear contacts (Focus Night and Day, used to be Acuvue but these are far better)and I am also near-sighted. My father made me a two pairs (work and home) of single vision reading glasses (+1.00). They make a huge difference during the long computer sessions and/or reading sessions (a lot less eye strain). As mentioned, LCD's are worth the money for your eyes versus CRT's. Spend the money and get glasses from an optometrist the lenses (and frames) will be far better (quality and optics) than any drug store glasses.
Easily, get ringtone ripper from planetringtone.net, rip song you want from cd or.mp3, upload to your website (manually, without going through planetringtone.net), browse to file (URL of file) from phone, save to phone......you are done. Note: this is for.mp3 ringtones. There are other ways, this is easiest for me.
Ya know this is a very old battle and I don't think there is one winner, you have your intel fans and your amd fans. I want stable. I have never seen anything more stable than an intel cpu on an intel board. i have an amd 64bit processor now on an asus MB running windows xp media center serving as my personal video recorder, it has to be booted every 3 days or hard crashes/lockups will ensue. I set my p4 2.4 to do the same thing, it has yet to lockup after 6 months. I have used athlons with linux, one atlon cpu died after 6 months, tried duron with linux (won that cpu and mb) died after 8 months. If AMD made their own chipset things might be different and no, owning VIA doesn't count cause their (via's) hipsets have always have been buggy/lockups/crashes in every instance I've tried them.
I give AMD a chance about every 6-8 months and since 98/99 (and before) when I was selling K62-400MHz and since then, they have always lost to Intel's stability and reliability. I have seen one dead Pentium III or IV in the past 4+ years that wasn't due to a surge, lightning damage, or user tampering (out of 1000's of machines), however, I have a shelf full of Duron, K62's, & Athlons that are dead as doorknobs.
Unfortunately they sell to the masses and the masses don't know what an.ogg is...just like they don't know what spyware/malware are. Get an iriver, I love mine and all that is on it is.ogg's. If.ogg's were half as easy to download (pirate) as mp3's it would be on every mp3 player produced.
I know exactly what you mean. I service several professionals' (CPA's, lawyers, doctors) pc's that feel exactly that way. I try to encourage them to take a basic computer class (copy & pasting, clear printer spool, ipconfig, email attachments, updating software, etc) to make them more efficient instead of calling a tech for every little thing. Their attitude is like, "I know everything I need to know, knowing computers is not my job." Which is unbeliveable when the majority of their everyday job involves using a computer. Then they get pissed when a tech isn't there within 5 mins. Hmm.....maybe I don't charge enough for service calls?
Netgear has fairly inexpensive AP's and they sell antenna's and antenna cables. Might need two of each depending on the area, but be all you need on the wireless side. Direcway is probably way to go for wireless internet. Hope it goes smooth for you.
My good friend owns and installs home theaters for a living, we recently attended the home theater show in Orlando. The Infocus SP4800 ($1199.00 MSRP) is a great projector for 8foot or smaller screens in a controlled light situation. That is the bottom one I'd use, in fact I'm fixing to install one in my basement/home theater, unless I win the lottery then I'm going with the Infocus SP7200 (~$5k) which is an incredible projector. We play xbox/ps2 on the SP4800 and it rocks, it does HDTV well, only draw back in my book (for the price) is it is 800x600, I'd rather have at least 1024, but maybe one day. Buy new and go with at least the Infocus SP4800, you should be pleased. Good luck, hope this helps.
I see alot of people complaining about backing up to a hard drive, to me it is the most sensible, reliable and economical. You can get 100+ GB IDE drives for around $100 and a usb 2.0 enclosure for around $50. If you want to be extra cautious/paranoid get 2 or 3 HD/usb combos. Mirror your data, once a month, once a week, however often you need to feel secure. I keep one hooked up all the time and backup weekly, I also keep one at work (with same data), I bring it home on Thursdays and take the other one to the office on Friday. You can automate the procedure with back up software, sync software, etc. so you just have to unplug one & plug in the other. It gives you redundancy (3 drives) along with fire protection and theft protection. Chances of all three drives failing at once are slim to none. For even cheaper (however, no hot swap) you can do as Arbogast (above) suggested, removeable hard drive bays, which is easy but you have to reboot (pain in the butt) when switching drives unless you spend $$$ and get hot swaps.
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Of course, ISPs' employees have nothing better to do than to notify ~90% of their customers their computers have malware. It boggles my mind the ideas that people come up with (sopa/pipa/acta, logging all connections, etc.) and try to implement about monitoring the Internet with little or no thought to the logistics or funding of their stupid ideas.....
I agree, Unity sucks, didn't like gnome 3, gnome 2 was great, Ubuntu was great until they killed Gnome2. Yea, I know I can install gnome 2 on Ubuntu still, but I seriously lost interest in using Ubuntu when they took something away I used for years, at least let us choose.
My advice is go to Linux Mint 12, based on Ubuntu and has a choice between Gnome3, Gnome2, and MATE. I'm actually using MATE and like it pretty well, it took a little tweaking to get to my liking, but is pretty good. I am still hoping Ubuntu will see the light and give us a choice, which includes Gnome2. I understand the ease of searching for a program for newer users, but for us old schoolers who know where are programs are and have been using menus for years, please leave the option in there.
That is exactly what I expressed to my representatives, they haven't thought SOPA/PIPA out. Hollywood said we need this, here's $$$ for all of you, please pass it, not one thought was given to the people/companies that will have to implement it. What about the costs to the ISP, time, new equipment, labor - you can't just blocking 1000's of sites/IPs without someone adding them, memory and processor power to store and process. What about all the ways it can easily be gotten around?
My senator stated he was worried about the substantial negative impact of online piracy. I suggested he should be more worried about the substantial negative impact Congress' spending is having on this country. Piracy won't stop from SOPA/PIPA, I'd bet it picks up if passed. Just like the war on drugs has done little to impact drug use/sales, SOPA/PIPA will have very little affect on piracy.
The clause in SOPA about endangering the public's health, was just to get the money and support of the pharmaceuticals behind the bill. This bill needs to go away, not be amended.
Bengie,
I don't use AD in my company, nor have I attempted to implement it in the way you seem to be using it. A brief search returned this though it is a couple of years old and might not be relevant to your situation. I have had linux computers in a domain with windows computers, just not as extensively as you seem to be using. Linux might not be a viable option in your environment, perhaps you might want to try it and see on a test machine. Sorry didn't have a more definite answer.
As the IT Director in a company of about 50 desktops/laptops I did exactly that- installed Ubuntu on a couple of managers' (not computer savvy users) computers. ~2 years ago I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on their computers, converting them from XP. Haven't heard a complaint or had any major issue. Their main apps are web/email/documents/spreadsheets and a terminal program into the billing system.
Not only have they not had any problems, they had little to no trouble adjusting. They interact with all of our external suppliers/vendors/salespeople in sending and receiving Word and Excel using Open Office. Almost every other computer in this company has had malware/virus/rootkit problems of some sort (all XP machines).
So not only have I saved the company money on Windows/Office licensing, I also reduced downtime from the potential of malware. As computers are replaced here I'm replacing them with Ubuntu everywhere possible.
Don't be afraid and maybe give Ubuntu a try (or other nix distro) in your organization(s) (and before you flame me, yes I understand that many companies use Windows only software, so you are excluded, there are many organizations that only need web/email/docs/speadsheets/pdfs).
Is it also considered trespassing when my neighbors' WAP radio waves invade the airspace around my house and above my yard?
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza At Purple Monkeys
Maybe, and perhaps Mr. Tim Ankers can use these photos with his Merlindown software mentioned here to find signs of Martians and their crashed saucers from the comfort of his chair.
yup, in fact, an ipod that has been RockBox'ed is the only way to use an ipod (IMHO). Works great and no software is required to use it. Move files from it and to it from any almost (w/an OS released in last ~4-5 years) any usb-enabled computer with out the need of additional software. I use it on Ubuntu at home and XP (laptop) if I need to. The maddest I've ever been was when attempting to arrange music in a sensible fashion using iTun3s software. Never again.......
I agree, Dreamweaver8 for linux, I would buy. Quickbooks for linux, I would buy.
I run Ubuntu at work and home, have several BSD and Ubuntu servers at clients' locations, but still have XP on my laptop.
I do billing/invoicing with Quickbooks (don't really like it, but there is none better) and some web design with Dreamweaver on XP because it is simple, fast and painless. I do have Dreamweaver 8 running at the office under wine, it works but is somewhat quirky and can crash randomly. There is nothing that comes close to either program in linux (not nvu, bluefish, etc).
Ipod software is not an issue, cause itunes is worthless to me, ipod would be worthless as well if weren't for rockbox (great job guys).
There are *nix users out there willing to pay for software on linux (adobe are u listening?). I guess the cost vs profit would be too lop-sided or maybe they have enough money already. It is nice to only have to use one windoze box and for the most part rely soley on *nix platforms.
"I don't see no problem,' said [a club-goer], 22. 'That happens every day on the Internet."
Were you drunk at the time? What kind of places do you visit on the net to give this information out every day?
The amount of private info required is WAAY out of control. And the people asking for it are WAAY out of line. I heard that reality shows were very bad, so I looked up a sign up sheet Deal or No Deal (think that was it). It was unbelieveable how much info they wanted to just choose stupid suitcases.
I just installed Rockbox on my 5th Gen Video Ipod......it is great for arranging the music, can actually put songs in folders instead of making playlists for them. The copy straight to ipod is sweet and makes for more sensible arrangement of songs.....PLUS since most of my CD's are ripped to OGG I can now play them without having to convert them to mp3's.......sweet!
Also as far as the linux thing goes: I've tried a bunch of versions of linux since the early 1990's always hoping for the chance to convert from M$ on the desktop (nothing but *BSD on servers) but there has always been "problems" or no comparable linux programs......UNTIL UBUNTU 6.06....switched to it and not looking back....got dreamweaver 8 working through wine, quickbooks working (invoicing), amaROK (itunes replacement), Symantec pcAnywhere (native now since version 11.5 - for the few people I can't convert to VNC), dual screen, etc.......it feels so good to go to work and be productive and not have to put up with Windoze - its crashes, slugishness, anonyances, spyware/anti-virus updates, etc.....
I hear ya. My father is an optometrist. I wear contacts (Focus Night and Day, used to be Acuvue but these are far better)and I am also near-sighted. My father made me a two pairs (work and home) of single vision reading glasses (+1.00). They make a huge difference during the long computer sessions and/or reading sessions (a lot less eye strain). As mentioned, LCD's are worth the money for your eyes versus CRT's. Spend the money and get glasses from an optometrist the lenses (and frames) will be far better (quality and optics) than any drug store glasses.
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Easily, get ringtone ripper from planetringtone.net, rip song you want from cd or .mp3, upload to your website (manually, without going through planetringtone.net), browse to file (URL of file) from phone, save to phone......you are done. Note: this is for .mp3 ringtones. There are other ways, this is easiest for me.
Ya know this is a very old battle and I don't think there is one winner, you have your intel fans and your amd fans. I want stable. I have never seen anything more stable than an intel cpu on an intel board. i have an amd 64bit processor now on an asus MB running windows xp media center serving as my personal video recorder, it has to be booted every 3 days or hard crashes/lockups will ensue. I set my p4 2.4 to do the same thing, it has yet to lockup after 6 months. I have used athlons with linux, one atlon cpu died after 6 months, tried duron with linux (won that cpu and mb) died after 8 months. If AMD made their own chipset things might be different and no, owning VIA doesn't count cause their (via's) hipsets have always have been buggy/lockups/crashes in every instance I've tried them. I give AMD a chance about every 6-8 months and since 98/99 (and before) when I was selling K62-400MHz and since then, they have always lost to Intel's stability and reliability. I have seen one dead Pentium III or IV in the past 4+ years that wasn't due to a surge, lightning damage, or user tampering (out of 1000's of machines), however, I have a shelf full of Duron, K62's, & Athlons that are dead as doorknobs.
Unfortunately they sell to the masses and the masses don't know what an .ogg is...just like they don't know what spyware/malware are. Get an iriver, I love mine and all that is on it is .ogg's. If .ogg's were half as easy to download (pirate) as mp3's it would be on every mp3 player produced.
nicely done........greatest movie of all time
>>They want to flip the switch and have it work.
I know exactly what you mean. I service several professionals' (CPA's, lawyers, doctors) pc's that feel exactly that way. I try to encourage them to take a basic computer class (copy & pasting, clear printer spool, ipconfig, email attachments, updating software, etc) to make them more efficient instead of calling a tech for every little thing. Their attitude is like, "I know everything I need to know, knowing computers is not my job." Which is unbeliveable when the majority of their everyday job involves using a computer. Then they get pissed when a tech isn't there within 5 mins. Hmm.....maybe I don't charge enough for service calls?
What about Lowe's they sell Olympic brand paint?
Netgear has fairly inexpensive AP's and they sell antenna's and antenna cables. Might need two of each depending on the area, but be all you need on the wireless side. Direcway is probably way to go for wireless internet. Hope it goes smooth for you.
My good friend owns and installs home theaters for a living, we recently attended the home theater show in Orlando. The Infocus SP4800 ($1199.00 MSRP) is a great projector for 8foot or smaller screens in a controlled light situation. That is the bottom one I'd use, in fact I'm fixing to install one in my basement/home theater, unless I win the lottery then I'm going with the Infocus SP7200 (~$5k) which is an incredible projector. We play xbox/ps2 on the SP4800 and it rocks, it does HDTV well, only draw back in my book (for the price) is it is 800x600, I'd rather have at least 1024, but maybe one day. Buy new and go with at least the Infocus SP4800, you should be pleased. Good luck, hope this helps.
This mp3 player is worth checking out as well. It will play OGG/mp3/wma, takes CF and mini drives, has FM tuner and is ~$115USD.
I see alot of people complaining about backing up to a hard drive, to me it is the most sensible, reliable and economical. You can get 100+ GB IDE drives for around $100 and a usb 2.0 enclosure for around $50. If you want to be extra cautious/paranoid get 2 or 3 HD/usb combos. Mirror your data, once a month, once a week, however often you need to feel secure. I keep one hooked up all the time and backup weekly, I also keep one at work (with same data), I bring it home on Thursdays and take the other one to the office on Friday. You can automate the procedure with back up software, sync software, etc. so you just have to unplug one & plug in the other. It gives you redundancy (3 drives) along with fire protection and theft protection. Chances of all three drives failing at once are slim to none. For even cheaper (however, no hot swap) you can do as Arbogast (above) suggested, removeable hard drive bays, which is easy but you have to reboot (pain in the butt) when switching drives unless you spend $$$ and get hot swaps.
Which doesn't make sense, since most manufac. specs are 100,000 hours Mean Time Between Failures.....or 11.4 years