I have to defend Microsoft in the tech support department. I have called a few times for help recovering an exchange crash and they are very good. I believe the guys that actually do the support are heavily involved with the programming. I even got follow up calls to make sure everything was still working properly so they could close the ticket. A+
On the other hand, I only needed the help I recieved due to technet not having the help I needed (disaster recovery document is missing one vital step). Seems like a setup to force you to call and pay for tech support.
As an IT Manager, let me give you some advice to live by: IT should never allow themselves to be charged for software licenses destined for other departments. Never. Split it 16 ways between departments if you have to but don't let them charge you for it! Screw accounting when they balk at this (and they will, along with all the other department heads). They don't help you when you need it anyway. Seriously.
(Funny you should mention MS Project as I was in the exact same bind earlier this month, but guess which department isn't paying for it?)
Hmm, where did I hear that before? Oh that's right, when electric guitars came out. I am pretty sure I heard this from ye olde skool accordian players when the electric accordian with firewire and usb jacks came out and now look where the accordian industry is.
BTW, does hardcore really mean resistant to change?
umm...this is news? Maybe if dalnet or undernet "upgraded" this might qualify as news but even then probably not. The only other thing that would make this news (rather than just a plug for an "underdog" irc network) would be if they were a fully encrypted irc network but that article has already done.
why not just think of a better domain name to use? That one seems pretty sucky anyway. How about dropping the "88" or perhaps using a different TLD like kdhxfm88.tv?
Any particular a p0rn site would pick up your old domain? Seems like a silly thing to do to a non-profit to begin with.
I was getting idsl through Megapath and then Northpoint (or was it covad?) went out of business and they switched me to Rythmes in the nick of time. Of course Rythems went out of business like 40 days later. It took about 2 monthes for my DSL to finally stop working.
Now that all the competing DSL companies are out of business I can only turn to the PacBell monopoly which nicely told me to suck it up. Gotta love the free market (hey, if you pay off enough gov't officials like the airlines you can be bailed out even if your market deserved a correction long ago). Yes, I am a little bitter.
Modems really aren't that bad. Ok, who am I kidding? My Counter-strike rating is dropping like a rock.
No worries. When day technology can record a human day (including all 5 senses, thoughts and feelings) is the same day you will be able to get memory upgrades implanted in your brain.
I totally agree with you. CS 1.3 really, really sucks. I know a lot of people who quit outright and a few that still play but can't even finish a round anymore. My suggestion is to revert back to CS 1.1 or even perhaps one of the betas and find a server still running that version play there. CS 1.3 doesn't mean the end of CS for you! Stick with CS and you may, one day, reap the fruits of its bounty!
Why do people always think I don't read the articles before I post?
Out of all open source software I use, my biggest complain is with Linux and how freaking hard it is to swap a hard drive to a new machine. I can only imagine the insults that will be thrown my way but 98, or even NT/2000 nine times out of 10 I will have no problem with this. Sure it takes about 30 minutes of clicking yes, install new hardware but it works (usually). Under Linux, can't load root fs, goto panic. Grr, that bugs me like nobodies business.
I am sure there is some semi-painful way to get around this but should I really have to? If you ask me, the kernel should not panic at this "error" and should recognize it, prompt you and try to solve it (probe the new hardware and load the correct module(s)). Maybe some distros are better than others (and I shouldn't be placing this "blame" on the kernel team).
...but I think that even if John Q Public knows nothing about open source, if the services he uses are running open source, it doesn't matter.
And the inverse works just the same (John Q Public would be perfectly happy with closed source services). This is a battle that won't be won at the consumer level.
I think someone else said it best on the other thread (about RIAA attempting to make it legal to hack copyright infrigers).
Posted by sphealey:
This technique has been honed to perfection in the last 20 years. Pressure group floats a ridiculous and unbelievable trial balloon. Public outcry ensues. Pressure group "retreats" to a "compromise" position, showing its "reasonableness" to legislators and the courts. The so-called "compromise" position is 120% of what the presssure group wanted in the first place, to give them a little more wiggle room.
I think you can be pretty sure this will be followed by a similar proposal, probably slipped under the radar screen by a pet legislator.
That isn't a logical fallacy at all. Old apps != insecure apps. Old apps w/ security holes == insecure apps.
Big difference. The thing about Debian is that when a distro goes stable, they would rather back port any security fixes to the older version rather than upgrade. Silly? Perhaps a bit, but it does keep the stable version stable.
As far as I know, "vanilla" debian (and I can only assume this means potato) doesn't have most of those programs and the ones it does have are probably at least one major revision behind.
Installing potato *does* hurt in the sense that a large number of the apps are outdated (often time very severely) but in trade you get stability and security. Of course, you can always upgrade to testing (Woody) or unstable (Cid) but both are usually broken in such a way a *normal* user couldn't fix. That bums me out.
Debian, IMO, is dying for Woody to become stable. Until that happens, all the chest beating about how far linux and programs designed for linux have come will fall on deaf ears to the no/low risk Debian user and everyone else will be installing Red Hat. =(
Of course, the Debian community is doing the best the can, I just wanted to point out that "vanilla" Debian is a distro over 6 months old and really isn't a good choice for the programs you described unless you install them manually (which defeats the whole purpose of installing debian anyway!)
The most intresting thing coming out of Progeny was Project NOW which earlier this year was cancelled. IMO, this was the killer app linux definately needed to stand head and shoulders above competitors, rather than continuing to compete based on (IMHO rather) trivial benchmark tests. I hope this some how allows Progeny to get back to working on NOW, which is the future for any corporate network OS, Linux, MS or otherwise.
The Progeny distribution, while having a nicer install for Debian wasn't really impressive enough to ever catch on. I suppose some people will miss it but I am pretty sure all involved (Debian Project, Progeny, and end users) will all benefit from decision to end the Progeny distro and have all efforts be put directly into Debian.
this whole thing is a bit off topic but I can't believe there were only 4425 deaths during the Revolutionary war. Maybe one day at Gettysburg...
Meanwhile you forgot Korea and Vietnam as well as Kuwait (which all, argueably, were in defense of democracy). Also your WWII total seems low (as I recall it was in the 1/2 million dead range)
Bah, CVS is over kill I am sure. I think the point about cp is very good. I *hate* that the date is updated when I copy a file. Only when I modify or create, damn it!
I mean, is there any good reasons to update the time on a copy? I am just looking for one good reason...
Um...yeah, see, that's not true. I'm capable of remembering, what, a few thousand faces? Tens of thousands? A facial-recognition system can (reportedly) distinguish millions.
Considering that the hijackers could have potentially bypassed check points, masked their face, gotten surgery, etc I somehow doubt facial recongnition systems could have prevented this.
I am sure the response will be "But it will catch some criminals and could save lives!" I am sure the people who planned the WTC attack wouldn't mind throwing out a few thousand on face surgery. Not to mention that many of the alleged terrorists have no known record, the list goes on about how ineffective this would be at the expense of limiting our freedoms.
I am all for stopping terrorists but I am against throwing my freedoms (and tax money) away to do so. Real terrorism won't be stopped by cameras.
My bank (Washington Mutual) issued me a new CC# after egghead was hacked even though egghead claimed no CCs were stolen. I highly suggest getting a new CC#.
Luckily XML is a standard and most if not all office suites will support it. I think many web browsers will be able to read XML as well. It is far more important to get some decent import filters than export at this point (not that export wouldn't hurt). Even Microsoft has stated their default save type will be XML.
The key to grabbing a strong user base is to make a decent office suite that allows you to convert all your documents MS Office documents to XML.
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I have to defend Microsoft in the tech support department. I have called a few times for help recovering an exchange crash and they are very good. I believe the guys that actually do the support are heavily involved with the programming. I even got follow up calls to make sure everything was still working properly so they could close the ticket. A+
On the other hand, I only needed the help I recieved due to technet not having the help I needed (disaster recovery document is missing one vital step). Seems like a setup to force you to call and pay for tech support.
I use a PacBell dialup account and ssh is a blocked port. Very strange.
As an IT Manager, let me give you some advice to live by: IT should never allow themselves to be charged for software licenses destined for other departments. Never. Split it 16 ways between departments if you have to but don't let them charge you for it! Screw accounting when they balk at this (and they will, along with all the other department heads). They don't help you when you need it anyway. Seriously.
(Funny you should mention MS Project as I was in the exact same bind earlier this month, but guess which department isn't paying for it?)
Hmm, where did I hear that before? Oh that's right, when electric guitars came out. I am pretty sure I heard this from ye olde skool accordian players when the electric accordian with firewire and usb jacks came out and now look where the accordian industry is.
BTW, does hardcore really mean resistant to change?
Of course, if no one looked at the flames they really don't exist anyway.
However, if you resemble a human being (much like myself) you can't help but watch the pretty flames burn...
umm...this is news? Maybe if dalnet or undernet "upgraded" this might qualify as news but even then probably not. The only other thing that would make this news (rather than just a plug for an "underdog" irc network) would be if they were a fully encrypted irc network but that article has already done.
why not just think of a better domain name to use? That one seems pretty sucky anyway. How about dropping the "88" or perhaps using a different TLD like kdhxfm88.tv?
Any particular a p0rn site would pick up your old domain? Seems like a silly thing to do to a non-profit to begin with.
I was getting idsl through Megapath and then Northpoint (or was it covad?) went out of business and they switched me to Rythmes in the nick of time. Of course Rythems went out of business like 40 days later. It took about 2 monthes for my DSL to finally stop working.
Now that all the competing DSL companies are out of business I can only turn to the PacBell monopoly which nicely told me to suck it up. Gotta love the free market (hey, if you pay off enough gov't officials like the airlines you can be bailed out even if your market deserved a correction long ago). Yes, I am a little bitter.
Modems really aren't that bad. Ok, who am I kidding? My Counter-strike rating is dropping like a rock.
Alan was doing ok until they cancelled the Concorde flights. Lucky for him they just started them up again.
No worries. When day technology can record a human day (including all 5 senses, thoughts and feelings) is the same day you will be able to get memory upgrades implanted in your brain.
I totally agree with you. CS 1.3 really, really sucks. I know a lot of people who quit outright and a few that still play but can't even finish a round anymore. My suggestion is to revert back to CS 1.1 or even perhaps one of the betas and find a server still running that version play there. CS 1.3 doesn't mean the end of CS for you! Stick with CS and you may, one day, reap the fruits of its bounty!
Why do people always think I don't read the articles before I post?
Man, what is it going to take to get a job on that three person panel? What a cush job that will be and I bet it pays well. I, too, can be a puppet!
Can we get Woody to stable now?
Don't make me beg.
Out of all open source software I use, my biggest complain is with Linux and how freaking hard it is to swap a hard drive to a new machine. I can only imagine the insults that will be thrown my way but 98, or even NT/2000 nine times out of 10 I will have no problem with this. Sure it takes about 30 minutes of clicking yes, install new hardware but it works (usually). Under Linux, can't load root fs, goto panic. Grr, that bugs me like nobodies business.
I am sure there is some semi-painful way to get around this but should I really have to? If you ask me, the kernel should not panic at this "error" and should recognize it, prompt you and try to solve it (probe the new hardware and load the correct module(s)). Maybe some distros are better than others (and I shouldn't be placing this "blame" on the kernel team).
...but I think that even if John Q Public knows nothing about open source, if the services he uses are running open source, it doesn't matter.
And the inverse works just the same (John Q Public would be perfectly happy with closed source services). This is a battle that won't be won at the consumer level.
I think someone else said it best on the other thread (about RIAA attempting to make it legal to hack copyright infrigers).
Posted by sphealey:
This technique has been honed to perfection in the last 20 years. Pressure group floats a ridiculous and unbelievable trial balloon. Public outcry ensues. Pressure group "retreats" to a "compromise" position, showing its "reasonableness" to legislators and the courts. The so-called "compromise" position is 120% of what the presssure group wanted in the first place, to give them a little more wiggle room.
I think you can be pretty sure this will be followed by a similar proposal, probably slipped under the radar screen by a pet legislator.
That isn't a logical fallacy at all. Old apps != insecure apps. Old apps w/ security holes == insecure apps.
Big difference. The thing about Debian is that when a distro goes stable, they would rather back port any security fixes to the older version rather than upgrade. Silly? Perhaps a bit, but it does keep the stable version stable.
As far as I know, "vanilla" debian (and I can only assume this means potato) doesn't have most of those programs and the ones it does have are probably at least one major revision behind.
Installing potato *does* hurt in the sense that a large number of the apps are outdated (often time very severely) but in trade you get stability and security. Of course, you can always upgrade to testing (Woody) or unstable (Cid) but both are usually broken in such a way a *normal* user couldn't fix. That bums me out.
Debian, IMO, is dying for Woody to become stable. Until that happens, all the chest beating about how far linux and programs designed for linux have come will fall on deaf ears to the no/low risk Debian user and everyone else will be installing Red Hat. =(
Of course, the Debian community is doing the best the can, I just wanted to point out that "vanilla" Debian is a distro over 6 months old and really isn't a good choice for the programs you described unless you install them manually (which defeats the whole purpose of installing debian anyway!)
The most intresting thing coming out of Progeny was Project NOW which earlier this year was cancelled. IMO, this was the killer app linux definately needed to stand head and shoulders above competitors, rather than continuing to compete based on (IMHO rather) trivial benchmark tests. I hope this some how allows Progeny to get back to working on NOW, which is the future for any corporate network OS, Linux, MS or otherwise.
The Progeny distribution, while having a nicer install for Debian wasn't really impressive enough to ever catch on. I suppose some people will miss it but I am pretty sure all involved (Debian Project, Progeny, and end users) will all benefit from decision to end the Progeny distro and have all efforts be put directly into Debian.
this whole thing is a bit off topic but I can't believe there were only 4425 deaths during the Revolutionary war. Maybe one day at Gettysburg...
Meanwhile you forgot Korea and Vietnam as well as Kuwait (which all, argueably, were in defense of democracy). Also your WWII total seems low (as I recall it was in the 1/2 million dead range)
Bah, CVS is over kill I am sure. I think the point about cp is very good. I *hate* that the date is updated when I copy a file. Only when I modify or create, damn it!
I mean, is there any good reasons to update the time on a copy? I am just looking for one good reason...
Um...yeah, see, that's not true. I'm capable of remembering, what, a few thousand faces? Tens of thousands? A facial-recognition system can (reportedly) distinguish millions.
Considering that the hijackers could have potentially bypassed check points, masked their face, gotten surgery, etc I somehow doubt facial recongnition systems could have prevented this. I am sure the response will be "But it will catch some criminals and could save lives!" I am sure the people who planned the WTC attack wouldn't mind throwing out a few thousand on face surgery. Not to mention that many of the alleged terrorists have no known record, the list goes on about how ineffective this would be at the expense of limiting our freedoms. I am all for stopping terrorists but I am against throwing my freedoms (and tax money) away to do so. Real terrorism won't be stopped by cameras.
I get CRC errors from the file from the above mirror. I told it to ignore but anyone who hasn't downloaded might try a different mirror.
My bank (Washington Mutual) issued me a new CC# after egghead was hacked even though egghead claimed no CCs were stolen. I highly suggest getting a new CC#.
Luckily XML is a standard and most if not all office suites will support it. I think many web browsers will be able to read XML as well. It is far more important to get some decent import filters than export at this point (not that export wouldn't hurt). Even Microsoft has stated their default save type will be XML.
The key to grabbing a strong user base is to make a decent office suite that allows you to convert all your documents MS Office documents to XML.