situation: several books bought from peanut press. Those are encrypted with your credit card number. A few years after i cancelled that credit card, i bought a new palm, re-installed all my stuff, and had to re-enable those books... with that credit card number, which i couldn't remember anymore.
So I mailed them. Told them what happened. They sent me the credit card number to the email adress i used when ordering the books. case solved.
By now, you can get new unlock codes for books you already own through their Website after logging in.
(note: i have not tried it, i have only looked at the features list)
- autolink: its US only, hence useless for... how many percent of the internet?
- word translator: kdict. 'nuff said.
- address bar browse by name: IE only. pretty stupid, too. 'nuff said.
- pop up blocker: IE only. not really needed on a linux box where firefox runs behind a privoxy proxy anyways...
- autofill: doesn't firefox have something like that anyways? besides, I don't like the idea of automagically entering my credit card data into forms without asking me first.
- spellcheck: now thats a good idea. but konqueror does it already...
- pagerank: well... i dunno if someone else's algorythms should decide if "a page is worth my time", especially if i find the top google results are hijacked by "search optimized" junk most of the time.
- hilight search terms: not bad, but see above.
- word find: another feature that's already implemented in any browser i've seen so far.
to sum it up: not for me. especially not on a laptop that can't go higher than 1024x768. not for features that I either don't need, or already have in my browser.
Is there an option for local pickup on the website for the cheaper price?
yes and no. you can order something online, then check which of their shops near you has it in stock, then order it as "pickup in store XYZ" but then you have to pay the regular shop price. which is not necessarily bad (think shipping costs).
the website still reflects a lower price than the store price.
same here in germany with atelco, the online shop prices are just a little bit lower than the prices they ask for the same thing in the shops.
but at least they list both prices on the website.
while the general idea of having a gouvernment body check everything for security is good, their checking of cars more or less sucks ass.
let me elaborate a bit: they check following guidelines that might have been ok before the war, but not with todays car.
you wouldn't want your electronic fuel injection, your power steering, your ABS (dunno how that's called in english, it prevents the brakes from blocking on slippery ground) or similar electronic devices go haywire on you while you're crusing down the highway with an excess of 200 km/h, right? Nor would you want to get an airbag flat in the face at such speeds...
yet, the TÜV doesn't even CARE if such devices exist in a car they check...
1. most countries are making spam illegal by now 2. most countries already HAVE laws that make it illegal to pay someone else to commit a crime 3. most countries also have laws that make it illegal to ASSIST in a crime.
spam will not go away as long as there are dumbasses who actually BUY stuff which is spamvertized, and assholes who think vomiting all over the inboxes of millions of people is a proper way to make business.
filtering spam only leads to spam mails with more random noise. blacklisting spammers only leads to more spammers using hijacked botnets instead of true email servers. ddosing spamvertized websites only leads to junktraders buying bigger pipes.
try reading once in a while, it might even help you understand what people want...
the guy is aiming for a SERVER. that is NOT a desktop box as you thought. For the unwashed: a SERVER sits in the corner and dishes out files by the dozen.
duel monitors? so, how many damage do those do, and do you need any special feats or skills to wield them? are they limited to a certain character class?
Of course, stick linux in front of a clueless user who runs everything as root with no firewall and that secure infrastructure goes down the tube.
but the clueless linux user has to actively ignore all those warnings that most linux distros give him about running as root (ever seen the KDE desktop on a suse when you logon as root, for example? scary red wallpaper with bombs, and almost no icons on it. ugly, scary, uncomfortable. especially compared to how the default USER desktop looks like.), while windows doesn't even enforce you to create a regular user. For all i know, on XP Home, even IF you create an user account, that user is in the local admin group...
pay us or we will not protect you...
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as long as its some sort of individual ringtone, ok.
ever been in a bus/cable car/{insert public transport of choice} with lets say 2 dozens of suits, everyone having a nokia phone because they were 'in' with the suits back then, every one having not cared to change the ringtone setting, then somewhere in the bus the default nokia ringtone starts blaring, and 24 bankers do the macarena?
i rather have midi files. as long as those are not the "top 10" from last week...
company X hosts their website with one of the LINX members, and pays some asstart in the USA to spamvertize it. mistreated users from all over the world complain with the ISP who hosts the site; ISP contacts customer; customer says "no i would never order or consent to a spam run, must have been a joe job."; case dismissed.
there is only ONE way to cut down spam: drop the whole AS of any spam-friendly ISP out of the BGP tables at all major exchanges. not only mail-blocking, but ANY tcp traffic. for the whole AS is it can be confirmed that the ISP in question is spam-friendly (or as they say, "sells pink slips").
i actually had some use for the solaris killall one day... i had to shutdown this E10k one day, because of hardware upgrades, and it was SO clogged by stupid programmers, init couldnt fork the shutdown scripts...
... so far was when that guy with the caterpillar slaughtered some 150 metres of german telecom glassfiber backbone, effectively offlinig everything in the nothern half of germany. internet, telephones, ATM, WAN... you name it, it went down.
another good one: a water pipe in the cellar of a bank burst over the weekend... in the room with the comms racks and such.
for personal experiences, except from the occasional dying hardware due to weardown, nothing so far (/me knocks on wood)
oh, and another good one. I'll extend this one, for the enjoyment of the readers.
One day in '98 i was sitting at my desk in the NOC of a big german bank in frankfurt when suddenly the network went down. and when i say down i mean down. as in 'totally'. everything was unreachable, up to the smallest branch in whatwasthenameofthattownbehindthewoods. At that time, the so-called NOC was me and another guy, and NO special equipment network-wise, no sniffers, no diagnosis tools, nothing (the NOC had just been created...). Finally i managed to get sources for ethereal thru gcc on my sparc, and started sniffing the net. then i saw that there was NO fault. just heavy traffic, all coming from one server. I contacted the server guys and told them, they looked at that server and told me it was perfectly healthy. when they told me the JOB of that server, which was broadcasting stock exchange rate updates to the stock traders, i grabbed my laptop, dialled out via cellphone, and went to the yahoo finance pages... and 'lo and behold, the DAX (think german NASDAQ index) had crashed, from happy 6000 to unfriendly 3000... the webcam on the german stock exchange was fun that day, tho... like someone had set fire to an anthill...
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...with something similar.
situation: several books bought from peanut press. Those are encrypted with your credit card number. A few years after i cancelled that credit card, i bought a new palm, re-installed all my stuff, and had to re-enable those books... with that credit card number, which i couldn't remember anymore.
So I mailed them. Told them what happened. They sent me the credit card number to the email adress i used when ordering the books. case solved.
By now, you can get new unlock codes for books you already own through their Website after logging in.
Thats how it should be.
word.
it'll be the same games, just with "better" graphics.
ok, lets check it.
(note: i have not tried it, i have only looked at the features list)
- autolink: its US only, hence useless for... how many percent of the internet?
- word translator: kdict. 'nuff said.
- address bar browse by name: IE only. pretty stupid, too. 'nuff said.
- pop up blocker: IE only. not really needed on a linux box where firefox runs behind a privoxy proxy anyways...
- autofill: doesn't firefox have something like that anyways? besides, I don't like the idea of automagically entering my credit card data into forms without asking me first.
- spellcheck: now thats a good idea. but konqueror does it already...
- pagerank: well... i dunno if someone else's algorythms should decide if "a page is worth my time", especially if i find the top google results are hijacked by "search optimized" junk most of the time.
- hilight search terms: not bad, but see above.
- word find: another feature that's already implemented in any browser i've seen so far.
to sum it up: not for me. especially not on a laptop that can't go higher than 1024x768. not for features that I either don't need, or already have in my browser.
if your email is so sensitive, and you value your privacy so much, why didn't you use gpg to encrypt it?
besides, it was all lies in it anyways.
yes and no. you can order something online, then check which of their shops near you has it in stock, then order it as "pickup in store XYZ" but then you have to pay the regular shop price. which is not necessarily bad (think shipping costs).
same here in germany with atelco, the online shop prices are just a little bit lower than the prices they ask for the same thing in the shops.
but at least they list both prices on the website.
just a quick thought about the TÜV.
while the general idea of having a gouvernment body check everything for security is good, their checking of cars more or less sucks ass.
let me elaborate a bit:
they check following guidelines that might have been ok before the war, but not with todays car.
you wouldn't want your electronic fuel injection, your power steering, your ABS (dunno how that's called in english, it prevents the brakes from blocking on slippery ground) or similar electronic devices go haywire on you while you're crusing down the highway with an excess of 200 km/h, right? Nor would you want to get an airbag flat in the face at such speeds...
yet, the TÜV doesn't even CARE if such devices exist in a car they check...
bye,
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look at these features!
honestly, at least in that preview there's nothing marked as new that hasn't been in KDE for ages.
... because if they did that, they wouldn't be able to generate that additional revenue stream from sueing people?
... in the same way that "Antibiotics are bad for bacteria" is correct.
nuff said.
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1. most countries are making spam illegal by now
2. most countries already HAVE laws that make it illegal to pay someone else to commit a crime
3. most countries also have laws that make it illegal to ASSIST in a crime.
spam will not go away as long as there are dumbasses who actually BUY stuff which is spamvertized, and assholes who think vomiting all over the inboxes of millions of people is a proper way to make business.
filtering spam only leads to spam mails with more random noise.
blacklisting spammers only leads to more spammers using hijacked botnets instead of true email servers.
ddosing spamvertized websites only leads to junktraders buying bigger pipes.
can you say ARMS RACE?
try reading once in a while, it might even help you understand what people want...
the guy is aiming for a SERVER. that is NOT a desktop box as you thought. For the unwashed: a SERVER sits in the corner and dishes out files by the dozen.
duel monitors? so, how many damage do those do, and do you need any special feats or skills to wield them? are they limited to a certain character class?
scnr,
[L]
it WAS a human error... i mean, it must have been some form of human life form who decided to use windows for those systems...
but the clueless linux user has to actively ignore all those warnings that most linux distros give him about running as root (ever seen the KDE desktop on a suse when you logon as root, for example? scary red wallpaper with bombs, and almost no icons on it. ugly, scary, uncomfortable. especially compared to how the default USER desktop looks like.), while windows doesn't even enforce you to create a regular user. For all i know, on XP Home, even IF you create an user account, that user is in the local admin group...
now where again did i hear that sentence...
i shamefully admit that i dont know that one, but on a cellular with a decent midi chip, led zeppelin is defenitely the right direction.
as long as its some sort of individual ringtone, ok.
ever been in a bus/cable car/{insert public transport of choice} with lets say 2 dozens of suits, everyone having a nokia phone because they were 'in' with the suits back then, every one having not cared to change the ringtone setting, then somewhere in the bus the default nokia ringtone starts blaring, and 24 bankers do the macarena?
i rather have midi files. as long as those are not the "top 10" from last week...
so what will happen is this:
company X hosts their website with one of the LINX members, and pays some asstart in the USA to spamvertize it. mistreated users from all over the world complain with the ISP who hosts the site; ISP contacts customer; customer says "no i would never order or consent to a spam run, must have been a joe job."; case dismissed.
there is only ONE way to cut down spam: drop the whole AS of any spam-friendly ISP out of the BGP tables at all major exchanges. not only mail-blocking, but ANY tcp traffic. for the whole AS is it can be confirmed that the ISP in question is spam-friendly (or as they say, "sells pink slips").
'nuff said.
... is a moot point.
ddumb question, yea... but i have not heard that term for anything other than the fruit.
i actually had some use for the solaris killall one day... i had to shutdown this E10k one day, because of hardware upgrades, and it was SO clogged by stupid programmers, init couldnt fork the shutdown scripts...
... so far was when that guy with the caterpillar slaughtered some 150 metres of german telecom glassfiber backbone, effectively offlinig everything in the nothern half of germany. internet, telephones, ATM, WAN... you name it, it went down.
another good one: a water pipe in the cellar of a bank burst over the weekend... in the room with the comms racks and such.
for personal experiences, except from the occasional dying hardware due to weardown, nothing so far (/me knocks on wood)
oh, and another good one. I'll extend this one, for the enjoyment of the readers.
One day in '98 i was sitting at my desk in the NOC of a big german bank in frankfurt when suddenly the network went down. and when i say down i mean down. as in 'totally'. everything was unreachable, up to the smallest branch in whatwasthenameofthattownbehindthewoods. At that time, the so-called NOC was me and another guy, and NO special equipment network-wise, no sniffers, no diagnosis tools, nothing (the NOC had just been created...).
Finally i managed to get sources for ethereal thru gcc on my sparc, and started sniffing the net. then i saw that there was NO fault. just heavy traffic, all coming from one server. I contacted the server guys and told them, they looked at that server and told me it was perfectly healthy. when they told me the JOB of that server, which was broadcasting stock exchange rate updates to the stock traders, i grabbed my laptop, dialled out via cellphone, and went to the yahoo finance pages... and 'lo and behold, the DAX (think german NASDAQ index) had crashed, from happy 6000 to unfriendly 3000... the webcam on the german stock exchange was fun that day, tho... like someone had set fire to an anthill...
bye,
[L]
if you see yourself fit enough to make rpm packages from sources, you might want to have a look at packman. http://packman.links2linux.de/
i guess they can always find work for packagers.
bye,
[L]
i dont think that macosx would be an option because that would call for new _hardware_.