Open letter to Intuit - I will not recommend 2005 to clients until it can run under limited user rights.
Create an easy way to overwrite critical Registry sections that are responsible for explorer tie ins. As a matter of fact, I think I'll write a tool like that.
Stop making people administrators by default, and the problem becomes localized and easily stopped.
No one remains an administrator or at least a defaultly configured Administrator after I see their PC.
Start your remote desktop session with "mstsc/console" instead of just mstsc.
Try that. Quite useful for monitoring the status of some long running install when away on lunch hour or when taking over the session remotely ala Citrix Shadow.
Tell the users "We'd like to enable you to work faster. From this point forward, just doubleclick this. We installed a new version of Office and Internet explorer, they are called OpenOffice and Firefox. If you don't like this, feel free to use your Windows98 system."
I had zero Win98 users within a month, and zero Windows XP users within 3 months. That's a 400+ user environment.
They still think it's new Windows. The management thinks that not paying for 400 terminal services licenses is priceless.
If you lost a position and you are not in a good shape financially, the first thing to do is to drastically cut the expenses and to maximize the opportunities.
If you have an apartment in the area where there are jobs, keep it, but look into sharing it with someone else. It would be far more difficult to get an apartment once your credit rating slips due to protracted search period. I would consider this to be the first and fatal mistake that I did when I gave up my Santa Clara place. Since then, everything has been going downhill up until about a year and a half ago.
Look at your newfound abundance of free time as a chance to improve your career anyway. For instance, if you aren't certified in anything, get your CCNA. That alone will greatly improve your skillset and make you more marketable. It will be cheap as well if you use something like safari.informit.com to prepare.
You may be an awesome techie, but you may find yourself missing the "soft" skills. There is probably no faster way to acquire those skills than to become involved in sales. Look into opportunities in your area of expertise in sales. You'll find them where the core IT jobs have disappeared. Nothing makes you more desirable to hire than your newly acquired and well-practiced communication skills. Others look at it as dead end jobs. I look at it as a chance to get paid to learn how to influence people, including the recruiters and interviewers. Take your time to improve your resume as much as possible. You have lots of time, so make it reflect you as much as possible. Learn some new skills such as a programming language or database management.
Speaking of resumes, I despise the concept of a brief resume. I have a 10-page one (now shrunk to 6 as my responsibilities have shifted into management). My technical skills section alone is a full printed page. Whoever tells you that long resumes do not get read is likely not a senior techie. Experiment with them. After all, it does not cost anything.
There are several industries that need sales people on commission and value technology skills. That's one way to get by while looking for real work. One exception would be working in automotive sales - that's one cut-throat environment that kills your sense of integrity. I survived there for a couple of months, and actually almost got offered an IT position when I decided to leave the sales force. The board changed its mind later. I worked in cable TV sales for the last year. It is nothing glamorous, but I have traveled everywhere, and made some money to get back home once the situation improved. I learned quite a few applicable skills and framed that time frame nicely to put in my resume as a positive experience point. What I really got surprised at is how many recruiters did appreciate it very much as something positive.
Now, let's look specifically at how to conserve resources while looking for work. Everyone will say things about coupons. I use store cards. I have a big collection of them from everywhere. I saved and still do on average 30-40% per trip. Stop using fast food joints. You can always go back to splurging on fun stuff once you are back in business. There are other ways. Rent tends to be the biggest cost of living, so is the vehicle payment. My vehicle is paid for, but rent is unavoidable, or so most people think. I actually worked for a month in Lake Tahoe area and lived in the woods. No, you wouldn't be able to tell:-). I saved about $1000 that way, by the way, which is not bad.
Anyway, let's assume you are intent on moving to a different area. First things first, find the predominant source of employment listings for the area, post your resume, apply to a few dozen positions and call many recruiters, and see if you get any response. Put an address that's local to your target area on your resume. See if you can get past the phone screening process. There is no point in disclosing your location until there is some definite interest. And when you do disclose it, make it sound t
No user can write to the registry in the common spyware places. All access to write to the ares of the registry that is commonly attacked by spyware is removed by GPO. That is - no unapproved shell extensions, no BHO add access, no new Explorer bars, no ability to modify the Winsock32 stack, no install priveleges. All apps are deployed through GPOs. There is a white list of approved ActiveX in general and BHO controls.
Spyware usually requires BHO access to tap into IE. Removing that access is good. White list enables the ability to provide desirable BHOs, such as Google and Yahoo bars, as well as internally developed apps.
Hmm I am paying $20/mo for GPRS Internet on Tmobile on top of my Family plan.
Everything works. My two lines are a Nokia 6020 (an excellent replacement of the 359x series) for work (works where most other Tmobile units won't), and SE T610 for Net and fun.
Bluetooth T610 + Bluetooth NIC = unrestricted and reasonably usable Net access anywhere tmobile has service. Well worth the $20. Oh, and it's proxy-accelerated for free, as an option.
$20 is more than the $10 you want, but definitely well worth it for me.
The real problem then is photographers not composing the shots right and using wrong resolution such as 640x480 in economy mode on a 4Mp Sony camera.
It's quite amusing to hear people blame their technically far superior cameras when I show up at my local Walmart to simply dump some shots from my SD card into the Aladdin box and walk away in 10 seconds without doing any adjustments. My pictures always come out good. In fact, if I see people thoroughly frustrated with the system, such as when they reset all the changes they did, I ask to use it for 20 seconds and show them a couple of easy things. I have a strong opinion that there should be no option to do photo editing on public terminals.
My camera is a 2Mp Casio Exilim EX-S2. It's one of those tiny card sized marvels. It's far taking excellent images in conventional sense, but it was designed for my needs quite perfectly (no zoom so the shots are instant, battery life that actually lasts almost 300 shots with both LCD and flash on continuously, very tiny, covert video mode (especially with LCD off...), low light mode that's actually usable etc). I see some fairly horrid shots routinely from some very nice cameras. I never need to edit my shots for brightness and contrast in any way. I haven't used crop in months either.
Casio got it right with a very intuitive menu system that is very easy to use. The rest of cameras can be quite difficult to figure out to reset certain things on the fly. I can reconfigure electronics easily without manuals, but most cameras I had to reset for these people took me over 4 minutes to figure out, which means a steep learning curve for most people:-).
If an amateur needs to crop, that means the shot wasn't setup right in the first place. If the white balance is off, well, that takes all of 20 seconds to correct in the shooting situation. Red eyes? I suppose red-eye correction wasn't used. That's the root of the problem and no amount of megapixels will solve it. Zoom lenses combined with consumer-level autofocus substantially complicate matters as well. I have very few shots with messed up focus in some messy situations.
Could I use a 4Mp camera like the Z4U? Zoom lens and 4Mp wouldn't be too useful as the image quality is bad as is already.
Learn to compose perfect shots, and only after then get the extra technology. There is a reason why you get taught photography in college with a manual SLR on b&w film.
The complexity of maintaining such a project shouldn't be too overwhelming;-)
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Is that why there is a truly horrible map for an area of Louisiana (St. John's Parish) where over 70% streets aren't on the map or are on the map but totally out of place? Streets&Trips was my only option to find where I needed to be in that town.
I can relax without any substances to a point where people will consider me to have abused them. If the timing is right, it's considered normal by everyone, but the difference is that I am not spending on overpriced substances.:-)
If you can pass DDR stages at 4 feet level of difficulty, which can be done with a couple of weeks of practice, you'll look pretty advanced to most watchers. I am still at 7-8 feet degree of difficulty but I don't play all that often.
Dancing in public means that some people will love it while others will not understand what you are trying to express. I don't care about those who can't understand my dance and it makes life a whole lot more fun.:-)
If you follow the link you will be shown how to respond to the FCC inquiries by e-mail.
To prove that this method works, there were 43 comments filed so far in one matter and mostly by Sirius subscribers in response to one of our matters under the jurisdiction of the FCC. You can see it in action at this link.
There were only 3 posted prior to us being informed how to contact FCC and someone making a rudimentary PHP script.
I unfortunately don't have the time to deal with the slashdot effect on a hosted application.
The FCC posts the comments on its website very fast and they do respond quickly. I am not sure about the docket number yet. Remember this and use it on June 16.
A thousand comments filed with the FCC in opposition will carry immense weight.
Sometimes I have to wonder what could happen if I were a malicious individual.
Things that tend to happen:
1. I wear my ID with blank side showing. I get asked for help in any store, regardless of whatever uniform standards in place. If qualified, I generally will assist, but then people are surprised to find out that I don't work there. 2. I am in an automotive dealership (not exactly a very innocent place). I need to copy a few dozen pages from a service manual. I ask where I can do it, and I am advised to use the copier in the showroom. Now, this is a networked copier that also happens to be the printer for ALL customer paperwork (credit apps, driver licenses, insurance cards, you name it) that's associated with a vehicle sale transaction. Now, I basically monopolized the copier for over 40 minutes, and I was asked if there is something wrong with the machine and what would it cost to have it moved away from public sight by the dealership's GM. At this time, I was wearing my usual generic logo shirt and a blank ID. I explained I wasn't there to service the machine. I also advised him of this risk. The risk is simple - sniff the network and an access point.
I can't count how many times I walked into restricted areas by mistake and never got asked any questions. The logo gear I wear can be purchased from any corporate store on the web that allows its customers to promote the company by wearing its logo on a hat and shirt.
The public is conditioned to white piece of plastic and any logo as a universal access device.
I can always add a site to "Restricted" zone. In fact, my "Internet" zone by default is what most people have as restricted.
However, how many people are willing to add a site to the "Trusted" zone every time they are trying out a new site.
The reason I do this is because I don't like to deal with various side effects of regular activex-ridden sites unlesss I absolutely have to. This is really quite a chore that the vast majority wouldn't want to deal with.
What you propose would probably be basically RBL for the browser. Then, however, you are looking at the necessity of keeping the list fresh in real-time. The logistics of that undertaking are not so simple to deal with. Having to run a RBL lookup for each site over dialup lines would likely slow things down quite a bit.
Basic package (not to be confused with full, standard etc) also referred to as local channels for satellite subscribers can be bought for 5-16 dollars per month depending on the system.
On top of that, just pay for the digital tier of your choice and premium channel selection of your choice.
My selection is typically Broadcast + Digital Tier + Internet + HBO Lineup. Current market price = 16 + 8 + 10 + 45 + 10 = $90/mo
A comparable package in a bundle with everything and an extra premium channel selection would cost $113/mo with all discounts factored in. If, however, a discounted package was not available, I'd be looking at paying 70 + 8 + 45 + 10 = $133. Yet more, on some systems that aren't as value-focused, I could be looking at paying as much as $150/mo for a comparable package.
In short, you can get pseudo ala carte pricing from the cable company, but we never advertise that. I advise my customers when this is applicable and most of them have never even considered it.
I consider Time Warner to have the most ala carte-friendly lineup in the US. Most of my customers have no need for the digital tiers to get the channels they want.
I don't work for any cable company directly, but I do wear their ID badges every day, so I know the lineups quite well.
Quote: It would be much like hiding (without telling the consumer) speed-tracking devices in cars.
This technology already exists and is currently being used to settle collision claims. You are looking at vehicle onboard logging and processing systems from the likes of GM. Oh yeah, no one tells the buyers of such vehicles that there is a speed logging device inside the mysterious vehicle computer.
My first computer...This recollection is circa very late 1980s in Ukraine, part of former USSR.
I think I actually had my first experience with a Neiron 5 (a 8088 clone I believe, translates as Neuron). It did have a 10mb hard drive and a 5.25" floppy. The ones I actually used were ES1040, ES1041, and Poisk. The ES systems (Edinaya Sistema) stood for Unified System. The ES were 8088 clones without hard disks. The Poisk (the act of search is the translation) was I believe an 8088 clone as well but with very interesting characteristics.
1. It was a computer specifically designed for mass use and entertainment. 2. It contained motherboard inside the keyboard and had I believe 5 slots for ISA cards. Of course, you did not know what ISA cards were to begin with.:-) 3. The ISA cards were sold as standalone modules enclosed in plastic. That looked much like today's game cartridges but for the full-sized ISA cards. Except that by buying these modules, you could add a floppy drive, a tape drive, or even a hard disk drive. I remember first seeing someone connect a hard drive that was a whopping 10mb.:-) 4. The system could be used with TV, CGA, and I think up to EGA. (ESs were equipped with mono CGA monitors). Moreover, you could actually get a color monitor for the system.
I also used BK10 which were not PCs but four-color (probably CGA) terminals preloaded with BASIC, the host system that drove the terminals (not even sure what the heck it was), Korvat computers (not a PC clone I believe). Guess what, unbelievably, we had an Apple IIe with a mono screen in my school! Last but not least, I built my very own Sinclair ZX80 from a kit complete with a touch-sensitive membrane keyboard.
I learned to use Borland TurboBasic and TurboPascal products on the ESs. I also played CGA games on the Poisk. Strangely, I found myself staring at the mono screen of an ES far more often than playing games. Hmm by now that's probably 6th or 7th grade, which is roughly 1991-1992.
What did I do the first thing when I arrived in the US? I got myself a genuine IBM PC, of course (8088, as usual) with a mono Hercules adapter and 12" amber monitor. In the mid 1990s, that stuff was freely given to me. I connected a 300baud modem that I bought on fleamarket (Hayes SmartModem) to it. That didn't work, but a 1200baud unit did. I racked up a nifty BBS bill for zone 3 calls that month. You could not buy a modem in a retail store back at that time. I got my first access to the Internet back in 1994 though a HP-UX 9.2 system. By that time, a BBS sysop donated me a 2400baud modem, by the way.
I actually used the very first web client:-) (hit 1, 2, 3 to go elsewhere) via telnet. I also used some piece of software that would retrieve stuff through lynx and display it on my screen through a dialup shell account. I am guessing it simply ran lynx -dump and then sz'ed it. Anyway, early exposure to Unix wasn't harsh because I was a DOS expert by that time anyway. Most of you probably remember the days of pre-PPP/SLIP IRC, so I will not go any deeper other than to say that my next computer was built out of three that I found on the street. It was 286 AMD 10mhz! It was powered by Seagate ST225s and I think a ST251. About that time modems started to show up, Windows 95 arrived, and things accelerated fast.
Fast forward to today, I chose the sysadmin career only due to such an early exposure. I remember saying that I wanted to be a network manager 15 years ago and no one could understand what the responsibilities were. I am now more of a developer and business person, but I can still tell you the I/O addresses for COM ports and sound cards along with their associated IRQs and DMAs.
The path was long and hard, but I do what I love. Such was the impact of my first experience.
The SCO Group is engaging in a global scheme of extortion that is squarely aimed at removing a technologically superior competitor and limiting consumer choices in the field of operating systems.
Such action will produce grave damage to most of the connected world and especially the United States of America.
The Company is making unsubstantiated claims against millions of users and is attempting to extort an undetermined amount of money from its victims. It literally calls this license to be an "insurance policy" for companies who need "protection". It is my understanding that racketeering is illegal under the laws of the United States. It is also my understanding that there is no other definition to describe what the Company is doing.
I urge the FTC to consider this matter as being crucial to national infrastructure and interstate commerce and to take appropriate action against The SCO Group immediately.
My friend, use standard ANSI C code and Turbo C++ will work like a charm. The reason you are using it is because it is now officially freeware from Borland.
I compiled a ton of stuff with this compiler without any complaints.
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Open letter to Intuit - I will not recommend 2005 to clients until it can run under limited user rights.
Create an easy way to overwrite critical Registry sections that are responsible for explorer tie ins. As a matter of fact, I think I'll write a tool like that.
Stop making people administrators by default, and the problem becomes localized and easily stopped.
No one remains an administrator or at least a defaultly configured Administrator after I see their PC.
Enjoy.
Start your remote desktop session with "mstsc /console" instead of just mstsc.
Try that. Quite useful for monitoring the status of some long running install when away on lunch hour or when taking over the session remotely ala Citrix Shadow.
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So try this approach, I use it.
Setup an X server with a pretty desktop.
Tell the users "We'd like to enable you to work faster. From this point forward, just doubleclick this. We installed a new version of Office and Internet explorer, they are called OpenOffice and Firefox. If you don't like this, feel free to use your Windows98 system."
I had zero Win98 users within a month, and zero Windows XP users within 3 months. That's a 400+ user environment.
They still think it's new Windows. The management thinks that not paying for 400 terminal services licenses is priceless.
Tabbed browsing in IE from Microsoft, no less...
.NET, mine is 2003 edition, hit Win-R and type in DEXPLORE.
If you have Visual Studio
Doubleclick any meaningless help document from Vstudio and you got tabbed IE.
Enjoy,
Try this:
Funeral Home/Life insurance company (not agency!)
Found in Houma, LA through my travels.
In the IE version, here is the function (for those curious how it all works, download www.google.com/ac.js)
w ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}catch(oc){A=nul l}}if(!A&&typeof XMLHttpRequest!="undefined"){A=new XMLHttpRequest()}return A}
function jb(){var A=null;
try{A=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}catch(e){try{A=ne
This function is obviously copyright google, inc., but being presented here for educational purposes only.
If you lost a position and you are not in a good shape financially, the first thing to do is to drastically cut the expenses and to maximize the opportunities.
:-). I saved about $1000 that way, by the way, which is not bad.
If you have an apartment in the area where there are jobs, keep it, but look into sharing it with someone else. It would be far more difficult to get an apartment once your credit rating slips due to protracted search period. I would consider this to be the first and fatal mistake that I did when I gave up my Santa Clara place. Since then, everything has been going downhill up until about a year and a half ago.
Look at your newfound abundance of free time as a chance to improve your career anyway. For instance, if you aren't certified in anything, get your CCNA. That alone will greatly improve your skillset and make you more marketable. It will be cheap as well if you use something like safari.informit.com to prepare.
You may be an awesome techie, but you may find yourself missing the "soft" skills. There is probably no faster way to acquire those skills than to become involved in sales. Look into opportunities in your area of expertise in sales. You'll find them where the core IT jobs have disappeared. Nothing makes you more desirable to hire than your newly acquired and well-practiced communication skills. Others look at it as dead end jobs. I look at it as a chance to get paid to learn how to influence people, including the recruiters and interviewers. Take your time to improve your resume as much as possible. You have lots of time, so make it reflect you as much as possible. Learn some new skills such as a programming language or database management.
Speaking of resumes, I despise the concept of a brief resume. I have a 10-page one (now shrunk to 6 as my responsibilities have shifted into management). My technical skills section alone is a full printed page. Whoever tells you that long resumes do not get read is likely not a senior techie. Experiment with them. After all, it does not cost anything.
There are several industries that need sales people on commission and value technology skills. That's one way to get by while looking for real work. One exception would be working in automotive sales - that's one cut-throat environment that kills your sense of integrity. I survived there for a couple of months, and actually almost got offered an IT position when I decided to leave the sales force. The board changed its mind later. I worked in cable TV sales for the last year. It is nothing glamorous, but I have traveled everywhere, and made some money to get back home once the situation improved. I learned quite a few applicable skills and framed that time frame nicely to put in my resume as a positive experience point. What I really got surprised at is how many recruiters did appreciate it very much as something positive.
Now, let's look specifically at how to conserve resources while looking for work. Everyone will say things about coupons. I use store cards. I have a big collection of them from everywhere. I saved and still do on average 30-40% per trip. Stop using fast food joints. You can always go back to splurging on fun stuff once you are back in business. There are other ways. Rent tends to be the biggest cost of living, so is the vehicle payment. My vehicle is paid for, but rent is unavoidable, or so most people think. I actually worked for a month in Lake Tahoe area and lived in the woods. No, you wouldn't be able to tell
Anyway, let's assume you are intent on moving to a different area. First things first, find the predominant source of employment listings for the area, post your resume, apply to a few dozen positions and call many recruiters, and see if you get any response. Put an address that's local to your target area on your resume. See if you can get past the phone screening process. There is no point in disclosing your location until there is some definite interest. And when you do disclose it, make it sound t
My solution is simple.
No user can write to the registry in the common spyware places. All access to write to the ares of the registry that is commonly attacked by spyware is removed by GPO. That is - no unapproved shell extensions, no BHO add access, no new Explorer bars, no ability to modify the Winsock32 stack, no install priveleges. All apps are deployed through GPOs. There is a white list of approved ActiveX in general and BHO controls.
Spyware usually requires BHO access to tap into IE. Removing that access is good. White list enables the ability to provide desirable BHOs, such as Google and Yahoo bars, as well as internally developed apps.
Hmm I am paying $20/mo for GPRS Internet on Tmobile on top of my Family plan.
Everything works. My two lines are a Nokia 6020 (an excellent replacement of the 359x series) for work (works where most other Tmobile units won't), and SE T610 for Net and fun.
Bluetooth T610 + Bluetooth NIC = unrestricted and reasonably usable Net access anywhere tmobile has service. Well worth the $20. Oh, and it's proxy-accelerated for free, as an option.
$20 is more than the $10 you want, but definitely well worth it for me.
Leonid
Won't the CDs with autorun malware be treated as data CDs anyway? The autoplay on music CDs would mean that the default music player will still start.
Should work just fine.
The real problem then is photographers not composing the shots right and using wrong resolution such as 640x480 in economy mode on a 4Mp Sony camera.
:-).
It's quite amusing to hear people blame their technically far superior cameras when I show up at my local Walmart to simply dump some shots from my SD card into the Aladdin box and walk away in 10 seconds without doing any adjustments. My pictures always come out good. In fact, if I see people thoroughly frustrated with the system, such as when they reset all the changes they did, I ask to use it for 20 seconds and show them a couple of easy things. I have a strong opinion that there should be no option to do photo editing on public terminals.
My camera is a 2Mp Casio Exilim EX-S2. It's one of those tiny card sized marvels. It's far taking excellent images in conventional sense, but it was designed for my needs quite perfectly (no zoom so the shots are instant, battery life that actually lasts almost 300 shots with both LCD and flash on continuously, very tiny, covert video mode (especially with LCD off...), low light mode that's actually usable etc). I see some fairly horrid shots routinely from some very nice cameras. I never need to edit my shots for brightness and contrast in any way. I haven't used crop in months either.
Casio got it right with a very intuitive menu system that is very easy to use. The rest of cameras can be quite difficult to figure out to reset certain things on the fly. I can reconfigure electronics easily without manuals, but most cameras I had to reset for these people took me over 4 minutes to figure out, which means a steep learning curve for most people
If an amateur needs to crop, that means the shot wasn't setup right in the first place. If the white balance is off, well, that takes all of 20 seconds to correct in the shooting situation. Red eyes? I suppose red-eye correction wasn't used. That's the root of the problem and no amount of megapixels will solve it. Zoom lenses combined with consumer-level autofocus substantially complicate matters as well. I have very few shots with messed up focus in some messy situations.
Could I use a 4Mp camera like the Z4U? Zoom lens and 4Mp wouldn't be too useful as the image quality is bad as is already.
Learn to compose perfect shots, and only after then get the extra technology. There is a reason why you get taught photography in college with a manual SLR on b&w film.
Start it :-)
;-)
The complexity of maintaining such a project shouldn't be too overwhelming
Is that why there is a truly horrible map for an area of Louisiana (St. John's Parish) where over 70% streets aren't on the map or are on the map but totally out of place? Streets&Trips was my only option to find where I needed to be in that town.
I can relax without any substances to a point where people will consider me to have abused them. If the timing is right, it's considered normal by everyone, but the difference is that I am not spending on overpriced substances. :-)
:-)
If you can pass DDR stages at 4 feet level of difficulty, which can be done with a couple of weeks of practice, you'll look pretty advanced to most watchers. I am still at 7-8 feet degree of difficulty but I don't play all that often.
Dancing in public means that some people will love it while others will not understand what you are trying to express. I don't care about those who can't understand my dance and it makes life a whole lot more fun.
If you follow the link you will be shown how to respond to the FCC inquiries by e-mail.
To prove that this method works, there were 43 comments filed so far in one matter and mostly by Sirius subscribers in response to one of our matters under the jurisdiction of the FCC. You can see it in action at this link.
There were only 3 posted prior to us being informed how to contact FCC and someone making a rudimentary PHP script.
I unfortunately don't have the time to deal with the slashdot effect on a hosted application.
The FCC posts the comments on its website very fast and they do respond quickly. I am not sure about the docket number yet. Remember this and use it on June 16.
A thousand comments filed with the FCC in opposition will carry immense weight.
Thank you.
It started with one customer who is a weapons dealer. Now I know 8 of them.
:)
They keep trying to give me various weapons as well as pay my rate.
Also, I am sure everyone else was laid a few times, right?
Win2K Pro SP4 is happily running on this dell latitude CpiD laptop. Specs: 266mhz P2 CPU (MMC1), 64mb RAM.
;-)
Over 15 apps are running. All eye-candy is off, as usual. I charge $15 to turn off eye-candy in XP.
Sometimes I have to wonder what could happen if I were a malicious individual.
Things that tend to happen:
1. I wear my ID with blank side showing. I get asked for help in any store, regardless of whatever uniform standards in place. If qualified, I generally will assist, but then people are surprised to find out that I don't work there.
2. I am in an automotive dealership (not exactly a very innocent place). I need to copy a few dozen pages from a service manual. I ask where I can do it, and I am advised to use the copier in the showroom. Now, this is a networked copier that also happens to be the printer for ALL customer paperwork (credit apps, driver licenses, insurance cards, you name it) that's associated with a vehicle sale transaction. Now, I basically monopolized the copier for over 40 minutes, and I was asked if there is something wrong with the machine and what would it cost to have it moved away from public sight by the dealership's GM. At this time, I was wearing my usual generic logo shirt and a blank ID. I explained I wasn't there to service the machine. I also advised him of this risk. The risk is simple - sniff the network and an access point.
I can't count how many times I walked into restricted areas by mistake and never got asked any questions. The logo gear I wear can be purchased from any corporate store on the web that allows its customers to promote the company by wearing its logo on a hat and shirt.
The public is conditioned to white piece of plastic and any logo as a universal access device.
The world is really lucky I am not malicious.
I can always add a site to "Restricted" zone. In fact, my "Internet" zone by default is what most people have as restricted.
However, how many people are willing to add a site to the "Trusted" zone every time they are trying out a new site.
The reason I do this is because I don't like to deal with various side effects of regular activex-ridden sites unlesss I absolutely have to. This is really quite a chore that the vast majority wouldn't want to deal with.
What you propose would probably be basically RBL for the browser. Then, however, you are looking at the necessity of keeping the list fresh in real-time. The logistics of that undertaking are not so simple to deal with. Having to run a RBL lookup for each site over dialup lines would likely slow things down quite a bit.
I sell CATV.
:-)
Basic package (not to be confused with full, standard etc) also referred to as local channels for satellite subscribers can be bought for 5-16 dollars per month depending on the system.
On top of that, just pay for the digital tier of your choice and premium channel selection of your choice.
My selection is typically Broadcast + Digital Tier + Internet + HBO Lineup. Current market price = 16 + 8 + 10 + 45 + 10 = $90/mo
A comparable package in a bundle with everything and an extra premium channel selection would cost $113/mo with all discounts factored in. If, however, a discounted package was not available, I'd be looking at paying 70 + 8 + 45 + 10 = $133. Yet more, on some systems that aren't as value-focused, I could be looking at paying as much as $150/mo for a comparable package.
In short, you can get pseudo ala carte pricing from the cable company, but we never advertise that. I advise my customers when this is applicable and most of them have never even considered it.
I consider Time Warner to have the most ala carte-friendly lineup in the US. Most of my customers have no need for the digital tiers to get the channels they want.
I don't work for any cable company directly, but I do wear their ID badges every day, so I know the lineups quite well.
Good luck
Quote: It would be much like hiding (without telling the consumer) speed-tracking devices in cars.
This technology already exists and is currently being used to settle collision claims. You are looking at vehicle onboard logging and processing systems from the likes of GM. Oh yeah, no one tells the buyers of such vehicles that there is a speed logging device inside the mysterious vehicle computer.
My first computer...This recollection is circa very late 1980s in Ukraine, part of former USSR.
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:-) (hit 1, 2, 3 to go elsewhere) via telnet. I also used some piece of software that would retrieve stuff through lynx and display it on my screen through a dialup shell account. I am guessing it simply ran lynx -dump and then sz'ed it. Anyway, early exposure to Unix wasn't harsh because I was a DOS expert by that time anyway. Most of you probably remember the days of pre-PPP/SLIP IRC, so I will not go any deeper other than to say that my next computer was built out of three that I found on the street. It was 286 AMD 10mhz! It was powered by Seagate ST225s and I think a ST251. About that time modems started to show up, Windows 95 arrived, and things accelerated fast.
I think I actually had my first experience with a Neiron 5 (a 8088 clone I believe, translates as Neuron). It did have a 10mb hard drive and a 5.25" floppy. The ones I actually used were ES1040, ES1041, and Poisk. The ES systems (Edinaya Sistema) stood for Unified System. The ES were 8088 clones without hard disks. The Poisk (the act of search is the translation) was I believe an 8088 clone as well but with very interesting characteristics.
1. It was a computer specifically designed for mass use and entertainment.
2. It contained motherboard inside the keyboard and had I believe 5 slots for ISA cards. Of course, you did not know what ISA cards were to begin with.
3. The ISA cards were sold as standalone modules enclosed in plastic. That looked much like today's game cartridges but for the full-sized ISA cards. Except that by buying these modules, you could add a floppy drive, a tape drive, or even a hard disk drive. I remember first seeing someone connect a hard drive that was a whopping 10mb.
4. The system could be used with TV, CGA, and I think up to EGA. (ESs were equipped with mono CGA monitors). Moreover, you could actually get a color monitor for the system.
I also used BK10 which were not PCs but four-color (probably CGA) terminals preloaded with BASIC, the host system that drove the terminals (not even sure what the heck it was), Korvat computers (not a PC clone I believe). Guess what, unbelievably, we had an Apple IIe with a mono screen in my school! Last but not least, I built my very own Sinclair ZX80 from a kit complete with a touch-sensitive membrane keyboard.
I learned to use Borland TurboBasic and TurboPascal products on the ESs. I also played CGA games on the Poisk. Strangely, I found myself staring at the mono screen of an ES far more often than playing games. Hmm by now that's probably 6th or 7th grade, which is roughly 1991-1992.
What did I do the first thing when I arrived in the US? I got myself a genuine IBM PC, of course (8088, as usual) with a mono Hercules adapter and 12" amber monitor. In the mid 1990s, that stuff was freely given to me. I connected a 300baud modem that I bought on fleamarket (Hayes SmartModem) to it. That didn't work, but a 1200baud unit did. I racked up a nifty BBS bill for zone 3 calls that month. You could not buy a modem in a retail store back at that time. I got my first access to the Internet back in 1994 though a HP-UX 9.2 system. By that time, a BBS sysop donated me a 2400baud modem, by the way.
I actually used the very first web client
Fast forward to today, I chose the sysadmin career only due to such an early exposure. I remember saying that I wanted to be a network manager 15 years ago and no one could understand what the responsibilities were. I am now more of a developer and business person, but I can still tell you the I/O addresses for COM ports and sound cards along with their associated IRQs and DMAs.
The path was long and hard, but I do what I love. Such was the impact of my first experience.
Darl pronounces SCO much the same way I'd prounce scam.
This is my complaint:
The SCO Group is engaging in a global scheme of extortion that is squarely aimed at removing a technologically superior competitor and limiting consumer choices in the field of operating systems.
Such action will produce grave damage to most of the connected world and especially the United States of America.
The Company is making unsubstantiated claims against millions of users and is attempting to extort an undetermined amount of money from its victims. It literally calls this license to be an "insurance policy" for companies who need "protection". It is my understanding that racketeering is illegal under the laws of the United States. It is also my understanding that there is no other definition to describe what the Company is doing.
I urge the FTC to consider this matter as being crucial to national infrastructure and interstate commerce and to take appropriate action against The SCO Group immediately.
Thank you,
My friend, use standard ANSI C code and Turbo C++ will work like a charm. The reason you are using it is because it is now officially freeware from Borland.
I compiled a ton of stuff with this compiler without any complaints.