When I went to school, my current job (network admin) didn't even exist.
I went to school for computer repair. As in- find the bad component on this circuit board, unsolder it and install a new one. PC LANs wouldn't exist in any meaningful way for several more years.
I owe a lot to the sheer luck of timing. I had a good base of knowledge when PC LANs did roll around and I've just been adjusting to new technologies ever since.
My memory is shaky on this, but I believe quite a large number of machines with OEM Vista licenses shipped with XP installed, via downgrade rights. I know the organizations I was working with at the time bought quite a few HP machines configured this way. MS kept extending XP's availability in this way, somewhat masking the almost complete lack of interest in Vista for corporate clients.
What failed to happen was a mass migration to Vista by corporations. They mostly just waited for Win 7.
I believe the concept of "pre-existing condition" only comes into play when changing providers. Since her diagnosis occurred with our current provider, she's covered for that diagnosis (she still gets regular (and expensive) screenings) as well as future health issues.
Also, disability insurance should be considered in addition to health insurance. It isn't horribly expensive and the younger you start the policy, the less expensive it will be.
I got an individual plan from the same provider that my company had been with. It was really pretty simple. Not cheap, but simple.
I'm damned glad that I did, too. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years later (she's fine now). We would have been wiped out if not for insurance.
If you've ever seen the classic film Metropolis, chances are you didn't see a good 1/3 of the film, with digital, if they had been taken care of that poorly chances are you'd have nothing to watch.
Actually, the damage to Metropolis is due in large part to editing rather than damage of the film stock. Metropolis was edited early and often; the only time the whole, original film was viewed was during its original (and brief) German first-run. Subsequent German, US, and other world-wide releases contained major deletions, reordering of scenes, and other changes which significantly changed the storyline of the film. The only reason that we now know the original order the scenes were meant to go in, and just how much has been lost, is due to the discovery of the original score and title cards.
The package management team have been working hard on improving the new openSUSE package management, and there is a lot to show for it now. It is reliable, more mature, and an awful lot faster. There is no more parsing during startup, greater compatibility with tools like yum and smart, and increased speed for the most common use-case: installing a package.
Sooo, when they became EVIL they dropped block suballocation? I wasn't making a statement about Novell's business practices, only making a minor point relevant to the discussion at hand. You should try it. You may even use shift-4 less.
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Goodness sakes, Plex is wonderful.
When I went to school, my current job (network admin) didn't even exist.
I went to school for computer repair. As in- find the bad component on this circuit board, unsolder it and install a new one. PC LANs wouldn't exist in any meaningful way for several more years.
I owe a lot to the sheer luck of timing. I had a good base of knowledge when PC LANs did roll around and I've just been adjusting to new technologies ever since.
My memory is shaky on this, but I believe quite a large number of machines with OEM Vista licenses shipped with XP installed, via downgrade rights. I know the organizations I was working with at the time bought quite a few HP machines configured this way. MS kept extending XP's availability in this way, somewhat masking the almost complete lack of interest in Vista for corporate clients.
What failed to happen was a mass migration to Vista by corporations. They mostly just waited for Win 7.
Best of luck, Rob.
Any more red meat like this in the submission queue?
If this works well, I have a bunch of use for this. Thank you for the heads-up.
I believe the concept of "pre-existing condition" only comes into play when changing providers. Since her diagnosis occurred with our current provider, she's covered for that diagnosis (she still gets regular (and expensive) screenings) as well as future health issues. Also, disability insurance should be considered in addition to health insurance. It isn't horribly expensive and the younger you start the policy, the less expensive it will be.
I got an individual plan from the same provider that my company had been with. It was really pretty simple. Not cheap, but simple.
I'm damned glad that I did, too. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years later (she's fine now). We would have been wiped out if not for insurance.
I'm still running a Pentium Pro 200 as my firewall. It just keeps chugging along.
It's sitting next to an IBM 5150 that I just can't bear to throw out. It still runs. I have Minix on it.
Green laser pointer day at the ballpark will be a huge success.
And I'm saying reinforcing the false concept that success requires "hard" work will only net you a kid who works on a construction crew.
Because you need to keep your children away from the trades at all costs. That could never be a good outcome.
Bah. They've fiddled with the link:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
Obligatory Douglas Engelbart mouse demo video link:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Actually, the download is the demo version
I think they've changed the site. Earlier they only had the demo versions, now the site says:
"For today only, we are putting up fully unlocked builds."
I've downloaded it, but haven't tried to install yet. I was able to get a serial early this morning, though.
Disable prefetching.
about:config
network.prefetch-next false
Opera Mini is free-as-in-beer. Gratis, but not libre.
This is well trodden land for /. :
This Place is Not a Place of Honor
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/11/011235
Radioactive Warning for Future Generations
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185062
Check out the official SANDIA report:
http://www.prod.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/techlib/access-control.pl/1992/921382.pdf
All of the new PCs that I've bought recently have had Vista licenses. And have been factory downgraded to XP.
If you've ever seen the classic film Metropolis, chances are you didn't see a good 1/3 of the film, with digital, if they had been taken care of that poorly chances are you'd have nothing to watch.
Actually, the damage to Metropolis is due in large part to editing rather than damage of the film stock. Metropolis was edited early and often; the only time the whole, original film was viewed was during its original (and brief) German first-run. Subsequent German, US, and other world-wide releases contained major deletions, reordering of scenes, and other changes which significantly changed the storyline of the film. The only reason that we now know the original order the scenes were meant to go in, and just how much has been lost, is due to the discovery of the original score and title cards.
From the 10.3 announcement:
The package management team have been working hard on improving the new openSUSE package management, and there is a lot to show for it now. It is reliable, more mature, and an awful lot faster. There is no more parsing during startup, greater compatibility with tools like yum and smart, and increased speed for the most common use-case: installing a package.
Sounds promising.
She's presenting like a mandrel!
Sooo, when they became EVIL they dropped block suballocation? I wasn't making a statement about Novell's business practices, only making a minor point relevant to the discussion at hand. You should try it. You may even use shift-4 less.
NetWare has had block suballocation for a long time: http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw51/index.htm l?page=/documentation/nw51/trad_enu/data/hotiiczz. html
Over-under on the number of "install Linux over it" posts: 36.
I was working internal support for a bank about 10 years ago. One day I got a frantic call from one of the older Vice Prsidents.
"I can't login! I've tried and tried, but the ^%((* thing won't let me in."
No one else had reported a problem, so I went over to his office.
"OK, please restart your computer and login for me."
He dutifully restarted, typed in his login name, and proceeded to type in his all-numeric password on the phone next to his keyboard.