Say, that's an interesting idea... the US Gubbermint can use Eschelon to generate databases for advertisers, and that can help pay for health care/bank bailouts/whatever is "in" this week.
I almost purchased this yesterday, but I picked up Shooter instead. I'll make sure I don't reward them; I'll buy a different movie DVD. Perhaps "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Alltel had true unlimited wireless. Just before Verizon ate them, I purchased a data plan for two years. I actually have unlimited access with no surcharges above 5GB. Last month, I pulled a bit over 50GB with my normal bill.
I'm just hoping that something better will come along before the contract expires. I live out in the boonies, and we have one (oversubscribed) ISP provider who would be glad to sell me 128K access for $70/month. The hailstorms here would destroy any satellite antennas, so that's out.
When you're going to get a new host, and it's not a name company (hostgator, dreamhost, etc.) do your research. There are a ton of resellers selling stuff from other resellers. It's like the Amway of the Internet. Look at the whois for your new host. If it's hidden behind one of those obfuscation services, it's a red flag. Look at the name servers. If it's the same as the host (ns1.host.com) it's a plus. If it's something else, go look at the website of the name service...you'll probably find it's where they're re-reselling hostspace. Try to get upline as much as possible, since if one of those people forgets to pay the bill, you're screwed with no (worthwhile) recourse.
I would suggest not going with IXWebhosting. They've been hit with injection attacks for over two years on an almost daily basis. I was with them for years until they were compromised. They will also blame you, saying your website was insecure...except I had fifteen domains that were parked with a single HTML page that just said "go away" hacked.
Make sure they're available 24/7, and that they answer the phones. My current VPS host (InMotionHosting) answered the phone at 1am and placed my order.
Watch out for all the "review" sites. Do a whois and you'll find many are owned by the hosts that get top billing. At the very least, every host review should have some negative hits from a disgruntled webmaster. Look for the ones that lay it all out, warts and all.
Never ever expect your host to back up your website. If it's not in your possession, it doesn't exist, unless you're lucky. Cron jobs are nice for dumping databases to a backup.
I personally like dedicated IPs. Since it seems you're multi-hosting, see if shared or individual IPs are available. Also, check to see if wildcard or sub-domains (space.host.com) are available.
By the by, if we can't refer to Ted Alvin Klaudt's name, perhaps the legal system can assist by changing his name to "The State Lawmaker Currently Referred To As 'The Receiver' By His Cellmates"
Did someone clone wacko lawyer Jack Thompson? It makes me nervous to have a politician with two of the three chipmunks in his name. Maybe he'll owe the trademark owner of Alvin and the Chipmunks 2/3rds of the proceeds.
User: "I have pop-ups taking the whole screen and playing ads for beer and cars all the time. Then something happens so my mouse disappears and things move all over the screen by themselves. Is this a new virus?"
Tech Support: "No, that's the Denver Broncos game. What's the score?"
I've tried ducks, but they tend to nibble the occasional one or zero, and they leave an awful mess on the platters when they poop. Try Spotlight instead -- not as cute, but easier on the data, hardware, and the nose.
Gets rid of all those nasty attempts to break in. Sometimes will get rid of nasty Bobbies. Make sure you put a little lightning sticker near the port so you can say, "Well, it was marked as power, but the gent plugged it in there anyway and started a cool light show. I assumed he knew what he was doing."
Considering they're trying to get more students in the door, this is a terrible public relations nightmare. What student would want to attend a college that threatens to sue over something as trivial as an email adress -- and a private one at that? Very unfortunate for the students and faculty, and a black eye for the administration.
I have an issue with your line that Craigslist is profiting by this. Last I checked, not only was Craigslist free, but there are no ads.
Why not sue magazines that have classified ads geared towards erotic services? I'd bet there are "erotic services" advertised in most major newspapers or local rags.
I'd think that the police looking at Craigslist ads has done more for locating abused kids forced into prostitution than their "normal" investigations.
We've started a similar knowledge base project, and after a lot of searching and testing, we settled on Atlassian Confluence as our Wiki.
It has some excellent plug-ins, so our Visio diagrams can be displayed as web pages. The individual pages can be locked down at a granular level. It has a Sharepoint connector to tie in to our Sharepoint Intranet system.
I've directed my team to post two new articles per week, and the Wiki is getting populated quickly. When a job that only gets run every quarter comes along, we get the steps documented. Our internal processes are on flowcharts so the business folks can see what happens when they put in a request. It's been a very helpful tool, and has not had any down time. We even have embedded Spark messaging links by all the user names, so you can contact an author to ask a question.
Wow, I thought Vista had terrible hardware requirements, but by deciding on Windows, they need a $2,000,000,000AU laptop to run it. What's next for Vista III? Someone will have to build Deep Thought?
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IT Managers are not all code monkeys. My job as an IT Services Manager is to keep the break/fix cycle flowing smoothly, guide the company towards ITIL/COBiT frameworks, and to keep the shit that floweth from overhead from hitting my teams. Don't assume IT managers are coding-centric. Hell, try adding in configuring Active Directory objects, getting AD to work smoothly with LDAP for SSO simplicity for the MAC and *nix users, and to set up VLANs in Cisco equipment. A manager that can do the coding and services side is a tough thing to find, especially throwing in soft skills, planning skills, and management of projects and personnel.
I'd fail the first test because I stopped coding C back when Borland 4 was new. I can still whip up a decent bit of COBOL, perhaps that would counter the missing C experience.
This is a common misnomer. 8GB of traffic does not equate to 8GB of data on your end. There is a huge amount of overhead with the IP protocol. Depending on what you're downloading, your end result can range from 4-6GB of usable data on your hard drive.
Also, what's keeping them from sending unwanted traffic to your modem? Most folks wouldn't know (although one responder noted he saw 18G of traffic but the ISP said 27GB). Who'd a' thunk it... spam IP packets.
I think a lot of the true Pirates will avoid the contact because they'd be concerned about their anonimity. He'll hear from the part-time leechers and the 'try before buying' crowd, but the folks who do the actual work on cracking a game probably won't make a sound.
What if Slashdot did one of those 'ask-the-developer-a-question' forum, and they took the top reasons, then sent them in (with the understanding that the developer would get back with replies and/or rebuttals)?
The old Palm-based Visor had a plug-in springboard module, cables included, that would allow you to give a PowerPoint presentation. It actually worked well, and I used one when I was teaching at the college level. Small, lightweight, and includes the cables.
If they could come up with a dedicated Linux Bios combined with a Disk-on-Chip setup, it would make an impressive little computer. Fast-on, perhaps with a drive or removable flash drive, and all updatable. It certainly could make an inexpensive box, and could be an ideal homework machine for the kids or a combo stand-alone box / terminal for offices. If the network went down, people could still work.
If you think about it, this makes perfect sense. Why risk getting 'capped' picking up ten bricks of heroin, risk getting snagged at some border transporting the bricks, and getting it home, just to get shot by your partner, when you could sit at some Starbucks, sipping a Venti White Chocolate Mocha and rake in tens of thousands of dollars.
Pushing ones and zeros are safer than pushing dope. No wonder organized crime has delved into the digital world.
One part is the same -- someone spots "their" video, they take it down immediately to avoid getting sued under the DCMA. Expect the takedown notices to continue, which will still kill parody videos, fair-use compliant videos, and videos that are legal, but someone sends bogus takedown notices, such as the ones that Viacom "accidently" included in their original request.
The second part sounds more promising, but someone may be able to get around hashing the videos, such as inserting random one-frame images, as in the Fight Club movie, or adding in overlay text, or possibly adding in effects. If they try to hash a few selected time slices, someone will figure it out eventually. As with all digital protection, this just pushes off the inevitable. At least it will make Google look good in court, since they're attempting to comply with Viacom and the other copyright holder's requests for not posting their material.
In the end, it won't count for much. It would make more sense to add in additional protections for false or malicious takedown notices, such as adding in a $50K fine for false claims. This would at least make the big companies scrutinize the videos that they're issuing a takedown notice for.
I was dumb enough to sign up for one year. A couple of weeks later, after trying to get First Land for a few hours a day to no avail, it turned out there was none, and they dropped it. Classic bait-and-switch. I haven't been on since. I find Linden Labs to be dishonest and conniving. I wonder what will happen to all the casinos that were built, using massive amounts of real and Linden dollars. If they follow their normal practice, they'll just kill it off with no compensation. They can do it because, as you mentioned, they are a true dictatorship.
Can't wait for the next version to come out and bankrupt them.
They tried this, and COPA was gutted after the civil liberties folks got back in the loop. I wish Ted 'Series of Tubes' Stevens and Senator 5-0 would stop trying to govern parenting. Heck, isn't Stevens up against the wall for some illicit activities in Alaska? Looks like he can't even protect himself from himself, let alone watching out for other people's kids.
Let parents deal with kids. If the parents can't do it, there are local resources that can help. Legislating to the family unit won't work. There are more important national things begging for attention, like getting a bridge built to a barely inhabited island in AK.
Borland, DEC and Amiga are the ones that really stand out for me.
I remember opening up the giant box of Borland C++ v3 floppy disks and wondering what the hell I got myself into. I still have the box, except the floppies were imaged onto CDs. A well-done, not-perfect product. Borland was very helpful whenever I had questions.
The DEC Alpha was a great CPU. I remembering running across one at an auction, and picking it up, running home and dropping NT 3.51 on it. Solid design, built like a tank. DEC made some interesting innovative products (and yes, they did make the DEC Rainbow, which my college standardized on for, oh, about six months before it died a quick death).
The best on the list is the Amiga. One exceptional system, designed from the ground up as a top-notch computing, video and music machine. I still have a 2000HD with a Toaster, a couple of 500s, a 1000 and a 3000. There are some tasks that PCs can't touch the Amiga, even years later. Several Spanish TV stations in South America use Amigas as their main titling platform. An Amiga with Lightwave and a toaster is a formidable video production studio, even to this day. Too bad Commodore was such a poorly-run company, they did all they could to kill the Ami. At least some Euro folks have kept up with the platform, porting Linux and developing new stuff.
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Say, that's an interesting idea... the US Gubbermint can use Eschelon to generate databases for advertisers, and that can help pay for health care/bank bailouts/whatever is "in" this week.
I almost purchased this yesterday, but I picked up Shooter instead. I'll make sure I don't reward them; I'll buy a different movie DVD. Perhaps "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Alltel had true unlimited wireless. Just before Verizon ate them, I purchased a data plan for two years. I actually have unlimited access with no surcharges above 5GB. Last month, I pulled a bit over 50GB with my normal bill.
I'm just hoping that something better will come along before the contract expires. I live out in the boonies, and we have one (oversubscribed) ISP provider who would be glad to sell me 128K access for $70/month. The hailstorms here would destroy any satellite antennas, so that's out.
When you're going to get a new host, and it's not a name company (hostgator, dreamhost, etc.) do your research. There are a ton of resellers selling stuff from other resellers. It's like the Amway of the Internet. Look at the whois for your new host. If it's hidden behind one of those obfuscation services, it's a red flag. Look at the name servers. If it's the same as the host (ns1.host.com) it's a plus. If it's something else, go look at the website of the name service...you'll probably find it's where they're re-reselling hostspace. Try to get upline as much as possible, since if one of those people forgets to pay the bill, you're screwed with no (worthwhile) recourse.
I would suggest not going with IXWebhosting. They've been hit with injection attacks for over two years on an almost daily basis. I was with them for years until they were compromised. They will also blame you, saying your website was insecure...except I had fifteen domains that were parked with a single HTML page that just said "go away" hacked.
Make sure they're available 24/7, and that they answer the phones. My current VPS host (InMotionHosting) answered the phone at 1am and placed my order.
Watch out for all the "review" sites. Do a whois and you'll find many are owned by the hosts that get top billing. At the very least, every host review should have some negative hits from a disgruntled webmaster. Look for the ones that lay it all out, warts and all.
Never ever expect your host to back up your website. If it's not in your possession, it doesn't exist, unless you're lucky. Cron jobs are nice for dumping databases to a backup.
I personally like dedicated IPs. Since it seems you're multi-hosting, see if shared or individual IPs are available. Also, check to see if wildcard or sub-domains (space.host.com) are available.
Best of luck to you.
By the by, if we can't refer to Ted Alvin Klaudt's name, perhaps the legal system can assist by changing his name to "The State Lawmaker Currently Referred To As 'The Receiver' By His Cellmates"
Did someone clone wacko lawyer Jack Thompson? It makes me nervous to have a politician with two of the three chipmunks in his name. Maybe he'll owe the trademark owner of Alvin and the Chipmunks 2/3rds of the proceeds.
I can see the tech support calls now...
User: "I have pop-ups taking the whole screen and playing ads for beer and cars all the time. Then something happens so my mouse disappears and things move all over the screen by themselves. Is this a new virus?"
Tech Support: "No, that's the Denver Broncos game. What's the score?"
I've tried ducks, but they tend to nibble the occasional one or zero, and they leave an awful mess on the platters when they poop. Try Spotlight instead -- not as cute, but easier on the data, hardware, and the nose.
Gets rid of all those nasty attempts to break in. Sometimes will get rid of nasty Bobbies. Make sure you put a little lightning sticker near the port so you can say, "Well, it was marked as power, but the gent plugged it in there anyway and started a cool light show. I assumed he knew what he was doing."
Considering they're trying to get more students in the door, this is a terrible public relations nightmare. What student would want to attend a college that threatens to sue over something as trivial as an email adress -- and a private one at that? Very unfortunate for the students and faculty, and a black eye for the administration.
IBM today announced the outsourcing of 90% of Sun employees. "This will save us a good chunk of the $7B we paid for them," said an IBM representative.
Meanwhile, in Washington, IBM was approved to receive $3B in taxpayer money from the Keep America Working fund.
I have an issue with your line that Craigslist is profiting by this. Last I checked, not only was Craigslist free, but there are no ads.
Why not sue magazines that have classified ads geared towards erotic services? I'd bet there are "erotic services" advertised in most major newspapers or local rags.
I'd think that the police looking at Craigslist ads has done more for locating abused kids forced into prostitution than their "normal" investigations.
We've started a similar knowledge base project, and after a lot of searching and testing, we settled on Atlassian Confluence as our Wiki.
It has some excellent plug-ins, so our Visio diagrams can be displayed as web pages. The individual pages can be locked down at a granular level. It has a Sharepoint connector to tie in to our Sharepoint Intranet system.
I've directed my team to post two new articles per week, and the Wiki is getting populated quickly. When a job that only gets run every quarter comes along, we get the steps documented. Our internal processes are on flowcharts so the business folks can see what happens when they put in a request. It's been a very helpful tool, and has not had any down time. We even have embedded Spark messaging links by all the user names, so you can contact an author to ask a question.
What is this 'earth' you speak of?
Wow, I thought Vista had terrible hardware requirements, but by deciding on Windows, they need a $2,000,000,000AU laptop to run it. What's next for Vista III? Someone will have to build Deep Thought?
IT Managers are not all code monkeys. My job as an IT Services Manager is to keep the break/fix cycle flowing smoothly, guide the company towards ITIL/COBiT frameworks, and to keep the shit that floweth from overhead from hitting my teams. Don't assume IT managers are coding-centric. Hell, try adding in configuring Active Directory objects, getting AD to work smoothly with LDAP for SSO simplicity for the MAC and *nix users, and to set up VLANs in Cisco equipment. A manager that can do the coding and services side is a tough thing to find, especially throwing in soft skills, planning skills, and management of projects and personnel.
I'd fail the first test because I stopped coding C back when Borland 4 was new. I can still whip up a decent bit of COBOL, perhaps that would counter the missing C experience.
This is a common misnomer. 8GB of traffic does not equate to 8GB of data on your end. There is a huge amount of overhead with the IP protocol. Depending on what you're downloading, your end result can range from 4-6GB of usable data on your hard drive.
Also, what's keeping them from sending unwanted traffic to your modem? Most folks wouldn't know (although one responder noted he saw 18G of traffic but the ISP said 27GB). Who'd a' thunk it... spam IP packets.
I think a lot of the true Pirates will avoid the contact because they'd be concerned about their anonimity. He'll hear from the part-time leechers and the 'try before buying' crowd, but the folks who do the actual work on cracking a game probably won't make a sound.
What if Slashdot did one of those 'ask-the-developer-a-question' forum, and they took the top reasons, then sent them in (with the understanding that the developer would get back with replies and/or rebuttals)?
The old Palm-based Visor had a plug-in springboard module, cables included, that would allow you to give a PowerPoint presentation. It actually worked well, and I used one when I was teaching at the college level. Small, lightweight, and includes the cables.
If they could come up with a dedicated Linux Bios combined with a Disk-on-Chip setup, it would make an impressive little computer. Fast-on, perhaps with a drive or removable flash drive, and all updatable. It certainly could make an inexpensive box, and could be an ideal homework machine for the kids or a combo stand-alone box / terminal for offices. If the network went down, people could still work.
If you think about it, this makes perfect sense. Why risk getting 'capped' picking up ten bricks of heroin, risk getting snagged at some border transporting the bricks, and getting it home, just to get shot by your partner, when you could sit at some Starbucks, sipping a Venti White Chocolate Mocha and rake in tens of thousands of dollars.
Pushing ones and zeros are safer than pushing dope. No wonder organized crime has delved into the digital world.
One part is the same -- someone spots "their" video, they take it down immediately to avoid getting sued under the DCMA. Expect the takedown notices to continue, which will still kill parody videos, fair-use compliant videos, and videos that are legal, but someone sends bogus takedown notices, such as the ones that Viacom "accidently" included in their original request.
The second part sounds more promising, but someone may be able to get around hashing the videos, such as inserting random one-frame images, as in the Fight Club movie, or adding in overlay text, or possibly adding in effects. If they try to hash a few selected time slices, someone will figure it out eventually. As with all digital protection, this just pushes off the inevitable. At least it will make Google look good in court, since they're attempting to comply with Viacom and the other copyright holder's requests for not posting their material.
In the end, it won't count for much. It would make more sense to add in additional protections for false or malicious takedown notices, such as adding in a $50K fine for false claims. This would at least make the big companies scrutinize the videos that they're issuing a takedown notice for.
Very true statement.
I was dumb enough to sign up for one year. A couple of weeks later, after trying to get First Land for a few hours a day to no avail, it turned out there was none, and they dropped it. Classic bait-and-switch. I haven't been on since. I find Linden Labs to be dishonest and conniving. I wonder what will happen to all the casinos that were built, using massive amounts of real and Linden dollars. If they follow their normal practice, they'll just kill it off with no compensation. They can do it because, as you mentioned, they are a true dictatorship.
Can't wait for the next version to come out and bankrupt them.
They tried this, and COPA was gutted after the civil liberties folks got back in the loop. I wish Ted 'Series of Tubes' Stevens and Senator 5-0 would stop trying to govern parenting. Heck, isn't Stevens up against the wall for some illicit activities in Alaska? Looks like he can't even protect himself from himself, let alone watching out for other people's kids.
Let parents deal with kids. If the parents can't do it, there are local resources that can help. Legislating to the family unit won't work. There are more important national things begging for attention, like getting a bridge built to a barely inhabited island in AK.
Borland, DEC and Amiga are the ones that really stand out for me.
I remember opening up the giant box of Borland C++ v3 floppy disks and wondering what the hell I got myself into. I still have the box, except the floppies were imaged onto CDs. A well-done, not-perfect product. Borland was very helpful whenever I had questions.
The DEC Alpha was a great CPU. I remembering running across one at an auction, and picking it up, running home and dropping NT 3.51 on it. Solid design, built like a tank. DEC made some interesting innovative products (and yes, they did make the DEC Rainbow, which my college standardized on for, oh, about six months before it died a quick death).
The best on the list is the Amiga. One exceptional system, designed from the ground up as a top-notch computing, video and music machine. I still have a 2000HD with a Toaster, a couple of 500s, a 1000 and a 3000. There are some tasks that PCs can't touch the Amiga, even years later. Several Spanish TV stations in South America use Amigas as their main titling platform. An Amiga with Lightwave and a toaster is a formidable video production studio, even to this day. Too bad Commodore was such a poorly-run company, they did all they could to kill the Ami. At least some Euro folks have kept up with the platform, porting Linux and developing new stuff.