People walk into a sushi/food bar and pick from freshly prepared items on a conveyor that moves past the patron. You pay on the way out.
There are places like this in the US too. "Frying Fish" in Little Tokyo has a conveyor belt thing going on too. There's a place in Palo Alto like this too. The old New Meiji chain here in Los Angeles had a few places with conveyor belts...the one in Marina del Rey was super-cool.
Basically in all places you stack up your plates after you eat each order of sushi. There are people who go from table to table and tally up what they see from time to time. Once you are done, you ask for your bill. Usually it's a lot more than you had budgeted for...mmmmm...sushi... ^_^;
A net-friend of mine always visits his family for Oshogatsu (New Year's Holiday) For the past couple of years Iron Chef has had a special every New Year's, and he tapes it and brings the tape home to the US and trades it. (However, after the travesty that was "Iron Chef Japan Cup 2002 I don't think there will be any more of them) He doesn't cut the commercials...which actually is quite cool. Japanese commercials are a total hoot.
It was very funny to see a commercial for "Kappa Sushi" which apparently is the big "McSushi" kind of place in Japan...the kids are basically begging Mommy to go take them for sushi. You would NOT see that here. "Eww, sushi...Mom, let's go to Chuck E. Cheese!"
It used to be that Apple was king of the hill in Japan. The compact "classic" format was perfect for a society where space was at a premium and small was beautiful. And MacOS was the first with Kanji support...it took Microsoft until Windows 2000 to get that right.
Now they aren't. I suspect Sony did them in. Sony's VAIO computers are PCs made for Japanese tastes. The fact they do well here in the States is just gravy for them.
Just add inexpensive keyboard, inexpensive mouse, LCD screen, HD and RAM. A laptop CD-ROM will work, (Case Outlet sells one) and the thing netboots anyway so that would be a possibility for installing the OS anyway without the need for a CD-ROM.
Software? Why, the Debian distribution of Linux, or maybe Slackware Linux. Debian's more Politically Correct, though.
Remember, VIA hasn't signed on to Palladium yet, and hopefully they never will.
Just choose one window manager and its apps. I have learned to stop worrying and love KDE 3, you can too. Cutting and pasting between KDE apps is a no brainer. You can do it the XWindow way or the Windows way. "Easy peasy" as Jamie Oliver would say.
Enjoy the PC reaching 1 billion sold, folks, because if Palladium is instituted this billion will be the last.
What will be sold in the PC's place will be a neutered ueber X-Box, which can do just enough to let you play Microsoft-approved games, let you surf to Microsoft-approved sites, spend money at Microsoft-approved shops, and run Microsoft applications and Microsoft-approved applications. You will not buy these games and apps...they will be rented to you.
You will be bombarded by ads, ads, ads...pop ups, pop unders, full-screen interstitials, etc. etc. And no way will you be able to block them. Use the ueber X-Box for a TiVo type device? You won't be able to fast-forward through commercials, because THAT WOULD BE STEALING.
Does this picture of the future disturb you? We need to get loud and vocal about this because this is the fondest wet dream of the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft, and they will have scores of lobbyists and lawyers and will 0wn the vast majority of the Senate and House. (Except Rep. Boucher)
We killed Hollings 2002, we forced Intel to put an "off" switch on its PIII unique identifiers, but we mustn't be complacent.
Microsoft getting its way with Palladium will be the final nail in the coffin of geek culture. We need to get angry, get mad, and then DO SOMETHING.
Nuku Nuku DASH! is the second OAV. I was not talking about that.
The TV series, which ran on TV Tokyo in 1998, was simply called Bannou Bunka Neko Musume Nuku Nuku. Same as the original OAV.
Now, the TV series (I have only seen 6 of the 14 episodes, unfortunately) is not as consistently good as the first OAV. However, there are some amazingly funny scenes in the first couple of episodes of the TV series.
In episode 1, a robot which basically is a walking washing machine goes berserk and chases the kids at Maneki City High School through the halls and up onto the roof. All the while, it is cheerfully shouting "Sentaku! Sentaku!" (tr: Laundry! Laundry!) at everyone. Nuku Nuku, of course, reduces the thing to a pile of junk.
In episode 2 you get to see two poorly designed mechas at work. One is a mecha shaped like a Kokeshi doll...since Kokeshi dolls are basically a sphere atop a cylinder painted to look like a girl in a kimono, lots of features don't work on it.
Akiko: Ok! Punch! Punch! Kyouko: Can't...there's no arm controls! Akiko: Then kick! Kick! Kyouko: No leg controls either? Akiko: WHAT GOOD IS THIS DAMN FOOL MECHA, THEN?
The second dubious Mecha is So-Chan, invention of Kyusaku Natsume. So-Chan flies in, in a great animated sequence, disassembles itself, then reassembles itself on Nuku Nuku. However, Kyusaku forgets one very important thing about mobile armor suits...mobility.
Nuku Nuku: Papasan! Papasan! I can't move... Kyusaku: Oh dear...I must have left that part out...sorry Nuku Nuku-chan!
Anyway, the whole thing totally rips on Anime cliches. It's more blatant and more slapstick than the first OAV, and I like that. Again, it's pretty hit-and-miss...for all the highlights of the first two episodes, the next four kind of drag, and Episode 6 is an expanded revisiting of themes in Episode 2 of the original OAV.
Still...I'd really like to see the rest of it.
Banneko DASH! is boring stuff...it's an attempt to turn it into shoujo romance anime. BORING! I want to see Nuku Nuku destroy more over-the-top Mishima Heavy Industries products, not see Nuku Nuku fall in love with Ryunosuke Natsume! Gah!
...coming to DVD by the end of the year. This is going to be the Anime release of the year. There will be both a dubbed and a subbed version on the DVD. The folks at ADVision are releasing this.
I wish they'd release Nuku Nuku the TV series but the reissue of the OAV on DVD is pretty damn cool. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so. Funny, cool and one kick-ass female (well, robot that looks like a girl with the brain of a cat) character. This was created by the same guy who did 3X3 Eyes.
John K. did the voice of Ren Hoek. Billy West did the voice of Stimpy.
That is, John K. did the voice of Ren Hoek up until Nickelodeon seized R&S from Spumco and set up a company-controlled production team, Games Animation, to churn out fake R&S episodes. Billy West originally promised Spumco he'd stand with them against Nickelodeon, then basically stabbed his co-workers in the back when he was lured to Games Animation.
If you've ever seen a Games Animation Ren & Stimpy episode, you know how badly Billy West did Ren.
Also, the Spumco R&S episodes TNN will be showing will be restored to "director's cut" status. And "Man's Best Friend," the legendary "lost R&S episode" will get its broadcast premiere when R&S returns to the air on TNN.
Spumco has been tapped for 9 new episodes. They will probably be produced in Canada.
This is really kick-ass news, because September will mark the 10th anniversary of when Nickelodeon basically removed the creators of R&S from their creation.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. "Repo Man" DOES have product placement. It's just product placement for Ralphs Supermarket's line of generic groceries. They haven't carried those generics for years but back when "Repo Man" was released they were flogging them like crazy.
After "Repo Man" there was enough of a spike in interest in their generics that Ralphs put out a set of generic goodies like a "T-Shirt", a "Mug" and a "Cap".
Funniest placement in the movie: the can of "Food" that Otto was eating from at his parents' house. I don't know what Emilio Estevez was forced to eat there, but it looked an awful lot like either cat food or dog food. EEW.
Because unless you are running on a G4 or a very fast G3 OS X is hella slow. Quartz and Aqua is optimized for Altivec. Not a good idea to run it on a G3 blue-and-white 350MHz.
I'm really interested in this version of Yellow Dog. KDE 3, apt-get, mac-on-linux...looks REALLY sweet.
TWC threatened to cut off a buddy of mine for :
1) Running a password-protected game server, accessible to only 5 people who knew the password
2) Running Windows NT Server
He shut down the game server (there went our Quake Clan..) but refused to change the OS. He never did get TWC to explain to him why he couldn't run the OS of his choice.
I'll tell you what gives. Windows NT Server gives people Code Red. And Nimda. And so on. Sure, maybe this guy was clueful and kept his NT Server patched. If so, it was lame that they cut him off.
But the thing is that not everyone running NT Server IS clueful. Remember how the Net was when Code Red was at its height? It's the lazy-person's way to control things if you just blanket forbid certain OSes from running on your network, but they are within their rights.
If you live in CA or AZ, you might want to check out DSLExtreme...both of your friends "offenses" would have been perfectly OK under the DSLExtreme TOS/AUP.
Static IPs for all, no restrictions at all except don't serve pr0n or Warez from your home server.
The whole company is run by computer enthusiasts. They even have their own game server. How cool is that?
They work with the Telcos for their last mile, so you are limited to what Verizon or SBC can do for you, respectively. I have 768/128, but if you're in SBC territory the base package gives you a little more downstream bandwidth. My speed tests have been running around 735Kbps which is close to the max. When I had DSL previously with Flashcom 384Kbps was all I could get.
DSLExtreme rocks my world. No, I am not employed by them.
I can't believe how many shocked folks are posting on this story. I, for one, am not shocked at all.
There's an old story...a little girl finds a rattler shivering out on a cold rock. "Help me" it feebly croaks.
The little girl was a naive but nice one, and she knelt down to ask how she could help.
"Let me nestle in the warmth of your jacket...I'm cold." it whispered pitifully.
She obliged, and when she did, the snake bit her, sinking its fangs deep into her side. She instantly began to feel faint. She fell down, her head swimming as the poison spread in her body.
"Why? Why did you do this to me?" she said with her dying breath.
The rattler laughed. "You knew what I was when you picked me up." It laughed some more and slithered away.
End of story time.
Anyone who looks at X-Box with an eye towards modding or indie development or MAME or even "backups" (nudge nudge, wink wink) is kidding themselves. Microsoft put tons and tons of barriers to cracking in the X-Box, but did they realistically think that they would go unmolested? Nah. So they have their plan "B" and are using it.
Even Sega, who got out of the Dreamcast business a year ago, is still going after DC hackers. Remember what happened with the Lik-Sang programmer cable fiasco? And why was the Broadband Adapter pulled so quickly after it was released? And they are least harsh of all the console manufacturers.
Sony are bastards and so are Nintendo, but MS has made its bones by being the roughest, toughest, baddest-ass on the block. Yeah, they got medieval on the asses of people who wrote an emulator for X-Box. Did you expect anything else from them? Yeesh.
The reissue of the Atari games for Dreamcast was CE-based and pretty well done. The Atari pack was very well done and CE based.
Um, waitress? I'd like some of what spyderbite23 is having, please...
The only good thing about that Atari Anniversary Pak was the Atari sticker that came with it. One of the most plug-ugly games ever made for the DC. Impossible to follow on anything other than a big screen TV. Looked like hell on a 17".
I've got more to say, but this is not the post to say it in.
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Everything you mentioned as a weakness of Linux goes double in Windows 2000. IIS still has holes that MS hasn't patched, and there are far too many people running IIS who haven't applied the necessary patches that do exist. I can think of vulnerabilities in W2K FTP, W2K DNS, W2K Telnet, etc. etc. etc.
You speak of how bad root is...most W2K servers are locally booted with the Administrator account, and most services run with the W2K System account, which is just as bad as running as Administrator.
W2K has all the vulnerabilities you speak of and more...because there are far more people developing worms, virii and whatnot for W2K. I don't know enough about.NET Server to know whether or not MS has fixed the problem in their new server OS. I hope they do, because most W2K Server installations are ticking time bombs.
My husband is a musician. Yesterday he played a gig and "Dean The Tape Machine", a fixture on the LA music scene, brought him two burnt CDs with two shows he did with Zoogz Rift. If it weren't for people like Dean those gigs would have just been events for the moment. Now they're with us forever or at least as long as the media they're burnt on last. Thank Goddess for people like Dean. What a pal.
I have the deepest respect for bands that allow taping. A band like Bag: Theory, which plays completely improvised jam music really NEEDS people in the audience with their DAT decks and mini-disks because that music just evaporates into the air after it's played. I know that's an extreme example, but it works for a lot of other "jam" kind of bands.
It's ironic, but Metallica used to have a "tapers" section at their shows. This was well before Lars started spouting about how he was being ripped off by Napster. Hypocrites.
I would have to disagree. I just installed a GB of RAM in a Dimension 4400 which we just got at work. The thing is a piece of work. The case is a blatant rip of the Apple minitower (blue-and-white, graphite, quicksilver) and folds out just like that beauty. The cables are mostly routed under the motherboard rather than out and in the way. It is a class act all around. I was very impressed by it. You can't run it open like you can a Mac, though.
However, there is one fly in the ointment: their mobos and power supplies are proprietary. Here's the skinny on the power supply: http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles /u pgrade3_01_01.asp.
I can also complain about another thing: price. You can still save money with White Boxen. Dell's cheapest refurbs are still in the $600 - $700 ballpark. However, if your boss is a "let's spend a little more money to save a lot of time" kind of guy, he could do worse than going the Dell route.
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There are places like this in the US too. "Frying Fish" in Little Tokyo has a conveyor belt thing going on too. There's a place in Palo Alto like this too. The old New Meiji chain here in Los Angeles had a few places with conveyor belts...the one in Marina del Rey was super-cool.
Basically in all places you stack up your plates after you eat each order of sushi. There are people who go from table to table and tally up what they see from time to time. Once you are done, you ask for your bill. Usually it's a lot more than you had budgeted for...mmmmm...sushi... ^_^;
A net-friend of mine always visits his family for Oshogatsu (New Year's Holiday) For the past couple of years Iron Chef has had a special every New Year's, and he tapes it and brings the tape home to the US and trades it. (However, after the travesty that was "Iron Chef Japan Cup 2002 I don't think there will be any more of them) He doesn't cut the commercials...which actually is quite cool. Japanese commercials are a total hoot.
It was very funny to see a commercial for "Kappa Sushi" which apparently is the big "McSushi" kind of place in Japan...the kids are basically begging Mommy to go take them for sushi. You would NOT see that here. "Eww, sushi...Mom, let's go to Chuck E. Cheese!"
It used to be that Apple was king of the hill in Japan. The compact "classic" format was perfect for a society where space was at a premium and small was beautiful. And MacOS was the first with Kanji support...it took Microsoft until Windows 2000 to get that right.
Now they aren't. I suspect Sony did them in. Sony's VAIO computers are PCs made for Japanese tastes. The fact they do well here in the States is just gravy for them.
Just add inexpensive keyboard, inexpensive mouse, LCD screen, HD and RAM. A laptop CD-ROM will work, (Case Outlet sells one) and the thing netboots anyway so that would be a possibility for installing the OS anyway without the need for a CD-ROM.
Software? Why, the Debian distribution of Linux, or maybe Slackware Linux. Debian's more Politically Correct, though.
Remember, VIA hasn't signed on to Palladium yet, and hopefully they never will.
Just choose one window manager and its apps. I have learned to stop worrying and love KDE 3, you can too. Cutting and pasting between KDE apps is a no brainer. You can do it the XWindow way or the Windows way. "Easy peasy" as Jamie Oliver would say.
OK, next objection to Linux...
You're on.
Enjoy the PC reaching 1 billion sold, folks, because if Palladium is instituted this billion will be the last.
What will be sold in the PC's place will be a neutered ueber X-Box, which can do just enough to let you play Microsoft-approved games, let you surf to Microsoft-approved sites, spend money at Microsoft-approved shops, and run Microsoft applications and Microsoft-approved applications. You will not buy these games and apps...they will be rented to you.
You will be bombarded by ads, ads, ads...pop ups, pop unders, full-screen interstitials, etc. etc. And no way will you be able to block them. Use the ueber X-Box for a TiVo type device? You won't be able to fast-forward through commercials, because THAT WOULD BE STEALING.
Does this picture of the future disturb you? We need to get loud and vocal about this because this is the fondest wet dream of the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft, and they will have scores of lobbyists and lawyers and will 0wn the vast majority of the Senate and House. (Except Rep. Boucher)
We killed Hollings 2002, we forced Intel to put an "off" switch on its PIII unique identifiers, but we mustn't be complacent.
Microsoft getting its way with Palladium will be the final nail in the coffin of geek culture. We need to get angry, get mad, and then DO SOMETHING.
Nuku Nuku DASH! is the second OAV. I was not talking about that.
The TV series, which ran on TV Tokyo in 1998, was simply called Bannou Bunka Neko Musume Nuku Nuku. Same as the original OAV.
Now, the TV series (I have only seen 6 of the 14 episodes, unfortunately) is not as consistently good as the first OAV. However, there are some amazingly funny scenes in the first couple of episodes of the TV series.
In episode 1, a robot which basically is a walking washing machine goes berserk and chases the kids at Maneki City High School through the halls and up onto the roof. All the while, it is cheerfully shouting "Sentaku! Sentaku!" (tr: Laundry! Laundry!) at everyone. Nuku Nuku, of course, reduces the thing to a pile of junk.
In episode 2 you get to see two poorly designed mechas at work. One is a mecha shaped like a Kokeshi doll...since Kokeshi dolls are basically a sphere atop a cylinder painted to look like a girl in a kimono, lots of features don't work on it.
Akiko: Ok! Punch! Punch!
Kyouko: Can't...there's no arm controls!
Akiko: Then kick! Kick!
Kyouko: No leg controls either?
Akiko: WHAT GOOD IS THIS DAMN FOOL MECHA, THEN?
The second dubious Mecha is So-Chan, invention of Kyusaku Natsume. So-Chan flies in, in a great animated sequence, disassembles itself, then reassembles itself on Nuku Nuku. However, Kyusaku forgets one very important thing about mobile armor suits...mobility.
Nuku Nuku: Papasan! Papasan! I can't move...
Kyusaku: Oh dear...I must have left that part out...sorry Nuku Nuku-chan!
Anyway, the whole thing totally rips on Anime cliches. It's more blatant and more slapstick than the first OAV, and I like that. Again, it's pretty hit-and-miss...for all the highlights of the first two episodes, the next four kind of drag, and Episode 6 is an expanded revisiting of themes in Episode 2 of the original OAV.
Still...I'd really like to see the rest of it.
Banneko DASH! is boring stuff...it's an attempt to turn it into shoujo romance anime. BORING! I want to see Nuku Nuku destroy more over-the-top Mishima Heavy Industries products, not see Nuku Nuku fall in love with Ryunosuke Natsume! Gah!
C'mon! So-Chan!
...coming to DVD by the end of the year. This is going to be the Anime release of the year. There will be both a dubbed and a subbed version on the DVD. The folks at ADVision are releasing this.
I wish they'd release Nuku Nuku the TV series but the reissue of the OAV on DVD is pretty damn cool. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so. Funny, cool and one kick-ass female (well, robot that looks like a girl with the brain of a cat) character. This was created by the same guy who did 3X3 Eyes.
Nuku Nuku PUNCH!
There will be an R&S TV Movie as part of the package TNN has ordered.
John K. is Canadian, and grew up in Ontario. This is not a "runaway production" because John is actually coming home to do this.
Hopefully people like Bob Jaques and Karen Armstrong will be working on the new R&S episodes...they rock.
John K. did the voice of Ren Hoek.
Billy West did the voice of Stimpy.
That is, John K. did the voice of Ren Hoek up until Nickelodeon seized R&S from Spumco and set up a company-controlled production team, Games Animation, to churn out fake R&S episodes. Billy West originally promised Spumco he'd stand with them against Nickelodeon, then basically stabbed his co-workers in the back when he was lured to Games Animation.
If you've ever seen a Games Animation Ren & Stimpy episode, you know how badly Billy West did Ren.
Beavis & Butt-Head IS coming to TNN.
Also, the Spumco R&S episodes TNN will be showing will be restored to "director's cut" status. And "Man's Best Friend," the legendary "lost R&S episode" will get its broadcast premiere when R&S returns to the air on TNN.
Spumco has been tapped for 9 new episodes. They will probably be produced in Canada.
This is really kick-ass news, because September will mark the 10th anniversary of when Nickelodeon basically removed the creators of R&S from their creation.
Justice, man...justice.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. "Repo Man" DOES have product placement. It's just product placement for Ralphs Supermarket's line of generic groceries. They haven't carried those generics for years but back when "Repo Man" was released they were flogging them like crazy.
After "Repo Man" there was enough of a spike in interest in their generics that Ralphs put out a set of generic goodies like a "T-Shirt", a "Mug" and a "Cap".
Funniest placement in the movie: the can of "Food" that Otto was eating from at his parents' house. I don't know what Emilio Estevez was forced to eat there, but it looked an awful lot like either cat food or dog food. EEW.
Because unless you are running on a G4 or a very fast G3 OS X is hella slow. Quartz and Aqua is optimized for Altivec. Not a good idea to run it on a G3 blue-and-white 350MHz.
I'm really interested in this version of Yellow Dog. KDE 3, apt-get, mac-on-linux...looks REALLY sweet.
Troll alert! Troll alert! This didn't crash my Mac like Comp-U-Geek but this is almost as bad. Goatse-like content too.
1) Running a password-protected game server, accessible to only 5 people who knew the password
2) Running Windows NT Server
He shut down the game server (there went our Quake Clan..) but refused to change the OS. He never did get TWC to explain to him why he couldn't run the OS of his choice.
I'll tell you what gives. Windows NT Server gives people Code Red. And Nimda. And so on. Sure, maybe this guy was clueful and kept his NT Server patched. If so, it was lame that they cut him off.
But the thing is that not everyone running NT Server IS clueful. Remember how the Net was when Code Red was at its height? It's the lazy-person's way to control things if you just blanket forbid certain OSes from running on your network, but they are within their rights.
If you live in CA or AZ, you might want to check out DSLExtreme...both of your friends "offenses" would have been perfectly OK under the DSLExtreme TOS/AUP.
Static IPs for all, no restrictions at all except don't serve pr0n or Warez from your home server.
The whole company is run by computer enthusiasts. They even have their own game server. How cool is that?
They work with the Telcos for their last mile, so you are limited to what Verizon or SBC can do for you, respectively. I have 768/128, but if you're in SBC territory the base package gives you a little more downstream bandwidth. My speed tests have been running around 735Kbps which is close to the max. When I had DSL previously with Flashcom 384Kbps was all I could get.
DSLExtreme rocks my world. No, I am not employed by them.
No, Red Hat didn't come out with a RPM for OpenSSH 3.4p...it's their hacked 3.1p.
It looks like I'm gonna have to install from tarball or even [shudder] source.
Thanks a lot, Red Hat. You suck.
Cancelled, according to the LA Daily News.
There's an old story...a little girl finds a rattler shivering out on a cold rock. "Help me" it feebly croaks.
The little girl was a naive but nice one, and she knelt down to ask how she could help.
"Let me nestle in the warmth of your jacket...I'm cold." it whispered pitifully.
She obliged, and when she did, the snake bit her, sinking its fangs deep into her side. She instantly began to feel faint. She fell down, her head swimming as the poison spread in her body.
"Why? Why did you do this to me?" she said with her dying breath.
The rattler laughed. "You knew what I was when you picked me up." It laughed some more and slithered away.
End of story time.
Anyone who looks at X-Box with an eye towards modding or indie development or MAME or even "backups" (nudge nudge, wink wink) is kidding themselves. Microsoft put tons and tons of barriers to cracking in the X-Box, but did they realistically think that they would go unmolested? Nah. So they have their plan "B" and are using it.
Even Sega, who got out of the Dreamcast business a year ago, is still going after DC hackers. Remember what happened with the Lik-Sang programmer cable fiasco? And why was the Broadband Adapter pulled so quickly after it was released? And they are least harsh of all the console manufacturers.
Sony are bastards and so are Nintendo, but MS has made its bones by being the roughest, toughest, baddest-ass on the block. Yeah, they got medieval on the asses of people who wrote an emulator for X-Box. Did you expect anything else from them? Yeesh.
Um, waitress? I'd like some of what spyderbite23 is having, please...
The only good thing about that Atari Anniversary Pak was the Atari sticker that came with it. One of the most plug-ugly games ever made for the DC. Impossible to follow on anything other than a big screen TV. Looked like hell on a 17".
I've got more to say, but this is not the post to say it in.
Everything you mentioned as a weakness of Linux goes double in Windows 2000. IIS still has holes that MS hasn't patched, and there are far too many people running IIS who haven't applied the necessary patches that do exist. I can think of vulnerabilities in W2K FTP, W2K DNS, W2K Telnet, etc. etc. etc.
.NET Server to know whether or not MS has fixed the problem in their new server OS. I hope they do, because most W2K Server installations are ticking time bombs.
You speak of how bad root is...most W2K servers are locally booted with the Administrator account, and most services run with the W2K System account, which is just as bad as running as Administrator.
W2K has all the vulnerabilities you speak of and more...because there are far more people developing worms, virii and whatnot for W2K. I don't know enough about
I know these things...I'm an MCSE.
I have the deepest respect for bands that allow taping. A band like Bag: Theory, which plays completely improvised jam music really NEEDS people in the audience with their DAT decks and mini-disks because that music just evaporates into the air after it's played. I know that's an extreme example, but it works for a lot of other "jam" kind of bands.
It's ironic, but Metallica used to have a "tapers" section at their shows. This was well before Lars started spouting about how he was being ripped off by Napster. Hypocrites.
I would have to disagree. I just installed a GB of RAM in a Dimension 4400 which we just got at work. The thing is a piece of work. The case is a blatant rip of the Apple minitower (blue-and-white, graphite, quicksilver) and folds out just like that beauty. The cables are mostly routed under the motherboard rather than out and in the way. It is a class act all around. I was very impressed by it. You can't run it open like you can a Mac, though.
s /u pgrade3_01_01.asp .
However, there is one fly in the ointment: their mobos and power supplies are proprietary. Here's the skinny on the power supply:
http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/article
I can also complain about another thing: price. You can still save money with White Boxen. Dell's cheapest refurbs are still in the $600 - $700 ballpark. However, if your boss is a "let's spend a little more money to save a lot of time" kind of guy, he could do worse than going the Dell route.
...this sounds like your next BBC-generated hit. Remember AbFab? This sounds like it could be the masculine equivalent. Get cracking, guys!
Damn, I HATE Region coding and multiple video standards!