Working in IT, I hate fax machines. They're archaic technology, long sense replaced, but try and argue the point to an employee who believes they are the only HIPAA compliant way to sent information to another doctors office. Uhhg. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone print something out to shove it in a fax machine and then shred it, and yes, there's a digital fax printer setup on the network and they know how to use it. Stubborn employees and the lack of management to enforce them to migrate to better technology.
I've been through it, and I had a bunch of clients hosted on a reseller account. Thankfully I had backups, but it still inconvenienced my clients for a few days while DNS changes took effect and I had to spend those 2 sleepless days uploading and configuring things from backup. It was pure hell, and I prefer to call them HELLohost.com. In a way, I'm happy they went out of business, the owner was a jerk.
Nextel (and sprint) suck ass. If you could pick the to worst cell compainies, that would be them. Oh well, dumbasses keep paying outrageous rates to Nextel so they can have the redneck CB radio feature. Yeah, that will last long. Go Nextel!
But adding these ad hoc "leap seconds" -- the last one was tacked on in 1998 -- can be a big hassle for computers operating with software programs that never allowed for a 61-second minute, leading to glitches when the extra second passes. "It's a huge deal," said John Yuzdepski...
Umm, so why don't we just make one second every so often last two seconds. Instead of being the 61st second, it would just be 59 seconds past the minute for 2 seconds long. Seems like that wouldn't break stuff, unless you're doing some very time sensitive number crunching.
Just great, now when I tell some computer ignoramus to "double click computer" they'll bang their mouse on their computer! It was bad enough explaining to them that 'double clicking my computer' did not mean I wanted them to manhandle my house through the telephone.
Renaming Network Neighborhood to My Network Places was hard enough. I still (accidentally) call it NN and morons are like, uh...
Oh, and people piss me off that don't know which slash is backslash. I'd like the backhand the next moron that uses the question mark/forward slash on me.
Uh, the Google movie/local search has been working for months! Slashdot link from Feb 23rd here In fact, the IMDB link has been there from the start. It amazes me when some parent finds out about Google's "new" 3 month old feature, they think it's new, and news worthy to boot. Whoopty do, next headline: "New feature, Google aggregates data!!" No kidding? As usual, good ol'/. dupe checking works it's magic!:)
Not to dis Google or anything, but since when is every minuscule innovation on web based portals revolutionary? Endless "betas" and rapid cash burns to develop the next biggest thing is what turned the dot-com boom into a bust. Is Google next? Nah, there's no competition in the search engine market. Hehe.
Sure, people love Google, I love Google, but this stuff is something Yahoo has been doing for 10 years and people are atingle over it like its new technology!? Innovation only leads to more complex interfaces, and the simplicity of Google's very nature will only become bulkier and bloated the more of this "crap" they add. What, links to outside review services just weren't enough? Creature Feep if you ask me.
I know Google rocks and all, but how can we be sure that Google doesn't favor our favorite open source http server over IIS? I mean really, that's the most unscientific research garbage I've ever read. Thank you/. for killing my last 3 bain cells.I know Google rocks and all, but how can we be sure that Google doesn't favor our favorite open source http server over IIS?
I would be more inclined to think it's Google's searches that are actually skewed, because they have been perfecting their results for a lot longer and everyone knows the sites worth deserving a top 10 position, run Apache.
I mean really, that's the most unscientific research garbage I've ever read. Thank you/. for killing my last 3 brain cells.
How is this censorship, if clearly, Vonage knows the (easy?) fix is just to change ports? It's not like an ISP is going to block all ports, and besides, I believe my Vonage box connects outbound to establish connection, so if my ISP started blocking random outbound ports, I'd find a new ISP. Seriously, is a large ISP really going to do full stateful packet filtering just to stop VOIP at the packet type level. Yeah, right.
Vonage needs to get their head out of the toilet. Although, I certianly believe in free speech and no censorship, it's just sad that ISP's even play games like this. The consumer has no voice anymore.:(
p.s. Yeah, I have Vonage, and I love it, except their customer service which SUCKS beyond belief. Thankfully, I don't have to deal with them daily...
Funny, I just sat down w/ my g/f and our meal, and the first/. article I read is about the WiFi I'm using to post. I thought/. had tapped into my mind causing illusions for a second...
What we really need is 1-900 numbers for our cell phones. Then we can make a profit when the company calls us on our personal cell phones. Many Motorola phones even support 2 lines, so you could even have a different ring tone when someone calls your 900 number!
Maybe you like the force fed swill the internet and media bullies feed you every waking moment of your day, but think about us, the actual consumers.
We buy products like NAV 2004 and Tivo's because we don't want to see the advertising. We buy the products we want, not the ones we're force fed. I'm not about to say I've never bought something I've seen advertised, but what I am saying is that sometimes I like to sit down, watch an episode of The Simpsons without hearing about the latest drug that will give me more that I have to cure, or the best female leakage eliminator. Face it, we don't want your advertising rubbish, and the reason Symantec probably added ad blocking, was because they want to sell their software to people like me.
I suppose your next complaint will be the very effective (read 98%+ in my tests) junk email blocking that Outlook 2003 includes. Come on, we all know the only reason spammers spam is so they can sell you're their latest and greatest anti-spam software.
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Replay TV could be what you wanted in the first place, it offers all the functionality of a non-subscriptioned Tivo, and *NO* monthly fees. Mines been working great, never a nag, and changing channels doesn't plug it's own services charges...
I would like to know how you where able to adapt the laptop screen to a svga card? I'm looking to install some sorta of flat panel screen for my car computer, and it would be very easy for me to obtain a laptop screen... any info on how you hooked it up would be most helpful!
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Working in IT, I hate fax machines. They're archaic technology, long sense replaced, but try and argue the point to an employee who believes they are the only HIPAA compliant way to sent information to another doctors office. Uhhg. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone print something out to shove it in a fax machine and then shred it, and yes, there's a digital fax printer setup on the network and they know how to use it. Stubborn employees and the lack of management to enforce them to migrate to better technology.
I've been through it, and I had a bunch of clients hosted on a reseller account. Thankfully I had backups, but it still inconvenienced my clients for a few days while DNS changes took effect and I had to spend those 2 sleepless days uploading and configuring things from backup. It was pure hell, and I prefer to call them HELLohost.com. In a way, I'm happy they went out of business, the owner was a jerk.
Read about it here:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=492952
Nextel (and sprint) suck ass. If you could pick the to worst cell compainies, that would be them. Oh well, dumbasses keep paying outrageous rates to Nextel so they can have the redneck CB radio feature. Yeah, that will last long. Go Nextel!
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But adding these ad hoc "leap seconds" -- the last one was tacked on in 1998 -- can be a big hassle for computers operating with software programs that never allowed for a 61-second minute, leading to glitches when the extra second passes. "It's a huge deal," said John Yuzdepski...
Umm, so why don't we just make one second every so often last two seconds. Instead of being the 61st second, it would just be 59 seconds past the minute for 2 seconds long. Seems like that wouldn't break stuff, unless you're doing some very time sensitive number crunching.
Just great, now when I tell some computer ignoramus to "double click computer" they'll bang their mouse on their computer! It was bad enough explaining to them that 'double clicking my computer' did not mean I wanted them to manhandle my house through the telephone.
Renaming Network Neighborhood to My Network Places was hard enough. I still (accidentally) call it NN and morons are like, uh...
Oh, and people piss me off that don't know which slash is backslash. I'd like the backhand the next moron that uses the question mark/forward slash on me.
Uh, the Google movie/local search has been working for months! Slashdot link from Feb 23rd here In fact, the IMDB link has been there from the start. It amazes me when some parent finds out about Google's "new" 3 month old feature, they think it's new, and news worthy to boot. Whoopty do, next headline: "New feature, Google aggregates data!!" No kidding? As usual, good ol' /. dupe checking works it's magic! :)
Not to dis Google or anything, but since when is every minuscule innovation on web based portals revolutionary? Endless "betas" and rapid cash burns to develop the next biggest thing is what turned the dot-com boom into a bust. Is Google next? Nah, there's no competition in the search engine market. Hehe.
Sure, people love Google, I love Google, but this stuff is something Yahoo has been doing for 10 years and people are atingle over it like its new technology!? Innovation only leads to more complex interfaces, and the simplicity of Google's very nature will only become bulkier and bloated the more of this "crap" they add. What, links to outside review services just weren't enough? Creature Feep if you ask me.
I know Google rocks and all, but how can we be sure that Google doesn't favor our favorite open source http server over IIS? I mean really, that's the most unscientific research garbage I've ever read. Thank you /. for killing my last 3 bain cells.I know Google rocks and all, but how can we be sure that Google doesn't favor our favorite open source http server over IIS?
/. for killing my last 3 brain cells.
I would be more inclined to think it's Google's searches that are actually skewed, because they have been perfecting their results for a lot longer and everyone knows the sites worth deserving a top 10 position, run Apache.
I mean really, that's the most unscientific research garbage I've ever read. Thank you
With so many flavours these days... uhhg... What ever happened to the tried and true vanilla??
Just further proof that advertising and mass marketing media conglomerates kill great products.
That's why I use MythTV. I don't even have to FF through commercials anymore, it just skips them for me!
Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on...
Meaning if the world ends before then, we're ok?
Non committal about when it really will happen, eh...
How is this censorship, if clearly, Vonage knows the (easy?) fix is just to change ports? It's not like an ISP is going to block all ports, and besides, I believe my Vonage box connects outbound to establish connection, so if my ISP started blocking random outbound ports, I'd find a new ISP. Seriously, is a large ISP really going to do full stateful packet filtering just to stop VOIP at the packet type level. Yeah, right.
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Vonage needs to get their head out of the toilet. Although, I certianly believe in free speech and no censorship, it's just sad that ISP's even play games like this. The consumer has no voice anymore.
p.s. Yeah, I have Vonage, and I love it, except their customer service which SUCKS beyond belief. Thankfully, I don't have to deal with them daily...
Floaters are the best! Especially the ones that won't flush, whoo-hoo that's a great day!
Funny, I just sat down w/ my g/f and our meal, and the first /. article I read is about the WiFi I'm using to post. I thought /. had tapped into my mind causing illusions for a second...
Now, if they are smart, they will create cell phone free zones
Well, since you fly internationally... wouldn't you consider the ocean a reasonably large cell phone free zone?
Either I live in a time warp, or this same exact story was one /. like 6+ months ago?
Can't you all at least approve stories that have NEW news in them?
What we really need is 1-900 numbers for our cell phones. Then we can make a profit when the company calls us on our personal cell phones. Many Motorola phones even support 2 lines, so you could even have a different ring tone when someone calls your 900 number!
Maybe you like the force fed swill the internet and media bullies feed you every waking moment of your day, but think about us, the actual consumers.
We buy products like NAV 2004 and Tivo's because we don't want to see the advertising. We buy the products we want, not the ones we're force fed. I'm not about to say I've never bought something I've seen advertised, but what I am saying is that sometimes I like to sit down, watch an episode of The Simpsons without hearing about the latest drug that will give me more that I have to cure, or the best female leakage eliminator. Face it, we don't want your advertising rubbish, and the reason Symantec probably added ad blocking, was because they want to sell their software to people like me.
I suppose your next complaint will be the very effective (read 98%+ in my tests) junk email blocking that Outlook 2003 includes. Come on, we all know the only reason spammers spam is so they can sell you're their latest and greatest anti-spam software.
Replay TV could be what you wanted in the first place, it offers all the functionality of a non-subscriptioned Tivo, and *NO* monthly fees. Mines been working great, never a nag, and changing channels doesn't plug it's own services charges...
...and just yesterday, I added 20gb to my system, for a total of 30gb, and now they go talking about the 100gb'rs!!! Where does it end?!
I would like to know how you where able to adapt the laptop screen to a svga card? I'm looking to install some sorta of flat panel screen for my car computer, and it would be very easy for me to obtain a laptop screen... any info on how you hooked it up would be most helpful!
Thanks,
-Mav