I strongly urge Firefox use here at work and most people use it, but the pres. of the company hates it so that's that...at least I got him on IE8, which he resisted for a long time...."I'd better not lose all my favorites when you do the upgrade..."
My biggest peeve with Firefox is that every point release seemed to break all your extensions, although it does seem to be a little better about that lately.
We have a few still kicking...and in the 2 years since I've started at this company, I have only replaced one board due to the leaking caps. I asked if there were any initial problems with the pc's when they were purchased, and the boss claims there were only a couple that died early on.
All the fun and interesting things they do with the logo.
In the old days it was called a 'forklift upgrade'
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But you only needed a forklift for the mainframe itself, usually the terminals stayed put. Migrating to Win7 from XP pretty much demands a client hardware refresh along with whatever ERP/WMS/CRM bloatware you're upgrading, so you might want to order an extra forklift for moving the pallets of desktops boxes that will be delivered. Of course, any thin-client+VM visionaries are a leg up.
BP owns many brands, including Castrol. They also own the 'am-pm mini mart' brand and some cafe chain that I can't remember. You'd have to boycott them too.
Perhaps demand your share of relief from this spill. This will have a ripple effect on the economy for years to some, and we will all be paying for it in some way or another.
Or, perhaps if our pockets were picked to a lesser extent than they are now, we would have more real income and would not mind paying (a little) more for "Made in the US".
And let's not forget the true nature of the Fed...they are an elaborate shell game that is simply creating money (out of thin air and paper) to fund the purchase of US debt in order to keep feeding the monster. There's plenty of thin air to go around, let's just hope we don't run out of paper...
FZ always tried to keep what he called "conceptual continuity" in his work. If you listen to his progression throughout the years, that phrase sort of makes sense. He was also a master at taking disparate tracks (from several different songs), and creating fresh material without playing a single new note.
One of FZ's many talents as a composer and musician was his ability to write and perform in every musical genre. His stuff ranges from classical to funk, jazz to plain rock, weirdness to well, just more weirdness. I've always said that if I had to be stranded on a deserted island for the rest of my life with only one artist's music, it would be Zappa.
Adding this situation to the recent SCOTUS decision regarding Miranda rights (a suspect must now clearly voice his decision to remain silent rather than being implicitly silent by his silence...make sense?), where does that put America on the Police State scale?
I've had good luck using combofix on variants of this malware. It works about 90% of the time to at least beat it into submission, I can then manually remove any remnants.
Poster child here for what you have described...I freelanced for almost 9 years after the last company I worked for closed (the owners cashed in and retired to a golf course in FL). I didn't get rich, but I was happy. Things started slowing down a couple of years ago, and after reading the tea leaves I got a real job as a working (as in, I do real work, like coding) IT Manager for one of my former clients.
Having said all that, I do not have any certs beyond a degree; just 25+ years of solid experience with business systems. I can't tell you how many people in my programming classes were clueless yet somehow managed to graduate, and this was in the early 80's! I guess not much has changed.
You are absolutely correct that my little boycott will have zero impact in the market without reducing consumption. I have also done that by buying a 30+ mpg car for commuting to work and only using the 17mpg Jeep when neccessary, along with other little changes at home.
I'm starting my protest by not buying BP products ever again. I also have managed to mostly avoid Exxon/Mobil since the Valdez. Just doing what little I can, as a peon.
Islam, though, is a project that is entirely designed, and its implementation overseen, by a single guy, who, by all accounts, was very determined on making that design persist and endure. Looking at the present state of the Islamic world, he has, unfortunately, largely succeeded in that.
This isn't to say that Islam is logical - no religion is. But it is quite internally consistent, so long as you stick to the framework of its axioms. There is considerably less wiggle room there than there is in Christianity.
Substitute the word "Scientology" for "Islam" and your statements still hold true.
Pasteur was ridiculed for his audacious idea that disease was caused by microscopic organisms...took a while for the idea to catch on, but he was eventually proved correct. I guess we need clinical research to determine the effectiveness of Wii Fit and physical therapy. Now, who's going to fund that, Nintendo?
Most of those descriptions are euphemisms for "pay me too much money for mediocre results that you can't measure anyway".
The lawyers always have the option of career-changing to politician...
As another Cox subscriber, I can corroborate that statement. I tried their "free" Usenet a while back and realized it was worth less than that. I've used a couple of paid services since then and the difference was night and day. While it's certainly a case of dropping a feature that was essentially being paid for in the past I think we can safely assume that long term, we'll be getting nothing in return from them for removing it.
Using ANI (Billing Number) for all calls would probably be a bad idea. Say you're calling someone you have a business relationship with from your phone at work (technology type doesn't matter here). If billing number was the only thing available, every single call from your company would show up with the same number. Probably your main line that goes to a receptionist. In some situations this is what people want (telemarketers for instance) but in what many view as more legitimate business it would be annoying.
I'd hate it if every time various vendors that I have multiple account managers called my cell phone it just said "AT&T employee" etc. I like knowing who I'm going to be talking to.
Also, this completely ignores some of the other valid reasons for setting a caller ID value that most people outside of the telecom industry probably aren't aware of or care much about. Let's just say it's very useful for testing purposes and it's a great way to send a small amount of data to the entity you're calling if you're not using something like UUI.
Customers should be allowed to choose whether their billing (or "main") number is used for outbound caller id, or the individual lines. My company has a plethora of analog lines and none of the carriers we''ve had (AT&T, Verizon, and most recently Broadview) seem to have that capability. In our situation, we don't want people calling (or even knowing about) those 'other' numbers. We are not telemarketers, but we do contact our customers on a regular basis for other reasons besides trying to sell them more stuff.
Ok, fine...but Sony out-and-out lied regarding future support, see msg below. Granted this Geoff character was likely a low-level droid, but he was still speaking as a company representative (apologies for the messy look,/. did it, not me!) :
[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?
Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Sat Aug 22 02:58:33 EST 2009
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Hi François,
On 08/18/2009 02:33 PM, François Galea wrote:
> Is this hust a rumour or is it for real ?
>
> Sony seems to have dropped the otheros feature on the new ps3 slim hardware.
>
> If anybody has reliable news, I'd be glad to hear about.
The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new
"Slim" PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other
entertainment content.
Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue
the support for previously sold models that have the
"Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
not be disabled in future firmware releases.
-Geoff
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I strongly urge Firefox use here at work and most people use it, but the pres. of the company hates it so that's that...at least I got him on IE8, which he resisted for a long time...."I'd better not lose all my favorites when you do the upgrade..." My biggest peeve with Firefox is that every point release seemed to break all your extensions, although it does seem to be a little better about that lately.
...and start the bidding at penny with no reserve; you will probably be shocked at how much someone would be willing to pay for landfill material..
We have a few still kicking...and in the 2 years since I've started at this company, I have only replaced one board due to the leaking caps. I asked if there were any initial problems with the pc's when they were purchased, and the boss claims there were only a couple that died early on.
All the fun and interesting things they do with the logo.
But you only needed a forklift for the mainframe itself, usually the terminals stayed put. Migrating to Win7 from XP pretty much demands a client hardware refresh along with whatever ERP/WMS/CRM bloatware you're upgrading, so you might want to order an extra forklift for moving the pallets of desktops boxes that will be delivered. Of course, any thin-client+VM visionaries are a leg up.
BP owns many brands, including Castrol. They also own the 'am-pm mini mart' brand and some cafe chain that I can't remember. You'd have to boycott them too.
Perhaps demand your share of relief from this spill. This will have a ripple effect on the economy for years to some, and we will all be paying for it in some way or another.
Or, perhaps if our pockets were picked to a lesser extent than they are now, we would have more real income and would not mind paying (a little) more for "Made in the US".
And let's not forget the true nature of the Fed...they are an elaborate shell game that is simply creating money (out of thin air and paper) to fund the purchase of US debt in order to keep feeding the monster. There's plenty of thin air to go around, let's just hope we don't run out of paper...
FZ always tried to keep what he called "conceptual continuity" in his work. If you listen to his progression throughout the years, that phrase sort of makes sense. He was also a master at taking disparate tracks (from several different songs), and creating fresh material without playing a single new note.
One of FZ's many talents as a composer and musician was his ability to write and perform in every musical genre. His stuff ranges from classical to funk, jazz to plain rock, weirdness to well, just more weirdness. I've always said that if I had to be stranded on a deserted island for the rest of my life with only one artist's music, it would be Zappa.
Adding this situation to the recent SCOTUS decision regarding Miranda rights (a suspect must now clearly voice his decision to remain silent rather than being implicitly silent by his silence...make sense?), where does that put America on the Police State scale?
X2
I've had good luck using combofix on variants of this malware. It works about 90% of the time to at least beat it into submission, I can then manually remove any remnants.
Poster child here for what you have described...I freelanced for almost 9 years after the last company I worked for closed (the owners cashed in and retired to a golf course in FL). I didn't get rich, but I was happy. Things started slowing down a couple of years ago, and after reading the tea leaves I got a real job as a working (as in, I do real work, like coding) IT Manager for one of my former clients. Having said all that, I do not have any certs beyond a degree; just 25+ years of solid experience with business systems. I can't tell you how many people in my programming classes were clueless yet somehow managed to graduate, and this was in the early 80's! I guess not much has changed.
You are absolutely correct that my little boycott will have zero impact in the market without reducing consumption. I have also done that by buying a 30+ mpg car for commuting to work and only using the 17mpg Jeep when neccessary, along with other little changes at home.
maybe we should protest or something.
I'm starting my protest by not buying BP products ever again. I also have managed to mostly avoid Exxon/Mobil since the Valdez. Just doing what little I can, as a peon.
Islam, though, is a project that is entirely designed, and its implementation overseen, by a single guy, who, by all accounts, was very determined on making that design persist and endure. Looking at the present state of the Islamic world, he has, unfortunately, largely succeeded in that.
This isn't to say that Islam is logical - no religion is. But it is quite internally consistent, so long as you stick to the framework of its axioms. There is considerably less wiggle room there than there is in Christianity.
Substitute the word "Scientology" for "Islam" and your statements still hold true.
The UK just outlawed the sale of 500 Euro notes in an atempt to combat laundering; so now they will have to use a bigger suitcase...brilliant!
Pasteur was ridiculed for his audacious idea that disease was caused by microscopic organisms...took a while for the idea to catch on, but he was eventually proved correct. I guess we need clinical research to determine the effectiveness of Wii Fit and physical therapy. Now, who's going to fund that, Nintendo?
Most of those descriptions are euphemisms for "pay me too much money for mediocre results that you can't measure anyway". The lawyers always have the option of career-changing to politician...
Isn't the cake always a lie?
As another Cox subscriber, I can corroborate that statement. I tried their "free" Usenet a while back and realized it was worth less than that. I've used a couple of paid services since then and the difference was night and day. While it's certainly a case of dropping a feature that was essentially being paid for in the past I think we can safely assume that long term, we'll be getting nothing in return from them for removing it.
Using ANI (Billing Number) for all calls would probably be a bad idea. Say you're calling someone you have a business relationship with from your phone at work (technology type doesn't matter here). If billing number was the only thing available, every single call from your company would show up with the same number. Probably your main line that goes to a receptionist. In some situations this is what people want (telemarketers for instance) but in what many view as more legitimate business it would be annoying.
I'd hate it if every time various vendors that I have multiple account managers called my cell phone it just said "AT&T employee" etc. I like knowing who I'm going to be talking to.
Also, this completely ignores some of the other valid reasons for setting a caller ID value that most people outside of the telecom industry probably aren't aware of or care much about. Let's just say it's very useful for testing purposes and it's a great way to send a small amount of data to the entity you're calling if you're not using something like UUI.
Customers should be allowed to choose whether their billing (or "main") number is used for outbound caller id, or the individual lines. My company has a plethora of analog lines and none of the carriers we''ve had (AT&T, Verizon, and most recently Broadview) seem to have that capability. In our situation, we don't want people calling (or even knowing about) those 'other' numbers. We are not telemarketers, but we do contact our customers on a regular basis for other reasons besides trying to sell them more stuff.
Ok, fine...but Sony out-and-out lied regarding future support, see msg below. Granted this Geoff character was likely a low-level droid, but he was still speaking as a company representative (apologies for the messy look, /. did it, not me!) :
[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?
Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Sat Aug 22 02:58:33 EST 2009
Previous message: [Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?
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Hi François,
On 08/18/2009 02:33 PM, François Galea wrote:
> Is this hust a rumour or is it for real ?
>
> Sony seems to have dropped the otheros feature on the new ps3 slim hardware.
>
> If anybody has reliable news, I'd be glad to hear about.
The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new
"Slim" PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other
entertainment content.
Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue
the support for previously sold models that have the
"Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
not be disabled in future firmware releases.
-Geoff