While I think this post is mostly a bitter diatribe of nonsense, I have one point I'd like to make.
"And, nowadays, many of these websites, as well as many bricks and mortar retailers, will gladly refund your money on any purchases with which you're not entirely happy."
The RIAA and most retailers have made this impossible. Once you buy a CD and take the wrapping off of it, it's yours. You can't return it or exchange it unless it's for the same CD. Sorry, bud. Whether you like it or not, it's yours. I support the bands I like. I have 30 gigabytes of MP3's. Most of them are rips from CDs that I own -- you should see the collection. The rest? Live dubs, bands no one has heard of, CDs that are long out of print.
Quit assuming. It makes an ass out of u and ming.;)
You forget one very important thing regarding Real's compatibility on the Mac. There is not ONE Real application for Mac OS X. When asked about their plans, they have started development, with no firm idea what applications will be released, nor do they have a clue when it will be released.
Mac OS X is now the Mac OS. Microsoft has brought Media Player, and naturally, Apple has delivered QuickTime. Real just flounders.
I work for a mid-sized hosting/colocation facility in Bothell, WA, and I work with the Administration and Support team. We actually get together pretty often, since we seem to get along pretty well. Even if it's as simple as a couple ours of Unreal Tournament/Marathon Rampancy, going out to get a few beers, or having a barbeque, we tend to invite each other along. I work with a *great* group of people.
First of all, it's not OS/X, it's OS X. Methinks you used too much OS/2 in your day. Second, even if a clone running OS X is made, which there won't be, you'll still be giving Apple money by buying Mac OS X.
Of course, you could pirate it, but then we'd all kill you.;)
I'm sure someone has posted this, and it's not complete, but it'll make your day easier.
I've figured this worm out. You see, today, hosting machines running Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000 are getting FUCKED UP by a worm called nimda. I've isolated how to remove this -- it appears to be working fine. So, if you're a Windows user running IIS, double check for this shit!
Do a find for *.eml, and remove all of them.
Do a find for Admin.dll (should be in the root folder of all of your drives -- C:, D:, etc.), and remove or rename them for safekeeping.
Edit %Systemroot%\System32\etc\services, and find the entry for "tftp". It's routed to port 69/udp. Route it to 0/udp. This will deactivate the service. Windows protects the tftp app, so you can't remove it. So, nullroute it!
Reboot your machine, make sure you're patched with the latest Critical Updates.
Laugh at the incoming requests.
I need to sleep. NT hacking whilst sick sucks my ass.
I'm the administrator of whatthefuck.com -- I got in on the first day of ICANN registrations, and got in before the filters went up. There appears to be few registrars left that allow it..
- oZ
I work for a local ISP. We plan on supporting the V.92 standard, but not for a good 2-6 months after the standard is final and firmware is released. Why, you ask? You see, the first set of firmware for our modem racks are just like first versions of drivers. They're usually buggy, and screw up the other half of the system. We're worried about the other 98% of our users getting slower or less stable connections than they are used to. We do plan on supporting the standard -- just not for a little while yet.
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While I think this post is mostly a bitter diatribe of nonsense, I have one point I'd like to make.
;)
"And, nowadays, many of these websites, as well as many bricks and mortar retailers, will gladly refund your money on any purchases with which you're not entirely happy."
The RIAA and most retailers have made this impossible. Once you buy a CD and take the wrapping off of it, it's yours. You can't return it or exchange it unless it's for the same CD. Sorry, bud. Whether you like it or not, it's yours. I support the bands I like. I have 30 gigabytes of MP3's. Most of them are rips from CDs that I own -- you should see the collection. The rest? Live dubs, bands no one has heard of, CDs that are long out of print.
Quit assuming. It makes an ass out of u and ming.
Oh, and I feel so bad for them too. The pain in my rectum after dealing with Qwest's idea of 'customer service' is disconcerting, at best.
silly, silly.
OS X is fast enough already.
Jaguar has been accellerated for larger cards.
Special accelleration does not mean obsolescence. After all, you should bitch more about having a G3.
You have to look at the big picture.. Windows 3 was a lot more 'right' than Windows 1. ;)
You forget one very important thing regarding Real's compatibility on the Mac. There is not ONE Real application for Mac OS X. When asked about their plans, they have started development, with no firm idea what applications will be released, nor do they have a clue when it will be released.
Mac OS X is now the Mac OS. Microsoft has brought Media Player, and naturally, Apple has delivered QuickTime. Real just flounders.
I work for a mid-sized hosting/colocation facility in Bothell, WA, and I work with the Administration and Support team. We actually get together pretty often, since we seem to get along pretty well. Even if it's as simple as a couple ours of Unreal Tournament/Marathon Rampancy, going out to get a few beers, or having a barbeque, we tend to invite each other along. I work with a *great* group of people.
First of all, it's not OS/X, it's OS X. Methinks you used too much OS/2 in your day. Second, even if a clone running OS X is made, which there won't be, you'll still be giving Apple money by buying Mac OS X.
;)
Of course, you could pirate it, but then we'd all kill you.
I'm sure someone has posted this, and it's not complete, but it'll make your day easier.
I've figured this worm out. You see, today, hosting machines running Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000 are getting FUCKED UP by a worm called nimda. I've isolated how to remove this -- it appears to be working fine. So, if you're a Windows user running IIS, double check for this shit!
Do a find for *.eml, and remove all of them.
Do a find for Admin.dll (should be in the root folder of all of your drives -- C:, D:, etc.), and remove or rename them for safekeeping.
Edit %Systemroot%\System32\etc\services, and find the entry for "tftp". It's routed to port 69/udp. Route it to 0/udp. This will deactivate the service. Windows protects the tftp app, so you can't remove it. So, nullroute it!
Reboot your machine, make sure you're patched with the latest Critical Updates.
Laugh at the incoming requests.
I need to sleep. NT hacking whilst sick sucks my ass.
Just like the OS it runs on. :)
I'm the administrator of whatthefuck.com -- I got in on the first day of ICANN registrations, and got in before the filters went up. There appears to be few registrars left that allow it.. - oZ
I work for a local ISP. We plan on supporting the V.92 standard, but not for a good 2-6 months after the standard is final and firmware is released. Why, you ask? You see, the first set of firmware for our modem racks are just like first versions of drivers. They're usually buggy, and screw up the other half of the system. We're worried about the other 98% of our users getting slower or less stable connections than they are used to. We do plan on supporting the standard -- just not for a little while yet.
It still has the standard 15 pin port -- but also supports the new port on the new monitors. That's all they're doing. :)