Same here. Their switch quality has taken a dive the last couple years. They're put together with flimsy sheetmetal and no standoffs (sheetmetal screws!). They flex so bad we had new ones coming in with screws rattling around inside. We quit using them immedtately thereafter but while we still had some in stock we had to open every one of them to make sure everything was still connected properly. Not to mention how the PCB's flap in the breeze...
Yech. And 3Com used to be good stuff.:(
No kidding!
A top-notch embedded systems programmer can make $50-$100 an hour (salary vs contract).
That $5k is at best a week or two worth of work.
Not to mention whomever does it is going to need several thousand dollars worth of various blue-tooth enabled devices to test it with since, (like every other standard that's ever existed), many companies haven't implemented it quite perfectly.
We wouldn't have a parade in the streets, burn that country's flag, scream for blood like other country's do...
I assume you are referring to the Iraqi population's response after we invaded their country and sent it back to the stone age.
Post 9/11 (before Iraq) the general response from the Arab/Muslim community was actually quite sympathetic towards the US and virtually every Arab/Muslim political leader did condemn Bin Laden and co.
Even now, while it is true that the muslim communities in other countries have definitely cooled towards us you don't exactly see American flags being burned in India or Bangladesh or even Indonesia (three of the larger Muslim populations in the world).
I'm not saying whether invading Iraq was right or wrong but, now that you bring it up, it's a good example of the need to look at the context in which things occur.
Heck, we have our own skin-heads and KKK and other extremist groups who are generally reviled but I can guarantee you that if the US was reduced to razed earth and those same militant minorities managed to strike back in some way there would be a percentage of the population who would indeed be dancing in the streets.
Islam in general has shown itself to be an evil religion lately.
So, by that logic, if I (an American citizen) went to another country and killed somebody, people in that country should assume that all Americans are murderers?
What if I were Catholic? Does that mean all Catholics are murderers as well?
Next time think for a moment before you make sweeping statements...
...People that agree with him will call him "honorable". People that don't will call him a "traitor".
I may or may not be considered a Democrat and I fer damn sure am not voting for Bush but at the same time I don't think this guy has the right to go against the wishes of the majority (assuming they even win of course:).
That said I think the whole electoral process is a crock and half. I understand that it was put in place to "protect the rights of the states" but I don't see how a popular vote really detracts from that. Or am I completely missing something?
I dunno if it'll work for legal billing but I'm testing it out for my own technical services time-based billing and it seems okay so far. (YMMV, IANAL, ETC:)
I doubt a whole switch would ever need replacing, unless they had one hell of a storm, but the antennae can get pushed out of alignment and some of the more remote towers run off solar so the panels need to be kept cleaned, batteries replaced periodically and of course there's always cabling and whatnot that eventually succumb to the elements no matter how well weather-proofed they are...
I know one of the guys who installed it. The network was actually put in place for the local municipal offices to connect up to each other. The residential access is secondary, but nonetheless is (obviously) being used to help defray the cost of implementation and maintenance - extreme weather conditions lead to a high replacement rate on some of the equipment.
A Mac grey screen of death is usually (95% of the time) a hardware problem. Try swapping RAM first.
As for XP annoyances, as somebody else pointed out they just changed the BSOD to a reboot.
But what really gripes me about XP is how it quietly runs that stupid freakin' network auto-detection crap in the background for no freakin' reason and break the network connection!!
Having the wizard is fine, let people run it and it might even set things up correctly sometimes, but to run it silently for no reason is just asinine!
Grr, mumble, grump...
How about putting a trickle charger on the "auxilary" car battery?
I'm not sure how the best way would be to implement that without causing conflict (ground loops, overvoltage etc) between the two systems but yeah, that might work.
There are a number of conversion utilities/packages which I will let you Google for.
Otherwise just don't expect it to be like Windows.:)
And VersionTracker along with the Apple OSX download page will be your new friends...
..., you could risk damage to the circuitry which handles the switching...
I'll weigh in with the voice of experience here.:)
Whether or not the switching ciruit fries depends on how much load you put on it. If you don't exceed the rated max capacity of the UPS it will be okay.
Unfortunately that's not enough to get you out of the woods because the first time the batteries discharge significantly the charging circuit will fry instead.
All that in mind, you might be able to get away with increasing the capacity by 10%-20% or so simply because that will likely be within design tolerances. YMMV, IANAEE etc
Yeah, but it was only a year or two between IE being...inseparable from the rest of the OS. And if that wasn't "comletely reworking the way their browser operates..."
Actually no, it wasn't a complete rework at all. They simply arbitrarily combined a couple of IE function libraries with some existing system libraries and proclaimed that the two were, therefor, inseparable.
The functions actually remained completely separate right down to having separate (development) source trees for quite some time.
If the source to those "new" system DLL's had been subpoenaed back in the day there'd have been plenty of smoking guns to show the courts...
Mod parent up!
That lockout tool is something parents install to get little kids to do their chores, not something for responsible adults. Egads...
Re:Big point scrabble words...
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... the letter scores are defined for just that language...
Look, buddy, when I've 4 of the letter "A" I start talking Hawaiian damn fast!:)
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[sound of Scrabble tiles]
What? Flocci's not a word!
Yeah it is.
Is not! Prove it!
It's the plural of floccus of course.
"Floccus of course", schmoccus a horse, I gotcher "floccus of course" right here!
Why yes, yes you do, right on the top of your pointy little head...
[sound of keys clicking]
Doh!
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...make sure it is in your "agreed upon" dictionary...
Words from any language are acceptable. Depending on who in my family is playing any given game can involve up to ten languages (more if you count things like Ye Olde English and Latin).
Gets kind of interesting at times!:)
...we exposed ourselves to liability lawsuits...So the company did not give users warnings..."
I have been curious if any ISPs have started providing DSL modems with built in firewalling preconfigured - but not saying anything about it.
Anybody out there see anything like this yet?
Actually the average broadband connection should be NATed by default from the ISP end.
ISPs' profit margins are razor thin as it is. This is an added configuration and support cost which does not directly add anything to the bottom line.
The logical argument would be that it should be a selling point but the fact is that the clueless people don't get it and the cluefull people already have firewalls.
Not to mention when the clueless person clicks on that spam email with the new trojan URL the ISP is the first person they'll call, "You guys said you would protect me from this stuff! I just lost all my files! I'm gonna sue!"
And the disturbing thing is that they might actually win! (For various reasons pertaining to contract law and provision of services which I'm not going to get into here).
So the safest thing for the ISP to do is stay the hell out of the way...
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I've already been burned by 3Com.
:(
Same here. Their switch quality has taken a dive the last couple years. They're put together with flimsy sheetmetal and no standoffs (sheetmetal screws!). They flex so bad we had new ones coming in with screws rattling around inside. We quit using them immedtately thereafter but while we still had some in stock we had to open every one of them to make sure everything was still connected properly. Not to mention how the PCB's flap in the breeze...
Yech. And 3Com used to be good stuff.
Parent is a Troll!
Cisco does not own 3Com and never has. (And probably never will if 3Com management has anything to say about it).
Since they offered $5000 for it? LOL
No kidding!
A top-notch embedded systems programmer can make $50-$100 an hour (salary vs contract).
That $5k is at best a week or two worth of work.
Not to mention whomever does it is going to need several thousand dollars worth of various blue-tooth enabled devices to test it with since, (like every other standard that's ever existed), many companies haven't implemented it quite perfectly.
We wouldn't have a parade in the streets, burn that country's flag, scream for blood like other country's do...
I assume you are referring to the Iraqi population's response after we invaded their country and sent it back to the stone age.
Post 9/11 (before Iraq) the general response from the Arab/Muslim community was actually quite sympathetic towards the US and virtually every Arab/Muslim political leader did condemn Bin Laden and co.
Even now, while it is true that the muslim communities in other countries have definitely cooled towards us you don't exactly see American flags being burned in India or Bangladesh or even Indonesia (three of the larger Muslim populations in the world).
I'm not saying whether invading Iraq was right or wrong but, now that you bring it up, it's a good example of the need to look at the context in which things occur.
Heck, we have our own skin-heads and KKK and other extremist groups who are generally reviled but I can guarantee you that if the US was reduced to razed earth and those same militant minorities managed to strike back in some way there would be a percentage of the population who would indeed be dancing in the streets.
[shrug] Timing is everything...
Islam in general has shown itself to be an evil religion lately.
So, by that logic, if I (an American citizen) went to another country and killed somebody, people in that country should assume that all Americans are murderers?
What if I were Catholic? Does that mean all Catholics are murderers as well?
Next time think for a moment before you make sweeping statements...
Block access to USB keys?
:)
I just wish they'd fix the existing security holes!
I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the various worms/viruses/etc. than I am about my users.
('Course I am slowly moving them to Linux so that kinda takes care of all of the above...
I may or may not be considered a Democrat and I fer damn sure am not voting for Bush but at the same time I don't think this guy has the right to go against the wishes of the majority (assuming they even win of course
That said I think the whole electoral process is a crock and half. I understand that it was put in place to "protect the rights of the states" but I don't see how a popular vote really detracts from that. Or am I completely missing something?
I dunno if it'll work for legal billing but I'm testing it out for my own technical services time-based billing and it seems okay so far. (YMMV, IANAL, ETC :)
I doubt a whole switch would ever need replacing, unless they had one hell of a storm, but the antennae can get pushed out of alignment and some of the more remote towers run off solar so the panels need to be kept cleaned, batteries replaced periodically and of course there's always cabling and whatnot that eventually succumb to the elements no matter how well weather-proofed they are...
This project sounds like a boon for nobody.
I know one of the guys who installed it. The network was actually put in place for the local municipal offices to connect up to each other. The residential access is secondary, but nonetheless is (obviously) being used to help defray the cost of implementation and maintenance - extreme weather conditions lead to a high replacement rate on some of the equipment.
this topic is a dupe from like.. last year or so
:)
A lot can change in a year.
Grey screen of death?
A Mac grey screen of death is usually (95% of the time) a hardware problem. Try swapping RAM first.
As for XP annoyances, as somebody else pointed out they just changed the BSOD to a reboot.
But what really gripes me about XP is how it quietly runs that stupid freakin' network auto-detection crap in the background for no freakin' reason and break the network connection!!
Having the wizard is fine, let people run it and it might even set things up correctly sometimes, but to run it silently for no reason is just asinine!
Grr, mumble, grump...
If you're running Windows 98 with no antivirus and you're posting a question like this on Ask Slashdot, then yes, you are a spam zombie...
:)
(Okay, mod me flamebait now, it was worth it!
How about putting a trickle charger on the "auxilary" car battery?
I'm not sure how the best way would be to implement that without causing conflict (ground loops, overvoltage etc) between the two systems but yeah, that might work.
Internet Explorer : FireFox, Safari, Camino, Opera
:)
Kazaa : Any of a dozen or so different P2P apps (Google for "OSX" and whatever P2P network you're trying to use)
Windows Media Player : Mplayer works just fine
Microsoft Office Version X : OpenOffice-X, Microsoft Office-X
zMUD : dunno (not a MUDder)
Games : dunno (not a gamer) but I've seen some sites dedicated to Mac gaming. Google is your friend...
Napster : iTunes (duh!
There are a number of conversion utilities/packages which I will let you Google for. :)
Otherwise just don't expect it to be like Windows.
And VersionTracker along with the Apple OSX download page will be your new friends...
What? How the hell can you recommmend it highly if you haven't even recieved it yet? LOSER!
:)
Maybe he knows someone who has one...
(LOSER!
..., you could risk damage to the circuitry which handles the switching...
:)
I'll weigh in with the voice of experience here.
Whether or not the switching ciruit fries depends on how much load you put on it. If you don't exceed the rated max capacity of the UPS it will be okay.
Unfortunately that's not enough to get you out of the woods because the first time the batteries discharge significantly the charging circuit will fry instead.
All that in mind, you might be able to get away with increasing the capacity by 10%-20% or so simply because that will likely be within design tolerances. YMMV, IANAEE etc
Yeah, but it was only a year or two between IE being...inseparable from the rest of the OS. And if that wasn't "comletely reworking the way their browser operates..."
Actually no, it wasn't a complete rework at all. They simply arbitrarily combined a couple of IE function libraries with some existing system libraries and proclaimed that the two were, therefor, inseparable.
The functions actually remained completely separate right down to having separate (development) source trees for quite some time.
If the source to those "new" system DLL's had been subpoenaed back in the day there'd have been plenty of smoking guns to show the courts...
is called -- "Getting Fired!!!"
Mod parent up!
That lockout tool is something parents install to get little kids to do their chores, not something for responsible adults. Egads...
... the letter scores are defined for just that language...
:)
Look, buddy, when I've 4 of the letter "A" I start talking Hawaiian damn fast!
[sound of Scrabble tiles]
What? Flocci's not a word!
Yeah it is.
Is not! Prove it!
It's the plural of floccus of course.
"Floccus of course", schmoccus a horse, I gotcher "floccus of course" right here!
Why yes, yes you do, right on the top of your pointy little head...
[sound of keys clicking]
Doh!
...make sure it is in your "agreed upon" dictionary...
:)
Words from any language are acceptable. Depending on who in my family is playing any given game can involve up to ten languages (more if you count things like Ye Olde English and Latin).
Gets kind of interesting at times!
...we exposed ourselves to liability lawsuits...So the company did not give users warnings..."
I have been curious if any ISPs have started providing DSL modems with built in firewalling preconfigured - but not saying anything about it.
Anybody out there see anything like this yet?
Actually the average broadband connection should be NATed by default from the ISP end.
ISPs' profit margins are razor thin as it is. This is an added configuration and support cost which does not directly add anything to the bottom line.
The logical argument would be that it should be a selling point but the fact is that the clueless people don't get it and the cluefull people already have firewalls.
Not to mention when the clueless person clicks on that spam email with the new trojan URL the ISP is the first person they'll call, "You guys said you would protect me from this stuff! I just lost all my files! I'm gonna sue!"
And the disturbing thing is that they might actually win! (For various reasons pertaining to contract law and provision of services which I'm not going to get into here).
So the safest thing for the ISP to do is stay the hell out of the way...