It seems like everything in the US takes forever to accomplish. Everything changed when the internet came to be. We can do things now in seconds that used to take days. The governing system needs to learn a thing or two from this. However, Canada gave up the dollar bill a long long time ago, and soon we're getting rid of the penny. It seems more and more like we're the real leaders in North America now.
We've also had metric for 30 years, though even that is basterdized because butter is sold in 454g packages and meat and produce is advertised in per pound prices, while measured and sold in per kg prices. Gas is sold in litres, odometers measure kilometres, yet a lot of people still talk about fuel economy in Imperial-MPG (not to be confused with US MPG which is 84.4% the size).
I would go with 3x25+5+3x1, don't even have to think about it.
Luckily in Canada we're officially getting rid of the penny. At the cafeteria at work they stopped giving out pennies years ago. So I see 0.83 and think 3x75+10
With my experience traveling, when coin denominations are different than what you're used to, it can really throw you off.
most organizations of our size suffer from the "Battlestar 78" problem. Our IT environment can only move forward as fast as the slowest mission-critical legacy app. When your biz ops/reg compliance/contractual obligs depend on a niche application that is not yet certified for IE 8,
We've actually migrated most of our IE6 applications to versions that run in Firefox (and Firefox is now supported by IT), we've upgraded from Office XP (2002) to Office 2010. Now our REAL legacy stuff all runs on PDP-11 and VMS-Alpha, and we can still access terminals to that stuff on any OS...
As a power user, using desktop only and completely disregarding Metro (using Classic shell for a start menu, and to boot straight to desktop), it actually is a very nice OS. I also enabled legacy mode in the boot menu so it doesn't entirely load Win8 before giving me the option of loading Win7, and so I have access to safe mode F8 menu. Apparently they got rid of last known good as well.
Right click start menu/ Win+X is a nice menu.
It's a nice OS, just the force fed metro/touch interface is the problem.
Actually, back in the day, those weird mac keyboards were a titanic pain in the ass for me. I clock in at ~130 WPM on my home machine, and given about two minutes to 'adjust', I'll be reliably hitting 100 WPM on any keyboard I touch.
These macs were in a computer lab where my best friend did his college work-study program, so I'd often go there to hang out and do my own homework. And if I got stuck on the macs (Which I avoided), well, I typed on the mac.
In two years, I never broke 50 WPM on those machines, using them a few times a week. Compared to "three minutes" to hit WPM on any other machine. 'course, Apple doesn't make those crappy keyboards anymore (They were curved instead of slanted), but, felt like throwing an old story in. Everyone hated those keyboards.
I remember the crappy hockey puck mice, but I don't know what the crappy keyboards you're talking about are.
Yes a nuke and reload is always best. However given the lack of included installation media (though you can create restore discs, those include the junk, and most users are incapable of even getting that far), it isn't that hard, but it's out of reach of a lot of amateurs, and it still proves the system, and the experience is broken.
Interestingly, I see reports of users with Windows 8 OEM computers that are having a bitch of a time getting Windows 8 to reinstall off plain Windows 8 discs.
In those two cases you still have to interrupt what you're doing and essentially answer the phone. Ask your SO how well that would go over while you're being laid. With an Answering Machine it will automatically play it through the house.
Because clearly I use must use the same Nick everywhere. I'm exaggerating as I don't even submit bug reports, but I have seen the sentiment "Fix it yourself" expressed before.
In reality I'm fairly pragmatic. For some things Windows is better (total available applications, and total supported hardware, backwards/forward compatibility), for other things Linux is better (initial support of hardware off the install disc, capability of live disc, capability to work on bare metal, cost). On the mobile side I have an iOS iPod Touch, and a Samsung Android phone. Both have their pros and cons (iOS is slicker and easier, Android allows for more powerful, closer to the bare metal apps, access to file system, etc.)
Here's a slashdot post where I talk about using a Ubuntu live CD to do data recovery off of a Windows partition. It worked fantastic, and I haven't come across free (beer) Windows tools that worked that well, though it was very cludgy on the implementation side. I could work my way through no problem as I'm not afraid of CLI, but a novice couldn't. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3189327&cid=41675725
I believe open source works better though, I've never seen that someone reported a security bug was delayed for months on end.
On big products with big Teams (Firefox, Libre/OpenOffice, GNOME, etc) probably. But there's a LOT of F/OSS that's a one man show. Those are probably slower to update.
are realtime scanners that are decent. ClamWin doesn't have one last time I checked, and effectiveness wasn't that great to begin with
Though third party validated effectiveness of MSE seems to vary month to month (one month it's top tier, next month it's the bottom) http://www.av-comparatives.org/ I prefer installing MSE on people's computers because it's hands-off to keep it updated where after a year or so Avast or AVG will bug and nag for an upgrade, and there's a higher chance of running unprotected.
In one case with Avira, on a machine it was over a year out of date, yet the umbrella was sitting there in the tray happily deployed without even a nag!
I did see someone bring up a good point that a lot of fake-antivirus popups are designed to "look" like MSE.
I have seen this before -- good word, IF you are using old-fashioned mechanical drives. S.M.A.R.T has a couple of things about it -- I have heard that sometimes it tends to fib -- manufacturers do not want people to think that their drives are bad. The other big thing is that S.M.A.R.T. was invented BEFORE SSD drives became commercially viable.
I had a bad mechanical disk that started stalling and getting read errors and OS failed to boot. SMART percentages reported the drive fully healthy, only looking at the raw data values could I see that there were remapped sectors, etc. This is the data needs to be scrutinized for any changes.
It does one pass to get all the error free sectors first, then it will go back and retry on the sectors with errors. Then I opened the image in Test Disk to get my data.
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It seems like everything in the US takes forever to accomplish. Everything changed when the internet came to be. We can do things now in seconds that used to take days. The governing system needs to learn a thing or two from this.
However, Canada gave up the dollar bill a long long time ago, and soon we're getting rid of the penny. It seems more and more like we're the real leaders in North America now.
We've also had metric for 30 years, though even that is basterdized because butter is sold in 454g packages and meat and produce is advertised in per pound prices, while measured and sold in per kg prices. Gas is sold in litres, odometers measure kilometres, yet a lot of people still talk about fuel economy in Imperial-MPG (not to be confused with US MPG which is 84.4% the size).
I would go with 3x25+5+3x1, don't even have to think about it.
Luckily in Canada we're officially getting rid of the penny. At the cafeteria at work they stopped giving out pennies years ago. So I see 0.83 and think 3x75+10
With my experience traveling, when coin denominations are different than what you're used to, it can really throw you off.
most organizations of our size suffer from the "Battlestar 78" problem. Our IT environment can only move forward as fast as the slowest mission-critical legacy app. When your biz ops/reg compliance/contractual obligs depend on a niche application that is not yet certified for IE 8,
We've actually migrated most of our IE6 applications to versions that run in Firefox (and Firefox is now supported by IT), we've upgraded from Office XP (2002) to Office 2010. Now our REAL legacy stuff all runs on PDP-11 and VMS-Alpha, and we can still access terminals to that stuff on any OS...
As a power user, using desktop only and completely disregarding Metro (using Classic shell for a start menu, and to boot straight to desktop), it actually is a very nice OS. I also enabled legacy mode in the boot menu so it doesn't entirely load Win8 before giving me the option of loading Win7, and so I have access to safe mode F8 menu. Apparently they got rid of last known good as well.
Right click start menu/ Win+X is a nice menu.
It's a nice OS, just the force fed metro/touch interface is the problem.
Actually, back in the day, those weird mac keyboards were a titanic pain in the ass for me. I clock in at ~130 WPM on my home machine, and given about two minutes to 'adjust', I'll be reliably hitting 100 WPM on any keyboard I touch.
These macs were in a computer lab where my best friend did his college work-study program, so I'd often go there to hang out and do my own homework. And if I got stuck on the macs (Which I avoided), well, I typed on the mac.
In two years, I never broke 50 WPM on those machines, using them a few times a week. Compared to "three minutes" to hit WPM on any other machine. 'course, Apple doesn't make those crappy keyboards anymore (They were curved instead of slanted), but, felt like throwing an old story in. Everyone hated those keyboards.
I remember the crappy hockey puck mice, but I don't know what the crappy keyboards you're talking about are.
This is an example of one of the reports:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/39046-Windows-8-OEM-Issue
Geez, there was an article about that not that long ago
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/11/18/1421204/microsoft-complains-that-webkit-breaks-web-standards
Yes a nuke and reload is always best. However given the lack of included installation media (though you can create restore discs, those include the junk, and most users are incapable of even getting that far), it isn't that hard, but it's out of reach of a lot of amateurs, and it still proves the system, and the experience is broken.
Interestingly, I see reports of users with Windows 8 OEM computers that are having a bitch of a time getting Windows 8 to reinstall off plain Windows 8 discs.
Classic shell is a lot free-er
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Soft start or VFD
Only .docm, and for excel .xlsm files can contain macros, .docx and .xlsx don't.
In those two cases you still have to interrupt what you're doing and essentially answer the phone. Ask your SO how well that would go over while you're being laid. With an Answering Machine it will automatically play it through the house.
And you can't use voicemail to live screen the call as they leave a message to see if you want to interrupt and answer.
I believe these are called "laptops" or "notebooks", they also outsell standard Desktops in the PC market.
I believe you're talking about PageDefrag
Muphry's Law
Electronic Stability Control already does it on those surfaces.
Because clearly I use must use the same Nick everywhere. I'm exaggerating as I don't even submit bug reports, but I have seen the sentiment "Fix it yourself" expressed before.
In reality I'm fairly pragmatic. For some things Windows is better (total available applications, and total supported hardware, backwards/forward compatibility), for other things Linux is better (initial support of hardware off the install disc, capability of live disc, capability to work on bare metal, cost). On the mobile side I have an iOS iPod Touch, and a Samsung Android phone. Both have their pros and cons (iOS is slicker and easier, Android allows for more powerful, closer to the bare metal apps, access to file system, etc.)
Here's a slashdot post where I talk about using a Ubuntu live CD to do data recovery off of a Windows partition. It worked fantastic, and I haven't come across free (beer) Windows tools that worked that well, though it was very cludgy on the implementation side. I could work my way through no problem as I'm not afraid of CLI, but a novice couldn't. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3189327&cid=41675725
I believe open source works better though, I've never seen that someone reported a security bug was delayed for months on end.
On big products with big Teams (Firefox, Libre/OpenOffice, GNOME, etc) probably. But there's a LOT of F/OSS that's a one man show. Those are probably slower to update.
-Microsoft's MSE
-Avira
-Avast
-AVG
are realtime scanners that are decent. ClamWin doesn't have one last time I checked, and effectiveness wasn't that great to begin with
Though third party validated effectiveness of MSE seems to vary month to month (one month it's top tier, next month it's the bottom) http://www.av-comparatives.org/ I prefer installing MSE on people's computers because it's hands-off to keep it updated where after a year or so Avast or AVG will bug and nag for an upgrade, and there's a higher chance of running unprotected.
In one case with Avira, on a machine it was over a year out of date, yet the umbrella was sitting there in the tray happily deployed without even a nag!
I did see someone bring up a good point that a lot of fake-antivirus popups are designed to "look" like MSE.
Some people seem to complain that Canonical doesn't contribute enough to the kernel http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Canonical-Contributing-Too-Little-to-Kernel-Development . Which I don't understand. They are not obliged to contribute to the kernel, and they instead focus on areas they feel need improvement: Ease of use, Desktop experience, UI, (Unity not withstanding.)
Well that's the response I get with bug reports.
In that case there's no excuse because you can fix it yourself.
I have seen this before -- good word, IF you are using old-fashioned mechanical drives. S.M.A.R.T has a couple of things about it -- I have heard that sometimes it tends to fib -- manufacturers do not want people to think that their drives are bad. The other big thing is that S.M.A.R.T. was invented BEFORE SSD drives became commercially viable.
I had a bad mechanical disk that started stalling and getting read errors and OS failed to boot. SMART percentages reported the drive fully healthy, only looking at the raw data values could I see that there were remapped sectors, etc. This is the data needs to be scrutinized for any changes.
For the interest of anyone, I booted from a ubuntu CD and used this method to image the disk:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Imaging_a_damaged_device.2C_filesystem_or_drive
It does one pass to get all the error free sectors first, then it will go back and retry on the sectors with errors. Then I opened the image in Test Disk to get my data.
I initially thought this said "The tech fell behind". As in Youtube collapsing in the middle.