ATTENTION! Using your Mac with closed lid can lead to serious system heat problems!
Why should this be the case? Isn't perfectly reasonable to want to use your laptop while it is closed? Could it be that they sacrificed some functionality to avoid a non-sexy vent on the back?
In any case, I don't have this problem with my laptop running Windows 2000. Like a poster above said, I can make it do precisely what I want when I close the lid, or push the power button, or send it a sleep command. Requiring a hack to keep it on is... a hack. I'm stunned that OS X doesn't have this capability built in.
This isn't the case. Why would the bank wait until the charges exceeded $50? You're not responsible for any amount over that, so who do you think is? The credit card fairy?
I have to say, out of any type of business as a whole, I have gotten the best consistent customer service from the banks I have credit cards with. They bend over backwards to make you happy, because there is so much competition.
...what business does government have in framing public policy around a religious institution?
I disagree with your premise that marriage is strictly a religious institution. Marriage can also be a civil institution.
My wife and I had a non-religious ceremony performed by a non-denominational minister. According to your definition, we only have a union, not a marriage. Am I missing something?
Microsoft has gone out of it's way to do really stupid things that everyone else seems disinterested in doing.
Oh, come on. What you're implying is that Microsoft is guilty of malice, which is ridiculous.
They might be incompetent, but that hurts their bottom line. I'm sure you think they are greedy, right? So why would they go out of their way to do stupid things?
"Its growing complexity and the difficulty of removing the latest CoolWebSearch variants coupled with decreasing time available have culminated in the decision to stop updating CoolWebShredder."
Oh my lord, that CoolWebSearch is a tricky bastard. I tried to remove it from a friend's (non-paying-customer's) machine. I spent 3 hours, and did get it removed, but wound up hosing the quick-launch toolbar and something else I can't recall. I wound up doing exactly as you said: reinstall, patch, and link the IE icon to Firefox.
A "virus" has to be executed to do anything. Most any of Windows-based viruses/trojans/worms work by tricking the user into executing something embedded in some sort of container. It's unlikely, though I suppose possible, that the software a BMV uses would Word, Outlook, or IE as a backend.
Hmm. When I started writing this comment, I was pretty certain that you didn't raise a valid point. As I typed it, I realized that virus writers are pretty damn clever. So: good point!:-)
You completely missed the point. PCs that are done up like this are either modified by the owner to do this, or in certain instances done from the factory. The point is, if it comes like that from the factory, you CHOOSE to pay more for it. Apple doesn't let you choose. Cute heat sinks for everyone!
You like how they focused on the inside design? Please. Companies that mass-produce computers usually operate on a razor-thin profit margin. While spending extra money on external design *might* make sense, a special heatsink is just a waste of money, plain and simple. Oh wait, this is Apple, they can do no wrong, and people are happy to pay for it. So much for the razor-thin margin.
Just what I need, another line for a Mac zealot: "Does YOUR Pee Cee have a neat little logo on the heat sink?"
You haters can fuck off: I can buy 4 well-equipped Dells for what you pay for your machine with a cute heat sink.
Yet the/. article states that the spams in question comply with the requirement of having a removal link. What good is a removal link that says you're removed when really no such thing happened???
The requirement is that they have a link to opt out. There is a link to opt out. The page linked to doesn't actually allow you opt out, but that's a problem with the "rule", not this particular spammer!
I especially love the 'click here to enter more email addys to be removed'. I'll bet $20 that's just a harvesting technique.
I'll give you $20 on the condition that you start reading your email by telnetting into the POP server.
I think they look like serious competition for the iPod, even for Mac users.
What?!? This device has a completely different market segment than the iPod. Sure, it might cost about the same price as the highest-capacity one, but people interested in a video player wouldn't be looking at an iPod would they? On the other side, this thing is bigger, doesn't have the life-altering scroll wheel, nor the "look-at-me" white headphones.
I like Archos products, and think iPods are nice but overrated. However, in this case, neither will affect the other's sales.
The article didn't give much explanation about the drag-and-drop exploit itself. Understandably, given the audience, but I was curious. Here's a good link: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/13679
They shrug and download the ISO, pop it in their free machine and boot it up. They install it with ease, get a system running and are astounded at how much control they have over their system, and yet how easy it is to keep up and running: no rpm hell, no library fuckups and incongruities.
I know exactly what you mean! Isn't Slackware just great?
Not really evil, because the pictures don't really contain all that much. But still, if something like this happens, you should treat it like finding someone's credit card or driver's license. If you can find the owner, the owner would appreciate having it back. If you can't find the owner, laugh with your friends if you want, but don't post it.
You must work somewhere that doesn't have any real idea of security. On my Linux desktop at work, I can do all of the things you mention. But I'm a sysadmin, and I have justification for it. The "normal" Windows users here have PCs that are very locked down. Locked cases, BIOS password, no booting off of external media, no installation of burning software.
Your main idea is right on, though: if someone wants to steal data, they're going to find a way pretty easily.
Just a note, Tabbrowser Extensions has to have the latest version to work. I had an upgrade.
Also, the reason I upgraded in the first place was because 0.9 was slow as hell opening and closing tabs. I finally figured out that it was the "undo close tab" feature in TBE causing it. Lowering the undo cache all but eliminated the problem. It's configurable, but still, a default setting that brings things to a crawl kind of sucks.
It's transferring a file. From an RSS feed to another folder (iPod). It downloads the RSS file (WOW!), extracts the content (Double WOW!), and moves it. Pure genius.
Anything with iPod in the description apparently bypasses the submission queue.
I missed the original story, but if had a chance, I would have asked: "Are there any plans to change your software so it doesn't riddle my Windows PC with a desktop shortcut, a quick launch icon, a start menu icon, a system tray icon, and countless other invasive annoyances?"
Is it just me, or does everyone else have like 50% failure rate on floppies? I'm not talking about abused ones, I'm talking about ones I keep in a case on my desk. They just... suck. With how common broadband is now, and with USB drives and bootable CDs, there's just no reason to use them anymore. Good riddance.
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Why should this be the case? Isn't perfectly reasonable to want to use your laptop while it is closed? Could it be that they sacrificed some functionality to avoid a non-sexy vent on the back?
In any case, I don't have this problem with my laptop running Windows 2000. Like a poster above said, I can make it do precisely what I want when I close the lid, or push the power button, or send it a sleep command. Requiring a hack to keep it on is... a hack. I'm stunned that OS X doesn't have this capability built in.
So to summarize:
Red Hat provides a perfectly acceptable way to do things. It makes some of the details confusing on the backend, but if you use RHN, it works fine.
You decide to try to circumvent it, and complain that it's a pain. What do you expect?
You need to either a) look into their Proxy or Satellite Architecture available with the management module of RHEL 2.1 AS, or b) find a new distro.
Please tell me this *isn't* the case
This isn't the case. Why would the bank wait until the charges exceeded $50? You're not responsible for any amount over that, so who do you think is? The credit card fairy?
I have to say, out of any type of business as a whole, I have gotten the best consistent customer service from the banks I have credit cards with. They bend over backwards to make you happy, because there is so much competition.
I disagree with your premise that marriage is strictly a religious institution. Marriage can also be a civil institution.
My wife and I had a non-religious ceremony performed by a non-denominational minister. According to your definition, we only have a union, not a marriage. Am I missing something?
This reminds me of someone who once said something like.. 'who needs more than 640K of memory?'
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By "remind" you, do you mean it makes you think of something that's a wives tale and never happened?
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,1484,00.ht
How bout:
;-)
"Boy, those kernel oops messages sure will be hard to read on such a small screen!"
Okay, the high pixel density is neat and all, but can anyone name an application that would need a small screen with such high resolution.
If they "slightly" expanded it, though, you'd have a ~22 inch LCD with 6400x4800. Finally, a use for those high-end video cards with tons of memory!
Microsoft has gone out of it's way to do really stupid things that everyone else seems disinterested in doing.
Oh, come on. What you're implying is that Microsoft is guilty of malice, which is ridiculous.
They might be incompetent, but that hurts their bottom line. I'm sure you think they are greedy, right? So why would they go out of their way to do stupid things?
"Its growing complexity and the difficulty of removing the latest CoolWebSearch variants coupled with decreasing time available have culminated in the decision to stop updating CoolWebShredder."
Oh my lord, that CoolWebSearch is a tricky bastard. I tried to remove it from a friend's (non-paying-customer's) machine. I spent 3 hours, and did get it removed, but wound up hosing the quick-launch toolbar and something else I can't recall. I wound up doing exactly as you said: reinstall, patch, and link the IE icon to Firefox.
A "virus" has to be executed to do anything. Most any of Windows-based viruses/trojans/worms work by tricking the user into executing something embedded in some sort of container. It's unlikely, though I suppose possible, that the software a BMV uses would Word, Outlook, or IE as a backend.
:-)
Hmm. When I started writing this comment, I was pretty certain that you didn't raise a valid point. As I typed it, I realized that virus writers are pretty damn clever. So: good point!
There's a very easy way to prevent them from surfing the web with Linux: have all the computers be laptops with Centrino chips in them!
It's funny, laugh.
You completely missed the point. PCs that are done up like this are either modified by the owner to do this, or in certain instances done from the factory. The point is, if it comes like that from the factory, you CHOOSE to pay more for it. Apple doesn't let you choose. Cute heat sinks for everyone!
You like how they focused on the inside design? Please. Companies that mass-produce computers usually operate on a razor-thin profit margin. While spending extra money on external design *might* make sense, a special heatsink is just a waste of money, plain and simple. Oh wait, this is Apple, they can do no wrong, and people are happy to pay for it. So much for the razor-thin margin.
Just what I need, another line for a Mac zealot: "Does YOUR Pee Cee have a neat little logo on the heat sink?"
You haters can fuck off: I can buy 4 well-equipped Dells for what you pay for your machine with a cute heat sink.
Wow. Just... wow.
/. article states that the spams in question comply with the requirement of having a removal link. What good is a removal link that says you're removed when really no such thing happened???
Yet the
The requirement is that they have a link to opt out. There is a link to opt out. The page linked to doesn't actually allow you opt out, but that's a problem with the "rule", not this particular spammer!
I especially love the 'click here to enter more email addys to be removed'. I'll bet $20 that's just a harvesting technique.
I'll give you $20 on the condition that you start reading your email by telnetting into the POP server.
I think they look like serious competition for the iPod, even for Mac users.
What?!? This device has a completely different market segment than the iPod. Sure, it might cost about the same price as the highest-capacity one, but people interested in a video player wouldn't be looking at an iPod would they? On the other side, this thing is bigger, doesn't have the life-altering scroll wheel, nor the "look-at-me" white headphones.
I like Archos products, and think iPods are nice but overrated. However, in this case, neither will affect the other's sales.
The article didn't give much explanation about the drag-and-drop exploit itself. Understandably, given the audience, but I was curious. Here's a good link: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/13679
They shrug and download the ISO, pop it in their free machine and boot it up. They install it with ease, get a system running and are astounded at how much control they have over their system, and yet how easy it is to keep up and running: no rpm hell, no library fuckups and incongruities.
I know exactly what you mean! Isn't Slackware just great ?
Not really evil, because the pictures don't really contain all that much. But still, if something like this happens, you should treat it like finding someone's credit card or driver's license. If you can find the owner, the owner would appreciate having it back. If you can't find the owner, laugh with your friends if you want, but don't post it.
Have you tried to take a picture at a concert with your camera phone? Looks like shit. Not even worth your time.
Of course, in time this will change. A friend that works at Radio Shack had a woman come in from India, I think, that had a phone with a 4MP camera.
You must work somewhere that doesn't have any real idea of security. On my Linux desktop at work, I can do all of the things you mention. But I'm a sysadmin, and I have justification for it. The "normal" Windows users here have PCs that are very locked down. Locked cases, BIOS password, no booting off of external media, no installation of burning software.
Your main idea is right on, though: if someone wants to steal data, they're going to find a way pretty easily.
Just a note, Tabbrowser Extensions has to have the latest version to work. I had an upgrade.
Also, the reason I upgraded in the first place was because 0.9 was slow as hell opening and closing tabs. I finally figured out that it was the "undo close tab" feature in TBE causing it. Lowering the undo cache all but eliminated the problem. It's configurable, but still, a default setting that brings things to a crawl kind of sucks.
It's transferring a file. From an RSS feed to another folder (iPod). It downloads the RSS file (WOW!), extracts the content (Double WOW!), and moves it. Pure genius.
Anything with iPod in the description apparently bypasses the submission queue.
I just modded this post off-topic for you. You're welcome!
I missed the original story, but if had a chance, I would have asked: "Are there any plans to change your software so it doesn't riddle my Windows PC with a desktop shortcut, a quick launch icon, a start menu icon, a system tray icon, and countless other invasive annoyances?"
Is it just me, or does everyone else have like 50% failure rate on floppies? I'm not talking about abused ones, I'm talking about ones I keep in a case on my desk. They just... suck. With how common broadband is now, and with USB drives and bootable CDs, there's just no reason to use them anymore. Good riddance.