I have a Windows XP machine on a KVM switch, so that's an option, but it's not one I like.
I know about Ximian Connector, and it's something I'm pushing for. But I can't just go buy it and install it, so it's going to take a while. I'm a new employee at a medium-sized organization that has a large base of Windows users, and also a large base of Solaris users that use the powerful combination of dtmail and dtcalendar. Talk about a nightmare.
You don't use Outlook at work? I didn't know they had PCs at White Castle.
First, you're full of shit, you can buy Outlook 2003 by itself. Second, Outlook is more than an email client. Real people have to manage their schedules and integrate with co-workers. I'm on a Linux desktop right now at work, and the one single app I miss is Outlook. It sucks not being able to arrange meetings, add appointments easily, and check other people's schedules. It also sucks to not have the directory available (though I realize there are other solutions to this).
Outlook fills a very important role. I'm not saying it can't be replaced, but the functionality is vital to some organizations. Ximian obviously thinks so, too. Evolution is the only competitor to even come close.
How do you purchase the gift certificates? With a credit card? My point was that the Napster cards can be purchased with cash in convenient locations... like when a kid is purchasing cigarettes illegally at a conveniense store.
I'm not that familiar with iTunes, but don't you have to have a credit card or PayPal account to use it? One nice thing about Napster's service is that a 14-year-old can easily use the service without mom's credit card. I see the Napster "gift card" things *everywhere* now, even at gas stations and the like.
This is a true story, though I don't have a way of proving it. The story appeared in the independent newspaper, but the police blotter is not archived, and I don't know if it was in there anyway.
And you're right, they did have limited jurisdiction in certain circumstances. And to respone to someone above, these were not rent-a-cops. They were a real, bonified, university police department.
This was a remote area, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio to be specific. Cable modem was not going to happen, so one of the local ISPs pushed VERY hard to get DSL rolled out quickly.
And on second thought, you're right, I did have the time frame off by quite a bit. It was fall of 2000, so more like 3 years ago.
He wound up appearing in front of the judicial committee, got suspended for the remainder of the quarter, and was on behavioral probation for the remainder of the year. The police department did not pursue any charges.
This doesn't really make sense. Yes, the whole reason for a laptop is for a person to be mobile. But it's not like a person needs to bring their laptop from their desk to the shitter. It's more like needing to bring it from their laptop to their house, or to the airport, or to the hotel room. Most circumstances don't dictate constant supervision.
I have a security cable that works great for when I'm in hotel rooms and the like. Enough for me.
I went to a university that installed PCs in each dorm room. This was 6-8 years ago, so maybe it's more common now, but at the time it was pretty revolutionary and cool. Anyway, a friend-of-a-friend brought his own PC to school and decided he didn't want the university's PC cluttering up his room. So he unhooked it and took it to another friend's place, off campus (not with the intention to steal, just relocate for the year). This other friend had DSL. 15 minutes after putting it on the DSL connection, tne university police department was at the door.
In theory, I know why this could happen, and actually thought it was pretty funny because it was a stupid thing to do. But obviously, there was some sort of "call home" software. Anyone know for sure?
First things first, google: Change your technology to get rid of all those fucking domains-with-all-the-words-youre-looking-for-or-il l-find-another-search-engine.
That's pretty idealistic of you. Yes, it's a contract, but what are you going to do, take them to court?
I had an ongoing dispute with Sprint PCS about one of their CSRs signing me up for a new plan and lying about what was included. I cancelled, and had a $200+ balance for a couple months. I wrote letters, made phone calls, all to no avail. They just kept sending me the bill.
It sucks when you're one little consumer against a huge company. All you can do is deny them one customer. They, on the other hand, can lie to you and ding your credit record unless you pay up. Which I did, because it wasn't worth it. But I use every chance I have to talk bad about them, which is the reason for my rant here.
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What you say is true, but are you always certain of the competency of the person who is working on it? The number of times I've had something simple fucked up made me worry enough to start doing all but the most difficult maintenance myself.
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I cant die if I screw up my Tivo
Sure you can. Have you seen the unshielded power supply?
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warn of burning out your engine with bad code, and voiding your warranty
Car manufacturers can be such bullies sometimes. Luckily, there are things such as the Magnusson Moss Warranty Act to help protect consumers.
Sometimes the best answer is the most obvious. Depending how "far" you are into your relationship, give him a hand/blow/rim job he won't forget. Spend the $100 on yourself. Problem solved.
Even if that is the case, it is easily countered as well. All the pr0n folks would have to do is cache and then serve a local copy of the image rather than forwarding on the URL.
I'm a little late to this game, but I thought I'd answer anyway:
the formula isn't exactly posted on the company's website so how people manage to figure out the formula is beyond me
You can open any program in a debugger that will let you step through the machine instructions for the program in question. You can run it piece by piece, stopping where you want to... say, for instance, where a program is asking for a CD key. By examining what the program does with the input (e.g. checking if a+b+c+d=30), you can sometimes reverse-engineer the functionality.
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Which is a problem, not a feature. "Do one thing and do it well."
:-)
Good point, but for collaboration, there has to be some sort of communication method. Email works well for this.
I have always maintained that if you need software to schedule meetings, you are spending entirely too much time in meetings.
I did see the smiley, so I'll assuming you mean that in a cute Dilbert sort of way.
I have a Windows XP machine on a KVM switch, so that's an option, but it's not one I like.
I know about Ximian Connector, and it's something I'm pushing for. But I can't just go buy it and install it, so it's going to take a while. I'm a new employee at a medium-sized organization that has a large base of Windows users, and also a large base of Solaris users that use the powerful combination of dtmail and dtcalendar. Talk about a nightmare.
You don't use Outlook at work? I didn't know they had PCs at White Castle.
First, you're full of shit, you can buy Outlook 2003 by itself. Second, Outlook is more than an email client. Real people have to manage their schedules and integrate with co-workers. I'm on a Linux desktop right now at work, and the one single app I miss is Outlook. It sucks not being able to arrange meetings, add appointments easily, and check other people's schedules. It also sucks to not have the directory available (though I realize there are other solutions to this).
Outlook fills a very important role. I'm not saying it can't be replaced, but the functionality is vital to some organizations. Ximian obviously thinks so, too. Evolution is the only competitor to even come close.
How do you purchase the gift certificates? With a credit card? My point was that the Napster cards can be purchased with cash in convenient locations... like when a kid is purchasing cigarettes illegally at a conveniense store.
I'm not that familiar with iTunes, but don't you have to have a credit card or PayPal account to use it? One nice thing about Napster's service is that a 14-year-old can easily use the service without mom's credit card. I see the Napster "gift card" things *everywhere* now, even at gas stations and the like.
This is a true story, though I don't have a way of proving it. The story appeared in the independent newspaper, but the police blotter is not archived, and I don't know if it was in there anyway.
And you're right, they did have limited jurisdiction in certain circumstances. And to respone to someone above, these were not rent-a-cops. They were a real, bonified, university police department.
This was a remote area, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio to be specific. Cable modem was not going to happen, so one of the local ISPs pushed VERY hard to get DSL rolled out quickly.
:-)
And on second thought, you're right, I did have the time frame off by quite a bit. It was fall of 2000, so more like 3 years ago.
Lesson learned: Post first, drink afterwards.
He wound up appearing in front of the judicial committee, got suspended for the remainder of the quarter, and was on behavioral probation for the remainder of the year. The police department did not pursue any charges.
This doesn't really make sense. Yes, the whole reason for a laptop is for a person to be mobile. But it's not like a person needs to bring their laptop from their desk to the shitter. It's more like needing to bring it from their laptop to their house, or to the airport, or to the hotel room. Most circumstances don't dictate constant supervision.
I have a security cable that works great for when I'm in hotel rooms and the like. Enough for me.
I went to a university that installed PCs in each dorm room. This was 6-8 years ago, so maybe it's more common now, but at the time it was pretty revolutionary and cool. Anyway, a friend-of-a-friend brought his own PC to school and decided he didn't want the university's PC cluttering up his room. So he unhooked it and took it to another friend's place, off campus (not with the intention to steal, just relocate for the year). This other friend had DSL. 15 minutes after putting it on the DSL connection, tne university police department was at the door.
In theory, I know why this could happen, and actually thought it was pretty funny because it was a stupid thing to do. But obviously, there was some sort of "call home" software. Anyone know for sure?
First things first, google: Change your technology to get rid of all those fucking domains-with-all-the-words-youre-looking-for-or-il l-find-another-search-engine.
Looking at the pictures, the old GUI is hardly "gone". It's changed a little bit, and they've added docking capability. Great.
Great tool, but the GUI makes it difficult to find things, IMO. I was hoping for something more from a "new" GUI.
You do realize that if you stop focusing on the trees, you'll eventually realize that you're in the middle of a forest, right?
Only 512K of cache? No thanks. I'll stick with my Centrino with 1MB. I try and try, and just can't kill the battery in it.
Now if the bastards at Intel would just release the fucking wireless driver for Linux already, I'd be a happy camper.
That's pretty idealistic of you. Yes, it's a contract, but what are you going to do, take them to court?
I had an ongoing dispute with Sprint PCS about one of their CSRs signing me up for a new plan and lying about what was included. I cancelled, and had a $200+ balance for a couple months. I wrote letters, made phone calls, all to no avail. They just kept sending me the bill.
It sucks when you're one little consumer against a huge company. All you can do is deny them one customer. They, on the other hand, can lie to you and ding your credit record unless you pay up. Which I did, because it wasn't worth it. But I use every chance I have to talk bad about them, which is the reason for my rant here.
What you say is true, but are you always certain of the competency of the person who is working on it? The number of times I've had something simple fucked up made me worry enough to start doing all but the most difficult maintenance myself.
I cant die if I screw up my Tivo
Sure you can. Have you seen the unshielded power supply?
warn of burning out your engine with bad code, and voiding your warranty
Car manufacturers can be such bullies sometimes. Luckily, there are things such as the Magnusson Moss Warranty Act to help protect consumers.
Best. Show. Ever. Period.
Sometimes the best answer is the most obvious. Depending how "far" you are into your relationship, give him a hand/blow/rim job he won't forget. Spend the $100 on yourself. Problem solved.
That would be nice, except google would probably send an order to cease and desist using the icon...
Even if that is the case, it is easily countered as well. All the pr0n folks would have to do is cache and then serve a local copy of the image rather than forwarding on the URL.
Didn't you get the memo that Howard Stern is washed up, and has an unfunny, scripted show that hasn't been good in years?
I'm a little late to this game, but I thought I'd answer anyway:
the formula isn't exactly posted on the company's website so how people manage to figure out the formula is beyond me
You can open any program in a debugger that will let you step through the machine instructions for the program in question. You can run it piece by piece, stopping where you want to... say, for instance, where a program is asking for a CD key. By examining what the program does with the input (e.g. checking if a+b+c+d=30), you can sometimes reverse-engineer the functionality.
Interesting. Could have fooled me.
FWIW, you are whack. Not good.