Completely portable, viewable from any IE browser on any Windows OS running on any 32-bit Intel processor that has mute, pigmented spokesperson with big eyes and a high pain threshold, decked out with an Intellimouse Explorer w/Intellieye and MS Natural Internet-Ready Keyboard.
You left out, "Everything you do will be faster, and more fun!"
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Re:Sometimes I hate being a geek around Xmas
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Still, I think the greatest gift I get every year is socks. I have one friend who buys me that every year because I annihalte them all by July and then walk around in flip-flops or sandals for the rest of the year claiming that I'm boycotting them.
How familiar is that? I used to do the same thing, but then I got married, and my wife bought me a pair of socks for EACH DAY OF THE WEEK! And she washes them after I wear them for a day! Who woulda thunk it?
Sources close to SV.COM were reporting that Bill Gates home wasn't left out of the article due to a vendetta, or refusal of the billionaire to play nice, but rather because the reporter couldn't make heads or tails of 273 40" monitors all displaying a medium blue background covered with cryptic messages in white text. Since Gates couldn't give a definite time frame for the the so-called "BSOD" to be fixed, the Gates home was not covered.
We are running a Sony SDX-300D AIT-1 drive. It has worked fairly well for us, though it needs cleaning before it will tell you. The performance is limited by our software situation (Backup Exec on NT), but is still well above the acceptable line. Backing up Win9x, WinNT/2000, Linux, MSSQL and Exchange live, we get an average of 100+ MB per minute. It's enough for us, anyway. It's SCSI, so there should be no problem hanging it off a *NIX-alike box.
I was singling out the topic of the thread and discussion, MS Exchange Server. God knows there are a lot of vendors who feel that documentation is passe, and I was in no way trying to come off saying that MS is the only perpetrator of this shameful behavior. It did not come with printed docs, nor did it come with them in electronic format. The only way to get in-depth docs was to pay extra for them. To give MS credit where it is due, they do include enough to get you up and running with a rudimentary setup, but an in-depth look at the expensive groupware server we just paid a good chunk of our IT budget for doesn't seem like it would be to much to ask for. All we got was the "Getting Started with......." booklet, and a piss-poor "Books Online" implementation. The order form in the box that strongly hinted that we had to order the manuals in order to get a good implementation was just rude. Why do they need to gouge you for the manuals to the package you just paid to use? Put them on the CD in some decent format, and let me read them or print them as needed!
Geez. RTFM!
Exchange/Outlook addresses all the things you specify.
Yes, for only $75 more, plus shipping, to get the Exchange Server manuals rather than the "Getting Started with" booklet. The only FM that came with our Exchange Server was that mostly useless booklet. Of course people are going to think there isn't much to the manual when the manual isn't included.
Show how a dual proccessor PC would be slower than a single proccessor PC by showing a sumo wrestler carrying another sumo wrestler in a footrace against an unencumbered sumo wrestler?
Various sculptures from different cultures that lived about 4.000 to 5.000 years ago in SOUTH AMERICA portray bearded people and black people. How did they get there? South Americans are genetically unable to have such beard-growth and arn't black either
Probably from TV. They had television in South America 4-5 years ago, didn't they?
This is what I have been doing for the last year or so. It's a bit of a pain to keep both DHCP and DNS updated, but it's wonderful if I have to change a gateway or other global variable. With DHCP you can just push it on down with the next lease request. Just don't set the leases for too long;)
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Re:The problems are...
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Good idea. Have the token spit out of the machine in some fashion, though. A power surge that kills the machine and wipes the hard/floppy drive could probably wipe a smartcard too, if stored in the affected machine. Have it turned in to poll watchers the same as the paper ballot is, so it can be as much a "manual ballot" as possible. Maybe combine that with some kind of printer. Card printer, tape printer, laser, dot-matrix? Spread the ballot copies onto as many varieties of media as possible, without truly wasting money. This IS one of the most important activities in the US, so a bit of expense is justified though.
Hmmm, interesting. Judging from the picture on CNN.com, it's hard to tell. The bottom edge is cut off. I can make out 20 punch-outs, which would not be enough to get all candidates on the same page. They would need 21 punch-outs for the 11 teams. If voters had to turn the page to see the rest we'd be hearing a similar outcry about confusing ballot books. Does anybody have a better picture than CNN?
Confusing how? Did the instructions at the ballot tell them to count down the names on the left, then count down the punch-outs? From the looks of it, if the ballot had all the candidates names to the left of the punch-outs, they would have had to use very small print, and people would have had a hard time reading it at all. Personally, I found it to be unusual (we have the big boxes with levers here. Flip the little lever by each candidate you wish to vote for, then throw the big lever when done.), but pretty easy to understand. Find the candidate you want, then punch the hole next to him/her, as indicated by the arrow.
Someone else has already mentioned it, but "noticing it later, after talking with friends, etc. about the election," means it is too late. By placing the ballot in the "box", the voter is stating that, "This is my vote, checked and rechecked for accuracy. These are my choices, which I have no ambiguity about, having checked and fully understood the voting methods and procedures." Quotes and interpretation mine. This is one reason there are pollsters manning the polls, to answer questions and explain the process to those who need it. They are also required to provide a replacement ballot if the one the voter is using is damaged, ie via a mistake. However, they can't open the "box" and retrieve it. How many allegations of tampering would occur if the pollsters could retrieve a cast ballot so a voter could change their votes?
Of course, if these people were refused a new ballot BEFORE they placed their ballot into the "box", that is a whole 'nother ball of wax. THEN it is a big problem. Does anyone have a link to a site with proof of this happening?
"You do know what you're telling geeks to do, right?:)"
<clean interpretation>How many geeks do you know that have to be told to do this? I usually have to be told to stop and go to bed, when my wife thinks that I've been up too late.</clean interpretation>
<likely interpretation>Isn't that what pushed broadband through to the point it's at now, and will continue to push until it is ubiquitous? Porn, porn, porn, porn!</likely interpretation>
My cousin is the CFO for a startup company called I-tech (shameless plug) and he actually went to college with the CEO of the Gartner Group. He has a million stories about how this guy was a real poser and didn't know his arse from a hole in the ground. Again, this is all heresy but my cousin is a real straight shooter so I believe him.
So you believe that the CEO is a poseur, while still accepting that the Gartner Group is your true faith, thus committing heresy?
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And don't, for God's sake, DON'T send someone out to bring back White Castles.
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Probably "Microsoft XML#".
Completely portable, viewable from any IE browser on any Windows OS running on any 32-bit Intel processor that has mute, pigmented spokesperson with big eyes and a high pain threshold, decked out with an Intellimouse Explorer w/Intellieye and MS Natural Internet-Ready Keyboard.
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You left out, "Everything you do will be faster, and more fun!"
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Still, I think the greatest gift I get every year is socks. I have one friend who buys me that every year because I annihalte them all by July and then walk around in flip-flops or sandals for the rest of the year claiming that I'm boycotting them.
How familiar is that? I used to do the same thing, but then I got married, and my wife bought me a pair of socks for EACH DAY OF THE WEEK! And she washes them after I wear them for a day! Who woulda thunk it?
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Yes, but did he buy the big, excitingly chunky metal-cased memory upgrade in order to disply hi-res, hi-color graphics when playing Pool of Radiance?
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Sources close to SV.COM were reporting that Bill Gates home wasn't left out of the article due to a vendetta, or refusal of the billionaire to play nice, but rather because the reporter couldn't make heads or tails of 273 40" monitors all displaying a medium blue background covered with cryptic messages in white text. Since Gates couldn't give a definite time frame for the the so-called "BSOD" to be fixed, the Gates home was not covered.
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We are running a Sony SDX-300D AIT-1 drive. It has worked fairly well for us, though it needs cleaning before it will tell you. The performance is limited by our software situation (Backup Exec on NT), but is still well above the acceptable line. Backing up Win9x, WinNT/2000, Linux, MSSQL and Exchange live, we get an average of 100+ MB per minute. It's enough for us, anyway. It's SCSI, so there should be no problem hanging it off a *NIX-alike box.
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I was singling out the topic of the thread and discussion, MS Exchange Server. God knows there are a lot of vendors who feel that documentation is passe, and I was in no way trying to come off saying that MS is the only perpetrator of this shameful behavior. It did not come with printed docs, nor did it come with them in electronic format. The only way to get in-depth docs was to pay extra for them. To give MS credit where it is due, they do include enough to get you up and running with a rudimentary setup, but an in-depth look at the expensive groupware server we just paid a good chunk of our IT budget for doesn't seem like it would be to much to ask for. All we got was the "Getting Started with......." booklet, and a piss-poor "Books Online" implementation. The order form in the box that strongly hinted that we had to order the manuals in order to get a good implementation was just rude. Why do they need to gouge you for the manuals to the package you just paid to use? Put them on the CD in some decent format, and let me read them or print them as needed!
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Perhaps they are taking lessons from the MPAA?
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No, it was an 8-month old.
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Geez. RTFM! Exchange/Outlook addresses all the things you specify.
Yes, for only $75 more, plus shipping, to get the Exchange Server manuals rather than the "Getting Started with" booklet. The only FM that came with our Exchange Server was that mostly useless booklet. Of course people are going to think there isn't much to the manual when the manual isn't included.
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Show how a dual proccessor PC would be slower than a single proccessor PC by showing a sumo wrestler carrying another sumo wrestler in a footrace against an unencumbered sumo wrestler?
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Well, if you just kind of held it in your mouth and didn't inhale, maybe you could be President of the US, and get hummers from chunky interns.
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Various sculptures from different cultures that lived about 4.000 to 5.000 years ago in SOUTH AMERICA portray bearded people and black people. How did they get there? South Americans are genetically unable to have such beard-growth and arn't black either
Probably from TV. They had television in South America 4-5 years ago, didn't they?
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This is what I have been doing for the last year or so. It's a bit of a pain to keep both DHCP and DNS updated, but it's wonderful if I have to change a gateway or other global variable. With DHCP you can just push it on down with the next lease request. Just don't set the leases for too long;)
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Good idea. Have the token spit out of the machine in some fashion, though. A power surge that kills the machine and wipes the hard/floppy drive could probably wipe a smartcard too, if stored in the affected machine. Have it turned in to poll watchers the same as the paper ballot is, so it can be as much a "manual ballot" as possible. Maybe combine that with some kind of printer. Card printer, tape printer, laser, dot-matrix? Spread the ballot copies onto as many varieties of media as possible, without truly wasting money. This IS one of the most important activities in the US, so a bit of expense is justified though.
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Am I the only one that thinks this looks like the Cyberman on steroids?
I WANT ONE
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Hmmm, interesting. Judging from the picture on CNN.com, it's hard to tell. The bottom edge is cut off. I can make out 20 punch-outs, which would not be enough to get all candidates on the same page. They would need 21 punch-outs for the 11 teams. If voters had to turn the page to see the rest we'd be hearing a similar outcry about confusing ballot books. Does anybody have a better picture than CNN?
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Which law? Can you post a link to the law?
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What about those who asked for help from the election clerks, and discovered that the clerks could not figure it out either?
Proof? Did this happen to you, or is there proof out there?
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Confusing how? Did the instructions at the ballot tell them to count down the names on the left, then count down the punch-outs? From the looks of it, if the ballot had all the candidates names to the left of the punch-outs, they would have had to use very small print, and people would have had a hard time reading it at all. Personally, I found it to be unusual (we have the big boxes with levers here. Flip the little lever by each candidate you wish to vote for, then throw the big lever when done.), but pretty easy to understand. Find the candidate you want, then punch the hole next to him/her, as indicated by the arrow.
Someone else has already mentioned it, but "noticing it later, after talking with friends, etc. about the election," means it is too late. By placing the ballot in the "box", the voter is stating that, "This is my vote, checked and rechecked for accuracy. These are my choices, which I have no ambiguity about, having checked and fully understood the voting methods and procedures." Quotes and interpretation mine. This is one reason there are pollsters manning the polls, to answer questions and explain the process to those who need it. They are also required to provide a replacement ballot if the one the voter is using is damaged, ie via a mistake. However, they can't open the "box" and retrieve it. How many allegations of tampering would occur if the pollsters could retrieve a cast ballot so a voter could change their votes?
Of course, if these people were refused a new ballot BEFORE they placed their ballot into the "box", that is a whole 'nother ball of wax. THEN it is a big problem. Does anyone have a link to a site with proof of this happening?
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"You do know what you're telling geeks to do, right? :)"
<clean interpretation>How many geeks do you know that have to be told to do this? I usually have to be told to stop and go to bed, when my wife thinks that I've been up too late.</clean interpretation>
<likely interpretation>Isn't that what pushed broadband through to the point it's at now, and will continue to push until it is ubiquitous? Porn, porn, porn, porn!</likely interpretation>
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206 million lightyears away ???
Are we sure? Didn't General Motors make the mirrors in the Telescope? Did they take into account that "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"?
Hahahahahaha, I kill me.
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My cousin is the CFO for a startup company called I-tech (shameless plug) and he actually went to college with the CEO of the Gartner Group. He has a million stories about how this guy was a real poser and didn't know his arse from a hole in the ground. Again, this is all heresy but my cousin is a real straight shooter so I believe him.
So you believe that the CEO is a poseur, while still accepting that the Gartner Group is your true faith, thus committing heresy?
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