Just try and go return a Blu-ray or DVD to Walmart without having to go through three levels of bureaucratic bullshit, like the clerk, her supervisor and the supervisor's supervisor telling you that "We can't take back electronic media because federal law says we can't do that". And from my quick googling, it's not just our local store but a chain-wide FUD policy to scare the customer from returning what appears to be a defective product. I finally got the disk returned as a "customer satisfaction issue", but the outright lie about "federal law" just really pissed me off.
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Wow, this has been around since at least '97, and probably before. It's false, and if I never see it again it will be too soon.
Correct, the RHCT/RHCSA and RHCE certs do require a hands-on lab exam. I've done both of those--actually, all three since the RHEL5 to RHEL6 update happened between when I got my RHCT and RHCE, I had to take the RHCSA for RHEL6 before I could take the RHCE.
(wow, I don't usually type that many initialisms in one sentence...)
I worked in health care IT at a hospital system for about 8 years. About 4 years after I started, the hospital administration implemented "performance metrics" across the entire system, from nurses to physical plant to...yea, IT services. Anyone want to guess what "metric" they were going to use to measure IT performance? Was it number of tickets completed? number of PCs serviced or printers replaced in a month? No..someone decided that the best metric for measuring IT was...PATIENT DISCHARGES. The number of patients (which the IT staff stayed as far from as possible) discharged by the hospital. Not only was it a statistic we had absolutely no control over, but was it totally irrelevant to our (IT services) business line. Fortunately, we had a competent VP/CIO who stood up for his IT staff and put a stop to that ludicrousness but for about two months we had to suffer from "low performance ratings" while the powers that be figured out how to measure our actual service to the hospital system.
I think it's the 3rd-party application that's the problem, and more that the vendor won't support their application (for which we pay a nice annual license and maintenance fee) if we don't run under the environment they prefer. I've never tested it with OpenJDK so I can't speak any more specifically on the versions.
There are some of us who use a Linux desktop (in my case, Ubuntu 10.04, but possibly Mint on my next PC) who require Java -- Javasoft/Sun/Oracle/whatever "reference" JRE or JDK for either web applications or with Tomcat servers that won't run with OpenJDK, IceTea or whatever variants are out there now. Not happy about that, but it's my job and I do what is necessary to keep getting a paycheck.
There is actually an option on the Logitech Revue to change the user agent, but doing that breaks the custom UI interfaces for youtube, dailymotion, etc. I have not tried this but I'm seriously considering it.
We got the Revue and a digital antenna last fall after deciding that we didn't want to pay $120/month (at the time we cancelled) for cable services that kept getting less "service" for more money every month. (it was $85/mo when we subscribed 4 years earlier,and we didn't change anything in our subscription since then!) With the digital antenna we get about a dozen channels in our area. If we lived in a major metro area we'd probably get 30 or more channels. We supplement that with Netflix streaming and occasionally hooking the laptop up to watch something from ESPN or other network streaming. (Except Doctor Who...can't get new episodes streaming in the US, far as I can tell! Get smart BBC, we'd love to watch, too!)
Our biggest complaint about the Revue, and Google TV in general, is not the Revue nor Google TV's fault. It's ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and the rest of the big broadcasters who seem to think there's a difference between watching streaming shows from their website from a Google TV device and a laptop hooked to a 37" LCD television. My personal choice would be for Google to de-list from search results any station and network that won't work on Google TV, until those networks realize they are 1) alienating potential customers who want to watch their shows and 2) contributing to the "piracy" they claim to hate when people find other means to watch the shows they want to see because the networks are too...short-sighted? stupid? to give their viewers what they actually want.
I don't know if it's a city ordinance or state law here, but when something is placed out for trash, it becomes the property of the city. It is actually illegal to remove anything from a trash pile or trashcan without the original owner's permission, and doing so will get you fined.
In this case, based on TFA(s), it looks like the plaque with the moon rocks was removed from the museum property by either the kid or his dad, and the dad was quite possibly complicit in the theft to not report it (to the museum, police, etc) or return the plaque when he discovered his son had it.
Heh. Trust me, outsourcing IT is NOT a good idea if you're looking for a more open, accessible system. My experience with them is beyond "not invented here" and more "Yes, you pay us but you will use only what we support and screw you if you want anything else like say OS or Office upgrades." Contracted IT services can be a major headache. You want Windows 7? sorry, you're stuck with XP until we certify Win7 for our network. Office 2010? not allowed until we have vetted and tested it thoroughly...which means (for either of those upgrades) at least a year, probably two, after release until the contractor will even consider allowing them on the PCs or the network they support.
Microsoft did not own bing.com until March 4, 2009 when the domain ownership changed from "Davryn Pty Ltd" in Melbourne, Australia to Microsoft. Since 2002 the name bing.com has had several owners, including some guy in Michigan, someone in Denver; Palo Alto, CA; was transferred to an Australian company in 2007 until MS bought it in 2009. So no, Microsoft does not have long-standing claims on the Bing name, at least based on their domain registration.
(Reference: Domaintools.com Whois History records).
There were some initial problems with the JRE and AdBlock extension for Firefox. If you updated the JRE and disabled extensions it would work. Nowadays, however, all the pieces seem to be playing nicely together and I haven't had any problems making deposits in the last year. I had some entertaining times when it wouldn't work in Fx, then wouldn't work in IE, then FX did work and such, but that was all shortly after the Deposit@Home service started (a few years ago now).
You haven't been paying attention to the AV vendors for long have you? in 1997 McAfee merged with Network General and became Network Associates (nai.com) which also sold Sniffer. Then, in April 2004, McAfee became McAfee again when NAI tried to sell off the Sniffer product/Network General component (which was purchased by NetScout in November 2004). McAfee continued using the nai.com domain until June 30th of 2004, when archive.org shows nai.com redirecting to mcafee.com for the first time. vil.nai.com has been the Network Associates/McAfee Virus Information Library (and now the more generic "Threat Library") since at least 1999. (Incidentally, the "top 10 virus threats" in Oct 1999 included "Laroux", "Melissa" and "Happy99". My, how far we've come....)
"FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition is a customized version of Firefox with the ability to lockdown settings through Active Directory using Administrative Templates. Similar to lockdown settings with mozilla.cfg on one computer, you can now use Administrative Templates to enforce settings across your organization. Use Firefox on your corporate computers to decrease virus incidents and increase overall security. Save time and frustration with our installer that is targeted toward the corporate IT administrator with manageability and upgradeability in mind."
I've never used it but it's sure something I'm considering testing for my network environment.
I decided to post my own "legal" opinion to these dimwits. I'm not a lawyer, I'm a citizen and tech admin...I didn't bother to sign it, but I'm sure if they are really as competent as they claim, they wouldn't have any problem finding me...
The only reason that you wouldn't want people to view your source code (like I do routinely with a source-only browser for websites that I don't trust) is that you don't want anyone seeing how bad your code is.
Also, your assertion of "wholly owned code" is obviously incorrect, as good chunks of the code are either copyright someone else (http://www.mindpalette.com/, for example) or generated by Adobe GoLive. The only thing you may hold copyright on is the actual content of your site; the HTML itself is not and cannot be copyrighted, unless your name is Tim Berners-Lee....
My first thought after RTFA (well, second after "not only no, but hell no") was that the two poor suckers who allowed the implants before the story was written will become the company go-fers.
"Hey, dude. I can't get into the data center. Go get this tape for me."
Hrmm....I remember doing something like that in the early '90's. I believe it was called a MUD... Anyone else read the parent post and flash back to Darker Realms, HighlandsMUD, PixieMUD, etc?
(OK, so it wasn't really AI...but it was what immediately came to mind when I read the parent post...)
Actually, in my experience while hunting down spammers, quite a few mail administrators (particularly those running Microsoft Exchange servers) don't check a "postmaster" account, much less HAVE one. I even got a rude response to a message sent to a whois-listed address for one domain when the postmaster account bounced. He didn't appreciate it that "someone" (rfc 2821, 4.5.1) would tell him how to run his mail server.
Don't forget InnoSetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/). It's also free, and the source is available, and it's extrememly flexible and scriptable. Also, it doesn't advertise itself on the install window....
However, from my investigations of cell phone providers, Nextel doesn't provide analog coverage in areas that don't have digital towers (try some of central Texas around Hearne, Franklin and Normangee, and some long stretches of US 77 down to Victoria, Texas for example). Until Nextel has digital coverage everywhere, or supports analog cell service as a backup, I can't use Nextel. I really wanted to, when I was looking (about a year and a half ago). If this has changed, please let tell us!
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Just try and go return a Blu-ray or DVD to Walmart without having to go through three levels of bureaucratic bullshit, like the clerk, her supervisor and the supervisor's supervisor telling you that "We can't take back electronic media because federal law says we can't do that". And from my quick googling, it's not just our local store but a chain-wide FUD policy to scare the customer from returning what appears to be a defective product. I finally got the disk returned as a "customer satisfaction issue", but the outright lie about "federal law" just really pissed me off.
Wow, this has been around since at least '97, and probably before. It's false, and if I never see it again it will be too soon.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperfect.asp
Sorry, I missed your reply comment before! Yes, the RHCT for V5 is still valid, but to take the RHCE for V6 I had to pass the RHCSA for V6 first.
Also, they have re-vamped the valid period and V6 certs are valid for three calendar years from the date of the exam. The date is extended if you pass one of the Expertise exams.
http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/recertification.html
Correct, the RHCT/RHCSA and RHCE certs do require a hands-on lab exam. I've done both of those--actually, all three since the RHEL5 to RHEL6 update happened between when I got my RHCT and RHCE, I had to take the RHCSA for RHEL6 before I could take the RHCE.
(wow, I don't usually type that many initialisms in one sentence...)
Keep on signing that puppy. I think they need to realize that there's a few more than "just" 25K people interested.
Here's another poll that folks might like to John Henry.
You do mean John Hancock, right? Unless you're talking about driving a railroad spike through it...
I worked in health care IT at a hospital system for about 8 years. About 4 years after I started, the hospital administration implemented "performance metrics" across the entire system, from nurses to physical plant to...yea, IT services. Anyone want to guess what "metric" they were going to use to measure IT performance? Was it number of tickets completed? number of PCs serviced or printers replaced in a month? No..someone decided that the best metric for measuring IT was...PATIENT DISCHARGES. The number of patients (which the IT staff stayed as far from as possible) discharged by the hospital. Not only was it a statistic we had absolutely no control over, but was it totally irrelevant to our (IT services) business line. Fortunately, we had a competent VP/CIO who stood up for his IT staff and put a stop to that ludicrousness but for about two months we had to suffer from "low performance ratings" while the powers that be figured out how to measure our actual service to the hospital system.
I think it's the 3rd-party application that's the problem, and more that the vendor won't support their application (for which we pay a nice annual license and maintenance fee) if we don't run under the environment they prefer. I've never tested it with OpenJDK so I can't speak any more specifically on the versions.
There are some of us who use a Linux desktop (in my case, Ubuntu 10.04, but possibly Mint on my next PC) who require Java -- Javasoft/Sun/Oracle/whatever "reference" JRE or JDK for either web applications or with Tomcat servers that won't run with OpenJDK, IceTea or whatever variants are out there now. Not happy about that, but it's my job and I do what is necessary to keep getting a paycheck.
There is actually an option on the Logitech Revue to change the user agent, but doing that breaks the custom UI interfaces for youtube, dailymotion, etc. I have not tried this but I'm seriously considering it.
We got the Revue and a digital antenna last fall after deciding that we didn't want to pay $120/month (at the time we cancelled) for cable services that kept getting less "service" for more money every month. (it was $85/mo when we subscribed 4 years earlier,and we didn't change anything in our subscription since then!) With the digital antenna we get about a dozen channels in our area. If we lived in a major metro area we'd probably get 30 or more channels. We supplement that with Netflix streaming and occasionally hooking the laptop up to watch something from ESPN or other network streaming. (Except Doctor Who...can't get new episodes streaming in the US, far as I can tell! Get smart BBC, we'd love to watch, too!)
Our biggest complaint about the Revue, and Google TV in general, is not the Revue nor Google TV's fault. It's ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and the rest of the big broadcasters who seem to think there's a difference between watching streaming shows from their website from a Google TV device and a laptop hooked to a 37" LCD television. My personal choice would be for Google to de-list from search results any station and network that won't work on Google TV, until those networks realize they are 1) alienating potential customers who want to watch their shows and 2) contributing to the "piracy" they claim to hate when people find other means to watch the shows they want to see because the networks are too...short-sighted? stupid? to give their viewers what they actually want.
Wouldn't Google Desktop Search count as prior art? as of 2006 it was capable of searching multiple computers on a network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_desktop_search
I don't know if it's a city ordinance or state law here, but when something is placed out for trash, it becomes the property of the city. It is actually illegal to remove anything from a trash pile or trashcan without the original owner's permission, and doing so will get you fined.
In this case, based on TFA(s), it looks like the plaque with the moon rocks was removed from the museum property by either the kid or his dad, and the dad was quite possibly complicit in the theft to not report it (to the museum, police, etc) or return the plaque when he discovered his son had it.
A former employer of mine used to (well, probably still does) say something was a "mute point". It grated on my nerves every time he said that.
Heh. Trust me, outsourcing IT is NOT a good idea if you're looking for a more open, accessible system. My experience with them is beyond "not invented here" and more "Yes, you pay us but you will use only what we support and screw you if you want anything else like say OS or Office upgrades." Contracted IT services can be a major headache. You want Windows 7? sorry, you're stuck with XP until we certify Win7 for our network. Office 2010? not allowed until we have vetted and tested it thoroughly...which means (for either of those upgrades) at least a year, probably two, after release until the contractor will even consider allowing them on the PCs or the network they support.
Microsoft did not own bing.com until March 4, 2009 when the domain ownership changed from "Davryn Pty Ltd" in Melbourne, Australia to Microsoft. Since 2002 the name bing.com has had several owners, including some guy in Michigan, someone in Denver; Palo Alto, CA; was transferred to an Australian company in 2007 until MS bought it in 2009. So no, Microsoft does not have long-standing claims on the Bing name, at least based on their domain registration.
(Reference: Domaintools.com Whois History records).
There were some initial problems with the JRE and AdBlock extension for Firefox. If you updated the JRE and disabled extensions it would work. Nowadays, however, all the pieces seem to be playing nicely together and I haven't had any problems making deposits in the last year. I had some entertaining times when it wouldn't work in Fx, then wouldn't work in IE, then FX did work and such, but that was all shortly after the Deposit@Home service started (a few years ago now).
deja moo...I have this strange feeling I've seen this bullshit before.
You haven't been paying attention to the AV vendors for long have you? in 1997 McAfee merged with Network General and became Network Associates (nai.com) which also sold Sniffer. Then, in April 2004, McAfee became McAfee again when NAI tried to sell off the Sniffer product/Network General component (which was purchased by NetScout in November 2004). McAfee continued using the nai.com domain until June 30th of 2004, when archive.org shows nai.com redirecting to mcafee.com for the first time. vil.nai.com has been the Network Associates/McAfee Virus Information Library (and now the more generic "Threat Library") since at least 1999. (Incidentally, the "top 10 virus threats" in Oct 1999 included "Laroux", "Melissa" and "Happy99". My, how far we've come....)
Not my project but a friend of mine works on the FrontMotion Firefox Community Edition project:
I've never used it but it's sure something I'm considering testing for my network environment.
My first thought after RTFA (well, second after "not only no, but hell no") was that the two poor suckers who allowed the implants before the story was written will become the company go-fers.
"Hey, dude. I can't get into the data center. Go get this tape for me."
Hrmm....I remember doing something like that in the early '90's. I believe it was called a MUD... Anyone else read the parent post and flash back to Darker Realms, HighlandsMUD, PixieMUD, etc?
(OK, so it wasn't really AI...but it was what immediately came to mind when I read the parent post...)
Actually, in my experience while hunting down spammers, quite a few mail administrators (particularly those running Microsoft Exchange servers) don't check a "postmaster" account, much less HAVE one. I even got a rude response to a message sent to a whois-listed address for one domain when the postmaster account bounced. He didn't appreciate it that "someone" (rfc 2821, 4.5.1) would tell him how to run his mail server.
Don't forget InnoSetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/). It's also free, and the source is available, and it's extrememly flexible and scriptable. Also, it doesn't advertise itself on the install window....
*Ring* *Ring*
Hello, Darl?
This is your proctologist...
We found your head.
*click*
However, from my investigations of cell phone providers, Nextel doesn't provide analog coverage in areas that don't have digital towers (try some of central Texas around Hearne, Franklin and Normangee, and some long stretches of US 77 down to Victoria, Texas for example). Until Nextel has digital coverage everywhere, or supports analog cell service as a backup, I can't use Nextel. I really wanted to, when I was looking (about a year and a half ago). If this has changed, please let tell us!