Oh/. ate my other reply. But let me add this. Why would you need to reboot and apply something that's in a standalone environment that works in a full offline mode? Well that's obvious. You don't. It can sit there, and happily burn power all day.
Now if we're talking about something else, well sure. Speaking of which, I haven't been an admin in 10 years. But I did take care of around 8000 machines for a city at one time.
I'm actually not sure how this got to +4 funny. Maybe +5 interesting? I digress. I've been a fan of Win2k for a long time, I used it for just about everything from gaming to my work up until XP64 and had a stable driver set. Does Win7 have that nifty feel of Win2k? Yes actually it does. Even on lower end hardware it's decently snappy, and runs well.
Issues? The biggest I've found is it's ability to lose connection to the internet on reboots. Meaning you need to disable and reenable your network card which fixes it. Sadly no new drivers for my card, but otherwise works fine. I consider that a 2 on my 1-10(10 being worst) scale of crap. Otherwise, I'm quite happy. My XP64 machine has been up and running for a bit more than 460 days now without a reboot. I expect that Win7 will beat that easily.
Fair comment. I was talking to my best friend about this her main complaint mirrored the comments of the women who attended that event. Where were the guys for them? Really, I think we've come far enough that most people shouldn't really give a shit over it anymore.
I believe the way they put it when we write our notes for logs is: Use a system for dates. It doesn't matter if it's not the standard in north america. But use a system that works for you. Sometimes retraining someone to a new one simply screws them up.
Mine is yyyy/mo/dd, my friends is yyyy/dd/mo, one of the inspectors(OPP) that I was taught by uses dd/mo/yyyy. All three are valid.
Fair points, however if the issue is with hacked 3rd party memory cards. The easiest and simplist solution around that would be requiring a checksum loaded into the card, and some type of base authid. Sure makes load times a bit slower, but then you're not walking the slippery slope.
I don't know. It comes off as anti-competitive to me, back several years ago here in Ontario companies tried to void warranties for people having the work done on their vehicles at a shop other then the dealership. The courts said it was anti-competitive and illegal. Yelling and screaming ensued, life went on and got better for the customer. Warranties were honored, and if you did the work yourself? That's honored too as long as you keep the receipts. Neat huh?
Using hardware is much akin to this. Tell me where and what advantage is gained by having hardware you want installed into it? I don't see it. Not in the least. This is them attempting to milk the market and lock out competition in any form possible, and ensure 'compliance' with only one form of hardware within the market for their line of product. Actually it's a lot closer to razor blades. They give away the handle, and charge you $20 for the blades.
Advertising is fine, but as soon as you cross that line from advertising into the land of criminal harassment then we've got a serious problem. While I'm up in Canada, I'd be much happier to see criminal harassment charges filed against the entire company. See unless you've actually dealt with people who've been victims of this stuff, seen how the system has failed people, and how the ball has been dropped you really don't have a clue as to what can go wrong.
I don't have any problems with her going after them for this. Not only did they cross the line, they crossed the line into a felony in my book. "Opting in" be damned, you're either dense, or simply heartless if you think that way.
Fair and true point, but tax law(there's other people that deal with that, along with a specialized section in our criminal code) isn't something that I'd ever deal with. Now if you ask me about booze, tobacco or housing/property law well...now that's a bit closer.
As someone moving into the field of 'law enforcement', allow me to give my own spin. It's the people, not the lawyers who find loopholes. That's why my pocket criminal code is so thick, it reads more like a modern day bible. And my traffic act is nearly 7" thick. It's not the smart people who figure out loopholes, it's the clever ones.
It is however the lawyers, who in turn successfully or unsuccessfully defend the person on the said charge which cause the law to be expanded to include a new definition. Sometimes loopholes happen because of a persons mistakes as well, I've seen that one happen more than once, Canada's common law is full of them.
Pft. Who uses a BBS? I'm still trading floppy disks on a non-viable format. Speaking of which I need to get going, and take these 38,000 5.25" disks to the next person.
Well I live under federally mandated, provincially funded health care. Let me just say, free flu shots are nice. If the government can brainwash people with vaccinations, awesome. I now have a plan to rule the world. The flu vaccine kills people every year, it is however less than those who die from the flu.
So, let me continue on. Anti-vaxers on the other hand, are idiots. I've always believed that if they want to die, get deformed, or pick up something that I've already got an immunity to great on them. Just don't do me the favor and wipe humanity out on their way to the door. Yeah I realize, I'm asking a lot.
Used to be back about 10 years ago every board out there supported ECC out of the box. In fact, it was enabled by default and when you were building a system you had to disable it otherwise it would cause errors with non-ecc memory. Now it's kind of hit and miss. Issues you'll run into with ECC include: Degraded performance, slower mean access time, occasional slower start up.
ECC is generally set for what was called critical environments. These days however, I'd say that most issues with stability in modern machines and ram issues can be fixed by proper use of spread spectrum(very few people use it). Most boards will let you muck with not only memory, but cpu and video card bus and that's usually enough to reduce the error rate and make a machine stable.
If you are looking at building one for just gaming, you'll see a small decrease in performance. Not much really, is it worth the bump in memory cost? Well that's up to you, to decide. In a lot of cases it works out to being around $4/GB which isn't a whole pile. And if you don't like it, you can still flip off ECC mode and no difference.
Right, and they have been saying two years for about 12 years now. Just like how we've been 10 years away from running out of oil for close to 40 years, and about 10 years away from commercialized fusion for about the same amount of time.
Oh sure. That was back when companies used to get piles of addresses and then they realized they didn't need them. However, now you can actually plot out the max number of IP4 addresses and see almost to the day when we're going to run out. It's a moot point, this is coming, it will be here, and in 2yrs give or take a couple of weeks shy of more address blocks being released back into the public domain; that'll be it.
Good stuff. Let me add in something else, because this will be bonus points. Work in law enforcement for 2-5 years, while doing that. Get your undergrad in Security and Risk Analysis with a spec in cyber-security.
A good number of people myself included got ours through Technet already. I'm running on both my work, and gaming machine. And with the large number of people in school, they're able to get the student edition for a low sum of $20. I'm able head over to another colleges store, in my town and pick up a preorder of it on my colleges card for $25.
The problem with IG chips is they're almost 2-3 generations behind what's going on. While that's not bad, gotta figure. If Blizzard is having issues with compatibility on last generation already for WoW, you tell me where and what's going on with that one.
They're not aimed at gaming however, they're aimed at the business market. Big shock on that, but it seems like very cheap ass VAR out there who wants to make a couple of extra bucks, instead of spending the extra $6 for a good onboard video for the board, simply uses the cheapest. On top of that I blame consumers. You get what you pay for.
That is a lie. Go look at the U6 number, that's the actual unemployment rate calculated based on those "not looking, run out of benefits, no longer able to get, just come off, etc." The US unemployment rate is somewhere around 13-19%
That was my thought. These look like self-tapping machine screws, w/30-45 offset at the head for pulling sheet metal into a offset groove for panel mounting(read: need a impact screwdriver to use properly or bevel punch). You can get chrome woodscrews, they're rare as anything(defeats the purpose of hiding them in case a plug fallout when putting wood furniture together), much easier to find sheet metal screws, or self-tapping metal of the same type.
I was born in December. I started 3mo early, my parents rammed me through. But I don't live in the US either, I believe their words were something to the effect of "3 months doesn't make a difference when you're already at that curve."
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Oh /. ate my other reply. But let me add this. Why would you need to reboot and apply something that's in a standalone environment that works in a full offline mode? Well that's obvious. You don't. It can sit there, and happily burn power all day.
Now if we're talking about something else, well sure. Speaking of which, I haven't been an admin in 10 years. But I did take care of around 8000 machines for a city at one time.
Who needs to remotely boot a machine that sits next to me? That's the pretty obvious answer.
I'm actually not sure how this got to +4 funny. Maybe +5 interesting? I digress. I've been a fan of Win2k for a long time, I used it for just about everything from gaming to my work up until XP64 and had a stable driver set. Does Win7 have that nifty feel of Win2k? Yes actually it does. Even on lower end hardware it's decently snappy, and runs well.
Issues? The biggest I've found is it's ability to lose connection to the internet on reboots. Meaning you need to disable and reenable your network card which fixes it. Sadly no new drivers for my card, but otherwise works fine. I consider that a 2 on my 1-10(10 being worst) scale of crap. Otherwise, I'm quite happy. My XP64 machine has been up and running for a bit more than 460 days now without a reboot. I expect that Win7 will beat that easily.
Fair comment. I was talking to my best friend about this her main complaint mirrored the comments of the women who attended that event. Where were the guys for them? Really, I think we've come far enough that most people shouldn't really give a shit over it anymore.
Myself I take this rule: No harm, no foul.
This is an example of media control gone nuts. Didn't someone in jest say about 3 years ago that this would happen, somewhere in the world?
People with a UID 40,000 don't need to use sarcasm tags or detectors. They invented them.
I believe the way they put it when we write our notes for logs is: Use a system for dates. It doesn't matter if it's not the standard in north america. But use a system that works for you. Sometimes retraining someone to a new one simply screws them up.
Mine is yyyy/mo/dd, my friends is yyyy/dd/mo, one of the inspectors(OPP) that I was taught by uses dd/mo/yyyy. All three are valid.
Fair points, however if the issue is with hacked 3rd party memory cards. The easiest and simplist solution around that would be requiring a checksum loaded into the card, and some type of base authid. Sure makes load times a bit slower, but then you're not walking the slippery slope.
I don't know. It comes off as anti-competitive to me, back several years ago here in Ontario companies tried to void warranties for people having the work done on their vehicles at a shop other then the dealership. The courts said it was anti-competitive and illegal. Yelling and screaming ensued, life went on and got better for the customer. Warranties were honored, and if you did the work yourself? That's honored too as long as you keep the receipts. Neat huh?
Using hardware is much akin to this. Tell me where and what advantage is gained by having hardware you want installed into it? I don't see it. Not in the least. This is them attempting to milk the market and lock out competition in any form possible, and ensure 'compliance' with only one form of hardware within the market for their line of product. Actually it's a lot closer to razor blades. They give away the handle, and charge you $20 for the blades.
ELUA's are not considered "binding" contracts, they're considered a one way agreement with extra consumer protection in various parts of Canada.
Wonder how it'll fair against the privacy act, considering it would fly afoul of the retention of data w/o consent.
Advertising is fine, but as soon as you cross that line from advertising into the land of criminal harassment then we've got a serious problem. While I'm up in Canada, I'd be much happier to see criminal harassment charges filed against the entire company. See unless you've actually dealt with people who've been victims of this stuff, seen how the system has failed people, and how the ball has been dropped you really don't have a clue as to what can go wrong.
I don't have any problems with her going after them for this. Not only did they cross the line, they crossed the line into a felony in my book. "Opting in" be damned, you're either dense, or simply heartless if you think that way.
Fair and true point, but tax law(there's other people that deal with that, along with a specialized section in our criminal code) isn't something that I'd ever deal with. Now if you ask me about booze, tobacco or housing/property law well...now that's a bit closer.
As someone moving into the field of 'law enforcement', allow me to give my own spin. It's the people, not the lawyers who find loopholes. That's why my pocket criminal code is so thick, it reads more like a modern day bible. And my traffic act is nearly 7" thick. It's not the smart people who figure out loopholes, it's the clever ones.
It is however the lawyers, who in turn successfully or unsuccessfully defend the person on the said charge which cause the law to be expanded to include a new definition. Sometimes loopholes happen because of a persons mistakes as well, I've seen that one happen more than once, Canada's common law is full of them.
Pft. Who uses a BBS? I'm still trading floppy disks on a non-viable format. Speaking of which I need to get going, and take these 38,000 5.25" disks to the next person.
Well I live under federally mandated, provincially funded health care. Let me just say, free flu shots are nice.
If the government can brainwash people with vaccinations, awesome. I now have a plan to rule the world.
The flu vaccine kills people every year, it is however less than those who die from the flu.
So, let me continue on. Anti-vaxers on the other hand, are idiots. I've always believed that if they want to die, get deformed, or pick up something that I've already got an immunity to great on them. Just don't do me the favor and wipe humanity out on their way to the door. Yeah I realize, I'm asking a lot.
Used to be back about 10 years ago every board out there supported ECC out of the box. In fact, it was enabled by default and when you were building a system you had to disable it otherwise it would cause errors with non-ecc memory. Now it's kind of hit and miss. Issues you'll run into with ECC include: Degraded performance, slower mean access time, occasional slower start up.
ECC is generally set for what was called critical environments. These days however, I'd say that most issues with stability in modern machines and ram issues can be fixed by proper use of spread spectrum(very few people use it). Most boards will let you muck with not only memory, but cpu and video card bus and that's usually enough to reduce the error rate and make a machine stable.
If you are looking at building one for just gaming, you'll see a small decrease in performance. Not much really, is it worth the bump in memory cost? Well that's up to you, to decide. In a lot of cases it works out to being around $4/GB which isn't a whole pile. And if you don't like it, you can still flip off ECC mode and no difference.
Oh sure. That was back when companies used to get piles of addresses and then they realized they didn't need them. However, now you can actually plot out the max number of IP4 addresses and see almost to the day when we're going to run out. It's a moot point, this is coming, it will be here, and in 2yrs give or take a couple of weeks shy of more address blocks being released back into the public domain; that'll be it.
Good stuff. Let me add in something else, because this will be bonus points. Work in law enforcement for 2-5 years, while doing that. Get your undergrad in Security and Risk Analysis with a spec in cyber-security.
A good number of people myself included got ours through Technet already. I'm running on both my work, and gaming machine. And with the large number of people in school, they're able to get the student edition for a low sum of $20. I'm able head over to another colleges store, in my town and pick up a preorder of it on my colleges card for $25.
The problem with IG chips is they're almost 2-3 generations behind what's going on. While that's not bad, gotta figure. If Blizzard is having issues with compatibility on last generation already for WoW, you tell me where and what's going on with that one.
They're not aimed at gaming however, they're aimed at the business market. Big shock on that, but it seems like very cheap ass VAR out there who wants to make a couple of extra bucks, instead of spending the extra $6 for a good onboard video for the board, simply uses the cheapest. On top of that I blame consumers. You get what you pay for.
That is a lie. Go look at the U6 number, that's the actual unemployment rate calculated based on those "not looking, run out of benefits, no longer able to get, just come off, etc." The US unemployment rate is somewhere around 13-19%
As we all know, there is no spinoffs. Ever, all data is useless. How ignorant.
That was my thought. These look like self-tapping machine screws, w/30-45 offset at the head for pulling sheet metal into a offset groove for panel mounting(read: need a impact screwdriver to use properly or bevel punch). You can get chrome woodscrews, they're rare as anything(defeats the purpose of hiding them in case a plug fallout when putting wood furniture together), much easier to find sheet metal screws, or self-tapping metal of the same type.
I call FUD on the article.
I was born in December. I started 3mo early, my parents rammed me through. But I don't live in the US either, I believe their words were something to the effect of "3 months doesn't make a difference when you're already at that curve."