If you find your disk being thrashed in 8.04 there's a good chance it's F3B5. To fix the problem disable the "suspected attack site" and "suspected forgery site" tracking in preferences. This is probably quite a common occurrence.
You are right - the beta isn't ready for prime time.
I don't know how you were rated as "5 insightful" - in fact there was zero explanation as to why OOO was unsatisfactory. If you don't like OOO don't use it. If it fills your requirements then do so. Personally I have both OOO and Office 2007, but only use Office 2007 to open documents sent to me in that proprietary format and for Outlook, as I am used to OOO and it fulfils my requirements. I would love for there to be an alternative to Outlook - the only reason I use it is that Thunderbird won't sync with my phone (N95) - thanks a lot Nokia. Office software is not really something to get excited over - people getting uppity over one alternative over another need to get out more.
Today I did a reinstall on a clients laptop, it had 150,000 viruses - 70% of all the files were viruses (mostly the same one replicated). AVG took 12 hours to scan it, but couldn't remove that many. Had to go for a re-install. He'd run it for about 3 years with no antivirus or firewall. the amazing thing is it would actually start and run (somewhat). The previous best i've seen is about 5000.
I found the opposite to be the case - it took a solid 8 hours to install Windows, SP2, updates since SP2, then hunt down and load all the drivers for my laptop.
It took 20 minutes to install Ubuntu, with everything working.
Plus, future versions will support multiple blogs under one interface, some more commenting controls, and other features.
Personally I find the other B2 branch - B2evolution better, since it allows multiple blogs right now! It also has great comment spam filters and coment control. I imported all my entries from MT just fine with a beta importer in seconds. You are right - it is easier to install and migrate to WP or B2vo than upgrade versions of MT!. I wish I'd been prompted to switch earlier!
The i-mate pocket pc has integrated GPRS, so you can almost surf the web meaningfully (rather than on a phone). Of course it also has phone capabilities and bluetooth headset. This is the best I have seen to date.
There wouldn't have been any inexpensive x86 machines I can build a very very reasonable machine right now for US$400, but Windoze would add another 20% to that. That is a ridiculous amount for something whose value whichever way you measure it is significantly less. In real terms all hardware has decreased in price - even as its power has increased. Windoze hasn't despite it's historical and aging base from which its excessive profiteering is made off of.
From the article, to be very happy with your job: be learning new things, being your own boss, not being chained to a desk, fulfilling an ambition.
In my experience with the corporate world - never received the promised training, have more bosses than co-workers, largely chained to a desk of which at least one of the managers likes to instigate petty rules for, it has never been an ambition of mine to fix tax rounding errors.
That said, in reply to the parent's comment on job security, I was laid off to be replaced by cheaper labour (after a year of such a program).
Nothing helps your happiness quite so much as to be valued in purely dollar terms.
Having worked in 5 large corporate firms in the last 11 years (IBM were only the second worst) I can say I've finally had enough. Only one of those 5 had reasonably competent middle management, most of management were far more interested in producing powerpoint presentations to justify their positions, which at best were meaningless, at worst produced morale killing objectives. The money is not worth the price you have to pay for spending 8 to 10 hours a day in a soul destroying environment. I'm currently in the process of creating my own company. Working for myself may be risky, the pay may be less, but at least I won't have to put up with middle management! Enjoying your work is the most important thing, if you get paid well that's a bonus, but a distinct second.
I agree we shouldn't HAVE to install ad-blockers, but there are many unpleasant things in the world we have to contend with, and when you can do something to minimize the unpleasantness you should do so rather that keep complaining about it ad nauseam. It is NOT the same as spam - most ad blockers don't download the ad they are blocking, they block the request to retrieve the ad, so yes, you may lose a coule of CPU cycles, but you certainly save a lot on bandwidth. ISP mail filtering software doesn't stop the flow of spam into an ISP, only to your mailbox, so it is not on the same "logic thread" at all. On another note, I wish articles like this would offer solutions to the problems they raise if they are so easy and effective ie switch to Mozilla.
As an ex-pat living in the Philippines... Text messaging is rediculously cheap here (US$5 does me 3 months easy), and pretty much everyone uses pre-paid scratch cards to pay for their phone use. However landline phones are rediculously expensive, at about US$20/month - a lot in a poor country. That's why most people use SMS to communicate - it's all they can afford. It's typical of the IMF to suggest squeezing the poor for more revenue - while the politicians sit back and take untaxed bribes. Heck, you can even bribe officials at the tax department to accept your dodgy tax return. Maybe if they eliminated some of the corruption the tax take would be higher.
I've found the free DVD Decrypter [www.dvddecrypter.com]to be very good at stripping out all the illegal Regional Coding and all the other bumpf when making copies. This has been most useful in making copies to play on my unhacked stand-alone DVD player. If the MPAA think they can prevent me viewing a DVD I legally bought they are seriously mistaken, and frankly they can sit and rotate.
If you are too lazy to install an ad blocker then you deserve all popups you get. These constant stories about advertising on the net annoy me as much as someone complaining about any other self inflicted pain. If you don't like it then deal with it - it's not that hard.
Yes, I have worked in factories during holidays while studying for my degree, and they were a great inspiration to study so that I would never have to do such work again. However I have discovered working in IT is not exactly the bed of roses promised. In 8 years I've worked 5 different jobs in 4 different countries, and of those only one had any job stability. The first, IBM, lost it's contract for providing outsourcing, the second 2 were medium term projects, the last 2 discarded all "expensive" staff and switched to labour from the 3rd world. Every one of those jobs has forced me to learn most aspects of every job in the respective companies, including the managers and overpaid sales staff. Then there is the added pressure of a zero tolerance for mistakes - when any bugs have the potential to cost the company millions. When mistakes are detected it is typically the IT department that is assumed guilty till proven innocent when most of the time it is the fault of incompetent managers or undertrained staff, and when you have fixed the problem you rarely get an apology or even a thankyou. And training? What's that? A broken promise that's what. Sure, I get paid more than the factory workers, but there are easier jobs out there, with higher pay, less pressure, more job security, where your work is appreciated and valued, and where you aren't blamed for the mistakes of others. Personally I wouldn't recommend a job in IT to young people. Try engineering or something instead.
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If you find your disk being thrashed in 8.04 there's a good chance it's F3B5. To fix the problem disable the "suspected attack site" and "suspected forgery site" tracking in preferences.
This is probably quite a common occurrence.
You are right - the beta isn't ready for prime time.
Unfortunately it's a hobbled gui - you can't create hidden volumes for instance.
I don't know how you were rated as "5 insightful" - in fact there was zero explanation as to why OOO was unsatisfactory.
If you don't like OOO don't use it. If it fills your requirements then do so. Personally I have both OOO and Office 2007, but only use Office 2007 to open documents sent to me in that proprietary format and for Outlook, as I am used to OOO and it fulfils my requirements. I would love for there to be an alternative to Outlook - the only reason I use it is that Thunderbird won't sync with my phone (N95) - thanks a lot Nokia.
Office software is not really something to get excited over - people getting uppity over one alternative over another need to get out more.
I would like to see how voting correlates with Transparency International's Corruption Index. My bet would be quite a strong correlation.
Five megapixel cameras with small cheap lenses do not take more "vibrant" pictures than digital SLR cameras with Zeiss lenses.
The N95 to which your refer does in fact have a Zeiss lens
I saw a woman land after jumping from a 12-storey building; indeed, she bounced.
Today I did a reinstall on a clients laptop, it had 150,000 viruses - 70% of all the files were viruses (mostly the same one replicated). AVG took 12 hours to scan it, but couldn't remove that many. Had to go for a re-install. He'd run it for about 3 years with no antivirus or firewall. the amazing thing is it would actually start and run (somewhat).
The previous best i've seen is about 5000.
Fishy
I found the opposite to be the case - it took a solid 8 hours to install Windows, SP2, updates since SP2, then hunt down and load all the drivers for my laptop.
It took 20 minutes to install Ubuntu, with everything working.
Sheesh, I thought for a moment you were having a wank, with the pounding and unf-ing, and finishing "all over the keyboard"
I'd like to see the actual bullets you shoot have an arc.
I believe America's Army has this
...but could you use it to sort your pr0n collection based on vagina recognition?
Bush supporters aren't dumb?
_ 04 /html/new_10_21_04.html
72% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD (47%) or a major program for developing them (25%).
57% also believe, incorrectly, that Charles Duelfer concluded Iraq had at least a major WMD program.
75% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.
63% believe that clear evidence of this support has been found.
55% assume, incorrectly, that this was the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission.
69% of Bush supporters don't recognize that the majority of people in the world oppose the US having gone to war with Iraq.
57% of Bush supporters assume that the majority of people in the world would favour Bush's reelection.
51% incorrectly assume he favours US participation in the Kyoto treaty.
69% incorrectly assume he favours the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
72% incorrectly assume he favours the treaty banning land mines.
53% incorrectly assume he favours the International Criminal Court.
74% incorrectly assumes that he favours including labour and environmental standards in trade agreements.
What DO you call people who are so ignorant if not dumb?
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election
There's 10,000:1 odds on ponies on Titan? That's pretty good odds!
Plus, future versions will support multiple blogs under one interface, some more commenting controls, and other features.
Personally I find the other B2 branch - B2evolution better, since it allows multiple blogs right now! It also has great comment spam filters and coment control.
I imported all my entries from MT just fine with a beta importer in seconds.
You are right - it is easier to install and migrate to WP or B2vo than upgrade versions of MT!.
I wish I'd been prompted to switch earlier!
You must be running a Microsoft Windows operating system in order to use Windows Update.
Unfortunately you must also being using Internet Explorer.
The i-mate pocket pc has integrated GPRS, so you can almost surf the web meaningfully (rather than on a phone). Of course it also has phone capabilities and bluetooth headset.
This is the best I have seen to date.
There wouldn't have been any inexpensive x86 machines
I can build a very very reasonable machine right now for US$400, but Windoze would add another 20% to that. That is a ridiculous amount for something whose value whichever way you measure it is significantly less.
In real terms all hardware has decreased in price - even as its power has increased. Windoze hasn't despite it's historical and aging base from which its excessive profiteering is made off of.
From the article, to be very happy with your job:
be learning new things,
being your own boss,
not being chained to a desk,
fulfilling an ambition.
In my experience with the corporate world -
never received the promised training,
have more bosses than co-workers,
largely chained to a desk of which at least one of the managers likes to instigate petty rules for,
it has never been an ambition of mine to fix tax rounding errors.
That said, in reply to the parent's comment on job security, I was laid off to be replaced by cheaper labour (after a year of such a program).
Nothing helps your happiness quite so much as to be valued in purely dollar terms.
Having worked in 5 large corporate firms in the last 11 years (IBM were only the second worst) I can say I've finally had enough. Only one of those 5 had reasonably competent middle management, most of management were far more interested in producing powerpoint presentations to justify their positions, which at best were meaningless, at worst produced morale killing objectives.
The money is not worth the price you have to pay for spending 8 to 10 hours a day in a soul destroying environment.
I'm currently in the process of creating my own company. Working for myself may be risky, the pay may be less, but at least I won't have to put up with middle management!
Enjoying your work is the most important thing, if you get paid well that's a bonus, but a distinct second.
I agree we shouldn't HAVE to install ad-blockers, but there are many unpleasant things in the world we have to contend with, and when you can do something to minimize the unpleasantness you should do so rather that keep complaining about it ad nauseam.
It is NOT the same as spam - most ad blockers don't download the ad they are blocking, they block the request to retrieve the ad, so yes, you may lose a coule of CPU cycles, but you certainly save a lot on bandwidth.
ISP mail filtering software doesn't stop the flow of spam into an ISP, only to your mailbox, so it is not on the same "logic thread" at all.
On another note, I wish articles like this would offer solutions to the problems they raise if they are so easy and effective ie switch to Mozilla.
The parent has no idea what he's talking about.
As an ex-pat living in the Philippines... Text messaging is rediculously cheap here (US$5 does me 3 months easy), and pretty much everyone uses pre-paid scratch cards to pay for their phone use. However landline phones are rediculously expensive, at about US$20/month - a lot in a poor country. That's why most people use SMS to communicate - it's all they can afford.
It's typical of the IMF to suggest squeezing the poor for more revenue - while the politicians sit back and take untaxed bribes. Heck, you can even bribe officials at the tax department to accept your dodgy tax return. Maybe if they eliminated some of the corruption the tax take would be higher.
I've found the free DVD Decrypter [www.dvddecrypter.com]to be very good at stripping out all the illegal Regional Coding and all the other bumpf when making copies. This has been most useful in making copies to play on my unhacked stand-alone DVD player.
If the MPAA think they can prevent me viewing a DVD I legally bought they are seriously mistaken, and frankly they can sit and rotate.
If you are too lazy to install an ad blocker then you deserve all popups you get. These constant stories about advertising on the net annoy me as much as someone complaining about any other self inflicted pain. If you don't like it then deal with it - it's not that hard.
Yes, I have worked in factories during holidays while studying for my degree, and they were a great inspiration to study so that I would never have to do such work again. However I have discovered working in IT is not exactly the bed of roses promised.
In 8 years I've worked 5 different jobs in 4 different countries, and of those only one had any job stability. The first, IBM, lost it's contract for providing outsourcing, the second 2 were medium term projects, the last 2 discarded all "expensive" staff and switched to labour from the 3rd world.
Every one of those jobs has forced me to learn most aspects of every job in the respective companies, including the managers and overpaid sales staff. Then there is the added pressure of a zero tolerance for mistakes - when any bugs have the potential to cost the company millions. When mistakes are detected it is typically the IT department that is assumed guilty till proven innocent when most of the time it is the fault of incompetent managers or undertrained staff, and when you have fixed the problem you rarely get an apology or even a thankyou.
And training? What's that? A broken promise that's what.
Sure, I get paid more than the factory workers, but there are easier jobs out there, with higher pay, less pressure, more job security, where your work is appreciated and valued, and where you aren't blamed for the mistakes of others.
Personally I wouldn't recommend a job in IT to young people. Try engineering or something instead.