Yes, as you've seen, you're not getting modded up saying anything positive about Windows XP.
I also prefer it for my desktop system...honestly I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I know how to use it very, very well.
My main shortcoming with OSX is that it only runs on Macs. I actually was looking at buying a Mac a few months ago and found that I could spend $4,000 on a Mac, or get slightly better hardware for a $1,000 build-it-myself PC.
Another annoyance I have of OSX, and I may be wrong on this but it at least isn't obvious how to do it, is that you can't maximize windows to fit the whole screen. To me, screen real estate is very, very valuable and I don't want to waste it on the background.
The original parent was referring to people maliciously changing the homepage to begin with. A security update would be putting the homepage back to default. You can't sure them for anything. The only people you might be able to sue are whomever infected your computer.
OK, not sure if you are making a "prediction" or something, but the most YHOO has been up today is 3.57% Still pretty good, though. And GOOG up 1.29% right now.
Obviously this path won't work for everyone, but here is how I got started.
University helpdesk. $7/hour, then $8/hour. Did really well there...so when the CS dept admin came asking for a good employee to train up as a Unix admin I was the first name out of my boss' mouth.
So now I was doing damn interesting work (at least for me). I didn't know shit about Linux/Solaris, but I learned as fast as I could:-)
Did this for a couple years and learned as much as I could. Pay was still crap but you wouldn't hear me complain.
Didn't graduate from the university...moved on to be a datacenter monkey. Not really all that interesting of work (a lot of manual labor, like lifting PCs, building PCs, building racks, etc), but valuable for the fact that it was a full-time job in IT...good for the resume I think.
I had that for 6 months, then moved to San Francisco where I was able to get two second interviews in 1 week. Got a job, and still at it. Basically I provide tech support to enterprise IT depts for a software company. Yeah, it's tech support, but tech support doesn't get much "higher" than what I am doing. I get paid very well now by my standards.
So I guess the morals of this story are: 1) Don't expect much pay for the first couple of years. Just concentrate on learning, and what is going to look good on a resume. 2) Make sure you are in a good IT market. DC and San Francisco/Silicon Valley I can personally vouch for. I have also heard Boston and Austin and/or Dallas are good.
And I am still pretty young so I can't really say this for sure...but it seems that as you become more valuable with experience, certs, and just plain knowledge, you will be able to call the shots more and more in terms of hours and location.
Personally, the next computer I build will be built from parts bought from a brick and mortar store.
I love newegg, but I'd rather not buy base components from them anymore. Motherboards, processors, RAM, video cards, et cetera, have a pretty high rate of failure when you are dealing with the consumer level. And it is a bitch for me to send stuff back since I live in the city where parking is near impossible. This means walking to the Staples to get shipping material, walking back to my apartment to pack it up, then walking 10 blocks each way to the post office to ship back the bad part. Then you have to wait several days to get your new part. This is ages when you want your shiny new rig. This was such an inconvenience last time that I didn't even get around to it and wasted about $150 on a bad motherboard.
With a local PC shop, I just have to walk a few blocks if a part is bad, and they can replace it on the spot. Sure, there is 10-15% markup, but there comes a point when your time is just too valuable to waste on customer service issues.
Now if you live in the suburbs, or you can ship stuff from your office or something, then online parts ordering becomes a bit more convenient than what I've described.
But as far as add-on parts, like another hard drive...anything where my PC will still work even if that particular part is bad, and there is a low rate of failure on new items, then I prefer to shop online.
I would really hope that a password that a user is meant to keep for one year is longer than six characters. If they are keeping it for a year then, hell, it could be 16 characters, with letters, numbers, and other characters and impossible to pronounce. It really isn't that hard to remember a long password, especially if you only have to remember one or two of them, and you don't have to change it for a long time.
Well, if you're logging in to some sort of network service, like Active Directory or eDirectory, the admin can quite easily make it so you cannot use any of your previous x passwords. I would imagine this is the normal corporate environment. In this environment, what you describe above would not work.
While you might have some good points in general, the example you used at the end isn't valid. Republicans aren't going for the green vote. If they were going for a third party vote at all, it is the Libertarian vote.
I don't see how any self-respecting geek could be satisfied with a Mac mini as their main or only machine. I personally want one as a side "toy". But really, I can't be satisfied with something that has less than 2 optical drives, a screaming video card, a few hard drives, tons of RAM, etc etc.
Now maybe if you did a Mac Mini as your main computer with a beefy server in the closet, or 2 or 3 mid-range servers in the closet...then we might be talking.
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Agreed...I personally just gave in and got a dual-core and 2GB of RAM. Runs very well with that config :)
Yes, as you've seen, you're not getting modded up saying anything positive about Windows XP.
I also prefer it for my desktop system...honestly I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I know how to use it very, very well.
My main shortcoming with OSX is that it only runs on Macs. I actually was looking at buying a Mac a few months ago and found that I could spend $4,000 on a Mac, or get slightly better hardware for a $1,000 build-it-myself PC.
Another annoyance I have of OSX, and I may be wrong on this but it at least isn't obvious how to do it, is that you can't maximize windows to fit the whole screen. To me, screen real estate is very, very valuable and I don't want to waste it on the background.
In text, most sarcasm fails.
The original parent was referring to people maliciously changing the homepage to begin with. A security update would be putting the homepage back to default. You can't sure them for anything. The only people you might be able to sue are whomever infected your computer.
God...that would be funny. But it would suck for the PR hit.
And then, of course, MS could just release a security update to put it back anyway.
But DAMN would that be funny.
I doubt converting Yahoo's farm to MS would up it by even 1%. There's a lot of web servers in the world.
OK, not sure if you are making a "prediction" or something, but the most YHOO has been up today is 3.57%
Still pretty good, though. And GOOG up 1.29% right now.
Obviously this path won't work for everyone, but here is how I got started.
:-)
University helpdesk. $7/hour, then $8/hour. Did really well there...so when the CS dept admin came asking for a good employee to train up as a Unix admin I was the first name out of my boss' mouth.
So now I was doing damn interesting work (at least for me). I didn't know shit about Linux/Solaris, but I learned as fast as I could
Did this for a couple years and learned as much as I could. Pay was still crap but you wouldn't hear me complain.
Didn't graduate from the university...moved on to be a datacenter monkey. Not really all that interesting of work (a lot of manual labor, like lifting PCs, building PCs, building racks, etc), but valuable for the fact that it was a full-time job in IT...good for the resume I think.
I had that for 6 months, then moved to San Francisco where I was able to get two second interviews in 1 week. Got a job, and still at it. Basically I provide tech support to enterprise IT depts for a software company. Yeah, it's tech support, but tech support doesn't get much "higher" than what I am doing. I get paid very well now by my standards.
So I guess the morals of this story are:
1) Don't expect much pay for the first couple of years. Just concentrate on learning, and what is going to look good on a resume.
2) Make sure you are in a good IT market. DC and San Francisco/Silicon Valley I can personally vouch for. I have also heard Boston and Austin and/or Dallas are good.
And I am still pretty young so I can't really say this for sure...but it seems that as you become more valuable with experience, certs, and just plain knowledge, you will be able to call the shots more and more in terms of hours and location.
Hope this helped.
However, what sounds most MS-like was this: ...
She disagreed that the vulnerabilities make it possible for a criminal to run code on a targeted machine.
Have you ever read the short description of a MS security patch? They quite frequently contain language similar to "A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® and gain complete control over it."
Many password change policies also have a minimum password age. So, for instance, a password has to be 90 days old before using it again.
Personally, the next computer I build will be built from parts bought from a brick and mortar store.
I love newegg, but I'd rather not buy base components from them anymore. Motherboards, processors, RAM, video cards, et cetera, have a pretty high rate of failure when you are dealing with the consumer level. And it is a bitch for me to send stuff back since I live in the city where parking is near impossible. This means walking to the Staples to get shipping material, walking back to my apartment to pack it up, then walking 10 blocks each way to the post office to ship back the bad part. Then you have to wait several days to get your new part. This is ages when you want your shiny new rig. This was such an inconvenience last time that I didn't even get around to it and wasted about $150 on a bad motherboard.
With a local PC shop, I just have to walk a few blocks if a part is bad, and they can replace it on the spot. Sure, there is 10-15% markup, but there comes a point when your time is just too valuable to waste on customer service issues.
Now if you live in the suburbs, or you can ship stuff from your office or something, then online parts ordering becomes a bit more convenient than what I've described.
But as far as add-on parts, like another hard drive...anything where my PC will still work even if that particular part is bad, and there is a low rate of failure on new items, then I prefer to shop online.
I would really hope that a password that a user is meant to keep for one year is longer than six characters. If they are keeping it for a year then, hell, it could be 16 characters, with letters, numbers, and other characters and impossible to pronounce. It really isn't that hard to remember a long password, especially if you only have to remember one or two of them, and you don't have to change it for a long time.
Well, if you're logging in to some sort of network service, like Active Directory or eDirectory, the admin can quite easily make it so you cannot use any of your previous x passwords. I would imagine this is the normal corporate environment. In this environment, what you describe above would not work.
While you might have some good points in general, the example you used at the end isn't valid. Republicans aren't going for the green vote. If they were going for a third party vote at all, it is the Libertarian vote.
Wait...you don't fly for safety reasons? I am assuming you drive a car?
Well, with iCal support, I suppose you could hack it somehow to sync to iCal, which would sync to your Palm?
If by "live" you mean "barely functioning," then you'd be right.
No, but in general it looks pretty nice (assuming all of the functions work).
Not being satisfied and not being able to afford something can coexist.
The poster was joking about the googlemobile. Hence the start of the next paragraph.
I don't see how any self-respecting geek could be satisfied with a Mac mini as their main or only machine. I personally want one as a side "toy". But really, I can't be satisfied with something that has less than 2 optical drives, a screaming video card, a few hard drives, tons of RAM, etc etc.
Now maybe if you did a Mac Mini as your main computer with a beefy server in the closet, or 2 or 3 mid-range servers in the closet...then we might be talking.
As long as you don't want to play games, that is.
Your World Delivered.
To the NSA.
(Thanks EFF)
Are we not talking about Bill Gates? Are you suggesting that Bill Gates doesn't know how to run his Windows XP machine?
Additionally, even if he didn't, his IT staff does, and will run it quite well for him through policies.
If you know what you're doing, your XP machine will not get hit by malware.
Yeah, I think that by far this is the biggest problem with iTunes.
*raises hand*
I will take that dare. I haven't said a word to "God" in about 12 years or so.