My figurring shows that the minimum they owe me, with no 1 year collection exstention and damamges, is $30K. With the above it gets a lot closer to $90K.
I have had some tough calls in my time but I have never had to walk a robot 283 million miles away through brain surgery. Man I am glad I did not get that call. This is going to blow there call averages all to hell. I raise a cup of Joe to you, Rover Help Desk man.
Now would be the time to strike on a new name change for the system. Since we have two X groups joining and it a new X orginization. I suggest they rename it to "XXX Windows System". I would bet they would see there number of downloads skyrocket.
Maybe if the Beagle 2 had onstar they would have an idea where it is now. privacy be damned.
Onstar: "Onstar operator here. I see that your airbags have deployed do you need assitance?"
Beagle 2: "Uh, no, everythings fine here."
Onstar: " We are concerend that you have fallen in a crator, can you confirm?"
Beagle 2 : " Look can I get some privacy here! I am in the crator taking a wicked piss. You would to if you had to travel that far without a potty break! I'll be in contact when I am done."
See mystery solved and an example of when to much privacy causes confussion.
The martians aren't stupid. They know what the europeans did to the american indians. They are not about to let ANYTHING with a flag, or possibility of a flag, land on their planet.
Europeans have this anoying habit of showing up, sticking a flag in something, and proclaiming that they have discovered it. This of course iritates the people already there as they felt that maybe they discovered it first. Where upon the europeans point out that they do not have a flag and that they are disqualified on that technicality. Then they shot them. Martians are just doing what the indians should have done to columbuss. Thats not a crater, thats a barbecue pit and the martians are about to have beagle fricassee.
The article, as good as it is, unfortunatly suffers from tech miopia. The reason that microsoft is flat has nothing to do with how well there tech is doing. It is rooted in a much simpler fact. Recently Microsoft was forced to start paying divedends on the money they make to there stockholders. Several lawsuits and tax investigations forced there hands.
Before this they could keep that beautiful curve, it cost them nothig to do so. Now, with the new divedends biting them in the rear, if they keep that curve then there divedend payouts must match. I would expect them to be flat from now until doomsday frankly to decrease there dividend liability.
So in short, yes microsoft decided to keep themselves flat, but it has nothing to do with Linux.
I work across the street from ODU and recently graduated from that campus and the problem is worse than the article makes out. Sure they are a piss ton in the hole on this but the black eye for ODU goes much deeper. The maglev is bridged across a major thoroughfare for Norfolk. Tens of thousands of people drive by every day and look at the eyesore that the maglev has become. The track is not complete and hangs above the road. The station near Hampton Blvd is wrapped in steel support structures because the work of pouring the concrete was stopped in the middle. It has been that way for three YEARS now.
Hard to get new funding for projects when that site greets every visitor to the campus. The other end is in no better shape but at least it is buried deeper in the campus so it cannot be immediately seen. I have heard that they have engineering students mixing concrete by hand trying to finish that end.
I have been following this account for a while in the papers as an student I wanted to know where my tuition was going. So I asked around the engineering friends I had to see what the holdup is. The answer I got made me laugh. Before the project began they very carefully figured out the force to get the car to 40 MPH, they figured the energy to make it float. They then designed the track and started building the car and end points. Only then did anyone do the math on stopping distance for that design. All other designs have been over several miles of track, this one is very short. Turns out that the stopping distance of the car going 40 MPH is greater than the length of track that they have. Regular trains have friction to help in this process; the whole point of a maglev is to remove that friction. Other models have simply coasted for a bit before coming to rest, but in such a short space that is not practical here. They have to figure out how to create a breaking friction in a system designed to remove that friction. Chalk another one up for the engineering geniuses! There choice is to drop the cars speed to 10 MPH or less, at which point why did you build a maglev when a cable car would have been as fast? They are in major poopy and don't know what to do. As to removal good luck, American Maglev did not file any of the other bonds that they were supposed to, what makes you think they filed the removal bond? In short ODU bought a pig and a poke and has egg on there face.
Oh, and of note, where they built it was way inconvenient for anyone to use it anyway. Why wait for a train when you could just cross the street?
"I ask him if he thinks maybe it's a beacon or a landing site for invading spaceships from Jupiter. `Maybe they're coming for some barbecue," I suggest.
"Could be," Edwards shrugs. "But we're closed on Sundays." "
That sums the world up so nicely. Here we have the intillectual worked into a tizzy over this mystery. We have the entire slashdot community talking about it. What does the working man have to think about it? he just doesn't want the aliens to show up sunday cause he is closed and he can't server them. In a nutshell it is saying that I have real work to do and a bussiness to run. I produce something in this world so really I don't have time to worry about silly crap on the street. I like that idea. A great way to realize that even if we had the answer it would not change on thing about our lives today.
but linux already has the perfect PDA game. I think Nethack would run beautifully on this device. The only problem is that I would get even less done. Nethack on this PDA with a nice tileset may very well be a must have killer app.
Make sure you clear the worm now. Patching stops the infection from getting in, but if you are already infected the patch does not stop you from infecting other people with it.
Everyone, make sure you are cleaning up after the patch. This is a common oversite when it comes to these sort of Worms.
On XP you are getting two error codes. The first is a system shutdown window tellign you that the RPC service must be restarted,. This gives you 30 seconds before reboot. Iniated by NT Authority\system. This is a succesful XP infection
The other is Windows cannot open this file:
File: TFTp784
This appears to be an unsuccesful try.
For windows 2000 it crashes svchost trying to get in it appears. Just apply the patch to stop the crashes. It does not appear to get into the system in this case
This worm is bugged it seems. From XP systems I have seen it throws an error to the screen about RPC services and reboots the system. On Windows 2000 Pro it crashes the svchost and a lot of stuff stops working. Just and FYI for those trying to diagnose systems right this minute.
Once again we see the power of open source! From anounced flaw to exploit in two days. Beat that Microshaft!..... Oh.... Wait.... This is not a good thing is it....
We need to turn this into a boxing match analogy to make it more fun. Let's see SCO started this morning demanding an end to the license. That is the opening jab. IBM has blocked that feeling shot and has come back with a jab themselves. The first round is under way folks!
The other stuff was just the prefight warm up. To bad no one got bit ala Tyson VS. Lewis. I could just see the news now if that had happened. "SCO CEO Chomps IBM CEO over Unix Row, Film at 11."
Even though it is composed of major spaghetti code and is attributed to a bad programmer hacking away at it for billions of years, DNA has not suffered a root level exploit yet! Stick that in your trustworthy computting pipe and smoke it.
I just checked it out and their are no animaniacs to be found. I thought this would be cool spoof using the characters from the animaniacs but all I got was a lousy animeish samurai thing....
Bring a tear to my eye this news does. It is so 1999 and sweet of them. Brings back found memories of the old new economy. Hopefull all those $200K CFO's from back then will lift a spatula at their current job in honor of this event.
Here is something odd. As people have been posting links I have been eagerly following them. I am noticing a disturbing trend. Every link has led to a place that had laptops on average $500 to $1000 more than the same laptop from a major vendor with windows on it. I am starting to think that we linux lovers may be taking it up the butt the same way that vegetarians get reamed for "Organic" produce.. See a market , exploit that market and I think we may being exploited here.
Called them today looking at laptops. Told her I did not want to pay for XP , she told me that removing it would void the waranty on the laptop! She suggested that I buy a bigger drive and do a split partion. I was disgusted that I Was going to be charged even more just to run linux. I am not even sure how software can void a hardware warranty. The call ended with them still having a laptop and me still looking.
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Check the pictures guys. It's very obvious that they did a screen swap to a lower body. This whole thing is a huge fake. Want proof?
Check all the pictures labeled warped screen. You will notice two things. Their is a plastic IR cover to the right and an RCA plug to the left. Both are made from the same plastic as the keys of the keyboard, which if you remember correctly completely deformed in the oven.
Both of these peices of plastic show NO deformity. Also the white plastic of the RCA plug has not even turned brown at all. This is a total fake.
I would take the publishing of a science paper these days with a grain of salt. The register just did some ground breaking reporting in this area for another company like this and found out that the state of peer review at most of these mags is poor at best.
As long as it sounds plausible then it gets published. Stringing enough buzz words together usually does the trick. Unfortunatly the science mags have gone the same way as the game review mags. Don't make waves or you don't get content and loose readership and advertising dollars.
Must have been a slow news day. I love it when people report on an ongoing trend as if it is "New" all of a sudden. What is their next news flash? That moisture, when it falls from the sky in the form of rain, tends to get things wet?
I worked for a dial-up ISP for several years. In 1999 they closed our forums so that the techs could not answer questions that way. The only way after that to get tech support was to call us or to send an E-mail. No public forums allowed. At the time it was justified by saying that we were only following an industry trend.
What this article should have pointed out is that the shutting of access to a help forum has more to do with the disinegration of the item being supported. You only restrict access if their is a problem. This is a bigger indicator that the broadband networks are overloaded and are starting to self destruct more than it is a new indicator of customer service. Look for some major system failures in the next year (like anyone with any industry knowledge didn't already know that).
I work for a PBS station in VA, WHRO. We are currently being sued by a station WBOC-TV Salisbury, Md to stop the rollout of our Digital TV because it disrupts their signal on the Chesapeake side of the water.
From what I understand of the problem their were bad assumptions made by the FCC when it came to the digital signal. 1. That it would not bounce and doppler like analog signal does. Well it turns out it is even more prone to it than analog was due to the higher frequencies and watages involved.
2. That this would not affect a $Properly setup atena. Seems reasonable until you find out what the variable properly is. Apparently the FCC does not care about interference unless the atena is aligned directly towards the sending tower (that never happens and varies from channel to channel) and that it is not higher than 30 feet (one story home. Any deviation from that and it becomes your problem, not theirs.
This is also not the first case of this to happen. Their are previous cases in california and milwauke. Read more here
This is going to crop up as more and more channels go digital. You will start seeing it reported more as stations start to battle each other. The sad part is that most likely the FCC will wash their hands initally and the airwaves will become as if the FCC does not exist.
This is the final peice of the puzzle. We have ultra fast 3D graphics pumping machines. We have broadband to the home. And now, finally, I have a picutre that will be truelly life like. Porn will never be the same again!
I predict the de-evolution of the human species in the next one hundered years due to this product as the smart people refuse to leave their homes and breed. The top inteligencia will die off and leave only the sub-humans behind. Repeat and Rinse until we decide to head back into the trees again.
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My figurring shows that the minimum they owe me, with no 1 year collection exstention and damamges, is $30K. With the above it gets a lot closer to $90K.
I have had some tough calls in my time but I have never had to walk a robot 283 million miles away through brain surgery. Man I am glad I did not get that call. This is going to blow there call averages all to hell. I raise a cup of Joe to you, Rover Help Desk man.
One down, thousand to go. Keep at it MPAA and you just might get enough tickets to get that secret decoder ring in the prize case.
The only bad thing is that the screeners will dry up for a couple of months while the release groups go into damage control mode.
But they will be back in time for the DVDRIP.
Now would be the time to strike on a new name change for the system. Since we have two X groups joining and it a new X orginization. I suggest they rename it to "XXX Windows System". I would bet they would see there number of downloads skyrocket.
Maybe if the Beagle 2 had onstar they would have an idea where it is now. privacy be damned.
Onstar: "Onstar operator here. I see that your airbags have deployed do you need assitance?"
Beagle 2: "Uh, no, everythings fine here."
Onstar: " We are concerend that you have fallen in a crator, can you confirm?"
Beagle 2 : " Look can I get some privacy here! I am in the crator taking a wicked piss. You would to if you had to travel that far without a potty break! I'll be in contact when I am done."
See mystery solved and an example of when to much privacy causes confussion.
The martians aren't stupid. They know what the europeans did to the american indians. They are not about to let ANYTHING with a flag, or possibility of a flag, land on their planet.
Europeans have this anoying habit of showing up, sticking a flag in something, and proclaiming that they have discovered it. This of course iritates the people already there as they felt that maybe they discovered it first. Where upon the europeans point out that they do not have a flag and that they are disqualified on that technicality. Then they shot them. Martians are just doing what the indians should have done to columbuss. Thats not a crater, thats a barbecue pit and the martians are about to have beagle fricassee.
The article, as good as it is, unfortunatly suffers from tech miopia. The reason that microsoft is flat has nothing to do with how well there tech is doing. It is rooted in a much simpler fact. Recently Microsoft was forced to start paying divedends on the money they make to there stockholders. Several lawsuits and tax investigations forced there hands.
Before this they could keep that beautiful curve, it cost them nothig to do so. Now, with the new divedends biting them in the rear, if they keep that curve then there divedend payouts must match. I would expect them to be flat from now until doomsday frankly to decrease there dividend liability.
So in short, yes microsoft decided to keep themselves flat, but it has nothing to do with Linux.
I work across the street from ODU and recently graduated from that campus and the problem is worse than the article makes out. Sure they are a piss ton in the hole on this but the black eye for ODU goes much deeper. The maglev is bridged across a major thoroughfare for Norfolk. Tens of thousands of people drive by every day and look at the eyesore that the maglev has become. The track is not complete and hangs above the road. The station near Hampton Blvd is wrapped in steel support structures because the work of pouring the concrete was stopped in the middle. It has been that way for three YEARS now.
Hard to get new funding for projects when that site greets every visitor to the campus. The other end is in no better shape but at least it is buried deeper in the campus so it cannot be immediately seen. I have heard that they have engineering students mixing concrete by hand trying to finish that end.
I have been following this account for a while in the papers as an student I wanted to know where my tuition was going. So I asked around the engineering friends I had to see what the holdup is. The answer I got made me laugh. Before the project began they very carefully figured out the force to get the car to 40 MPH, they figured the energy to make it float. They then designed the track and started building the car and end points. Only then did anyone do the math on stopping distance for that design. All other designs have been over several miles of track, this one is very short. Turns out that the stopping distance of the car going 40 MPH is greater than the length of track that they have. Regular trains have friction to help in this process; the whole point of a maglev is to remove that friction. Other models have simply coasted for a bit before coming to rest, but in such a short space that is not practical here. They have to figure out how to create a breaking friction in a system designed to remove that friction. Chalk another one up for the engineering geniuses! There choice is to drop the cars speed to 10 MPH or less, at which point why did you build a maglev when a cable car would have been as fast? They are in major poopy and don't know what to do. As to removal good luck, American Maglev did not file any of the other bonds that they were supposed to, what makes you think they filed the removal bond? In short ODU bought a pig and a poke and has egg on there face.
Oh, and of note, where they built it was way inconvenient for anyone to use it anyway. Why wait for a train when you could just cross the street?
This article has a great ending.
"I ask him if he thinks maybe it's a beacon or a landing site for invading spaceships from Jupiter. `Maybe they're coming for some barbecue," I suggest.
"Could be," Edwards shrugs. "But we're closed on Sundays." "
That sums the world up so nicely. Here we have the intillectual worked into a tizzy over this mystery. We have the entire slashdot community talking about it. What does the working man have to think about it? he just doesn't want the aliens to show up sunday cause he is closed and he can't server them. In a nutshell it is saying that I have real work to do and a bussiness to run. I produce something in this world so really I don't have time to worry about silly crap on the street. I like that idea. A great way to realize that even if we had the answer it would not change on thing about our lives today.
but linux already has the perfect PDA game. I think Nethack would run beautifully on this device. The only problem is that I would get even less done. Nethack on this PDA with a nice tileset may very well be a must have killer app.
Make sure you clear the worm now. Patching stops the infection from getting in, but if you are already infected the patch does not stop you from infecting other people with it.
Everyone, make sure you are cleaning up after the patch. This is a common oversite when it comes to these sort of Worms.
Papa Legba
On XP you are getting two error codes.
The first is a system shutdown window tellign you that the RPC service must be restarted,. This gives you 30 seconds before reboot. Iniated by NT Authority\system. This is a succesful XP infection
The other is Windows cannot open this file:
File: TFTp784
This appears to be an unsuccesful try.
For windows 2000 it crashes svchost trying to get in it appears. Just apply the patch to stop the crashes. It does not appear to get into the system in this case
Hope this helps everyone
Cagliostro
This worm is bugged it seems. From XP systems I have seen it throws an error to the screen about RPC services and reboots the system. On Windows 2000 Pro it crashes the svchost and a lot of stuff stops working. Just and FYI for those trying to diagnose systems right this minute.
Cagliostro
Once again we see the power of open source! From anounced flaw to exploit in two days. Beat that Microshaft!..... Oh.... Wait.... This is not a good thing is it....
We need to turn this into a boxing match analogy to make it more fun. Let's see SCO started this morning demanding an end to the license. That is the opening jab. IBM has blocked that feeling shot and has come back with a jab themselves. The first round is under way folks!
The other stuff was just the prefight warm up. To bad no one got bit ala Tyson VS. Lewis. I could just see the news now if that had happened. "SCO CEO Chomps IBM CEO over Unix Row, Film at 11."
Even though it is composed of major spaghetti code and is attributed to a bad programmer hacking away at it for billions of years, DNA has not suffered a root level exploit yet! Stick that in your trustworthy computting pipe and smoke it.
I just checked it out and their are no animaniacs to be found. I thought this would be cool spoof using the characters from the animaniacs but all I got was a lousy animeish samurai thing....
Bring a tear to my eye this news does. It is so 1999 and sweet of them. Brings back found memories of the old new economy. Hopefull all those $200K CFO's from back then will lift a spatula at their current job in honor of this event.
Here is something odd. As people have been posting links I have been eagerly following them. I am noticing a disturbing trend. Every link has led to a place that had laptops on average $500 to $1000 more than the same laptop from a major vendor with windows on it. I am starting to think that we linux lovers may be taking it up the butt the same way that vegetarians get reamed for "Organic" produce..
See a market , exploit that market and I think we may being exploited here.
Called them today looking at laptops. Told her I did not want to pay for XP , she told me that removing it would void the waranty on the laptop! She suggested that I buy a bigger drive and do a split partion. I was disgusted that I Was going to be charged even more just to run linux. I am not even sure how software can void a hardware warranty. The call ended with them still having a laptop and me still looking.
Check the pictures guys. It's very obvious that they did a screen swap to a lower body. This whole thing is a huge fake. Want proof?
Check all the pictures labeled warped screen. You will notice two things. Their is a plastic IR cover to the right and an RCA plug to the left. Both are made from the same plastic as the keys of the keyboard, which if you remember correctly completely deformed in the oven.
Both of these peices of plastic show NO deformity. Also the white plastic of the RCA plug has not even turned brown at all. This is a total fake.
I would take the publishing of a science paper these days with a grain of salt. The register just did some ground breaking reporting in this area for another company like this and found out that the state of peer review at most of these mags is poor at best.
As long as it sounds plausible then it gets published. Stringing enough buzz words together usually does the trick. Unfortunatly the science mags have gone the same way as the game review mags. Don't make waves or you don't get content and loose readership and advertising dollars.
Read the whole article at the Register
Must have been a slow news day. I love it when people report on an ongoing trend as if it is "New" all of a sudden. What is their next news flash? That moisture, when it falls from the sky in the form of rain, tends to get things wet?
I worked for a dial-up ISP for several years. In 1999 they closed our forums so that the techs could not answer questions that way. The only way after that to get tech support was to call us or to send an E-mail. No public forums allowed. At the time it was justified by saying that we were only following an industry trend.
What this article should have pointed out is that the shutting of access to a help forum has more to do with the disinegration of the item being supported. You only restrict access if their is a problem. This is a bigger indicator that the broadband networks are overloaded and are starting to self destruct more than it is a new indicator of customer service. Look for some major system failures in the next year (like anyone with any industry knowledge didn't already know that).
I work for a PBS station in VA, WHRO. We are currently being sued by a station WBOC-TV Salisbury, Md to stop the rollout of our Digital TV because it disrupts their signal on the Chesapeake side of the water.
From what I understand of the problem their were bad assumptions made by the FCC when it came to the digital signal.
1. That it would not bounce and doppler like analog signal does. Well it turns out it is even more prone to it than analog was due to the higher frequencies and watages involved.
2. That this would not affect a $Properly setup atena. Seems reasonable until you find out what the variable properly is. Apparently the FCC does not care about interference unless the atena is aligned directly towards the sending tower (that never happens and varies from channel to channel) and that it is not higher than 30 feet (one story home. Any deviation from that and it becomes your problem, not theirs.
This is also not the first case of this to happen. Their are previous cases in california and milwauke. Read more
here
This is going to crop up as more and more channels go digital. You will start seeing it reported more as stations start to battle each other. The sad part is that most likely the FCC will wash their hands initally and the airwaves will become as if the FCC does not exist.
This is the final peice of the puzzle. We have ultra fast 3D graphics pumping machines. We have broadband to the home. And now, finally, I have a picutre that will be truelly life like. Porn will never be the same again!
I predict the de-evolution of the human species in the next one hundered years due to this product as the smart people refuse to leave their homes and breed. The top inteligencia will die off and leave only the sub-humans behind. Repeat and Rinse until we decide to head back into the trees again.