Funerals cost upwards of $5,000. So if the game company wants to pay for my funeral in exchange for putting a small advertisement on my headstone (that I'll never see anyway), ok by me...
Registration is only $25.00 per user and it can do damn near anything.
My friend and I helped develop/debug the ssh and the pass-thru printing for this program. Plus it has a very cool server command structure where you can load up any Windows program from a Unix prompt. I wrote a shell script that when run, opens up a users IE and takes them to a web page.
Out of all the low cost telnet/ssh clients I've seen, this is by far the best one.
Doohan maintained a healthy showbiz career despite the fact he was missing the middle finger of his right hand, a piece of trivia few fans are even aware of. Doohan lost the finger during D-Day of World War II when he was part of the Royal Canadian Artillery.
Same here... I've been running 4 FreeBSD OS systems for the past 6 years. Works like a charm, however, I did have a system crash.
I use Lone-Tar for FreeBSD as my backup solution. I simply did a quick re-install (took about 20 minutes with all defaults), then re-installed Lone-Tar and then restored my latest master. I was up and running again in 2 hours flat.
I'm now working with Cactus to create a disaster recovery (much like AirBag for SCO and Rescue Ranger for Linux) for FreeBSD.
I run FreeBSD, but my wife and kids run Windows 98/ME. When a security flaw/hole is discovered on FreeBSD and reported to the core development team (or the person responsible for the port), I usually get an email within 24 to 48 hours stating what the hole is, what it effects, along with a patch.
I can choose to install the patch and be safe, or ignore it if it doesn't apply to me (IE: I don't have that port installed and probably never will install it).
Microsoft also notifies users of security holes, (either via their web site or via the auto-update program). However, most of these security holes were reported weeks or months ago to Microsoft, and they chose to ignore it, because it wasn't a wide spread problem (not enough people are effected YET!). Only when the hole has been used to hit thousands of systems does Microsoft quickly release something to patch the system. Hell, I know of a couple of security holes reported last year, that they still haven't fixed.
Unless the hole gets wide media attention, Microsoft just doesn't care. I guess they think they're too busy to fix the problem, until it becomes a major problem. Not so with most Linux/Unix OS's. We usually get information pretty quickly (usually from the manufacturer), and we usually get a fix at the same time.
They did get away with it last time, why wouldnt they get away with making everyone buy new stuff again? It's not like it's done over a day, it's done over a device-generation. By the time its implemented all the way and switched on, 80 percent of the available devices will support the new coding, and the rest...
It's already started. I bought myself a new DVD player for Christmas. Found out that my old 9 year old TV didn't have the connections for it.
So I had to buy a brand new TV. I have a 19" color (9 year old) TV in my garage if anyone wants it. Only has 1 coaxial connector on it. Nothing else.
How much of a name, and what part of a name, does it take to be confusingly similar?
I remember a case a very long time ago. Warner Brothers -vs- The Marx Brothers.
The Marx Brothers, released a moved called "A Night In Casablanca". Warner Brothers insisted that "Casablanca" is a copyrighted name, and ordered The Marx Brothers to stop producing it.
Groucho Marx replied "We've been "BROTHERS" a lot longer than you, I order you to stop using the word "BROTHERS" in your title".
Warner Brothers dropped the law suit. I believe that made it a precedence that NAMES can not be copyrighted, only an idea can be copyrighted.
If that is the case, then Microsoft should have sued Winux a long time ago.
With the Linux binaries that come with FreeBSD, it is pretty damn close to compatible. I run 8 different FreeBSD machines (at work and home), and all of them run different equipment/devices (most using the Linux drivers), and they all run flawlessly.
About a year ago, I had the Quake 2 for Linux running on both RedHat, and FreeBSD (using the Linux binaries)... FreeBSD handled Quake 2 better than Linux did.
Point of fact is that there's nothing that someone can't do on Linux that I can't duplicate on FreeBSD.
Okay, I have a Windows workstation at home... So I decided to install the patch. I downloaded the 6.0 version (knowing full well that I have IE 6.0 installed).
When I run it, I get a message "This update required IE 6.0" with an OK button.
I immediately verify that I am running 6.0 (which I am), and try again... Same result.
So I decide to try the 5.5 SP2 version... This one states that I have to have IE 5.5 SP2 installed...
The really sad part is that in order for me to call Microsoft and inform them that the patch doesn't work, I have to pay $35.00 on my credit card.
Since shipping companies have insurance, they don't worry about damages...
Why not have the employees be responsible for damage? If the shipment becomes damaged, costs should be deducted from the paychecks of every employee who handled that package. Tracking devices already make that possible (some what).
This way, all employees of UPS and/or FedEx (or any other shipping company), would be really careful when they realize that their salary could easily be decreased.
I had a friend work for FedEx one time (she was manager at one of the satelite stations), and she said, she would never ship anything valuable with her own company.
My company has used them for years...
We've had drives (which were mounted with 4 screws) come out and lay in the bottom of the case... I even had a CPU which was completely mounted with the lever down, fall out during shipping. It arrived at my customers site with the CPU loose in the case. I've had cards get knocked out, etc... CD Rom drive once came out and cracked the motherboard... Yes, everything was insured, but still the customer had to do without his/her server. Sorry, we won't be shipping via FedEx again.
So why is it that you can't find a reputable shipping company, that actually takes pride in taking care of your computer hardware?
I have an Associates Degree in CS. My intention was to become a programmer. The software company I work for now, had a SysAdmin, but he left... So I took over his duties. I knew a little bit of Unix (what I learned in college), but not really enough to consider myself a sysadmin.
Over the years however, I taught myself FreeBSD by installing it and reading every article I could find on the subject.
The newsgroups help a lot too... You can ask lots of questions, and describe problems you are having, and chances are there are others who are having or have had similar problems, and they will respond in kind with the solutions.
After 4 years of blood, sweat and tears, I'm now the companies System Administrator (seeing over 6 FreeBSD boxes and 1 Windows box).
The rest of the office runs some kind of Windows OS on their workstations, I run FreeBSD X-Windows with a KDE desktop.
I am going to install DSL on a Linux box tomorrow night -- knowing that others have this working in the area, and was told by technical support with Southwestern Bell that this is impossible
I recently connected my FreeBSD server to SW Bell's DSL service... They didn't tell me it was impossible, but that I would have to have a professional installation ($200) and that I didn't qualify for the customer self-install because my system isn't running Windoze...
Okay, so the tech arrives, and looks at my server and says "what's that?"... I asked him if he had ever worked with Unix before, and he said "no..." So I took the modem from him, and connected it and was up and running in 15 minutes while he had his arms folded and was watching over my shoulder.
When I got my bill for DSL install and it included the $200, I promptly called them and asked them to credit me, because I'm not going to pay someone to watch me work... Took about an hour and 3 conversations with supervisors, but they finally credited me the $200.
One Christmas while in college, about 14 years ago I was driving home for the holidays. I was attending school in East Camden, Ar. and my parents lived in Missouri. (about a 5 hour trip).
Somewhere between Pine Pluff and Searcy, is a huge stretch of road with no entrace or exit ramps. It's about a 10 mile stretch.
It was the middle of the afternoon, and I decided to get to Searcy before getting gas and something to eat. I came upon a green pick-up truck, and when passing it, the driver (who was very pale looking), smiled at me. But after passing him, I looked in my mirrors, and couldn't see the truck anywhere.
I stopped and got out, but for the life of me couldn't see where the truck had gone... No exit or entrace ramps and open fields as far as the eye could see... No other roads anywhere...
Anyway, I got to a small diner in Searcy, and while waiting for my food, noticed a bunch of newspaper clippings on the wall. One of them was from 1972 and stated that a man named "Ernest" who was driving a green pick-up truck, went missing and had never been seen again. He went missing, while traveling from Little Rock to Searcy.
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Also, don't forget Hayden Christensen in "Life As A House" with Kevin Kline... He did a superb job in that movie...
The actors/actresses are all fine, it's just that Lucas' direction made them lifeless robots.
Registration is only $25.00 per user and it can do damn near anything.
My friend and I helped develop/debug the ssh and the pass-thru printing for this program. Plus it has a very cool server command structure where you can load up any Windows program from a Unix prompt. I wrote a shell script that when run, opens up a users IE and takes them to a web page.
Out of all the low cost telnet/ssh clients I've seen, this is by far the best one.
Sorry, but I don't pay $50.00 for games either... :)
Don't forget your towel on May 25th.
No wonder he never gave Kirk the finger.
Roll of aluminum foil ($10.00). Just put some over your head each time you want to use or are near a cell phone.
It was rather funny... I'd wait about 5 minutes after I noticed we were down, and call the ISP up.
The tech guy got on the phone, and I told him they were having a problem.
He was so clueless, the conversation on his end went something like this:
"We are? Oh... wow... I don't think so... Err.. I can ping yahoo.com just fine... You sure? "
It was always the same tech support guy which led me to believe that they only had the one.
I use Lone-Tar for FreeBSD as my backup solution. I simply did a quick re-install (took about 20 minutes with all defaults), then re-installed Lone-Tar and then restored my latest master. I was up and running again in 2 hours flat.
I'm now working with Cactus to create a disaster recovery (much like AirBag for SCO and Rescue Ranger for Linux) for FreeBSD.
Jar Jar may be bad for the movie, but honestly, are you going to NOT go see it when it is released in theatres?
Let's face it, we're all going to see the movie despite Jar Jar's appearance.
I run FreeBSD, but my wife and kids run Windows 98/ME. When a security flaw/hole is discovered on FreeBSD and reported to the core development team (or the person responsible for the port), I usually get an email within 24 to 48 hours stating what the hole is, what it effects, along with a patch.
I can choose to install the patch and be safe, or ignore it if it doesn't apply to me (IE: I don't have that port installed and probably never will install it).
Microsoft also notifies users of security holes, (either via their web site or via the auto-update program). However, most of these security holes were reported weeks or months ago to Microsoft, and they chose to ignore it, because it wasn't a wide spread problem (not enough people are effected YET!). Only when the hole has been used to hit thousands of systems does Microsoft quickly release something to patch the system. Hell, I know of a couple of security holes reported last year, that they still haven't fixed.
Unless the hole gets wide media attention, Microsoft just doesn't care. I guess they think they're too busy to fix the problem, until it becomes a major problem. Not so with most Linux/Unix OS's. We usually get information pretty quickly (usually from the manufacturer), and we usually get a fix at the same time.
And here I thought masterbation had something to do with that...
It's already started. I bought myself a new DVD player for Christmas. Found out that my old 9 year old TV didn't have the connections for it.
So I had to buy a brand new TV. I have a 19" color (9 year old) TV in my garage if anyone wants it. Only has 1 coaxial connector on it. Nothing else.
I remember a case a very long time ago. Warner Brothers -vs- The Marx Brothers.
The Marx Brothers, released a moved called "A Night In Casablanca". Warner Brothers insisted that "Casablanca" is a copyrighted name, and ordered The Marx Brothers to stop producing it.
Groucho Marx replied "We've been "BROTHERS" a lot longer than you, I order you to stop using the word "BROTHERS" in your title".
Warner Brothers dropped the law suit. I believe that made it a precedence that NAMES can not be copyrighted, only an idea can be copyrighted.
If that is the case, then Microsoft should have sued Winux a long time ago.
Webmin is one of the biggest security holes you can install. I've known too many sites that got hacked because webmin was installed.
About a year ago, I had the Quake 2 for Linux running on both RedHat, and FreeBSD (using the Linux binaries)... FreeBSD handled Quake 2 better than Linux did.
Point of fact is that there's nothing that someone can't do on Linux that I can't duplicate on FreeBSD.
For all my new installations, I install off the CD, and CVSUP to STABLE (which gives me the latest fixes and releases).
When I run it, I get a message "This update required IE 6.0" with an OK button.
I immediately verify that I am running 6.0 (which I am), and try again... Same result.
So I decide to try the 5.5 SP2 version... This one states that I have to have IE 5.5 SP2 installed...
The really sad part is that in order for me to call Microsoft and inform them that the patch doesn't work, I have to pay $35.00 on my credit card.
Oh well... Another Micro$loth fsck-up.
I run a full FreeBSD shop... From server to workstation... Runs fast, secure, and efficient.
Why not have the employees be responsible for damage? If the shipment becomes damaged, costs should be deducted from the paychecks of every employee who handled that package. Tracking devices already make that possible (some what).
This way, all employees of UPS and/or FedEx (or any other shipping company), would be really careful when they realize that their salary could easily be decreased.
I had a friend work for FedEx one time (she was manager at one of the satelite stations), and she said, she would never ship anything valuable with her own company.
So why is it that you can't find a reputable shipping company, that actually takes pride in taking care of your computer hardware?
Over the years however, I taught myself FreeBSD by installing it and reading every article I could find on the subject.
The newsgroups help a lot too... You can ask lots of questions, and describe problems you are having, and chances are there are others who are having or have had similar problems, and they will respond in kind with the solutions.
After 4 years of blood, sweat and tears, I'm now the companies System Administrator (seeing over 6 FreeBSD boxes and 1 Windows box).
The rest of the office runs some kind of Windows OS on their workstations, I run FreeBSD X-Windows with a KDE desktop.
I recently connected my FreeBSD server to SW Bell's DSL service... They didn't tell me it was impossible, but that I would have to have a professional installation ($200) and that I didn't qualify for the customer self-install because my system isn't running Windoze...
Okay, so the tech arrives, and looks at my server and says "what's that?"... I asked him if he had ever worked with Unix before, and he said "no..." So I took the modem from him, and connected it and was up and running in 15 minutes while he had his arms folded and was watching over my shoulder.
When I got my bill for DSL install and it included the $200, I promptly called them and asked them to credit me, because I'm not going to pay someone to watch me work... Took about an hour and 3 conversations with supervisors, but they finally credited me the $200.
Somewhere between Pine Pluff and Searcy, is a huge stretch of road with no entrace or exit ramps. It's about a 10 mile stretch.
It was the middle of the afternoon, and I decided to get to Searcy before getting gas and something to eat. I came upon a green pick-up truck, and when passing it, the driver (who was very pale looking), smiled at me. But after passing him, I looked in my mirrors, and couldn't see the truck anywhere.
I stopped and got out, but for the life of me couldn't see where the truck had gone... No exit or entrace ramps and open fields as far as the eye could see... No other roads anywhere...
Anyway, I got to a small diner in Searcy, and while waiting for my food, noticed a bunch of newspaper clippings on the wall. One of them was from 1972 and stated that a man named "Ernest" who was driving a green pick-up truck, went missing and had never been seen again. He went missing, while traveling from Little Rock to Searcy.