My twelve-year-old is a huge HP fan (all of my kids are) but she also enjoyed the Narnia series, Ender's Game, and Wrinkle in Time. She read the Hobbit, but said it was hard to finish (it does kinda drag in the middle). Another consideration in this age bracket is Accelerated Reader. If the lids you're buying for have Accelerated Reader at school, then you get bonus points for any book that's on the AR list.
Imaging is your friend. I set up this box in August as follows:
Partitions for Win XP system, Win 2000 system, Linux, and Data.
XP system is assigned to C: and has Windows, Netware, Office, plus misc applications. I save an image of C: using ntfsclone with --save-image option from the ntfstools package in the latest knoppix. The bzipped image file is 1.9GB, and is scp'ed to a server drive. A dvd-rom or 4 cdroms would work too. It took a while to get Windows just the way I wanted it for the image, but I could always restore the previous image and continue with trial and error.
Data partition is assigned to D: drive and has my PRIMARY USER PROFILE, plus dev tools and data. That took some registry diving, but I can restore the C: drive image without trashing my data. I have restored the image once since the initial setup, and it worked pretty much like I expected it too. One thing to keep in mind is that the USER.DAT registry file is stored in the profile directory, so any cruft that accumulates under HKEY_CURRRENT_USER will survive the re-image.
An image of the Win 2000 partition (OS and drivers only - no apps) is about 500MB. There are a few screwy things that happen when I access the D: drive profile with Win 2000, like the Start Menu usage data gets scrambled so that the least-used items appear to be most used, but I only use 2000 for testing anyway. XP has not yet shown any perfomance degradation, but when it does, I'll be ready.
in a 1979 GM Chevette whose brake system, unknowingly to me up till that time, was defective.
All Chevettes had Fred Flintsone brakes. You had to push the brake pedal so hard, you might as well drag your foot on the ground to stop. Also, a roommate of mine found out the hard way that a pony keg will not fit in the hatchback without reclining the back seat. It looks like the hatch will close, until the lock latches and the window cracks.
I see two attempts on the "awstats" series of URLs in five weeks worth of Apache logs, one from Oct 17, and another from Oct 21. Not exactly breaking down the door, are they? Code Red lit up our logs like a christmas tree. Now *that* was widespread.
IIRC, the name "rootkit" came from the fact that you had to get root access to be able to install it. The rootkit itself was used to conceal the fact that the system was compromised, but the compromise had to happen first.
Has the payche(ck|que) from Rupert Murdoch arrived yet?
I was currious, so I looked. FoxNews (or FauxNews if you like) picked it up from eWeek.com by our old friend Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. So rather than/. linking to Fox for cash, its Fox reposting insightful even-handed journalism to generate hits. I think the later is more noteworthy.
It was a joke. In TFA, the author makes repeated references to the "Dung of a Male Bovine", which he abbreviated "DoMB". I chuckled when your post referenced the same substance with a different name. I was merely pointing that fact out.
You need to start with a concrete list of services that you are responsible for providing (email, web access, applications). Then, start with the services that are not currently up to par. Identify specific problems and issues, and plan upgrades from there. That way, when the complaints about "Why do we have to change" and "What's wrong with how we did it before" start, you will have an answer ready.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, point out exactly how its broke and what will happen if it doesn't get fixed.
Actually, the Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella, which was recently bought by Sun.
The heritage of the original Santa Cruz Operation, up to including the present The SCO Group entity, has been well documented by Groklaw, hence the link.
Discounts are a tactic that we have seen MS use (many times) to persuade corps and governments to abandon large-scale linux migrations. It has worked well for them and become a proven strategy. There is no reason that vendors of other systems can not use the same strategy.
Actually, Cringley put Google and Skype in the same sentence a couple weeks back, but didn't draw the line in that direction.
For Internet searching, Google is a perfect example of this latter effect, entering the market years after Alta Vista and Excite. And the Google of VoIP looks like it might be Skype, which was almost sold last week to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $3 billion.
He did take a stab at a vague description of the buyer-to-be, and Google could be a contender:
Expect it to go to either a major broadband provider or, more likely, to a big mobile carrier with no fixed telephone assets. And whoever buys Skype, expect them to throw money into making the company into even more of a multinational telecom headache than it currently is.
Cringley has tried to put Google in the broadband business before, buying up dark fiber and such. This may not be too far off.
Ditto for Windows, Firefox 1.0.4 + Tabbrowser Prefs 1.2.5. The injected content opens in a new tab rather than one of the MSDN frames. Since the behavior of this bug can be influenced by an extension, and it is a regression to start with, expect a patch very shortly.
The Tabbrowser Prefs extension r00lz. Don't leave your homepage without it.
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Sweet!!! I now see that Wikipedia uses access keys too. Who knew?
because a therapist undermined me over a period of several years
Which highlights a theory of my own: most therapists are psychos.
there are more lower classed people at target that it rivals wal-mart
OK, try this one:
Sincerely, Target "The Gay Wal-mart"
Target is just like Wal-mart, except everything coordiates.
My twelve-year-old is a huge HP fan (all of my kids are) but she also enjoyed the Narnia series, Ender's Game, and Wrinkle in Time. She read the Hobbit, but said it was hard to finish (it does kinda drag in the middle). Another consideration in this age bracket is Accelerated Reader. If the lids you're buying for have Accelerated Reader at school, then you get bonus points for any book that's on the AR list.
I just tried to run the POC on a 1.5rc2 Firefox install - crashed it to hell...
A crash beats remote hole any day. But Firefox 1.0.7 just shows the page, no calc.exe, no crash, no nuthin.
Imaging is your friend. I set up this box in August as follows:
Partitions for Win XP system, Win 2000 system, Linux, and Data.
XP system is assigned to C: and has Windows, Netware, Office, plus misc applications. I save an image of C: using ntfsclone with --save-image option from the ntfstools package in the latest knoppix. The bzipped image file is 1.9GB, and is scp'ed to a server drive. A dvd-rom or 4 cdroms would work too. It took a while to get Windows just the way I wanted it for the image, but I could always restore the previous image and continue with trial and error.
Data partition is assigned to D: drive and has my PRIMARY USER PROFILE, plus dev tools and data. That took some registry diving, but I can restore the C: drive image without trashing my data. I have restored the image once since the initial setup, and it worked pretty much like I expected it too. One thing to keep in mind is that the USER.DAT registry file is stored in the profile directory, so any cruft that accumulates under HKEY_CURRRENT_USER will survive the re-image.
An image of the Win 2000 partition (OS and drivers only - no apps) is about 500MB. There are a few screwy things that happen when I access the D: drive profile with Win 2000, like the Start Menu usage data gets scrambled so that the least-used items appear to be most used, but I only use 2000 for testing anyway. XP has not yet shown any perfomance degradation, but when it does, I'll be ready.
I'll believe it when the box arrives on my doorstep. Until then ... well, here's hoping!
in a 1979 GM Chevette whose brake system, unknowingly to me up till that time, was defective.
All Chevettes had Fred Flintsone brakes. You had to push the brake pedal so hard, you might as well drag your foot on the ground to stop. Also, a roommate of mine found out the hard way that a pony keg will not fit in the hatchback without reclining the back seat. It looks like the hatch will close, until the lock latches and the window cracks.
Or just use a fake cow...
... but it would be the coolest, most hi-tech fake cow ever, with a steel skeleton and a polyurathane body filled with half a ton of ballistics gell.
I see two attempts on the "awstats" series of URLs in five weeks worth of Apache logs, one from Oct 17, and another from Oct 21. Not exactly breaking down the door, are they? Code Red lit up our logs like a christmas tree. Now *that* was widespread.
IIRC, the name "rootkit" came from the fact that you had to get root access to be able to install it. The rootkit itself was used to conceal the fact that the system was compromised, but the compromise had to happen first.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rootkit.ht
Apparently "rootkit" will be the next malware term to be misused after crossing over to the Windows world.
Has the payche(ck|que) from Rupert Murdoch arrived yet?
/. linking to Fox for cash, its Fox reposting insightful even-handed journalism to generate hits. I think the later is more noteworthy.
I was currious, so I looked. FoxNews (or FauxNews if you like) picked it up from eWeek.com by our old friend Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. So rather than
It was a joke. In TFA, the author makes repeated references to the "Dung of a Male Bovine", which he abbreviated "DoMB". I chuckled when your post referenced the same substance with a different name. I was merely pointing that fact out.
I call bullshit on that statement.
DoMB. RTFA. HTH. HAND.
You need to start with a concrete list of services that you are responsible for providing (email, web access, applications). Then, start with the services that are not currently up to par. Identify specific problems and issues, and plan upgrades from there. That way, when the complaints about "Why do we have to change" and "What's wrong with how we did it before" start, you will have an answer ready.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, point out exactly how its broke and what will happen if it doesn't get fixed.
Actually, the Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella, which was recently bought by Sun.
The heritage of the original Santa Cruz Operation, up to including the present The SCO Group entity, has been well documented by Groklaw, hence the link.
Xenix was sold to the Santa Cruz Operation, which changed hands a few more times, and we know how they wound up.
Discounts are a tactic that we have seen MS use (many times) to persuade corps and governments to abandon large-scale linux migrations. It has worked well for them and become a proven strategy. There is no reason that vendors of other systems can not use the same strategy.
"Raised their game" = "massive discounts", the standard MS tactic in this situation.
Actually, Cringley put Google and Skype in the same sentence a couple weeks back, but didn't draw the line in that direction.
He did take a stab at a vague description of the buyer-to-be, and Google could be a contender:
Cringley has tried to put Google in the broadband business before, buying up dark fiber and such. This may not be too far off.
If the company is publicly traded, you only need two words: Sarbanes-Oxley .
Two atoms are walking down the street. One turns and says to the other, "Hey, I think I just lost an electron!"
The other says "Are you sure?"
The first one replies "I'm positive!"
Ditto for Windows, Firefox 1.0.4 + Tabbrowser Prefs 1.2.5. The injected content opens in a new tab rather than one of the MSDN frames. Since the behavior of this bug can be influenced by an extension, and it is a regression to start with, expect a patch very shortly.
The Tabbrowser Prefs extension r00lz. Don't leave your homepage without it.
Poster was being sarcastic!
Maybe the mod was too!
(Ever seen the bugs bunny cartoon where the fish jumps out of the water, pulls a gun on himself and kills himself?)
IIRC, the line was "Now I've seen everything", in a Peter Lorre voice.