Heck, Comcast lying? Never... I mean, the whole advertising in the South Bay for Triple Play when their VOIP isn't available in Sunnyvale *or* Mountain View... that's not false advertising either.
I needed a quick and cheap solution for some Windows machines for our QA group to test things on. We bought some VMWare Workstation licenses and ran 6 VMs running XP on each beefy machine. (About the limit for a machine with 4GB RAM) Granted, there are better VM solutions than Workstation, but we wanted cheap and quick. Don't count on it for anything mission critical. About every two weeks, VMWare would basically eat itself and the Linux box. However, it was easy from a maintenance point of view, because I could VNC in and see all 6 VMs at once. Also, since VMWare has a cloning feature, anytime QA infected the machines with something nasty, or just pissed off XP, I could re-clone it. Also remember that any VM hogging resources can slow down other VMs on the same host.
However, for the context that you are speaking about, I would take the advice of individuals below and look at Citrix or roaming profiles.
It's geeks like that who ruin it for us girl geeks. Marrying non-techies, shame on you;)
Actually its funny, even in Silicon Valley, I have a hard time finding someone techy enough to keep up who is also single and attractive. I was at a shindig at SF City Hall Friday night and someone asked me *why* I'd want to date someone in the same field. Perhaps because previous non-techie boyfriends see me doing anything on the laptop (I'm on call sometimes afterall) and assume I'm just playing computer games and ignoring them.
These types of articles only seem to fuel the boys vs girls attitude here.
I'm the only white chick on this whole floor in anything remotely technology related. I was the only girl at all in my 2000 graduating class to get a Bachelors of Science in CS or CIS. So what? Yes, some men get defensive about my presence, others couldn't give a rats ass what gender I am as long as I make shit work. That's life. I guess you just accept it, adapt, and try to grow a thicker skin.
Oh please. I try to dress neatly, even if I'm not dressed super nicely for work. But I have to say, as a female Systems Engineer who tries to be fashionable... it's inevitable that if I'm trying to break in my newest pair of heels, or wearing an expensive sweater or blouse, I'll have to head to the data center and deal with something. I've torn blouses on racks, bled on nice clothes, and also, rack grease doesn't come out of clothes... they don't pay me enough for that.
Also, have you ever had to crawl under a desk for cabling... in a skirt?? Yeah, it sucks, though I'm sure that employee had a nice view that day.
IT workers rarely deal with customers, though I try to look decent when I know I'll be meeting with vendors.
It's just not entirely reasonable to ask anyone in IT to dress up. We think on our feet, deal with hardware on the fly, and deal with various environments.
You're right. But their customers... the television/movie studios have reputations and customers to gain/lose. Granted, it's a huge enough industry, we probably can't make a dent in it by boycotting or whatnot.
The MPAA is going about this all wrong. They are going to alienate everyone that they haven't already. I can understand going after people who pirate movies, but it's just as easy to pay money to see the movie/buy the dvd. Most TV shows aren't available for purchase immediately, the DVD releases are seasons behind. They're not going to stop people from archiving the shows, because with TiVo Home Media option, I can dump them to my PC and burn to DVD.
They could make a KILLING by following the business model of soapcity.com, where it breaks down to 50 cents an episode. (Granted, it's a subscription model for $10/mo, or like $3/episode, but that's a damn good deal if you don't have access to a television.)
They use the Microsoft WMP DRM (last I checked) and the download license expires after 30 days. The downloads are available immediately after the episode finishes airing on the west coast, so no one can see it early. And there's no advertisements in the episode.
It's not the downloading... it's the uploading/sharing that is illegal. You can justify it as format shifting. Just don't share it back out. Though, I know that's how the networks actually survive.
Not to be nitpicky... but "currently underway"? I live in Sunnyvale, and that's where a number of my coworkers have been all week. However, it was over yesterday!
So are they saying that by a driver being part of an active conversation, they are impaired? What about talking to a passenger?
I use my hands free set, but I generally don't like to talk on the phone and drive anyway, because I cannot concentrate on the conversation.
Just two days ago, I was halfway through the intersection at a green left turn arrow when some Crazy Asian Female (tm) ran her red light and almost broadsided me. As I saw her coming, she was yapping on her cell phone, driving one handed, and was looking off in some side direction - clearly not at the road.
Movable Type already, by default, includes a link redirect through any URLs left in comments, so that the links won't drive up the spammers' pageranks. Sadly, the spammers haven't caught on that what they're doing is futile, and continue to slam my server when they attempt to spam me. I also use MT-Blacklist, but even blocking URLs doesn't keep my server from getting slammed when they hit the comment script.
Soapcity.com offers this kind of service... obviously only for Soap Operas. And they once offered episodes of Dawson's Creek. It was $10/mo per Soap Opera, and you could only start your download after the episode had finished airing on the west coast. So it's clearly easily feasible...
So Lowe's is guilty of not securing their network. That's like leaving your front door wide open and wondering why a burglar wandered in. Yes, the hacker deserves punished for intent to steal, but that long of a sentence?
they can do whatever they want or not allow you to have campus housing if they're a private school... i graduated in 2001 and my college did not allow cordless telephones. i don't even remember what their insane reasoning was. my college did not accept government funding, and to my understanding, that pretty much allowed to make any sort of silly rule without recourse. sure a student could probably battle it with a lawyer but the school will have more resources.
this is off topic. but you are correct; i probably should have continued using the word geek. i generally reserve the word nerd for geeks who lack social skills. or me when i do something clutzy.
Hey now... some of us girly geeks like men in glasses who we can actually have a conversation with. Besides, the nerdy types spend a lot more time looking me in the eyes and a lot less time staring at my chest.
Along the lines of backups, I noticed something interesting last night. We rented "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (a train wreck), which was associated with DIsney. There is an option to register your DVD which will qualify you for DVD replacement, should you destroy your copy. Very nice.
I didn't see anything that said what state you were in, but in PA, they have things called "at will" employees. We're basically servants who can be fired and any time for any reason. Under these guidelines, being fired for one minute tardiness is not a problem.
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Heck, Comcast lying? Never...
I mean, the whole advertising in the South Bay for Triple Play when their VOIP isn't available in Sunnyvale *or* Mountain View... that's not false advertising either.
I needed a quick and cheap solution for some Windows machines for our QA group to test things on. We bought some VMWare Workstation licenses and ran 6 VMs running XP on each beefy machine. (About the limit for a machine with 4GB RAM) Granted, there are better VM solutions than Workstation, but we wanted cheap and quick. Don't count on it for anything mission critical. About every two weeks, VMWare would basically eat itself and the Linux box. However, it was easy from a maintenance point of view, because I could VNC in and see all 6 VMs at once. Also, since VMWare has a cloning feature, anytime QA infected the machines with something nasty, or just pissed off XP, I could re-clone it. Also remember that any VM hogging resources can slow down other VMs on the same host.
However, for the context that you are speaking about, I would take the advice of individuals below and look at Citrix or roaming profiles.
Damn, I missed the original post. I wanted to ask Adam if he'd go on a date with me ;)
It's geeks like that who ruin it for us girl geeks. Marrying non-techies, shame on you ;)
Actually its funny, even in Silicon Valley, I have a hard time finding someone techy enough to keep up who is also single and attractive. I was at a shindig at SF City Hall Friday night and someone asked me *why* I'd want to date someone in the same field. Perhaps because previous non-techie boyfriends see me doing anything on the laptop (I'm on call sometimes afterall) and assume I'm just playing computer games and ignoring them.
These types of articles only seem to fuel the boys vs girls attitude here.
I'm the only white chick on this whole floor in anything remotely technology related. I was the only girl at all in my 2000 graduating class to get a Bachelors of Science in CS or CIS. So what? Yes, some men get defensive about my presence, others couldn't give a rats ass what gender I am as long as I make shit work. That's life. I guess you just accept it, adapt, and try to grow a thicker skin.
Oh please. I try to dress neatly, even if I'm not dressed super nicely for work. But I have to say, as a female Systems Engineer who tries to be fashionable... it's inevitable that if I'm trying to break in my newest pair of heels, or wearing an expensive sweater or blouse, I'll have to head to the data center and deal with something. I've torn blouses on racks, bled on nice clothes, and also, rack grease doesn't come out of clothes... they don't pay me enough for that.
Also, have you ever had to crawl under a desk for cabling... in a skirt?? Yeah, it sucks, though I'm sure that employee had a nice view that day.
IT workers rarely deal with customers, though I try to look decent when I know I'll be meeting with vendors.
It's just not entirely reasonable to ask anyone in IT to dress up. We think on our feet, deal with hardware on the fly, and deal with various environments.
Uhm... There just *was* a TV Turnoff Week. April 25-May 1. Clearly, it didn't have much effect.
You're right. But their customers... the television/movie studios have reputations and customers to gain/lose. Granted, it's a huge enough industry, we probably can't make a dent in it by boycotting or whatnot.
The MPAA is going about this all wrong. They are going to alienate everyone that they haven't already. I can understand going after people who pirate movies, but it's just as easy to pay money to see the movie/buy the dvd. Most TV shows aren't available for purchase immediately, the DVD releases are seasons behind. They're not going to stop people from archiving the shows, because with TiVo Home Media option, I can dump them to my PC and burn to DVD.
They could make a KILLING by following the business model of soapcity.com, where it breaks down to 50 cents an episode. (Granted, it's a subscription model for $10/mo, or like $3/episode, but that's a damn good deal if you don't have access to a television.)
They use the Microsoft WMP DRM (last I checked) and the download license expires after 30 days. The downloads are available immediately after the episode finishes airing on the west coast, so no one can see it early. And there's no advertisements in the episode.
It's not the downloading... it's the uploading/sharing that is illegal. You can justify it as format shifting. Just don't share it back out. Though, I know that's how the networks actually survive.
Not to be nitpicky... but "currently underway"? I live in Sunnyvale, and that's where a number of my coworkers have been all week. However, it was over yesterday!
This sounds like a blatant ripoff of blogspot.com, which is owned by Blogger. Trying to benefit from the name maybe?
Yeah, and then all those zombies lose their ISP accounts, and suddenly become much more aware of the need to secure their PC.
So are they saying that by a driver being part of an active conversation, they are impaired? What about talking to a passenger?
I use my hands free set, but I generally don't like to talk on the phone and drive anyway, because I cannot concentrate on the conversation.
Just two days ago, I was halfway through the intersection at a green left turn arrow when some Crazy Asian Female (tm) ran her red light and almost broadsided me. As I saw her coming, she was yapping on her cell phone, driving one handed, and was looking off in some side direction - clearly not at the road.
Movable Type already, by default, includes a link redirect through any URLs left in comments, so that the links won't drive up the spammers' pageranks. Sadly, the spammers haven't caught on that what they're doing is futile, and continue to slam my server when they attempt to spam me. I also use MT-Blacklist, but even blocking URLs doesn't keep my server from getting slammed when they hit the comment script.
Soapcity.com offers this kind of service... obviously only for Soap Operas. And they once offered episodes of Dawson's Creek. It was $10/mo per Soap Opera, and you could only start your download after the episode had finished airing on the west coast. So it's clearly easily feasible...
So Lowe's is guilty of not securing their network. That's like leaving your front door wide open and wondering why a burglar wandered in. Yes, the hacker deserves punished for intent to steal, but that long of a sentence?
Was the sensational headline really necessary? It's 'pay per view'... it only makes sense.
they can do whatever they want or not allow you to have campus housing if they're a private school... i graduated in 2001 and my college did not allow cordless telephones. i don't even remember what their insane reasoning was. my college did not accept government funding, and to my understanding, that pretty much allowed to make any sort of silly rule without recourse. sure a student could probably battle it with a lawyer but the school will have more resources.
this is off topic. but you are correct; i probably should have continued using the word geek. i generally reserve the word nerd for geeks who lack social skills. or me when i do something clutzy.
Hey now... some of us girly geeks like men in glasses who we can actually have a conversation with. Besides, the nerdy types spend a lot more time looking me in the eyes and a lot less time staring at my chest.
Along the lines of backups, I noticed something interesting last night. We rented "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (a train wreck), which was associated with DIsney. There is an option to register your DVD which will qualify you for DVD replacement, should you destroy your copy. Very nice.
I've seen hacks to easily change the BSOD background color on your Windows machine from blue to any hex color. Not exactly an upgrade :P
I didn't see anything that said what state you were in, but in PA, they have things called "at will" employees. We're basically servants who can be fired and any time for any reason. Under these guidelines, being fired for one minute tardiness is not a problem.
My cell phone uses predictive text and it has yet to ever actually predict the correct words, rendering itself fairly useless to me.