I really hate idiots who play with laser pointers. The ones being banned in Australia are Class III and Class IV ones which can easily blind someone.
I just checked my stock of laser pointers. I don't have any of the super power stuff, just common red classroom pointers. They are all class IIIa devices. Can you even buy a class II pointer? The only class II laser I could find nearby is a bar code scanner. I could see a ban on class 4 lasers and maybe IIIb, but banning IIIa, would eliminate almost all laser pointers. Check your stock.
MS Works and iWork offer task-based templates to get simple tasks done quickly. MSO offers that as well, but to a lesser extent, and OO.o is woefully lacking in that sort of thing. --
MS Works is targeting the Wordpad and Notepad group as a step up to MS Word. Unfortunately many documents saved in the old works format have migration issues. People remember this. It's not just a text editor like Notepad and it's not quite a word processor like MS Word. Open Office is lacking in task based templates, but does a much better job opening other documents and saving in popular formats including PDF. Works is fine on a non networked PC. It's limitations quickly show when in a network. I think MS designed it as a teaser to the office suite. In a Monopoly, it works. In a free market, other upgrades are there.
It's a $40 piece of software. I would rather them release an ad-ridden version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. THEN it would be worth it to deal with the advertisements.
It's a $40 piece of software. I would rather them release an ad-ridden version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. THEN it would be worth it to some people to deal with the advertisements.
In other news, Open Office is being offered WITHOUT ANY ADS for all platforms:-)
In other news an entire office suite Open Office not only is without advertisements, it opens many more formats, saves in a open standard format, is multi-platform, and free. There, Fixed it.
If your server does not deliver that rejection notice to you, that's the fault of your email admin.
It might not be my request to a manufacture that was rejected. It may have been the reply, and the manufacture would have recieved the bounce..
How long have you been an email admin? A common way for a long way to pass filters was simply bounce spam off a mailserver with forged headers. This used to deliver all the bounced mail messages with your spam right on to your spam reciepient list. Don't tell me you never received a postmaster message on an undeliverable spam message you never sent.
Please don't re-open this spam relay gateway again. It has been closed due to abuse a long time ago. I praise my email admin for not sending spoofed bounce messages to me that I didn't originate.
Now I am a real fan, based on performance, not claims. Check it out for yourself.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I know many filters are poisoned (Nonsense text mails) to reduce their effectiveness. I hope this one can keep working when poisoned.
When you set up your wireless network you can choose whether to allow open access or not. If the network's owner has specified that anyone can use it, why is it bad to do so? I have my wireless router at home set up for open access and it does me no harm if others use it for occasional web browsing. The only flaw is that many routers don't have a way to prioritize or cap usage so that my work isn't slowed down by other people's Bittorrenting.
Sure there is. Use any modern router. Whitelist ports 80 WWW, HTTPS, and whatever else you want. All other ports are dead, including bittorrent.
If your server does not deliver that rejection notice to you, that's the fault of your email admin.
Or the fault of anybody who's backbone it transverses. Many ISP's bulk filter to reduce the traffic that transverses the network. A spam blast of image spam and the following bounce traffic followed by the bounces of bounces can be eliminated by simply dropping high probability spam traffic. This includes most of my request for product bids and requested offers. SPAM from compromised home users make it through, but mail from manufactures and distributors is lost on a regular basis. A list of products with the prices, is most likely to be undelivered.
30 minutes to install on an exchange server... filters out all the spam.
I too can install a filter that filters out all the spam.. Send it to dev null. A good filter should have a low false positive rate along with removing most spam. Many filters that remove most (or all) spam also have a high false positive rate.
My ISP seems to lose about 50% of my business mail. Some comes marked spam and some doesn't even arrive.. Either that or my requests for quotes are ignored by my vendors.
I've been trying to get quotes and questions answered on some American DJ and Elation DMX consoles. Email is a 100% loss. I have to use the phone.
I did manage to get an answer on some Chauvet stuff. That has been the exception, not the rule.
I was wondering if anyone had any numbers on the market share of IE vs other browsers in Turkey. A few quick google searches were hesitant to reveal anything.
More interesting is the ratio of infected computers. It isn't stated. But take the population of the US and the Population of Turkey and do a comparison. The other interesting number is the number in Russia. Russia has a large population, but how many of them even own a computer or have internet? Something tells me they have a very high proportion of infected machines. This is most likely due to Microsoft and their WGA program keeping most of those machines unpatched and vulnerable as the population in general can't spend several months wages for a genuine copy.
It's bad enough that anything ending in.ru is simply discarded. For me this is a 100% filter that doesn't have any false positives. Nigeria is second on the list.
Everything else left then goes to spam filters. This lightens the load.
It isn't that easy to do WiFi on Linux, but it isn't impossible. A couple of Googles and you're there. Fiddling about is well documented for Ubuntu, the forums are a mine of information on Linux, and most common problems have solutions there.
For me, it was simpler. I didn't have the money for a new laptop, so my old Thinkpad T21 with Windows 2K got the upgrade to Linux. It doesn't have wireless. I bought a cheap (Goodwill under $10) D-link DWL-G630 PCMCIA adaptor with the right chipset and it's running just fine on Dapper Drake.
Vista could get online OK, but using it to log into a home NAS or connect to any of my printers with stand alone printserver appliances such as the Trendnet or Hawking products was a problem. The improvement going to Ubuntu was immediate. I no longer search for drivers for almost anything. Wireless printing to my HP printers using network printserver appliances was as simple as pointing to ipp://192.168.1.101/lp1 and telling it what model Laserjet it is. Vista on my wife's laptop was much more difficult to connect as I'm not running a IIS server for their version of IPP. On the Linux machines the Cannon LED flatbed scanner needed no installation whatsoever. I plugged it in, opened The Gimp, used acquire which opened the XSane dialog box and it was ready to work unlike anything I have Windows.
In my opinion, Ubuntu is more ready for the mainstream than any version of Windows except maybe XP, which is needed for things like Turbo Tax and little else.
Wow, you're so convinced that private insurance is more efficient?
For me seeing the difference first had is the eye opener. I have a couple foster kids. I have private insurance for myself and my wife. I have my regular dental scheduled out 6 months in advance as at one visit, I schedule the next.
My kids are on State Medical coupon. The locations they can receive care is tiny. Getting appointments for regularly scheduled care is a call everyday to see if they have a cancellation. Somewhere between the state taking the money from me (that's where it comes from) and paying the bill, they severely chop the payment to the point most places that even take the payments, simply use the low pay to fill in cancellations on a day by day basis.
True, but with proper insurance, you can avoid these. For my dental, the insurance pays me directly. I picked a great dentist who charges a little more than my insurance pays. I can take my business anywhere I want. I can shop for prices, overbooking avoidance, etc. Most places if you offer cash will give a substantial discount as they don't have to play the submit a claim, only to have it rejected bit.
Proper private insurance is much better than anything the state provides. I have had thyroid surgery and my care was top notch. I've been to too many clinics with the kids trying to get proper care. They weed out people by who gives up calling every day for an appointment. This is why they rarely go in for routine care. They only go into emergency. Been there, done that, and I'm never going back. I've taken in foster kids who needed 13 fillings. This is from neglect. The system encourages it by making routine care nearly impossible.
Now if I could reduce the amount that they yank out of my paycheck for the bureaucracy on top of the services, There is no reason for 2-6 hour waits being the norm at the doctor's office.
Every time that I comment on a story about viruses and malware and security, I mention the fact that what is normally mentioned by antivirus vendors is junk used to scare up business.
You missed the obvious.. The Acrobat.exe.. It's another Microsoft Windows Virus.
Yes, ye claims he wants to ban all kinds of taxes...but doesn't bother to say what programs he will cut. Stupid and irresponsible. It's not the taxes, it's the programs.
If he cut the programs and I didn't have to pay the ineffeciency of the social programs, I could easily afford my own insurance.
The programs version is a government with many divisions to collect taxes (lots of these), a division for entitlements (food stamps, medical coupon, etc) and finaly the actual provider of care. I could save a bundle if I cut the middle man (Collection and entitlement) and go directly pay as you go. It's much more effecient. I can shop for better care and find competition in services will regulate the prices.
I would love to cut the cost of the the elephant between paying for care and receiving care. Care gets diluted down to take two asprin and call me in the morning instead of how can I help you?
Also recent trials have shown that GM seeds remain viable for up to ten years after the initial sowing... so even if you've stopped using their seed on your fields, the damned things can still germinate several years later and leave you liable, or your successor (if you've cashed up and sold on) liable to IP violation charges...
The point missed is what happens when the farmer uses clean seed from his heritage and his crop is cross polinated from the GM field next door? Now his seed crop is a half breed of GM stock. As the years go by, the cross contamination from the field next door continues until his crop isn't much diffrent than the field next door. This is done without stealing a single seed.
He still gets hit with the same lawsuit for theft of IP when the genetic crop is found in his field.
The term "vigilante" has been misused a few times in this thread, so either bunches of people haven't RTFA, or people aren't clear on the definition of vigilantism.
In the US the term is unlicensed investigator. It's what is giving the RIAA and Media Sentry a hard time. I wonder if the guy will walk and get the car back because of the unlicensed detectives? Just kidding... Great job.
I, personally, hate it when this occurs. In my experience these companies never seem to get it right and usually end up tarnishing the entire brand
This happens as someone needs to pay for R & D for much of the stuff. But this is starting to fall as open alternatives encroach on the product. A custom Point Of Sale system may be produced this way. The number of clients for the software fall off as Open Source alternatives fill the market. The end result is nicely summarized in the last sentence.
"Open source is like a rising tide. You either float with it or drown."
Some will beat the tide and regain their development costs. Others won't. An example is Microsoft and their office suite. They beat Open Source Software and made a killing. The tide is rising. They have moved into the middle ground trying to get their version of an open format. That won't stop the rising tide. Keep watching. They will adapt or drown in the rising tide. This is good for consumers. Instead of buying one copy of MS office and installing it on all the family PC's and laptops (not legal), we have instead installed Open Office this time. It has saved about 2 grand if we were in compliance with the original license. Now we are in compliance. There is no way we can consider returning to $200 + a copy for office software. This is one home covered by the rising tide. The BSA threat is rapidly going away.
It is an idiotic approach. Vista is the one being annoying....how could someone predict that end users would blame the applications and not the os that's to blame? Not to mention the whole issue of purposely designing a ui to annoy paying customers, to pressure 3rd parties to change.
I was wondering if Microsoft figured on the number of people who will simply skip Vista altogether? Apple and Ubuntu are doing great. My dad moved to the former and I moved to the latter. If it's unusable, it's unusable.
I just watched the video and laughed. The presenter needs to understand RAID before explaining how it works. Do you see the problem with the following points?
System will hold up to 4 1 Tetrabyte drive in a RAID array. With 4 1 Tetra byte SATA drives it will store 4 Tetra bytes of data. If a drive fails, it can be replaced without losing data as it will rebuild the lost drive automatically.
Hats of to Intel for that one. I wish my RAID could do that.
When I was in Okinawa many years ago, I got a local drivers license. Learning their traffic customs was a real eye opener. The first thing I learned is that driving is not a right, but a privilege. The second thing I learned is there are no amateurs. Everyone is a professional driver and professional courtesy is required. As professionals and trained in moving traffic, they treated light a lot diffrently. The hardest thing to get used to was the courtesy at Right Turns (left turns for the US). If you waited for a light, the green meant go to everyone already in line. The greens were very short. On green the turn lane started and the light turned yellow and red right away and the other direction turned green. The turn lane continued to run the red while the green cross traffic professionally waited for the intersection to clear. It is illegal in Japan to proceed into an intersection unless it is safe to do so. This means wait for the turn lane to clear before entering the intersection. If you enter on a green light and hit someone making the turn, it's your fault for entering while unsafe to do so. The was normal, worked and prevented the overflow of traffic trying to get into a turn land from grid locking the straight traffic. There were few turning T-bone accidents. If you weren't in the turn line when it was green, you were expected to stop because the cross traffic was going to go as soon as the intersection was clear. Never try to catch up to a lane of turning traffic to squeeze on through because the gap will clear the intersection and the cross traffic will start.
It was professional, courteous, and efficient. Why can't we do it? No long amber or green is required. Professional drivers make all the difference. I loved it. Returning to the states was very scary as the traffic would launch at a green light regardless if the intersection was clear!... Intersections are very dangerous here. It's not the lights. It's the professionalism. On another note.. If picked up for intoxicated driving, you got your first phone call after a 3 day dry out period. They have very little problems with repeat offenders.
Jeff Nolan points out that six US cities have been caught decreasing the length of the yellow light below the legal limits in an effort to catch more drivers running red lights and [increase] revenue
I list the areas with the cameras as a traffic hazard in my GPS. Expect sudden panic stops, sudden expenses in the mail, etc. When I shop, I avoid these areas. the risk for an accident or financial accident are high. I'll let them fall to urban decay and let the local businesses know why I seldom drop in anymore. I'll let the businesses move out of the urban decay areas or decay with the area. Many motorists do the same. Red Light cameras are good for reducing congestion. This topic is seldom covered, but it is part of the plan in many areas. Please ride light rail, bus or other transportation, but leave the car home. I have 4 areas nearby marked in the GPS as a hazard. Auto-routing takes me around these areas. As such I don't buy gas, fast food or other along the route shopping there.
Knowing which building to look in is still way better than "he could be anywhere in the state by now"....
How do you know which building to look in. The fix is a location of an intersection such as 12th Street and Elm Avenue. On one corner is a large block of apartment complexes facing another set on the other corner. On the other side of the street, there is a row of townhouses.. On the 4th corner is a 7-11 and strip mall. The signal could have been lost when the kid was picked up an but in a van at the 7-11. Pray tell, which set of doors would you start with? It is better than anywhere in the entire state, but it isn't good enough to start pounding on doors.
Still, every now and then goddamn popup window with site "pc-on-internet.com" appears. I spent altogether perhaps 3 working days trying to remove stupid thing,
So why did you leave it with a connection? The first thing I do with a rogue PC is block it's MAC address at the router, then work on it. When fixed or thing it's fixed, I turn on the address and monitor the router log for unexpected traffic. Unexpected port 25 traffic from that machine gets it shut back down for a more robust fix including a reformat.
From doing a search on the program, it appears to be an IE problem. Firefox on Ubuntu seems to be clean for me.
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I really hate idiots who play with laser pointers. The ones being banned in Australia are Class III and Class IV ones which can easily blind someone.
I just checked my stock of laser pointers. I don't have any of the super power stuff, just common red classroom pointers. They are all class IIIa devices. Can you even buy a class II pointer? The only class II laser I could find nearby is a bar code scanner. I could see a ban on class 4 lasers and maybe IIIb, but banning IIIa, would eliminate almost all laser pointers. Check your stock.
MS Works and iWork offer task-based templates to get simple tasks done quickly. MSO offers that as well, but to a lesser extent, and OO.o is woefully lacking in that sort of thing.
--
MS Works is targeting the Wordpad and Notepad group as a step up to MS Word. Unfortunately many documents saved in the old works format have migration issues. People remember this. It's not just a text editor like Notepad and it's not quite a word processor like MS Word. Open Office is lacking in task based templates, but does a much better job opening other documents and saving in popular formats including PDF. Works is fine on a non networked PC. It's limitations quickly show when in a network. I think MS designed it as a teaser to the office suite. In a Monopoly, it works. In a free market, other upgrades are there.
It's a $40 piece of software. I would rather them release an ad-ridden version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. THEN it would be worth it to deal with the advertisements.
It's a $40 piece of software. I would rather them release an ad-ridden version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. THEN it would be worth it to some people to deal with the advertisements.
There, fixed it.
In other news, Open Office is being offered WITHOUT ANY ADS for all platforms :-)
In other news an entire office suite Open Office not only is without advertisements, it opens many more formats, saves in a open standard format, is multi-platform, and free. There, Fixed it.
If your server does not deliver that rejection notice to you, that's the fault of your email admin.
It might not be my request to a manufacture that was rejected. It may have been the reply, and the manufacture would have recieved the bounce..
How long have you been an email admin? A common way for a long way to pass filters was simply bounce spam off a mailserver with forged headers. This used to deliver all the bounced mail messages with your spam right on to your spam reciepient list. Don't tell me you never received a postmaster message on an undeliverable spam message you never sent.
Please don't re-open this spam relay gateway again. It has been closed due to abuse a long time ago. I praise my email admin for not sending spoofed bounce messages to me that I didn't originate.
Now I am a real fan, based on performance, not claims. Check it out for yourself.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I know many filters are poisoned (Nonsense text mails) to reduce their effectiveness. I hope this one can keep working when poisoned.
How much cash do homeless people have? Maybe I should be panhandling from them.
Many of them make more after taxes than I do. If you need a smoke, go ahead and ask one. Quite often they are well stocked and willing to share.
When you set up your wireless network you can choose whether to allow open access or not. If the network's owner has specified that anyone can use it, why is it bad to do so? I have my wireless router at home set up for open access and it does me no harm if others use it for occasional web browsing. The only flaw is that many routers don't have a way to prioritize or cap usage so that my work isn't slowed down by other people's Bittorrenting.
Sure there is. Use any modern router. Whitelist ports 80 WWW, HTTPS, and whatever else you want. All other ports are dead, including bittorrent.
If your server does not deliver that rejection notice to you, that's the fault of your email admin.
Or the fault of anybody who's backbone it transverses. Many ISP's bulk filter to reduce the traffic that transverses the network. A spam blast of image spam and the following bounce traffic followed by the bounces of bounces can be eliminated by simply dropping high probability spam traffic. This includes most of my request for product bids and requested offers. SPAM from compromised home users make it through, but mail from manufactures and distributors is lost on a regular basis. A list of products with the prices, is most likely to be undelivered.
30 minutes to install on an exchange server... filters out all the spam.
I too can install a filter that filters out all the spam.. Send it to dev null. A good filter should have a low false positive rate along with removing most spam. Many filters that remove most (or all) spam also have a high false positive rate.
My ISP seems to lose about 50% of my business mail. Some comes marked spam and some doesn't even arrive.. Either that or my requests for quotes are ignored by my vendors.
I've been trying to get quotes and questions answered on some American DJ and Elation DMX consoles. Email is a 100% loss. I have to use the phone.
I did manage to get an answer on some Chauvet stuff. That has been the exception, not the rule.
I was wondering if anyone had any numbers on the market share of IE vs other browsers in Turkey. A few quick google searches were hesitant to reveal anything.
.ru is simply discarded. For me this is a 100% filter that doesn't have any false positives. Nigeria is second on the list.
More interesting is the ratio of infected computers. It isn't stated. But take the population of the US and the Population of Turkey and do a comparison. The other interesting number is the number in Russia. Russia has a large population, but how many of them even own a computer or have internet? Something tells me they have a very high proportion of infected machines. This is most likely due to Microsoft and their WGA program keeping most of those machines unpatched and vulnerable as the population in general can't spend several months wages for a genuine copy.
It's bad enough that anything ending in
Everything else left then goes to spam filters. This lightens the load.
It isn't that easy to do WiFi on Linux, but it isn't impossible. A couple of Googles and you're there. Fiddling about is well documented for Ubuntu, the forums are a mine of information on Linux, and most common problems have solutions there.
For me, it was simpler. I didn't have the money for a new laptop, so my old Thinkpad T21 with Windows 2K got the upgrade to Linux. It doesn't have wireless. I bought a cheap (Goodwill under $10) D-link DWL-G630 PCMCIA adaptor with the right chipset and it's running just fine on Dapper Drake.
Vista could get online OK, but using it to log into a home NAS or connect to any of my printers with stand alone printserver appliances such as the Trendnet or Hawking products was a problem. The improvement going to Ubuntu was immediate. I no longer search for drivers for almost anything. Wireless printing to my HP printers using network printserver appliances was as simple as pointing to ipp://192.168.1.101/lp1 and telling it what model Laserjet it is. Vista on my wife's laptop was much more difficult to connect as I'm not running a IIS server for their version of IPP. On the Linux machines the Cannon LED flatbed scanner needed no installation whatsoever. I plugged it in, opened The Gimp, used acquire which opened the XSane dialog box and it was ready to work unlike anything I have Windows.
In my opinion, Ubuntu is more ready for the mainstream than any version of Windows except maybe XP, which is needed for things like Turbo Tax and little else.
Wow, you're so convinced that private insurance is more efficient?
For me seeing the difference first had is the eye opener. I have a couple foster kids. I have private insurance for myself and my wife. I have my regular dental scheduled out 6 months in advance as at one visit, I schedule the next.
My kids are on State Medical coupon. The locations they can receive care is tiny. Getting appointments for regularly scheduled care is a call everyday to see if they have a cancellation. Somewhere between the state taking the money from me (that's where it comes from) and paying the bill, they severely chop the payment to the point most places that even take the payments, simply use the low pay to fill in cancellations on a day by day basis.
True, but with proper insurance, you can avoid these. For my dental, the insurance pays me directly. I picked a great dentist who charges a little more than my insurance pays. I can take my business anywhere I want. I can shop for prices, overbooking avoidance, etc. Most places if you offer cash will give a substantial discount as they don't have to play the submit a claim, only to have it rejected bit.
Proper private insurance is much better than anything the state provides. I have had thyroid surgery and my care was top notch. I've been to too many clinics with the kids trying to get proper care. They weed out people by who gives up calling every day for an appointment. This is why they rarely go in for routine care. They only go into emergency. Been there, done that, and I'm never going back. I've taken in foster kids who needed 13 fillings. This is from neglect. The system encourages it by making routine care nearly impossible.
Now if I could reduce the amount that they yank out of my paycheck for the bureaucracy on top of the services, There is no reason for 2-6 hour waits being the norm at the doctor's office.
Every time that I comment on a story about viruses and malware and security, I mention the fact that what is normally mentioned by antivirus vendors is junk used to scare up business.
You missed the obvious.. The Acrobat.exe.. It's another Microsoft Windows Virus.
Yes, ye claims he wants to ban all kinds of taxes...but doesn't bother to say what programs he will cut.
Stupid and irresponsible. It's not the taxes, it's the programs.
If he cut the programs and I didn't have to pay the ineffeciency of the social programs, I could easily afford my own insurance.
The programs version is a government with many divisions to collect taxes (lots of these), a division for entitlements (food stamps, medical coupon, etc) and finaly the actual provider of care. I could save a bundle if I cut the middle man (Collection and entitlement) and go directly pay as you go. It's much more effecient. I can shop for better care and find competition in services will regulate the prices.
I would love to cut the cost of the the elephant between paying for care and receiving care. Care gets diluted down to take two asprin and call me in the morning instead of how can I help you?
Also recent trials have shown that GM seeds remain viable for up to ten years after the initial sowing... so even if you've stopped using their seed on your fields, the damned things can still germinate several years later and leave you liable, or your successor (if you've cashed up and sold on) liable to IP violation charges...
The point missed is what happens when the farmer uses clean seed from his heritage and his crop is cross polinated from the GM field next door? Now his seed crop is a half breed of GM stock. As the years go by, the cross contamination from the field next door continues until his crop isn't much diffrent than the field next door. This is done without stealing a single seed.
He still gets hit with the same lawsuit for theft of IP when the genetic crop is found in his field.
The term "vigilante" has been misused a few times in this thread, so either bunches of people haven't RTFA, or people aren't clear on the definition of vigilantism.
In the US the term is unlicensed investigator. It's what is giving the RIAA and Media Sentry a hard time. I wonder if the guy will walk and get the car back because of the unlicensed detectives? Just kidding... Great job.
I, personally, hate it when this occurs. In my experience these companies never seem to get it right and usually end up tarnishing the entire brand
This happens as someone needs to pay for R & D for much of the stuff. But this is starting to fall as open alternatives encroach on the product. A custom Point Of Sale system may be produced this way. The number of clients for the software fall off as Open Source alternatives fill the market. The end result is nicely summarized in the last sentence.
"Open source is like a rising tide. You either float with it or drown."
Some will beat the tide and regain their development costs. Others won't. An example is Microsoft and their office suite. They beat Open Source Software and made a killing. The tide is rising. They have moved into the middle ground trying to get their version of an open format. That won't stop the rising tide. Keep watching. They will adapt or drown in the rising tide. This is good for consumers. Instead of buying one copy of MS office and installing it on all the family PC's and laptops (not legal), we have instead installed Open Office this time. It has saved about 2 grand if we were in compliance with the original license. Now we are in compliance. There is no way we can consider returning to $200 + a copy for office software. This is one home covered by the rising tide. The BSA threat is rapidly going away.
Behavior is dictated by culture, so in a polite culture, most people are naturally polite, with all the things that this makes possible.
I sure miss it and the people. Sigh..
It is an idiotic approach. Vista is the one being annoying....how could someone predict that end users would blame the applications and not the os that's to blame? Not to mention the whole issue of purposely designing a ui to annoy paying customers, to pressure 3rd parties to change.
I was wondering if Microsoft figured on the number of people who will simply skip Vista altogether? Apple and Ubuntu are doing great. My dad moved to the former and I moved to the latter. If it's unusable, it's unusable.
I just watched the video and laughed. The presenter needs to understand RAID before explaining how it works. Do you see the problem with the following points?
System will hold up to 4 1 Tetrabyte drive in a RAID array.
With 4 1 Tetra byte SATA drives it will store 4 Tetra bytes of data.
If a drive fails, it can be replaced without losing data as it will rebuild the lost drive automatically.
Hats of to Intel for that one. I wish my RAID could do that.
When I was in Okinawa many years ago, I got a local drivers license. Learning their traffic customs was a real eye opener. The first thing I learned is that driving is not a right, but a privilege. The second thing I learned is there are no amateurs. Everyone is a professional driver and professional courtesy is required. As professionals and trained in moving traffic, they treated light a lot diffrently. The hardest thing to get used to was the courtesy at Right Turns (left turns for the US). If you waited for a light, the green meant go to everyone already in line. The greens were very short. On green the turn lane started and the light turned yellow and red right away and the other direction turned green. The turn lane continued to run the red while the green cross traffic professionally waited for the intersection to clear. It is illegal in Japan to proceed into an intersection unless it is safe to do so. This means wait for the turn lane to clear before entering the intersection. If you enter on a green light and hit someone making the turn, it's your fault for entering while unsafe to do so. The was normal, worked and prevented the overflow of traffic trying to get into a turn land from grid locking the straight traffic. There were few turning T-bone accidents. If you weren't in the turn line when it was green, you were expected to stop because the cross traffic was going to go as soon as the intersection was clear. Never try to catch up to a lane of turning traffic to squeeze on through because the gap will clear the intersection and the cross traffic will start.
It was professional, courteous, and efficient. Why can't we do it? No long amber or green is required. Professional drivers make all the difference. I loved it. Returning to the states was very scary as the traffic would launch at a green light regardless if the intersection was clear!... Intersections are very dangerous here. It's not the lights. It's the professionalism. On another note.. If picked up for intoxicated driving, you got your first phone call after a 3 day dry out period. They have very little problems with repeat offenders.
Jeff Nolan points out that six US cities have been caught decreasing the length of the yellow light below the legal limits in an effort to catch more drivers running red lights and [increase] revenue
I list the areas with the cameras as a traffic hazard in my GPS. Expect sudden panic stops, sudden expenses in the mail, etc. When I shop, I avoid these areas. the risk for an accident or financial accident are high. I'll let them fall to urban decay and let the local businesses know why I seldom drop in anymore. I'll let the businesses move out of the urban decay areas or decay with the area. Many motorists do the same. Red Light cameras are good for reducing congestion. This topic is seldom covered, but it is part of the plan in many areas. Please ride light rail, bus or other transportation, but leave the car home. I have 4 areas nearby marked in the GPS as a hazard. Auto-routing takes me around these areas. As such I don't buy gas, fast food or other along the route shopping there.
Knowing which building to look in is still way better than "he could be anywhere in the state by now"....
How do you know which building to look in. The fix is a location of an intersection such as 12th Street and Elm Avenue. On one corner is a large block of apartment complexes facing another set on the other corner. On the other side of the street, there is a row of townhouses.. On the 4th corner is a 7-11 and strip mall. The signal could have been lost when the kid was picked up an but in a van at the 7-11. Pray tell, which set of doors would you start with? It is better than anywhere in the entire state, but it isn't good enough to start pounding on doors.
Still, every now and then goddamn popup window with site "pc-on-internet.com" appears. I spent altogether perhaps 3 working days trying to remove stupid thing,
So why did you leave it with a connection? The first thing I do with a rogue PC is block it's MAC address at the router, then work on it. When fixed or thing it's fixed, I turn on the address and monitor the router log for unexpected traffic. Unexpected port 25 traffic from that machine gets it shut back down for a more robust fix including a reformat.
From doing a search on the program, it appears to be an IE problem. Firefox on Ubuntu seems to be clean for me.