Yes, ok, not on life support, but I've seen NT in some pretty important applications such as the computer system in a CAT scanner.
A failed CAT scan is not hazardous. Reboot and shoot again. Windows monitoring life signs in surgery and metering medications for the anesthesiologist is not a good idea.
No help to your question, but see if you can add email to the repertoire. Browsing web may be fascinating, but nothing like being able to communicate with your kids, grand kids, relatives, and friends *UNOBTRUSIVELY* with emails.
A browser and Gmail or Yahoo will be fine. Administering a bunch of rotating clients e-mail accounts increases the complexity. This moves the admin job from you to an online provider as needed. This is most helpful if you are not doing individual user logins but just one always on internet kiosk.
By the time Barnett first approached Rubin about coming to Columbia, Rubin had already decided that he would have nothing more to do with Columbia Records. This was because of the company's handling of the Rubin-produced Neil Diamond record "12 Songs" in 2005. Diamond was a hero of Rubin's, and he spent two years working on the album, persuading Diamond to record acoustically, something he hadn't done since the '60s.
"The CD debuted at No. 4," Rubin told me at Hugo's, still sounding upset. "It was the highest debut of Neil's career, off to a great start. But Columbia -- it was some kind of corporate thing -- had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record. The spyware became public knowledge, and people freaked out. There were some lawsuits filed, and the CD was recalled by Columbia. Literally pulled from stores. We came out on a Tuesday, by the following week the CD was not available. Columbia released it again in a month, but we never recovered. Neil was furious, and I vowed never to make another album with Columbia."
What Rubin didn't get is the fact SONY had a hand in the same bad management. He won't produce with Columbia, but WTF is he doing with SONY? Maybe he is just not informed.
clip from bottom of page 4;
As a kind of test, Rubin made some unusual demands. "Oh, God, I would have liked to have heard those negotiations," Natalie Maines exclaimed. "Rick knows what he's worth, and I can just hear him telling them, 'You might never see me, I may never wear shoes, you're not the boss of me.' And I'm sure they were saying, 'Whatever you want, Mr. Rubin.' I was surprised Sony made such a smart decision: someone who knows music should be running the company."
I hope he is able to get SONY to drop all the attempted DRM & anti-copy junk starting with mini disk and CD's and ending with DVD's and thumb drives.
The number of people who own a computer, are technically smart enough to listen to music on it, and who listen to Neil Diamond, is zero.
If that were true, than this whole rootkit discussion would be a non-issue as absolutely nobody would have even found the software at all. The technicaly smart people who listen to Neil Diamond is the ones who blew the cover of this DRM.
Actualy he did. After the fluf introduction on the first 2-3 pages he gets into the meat of the scandal on pages 4-6. He speaks of the Neil Diamond album and how the DRM Rootkit affected sales and how he made no bones about calling it a disaster. Part if his influence with record distributers is that that never happen to an artists work again.
What do they gain? Was WGA suppose to convince people using illegitimate versions of Windows to turn to the light? Fuck that, they'll just download the latest cracked WGA.DLL and get on with it, while the legit users will get boned because their serial key wasn't recognized or whatever.
Avoid the rush of stormtroupers at the door (BSA) and go legit. Try Ubuntu. It works out of the box. It will connect to your existing LAN with the ablility to log into your existing NFS and SMB workgroup shares. It will use your IPP net attached printers without difficult Vista configuration problems.
A new Vista machine on my LAN took over 4 hours to figure out how to log into my existing SMB shares and connect to my IPP net attached printers.
The first Ubuntu machine only took 30 minutes to learn and complete both tasks. IPP and networking both worked out of the box without tweaks or tricks.
They said Windows is easy to use... Until you need to learn a new version and it's set of bugs.
So if you were stupid enough to use Windows in a safety critical application you risk WGA putting people's lives at risk?
Imagine if you used Windows in a doctors surgery to hold patient records, or store drug allergy data on it. WGA flags the PC as counterfeit, after that only Window Explorer works, and you can't get their records or allergy info.
Read the EULA. Pay attention to the section regarding life critical application. It clearly states it is not to be used in life support applications. It simply isn't reliable for that. MS is avoiding lawsuits from people depending on Windows for life support by explicitly stating it is not designed, manufactured, or intended for that.
"Note on Java Support. The SOFTWARE may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapon systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has contractually obligated MS to make this disclaimer."
Sure, for a 24 hour window pirates would have a free-for-all in getting perfectly valid WGA results, but at the same time legitimate customers would not be inconvenienced.
Pirates would not be inconvenienced either. It's a simple taksk to null route the WGA server at the router. A fail genuine is a failure of the anti-piracy feature. Validate or fail deadly is a feature. It is well known. With the server failure, it is even better understood.
So why didn't MSFT just kill the server to let people's software default to "genuine" instead of leaving the server connected with faulty software?
It's an anti-piracy feature. It prevents a business from firewalling the WGA server to get "genuine" status. Remember there was an un-authorised software update site? If it works without the real MS saying it's OK, the anti-piracy feature does not work.
Unfortunately for MS is this feature does not prevent users from migrating to the alternatives. It's hard to run a monopoly when Ubuntu is legal and free for the taking. If they had a choice, the first would be that I run Windows fully paid for. Second choice is that I run a pirated copy, but they are using WGA to prevent that to encourage me into the first choice, but the result is I have gone to their worst option.. I've gone legal to the competition. MS is helping themselves break their monopoly by reducing piracy.
In 1997 Ubuntu and Mac were not really on the radar. Seen the year to year growth of Ubuntu and Apple lately? In short, the answer is NOW! Did you miss the slow uptake in Vista? Most Vista sales is for new hardware, not the need for a new OS. Dual core and Quad core machines are the selling points, not Vista. Due to demand, many vendors are switching back from Vista only to some XP options. In the last 12 months I have personaly upgraded 5 machines to Ubuntu for security, stability, usability, and cost reasons. It works better and costs less. As an added bonus, I'm learning how to run some of my legacy applications on WINE eliminating the need for a couple dual boot machines.
While we have to use technology with our eyes wide open, there's no reason why we cannot be exponentially smarter because of Moore's law. Just as an example, Alan Kay said something like "a different context is worth 80 IQ points" when he talked about very young children intuitively doing calculus (in a quantitative manner too) using the Squeak system.
What got me started understanding some of the math was directly related to that air table. The math class did a section on vectors. In physics doing the conservation of energy in elastic collisions of round pucks started to make a lot of sense when the pucks didn't strike head-on, but contained momentum in vector angles. Measuring how much, what direction and energy of each movement was an eye-opener to vector math.
That beat anything I learned in a textbook in school for making a point. Understanding the concept and math lead to predicting energies of particles in a collision. This was very useful. You are entirely right in stating that better tools help learning. Classes without the tools are dull, dry and often difficult to grasp. I pitty the powerpoint physics class students.
Well powerpoint is the only thing usefull, my teachers ever used.
Invest in some old fashioned hardware. Hands-on physics teaches a lot of concepts to those who don't quite grasp concepts published in a book. Examples are a bicycle to teach force/displacement/speed relationships. The classic is standing a bike up and asking if the pedal low to the floor is pushed to the rear of the bike, will the cranking force move the bike foreward or will the gearing cause the bike to move backwards in the direction of the force and why?
Students that grasp these concepts early on are the ones to understand the conservation of energy and entropy. They will understand why you can't use a high speed motor of say 1 HP to drive a 1 KW generator fast enough to power the motor and have a few hundred watts of power left over. An electrical load on the generator provides a mechanical load to the motor. This is not over unity creating a perpertual motion machine.
Props such as a hand cranked generator or bicycle driven generator that can be loaded make a serious impression to early students. Cranking 60 watts is work. 300 Watts sustained is very serious work. This leads to an understang of torque/speed/horsepower relationships. Torque or speed is not power. Feeling power generation is better than most any PowerPoint presentation.
After the mechanical presentations, then go into lecture and detail such as going over an electric bill and figuring the typical days power use and how much work is delivered for a dollar.
Power economy and the hand cranked PC scale now come into view. Hand cranking your typical home PC or laptop and Monitor are now seen as beyond pratical. Energy conservation to fit the hand cranked energy budget now become a prime design consideration for future engineers instead of how to hand crank existing tech.
Hand cranking a 2 watt laptop is possible as well as a 60 watt laptop, but the 60 watt laptop isn't pratical as all the time will be spent cranking quite hard.
You were cheated in your physics class if they didn't do the blowgun/falling ball demo or used air hocky tables to show center of mass of spinning objects and conservation of momentium, elastic and inelastic collisions. In the 1970's we shot a lot of film of this on an air hocky table and took measurements from the photographs to calculate displacement of the objects photographed under a strobe light. The hands on stuff was the best.
This broadcast is fanned out by routers, gateways, and firewalls which keep the DHCP in house. The Patch Tuesday shouldn't be near the problem to DHCP than it was to Skype which phoned home instead of phone the local router or ISP.
Of course, this is a typical bad decision as it means that responses from a DHCP server with a lot of Vista clients will flood the network with broadcast responses, but hey, they arent know for making good decisions.
How often does Vista request a DHCP lease? Maybe once a crash? The only time I see this flooding the network is after an ISP outage. It may prevent or delay an ISP from recovery just like the Skype storm and failure when the number of reboots exceeded system capacity.
Is there a way to homestead a little chunk of time with my IP's name on it?"
I always liked the public public press release and demo.
As an example, is anybody going to challenge the date of the private rocket launch by them claiming first private launch into space instead? The demo was very public and well documented in many forms.
For the naysayers regarding the first man on the moon, the proof is either there or it isn't. In the future when man again returns, the new claim of first man on the moon will have to deal with the record that is left behind by the first man on the moon. There is a TV camera, Flag, moon buggy, golf ball, and a big hunk of machinery surrounded by footprints. There may be doubters that man has been to the moon claiming it's fake, but later when China, Russia or someone else goes and claims first man on the moon and the US landing was fake, they better be able to visit the laser reflector and document what they find in it's vicinity. If the footprints and other stuff just isn't there, then they may prove they are first, but they have the legacy of public television and film record to get out of the way first.
If you do a very public event, it becomes a matter of public record and history.
Why is it too much to ask that if you like the CD, you pay the money?
It's simple. I'm out of money. Instead of $15 for a 40 minute CD, I bought 4 120 minute DVDs for $20 at Blockbuster.
It is a matter of value. I don't have tons of money to buy both the value products and the expensive low value products. DRM on many CDs has lowered their value even further. If you can't put it on your MP3 player, it's useless. If you find this out ofter the sale, opened items are not returnable. I learned early on to not buy a pig in a poke.
For a prime example of overpricing the easy to duplicate back catalog music is still at high prices as though they are still paying for production costs which were paid for long ago.
The outrageous price is simply from created shortage, not by any costs of production.
Instead of buying this overpriced item, I can buy 4 movies that took orders of magnitude more to produce.
Care to do a cost of production comparison for the Beatles White Album and the movies Monsters Inc, Cars, Toy Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Nemo, and other large cast or high tech creations.
When comparing value, the White Album costs more and has a much less talent and production complexity. At the current value/price points, I'm simply buying movies instead of albums. They don't have the value.
They don't call it IPP because it isn't. Judging from your description, you've switched back to the old LPD-style printing, a protocol common in the unix world (cf. LPR, LPRng on google)
The print servers clearly indicate they do IPP. My linux machines connect to them using CUPS.
Note from linked wikipedia page regarding Linux CUPS The Internet Printing Protocol is used, among other places, in the Common Unix Printing System.
Is IPP print servers backwards compatible with Microsoft's Network Printing? The print servers work fine on the internet when I redirect a port from the WAN to LAN on my router. I haven't tested if Vista can Internet print this way yet. Maybe it can't.
Don't PC makers include a recovery partition for Windows machines?
Yes.
Ever try to use a recovery partition after the hard drive dies? Remember many hard drives went from a 3 year warranty to a 1 year warranty for a very good reason. High density drives have had a high failure rate. We are just now starting to see drives with 3 year warranties again. They finally solved this issue by providing a way to recreate a recovery partition on a new bare hard disk.
Are they really important?
Ask me that after your hard drive dies. In the meantime, I'm laughing my ass off!
To be honest, They are not important unless you have a class or job that requires Windows. Otherwise Ubuntu works fine and is free.
I posted too soon on my other post, but from the last line in the linked article,
The Internet Printing Protocol is used, among other places, in the Common Unix Printing System.
My note CUPS for short.
Which is what my Linux machines are using to print to these printers. It just wasn't intuitive to set up Vista to print to them. Vista does not call it IPP and does not use the network address string everyone else uses.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, ok, not on life support, but I've seen NT in some pretty important applications such as the computer system in a CAT scanner.
A failed CAT scan is not hazardous. Reboot and shoot again. Windows monitoring life signs in surgery and metering medications for the anesthesiologist is not a good idea.
No help to your question, but see if you can add email to the repertoire. Browsing web may be fascinating, but nothing like being able to communicate with your kids, grand kids, relatives, and friends *UNOBTRUSIVELY* with emails.
A browser and Gmail or Yahoo will be fine. Administering a bunch of rotating clients e-mail accounts increases the complexity. This moves the admin job from you to an online provider as needed. This is most helpful if you are not doing individual user logins but just one always on internet kiosk.
By the time Barnett first approached Rubin about coming to Columbia, Rubin had already decided that he would have nothing more to do with Columbia Records. This was because of the company's handling of the Rubin-produced Neil Diamond record "12 Songs" in 2005. Diamond was a hero of Rubin's, and he spent two years working on the album, persuading Diamond to record acoustically, something he hadn't done since the '60s.
"The CD debuted at No. 4," Rubin told me at Hugo's, still sounding upset. "It was the highest debut of Neil's career, off to a great start. But Columbia -- it was some kind of corporate thing -- had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record. The spyware became public knowledge, and people freaked out. There were some lawsuits filed, and the CD was recalled by Columbia. Literally pulled from stores. We came out on a Tuesday, by the following week the CD was not available. Columbia released it again in a month, but we never recovered. Neil was furious, and I vowed never to make another album with Columbia."
What Rubin didn't get is the fact SONY had a hand in the same bad management. He won't produce with Columbia, but WTF is he doing with SONY? Maybe he is just not informed.
clip from bottom of page 4;
As a kind of test, Rubin made some unusual demands. "Oh, God, I would have liked to have heard those negotiations," Natalie Maines exclaimed. "Rick knows what he's worth, and I can just hear him telling them, 'You might never see me, I may never wear shoes, you're not the boss of me.' And I'm sure they were saying, 'Whatever you want, Mr. Rubin.' I was surprised Sony made such a smart decision: someone who knows music should be running the company."
I hope he is able to get SONY to drop all the attempted DRM & anti-copy junk starting with mini disk and CD's and ending with DVD's and thumb drives.
The number of people who own a computer, are technically smart enough to listen to music on it, and who listen to Neil Diamond, is zero.
If that were true, than this whole rootkit discussion would be a non-issue as absolutely nobody would have even found the software at all. The technicaly smart people who listen to Neil Diamond is the ones who blew the cover of this DRM.
just doesn't understand what the root kit did.
Actualy he did. After the fluf introduction on the first 2-3 pages he gets into the meat of the scandal on pages 4-6. He speaks of the Neil Diamond album and how the DRM Rootkit affected sales and how he made no bones about calling it a disaster. Part if his influence with record distributers is that that never happen to an artists work again.
What do they gain? Was WGA suppose to convince people using illegitimate versions of Windows to turn to the light? Fuck that, they'll just download the latest cracked WGA .DLL and get on with it, while the legit users will get boned because their serial key wasn't recognized or whatever.
Avoid the rush of stormtroupers at the door (BSA) and go legit. Try Ubuntu. It works out of the box. It will connect to your existing LAN with the ablility to log into your existing NFS and SMB workgroup shares. It will use your IPP net attached printers without difficult Vista configuration problems.
A new Vista machine on my LAN took over 4 hours to figure out how to log into my existing SMB shares and connect to my IPP net attached printers.
The first Ubuntu machine only took 30 minutes to learn and complete both tasks. IPP and networking both worked out of the box without tweaks or tricks.
They said Windows is easy to use... Until you need to learn a new version and it's set of bugs.
So if you were stupid enough to use Windows in a safety critical application you risk WGA putting people's lives at risk?
/ license.txt
Imagine if you used Windows in a doctors surgery to hold patient records, or store drug allergy data on it. WGA flags the PC as counterfeit, after that only Window Explorer works, and you can't get their records or allergy info.
Read the EULA. Pay attention to the section regarding life critical application. It clearly states it is not to be used in life support applications. It simply isn't reliable for that. MS is avoiding lawsuits from people depending on Windows for life support by explicitly stating it is not designed, manufactured, or intended for that.
"Note on Java Support. The SOFTWARE may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as online control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapon systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has contractually obligated MS to make this disclaimer."
snipped from here;
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie
Sure, for a 24 hour window pirates would have a free-for-all in getting perfectly valid WGA results, but at the same time legitimate customers would not be inconvenienced.
Pirates would not be inconvenienced either. It's a simple taksk to null route the WGA server at the router. A fail genuine is a failure of the anti-piracy feature. Validate or fail deadly is a feature. It is well known. With the server failure, it is even better understood.
So why didn't MSFT just kill the server to let people's software default to "genuine" instead of leaving the server connected with faulty software?
It's an anti-piracy feature. It prevents a business from firewalling the WGA server to get "genuine" status. Remember there was an un-authorised software update site? If it works without the real MS saying it's OK, the anti-piracy feature does not work.
Unfortunately for MS is this feature does not prevent users from migrating to the alternatives. It's hard to run a monopoly when Ubuntu is legal and free for the taking. If they had a choice, the first would be that I run Windows fully paid for. Second choice is that I run a pirated copy, but they are using WGA to prevent that to encourage me into the first choice, but the result is I have gone to their worst option.. I've gone legal to the competition. MS is helping themselves break their monopoly by reducing piracy.
When are we going to demand more from OS vendors?
In 1997 Ubuntu and Mac were not really on the radar. Seen the year to year growth of Ubuntu and Apple lately? In short, the answer is NOW! Did you miss the slow uptake in Vista? Most Vista sales is for new hardware, not the need for a new OS. Dual core and Quad core machines are the selling points, not Vista. Due to demand, many vendors are switching back from Vista only to some XP options. In the last 12 months I have personaly upgraded 5 machines to Ubuntu for security, stability, usability, and cost reasons. It works better and costs less. As an added bonus, I'm learning how to run some of my legacy applications on WINE eliminating the need for a couple dual boot machines.
While we have to use technology with our eyes wide open, there's no reason why we cannot be exponentially smarter because of Moore's law. Just as an example, Alan Kay said something like "a different context is worth 80 IQ points" when he talked about very young children intuitively doing calculus (in a quantitative manner too) using the Squeak system.
What got me started understanding some of the math was directly related to that air table. The math class did a section on vectors. In physics doing the conservation of energy in elastic collisions of round pucks started to make a lot of sense when the pucks didn't strike head-on, but contained momentum in vector angles. Measuring how much, what direction and energy of each movement was an eye-opener to vector math.
That beat anything I learned in a textbook in school for making a point.
Understanding the concept and math lead to predicting energies of particles in a collision. This was very useful. You are entirely right in stating that better tools help learning. Classes without the tools are dull, dry and often difficult to grasp. I pitty the powerpoint physics class students.
If the real thing would be gibberish, then real gibberish will do just as well.
Hmm, RAM in the server.. Methinks connecting to the video RAM where the screensaver runs 24/7 should do nicely.
Well powerpoint is the only thing usefull, my teachers ever used.
Invest in some old fashioned hardware. Hands-on physics teaches a lot of concepts to those who don't quite grasp concepts published in a book. Examples are a bicycle to teach force/displacement/speed relationships. The classic is standing a bike up and asking if the pedal low to the floor is pushed to the rear of the bike, will the cranking force move the bike foreward or will the gearing cause the bike to move backwards in the direction of the force and why?
Students that grasp these concepts early on are the ones to understand the conservation of energy and entropy. They will understand why you can't use a high speed motor of say 1 HP to drive a 1 KW generator fast enough to power the motor and have a few hundred watts of power left over. An electrical load on the generator provides a mechanical load to the motor. This is not over unity creating a perpertual motion machine.
Props such as a hand cranked generator or bicycle driven generator that can be loaded make a serious impression to early students. Cranking 60 watts is work. 300 Watts sustained is very serious work. This leads to an understang of torque/speed/horsepower relationships. Torque or speed is not power. Feeling power generation is better than most any PowerPoint presentation.
After the mechanical presentations, then go into lecture and detail such as going over an electric bill and figuring the typical days power use and how much work is delivered for a dollar.
Power economy and the hand cranked PC scale now come into view. Hand cranking your typical home PC or laptop and Monitor are now seen as beyond pratical. Energy conservation to fit the hand cranked energy budget now become a prime design consideration for future engineers instead of how to hand crank existing tech.
Hand cranking a 2 watt laptop is possible as well as a 60 watt laptop, but the 60 watt laptop isn't pratical as all the time will be spent cranking quite hard.
You were cheated in your physics class if they didn't do the blowgun/falling ball demo or used air hocky tables to show center of mass of spinning objects and conservation of momentium, elastic and inelastic collisions. In the 1970's we shot a lot of film of this on an air hocky table and took measurements from the photographs to calculate displacement of the objects photographed under a strobe light. The hands on stuff was the best.
That, and the site's been down for years.
As of January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx was taken offline, but many mirrors of the site are still available,
gleaned from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
and the trolls still try to direct you to a mirror.
This broadcast is fanned out by routers, gateways, and firewalls which keep the DHCP in house. The Patch Tuesday shouldn't be near the problem to DHCP than it was to Skype which phoned home instead of phone the local router or ISP.
It just wasted a post instead.
It's dead on two points...
1 hosts file blocks it
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
2 DNS blocks it. DNS 1 67.138.54.100 DNS 2 207.225.209.66
http://www.scrubit.com/
This makes many of the troll posts safe for work.
Of course, this is a typical bad decision as it means that responses from a DHCP server with a lot of Vista clients will flood the network with broadcast responses, but hey, they arent know for making good decisions.
How often does Vista request a DHCP lease? Maybe once a crash? The only time I see this flooding the network is after an ISP outage. It may prevent or delay an ISP from recovery just like the Skype storm and failure when the number of reboots exceeded system capacity.
Is there a way to homestead a little chunk of time with my IP's name on it?"
I always liked the public public press release and demo.
As an example, is anybody going to challenge the date of the private rocket launch by them claiming first private launch into space instead? The demo was very public and well documented in many forms.
For the naysayers regarding the first man on the moon, the proof is either there or it isn't. In the future when man again returns, the new claim of first man on the moon will have to deal with the record that is left behind by the first man on the moon. There is a TV camera, Flag, moon buggy, golf ball, and a big hunk of machinery surrounded by footprints. There may be doubters that man has been to the moon claiming it's fake, but later when China, Russia or someone else goes and claims first man on the moon and the US landing was fake, they better be able to visit the laser reflector and document what they find in it's vicinity. If the footprints and other stuff just isn't there, then they may prove they are first, but they have the legacy of public television and film record to get out of the way first.
If you do a very public event, it becomes a matter of public record and history.
Why is it too much to ask that if you like the CD, you pay the money?
0 02UAX
It's simple. I'm out of money. Instead of $15 for a 40 minute CD, I bought 4 120 minute DVDs for $20 at Blockbuster.
It is a matter of value. I don't have tons of money to buy both the value products and the expensive low value products. DRM on many CDs has lowered their value even further. If you can't put it on your MP3 player, it's useless. If you find this out ofter the sale, opened items are not returnable. I learned early on to not buy a pig in a poke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke
Many Jewel cases on retail shelves don't contain a real Phillips standard CD and are not clearly labeled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_by_Design
For a prime example of overpricing the easy to duplicate back catalog music is still at high prices as though they are still paying for production costs which were paid for long ago.
http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-White-Album/dp/B000
The outrageous price is simply from created shortage, not by any costs of production.
Instead of buying this overpriced item, I can buy 4 movies that took orders of magnitude more to produce.
Care to do a cost of production comparison for the Beatles White Album and the movies Monsters Inc, Cars, Toy Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Nemo, and other large cast or high tech creations.
When comparing value, the White Album costs more and has a much less talent and production complexity. At the current value/price points, I'm simply buying movies instead of albums. They don't have the value.
where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy
Was that you Steve?
business is war..
And now they have moved into well known territory; Damage Control! It looks like they are doing a good job so far using a pawn for a fall guy.
The quickest way to link to any printer is to go to run and type in \\[server]\[printer]. same for any file share..
That looks like a way to use a SMB link to a printer on a machine. Is that compatible with Internet Printing?
In Linux using CUPS it's IPP://(IP address)/(Port name) to separate it from simple LPD network printing.
They don't call it IPP because it isn't. Judging from your description, you've switched back to the old LPD-style printing, a protocol common in the unix world (cf. LPR, LPRng on google)
o tocol
The print servers clearly indicate they do IPP. My linux machines connect to them using CUPS.
Note from linked wikipedia page regarding Linux CUPS
The Internet Printing Protocol is used, among other places, in the Common Unix Printing System.
Is IPP print servers backwards compatible with Microsoft's Network Printing? The print servers work fine on the internet when I redirect a port from the WAN to LAN on my router. I haven't tested if Vista can Internet print this way yet. Maybe it can't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Pr
Don't PC makers include a recovery partition for Windows machines?
Yes.
Ever try to use a recovery partition after the hard drive dies? Remember many hard drives went from a 3 year warranty to a 1 year warranty for a very good reason. High density drives have had a high failure rate. We are just now starting to see drives with 3 year warranties again. They finally solved this issue by providing a way to recreate a recovery partition on a new bare hard disk.
Are they really important?
Ask me that after your hard drive dies. In the meantime, I'm laughing my ass off!
To be honest, They are not important unless you have a class or job that requires Windows.
Otherwise Ubuntu works fine and is free.
I posted too soon on my other post, but from the last line in the linked article,
The Internet Printing Protocol is used, among other places, in the Common Unix Printing System.
My note CUPS for short.
Which is what my Linux machines are using to print to these printers. It just wasn't intuitive to set up Vista to print to them. Vista does not call it IPP and does not use the network address string everyone else uses.