I've been using two old 4 drawer file cabinets (you know, the big metal ones for offices). I put cards into anti-stat bags and store them in regular old drop files (the ones with the mtal hooks so they hang). A bonus is that you can put labels on the drop files. That fills two drawers.
For drives, I scout around cheap hardware stores like Harbor Freight for the generic tool cases with uncut foam in the middle and stack those into two more drawers. Cables take up another two drawers. Finally, CPUs and RAM go into anti-stat bags, which in turn into some small acrylic cases from Tap Plastics with some foam for cushoning. These, with motherboards in whatever box/foam I can find take up another drawer.
The cabinets are great because, my dog can't tip them, my cat can't get into them, they have locks on the drawers and the drawers are usually on some kind of roller mechanism. I keep both in an unused bedroom closet. They even fit perfectly with the sliding closet doors on, but my guitars and music stuff is closet too, so the doors live in the garage.
Now if only there were an easy and compact way to store surplus cases and monitors.
That's usually the point of writing a professional complaint. You may be on the leading edge of hate, but you'd make a horrible attorney or advocate.
better to just tell them they suck - much faster
In most business and legal matters, substituting "I disagree with your actions" for "You suck" will only make your position less convincing and cause your opinion to be discarded even faster. I've received an appologetic e-mail response to my complaint already. Sure they said nothing about changing their policy, but they didn't want to leave me offended and it wasn't a form letter, so someone actually read my complaint and felt that it warranted attention. I doubt yet another "You suck" letter would even get someone's attention at AOL.
How does Microsoft deal with those that don't have the ability to connect to their servers for registration?
MS provides a toll free number for you to call to activate your product if you don't have an internet connection. If you've ever been through one of those calls, you realize that MS actually requests more information about you from the phone call than with internet based activation. I bet they're using the sale of that extra information to help defray the cost of having an activation phone bank.
If you want to influence anything in the world, you have to say something somewhere outside of slashdot. Sure, my one submission will probably be ignored, that's why I posted. Even just a handful of professional sounding letters can make a difference. You may hate AOL, but have you ever stopped to tell them that?
How long will it be before someone finally does a proper case mod with this information? Lots of folks have thought about it. I have yet to see someone who has done it though.
You can leave them feedback regarding this decision at the AOL Feedback Page. Let them know that this decision will impact more than they expect it will and that you are disappointed with their actions. You don't have to be a customer. Most of us are technology experts who have influence on their potential and existing customer base. I've included my submission as an example, but please write your own.
I find it disappointing that you are blocking content linked from such a popular site as LiveJournal based on referrer headers (see this slashdot discussion: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/205724 2&mode=thread&tid=120&tid=187&tid=96&tid=9 9). I have recommended your services in the past, but that will stop now. Further, I will inform AOL customers whom I have recommended AOL to that their content is not available to sites that AOL seems to disapprove of for no stated reason.
Changing your policy regarding this may defer my judgement about your "service", but your reputation has been irrecoverably tarnished in my view. Additionally your subsidaries, such as Netscape, will no longer be recommended by me.
You may be thinking "Who cares? This is someone who isn't even our customer", but I have become the technology "guru" for over 100 people in my personal life and have input on technology decisions at my workplace. What should worry you is that for every peice of feedback you recieve like mine, there are hundreds of technologically literate people who will simply downplay or berate your services and will not do you the professional courtesy of informing you.
(Offtopic Karma Dive) No, but my Mom apparently gets an unpleasant mental image from the term "butt ugly". According to her, it reminds her of one hairy, acne covered ass she had the misfortune of seeing. Traumatized, I guess. I'm glad I never saw it.
I say, make a GUI element that lets a user choose between small, medium and large text easily. If you have to, make the GUI element large enough to read for the elderly or make large text the default. I can't stand when a site ignores the browser's text controls. This would be a nice middle ground in my opinion.
However, unless there was a licensing agreement prohibiting it, dissasembling the driver to learn how it works is a legal way to learn how to use the chip, so long as your end goal is not writing a drop-in replacement for the library.
So do you think he took too much risk by publishing his results without writing his own driver first?
Do you discipline slave code with a CAT5 bullwhip?
But seriously, you bring up a good point. Companies that GPL or OSS their driver code are doing themselves a favor and saving a lot of the money that would be spent supporting the code later on. I hope that we'll see someone release hardware someday on an open spec with just an OSS reference driver so the community can build the driver from scratch on a new product. Initial sales might be a little flat, but that company could save lots of cash in the long run, have a long product life and actually have the OSS community like them. If I'm wrong and some company is already doing this, let me know. I'll make sure they get prime consideration when I need to buy whatever they make.
12.B) Don't tell your boyfriend/girlfriend/creature what you plan to do to/with/in them over the phone at any volume. I don't want to hear it as it's a mental image I don't want.
13) I can hear you fart/belch/slurp, so don't rip 'em while your in your cube. You'll find your chair missing in the morning if you do... And no, *smiles* I have no idea where your chair went. Was that the expensive one you brought from home?
You've just paid for the song. Unless you turn your radio off every time a commercial comes on, at which point you're a "pirate", listening to something you didn't pay for.
Actually you're wrong, which is a common mistake with this subject. There is no real evidence that people are listening to the radio on a particular station at a particular time, which is how the advertising is sold. Sure there are ratings, polls and station events, but radio is a one-way medium and the numbers generated by these measurements are subjective at best and completely baseless at worst. They are never truly accurate. There is no way to track who is listening or how many of them there are.
If you hear a commercial and go buy the product, THEN you are paying for the advertisement. Otherwise you are just leeching off of an advertiser supported medium. The idea behind the advertising is not so we can listen to ads, it is a way to prompt us to lay down our cash where the ad tells us to..
The modern radio business has been built on decades of these kinds of assumptions, incomplete data and inuendos when it comes to measuring populartity and advertising penetration. This is why some advertisers will say something like "and mention you heard it on K-RIAA" so they can try to verify the stations projections of how many potential customers are listening and correlate them to some real life metric.
Incidentally, television advertising is better off than this because of cable and satellite. They can actually tell what you are watching and even if you flipped the channel when the commercials came on in real time (yes, this does happen). This is one of the reasons that there is an industry push for satellite radio to become a standard while there is a fight against ad-free satellite radio.
I personally would rather just pay for my radio directly and have some actual input as to the content than encourage the ad sales shell game.
From the "Responded" article in the part regarding the SCO distro being available and SCO contributing code to Linux:
"U.S. and international copyright law asserts you cannot inadvertently and accidently assign your copyright to someone else," Sontag said
Who said anything about it being inadvertent or accidental. Stupid yes. Belligerent yes. Inadvertent no.
It would seem that Darl shares. He obviously passes around his crack pipe at executive meetings. He probably even brings the good crack just to impress his peers. Nice guy.
It doesn't and I refuse to turn it on. I excluded the global call because I was in a hurry. I was at work.:)
Since PHP-Nuke is popular and GPL, there are a few PHP-Nuke derivatives that have been locked down pretty well. Start by looking at Nuke Fixes, Nuke Resources and Nuke Forums. The derivatives worth a look that I know of are:
Some things to remember are that you should look at every bit of code for every *Nuke module that you intend to use or are using and that you should be your own worst cracker/hacker. Try to break in and run exploits yourself to see what they do before some k1ddi3 does. Also remember that PHP-Nuke is GPL, so share your changes (as was said earlier in this thread). I realize that you probably already know these things, but it's like a "Coffee May Be Hot" warning - You have to say it.
Can't you just get a different host, then go to your registrar and change your DNS?
Just make sure that you own your domain name and not your registrar. A while back, a few registrars were offering dirt cheap registration, but they retained the rights to the domain name (essentially renting it to you). These types of registrars are trying to make money by forcing you to pay for hosting and since they own the domain name, you can't take your ball and go home. I don't think CubeSoft tries to pull any of this crap, but always read the TOS of a domain name contract very carefully. Even reputable registrars will try to hide stuff in there.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that one cabinet was free when an office moved and the other was only $20 at a thrift store. Nice prices :)
For drives, I scout around cheap hardware stores like Harbor Freight for the generic tool cases with uncut foam in the middle and stack those into two more drawers. Cables take up another two drawers. Finally, CPUs and RAM go into anti-stat bags, which in turn into some small acrylic cases from Tap Plastics with some foam for cushoning. These, with motherboards in whatever box/foam I can find take up another drawer.
The cabinets are great because, my dog can't tip them, my cat can't get into them, they have locks on the drawers and the drawers are usually on some kind of roller mechanism. I keep both in an unused bedroom closet. They even fit perfectly with the sliding closet doors on, but my guitars and music stuff is closet too, so the doors live in the garage.
Now if only there were an easy and compact way to store surplus cases and monitors.
If you want to influence anything in the world, you have to say something somewhere outside of slashdot. Sure, my one submission will probably be ignored, that's why I posted. Even just a handful of professional sounding letters can make a difference. You may hate AOL, but have you ever stopped to tell them that?
I didn't say how long ago it was. It was long ago.
Now my head is dead cause my eyes bled from what I just read.
How hot can an AMD chip get again?...
That's actually funny. Too bad your too much of a coward to get the mod points.
(Offtopic Karma Dive) No, but my Mom apparently gets an unpleasant mental image from the term "butt ugly". According to her, it reminds her of one hairy, acne covered ass she had the misfortune of seeing. Traumatized, I guess. I'm glad I never saw it.
I say, make a GUI element that lets a user choose between small, medium and large text easily. If you have to, make the GUI element large enough to read for the elderly or make large text the default. I can't stand when a site ignores the browser's text controls. This would be a nice middle ground in my opinion.
You mean it would say "You can't wash these together. That's wrong and you should know it." and throw the them back at you?
But seriously, you bring up a good point. Companies that GPL or OSS their driver code are doing themselves a favor and saving a lot of the money that would be spent supporting the code later on. I hope that we'll see someone release hardware someday on an open spec with just an OSS reference driver so the community can build the driver from scratch on a new product. Initial sales might be a little flat, but that company could save lots of cash in the long run, have a long product life and actually have the OSS community like them. If I'm wrong and some company is already doing this, let me know. I'll make sure they get prime consideration when I need to buy whatever they make.
12.B) Don't tell your boyfriend/girlfriend/creature what you plan to do to/with/in them over the phone at any volume. I don't want to hear it as it's a mental image I don't want.
13) I can hear you fart/belch/slurp, so don't rip 'em while your in your cube. You'll find your chair missing in the morning if you do... And no, *smiles* I have no idea where your chair went. Was that the expensive one you brought from home?
Just running with the MS-DOS analogy for a chuckle :) I figured by replying to the parent, we could keep the bad DOS jokes in one place.
Beside your point, but anyone who can orchestrate an attack with DOS is truly l33t. That must be one hell of a batch file.
Is Linus right that SCO is "smoking crack"?
Yes
96.58%
No
3.42%
3.42%! It looks like the SCO and MS employees have voted too!
If you hear a commercial and go buy the product, THEN you are paying for the advertisement. Otherwise you are just leeching off of an advertiser supported medium. The idea behind the advertising is not so we can listen to ads, it is a way to prompt us to lay down our cash where the ad tells us to..
The modern radio business has been built on decades of these kinds of assumptions, incomplete data and inuendos when it comes to measuring populartity and advertising penetration. This is why some advertisers will say something like "and mention you heard it on K-RIAA" so they can try to verify the stations projections of how many potential customers are listening and correlate them to some real life metric.
Incidentally, television advertising is better off than this because of cable and satellite. They can actually tell what you are watching and even if you flipped the channel when the commercials came on in real time (yes, this does happen). This is one of the reasons that there is an industry push for satellite radio to become a standard while there is a fight against ad-free satellite radio.
I personally would rather just pay for my radio directly and have some actual input as to the content than encourage the ad sales shell game.
It would seem that Darl shares. He obviously passes around his crack pipe at executive meetings. He probably even brings the good crack just to impress his peers. Nice guy.
I tried it and PHP-Nuke still ran. I even browsed a lot of my site. A good sign!It doesn't and I refuse to turn it on. I excluded the global call because I was in a hurry. I was at work.
Since PHP-Nuke is popular and GPL, there are a few PHP-Nuke derivatives that have been locked down pretty well. Start by looking at Nuke Fixes, Nuke Resources and Nuke Forums. The derivatives worth a look that I know of are:
-
MyPHPNuke
- Postnuke
- Nuke Cops PHP-Nuke Enhanced Bundle
Some things to remember are that you should look at every bit of code for every *Nuke module that you intend to use or are using and that you should be your own worst cracker/hacker. Try to break in and run exploits yourself to see what they do before some k1ddi3 does. Also remember that PHP-Nuke is GPL, so share your changes (as was said earlier in this thread). I realize that you probably already know these things, but it's like a "Coffee May Be Hot" warning - You have to say it.