Start a MS office 2004 application. (for Mac) It starts with a window with a bunch of documents of various types for you to chose from. This is borrowing from the older Works interface.
For example, I open PowerPoint and I get a Window with a bunch of document templates on it. If I select Excel Workbook, Excel opens up with a blank workbook and PowerPoint goes into the background.
On the Lisa, you have a folder call Stationary that has blank copies of documnents. You just double click on one and the application starts. The document is saved with a name that includes the date if you do not fo out of the way to change it. Not sure what happens if you add an application from some other vendor to your Lisa. My Lisa only has Apple applications on it.
Of course you can build somthing like this is windows on the desktop with shortcuts and just remember to save everything under a new name.
The Mac was not the better computer at the time. If it had not been for the laser printer, the Mac would have died too. Remember the Mac had only a single floppy drive and 128K ram. Then came the 512K Mac and second floppy (a vast improvement but still not really usable in a office setting). Every once in a while you would have to swap floppies out of the drives (20 swaps sometimes to save a document, yes really!)
The Mac did not truely become usable in the office until the Mac Plus came out. (My external SCSI drive for my Mac plus was over $1900 for 65MB IIRC)
The Lisa had features like full preemptive multitasking and office applications which could work with each other long before Microsoft was attempting anything like it.
The Lisa 2 is not really that slow, it takes a while to boot, but based on other computers of the time it was not that slow. I remember a PDP-11 taking most of a work day to reformat a 10MB hard disk.
I think based on these results that I have a much better understanding of how these things form and hold together.
If you take two pieces of steel and grind the outsides in a vacuum, all the exterior coatings will be removed. If you then put the two metal pieces together they will stick together (or so I have been told)
As the comet moves through space, if it is soft enough, it will pick up lots of dust and grow larger. But because nobody is picking the pieces and putting them together so that they fit there will be lots of empty space leading to a very low density in the outer layers. Think of it as being constantly covered with glue
only in the inner solar system where the temperature in higher will the comet begin to eject material faster than it gains.
I personally think this could be good news if you want to move a comet.
Mass drivers become easy because you can dig easily to obtain mass to eject.
But even better news for nearby thermonuclear bombs. I think it would act like a blast shield. Absorbing some of shock effects without damage in distant parts of the structure. Yet converting more of the blast to thrust than just about any other structure.
If you watch bomb squad folks approach a bomb, they wear padding, not hard armor.
The only way I could see this being a good thing is if the MYSQL folks set up the contract with a huge payoff clause if SCO fails in the next three years. Then when chapter 13 comes they can open source all of SCO's software.
When I travel to a remote city for a week, I do not like to rent a car. I find that if I can walk to and from the motel for the week that I am there it makes for a much better trip. (usually when I travel it is for classes and such so I spend most of the 40 hours sitting down)
I frequently find some hotel that is very close to where I am going to be. Some times I have been staying within 1/2 mile of where I need to be during the day and I get told that I can get there from here on foot.
One place was very close but I wound up getting bus passes because you needed to walk over five railroad tracks and down beneath some bridges (very dangerous looking) because the bridge that cars drove on had no foot or bike access. Rode the bus 4 blocks a day for three days until I figured out a way to get there with a two mile walk.
Next time you go on a one week trip, try this though. You will learn so much more about a strange city.
HP Laptop Large power brick for laptop Wifi finder USB flash drive Outlet power tester Cat 5 cables USB extension cable USB camera cables (both tiny ends) USB flash card reader cr2032 batteries Blank invoices Spare NIC cards exit air Mask (expired) XP SP2 Network cable tester Screw driver Extra SD cards Pens Laser pointer pocket voltmeter
CD case with XP install disc Knoppix CD Spyware tools CD 2 blank CD's 2 blank DVDs
Former Visitors Digital camera usb floppy drive floppies pocket knife pliers cell phone disposeable rain coat
Oh, I am sorry it wasn't an ad. It was PBS saying thanks to Google for sponsoring NOVA by playing a clip provided by Google that told how cool Google is.
I had about 15 ssh sessions running. Most into a development machine. It was about 1:30 pm. Needed to reboot the dev box. Got a phone call and answered it. Supervisor came in and asked me a question. Lotus notes popped to the front with an email that I needed to take care of. Ok, now where am I? Oh yes, need to reboot. Click on window. su, shutdown -r now. Wait for reboot.
Supervisor steps in "are we having a problem with the production server?"
Me. "hmm... must be a network issue, I'm sure it will be back up soon"
Note, this HP-UX box runs POST for 20 minutes before booting.
Keep in mind the following, I have done some war driving in my local area. I find open wireless connections. Then narrow them down to a few houses. I write the SSID on a flyer and place it on the door. The flyer tells about the dangers of open wireless and has an offer to come secure it for free.
I set out over 500 of these flyer and got two real responces.
Even people who have there face rubbed in it don't really care.
Linksys, D-Link, Belkin... Should not be allowed to ship when the settings defaulted to open!
(ps, I met a guy who says he war drives, connects, prints a flyer on the network printer. He has not gone to jail yet.)
Perhaps you have looked through your message for spaminsh words, perhaps not.
When I was tuning spamassassin on a daily basis, I got lots of surpizes related to what triggered the filters at first.
Many people put little ads in their sigs for example
We had a person who put their address in the sig. the problem was that they lived on 888 48th street (or similar address.) this looked like an 800 number to spamassassin.
If you really want to see a dumb message, have someone send you a cell phone picture mail. The did not get through our filters at all. When I white listed it, it had so much advertising for the company it addition to the bit map it was shocking.
Please post a copy of your standard email so we can see it. (#### out the to address of course)
I have a free copy of SP2. I tried to install it on a clients machine. (faster than downloading it) It died on the advantage check.
I went to look for the sticker and when I did not find one I asked the client.
"No I didn't buy it new from a major store. I got the laptop a couple of years ago from a guy in Jersey."
"Yea, he did say something about saving me money on software, but he said it was legal"
He may have had one of the original XP Volume keys
Now I can tell him that he can go legit by ratting out the other guy. If you sell pirate and then tell your clients that you are legit you should get in trouble.
BTW the clients machine is so badly messed up he needs to have it scratch built.
Get some help. There are lots of very good people out there who can come sit down with you for a day or two and talk with you. It will not cost you a lot. Read a Dummies book first, but don't buy anything until you talk to them.
Probably check thier references out first.
They can see issues that you will miss until it is too late:
Security issues. Can this cable with this type of cover be run through the drop ceiling. Why you want to be sure not to get a kink in you wires while running them (cable run incorrectly can work but be slow). What a UPS is. Why you want offsite backups, etc..
Another reason to get some help early on is that you want to have someone as a backup. If you are out of town, sick, or dead you want someone who can help and also some one who knows what is going on. You also have a known person you can call at 3:00 am if needed.
I had a client this month who needed to get their home network set back up. The husband had died suddenly. He did all the setup. The home network was a strange mixture of Linux and Apple boxes. They used VPN from between the office and the home and the office.
He had all sorts of tricks setup. One network but it looks like he had different subnet masks setup on different machines. No admin passwords were known or written down anywhere. We did not even know what kernel he was running as he had tried newer ones and stepped back (it didn't help that I was the third person to look at this and the other s tried things). If someone else was involved or if things were written down it would be much much simpler.
Even if you do it completely yourself, run it by someone after you get it stable. I would bet you could even get someone to do the following deal:
You set it up, they come in and look at it and if you do not get told about issues that need to be taken care of that you missed the consult is free.
I ask my clients if they want to provide open access or not.
I explain the risks and if they still want to provide open access, I tell them to change the SSID to somthing inviteing like
Short_use_ok
Otherwise you should ask if possible before use.
Many laptops will auto connect to any wireless network automatically. You can make it illegal to ship laptops to consumers configured this way, but how an accedental connection can be illegal is beyond me.
Please note that the home owner was deliberately sharing access in the neiborhood to people not in his household. (did not secure network because older people used it)
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I have a small fridge here (absocold) it is kind of like the small fridges students use in dorm rooms.
If I put a bottle of water in the freezer compartment most of the time it will not freeze.
what is fun is to hand it to someone and ask them to shake it or even let me them drink the water.
I will suddenly turn to slush. It is very strange to have water freeze in you mouth.
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Start a MS office 2004 application. (for Mac) It starts with a window with a bunch of documents of various types for you to chose from. This is borrowing from the older Works interface.
For example, I open PowerPoint and I get a Window with a bunch of document templates on it. If I select Excel Workbook, Excel opens up with a blank workbook and PowerPoint goes into the background.
On the Lisa, you have a folder call Stationary that has blank copies of documnents. You just double click on one and the application starts. The document is saved with a name that includes the date if you do not fo out of the way to change it. Not sure what happens if you add an application from some other vendor to your Lisa. My Lisa only has Apple applications on it.
Of course you can build somthing like this is windows on the desktop with shortcuts and just remember to save everything under a new name.
The Mac was not the better computer at the time. If it had not been for the laser printer, the Mac would have died too. Remember the Mac had only a single floppy drive and 128K ram. Then came the 512K Mac and second floppy (a vast improvement but still not really usable in a office setting). Every once in a while you would have to swap floppies out of the drives (20 swaps sometimes to save a document, yes really!)
The Mac did not truely become usable in the office until the Mac Plus came out. (My external SCSI drive for my Mac plus was over $1900 for 65MB IIRC)
The Lisa had features like full preemptive multitasking and office applications which could work with each other long before Microsoft was attempting anything like it.
The Lisa 2 is not really that slow, it takes a while to boot, but based on other computers of the time it was not that slow. I remember a PDP-11 taking most of a work day to reformat a 10MB hard disk.
If you have to go to the doctor to have a sick day, that is a clear reason to run away. Run away now!
I have worked at some nasty places, but that is just too much.
I think based on these results that I have a much better understanding of how these things form and hold together.
If you take two pieces of steel and grind the outsides in a vacuum, all the exterior coatings will be removed. If you then put the two metal pieces together they will stick together (or so I have been told)
As the comet moves through space, if it is soft enough, it will pick up lots of dust and grow larger. But because nobody is picking the pieces and putting them together so that they fit there will be lots of empty space leading to a very low density in the outer layers. Think of it as being constantly covered with glue
only in the inner solar system where the temperature in higher will the comet begin to eject material faster than it gains.
I personally think this could be good news if you want to move a comet.
Mass drivers become easy because you can dig easily to obtain mass to eject.
But even better news for nearby thermonuclear bombs. I think it would act like a blast shield. Absorbing some of shock effects without damage in distant parts of the structure. Yet converting more of the blast to thrust than just about any other structure.
If you watch bomb squad folks approach a bomb, they wear padding, not hard armor.
Anyone try it with a Braille browser? I bet it does not work!
The only way I could see this being a good thing is if the MYSQL folks set up the contract with a huge payoff clause if SCO fails in the next three years. Then when chapter 13 comes they can open source all of SCO's software.
When I travel to a remote city for a week, I do not like to rent a car. I find that if I can walk to and from the motel for the week that I am there it makes for a much better trip. (usually when I travel it is for classes and such so I spend most of the 40 hours sitting down)
I frequently find some hotel that is very close to where I am going to be. Some times I have been staying within 1/2 mile of where I need to be during the day and I get told that I can get there from here on foot.
One place was very close but I wound up getting bus passes because you needed to walk over five railroad tracks and down beneath some bridges (very dangerous looking) because the bridge that cars drove on had no foot or bike access. Rode the bus 4 blocks a day for three days until I figured out a way to get there with a two mile walk.
Next time you go on a one week trip, try this though. You will learn so much more about a strange city.
HP Laptop
Large power brick for laptop
Wifi finder
USB flash drive
Outlet power tester
Cat 5 cables
USB extension cable
USB camera cables (both tiny ends)
USB flash card reader
cr2032 batteries
Blank invoices
Spare NIC cards
exit air Mask (expired)
XP SP2
Network cable tester
Screw driver
Extra SD cards
Pens
Laser pointer
pocket voltmeter
CD case with XP install disc
Knoppix CD
Spyware tools CD
2 blank CD's
2 blank DVDs
Former Visitors
Digital camera
usb floppy drive
floppies
pocket knife
pliers
cell phone
disposeable rain coat
Oh, I am sorry it wasn't an ad. It was PBS saying thanks to Google for sponsoring NOVA by playing a clip provided by Google that told how cool Google is.
Cool ad though. Anyone capture it?
In high traffic areas the grass dies if too many people shortcut.
So you get yelled at for crossing lawns as kids by the home owner.
If you are nice you stay on the side walk.
(to really kill grass fast ride bikes across it!)
I had about 15 ssh sessions running. Most into a development machine. It was about 1:30 pm. Needed to reboot the dev box. Got a phone call and answered it.
Supervisor came in and asked me a question.
Lotus notes popped to the front with an email that I needed to take care of.
Ok, now where am I? Oh yes, need to reboot.
Click on window. su, shutdown -r now.
Wait for reboot.
Supervisor steps in "are we having a problem with the production server?"
Me. "hmm... must be a network issue, I'm sure it will be back up soon"
Note, this HP-UX box runs POST for 20 minutes before booting.
Note to self, Try "uname -a first"
never invite vampires or cops into your home ;-)
They will ignore it.
I delivered 500 flyers with peoples SSID on them. I put them on the door that I thought had the wireless.
I got two responces.
I aggree BTW that printing to there printer or IM could get you arrested.
I though it was the guys who stand up on a platform with three turn tables playing music and then grab the stylus and rub it over the record.
;-)
Scratching, or something it is called
Ok,
Keep in mind the following, I have done some war driving in my local area. I find open wireless connections. Then narrow them down to a few houses. I write the SSID on a flyer and place it on the door. The flyer tells about the dangers of open wireless and has an offer to come secure it for free.
I set out over 500 of these flyer and got two real responces.
Even people who have there face rubbed in it don't really care.
Linksys, D-Link, Belkin... Should not be allowed to ship when the settings defaulted to open!
(ps, I met a guy who says he war drives, connects, prints a flyer on the network printer. He has not gone to jail yet.)
With some media you can do an eject (after a right click) rather than going down in the task bar on the
safely remove hardware icon.
Much better than just ripping it out.
Perhaps you have looked through your message for spaminsh words, perhaps not.
When I was tuning spamassassin on a daily basis, I got lots of surpizes related to what triggered the filters at first.
Many people put little ads in their sigs for example
We had a person who put their address in the sig. the problem was that they lived on 888 48th street (or similar address.) this looked like an 800 number to spamassassin.
If you really want to see a dumb message, have someone send you a cell phone picture mail. The did not get through our filters at all. When I white listed it, it had so much advertising for the company it addition to the bit map it was shocking.
Please post a copy of your standard email so we can see it. (#### out the to address of course)
Good luck
How about the following:
Cable company installs a router at my residence. It has wired and 802.119(%) access for me.
It also has a separate channel which runs a much longer range signal that acts like a short range cell tower.
I get a discount (perhaps packet priority, perhaps not) they get to charge for the service to the cell folks.
Perhaps, because I have an access point at home, I get free wireless internet while on the road
here is a link to a microsoft site that has more info1 1/407118.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2005/04/
I have a free copy of SP2. I tried to install it on a clients machine. (faster than downloading it) It died on the advantage check.
I went to look for the sticker and when I did not find one I asked the client.
"No I didn't buy it new from a major store. I got the laptop a couple of years ago from a guy in Jersey."
"Yea, he did say something about saving me money on software, but he said it was legal"
He may have had one of the original XP Volume keys
Now I can tell him that he can go legit by ratting out the other guy. If you sell pirate and then tell your clients that you are legit you should get in trouble.
BTW the clients machine is so badly messed up he needs to have it scratch built.
I can explain what is being said, I am not sure I agree with it.
If my SSN or password is stollen I can change it in theory.
Biometrics if forged have a couple of problems that are unique to it just based on the stability.
Like DNA evidence, if it is 100% trusted, nothing can argue with it.
Also if a method is standardized and accepted everywhere, then someone figures out how to fake your ID you have absolutely no way to change it.
Get some help. There are lots of very good people out there who can come sit down with you for a day or two and talk with you. It will not cost you a lot. Read a Dummies book first, but don't buy anything until you talk to them.
Probably check thier references out first.
They can see issues that you will miss until it is too late:
Security issues. Can this cable with this type of cover be run through the drop ceiling. Why you want to be sure not to get a kink in you wires while running them (cable run incorrectly can work but be slow). What a UPS is. Why you want offsite backups, etc..
Another reason to get some help early on is that you want to have someone as a backup. If you are out of town, sick, or dead you want someone who can help and also some one who knows what is going on. You also have a known person you can call at 3:00 am if needed.
I had a client this month who needed to get their home network set back up. The husband had died suddenly. He did all the setup. The home network was a strange mixture of Linux and Apple boxes. They used VPN from between the office and the home and the office.
He had all sorts of tricks setup. One network but it looks like he had different subnet masks setup on different machines. No admin passwords were known or written down anywhere. We did not even know what kernel he was running as he had tried newer ones and stepped back (it didn't help that I was the third person to look at this and the other s tried things). If someone else was involved or if things were written down it would be much much simpler.
Even if you do it completely yourself, run it by someone after you get it stable. I would bet you could even get someone to do the following deal:
You set it up, they come in and look at it and if you do not get told about issues that need to be taken care of that you missed the consult is free.
Good luck
Yes, but the sign is in Chinese and the homeowner bought it at the mall and doesn't read chinese
I ask my clients if they want to provide open access or not.
I explain the risks and if they still want to provide open access, I tell them to change the SSID to somthing inviteing like
Short_use_ok
Otherwise you should ask if possible before use.
Many laptops will auto connect to any wireless network automatically. You can make it illegal to ship laptops to consumers configured this way, but how an accedental connection can be illegal is beyond me.
Please note that the home owner was deliberately sharing access in the neiborhood to people not in his household. (did not secure network because older people used it)
super cooled liquids and vapors are easy to make.
I have a small fridge here (absocold) it is kind of like the small fridges students use in dorm rooms.
If I put a bottle of water in the freezer compartment
most of the time it will not freeze.
what is fun is to hand it to someone and ask them to shake it or even let me them drink the water.
I will suddenly turn to slush. It is very strange to have water freeze in you mouth.