Most Diebold ATM's run OS/2. But there's a push from some banks for them to install windows on them, even though the banks don't manage them. I used to work for a company that had ATM's with Diebold, and the engineer I talked to was unhappy that they were putting windows on them, but it's customer demand. It's simply some jackass that works for a bank and thinking they should run windows, when he has no idea how an ATM even works.
As far as VPN's go, for the most part, the ATM's either dial up, or are connected to a LAN that has some sort of WAN connection back to its respective bank. I don't know of any that use VPN's, although it is entirely possible. Keep in mind that Diebold simply provides the machines and fixes them when they break, it's up to the bank or whoever to provide the connectivity and other supporting servers/equipment.
Just because it's cracked doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it, all of those songs are already available on P2P networks and newsgroups already. Most of them with superior bitrates.
Just because someone else puts up an AAC of the file on P2P doesn't mean that it's going to cause people to download more illegally. If someone was going to steal the music, they'd just do it with MP3 or OGG, or whatever flavor is already out there.
Think about it, this really does nothing to hurt Apple's business model. The percentage of people that are going to somehow benefit from a ripped AAC file and decide not to buy it from Apple instead is so low that it's insignificant.
What this does mean though, is that I can now play my purchased music on my Linux workstation, and possibly get a portable player that's not an iPod that will play these. I'd say QTFairUse is an excellent name for it, because that's certainly what I'm going to use it for.
Plus, why would one buy music from Apple, only to give it away to total strangers for nothing. I wouldn't. They way I see it, I paid for it, and if you want it, go buy your own.
With all the talk of censored music at Walmart, it might help to understand a bit about the company. They are based in Bentonville, GA. A hellhole of a place, quite a ways from a major city. Everyone in the town works for Walmart. As far as I know, everything there is owned by walmart. Gas stations, food, and even (surpise) walmart itself. Bentonville is in a dry county. That means that it's illegal to serve, sell, or buy booze in the county. People there apparently have a real problem with alcohol, think it's the devil. A friend of a friend took a consulting job there about a year ago. She was in another county at a bar and someone that worked with her saw her drinking a beer. She was fired the following monday.
At my previous job, I had to deal with walmart as a client. They are a bunch of Nazis. They are huge, and many companies depend on them to survive, and walmart knows it. That's why they can get away with doing almost anything they want. 70% of all companies that do business with walmart either go bankrupt or get purchased by walmart.
I went shopping for a laptop bag yesterday. I really liked this Belkin one I found, but decided not to buy it solely because of their little router spamming escapade. I won't buy Belkin products anymore.
The sooner hardware manufacturers realize that pulling stunts like this results in some sort of backlash which affects their bottom line, the better.
This works, but it's not documented anywhere. Change your cupsd.conf to allow access from your other machines, not just localhost. Then when adding the printer on your windows box, for the location type in: http://:631/printer/printername
It will force windows to use IPP when printing to the printer, and it works great on my network.
So, it seems like states will use just about anything someone puts in front of them. I'm going to write my own voting software called iVictory. Then, because it has the "i" in front of it, state legislators will think it's as good as their pretty white music devices, and totally use it. Once my diabolical software is in place, I will run for office.
I will then go on to become supreme ruler of the universe.
Sony Ericsson Clicker has support for making it do things when you walk in and out of range. Don't know if the encryption thing is built in, but it surely can be done with a simple AppleScript.
Hackers and academics have uncovered one Windows security hole after another, turning Microsoft into a frantic little Dutch boy at the dike without enough fingers
I don't know about you, but the image I got in my head was definitely not G-rated.
Why doesn't someone just go to court? When I was in college, I had literally nothing they could take from me except for a waterbed and a shitty 486. No way in hell I would have settled. I would have looked for some kind of free representation, or failing that, just represent myself. Even if I lost it would cost them money, and say I had 100 songs they were suing over at $150k each, that's $15 million. How in the world is a broke college student going to pay a $15 million dollar fine? Surely everyone would see it as ludricrous that downloading 100 songs would incur a $15 million dollar fine.
Fucking RIAA. Looks like they've figured out that bullying people under the threat of litigation is a lucrative way of doing business. Reminds me of SCO and those companies that exist solely to buy patents and then try to sue the pants off of people. Isn't there some sort of law against using the threat of expensive litigation to get people to just give you some sort of money? I know settling out of court is legal and all, but it just seems like this is blackmail.
I know you're looking for something free, but others here with some dollars to spend might like this. ProactiveNet does standard monitoring of network devices, can grab any variable available via snmp, microsoft perfmon counters, or even using shell scripts to parse data and return values you wish to monitor. It also has very extensive monitoring capabilities for just about any kind of database (it can execute any query you wish or monitor performance tables), and many kinds of middleware.
It keeps a database which keeps track of the normal values throughout the day and sets high and low thresholds. So, if you have a problem, it can use this data to try to pin down where your problem actually lies. It's actually works quite well, well enough that I just bought it. I evaluated several different products, including the standard HP and CA stuff, but the ProactiveNet stuff kicked the crap out of these in features, price, performance, and usability.
I think there's too much brand loyalty with cars to have one unified "car slashdot" type site. Everyone would just argue and fight and the signal to noise ratio would be so high that nothing would ever be accomplished.
That being said, put Amsoil in your car, your oil sucks. Then, get an Audi, because all other cars suck.
Unethical and slimy, yes, but not fraudulent. The CC company can give you a credit card; you don't have to accept it.
No, a credit card company cannot open a line of credit for me without my authorization, which is exactly what they did to this person. They can send me pre-approved offers, but not an actual card that has an open line of credit.
She was entered into a contract agreement without her explicit permission. She should simply sue the credit card company for accepting an application without a signature.
Use a load balancing device such as F5 BigIP, Cisco CSS, or Foundry ServerIron. Put multiple apps on each machine so they serve more than one purpose, but duplicate those machines and load balance across them. You end up with a bit less admin task since the machines are all identical, and you can take down a service or a whole server without affecting anything.
I don't get why more people don't do this. You get more efficient use of your resources by not wasting dual PIII servers for just a single task that really only requires the equivalent power of a palm pilot, you get redundancy, and you have your coolness factor all rolled into one package. Then again, convincing management that has no experience with load balancers is not always easy. They think they are some magical box and really have no clue how this could possibly help them in any way.
fastmail.fm is hands down one of the best. Supports POP and IMAP for free, but paid accounts get more storage and some other nifty features. The free account works well enough for me.
This reminds me of the episode of the Man Show where they got some guy to set up a table and take signatures for a petition to "Stop women's suffrage now!" Plenty of women signed it....
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Why don't antivirus makers just build spyware detection into their products? Are they afraid they'll piss off the spyware makers? Good.
There's always Omnipage for OS X, but it's 500 bananas. I wish they sold something that was more in the price range of the normal consumer.
Just find a coffee shop with wireless and work from there all day. That's what I've done in the past.
Plus, if you wanna get crazy, you can go to a different one each day.
Just find a big comfy sofa, put your legs up on the coffee table, and get to work.
Most Diebold ATM's run OS/2. But there's a push from some banks for them to install windows on them, even though the banks don't manage them. I used to work for a company that had ATM's with Diebold, and the engineer I talked to was unhappy that they were putting windows on them, but it's customer demand. It's simply some jackass that works for a bank and thinking they should run windows, when he has no idea how an ATM even works.
As far as VPN's go, for the most part, the ATM's either dial up, or are connected to a LAN that has some sort of WAN connection back to its respective bank. I don't know of any that use VPN's, although it is entirely possible. Keep in mind that Diebold simply provides the machines and fixes them when they break, it's up to the bank or whoever to provide the connectivity and other supporting servers/equipment.
Where in my post does it say I use P2P?
Just because it's cracked doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it, all of those songs are already available on P2P networks and newsgroups already. Most of them with superior bitrates.
Just because someone else puts up an AAC of the file on P2P doesn't mean that it's going to cause people to download more illegally. If someone was going to steal the music, they'd just do it with MP3 or OGG, or whatever flavor is already out there.
Think about it, this really does nothing to hurt Apple's business model. The percentage of people that are going to somehow benefit from a ripped AAC file and decide not to buy it from Apple instead is so low that it's insignificant.
What this does mean though, is that I can now play my purchased music on my Linux workstation, and possibly get a portable player that's not an iPod that will play these. I'd say QTFairUse is an excellent name for it, because that's certainly what I'm going to use it for.
Plus, why would one buy music from Apple, only to give it away to total strangers for nothing. I wouldn't. They way I see it, I paid for it, and if you want it, go buy your own.
With all the talk of censored music at Walmart, it might help to understand a bit about the company. They are based in Bentonville, GA. A hellhole of a place, quite a ways from a major city. Everyone in the town works for Walmart. As far as I know, everything there is owned by walmart. Gas stations, food, and even (surpise) walmart itself. Bentonville is in a dry county. That means that it's illegal to serve, sell, or buy booze in the county. People there apparently have a real problem with alcohol, think it's the devil. A friend of a friend took a consulting job there about a year ago. She was in another county at a bar and someone that worked with her saw her drinking a beer. She was fired the following monday.
At my previous job, I had to deal with walmart as a client. They are a bunch of Nazis. They are huge, and many companies depend on them to survive, and walmart knows it. That's why they can get away with doing almost anything they want. 70% of all companies that do business with walmart either go bankrupt or get purchased by walmart.
I went shopping for a laptop bag yesterday. I really liked this Belkin one I found, but decided not to buy it solely because of their little router spamming escapade. I won't buy Belkin products anymore.
The sooner hardware manufacturers realize that pulling stunts like this results in some sort of backlash which affects their bottom line, the better.
oops, slashdot's filter took out the part before the :631, it should be the ip of your mac. I had it enclosed in less than/greater than signs.
http://[ip of your mac]:631/printers/printername
This works, but it's not documented anywhere. Change your cupsd.conf to allow access from your other machines, not just localhost. Then when adding the printer on your windows box, for the location type in:
http://:631/printer/printername
It will force windows to use IPP when printing to the printer, and it works great on my network.
So, it seems like states will use just about anything someone puts in front of them. I'm going to write my own voting software called iVictory. Then, because it has the "i" in front of it, state legislators will think it's as good as their pretty white music devices, and totally use it. Once my diabolical software is in place, I will run for office.
I will then go on to become supreme ruler of the universe.
You can, with a mac even.
Sony Ericsson Clicker has support for making it do things when you walk in and out of range. Don't know if the encryption thing is built in, but it surely can be done with a simple AppleScript.
Hackers and academics have uncovered one Windows security hole after another, turning Microsoft into a frantic little Dutch boy at the dike without enough fingers
I don't know about you, but the image I got in my head was definitely not G-rated.
Why doesn't someone just go to court? When I was in college, I had literally nothing they could take from me except for a waterbed and a shitty 486. No way in hell I would have settled. I would have looked for some kind of free representation, or failing that, just represent myself. Even if I lost it would cost them money, and say I had 100 songs they were suing over at $150k each, that's $15 million. How in the world is a broke college student going to pay a $15 million dollar fine? Surely everyone would see it as ludricrous that downloading 100 songs would incur a $15 million dollar fine.
Fucking RIAA. Looks like they've figured out that bullying people under the threat of litigation is a lucrative way of doing business. Reminds me of SCO and those companies that exist solely to buy patents and then try to sue the pants off of people. Isn't there some sort of law against using the threat of expensive litigation to get people to just give you some sort of money? I know settling out of court is legal and all, but it just seems like this is blackmail.
I know you're looking for something free, but others here with some dollars to spend might like this. ProactiveNet does standard monitoring of network devices, can grab any variable available via snmp, microsoft perfmon counters, or even using shell scripts to parse data and return values you wish to monitor. It also has very extensive monitoring capabilities for just about any kind of database (it can execute any query you wish or monitor performance tables), and many kinds of middleware.
It keeps a database which keeps track of the normal values throughout the day and sets high and low thresholds. So, if you have a problem, it can use this data to try to pin down where your problem actually lies. It's actually works quite well, well enough that I just bought it. I evaluated several different products, including the standard HP and CA stuff, but the ProactiveNet stuff kicked the crap out of these in features, price, performance, and usability.
I think there's too much brand loyalty with cars to have one unified "car slashdot" type site. Everyone would just argue and fight and the signal to noise ratio would be so high that nothing would ever be accomplished.
That being said, put Amsoil in your car, your oil sucks. Then, get an Audi, because all other cars suck.
Wow, this is great. Look how much they accomplished last time!
Unethical and slimy, yes, but not fraudulent. The CC company can give you a credit card; you don't have to accept it.
No, a credit card company cannot open a line of credit for me without my authorization, which is exactly what they did to this person. They can send me pre-approved offers, but not an actual card that has an open line of credit.
She was entered into a contract agreement without her explicit permission. She should simply sue the credit card company for accepting an application without a signature.
That's not funny, I use lynx to browse pr0n at work.
Powerskip A bit spendy, but less than a segway, and hella cool.
Use a load balancing device such as F5 BigIP, Cisco CSS, or Foundry ServerIron. Put multiple apps on each machine so they serve more than one purpose, but duplicate those machines and load balance across them. You end up with a bit less admin task since the machines are all identical, and you can take down a service or a whole server without affecting anything.
I don't get why more people don't do this. You get more efficient use of your resources by not wasting dual PIII servers for just a single task that really only requires the equivalent power of a palm pilot, you get redundancy, and you have your coolness factor all rolled into one package. Then again, convincing management that has no experience with load balancers is not always easy. They think they are some magical box and really have no clue how this could possibly help them in any way.
fastmail.fm is hands down one of the best. Supports POP and IMAP for free, but paid accounts get more storage and some other nifty features. The free account works well enough for me.
Wouldn't Cisco and other companies that make VoIP equipment have a vested interest in not allowing these silly taxes to happen?
From things I've read, everything in the universe seems to be moving away from something and expanding. So, where is the "center", what's in it?
This reminds me of the episode of the Man Show where they got some guy to set up a table and take signatures for a petition to "Stop women's suffrage now!" Plenty of women signed it....