probably most of you won't admit to having been fooled by them at some point
Well, considering these banner adds are bitmaps of Windows(tm) error dialogs, and the window decorations don't match the rest of my desktop, it's no big claim to say I've never been fooled. One time my wife said "Hey Yuri, your computer is broadcasting an IP address" I said "It's just an ad dear - ignore it."
Pay me X months of severance pay and I promise not to compete for X months. Simple. My wife (in New Zealand) works for a language school and has a clause in her contract not to start up another language school with-in two years within 200km of her current employer. This clause is being broken left right and centre in the language school industry in Christchurch. I think it sux. It probably won't matter soon with SARS threatening the industry, but I'll certainly advise her not to sign such a contract again.
Remind them that you still can't undelete a file in Linux. Are we talking GUI or CLI? gnome and kde both have trashcans. When I drop into a CLI and type rm -rf ~/.mozilla/yuri/2qfwauei/Cache I want it to stay deleted. Better still I use shred, which overwrites 35 times before deleting.
If I want to maybe delete something but not sure if I might want it back, I drag it to the trashcan. I never drag to the trashcan.
I have had interesting looks through the recycle bins on friends' windows boxen. Explorer cache pr0n, hmmm.
From the article : In the United States, customers have been contacted directly via e-mail
Does the email sent to customers contain the letter P? How can one describe the problem without using the letter P?
"There is a problem^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hissue with emails containing the 16th letter of the alp^Hfabet. You are advised to update^H^H^H^H^H^Hdownload the latest patch^H^H^H^H^Hfix from our website at http://w^Hoh damn!"
putting the UNIX trademark under control of a Chapter 11 court review
Um, isn't it currently under control of the Open Group or something like that? SCO bought the rights to the original Bell source code, not the UNIX trademark.
Change above sentence to "...putting the Bell Labs unix source code under control of a Chapter 11 court review..."
The purpose of outsourcing, as claimed by companies who outsource some of their activities, is to concentrate on "core business". Therefore, by outsourcing customer service, a company is implying that servicing their customers is not "core business".
Any company that take this attitude to customers deserves to go out of business.
That would be Abel Tasman I've heard 2 accounts: 1) It was a member of Tasman's crew that named Nieuw Zeeland. 2) It was a cartographer/registrar back in the Netherlands who changed the name to Nieuw Zeeland, after Tasman and crew named it someting else.
Both accounts could be spurious. To keep it on topic: I've heard there was a sith concealed among Tasman's crew.
Some dutch navigator or cartographer who named New Zealand (Nieuw Zeeland, whatever). The natives call it Aotearoa.
As a Jedi myself (I'm one of the 1.5% of kiwis who put "Jedi" on the census) I prefer the name Aotearoa 'coz it sounds kinda cool. It seems outdated being named after a dutch province.
Finally, you might want to look into proactively discouraging spammers from signing up by creating a new clause in your customers' contracts stating that if the account is terminated due to spam, you will charge the customer a clean up fee (usually $500-$2000.)
This is actually an excellent idea. $500 would be about right for chasing down all blacklist operators and negotiating removal. It does, after, take a paid admin considerable time to sort out the mess.
This guy bleats about anti-spammers hurting "permission based" bulk email. WTF? If I subscribe to something that SBL would block, then I don't use SBL - duh!
The defendant correctly rebutts that anti-spam services only block spam when the owners of the receiving mail servers want to block spam.
... and lose. Even though you'd be right, right doesn't matter. Legal budget matters. I doubt your legal budget could match the BSA. OTOH I would donate some money if my NZ$ are of any use (exchange rate sux right now so you wouldn't get much from me:-(
Mom, and Joe-Average office worker, wouldn't notice what operating system they were on. Someone had to show them "The Blue E" to "get on the internet", they could just as easily click the Mozilla icon, it's just another arbitrary thing to remember.
Hmm. Reminds me I showed my wife the "The Orange E" (kmail) to check her email. I also showed her the "Blue/White Seagull thingy" to start the wordprocessor (and go make a coffee while waiting for OOo to load).
Really - in my household linux is taken for granted. Each user just logs in to get their own desktop, clicks on icons like any windows user would and doesn't even pause to think "hey, this ain't windows!" I've got icons representing playlists (m3u files) with xmms as the default app for *.m3u
I'm the only geek in my household. The non-geeks in the house don't have any problems with the linux desktop.
I work in a call centre. On each desk is an overpowered win2k workstation. All that runs on it 98% of the time is a 3270 emulator and a few web-based apps. The latest xterminals that I've seen have a built-in 3270 emulator and built-in browser with built-in JVM. The other 2% of the time I use Word or Excel. I don't use any excel functionality that OOo doesn't have. I don't use any word features that OOo doesn't have. My employer could save a bundle if they had set up the call centre with xterminals instead of win2k workstations.
A few weeks ago a guy from IT had to sit down at every workstation and change the printer settings. We have over a hundred or so workstations. I'm sure the IT dept could save a lot of admin costs.
OTOH, whoever set up the call centre in the first place probably had to go the win2k w/s route because of the PHBs. When PHBs discover the savings to be made, expect to see a lot more xterminal based call centres.
You can have.exe files on your computer that run. Basically most of the stuff is spyware and 900 numbers that charge you 400$/minute long distance
I hate those fscking sites. I work for a phone company and I get customers complaining about long distance calls they didn't make all the time. Then I test dial the number and get a modem screetch in my ear. Then I have to explain to the lady on the phone that her hubby or teenage son is a perv who has been visiting naughty websites.
Maybe they should claim compensation from Microsoft for making this possible in the first place.
(It also means I can't access those pretty picture myself using linux - bother!)
If you are coming to live in New Zealand, and require broadband - expect to pay substantially for it
Economies of scale. Just under 4M people live in NZ, a country roughly the size of California (at a glance on the globe - a very rough equivalent:-). The amount of km of cabling per capita is much higher, as is the km of roads per capita. Therefore it is more expensive. Nobody moves to NZ for the high speed Internet. Broadband is the one thing that's lacking that would otherwise make NZ perfect in my parochial opinion:-)
You want to know about broadband in different countries?
In New Zealand, there is one cable provider which charges NZ$76.95 / month for 256kbps and NZ$109.95 for 2Mbps. This includes the cable modem hire. They are cheaper if you take a package with phone line and/or cable TV.
I'm glad Tuxinatorium used metric and celcius measurements, because they're all I know. I don't see why I should learn a measurement system that's only used in UK & USA just so I can participate in/. discussions. I don't know why duffbeer703 thinks it elitist to use measurements that most of the world understands. Maybe duffbeer703 was trolling.
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probably most of you won't admit to having been fooled by them at some point
Well, considering these banner adds are bitmaps of Windows(tm) error dialogs, and the window decorations don't match the rest of my desktop, it's no big claim to say I've never been fooled.
One time my wife said "Hey Yuri, your computer is broadcasting an IP address" I said "It's just an ad dear - ignore it."
How can SCO sue Linus for infringing patents and copyrights that Novel owns?
Pay me X months of severance pay and I promise not to compete for X months. Simple.
My wife (in New Zealand) works for a language school and has a clause in her contract not to start up another language school with-in two years within 200km of her current employer. This clause is being broken left right and centre in the language school industry in Christchurch.
I think it sux. It probably won't matter soon with SARS threatening the industry, but I'll certainly advise her not to sign such a contract again.
Remind them that you still can't undelete a file in Linux.
Are we talking GUI or CLI? gnome and kde both have trashcans.
When I drop into a CLI and type rm -rf ~/.mozilla/yuri/2qfwauei/Cache I want it to stay deleted. Better still I use shred, which overwrites 35 times before deleting.
If I want to maybe delete something but not sure if I might want it back, I drag it to the trashcan. I never drag to the trashcan.
I have had interesting looks through the recycle bins on friends' windows boxen. Explorer cache pr0n, hmmm.
From the article : In the United States, customers have been contacted directly via e-mail
Does the email sent to customers contain the letter P? How can one describe the problem without using the letter P?
"There is a problem^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hissue with emails containing the 16th letter of the alp^Hfabet. You are advised to update^H^H^H^H^H^Hdownload the latest patch^H^H^H^H^Hfix from our website at http://w^Hoh damn!"
putting the UNIX trademark under control of a Chapter 11 court review
..."
Um, isn't it currently under control of the Open Group or something like that?
SCO bought the rights to the original Bell source code, not the UNIX trademark.
Change above sentence to "...putting the Bell Labs unix source code under control of a Chapter 11 court review
I could be mistaken. Correct me if I'm wrong.
customer service was outsourced
The purpose of outsourcing, as claimed by companies who outsource some of their activities, is to concentrate on "core business".
Therefore, by outsourcing customer service, a company is implying that servicing their customers is not "core business".
Any company that take this attitude to customers deserves to go out of business.
That would be Abel Tasman
I've heard 2 accounts:
1) It was a member of Tasman's crew that named Nieuw Zeeland.
2) It was a cartographer/registrar back in the Netherlands who changed the name to Nieuw Zeeland, after Tasman and crew named it someting else.
Both accounts could be spurious.
To keep it on topic: I've heard there was a sith concealed among Tasman's crew.
Oh yeah? Then who stole Zealand from Old Zealand?
Some dutch navigator or cartographer who named New Zealand (Nieuw Zeeland, whatever).
The natives call it Aotearoa.
As a Jedi myself (I'm one of the 1.5% of kiwis who put "Jedi" on the census) I prefer the name Aotearoa 'coz it sounds kinda cool. It seems outdated being named after a dutch province.
Finally, you might want to look into proactively discouraging spammers from signing up by creating a new clause in your customers' contracts stating that if the account is terminated due to spam, you will charge the customer a clean up fee (usually $500-$2000.)
This is actually an excellent idea. $500 would be about right for chasing down all blacklist operators and negotiating removal. It does, after, take a paid admin considerable time to sort out the mess.
I just looked at the emarkets site.
This guy bleats about anti-spammers hurting "permission based" bulk email.
WTF?
If I subscribe to something that SBL would block, then I don't use SBL - duh!
The defendant correctly rebutts that anti-spam services only block spam when the owners of the receiving mail servers want to block spam.
I can't wait for this suit to be thrown out.
Yuri
Where would you put a reasonable timeout?
Wherever the user wants it.
Default it to say 5 seconds.
Your student could change the preferences and set it to say, 5 minutes.
OTOH I would donate some money if my NZ$ are of any use (exchange rate sux right now so you wouldn't get much from me
Mom, and Joe-Average office worker, wouldn't notice what operating system they were on. Someone had to show them "The Blue E" to "get on the internet", they could just as easily click the Mozilla icon, it's just another arbitrary thing to remember.
Hmm. Reminds me I showed my wife the "The Orange E" (kmail) to check her email.
I also showed her the "Blue/White Seagull thingy" to start the wordprocessor (and go make a coffee while waiting for OOo to load).
Really - in my household linux is taken for granted. Each user just logs in to get their own desktop, clicks on icons like any windows user would and doesn't even pause to think "hey, this ain't windows!"
I've got icons representing playlists (m3u files) with xmms as the default app for *.m3u
I'm the only geek in my household. The non-geeks in the house don't have any problems with the linux desktop.
So all in all I'd have to agree with WNight.
Yuri
I work in a call centre. On each desk is an overpowered win2k workstation. All that runs on it 98% of the time is a 3270 emulator and a few web-based apps.
The latest xterminals that I've seen have a built-in 3270 emulator and built-in browser with built-in JVM.
The other 2% of the time I use Word or Excel. I don't use any excel functionality that OOo doesn't have. I don't use any word features that OOo doesn't have.
My employer could save a bundle if they had set up the call centre with xterminals instead of win2k workstations.
A few weeks ago a guy from IT had to sit down at every workstation and change the printer settings. We have over a hundred or so workstations. I'm sure the IT dept could save a lot of admin costs.
OTOH, whoever set up the call centre in the first place probably had to go the win2k w/s route because of the PHBs. When PHBs discover the savings to be made, expect to see a lot more xterminal based call centres.
Yuri
I propose using the suffix hex for multiples of 16^1,
hexia for multiples of 16^2 and
hexium for multiples of 16^3.
Therefore I would pronounce CF9 as "Twelve-hexia, Effex, Nine"
B3D1 would be "Elevenexium, threehexia, deehex, one"
Note: A, B and C can be pronounced ten, eleven, twelve.
D, E and F I would pronounce dee, ee and eff.
Disable any daemons that you don't absolutely need.
This not only speeds up performance as well as shortening boot time, it also enhances security.
I'm not sure where in Windows you switch off extra services (control panel?) but on my box I would run Mandrake Control Centre.
Yuri
just find the geek girls and you'll be fine.
:-)
My wife's not a geek, but I love her anyway - nobody's perfect
Fortunately I have some non-geek interests so we at least have something in common.
And whitetail spiders. Pleeease take them back.
You can have .exe files on your computer that run. Basically most of the stuff is spyware and 900 numbers that charge you 400$/minute long distance
I hate those fscking sites. I work for a phone company and I get customers complaining about long distance calls they didn't make all the time. Then I test dial the number and get a modem screetch in my ear. Then I have to explain to the lady on the phone that her hubby or teenage son is a perv who has been visiting naughty websites.
Maybe they should claim compensation from Microsoft for making this possible in the first place.
(It also means I can't access those pretty picture myself using linux - bother!)
If you are coming to live in New Zealand, and require broadband - expect to pay substantially for it
:-). :-)
Economies of scale. Just under 4M people live in NZ, a country roughly the size of California (at a glance on the globe - a very rough equivalent
The amount of km of cabling per capita is much higher, as is the km of roads per capita. Therefore it is more expensive. Nobody moves to NZ for the high speed Internet. Broadband is the one thing that's lacking that would otherwise make NZ perfect in my parochial opinion
This is true, but it doesn't tell the whole story. Cable internet access is available, but only in one city (Wellington).
Two cities, Wellington and Christchurch, with Auckland on the way.
I also didn't mention Walker Wireless (only in a few cities, I know). They have 256kbps both ways for NZ$129 + GST.
It was a matter of minutes for me to set up T-DSL on a SuSE
I would expect SuSE to have pre-rolled install wizards for every German ISP, being a German distro.
You want to know about broadband in different countries?
In New Zealand, there is one cable provider which charges NZ$76.95 / month for 256kbps and NZ$109.95 for 2Mbps. This includes the cable modem hire. They are cheaper if you take a package with phone line and/or cable TV.
ADSL, provided by the other telco costs more IIRC.
I'm glad Tuxinatorium used metric and celcius measurements, because they're all I know. I don't see why I should learn a measurement system that's only used in UK & USA just so I can participate in /. discussions. I don't know why duffbeer703 thinks it elitist to use measurements that most of the world understands. Maybe duffbeer703 was trolling.