"Wouldn't Walmart's records constitute some part of the internet also? It has to be connected at some point to the internet, and given some clever haXing skills... one could access it."
As I actually did RTFA, I can now issue a smackdown: "It also takes pains to keep the information secret. Some of the systems it uses are custom-built and designed by its own employees, the better to keep competitors off the trail. Companies that sell equipment and software to Wal-Mart are bound by nondisclosure agreements. Three years ago, Wal-Mart summarily announced that it would no longer share its sales data with outside companies, like Information Resources Inc. and ACNielsen, which had paid Wal-Mart for the information and then sold it to other retailers."
"Negative. The corporation doesn't even own every single store. They license the brand out to local owners. I know, I used to work for McDonald's. The particular one I worked for was owned by Pheonix Enterprises out of North Muskegon, Michigan. He was one of two local Muskegon area McDonald's franchise owners."
Correct. One time I complained to McDonalds about a health-code-defying incident at one of their restaurants and I received mail from some other company* that owns all the McDonald's in the area containing some free meal coupons.
*Looking at the coupon now, it's a strange coincidence to see that their offices are almost next door to where I work, though I received the coupons during my last job in another city. Creepy.
"Another thing is that the ink cartridges tends to dry up and cause messy pritouts if any if you leave the printer unused for some months. Only way out is to buy a new cartridge."
This is only true for HP and Lexmark, as they integrate the print head with the cartridge. If your Epson or Canon dries out, you're screwed as the print head is integrated with the printer. (There are cleaning techniques available on some web sites, but YMMV.)
No, but perhaps you were not around in the good ol' BBS Days: When your dialup connection dropped, you'd get the 'NO CARRIER' message in your terminal.
"The best idea is to fool the users. Keep the E icon for Internet Explorer, but have it point to the Firefox executable. That's idiot-proofing."
What I want is an IE theme for firefox. (This one has not been updated.) That would be even more effective at fooling lusers, pointy haired bosses, etc.
"Also talked to them about an iPod - they have a business so they could have depreciated as a backup device:)"
An iPod is a terrible backup device. It has even more points of failure than a regular hard drive in an enclosure. If the proprietary cable that connects it to the computer breaks, you are dead in the water until you acquire another one.
Furthermore, a common solution to iPod troubleshooting techniques is to run the restore through the iPod Updater utility. This kills all data on it. The iPod should only be considered to be extremely volatile storage.
I still use WinAMP 2.91 here. I have used WinAMP 2.x for years and will continue to use it because I think it's one of the best win32 audio players out there.
"I think you just defined the exact reason why IMAP was created. So the question is, why the jumping through hoops with POP3 instead of just switching to IMAP and having this all done by default?"
28.8 dialup, baby! Better internet access is not available where I live, not even 56K.
Using server side mail such as IMAP from home would be a total bitch. Accessing it would be painfully slow in realtime. That's why I just let it download and read it all when it's local.
"But if, on the road, you want to look at an e-mail that you sent while at home, you can't. I'm presently using the exact same setup that you described, but I'm definitely going to stop using my "normal" pop3 once I have pop3 access to Gmail, because it simplifies things greatly, and ensures that my offline email and gmail are in sync."
If I know I'll want a sent message later on, I bcc it to a special gmail forwarder set up for that purpose. (i.e. gmail will not bounce it back to my normal pop3.) Though I should just use the 'always automatically bcc' option in my mail client. That would be best.
It's not useful to me. All my mail coming into my domain gets forwarded to gmail and my normal pop3. The normal pop3 is accessed at home, and I can get to it through gmail if I am at work or on the road.
My return address for both home and gmail return mail to my domain, thus causing replies to be sent to both places. Because gmail only allows you to define the reply-to as opposed to the 'from,' I set up a filter in gmail such that messages sent directly to my gmail address will forward to my pop3 as well.
Along with the desire to not be dependent on a free service, this is why gmail pop3 will not be used by me.
"You can restore (or pay somebody to restore) a badly deteriorated, hundred-year-old photographic print, and get remarkable results. Imagine trying that with any digital media."
The wonderful thing about digital media is you can have plenty of baskets and duplicate your eggs with ease. Why have only one basket when you have three? Just copy your DVDR backup onto two other discs and now all your eggs are in three baskets.
Really, it saddens me when people on slashdot say that CDR or DVDR are bad because one failed disc will cause you to lose a lot of stuff irreversable. JUST BURN IT MORE THAN ONCE! Haven't you learned the golden rule of backups yet? Redundancy is king!
Ah yes, Kodak Gold Ultima. We used to get them from Costco in boxes of 20. I think there are about 10 or so blanks in the closet. Beautiful discs they were, and all of mine were still going strong when I tested them a few months ago. I wish they were still made due to the non-oxidising data layer.
"Yeah get your data imprinted on cd's made of titanium."
Titanium? Not a good idea, since it's vulnerable to the same problems as typical CDs: Oxidiation. If you want your discs to last, get it on CDs with a gold reflective layer. That stuff won't oxidise on you, thus giving it excellent longevity.
Too bad Kodak doesn't make its Gold Ultima discs anymore. IMO it's only because those are gone that Taiyo Yuden is now #1.
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Seriously, there should be a warning in the post about this.
She loves Daniel Jackson.
Wait a minute...
Yeah the 4GB limit applies for FAT32 but not NTFS, whose filesize limit is something like 2 TB.
True, but technically this phenomenon has nothing to do with anime or web comics. There is a greater 'Law' at work here: "90% of anything is shite"
PCI-X is backwards compatible with PCI.
As I actually did RTFA, I can now issue a smackdown: "It also takes pains to keep the information secret. Some of the systems it uses are custom-built and designed by its own employees, the better to keep competitors off the trail. Companies that sell equipment and software to Wal-Mart are bound by nondisclosure agreements. Three years ago, Wal-Mart summarily announced that it would no longer share its sales data with outside companies, like Information Resources Inc. and ACNielsen, which had paid Wal-Mart for the information and then sold it to other retailers."
Correct. One time I complained to McDonalds about a health-code-defying incident at one of their restaurants and I received mail from some other company* that owns all the McDonald's in the area containing some free meal coupons.
*Looking at the coupon now, it's a strange coincidence to see that their offices are almost next door to where I work, though I received the coupons during my last job in another city. Creepy.
How much did the water cooling modkit companies pay you to write that? :P
This is only true for HP and Lexmark, as they integrate the print head with the cartridge. If your Epson or Canon dries out, you're screwed as the print head is integrated with the printer. (There are cleaning techniques available on some web sites, but YMMV.)
...says the person with "Can't troll? Fart! [farts.com]" as their sig. :P
(Note: I am aware that you were responding to the AC and not to my original post.)
No, but perhaps you were not around in the good ol' BBS Days: When your dialup connection dropped, you'd get the 'NO CARRIER' message in your terminal.
You're telling me that none of the IE users in the world are part of the Firefox market (i.e. the group of people to which FireFox is catered? )
Um, AOL is dumping broadband, not dialup.
What I want is an IE theme for firefox. (This one has not been updated.) That would be even more effective at fooling lusers, pointy haired bosses, etc.
Are you sure it's not a flaky power supply killing them off? It's an often neglected cause of hard drive failures.
An iPod is a terrible backup device. It has even more points of failure than a regular hard drive in an enclosure. If the proprietary cable that connects it to the computer breaks, you are dead in the water until you acquire another one.
Furthermore, a common solution to iPod troubleshooting techniques is to run the restore through the iPod Updater utility. This kills all data on it. The iPod should only be considered to be extremely volatile storage.
If it ain't broke, why fix it?
1. Steal Windows Source Code
2. Attempt to sell Windows Source code
3. GO TO 5
4. Profit!
5. Jail
28.8 dialup, baby! Better internet access is not available where I live, not even 56K.
Using server side mail such as IMAP from home would be a total bitch. Accessing it would be painfully slow in realtime. That's why I just let it download and read it all when it's local.
If I know I'll want a sent message later on, I bcc it to a special gmail forwarder set up for that purpose. (i.e. gmail will not bounce it back to my normal pop3.) Though I should just use the 'always automatically bcc' option in my mail client. That would be best.
My return address for both home and gmail return mail to my domain, thus causing replies to be sent to both places. Because gmail only allows you to define the reply-to as opposed to the 'from,' I set up a filter in gmail such that messages sent directly to my gmail address will forward to my pop3 as well.
Along with the desire to not be dependent on a free service, this is why gmail pop3 will not be used by me.
The wonderful thing about digital media is you can have plenty of baskets and duplicate your eggs with ease. Why have only one basket when you have three? Just copy your DVDR backup onto two other discs and now all your eggs are in three baskets.
Really, it saddens me when people on slashdot say that CDR or DVDR are bad because one failed disc will cause you to lose a lot of stuff irreversable. JUST BURN IT MORE THAN ONCE! Haven't you learned the golden rule of backups yet? Redundancy is king!
Btw, with respect to your sig, I paid for my own iPod. ;)
Ah yes, Kodak Gold Ultima. We used to get them from Costco in boxes of 20. I think there are about 10 or so blanks in the closet. Beautiful discs they were, and all of mine were still going strong when I tested them a few months ago. I wish they were still made due to the non-oxidising data layer.
Titanium? Not a good idea, since it's vulnerable to the same problems as typical CDs: Oxidiation. If you want your discs to last, get it on CDs with a gold reflective layer. That stuff won't oxidise on you, thus giving it excellent longevity.
Too bad Kodak doesn't make its Gold Ultima discs anymore. IMO it's only because those are gone that Taiyo Yuden is now #1.