At my current employer we support MS Office, but we also support various additions to MS Office, Wordperfect, Lotus Notes, Groupwise, Outlook, 20-30 trade specific applications (accounting apps, HR apps, Faxing applications,etc..), 15-20 web applications, and various other random software packages. These other applications need to be trained on and learned by everyone also. Why do people assume the everyone is born with the ability to use MS Office and would struggle more then normal for anything else? 95% of our support calls for MS Office are formatting, numbering pages, inserting symbols, page layout, and TOC, TOA issues. We would get these calls for ANY freaking office package we used. I would say that initally (maybe a month or two) it would be rough but after that is would be business as usual.
I think the the training costs and issues with switching office packages is nothing but FUD. There may be issues with a different office package not working with existing applications or addon's but that is a different issue all together and that is not limited to just office packages.
RIAA wanted Verizon to turn over the the records without getting the courts involved. Verizon does not want to give this information out without a court order. AOL is going directly for the court order. Very different scenario..
What the RIAA really wants is to avoid the courts and use the DMCA for the inital step of information gathering so they can act faster and more efficiently for shutting people down. The disadvantage of this is that they are no checks and balances present without the courts involvment, the ability to request this information on a whim could very easily be abused and nothing in terms of real proof required that a copyright violation is truely occuring. What Verizon does not want is a precedent set where any company that feels a copyright violation has occured can request this information at will. This would be a great strain for Verizon to support this. They want a court order steps followed to limit these requests, kind of like a security deposit to prevent a flood of requests for user information.
The court battle they are in now is mainly to determine if organizations like the RIAA can request this information via the DMCA and without specific court approval. This is a much larger issue then RIAA vs. Verizon.
What's the societal benefit to publishing flaws in a system?
So the people using, relying, and trusting the system can make an educated decision on wether or not to continue using it. Are you still using 40 bit encryption keys in your browser? Why not?
If you find something, you can tell the company and hope they reward you. If the flaw could affect you, you can sue the company if they won't act on your revelation.
So in order to verify or trust ANYTHING, you should rely on your own knowledge and testing to verify the security? How many things are you working on? Oh, that's right, you don't care about security and would rather not know about flaws. Using your theory, the FCC, FBI, and BBB, and SEC should stop warning the public of rouge contractors, investment schemes, pyramid schemes, and auction scams. By alerting the public to these scams they are also informing the criminal community. If they stop warning do you think the scams will go away too? What do you care, its only money you are going to loose. The company that deployed these devices is trying to hide the flaws and does not want anyone to know about it.
You're not being a good samaritan by publishing flaws to the world, you're being a dick who's trying to aid criminals
As it stands now.. We only know of two people who understand the flaws of this system. What is preventing a "criminal" from finding them? It can and will be found again. Hopefully, the next people have good intentions also.
Hiding a flaw does not make it go away. Thousands of people are at risk of losing money and the companies method of security is to hide the flaw because they do not want to invest in fixing it.
Cooling ability of water alone is good. Cooling ability of water with slight boiling is really good. Cooling ability of steam is really bad (3 Mile Island comes to mind among other things).
Very fine line... The trick is controlling the amount of boiling so that the steam collapses when it is stripped away from pipe surface.
If not.. I hope they have analyzed for the hot channel effect or even worse, flow reversal!!
I too was in nuclear power, and can't spell either
Additionally, addressing this issue is a good thing for the industry because there would be a reduction in returns of "defective" processors that failed due to overclocking. This would reduce costs, and in turn prices.
Anyone have any numbers for this? I doubt this has any real impact on why they would use clock locking. I would guess that yields are getting better and they would like to finish a standard chip off with a clock of choice based on market demands. Besides, it is in the CPU manufactors best interest for you to believe that all failures are due to overclocking and not the fault of missed QA test or a bad batch. I'm going to make a wild ass guess with absolutely no basis that not more then 1 in 5000 cpu's have failed and been returned because of overclocking failure. Remember, we are talking about all CPU sales, businesses included and the 99% of home users who don't even know what a CPU looks like or what a bios or jumper is.
They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
How can they claim that THEY lost retail price per CD? Retail cost is a combination of the store, marketing, distibution, the artist, the song writers, the manufactorer, etc.. I realize MOST of these are probably under RIAA control anyway but shouldn't the money be split up or should those seperate businesses and people have to sue for their own loses? Another take.. Why don't they assume that cassettes were used and base the loses off of that? How can they prove they were not recorded off the radio? What if everyone already has all of the cd's or even a few of them themselves. There are way too many factors involved in such a case for the RIAA to actually want this to go to court.
I know this is not going to be the popular opinion here on/. but I'll post anyway and not AC.
Who cares what you are called. There is NOTHING a single person in this world could say or "call me" that would offend me in any way shape or form. You can call me a [x]head (fuck, shit, dick etc..), cracker, faggot, flamer, polish, asshole, bitch, stupid, retard, a bad speller, or any other word in any language or slang you can think of. I might not like you because of opinion differences but I would not be offended by ANY of them. I know who I am, what my weaknesses and strengths are, and what I am capable of doing on a daily basis to cope in the world and have accepted it. A stereotypical reference is and will always be just a word to me.
Actually I found about that while browsing their web site a few months ago. They had glaring adds for 1.5/256 while I was still hard set to 128. After a few phone calls and emails (some of the explainations were comical), I finally determined that my area would be "upgraded" by mid summer. Maybe they got to my subnet earlier than expected. I just tried to connect to home from work via SCP/SSH to verify the speed but I can not connect for some reason, maybe they changed more then just the upload speed:(
I was quite impressed with Bittorrent's ability to saturate my line as soon as it got moving.
I'm currently squeezing between 120-150KB down now, almost enough to saturate my 1.5/128 Comcast line. Odd though, the Windows client I am using (bittorrent-3.2.1.exe linked from Sourceforge) shows 25KB upload which is roughly twice my 128kbit CM upload cap..
I just want to tell everyone else who is paranoid and loony (you probably don't realize you are):
I'd rather be considered a little paranoid than completely naive.
Who would have thought that borrowing a book from the library would be a privacy issue... Look at this BIG picture. Is there any doubt in your mind that if you CAN be tracked you WILL be tracked? Everyone has a different tolerance level of what tracking or monitoring is acceptable and what is not. Eventually it will bother you. I would guess by that point it will be to late to do anything about it. Onstar, RFID's, Library cards, CC records, phone records, cellular phone tracking, internet monitoring, business information sharing, all readily available to the government for nothing more then a "hunch". Innocent until proven guilty and rules for search and seizure are being redefined. Okay, maybe a little extreme and we are not really at this point right now but we are rapidly moving in that direction.
Standard MS plan here... Inital release will be much below market costs to gain the interests of movie houses. The copy prevention card for the studios. Dual effort there as the movie houses will be getting the "incentive" to switch from both sides.
Soon after the honeymoon, Licensing-2 comes out, price goes up but still bearable. The one not in bed with MS will probably bear the brunt of the increase (encoding costs at the studio or decoding costs at the theaters). I would venture to say the studios will have the advantage at this point due to my point above. When Licensing-3 rolls out, it will be much more expensive but not as expensive if you bundle it with the MoviePackage2005 that includes converting the sales office and POS terminals to the MS XP2005 system. It provides the added functionality of integration and a few graphs and pie charts that can be viewed by management on the big screens between movies. Funny how the industry survived as long as it did without any of these tools.
The boot disks are dependant on the type of network card and sound card.
If you use start with the one from Bart's you will be 90% complete. Add your specific network drivers from his selection and get your sound cards from your own drivers (sound in DOS is not hard but easier if can remember anything from the the old dos and Win3.11 days, YMMV depending on the card).
Barts boot disk already configures a ram drive (q: drive) but you can bump it up to 64MB by changing the xmsdsk line in the autoexec.bat to 65536 from 8192.
As for the mapping and copying the game files, make this bat file and store it on your floppy:
net use j: \\samba_server\some_share mkdir q:\d3d copy j:\d3d\*.* q:\d3d q: cd q:\d3d attrib -r *.* setup.exe
This method should work for any DOS game..
There are many different boot disks out there. Bart's method is advanced as far as DOS goes but can be confusing if you want to manually modify something. The boot disks I have made with it are used in production to boot our workstations for use with with Ghost and PQDI for imaging to and from our Samba servers and for booting into DOS to use various recovery tools and wiping of drives if needed. The ability to play old DOS games is a hidden extra when things are slow.
I used Bart's manual method and added from there. Bootdisk.com is a good source also.
The readme states it will run over a network (but without sound), and the soundcode is basically crap.
In true slashdot fashion, I did not read the referenced articles..
I've been using D3D for quite some time with boot disks over a network and with sound. Different method though.
I use a DOS network boot disk (Bart's is a good start).
Configure the boot disk to:
Connect to a Samba share (or Win share) that has the D3D files. TCP/IP boot disk required for Samba but an IPX or Netbeui disk can be used for Windows. If using TCP/IP it helps to use DHCP.
Set up a 64MB ram drive.
Your sound card drivers for DOS.
Connect to the network share and download all the D3D files (about 54MB) to the ram drive. Run setup.exe in the ram drive D3D directory and setup your sound and or network play and have fun. When done, shut off the computer, remove the boot disk and all traces of the game are gone.
I have taken this a few steps further and made a bat file to copy the game files over and start the setup.exe automatically and converted the boot floppy to a boot cd.
Re:Ha, ha. You joke. Is good.
on
BSA IDC FUD
·
· Score: 1
I might not have followed this thread correctly so be gentle if I am wrong here.
It appears to me that you are claiming that open source is a bad because of this:
1) developers will only fix things that affect them (or that they notice, or are paid to fix) 2) developers will only fix things to the satisfaction of themselves
taken together, this means that my grandmother wont get fixes that apply to her problems, and the fixes she may get will be things like "recompile the kernel first, use xvidtune" and so on.
Are you saying that closed source companies WILL provide this service to individuals if they ask? Can you provide some insight on how that is done? Can your Grandma call the MS support line and request a patch for Outlook so that it will NOT load remote images in an email? How about a patch for Outlook 2000 that works better and gets over the many known issues without having to upgrade again to 2002? Can she request the ability for IE to block pop-up's? How about some change in their implementation of SMB so that she can use it unhindered with a non MS product? How about asking for a patch in QuickBooks to get rid of the advertisements and requiring constant paid upgrades? How about a patch for that unsupported OS or application she still may be using. Do you really think any company will offer this for her? They do not give a flying crap about those things and will not change ANYTHING that will not increase their own market share or force you onto the upgrade treadmill.
Surely you've come across someone elses unix machine and thought "what the hell are they thinking ?
This is not the fault of open source, this is the result of someone winging it and doing something on their own. I can do that with any MS system, "standard" Cisco network, or any business phone system too. If you follow standard practices and guidelines this will not happen. If you do not have such things to follow, then that alone is the problem.
Have you experienced trying to take ownership of someone elses source?
Not for the faint at heart but infinately more possible then taking control of source you don't have and can never have. Talk about being hit by a bus and fucked....
Automobile LCD TVs very expensive because their so small. Stoopid.
Actually automotive LCD are NOT expensive at all. You just need to know where to look. Here is a good start. You can assemble a two monitor system in headrests (or one large monitor on ceiling) with a DVD/MP3 player and audio through existing stereo for under $500 if you install it yourself. Skip the dedicated DVD/mp3 player, hook up a Xbox or PS2 instead with a $30 power invertor and have a complete DVD/Game system for roughly the same price.
Wow, a method of tranfering water from one place to another with no physical connection between the two devices. A hoseless water pump. Maybe I'll patent that. Then I will move on a cellular phone adapter that receives broadcast FM radio stations over IP that you can feed into your car stereo through a cassette adapter. Imagine being able to listen to FM broadcasts via cell phone on your car stereo! With a second additional microphone attachment you can even talk to other people with it!
As others have stated already... IMAP is a much better cross platform solution, and with procmail and fetchmail, it gets even better.
Not to be redundant but I'll give you more advantages.
You can use ANY IMAP capable client on any platform with out having to import, export, or convert any messages. Pine, Evolution, Mahogany, Outlook Express, Pegasus, Opera 7.x, Mozilla, Web based like IMP, SquirrelMail and many others. The mail, all folders, and all attachments are easy to backup and restore by tar.gz'ing your mail directory. You can access all of your mail from ANY internet computer (depending on your home network setup) with any IMAP client. This can be secured via SSH or SSL. Works seemlessly with procmail to direct your mail into specific folders and for spam filtering. These filters are not client specific so there is no need to create rules for every mail client that you plan on using.
Fetchmail to get your mail from other IMAP and POP (and others) servers (can use SSH and SSL also). Anyone that has a cross platform need, does not want to constantly import and convert mail formats, and only wants to deal with filters one time should be using this trio.
Search Google for any of these for mounds of configuration and installation tips.
Well, they still have Netgear, D-Link, Siemens, and SMC to deal with in the low cost market. I do not think they are trying to put them out of the market but trying to offer a Cisco product line that meets all needs from bottom to top. In the enterprise world, most purchases are done because you already have an existing companies product so why not buy them for everything. Hell, I'd bet most large companies would seriously consider Cisco PC's or heaven forbid Microsoft business class routers and switches if they were offered.
Most companies do not selectively choose individual lines unless they have too. It is not surprising to see Compaq servers, Compaq san's, Compaq tape backups, and Compaq PC's and laptops on every desk and server room in a corporate environment.
Slashdot Mirror
At my current employer we support MS Office, but we also support various additions to MS Office, Wordperfect, Lotus Notes, Groupwise, Outlook, 20-30 trade specific applications (accounting apps, HR apps, Faxing applications,etc..), 15-20 web applications, and various other random software packages. These other applications need to be trained on and learned by everyone also. Why do people assume the everyone is born with the ability to use MS Office and would struggle more then normal for anything else? 95% of our support calls for MS Office are formatting, numbering pages, inserting symbols, page layout, and TOC, TOA issues. We would get these calls for ANY freaking office package we used. I would say that initally (maybe a month or two) it would be rough but after that is would be business as usual.
I think the the training costs and issues with switching office packages is nothing but FUD. There may be issues with a different office package not working with existing applications or addon's but that is a different issue all together and that is not limited to just office packages.
Not quite:
: //www.eff.org/Cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/
RIAA wanted Verizon to turn over the the records without getting the courts involved. Verizon does not want to give this information out without a court order. AOL is going directly for the court order. Very different scenario..
What the RIAA really wants is to avoid the courts and use the DMCA for the inital step of information gathering so they can act faster and more efficiently for shutting people down. The disadvantage of this is that they are no checks and balances present without the courts involvment, the ability to request this information on a whim could very easily be abused and nothing in terms of real proof required that a copyright violation is truely occuring. What Verizon does not want is a precedent set where any company that feels a copyright violation has occured can request this information at will. This would be a great strain for Verizon to support this. They want a court order steps followed to limit these requests, kind of like a security deposit to prevent a flood of requests for user information.
The court battle they are in now is mainly to determine if organizations like the RIAA can request this information via the DMCA and without specific court approval. This is a much larger issue then RIAA vs. Verizon.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-982809.html
http
What's the societal benefit to publishing flaws in a system?
So the people using, relying, and trusting the system can make an educated decision on wether or not to continue using it. Are you still using 40 bit encryption keys in your browser? Why not?
If you find something, you can tell the company and hope they reward you. If the flaw could affect you, you can sue the company if they won't act on your revelation.
So in order to verify or trust ANYTHING, you should rely on your own knowledge and testing to verify the security? How many things are you working on? Oh, that's right, you don't care about security and would rather not know about flaws.
Using your theory, the FCC, FBI, and BBB, and SEC should stop warning the public of rouge contractors, investment schemes, pyramid schemes, and auction scams. By alerting the public to these scams they are also informing the criminal community. If they stop warning do you think the scams will go away too? What do you care, its only money you are going to loose. The company that deployed these devices is trying to hide the flaws and does not want anyone to know about it.
You're not being a good samaritan by publishing flaws to the world, you're being a dick who's trying to aid criminals
As it stands now.. We only know of two people who understand the flaws of this system. What is preventing a "criminal" from finding them? It can and will be found again. Hopefully, the next people have good intentions also.
Hiding a flaw does not make it go away. Thousands of people are at risk of losing money and the companies method of security is to hide the flaw because they do not want to invest in fixing it.
In laymans terms...
Cooling ability of water alone is good.
Cooling ability of water with slight boiling is really good.
Cooling ability of steam is really bad (3 Mile Island comes to mind among other things).
Very fine line...
The trick is controlling the amount of boiling so that the steam collapses when it is stripped away from pipe surface.
If not.. I hope they have analyzed for the hot channel effect or even worse, flow reversal!!
I too was in nuclear power, and can't spell either
Recording off of the radio requires comparitively greater effort than does pirating mp3's.
Penetration, however slight, is still penetration!
Some people find compressed music acceptable to some extent, some do not. What makes you think these people are changing sides?
You stated:
They even run OpenBSD and Apache
The web site states:
All my sites are on dedicated server (Cobalt RaQ) with 10 gigs of space running Redhat Linux.
And Netcraft says:
Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.11 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.2.3 on FreeBSD
Regardless, it is a very good site and definately worth checking out and spending some time on..
Additionally, addressing this issue is a good thing for the industry because there would be a reduction in returns of "defective" processors that failed due to overclocking. This would reduce costs, and in turn prices.
Anyone have any numbers for this?
I doubt this has any real impact on why they would use clock locking. I would guess that yields are getting better and they would like to finish a standard chip off with a clock of choice based on market demands. Besides, it is in the CPU manufactors best interest for you to believe that all failures are due to overclocking and not the fault of missed QA test or a bad batch. I'm going to make a wild ass guess with absolutely no basis that not more then 1 in 5000 cpu's have failed and been returned because of overclocking failure.
Remember, we are talking about all CPU sales, businesses included and the 99% of home users who don't even know what a CPU looks like or what a bios or jumper is.
They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
How can they claim that THEY lost retail price per CD? Retail cost is a combination of the store, marketing, distibution, the artist, the song writers, the manufactorer, etc.. I realize MOST of these are probably under RIAA control anyway but shouldn't the money be split up or should those seperate businesses and people have to sue for their own loses? Another take..
Why don't they assume that cassettes were used and base the loses off of that? How can they prove they were not recorded off the radio? What if everyone already has all of the cd's or even a few of them themselves.
There are way too many factors involved in such a case for the RIAA to actually want this to go to court.
I know this is not going to be the popular opinion here on /. but I'll post anyway and not AC.
Who cares what you are called. There is NOTHING a single person in this world could say or "call me" that would offend me in any way shape or form. You can call me a [x]head (fuck, shit, dick etc..), cracker, faggot, flamer, polish, asshole, bitch, stupid, retard, a bad speller, or any other word in any language or slang you can think of. I might not like you because of opinion differences but I would not be offended by ANY of them. I know who I am, what my weaknesses and strengths are, and what I am capable of doing on a daily basis to cope in the world and have accepted it. A stereotypical reference is and will always be just a word to me.
Actually I found about that while browsing their web site a few months ago. They had glaring adds for 1.5/256 while I was still hard set to 128. After a few phone calls and emails (some of the explainations were comical), I finally determined that my area would be "upgraded" by mid summer. Maybe they got to my subnet earlier than expected. I just tried to connect to home from work via SCP/SSH to verify the speed but I can not connect for some reason, maybe they changed more then just the upload speed :(
I was quite impressed with Bittorrent's ability to saturate my line as soon as it got moving.
I'm currently squeezing between 120-150KB down now, almost enough to saturate my 1.5/128 Comcast line. Odd though, the Windows client I am using (bittorrent-3.2.1.exe linked from Sourceforge) shows 25KB upload which is roughly twice my 128kbit CM upload cap..
I just want to tell everyone else who is paranoid and loony (you probably don't realize you are):
I'd rather be considered a little paranoid than completely naive.
Who would have thought that borrowing a book from the library would be a privacy issue... Look at this BIG picture. Is there any doubt in your mind that if you CAN be tracked you WILL be tracked? Everyone has a different tolerance level of what tracking or monitoring is acceptable and what is not. Eventually it will bother you. I would guess by that point it will be to late to do anything about it. Onstar, RFID's, Library cards, CC records, phone records, cellular phone tracking, internet monitoring, business information sharing, all readily available to the government for nothing more then a "hunch". Innocent until proven guilty and rules for search and seizure are being redefined. Okay, maybe a little extreme and we are not really at this point right now but we are rapidly moving in that direction.
HAHA, Chill out now Farva...
Standard MS plan here...
Inital release will be much below market costs to gain the interests of movie houses. The copy prevention card for the studios. Dual effort there as the movie houses will be getting the "incentive" to switch from both sides.
Soon after the honeymoon, Licensing-2 comes out, price goes up but still bearable. The one not in bed with MS will probably bear the brunt of the increase (encoding costs at the studio or decoding costs at the theaters). I would venture to say the studios will have the advantage at this point due to my point above.
When Licensing-3 rolls out, it will be much more expensive but not as expensive if you bundle it with the MoviePackage2005 that includes converting the sales office and POS terminals to the MS XP2005 system. It provides the added functionality of integration and a few graphs and pie charts that can be viewed by management on the big screens between movies. Funny how the industry survived as long as it did without any of these tools.
The boot disks are dependant on the type of network card and sound card.
If you use start with the one from Bart's you will be 90% complete. Add your specific network drivers from his selection and get your sound cards from your own drivers (sound in DOS is not hard but easier if can remember anything from the the old dos and Win3.11 days, YMMV depending on the card).
Barts boot disk already configures a ram drive (q: drive) but you can bump it up to 64MB by changing the xmsdsk line in the autoexec.bat to 65536 from 8192.
As for the mapping and copying the game files, make this bat file and store it on your floppy:
net use j: \\samba_server\some_share
mkdir q:\d3d
copy j:\d3d\*.* q:\d3d
q:
cd q:\d3d
attrib -r *.*
setup.exe
This method should work for any DOS game..
There are many different boot disks out there. Bart's method is advanced as far as DOS goes but can be confusing if you want to manually modify something. The boot disks I have made with it are used in production to boot our workstations for use with with Ghost and PQDI for imaging to and from our Samba servers and for booting into DOS to use various recovery tools and wiping of drives if needed. The ability to play old DOS games is a hidden extra when things are slow.
I used Bart's manual method and added from there. Bootdisk.com is a good source also.
In true slashdot fashion, I did not read the referenced articles..
I've been using D3D for quite some time with boot disks over a network and with sound. Different method though.
I use a DOS network boot disk (Bart's is a good start).
Configure the boot disk to:
Connect to a Samba share (or Win share) that has the D3D files. TCP/IP boot disk required for Samba but an IPX or Netbeui disk can be used for Windows. If using TCP/IP it helps to use DHCP.
Set up a 64MB ram drive.
Your sound card drivers for DOS.
Connect to the network share and download all the D3D files (about 54MB) to the ram drive.
Run setup.exe in the ram drive D3D directory and setup your sound and or network play and have fun.
When done, shut off the computer, remove the boot disk and all traces of the game are gone.
I have taken this a few steps further and made a bat file to copy the game files over and start the setup.exe automatically and converted the boot floppy to a boot cd.
I might not have followed this thread correctly so be gentle if I am wrong here.
It appears to me that you are claiming that open source is a bad because of this:
1) developers will only fix things that affect them (or that they notice, or are paid to fix)
2) developers will only fix things to the satisfaction of themselves
taken together, this means that my grandmother wont get fixes that apply to her problems, and the fixes she may get will be things like "recompile the kernel first, use xvidtune" and so on.
Are you saying that closed source companies WILL provide this service to individuals if they ask? Can you provide some insight on how that is done?
Can your Grandma call the MS support line and request a patch for Outlook so that it will NOT load remote images in an email? How about a patch for Outlook 2000 that works better and gets over the many known issues without having to upgrade again to 2002? Can she request the ability for IE to block pop-up's? How about some change in their implementation of SMB so that she can use it unhindered with a non MS product? How about asking for a patch in QuickBooks to get rid of the advertisements and requiring constant paid upgrades? How about a patch for that unsupported OS or application she still may be using. Do you really think any company will offer this for her? They do not give a flying crap about those things and will not change ANYTHING that will not increase their own market share or force you onto the upgrade treadmill.
Surely you've come across someone elses unix machine and thought "what the hell are they thinking ?
This is not the fault of open source, this is the result of someone winging it and doing something on their own. I can do that with any MS system, "standard" Cisco network, or any business phone system too. If you follow standard practices and guidelines this will not happen. If you do not have such things to follow, then that alone is the problem.
Have you experienced trying to take ownership of someone elses source?
Not for the faint at heart but infinately more possible then taking control of source you don't have and can never have. Talk about being hit by a bus and fucked....
Automobile LCD TVs very expensive because their so small. Stoopid.
Actually automotive LCD are NOT expensive at all. You just need to know where to look. Here is a good start. You can assemble a two monitor system in headrests (or one large monitor on ceiling) with a DVD/MP3 player and audio through existing stereo for under $500 if you install it yourself. Skip the dedicated DVD/mp3 player, hook up a Xbox or PS2 instead with a $30 power invertor and have a complete DVD/Game system for roughly the same price.
HAHAHA, I tought the same with VA Software!.
Wow, a method of tranfering water from one place to another with no physical connection between the two devices. A hoseless water pump. Maybe I'll patent that.
Then I will move on a cellular phone adapter that receives broadcast FM radio stations over IP that you can feed into your car stereo through a cassette adapter. Imagine being able to listen to FM broadcasts via cell phone on your car stereo! With a second additional microphone attachment you can even talk to other people with it!
Really?
As others have stated already... IMAP is a much better cross platform solution, and with procmail and fetchmail, it gets even better.
Not to be redundant but I'll give you more advantages.
You can use ANY IMAP capable client on any platform with out having to import, export, or convert any messages. Pine, Evolution, Mahogany, Outlook Express, Pegasus, Opera 7.x, Mozilla, Web based like IMP, SquirrelMail and many others.
The mail, all folders, and all attachments are easy to backup and restore by tar.gz'ing your mail directory.
You can access all of your mail from ANY internet computer (depending on your home network setup) with any IMAP client. This can be secured via SSH or SSL.
Works seemlessly with procmail to direct your mail into specific folders and for spam filtering. These filters are not client specific so there is no need to create rules for every mail client that you plan on using.
Fetchmail to get your mail from other IMAP and POP (and others) servers (can use SSH and SSL also).
Anyone that has a cross platform need, does not want to constantly import and convert mail formats, and only wants to deal with filters one time should be using this trio.
Search Google for any of these for mounds of configuration and installation tips.
Locally produced Cruzan 151 Rum..
$3.00
2L bottle of Pepsi..
$3.00
Saving $3 and getting completely shit-faced on the beach by drinking that nasty ass rum straight..
Priceless.
Welcome to St Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
Well, they still have Netgear, D-Link, Siemens, and SMC to deal with in the low cost market.
I do not think they are trying to put them out of the market but trying to offer a Cisco product line that meets all needs from bottom to top. In the enterprise world, most purchases are done because you already have an existing companies product so why not buy them for everything. Hell, I'd bet most large companies would seriously consider Cisco PC's or heaven forbid Microsoft business class routers and switches if they were offered.
Most companies do not selectively choose individual lines unless they have too. It is not surprising to see Compaq servers, Compaq san's, Compaq tape backups, and Compaq PC's and laptops on every desk and server room in a corporate environment.
Damn, I just did all mine in Microfiche. I was getting pretty good at moving the slide around to achieve 29.975 fps..