friend and I were diagnosing aunt's PC that wouldn't POST (had just changed MB/CPU/mem 3 months ago because it had popped some famous capacitors). He reaches into computer desk to hold it up and disconnect the cables so that we can pull it out. Drops it. I yell at him "why the hell did you drop it?!?!" He says "because it just shocked the crap out of me!".
Into the garbage with that power supply. New power supply in, pc works great. New parts not fried (luckily). My jaw not broken (luckily).
what exact one are you using? what cpu/case temps do you see under full load and at idle? I ask because I'm considering coolers for my xp 2100+ I"m running 56C loaded and 47C idle right now after a thorough cleaning, but i'd like to bring them both down about 10C without adding noise. (Note, I am using the fan/heatsink that came from AMD with the retail box chip)
well, it is funny, but in reality, you have to watch what you say on the phone. If she ever says something that can be interpreted as a yes, then boom, you've just bought whatever they're selling. Even when you are on the phone, be very careful about how you phrase your responses, there are some very, very unscrupulous telesales people out there. (Yes, I am a salesperson. No, I don't call people and bug them.)
Especially RV'ers. I have several friends who are retired and travel at least part of the year with their laptops and use either a borrowed land line or else cellular to get email from the kids and to get stuff from the internet. This would have enormous appeal over time to the older crowd who travels, as they would always know they could swing into a McD's a couple of times a week to check email and catch up with thier online tasks.
MS's OEM license agreement for OEM software marries that license to the hardware. you are not legally allowed to move it to another computer even if you delete it off the old one.
MS sells the OEM licenses at very cheap prices to the OEM's, and that's part of the restriction, you pay less (typically 50-70) for a license, instead of $150-200, but it is married to that system and is thrown out with the hardware.
I've been to many MS licensing classes, trust me. It's a very common misconception.
I don't understand how this is different from rhapsody from http://www.listen.com Listen.com has a plan where you pay $9.95/month, then you can preview as many as you like. You can also download and burn as many as you like for an additional 49 cents per track. I've seen someone use it, and it works really well. it also has links for other artists that are similar, and some history and info on each artist. It's not perfect selection, but pretty darned good, and it's legal AFAIK.
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it is hemmoroid cream. it is used to stop hemmoroid pain and flare ups around the butthole. but it can also be used to stop nose problems too I think for coke heads.
by the way, i only know this because my family owns some convenience stores, and the major group that was stealing this stuff was junkies.
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actually, i thought it was most shoplifted for coke heads to use on their noses to control bleeding and redness.
I don't know for sure, it's just what I heard.
Although, I can also see being embarrased to buy it for it's intended purpose...
While it would create some more traffic before someone is added to the whitelist, my understanding is that once someone is on the list, they will not get challenge/response emails at all.
Maybe you could implement a very loose filter around your whitelist filter?
for instance, mail comes in
10 Is it on the whitelist of senders? If yes go to 40 20 Does it pass the RBL (or other "loose" filter) if yes, go to 30 if NO, then delete (or xfer to a SPAM folder if you want to insure no false positives 30 Send challenge email to sender letting them know that their message will not be read until they authenticate themselves 40 XFER mail to inbox
Yes, i'm not a programmer, but I think the logical flow of this would eliminate false positives and allow most mail to flow quickly and freely without a lot of bounced authentication challenge emails.
Does anyone know of something like this out there?
in a fit of laziness, I put xp pro on a pentium 200 box. I did up the RAM by throwing a couple of sticks that I had laying around in there on it. I was using it to bridge my wifi WAN to my house LAN 802.11b -> FE. It runs fine, and I remote control it (it's headless). after installing xp and the 802.11 software, it took less than five minutes to setupt he bridge, addressing, firewalling (rudimentary to be sure), and remote desktop control.
definately is slow to use it for something, but it wasn't *that* onerous to log in and use on occassion.
Would they not be able to set up a man in the middle approach and spoof themselves as Bank Of America Online and capture your data that way? It seems like they could do that. But I don't know enough about it to be sure.
Are those public webservers that are also hosting confidential internal data? If so, you may want to rething your strategy. If it is internal web servers taht are pitching data, then fine, but if it's a mix of internal and external functions, I would suggest you may be vulnerable to data theft, tampering or loss.
let me make a wild guess. blew the capacitors on the board?
I've seen this a few times. My aunt's p3/500 slot 1 was about 3X what she needed, but when the mobo died, the best idea was an athlon xp2100 with new memory and mobo. all told like $250 and now she can use this until the hardware dies again.
Does anyone know of any good lobbying organizations that are libertarian in bent? I agree with most of what the NRA and EFF do (getting government to leave us alone), but is there a more general lobbying organization out there? (And I don't feel the ACLU counts, they seem to favor a lot of big government instead of letting people be self deterministic.)
I agree with some of your points. but your paragraph about "too much debt" i believe is wrong. I think it's fine to have credit available and to use credit where it makes sense. (ie, I will borrow 150K to pay a mortgage, get a tax break, and build equity and pay $1000/month instead of renting for $800, becuase in the end, I save money on taxes and gain in appreciation that more than makes up for it. BUT, i don't believe that you should take a loan out for a $40K car if you can't pay it off in 1-2 years and for gosh sakes, don't get two car loans and 20K in consumer debt going just to live a lifestyle. You can live a way, way better lifestyle if you will just wait for 1 year on all those purchases, then you can pay cash for them and have all that discretionary money to do what you like with.
Case in point. I use dto make about $40K, then I made $175K. Did I raise my "standard of living"? Not really. I put some money away, paid off the little debt I had. Put a chunk of money towards principle on the house, and THEN paid cash for my used BMW. But, if I had bought things the year before, I would have wasted $5K in interest just to "have" something a year sooner. that's foolish and will bit you. Now I'm unemployed, but everything is paid off and while it's taken me some time to find a job, I have the finances to weather the extended unemployement I've been on without going in to debt.
I know it's tough for people with families (which I don't have), but seriously, people are too dependant on debt.
I recently sold my home and moved into a room i'm renting. What I've experienced...
Computer has to be off at night. all those fans whirring are stressful and disruptive to me.
Tivo actually gets shut off at night too. I don't know if my drive is going bad, but it seems to be louder than I can tolerate having it 4 feet from my head.
I love my tivo, but it isn't as quiet once it's right by my bed. (Of course, mine is about 2.5 years old or so and is one of the early 30 hour models form Phillips)
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friend and I were diagnosing aunt's PC that wouldn't POST (had just changed MB/CPU/mem 3 months ago because it had popped some famous capacitors). He reaches into computer desk to hold it up and disconnect the cables so that we can pull it out. Drops it. I yell at him "why the hell did you drop it?!?!" He says "because it just shocked the crap out of me!".
Into the garbage with that power supply. New power supply in, pc works great. New parts not fried (luckily). My jaw not broken (luckily).
what exact one are you using? what cpu/case temps do you see under full load and at idle? I ask because I'm considering coolers for my xp 2100+ I"m running 56C loaded and 47C idle right now after a thorough cleaning, but i'd like to bring them both down about 10C without adding noise. (Note, I am using the fan/heatsink that came from AMD with the retail box chip)
well, it is funny, but in reality, you have to watch what you say on the phone. If she ever says something that can be interpreted as a yes, then boom, you've just bought whatever they're selling. Even when you are on the phone, be very careful about how you phrase your responses, there are some very, very unscrupulous telesales people out there. (Yes, I am a salesperson. No, I don't call people and bug them.)
Especially RV'ers. I have several friends who are retired and travel at least part of the year with their laptops and use either a borrowed land line or else cellular to get email from the kids and to get stuff from the internet. This would have enormous appeal over time to the older crowd who travels, as they would always know they could swing into a McD's a couple of times a week to check email and catch up with thier online tasks.
you make some good points. I should have qualified that "according to microsoft, you are in violation".
but, the bottom line is, if you are using OEM licenses and get reported, expect to hear from the gorillas at the BSA.
If you want to settle it in court that's your choice for sure.
you are wrong.
MS's OEM license agreement for OEM software marries that license to the hardware. you are not legally allowed to move it to another computer even if you delete it off the old one.
MS sells the OEM licenses at very cheap prices to the OEM's, and that's part of the restriction, you pay less (typically 50-70) for a license, instead of $150-200, but it is married to that system and is thrown out with the hardware.
I've been to many MS licensing classes, trust me. It's a very common misconception.
I don't understand how this is different from rhapsody from http://www.listen.com Listen.com has a plan where you pay $9.95/month, then you can preview as many as you like. You can also download and burn as many as you like for an additional 49 cents per track. I've seen someone use it, and it works really well. it also has links for other artists that are similar, and some history and info on each artist. It's not perfect selection, but pretty darned good, and it's legal AFAIK.
it is hemmoroid cream. it is used to stop hemmoroid pain and flare ups around the butthole. but it can also be used to stop nose problems too I think for coke heads.
by the way, i only know this because my family owns some convenience stores, and the major group that was stealing this stuff was junkies.
actually, i thought it was most shoplifted for coke heads to use on their noses to control bleeding and redness.
I don't know for sure, it's just what I heard.
Although, I can also see being embarrased to buy it for it's intended purpose...
While it would create some more traffic before someone is added to the whitelist, my understanding is that once someone is on the list, they will not get challenge/response emails at all.
Maybe you could implement a very loose filter around your whitelist filter?
for instance, mail comes in
10 Is it on the whitelist of senders? If yes go to 40
20 Does it pass the RBL (or other "loose" filter) if yes, go to 30 if NO, then delete (or xfer to a SPAM folder if you want to insure no false positives
30 Send challenge email to sender letting them know that their message will not be read until they authenticate themselves
40 XFER mail to inbox
Yes, i'm not a programmer, but I think the logical flow of this would eliminate false positives and allow most mail to flow quickly and freely without a lot of bounced authentication challenge emails.
Does anyone know of something like this out there?
or it could be their response to win os/2 which ran great DOS in boxes as well as windows 3.1
just kidding, but it's funny that it has taken them this long to get around to doing this.
it might be similar if MS decides to make VMware not run on windows now that they have their own and thereby crush VMware.
PS, i've used vmware, and it's great. Can't speak for the other product.
in a fit of laziness, I put xp pro on a pentium 200 box. I did up the RAM by throwing a couple of sticks that I had laying around in there on it. I was using it to bridge my wifi WAN to my house LAN 802.11b -> FE. It runs fine, and I remote control it (it's headless). after installing xp and the 802.11 software, it took less than five minutes to setupt he bridge, addressing, firewalling (rudimentary to be sure), and remote desktop control.
definately is slow to use it for something, but it wasn't *that* onerous to log in and use on occassion.
Would they not be able to set up a man in the middle approach and spoof themselves as Bank Of America Online and capture your data that way? It seems like they could do that. But I don't know enough about it to be sure.
My apologies. It sounds like you have things well in hand then.
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Are those public webservers that are also hosting confidential internal data? If so, you may want to rething your strategy. If it is internal web servers taht are pitching data, then fine, but if it's a mix of internal and external functions, I would suggest you may be vulnerable to data theft, tampering or loss.
let me make a wild guess. blew the capacitors on the board?
I've seen this a few times. My aunt's p3/500 slot 1 was about 3X what she needed, but when the mobo died, the best idea was an athlon xp2100 with new memory and mobo. all told like $250 and now she can use this until the hardware dies again.
here's some backup. Been to mexico?
I'm not a regular drinker of alcohol (maybe a few times a month), but in mexico, you have beer with breakfast because you can't trust the water.
it's crazy. but there's something to it.
Does anyone know of any good lobbying organizations that are libertarian in bent? I agree with most of what the NRA and EFF do (getting government to leave us alone), but is there a more general lobbying organization out there? (And I don't feel the ACLU counts, they seem to favor a lot of big government instead of letting people be self deterministic.)
I've been really unhappy with gigabyte the last year or so, and their support is abysmal. I'm trying MSI now, we'll see how they do.
I agree with some of your points. but your paragraph about "too much debt" i believe is wrong. I think it's fine to have credit available and to use credit where it makes sense. (ie, I will borrow 150K to pay a mortgage, get a tax break, and build equity and pay $1000/month instead of renting for $800, becuase in the end, I save money on taxes and gain in appreciation that more than makes up for it. BUT, i don't believe that you should take a loan out for a $40K car if you can't pay it off in 1-2 years and for gosh sakes, don't get two car loans and 20K in consumer debt going just to live a lifestyle. You can live a way, way better lifestyle if you will just wait for 1 year on all those purchases, then you can pay cash for them and have all that discretionary money to do what you like with.
Case in point. I use dto make about $40K, then I made $175K. Did I raise my "standard of living"? Not really. I put some money away, paid off the little debt I had. Put a chunk of money towards principle on the house, and THEN paid cash for my used BMW. But, if I had bought things the year before, I would have wasted $5K in interest just to "have" something a year sooner. that's foolish and will bit you. Now I'm unemployed, but everything is paid off and while it's taken me some time to find a job, I have the finances to weather the extended unemployement I've been on without going in to debt.
I know it's tough for people with families (which I don't have), but seriously, people are too dependant on debt.
He likely won't respond while drunk. I believe he's a Mormon AKA Latter Day Saint. (they do not believe in using drugs/alcohol)>
hotjobs.com also had one ad.
I recently sold my home and moved into a room i'm renting. What I've experienced...
Computer has to be off at night. all those fans whirring are stressful and disruptive to me.
Tivo actually gets shut off at night too. I don't know if my drive is going bad, but it seems to be louder than I can tolerate having it 4 feet from my head.
I love my tivo, but it isn't as quiet once it's right by my bed. (Of course, mine is about 2.5 years old or so and is one of the early 30 hour models form Phillips)
did you used to wotk for gobosh?