I've only needed to use Novell's email support once, and that went pretty well. The email was a simple question about migrating a NW5 server to new hardware, which went smoothly. All other times, support.novell.com worked well enough for me.
Generally, I can tell when the last time we had a power outage that outlasted the ups was by looking at the uptime on our Novell server (our linux servers stay up just as well), so there hasnt been much need for support.
I will like being able to use Linux instead though. We have one 3rd party program that can mess up if the wrong thing happens and won't unload without a reboot of the server. There doesnt seem to be a kill -9 type command in novell (if there is please reply). But, it's rock solid as long as you're careful with that app.
Coke does produce sugar only (no corn syrup) coke for various countries and for passover (search for kosher coke). I guess some people search these out like the grail. Some people claim that sugar tastes better than corn syrup, but I've read that taste is more affected by the water quality of where it was made.
Just because something is stable when it's overclocked doesnt mean that it's stable. If it was a server, even a problem that caused a lockup every 6 months or year wouldnt be acceptable. That freak incident could happen next year, or tommarow.
I'm not against overclocking or an Intel fanboy, I run an overclocked barton at home. But I dont think Intel would hold back, especially with the athlon64 out there and with the negative prescott press, Intel might be a bit more cautious than usual.
Have you actually looked at an HP system lately? I mean their business line, not their bestbuy/home consumer line. They're pretty solid machines with excellent airflow. If you want an athlon xp system with an nforce2 board, you can get that too. I was skeptical at first, but they've been very nice machines.
My parents live next to a race track. It's not very loud inside during the races believe it or not. Many computers are louder. Double pane glass is extremely effective at blocking sound. Trees also help. Perhaps an old house might have problems, but a new house can be very sound proof.
Regardless of his politics, the man is basically dishonest, so you are left with the task of trying to sort the bullshit from the truth. Good luck!
What's funny is I'm not sure whether you were replying to a post about gwb or it was a post on moore. That statement could pretty accurately apply to 90% of people in politics.
spammers have been intentionally misspelling words in random ways, which reduces the effectiveness considerably.
I suppose the solution to that would be to spell check the email before passing it through filter. Of course, it'll have to also read 1337 speak, commonly known non-english words, etc. If anything, spam & fight spam is one of the more unusual was of teaching a computer to read.
Come to think of it, spam makes the job of the NSA more difficult.
However, fighting spam doesn't just result in science that's strictly applicable to fighting spam. The same tech for fighting (detecting) spam might be useful for detecting other info -- like terrorist communications, or drug communication, or revolutionary communications. Detecting spam requires the computer to recognise certain information, even when it's been obscured. So spammers might be helping the cops or big brother (depending on your point of view and metallic content of your hat).
But what is really upsetting is this - how can users (somehow) manage to get 225 pieces of spyware and 42 virus' and then NOT be able to install a anti-virus program or spybot?
That says something about the usability of spyware and viruses compared to av software and spybot. Although, that's kind of like saying catching the flu is easier than getting the vacine. But, in the end, what's needed is the creaters of av/antispyware (asw?) software need to make a dumbed down mode that will basically install and run totally automatically.
There are a few problems that I have with some versions of modern christianity.
1. the bible is not inerrant. There are several sections that are very questionable. The most popularly known one would be the bit about snake handling. Last I knew, that didn't appear until sometime after 350ad. This questionability leads to the point below.
2. The concept of inerrancy, in my mind, allows some people to cause their followers to miss the forrest for the trees. There's 2 rules: love your god, and love your neighbor. Any religeon or religeons leader that's teachings violate those is not truely christian. When in doubt, don't look to Paul, or some other 3rd party, look at the life of Jesus described in the Gospels. He didn't preach hate. He didn't kill his enemies. He didn't stand outside of abortion clinics and call people names. So, I guess they can make up what ever logically perfect rules they want based on the literally taken scriptures, but if they fail those 2 main rules, they're full of shit.
Most of the famous and outspoken religeous people aren't any different than the people who ran the money changing table in the temple. Let me put it another way: a true man of God won't make millions of dolars as a preacher. They also wont be murderers. If a religeous leader actively burned people at the stake in the 1500s, I'd question them as well.
The company proposes an idea that's controversial enough to make the computer news pages. They drop the boneheaded idea, but now people recognise their name. No need for a superbowl ad.
The way to stop this kind of stuff is to pass a law stating that anyone who introduces and supports a new law like this has to abide by it for 1 year if it _doesn't_ pass.
In this case, the group of people and politicians who supported it would have to get this breathalizer installed and use it for one year. I bet they'd think things through a bit more the next time they got a harebrained idea.
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It's still not good enough to make coors taste good.
I've only needed to use Novell's email support once, and that went pretty well. The email was a simple question about migrating a NW5 server to new hardware, which went smoothly. All other times, support.novell.com worked well enough for me.
Generally, I can tell when the last time we had a power outage that outlasted the ups was by looking at the uptime on our Novell server (our linux servers stay up just as well), so there hasnt been much need for support.
I will like being able to use Linux instead though. We have one 3rd party program that can mess up if the wrong thing happens and won't unload without a reboot of the server. There doesnt seem to be a kill -9 type command in novell (if there is please reply). But, it's rock solid as long as you're careful with that app.
Coke does produce sugar only (no corn syrup) coke for various countries and for passover (search for kosher coke). I guess some people search these out like the grail. Some people claim that sugar tastes better than corn syrup, but I've read that taste is more affected by the water quality of where it was made.
It's funny how far a cat can fall
Just because something is stable when it's overclocked doesnt mean that it's stable. If it was a server, even a problem that caused a lockup every 6 months or year wouldnt be acceptable. That freak incident could happen next year, or tommarow.
I'm not against overclocking or an Intel fanboy, I run an overclocked barton at home. But I dont think Intel would hold back, especially with the athlon64 out there and with the negative prescott press, Intel might be a bit more cautious than usual.
Have you actually looked at an HP system lately? I mean their business line, not their bestbuy/home consumer line. They're pretty solid machines with excellent airflow. If you want an athlon xp system with an nforce2 board, you can get that too. I was skeptical at first, but they've been very nice machines.
My parents live next to a race track. It's not very loud inside during the races believe it or not. Many computers are louder. Double pane glass is extremely effective at blocking sound. Trees also help. Perhaps an old house might have problems, but a new house can be very sound proof.
Regardless of his politics, the man is basically dishonest, so you are left with the task of trying to sort the bullshit from the truth. Good luck!
What's funny is I'm not sure whether you were replying to a post about gwb or it was a post on moore. That statement could pretty accurately apply to 90% of people in politics.
Mozilla? Is that what they put on pizza?
People will wake up right after people driving SUVs stop bitching about the price of gas.
The enron processor line is going to targetted specifically at california, where they plan to make a killing.
Do what I do, and read the "old news" section instead of the front page.
That's a neat trick since this is still the most recent article and you've managed to post a comment on it long before it got to the old news section.
Yes, but the next article is about the invention of a webbased time machine.
spammers have been intentionally misspelling words in random ways, which reduces the effectiveness considerably.
I suppose the solution to that would be to spell check the email before passing it through filter. Of course, it'll have to also read 1337 speak, commonly known non-english words, etc. If anything, spam & fight spam is one of the more unusual was of teaching a computer to read.
"If it had a security hole in it too? There would be jokes about it but no one would be too serious BECAUSE IT'S A LIVE CD installed on a RAMdrive."
If the system has no HD, then it's no big deal. But, if you can mount the local drives that could pose a problem.
I'm of the personal opinion that police treated as the military. If they break the law, should they face civilian and military courts.
outside of this horn shapped universe, sitting right next to it is bass shaped universe and behind that is a drum shaped universe.
that's basically what most tv shows seem to be anyway: tv shows about people who are not watching tv shows.
that was such a sarcastic statement that it'd be hard to be more sarcastic short of labeling it as such.
Now movie rental stores will be asking...
"paper or plastic"
Come to think of it, spam makes the job of the NSA more difficult.
However, fighting spam doesn't just result in science that's strictly applicable to fighting spam. The same tech for fighting (detecting) spam might be useful for detecting other info -- like terrorist communications, or drug communication, or revolutionary communications. Detecting spam requires the computer to recognise certain information, even when it's been obscured. So spammers might be helping the cops or big brother (depending on your point of view and metallic content of your hat).
But what is really upsetting is this - how can users (somehow) manage to get 225 pieces of spyware and 42 virus' and then NOT be able to install a anti-virus program or spybot?
That says something about the usability of spyware and viruses compared to av software and spybot. Although, that's kind of like saying catching the flu is easier than getting the vacine. But, in the end, what's needed is the creaters of av/antispyware (asw?) software need to make a dumbed down mode that will basically install and run totally automatically.
There are a few problems that I have with some versions of modern christianity.
1. the bible is not inerrant. There are several sections that are very questionable. The most popularly known one would be the bit about snake handling. Last I knew, that didn't appear until sometime after 350ad. This questionability leads to the point below.
2. The concept of inerrancy, in my mind, allows some people to cause their followers to miss the forrest for the trees. There's 2 rules: love your god, and love your neighbor. Any religeon or religeons leader that's teachings violate those is not truely christian. When in doubt, don't look to Paul, or some other 3rd party, look at the life of Jesus described in the Gospels. He didn't preach hate. He didn't kill his enemies. He didn't stand outside of abortion clinics and call people names. So, I guess they can make up what ever logically perfect rules they want based on the literally taken scriptures, but if they fail those 2 main rules, they're full of shit.
Most of the famous and outspoken religeous people aren't any different than the people who ran the money changing table in the temple. Let me put it another way: a true man of God won't make millions of dolars as a preacher. They also wont be murderers. If a religeous leader actively burned people at the stake in the 1500s, I'd question them as well.
The company proposes an idea that's controversial enough to make the computer news pages. They drop the boneheaded idea, but now people recognise their name. No need for a superbowl ad.
The way to stop this kind of stuff is to pass a law stating that anyone who introduces and supports a new law like this has to abide by it for 1 year if it _doesn't_ pass.
In this case, the group of people and politicians who supported it would have to get this breathalizer installed and use it for one year. I bet they'd think things through a bit more the next time they got a harebrained idea.
Of course, this post is a harebrained idea too...
This would add 1 minute to my commute... to the liquer store.