I tell clients running Windows 98 or ME that I will not support them, and that they need to either purchase a new machine, or upgrade the operating system on their old one. No compromises. It's not worth my time to maintain proficiency in rapidly-disappearing older systems. (There was *one* instance where I supported a Windows 95 machine, in 2004, which was running some mission-critical software to interface to a bunch of proprietary control equipment. I quoted them $500 per hour in an effort to dissuade them from contracting me to do it...but they did...guess in that circumstance, they did make it worth my while to support the older equipment.)
For systems which are reasonably recent, I charge on a sliding scale. Spyware and virus removal will be a flat-fee of $35 for home users, $50 per machine for businesses. Repair/Diagnostics are about $20 per hour for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, $30 for home users, $40 for corporate clients. Plus fees for travel more than 1 gallon of gasoline (about 15 miles, $5), fees for any media I expend while diagnosing their system (i.e. cleanroom boot CDs, diagnostic tools CDs, about $1 per CD and $3 per DVD used), etc.
Never had a complaint about my rates (which are on the low-side of norm for a small consultant, but then again, I have low overhead and am catering more to small businesses and home users than to larger corporations with special projects) and people seem to keep coming back for more, so it must be fairly reasonable.
Being superior in terms of technical specifications, and market forces, are very different.
Microchannel Architecture was a 32-bit bus far ahead of its time, it was very fast, but IBM kept the specs so tightly controlled that MCA devices were expensive as hell, and as a result, not widely produced.
Kerberos is half-heartedly implemented where I am currently. Everything and every service, portal, and daemon is Kerberized but not a single one of them actually talks to, or communicates information with, any other one.
i.e. there is no "single sign on", there's repeated typing of the same account credentials over and over again to access various distribution nodes, services, accounts, machine resources, etc.
Having to type the same "single sign on" password 4-5 times in any given session to get anything done gets really old.
I think pragma=no-cache will take care of that? There are some sites where autocomplete absolutely will not store information about any of the fields; I have yet to figure out exactly why that is.
Just for your information, even if the Shroud of Turin was planted during the Crusades, it doesn't totally rule out Jesus existing.
You can believe whatever you want. That's one of the main points of religion...it's not actually based on hard evidence of much of anything. i.e. where faith comes into play.
(I'm not a particularely religious individual, although I'm all for religious freedom for most people.)
Eliza for Tempest (Probably got the name wrong...) was something similar. Linux-only IIRC, it modulated your CRT screen in a certain way as to act as an AM radio broadcast.
I think Digital works closer to the way you're describing. I know Analog Cable (and 1-way Digital) do send the entire programming content at once. That's why they have to use things like 256QAM, because it offers a ton of bandwidth, and can be decoded by a box without too much trouble.
I don't know if bidirectional digital does this -- but I *do* know that in my house, analog cable piggybacks on the digital (we only have 1 digital cable receiver, but we get cable channels on every TV) so I'm willing to bet, the delay is while it retrieves guide information and waits for the next whole-frame in the MPEG stream to arrive, rather than requests a brand new feed right to your box.
I realize his works have something of a cult following, but to be honest with you, I absolutely hated Hitchhiker's Guide so much, I stopped reading it half-way through. It was just so inane, in my opinion.
I, for one, won't be going to see the film, either.
I imagine they're shipped with an ntsetup.sif or whatever the file is these days, with the CD-key hardcoded to whatever the institution paid for in their volume licensing.
The *Administrator* login *will* have access to your encrypted files if your profile is disabled.
On all Windows XP Pro (and 2000 Pro, and Server, etc.) the Administrator named account is also the system recovery agent. He can't read the files --- but he can open their properties up, and uncheck the option to encrypt them --- and the recovery agent key for that account will then decrypt the files, making them accessible without encryption to any and all once again.
I focus on good physical security, for the most part.
Over the network, I have disallowed older clients from connecting (NTLMv2 only) and require encrypted sessions over the network. I've disallowed anonymous users to enumerate shares and SIDs, and don't have a guest account open. Result: Basically, only someone with a local credential can access my machine over the network (for SMB) and any services that run, authenticate to the same database (RDP, etc.)
Locally, I rely on the fact that I'm overly paranoid about locking my workstation. If I'm more than 6 feet away from the console, it's locked. Only one individual besides myself has an account on my personal machine. All my important files are assigned to my own user account, and access-restricted from making modifications on them.
I'm less concerned about the other person who legitimately uses my machine from snooping around, than I am a random college kid who's bored.
I'd say I'm quite the power user (hey, I'm posting here on/., aren't I?) and I deliberately *don't* differentiate between advertisements and search result pages when searching for tangible goods.
Why?
Oftentimes the "Sponsored Links" are more to-the-point with what I want to buy than searching out a vendor and clicking through their site.
If I recall correctly, it's something about toxicity...without oxygen, one of the other reactions a plant needs to sustain itself won't occur, and the plant will die.
At night, plants respire, by the way, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. My guess is, without enough ambient oxygen, plants die off as they run out of the necessary raw materials with which to create new cellular material and sugars.
Oftentimes, I'll click because I'm curious..."Two-in-One USB KVM for Laptops and PCs" or "Great Deals on Embedded 1024-QAM modulator/demodulator ASICs" but othertimes its because the Google Ad-Word returned exactly what I wanted to buy in the first place.
Just because it's digital doesn't mean the digital pixels don't have a response time still...the FPS limits come from different causes (sweep of an electron beam vs voltage dwell times of a liquid crystal segment) but they have the end result of only a certain number of distinct pictures can be displayed per unit time.
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I tell clients running Windows 98 or ME that I will not support them, and that they need to either purchase a new machine, or upgrade the operating system on their old one. No compromises. It's not worth my time to maintain proficiency in rapidly-disappearing older systems. (There was *one* instance where I supported a Windows 95 machine, in 2004, which was running some mission-critical software to interface to a bunch of proprietary control equipment. I quoted them $500 per hour in an effort to dissuade them from contracting me to do it...but they did...guess in that circumstance, they did make it worth my while to support the older equipment.)
For systems which are reasonably recent, I charge on a sliding scale. Spyware and virus removal will be a flat-fee of $35 for home users, $50 per machine for businesses. Repair/Diagnostics are about $20 per hour for 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, $30 for home users, $40 for corporate clients. Plus fees for travel more than 1 gallon of gasoline (about 15 miles, $5), fees for any media I expend while diagnosing their system (i.e. cleanroom boot CDs, diagnostic tools CDs, about $1 per CD and $3 per DVD used), etc.
Never had a complaint about my rates (which are on the low-side of norm for a small consultant, but then again, I have low overhead and am catering more to small businesses and home users than to larger corporations with special projects) and people seem to keep coming back for more, so it must be fairly reasonable.
Call-Forward your cell phone to your landline. It won't cost anything as long as you're forwarding to another local number (same area code)
for Verizon Wireless customers, this is
*72 + 10-Digit Number to Forward + SEND, wait for the tone, END. (to deactivate, *720 + SEND, wait, END)
Being superior in terms of technical specifications, and market forces, are very different.
Microchannel Architecture was a 32-bit bus far ahead of its time, it was very fast, but IBM kept the specs so tightly controlled that MCA devices were expensive as hell, and as a result, not widely produced.
Kerberos is half-heartedly implemented where I am currently. Everything and every service, portal, and daemon is Kerberized but not a single one of them actually talks to, or communicates information with, any other one.
i.e. there is no "single sign on", there's repeated typing of the same account credentials over and over again to access various distribution nodes, services, accounts, machine resources, etc.
Having to type the same "single sign on" password 4-5 times in any given session to get anything done gets really old.
I think pragma=no-cache will take care of that? There are some sites where autocomplete absolutely will not store information about any of the fields; I have yet to figure out exactly why that is.
Just for your information, even if the Shroud of Turin was planted during the Crusades, it doesn't totally rule out Jesus existing.
You can believe whatever you want. That's one of the main points of religion...it's not actually based on hard evidence of much of anything. i.e. where faith comes into play.
(I'm not a particularely religious individual, although I'm all for religious freedom for most people.)
Eliza for Tempest (Probably got the name wrong...) was something similar. Linux-only IIRC, it modulated your CRT screen in a certain way as to act as an AM radio broadcast.
Fascinating stuff, really.
I think Digital works closer to the way you're describing. I know Analog Cable (and 1-way Digital) do send the entire programming content at once. That's why they have to use things like 256QAM, because it offers a ton of bandwidth, and can be decoded by a box without too much trouble.
I don't know if bidirectional digital does this -- but I *do* know that in my house, analog cable piggybacks on the digital (we only have 1 digital cable receiver, but we get cable channels on every TV) so I'm willing to bet, the delay is while it retrieves guide information and waits for the next whole-frame in the MPEG stream to arrive, rather than requests a brand new feed right to your box.
"You can have any color car, as long as it's black." - Henry Ford
This is the first insightful and correct usage of a Fight Club quote I've ever seen. So much so, in fact, that my first instinct wasn't blind hatred.
;)
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I realize his works have something of a cult following, but to be honest with you, I absolutely hated Hitchhiker's Guide so much, I stopped reading it half-way through. It was just so inane, in my opinion.
I, for one, won't be going to see the film, either.
I imagine they're shipped with an ntsetup.sif or whatever the file is these days, with the CD-key hardcoded to whatever the institution paid for in their volume licensing.
Thus, the key is provided, but not interactively.
a Royale with Cheese. It's because of the metric system. They don't know what a Quarter Pounder is. ;)
And when two camps won't cooperate and interbreed, eventually genetic differnces between the populations cause speciation.
That's the clicncher to your biological comparison.
The *Administrator* login *will* have access to your encrypted files if your profile is disabled.
On all Windows XP Pro (and 2000 Pro, and Server, etc.) the Administrator named account is also the system recovery agent. He can't read the files --- but he can open their properties up, and uncheck the option to encrypt them --- and the recovery agent key for that account will then decrypt the files, making them accessible without encryption to any and all once again.
Little known solution. Could've saved you $100.
I focus on good physical security, for the most part.
Over the network, I have disallowed older clients from connecting (NTLMv2 only) and require encrypted sessions over the network. I've disallowed anonymous users to enumerate shares and SIDs, and don't have a guest account open. Result: Basically, only someone with a local credential can access my machine over the network (for SMB) and any services that run, authenticate to the same database (RDP, etc.)
Locally, I rely on the fact that I'm overly paranoid about locking my workstation. If I'm more than 6 feet away from the console, it's locked. Only one individual besides myself has an account on my personal machine. All my important files are assigned to my own user account, and access-restricted from making modifications on them.
I'm less concerned about the other person who legitimately uses my machine from snooping around, than I am a random college kid who's bored.
I'd say I'm quite the power user (hey, I'm posting here on /., aren't I?) and I deliberately *don't* differentiate between advertisements and search result pages when searching for tangible goods.
Why?
Oftentimes the "Sponsored Links" are more to-the-point with what I want to buy than searching out a vendor and clicking through their site.
a-la...what was that movie, where the guy had the robotic gun and was going to try to kill the First Lady at a public engagement?
He bought the gun off the Internet, had the body fabricated from carbon fiber, took it for testing, killed the guy who made it with his own weapon.
It pulled to the right a little bit, so when he was going to shoot his apple he was holding, he shot his arm off instead.
Was an amazing movie, but I forget what it was called.
Microsoft also has an NFS connectoid, I think, if you wanted to go that route, in case you *did* get Win machines at some point in the future.
vbulletin has a decent "editor" for its posts that uses a bunch of fairly standard JavaScripts to format text, insert image links, etc.
$favoriteWiki could probably take something like that, or develop an equivilant of it.
If I recall correctly, it's something about toxicity...without oxygen, one of the other reactions a plant needs to sustain itself won't occur, and the plant will die.
At night, plants respire, by the way, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. My guess is, without enough ambient oxygen, plants die off as they run out of the necessary raw materials with which to create new cellular material and sugars.
I click ads that interest me.
Slashdot, Google/Gmail, forums and blogs, etc.
Oftentimes, I'll click because I'm curious..."Two-in-One USB KVM for Laptops and PCs" or "Great Deals on Embedded 1024-QAM modulator/demodulator ASICs" but othertimes its because the Google Ad-Word returned exactly what I wanted to buy in the first place.
Just because it's digital doesn't mean the digital pixels don't have a response time still...the FPS limits come from different causes (sweep of an electron beam vs voltage dwell times of a liquid crystal segment) but they have the end result of only a certain number of distinct pictures can be displayed per unit time.
Technically, the *Theory* of Gravity is still called as such.
Scientific theories are never absolutely proved correctly, only absolutely proved wrong or strongly, strongly confirmed.
One new development can shatter an existing theory. Evolution, gravity, both are the same for such purposes.
I like the girls in computer science at my college. Well, most of them, but since there's only about 4, 3/4 isn't too many.
But hell, even I won't talk to most of the other guys who are CS majors, and I'm not exactly the biggest jock myself either.