nah, didn't add up like that - the 10/100 was quoted to cost me something like $15-20 AU. the 3Com was about 60-ish, IIRC.
good point though
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In my book, 3com is still respected and revered
but in my experience so far, overpriced. or were, anyhow. When I signed up to Broadband a couple of years back, the installation engineer couldn't get a 10/100 to install in my box, so he zipped out to the van and got a 3Com 10-baseT card and installed that. went smoothly, right up until I got the invoice.
the 10Base-T was more than three times the cost of the faster card from a competitor, which incidentally I went out and bought later and installed in like 5 minutes. But Telstra's crappy service is another story.
I was about to mention the photoshop issue, but I kinda drifted off the subject a little.
the companies are not going to port unless there's a likelyhood that thaey'll shift units, and of course they can't shift units while flash coders and photoshop users are locked in to win/mac
No good if said big company uses, say, Lotus notes. my electricity provider certainly does, luckily I'm next door neighbours with one of their IT manager guys.
Actually, that segment in BFC is a throwback to a segment from The Awful Truth called Corporate Cops - in fact the segment of film is almost identical to the trailer used in the TV show.
European Commissioner for competition Mario Monti may demand that Microsoft Corp. sell two versions of its ubiquitous operating system, Windows, in Europe: one with Media Player inside as it does at present, and another with the music and video playing software stripped out and sold separately
... MS pulls Media player out of a version of the OS but charges exactly the same amount for it, and prominently marks it 'no media player edition'. Consumer sees they're both the same price and opts for the 'integrated' version anyway.
I don't see how this helps anyone, apart from costing MS some cash to implement. Unless there's a provision which I didn't glean from the article.
same with MSDN and the.NET framework SDK (which is a free download, if a bit on the large side). no ctrl+t but you can right click for 'new window' and browse in tabs.
Turn off the sidebars and you've actually got a reasonably usable tabbed browser. and what's more, your taskbar looks like you're just using MSDN, so you can quickly ctrl+tab back to the API docs when the boss arrives!
> A close family member's Windows 2000 box was 0wn3d within days of getting broadband
hey, hell, I got a laptop infected within about ten minutes back in the Code Red flap. brand bleeding new, needed some patches, didn't have access to a patched machine to get the patches off of (lots of reasons), took the risk, got hit. What the hell do you do?
In that case, with hindsight, leaving IIS off the thing would have saved my ass while getting the patches, but how many home users know this stuff when they hit broadband? Man, some people buy an OEM-installed machine patch-free from the corner computer shop and just plug the thing right in, which is tantamount to saying 'Hi, come get me!'
ideally, ISPs should have better division in their account structure. Home users : no inward ports beyond what's absolutely necessary. Want to run a game server? $5 extra a month for a given set of ports. Want to access your own machine remotely through VNC? welcome to the 'expert' level, $5 extra a month. Want to host a small website? $5 more, cheers. If the financial thing's not attractive, hey, different AUP for you guys. get infected, lose service.
In utopia, this would result in cheaper broadband for all - no 'my machine's gone crazy' support calls from broadband level #1, because they're worm-free. less calls from the next level up, because (hopefully) they have some idea of what they're doing, and so on.
in the X-Wing series, can't remember which one, it's mentioned that this is what Correllian exiles do with their, er... remains... turning them into a rather glittery monument. thought that was quite interesting.
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... because my tinfoil beanie blocks their mind-control rays. (complete with propeller)
nah, didn't add up like that - the 10/100 was quoted to cost me something like $15-20 AU. the 3Com was about 60-ish, IIRC.
good point though
In my book, 3com is still respected and revered
but in my experience so far, overpriced. or were, anyhow. When I signed up to Broadband a couple of years back, the installation engineer couldn't get a 10/100 to install in my box, so he zipped out to the van and got a 3Com 10-baseT card and installed that. went smoothly, right up until I got the invoice.
the 10Base-T was more than three times the cost of the faster card from a competitor, which incidentally I went out and bought later and installed in like 5 minutes. But Telstra's crappy service is another story.
oops. chapter 5 actually.
Laptop bag easily over the shoulder, thusly:
"He carried his satchel with an easy swaying motion so that he could get a good swing at anybody who tried to take it from him without asking."
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, chap 4
I was about to mention the photoshop issue, but I kinda drifted off the subject a little.
the companies are not going to port unless there's a likelyhood that thaey'll shift units, and of course they can't shift units while flash coders and photoshop users are locked in to win/mac
Yes, but I think Flash designers/developers are in a Catch-22 there. Many would switch if Flash were available for Linux, I'm fairly convinced.
... they'd release the authoring tool in a Linux version?
> CRS-1, which previously had been code-named HFR for Huge Fast Router,
HFR : Huge Fast Router?
BFG 9000 : Big Funky Gun 9000
transpose with whatever word you feel appropriate. I know what I'm going with.
No good if said big company uses, say, Lotus notes. my electricity provider certainly does, luckily I'm next door neighbours with one of their IT manager guys.
good point though.
surely everest is high enough already?
oh, I get it. scale. ah.
Buy the album at the store for $14, or buy it online for $9 and burn the damn thing yourself?
because then you could burn one for your mate, and he could burn one for his mate and...
oh wait, what were we talking about again?
Actually, that segment in BFC is a throwback to a segment from The Awful Truth called Corporate Cops - in fact the segment of film is almost identical to the trailer used in the TV show.
from the article :
European Commissioner for competition Mario Monti may demand that Microsoft Corp. sell two versions of its ubiquitous operating system, Windows, in Europe: one with Media Player inside as it does at present, and another with the music and video playing software stripped out and sold separately
... MS pulls Media player out of a version of the OS but charges exactly the same amount for it, and prominently marks it 'no media player edition'. Consumer sees they're both the same price and opts for the 'integrated' version anyway.
I don't see how this helps anyone, apart from costing MS some cash to implement. Unless there's a provision which I didn't glean from the article.
same with MSDN and the .NET framework SDK (which is a free download, if a bit on the large side). no ctrl+t but you can right click for 'new window' and browse in tabs.
Turn off the sidebars and you've actually got a reasonably usable tabbed browser. and what's more, your taskbar looks like you're just using MSDN, so you can quickly ctrl+tab back to the API docs when the boss arrives!
> A close family member's Windows 2000 box was 0wn3d within days of getting broadband
hey, hell, I got a laptop infected within about ten minutes back in the Code Red flap. brand bleeding new, needed some patches, didn't have access to a patched machine to get the patches off of (lots of reasons), took the risk, got hit. What the hell do you do?
In that case, with hindsight, leaving IIS off the thing would have saved my ass while getting the patches, but how many home users know this stuff when they hit broadband? Man, some people buy an OEM-installed machine patch-free from the corner computer shop and just plug the thing right in, which is tantamount to saying 'Hi, come get me!'
ideally, ISPs should have better division in their account structure. Home users : no inward ports beyond what's absolutely necessary. Want to run a game server? $5 extra a month for a given set of ports. Want to access your own machine remotely through VNC? welcome to the 'expert' level, $5 extra a month. Want to host a small website? $5 more, cheers. If the financial thing's not attractive, hey, different AUP for you guys. get infected, lose service.
In utopia, this would result in cheaper broadband for all - no 'my machine's gone crazy' support calls from broadband level #1, because they're worm-free. less calls from the next level up, because (hopefully) they have some idea of what they're doing, and so on.
shame we're not in utopia
I mean, really......
in the X-Wing series, can't remember which one, it's mentioned that this is what Correllian exiles do with their, er... remains... turning them into a rather glittery monument. thought that was quite interesting.
Tons of ethical issues here, which have hardly been touched upon in the U.S. press.
One of which is the fact that Zimbabwe actually does have the right to turn down these shipments.
is noting this and being careful to mention that XP users are still better off with the SUN version.
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that's exactly what I mean. pretty porr showing, all in all. A sample of 15 doesn't cut it at all.
a bit of a small sample, don't you agree? and how was it composed...?