Does anyone know if these new ISOs will contain the patches that have come out since the last ISOs were released? It would be a waste of bandwidth to have to download them again.
Many have already pointed out that they sometimes only carry "clean" versions of certain CDs. They also do a similar thing to DVDs - sometimes you will only find fullscreen pan & scan versions of a DVD, and you'll have to go elsewhere to find the widescreen version.
I'd like to see them confiscate all cellphones with cameras and movie recorders at the cineplex ticket check-in. That should make things very interesting.
Back when I did IT support for a large university, we had a problem of disting Windows images to each machine (for those who are not familiar, it's to synchronize each machine with a master image upon logout). It was easy on the Mac, but the best we could do in the Windows world was to use PC-RDist, a piece of software written probably by high school kids in their parents' garage. It did not handle Microsoft software very well. Even with a fully-functional image set up, we had to manually go to each machine and install the MS software (WindowsUpdate patches, Office, etc.) BEFORE we can download the updates from the master image. Plus, any updates to the registry would not be copied because of Windows Protection. Eventually, we just gathered up enough funding (it was hard) to get disk imaging software whenever we needed to hose down a machine and start from scratch. I'm glad I don't have to work in IT anymore.:-)
And also, don't forget that Chinese education is effectively 10 years behind, because of the Cultural Revolution in the 60's (when kids basically did not go to school for 10 years, and little scientific research was conducted).
Good points to bring up. But I was reading somewhere a while ago that someone actually calculated the amount of energy that can be extracted from a human body. They said that a 180-lb man with average American body:fat ratio (yeah, I know) would generate the equivalent energy of so many thousands of barrels of crude oil (the process used being that the entire body would be melted down and converted into a type of biodiesel)
Actually, what many people don't know is that many businesses don't actually check the expiration date. I've worked with banks before and have discovered that a number of them do not validate the expiration date on credit cards. Blame the incompetent IT monkeys who slinged that code together.
"Another Naive Fool" - who said I believed what he said? I'm just quoting him verbatim. Sure, he may be a little misinformed on the whole, but you surely haven't been to China - at least not recently, judging by your word-for-word recitation of the official US hardliner policy stance towards China. For instance, "Seven Years in Tibet" was playing publicly in a movie theater in Shanghai when I visited in 1998 (that's 5 years ago). According to US media, that movie was very much banned in China. Or take for instance, the Dalai Lama's acquisition of the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm no fan of oppressive government tactics, but giving him the Nobel Peace Prize is purely political, considering his theocratic regime used to sic poisonous scorpions on tax deadbeats. Of course, this doesn't excuse anything - but my point being that you have perhaps too much faith in your seemingly "infallable" mass media.
bull crap. Radical islamic terrorism is a disease that's over a hundred years old. Even against the U.S.A., it goes back almost a hundred years. Learn some history, I'd suggest starting with the Phillipines in 1911 with Gen. Pershing
and of course, the US of A had a god-given right to colonize there as well, right?
I had lunch with a coworker who just came from mainland China (to help us debug). I asked him what are governmental taboo subjects - and he replied that only Falun Gong cannot be mentioned publicly, and that the government really doesn't care about other stuff.
While we're at it, how about a eye-patched Johnny Depp logo for any news related to RIAA, CD-R's, or DVD encryption? Or an icon for political matters with a Pinochio nose piercing through the US Constitution parchment?
That's correct. Without bright, shiny objects appearing on the telly, it's hard to get the message across to the mass populous that folks are coming home in bodybags.
LG is the company formerly known as GoldStar, based in Korea. It's a shame that this happened. I've always had pretty good luck with LG hardware. Although at this moment, I am running Mandrake 9.2 flawlessly with a LG CD-RW (CED 8080B)
Which is why hardly anyone would buy Daewoo's until GM picked them up
I'm pretty sure most people who purchase Daewoos aren't keeping up-to-date on corporate structuring, and thus probably did not buy a Daewoo because of this knowledge. They bought it because Japanese offerings were heading upwards in price ($15k+ for a Civic?) and the new Korean imports are aiming to fill the void in the low-price market left by the Japanese.
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Does anyone know if these new ISOs will contain the patches that have come out since the last ISOs were released? It would be a waste of bandwidth to have to download them again.
I concur with another user in this thread. LG actually makes some of the better hardware out there today.
Many have already pointed out that they sometimes only carry "clean" versions of certain CDs. They also do a similar thing to DVDs - sometimes you will only find fullscreen pan & scan versions of a DVD, and you'll have to go elsewhere to find the widescreen version.
Not quite. Time magazine recently yanked an archived article quoting Bush Sr. as basically saying that invading Iraq would not be a wise thing to do.
I'd like to see them confiscate all cellphones with cameras and movie recorders at the cineplex ticket check-in. That should make things very interesting.
Back when I did IT support for a large university, we had a problem of disting Windows images to each machine (for those who are not familiar, it's to synchronize each machine with a master image upon logout). It was easy on the Mac, but the best we could do in the Windows world was to use PC-RDist, a piece of software written probably by high school kids in their parents' garage. It did not handle Microsoft software very well. Even with a fully-functional image set up, we had to manually go to each machine and install the MS software (WindowsUpdate patches, Office, etc.) BEFORE we can download the updates from the master image. Plus, any updates to the registry would not be copied because of Windows Protection. Eventually, we just gathered up enough funding (it was hard) to get disk imaging software whenever we needed to hose down a machine and start from scratch. I'm glad I don't have to work in IT anymore. :-)
And also, don't forget that Chinese education is effectively 10 years behind, because of the Cultural Revolution in the 60's (when kids basically did not go to school for 10 years, and little scientific research was conducted).
I think only North American products do not come with batteries. Most European and Asian consumer products come with the batteries.
Yes, nothing like having a real OS as primary, and having a MS box as a mirror to highlight some major embarrassing uptime stats.
No, she doesn't. But let's just say the Twins from Reloaded has been replaced by another set of...umm...twins.
Good points to bring up. But I was reading somewhere a while ago that someone actually calculated the amount of energy that can be extracted from a human body. They said that a 180-lb man with average American body:fat ratio (yeah, I know) would generate the equivalent energy of so many thousands of barrels of crude oil (the process used being that the entire body would be melted down and converted into a type of biodiesel)
I would join the revolution, but I have to mail in my mortgage payment by 5pm today.
Actually, what many people don't know is that many businesses don't actually check the expiration date. I've worked with banks before and have discovered that a number of them do not validate the expiration date on credit cards. Blame the incompetent IT monkeys who slinged that code together.
Is anyone surprised? It's directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, maker of such gems as Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat.
"Another Naive Fool" - who said I believed what he said? I'm just quoting him verbatim. Sure, he may be a little misinformed on the whole, but you surely haven't been to China - at least not recently, judging by your word-for-word recitation of the official US hardliner policy stance towards China. For instance, "Seven Years in Tibet" was playing publicly in a movie theater in Shanghai when I visited in 1998 (that's 5 years ago). According to US media, that movie was very much banned in China. Or take for instance, the Dalai Lama's acquisition of the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm no fan of oppressive government tactics, but giving him the Nobel Peace Prize is purely political, considering his theocratic regime used to sic poisonous scorpions on tax deadbeats. Of course, this doesn't excuse anything - but my point being that you have perhaps too much faith in your seemingly "infallable" mass media.
bull crap. Radical islamic terrorism is a disease that's over a hundred years old. Even against the U.S.A., it goes back almost a hundred years. Learn some history, I'd suggest starting with the Phillipines in 1911 with Gen. Pershing
and of course, the US of A had a god-given right to colonize there as well, right?
I had lunch with a coworker who just came from mainland China (to help us debug). I asked him what are governmental taboo subjects - and he replied that only Falun Gong cannot be mentioned publicly, and that the government really doesn't care about other stuff.
While we're at it, how about a eye-patched Johnny Depp logo for any news related to RIAA, CD-R's, or DVD encryption? Or an icon for political matters with a Pinochio nose piercing through the US Constitution parchment?
I read that the White House has already turned over 2 million pages of documents relating to 9/11 to the independent investigation panel
Security by obfuscation?
That's correct. Without bright, shiny objects appearing on the telly, it's hard to get the message across to the mass populous that folks are coming home in bodybags.
He didn't ban media coverage. He banned cameras and recording equipment at homecomings which feature flag-draped coffins.
I don't have Kazaa handy...but can someone post the results of a *.pst search? Come on now. Someone's bound to have C:\ as their Shared Folder.
LG is the company formerly known as GoldStar, based in Korea. It's a shame that this happened. I've always had pretty good luck with LG hardware. Although at this moment, I am running Mandrake 9.2 flawlessly with a LG CD-RW (CED 8080B)
Which is why hardly anyone would buy Daewoo's until GM picked them up
I'm pretty sure most people who purchase Daewoos aren't keeping up-to-date on corporate structuring, and thus probably did not buy a Daewoo because of this knowledge. They bought it because Japanese offerings were heading upwards in price ($15k+ for a Civic?) and the new Korean imports are aiming to fill the void in the low-price market left by the Japanese.