Well that answers THAT mystery! One of the cardboard Lego boxes I had leftover (translation: actually survived my childhood) had the Samsonite name right over the Lego logo. I never knew why.
That box (and its contents) was handed over to my son about 5 years ago and managed to last another 3 years or so. Eventually though it just gave up the ghost and was ceremoniously burned.
As things currently stand, no state can regulate tailpipe CO2 emissions. When California wins their lawsuit, then states will be able to choose weather to follow CA CO2 regulations or to follow the Federal do-nothing approach.
Well maybe you know something that Microsoft doesn't know. Windows 2000 Terminal Server is limited to 256 colors. I'm not talking about citrix, 2003 terminal server or XP terminals.
CAUSE
The error message is displayed when you start a program that requires a color palette of more than 256 colors. However, Windows 2000 Terminal Services is limited to 256 colors.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MS addict? Ouch. Actually we have a fairly equal mix. All of our external boxes (www, dns, mail) are Debian systems. Our major internal file servers are a mix of Debian/Suse systems.
We also have a series of w2k servers running active directory. These are actually required since we run several construction management/estimating software packages that will only run on a w2k server. One of these packages is actually mandated by the government for reporting of the Section 8 housing properties that we manage.
Thin clients. Specifically Affirmative Yesterms which provide a 5250 emulation for our as/400 greenscreen connections as well as connections to windows terminal server.
Actually we just had a case where we had to switch an entire department of users from Mozilla back to IE. We tried using Mozilla on a win2k terminal server and it was a failure. The footprint for each users mozilla session ranged from 25 to 60(!)mb. Way too much strain on the server. IE only cost us 15-20mb per session. We tried firefox but with w2k's 256 color limitation on terminal sessions, most toolbar icons showed as black squares rendering the software unusable.
We posted several questions/suggestions to the mozilla boards but they went unanswered. We've also had a similar problem with the lack of an msi for mozilla/thunderbird/firebird rollouts. Makes mass migrations near impossible. Mozilla does not seem to want to address large scale use such as terminal services and automated installs.
Back in the 'old days' a lot of US oil had parafin in it. This would begin to coagulate and 'cake' on various engine parts eventually reducing oil flow to little or nothing causing serious damage. 2.5k to 3k was about what was needed back then to keep the engine running and the oil doing its job.
Thats obviously changed with newer oil formulations, better additives and of course, synthetics. Basically it comes down to the fact that old habits are hard to break. I average 3-4k between oil changes on my cars. Generally because I do lot of work myself and while doing other repairs, I 'might as well' change the oil while its in the garage.
Actually, we had been standardized on Eudora for many, many years. Recently we started using Active Directory for user lookups. For whatever reason, Eudora does not support the newer version of LDAP (version that have been out for several years) and thus could not perform lookups on the Active Directory. We contacted Qualcomm about this and apprently they have no plans to work on updating their LDAP support.
We are now switching our users over to either Netscape or Mozilla mail. These clients work with LDAP and save us the problems associated with running Outlook.
I disagree. First and formost, advertising is always adapting. Commercial skip/ff is not going away and they realize this. A well produced commercial advertises the product even when played at a very high speed. This is very evident even today when watching programs on the tivo
Also, if advertisors are watching the info, they will see that some commercials (ie: the ones I find damn funny) will actually be REWOUND and watched again.
This came up during the superbowl commercial rating. Tivo released info saying which superbowl commercials its viewers watched most.
Again I say, Tivo selling the viewing info is a GOOD THING. I am tired of shows I like getting cancelled for lack of Neilson ratings. I've never been nor have I even known a Neilson family. I don't like the fact that someone else is deciding what's good TV and what should be cancelled.
This will broaden the base of input for TV ratings. Another plus, Tivo owners tend to be geekish. This will most likely help the rating and staying power of shows that geeks watch (sci-fi to be specific). Maybe we finally have a fighting chance against inane 30 minute sitcoms and 'reality' TV.
I'm sick of shows that I like being cancelled. I want the networks to know what shows I do and do not watch. Its always drivin me nuts to hear about the neilson ratings and the so called 'neilson families'. I've never known one; have you? Whoever they are, I'm sick of them deciding for me what is and isn't good television. Maybe, just maybe, the statistics gathered from what I watch will help keep some decent shows from just disappearing.
Theory: More techie/geek people have dvr devices. The logs from these devices will most likely show a favoritism towards techie/geek shows.
In any case, I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the complete log of every film I've ever rented from the local video store than a log of what commercials I rewinded because I thought they were funny.
Anyone rememember many years back the Beatrice commercials? You'd see commercials for everyday brand name products and that last second of the commercial was a little jingle and the words 'We're Beatrice'.
Remember how fast thost commercials went away? People start freaking out when they realizes that 65-75% of the products they use where produced by a single company. Beatrice quickly dropped the 'look how freaking large we are' strategy and went back to just promoting the single brand names on their own.
I can't help but think the same thing is going to happen to microsoft. People are going to suddenly wake up and realize the the MS logo is on their computer, tv's, vcr's/dvr's, video games, toddler toys, kitchen appliances, car electroncs, etc...
Well, since the wife works tonight (she opted to have xmas eve off) and the oldest of the 3 kids is 5, I'll be sitting at home just like any other night, drinking a few beers and playing some video games. It'll be a few more years before we can start going out for new years parties again. Not that I'm complaining, we've pretty much had our fill of blowout parties in the past. Maybe in a few we'll feel like doing that again.... who knows.
It may not be that most companies do not care, it may simply be that many incompetent admins/managers are worried about keeping their jobs.
What are they going to do? Report a defacement/breakin and look bad in the eyes of upper management, or cover it up so that it looks like it never happened and keep management in the dark as much as possible?
It may not be that these companies do not care, they may just not know that they have a crappy staff.
I'm so freaking tired of hearing people bitch about this tax cut. If you don't want to keep more of the money you earn, DON'T! Trust me, you are perfectly capable of getting off your ass, finding a charity or program you support and writing them a check! Its a very simple concept. One that works a hell of a lot better then ANY bureaucratic government money pit.
If buffett doesn't want to keep his money, HE CAN GIVE IT AWAY. He is perfectly capable of doing this without the governments help. I, on the other hand, want to keep as much of my money as possible to help what is important to me. My own family (kids especially) and friends.
As for NASA, no love lost there. They have had many projects over the past decade that have been complete failures costing millions upon millions. Let me ask you this, how much are NASA executives paid? You think they are 'rich'? You see them taking pay cuts to help fund NASA programs?
I also love it when Democrats say Bush does not have the qualifications to be President. Bush is governor of Texas, one of the largest states in the union. What was Clinton before he was elected? GOVERNOR!
So its qualification enough for a Democrat candidate and not a republican candidate? Please...
Also, people seem to skip over the fact that Bush is a Harvard and Yale graduate.
I had the unfortunate experience of being involved in retail for several years, mainly at Circuit City and Software Etc.
All retail stores operate price zones. Software Etc had 3. Prices vary from region to region. The store in Baltimore's Inner Harbor had prices that were 15% to 20% more than the store in the burbs 30 minutes away.
At Circuit City, not only were there price zones, but prices in each store changed up/down daily. Employees are in the store every morning before opening to draw up new tags. The prices were sometimes based on available inventory but the changes where mainly designed to test the waters on products to see what prices points moved products at acceptable levels in each store. Several times a week there were also price changes that when out in the middle of the day. You could buy a TV in the morning and come back after lunch and find it $20 more or less.
This is exactly what Amazon is doing. They are not anti-christ of retail, they are just getting an unfair beating for doing exactly what every other retail store/chain is doing and has done since the dawn of time.
Perhaps you can drop a slight hint that you are actually evaluating the laptop before a major company purchase for all of your travelling sales staff (even if you don't have any).
I did this recently with a Toshiba 4260dvd who's display thought it was actually a strobe light several times during the day.
I had a new unit on my desk via airborne the next day before even sending the defective one back.
A cracker is a saltine. A hacker is an axe murderer.
The press routinely uses the wrong language to describe its stories. Anything to make the headline scarier to grab more attention. A prefect example is ANY 'gun' story. The press will routinely say that an 'arsenal' of guns was found whenever cops find a large amount (for the press that usally means more than 2) of weapons. The correct term is actually 'armory' but that doesn't scare people since many have some sort of National Gaurd armory near their town. People are used to the term armory. An armory is where weapons are stored, an arsenal is where they are manufactured. Another example is using the term 'clip' instead of 'magazine'. They are different items. In general just about all modern (post Korean war) weapons now use magazines to hold their rounds. But again, a magazine is newsweek or time, a clip is not as familier of an item.
I can't remember when a hit to the main page of www.microsoft.com generated an error, but I run into problems with the back end at least once or twice a week (back end meaning search funtions, knowledge base, etc.). Server errors, parse errors, etc... It may always be up but its far from stable.
Hasn't this always been the case with consumer electronics? You open the case and muddle with the insides, you void the warranty and the vendor obsolves themselves of any repsonsibility. Why should the tivo device be any different? Why should we expect manufacturers to support devices that we have modified?
As for 'throwing the switch' to 'disable' the modified devices, all I can say is that I haven't seen any direct quotes from philips on this. They may simply be saying they will not be responsible if modified devices do not work in the future after software upgrades.
Personal insults aside, you raised some interesting points.
So everyone here owns there comments. Fine. I guess we have to contact Linux Journal and have them remove their monthly feature 'slash quotes' which re-prints select lines posted on slashdot every month.
As for apache, if I'm not mistaken, apache is included in ALL releases of linux. And these products are all sold retail for a profit. Are the apache writers getting a percentage of the redhat sales (or any other distro)?
For profit. You keep saying this is a 'for profit' venture yet it has repeatedly been stated that all profits will go to charity. Now maybe you have a different definition of profit but in my view, giving away everything you may gain from a project is not exactly the best way to line your pockets.
And finally, how many people would be this pissed off if Katz name was not on this project?
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Well that answers THAT mystery! One of the cardboard Lego boxes I had leftover (translation: actually survived my childhood) had the Samsonite name right over the Lego logo. I never knew why.
That box (and its contents) was handed over to my son about 5 years ago and managed to last another 3 years or so. Eventually though it just gave up the ghost and was ceremoniously burned.
As things currently stand, no state can regulate tailpipe CO2 emissions. When California wins their lawsuit, then states will be able to choose weather to follow CA CO2 regulations or to follow the Federal do-nothing approach.
Except that many states already have:
States Poised to Adopt California Vehicle GHG Standards
http://www.pewclimate.org/what_s_being_done/in_the_states/vehicle_ghg_standard.cfm
Many of these states regs are in effect now or scheduled to start in 2008/2009. Nobodies waiting on a CA lawsuit.
Just take a look at knowledge base article 273725.
CAUSE
The error message is displayed when you start a program that requires a color palette of more than 256 colors. However, Windows 2000 Terminal Services is limited to 256 colors.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MS addict? Ouch. Actually we have a fairly equal mix. All of our external boxes (www, dns, mail) are Debian systems. Our major internal file servers are a mix of Debian/Suse systems.
We also have a series of w2k servers running active directory. These are actually required since we run several construction management/estimating software packages that will only run on a w2k server. One of these packages is actually mandated by the government for reporting of the Section 8 housing properties that we manage.
Nope, sorry. Not full of shit. Check your facts. Windows 2000 Terminal Server has a display limitation of 256 colors.
Citrix does not. Windows 2003 Terminal Server does not. We don't currently use them.
Thin clients. Specifically Affirmative Yesterms which provide a 5250 emulation for our as/400 greenscreen connections as well as connections to windows terminal server.
Actually we just had a case where we had to switch an entire department of users from Mozilla back to IE. We tried using Mozilla on a win2k terminal server and it was a failure. The footprint for each users mozilla session ranged from 25 to 60(!)mb. Way too much strain on the server. IE only cost us 15-20mb per session. We tried firefox but with w2k's 256 color limitation on terminal sessions, most toolbar icons showed as black squares rendering the software unusable.
We posted several questions/suggestions to the mozilla boards but they went unanswered. We've also had a similar problem with the lack of an msi for mozilla/thunderbird/firebird rollouts. Makes mass migrations near impossible. Mozilla does not seem to want to address large scale use such as terminal services and automated installs.
Back in the 'old days' a lot of US oil had parafin in it. This would begin to coagulate and 'cake' on various engine parts eventually reducing oil flow to little or nothing causing serious damage. 2.5k to 3k was about what was needed back then to keep the engine running and the oil doing its job.
Thats obviously changed with newer oil formulations, better additives and of course, synthetics. Basically it comes down to the fact that old habits are hard to break. I average 3-4k between oil changes on my cars. Generally because I do lot of work myself and while doing other repairs, I 'might as well' change the oil while its in the garage.
We are now switching our users over to either Netscape or Mozilla mail. These clients work with LDAP and save us the problems associated with running Outlook.
I already make enough gestures while driving.
I disagree. First and formost, advertising is always adapting. Commercial skip/ff is not going away and they realize this. A well produced commercial advertises the product even when played at a very high speed. This is very evident even today when watching programs on the tivo
Also, if advertisors are watching the info, they will see that some commercials (ie: the ones I find damn funny) will actually be REWOUND and watched again.
Again I say, Tivo selling the viewing info is a GOOD THING. I am tired of shows I like getting cancelled for lack of Neilson ratings. I've never been nor have I even known a Neilson family. I don't like the fact that someone else is deciding what's good TV and what should be cancelled.
This will broaden the base of input for TV ratings. Another plus, Tivo owners tend to be geekish. This will most likely help the rating and staying power of shows that geeks watch (sci-fi to be specific). Maybe we finally have a fighting chance against inane 30 minute sitcoms and 'reality' TV.
I'm sick of shows that I like being cancelled. I want the networks to know what shows I do and do not watch. Its always drivin me nuts to hear about the neilson ratings and the so called 'neilson families'. I've never known one; have you? Whoever they are, I'm sick of them deciding for me what is and isn't good television. Maybe, just maybe, the statistics gathered from what I watch will help keep some decent shows from just disappearing.
Theory: More techie/geek people have dvr devices. The logs from these devices will most likely show a favoritism towards techie/geek shows.
In any case, I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the complete log of every film I've ever rented from the local video store than a log of what commercials I rewinded because I thought they were funny.
Anyone rememember many years back the Beatrice commercials? You'd see commercials for everyday brand name products and that last second of the commercial was a little jingle and the words 'We're Beatrice'.
Remember how fast thost commercials went away? People start freaking out when they realizes that 65-75% of the products they use where produced by a single company. Beatrice quickly dropped the 'look how freaking large we are' strategy and went back to just promoting the single brand names on their own.
I can't help but think the same thing is going to happen to microsoft. People are going to suddenly wake up and realize the the MS logo is on their computer, tv's, vcr's/dvr's, video games, toddler toys, kitchen appliances, car electroncs, etc...
Well, since the wife works tonight (she opted to have xmas eve off) and the oldest of the 3 kids is 5, I'll be sitting at home just like any other night, drinking a few beers and playing some video games. It'll be a few more years before we can start going out for new years parties again. Not that I'm complaining, we've pretty much had our fill of blowout parties in the past. Maybe in a few we'll feel like doing that again.... who knows.
It may not be that most companies do not care, it may simply be that many incompetent admins/managers are worried about keeping their jobs.
What are they going to do? Report a defacement/breakin and look bad in the eyes of upper management, or cover it up so that it looks like it never happened and keep management in the dark as much as possible?
It may not be that these companies do not care, they may just not know that they have a crappy staff.
Philips != Tivo.
Tivo pays Philips to manufacure Tivo units. Tivo makes no money on hardware sales. Their entire business model is based on the subscriptions services.
I'm so freaking tired of hearing people bitch about this tax cut. If you don't want to keep more of the money you earn, DON'T! Trust me, you are perfectly capable of getting off your ass, finding a charity or program you support and writing them a check! Its a very simple concept. One that works a hell of a lot better then ANY bureaucratic government money pit.
If buffett doesn't want to keep his money, HE CAN GIVE IT AWAY. He is perfectly capable of doing this without the governments help. I, on the other hand, want to keep as much of my money as possible to help what is important to me. My own family (kids especially) and friends.
As for NASA, no love lost there. They have had many projects over the past decade that have been complete failures costing millions upon millions. Let me ask you this, how much are NASA executives paid? You think they are 'rich'? You see them taking pay cuts to help fund NASA programs?
I also love it when Democrats say Bush does not have the qualifications to be President. Bush is governor of Texas, one of the largest states in the union. What was Clinton before he was elected? GOVERNOR!
So its qualification enough for a Democrat candidate and not a republican candidate? Please...
Also, people seem to skip over the fact that Bush is a Harvard and Yale graduate.
I had the unfortunate experience of being involved in retail for several years, mainly at Circuit City and Software Etc.
All retail stores operate price zones. Software Etc had 3. Prices vary from region to region. The store in Baltimore's Inner Harbor had prices that were 15% to 20% more than the store in the burbs 30 minutes away.
At Circuit City, not only were there price zones, but prices in each store changed up/down daily. Employees are in the store every morning before opening to draw up new tags. The prices were sometimes based on available inventory but the changes where mainly designed to test the waters on products to see what prices points moved products at acceptable levels in each store. Several times a week there were also price changes that when out in the middle of the day. You could buy a TV in the morning and come back after lunch and find it $20 more or less.
This is exactly what Amazon is doing. They are not anti-christ of retail, they are just getting an unfair beating for doing exactly what every other retail store/chain is doing and has done since the dawn of time.
Perhaps you can drop a slight hint that you are actually evaluating the laptop before a major company purchase for all of your travelling sales staff (even if you don't have any).
I did this recently with a Toshiba 4260dvd who's display thought it was actually a strobe light several times during the day.
I had a new unit on my desk via airborne the next day before even sending the defective one back.
A cracker is a saltine. A hacker is an axe murderer.
The press routinely uses the wrong language to describe its stories. Anything to make the headline scarier to grab more attention. A prefect example is ANY 'gun' story. The press will routinely say that an 'arsenal' of guns was found whenever cops find a large amount (for the press that usally means more than 2) of weapons. The correct term is actually 'armory' but that doesn't scare people since many have some sort of National Gaurd armory near their town. People are used to the term armory. An armory is where weapons are stored, an arsenal is where they are manufactured. Another example is using the term 'clip' instead of 'magazine'. They are different items. In general just about all modern (post Korean war) weapons now use magazines to hold their rounds. But again, a magazine is newsweek or time, a clip is not as familier of an item.
I can't remember when a hit to the main page of www.microsoft.com generated an error, but I run into problems with the back end at least once or twice a week (back end meaning search funtions, knowledge base, etc.). Server errors, parse errors, etc... It may always be up but its far from stable.
Hasn't this always been the case with consumer electronics? You open the case and muddle with the insides, you void the warranty and the vendor obsolves themselves of any repsonsibility. Why should the tivo device be any different? Why should we expect manufacturers to support devices that we have modified?
As for 'throwing the switch' to 'disable' the modified devices, all I can say is that I haven't seen any direct quotes from philips on this. They may simply be saying they will not be responsible if modified devices do not work in the future after software upgrades.
Personal insults aside, you raised some interesting points.
So everyone here owns there comments. Fine. I guess we have to contact Linux Journal and have them remove their monthly feature 'slash quotes' which re-prints select lines posted on slashdot every month.
As for apache, if I'm not mistaken, apache is included in ALL releases of linux. And these products are all sold retail for a profit. Are the apache writers getting a percentage of the redhat sales (or any other distro)?
For profit. You keep saying this is a 'for profit' venture yet it has repeatedly been stated that all profits will go to charity. Now maybe you have a different definition of profit but in my view, giving away everything you may gain from a project is not exactly the best way to line your pockets.
And finally, how many people would be this pissed off if Katz name was not on this project?