It is easy enough to turn off in Windows 7: Just type in "autoplay" in the START menu search bar and uncheck devices that you don't want to auto play. It is a little trickier in XP:
The university I work for requires that all devices used on campus have their MAC addresses registered. If a device is reported stolen we can then find out which switch port or AP the thing is connected to. I've recovered several notebooks this way for users who had been ripped off by someone on campus.
The http://cbs8.com/ website is an excellent example of what a proper news site should look like during an emergency. It is the commercial site for a local San Diego news affiliate, yet it has been redone as a list of facts and links with a minimum of images, flash, and absolutely NO ads. The Union Tribune's signonsandiego is a steamy pile of 5h1t compared to this.
Another great example of responsible reporting is being demonstrated by the commercial rock radio station 94.9. The local public radio station KPBS had their transmitter damaged during the fire so 94.9 is airing the public radio broadcasts on their frequency! This is shocking considering that this is a corporate radio station.
In addition to TAB, the ABC format is also being threatened by Hal Leonard Publishing. ABC is probably more of a threat to their revenue stream because it can easily be translated into midi and into sheet music. A lot of traditional musicians use this format and the many ABC readers that are available online. Many prefer this to published books not just because it is free, but because the music is closer to the way the songs are really played.
This is absolutely true! I work as a Windows admin/desktop whore for a major university and have the misfortune of having to support the deans and upper management types. This always entails home support and is completely thankless. The Dean's son's porn downloads are my fault. The fact that he cannot connect his ass to a toilet any better than he can connect his tablet at Starbucks(tm) is my fault. The fact that some jackass from Sun's embedded videos in the powerpoint that he added on his personal latop while hungover won't play is my fault. Blah, Blah, Blah. Just pay me my hired gun rate and I'll gladly suck up this shit all day, but not for what the state pays me...
I had a professor in college who taught his own kids that counting starts with 0 and never 1, always! The kid had problems at school because of this and my prof argued his point more or less successfully with the math teachers. This really goes to show just how far apart science and education really are. The professor is quite correct in his assertion that number systems should start with 0, but practically speaking so are the educators in saying that 1 is where everyone starts counting.
I too surf on a Windows Server 2003 box (just to be cool like the parent poster). After reading this post in FF I browsed to the same page with IE and launched Windows Task Manager. On my box FF is eating up ~44Mb of RAM whereas IE is only eating up ~14Mb. I consulted my copies of Tannenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" AND Patterson & Hennessy's "Computer Organization & Design" and am forced to conclude that the parent poster is an asshole.
I always buy my coffee at the grocery stores that have the generic coffee beans right next to the premium stuff. There is usually a $2-3 per pound difference in price, but it all looks the same when it's rung up in the generic-brand bags...
My company has started buying used HP LJ4s online instead of repairing their fleet of crappy newer HPs. A maintenance kit for a $500 laserjet costs $180 +labor, whereas a used LJ4 costs about $30-$50 on ebay. This is almost the same price as an ink refill for a lousy deskjet!
What beautiful symmetry: This dairy farmer takes cow shit and turns it into electricty, wheareas Slashdot readers take electricity and turn it in to cowshit!
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It is easy enough to turn off in Windows 7: Just type in "autoplay" in the START menu search bar and uncheck devices that you don't want to auto play. It is a little trickier in XP:
http://techbybucky.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-disable-usb-and-cd-autorun.html
Do they know Barbara Streisand?
Can I still buy this car?
You mean to tell me that the avatars I already interact with in second life are really people? Could of fooled me!
Vista is such a steaming pile of 5hit. Why would I want to wear a shirt with that on it?
I think I dated one of these...
I waste hours of my life at kongregate.com
The university I work for requires that all devices used on campus have their MAC addresses registered. If a device is reported stolen we can then find out which switch port or AP the thing is connected to. I've recovered several notebooks this way for users who had been ripped off by someone on campus.
The http://cbs8.com/ website is an excellent example of what a proper news site should look like during an emergency. It is the commercial site for a local San Diego news affiliate, yet it has been redone as a list of facts and links with a minimum of images, flash, and absolutely NO ads. The Union Tribune's signonsandiego is a steamy pile of 5h1t compared to this.
Another great example of responsible reporting is being demonstrated by the commercial rock radio station 94.9. The local public radio station KPBS had their transmitter damaged during the fire so 94.9 is airing the public radio broadcasts on their frequency! This is shocking considering that this is a corporate radio station.
The value in Vista lies in all of the extra service calls I now get to bill for.
What about the series of tubes leading into it? RAM isn't like a truck you know!
You left your daughter cooking in your hot car while you ran around in circles trying to figure this out? Break a window!
In addition to TAB, the ABC format is also being threatened by Hal Leonard Publishing. ABC is probably more of a threat to their revenue stream because it can easily be translated into midi and into sheet music. A lot of traditional musicians use this format and the many ABC readers that are available online. Many prefer this to published books not just because it is free, but because the music is closer to the way the songs are really played.
It will certainly make surfing for porn at work a bit awkward.
No, they already know that our assumptions about AOL users are correct and they are making money off of that knowledge.
It is good to know that Raytheon is making torture devices.
I'm addicted to Oxygen: Is that bad?
This is absolutely true! I work as a Windows admin/desktop whore for a major university and have the misfortune of having to support the deans and upper management types. This always entails home support and is completely thankless. The Dean's son's porn downloads are my fault. The fact that he cannot connect his ass to a toilet any better than he can connect his tablet at Starbucks(tm) is my fault. The fact that some jackass from Sun's embedded videos in the powerpoint that he added on his personal latop while hungover won't play is my fault. Blah, Blah, Blah. Just pay me my hired gun rate and I'll gladly suck up this shit all day, but not for what the state pays me...
I had a professor in college who taught his own kids that counting starts with 0 and never 1, always! The kid had problems at school because of this and my prof argued his point more or less successfully with the math teachers. This really goes to show just how far apart science and education really are. The professor is quite correct in his assertion that number systems should start with 0, but practically speaking so are the educators in saying that 1 is where everyone starts counting.
Please check out my reasonably priced notebooks on EBay!
I too surf on a Windows Server 2003 box (just to be cool like the parent poster). After reading this post in FF I browsed to the same page with IE and launched Windows Task Manager. On my box FF is eating up ~44Mb of RAM whereas IE is only eating up ~14Mb. I consulted my copies of Tannenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" AND Patterson & Hennessy's "Computer Organization & Design" and am forced to conclude that the parent poster is an asshole.
That's funny, the same thing happens to me when I try to CTRL-ALT-DEL with Windows... There must be a connection!
I always buy my coffee at the grocery stores that have the generic coffee beans right next to the premium stuff. There is usually a $2-3 per pound difference in price, but it all looks the same when it's rung up in the generic-brand bags...
My company has started buying used HP LJ4s online instead of repairing their fleet of crappy newer HPs. A maintenance kit for a $500 laserjet costs $180 +labor, whereas a used LJ4 costs about $30-$50 on ebay. This is almost the same price as an ink refill for a lousy deskjet!
What beautiful symmetry: This dairy farmer takes cow shit and turns it into electricty, wheareas Slashdot readers take electricity and turn it in to cowshit!