A friend of mine wants to buy her very first PC. She wants it to be running Windows (+ Word, Excel) because that is what she uses at work. I am giving her tech support to try and make sure she gets what she wants - questioning if that is really what she wants because it will cost xxx more. I assume that they are running XP at work (she does not know), the place I am pointing her at offers XP for 100 more than (up until a week ago) Vista. Of course I am pushing her to get the PC with Win 7. XP's security model (default user has Admin rights) would be a disaster for her and XP is approaching end-of-life anyway, all that for $150 more. No way am I going to point her at Vista. A teenage relative of hers has Vista and has made it clear what she thinks of it.
The situation is unusual - how many adults of her age have never owned a computer? - but having finally ruled Mac OS out there is no reasonable alternative.
I have 3 machines here which run XP (Laptop + 1 for redundancy) and will not be upgrading, 2 of them normally dual-boot into Linux anyway and I have no need for an OS which - costs quite a bit more - requires a fresh install - imposes higher requirements on the hardware than XP
My laptop claims to be 'Ready for Vista' (it predates Vista by a few weeks) so hw requirements should be moot there. I even have access to one cheap upgrade license but I really cannot be bothered reinstalling everything from scratch - even though I could then get used to the way things are going to go.
memtest turned out to have an explanation. There was a certain small range of addresses where a particular bit in a particular test was set to 1 when it should have been zero. That caused a certain dll to fail after a boot (only if I was administrator!) with symptoms of a then well-known virus and it meant that Microsoft Update would sometimes fail on a bad serial-number. The dll failure was reproducible because that dll was being used at a certain stage of the boot procedure and the dll was consistently being loaded to the same address range.
Oh, the bootable knoppix-based virus scanner convinced me my PC was not infected.
Put the memory back in, boot into memtest (Opensuse comes with it on the boot menu, other sources will have it as well) and wait for the fun.
My PC at work has been running XP for around three years without reinstalling. Booting takes a while but after that performance is reasonable for a netburst P4 with 2 gig. Until McAfee starts updating, then it is time for a coffee.
No re-installs on my 1GB Core Duo after 3-4 years either, but that is probably because I'm mostly running it under Linux anyway.
So no to you just had to do it (reinstall XP) atleast once a year. I do that with Linux when a new release comes out;-)
Stupid idea. I live in Germany and get large amounts of spam (Eng + Germ) where the spelling and grammar are disaster zones. Some of that will be to avoid spam filters, but mostly it is because the spammers simply do not know the language they are spamming in. Seriously, a mail from a bank using what is probably Russian grammar and misusing words? No way could it be real.
Now some city starts distributing deliberate mistakes. I'd simply assume they were fake if I lived there. What is with the older bags which have not been used yet? Deliberate misspellings are just a bad idea.
btw, is this story real or is someone trying to wind people up?
YaST overwrites config files under certain circumstances. If you look at a file and see 'do not edit this file, it will be overwritten' then you can assume YaST actually generates the file from information it holds in another form.
There is another class of file (/etc/hosts/etc/fstab/etc/ntp.conf/etc/exports are examples) where YaST's starting point is the current content of that file. You can update them directly or using YaST.
Another class is one where the original file is maintained by YaST only, but you are welcome to add/update your own/etc/.local for your private modifications. Here is the header of one such file: #/etc/profile for SuSE Linux # # PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE/etc/profile. There are chances that your changes # will be lost during system upgrades. Instead use/etc/profile.local for # your local settings, favourite global aliases, VISUAL and EDITOR # variables, etc...
YaST being so user friendly means it is all the more annoying when it fails to handle something, in particular when an older version (retired because it is no longer supported) got things right.
So this scam was known to be a scam almost four years ago.
Why did the FTC not get involved several years ago? Are the people running this business facing prosecution? Does the fact that the FTC ignored these activities for years mean the people running Qchex.com are safe from prosecution? I suppose the wider implications are that the FTC's inaction had a lot to do with the president of the day.
YaST is a general config utility with modules to handle a large range of hardware and software packages. You set up Networking with YaST, which boot scripts are started under which runlevels. When YaST is not enough, well - then you edit the config files by hand. No big deal.
My ex-girlfriend has a daughter (several, actually). Back when we were together and the daughter was 4 or 5, she would sit there, hit keys at random and then I had to pronounce what she had just typed. She (and I, I suppose) had a lot of fun that way. That was *her* idea of a computer game. Then she started reconfiguring Windows 98 by hitting random key combinations. That got old fast.
I can't believe the o.p. is serious. No-one wants to tie an almost-2-year-old to a computer. Someone is having fun seeing how the Slashdot crowd react to something that crazy, seeing if anyone takes it seriously. Bingo.
Unsurprisingly, the German magazine C't has just compared XP, Vista and the new one. They came to a different conclusion - W7 is noticeably faster than Vista and roughly the same as XP.
They found no difference on laptop Battery life between Vista and W7 though.
When it comes down to C't and some blogger, sorry - I'll take C't. Those guys take independence very seriously.
I wonder how many people downloaded it. I never bothered because Open Office is cross-platform and I want the same software under Linux and Windows. If nobody wanted it, why carry it?
My email provider has good spam filters, so why do I have them turned off?
I am on a mailing list. I had the mailing list domain on my whitelist and had the setting activated to 'block spam and send me a summary every 24 hours'.
They sent me a summary every 24 hours listing a couple mails they were apparently not sure about and silently ate the rest - including all list traffic. Thank you guys. Now I am back to 25 spams a day.
Take the name Andrew / Andreas (the German variation). That would be shortened to Andy (or Drew) in the US, but Andi in German speaking areas. Since Andrea also maps to Andi in German speaking countries, IBM are being just a little bit optimistic. That was just one example.
I tried the Demo and it failed to do anything to my browser 'cos I don't have the Flash plugin installed.
Seamonkey 1.0.9 (not exactly the newest) Suse 10.1 (not exactly the newest).
On my Windows XP machine at work, I upgraded to Firefox 3 a few months back. FF 2.x had not played Flash adverts (I avoided installing Flash there as well) but 3.0 does. This means FF 3.0 levels come with Flash enabled? It seems strange.
What the hell is so fundamentally wrong with gambling? Some of those guys have spammed me. Persistently. Over a long period of time. Of course the rest have not so I can wish them luck.
I have flown with Air Hawaii. Twice. There and back. Never again.
The flight was massively overbooked.
The stewardesses mostly looked like they were moonlighting from their day jobs as Sumo wrestlers (if the flight is totally full, that can be a real problem).
The air conditioning leaked water onto the passengers.
The large cockroach marching along the ceiling was . . . use your imagination
This was not long after the roof came off of one of their 737s, back in the mid '80s. They may have improved since but enough is enough.
Let's stray back on-topic. I bought a laptop 18 months ago. Format, re-install, dual-boot XP/Linux. I left a hell of a lot of the bloatware off when reinstalling. Reinstalling XP (or Vista, I imagine) is easy - even from a recovery CD. Why pay $30 to get someone else to do it?
Norton Anti-Virus was the toughest one. The licence was free for one year. Buying another scanner when I had one for free (for 12 months) was a real decision.
I'd go one further than that. If IE8 blocks this automatically, then this type of cookie will become pretty much obsolete. Of course something will spring up to replace it.
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That statement loses all its impact when made by an AC.
A friend of mine wants to buy her very first PC.
She wants it to be running Windows (+ Word, Excel) because that is what she uses at work. I am giving her tech support to try and make sure she gets what she wants - questioning if that is really what she wants because it will cost xxx more.
I assume that they are running XP at work (she does not know), the place I am pointing her at offers XP for 100 more than (up until a week ago) Vista.
Of course I am pushing her to get the PC with Win 7. XP's security model (default user has Admin rights) would be a disaster for her and XP is approaching end-of-life anyway, all that for $150 more. No way am I going to point her at Vista. A teenage relative of hers has Vista and has made it clear what she thinks of it.
The situation is unusual - how many adults of her age have never owned a computer? - but having finally ruled Mac OS out there is no reasonable alternative.
I have 3 machines here which run XP (Laptop + 1 for redundancy) and will not be upgrading, 2 of them normally dual-boot into Linux anyway and I have no need for an OS which
- costs quite a bit more
- requires a fresh install
- imposes higher requirements on the hardware than XP
My laptop claims to be 'Ready for Vista' (it predates Vista by a few weeks) so hw requirements should be moot there. I even have access to one cheap upgrade license but I really cannot be bothered reinstalling everything from scratch - even though I could then get used to the way things are going to go.
I had that effect once with XP.
memtest turned out to have an explanation. There was a certain small range of addresses where a particular bit in a particular test was set to 1 when it should have been zero. That caused a certain dll to fail after a boot (only if I was administrator!) with symptoms of a then well-known virus and it meant that Microsoft Update would sometimes fail on a bad serial-number. The dll failure was reproducible because that dll was being used at a certain stage of the boot procedure and the dll was consistently being loaded to the same address range.
Oh, the bootable knoppix-based virus scanner convinced me my PC was not infected.
Put the memory back in, boot into memtest (Opensuse comes with it on the boot menu, other sources will have it as well) and wait for the fun.
Ymmv.
My PC at work has been running XP for around three years without reinstalling. Booting takes a while but after that performance is reasonable for a netburst P4 with 2 gig. Until McAfee starts updating, then it is time for a coffee.
No re-installs on my 1GB Core Duo after 3-4 years either, but that is probably because I'm mostly running it under Linux anyway.
So no to you just had to do it (reinstall XP) atleast once a year. I do that with Linux when a new release comes out ;-)
god knows
You are saying child porn is *not* illegal in the US?
Stupid idea. I live in Germany and get large amounts of spam (Eng + Germ) where the spelling and grammar are disaster zones. Some of that will be to avoid spam filters, but mostly it is because the spammers simply do not know the language they are spamming in. Seriously, a mail from a bank using what is probably Russian grammar and misusing words? No way could it be real.
Now some city starts distributing deliberate mistakes. I'd simply assume they were fake if I lived there. What is with the older bags which have not been used yet? Deliberate misspellings are just a bad idea.
btw, is this story real or is someone trying to wind people up?
YaST overwrites config files under certain circumstances. If you look at a file and see 'do not edit this file, it will be overwritten' then you can assume YaST actually generates the file from information it holds in another form.
There is another class of file ( /etc/hosts /etc/fstab /etc/ntp.conf /etc/exports are examples) where YaST's starting point is the current content of that file. You can update them directly or using YaST.
Another class is one where the original file is maintained by YaST only, but you are welcome to add/update your own /etc/.local for your private modifications. Here is the header of one such file: /etc/profile for SuSE Linux /etc/profile. There are chances that your changes /etc/profile.local for ...
#
#
# PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE
# will be lost during system upgrades. Instead use
# your local settings, favourite global aliases, VISUAL and EDITOR
# variables, etc
YaST being so user friendly means it is all the more annoying when it fails to handle something, in particular when an older version (retired because it is no longer supported) got things right.
So this scam was known to be a scam almost four years ago.
Why did the FTC not get involved several years ago? Are the people running this business facing prosecution? Does the fact that the FTC ignored these activities for years mean the people running Qchex.com are safe from prosecution?
I suppose the wider implications are that the FTC's inaction had a lot to do with the president of the day.
YaST is a general config utility with modules to handle a large range of hardware and software packages.
You set up Networking with YaST, which boot scripts are started under which runlevels. When YaST is not enough, well - then you edit the config files by hand. No big deal.
Some time after he invades a country for reasons which turn out to be fictional.
I thought the current pope quite liked the idea, and *he* never makes mistakes (its in the job description).
My ex-girlfriend has a daughter (several, actually). Back when we were together and the daughter was 4 or 5, she would sit there, hit keys at random and then I had to pronounce what she had just typed. She (and I, I suppose) had a lot of fun that way. That was *her* idea of a computer game. Then she started reconfiguring Windows 98 by hitting random key combinations. That got old fast.
I can't believe the o.p. is serious. No-one wants to tie an almost-2-year-old to a computer. Someone is having fun seeing how the Slashdot crowd react to something that crazy, seeing if anyone takes it seriously. Bingo.
Use http://www.google.es/ - that should produce results
Unsurprisingly, the German magazine C't has just compared XP, Vista and the new one.
They came to a different conclusion - W7 is noticeably faster than Vista and roughly the same as XP.
They found no difference on laptop Battery life between Vista and W7 though.
When it comes down to C't and some blogger, sorry - I'll take C't. Those guys take independence very seriously.
I wonder how many people downloaded it. I never bothered because Open Office is cross-platform and I want the same software under Linux and Windows. If nobody wanted it, why carry it?
My email provider has good spam filters, so why do I have them turned off?
I am on a mailing list. I had the mailing list domain on my whitelist and had the setting activated to 'block spam and send me a summary every 24 hours'.
They sent me a summary every 24 hours listing a couple mails they were apparently not sure about and silently ate the rest - including all list traffic. Thank you guys. Now I am back to 25 spams a day.
That was gmx.net in Germany.
Take the name Andrew / Andreas (the German variation).
That would be shortened to Andy (or Drew) in the US, but Andi in German speaking areas. Since Andrea also maps to Andi in German speaking countries, IBM are being just a little bit optimistic.
That was just one example.
get that right,
move zero to one
SUBTRACT ONE FROM WS-OLD-KARMA GIVING WS-NEW-KARMA.
'zero' is defined as . . . zero, 'one' is simply the name of a variable.
(COBOL is not case-sensitive either)
Score +5 Insightful?
Genius moderating! I'm laughing too much to say more.
I tried the Demo and it failed to do anything to my browser 'cos I don't have the Flash plugin installed.
Seamonkey 1.0.9 (not exactly the newest)
Suse 10.1 (not exactly the newest).
On my Windows XP machine at work, I upgraded to Firefox 3 a few months back. FF 2.x had not played Flash adverts (I avoided installing Flash there as well) but 3.0 does. This means FF 3.0 levels come with Flash enabled? It seems strange.
What the hell is so fundamentally wrong with gambling?
Some of those guys have spammed me. Persistently. Over a long period of time. Of course the rest have not so I can wish them luck.
I'll bow to your superior knowledge on that one. Those flights were September 1988 though.
I have flown with Air Hawaii. Twice. There and back. Never again.
This was not long after the roof came off of one of their 737s, back in the mid '80s. They may have improved since but enough is enough.
Let's stray back on-topic. I bought a laptop 18 months ago. Format, re-install, dual-boot XP/Linux. I left a hell of a lot of the bloatware off when reinstalling.
Reinstalling XP (or Vista, I imagine) is easy - even from a recovery CD. Why pay $30 to get someone else to do it?
Norton Anti-Virus was the toughest one. The licence was free for one year. Buying another scanner when I had one for free (for 12 months) was a real decision.
I'd go one further than that. If IE8 blocks this automatically, then this type of cookie will become pretty much obsolete.
Of course something will spring up to replace it.