Because the original poster was trying to get the "we're a non-profit, we don't pay tax" angle in there. Maybe the card is flagged business use only.
Considering it is Dell "Home/Home Office", I find it hard to believe they're giving him that big of a run around for just using a corporate card. Just tell them "it is for my home office".
Hell, just buy it on line and don't tell them jack shit! Let the computer handle it.
The machines have warranties. That story last week should have read "typo on Dell website", because that is all it was -- a simple mistake that was quickly fixed.
Because the support department for Dell Home and Dell Small Business are totally separate entities. It is quite possible that no one in the DSB center has had any training at all on supporting these boxes.
Give them time, and they'll fix it. Dell has shipped servers with Linux pre-installed and fully supported for quite some time. They need time to roll out the training, test applications, test hardware compatibility, etc.
I suspect his objection is privacy-related. Many grocery stores will issue money orders without asking for any form of ID. Just give them the cash, plus $0.50 or so, and you'll get a money order.
The simple was is to create accounts and only let family into your site instead of having it public. Don't show private information of people still living or, if someone complains, one generation back from the living.
Anyway, I'm sure that will be sorted out one way or another.... once that's done, the only remaining thing to do will be to ensure that the now-liberated countries don't just go ahead and vote in another dictator strongman the first chance they get... so we'll have to threaten to invade any country whose citizens don't vote for "acceptable" candidates. Of course that might be impractical, so maybe we'll just have to tell them who they must vote for during each election, and bomb them if they don't comply.
Dude, read up on your history. The U.S. has been doing that for over a century now. Where have you been?
Dell's business sales reps work on quarterly quotas. The closer you get to the end of the quarter, the more they're willing to give you. The trick is, their quarters are shifted by one month. Instead of Jan-Feb-Mar, their quarter is Feb-Mar-Apr. So if you can get quotes in the first week of April, then hold off until the last week, they'll call you and offer all sorts of incentives to close the deal.
Same goes for July, Oct and Jan.
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ALWAYS check the website for deals. Probably 1 in every 5 times I've gotten quotes from our Small Business Sales rep I've found better deals online. Tell them and they'll match or beat it.
* * *
Get your Small Business Sales Rep to set you up a custom page with the equipment you normally order, INCLUDING ADD-ONS. For over a year I was able to purchase 15K RPM SCSI drives off of the custom page for 1/3 the price quoted on the normal site. Ditto for rack rails, RAID kits and extra CPUs.
1. Do we have to freeze solid, or will just getting to really-freaking-cold work?
Water starts out behaving normally. As its temperature drops, water obediently shrinks together--until it reaches 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees F.). Then, amazingly, water reverses course, its volume slowly increasing as it chills. When water finally freezes, at 0 C (32 F.), it expands dramatically.
2. How about supercooling, keeping the frozen water in an amorphous state where it doesn't expand?
Need? Define "need" as part of an average browser.
If it doesn't have Adblock, an automatic filterset updater, Webmail Compose and Google Browser Sync, I wouldn't use it. Those are the extensions I wouldn't want to do without. NoScript is another one.
Just install the Google Toolbar for Firefox before sending out systems. Do you have a Reseller or System Builder agreement? Can you modify or customize the.ISO you install?
The problem you and the grandparent have is not grokking what RBAC and MAC are and how the traditional Unix/Linux root == God method of security is fundamentally flawed.
SELinux makes sure things that are set up don't get arbitrarily changed. It isn't prescient to know that YOU have proper authority to make those changes. You have to tell it that.
So, with SELinux you have one more step when you make substantive changes. Tell SELinux about it.
Simply moving folders or files around as root and modifying program config files is NOT enough. What the hell is the difference between YOU doing it and a HACKER doing it? SELinux doesn't know. Hell, things like moving my Apache docroot around is something I'd really want to have secured.
The Communist Party was still pretty big and had some clout. The way the Spanish kept 'em in check was to keep things on an even keel. There wasn't a lot of American stuff because as soon as they did, the Communists clamored for equal time.
The Naval Base took forever to get a radio station and television station. The TV station was cable, with 2 channels and even that was a point of contention.
Word at the time was the Communist Party was big in Spain because they threw a hell of a party. Free beer, sangria, food, etc. But when it came time to vote... they swept their entire circle of friends. Always a dismal showing at the polls and the existing gov't wanted to keep it that way.
When we wanted decent software (C-64 & Apple II), it was either mail order or head on over to Gibraltar for some English-language stuff. Damn Brits didn't know what the hell a floppy was! Everything was still on cassette tape at the time.:-)
It was 1983-1986, long before the Internet and DVDs. The video tape was high in popularity, and trading them was a major pastime. This was also when there was a distinct separation of Eastern and Western Europe. The Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Warsaw Pact, etc. was all in full force. Czechoslovakia was one country and Germany was two.
My father was in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Spain. There was one theater and one drive in on the naval base, and movie selection was limited. There weren't a lot of theaters in the area (off base), and those that were had limited selection of U.S. films. The Spanish gov't was absolutely convinced the Russkies were coming over the Pyrenees any minute now, so were overly paranoid about some things.
The primary source of new movies was people who rotated in from countries that had newer films released and had recorded them to tape from a drive in or theater. Some of us had gotten together to write "tape library" software for the C-64 and Apple II so we could keep track of who had what tapes, etc. I know some people who had several hundred VHS and others with several hundred Beta.
I've always found captures of camcordered movies to be of crap quality. It has never stopped me from later buying the DVD, or from even going to the theater. From me, they've never lost a dime because of this.
Well, okay. Once when in high school, when living in Europe, the only way we got to see some movies was camcorder rips of U.S. screens. There may be one or two that I never actually paid theater tickets for. This was back in the days of VHS and 300 bps modems.
Still, considering the amount of money being made in theatrical releases, is this really a problem or just another smokescreen?
I work on several computers. I have a couple at home, one at the office and a laptop that I use when I travel. This sort of thing means I don't have to load the same software on each machine if I want to work on something online and offline.
A specific example is my family history.
I use phpGedView and keep it online so my family members can see and contribute. I also like to work on it during downtime, like in airports and while traveling. I don't always have a net connection. The application is online because I need the data available to more than one person, and I want to be able to work on it where ever I am. That sometimes is a computer at a friend's house.
The traditional way, I'd not only have to load the software on each machine, I'd also have to keep them all in sync. Screw that. It never works properly. I'm not interested in just dumping it to a database online, because different family members need to be able to use it and they have different systems: Linux, PC and Mac.
This way, I can work how and when I want and not be tethered to a network connection or to a specific machine.
XIP = eXecute In Place. It is used on small memory devices that have NVRAM storage and the like. Instead of "loading" a program, it is just addressed in place.
This isn't common, but it a valid workaround for the unmitigated gall of the copyright holders.
Besides, when I take my skills with me, 50 illegal, unskilled laborers will take my place. At least you have that to look forward to.
Buddy, if you think things are different in Europe then you need to start watching the international news. Immigration controls are just as hot a topic in Europe as in the U.S., and much more divisive.
Europe had a history of colonialism in Africa, and now a lot of it is coming home to roost. Both France and Spain have major issues with illegal immigration and employment levels.
Good luck, but I suggest leaving the rose tinted glasses at home before you leave.
Not for long. Sprint purchased Nextel and is migrating them off of Motorola's proprietary iDEN network over to CDMA REV-A. The combined network is too big for the 10.x.x.x address space.
No, they can't. All the switches, routers and other computing equipment involved that deals with all this needs to talk to other carriers and the outside world. They can't totally isolate each carrier, unless you're never going to call anyone outside "your" network.
That doesn't even begin to address CALEA compliance, third-party features, etc.
"It forms a call by combining separate point-to-point connections between each IP endpoint at a managing entity known as the QChat Applications Server, deployed on the carrier's IP Wide Area Network (WAN.)"
Telecom companies are switching everything, including cell phones, to VoIP. Soon, damn near every cell phone will have an IP address associated with it. CDMA phones that EVDO rev-A already do. I know one carrier that has a pool of 2 million available addresses, and 20+ million customers with cellphones.
IPv4 addresses are going to be going away very quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
If any article screams out for a Slashdot poll, this one is it.
1. Chicken out and don't break 'em
2. See how far they go and post it to YouTube
3. Orinthop mode! Pull 'em back and let 'em flap!
4. Cowboy Neal
Macrovision. Specifically, the intentional degradation of analog signals.
Because the original poster was trying to get the "we're a non-profit, we don't pay tax" angle in there. Maybe the card is flagged business use only.
Considering it is Dell "Home/Home Office", I find it hard to believe they're giving him that big of a run around for just using a corporate card. Just tell them "it is for my home office".
Hell, just buy it on line and don't tell them jack shit! Let the computer handle it.
The machines have warranties. That story last week should have read "typo on Dell website", because that is all it was -- a simple mistake that was quickly fixed.
Because the support department for Dell Home and Dell Small Business are totally separate entities. It is quite possible that no one in the DSB center has had any training at all on supporting these boxes.
Give them time, and they'll fix it. Dell has shipped servers with Linux pre-installed and fully supported for quite some time. They need time to roll out the training, test applications, test hardware compatibility, etc.
I suspect his objection is privacy-related. Many grocery stores will issue money orders without asking for any form of ID. Just give them the cash, plus $0.50 or so, and you'll get a money order.
Team Speak Overlay http://www.teamspeakoverlay.com/
A small utility that overlays the name of whoever is talking on your screen.
It works great with America's Army and Battlefield 2.
I have no idea if there is a similar utility for Ventrillo.
The simple was is to create accounts and only let family into your site instead of having it public. Don't show private information of people still living or, if someone complains, one generation back from the living.
Beyond that it is mostly public records.
Anyway, I'm sure that will be sorted out one way or another.... once that's done, the only remaining thing to do will be to ensure that the now-liberated countries don't just go ahead and vote in another dictator strongman the first chance they get... so we'll have to threaten to invade any country whose citizens don't vote for "acceptable" candidates. Of course that might be impractical, so maybe we'll just have to tell them who they must vote for during each election, and bomb them if they don't comply.
Dude, read up on your history. The U.S. has been doing that for over a century now. Where have you been?
Dell's business sales reps work on quarterly quotas. The closer you get to the end of the quarter, the more they're willing to give you. The trick is, their quarters are shifted by one month. Instead of Jan-Feb-Mar, their quarter is Feb-Mar-Apr. So if you can get quotes in the first week of April, then hold off until the last week, they'll call you and offer all sorts of incentives to close the deal.
Same goes for July, Oct and Jan.
* * *
ALWAYS check the website for deals. Probably 1 in every 5 times I've gotten quotes from our Small Business Sales rep I've found better deals online. Tell them and they'll match or beat it.
* * *
Get your Small Business Sales Rep to set you up a custom page with the equipment you normally order, INCLUDING ADD-ONS. For over a year I was able to purchase 15K RPM SCSI drives off of the custom page for 1/3 the price quoted on the normal site. Ditto for rack rails, RAID kits and extra CPUs.
1. Do we have to freeze solid, or will just getting to really-freaking-cold work?
Water starts out behaving normally. As its temperature drops, water obediently shrinks together--until it reaches 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees F.). Then, amazingly, water reverses course, its volume slowly increasing as it chills. When water finally freezes, at 0 C (32 F.), it expands dramatically.
2. How about supercooling, keeping the frozen water in an amorphous state where it doesn't expand?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
Then there is always hydrogen sulfide induced suspended animation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation
Need? Define "need" as part of an average browser.
If it doesn't have Adblock, an automatic filterset updater, Webmail Compose and Google Browser Sync, I wouldn't use it. Those are the extensions I wouldn't want to do without. NoScript is another one.
Just install the Google Toolbar for Firefox before sending out systems. Do you have a Reseller or System Builder agreement? Can you modify or customize the .ISO you install?
The problem you and the grandparent have is not grokking what RBAC and MAC are and how the traditional Unix/Linux root == God method of security is fundamentally flawed.
SELinux makes sure things that are set up don't get arbitrarily changed. It isn't prescient to know that YOU have proper authority to make those changes. You have to tell it that.
So, with SELinux you have one more step when you make substantive changes. Tell SELinux about it.
Simply moving folders or files around as root and modifying program config files is NOT enough. What the hell is the difference between YOU doing it and a HACKER doing it? SELinux doesn't know. Hell, things like moving my Apache docroot around is something I'd really want to have secured.
SELinux (and Solaris 10) try to fix that by implementing RBAC, MAC and Type Enforcement. http://csrc.nist.gov/rbac/rbac-faq.html
Politics in Spain at the time were touchy.
:-)
The Communist Party was still pretty big and had some clout. The way the Spanish kept 'em in check was to keep things on an even keel. There wasn't a lot of American stuff because as soon as they did, the Communists clamored for equal time.
The Naval Base took forever to get a radio station and television station. The TV station was cable, with 2 channels and even that was a point of contention.
Word at the time was the Communist Party was big in Spain because they threw a hell of a party. Free beer, sangria, food, etc. But when it came time to vote... they swept their entire circle of friends. Always a dismal showing at the polls and the existing gov't wanted to keep it that way.
When we wanted decent software (C-64 & Apple II), it was either mail order or head on over to Gibraltar for some English-language stuff. Damn Brits didn't know what the hell a floppy was! Everything was still on cassette tape at the time.
Let me elaborate, as times have changed.
:-)
It was 1983-1986, long before the Internet and DVDs. The video tape was high in popularity, and trading them was a major pastime. This was also when there was a distinct separation of Eastern and Western Europe. The Berlin Wall, Iron Curtain, Warsaw Pact, etc. was all in full force. Czechoslovakia was one country and Germany was two.
My father was in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Spain. There was one theater and one drive in on the naval base, and movie selection was limited. There weren't a lot of theaters in the area (off base), and those that were had limited selection of U.S. films. The Spanish gov't was absolutely convinced the Russkies were coming over the Pyrenees any minute now, so were overly paranoid about some things.
The primary source of new movies was people who rotated in from countries that had newer films released and had recorded them to tape from a drive in or theater. Some of us had gotten together to write "tape library" software for the C-64 and Apple II so we could keep track of who had what tapes, etc. I know some people who had several hundred VHS and others with several hundred Beta.
Things have changed in 20+ years.
How big of a deal is this, really?
I've always found captures of camcordered movies to be of crap quality. It has never stopped me from later buying the DVD, or from even going to the theater. From me, they've never lost a dime because of this.
Well, okay. Once when in high school, when living in Europe, the only way we got to see some movies was camcorder rips of U.S. screens. There may be one or two that I never actually paid theater tickets for. This was back in the days of VHS and 300 bps modems.
Still, considering the amount of money being made in theatrical releases, is this really a problem or just another smokescreen?
I work on several computers. I have a couple at home, one at the office and a laptop that I use when I travel. This sort of thing means I don't have to load the same software on each machine if I want to work on something online and offline.
A specific example is my family history.
I use phpGedView and keep it online so my family members can see and contribute. I also like to work on it during downtime, like in airports and while traveling. I don't always have a net connection. The application is online because I need the data available to more than one person, and I want to be able to work on it where ever I am. That sometimes is a computer at a friend's house.
The traditional way, I'd not only have to load the software on each machine, I'd also have to keep them all in sync. Screw that. It never works properly. I'm not interested in just dumping it to a database online, because different family members need to be able to use it and they have different systems: Linux, PC and Mac.
This way, I can work how and when I want and not be tethered to a network connection or to a specific machine.
XIP = eXecute In Place. It is used on small memory devices that have NVRAM storage and the like. Instead of "loading" a program, it is just addressed in place.
This isn't common, but it a valid workaround for the unmitigated gall of the copyright holders.
Besides, when I take my skills with me, 50 illegal, unskilled laborers will take my place. At least you have that to look forward to.
Buddy, if you think things are different in Europe then you need to start watching the international news. Immigration controls are just as hot a topic in Europe as in the U.S., and much more divisive.
Europe had a history of colonialism in Africa, and now a lot of it is coming home to roost. Both France and Spain have major issues with illegal immigration and employment levels.
Good luck, but I suggest leaving the rose tinted glasses at home before you leave.
Charles
Not for long. Sprint purchased Nextel and is migrating them off of Motorola's proprietary iDEN network over to CDMA REV-A. The combined network is too big for the 10.x.x.x address space.
http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=76946
http://mrtmag.com/mag/radio_pt_cellular_works/
No, they can't. All the switches, routers and other computing equipment involved that deals with all this needs to talk to other carriers and the outside world. They can't totally isolate each carrier, unless you're never going to call anyone outside "your" network.
That doesn't even begin to address CALEA compliance, third-party features, etc.
Which is why they'll move to IPv6. There aren't enough private IPv4 addresses available, and they can't expand their customer base using IPv4.
http://www.qualcomm.com/qis/qchat/
"It forms a call by combining separate point-to-point connections between each IP endpoint at a managing entity known as the QChat Applications Server, deployed on the carrier's IP Wide Area Network (WAN.)"
RFC 1918 only allocates just under 18 million private IP addresses.
There are more mobile devices on and one individual network than that.
Telecom companies are switching everything, including cell phones, to VoIP. Soon, damn near every cell phone will have an IP address associated with it. CDMA phones that EVDO rev-A already do. I know one carrier that has a pool of 2 million available addresses, and 20+ million customers with cellphones.
IPv4 addresses are going to be going away very quickly.