...for the umpteenth time, and felt it was pertininent to report that some moderators are "brushing away" stories posted that *might* have a bearing on our well-being. Case in point: "Anthrax at NASA?" Two "offtopic" mods (which I voted unfair after seeing that it has been reported in Kansas - See This... [thekansascitychannel.com]
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every/. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC... [msn.com]
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
...for the umpteenth time, and felt it was pertininent to report that some moderators are "brushing away" stories posted that *might* have a bearing on our well-being. Case in point: "Anthrax at NASA?" Two "offtopic" mods (which I voted unfair after seeing that it has been reported in Kansas - See This...
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every/. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC...
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
Right off the shelf. I will guess the "one year limited warranty" is stretching the reliability factor normally associated with their "consumer" products. A nearly undisputable fact is that when a consumer buys the extended warranty, it's another 10% of the system price. That tells me that HP is solvent on this transaction assuming a less-than-10% failure rate.
HP, IMHO, is the M$ of hardware. Sure you can pay big $$$ for production grade servers, workstations, and network gear - but what about the crap they push to Joe Sixpack and his family?
Maybe they should have bought Packard Bell...oh wait, maybe they did? My point is, throughout the latter 90's, I had a $45/hr portal-to-portal ad-hoc contract with a company they (and PB, IBM, Compaq, etc.) subcontracted the warranty work to. Best case scenario: I'd go onsite to replace a motherboard, only to find it was the modem that fried causing *no power on* conditions. Lame techs, not asking what the weather was last time the box worked.
Worst case scenario: I'd go onsite to replace a HD (quantum==junk) only to find that the 2" fan in the low-profile Pavilion desktop had failed, causing the already-doomed junk drive to fry. Hmm, tech could have asked "Do you hear any noise besides the beeps? Feel any air coming out the back?"
Of course, these last two incidents indicate poor tech support along with "shit for parts". The majority of my service calls involved dead Quantum fireballs, etc, or toasted motherboards for no apparent reason. I was honest with the poor saps that bought the boxes for their family, either extending their credit for a family Xmas present, or using their tax refund, blah, blah.
Another factor is that now that they own Compaq (with a rep for high vs. low end stuff about equal to the above), then why should we expect any other result than what I've noted? They probably have warehouses full of crap CD-RWs and *shit* HDs, not to mention over-produced "tiny" motherboards, and this product is the result of re-structuring and inventory reduction. I *could* be wrong. Your mileage may vary.
Go ahead and buy one of these $1000 boxes ($999 is an insult to your intelligence) - They've already sold you the extended warranty, so to speak. BTW, the folks who purchased that for the Pavilions were treated like...(you get the pic - no socio-ethnic slurs here;-).
Aside from a rather worthless "white paper" type Overview, and a hard to navigate Configuration Chapter, maybe the techs at RR are just confused. Wait, nevermind...
After wasting some time trying to get around in Technet, I did see this:
There are four methods of assigning IP addresses to TCP/IP clients:
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which automatically assigns IP addresses in an environment with a DHCP server.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), which automatically assigns an IP address and subnet mask to clients on a subnet if there is no DHCP server (or if no DHCP request to the subnet is received by the DHCP server).
Alternate Configuration, which allows the user to set the computer to first try DHCP, and then configure an alternate, manually configured TCP/IP address setting if a DHCP configuration is not received.
Manual configuration of IP addresses.
The third choice seems to me to be the most interesting - especially for notebook users. The second is reminiscent of the strange private addresses I've seen being automatically assigned while trying to implement M$ ICS for clients. That's one of the reasons I use WinRoute for my clients that don't mind paying for a more robust, configurable software router.
When I got AT&T Cable Modem service this spring, they would not support Win2k, but now they do. No biggie - configuring the thing myself was easy. It appears that XP's configuration is not that different from 2k's - but not having a copy (and not wanting a copy), I can't be sure.
Excite@home (AT&T?) says they will support XP, both versions. Woo Hoo. This is good news for the poor saps who have no choice on their new Dell or Gateway. Along those lines, I expect I'll have to trudge through helping clients register and get their new XP-tainted boxes connected - so that's really why I posted this: for any unfortunate tech who will be in the same pickle.
My real hope is that I can get around @home's (recent?) problem with their proxy and WinMX. I haven't heard any new music in days. Boo Hoo.
As I ranted about at the near-top of this thread, there is no substitute for experience. As far as a cert of choice, I have no idea what the job market is in your region, or wherever you'd be willing to relocate.
My MCSE hasn't done me much good since I left the employer who funded it, even to the point of the largest local employer's IT dept called *me* overqualified. I won't/can't relocate, and don't really think I can work for anyone else but myself - so I'm *not* raking in the $$$, I just get by.
The course you linked to seems to be quite comprehensive, but it should be for $7000 and 250 hours. I guess you could check for requirements on a Canadian equivalent of monster.com or whatever, and then supplement your credentials accordingly. I'm really not that familiar with the job market in the US, let alone up there.
OTOH, I *could* have attained the M$ cert by studying from the Transcender tests and paying $100 each to take the 6 (?) M$/Sylvan tests, provided I had the hardware and OS (NT4 in my case) to hook up to break and fix. If you do, that's the cheapest way to go, and get the damned piece of paper the PHBs want to see.
And did you get the point I was making? The MCSE "title" does not mean *shit* to me. I thought I made that clear.
MY POINT IS: Don't defile professions - yours could turn to *shit* at any time. Some poor, non-technical sap with the McDonalds cert (didn't check - might not exist) you asserted in your sig will be hurt by the sig itself.
I can't feel insulted - my wife is the only one to effectively do that. And, I can't see why you'd make an analogy for the benefit "computer illiterate people" on slashdot. Try that on AOL. A much more gullible audience.
Anyway, keep your sig. I'm over it. It's just slashdot, after all. It could be worse - I could catch anthrax. Thank God the small town/county in which I live and work is M$-centric and appreciative of a tech who puts 3-in-one oil on their Colorado QIC40 120mb tape drive's stepping motor shaft to give it another year of life, not to mention the only spores coming in will be from SS checks mailed from DC or wherever.
All I can see here is something that was harder for the "old school(old tech)" photographer to do - delete unwanted (out of focus, out of context, etc.) and an article not factoring in the archival storage properties of digital photos.
My father (a professional photographer) left *thousands* of 4x5 negatives that are still worthy of prints - from as far back as the 30's. We even have glass plates from older ancestors - still printable. That's because we have taken care of them, in their storage environment.
Because exposing the film was (even in the 30's) cheaper than *not* getting the image at all, he always kept everything he shot - and I did as well - even if I didn't print it, I have the negs.
If CD-Rs only "guarantee" a 20~200-year archival life - then I'm missing something here. Pits and lands should be "forever"- and if we keep those burned copies of our important images out of harm's way, who's to say they won't be *infinitely* available (reader availability notwithstanding)?
Sure, magnetic storage is plagued with a finite life, but optical storage should have no archival bounds. Any differing opinions?
Good points - all things considered. Guess I'm in a bad mood lately. After seeing this and other sigs similar, I just got to a mild "breaking point" and let off some steam. Normally, I also crack a smile and move on.
Maybe I'm p/o'd that I soon won't be *legally* able to use the moniker - mainly because I'm not going to follow the mainstream tracks of WinXP - or 2k for that matter. I *do* maintain NT4 and Win2k networks that aren't *notworks*. No way I'm going to succumb to the *one* M$ way - I just refuse to go the way of the lemming.
I should have done what my 20 yr old son did, and go for Cisco certs...but if hindsight were foreskin, very few of us would be circumcized;-)(my bad joke)
I'm afraid *you* missed it. MCP is the bottom rung. One test. At the time it was on installing & maintaining Win95, or some mindless thing like that - I recall. I also purported *experience*, of which I have twenty years.
My point that you missed is the phrase: I personally don't eat at McDonald's. The cheese, for one thing, is not *real*. But I don't blast people for their chosen specialty, just because I don't approve of the product. Shameless persecution of people who are proclaimed "inferior" is not-so-indirectly what we are at war about.
The *sig* sucks, and so does profession-bashing (unless you're talking about lawyers...;-)
...demeaning...hmmm study that word - isn't it an oxymoron unto itself?
This has nothing to do with what *I* like. It's about the antisocial sig used by the person I commented about.
If it's wrong to have *experience* (which is what I claim to have), then I don't wanna be right.
You'll get your break when you stop reading slashdot. Meanwhile, it's a good example as to why we are at war - zealots expressing themselves in a hurtful way, on all scales.
M$ bashing is ok. People bashing causes hurt, and that's wrong. You just made yourself guilty of the same.
Just so this is not immediately modded Offtopic: I use and maintain several Linux servers, and am quite pleased with the implementation. I enjoy the "free" discussion on/., and sometimes even learn something useful from the pages browsed. That said...
I - for one, and am not alone, I'm sure - take exception to your sig. I was making personal computers "talk" to each other when you were learning to talk and say "mama" and whatever. Did you ever hear of CP/M? Ward Christenson and XModem? Montezuma Micro? Didn't think so. Maybe you've heard of SCO Xenix...Never mind Atari DOS, C64 Sprites, TRS-DOS & granules, acoustic couplers @ 110 and 300 baud - you were still in diapers, but I was making it work - In fact I had implemented Novell networks well before you broke your arm at age 8.
I personally don't eat at McDonald's. The cheese, for one thing, is not *real*. But I don't blast people for their chosen speciality, just because I don't approve of the product.
One thing that is *real* is the dominance of Microsoft, and I need to make a living. I did not pay for my MCSE - I was "lucky" enough to have a greedy employer whose network I had maintained as a consultant for 12+ years prior who paid for the the courses, Sylvan tests, etc. - so they could hang the "prestigious" MCSP shingle and charge 4x what they paid me for my services.
I can't say I would have saved and done it myself; my reputation for making PCs work spoke for itself. This can be chalked up to experience. My MCSE expires in November, I hear. Big deal - I won't renew it. The coursework was the equivalent of Cliff's notes for the busy professional tech. Without almost twenty years of "on the job" training, I would have been an idiot with no business hanging a shingle. However, every other tech who I studied with was a *real* tech, and would not fit into your generalization criteria.
Point is, you should be modded as a troll on the basis of your sig. When I find the other malicious poster with a similar sig, I'll tell them the same thing.
Another post suggests that you and/. will "survive"
I only ask that you fix the server's time stamp - unless you've moved your farm to Central Time. What's the command? rdate [-something] tic (or toc).usno.navy.mil in the cron...?
When '95 came out, and even before...
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I referred an entity, "GOD" as in "Good Old DOS". Invoking this blasphemy never caused any stir with my clients - because without it I could not get things done. Tweaking files & buffers, quick 'n dirty batch files, you name it - it was easier, and more efficient.
Windows ME is *not* supported by this crusty old tech, and any fool who goes for XP can gracefully exit my client base (don't let the door hit you in the...) as well. You have been warned.
I waited awhile to post this; even though common sense told me not to bother posting at all: "there, I said it."
Please excuse me while I go back through the letter to look for problems with "then/than" and "your/your'e", not to mention the search for the less-than-elusive "definAtely".
...If it forced the devs to write code that was registry-independent. IANADA (I am not a developer anymore), but not so long ago there was an environment that allowed a distro of an app to be the contents of a folder, including child folders, and nothing much more. Maybe that won't work in a Win32 environment - I dunno.
Each Foxpro app I used to write used this concept, including the ill-fated windows runtime in it's infancy. All the install had to perform besides a non-destructive copy/unzip was an addition to the path statement, (a check/update to files & buffers for DOS) and a link to run the thing.
OTOH, someone else has already posted that the registry can be protected at the HKEY level, and deeper than that, I believe. I've stayed away from that concept, however, because it's a real PITA.
Mod me redundant if you will - but I think it's probably going to cause some pissed off motorists, if it hasn't already.
When I pull into my driveway, I have to stay at least 30 feet away from the front door if I want to listen to the end of a NPR broadcast, or a tasty tune from a rock station.
You see, there are at least 4 "naked" boxen running at any given time in the house. 3 in the office upstairs, and 1 or more downstairs - all without their cases covered. The nearest one to me at the point I speak of my car radio being would still be 50 feet away!
Obviously in a production environment, my clients' computers are all wrapped up properly, right down to the last DB9 hole or backplane cover. I run my stuff like I do because none of the CPUs are overclocked, they all cooling aplenty, and I need to pop components in and out of them all the time, if not just to test something on four different OSs, but to verify a hardware fault.
No wonder this guy's 2nd contraption was stolen. Someone who has to drive within 50 feet of him got sick of having his radio jammed;-().
I think it would be better as "Hyper Media", if he *had* to use the words in this context. The first thing that came to my mind was "Hypertext" when I read the title.
Basically, though, Katz is taking shit we've all been noticing and is "hyping it up"!
I could "funny this up" with comments about breast implants and wagers between workers manning the scanner, but...
The point obvious to me along that line is the images produced are as revealing as disrobing in a doctor's office - so IMHO it is a major invasion of privacy - even if it took 30 seconds.
The persons subjected to such scans should be made aware of the clarity of the images, and if not comfortable with strangers/co-workers viewing them, be able to "opt-out", either by declining employment there, or doing business elsewhere.
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Right On, Dude. I'm not a veteran, but have been similarly burned. Don't even think of emailing an editor....geez.
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I'll guess that the switching equipment at the CO is goofing up the connection - we had that problem in the early 90's in my podunk town, and we still can't get DSL. If the line is fairly new, he *should* be able to get at least 28.8...
Regarding parts, I have several XT's and 286's growing mold in the basement - had thought about donating them to third-world countries, but what OS could they run to allow any useful web access?
Sure, there's a TCP/IP stack for Win3.1, but the 8088 boxen are not even up to that. Kind of a shame - they came from a small newspaper and were running WP 5.1 and Pagemaker under Windows runtime. Any ideas?
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The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every /. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC... [msn.com]
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every /. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC...
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
HP, IMHO, is the M$ of hardware. Sure you can pay big $$$ for production grade servers, workstations, and network gear - but what about the crap they push to Joe Sixpack and his family?
Maybe they should have bought Packard Bell...oh wait, maybe they did? My point is, throughout the latter 90's, I had a $45/hr portal-to-portal ad-hoc contract with a company they (and PB, IBM, Compaq, etc.) subcontracted the warranty work to. Best case scenario: I'd go onsite to replace a motherboard, only to find it was the modem that fried causing *no power on* conditions. Lame techs, not asking what the weather was last time the box worked.
Worst case scenario: I'd go onsite to replace a HD (quantum==junk) only to find that the 2" fan in the low-profile Pavilion desktop had failed, causing the already-doomed junk drive to fry. Hmm, tech could have asked "Do you hear any noise besides the beeps? Feel any air coming out the back?"
Of course, these last two incidents indicate poor tech support along with "shit for parts". The majority of my service calls involved dead Quantum fireballs, etc, or toasted motherboards for no apparent reason. I was honest with the poor saps that bought the boxes for their family, either extending their credit for a family Xmas present, or using their tax refund, blah, blah.
Another factor is that now that they own Compaq (with a rep for high vs. low end stuff about equal to the above), then why should we expect any other result than what I've noted? They probably have warehouses full of crap CD-RWs and *shit* HDs, not to mention over-produced "tiny" motherboards, and this product is the result of re-structuring and inventory reduction. I *could* be wrong. Your mileage may vary.
Go ahead and buy one of these $1000 boxes ($999 is an insult to your intelligence) - They've already sold you the extended warranty, so to speak. BTW, the folks who purchased that for the Pavilions were treated like...(you get the pic - no socio-ethnic slurs here ;-).
After wasting some time trying to get around in Technet, I did see this:
There are four methods of assigning IP addresses to TCP/IP clients:
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which automatically assigns IP addresses in an environment with a DHCP server.
Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), which automatically assigns an IP address and subnet mask to clients on a subnet if there is no DHCP server (or if no DHCP request to the subnet is received by the DHCP server).
Alternate Configuration, which allows the user to set the computer to first try DHCP, and then configure an alternate, manually configured TCP/IP address setting if a DHCP configuration is not received.
Manual configuration of IP addresses.
The third choice seems to me to be the most interesting - especially for notebook users. The second is reminiscent of the strange private addresses I've seen being automatically assigned while trying to implement M$ ICS for clients. That's one of the reasons I use WinRoute for my clients that don't mind paying for a more robust, configurable software router.
When I got AT&T Cable Modem service this spring, they would not support Win2k, but now they do. No biggie - configuring the thing myself was easy. It appears that XP's configuration is not that different from 2k's - but not having a copy (and not wanting a copy), I can't be sure.
Excite@home (AT&T?) says they will support XP, both versions. Woo Hoo. This is good news for the poor saps who have no choice on their new Dell or Gateway. Along those lines, I expect I'll have to trudge through helping clients register and get their new XP-tainted boxes connected - so that's really why I posted this: for any unfortunate tech who will be in the same pickle.
My real hope is that I can get around @home's (recent?) problem with their proxy and WinMX. I haven't heard any new music in days. Boo Hoo.
My MCSE hasn't done me much good since I left the employer who funded it, even to the point of the largest local employer's IT dept called *me* overqualified. I won't/can't relocate, and don't really think I can work for anyone else but myself - so I'm *not* raking in the $$$, I just get by.
The course you linked to seems to be quite comprehensive, but it should be for $7000 and 250 hours. I guess you could check for requirements on a Canadian equivalent of monster.com or whatever, and then supplement your credentials accordingly. I'm really not that familiar with the job market in the US, let alone up there.
OTOH, I *could* have attained the M$ cert by studying from the Transcender tests and paying $100 each to take the 6 (?) M$/Sylvan tests, provided I had the hardware and OS (NT4 in my case) to hook up to break and fix. If you do, that's the cheapest way to go, and get the damned piece of paper the PHBs want to see.
Good luck...
MY POINT IS: Don't defile professions - yours could turn to *shit* at any time. Some poor, non-technical sap with the McDonalds cert (didn't check - might not exist) you asserted in your sig will be hurt by the sig itself.
I can't feel insulted - my wife is the only one to effectively do that. And, I can't see why you'd make an analogy for the benefit "computer illiterate people" on slashdot. Try that on AOL. A much more gullible audience.
Anyway, keep your sig. I'm over it. It's just slashdot, after all. It could be worse - I could catch anthrax. Thank God the small town/county in which I live and work is M$-centric and appreciative of a tech who puts 3-in-one oil on their Colorado QIC40 120mb tape drive's stepping motor shaft to give it another year of life, not to mention the only spores coming in will be from SS checks mailed from DC or wherever.
My father (a professional photographer) left *thousands* of 4x5 negatives that are still worthy of prints - from as far back as the 30's. We even have glass plates from older ancestors - still printable. That's because we have taken care of them, in their storage environment.
Because exposing the film was (even in the 30's) cheaper than *not* getting the image at all, he always kept everything he shot - and I did as well - even if I didn't print it, I have the negs.
If CD-Rs only "guarantee" a 20~200-year archival life - then I'm missing something here. Pits and lands should be "forever"- and if we keep those burned copies of our important images out of harm's way, who's to say they won't be *infinitely* available (reader availability notwithstanding)?
Sure, magnetic storage is plagued with a finite life, but optical storage should have no archival bounds. Any differing opinions?
Maybe I'm p/o'd that I soon won't be *legally* able to use the moniker - mainly because I'm not going to follow the mainstream tracks of WinXP - or 2k for that matter. I *do* maintain NT4 and Win2k networks that aren't *notworks*. No way I'm going to succumb to the *one* M$ way - I just refuse to go the way of the lemming.
I should have done what my 20 yr old son did, and go for Cisco certs...but if hindsight were foreskin, very few of us would be circumcized ;-)(my bad joke)
Thanks for your kind comment.
My point that you missed is the phrase: I personally don't eat at McDonald's. The cheese, for one thing, is not *real*. But I don't blast people for their chosen specialty, just because I don't approve of the product. Shameless persecution of people who are proclaimed "inferior" is not-so-indirectly what we are at war about.
The *sig* sucks, and so does profession-bashing (unless you're talking about lawyers...;-)
This has nothing to do with what *I* like. It's about the antisocial sig used by the person I commented about.
If it's wrong to have *experience* (which is what I claim to have), then I don't wanna be right.
You'll get your break when you stop reading slashdot. Meanwhile, it's a good example as to why we are at war - zealots expressing themselves in a hurtful way, on all scales.
M$ bashing is ok. People bashing causes hurt, and that's wrong. You just made yourself guilty of the same.
I - for one, and am not alone, I'm sure - take exception to your sig. I was making personal computers "talk" to each other when you were learning to talk and say "mama" and whatever. Did you ever hear of CP/M? Ward Christenson and XModem? Montezuma Micro? Didn't think so. Maybe you've heard of SCO Xenix...Never mind Atari DOS, C64 Sprites, TRS-DOS & granules, acoustic couplers @ 110 and 300 baud - you were still in diapers, but I was making it work - In fact I had implemented Novell networks well before you broke your arm at age 8.
I personally don't eat at McDonald's. The cheese, for one thing, is not *real*. But I don't blast people for their chosen speciality, just because I don't approve of the product.
One thing that is *real* is the dominance of Microsoft, and I need to make a living. I did not pay for my MCSE - I was "lucky" enough to have a greedy employer whose network I had maintained as a consultant for 12+ years prior who paid for the the courses, Sylvan tests, etc. - so they could hang the "prestigious" MCSP shingle and charge 4x what they paid me for my services.
I can't say I would have saved and done it myself; my reputation for making PCs work spoke for itself. This can be chalked up to experience. My MCSE expires in November, I hear. Big deal - I won't renew it. The coursework was the equivalent of Cliff's notes for the busy professional tech. Without almost twenty years of "on the job" training, I would have been an idiot with no business hanging a shingle. However, every other tech who I studied with was a *real* tech, and would not fit into your generalization criteria.
Point is, you should be modded as a troll on the basis of your sig. When I find the other malicious poster with a similar sig, I'll tell them the same thing.
Another post suggests that you and /. will "survive"
I only ask that you fix the server's time stamp - unless you've moved your farm to Central Time. What's the command? rdate [-something] tic (or toc).usno.navy.mil in the cron...?
Windows ME is *not* supported by this crusty old tech, and any fool who goes for XP can gracefully exit my client base (don't let the door hit you in the...) as well. You have been warned.
I waited awhile to post this; even though common sense told me not to bother posting at all: "there, I said it."
whoops - I also have too much popcorn butter on my fingers. I meant "your/you're"
Please excuse me while I go back through the letter to look for problems with "then/than" and "your/your'e", not to mention the search for the less-than-elusive "definAtely".
I clearly have too much time on my hands...
Each Foxpro app I used to write used this concept, including the ill-fated windows runtime in it's infancy. All the install had to perform besides a non-destructive copy/unzip was an addition to the path statement, (a check/update to files & buffers for DOS) and a link to run the thing.
OTOH, someone else has already posted that the registry can be protected at the HKEY level, and deeper than that, I believe. I've stayed away from that concept, however, because it's a real PITA.
When I pull into my driveway, I have to stay at least 30 feet away from the front door if I want to listen to the end of a NPR broadcast, or a tasty tune from a rock station.
You see, there are at least 4 "naked" boxen running at any given time in the house. 3 in the office upstairs, and 1 or more downstairs - all without their cases covered. The nearest one to me at the point I speak of my car radio being would still be 50 feet away!
Obviously in a production environment, my clients' computers are all wrapped up properly, right down to the last DB9 hole or backplane cover. I run my stuff like I do because none of the CPUs are overclocked, they all cooling aplenty, and I need to pop components in and out of them all the time, if not just to test something on four different OSs, but to verify a hardware fault.
No wonder this guy's 2nd contraption was stolen. Someone who has to drive within 50 feet of him got sick of having his radio jammed ;-().
Basically, though, Katz is taking shit we've all been noticing and is "hyping it up"!
I'm guessing the Xbox OS has no keyboard or command prompt, so there goes the fun...*sigh*
The point obvious to me along that line is the images produced are as revealing as disrobing in a doctor's office - so IMHO it is a major invasion of privacy - even if it took 30 seconds.
The persons subjected to such scans should be made aware of the clarity of the images, and if not comfortable with strangers/co-workers viewing them, be able to "opt-out", either by declining employment there, or doing business elsewhere.
Right On, Dude. I'm not a veteran, but have been similarly burned. Don't even think of emailing an editor....geez.
Case in point:
* Stories can be rated higher then +5
* Users can gain more then 50 karma
If you don't see the error, ASK TACO! (He's been chided about it more then ^H^H^H^H than most...)
Regarding parts, I have several XT's and 286's growing mold in the basement - had thought about donating them to third-world countries, but what OS could they run to allow any useful web access?
Sure, there's a TCP/IP stack for Win3.1, but the 8088 boxen are not even up to that. Kind of a shame - they came from a small newspaper and were running WP 5.1 and Pagemaker under Windows runtime. Any ideas?
wouldn't have laughed - or was he still there?
Nolan Bushnell hires Steve Jobs to create Breakout. Jobs joins with Steve Wozniak and design the game in five days. Bushnell pays Jobs $5,000; Jobs pays $350 to Wozniak, and takes sole credit for Breakout.
taken from The Atari Timeline
I'll catch up l8tr...goin for pizza...;-()