At least this time it is not as big of a site. On Sept 11, I could see tsmoke cloud from my back yard.
FWIW, from the news here, it is NOT a terrorist action, but an accident. If it WAS a terrorist action, it would not be a direct hijacking but mechanical tampering.
let me just make a general reply instwead of 27 of them.
1) I say "God" because he is my god. If you believe in another, feel free to. Thats that the US is about.
2) On the argument someone said that its just another reason to seperate church and state: Why? Do you want all atheists in power? Oh wait, atheism IS a religion in a sense. The point is, there is no such thing as seperation of church and state.
3) on the comment about airstrikes not working: Of course they will not work. Everyone knows that. We will HAVE to send ground troops in, but I sure as hell don't want any ground troops w/o air support.
4) about civilians: A modern war is fought with civilians. It is much easier to kill unarmed civilians that armed troops. Once you kill/threaten the family, the troop does not function. Now, This was is somewhat different from a modern" war in one sense. From everything I have seen, MANY Afgans do not support their oppressive gov't. So....you figure it out.
"I dislike the "bigger + louder is better" notion in the do-it-yourself computer hardware community. I think this idea has been planted by the same people who drive Camaros and Mustangs:) "
First: I drive a Mustang (well, 89 4 Cyl - sux!)
to the real point of this post: Bigger + louder is better in some cases. The WBK38 heatsink+fan on my 1.2 Thunderbird runs at close to 60 DB. Why did I get it: its cheaper and works better than others. With this heatsink, I have my processor overclocked to 1.4 with only a 2C increase in temp. I can also run my rig with only a single 80mm fan. This saves me at least $35 alone.
"Had a case just the other day of someone I work with losing their machine from this. Was a store-bought system (hey, not everyone builds their own) and the thing fried after being moved to a new house. When she plugged it in and started it up at the new place, it halted during bootup and refused to even get past the bios post. Now it shows no signs of life at all. "
Granted, it may happen, but other crazy things happen too. This something that happens less than.001% of the time and people are basing their purchase off of 1 characteristic.
So yes, the feature of the Intel chip might have prevented this from happening in this case, but its not something that happens often.
"The review specifically stated that the heatsink could not firmly attach to the motherboard due to space restrictions."
Granted, I have dealt with motherboards that were a somewhat tight fit (including my curent), but how could a heatsink NOT fit firmly in place? There are 2 verticle clips (well 1, but 2 ends) that attach vertically with only about.1-.25 inch outward curve.
Why not contact those students that know networking stuff that attend the school already. Set them up and have them help. There are certainly ways to give them perks if you wanted to. Also, many people would do it for the challenge!
Can you reccomend anywhere to get Mac laptops cheap? I am looking for one that is 1100 tops before accessories (extra battery if possible, etc). Also, all I need drive wise is a cd-rom (tohugh floppy would be nice). THe cheapest I see on their site is 1300, but I would think they are cheaper somewhere...
you have hit it dead on. For example: I gt a copy of Black and White. (oh yeah, I am really poor) I played it for a few hours and loved it. The next day I went out and bought it. Thats a sale that would have NEVER happened otherwise.
speaking of illiegal software, is it just me or does everyone and their mother have Max Payne already?
Let me get this strait...Some people thing @Home actually does a lot of connection pulling and warnings? I have had 2 incidents with @home in the last 6 months
1) The first was an attempt by one of their users to hack into my computer. I had logs of him doing it, a confession via IRC, and other data. I call up @Home directly, and what do they say? They said "send a report to abuse@home.com." Ok, so I have one of their customers trying to gain access to my pc WHILE I WAS TALKING and they won't do jackl about it.
2) I tried reporting some person from IRC that was continually advertising kiddie porn. I traced his IP back to @Home. I sent IRC logs of everything to abuse@Home. They e-mail me back 5 days later saying that I need to provide the E-MAIL headers. This is after I already explained where the info came from. I sent that back to them explaining. They sent another e-mail saying the same ting which I responded to. That was in April and as far as I know, nothing happened cause its still happening.
So people expect that @Home's threat will ever pan out..yeah right!
Check out http://hardocp.com/reviews/cooling/koolance/
This is a watercooling case which may be a bit complicated for you (I really do not know what level of knowledge you have, so my apolagize if I insult you). It has only 3 fans which run at a low level of power at the base on the back.
This might be something you could be interisted in. It comes with a high price tag, but it may be worth it.
I saw this movie on Friday when it came out. I have to disagree about the author's opinions on the acting. I believe the acting was superb, but the plot sucked. Not only was the first hour and a half somewhat boring (some of us were joking about using our lighters on the screen if we had to put up with much more), it also had no historical significance. The name of the movie is Pearl Harbor, not Lets Watch Ben Afleck Make Out With His GF.
Therefore, I have to say I WOULD see the movie again, but walk in an hour and a half through it.
Last, What was up with the Doolittle raid part added? We were allw aiting for it to end, and then bam, another 45 minutes!
First reason:
Too many companies (the ones that are doing in-house tech support) believe that once you buy the hardware, you can skimp on the people to support it. I see there being two reasons why people walk aweay from tech support with a bad impression. 1) The tech dude is incompetent (not entirelly uncommon) or not qualified for the position or to answer the question. 2) The tech guy has too much to work on and therefore he/she does not have either the time or the patience to solve the problem.
Second Reason:
The tech people themselves.
I work with some of the people in my school's tech dept (and yes, they skimp there big time)(and yes, I am in High School). After dealing with two cases of "its not working" and needing only to plug it in, one case of a bad battery on an older mac, being chewed out by an administrator for not carrying around a pass everywhere (won't go there), and finally being sucked into the room of a teacher that LITERALLY needs help finding the power button, I am exhausted. How does this relate? Well, if at this time someone has a simple problem that has to deal with crappy programming by M$ (aren't we shocked), I am too exhausted to really do anything. I get away from it as fast as possible. This is how many phone-support people deal with it. They either move you to a different operator or give you a response that makes you call back another time. Therefore, I have to say that most tech support people are either overworked or not born with enough patience to handle it.
Last, I ave to say this. Think of how many problems are caused by the companies/tech support themselves? For instance, people's printers and pc's suddenly drop of the network andomly. Why? Because the tech people for some unknown reason remove their connection from the servers switches! Second example: If you have ever had to deal with your ISP, how many times it is because THEIR servers are messed up, and yes they try and say its your fault?
Anywayz, this is the LONGEST/. message I have ever posted and those poor sould that are still is HS have some homework to do.
I see a lot of people that have said "you should keep better records!"
I am a student at a high school and also work with the technology dert there.
Ranging from every three to nine months, we get new computers in. We have individual licenses for every machine as the district changis its opinion of the best OS every shipment it seems. Now I am 100% positive that EVERY machine has a liscence, but it would be IMPOSSIBLE to find every copy.
There are two reasons for this. The first is machine imaging. The second and the biggest problem is the number of people that havwe been in charge. They got rid of the last guy who knew a hell of a lot more than anyone else and ran the place perfectly (one guy, 600 computers). They now have 2 people that work on them but everyone puts stuff different places.
I think if/when we are audited, the district would be running to CompUSA and buying 400 copies of the OS.
How are you getting the idea that telivision has caused the school shootings. In reality, you are just as ignorant about teenagers as we are about being parents. I have not done a lot of research into all of them, but I can tell you this. All the ones I have heard of have been caused by one thing alone, the other kids at the schools.
Lets take a look at one of the San Diego shootings. This is a classic case of a teenager that has been picked on his entire life. One day he gets sick of it. He goes to school to end his problems.
I know your thinking that violence would not solve his problems. I can tell you this from personal experience, after YEARS of being picked on, ANYTHING to make it stop is the answer.
Seeing how I am writing this from my school, I will say now that I would absoluteley NEVER do this.
Anyway, to make this relate to the V-Chip thing, I personally think it is a good idea. I am a teenager and have watched every type of disgusting television there is. As a guy that sees himself as a parent, I can honestly say that I would probably use it. I really doubt I would use it to the extent of turning it up very high, but I sure as hell don't ever want my children to be watching Rambo and Invasion USA (still my fav movie but what the hell).
Anyway, my fingers are becomming very numb.
Before anyone gets any ideas about you are some stupid little kid, I am 17. While that may not be a "mature" level for you, I can tell you as a fact I know a lot more about my friends and others my age.
So, if I was very interisted in encrypting data on my HD, where would I go about getting software to encrypt it well enough that then FBI technicians would be swearing my name for a month?
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> I always thought it was a little bit nuts to have jets flying low above dense areas of the city.
and they are going to fly.....where? Planes MUST fly low over cities to take off/land and planes WILL make a lot of noise.
people just need to get over it.
At least this time it is not as big of a site. On Sept 11, I could see tsmoke cloud from my back yard.
FWIW, from the news here, it is NOT a terrorist action, but an accident. If it WAS a terrorist action, it would not be a direct hijacking but mechanical tampering.
~Steven
outside NYC
I posted earlier that "God help those we attack."
let me just make a general reply instwead of 27 of them.
1) I say "God" because he is my god. If you believe in another, feel free to. Thats that the US is about.
2) On the argument someone said that its just another reason to seperate church and state: Why? Do you want all atheists in power? Oh wait, atheism IS a religion in a sense. The point is, there is no such thing as seperation of church and state.
3) on the comment about airstrikes not working: Of course they will not work. Everyone knows that. We will HAVE to send ground troops in, but I sure as hell don't want any ground troops w/o air support.
4) about civilians: A modern war is fought with civilians. It is much easier to kill unarmed civilians that armed troops. Once you kill/threaten the family, the troop does not function. Now, This was is somewhat different from a modern" war in one sense. From everything I have seen, MANY Afgans do not support their oppressive gov't. So....you figure it out.
God help those we target
/. instead of watching the news...
and isn't it sad I am reading
"I dislike the "bigger + louder is better" notion in the do-it-yourself computer hardware community. I think this idea has been planted by the same people who drive Camaros and Mustangs :) "
First: I drive a Mustang (well, 89 4 Cyl - sux!)
to the real point of this post: Bigger + louder is better in some cases. The WBK38 heatsink+fan on my 1.2 Thunderbird runs at close to 60 DB. Why did I get it: its cheaper and works better than others. With this heatsink, I have my processor overclocked to 1.4 with only a 2C increase in temp. I can also run my rig with only a single 80mm fan. This saves me at least $35 alone.
"Had a case just the other day of someone I work with losing their machine from this. Was a store-bought system (hey, not everyone builds their own) and the thing fried after being moved to a new house. When she plugged it in and started it up at the new place, it halted during bootup and refused to even get past the bios post. Now it shows no signs of life at all. "
.001% of the time and people are basing their purchase off of 1 characteristic.
Granted, it may happen, but other crazy things happen too. This something that happens less than
So yes, the feature of the Intel chip might have prevented this from happening in this case, but its not something that happens often.
"So, spend 80 bucks on a new processor and heatsink and install it. It's not like you have to buy a whole new machine."
It usually taked both the processor and motherboard out when it fries...
"The review specifically stated that the heatsink could not firmly attach to the motherboard due to space restrictions."
.1-.25 inch outward curve.
Granted, I have dealt with motherboards that were a somewhat tight fit (including my curent), but how could a heatsink NOT fit firmly in place? There are 2 verticle clips (well 1, but 2 ends) that attach vertically with only about
and if you don't throw your case across the room, you will not have that problem...
I think too many people are taking that test too seriously...so what if it fries it...then put the dang thing on right in the first place!
Go to your local store...purchase it.
return it the next day and say it does not work....if they give you another, come back again and say it does not work
When stores realise how annoying it is, they may do something about it.
As an American, I will not complain if I know I am safer.
Why not contact those students that know networking stuff that attend the school already. Set them up and have them help. There are certainly ways to give them perks if you wanted to. Also, many people would do it for the challenge!
What about in the case of DSL? You PAY for a certain ammount of bandwidth and Have every right to use 100% of it!
Can you reccomend anywhere to get Mac laptops cheap? I am looking for one that is 1100 tops before accessories (extra battery if possible, etc). Also, all I need drive wise is a cd-rom (tohugh floppy would be nice). THe cheapest I see on their site is 1300, but I would think they are cheaper somewhere...
you have hit it dead on. For example: I gt a copy of Black and White. (oh yeah, I am really poor) I played it for a few hours and loved it. The next day I went out and bought it. Thats a sale that would have NEVER happened otherwise.
speaking of illiegal software, is it just me or does everyone and their mother have Max Payne already?
from working at Best Buy I believe it is more around 10 to MAYBE 15% btw
Let me get this strait...Some people thing @Home actually does a lot of connection pulling and warnings? I have had 2 incidents with @home in the last 6 months
1) The first was an attempt by one of their users to hack into my computer. I had logs of him doing it, a confession via IRC, and other data. I call up @Home directly, and what do they say? They said "send a report to abuse@home.com." Ok, so I have one of their customers trying to gain access to my pc WHILE I WAS TALKING and they won't do jackl about it.
2) I tried reporting some person from IRC that was continually advertising kiddie porn. I traced his IP back to @Home. I sent IRC logs of everything to abuse@Home. They e-mail me back 5 days later saying that I need to provide the E-MAIL headers. This is after I already explained where the info came from. I sent that back to them explaining. They sent another e-mail saying the same ting which I responded to. That was in April and as far as I know, nothing happened cause its still happening.
So people expect that @Home's threat will ever pan out..yeah right!
"that no time or effort was spent on picking good actors" Hey the queen (pretty sure she was the queen) was hot...thats all that mattered!
Check out http://hardocp.com/reviews/cooling/koolance/
This is a watercooling case which may be a bit complicated for you (I really do not know what level of knowledge you have, so my apolagize if I insult you). It has only 3 fans which run at a low level of power at the base on the back.
This might be something you could be interisted in. It comes with a high price tag, but it may be worth it.
I saw this movie on Friday when it came out. I have to disagree about the author's opinions on the acting. I believe the acting was superb, but the plot sucked. Not only was the first hour and a half somewhat boring (some of us were joking about using our lighters on the screen if we had to put up with much more), it also had no historical significance. The name of the movie is Pearl Harbor, not Lets Watch Ben Afleck Make Out With His GF. Therefore, I have to say I WOULD see the movie again, but walk in an hour and a half through it. Last, What was up with the Doolittle raid part added? We were allw aiting for it to end, and then bam, another 45 minutes!
First reason:
/. message I have ever posted and those poor sould that are still is HS have some homework to do.
Too many companies (the ones that are doing in-house tech support) believe that once you buy the hardware, you can skimp on the people to support it. I see there being two reasons why people walk aweay from tech support with a bad impression. 1) The tech dude is incompetent (not entirelly uncommon) or not qualified for the position or to answer the question. 2) The tech guy has too much to work on and therefore he/she does not have either the time or the patience to solve the problem.
Second Reason:
The tech people themselves.
I work with some of the people in my school's tech dept (and yes, they skimp there big time)(and yes, I am in High School). After dealing with two cases of "its not working" and needing only to plug it in, one case of a bad battery on an older mac, being chewed out by an administrator for not carrying around a pass everywhere (won't go there), and finally being sucked into the room of a teacher that LITERALLY needs help finding the power button, I am exhausted. How does this relate? Well, if at this time someone has a simple problem that has to deal with crappy programming by M$ (aren't we shocked), I am too exhausted to really do anything. I get away from it as fast as possible. This is how many phone-support people deal with it. They either move you to a different operator or give you a response that makes you call back another time. Therefore, I have to say that most tech support people are either overworked or not born with enough patience to handle it.
Last, I ave to say this. Think of how many problems are caused by the companies/tech support themselves? For instance, people's printers and pc's suddenly drop of the network andomly. Why? Because the tech people for some unknown reason remove their connection from the servers switches! Second example: If you have ever had to deal with your ISP, how many times it is because THEIR servers are messed up, and yes they try and say its your fault?
Anywayz, this is the LONGEST
Does anyone have addresses or e-mails for the parties that are suing? I would just LOVE to send them a message asking why and a few other things?
I see a lot of people that have said "you should keep better records!"
I am a student at a high school and also work with the technology dert there.
Ranging from every three to nine months, we get new computers in. We have individual licenses for every machine as the district changis its opinion of the best OS every shipment it seems. Now I am 100% positive that EVERY machine has a liscence, but it would be IMPOSSIBLE to find every copy.
There are two reasons for this. The first is machine imaging. The second and the biggest problem is the number of people that havwe been in charge. They got rid of the last guy who knew a hell of a lot more than anyone else and ran the place perfectly (one guy, 600 computers). They now have 2 people that work on them but everyone puts stuff different places.
I think if/when we are audited, the district would be running to CompUSA and buying 400 copies of the OS.
How are you getting the idea that telivision has caused the school shootings. In reality, you are just as ignorant about teenagers as we are about being parents. I have not done a lot of research into all of them, but I can tell you this. All the ones I have heard of have been caused by one thing alone, the other kids at the schools.
Lets take a look at one of the San Diego shootings. This is a classic case of a teenager that has been picked on his entire life. One day he gets sick of it. He goes to school to end his problems.
I know your thinking that violence would not solve his problems. I can tell you this from personal experience, after YEARS of being picked on, ANYTHING to make it stop is the answer.
Seeing how I am writing this from my school, I will say now that I would absoluteley NEVER do this.
Anyway, to make this relate to the V-Chip thing, I personally think it is a good idea. I am a teenager and have watched every type of disgusting television there is. As a guy that sees himself as a parent, I can honestly say that I would probably use it. I really doubt I would use it to the extent of turning it up very high, but I sure as hell don't ever want my children to be watching Rambo and Invasion USA (still my fav movie but what the hell).
Anyway, my fingers are becomming very numb.
Before anyone gets any ideas about you are some stupid little kid, I am 17. While that may not be a "mature" level for you, I can tell you as a fact I know a lot more about my friends and others my age.
So, if I was very interisted in encrypting data on my HD, where would I go about getting software to encrypt it well enough that then FBI technicians would be swearing my name for a month?