They now include Canada in the free calling area. No more international fees to call Vancouver. Yay! Oh, and the "virtual number" thing is cool. For an additional $4.99/mo, I can get a (916)xxx-xxxx phone number that routes to my home phone.
I did the exact same thing. Wasn't 8.0 the one that shipped with the buggy kernel? YaST's online update module just quits. No errors, nothing logged, just *piff!* Oh, and the http server list in the online update module seems to contain servers that don't have the correct files or are generally flaky.
I switched to Gentoo as well and am happy to be out of RPM hell.
I really couldn't agree with you more. I don't know.. *I* never gave Experian/etc ANY right to my financial information. Why should they have it? Why can't I say "remove any information you have regarding my SSN xxx-xxx-xxxx, now!" and have them do it? Annoying.
Office Depot/OfficeMax/Staples are the *last* place I'd ever buy software.
well, one exception: Staples has no concept of "release date" so some of us folks got Mac OS X 10.0 a few days before the actual street date. That was cool.
Otherwise, I go there for normal office supplies and I go to Fry's (or amazon.com) for software.
this "we're going to annoy the hell out of you" method of law enforcement is rather entertaining... imagine the fun someone could have by posting bills with the telephone number of your competition!
Proving that you did *not* post bills with your phone number could prove difficult but by that time, you've already racked up 543,766,246,742 voicemails and text messages.
Do they have free incoming text messages in China? I certainly hope so.. in addition to a fine, you'd have a whopping phone bill.
Do not tolerate employees who behave unprofessionally. Problem-solve or fire them.
I guess that would depend on your version of "professional." At the sweat shop I work in, simply questioning management or asking for a schedule change (because you commute using public transit) is "unprofessional" to them.
PATRIOT act? It's now trivial for law enforcement agencies to get wiretaps. John Ashcroft's ideals? Look at what's happened to Muslims all over the US after Sept 11th. And you're right, you don't have the Mafia.. just the RIAA/MPAA, and if some senator in Texas has his way, you'll have the government hauling you into prison.
Oh, and let's not forget the FBI in Ohio going after people that uncapped their cable modems. And reviewing recent library book checkouts. And forcefully detaining people that mentioned they disagreed with Bush on their weblogs.
yes, stuff like that has happened. I'd call that a pretty crazy violation of civil rights.
"Can you imagine a world with a peaceful Middle East? Our President can."
Good for him. Maybe now after he "creates Peace in the Middle East" he can point his attention to creating an educated, peaceful America. Maybe then he can work on resolving our failing economy, unemployment, lack of health care, poor education system, and ever decreasing number of civil rights.
Debian is one. Gentoo is another. YDL is the Red Hat-ish 3rd (and there are others)
It's nice to have a choice. Use whatever works well for you. Hell, use them all and play around with them. You can get a used G3/233 from ebay for less than $150 now.
That doesn't change the fact that you're still getting spammed!!! So what if you know who did it? Great, you won't do business with them again because they sold your address.
Your still getting spammed because in most places, it's perfectly legal for them to do so. Your bandwidth is still absorbing spam. Your mail server still deals with the spam/bounces.
Just making a cute address doesn't solve the problem.
Had my parents beaten me to a bloody pulp, I might consider being their tech support monkey something that "evens out the grand scheme of things."
God, there is no way that taking care of me for 15 years is anywhere equal to the tech support nightmare that is my grandmother. My mom has a computer science degree, but grandma calls me instead. Ugh.
Do what I do. I buy the "Personal" version, so SuSE gets a little $ back, and I install everything else that I need from either a)the source or b)SuSE Pro RPMs from ftp.suse.com.
I've been using SuSE Pro releases but 8.1 really started to annoy me by insisting that I install a bunch of stuff I didn't want or risk "system inconsistancies." Damn it, if I wanted KDE w/o CUPS, let me. Geez!
However, I've taken a liking to Gentoo these days.
Especially since call center jobs are being moved to India as fast as you can count them.
I suppose that you'd find the parent company in the US and haul *them* into court. After all, they're having telemarketers call on their behalf, *AND* doing it from another country to boot.
Well, I *did* - until SCO bought them and they began running around like a flock of headless chickens. Generally, poultry are amusing, but not when they're headless software chickens. Caldera's eDesktop fell by the wayside, updates were few & far between.. blah. I moved everything over to SuSE, but I wonder if *that* was a good decision. Isn't SCO part of this UnitedLinux thing along with SuSE/etc?
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They now include Canada in the free calling area. No more international fees to call Vancouver. Yay! Oh, and the "virtual number" thing is cool. For an additional $4.99/mo, I can get a (916)xxx-xxxx phone number that routes to my home phone.
Pretty cool setup.
From what I've read, someone got in through an old BIND exploit and simply screwed up the DNS..
If I could get to my mail, I'd find the article.. heh
Why? Check THIS crap out. Everything else they sell is basically crap (used hardware as new, etc..) and their ISP is a complete patch job.
And no, I'm not talking about Fry's. But.. "DSL Buster?" heh.
Sorry, modems are still slow.
I did the exact same thing. Wasn't 8.0 the one that shipped with the buggy kernel? YaST's online update module just quits. No errors, nothing logged, just *piff!*
Oh, and the http server list in the online update module seems to contain servers that don't have the correct files or are generally flaky.
I switched to Gentoo as well and am happy to be out of RPM hell.
I really couldn't agree with you more. I don't know.. *I* never gave Experian/etc ANY right to my financial information. Why should they have it? Why can't I say "remove any information you have regarding my SSN xxx-xxx-xxxx, now!" and have them do it?
Annoying.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2003/03/24/MN196588.DTL
:-(
PATRIOT Act.
Those two words should be scary enough.
Office Depot/OfficeMax/Staples are the *last* place I'd ever buy software.
well, one exception: Staples has no concept of "release date" so some of us folks got Mac OS X 10.0 a few days before the actual street date. That was cool.
Otherwise, I go there for normal office supplies and I go to Fry's (or amazon.com) for software.
So, they simply create more Hotmail accounts and send out more spam.
Besides, I've never actually had spam *from* Hotmail - it's usually going *to* my Hotmail account or spam coming with forget Hotmail headers.
I seriously doubt this is going to do very much to curb spam.
this "we're going to annoy the hell out of you" method of law enforcement is rather entertaining... imagine the fun someone could have by posting bills with the telephone number of your competition!
Proving that you did *not* post bills with your phone number could prove difficult but by that time, you've already racked up 543,766,246,742 voicemails and text messages.
Do they have free incoming text messages in China? I certainly hope so.. in addition to a fine, you'd have a whopping phone bill.
Hrm. maybe Verizon is in on this!
Do not tolerate employees who behave unprofessionally. Problem-solve or fire them.
I guess that would depend on your version of "professional." At the sweat shop I work in, simply questioning management or asking for a schedule change (because you commute using public transit) is "unprofessional" to them.
Or.. "There are jobs in Billings, MT.. if you're an H1B that's had a job description tailored to your specific resume?"
Which is it? I wonder.
PATRIOT act? It's now trivial for law enforcement agencies to get wiretaps.
John Ashcroft's ideals? Look at what's happened to Muslims all over the US after Sept 11th.
And you're right, you don't have the Mafia.. just the RIAA/MPAA, and if some senator in Texas has his way, you'll have the government hauling you into prison.
Oh, and let's not forget the FBI in Ohio going after people that uncapped their cable modems. And reviewing recent library book checkouts. And forcefully detaining people that mentioned they disagreed with Bush on their weblogs.
yes, stuff like that has happened. I'd call that a pretty crazy violation of civil rights.
nobody can get to them anyway, they're too busy sucking bandwidth with Flash ads saying "WAR!" and streaming RealMedia. Heh.
At least after Sept 11, news agencies went to static HTML versions of their news sites.
The less fluff, the better. We just want the friggin news.
how many of these hack attacks are exploiting known issues?
"Can you imagine a world with a peaceful Middle East? Our President can."
Good for him. Maybe now after he "creates Peace in the Middle East" he can point his attention to creating an educated, peaceful America. Maybe then he can work on resolving our failing economy, unemployment, lack of health care, poor education system, and ever decreasing number of civil rights.
Just last night I was talking to my girlfriend about getting a ReplayTV.
Guess it's gonna be a Tivo after all. Once someone gets the Series II Tivo/DirecTV (all in one) units in stock.
Think the new parent company will keep making them?
Well, if you were stuck commuting on Caltrain for 2 hours a day, believe me, you'd love to be able to bust out some $CPU_HOG_GAME to pass the time. :-)
It's nice to have!
Debian is one. Gentoo is another. YDL is the Red Hat-ish 3rd (and there are others)
It's nice to have a choice. Use whatever works well for you. Hell, use them all and play around with them. You can get a used G3/233 from ebay for less than $150 now.
Have GNU/fun!
That doesn't change the fact that you're still getting spammed!!! So what if you know who did it? Great, you won't do business with them again because they sold your address.
Your still getting spammed because in most places, it's perfectly legal for them to do so. Your bandwidth is still absorbing spam. Your mail server still deals with the spam/bounces.
Just making a cute address doesn't solve the problem.
Had my parents beaten me to a bloody pulp, I might consider being their tech support monkey something that "evens out the grand scheme of things."
God, there is no way that taking care of me for 15 years is anywhere equal to the tech support nightmare that is my grandmother.
My mom has a computer science degree, but grandma calls me instead. Ugh.
Water on Mars? Woah...that might make some really kick ass bong water!
Do what I do. I buy the "Personal" version, so SuSE gets a little $ back, and I install everything else that I need from either a)the source or b)SuSE Pro RPMs from ftp.suse.com.
I've been using SuSE Pro releases but 8.1 really started to annoy me by insisting that I install a bunch of stuff I didn't want or risk "system inconsistancies." Damn it, if I wanted KDE w/o CUPS, let me. Geez!
However, I've taken a liking to Gentoo these days.
I dunno. My T1 only costs me $560/mo, all local loop & taxes included.
:-)
ANd I can do whatever the hell I want with it. wh00t.
Especially since call center jobs are being moved to India as fast as you can count them.
I suppose that you'd find the parent company in the US and haul *them* into court. After all, they're having telemarketers call on their behalf, *AND* doing it from another country to boot.
The things that people will do for a free BBQ at Bill Gates' place.
Sheesh.
Well, I *did* - until SCO bought them and they began running around like a flock of headless chickens. Generally, poultry are amusing, but not when they're headless software chickens.
Caldera's eDesktop fell by the wayside, updates were few & far between.. blah.
I moved everything over to SuSE, but I wonder if *that* was a good decision. Isn't SCO part of this UnitedLinux thing along with SuSE/etc?
Maybe I'll look at Debian or Gentoo. Hrm.