I used to work at Babbage's, which would later become GameStop. Policy allowed employees to "check-out" software, take it home and then come back and seal it. This was all sold as new software (Babbage's didn't sell used software or games). This gave the employees an opportunity to use the software (or games) gaining experience with it, and thus better able to work with customers. For example, knowing whether a customer would like game X or knowing if some software would be more useful than another. The last time I was in a GameStop you could hardly find the section with PC software, so I'm not really sure why this is an issue. I bought Portal 2 from them and they had to retrieve it from a back room (was not out on the shelf).
So it wouldn't surprise me if GameStop still allows their employees to check-out software and re-seal it. In this day with pervasive DRM, I'd just avoid them all together.
I have 18Mbps down, so I think I could reach my cap in fewer days. I do plan on lowering my cap down to 6 or 3, to ensure I don't rip through the bandwidth. So, less money to ATT.
I used to work at Babbage's, which is the heritage of Gamestop. This was back around 1989-1992. We were allowed to check out software, return it and then shrink wrap it back up. They were still sold as new. At the time, I looked at it as a benefit of employment, and it also gave me an opportunity to gain some knowledge about what it was that we were selling. If a game was good, I could recommend it to a customer. If a game was bad, I might even dissuade a customer who was on the fence.
You had an outage, but you consider that good service? I've had no outages in over a year, I consider that good service. You had to call them 6 times. I haven't had to call ATT/SBC in over a year, probably two. Several years ago when I had Comcast, all my phone calls were directed to Canada. I spent 6 months trying to troubleshoot a problem with packet loss, that 5 or 6 techs visiting my house couldn't fix. I had one tech call me before he came out, asked if I was "up" (just because you have packet loss, doesn't mean you're not "up"). So I said I was, but still having problems. He went on to say that he wouldn't come out then, since I was "up", and became belligerent on the phone. At the time, Comcast was my only option. Fortunately, DSL became available, and I've been happy ever since. I will never go back to Comcast.
I inherited them when they bought the broadband piece from ATT. I had packet loss that would occur consistently, but infrequently. They'd have me run a ping on some system that dropped one packet out of 100. For a period of around 6 months I had countless phone calls to their support in Canada. They had 5-6 different techs come out to look at the issue, not a single one was able to resolve it. One technician troubleshooted the problem by trying to visit wwwcomcastnet using IE. He was typing using one finger, and I had to help him put periods between the www comcast net. Another tech called me up and asked me if I was "up". I explained that I was (my issue was packet loss, not downtime). And he then refused to even come out, and became belligerent towards me.
They were never able to resolve my issue, and I eventually signed up DSL with SBC, and other than my DSL modem going bad after a year (which I replaced with an all-in-one model). I have had zero issues with them in over two years.
Adequately? I've installed Ubuntu Edgy on a 433mhz celeron system, with half as much memory and it ran quite well. I wouldn't use it for playing modern video games, but for what most people use a computer for it is more than adequate. I installed Windows XP on a second partition, and found it to run comparable to the Ubuntu install, if not slightly slower.
... to someone famous. I'm sure an employer would have a hard time digging up your information if your name was Michael Bolton. By luck, my name happens to be the same as a professional baseball player from many years ago, so all my search results are obscure.
I'm now the maintainer of this project, I picked it up from Bekman Stas, the original author. It is distributed under the Perl Artistic License, I know of one other company that makes use of it. It is very simple, and makes effective use of javascript to help in managing entries. I have extended it to support emailing admins on new contributions. I've made only modest changes since hosting it on Source Forge, but would certainly welcome any contributions or anyone wanting to continue and extend the project.
I don't see this project in the review, but it is very easy to set up and has met our needs very well.
I am the webmaster for an aerospace company with over 30 billion in annual sales (not Boeing). In this role I actually wear many hats, one as a user, another to facilitate Internet access for thousands of users, and another to advise projects which operate using a web browser. I can't think of a single application used internally over the web that I wasn't able to use Firefox on, under Linux. Also, a number of applications like time keeping have moved over to Windows 2000, but are accessed through a citrix client which runs perfectly well under Linux.
I always tell people who are developing applications over and over again: test it with both browsers (Mozilla and IE). I tell them that yes, today the company standard is that everyone is using IE. However one day you'll want your application to have some visibilty to the outside world. Maybe you'll want to move it to a DMZ. When that day comes you will be glad that made sure that it wasn't IE only. ActiveX is unknown and unused here, and Firefox is becoming extremely popular, especially to curtail infections that IE seems to incur.
This post made me curious what speed I typed at. I figured there were some free tests on the Internet, and sure enough there were. http://www.typingtest.com/ was the first hit from google. I went through it and managed 81 wpm and 74 wpm factoring in mistakes. I never took a typing class, but learned to type while doing sysop work back in the day when BBS was the word, and the Internet still very new.
Who needs a class for it? Just make sure your hands are generally in the right place, and practice, practice. I've never had pain or problems with my wrists, and I type quite often.
However, perhaps the author is pandering to the people still using Windows 95 and 98? I think there are quite a few still, and BSOD is very much entrenched in those operating systems.
I don't understand how people really think they're anonymous when going through a relay like this. Isn't is possible to set up machines that appear to be infected, when in fact they are simply monitoring traffic that is relayed through them? That seems like it would be real easy to do, simply set up a number of honey pots, that appear to be affected with the various virii, and log the activity. The "virus" shouldn't be too difficult to reverse engineer.
Perhaps spam filters should start using a spell checker. Too many misspelled words and the mail gets flagged. Actually, that would be double plus good, as it would require people to develop better writing skills, and maybe we might see the demise of leet speak.
Based on your analogies, the people in Spain would likely blame their ISP, not the blacklists. What is more visible to a person? The robber or the cop? Answer: the cop. What is more visible, more immediate: commercial network, or transmitter? The transmitter. What is more visible? Your ISP or some blacklist further up the chain? The ISP.
If people are going to get pissed, they will get pissed at their ISPs, they can't comprehend any further than that. Understand?
I tried using the Firefox build with SVG to connect to SWB Smartpages (which is now using SVG). I get unknown MIME type for application/svg-xml.
I wasn't aware until seeing this on/. that Linux could handle SVG. I was only aware of the Adobe SVG client. Earlier I went to their website for SVG plugins, and noticed they had a beta version for Redhat Linux 7-9. So, apparently Adobe has something for Linux SVG.
I'm using Mozilla 1.3, and this bug seems to exist on this web browser as well as IE. If I construct the link just as you said, in Mozilla it will show the link as www.sco.com on the mouse over, it doesn't show the rest %00@www.fsf.org
Yeah, just like everyone can go and download Mozilla. Oh wait, IE has a 90+% market share, and Mozilla is a much better web browser. Could it be that integrating these sort of things satiates the common guy who stays true to the status quo? Could it be that the average European isn't as technically savy as you to go off and get their own web browser or media player?
Microsoft was already proven to not only have held (hold) monopoly powers, but that they abused them as well. This is no exception. Hooray for the Europeans.
I don't think this is quite right. I was an @home customer, and my rate was always 1.5 down, 128k up. Since I've been moved over to comcast, I'm now getting 256k up, and soon to get 3 down. I'm not complaining until they start forcing me to pay for cable tv.
The answer is to do other things with your Linux based PVR (thank you MythTV), so that if it is running 24/7, at least you're getting your money's worth. I have already given thought to using the Linux box I have on all the time (shell access, web, game server, webcam, etc) in this manner. Now all I need to do is figure out how to have it communicate with my D* receiver to do things like turn it on and change the channel.
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I used to work at Babbage's, which would later become GameStop. Policy allowed employees to "check-out" software, take it home and then come back and seal it. This was all sold as new software (Babbage's didn't sell used software or games). This gave the employees an opportunity to use the software (or games) gaining experience with it, and thus better able to work with customers. For example, knowing whether a customer would like game X or knowing if some software would be more useful than another. The last time I was in a GameStop you could hardly find the section with PC software, so I'm not really sure why this is an issue. I bought Portal 2 from them and they had to retrieve it from a back room (was not out on the shelf).
So it wouldn't surprise me if GameStop still allows their employees to check-out software and re-seal it. In this day with pervasive DRM, I'd just avoid them all together.
I have 18Mbps down, so I think I could reach my cap in fewer days. I do plan on lowering my cap down to 6 or 3, to ensure I don't rip through the bandwidth. So, less money to ATT.
I used to work at Babbage's, which is the heritage of Gamestop. This was back around 1989-1992. We were allowed to check out software, return it and then shrink wrap it back up. They were still sold as new. At the time, I looked at it as a benefit of employment, and it also gave me an opportunity to gain some knowledge about what it was that we were selling. If a game was good, I could recommend it to a customer. If a game was bad, I might even dissuade a customer who was on the fence.
Not sure why this is +5.
You had an outage, but you consider that good service? I've had no outages in over a year, I consider that good service. You had to call them 6 times. I haven't had to call ATT/SBC in over a year, probably two. Several years ago when I had Comcast, all my phone calls were directed to Canada. I spent 6 months trying to troubleshoot a problem with packet loss, that 5 or 6 techs visiting my house couldn't fix. I had one tech call me before he came out, asked if I was "up" (just because you have packet loss, doesn't mean you're not "up"). So I said I was, but still having problems. He went on to say that he wouldn't come out then, since I was "up", and became belligerent on the phone. At the time, Comcast was my only option. Fortunately, DSL became available, and I've been happy ever since. I will never go back to Comcast.
That is par for the course, for Microsoft. Who else knows better than to shun a platform for their own?
I've seen it.
I inherited them when they bought the broadband piece from ATT. I had packet loss that would occur consistently, but infrequently. They'd have me run a ping on some system that dropped one packet out of 100. For a period of around 6 months I had countless phone calls to their support in Canada. They had 5-6 different techs come out to look at the issue, not a single one was able to resolve it. One technician troubleshooted the problem by trying to visit wwwcomcastnet using IE. He was typing using one finger, and I had to help him put periods between the www comcast net. Another tech called me up and asked me if I was "up". I explained that I was (my issue was packet loss, not downtime). And he then refused to even come out, and became belligerent towards me.
They were never able to resolve my issue, and I eventually signed up DSL with SBC, and other than my DSL modem going bad after a year (which I replaced with an all-in-one model). I have had zero issues with them in over two years.
Adequately? I've installed Ubuntu Edgy on a 433mhz celeron system, with half as much memory and it ran quite well. I wouldn't use it for playing modern video games, but for what most people use a computer for it is more than adequate. I installed Windows XP on a second partition, and found it to run comparable to the Ubuntu install, if not slightly slower.
It did happen to Dell and we did hear about it.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06
Your point?
... to someone famous. I'm sure an employer would have a hard time digging up your information if your name was Michael Bolton. By luck, my name happens to be the same as a professional baseball player from many years ago, so all my search results are obscure.
I haven't RTFA, but I suspect these will be sold already neutered or spade, to protect their investment.
I'm now the maintainer of this project, I picked it up from Bekman Stas, the original author. It is distributed under the Perl Artistic License, I know of one other company that makes use of it. It is very simple, and makes effective use of javascript to help in managing entries. I have extended it to support emailing admins on new contributions. I've made only modest changes since hosting it on Source Forge, but would certainly welcome any contributions or anyone wanting to continue and extend the project.
I don't see this project in the review, but it is very easy to set up and has met our needs very well.
I am the webmaster for an aerospace company with over 30 billion in annual sales (not Boeing). In this role I actually wear many hats, one as a user, another to facilitate Internet access for thousands of users, and another to advise projects which operate using a web browser. I can't think of a single application used internally over the web that I wasn't able to use Firefox on, under Linux. Also, a number of applications like time keeping have moved over to Windows 2000, but are accessed through a citrix client which runs perfectly well under Linux.
I always tell people who are developing applications over and over again: test it with both browsers (Mozilla and IE). I tell them that yes, today the company standard is that everyone is using IE. However one day you'll want your application to have some visibilty to the outside world. Maybe you'll want to move it to a DMZ. When that day comes you will be glad that made sure that it wasn't IE only. ActiveX is unknown and unused here, and Firefox is becoming extremely popular, especially to curtail infections that IE seems to incur.
This post made me curious what speed I typed at. I figured there were some free tests on the Internet, and sure enough there were. http://www.typingtest.com/ was the first hit from google. I went through it and managed 81 wpm and 74 wpm factoring in mistakes. I never took a typing class, but learned to type while doing sysop work back in the day when BBS was the word, and the Internet still very new.
Who needs a class for it? Just make sure your hands are generally in the right place, and practice, practice. I've never had pain or problems with my wrists, and I type quite often.
Agreed.
However, perhaps the author is pandering to the people still using Windows 95 and 98? I think there are quite a few still, and BSOD is very much entrenched in those operating systems.
I don't understand how people really think they're anonymous when going through a relay like this. Isn't is possible to set up machines that appear to be infected, when in fact they are simply monitoring traffic that is relayed through them? That seems like it would be real easy to do, simply set up a number of honey pots, that appear to be affected with the various virii, and log the activity. The "virus" shouldn't be too difficult to reverse engineer.
Perhaps spam filters should start using a spell checker. Too many misspelled words and the mail gets flagged. Actually, that would be double plus good, as it would require people to develop better writing skills, and maybe we might see the demise of leet speak.
Based on your analogies, the people in Spain would likely blame their ISP, not the blacklists. What is more visible to a person? The robber or the cop? Answer: the cop. What is more visible, more immediate: commercial network, or transmitter? The transmitter. What is more visible? Your ISP or some blacklist further up the chain? The ISP.
If people are going to get pissed, they will get pissed at their ISPs, they can't comprehend any further than that. Understand?
I tried using the Firefox build with SVG to connect to SWB Smartpages (which is now using SVG). I get unknown MIME type for application/svg-xml.
/. that Linux could handle SVG. I was only aware of the Adobe SVG client. Earlier I went to their website for SVG plugins, and noticed they had a beta version for Redhat Linux 7-9. So, apparently Adobe has something for Linux SVG.
I wasn't aware until seeing this on
I'm using Mozilla 1.3, and this bug seems to exist on this web browser as well as IE. If I construct the link just as you said, in Mozilla it will show the link as www.sco.com on the mouse over, it doesn't show the rest %00@www.fsf.org
Yeah, just like everyone can go and download Mozilla. Oh wait, IE has a 90+% market share, and Mozilla is a much better web browser. Could it be that integrating these sort of things satiates the common guy who stays true to the status quo? Could it be that the average European isn't as technically savy as you to go off and get their own web browser or media player?
Microsoft was already proven to not only have held (hold) monopoly powers, but that they abused them as well. This is no exception. Hooray for the Europeans.
I don't think this is quite right. I was an @home customer, and my rate was always 1.5 down, 128k up. Since I've been moved over to comcast, I'm now getting 256k up, and soon to get 3 down. I'm not complaining until they start forcing me to pay for cable tv.
I guess it could work, if the RIAA had any competition. Sadly, they don't have a whole lot.
Yeah make them $5 grand a piece, then a booming black market opens up where only the criminals can afford bullets. Michael Moore is a dumbass.
The answer is to do other things with your Linux based PVR (thank you MythTV), so that if it is running 24/7, at least you're getting your money's worth. I have already given thought to using the Linux box I have on all the time (shell access, web, game server, webcam, etc) in this manner. Now all I need to do is figure out how to have it communicate with my D* receiver to do things like turn it on and change the channel.
shhh.. don't tell Maxis (EA), they'll take the idea and make Sim-MovieTheater.