About windows roaming profiles; these things tend to grow huge (I have found a couple of them over 1 GB). They eventually will saturate your network and will have the user bitching about long delays after logons. Maybe if you have 1Gb to the desktop, this will not be an issue, but try streaming a 1 Gig profile over wireless.
You know, I don't really mind testing Linux drivers...but when it comes to an OS I have to shell out money for, I kinda expect it to work.
The drivers are being written by OEM and non-Microsoft affiliates. It is unreasonable to think that it is Microsoft's responsability to test and debug third party drivers.
I can already see it, HP taking the top scores in their cheap multifuncionals and printers.
...don't why they're so bloody awful at maintaining their servers responsibly Makes you wonder how they manage to keep the "great firewall" running tightly and yet can not seem to be bothered to fix their own mail server.
Maybe it is all intentinally being done this way to discourage private information exchange through mail. By letting the rest of the world do the filtering, they can insure a controlled flowed, while coming up as good guys ("we are not censoring mail exchange").
"they'll discover you can't run WindowsUpdate on an XP Pro SP2 machine without admin privileges,"...
I differ, windowsupdate should not be runned in user space, at least not in a default configuation under a corporate environment. In a corporate envirnomente SUS should be used to push around patches.
I had almost dismissed bluefrog as yet another spam control tool. Now I now I know it is really hurting them. Signed on as soon as their servers allowed me. I can't wait until they get fully online again to finish generation of my account.
In general, I too am happy that I will be able to watch the originals as they were released 20 years ago. I still treasure my VHS versions of the films, and even downloaded the Laser original versions out there on the Torrents. This definitely is a good move by Mr. Lucas.
To top it all, this edition will be released along with the Lego Starwars II game sequel. My kid totally digs this game. September is a month to be looked forward too.
There is only 1 good addition to the special editions - the sound was improved.
I disagree, some scenes were also recreated and touched up. Some of these recreations were much needed in order to keep the film credible under current standards. There are many subtle changes you wouldn't even notice them had it not been for a side to side viewing of the originals and the new versions.
Take a look at the following article, which describes some of these changes:
They are actually acknowleding that the service works and it is hurting them. Their DDOS of bluesecurity.com will only draw more attention to the service, just watch the number of bluesecurity subscribers skyrocket in the following days.
Killing for sport is a straw man argument, because I never suggested that I found that acceptable. When I referred to killing for sport, I meant it as an example of a conduct that is not found in nature. Likewise subjucating another species like in this case a dolphin to become an agent of war, is highly questionable if not downright wrong. There is no natural relation between species that comes close to this.
Huh? Of course it can and does. Really? Let me understand this, you are implying that cats left alone in wilderness will be as well fed as the typical house cat? Winter time and drough time will have no impact in the wilderness cat diet?
Huh? Nobody trains their cat to torture its prey. It is their instinct to do so, pure and simple. Wrong, with a simple Google search ("lion toying prey"), I found several examples, even with human prey.
You are convieniently changing my point to suit your argument. I said that wild animals do not kill for pleasure nor to subjugate others for the purpose of servilitude. The behaivour of a household cat is somthing that just does not occur in the wilderness. These kind of behaiviours are typical of the human race and taken to a new level by the US DoD in this project.
Yet, I ran the search as you recommended. I'll give you that lions do sometimes torture their prey before festing on it, but I found nothing refering to a kill for pleasure. If I missed it, would you care to point out the exact article?
Have you ever even seen a lion outside of a zoo?
Nope, but there is plenty of sources documenting its behaivour out there. None reference lions killing for pleasure.
A well-fed housecat will kill for pleasure.
So? A well fed cat is something it would not happen under natural conditions. You would have a point if this cat was a wild animal, and would go around killing just for fun. Housecats are animals which have been trained by us to behave in a certain manner.
animals never exploit other animals for their own gain.
All parasitical and predatorial relationships I have seen on the animal kingdom are destined to ensure the survival of the parasite/predator. I have never seen a lion killing a lamb for sport or maim him to make a spy out of him. Only human beings are capable of such conduct, and even worse, in your case, only human beings are capable of justifying such conduct by trying to draw inexistant relationships between our acts and those of the animals.
3. Have a wild cougar patrol the datacenter at night.
Nah nah nah... see? This is the problem with CS folks, they were just not born to be BOFHs. Here are the right steps to keep you and your staff in cubicules:
my girlfriend's daughter uses this system in a reletively locked-down mode This is scary. How locked is her account, part of users, advanced users or are you using a custom profile?
I do not understand this wow about skype. It is bloatware (requires the PC to be on), quality supposedly sucks etc
I have used several VoIP providers (Vonage, Net2phone, Dailpad) and all have hiddeous latency times (it feels like you are speaking on a radio rather than a phone) and buggy sound quality. If there is one thing where Skype outshines the competition is sound quality. Even when placing intercontinental calls (PC to phone and PC to PC), the sound quality will consistently blow you away; there is simply no point of comparison even against POTS.
Thanks for sharing the experience with others. I have usually found that this "we are only a (insert comercial vendor here) shop" attitude is down right dumb. OSS usually finds its way in the holes left unplucked by proprietary solutions. The networks under my supervision usually are windows based, but there are some OSS solutions supporting them, most notably: PDFcreator (great alternative to Adobe's Elements), 7Zip (good substitute for winzip), and even one linux server running samba.
Openoffice has also been great help restoring MS Office corrupt documents, but I have only deployed it to the IT's desktops. One particular network has a production application based on MS Word VBS, and I just do not consider it worth the effort of migrating it to an open source solution just to save a couple thousand dollar dollars.
Pre SP6 NTs tended to be very quirky with video drivers. It would not bomb out right away, but always waited for an application (Netmeeting in my case) to start out for the BSOD to show up.
If you are not running SP6a, then I strongy advise for you to upgrade. Otherwise you might always consider changing the video card or even better, getting a decent computer =).
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About windows roaming profiles; these things tend to grow huge (I have found a couple of them over 1 GB). They eventually will saturate your network and will have the user bitching about long delays after logons. Maybe if you have 1Gb to the desktop, this will not be an issue, but try streaming a 1 Gig profile over wireless.
You know, I don't really mind testing Linux drivers...but when it comes to an OS I have to shell out money for, I kinda expect it to work.
I can already see it, HP taking the top scores in their cheap multifuncionals and printers.The drivers are being written by OEM and non-Microsoft affiliates. It is unreasonable to think that it is Microsoft's responsability to test and debug third party drivers.
"Are you like in your 30's or 40's? The real classics are games like Space Travel for Unix."
t ml
Thanks for the laugh! Really interesting game, and how it led to the Unix being created first on the PDP-7.
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/spacetravel.h
...don't why they're so bloody awful at maintaining their servers responsibly
Makes you wonder how they manage to keep the "great firewall" running tightly and yet can not seem to be bothered to fix their own mail server.
Maybe it is all intentinally being done this way to discourage private information exchange through mail. By letting the rest of the world do the filtering, they can insure a controlled flowed, while coming up as good guys ("we are not censoring mail exchange").
Rokso keeps track of the major spammers. Most of them reside in the US, though they typically offshore their servers to other countries.
The MPAA wants to know which one is your favourite movie!
The Curse of the Pirate Bay
Pirates of the Baltic Sea
The Return of the Pirate Bay
Can you think of others? Let them know at www.mpaa.org!
"they'll discover you can't run WindowsUpdate on an XP Pro SP2 machine without admin privileges,"...
I differ, windowsupdate should not be runned in user space, at least not in a default configuation under a corporate environment. In a corporate envirnomente SUS should be used to push around patches.
I quickly googled for pictures of the Wii and came across this:
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http://www.wiicentre.com/gdc-2006-revolution-imag
I had almost dismissed bluefrog as yet another spam control tool. Now I now I know it is really hurting them. Signed on as soon as their servers allowed me. I can't wait until they get fully online again to finish generation of my account.
Thanks Pharma!
In general, I too am happy that I will be able to watch the originals as they were released 20 years ago. I still treasure my VHS versions of the films, and even downloaded the Laser original versions out there on the Torrents. This definitely is a good move by Mr. Lucas.
To top it all, this edition will be released along with the Lego Starwars II game sequel. My kid totally digs this game. September is a month to be looked forward too.
There is only 1 good addition to the special editions - the sound was improved.
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I disagree, some scenes were also recreated and touched up. Some of these recreations were much needed in order to keep the film credible under current standards. There are many subtle changes you wouldn't even notice them had it not been for a side to side viewing of the originals and the new versions.
Take a look at the following article, which describes some of these changes:
http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-
I'll run the bluesecurity client in a VM just in case
The client end seems to be open source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluefrog/
Its no guarantee, but you can always inspect the source for anything fishy. I usually feel at ease when installing open source programs.
You just hitted the nail in the head.
They are actually acknowleding that the service works and it is hurting them. Their DDOS of bluesecurity.com will only draw more attention to the service, just watch the number of bluesecurity subscribers skyrocket in the following days.
Killing for sport is a straw man argument, because I never suggested that I found that acceptable.
When I referred to killing for sport, I meant it as an example of a conduct that is not found in nature. Likewise subjucating another species like in this case a dolphin to become an agent of war, is highly questionable if not downright wrong. There is no natural relation between species that comes close to this.
Huh? Of course it can and does.
Really? Let me understand this, you are implying that cats left alone in wilderness will be as well fed as the typical house cat? Winter time and drough time will have no impact in the wilderness cat diet?
Huh? Nobody trains their cat to torture its prey. It is their instinct to do so, pure and simple.
Wrong, with a simple Google search ("lion toying prey"), I found several examples, even with human prey.
You are convieniently changing my point to suit your argument. I said that wild animals do not kill for pleasure nor to subjugate others for the purpose of servilitude. The behaivour of a household cat is somthing that just does not occur in the wilderness. These kind of behaiviours are typical of the human race and taken to a new level by the US DoD in this project.
Yet, I ran the search as you recommended. I'll give you that lions do sometimes torture their prey before festing on it, but I found nothing refering to a kill for pleasure. If I missed it, would you care to point out the exact article?
Have you ever even seen a lion outside of a zoo? Nope, but there is plenty of sources documenting its behaivour out there. None reference lions killing for pleasure.
A well-fed housecat will kill for pleasure. So? A well fed cat is something it would not happen under natural conditions. You would have a point if this cat was a wild animal, and would go around killing just for fun. Housecats are animals which have been trained by us to behave in a certain manner.
animals never exploit other animals for their own gain.
All parasitical and predatorial relationships I have seen on the animal kingdom are destined to ensure the survival of the parasite/predator. I have never seen a lion killing a lamb for sport or maim him to make a spy out of him. Only human beings are capable of such conduct, and even worse, in your case, only human beings are capable of justifying such conduct by trying to draw inexistant relationships between our acts and those of the animals.
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Stop deluding yourself
That will depend on how the drug companies are performing these trails. Check out the Constant Gardener for some real scary shit.
3. Have a wild cougar patrol the datacenter at night.
Nah nah nah... see? This is the problem with CS folks, they were just not born to be BOFHs. Here are the right steps to keep you and your staff in cubicules:
Any questions?
my girlfriend's daughter uses this system in a reletively locked-down mode
This is scary. How locked is her account, part of users, advanced users or are you using a custom profile?
I do not understand this wow about skype. It is bloatware (requires the PC to be on), quality supposedly sucks etc
I have used several VoIP providers (Vonage, Net2phone, Dailpad) and all have hiddeous latency times (it feels like you are speaking on a radio rather than a phone) and buggy sound quality. If there is one thing where Skype outshines the competition is sound quality. Even when placing intercontinental calls (PC to phone and PC to PC), the sound quality will consistently blow you away; there is simply no point of comparison even against POTS.
Thanks for sharing the experience with others. I have usually found that this "we are only a (insert comercial vendor here) shop" attitude is down right dumb. OSS usually finds its way in the holes left unplucked by proprietary solutions. The networks under my supervision usually are windows based, but there are some OSS solutions supporting them, most notably: PDFcreator (great alternative to Adobe's Elements), 7Zip (good substitute for winzip), and even one linux server running samba.
Openoffice has also been great help restoring MS Office corrupt documents, but I have only deployed it to the IT's desktops. One particular network has a production application based on MS Word VBS, and I just do not consider it worth the effort of migrating it to an open source solution just to save a couple thousand dollar dollars.
And exactly, why do you think we managers never post to slashdot?
Pre SP6 NTs tended to be very quirky with video drivers. It would not bomb out right away, but always waited for an application (Netmeeting in my case) to start out for the BSOD to show up.
If you are not running SP6a, then I strongy advise for you to upgrade. Otherwise you might always consider changing the video card or even better, getting a decent computer =).