The point I was trying to make was the permission issue. If my neighbor used my garage to park his car while I was gone I'd still be pissed as hell if I didn't tell him it was ok...even though it did not impact me.
I'll agree that it's no impact system-wise, but I still want total say over my personal stuff. I'd never allow Best Buy to come over and watch my TV while I was gone, so why should Tivo be allowed to use my box while I'm gone?
Not in my experience. Where I've worked in the past, Unix admins have root access to their particular machines (such as SUN vs. AIX boxes.) Windows admins were always a completely seperate group, and usually had admin access to all windows boxes, including user's boxes. Granted, they did not have access to user-level passwords, strictly admin...
Why take something away from those who really need 'easy-to-use' GUIs or stuff like that?
Would *nix really be usefull to your grandparents? Doubt it. So what else are they going to use if Microsoft goes away?
Think about things before you go jumping on bandwagons.
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I'm with you now. I was concerned that they'd still find a way to take advantage of her.
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Of course you realaize that she'll still be required to pay, right? Just because the card is expired doesn't mean that the contract is broken. It just means that they'll keep billing her and potentially give her a bad credit rating.
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Um, no. They don't cancel you for not using the card. Perhaps with a store (Macy's) card, but most definitely not with a Visa or MasterCard.
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Because it's not up to the credit card company to clean up after you, and it's also not up to them to break your contract with the ISP. Both are up to YOU.
Hmmm... Case +power, MB, CPU (Ath1700), 20 gig harddrive, CD burner/DVD player, video, sound and 100bt network built-in. A bare-bones system with a couple of add-ons.
$432, including tax, at my local computer show two weeks ago.
Note that the above does NOT include ram or a monitor, as I didn't need either.
I have to agree with the previous couple of posters. Unless you're working in freakish conditions, or insist on scuffing your feet on the carpet to transport your items across the room and then insist on touching all the metal parts on it...you should be ok. Just don't touch any metal, take the time to secure everything appropriately...and you'll be just fine.
All of my machines are still running well, as I did my research and bought components that played well with each other.
I rather think it's a sign of respect for the American buying power. American's generally buy what they want, and if they want a PS2 they'll go ahead and buy it.
That tells me Sony has some marketing savy, not contempt.
Getting on the 'don't call' list is pretty suspect itself. Example: My wife was getting telemarketing calls on her cell phone. I asked the lady what company she was calling from, and to please not call a cell phone. She said I had to send that in writing to her before she could put us on that list. Well, if I do that, they now have not only my number, but my address (to probably sell) as well! So I just switched numbers as a cop-out short-term fix.
Good point. They certainly COULD use the product that came with the operating system. That may not be as robust as a typical server-based environment, though.
I agree, in a certain sense. The environment may essentially be more stable, and booting time would certainly be cut.
There are a still a few drawbacks, though:
Mainframes are generally (from my experience) rebooted (IPLd) weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Sun boxes can remain up for months.
Like I said in my previous post, the Unix command-set just isn't all there, as it doesn't really apply to the mainframe box and it's configuration. The essentialls are there, of course, but a unix guru isn't going to be able to affect the box the way he might affect his Linux boxes.
So sorry. You're correct, of course. I must have been on crack at the time of posting.
When my company switched from OS/390 to a zSeries box, we underestimated our processing needs (having gone from 10 cpus to two high-powered cpus). That said, we needed to turn on another zSeries cpu and I believe that (at least in my shop) required a POR, and needed to be done from the HMC.
I'm sure this is a small nitpick, but you 'vary' things online in the mainframe world. Also, you don't do this from the Master console, you do it from the HMC (Hardware Management Console) and it takes a Power On Reset (essentially like pressing the reset button on your PC) to do it.
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Here's the original question:
"when you say that you have "capped your karma", what does that mean?"
I'll bet you don't read the articles either...
The point I was trying to make was the permission issue. If my neighbor used my garage to park his car while I was gone I'd still be pissed as hell if I didn't tell him it was ok...even though it did not impact me.
I'll agree that it's no impact system-wise, but I still want total say over my personal stuff. I'd never allow Best Buy to come over and watch my TV while I was gone, so why should Tivo be allowed to use my box while I'm gone?
Not in my experience. Where I've worked in the past, Unix admins have root access to their particular machines (such as SUN vs. AIX boxes.) Windows admins were always a completely seperate group, and usually had admin access to all windows boxes, including user's boxes. Granted, they did not have access to user-level passwords, strictly admin...
Dumbass. I'll bet you took ebonics too.
It must depend on the credit card. I had someone use my credit card, I reported it as fraud, and I'm out $0.
How many of you screamed when it came out that Kazaa was going to use your computer's bandwidth and storage for their purposes?
How is this issue different from that one?
Numbnuts. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Why take something away from those who really need 'easy-to-use' GUIs or stuff like that?
Would *nix really be usefull to your grandparents? Doubt it. So what else are they going to use if Microsoft goes away?
Think about things before you go jumping on bandwagons.
I'm with you now. I was concerned that they'd still find a way to take advantage of her.
Of course you realaize that she'll still be required to pay, right? Just because the card is expired doesn't mean that the contract is broken. It just means that they'll keep billing her and potentially give her a bad credit rating.
Um, no. They don't cancel you for not using the card. Perhaps with a store (Macy's) card, but most definitely not with a Visa or MasterCard.
Because it's not up to the credit card company to clean up after you, and it's also not up to them to break your contract with the ISP. Both are up to YOU.
I can hear it already:
What? Microsoft help nVidia?
Microsoft bad! Thag hate Microsoft! Thag hate nVidia! Drivers not opensource? Thag hate drivers!
But I digress.
Now if only we could make them small and foldable...
Hmmm... Case +power, MB, CPU (Ath1700), 20 gig harddrive, CD burner/DVD player, video, sound and 100bt network built-in. A bare-bones system with a couple of add-ons.
$432, including tax, at my local computer show two weeks ago.
Note that the above does NOT include ram or a monitor, as I didn't need either.
I have to agree with the previous couple of posters. Unless you're working in freakish conditions, or insist on scuffing your feet on the carpet to transport your items across the room and then insist on touching all the metal parts on it...you should be ok. Just don't touch any metal, take the time to secure everything appropriately...and you'll be just fine.
All of my machines are still running well, as I did my research and bought components that played well with each other.
Touche! *grin*
I rather think it's a sign of respect for the American buying power. American's generally buy what they want, and if they want a PS2 they'll go ahead and buy it.
That tells me Sony has some marketing savy, not contempt.
Why are you so intent on seeing MS fail?
Wow, the defeatist "Microsoft will win, they are amazing!" attitude is really rampant around here for a while.
I'm curious: how exactly is this a defeatist attitude? Must everything here be all about 'yay Linux'?
Getting on the 'don't call' list is pretty suspect itself. Example: My wife was getting telemarketing calls on her cell phone. I asked the lady what company she was calling from, and to please not call a cell phone. She said I had to send that in writing to her before she could put us on that list. Well, if I do that, they now have not only my number, but my address (to probably sell) as well! So I just switched numbers as a cop-out short-term fix.
Good point. They certainly COULD use the product that came with the operating system. That may not be as robust as a typical server-based environment, though.
I agree, in a certain sense. The environment may essentially be more stable, and booting time would certainly be cut.
There are a still a few drawbacks, though:
Mainframes are generally (from my experience) rebooted (IPLd) weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Sun boxes can remain up for months.
Like I said in my previous post, the Unix command-set just isn't all there, as it doesn't really apply to the mainframe box and it's configuration. The essentialls are there, of course, but a unix guru isn't going to be able to affect the box the way he might affect his Linux boxes.
So sorry. You're correct, of course. I must have been on crack at the time of posting.
When my company switched from OS/390 to a zSeries box, we underestimated our processing needs (having gone from 10 cpus to two high-powered cpus). That said, we needed to turn on another zSeries cpu and I believe that (at least in my shop) required a POR, and needed to be done from the HMC.
As an aside, one of the funniest post titles I've read in a while.
I'm sure this is a small nitpick, but you 'vary' things online in the mainframe world. Also, you don't do this from the Master console, you do it from the HMC (Hardware Management Console) and it takes a Power On Reset (essentially like pressing the reset button on your PC) to do it.