Oh, don't get me started on the flip-phone thing. The model I have has buttons external of the flip-thing. For the first couple months my bill was insane. What was happening was that it was actually sitting in my pocket on the web until I bounced out of range sometimes and in a romaing mode at that! (my keys and change and stuff where pressing the buttons on the phone...). I turned on the keygaurd thing and it's been OK since (but that turns itself off from time to time...).
I'm in central Chester County (Exton, kinda right near Malvern; just a bit more up rt. 30 a bit). With the some-what obvious exceptions of being inside some of teh older buildings in the area (Lion's SHare...:-) I can't get a decent signal in there, but the other ATT, Verison, etc. people do when there are towers about a block away), I don't get much of a signal. Sure I get a signal in Target over on 100, or sometimes in the mall (it's spotty at best), it's the fact that everyone else seems to have really good signals and the best I can do is get notified of voice-mails. Yup. My phone doesn't ring because it doesn't have a strong enough signal, but it's more than happy to tell me when I missed a call...
There's only a couple rooms at home (no, not the basement, despite the standard/. joke...:-) ), that it just simply won't get a signal. I guess that's kinda normal, but again, I'm not far at all from a couple towers. I should get SOMETHING.
I just called the service number. The network wanted to "automatically" push me an update for my phone. I don't know what it was (since it didn't actually say), but I actually have a kinda stronger digital signal in the office now, I think. Sometimes it's 2 bars (which it is now) by-itself before, so I don't know if it's just one of those days, or they did indeed blast my phone with some new routing info, but usually, I'd be lucky to have an analog connection. I'll let it go a day or so and see.
Good freakin' luck. I've been with Sprint for just a bit over a year. I should've bagged them when I had the chance (I wasn't paying attention to my actual sign-on date...:-\ ). I consider myself lucky to even get a roaming analog signal. I live just outside Philly, so don't bring up the "rural, not many towers in the area" arguement. I have a couple, LITTERALLY, less than a quarter mile away. (I'd take picks if I could get a machine to like the camera I have)
I do have to say, though, when I do have a signal, it's great. REALLY, great! It's a VERY crisp connection. It's just rather rare to have a good signal (or any at all, for that matter).
Why would I want to? It has given me great service for many years
Smae thing here. They are the first I turn to when there's something I'm looking for. I was also first in line for an Admin gig with them a few years back (the Delaware office). The only reason I didn't take the gig was I had my Son's birth pending not a month after they wanted me to start (their hours are a bit... weird... and don't really fit in well with a brand new parent's schedule...).
I don't get why so many people are so down on Amazon.
Holy Christ! I'm afraid. Someone else knows the damn lyrics...
I'm thinking of getting some tickets to one of their shows that's coming to the area, though. I also bought one of Greg's CDs. He even signed it...
Damn, I really am a parent now...:-)
Why in the hell would someone want to fork out the cash to buy Win* just to fork out the cash to get something better than 56K just to download *NIX (esentially)????
I think the windows key is just alt-esc or control esc or some such thing.
You're right. The "Windows Key" (AKA Start Button) is CTRL+ESC. The "right-click" is SHIFT+F10. The "Task Manager" is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. The "Boot a Real OS" is CTRL+ALT+DEL.
You are exactly correct. You obviously do not get the big deal of this.
Why? Because I don't understand why this is a big deal? As I've already said, I understand Verisign isn't that great of company, but, what is so damn wrong with them "filling in the wholes" (so to speak)? Fine, OK, I get the fact that they don't own the world. I get that. This is about the absence of a user typing something right and someone trying to help them out. What the hell is wrong with that?
And please don't start on this RFC stuff. I get it. I'm a VERY happy *NIX user and also one that gets a bit irritaded with *SOME* of the M$ bashing (OK, I don't like them either, but that doesn't mean they haven't had some good ideas).
What I'm saying is that I TOTALLY understand the need for standards in very common things (like TCP for one, DNS for another quick example), but, all I was trying to express was:
So what?!? OK, their offer may not follow the standard all that much (and people still use Windows despite that...), but they are/were offering a fairly nice service. OK, so some DNS servers (after having a (L)user mistype a URL, got a few bytes of extra traffic. Perhaps we should worry about things like Klez, or ILOVEYOU, or this damn mailing from "Microsoft" (in quotes for a reason) that plague our mail servers.
This Verisign thing is child's play in comparison.
There's a company that's trying to help out (L)users! Oh no! Stop them!
I don't get the big deal with this. OK, Verisign isn't the best company on the planet (I can think of one Utah based one that's much worse, and don't get me started on Redmond...), but this is insane.
OK, so maybe they're taking a bit of traffic away from Google or someone like that. Big deal. They setup a "search engine" for people to use. People that are not like use geeks here (we know what a 404 means when we see it). I mean the other users.
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Oh, don't get me started on the flip-phone thing. The model I have has buttons external of the flip-thing. For the first couple months my bill was insane. What was happening was that it was actually sitting in my pocket on the web until I bounced out of range sometimes and in a romaing mode at that! (my keys and change and stuff where pressing the buttons on the phone...). I turned on the keygaurd thing and it's been OK since (but that turns itself off from time to time...).
I'm in central Chester County (Exton, kinda right near Malvern; just a bit more up rt. 30 a bit). With the some-what obvious exceptions of being inside some of teh older buildings in the area (Lion's SHare... :-) I can't get a decent signal in there, but the other ATT, Verison, etc. people do when there are towers about a block away), I don't get much of a signal. Sure I get a signal in Target over on 100, or sometimes in the mall (it's spotty at best), it's the fact that everyone else seems to have really good signals and the best I can do is get notified of voice-mails. Yup. My phone doesn't ring because it doesn't have a strong enough signal, but it's more than happy to tell me when I missed a call...
/. joke... :-) ), that it just simply won't get a signal. I guess that's kinda normal, but again, I'm not far at all from a couple towers. I should get SOMETHING.
There's only a couple rooms at home (no, not the basement, despite the standard
I just called the service number. The network wanted to "automatically" push me an update for my phone. I don't know what it was (since it didn't actually say), but I actually have a kinda stronger digital signal in the office now, I think. Sometimes it's 2 bars (which it is now) by-itself before, so I don't know if it's just one of those days, or they did indeed blast my phone with some new routing info, but usually, I'd be lucky to have an analog connection. I'll let it go a day or so and see.
Thanx, man!
Good freakin' luck. I've been with Sprint for just a bit over a year. I should've bagged them when I had the chance (I wasn't paying attention to my actual sign-on date... :-\ ). I consider myself lucky to even get a roaming analog signal. I live just outside Philly, so don't bring up the "rural, not many towers in the area" arguement. I have a couple, LITTERALLY, less than a quarter mile away. (I'd take picks if I could get a machine to like the camera I have)
I do have to say, though, when I do have a signal, it's great. REALLY, great! It's a VERY crisp connection. It's just rather rare to have a good signal (or any at all, for that matter).
Why would I want to? It has given me great service for many years
Smae thing here. They are the first I turn to when there's something I'm looking for. I was also first in line for an Admin gig with them a few years back (the Delaware office). The only reason I didn't take the gig was I had my Son's birth pending not a month after they wanted me to start (their hours are a bit... weird... and don't really fit in well with a brand new parent's schedule...).
I don't get why so many people are so down on Amazon.
so what's the problem?
56k
crappy quality mp3's
burner/cd-rs/computer/knowhow/etc.
Should I go on?
(that URL goes nowhere)
Aside, Billy ran to England to ditch the 'Nam draft...
BWAHAHAHA!
That's beautiful, man!
Holy Christ! I'm afraid. Someone else knows the damn lyrics...
:-)
I'm thinking of getting some tickets to one of their shows that's coming to the area, though. I also bought one of Greg's CDs. He even signed it...
Damn, I really am a parent now...
Here in Australia, Steve Irwin is largely ignored.
But The Wiggles kick ass!
Why in the hell would someone want to fork out the cash to buy Win* just to fork out the cash to get something better than 56K just to download *NIX (esentially)????
he next time the system boots, the thing goes back to a snapshot image.
I'd love to see you setup a network that when a kid has a laptop at home sitting on his/her bed, this happens. RTFA.
/me sees a McBride Press Realese in the near future...
What if there is big power failure? A serious fire? A flood?
"I didn't have enough money for cab fare! Locusts! It wasn't my fault I swear to God!"
OT:
Then your mind is in the right place. Don't touch it. Ever. I got out of detox about two months ago...
P.S.
I know you know it was only a joke and all, but seriously, stay away from it. Please.
Once I spilt Pepsi on my keyboard and...
What kind of geek are you?? You're supposed to be spilling beer...
I think the windows key is just alt-esc or control esc or some such thing.
You're right. The "Windows Key" (AKA Start Button) is CTRL+ESC. The "right-click" is SHIFT+F10. The "Task Manager" is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. The "Boot a Real OS" is CTRL+ALT+DEL.
ALT+F2 is the default for that. It has been for as long as I've been using KDE (early 1.something version (whatever shipped with RH6.2))
yes, the system will let you unmount the system drive.
Gotta love Windows... >:-\
just click your mouse wheel.
I clicked it and all I got was this stupid up/down arrow thing. I thought that was to paste something. Oh, errr... nevermind...
I'm sure they do, from time to time. But what you should be asking is if they *comprehend* the articles...
> Would you mind clarifying that, please?
Damn you! You made me lose a bit of beer laughing at that comment!
You are exactly correct. You obviously do not get the big deal of this.
Why? Because I don't understand why this is a big deal? As I've already said, I understand Verisign isn't that great of company, but, what is so damn wrong with them "filling in the wholes" (so to speak)? Fine, OK, I get the fact that they don't own the world. I get that. This is about the absence of a user typing something right and someone trying to help them out. What the hell is wrong with that?
And please don't start on this RFC stuff. I get it. I'm a VERY happy *NIX user and also one that gets a bit irritaded with *SOME* of the M$ bashing (OK, I don't like them either, but that doesn't mean they haven't had some good ideas).
What I'm saying is that I TOTALLY understand the need for standards in very common things (like TCP for one, DNS for another quick example), but, all I was trying to express was:
So what?!? OK, their offer may not follow the standard all that much (and people still use Windows despite that...), but they are/were offering a fairly nice service. OK, so some DNS servers (after having a (L)user mistype a URL, got a few bytes of extra traffic. Perhaps we should worry about things like Klez, or ILOVEYOU, or this damn mailing from "Microsoft" (in quotes for a reason) that plague our mail servers.
This Verisign thing is child's play in comparison.
+100 informative
This was exactly my point. Thank you for wording it better than I.
There's a company that's trying to help out (L)users! Oh no! Stop them!
I don't get the big deal with this. OK, Verisign isn't the best company on the planet (I can think of one Utah based one that's much worse, and don't get me started on Redmond...), but this is insane.
OK, so maybe they're taking a bit of traffic away from Google or someone like that. Big deal. They setup a "search engine" for people to use. People that are not like use geeks here (we know what a 404 means when we see it). I mean the other users.
Whatever.
Did you just imply that the editors ever read the articles?
I'm sure they do, from time to time. But what you should be asking is if they *comprehend* the articles...