You owe me a new keyboard; my old one is filled with coffee now. I'm just glad nobody else was in the office when I read that. I'd hate to explain what goatse was to my boss.
I used to do that until I got fed up with eBay raising their rates, and having to deal with shipping. Now I post the stuff I need to sell on craigslist. Since I'm in a major metro area, I usually get faster turnaround, and it's free!
I still buy things occasionally on eBay, but I will never sell anything there again.
Actually, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings is a senator from my home state of South Carolina. Thankfully he isn't going to be seeking re-election this November though.
We've been running Antigen at my company for at least 3 years. It uses multiple scanning engines on each email. We can also block any attachments that we want (based on file extensions). As a result, we haven't gotten hit with a single e-mail virus in the entire time it's been running. We receive hundreds of viruses a day(recently thousands thanks to MyDoom and Bagle), but it blocks every one.
There *are* docking stations for cell phones. I have just such an accessory for my Motorola StarTac phone. You just place the phone in the top (much like a desktop charger) and you can use it like a regular phone. It's got a jack so I could add an external antenna if I wanted one, but I haven't had a need for one yet.
Absolutely. And thankfully our management understands that. Our CFO (why he's over IT I'll never know) actually mentioned that in our last departmental meeting. He expects us to dress neatly, but if we're going to be running cable and moving around PC's, etc... then we can wear whatever the hell we want to that day.
Well, if you don't have a CC# then you have to give them a checking account number (which they charge extra for). Or at least that's how it was a few months ago when my in-laws tried it.
Ah yes, Ghost is a beautiful thing. My company uses Dells exclusively, and we have a ghost image for each different model we have. Instead of taking the better part of one day to do all the custom installations that our systems require, I can pop in a floppy that connects to our Ghost server and I've got a completed system (sans minor config changes) in under 20 minutes.
This was happening at least 3 years ago when South Park first came on the air. Since my college was too cheap to offer anything that closely resembled cable, I'd have to download them off of any number of sites so I could see that week's episode.
Mind you, I'm sure that's not the first time it happened, this was just my first experience with it.
For those of you who don't know, Philips is a huge multinational electronics corporation. They sell most of their wares here in the US under the Magnavox brand name.
Philips, by the way, was the main creator of the compact disc and as such holds the majority of patents on it.
This also works if you have a version of IE "Provided by X Company" and you don't want to advertise that company. Anyways, here's how to get to it (at least in Win2K)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer -> Main -> Window Title
Currently, mine says "It looks better in Mozilla"
Assuming that you have a Dell customer number, they have a seperate phone number for business support. I've had a number of problems that have come up in the 250+ Dells my company has at this site, and have never had a problem. As long as you tell them you're in the IT department and have followed their procedures for checking systems prior to calling (even if it isn't true) they will almost always fix the problem immediately and without a fuss.
As another SC resident, I can't wait to get rid of that old fool, and not just because of this... there are *plenty* of other reasons to hate Ol' Fritz. By the way, he comes up for re-election in 2004.
I agree about the one in Columbia. That one is actually run by people who know what they're doing (for the most part).
I moved to Greenville SC, and bought a PII-450 from them one day. They neglected to put it in a anti-static bag, and I was in a hurry so I forgot to tell them to do that. When the processor turned out to be bad(no surprise there!), I took it back, and got some hassles from the manager there. He exchanged the processor, but first tried to blame it on the fact that I hadn't bought a heatsink/fan from them. When I informed him that I already had bought a much better heatsink/fan combo that the stuff they sold there, and that I was a PC tech by profession, his attitude did a 180. Every other experience I've had at CR has been favorable though.
Once I got a call from a plant that had an old Novell server that needed to be cleaned out. The company produced cotton yarn, so this was a really dusty environment. They had an old Compaq 486DX2/66 server that had an uptime of almost 4 years! I wish I had my camera when I saw that. Try that with NT!
Apparently MP3.com is being sued by a company called Copyright.net. Here's another way that this company has dealt with supposed copyright infringment. This was lifted straight from the other article; flame me if you want for my unoriginality.
"Copyright.net has been known to embrace unorthodox methods to protect the rights of its songwriters and publishers. Privacy advocates criticized one initiative earlier this year to crack down on online infringement.
Copyright.net developed software that crawls through popular file-sharing services such as Napster, sniffing for unauthorized copies of songs whose rights it represents, including Roy Orbison's ``Pretty Woman.'' It then notifies the user's Internet service provider to terminate its online connection until the infringed work is removed."
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You owe me a new keyboard; my old one is filled with coffee now. I'm just glad nobody else was in the office when I read that. I'd hate to explain what goatse was to my boss.
I used to do that until I got fed up with eBay raising their rates, and having to deal with shipping. Now I post the stuff I need to sell on craigslist. Since I'm in a major metro area, I usually get faster turnaround, and it's free!
I still buy things occasionally on eBay, but I will never sell anything there again.
Hey! I smoke clove cigs, you insensitive clod!
Actually, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings is a senator from my home state of South Carolina. Thankfully he isn't going to be seeking re-election this November though.
We've been running Antigen at my company for at least 3 years. It uses multiple scanning engines on each email. We can also block any attachments that we want (based on file extensions). As a result, we haven't gotten hit with a single e-mail virus in the entire time it's been running. We receive hundreds of viruses a day(recently thousands thanks to MyDoom and Bagle), but it blocks every one.
"...the SEI is introducing Team Process Software (TPS)..."
So when will we see the almighty TPS reports?
There *are* docking stations for cell phones. I have just such an accessory for my Motorola StarTac phone. You just place the phone in the top (much like a desktop charger) and you can use it like a regular phone. It's got a jack so I could add an external antenna if I wanted one, but I haven't had a need for one yet.
Did anyone else find it ironic that they released "Master of Puppets", then became puppets of the RIAA years later?
Is it possible to moderate this whole article "-1, Troll"?
Absolutely. And thankfully our management understands that. Our CFO (why he's over IT I'll never know) actually mentioned that in our last departmental meeting. He expects us to dress neatly, but if we're going to be running cable and moving around PC's, etc... then we can wear whatever the hell we want to that day.
Well, if you don't have a CC# then you have to give them a checking account number (which they charge extra for). Or at least that's how it was a few months ago when my in-laws tried it.
Inconceivable!!
Point well taken. Now the question is who will make the Dell printers? I assume they wouldn't start completely from scratch...
Err... wasn't HP already in direct competition with Dell before they bought Compaq?
Ah yes, Ghost is a beautiful thing. My company uses Dells exclusively, and we have a ghost image for each different model we have. Instead of taking the better part of one day to do all the custom installations that our systems require, I can pop in a floppy that connects to our Ghost server and I've got a completed system (sans minor config changes) in under 20 minutes.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines!
This was happening at least 3 years ago when South Park first came on the air. Since my college was too cheap to offer anything that closely resembled cable, I'd have to download them off of any number of sites so I could see that week's episode.
Mind you, I'm sure that's not the first time it happened, this was just my first experience with it.
For those of you who don't know, Philips is a huge multinational electronics corporation. They sell most of their wares here in the US under the Magnavox brand name.
Philips, by the way, was the main creator of the compact disc and as such holds the majority of patents on it.
This also works if you have a version of IE "Provided by X Company" and you don't want to advertise that company. Anyways, here's how to get to it (at least in Win2K)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer -> Main -> Window Title
Currently, mine says "It looks better in Mozilla"
Assuming that you have a Dell customer number, they have a seperate phone number for business support. I've had a number of problems that have come up in the 250+ Dells my company has at this site, and have never had a problem. As long as you tell them you're in the IT department and have followed their procedures for checking systems prior to calling (even if it isn't true) they will almost always fix the problem immediately and without a fuss.
As another SC resident, I can't wait to get rid of that old fool, and not just because of this... there are *plenty* of other reasons to hate Ol' Fritz. By the way, he comes up for re-election in 2004.
I agree about the one in Columbia. That one is actually run by people who know what they're doing (for the most part).
I moved to Greenville SC, and bought a PII-450 from them one day. They neglected to put it in a anti-static bag, and I was in a hurry so I forgot to tell them to do that. When the processor turned out to be bad(no surprise there!), I took it back, and got some hassles from the manager there. He exchanged the processor, but first tried to blame it on the fact that I hadn't bought a heatsink/fan from them. When I informed him that I already had bought a much better heatsink/fan combo that the stuff they sold there, and that I was a PC tech by profession, his attitude did a 180. Every other experience I've had at CR has been favorable though.
"...very few people have the interest -- or the huevos -- to repartition their hard drives and install additional OSs..."
Huevos? Last time I checked, that meant eggs. So does that mean that if I had a dozen eggs with me, it would make my lilo config easier?
Once I got a call from a plant that had an old Novell server that needed to be cleaned out. The company produced cotton yarn, so this was a really dusty environment. They had an old Compaq 486DX2/66 server that had an uptime of almost 4 years! I wish I had my camera when I saw that. Try that with NT!
Apparently MP3.com is being sued by a company called Copyright.net. Here's another way that this company has dealt with supposed copyright infringment. This was lifted straight from the other article; flame me if you want for my unoriginality.
"Copyright.net has been known to embrace unorthodox methods to protect the rights of its songwriters and publishers. Privacy advocates criticized one initiative earlier this year to crack down on online infringement.
Copyright.net developed software that crawls through popular file-sharing services such as Napster, sniffing for unauthorized copies of songs whose rights it represents, including Roy Orbison's ``Pretty Woman.'' It then notifies the user's Internet service provider to terminate its online connection until the infringed work is removed."