Anyway, you obviously don't understand how fickle American politicians are. If a critical mass of rednecks in Florida or South Carolina get upset about something, you can bet politicians will be falling all over themselves to make it happen or pay serious lip service to it.
Right now, not too many people here care about the space program, hence no real support. What we* care about is avenging 9/11 (or 11/9 for depending on what side of the pond you're on). And by golly, if our President makes a claim that Portugal is somehow involved, you can bet there will be popular support for invading it too.
* We means majority, not me, myself, nor I.
btw, your comment about the unequal weight given to the lives on the shuttles is spot on. If those people died in a van on I-95 whilst driving to the site, no one would care.
So just lie and tell them it's a cell phone? I mean, it's not any more dishonest than the usual tactics they use to skirt laws. About time we can find a loophole ourselves. Besides, I might have forwarded my landline phone to my cell. I'd love to do that at times, but don't due to all the telemarketing calls it gets...
You can make a safe bet that if other countries start going into space, the U.S. will suddenly get a renewed interest in it. We can't have someone scoping out space on the moon or building weapons of mass destruction up there...
Remember, the only reason we went nuts in the 60s to get someone on the news was that the USSR was trying to do it and launched a human into orbit first.
I'm an IT guy, and I could use some training on the other end of the spectrum. I don't use many popular apps at all. Very rarily do I fire up an Office program, for example. I spend my days in a text editor changing config files, or banging out scripts of one thing or another.
Training classes for these programs are dead boring waste of time, so I usually can stumble through what I need to learn to get by if needed. But it'd be great to have app training for techies. Accelerated pace, no hand holding, just fire off what I need to know and answer questions quickly and accurately.
I'm always amazed at how people ask me questions about Office and when I say I don't use it, they can't believe it. But you're a computer guru!
This is one reason why us ignorant IT people hate this kind of stuff. Tracking down someone using an unregistered IP address on a subnet is a real PITA
I hear a lot in here about people afraid that anti-spam laws will go overboard.
How about laws that protect anti-spam activities? Laws to protect places like spamcop and spamhaus from lawsuit threats? Eliminate those bogus threats to sue for infringing on a spammers free speech.
A person should have the right not to receive e-mails. A site operator should have the right to block spam and protect their systems or to netblock out whoever they choose (if customers don't like it, they can go to an ISP that doesn't care). An ISP should have the right to TOS a spammer out. A network operator should have the right to shut down spammers without fear of frivilous lawsuits. Murdering spammers should be legalized, as a self-defensive measure.
OK, maybe that last one is a bit over the top!:)
Then there are the various trade practices laws that should be enforced or beefed up. If a spammer is advertising a commercial product, then advertising standards should be set and enforced, including valid identification information and reply address information, as well as scrutiny over claims. There are many (US) laws to control commercial speech, like the Lanham Act. This isn't the same as laws that might infringe on non-commercial speech, anonymous speech, etc. (This won't stop begging spam, but I'll at least not have to worry about ads for Vicodin, Xanax, and Viagra)
Also, have you noticed that even though a few locales spam laws specify a subject must begin with ADV: they often munge that trying to meet the "spirit" of that law but get around filters, like (ADV) or ADV at end of line or A*D*V or A D V -- etc etc... Laws have to be specific with penalties for trying to get around them...
How long before someone rights a nifty utility to monitor window titles and soon as one that has that dialog box pop up, does a sendkeys and clicks it automatically?
I'm curious, how do they get away with this? Or are you trying to circumvent the ticket escalation system?
Where I work, we have three groups, desktop support, systems support, and application support. Problems are to be initiated with the desktop support crew. If relevant, they'll escalate it within their own group or to systems support or app support as appropriate.
App support and Sys support are the guys with the "go away" note on the door because they spend so much time dealing with users telling them to please follow normal problem resolution paths. They are the ones who are working on long drawn-on planning and testing issues, who, if interrupted, often have to sit and try to re-engage their brain where they left off.
The problem is, these people are seen as the ultimate problem solvers (they are) so people want to self-escalate their petty desktop issue straight to the top tier folks.
This has a negative impact on the entire organization because these people can't get their work done if constantly interrupted, higher-level projects don't get rolled out in a timely basis, and basically, it's fiscally stupid to have a $25+/hr person solving issues that can be handled by a $10+/hr person.
It also hurts the entry-level staff. If they don't get exposed to problems and learn how to troubleshoot on their own and grow in their jobs, they'll never make it to those $25+/hr positions either.
Sorry, just one of my rants. Yes, we're all here to serve the "customer" whether internal or external, but an organization still needs structure. You don't go to a University President and ask for his help determining what class to pick. You don't have a surgeon spending time preping a patient for surgery, and a programmer trying to push out that critical new sitewide project shouldn't be expected to figure out why midi isn't working on a user's desktop system.
Thanks. I guess I thought it was unique to the product line, not unique to each piece. On a brighter note, maybe this will stop me from having to deal with backpack nazi's from digging through my backpack as I leave a store and claiming an item I purchased last week that is still in my backpack was just stolen from their store.
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OK, how do I stop from getting double charged for items? Like, I buy some books from Borders, then a week later walk into the same store with one or two of those books in my backpack? Or I buy a pack of smokes in one store, then walk into another one with that pack still in my pocket? Or buy some socks from BJs one week, then next week when I go there I'm wearing them.
I'm thinking of installing terminal server (leave it to microsoft to overload an old term) and throwing Office 2003 on it and allowing our faculty to use mstsc app to connect in and play with office 2003 before we roll it out to the desktops.
A common complaint from faculty is that we just show up one day and install new apps. Providing a term server so they can learn on the new software before deploying might pacify them.
Fascinating. We PXE boot many different floppy images, including the redhat install floppy, but how does one PXE boot an ISO image? Or can you somehow pxe boot a dos floppy with net support, connect to a knoppix directory, then loadlin it's kernel?
Sounds fascinating and I see many uses for this type of a setup in the college I work for.
Selfish me, you're right. Bill Gates really has worked a million times harder than most of us. Thanks for the enlightening post.
Seriously, while I have no problem with capitalism rewarding those who take the risks (and often screwing other risk takers), the scale *is* a bit off.
It's just a bit disgusting when these guys will get a few million dollar bonus for keeping the salaries of the people who helped made them rich down for example. Or get millions of bucks even if they run a company into the ground, bankrupt it, and screw all of the stockholders and employees.
grr, it is a big deal when user's keep calling the help desk wasting tech time asking what they are about, that they never sent that person a message, etc, etc...
You can use different mailbox format with uw-imap. We use "mbx" which works just fine with more than one imap process accessing a folder. Multiple access is only a problem with "unix" format folders and that format is only there to be compatible with other mail tools if needed. Unless your uses want to run elm or something like that, no worries.
If you use pam to auth against an external box, you still need some sort of unix acccount for the uid info. We use pam and wu-imap with pam_krb5 to auth against our active directory server. Each user has a unix account and home dir (with locked password).
Yeah, don't get me wrong. SUS is definitely worth the deployment effort, and it's dead simple to deploy if you have active directory already. It could just be better, that's all! How can Microsoft let Redhat show em up?!:)
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Anyway, you obviously don't understand how fickle American politicians are. If a critical mass of rednecks in Florida or South Carolina get upset about something, you can bet politicians will be falling all over themselves to make it happen or pay serious lip service to it.
Right now, not too many people here care about the space program, hence no real support. What we* care about is avenging 9/11 (or 11/9 for depending on what side of the pond you're on). And by golly, if our President makes a claim that Portugal is somehow involved, you can bet there will be popular support for invading it too.
* We means majority, not me, myself, nor I.
btw, your comment about the unequal weight given to the lives on the shuttles is spot on. If those people died in a van on I-95 whilst driving to the site, no one would care.
So just lie and tell them it's a cell phone? I mean, it's not any more dishonest than the usual tactics they use to skirt laws. About time we can find a loophole ourselves. Besides, I might have forwarded my landline phone to my cell. I'd love to do that at times, but don't due to all the telemarketing calls it gets...
Remember, the only reason we went nuts in the 60s to get someone on the news was that the USSR was trying to do it and launched a human into orbit first.
Training classes for these programs are dead boring waste of time, so I usually can stumble through what I need to learn to get by if needed. But it'd be great to have app training for techies. Accelerated pace, no hand holding, just fire off what I need to know and answer questions quickly and accurately.
I'm always amazed at how people ask me questions about Office and when I say I don't use it, they can't believe it. But you're a computer guru!
This is one reason why us ignorant IT people hate this kind of stuff. Tracking down someone using an unregistered IP address on a subnet is a real PITA
How about laws that protect anti-spam activities? Laws to protect places like spamcop and spamhaus from lawsuit threats? Eliminate those bogus threats to sue for infringing on a spammers free speech.
A person should have the right not to receive e-mails. A site operator should have the right to block spam and protect their systems or to netblock out whoever they choose (if customers don't like it, they can go to an ISP that doesn't care). An ISP should have the right to TOS a spammer out. A network operator should have the right to shut down spammers without fear of frivilous lawsuits. Murdering spammers should be legalized, as a self-defensive measure.
OK, maybe that last one is a bit over the top! :)
Then there are the various trade practices laws that should be enforced or beefed up. If a spammer is advertising a commercial product, then advertising standards should be set and enforced, including valid identification information and reply address information, as well as scrutiny over claims. There are many (US) laws to control commercial speech, like the Lanham Act. This isn't the same as laws that might infringe on non-commercial speech, anonymous speech, etc. (This won't stop begging spam, but I'll at least not have to worry about ads for Vicodin, Xanax, and Viagra)
Also, have you noticed that even though a few locales spam laws specify a subject must begin with ADV: they often munge that trying to meet the "spirit" of that law but get around filters, like (ADV) or ADV at end of line or A*D*V or A D V -- etc etc... Laws have to be specific with penalties for trying to get around them...
How long before someone rights a nifty utility to monitor window titles and soon as one that has that dialog box pop up, does a sendkeys and clicks it automatically?
Where I work, we have three groups, desktop support, systems support, and application support. Problems are to be initiated with the desktop support crew. If relevant, they'll escalate it within their own group or to systems support or app support as appropriate.
App support and Sys support are the guys with the "go away" note on the door because they spend so much time dealing with users telling them to please follow normal problem resolution paths. They are the ones who are working on long drawn-on planning and testing issues, who, if interrupted, often have to sit and try to re-engage their brain where they left off.
The problem is, these people are seen as the ultimate problem solvers (they are) so people want to self-escalate their petty desktop issue straight to the top tier folks.
This has a negative impact on the entire organization because these people can't get their work done if constantly interrupted, higher-level projects don't get rolled out in a timely basis, and basically, it's fiscally stupid to have a $25+/hr person solving issues that can be handled by a $10+/hr person.
It also hurts the entry-level staff. If they don't get exposed to problems and learn how to troubleshoot on their own and grow in their jobs, they'll never make it to those $25+/hr positions either.
Sorry, just one of my rants. Yes, we're all here to serve the "customer" whether internal or external, but an organization still needs structure. You don't go to a University President and ask for his help determining what class to pick. You don't have a surgeon spending time preping a patient for surgery, and a programmer trying to push out that critical new sitewide project shouldn't be expected to figure out why midi isn't working on a user's desktop system.
Who is Darl McBride, CEO of SCO Group? (SCOX)
I'll take assholes for $400 please.
One call per person to voice an opinion shouldn't be illegal. If you call over and over, then that *IS* harassment.
Shout outs to my peeps in Oregon and New Hampshire too! :)
Thanks. I guess I thought it was unique to the product line, not unique to each piece. On a brighter note, maybe this will stop me from having to deal with backpack nazi's from digging through my backpack as I leave a store and claiming an item I purchased last week that is still in my backpack was just stolen from their store.
OK, how do I stop from getting double charged for items? Like, I buy some books from Borders, then a week later walk into the same store with one or two of those books in my backpack? Or I buy a pack of smokes in one store, then walk into another one with that pack still in my pocket? Or buy some socks from BJs one week, then next week when I go there I'm wearing them.
Didn't quite a few of the Microsoft hotfixes credit the Samba team for finding the weaknesses and bringing it to Microsoft's attention?
A common complaint from faculty is that we just show up one day and install new apps. Providing a term server so they can learn on the new software before deploying might pacify them.
Is it possible to PXE boot an rdesktop or mstsc client of some sort to get into a windows terminal server?
Sounds fascinating and I see many uses for this type of a setup in the college I work for.
Weave's rushed tongue-in-cheek SUV vs JAVA comparison:
Seriously, while I have no problem with capitalism rewarding those who take the risks (and often screwing other risk takers), the scale *is* a bit off.
It's just a bit disgusting when these guys will get a few million dollar bonus for keeping the salaries of the people who helped made them rich down for example. Or get millions of bucks even if they run a company into the ground, bankrupt it, and screw all of the stockholders and employees.
Does that mean people in Canada can download all they want without fear, since they've already paid the royalties?
grr, it is a big deal when user's keep calling the help desk wasting tech time asking what they are about, that they never sent that person a message, etc, etc...
You can use different mailbox format with uw-imap. We use "mbx" which works just fine with more than one imap process accessing a folder. Multiple access is only a problem with "unix" format folders and that format is only there to be compatible with other mail tools if needed. Unless your uses want to run elm or something like that, no worries.
If you use pam to auth against an external box, you still need some sort of unix acccount for the uid info. We use pam and wu-imap with pam_krb5 to auth against our active directory server. Each user has a unix account and home dir (with locked password).
Yeah, don't get me wrong. SUS is definitely worth the deployment effort, and it's dead simple to deploy if you have active directory already. It could just be better, that's all! How can Microsoft let Redhat show em up?! :)
Microsoft should look at redhat's RHN to see how to do remote patch deployment.
Oh, and SUS doesn't patch Office hotfixes, and there's a critical one of them recently. RHN will also patch up applications if needed.