It's not safe to install IIS while on a network...
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With this high a number if scans it is now suicidal to install IIS while connected to the net. Chances are very good that your box will get compromised before you have a chance to apply the patch, even if you do so right away. And since people can easily set up a reverse hack to automatically do other nasty stuff to your box after THEY get probed, the risk is even higher.
Solution, never ever have your box plugged into the network while installing a Windows server. Only plug it in after all patches, service packs, and hot fixes have been applied first.
The problem as I see it is that Microsoft has put a pretty front-end GUI on everything and thereby allowed idiots to believe they can be a sysadmin.
Agreed. But Microsoft throws out marketing crap saying that it is so much easier to administer than Unix servers and will save your company tons of administrative costs, but then turns around and claims a sys admin needs to have several thousand dollars in training to administer one. Which is it?
And getting back to my original note, saying FTP service was probably a bad example. I'm not an idiot, we are trained mainly on the UNIX side of the house and our main web server is Apache. When it came to set up a file and print server, THAT is what was studied up on and that is all we wanted on that server. I swear the most innocent things turned on IIS and I did not want it installed without knowing how to administer it correctly.
So just because one doesn't know the Microsoft server world inside out doesn't make them any more of an idiot than an MCSE or whatever not knowing squat about UNIX. The idiot is one who sets up services like IIS without knowing how to administer it correctly and the point of my exercise was NOT to install the damn thing cause of it...
Sigh...
File and Print service. Remember that? I didn't want all the other damn bloat in this particular case.. (Wishing I had just set up a Samba server for that particular project. Would have been a lot easier....)
It could replicate itself across thousands of servers ? usually because the owners were never aware that Microsoft software had turned their computer into a server in the first place.
We set up a simple win2k file server and specifically did not want IIS installed. There are a LOT of things on 2000 server that depends on it and if you check them on during the install, it will silently recheck IIS again. Want to just run an ftp server? It installs IIS.
We had to go back and uncheck IIS three separate times during the install. Another server done by another tech had IIS after I specifically put in a work order NOT to install it. He swears he didn't.
I believe him.
It's as bad as the original various linux distro installs enabling every damn service under the sun (no pun intended) during an install.
Don't believe me? Just watch your code red hits on your web server and go to the sites that nail you. Most of them have either the default page or "directory listing denied" message. They are not big corporate servers for the most part that I've seen... That leads me to believe that a lot of these people don't even know IIS is running on their server...
Most slashdot readers are young. One day you'll be cursed and promoted into management, then decision making jobs. Don't forget this kind of crap. Don't grow old and start buying default corporate lines, etc, etc...
When *I* was a youngin, IBM could do no wrong with many decision makers. I swore I'd never have my head in my ass when I got into decision making positions.
Now I'm 42 and one step away from making the decisions. I can INFLUENCE them now, and due to that, we run Apache for our web servers, I've stopped any thought of IIS from being implemented, and run Linux where possible and NT reluctuntly in some applications....
So don't forget this stuff. Microsoft may gain that market share, but one day hopefully pointy-haired bosses will be a bit better educated and make better decisions and not get sucked in by marketing hype.
Agreed. I don't know if it is still true, but years ago in the UK the ads there were VERY entertaining. The reason? They didn't run ads in the middle of programs on the commercial stations at the time, just between programs. So you might get 10 minutes of ads at once. So to keep people watching, the ads were almost always entertaining to watch.
Now that UK has more stations, cable, etc, this may have changed. But it used to be like that.
Which reminds me of a funny story. About 20 years ago I was watching TV with my cousin and her parents when an ad for Double-Decker candy bar came on. Some stupid jingle that sang something like "Eat double decker candy bars, it'll help keep your pecker up."
I was laughing so hard my eyes were streaming while these proper english folks were staring at that crazy American without a clue that pecker meant one's male member and not your chin in the U.S. I was crying as I said "Damn, I'm going to buy me a few cases of those things."
Not in a country like you appear to be from where their government is in
bed with Microsoft.:-)
It's called a slippery slope, and my comments were mainly about Passport, not Mono (and based on what I read in the article from Miguel). As an IT manager, I've been shown a Microsoft promotional video of how great the future is, with cutesy little families accessing windows everywhere on all types of devices to buy stuff, communicate, beam medical records here and there, etc, etc... It's a video about the life of this clumsy goof who forgets his cell phone, gets run over by a bicycle delivery person, and some other silly things. Ever seen it? It's the vision Microsoft has for us, and that's what they'd like to see happen. It gave me shivers.
So, as an IT decision maker, you are saying that I shouldn't be concerned about where everything is going? When someone in my company proposes that we move authentication to passport, I shouldn't be worried? That when someone proposes we outsource a lot of our functionality to some.NET service or whatever it is, I shouldn't be the least bit concerned?
As for the end-user end, which is what my comments were based on, beings that I deal heavily with American Express AND e-bay, having them switch authentication to passport will force me to either go along or shop elsewhere. Shopping elsewhere is often a pain-in-the ass. What happens when my choices keep dwindling down and down? I think most people will just give in and get a passport account.
Please explain to me why I shouldn't be concerned about it from this perspective.
look hailstorm is Microsoft and passport is microsoft YOU DONT HAVE TO USE THEM !
That's going to get tougher and tougher. How far are you willing to go? I noticed it was mentioned that American Express and Ebay are going to start using it. Oh joy.
One by one, your favorite addiction or need is going to migrate to this and at one point, you'll collapse cause basically, humans have a herd mentality and everyone else is going to do it. So you'll either fall in line or you'll end up a recluse in some shack in Minnesota.
It's fucking scarey. Over reacting? Maybe. But after listening to my father preach (er, he *is* a Reverand) about the end times, mark of the beast, and about how those that refuse to adopt the mark of the beast will be unable to buy or sell, this scheme has a lot of the same ideas.
Maybe Gates is the anti-Christ! I used to think the entire "one world" idea in the book of Revelation in the Bible could never happen because the countries of this world can never agree on anything. But they all seem to have agreed to install Microsoft on their computers...
But seriously, the only thing that will stop this is some grossly inaccurate scare-tactic rumor spread through the churches of the world accusing Microsoft of being an agent of the devil.
So remember this when you reach the decision about what to do when your favorite sites and businesses change over to Passport.
p.s. No, I don't think Gates is the anti-christ. He just has an obligation to his shareholders (and his own power trips) to lock everyone into Microsoft so they can leverage their installed base to sustain their insane growth. But if they can use fear mongering and step around truths when attacking GPL, then hell, why not!:)
p.p.s. While humans have a herd mentality, they don't like to think they are part of it. Witness any fad and how quickly it rises and falls. Remember the killer minivan market in the U.S. 15 years ago? When every Mom started buying Minivans instead of station wagons, the market took off like mad. Then when they all realized they were all driving the same thing, it became very uncool and they all started to run out and buy big-ass SUVs to be different. Now all soccer moms drive SUVs. So there is some hope for the world after all...:-)
That's pretty silly when you think about it. A C: drive, the syntax (C:) etc... It's as weird as anything under Linux. It's just that users have learned this one since the beginning of time, er, MS/DOS epoch, so now they expect the same kind of sillyness.
We need to corrupt our youth at an early age so when they are exposed to the Windows world, they'll be like "Drive letters? How fucking primitive!":-)
If a large computer manufacturer was willing to install opera, I think they'd be willing to sell licenses in bulk for a buck or two. That could translate out to a revenue boost of a million or two bucks that they'd normally not get. How many people actually download and pay for Opera anyway?
An Athlon 1200 based system for ~$750 WITH a 17" monitor and 128 MB of RAM? What possible application could a potential PC buyer have that needs more power than that?
Converting a one hour MPEG-2 recording to MPEG-1 so I can burn it to a VCD. This can take about 2 hours on a P3-933. You can never have enough CPU.
Of course, this has nothing to do with XP making PCs sell well. Your point is well taken. I'm just nitpicking the idea that we have all the CPU power we could ever use!
Personally, with all of the nosey crap and DRM junk in XP, I'll not be installing it anywhere on my machines. I can live without WMP 8 thank you.
As a tech manager of 25 I find this statement can be pretty damaging. Maybe true, but practically and easily? I'm tired of being reminded this when I'm trying to push for benefits, concessions, perks, or whatever, for my staff.
Unless you're permitted to offer what the market will bear salary wise and can step around silly H.R. rules, this is not entirely true. Losing a talented person can be a real hit, and the smaller you are, the bigger the overall hit.
I work at an educational institution. There are a lot of non-salaried perks here including job security (our "owner" is the state which is unlikely to go out of business or be bought out), college atmosphere, etc. But the pay isn't "market" either. Furthermore, in the realm of trying to be fair and non-discriminatory, I'm restricted in recruiting methods. For example, I had the hardest time getting approval to give out a skills test to applicants since it might be biased (yeah, it is, against stupid people and tech buzzword bullshitters).
All of this adds up to making it a bear to replace people and increasing the risk of hiring a mediocre person. And in government, firing mediocrity is almost impossible. You have to be really bad to get the sack.
So the noble goal of trying to increase the value of my unit's function to the institution, I need to try to maximize the talent on board and minimize the need for some staff to carry others and hence decrease overall productivity and effectiveness. This is not as easy as it sounds.
Microsoft already heavily discounts software for schools. I can buy full blown Office licenses under their select program for under $50 for example. At those prices, it's not worth it to pirate it.
What the school systems have problems with is the personnel to enforce licensing, the resistance to lock down teacher machines to prevent software installs since they claim they need to install educational software, stuff that comes with texts, etc, etc... Ensuring license compliance is tough in a school, even if the school administration is doing all they can to be legal.
What I find highly disgusting is Microsoft trying to profit from this situation by nailing them to the cross instead of trying to work with them to make them legal at the cost of the licenses.
For example, one program Microsoft has is to sell unlimited per-seat site licensing for their software based on the number of FTE (full-time equivalent) staff. This agreement includes installations on student lab PCs of an unlimited number of copies. It's called the "Campus Agreement" and would be ideal in many of these cases. They should approach the schools and offer that to them with no penalties and not force them to do a costly audit and in real hard-luck cases, offer them grants to help pay for it (and since it's only a paper license, the marginal cost to Microsoft is almost zero...)
This frees up the school from a costly logistical nightmare. Now why the hell can't Microsoft work with the schools instead of trying to make examples out of them?
*67 will NOT prevent calls to toll free numbers from getting your phone number.
Toll free numbers get "ANI" delivered to them, not Caller ID. ANI can not be blocked. The theory is, they are paying for the call, they have the right to know who is calling them. (Ironic, in the case of spammers, eh?!)
Nope. Same idea, but a houseful (about 4 or 5) of adults who were supposed to just live on stuff purchased over the net. Kind of typical of Microsoft, take someone else's idea, rework it, and pass it off as original!:-)
What ever happened to that MSN house?
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I remember seeing some stupid MSN commercial a year or two ago about a bunch of people being locked in a house and had to live totally on stuff purchased over the net. They acted like this was going to be some reality-type series of TV commercials. Since I don't watch TV often, I never saw another.
Are these people still locked up in the house? Maybe they better get rescued cause it looks like they are all going to starve to death now!
Beings that Opera can disguise itself as the other big user agents, it's a nice touch that your module doesn't exclude opera users!:)
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My brother, whose work requires a pick-up truck he can be the crap out of, was complaining about how yuppies have driven up the prices of real utility vehicles. 10 years ago, a Ford Ranger was cheaper than a Ford Escort. No more.
It breaks down to the right tool for the right job. Some people spend a helluva lot of time in their vehicles so I'm not about to claim they should not enjoy some luxury. And the soccer moms out there don't want to buy a mini-van because of the image of it being a soccer-mom vehicle, so they need a SUV with equal human cargo capacity. OK, fine (but it's still a soccer-mom vehicle!). But by golly, a Cadillac pick-up truck? Why? It's just ridiculous. You take a truck chassis, then over engineer the shit out of it to make it drive like a car. Just buy a friggin luxury car and if you really need to go to Home Depot to haul some goods once in a while, rent a real pick-up truck...
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If all the icecaps melted, would NYC really be flooded to those depths? It looked like it covered about 30-40 stories, or 600 feet or so. That's a helluva lot of sea level rise.
But my big question is, the ice. It couldn't of just froze like that. If the planet cooled itself over time, the poles would start to freeze again and weather patterns would slowly drop more precipitation on the poles where it would then refreeze again. All this meaning the water levels should go down first and then an ice age would begin and the ice flows would descend down from the poles. Correct?
And of course, if so, none of those skyscrapers would still be standing. If an ice flow can sheer off a mountain, the World Trade Center isn't going to be able to resist it!
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Who are you to decide what we should drive?
Who said anything about deciding what you should drive? If I see one of those things, I'm perfectly free to think the driver is an idiot. I never advocated banning the things. If a company realizes there is a market for these things and there are people who'd pay $50,000 for one, then God bless them...
What I don't get is, why are a lot of SUV owners so damn sensitive about the fact that a lot of people think they are silly? Did they buy the thing looking to impress others and are now upset that not everyone thinks they are cool or something?
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It costs $50,000. I'm at a loss. A pick-up truck is supposed to be a REAL utility vehicle, not some super-luxurious penis-enlarging toy. Just
look at this thing.... Is someone going to haul a load of manure in this thing? Or throw a bunch of lumber in the back? What good is it for?
Oh, and for our foreign readers, you can't imagine how big that really is from the pictures. Here's a hint. The wheels are 17 inchers and they look tiny compared to the rest of that vehicle.... It's 221" long, 91.5" wide, and 75.6" tall.
(On second thought, you probably STILL can't imagine how big it is since the measurements aren't metric...:)
If the federal government agencies even threatened to bail from purchasing all microsoft software, they'd probably be able to pressure Microsoft into doing whatever they want them to do (or not do).
I feel little sorrow for people bitching about Microsoft yet continue to buy and use their software. How much does the federal government pay Microsoft each year in license fees anyway? Can you imagine if each federal agency went to computer makers and demanded "naked" PCs or lose the sale? Or if the federal government committed to buying Corel office products for example? It'd give enough cash boost to whatever Microsoft competitor that exists to make them a very viable competitor.
The problem is not the last mile necessarily. For example, I have cable modem service and it is "capable" of 36 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up. Do I get that? Hell no. I get 1.5 down and a pitiful 128K up. Why? Because they can't support the backbone bandwidth required if all of those last mile people with fat pipes decided to grab the Swordfish DIVX from a.b.m at the same time.
p.s. I wasted $8.00 on that stupid movie. Except for some cool explosions and a pair of breasts, it's not worth the bandwidth to even steal the damn thing. Yet another stupid Travolta flop. Fuck Hubbard, if Travolta wants success, he should stick to the Church of Tarantino...
If you ever get a ticket for running a light in this manner, go back to the intersection and time how long the yellow light lasts.
Be careful with this approach. There are formulas out there for determining how long the yellow phase should last in relation to the speed limit of the road they are on.
In other words, city streets with a speed limit of 25 or 30 have much shorter yellows than a boulevard with a speed limit of 50 or 60. This topic is discussed from time to time in the misc.transport.road newsgroup.
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Solution, never ever have your box plugged into the network while installing a Windows server. Only plug it in after all patches, service packs, and hot fixes have been applied first.
Agreed. But Microsoft throws out marketing crap saying that it is so much easier to administer than Unix servers and will save your company tons of administrative costs, but then turns around and claims a sys admin needs to have several thousand dollars in training to administer one. Which is it?
And getting back to my original note, saying FTP service was probably a bad example. I'm not an idiot, we are trained mainly on the UNIX side of the house and our main web server is Apache. When it came to set up a file and print server, THAT is what was studied up on and that is all we wanted on that server. I swear the most innocent things turned on IIS and I did not want it installed without knowing how to administer it correctly.
So just because one doesn't know the Microsoft server world inside out doesn't make them any more of an idiot than an MCSE or whatever not knowing squat about UNIX. The idiot is one who sets up services like IIS without knowing how to administer it correctly and the point of my exercise was NOT to install the damn thing cause of it...
Sigh...
File and Print service. Remember that? I didn't want all the other damn bloat in this particular case.. (Wishing I had just set up a Samba server for that particular project. Would have been a lot easier....)
It could replicate itself across thousands of servers ? usually because the owners were never aware that Microsoft software had turned their computer into a server in the first place.
We set up a simple win2k file server and specifically did not want IIS installed. There are a LOT of things on 2000 server that depends on it and if you check them on during the install, it will silently recheck IIS again. Want to just run an ftp server? It installs IIS.
We had to go back and uncheck IIS three separate times during the install. Another server done by another tech had IIS after I specifically put in a work order NOT to install it. He swears he didn't. I believe him.
It's as bad as the original various linux distro installs enabling every damn service under the sun (no pun intended) during an install.
Don't believe me? Just watch your code red hits on your web server and go to the sites that nail you. Most of them have either the default page or "directory listing denied" message. They are not big corporate servers for the most part that I've seen... That leads me to believe that a lot of these people don't even know IIS is running on their server...
When *I* was a youngin, IBM could do no wrong with many decision makers. I swore I'd never have my head in my ass when I got into decision making positions.
Now I'm 42 and one step away from making the decisions. I can INFLUENCE them now, and due to that, we run Apache for our web servers, I've stopped any thought of IIS from being implemented, and run Linux where possible and NT reluctuntly in some applications....
So don't forget this stuff. Microsoft may gain that market share, but one day hopefully pointy-haired bosses will be a bit better educated and make better decisions and not get sucked in by marketing hype.
Oh, I can dream, I can dream...
Now that UK has more stations, cable, etc, this may have changed. But it used to be like that.
Which reminds me of a funny story. About 20 years ago I was watching TV with my cousin and her parents when an ad for Double-Decker candy bar came on. Some stupid jingle that sang something like "Eat double decker candy bars, it'll help keep your pecker up."
I was laughing so hard my eyes were streaming while these proper english folks were staring at that crazy American without a clue that pecker meant one's male member and not your chin in the U.S. I was crying as I said "Damn, I'm going to buy me a few cases of those things."
Not totally...
Not in a country like you appear to be from where their government is in bed with Microsoft. :-)
It's called a slippery slope, and my comments were mainly about Passport, not Mono (and based on what I read in the article from Miguel). As an IT manager, I've been shown a Microsoft promotional video of how great the future is, with cutesy little families accessing windows everywhere on all types of devices to buy stuff, communicate, beam medical records here and there, etc, etc... It's a video about the life of this clumsy goof who forgets his cell phone, gets run over by a bicycle delivery person, and some other silly things. Ever seen it? It's the vision Microsoft has for us, and that's what they'd like to see happen. It gave me shivers.
So, as an IT decision maker, you are saying that I shouldn't be concerned about where everything is going? When someone in my company proposes that we move authentication to passport, I shouldn't be worried? That when someone proposes we outsource a lot of our functionality to some .NET service or whatever it is, I shouldn't be the least bit concerned?
As for the end-user end, which is what my comments were based on, beings that I deal heavily with American Express AND e-bay, having them switch authentication to passport will force me to either go along or shop elsewhere. Shopping elsewhere is often a pain-in-the ass. What happens when my choices keep dwindling down and down? I think most people will just give in and get a passport account.
Please explain to me why I shouldn't be concerned about it from this perspective.
That's going to get tougher and tougher. How far are you willing to go? I noticed it was mentioned that American Express and Ebay are going to start using it. Oh joy.
One by one, your favorite addiction or need is going to migrate to this and at one point, you'll collapse cause basically, humans have a herd mentality and everyone else is going to do it. So you'll either fall in line or you'll end up a recluse in some shack in Minnesota.
It's fucking scarey. Over reacting? Maybe. But after listening to my father preach (er, he *is* a Reverand) about the end times, mark of the beast, and about how those that refuse to adopt the mark of the beast will be unable to buy or sell, this scheme has a lot of the same ideas.
Maybe Gates is the anti-Christ! I used to think the entire "one world" idea in the book of Revelation in the Bible could never happen because the countries of this world can never agree on anything. But they all seem to have agreed to install Microsoft on their computers...
But seriously, the only thing that will stop this is some grossly inaccurate scare-tactic rumor spread through the churches of the world accusing Microsoft of being an agent of the devil.
So remember this when you reach the decision about what to do when your favorite sites and businesses change over to Passport.
p.s. No, I don't think Gates is the anti-christ. He just has an obligation to his shareholders (and his own power trips) to lock everyone into Microsoft so they can leverage their installed base to sustain their insane growth. But if they can use fear mongering and step around truths when attacking GPL, then hell, why not! :)
p.p.s. While humans have a herd mentality, they don't like to think they are part of it. Witness any fad and how quickly it rises and falls. Remember the killer minivan market in the U.S. 15 years ago? When every Mom started buying Minivans instead of station wagons, the market took off like mad. Then when they all realized they were all driving the same thing, it became very uncool and they all started to run out and buy big-ass SUVs to be different. Now all soccer moms drive SUVs. So there is some hope for the world after all... :-)
That's pretty silly when you think about it. A C: drive, the syntax (C:) etc... It's as weird as anything under Linux. It's just that users have learned this one since the beginning of time, er, MS/DOS epoch, so now they expect the same kind of sillyness.
We need to corrupt our youth at an early age so when they are exposed to the Windows world, they'll be like "Drive letters? How fucking primitive!" :-)
If a large computer manufacturer was willing to install opera, I think they'd be willing to sell licenses in bulk for a buck or two. That could translate out to a revenue boost of a million or two bucks that they'd normally not get. How many people actually download and pay for Opera anyway?
Converting a one hour MPEG-2 recording to MPEG-1 so I can burn it to a VCD. This can take about 2 hours on a P3-933. You can never have enough CPU.
Of course, this has nothing to do with XP making PCs sell well. Your point is well taken. I'm just nitpicking the idea that we have all the CPU power we could ever use!
Personally, with all of the nosey crap and DRM junk in XP, I'll not be installing it anywhere on my machines. I can live without WMP 8 thank you.
True. I only directly manage four. They in turn manage the others. In total, I have 25 staff that I am responsible for.
As a tech manager of 25 I find this statement can be pretty damaging. Maybe true, but practically and easily? I'm tired of being reminded this when I'm trying to push for benefits, concessions, perks, or whatever, for my staff.
Unless you're permitted to offer what the market will bear salary wise and can step around silly H.R. rules, this is not entirely true. Losing a talented person can be a real hit, and the smaller you are, the bigger the overall hit.
I work at an educational institution. There are a lot of non-salaried perks here including job security (our "owner" is the state which is unlikely to go out of business or be bought out), college atmosphere, etc. But the pay isn't "market" either. Furthermore, in the realm of trying to be fair and non-discriminatory, I'm restricted in recruiting methods. For example, I had the hardest time getting approval to give out a skills test to applicants since it might be biased (yeah, it is, against stupid people and tech buzzword bullshitters).
All of this adds up to making it a bear to replace people and increasing the risk of hiring a mediocre person. And in government, firing mediocrity is almost impossible. You have to be really bad to get the sack.
So the noble goal of trying to increase the value of my unit's function to the institution, I need to try to maximize the talent on board and minimize the need for some staff to carry others and hence decrease overall productivity and effectiveness. This is not as easy as it sounds.
What the school systems have problems with is the personnel to enforce licensing, the resistance to lock down teacher machines to prevent software installs since they claim they need to install educational software, stuff that comes with texts, etc, etc... Ensuring license compliance is tough in a school, even if the school administration is doing all they can to be legal.
What I find highly disgusting is Microsoft trying to profit from this situation by nailing them to the cross instead of trying to work with them to make them legal at the cost of the licenses.
For example, one program Microsoft has is to sell unlimited per-seat site licensing for their software based on the number of FTE (full-time equivalent) staff. This agreement includes installations on student lab PCs of an unlimited number of copies. It's called the "Campus Agreement" and would be ideal in many of these cases. They should approach the schools and offer that to them with no penalties and not force them to do a costly audit and in real hard-luck cases, offer them grants to help pay for it (and since it's only a paper license, the marginal cost to Microsoft is almost zero...)
This frees up the school from a costly logistical nightmare. Now why the hell can't Microsoft work with the schools instead of trying to make examples out of them?
Toll free numbers get "ANI" delivered to them, not Caller ID. ANI can not be blocked. The theory is, they are paying for the call, they have the right to know who is calling them. (Ironic, in the case of spammers, eh?!)
Nope. Same idea, but a houseful (about 4 or 5) of adults who were supposed to just live on stuff purchased over the net. Kind of typical of Microsoft, take someone else's idea, rework it, and pass it off as original! :-)
Are these people still locked up in the house? Maybe they better get rescued cause it looks like they are all going to starve to death now!
Beings that Opera can disguise itself as the other big user agents, it's a nice touch that your module doesn't exclude opera users! :)
It breaks down to the right tool for the right job. Some people spend a helluva lot of time in their vehicles so I'm not about to claim they should not enjoy some luxury. And the soccer moms out there don't want to buy a mini-van because of the image of it being a soccer-mom vehicle, so they need a SUV with equal human cargo capacity. OK, fine (but it's still a soccer-mom vehicle!). But by golly, a Cadillac pick-up truck? Why? It's just ridiculous. You take a truck chassis, then over engineer the shit out of it to make it drive like a car. Just buy a friggin luxury car and if you really need to go to Home Depot to haul some goods once in a while, rent a real pick-up truck...
But my big question is, the ice. It couldn't of just froze like that. If the planet cooled itself over time, the poles would start to freeze again and weather patterns would slowly drop more precipitation on the poles where it would then refreeze again. All this meaning the water levels should go down first and then an ice age would begin and the ice flows would descend down from the poles. Correct?
And of course, if so, none of those skyscrapers would still be standing. If an ice flow can sheer off a mountain, the World Trade Center isn't going to be able to resist it!
Who said anything about deciding what you should drive? If I see one of those things, I'm perfectly free to think the driver is an idiot. I never advocated banning the things. If a company realizes there is a market for these things and there are people who'd pay $50,000 for one, then God bless them...
What I don't get is, why are a lot of SUV owners so damn sensitive about the fact that a lot of people think they are silly? Did they buy the thing looking to impress others and are now upset that not everyone thinks they are cool or something?
It costs $50,000. I'm at a loss. A pick-up truck is supposed to be a REAL utility vehicle, not some super-luxurious penis-enlarging toy. Just look at this thing.... Is someone going to haul a load of manure in this thing? Or throw a bunch of lumber in the back? What good is it for?
Oh, and for our foreign readers, you can't imagine how big that really is from the pictures. Here's a hint. The wheels are 17 inchers and they look tiny compared to the rest of that vehicle.... It's 221" long, 91.5" wide, and 75.6" tall.
(On second thought, you probably STILL can't imagine how big it is since the measurements aren't metric... :)
If the federal government agencies even threatened to bail from purchasing all microsoft software, they'd probably be able to pressure Microsoft into doing whatever they want them to do (or not do).
I feel little sorrow for people bitching about Microsoft yet continue to buy and use their software. How much does the federal government pay Microsoft each year in license fees anyway? Can you imagine if each federal agency went to computer makers and demanded "naked" PCs or lose the sale? Or if the federal government committed to buying Corel office products for example? It'd give enough cash boost to whatever Microsoft competitor that exists to make them a very viable competitor.
p.s. I wasted $8.00 on that stupid movie. Except for some cool explosions and a pair of breasts, it's not worth the bandwidth to even steal the damn thing. Yet another stupid Travolta flop. Fuck Hubbard, if Travolta wants success, he should stick to the Church of Tarantino...
Well, if you listen to Gates, since Linux is mostly GPL, "Red" Hat fits (think communism).
Be careful with this approach. There are formulas out there for determining how long the yellow phase should last in relation to the speed limit of the road they are on.
In other words, city streets with a speed limit of 25 or 30 have much shorter yellows than a boulevard with a speed limit of 50 or 60. This topic is discussed from time to time in the misc.transport.road newsgroup.