This is why when in a jam the best thing for people to do is calm down and change their speed slowly to even out the speed. This means trying to predict the average speed ahead of you and do your best to maintain an even speed, even if slow. Yes, impatient drivers will move in in front of you, but they are also most likely to jump back out of in front of you in a bit too.
Getting next to a truck doing the same thing helps. Pressing out the waves is what will get traffic moving again for those behind you.
There is one nice feature of RMS (if I understand it correctly, have never used it before)...
The idea of being able to time-bomb documents appeals to me!:)
However, I'm betting there is probably a domain-admin key of some sort that can override that, otherwise employees would be time-bombing loads of docs they do.
btw, I wonder what Stallman thinks of Microsoft co-opting his initials for their "rights management server":)
Sounds like someone just stole a vmware image from their work that is set up as a kms (many sites are just plugging their KMS in as a vmware guest to get going).
I'm sure that Microsoft must have thought of that as a possibility. Since a unique product key is required to activate a KMS, why can't Microsoft just deactivate that compromised KMS key?
I'm glad you support this view well enough to identify yourself. I guess I can see some reason to AC, but I'll take your comment with an extra grain of salt.
Meh. Cops are supposed to stick together no matter what. If he ID'd himself his fellow officers might not be too happy with him speaking out against the issue.
My 10gig first gen ipod still works fine. To be fair, I rarely listen to it so it hasn't exceeded the number of recharge cycles on the battery yet.
If you use an ipod everyday, discharge it fully and recharge it daily, then yeah, it's only going to last like around a year. You also got a heck of a lot of use out of it too.
I have a 667 Mhz 12" G4 Powerbook that I adore and have been using for four years now. It goes with me everywhere, I can open it (barely) on a tray table in a coach seat on a plane, it works well on a bus, train, etc. It goes everywhere with me -- cause it is a decent size and works well. I don't need/want 15" and the 13.3" macbooks are still too big for what I want.:(
I was just at a "Sony Style" Store today and their smaller Vaio notebooks look real sweet. Just increase the DPI of the resolution and it cram into a smaller form factor please. Not all of us are blind.
I hate Apple's new laptop attitude that "pro" means huge.
There ARE lots of qualified NT admins in India, who have the professionalism and knowledge to really research this kind of problem.
I have no doubt about that. But this particular problem I described was very esoteric. Basically, if you get an userenv dump and google for some of the words found in it, you get tens of thousands of matches from other dumps people have posted over time.
The problem was, some of these in the section at issue we googled and got ZERO hits on, meaning no one has seen it before probably. No hits on microsoft's public website.
Which means it probably isn't in the call support staff's DB either. And I bet a huge amount of cash that these call centers have requirements to limit the number of calls they escalate to engineers in Redmond, so they are very reluctant to do so.
In the end, no support for truly difficult problems. The sad thing is, since this string was very unique, if this was open source OS we could have at least searched the source tree for the string and determined what logic happens to trigger that to be outputted in a log file.:-(
Fired? That's it? I'm curious of the economics of the crime then. Is it possible that one can earn enough coin by selling information where they never have to work again, and hence firing is worth it?
Amen. We just recently had an esoteric problem with Windows and roaming profiles where in about 1% of the logons, the user's perms to their user hive in the registry would be removed, preventing any GPOs from applying. After two weeks of debugging and not being able to faithfully reproduce it, we called microsoft and paid for an advanced support call to troubleshoot mission critical issues. This is one where "senior management" is allegedly notified of your issue.
We never got out of India, as evidenced by the emails that went back and forth and their origin (you can't always judge by accent because there are Indian citizens working domestically). However, as you stated, the ability to understand what they were saying was enough to drag each call out to twice as long as it should have been.
Then there's the quality of the "support." We were treated as if we were Grandma with a PC problem. We provided clear userenv logs and asked specific questions like "What causes migratent4tont5 process to invoked? What exactly is it checking for since we have no nt4 machines left?" No answers to our specific questions. Instead we got "advice" like.
It's probably a virus problem.
Please remove all non-microsoft services from all of your machines. "What? Including our Anti-virus software?" The answer was, yes.
It's a driver issue with nvidia video cards (we don't have any machines with nvidia cards)
After a while the case person stopped returning our calls and their email started bouncing. Emailing the manager on record for this also bounced. Seemed like their email server was having problems.
They never followed-up on the call. After another week we found out what the problem was. If the ProfileList HKLM key didn't match what local cached profiles of roaming profiles exist on any given machine, it *sometimes* triggered this process that ended up changing the ACLs on the user hive preventing GPOs from being set. Solution was a machine startup script to check that list and remove any entries that conflicted.
They never even hinted to us where to look. We just found it through a heck of a lot of trial, errors, and observations. As far as I know, over a month later, the case is still open with them. They have never bothered to follow up. Then again, they probably closed the call with some lame excuse like "Customer refused to cooperate" (yes, we refused to remove anti-virus from all 2000 of our desktops. It was a stupid suggestion and had nothing to do with the problem at all)
If a worker who works in same country as the company is caught in fraud, they are prosecuted and thrown in jail. If a megacorp outsources off-shore and the employees of that company are involved in fraud, exactly what assurances does that company or its customers have that the perps are prosecuted?
Also, I always wondered why companies that outsource are assured their trade secrets are not sold too.
I see it differently. Microsoft helped create an environment where these things are possible, therefore they should do whatever it takes to fix it, whether it's providing their own anti-virus or making it harder to have a virus to infect in the first place.
I read they are going to be taking a loss on every Zune out there.
Typical Microsoft. They have enough money where they can undercut by selling at a loss. Then when they get a monopoly position, they can charge whatever they want.
If I recall correctly, the game box fee also included two months of access. So it's more like $10, which is about the cost of the CD, box, and distribution I'd say.
OK, they now have HALF the answer. Think they'll figure out the other half?
You can't copy the experience of a live performance and obviously there's a lot of value in it to those who are going and willing to pay insane prices. So that is a huge source of new revenue for artists and promoters while CD sales are tanking.
They need to take the next step and think of pre-recorded distribution of material more of a promotional item to drive up demand for concert tickets. Let prices for CDs and online music drop to where it's no longer worth making fake copies and get it into people's hands. Then make those lazy-ass spoiled bands tour more often!
The free market always has the answer. Let it guide you!
I fly coach a lot and am right with you, my 12" G4 works on a coach seat, barely. It's three years old and I want a replacement so the rumors about 12" going away concerned me greatly.
According to the tech specs, the 12" is 8.6" deep and the new MacBook is 8.92" so that's an extra 1/3rd of an inch. Doesn't sound like much.
But wait, there's more, when you open the lid it pretty much rises the height of the base of the laptop and the MacBook is 0.10" thinner, so in the end maybe it's only about an extra quarter of an inch higher opened.
I did read somewhere there's some sort of gadget for sticking behind a coach seat in front of you to prevent the person in front of you from reclining. Been thinking of getting that. I have a 36" inseam and hence reclining coach seats are a real problem for me anyway.
I currently use Agile Messenger for IM on my t-mobile GSM phone (in the U.S.) -- banning that would suck, and using SMS to send IM msgs is the most braindead stupid idea ever, well, except if each one sent costs money and you are a mobile operator.
I have to carry two phones with me -- work and personal. My Motorola bluetooth headset can be paired with both, but only connected to one at a time.
What I'd love is to wear one headset and keep both phones in my backpack or suit pocket (depending on the day) and no matter what phone gets a call, it'll ring inside the headset and I can answer it.
I read that entire article and was hoping that feature would be covered, but alas, except for some specialized setup with some certain type of office phone, nothing.:-(
I assume that those minutes over wifi aren't going to be free. The call still has to enter the carriers network at some point and they aren't going to invest in this if there is no monetary incentive for them. So if they aren't free, what's the incentive for a consumer to have their calls go over their house wifi instead of using the tower then? What happens when their kid is running bittorrent and clogging up the line?
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This is why when in a jam the best thing for people to do is calm down and change their speed slowly to even out the speed. This means trying to predict the average speed ahead of you and do your best to maintain an even speed, even if slow. Yes, impatient drivers will move in in front of you, but they are also most likely to jump back out of in front of you in a bit too. Getting next to a truck doing the same thing helps. Pressing out the waves is what will get traffic moving again for those behind you.
There is one nice feature of RMS (if I understand it correctly, have never used it before)...
The idea of being able to time-bomb documents appeals to me! :)
However, I'm betting there is probably a domain-admin key of some sort that can override that, otherwise employees would be time-bombing loads of docs they do.
btw, I wonder what Stallman thinks of Microsoft co-opting his initials for their "rights management server" :)
Sounds like someone just stole a vmware image from their work that is set up as a kms (many sites are just plugging their KMS in as a vmware guest to get going).
I'm sure that Microsoft must have thought of that as a possibility. Since a unique product key is required to activate a KMS, why can't Microsoft just deactivate that compromised KMS key?
Can't wait to see this video!
YouTube or Flash Works Fine on the Nokia N95
No extra charge, just pay for your usual data plan. N95 is a GSM phone. Other Symbian-based phones coming out should have same capability too.
Meh. Cops are supposed to stick together no matter what. If he ID'd himself his fellow officers might not be too happy with him speaking out against the issue.
The student did yell out "I have a medical condition" after the first shot.
My 10gig first gen ipod still works fine. To be fair, I rarely listen to it so it hasn't exceeded the number of recharge cycles on the battery yet.
If you use an ipod everyday, discharge it fully and recharge it daily, then yeah, it's only going to last like around a year. You also got a heck of a lot of use out of it too.
I have a 667 Mhz 12" G4 Powerbook that I adore and have been using for four years now. It goes with me everywhere, I can open it (barely) on a tray table in a coach seat on a plane, it works well on a bus, train, etc. It goes everywhere with me -- cause it is a decent size and works well. I don't need/want 15" and the 13.3" macbooks are still too big for what I want. :(
I was just at a "Sony Style" Store today and their smaller Vaio notebooks look real sweet. Just increase the DPI of the resolution and it cram into a smaller form factor please. Not all of us are blind.
I hate Apple's new laptop attitude that "pro" means huge.
I have no doubt about that. But this particular problem I described was very esoteric. Basically, if you get an userenv dump and google for some of the words found in it, you get tens of thousands of matches from other dumps people have posted over time.
The problem was, some of these in the section at issue we googled and got ZERO hits on, meaning no one has seen it before probably. No hits on microsoft's public website.
Which means it probably isn't in the call support staff's DB either. And I bet a huge amount of cash that these call centers have requirements to limit the number of calls they escalate to engineers in Redmond, so they are very reluctant to do so.
In the end, no support for truly difficult problems. The sad thing is, since this string was very unique, if this was open source OS we could have at least searched the source tree for the string and determined what logic happens to trigger that to be outputted in a log file. :-(
Fired? That's it? I'm curious of the economics of the crime then. Is it possible that one can earn enough coin by selling information where they never have to work again, and hence firing is worth it?
Amen. We just recently had an esoteric problem with Windows and roaming profiles where in about 1% of the logons, the user's perms to their user hive in the registry would be removed, preventing any GPOs from applying. After two weeks of debugging and not being able to faithfully reproduce it, we called microsoft and paid for an advanced support call to troubleshoot mission critical issues. This is one where "senior management" is allegedly notified of your issue.
We never got out of India, as evidenced by the emails that went back and forth and their origin (you can't always judge by accent because there are Indian citizens working domestically). However, as you stated, the ability to understand what they were saying was enough to drag each call out to twice as long as it should have been.
Then there's the quality of the "support." We were treated as if we were Grandma with a PC problem. We provided clear userenv logs and asked specific questions like "What causes migratent4tont5 process to invoked? What exactly is it checking for since we have no nt4 machines left?" No answers to our specific questions. Instead we got "advice" like.
After a while the case person stopped returning our calls and their email started bouncing. Emailing the manager on record for this also bounced. Seemed like their email server was having problems.
They never followed-up on the call. After another week we found out what the problem was. If the ProfileList HKLM key didn't match what local cached profiles of roaming profiles exist on any given machine, it *sometimes* triggered this process that ended up changing the ACLs on the user hive preventing GPOs from being set. Solution was a machine startup script to check that list and remove any entries that conflicted.
They never even hinted to us where to look. We just found it through a heck of a lot of trial, errors, and observations. As far as I know, over a month later, the case is still open with them. They have never bothered to follow up. Then again, they probably closed the call with some lame excuse like "Customer refused to cooperate" (yes, we refused to remove anti-virus from all 2000 of our desktops. It was a stupid suggestion and had nothing to do with the problem at all)
Also, I always wondered why companies that outsource are assured their trade secrets are not sold too.
I see it differently. Microsoft helped create an environment where these things are possible, therefore they should do whatever it takes to fix it, whether it's providing their own anti-virus or making it harder to have a virus to infect in the first place.
So much for honest competition.
If I recall correctly, the game box fee also included two months of access. So it's more like $10, which is about the cost of the CD, box, and distribution I'd say.
Politically that seems almost suicidal to try if faculty have bought into Blackboard.
Has anyone written any papers about this process?
Oh yeah, my wife is an ebay addict and she has stuff going out and coming in via Priority mail all the time.
I installed it on my Nokia N90 that I have through t-mobile with their unlimited GPRS/EDGE plan and it works just fine.
You can't copy the experience of a live performance and obviously there's a lot of value in it to those who are going and willing to pay insane prices. So that is a huge source of new revenue for artists and promoters while CD sales are tanking.
They need to take the next step and think of pre-recorded distribution of material more of a promotional item to drive up demand for concert tickets. Let prices for CDs and online music drop to where it's no longer worth making fake copies and get it into people's hands. Then make those lazy-ass spoiled bands tour more often!
The free market always has the answer. Let it guide you!
According to the tech specs, the 12" is 8.6" deep and the new MacBook is 8.92" so that's an extra 1/3rd of an inch. Doesn't sound like much.
But wait, there's more, when you open the lid it pretty much rises the height of the base of the laptop and the MacBook is 0.10" thinner, so in the end maybe it's only about an extra quarter of an inch higher opened.
I did read somewhere there's some sort of gadget for sticking behind a coach seat in front of you to prevent the person in front of you from reclining. Been thinking of getting that. I have a 36" inseam and hence reclining coach seats are a real problem for me anyway.
I currently use Agile Messenger for IM on my t-mobile GSM phone (in the U.S.) -- banning that would suck, and using SMS to send IM msgs is the most braindead stupid idea ever, well, except if each one sent costs money and you are a mobile operator.
What I'd love is to wear one headset and keep both phones in my backpack or suit pocket (depending on the day) and no matter what phone gets a call, it'll ring inside the headset and I can answer it.
I read that entire article and was hoping that feature would be covered, but alas, except for some specialized setup with some certain type of office phone, nothing. :-(
I assume that those minutes over wifi aren't going to be free. The call still has to enter the carriers network at some point and they aren't going to invest in this if there is no monetary incentive for them. So if they aren't free, what's the incentive for a consumer to have their calls go over their house wifi instead of using the tower then? What happens when their kid is running bittorrent and clogging up the line?