What is hard about visiting the vendor's website and downloading a service pack? Back in the day we had to use 14.4 dialup and BBS's to get patches. Service packs were unheard of! Seriously though, the only sp you couldn't download from Corel as I recall was sp4 for WP10. That was actually a complete rerelease of the product and had to be shipped from the vendor since it came with new install codes.
I started doing much of my documentation and other stuff one would normally do in a word processor in a text editor - Boxer to be precise. It's amazing how much you can do, and how fast you can do it, when you don't have to worry about fonts and all that other crap.
There was a lot it did better than Word back when Word was an also ran in the Office 4.x and Office 95 days. Now WP is "better" to some users because it has the features they need and not a lot of the bloat found in Word. WP is still very popular in small offices, primarily law offices.
I still have one of the templates for WP 6.0 taped to my IBM clicky keyboard I brought home from work with my first loaner PC way back in '94. It's the only keyboard I've ever used at home. Still works great after all these years!
Exactly. It's a prank. Terrorism by definition must disrupt or attempt to disrupt large numbers of people - ie a city, state, country, etc. Not 21 morons that have apparently never heard of spam, viruses, malware, trojans, etc. because they live in a box. That box is called MSN TV.
Have at it! Let's find out now if there really are interference issues due to BPL. We've been bitching about BPL hosing up the airwaves for a year or so, and now it is time to put up or shut up. The FCC counts on us to be a self policing organization, and that means tracking down sources of interference. This is an excellent opportunity to do just that. In addition, if there are some issues with BPL now is the time to find them. That's what testing is all about.
Isn't this a simple breach of contract? Maybe instead of tech courses these people could have used a simple high school level Business Law class! IANAL, but this sure sounds simple to get out of. Of course it depends on who the contracts were with I suppose. Student signs a contract with financial org, financial org gives money to school, school disappears, student may still be liable I guess.
I'm about ready to hire a full time tech to take over some of the day to day support work. What am I looking for? Simple. Absolute quality service to our clients, integrity, an ability to think quickly and come up with solutions to problems on the fly, experience in a broad range of technologies, dedication, and loyalty to my organization. There are still some of us out there with our priorities straight.
I disagree. Based solely on the posting it seems that requesting id from this guy was a perfectly reasable thing for the officer to do once he identified himself as an officer. By not presenting id when it was requested this guy made himself look suspicious, and the officer was completely right in arresting him as far as I'm concerned.
What if the officer had ignored this guy and later that night a family up the street was murdered? Wouldn't it have been better if the officer could have said he had identified a guy in the area earlier that night instead of that he saw some guy there but ignored him since the guy wasn't doing anything wrong at that point?
Presenting id to an officer of the law is something anyone should be willing to do unless they have something to hide. Freedom and protection have to go hand in hand. Give a little, get a lot.
That's my first thought. Why doesn't IBM get behind OOo and just add in an Access-like component based on Postgres, MySQL, or even DB2 (that would rock!)?
I was just thinking how I just started watching Angel again this year. Having a strong lead-in from Smallville must account for alot of that 36% increase - I know that's the reason I'm watching again. Truth is, Angel is still a decent show. Humor, action, and a decent story in pretty much every episode, although I cringe when I think of this week's Angel-gets-turned-into-a-puppet episode.
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You pulled that "100 hp" out of the air: nowhere in the article is such a claim made.
Of course he did. No one would expect an increase of 100hp from a chip mod. If anyone reading this does expect a 100hp increase from a chip mod, please contact me. I have some replacement chips for your car I'd like to sell you.
Seriously though, the original poster made some good points. However, "hidden" hp isn't uncommon. The manufacturers know the cars aren't generally going to need as much power as the engine can put out, so they tune the motors based on the other parts used in the vehicle and to meet the other specs set forth for the vehicle.
The biggest jumps I've ever seen have been in diesel pickups. Take a F350 or Silverado 3500 and you get get some serious power if you know what you are doing.
I was a big fan of the mini-series so this is great news. I thought the story was well (re)done and the performances were quite good as well. Didn't think I'd ever be saying "oooh, Starbuck!", but oh well.
I'll bet she likes playing games as much as you like being on the phone. Why not just get a headset for your phone so you can be doing just about anything while you are talking to her, and she doesn't have to try her hand at battling trolls and like just to have a conversation with you?
I was hoping for something interesting, not just a bunch of PC parts stuffed into the Mac with a seperate monitor connected to it. And then they run Windows on it? Pitiful waste of time, IMHO. I would like to see someone take the original Mac with all the original hardware - or as much as possible - and do something with it. Maybe load some *nix based OS on it and make it a web server or something. But not Windows!
...but we are still seeing huge maturity-type changes in Linux, kind of what we probably would have seen through UL anyhow. RedHat has positioned themselves as an enterprise only company and SuSE is now held by one of the networking giants of old (Novell that is) and will probably be more palatable to large companies because of this. I'm pretty certain that these are going to be the only two real players in the enterprise Linux market, at least in the US, in coming years.
The best keyboards are the old IBM "clicker" Model M keyboards (like the one I'm using now). These things rule. I've been using the same keyboard since I brought my first borrowed PC home from my employer in late '94. That's right - almost 10 years with the same keyboard! All the LEDs still work, nothing sticks or misses, and I still have my "WordPerfect for DOS" (6.0) keymappings chart taped above the function keys, even though I haven't used WordPerfect for DOS since '95 or so.
I'm embarassed to say that while most of my warehousing jobs were great, this one sucked horribly. Back in '91 or '92 I took a temp position one September or early October where I was told they needed general warehousing experience and potentially a forklift driver. I ended up counting plastic leaf bags that were made to look like pumpkins. I was supposed to do this for 8 hours a day. I explained what I was told they were looking for - mentioning the lift job - and was told that job was filled and this was all that was left. Since I drove an hour to get there, and since I knew the agent that put me there, I figured I'd try to tough it out as long as I could while she tried to come up with something better. I think I lasted a day or a day and a half. Told the supervisor I couldn't take it anymore and left. Called the rep from my car (yup, in '91 or '92 I had a cell phone and was counting plastic bags for a living. Go figure.) and told her I did my best but just couldn't stand to do something so absurd.
One other awful experience was working in a dairy during winter in upstate NY where I worked alone on a cold dock stacking yogurt on pallets. That was another job I kept for a day and a half. I remember I didn't have a car at the time and chose to walk home in the freezing cold - probably only 3 or 4 miles or so - instead of staying the rest of the day and waiting for my ride to get there.
I'm surprised that MS is giving this away. I imagine they are still paying a decent price to mks to license this code since WSFU is really a subset of the MKS Toolkit for windows.
I always buy Thinkpads for reasons just like this. IBM rules when it comes to service. Have a problem with a Thinkpad, give them a call, they ship you a box and a prepaid return label, and most of the time you get the machine back, fixed, under warranty, in under a week. Last I checked, IBM always includes a three year warranty on parts and labor for Thinkpads. Now granted, if you throw your laptop at your {husband|wife|girlfriend|boyfriend|dog} the damage probably won't be covered, but short of abuse everything else seems to be covered.
This isn't good for those of us that have been pushing customers away from Win98. Our points have been that other options are far more stable and easier to manage and that '98 is dead. Now MS backpeddles and we'll be stuck being the bad guys having to either support Win98 for another couple of years or creating a new support tier and charging a premium to support it since it doens't fit in any of our current support models (management/packaging/etc is all different).
I'm a Mozilla'er as well - Firebird to be precise. I read that XP SP2 Beta review and noticed that IE is getting a popup blocker of it's own when SP2 for XP is released. It's about time.
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What is hard about visiting the vendor's website and downloading a service pack? Back in the day we had to use 14.4 dialup and BBS's to get patches. Service packs were unheard of! Seriously though, the only sp you couldn't download from Corel as I recall was sp4 for WP10. That was actually a complete rerelease of the product and had to be shipped from the vendor since it came with new install codes.
I started doing much of my documentation and other stuff one would normally do in a word processor in a text editor - Boxer to be precise. It's amazing how much you can do, and how fast you can do it, when you don't have to worry about fonts and all that other crap.
There was a lot it did better than Word back when Word was an also ran in the Office 4.x and Office 95 days. Now WP is "better" to some users because it has the features they need and not a lot of the bloat found in Word. WP is still very popular in small offices, primarily law offices.
I still have one of the templates for WP 6.0 taped to my IBM clicky keyboard I brought home from work with my first loaner PC way back in '94. It's the only keyboard I've ever used at home. Still works great after all these years!
Exactly. It's a prank. Terrorism by definition must disrupt or attempt to disrupt large numbers of people - ie a city, state, country, etc. Not 21 morons that have apparently never heard of spam, viruses, malware, trojans, etc. because they live in a box. That box is called MSN TV.
Have at it! Let's find out now if there really are interference issues due to BPL. We've been bitching about BPL hosing up the airwaves for a year or so, and now it is time to put up or shut up. The FCC counts on us to be a self policing organization, and that means tracking down sources of interference. This is an excellent opportunity to do just that. In addition, if there are some issues with BPL now is the time to find them. That's what testing is all about.
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Isn't this a simple breach of contract? Maybe instead of tech courses these people could have used a simple high school level Business Law class! IANAL, but this sure sounds simple to get out of. Of course it depends on who the contracts were with I suppose. Student signs a contract with financial org, financial org gives money to school, school disappears, student may still be liable I guess.
I'm about ready to hire a full time tech to take over some of the day to day support work. What am I looking for? Simple. Absolute quality service to our clients, integrity, an ability to think quickly and come up with solutions to problems on the fly, experience in a broad range of technologies, dedication, and loyalty to my organization. There are still some of us out there with our priorities straight.
I disagree. Based solely on the posting it seems that requesting id from this guy was a perfectly reasable thing for the officer to do once he identified himself as an officer. By not presenting id when it was requested this guy made himself look suspicious, and the officer was completely right in arresting him as far as I'm concerned.
What if the officer had ignored this guy and later that night a family up the street was murdered? Wouldn't it have been better if the officer could have said he had identified a guy in the area earlier that night instead of that he saw some guy there but ignored him since the guy wasn't doing anything wrong at that point?
Presenting id to an officer of the law is something anyone should be willing to do unless they have something to hide. Freedom and protection have to go hand in hand. Give a little, get a lot.
Leave it to someone here in Jersey to strike back at them using laws made with the intent of reducing organized crime.
That's my first thought. Why doesn't IBM get behind OOo and just add in an Access-like component based on Postgres, MySQL, or even DB2 (that would rock!)?
I was just thinking how I just started watching Angel again this year. Having a strong lead-in from Smallville must account for alot of that 36% increase - I know that's the reason I'm watching again. Truth is, Angel is still a decent show. Humor, action, and a decent story in pretty much every episode, although I cringe when I think of this week's Angel-gets-turned-into-a-puppet episode.
Of course he did. No one would expect an increase of 100hp from a chip mod. If anyone reading this does expect a 100hp increase from a chip mod, please contact me. I have some replacement chips for your car I'd like to sell you.
Seriously though, the original poster made some good points. However, "hidden" hp isn't uncommon. The manufacturers know the cars aren't generally going to need as much power as the engine can put out, so they tune the motors based on the other parts used in the vehicle and to meet the other specs set forth for the vehicle.
The biggest jumps I've ever seen have been in diesel pickups. Take a F350 or Silverado 3500 and you get get some serious power if you know what you are doing.
I was a big fan of the mini-series so this is great news. I thought the story was well (re)done and the performances were quite good as well. Didn't think I'd ever be saying "oooh, Starbuck!", but oh well.
I'll bet she likes playing games as much as you like being on the phone. Why not just get a headset for your phone so you can be doing just about anything while you are talking to her, and she doesn't have to try her hand at battling trolls and like just to have a conversation with you?
How come no one ever does something like this to me? It would give my lawyers something to do for a few weeks!
I was hoping for something interesting, not just a bunch of PC parts stuffed into the Mac with a seperate monitor connected to it. And then they run Windows on it? Pitiful waste of time, IMHO. I would like to see someone take the original Mac with all the original hardware - or as much as possible - and do something with it. Maybe load some *nix based OS on it and make it a web server or something. But not Windows!
...but we are still seeing huge maturity-type changes in Linux, kind of what we probably would have seen through UL anyhow. RedHat has positioned themselves as an enterprise only company and SuSE is now held by one of the networking giants of old (Novell that is) and will probably be more palatable to large companies because of this. I'm pretty certain that these are going to be the only two real players in the enterprise Linux market, at least in the US, in coming years.
The best keyboards are the old IBM "clicker" Model M keyboards (like the one I'm using now). These things rule. I've been using the same keyboard since I brought my first borrowed PC home from my employer in late '94. That's right - almost 10 years with the same keyboard! All the LEDs still work, nothing sticks or misses, and I still have my "WordPerfect for DOS" (6.0) keymappings chart taped above the function keys, even though I haven't used WordPerfect for DOS since '95 or so.
I'm embarassed to say that while most of my warehousing jobs were great, this one sucked horribly. Back in '91 or '92 I took a temp position one September or early October where I was told they needed general warehousing experience and potentially a forklift driver. I ended up counting plastic leaf bags that were made to look like pumpkins. I was supposed to do this for 8 hours a day. I explained what I was told they were looking for - mentioning the lift job - and was told that job was filled and this was all that was left. Since I drove an hour to get there, and since I knew the agent that put me there, I figured I'd try to tough it out as long as I could while she tried to come up with something better. I think I lasted a day or a day and a half. Told the supervisor I couldn't take it anymore and left. Called the rep from my car (yup, in '91 or '92 I had a cell phone and was counting plastic bags for a living. Go figure.) and told her I did my best but just couldn't stand to do something so absurd.
One other awful experience was working in a dairy during winter in upstate NY where I worked alone on a cold dock stacking yogurt on pallets. That was another job I kept for a day and a half. I remember I didn't have a car at the time and chose to walk home in the freezing cold - probably only 3 or 4 miles or so - instead of staying the rest of the day and waiting for my ride to get there.
...or worse yet, TardOS/2.
I'm surprised that MS is giving this away. I imagine they are still paying a decent price to mks to license this code since WSFU is really a subset of the MKS Toolkit for windows.
I always buy Thinkpads for reasons just like this. IBM rules when it comes to service. Have a problem with a Thinkpad, give them a call, they ship you a box and a prepaid return label, and most of the time you get the machine back, fixed, under warranty, in under a week. Last I checked, IBM always includes a three year warranty on parts and labor for Thinkpads. Now granted, if you throw your laptop at your {husband|wife|girlfriend|boyfriend|dog} the damage probably won't be covered, but short of abuse everything else seems to be covered.
This isn't good for those of us that have been pushing customers away from Win98. Our points have been that other options are far more stable and easier to manage and that '98 is dead. Now MS backpeddles and we'll be stuck being the bad guys having to either support Win98 for another couple of years or creating a new support tier and charging a premium to support it since it doens't fit in any of our current support models (management/packaging/etc is all different).
I'm a Mozilla'er as well - Firebird to be precise. I read that XP SP2 Beta review and noticed that IE is getting a popup blocker of it's own when SP2 for XP is released. It's about time.