Step One:
Create a lareg "sims" family and purchase a plot of sim land
Step Two:
Create a square house with no windows, no doors and a television facing a wall thats turned on so the family can never sleep. Contact EA and eplain that your holding a family hostage in your sim-house and are protesting their McDonalds add-in.
Step Three:
???????
Step Four:
Profit~!
Have you looked into using a digital projector? A half decent one runnning 1024x768 can be had for around 2000-3000$. The only downside is you need a room where you can easily make it dark, projectors in the day don't work too well =).
I've played GTA3/Q3/Racing Games on a projector and its an absolute blast =]
With Compaq aka The new HP computers in our office, which almost all had fujitsu or maxtor drives, the fujitsu drives have almost all died out from our 2001 computer batch. Computers prior to 2001 seem to be far more reliable. I would say 80% of our 2001 fujitsu's have needed the hard drive replaced. Here is a lawfirm with a class action lawsuit regarding several models: The Fujitsu hard disk drive model numbers that are a subject of this litigation include, among others, MPG3204AT; MPG3307AH; MPG3102AT; and MPG3409AH. Continue to monitor this page for the addition of other model numbers.
Before long we will have the ability to render even sophisticated armies totally obsolete. I think this is a good thing. We'll turn opposing officers and armor into cinders in the first fifteen minutes of any engagement, sparing not only civilian bystanders but the great majority of the troops.
*throws on a reflective tinfoil hat*
Ha! Try to laser beam me in a crowd now americans!
I was referring to MIME encoded emails (binary) from clients using hotmail as an example. I should have been more specific, usually this involves an HTML page. When you recive one of these in GW 5.5 you just see it as an attachment with a mime extension and often files with.001 extension. You need extract the attachemnt, download the file and change the extension just to view it, any binary data included with it is not viewable (unless you want to go through the trouble and extract that).
I was a bit too hasty with my wording on assuming SQL wasn't available for netware, a good reason why companies often don't use the netware sQl clients is because of 3rd party companys requiring they database be setup on a more mainstream SQL server such as MS Sql server..etc.. At least that is the case with our accounting software.
I belive we have established clearly that a MAC addresses ar NOT unique and MAC addresses do not establish who you are, if someone else can spoof them.
I'm currently a sysadmin for a Novell/Win2k Network. I'm glad to see Novells finally got a SQLish server option coming out, but really now... Companies like mine already have a sql server running (hence the 2000 part of our network). We're happy where we are, and were not going to migrate to MySQL any time soon because of this. Honestly Novell does this with every single darn thing out there. FINALLY in GroupWise 6 are they supporting NNTP, outlooks been doing that for years! Same with "proper" html email viewing.
Novell's going to die because:
MS Products are actually becoming more secure
Novell has been playing catchup for the last 5 years (yea nds is great, thats it tho.)
Nobody Else creates "novell ready" applications/services like they do for unix and win2k OS's.
MS just integrates better with MS products.
Their patching system is RETARDED, even 3rd party novell applications are half ass. Patches take forever to come out.. One of their patches for a "bug" in groupwise was over 50mb in size.. something is a miss here.
Increase the kinetic energy being transferred from the larger heavier balls by perhaps creating massive spheres of solid rubber and the top ball being small and of a much less dense material. You probably won't need all 20 balls.
An alternative solution, would be to monitor the cable for cracks, when one is found, send a reinforcment elevator which would attach itself above and below the the identified area, and i suppose those fandangled nano bots would fix up the tear. The fix-it elevator could then be sent either up or down again. Assuming the wire is built to sustain a substantial amount beyond its own weight, this shouldnt be a problem.
In the book series "Red/Blue/Green Mars" a space elevator is constructed on mars and eventually falls, causing enormous destruction and wrapping itself several times around the planets circumfrence. Bet that if your on the tail end of that fella when it falls you'll at least be in for one heck of a ride before you go!
Currently I'm working in school full time in night courses towards my Btech program, while running my job (Network Administrator) full time. On top of that there the occasional out of town trip i have to attend which can really throw things for a whirl. Also my courses have got to be some of the most boring on earth (not all just some)... Its a living hell sometimes... The best advice I can give is to live, go to school and work as close together as possible, driving around half the time is NOT fun.
Lugging around a Laptop is also not much fun, I've managed to just bring a PDA to class with a nice rollout keypad for notes. Saves a lot of space and the hassle of lugging the laptop around, at the expense of some functionality.
Be ready to eat out a lot, well at least for me, it's just too much effort to cook your own food ahead of time, package it, eat it, bring home the containers wash... etc... running to the local sub shop is a lot easier. Whenever you do get at home, you probalby just want to crash anyways... goodbye social life.
Only drink coffee if you NEED it, otherwise its HARSH on your body after a few days.. I duno what really happens, but if you drink too much a few days in a row its gona mess u up good and ur gona feel like a sack of potatoes 24/7...
The only nice things is that Courses are often tax deductable and you can get your company to pay for a portion of it all.. After a while you'll build up a pretty library of fancy textbooks to fill your shelf;)
My suspicion is that the term will dilute itself just like the word nazi did after it got overused so much. Feminazi, green nazi, surf nazi, soup nazi etc.
"NO SOUP FOR YOU!!" - Soup Nazi. Best Seinfeld episode ever!
You should really check out this site. Copy protection is easily averted using many of the utilties linked from this site. I myself use plextor drives and -never- have bad burns (referring to another post), often people mistake their "bad burns" with buffer underruns where your system can't keep up with sending data to your CDR. Plextor has burn protection which allows the CDR to slow down giving your system time to send it more data. In the past people just turned down the CDR burn speed and it works, so now they think that "lower burning speeds
= "higher quality burns" which is absolutly not the case, it's merly increasing the frequency of successful burns because your system can finally keep up with the burner.
People shouldn't knock on a product if they don't know the brandname. Plextor's drives are top notch, the price premium over other drives is definatly worth it.
Also, theoretically if they were to modify the shape and length of the combustion area as its in action, you could fly far past mach 7. By using the air coming in at faster and faster and faster speeds, the system could adjust the point of combustion, and amount of fuel to futher increase thrust. I wouldn't be surprised if we were flying at mach 20 in test flights a few years from now... and throwing payloads into space with ease..
I wish people would clue into these things sooner, 384 kbit/sec = 48KB/sec, 3Mbit/sec ~ 375KB/sec. Living up here in Canada I pay about $60 CDN for the line (roughly 40 bux USD) and get 40KB/sec Upstream and I can DL at around 800KB/sec (peak). I don't see the great deal here for you guys, unless they're just aren't very many great ISP's out in the states. Move up here to Vancouver BC;)
Secondly people who setup home networks with a router doing NAT should be allowed since it will help reduce the traffic to an ISP. Hubs/switches linking a few home computesr won't do since traffic between two pc's on the same network will use the ISP's bandwidth still. Unfortunatly the home user doesn't know this, so maybe the ISP's should educate the users and let them know the benefits of having a router, let them know why a HUB isn't a good solution to home networking. Instead of just restricting users because they do something stupid, a basic explanation of why something is restricted and how they can fix it would be in their best interest.
After reading the article, it seems that these phones are clearly part of a scam to obtain potential investors, and they have a record to prove it: As previously reported, The Chronicle found a raft of other questions surrounding the company. For instance, the California Department of Corporations raided an online gambling venture tied to Hop-On in 1999 for allegedly fleecing investors out of as much as $20 million. And last month, the state suspended Hop-On's corporate status, saying it had failed to pay $400 and file its tax returns for two years in a row. I hope the state gets wind of this and decides to look into it, too often honest investors get conned into these types of things.
Corporations taking part in these types of scandals clearly need their managment to be held personally liable (Ie. Jail terms for particiapants proven guitly of the scam). Yes, just like Enron Execs now.
Underneath the red plastic casing, one sample was clearly labeled inside as a "Nokia 8260."
..the company has yet to receive approval from the Federal Communications Commission to manufacture its own phone.
"He also addressed the licensing changes that the company put in place over the last year, calling them an important part of a long-term simplification strategy. "
The "changes" to licensing in the article have really hit my company hard. Were a medium sized company (400 people or so), should we jump on board with this new licensing thing microsoft has planned it will cost us.5 million + a yearly licensing fee. Managment nearly had a fit seeing these numbers and began looking at every possible solution. Now, some of the IT guys in the company have always tried to push linux to managment, the only downside is the switchover cost and converting a lot of our current systems over. They just pushed it under the rug and continued to pay the somewhat resasonable amount microsoft had asked in the past. Now that M$ has pulled this fast one on us, we're finally seriously considering alternatives to cut costs.
In the end Microsoft's new "licensing" stragey to implement their "Long term simplification strategy" will in reality force many of the medium sized smart and growing companies to search for more cost effective solutions. One of them being Linux/Unix. Once IT staff who were never exposed to the world of unix get used to the power of Unix along with its cost savings, only then will Microsoft start feeling the heat. People will become more reluctant to switch from linux (which is free) thanks to Microsofts new "pay us lots of money every year for upgrades to our buggy software" strategy on companies put into this situation.
Right now our IT staff is working around the clock to show managment that Linux is the cost effective solution for many growing medium sized businesses. Larger companies already stuck in the microsoft licensing trap will end up paying more and more each year to Microsoft and will eventually lose their competitive edge against linux which constantly is improving itself.
How are other people dealing with the Microsoft Licensing deadline (July 31st) in their company? Input is appreciated:)
Alright, aside from the facts the following statments people are making:
A) Linux use is growing B) How many of these were really successful attacks? C) What counts as an attack? D) Studies from the group which conducted this one are questionable.
Clearly people are neglecting to give MS credit for some of it's accomplishments over the last year. One of the largest changes was the speed at which updates were made available and most of these through the windows update site. Now when new holes in their products were found, MS responded for the most part almost immediatly and patched up their code within hours/days and posted it up on for everyone to download. Also, they're working on making these updates even easier than before, anyone with windows 2000 who keeps on top of patches will notice that the interface has changed, you can set it to automatically apply security patches. Also another point is that people are finally realising that their computer will be far more secure if they just apply the latest patches.
Holes in Linux are not always patched up right away and lets face it, Linux code warriors can't always respond to a patch for each distro when ones found like MS can or distribute it as easily. Because they're a single entitiy, they have quite the advantage when it comes to communication and distrobution.
In the last year Microsofts efforts to patch up their software were far and beyond anything they have done in the past, and that is something Linux buffs won't easily admit to. Now, Palladium is a whole nother ball game mind you =)
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I was down travelling in Malaysia and Singapore just a few months ago. There probably werent as many cybercafe's as in Korea, but you can bet they weren't hard to find. I actually went into one and noticed tonnes of illegal applications installed from CD's people just grab from other friends or from nightmarkets. It's probably worthwhile to note that this booming cyberculture is in part largely due to the fact that their software is nearly free down there as law enforcement rarely checks on these types of things. In one night market I would probably run into 10 - 15 different stalls all selling CD's with a plethora of applications and games for dirt cheap prices. No wonder cybercafe's are booming down there, here any cafe to reach sucess using illegal will eventually be shut down. Purchasing enough games and software to run a decent cafe (not just plain web browsing) wouldn't make it very difficult to achieve any level of profitability.
Surely there must be a few people who have tried the diet and not found it effective? I have yet to see a post on it strangely enough. Maybe the diet is really as effective as it says.
If you've tried the Atkins diet and had it fail for you please post your experiences!
I'd agree some people should look more before running to the nearst IRC channel and bugging the "elitists". But on the other side of the coin, a lot of people would rather talk to someone who knows Linux and can answer them in an understandable manner. Much of the documentation out there after doing a goole search can be downright confusing. Sometimes it's too detailed for someone new to a system or sometimes its just way too much to have to read over before you can really understand the document. The advantage of talking to someone is that they can explain something in a simplified way documentation doesn't alwayd do. Just because you check something out in google and you think its the same thing you said, to a newbie, they could spend a good hour trying to find out the best way to do something, often 50 different results may pop up all with slightly different ways to do "similar" things but sometimes not exactly what your trying to do. Yea it gets annoying, but a newb trying to setup X-windows from some foreign console for 4 hours because some silly video card settings are slightly off is probably far more annoyed with his then a few simple questions being thrown your way.
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Step One:
Create a lareg "sims" family and purchase a plot of sim land
Step Two:
Create a square house with no windows, no doors and a television facing a wall thats turned on so the family can never sleep. Contact EA and eplain that your holding a family hostage in your sim-house and are protesting their McDonalds add-in.
Step Three:
???????
Step Four:
Profit~!
Have you looked into using a digital projector? A half decent one runnning 1024x768 can be had for around 2000-3000$. The only downside is you need a room where you can easily make it dark, projectors in the day don't work too well =). I've played GTA3/Q3/Racing Games on a projector and its an absolute blast =]
With Compaq aka The new HP computers in our office, which almost all had fujitsu or maxtor drives, the fujitsu drives have almost all died out from our 2001 computer batch. Computers prior to 2001 seem to be far more reliable. I would say 80% of our 2001 fujitsu's have needed the hard drive replaced.
Here is a lawfirm with a class action lawsuit regarding several models:
The Fujitsu hard disk drive model numbers that are a subject of this litigation include, among others, MPG3204AT; MPG3307AH; MPG3102AT; and MPG3409AH. Continue to monitor this page for the addition of other model numbers.
Before long we will have the ability to render even sophisticated armies totally obsolete. I think this is a good thing. We'll turn opposing officers and armor into cinders in the first fifteen minutes of any engagement, sparing not only civilian bystanders but the great majority of the troops. *throws on a reflective tinfoil hat*
Ha! Try to laser beam me in a crowd now americans!
I was referring to MIME encoded emails (binary) from clients using hotmail as an example. I should have been more specific, usually this involves an HTML page. When you recive one of these in GW 5.5 you just see it as an attachment with a mime extension and often files with .001 extension. You need extract the attachemnt, download the file and change the extension just to view it, any binary data included with it is not viewable (unless you want to go through the trouble and extract that).
I was a bit too hasty with my wording on assuming SQL wasn't available for netware, a good reason why companies often don't use the netware sQl clients is because of 3rd party companys requiring they database be setup on a more mainstream SQL server such as MS Sql server..etc.. At least that is the case with our accounting software.
Woo hoo! *Pulls out his 15 inch 60hz monitor to play*
I belive we have established clearly that a MAC addresses ar NOT unique and MAC addresses do not establish who you are, if someone else can spoof them.
Novell's going to die because:
MS Products are actually becoming more secure
Novell has been playing catchup for the last 5 years (yea nds is great, thats it tho.)
Nobody Else creates "novell ready" applications/services like they do for unix and win2k OS's.
MS just integrates better with MS products.
Their patching system is RETARDED, even 3rd party novell applications are half ass. Patches take forever to come out.. One of their patches for a "bug" in groupwise was over 50mb in size.. something is a miss here.
Novell is doomed doomed doomed...
Increase the kinetic energy being transferred from the larger heavier balls by perhaps creating massive spheres of solid rubber and the top ball being small and of a much less dense material. You probably won't need all 20 balls.
An alternative solution, would be to monitor the cable for cracks, when one is found, send a reinforcment elevator which would attach itself above and below the the identified area, and i suppose those fandangled nano bots would fix up the tear. The fix-it elevator could then be sent either up or down again. Assuming the wire is built to sustain a substantial amount beyond its own weight, this shouldnt be a problem. In the book series "Red/Blue/Green Mars" a space elevator is constructed on mars and eventually falls, causing enormous destruction and wrapping itself several times around the planets circumfrence. Bet that if your on the tail end of that fella when it falls you'll at least be in for one heck of a ride before you go!
No date => no girlfriend => no wife => no geek kids. Geeks => Specialized Job => Money => Hookers => Geek Kids.
Currently I'm working in school full time in night courses towards my Btech program, while running my job (Network Administrator) full time. On top of that there the occasional out of town trip i have to attend which can really throw things for a whirl. Also my courses have got to be some of the most boring on earth (not all just some)... Its a living hell sometimes... The best advice I can give is to live, go to school and work as close together as possible, driving around half the time is NOT fun.
;)
Lugging around a Laptop is also not much fun, I've managed to just bring a PDA to class with a nice rollout keypad for notes. Saves a lot of space and the hassle of lugging the laptop around, at the expense of some functionality.
Be ready to eat out a lot, well at least for me, it's just too much effort to cook your own food ahead of time, package it, eat it, bring home the containers wash... etc... running to the local sub shop is a lot easier. Whenever you do get at home, you probalby just want to crash anyways... goodbye social life.
Only drink coffee if you NEED it, otherwise its HARSH on your body after a few days.. I duno what really happens, but if you drink too much a few days in a row its gona mess u up good and ur gona feel like a sack of potatoes 24/7...
The only nice things is that Courses are often tax deductable and you can get your company to pay for a portion of it all.. After a while you'll build up a pretty library of fancy textbooks to fill your shelf
My suspicion is that the term will dilute itself just like the word nazi did after it got overused so much. Feminazi, green nazi, surf nazi, soup nazi etc.
"NO SOUP FOR YOU!!" - Soup Nazi.
Best Seinfeld episode ever!
Lets not forget to put a link to the RIAA Website, wouldn't want them to miss out on a good Slashdotting.
You should really check out this site. Copy protection is easily averted using many of the utilties linked from this site. I myself use plextor drives and -never- have bad burns (referring to another post), often people mistake their "bad burns" with buffer underruns where your system can't keep up with sending data to your CDR. Plextor has burn protection which allows the CDR to slow down giving your system time to send it more data. In the past people just turned down the CDR burn speed and it works, so now they think that "lower burning speeds = "higher quality burns" which is absolutly not the case, it's merly increasing the frequency of successful burns because your system can finally keep up with the burner.
People shouldn't knock on a product if they don't know the brandname. Plextor's drives are top notch, the price premium over other drives is definatly worth it.
Also, theoretically if they were to modify the shape and length of the combustion area as its in action, you could fly far past mach 7. By using the air coming in at faster and faster and faster speeds, the system could adjust the point of combustion, and amount of fuel to futher increase thrust. I wouldn't be surprised if we were flying at mach 20 in test flights a few years from now... and throwing payloads into space with ease..
And the reason nobody thought of plugging on one of these suckers just outside One Microsoft Way is...?
... is because it would probably improve the stability of their products.. MS would never want to do that!
I wish people would clue into these things sooner, 384 kbit/sec = 48KB/sec, 3Mbit/sec ~ 375KB/sec. Living up here in Canada I pay about $60 CDN for the line (roughly 40 bux USD) and get 40KB/sec Upstream and I can DL at around 800KB/sec (peak). I don't see the great deal here for you guys, unless they're just aren't very many great ISP's out in the states. Move up here to Vancouver BC ;)
Secondly people who setup home networks with a router doing NAT should be allowed since it will help reduce the traffic to an ISP. Hubs/switches linking a few home computesr won't do since traffic between two pc's on the same network will use the ISP's bandwidth still. Unfortunatly the home user doesn't know this, so maybe the ISP's should educate the users and let them know the benefits of having a router, let them know why a HUB isn't a good solution to home networking. Instead of just restricting users because they do something stupid, a basic explanation of why something is restricted and how they can fix it would be in their best interest.
Anyways just my two cents.
After reading the article, it seems that these phones are clearly part of a scam to obtain potential investors, and they have a record to prove it:
..the company has yet to receive approval from the Federal Communications Commission to manufacture its own phone.
As previously reported, The Chronicle found a raft of other questions surrounding the company. For instance, the California Department of Corporations raided an online gambling venture tied to Hop-On in 1999 for allegedly fleecing investors out of as much as $20 million. And last month, the state suspended Hop-On's corporate status, saying it had failed to pay $400 and file its tax returns for two years in a row.
I hope the state gets wind of this and decides to look into it, too often honest investors get conned into these types of things. Corporations taking part in these types of scandals clearly need their managment to be held personally liable (Ie. Jail terms for particiapants proven guitly of the scam). Yes, just like Enron Execs now.
Underneath the red plastic casing, one sample was clearly labeled inside as a "Nokia 8260."
The proof is in the pudding, where's the pudding?
"He also addressed the licensing changes that the company put in place over the last year, calling them an important part of a long-term simplification strategy. "
.5 million + a yearly licensing fee. Managment nearly had a fit seeing these numbers and began looking at every possible solution. Now, some of the IT guys in the company have always tried to push linux to managment, the only downside is the switchover cost and converting a lot of our current systems over. They just pushed it under the rug and continued to pay the somewhat resasonable amount microsoft had asked in the past. Now that M$ has pulled this fast one on us, we're finally seriously considering alternatives to cut costs.
:)
The "changes" to licensing in the article have really hit my company hard. Were a medium sized company (400 people or so), should we jump on board with this new licensing thing microsoft has planned it will cost us
In the end Microsoft's new "licensing" stragey to implement their "Long term simplification strategy" will in reality force many of the medium sized smart and growing companies to search for more cost effective solutions. One of them being Linux/Unix. Once IT staff who were never exposed to the world of unix get used to the power of Unix along with its cost savings, only then will Microsoft start feeling the heat. People will become more reluctant to switch from linux (which is free) thanks to Microsofts new "pay us lots of money every year for upgrades to our buggy software" strategy on companies put into this situation.
Right now our IT staff is working around the clock to show managment that Linux is the cost effective solution for many growing medium sized businesses. Larger companies already stuck in the microsoft licensing trap will end up paying more and more each year to Microsoft and will eventually lose their competitive edge against linux which constantly is improving itself.
How are other people dealing with the Microsoft Licensing deadline (July 31st) in their company? Input is appreciated
Alright, aside from the facts the following statments people are making:
A) Linux use is growing
B) How many of these were really successful attacks?
C) What counts as an attack?
D) Studies from the group which conducted this one are questionable.
Clearly people are neglecting to give MS credit for some of it's accomplishments over the last year. One of the largest changes was the speed at which updates were made available and most of these through the windows update site. Now when new holes in their products were found, MS responded for the most part almost immediatly and patched up their code within hours/days and posted it up on for everyone to download. Also, they're working on making these updates even easier than before, anyone with windows 2000 who keeps on top of patches will notice that the interface has changed, you can set it to automatically apply security patches. Also another point is that people are finally realising that their computer will be far more secure if they just apply the latest patches.
Holes in Linux are not always patched up right away and lets face it, Linux code warriors can't always respond to a patch for each distro when ones found like MS can or distribute it as easily. Because they're a single entitiy, they have quite the advantage when it comes to communication and distrobution.
In the last year Microsofts efforts to patch up their software were far and beyond anything they have done in the past, and that is something Linux buffs won't easily admit to. Now, Palladium is a whole nother ball game mind you =)
I was down travelling in Malaysia and Singapore just a few months ago. There probably werent as many cybercafe's as in Korea, but you can bet they weren't hard to find. I actually went into one and noticed tonnes of illegal applications installed from CD's people just grab from other friends or from nightmarkets. It's probably worthwhile to note that this booming cyberculture is in part largely due to the fact that their software is nearly free down there as law enforcement rarely checks on these types of things. In one night market I would probably run into 10 - 15 different stalls all selling CD's with a plethora of applications and games for dirt cheap prices. No wonder cybercafe's are booming down there, here any cafe to reach sucess using illegal will eventually be shut down. Purchasing enough games and software to run a decent cafe (not just plain web browsing) wouldn't make it very difficult to achieve any level of profitability.
Surely there must be a few people who have tried the diet and not found it effective? I have yet to see a post on it strangely enough. Maybe the diet is really as effective as it says.
If you've tried the Atkins diet and had it fail for you please post your experiences!
SpamAssasin can be found Here in case anyone would like to look into it :)
I'd agree some people should look more before running to the nearst IRC channel and bugging the "elitists". But on the other side of the coin, a lot of people would rather talk to someone who knows Linux and can answer them in an understandable manner.
Much of the documentation out there after doing a goole search can be downright confusing. Sometimes it's too detailed for someone new to a system or sometimes its just way too much to have to read over before you can really understand the document.
The advantage of talking to someone is that they can explain something in a simplified way documentation doesn't alwayd do. Just because you check something out in google and you think its the same thing you said, to a newbie, they could spend a good hour trying to find out the best way to do something, often 50 different results may pop up all with slightly different ways to do "similar" things but sometimes not exactly what your trying to do.
Yea it gets annoying, but a newb trying to setup X-windows from some foreign console for 4 hours because some silly video card settings are slightly off is probably far more annoyed with his then a few simple questions being thrown your way.