It's a good idea. But 2-D glasses may or may not work for some people. I guess I'm in the above 12%. I can not go to an IMAX theater or see a 3-D movie. Makes me sick and makes my head hurt. But, I also wear prescription glasses and can not see far away with out them (i.e. my monitor). So even if 2-D glasses did work, I would not be able to actually see the movie itself.
I'm not sure what the big deal is anyway... I seen and loved the Avatar movie, but when they jumped off that cliff, I about jumped out of my seat. I had to close my eyes because I started getting vertigo pretty bad. If I was watching that in 3-D, not sure what would have happened. In other words it had more than enough "visually stunning" shots in there for me.
Is a movie in 3-D that much better? I have heard that some people like it and some could care less. Am I really missing anything?
Rodrigovr is actually right, to a point. You do want to hide everything that you can. I have been racking eq and doing wiring work for 20+ years... Use cable ties, not velcro, or wraps or anything like that, just plain old cable ties. I know, if you have to replace something or move something you have to cut all those ties... YEP thats right. Big deal. Just tie it all up again and do a better job each time you have to do it. You want to keep power separate from everything else.
And thats a great idea to be able to turn off stuff you don't use all the time with diff power strips, I do that myself.
BUT if you don't want harm your desk at all. Just leave it hang and lay on the floor and make it look at nice as you can. Don't use tape, or sticky strips, or sticky cable mounts, because NONE OF THEM WORK. About two days after you anchor something it will come off, trust me... Basic rule of thumb for cable work, if it seems like its going to be way too much work and a big pain in the ass, then your doing it right and it will look great in the end. And just remember I have done this with 20+ devices in a 72u rack (over 6 feet of eq...) and you could NOT see any power cable when I was done and all the network, KVM etc... were ladder wrapped and the rest of the ties were about 1ft apart... Took 2 days to do one rack, but it looked great when it was finished.
I had been gaming on the PC forever... (cough in my 40s now...)
But I have NOT bought a PC game since my 1st xbox... And I do not plan on buying one. REASON: guess what, my main PC is 5/6 years old and it STILL RUNS great....
I upgraded and bought new PCs all the time in the past... now I only spend money on the games, not the games and a new machine each year...
You have a good point. But you lost access. One person not 5 million or 5 hundred etc...
And short of having a cable cut (which can happen) how often does your internet connection (not the router) go down?? Never, right? Yea me too.
Even so a centralized system can be protected from those kinds of things happening, like what happened to you. I have worked in and helped to design Data Centers where we had power coming in from two different power companies from two different lines that were physically separate from each other (just so they couldn't be cut at the same time). Different ISP etc...
There really is no reason for anything that is critical to go down...
And I live in a little (2000 +/- people) town in rural PA. I can have DSL (which I do), a cable modem or can drive 2 or so miles to about 3 different hot spots with free wireless access (coffee shops etc..). Or I could just buy wireless access thru Direct TV or one of the cellular companies. Sorry but I have a lot of trouble believing that Houston has "gaps" where you can't get internet access. You could probably get fiber to your house in Houston.
All I am saying is that central is a better overall solution for critical systems. I don't want or need to have an internet accessible GIMP server out there so I can modify my pics thru a web browser. (now I'm sure someone is going to do that;). But if your going to authenticate my credit card purchase, I really don't want any of that software on my PC at home...
If every apps was PC based, most people would not be safe...
I really do respect him. But on this point (and several others in the past) I really don't agree.
The different issues of one versus many are a never ending thing. But when you break it down to the BIG ones... Maintaining one set of data, the security involved, backups, redundancy, configuration management, change management and on and on. There is no question about it. Centralized is it.
Just the security is huge. If I have an online store and you wish to purchase something from me - you need to download my shopping cart software and install it? So instead of protecting 1, I am protecting everyone? Not a good idea. What happens when it needs updates, or when it crashes your computer or etc.
And I don't think that performance is really an issue anymore either. A centralized app is as fast as the pipe it is traveling on. There are some things to be said for good coding etc... But if you have a slow pipe - you have a slow app. I haven't really seen this lately. I think everyone is on DSL, cable modem or wireless access. And we really don't use all of the bandwidth. Most web apps are pretty fast.
But besides all of that: The M$ outage was absolutely uncalled for. There is NO need to have an outage of a system that large for that long. We have CONOPS plans for a reason. And if these backup plans don't work - someone should be fired for not doing their job. There is WAY too much technology out there to prevent these kinds of things from happening.
Heck M$ sells some of it. They should try and use it.
I just spec'd out a new Dell for my dad. He wanted XP on it - but it only came with Vista. I told him that it should be OK......
He IS NOT a geek. But he does all his work and some photo stuff on his notebook and desktop. He HATED Vista. No driver for the printer, some software he uses won't work, had trouble with the camera etc... He was pretty pi$$ed when I talked to him... I told him maybe we could get Dell to give us XP and send Vista back and that would fix everything... (he has XP on the laptop and its OK:)
I tried to get Dell to trade it in, or give me credit, a discount on XP or something like that... but they blew me off and told me that I would have to send back the machine so I could then order the "open source" version. I talked to my dad and he just went nuts for a while and them said he would take care of it... So I figured that he was going to send back the machine and let me build one for him...
NOPE - he gave M$ more money and they also have another "Vista" user on the books... He went out and just bought a full version of XP. I didn't say anything other than OK I'll be up and get it loaded for ya... You have to know my dad... I already found all the drivers that he needs for XP. So everything should be fine.....
BUT IT JUST SUCKS!!!! I freakin HATE MS for this kind of stuff. Did you know that you CAN NOT downgrade Vista Home(any version) to XP - BUT the business versions are ALL downgradeable. You wouldn't want FORD to not buy windows because they have to use the CUTTING EDGE CRAP that we will be QCing for them for the next six months. BUT its OK to screw joe user at home!!! I dont know why they would even make some one PAY for an OS at home.... I guess that 70trillion dollars a year from the businesses just ins't enough.
I would love to load BSD/ubuntu/etc... on my pops machine - I really would. But he's 60ish and NOT a geek and its just not there yet.
Yea M$ sales are up and they should have a column on the sheet that is headed "Customers outright screw and we still made money."
Geesh, I should learn how to write code so I can contrib...
I am 40 years old. Been working my butt off for 23 of them... When I hit 50+/- I plan on going to a nice little community college and teaching for "retirement".
Like me, you sound like you won't be happy at all not working. I really can't think of myself as being out of a job, not even when I am 60+. So I plan on teaching.
You have the required education, and just so much more real world knowledge than 80% of the instructors out there today. PASS IT ON. I have taught part time in the past on and off for 5/6 years. It is a lot of fun, it keeps you sharp and the students love you because, you are for real and not just from a book.
If you code after you retire, it will get to be another full time job and who wants to deal with dead lines, time lines, requirements, and boneheads that don't know what they are talking about etc... Doesn't sound like retirement to me... If you go the teaching route, maybe a few bad ass kids in the bunch here and there, but everything else is set up, its not that hard and can be a blast.
You won't make a lot of money, but pick a good open source project and code for it as a hobby, and go teach to make a little cash and really feel good about helping all the young geeks out there;)
Put in a LOT of insulation and just run cables & patch panels thru that area. Hopefully the insulation would keep the cables from melting. But, move the switches to a nice safe semi humid cool area with they will feel MUCH better about themselves and continue to work for you.
I can't imagine a situation where you would need to have a switch "a few feet" away from a 2000 degree device. But, if you really need to do that, make sure you have a LOT of spare switches around...
This post is right on the point. You don't need a spreadsheet or database, you need a good management box to handle it for you.
WSUS would work, but there are better products out there that and they would give you a lot more function. Hercules, from Citadel, is a good one and can handle 7000 boxes with a few systems in the right place. But it is not limited to Windows only patches, you can custom write you own upgrades for any of the apps on the box. They have scheduling, an inventory (your database), good reporting and several other things.
And NO I don't work for them.
Check them out, or patch link, big fix, landdesk etc.... You REALLY need something like this.
Way back in 1985 I created a Lotus 123 spreadsheet for all of the company's records for the last 3 years (when the business started) because they were going to go through a sales tax audit and the boss wanted everything on the computer anyway.
I worked on it for 4-5 months. Pretty much full 8-10 hour days doing nothing else but posting rental transactions and restaurant/bar sales. It was a ski resort that I was working at.
I finished up the reports and spreadsheets, backed everything up to floppies put them in my desk. Printed everything out on a 9 pin IBM dot matrix printer and put the reports on the bosses desk. It was LATE Friday night and they had to go the the accountants office Monday morning. So I pretty much finished everything up.
I left the office that night and found out Sunday afternoon that a security guard left on a kerosene heater in the office Saturday night - fell asleep in the guard shack and the office was burnt to the ground by Sunday morning.
When I got there Sunday afternoon, I actually thought that I was going to cry looking at all the burn wood and ashes from the building and knowing that all those 1 and 0's that I worked so hard to put together was nothing more than vapor...
Funny/rotten/stupid things do happen with your computers - but if you take backups with you when you leave - you might be OK...
"Never, ever, threaten IBMs customers' desire to do business with IBM. They've got billions to spend to destroy you, and their lawyers walk six inches off the ground."
Somebody please forward parent to Darl and the boys. It should pretty much clean this whole mess up real quick. And did anyone else get the chills thinking about being attacked by IBM's lawyers walking in 6 inches off the ground???:)
Good article on this. I checked and had a pile of stuff in dist files....
That portsclean -DC works really well! Very through, updated the database and cleaned out a bunch of stuff. It seems like everything that the BSD people do is very stable and does exactly what they say it will do.
I really don't understand why the BSD's don't get more involvement... Maybe I just haven't been invited into that L33t crowd - yet...
Duke
I backup quicken on it because it is a LOT quicker than floppy. And of course its great for transfer of personal files, email, avi, mp3 etc... between work/home/friends.
I love it - I bought a 128MB and it is just about perfect. I carry it around like a pocket knife:)
I got my dad to buy one to backup his files while hes on the road. And I just had to have one after setting his up for him and such. If you DONT have one - go get one, really...
i agree with Taco - by saying "pants" im sure he means "slacks, or dockers etc...". i HATE pants - the company that i work for allows colored jeans and polo shirts. i wear (dont laugh) black jeans to work every day...
i think that the IT industry should come up with a dress code that actually lets you crawl around on the floor under a desk etc... that makes some stinkin sense.
a T-shirt, jeans, sneakers and some sort of smock or whatever its called. Like the ones that they wear in the hospitals etc... and they would have to be nice jeans and sneakers. not the shit you have left over from high school with your ass sticking out and sneakers that are no longer the original color that they were purchased as...
and im SERIOUS!!! i think that this should become a norm... i hate being in the data center and working on the UPS or racks or up in the ceiling with light colored polo shirt on that i spent 30 bucks for. when im done - its done. im sure this has happened to everyone. it pisses me off. the wife bitches that she cant get it clean etc...
and i dont care if its "professional" or not. im a "professional" no matter what im wearing - and wouldnt it be nice if you could be comfortable all the time???
/rant off... sorry i get a little wired when i talk about workplace clothing...:)
I already am doing this - kind of. And hopefully several other people are too. Not exactly the NRA way:) - But, I will not by any CDs.
I am not downloading copyrighted material either. I have been listening to the radio - its still free (well sort of? - xm...) and older stuff that I already owned. I used to buy 40+ CDs a year - not any more.
fineing college kids 12K for copying songs! geesh! Why didnt the RIAA jump on the bandwagon like they should have and come up with a better way to do it WITH napster and make money at it. They will have to embrace change or just watch it go by...
You know thats funny - but somewhat true also. The promises that they will end support in 2001 - and 2002 and 2003 etc... kind of piss people off. The new licensing scheme - whatever the hell that currently is - is also pissing people off. We buy all shrink wrap licenses - might be stupid - be at least this way we know what we have - it wont expire - we can downgrade it and load it on any machine we want to.
And (drum roll...) the next two Dell file servers we are getting in for pure storage will be "tested" with FreeBSD running Samba. Took me three years - but they are going to let me try it and see if it "works out" for us. The thing that finnaly pushed this over was when me and the big boss was going over the pricing for the servers - I said "remember we have still $1600 worth of M$ that we need to buy" and he said "Oh shit thats right" - and BOOM I went into action and low and behold we are going to try it out and see what happens...
I even went out and bought Using Samba - just in case;)
Very very true - and all the more reason to not buy CD's - because when they stop all the sharing - and shut down all the p2p sites etc... they will only have themselves to blame.
"I'm not defending the RIAA and overpriced music, but I do think that refusing to buy is a more appropriate response to the problem than violating copyright law. It seems to me that the former would force a reduction in prices, whereas the latter would ensure widespread adoption of DRM, harsher laws, etc.
AHMEN!!!!! druske
I have bought maybe 2 CDs in well over 2 years now. I used to bye 2+ a month. The RIAA can byte me.
BUT - I haven't downloaded one illegal MP3 file either. I do not want to give them a reason to want to hack into my machine - or a reason to pass more REALLY STUPID LAWS - or any of the other asinine things that they are trying to do. I will not stoop to their level. What most people are doing is completely wrong - even if you think that its OK because they charge too much etc... Its still wrong and I won't do it. They are scum - I am not.
Can you say diamond? Seriously - even if shes a g33ky g1rl - I would take a look at a diamond. ALL of her family and friends will be checking out her wedding ring - ALL of them...
You dont want your future mother-in-law saying "Well that Billy is a nice boy - but geesh did you see that ring he bought her? I thought those computer people made good money?" know what I mean?:)
If you want to make her one - go for it - but get a expensive one to put on her finger in front of the preach...
I hope that it involves authentication of some sort or another. IANAP - but they only way I can see to get rid of spam is to tell the SMTP server that you will allow mail to be delivered to you. If someone sends you an email - and you "unsubscribe" - they have to remove you from the list - the SMTP just hops it. If the SMTP servers themselves maintained a list of "unsubscribed" or blocked addresses - they couldn't send you an email.
I know - I don't write code - and this probably sounds stupid. But I don't really see any way of forcing someone to quit sending you email. SMTP is short and sweet - but it can't continue to just hop mail. It has to be checked somehow. And it would slow down the mass emailers a lot. Hopefully someone a lot smarter than I in this area can come up with something.
All it will take is someone with enough money to take the spammers to court and collect that $500 bucks per spam email they recieve. I'm sure that it would involve laywers and a court to collect it and prove that it came from this company etc - so your right to a point. But maybe if someone could take a spammer to court and collect several thousand dollars from them - they will stop - hopefully.
I think that a better way to fight this would be a tech solution that involved the ISPs - but that would be hard to get setup etc... maybe someday.
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I'm not sure what the big deal is anyway... I seen and loved the Avatar movie, but when they jumped off that cliff, I about jumped out of my seat. I had to close my eyes because I started getting vertigo pretty bad. If I was watching that in 3-D, not sure what would have happened. In other words it had more than enough "visually stunning" shots in there for me.
Is a movie in 3-D that much better? I have heard that some people like it and some could care less. Am I really missing anything?
Duke
Rodrigovr is actually right, to a point. You do want to hide everything that you can. I have been racking eq and doing wiring work for 20+ years... Use cable ties, not velcro, or wraps or anything like that, just plain old cable ties. I know, if you have to replace something or move something you have to cut all those ties... YEP thats right. Big deal. Just tie it all up again and do a better job each time you have to do it. You want to keep power separate from everything else.
And thats a great idea to be able to turn off stuff you don't use all the time with diff power strips, I do that myself.
You may want to use a mounting head cable tie and screw stuff you your actual desk. This is the kind of tie http://www.cabletiesplus.com/Products/5-Mounted-Head-Cable-Ties-(40-lb)-(Natural)__CP-5-40MH-N.aspx and you can use very small screws.
BUT if you don't want harm your desk at all. Just leave it hang and lay on the floor and make it look at nice as you can. Don't use tape, or sticky strips, or sticky cable mounts, because NONE OF THEM WORK. About two days after you anchor something it will come off, trust me... Basic rule of thumb for cable work, if it seems like its going to be way too much work and a big pain in the ass, then your doing it right and it will look great in the end. And just remember I have done this with 20+ devices in a 72u rack (over 6 feet of eq...) and you could NOT see any power cable when I was done and all the network, KVM etc... were ladder wrapped and the rest of the ties were about 1ft apart... Took 2 days to do one rack, but it looked great when it was finished.
Duke
I had been gaming on the PC forever... (cough in my 40s now...)
But I have NOT bought a PC game since my 1st xbox... And I do not plan on buying one. REASON: guess what, my main PC is 5/6 years old and it STILL RUNS great....
I upgraded and bought new PCs all the time in the past... now I only spend money on the games, not the games and a new machine each year...
Duke
And short of having a cable cut (which can happen) how often does your internet connection (not the router) go down?? Never, right? Yea me too.
Even so a centralized system can be protected from those kinds of things happening, like what happened to you. I have worked in and helped to design Data Centers where we had power coming in from two different power companies from two different lines that were physically separate from each other (just so they couldn't be cut at the same time). Different ISP etc...
There really is no reason for anything that is critical to go down...
And I live in a little (2000 +/- people) town in rural PA. I can have DSL (which I do), a cable modem or can drive 2 or so miles to about 3 different hot spots with free wireless access (coffee shops etc..). Or I could just buy wireless access thru Direct TV or one of the cellular companies. Sorry but I have a lot of trouble believing that Houston has "gaps" where you can't get internet access. You could probably get fiber to your house in Houston.
All I am saying is that central is a better overall solution for critical systems. I don't want or need to have an internet accessible GIMP server out there so I can modify my pics thru a web browser. (now I'm sure someone is going to do that ;). But if your going to authenticate my credit card purchase, I really don't want any of that software on my PC at home...
If every apps was PC based, most people would not be safe...
duke
The different issues of one versus many are a never ending thing. But when you break it down to the BIG ones... Maintaining one set of data, the security involved, backups, redundancy, configuration management, change management and on and on. There is no question about it. Centralized is it.
Just the security is huge. If I have an online store and you wish to purchase something from me - you need to download my shopping cart software and install it? So instead of protecting 1, I am protecting everyone? Not a good idea. What happens when it needs updates, or when it crashes your computer or etc.
And I don't think that performance is really an issue anymore either. A centralized app is as fast as the pipe it is traveling on. There are some things to be said for good coding etc... But if you have a slow pipe - you have a slow app. I haven't really seen this lately. I think everyone is on DSL, cable modem or wireless access. And we really don't use all of the bandwidth. Most web apps are pretty fast.
But besides all of that: The M$ outage was absolutely uncalled for. There is NO need to have an outage of a system that large for that long. We have CONOPS plans for a reason. And if these backup plans don't work - someone should be fired for not doing their job. There is WAY too much technology out there to prevent these kinds of things from happening.
Heck M$ sells some of it. They should try and use it.
Duke
He IS NOT a geek. But he does all his work and some photo stuff on his notebook and desktop. He HATED Vista. No driver for the printer, some software he uses won't work, had trouble with the camera etc... He was pretty pi$$ed when I talked to him... I told him maybe we could get Dell to give us XP and send Vista back and that would fix everything... (he has XP on the laptop and its OK :)
I tried to get Dell to trade it in, or give me credit, a discount on XP or something like that... but they blew me off and told me that I would have to send back the machine so I could then order the "open source" version. I talked to my dad and he just went nuts for a while and them said he would take care of it... So I figured that he was going to send back the machine and let me build one for him...
NOPE - he gave M$ more money and they also have another "Vista" user on the books... He went out and just bought a full version of XP. I didn't say anything other than OK I'll be up and get it loaded for ya... You have to know my dad... I already found all the drivers that he needs for XP. So everything should be fine.....
BUT IT JUST SUCKS!!!! I freakin HATE MS for this kind of stuff. Did you know that you CAN NOT downgrade Vista Home(any version) to XP - BUT the business versions are ALL downgradeable. You wouldn't want FORD to not buy windows because they have to use the CUTTING EDGE CRAP that we will be QCing for them for the next six months. BUT its OK to screw joe user at home!!! I dont know why they would even make some one PAY for an OS at home.... I guess that 70trillion dollars a year from the businesses just ins't enough.
I would love to load BSD/ubuntu/etc... on my pops machine - I really would. But he's 60ish and NOT a geek and its just not there yet.
Yea M$ sales are up and they should have a column on the sheet that is headed "Customers outright screw and we still made money."
Geesh, I should learn how to write code so I can contrib...
Duke
Like me, you sound like you won't be happy at all not working. I really can't think of myself as being out of a job, not even when I am 60+. So I plan on teaching.
You have the required education, and just so much more real world knowledge than 80% of the instructors out there today. PASS IT ON. I have taught part time in the past on and off for 5/6 years. It is a lot of fun, it keeps you sharp and the students love you because, you are for real and not just from a book.
If you code after you retire, it will get to be another full time job and who wants to deal with dead lines, time lines, requirements, and boneheads that don't know what they are talking about etc... Doesn't sound like retirement to me... If you go the teaching route, maybe a few bad ass kids in the bunch here and there, but everything else is set up, its not that hard and can be a blast.
You won't make a lot of money, but pick a good open source project and code for it as a hobby, and go teach to make a little cash and really feel good about helping all the young geeks out there ;)
duke
I can't imagine a situation where you would need to have a switch "a few feet" away from a 2000 degree device. But, if you really need to do that, make sure you have a LOT of spare switches around...
Duke
This post is right on the point. You don't need a spreadsheet or database, you need a good management box to handle it for you.
WSUS would work, but there are better products out there that and they would give you a lot more function. Hercules, from Citadel, is a good one and can handle 7000 boxes with a few systems in the right place. But it is not limited to Windows only patches, you can custom write you own upgrades for any of the apps on the box. They have scheduling, an inventory (your database), good reporting and several other things.
And NO I don't work for them.
Check them out, or patch link, big fix, landdesk etc.... You REALLY need something like this.
Duke
I worked on it for 4-5 months. Pretty much full 8-10 hour days doing nothing else but posting rental transactions and restaurant/bar sales. It was a ski resort that I was working at.
I finished up the reports and spreadsheets, backed everything up to floppies put them in my desk. Printed everything out on a 9 pin IBM dot matrix printer and put the reports on the bosses desk. It was LATE Friday night and they had to go the the accountants office Monday morning. So I pretty much finished everything up.
I left the office that night and found out Sunday afternoon that a security guard left on a kerosene heater in the office Saturday night - fell asleep in the guard shack and the office was burnt to the ground by Sunday morning.
When I got there Sunday afternoon, I actually thought that I was going to cry looking at all the burn wood and ashes from the building and knowing that all those 1 and 0's that I worked so hard to put together was nothing more than vapor...
Funny/rotten/stupid things do happen with your computers - but if you take backups with you when you leave - you might be OK...
Duke
Somebody please forward parent to Darl and the boys. It should pretty much clean this whole mess up real quick. And did anyone else get the chills thinking about being attacked by IBM's lawyers walking in 6 inches off the ground??? :)
Duke
That portsclean -DC works really well! Very through, updated the database and cleaned out a bunch of stuff. It seems like everything that the BSD people do is very stable and does exactly what they say it will do.
I really don't understand why the BSD's don't get more involvement... Maybe I just haven't been invited into that L33t crowd - yet...
Duke
I love it - I bought a 128MB and it is just about perfect. I carry it around like a pocket knife :)
I got my dad to buy one to backup his files while hes on the road. And I just had to have one after setting his up for him and such. If you DONT have one - go get one, really...
Duke
i think that the IT industry should come up with a dress code that actually lets you crawl around on the floor under a desk etc... that makes some stinkin sense.
a T-shirt, jeans, sneakers and some sort of smock or whatever its called. Like the ones that they wear in the hospitals etc... and they would have to be nice jeans and sneakers. not the shit you have left over from high school with your ass sticking out and sneakers that are no longer the original color that they were purchased as...
and im SERIOUS!!! i think that this should become a norm... i hate being in the data center and working on the UPS or racks or up in the ceiling with light colored polo shirt on that i spent 30 bucks for. when im done - its done. im sure this has happened to everyone. it pisses me off. the wife bitches that she cant get it clean etc...
and i dont care if its "professional" or not. im a "professional" no matter what im wearing - and wouldnt it be nice if you could be comfortable all the time???
duke
I am not downloading copyrighted material either. I have been listening to the radio - its still free (well sort of? - xm...) and older stuff that I already owned. I used to buy 40+ CDs a year - not any more.
fineing college kids 12K for copying songs! geesh! Why didnt the RIAA jump on the bandwagon like they should have and come up with a better way to do it WITH napster and make money at it. They will have to embrace change or just watch it go by...
Duke
And (drum roll...) the next two Dell file servers we are getting in for pure storage will be "tested" with FreeBSD running Samba. Took me three years - but they are going to let me try it and see if it "works out" for us. The thing that finnaly pushed this over was when me and the big boss was going over the pricing for the servers - I said "remember we have still $1600 worth of M$ that we need to buy" and he said "Oh shit thats right" - and BOOM I went into action and low and behold we are going to try it out and see what happens...
I even went out and bought Using Samba - just in case ;)
Regards,
Duke
Duke
AHMEN!!!!! druske
I have bought maybe 2 CDs in well over 2 years now. I used to bye 2+ a month. The RIAA can byte me.
BUT - I haven't downloaded one illegal MP3 file either. I do not want to give them a reason to want to hack into my machine - or a reason to pass more REALLY STUPID LAWS - or any of the other asinine things that they are trying to do. I will not stoop to their level. What most people are doing is completely wrong - even if you think that its OK because they charge too much etc... Its still wrong and I won't do it. They are scum - I am not.
Think about it...
Duke
Duke
Wonder if they planned it that way?? :)
Duke
They better let me play at least a few games with them. :)
Duke
You dont want your future mother-in-law saying "Well that Billy is a nice boy - but geesh did you see that ring he bought her? I thought those computer people made good money?" know what I mean? :)
If you want to make her one - go for it - but get a expensive one to put on her finger in front of the preach...
Duke
Hmmm... any one got any ideas for a can of peas, 2 frozen fish filets, a half a bag of cheeze doodles, and blueberry bagels??? :P
Duke
I know - I don't write code - and this probably sounds stupid. But I don't really see any way of forcing someone to quit sending you email. SMTP is short and sweet - but it can't continue to just hop mail. It has to be checked somehow. And it would slow down the mass emailers a lot. Hopefully someone a lot smarter than I in this area can come up with something.
Duke
I think that a better way to fight this would be a tech solution that involved the ISPs - but that would be hard to get setup etc... maybe someday.
duke