You can't buy off-the-shelf software for it at Best Buy
But you can buy linux at BestBuy. If we can see strong sales of linux netbooks, we might see other software on the shelf too.
I wonder what the return rate for Macs are compared to Windows PCs? Perhaps Apple's investment in customer service is to reduce return rates when folk turn on an unfamiliar operating system. Of course when you sell some of the more expensive consumer PCs it's a lot easier to offer that level of support. To offer it when you're competing at the very lowest price point is much more challenging.
Others have suggested videos on the desktop. I recon that's a good idea. Why not throw in a DVD too - maybe use a well known actor to ease familiarity - and talk folk through how to do some of the most common tasks?
I would expect small local agencies to either not have or ignore proper data scrubbing policies prior to selling old equipment, but national intelligence agencies? That's a whole different kettle of fish.
Kirklees Council had a budget of £1 billion ($1.8 billion US) last year. Perhaps your and I have different ideas of what's 'small' but I'd expect an organisation of that size to have proper disposal procedures in place.
If that's the case, can you explain why when Apple rejects an app from their app store, even their rejection letter is protected by an NDA?
So if you've told people your developing an app, you then can't tell them why it has been rejected or even that it has been rejected. Access to the SDK requires you to agree to an NDA.
They did in face have an outage in December 2006. It knocked many folk off the web - even folk who had paid for three servers.
I use them as a primary and secondary service, but also have 3rd and 4th nameservers elsewhere, also geographically dispersed. It'd take something pretty special to knock them all off line.
You were sold a resedential service with residential terms and conditions.
Your terms include:
The Service is for personal and non-commercial residential use only. Therefore, Comcast reserves the right to suspend or terminate Service accounts where bandwidth consumption is not characteristic of a typical residential user of the Service as determined by the company in its sole discretion. Common activities that may cause excessive bandwidth consumption in violation of this Policy include, but are not limited to, numerous or continuous bulk transfers of files and other high capacity traffic
So you bought a product that bulk transfers of files may be restricted. Why are you complaining when Comcast are giving you exactly what you bought? As others have said, they probably also sell products more suited to your needs.
A guy suggesting, seriously as far as I can work out, that you can replace Outlook with TELNET! is marked "informative?"
Not at all. I replied to a post which said:
Have you ever tried to use SMTP commands directly through telnet? Craziness!
I merely pointed out that many mail server administrators will have done this frequently. It'd not crazy and not particularly difficult. Still, just because you can doesn't mean that's how you send your mail. Most of us use an MUA for day to day sending of email. I certainly never suggested anyone do otherwise.
I'd imagine most folk that have administered a mail server have sent mail with telnet. It's not difficult and if your new server is doing something weird it can be very useful for diagnosis.
You just do something like:
telnet mail.example.com 25 EHLO me.example.com MAIL FROM: <me@me.example.com> RCPT TO: <you@mail.example.com> DATA Subject: Message sent with telnet
You can change the From: address in gmail to be your work email address, so the people you talk to wont even know it's being forwarded
For folk thinking of doing this, please make sure any SPF records for your domain list google as an authorised sender. Otherwise a lot of mail you send will be going to/dev/null
I appreciate the problem, but for 100 quid a month you could colocate a server somewhere with a real pipe. That way at least, everyone could use it at the maximum speed of their broadband rather than being limited by the somewhat pathetic upstream speed on your ADSL connection.
Of course that might not work so well at your office if the server really has to be located in your HQ. In that case, some form of bonding multiple ADSL lines would help a lot. I know Andrews and Arnolds offer this. Other good ISPs probably do too.
Many UK providers happily let prepay customers roam. I would imaging that requires realtime billing. While you may be correct, there's really little excuse for that these days.
As others have mentioned, this relates to a data card. Usually these have provider supplied software. It should be trivial for it to periodically download the data charges, know where it is connected and at the very least display an approximate bill.
Well it is Unbox but with live streaming. You no longer need to download the file to watch, and Flash should open up the number of architectures supported.
Of course Unbox would let you watch almost as soon as you started the download if your connection was fast enough. My experience lately has been that my connection is fast enough and amazon's isn't.
Hopefully they've fixed that if the plan to offer live streaming, or perhaps that's the reason others are mentioning the poor video quality. They might have used a low bitrate to get around poor bandwidth.
But the phone company does not limit people that make a lot of phone calls.
Of course not, because in general your phone service is metered. You pay as you use, so more calls means more revenue. Alternatively some providers will sell you a capped service where you pay a fixed amount for up to x amount of minutes (just like comcast are doing with their internet service).
It should be no different for ISPs
Indeed, it is no different for ISPs. Most will happily sell you however much bandwidth you could ever want. Like the phone company, they'll expect you to pay for it.
I very much suspect Comcast has no problem delivering bandwidth on their own network. Adding or removing TV channels means nothing. The limit is their connection to other peers. The data they send over internet backbones. That stuff they have to pay for.
So you're paying almost $50 a year for two cards that costs cents each to produce. They've done exactly the same thing by forcing you to rent cards rather than cable boxes.
What exactly is the monthly fee supposed to be covering? It may even be that their margin on cable box rentals isn't much different than that on card rentals.
Once, the card is issued all it is is a number in a database to them. This is like a hotel charging you per night for the room key.
Why on earth aren't they charging you a couple of dollars for the card and then being done with the charging? Perhaps you should join the suit or start your own?
What if you support the email server and it's down? There must be thousands of small firms that employ a single geek. Or those with no IT staff at all, where one member of staff with other responsibilities gets their hands dirty.
I thought about that but, seriously, transcoding is usually CPU limited. I'd really suspect it'd take a lot of simultaneous encoding to make it I/O bound.
Or just convert 2 videos at once, or 4 for a quad core etc. They did suggest they have lots to convert, and it's a pretty easy way to get all available cores working hard.
It does beg the question why this isn't a default feature of most BIOS chips. It really should be trivial for the bios to try and get a dhcp lease on the installed network cards and make a single network connection.
Sure, you can reset the BIOS, but that's typically a lot more challenging than reformatting the hard drive.
There's another easy solution. Make your mail available at the other end via pop3/imap and have google collect it for you. Then you don't need to worry about any SPF rules getting in the way.
If google can't do that then make your email available over imap and use the imapsync script and cron to sync your mailbox with gmail every 15 minutes or so.
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But you can buy linux at BestBuy. If we can see strong sales of linux netbooks, we might see other software on the shelf too.
I wonder what the return rate for Macs are compared to Windows PCs? Perhaps Apple's investment in customer service is to reduce return rates when folk turn on an unfamiliar operating system. Of course when you sell some of the more expensive consumer PCs it's a lot easier to offer that level of support. To offer it when you're competing at the very lowest price point is much more challenging.
Others have suggested videos on the desktop. I recon that's a good idea. Why not throw in a DVD too - maybe use a well known actor to ease familiarity - and talk folk through how to do some of the most common tasks?
Where you have sensitive data you can look at duplicity - it uses gpg to create encrypted diffs.
With Amazon S3 integration there's even a cheap distributed storage host available.
I would expect small local agencies to either not have or ignore proper data scrubbing policies prior to selling old equipment, but national intelligence agencies? That's a whole different kettle of fish.
Kirklees Council had a budget of £1 billion ($1.8 billion US) last year. Perhaps your and I have different ideas of what's 'small' but I'd expect an organisation of that size to have proper disposal procedures in place.
If that's the case, can you explain why when Apple rejects an app from their app store, even their rejection letter is protected by an NDA?
So if you've told people your developing an app, you then can't tell them why it has been rejected or even that it has been rejected. Access to the SDK requires you to agree to an NDA.
They did in face have an outage in December 2006. It knocked many folk off the web - even folk who had paid for three servers.
I use them as a primary and secondary service, but also have 3rd and 4th nameservers elsewhere, also geographically dispersed. It'd take something pretty special to knock them all off line.
You were sold a resedential service with residential terms and conditions.
Your terms include:
So you bought a product that bulk transfers of files may be restricted. Why are you complaining when Comcast are giving you exactly what you bought? As others have said, they probably also sell products more suited to your needs.
Not at all. I replied to a post which said:
I merely pointed out that many mail server administrators will have done this frequently. It'd not crazy and not particularly difficult. Still, just because you can doesn't mean that's how you send your mail. Most of us use an MUA for day to day sending of email. I certainly never suggested anyone do otherwise.
I'd imagine most folk that have administered a mail server have sent mail with telnet. It's not difficult and if your new server is doing something weird it can be very useful for diagnosis.
You just do something like:
telnet mail.example.com 25
EHLO me.example.com
MAIL FROM: <me@me.example.com>
RCPT TO: <you@mail.example.com>
DATA
Subject: Message sent with telnet
Here's my message body.
.
For folk thinking of doing this, please make sure any SPF records for your domain list google as an authorised sender. Otherwise a lot of mail you send will be going to /dev/null
I appreciate the problem, but for 100 quid a month you could colocate a server somewhere with a real pipe. That way at least, everyone could use it at the maximum speed of their broadband rather than being limited by the somewhat pathetic upstream speed on your ADSL connection.
Of course that might not work so well at your office if the server really has to be located in your HQ. In that case, some form of bonding multiple ADSL lines would help a lot. I know Andrews and Arnolds offer this. Other good ISPs probably do too.
Many UK providers happily let prepay customers roam. I would imaging that requires realtime billing. While you may be correct, there's really little excuse for that these days.
As others have mentioned, this relates to a data card. Usually these have provider supplied software. It should be trivial for it to periodically download the data charges, know where it is connected and at the very least display an approximate bill.
Well it is Unbox but with live streaming. You no longer need to download the file to watch, and Flash should open up the number of architectures supported.
Of course Unbox would let you watch almost as soon as you started the download if your connection was fast enough. My experience lately has been that my connection is fast enough and amazon's isn't.
Hopefully they've fixed that if the plan to offer live streaming, or perhaps that's the reason others are mentioning the poor video quality. They might have used a low bitrate to get around poor bandwidth.
Of course not, because in general your phone service is metered. You pay as you use, so more calls means more revenue. Alternatively some providers will sell you a capped service where you pay a fixed amount for up to x amount of minutes (just like comcast are doing with their internet service).
Indeed, it is no different for ISPs. Most will happily sell you however much bandwidth you could ever want. Like the phone company, they'll expect you to pay for it.
I very much suspect Comcast has no problem delivering bandwidth on their own network. Adding or removing TV channels means nothing. The limit is their connection to other peers. The data they send over internet backbones. That stuff they have to pay for.
I think you don't know what average means. Take a minute to google for the difference between mean and median.
Well action in the courts has stopped everyone sharing music, so this is clearly a strategy with a great deal of merit.
So you're paying almost $50 a year for two cards that costs cents each to produce. They've done exactly the same thing by forcing you to rent cards rather than cable boxes.
What exactly is the monthly fee supposed to be covering? It may even be that their margin on cable box rentals isn't much different than that on card rentals.
Once, the card is issued all it is is a number in a database to them. This is like a hotel charging you per night for the room key.
Why on earth aren't they charging you a couple of dollars for the card and then being done with the charging? Perhaps you should join the suit or start your own?
Moderators who marked this flamebait; look up, there's a joke passing over...
What if you support the email server and it's down? There must be thousands of small firms that employ a single geek. Or those with no IT staff at all, where one member of staff with other responsibilities gets their hands dirty.
I thought about that but, seriously, transcoding is usually CPU limited. I'd really suspect it'd take a lot of simultaneous encoding to make it I/O bound.
Or just convert 2 videos at once, or 4 for a quad core etc. They did suggest they have lots to convert, and it's a pretty easy way to get all available cores working hard.
It does beg the question why this isn't a default feature of most BIOS chips. It really should be trivial for the bios to try and get a dhcp lease on the installed network cards and make a single network connection.
Sure, you can reset the BIOS, but that's typically a lot more challenging than reformatting the hard drive.
There's another easy solution. Make your mail available at the other end via pop3/imap and have google collect it for you. Then you don't need to worry about any SPF rules getting in the way.
If google can't do that then make your email available over imap and use the imapsync script and cron to sync your mailbox with gmail every 15 minutes or so.
Are you driving a Hummer? You go five meters on 238 litres of petrol?
They've already found the water. Why didn't they send up some seeds?