Caddy! I think that's the word you're looking for...
Some radio stations still use them today, that is, ones that haven't totally moved their music collection onto computer.
Also, a note about the power cable -- very few in fact had a remote power button even connected to the power supply -- many actually had a rocker or flip switch built in as part of the power supply.
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This Jim Blair guy is full of shit. You have 30 days to activate the software. It's not "crippled" in any way until that 30 day timer is over.
Unless, of course, he did the install 30 days ago, and waited to install NOW. Point is, this really doesn't matter, and this guy can kiss my ass -- "I gotta stop my project for some unknown length of time" sounds like the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Maybe he's gotta make a run to Krispy Kreme. Regardless, XP allows you 30 days grace (beta versions 14 days).
That's not necessarily true; the ISP could just as easily leave it behind the firewall, and allow access through a proxy box (whether it be a shell account, or some sort of web-based management scheme, which I assume is more popular).
On another related note, I did some Oracle work for a company with "really high" corporate security... or at least that's that bullshit that they berate us worker drones with. I had set the Oracle passwords to something like fd@3A23$Dw or something similar. The response? "We usually leave them the same as the user." WTF! I'm surprised that scott/tiger didn't work....
Times have changed. We've now reached a point where (and I hesitate to say) more and more computer-illiterate people are using computers. Most commodity PCs ship with WMP and Real for ease of conveience. They don't want to be bothered installing something else. 90% of websites with streaming multimedia content still want to cater to this clientele. Now tell me how this will adversely affect their decision...?
Frankly, and don't take this the wrong way, no one cares about Ogg Vorbis except for Slashdotters. When talking about streaming media, you have only two and a half choices: Windows Media and Real Media (QuickTime is only half supported, if not for its typical clunky Apple streaming solution. Streaming OGG Vorbis on mainstream websites, or on any site for that matter that asks the user to "download something else" will force users away. In short, never gonna happen, stick with the proven market leaders.
That at the top of this very page is a giant banner ad for Thawte's certificate authority. Don't believe me? Here's the banner ad.
The main problem with some things being "free" is just that - there ain't enough cash money to make the world go round. I have no problem paying Thawte or Verisign as they promise to get the job done; unlike Joe Gnu, who "might get around to that someday."
Realize this people: you need exchange of money to make things happen. You can't walk into a McDonalds and demand a free Big Mac in the name of freedom and all; it just don't work that way.
I might add that Slashdot calling for free certificate authorities while they pay-for certificate authorities are providing this site revenue!! Just think -- if it weren't for companies like Thawte running their banners, Slashdot would have been down the hole a long time ago -- bandwidth and server datacenters aren't free either, you know.
or 92.3 at around midnite on sundays (or was that saturdays).
You're probably thinking of more of an alternative club / straight electronica format. KTU is straight dance/rhythm. Think "20 year old girls grind ass to this music."
You hardly hear metallica, pantera, alice in chains, ozzy, black sabbath, bush, tool or other good bands on k-rock
That's cause they switched format years ago. It's an alternative station - they don't play old school hard rock anymore.
Hopefully, XM will be able to kill off FM completely and switch to a cheaper than cheap brand of "good" music stations.
Uh, no.
Let's take a few of your examples:
103.5 - "dance"
That's WKTU. The US's #1 dance station. This is where all new dance music that comes over from Europe premiers. No kidding. If it's hot in the UK, you'll hear it first. Best rhythm-format station in the country, period.
97.1 - old skool r&b
That's Hot 97. Hot 97 is the premier Hip Hop radio station in America. It's where most of the hot new hip-hop artists today got their first airplay.
92.3 - "current rock"
WXRK - K-Rock. Used to be classic rock, back in the day. What makes this station special? The home of Howard Stern. Overall #1 morning show in the country, and still #1 in NY for the middle age male demographic, period.
When "XM kills off" (as you say) Howard Stern completely in the morning drive, I'll personally be happy to drop a 50 pound brick onto my genitals. Why? Cause I'm 100% sure that'll never happen.
This is 100% the wrong way to go about things, bud. What you want to do is use something like Microsoft Systems Management Server,Veritas WinInstall, or Novell ZenWorks SnAPPShot to monitor the install on your install test-bed PC (you DO have one, don't you?), make all those oodles of changes you want to, then redistribute it identically to your clients. If you don't have these, I would buy one of the packages -- the money you spend will save you $$$ in man-hours trying to come up with a hackneyed, crappy homebrew solution in the long run. Once you start using these distribution apps, they will become your next best friend.
That's good to know. It's just after about a year of being repeatedly told about this, they completely ignored the community, which made me think that they would never get around to fixing it. So I construed your original post as an uninformed "heh he should just update the firmware...idiot..." post. Sorry.
Wow, you're so smart, aren't you? Well what you don't know I that I know for a fact that every f/w revision since 1.3.0 until (at least) 1.42.0 DID EXHIBIT this problem. This is for over a year of firmware releases!!! Linksys refused to fix the problem when notified about it by multiple people.
I'm afraid you're wrong. As long as you have one *license* per machine, and you have the documentation, you use one serial number to install them all. I know this because I helped admin a Windows network back in HS, and I know for a fact we were in full license compliance.
In fact (as someone else mentioned), Microsoft created a utility called sysprep that preps Windows 2000 machines for being cloned (see here - "The Windows 2000 System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) Version 1.1 enables administrators to prepare Windows 2000 System Images as part of an automated deployment.") It resets stuff like SIDs (which are used by Windows NT -- each machine should have a unique one on the network) so that after cloning, the boxes will eventually be unique as well.
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Caddy! I think that's the word you're looking for...
Some radio stations still use them today, that is, ones that haven't totally moved their music collection onto computer.
Also, a note about the power cable -- very few in fact had a remote power button even connected to the power supply -- many actually had a rocker or flip switch built in as part of the power supply.
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What you don't know, however, is that I wrote that sig ten years ago -- I have the dated notes to prove it!
This Jim Blair guy is full of shit. You have 30 days to activate the software. It's not "crippled" in any way until that 30 day timer is over.
Unless, of course, he did the install 30 days ago, and waited to install NOW. Point is, this really doesn't matter, and this guy can kiss my ass -- "I gotta stop my project for some unknown length of time" sounds like the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Maybe he's gotta make a run to Krispy Kreme. Regardless, XP allows you 30 days grace (beta versions 14 days).
That is all.
That's not necessarily true; the ISP could just as easily leave it behind the firewall, and allow access through a proxy box (whether it be a shell account, or some sort of web-based management scheme, which I assume is more popular).
On another related note, I did some Oracle work for a company with "really high" corporate security... or at least that's that bullshit that they berate us worker drones with. I had set the Oracle passwords to something like fd@3A23$Dw or something similar. The response? "We usually leave them the same as the user." WTF! I'm surprised that scott/tiger didn't work....
Outside a firewall for no apparent reason is a tool. That being said, we live in a world of idiots. Why?
NGSSoftware alerted Microsoft to this problem on the 17th of May 2002 and
they have produced a patch that resolves these issues.
This is January 25 2003 if I'm not mistaken. Are these the same people that leave their cars unlocked with the keys in the ignition?
must say the booth babes are really hot this yr...
Yeah nothing like one look at Jon 'maddog' Hall's Santa Claus beard to get the ladies' panties in a bunch.
He can lead the campaign against any and all computers. We must stop these beasts before they pollute the whole world.
Recording industry -> Music -> Girls -> Clubs -> Hot, horny girls -> Sex
Nope, not gonna happen.
Jack Valenti to replace her at the end of her term.
Wow, you've really got this down pat -- first reply as Anon Coward, then mod -1 Troll. Thanks for playing. HAND.
Times have changed. We've now reached a point where (and I hesitate to say) more and more computer-illiterate people are using computers. Most commodity PCs ship with WMP and Real for ease of conveience. They don't want to be bothered installing something else. 90% of websites with streaming multimedia content still want to cater to this clientele. Now tell me how this will adversely affect their decision...?
Um, no.
Frankly, and don't take this the wrong way, no one cares about Ogg Vorbis except for Slashdotters. When talking about streaming media, you have only two and a half choices: Windows Media and Real Media (QuickTime is only half supported, if not for its typical clunky Apple streaming solution. Streaming OGG Vorbis on mainstream websites, or on any site for that matter that asks the user to "download something else" will force users away. In short, never gonna happen, stick with the proven market leaders.
That at the top of this very page is a giant banner ad for Thawte's certificate authority. Don't believe me? Here's the banner ad.
The main problem with some things being "free" is just that - there ain't enough cash money to make the world go round. I have no problem paying Thawte or Verisign as they promise to get the job done; unlike Joe Gnu, who "might get around to that someday."
Realize this people: you need exchange of money to make things happen. You can't walk into a McDonalds and demand a free Big Mac in the name of freedom and all; it just don't work that way.
I might add that Slashdot calling for free certificate authorities while they pay-for certificate authorities are providing this site revenue!! Just think -- if it weren't for companies like Thawte running their banners, Slashdot would have been down the hole a long time ago -- bandwidth and server datacenters aren't free either, you know.
this one.
What if someone launches a large scale DDoS attach from their netblock? You'd think they'd like to be aware of it...
Try digitallyimported.com
Talking FM here.
or 92.3 at around midnite on sundays (or was that saturdays).
You're probably thinking of more of an alternative club / straight electronica format. KTU is straight dance/rhythm. Think "20 year old girls grind ass to this music."
You hardly hear metallica, pantera, alice in chains, ozzy, black sabbath, bush, tool or other good bands on k-rock
That's cause they switched format years ago. It's an alternative station - they don't play old school hard rock anymore.
Hopefully, XM will be able to kill off FM completely and switch to a cheaper than cheap brand of "good" music stations.
Uh, no.
Let's take a few of your examples:
103.5 - "dance"
That's WKTU. The US's #1 dance station. This is where all new dance music that comes over from Europe premiers. No kidding. If it's hot in the UK, you'll hear it first. Best rhythm-format station in the country, period.
97.1 - old skool r&b
That's Hot 97. Hot 97 is the premier Hip Hop radio station in America. It's where most of the hot new hip-hop artists today got their first airplay.
92.3 - "current rock"
WXRK - K-Rock. Used to be classic rock, back in the day. What makes this station special? The home of Howard Stern. Overall #1 morning show in the country, and still #1 in NY for the middle age male demographic, period.
When "XM kills off" (as you say) Howard Stern completely in the morning drive, I'll personally be happy to drop a 50 pound brick onto my genitals. Why? Cause I'm 100% sure that'll never happen.
The best part is when he suggested "walking from station to station."
This is 100% the wrong way to go about things, bud. What you want to do is use something like Microsoft Systems Management Server, Veritas WinInstall, or Novell ZenWorks SnAPPShot to monitor the install on your install test-bed PC (you DO have one, don't you?), make all those oodles of changes you want to, then redistribute it identically to your clients. If you don't have these, I would buy one of the packages -- the money you spend will save you $$$ in man-hours trying to come up with a hackneyed, crappy homebrew solution in the long run. Once you start using these distribution apps, they will become your next best friend.
That's good to know. It's just after about a year of being repeatedly told about this, they completely ignored the community, which made me think that they would never get around to fixing it. So I construed your original post as an uninformed "heh he should just update the firmware...idiot..." post. Sorry.
Wow, you're so smart, aren't you? Well what you don't know I that I know for a fact that every f/w revision since 1.3.0 until (at least) 1.42.0 DID EXHIBIT this problem. This is for over a year of firmware releases!!! Linksys refused to fix the problem when notified about it by multiple people.
But I'm sure you already knew that.
Being a smartass != Security folks.
And if those packets happen to slam into your Linksys BEFSR41 router, it will freeze up, crash, and flop around like a half-dead fish.
I have no idea -- that's what makes it so entertaining.
I'm afraid you're wrong. As long as you have one *license* per machine, and you have the documentation, you use one serial number to install them all. I know this because I helped admin a Windows network back in HS, and I know for a fact we were in full license compliance.
In fact (as someone else mentioned), Microsoft created a utility called sysprep that preps Windows 2000 machines for being cloned (see here - "The Windows 2000 System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) Version 1.1 enables administrators to prepare Windows 2000 System Images as part of an automated deployment.") It resets stuff like SIDs (which are used by Windows NT -- each machine should have a unique one on the network) so that after cloning, the boxes will eventually be unique as well.
A loose interpretation of this