I noticed a significant decline in shipping speed in the 3rd month and have filed a complaint with my states attorney general.
I don't get it. The hackingnetflix site is more of a netflix *fan* site. In fact the guy even says he's sick of the "netflix is throttling my shipments" stuff.
Perhaps instead of filing a complaint with your attorney general you should've filed a complaint with netflix.
I don't think people realize how much mail slows down during November and December due to the holidays. Every month I mail a check to my parents (to pay off a loan), it normally gets there the next day.. during november and december it can take up to a week to get there (and it's only 2 hours away!).
I'm pretty sure that's what is going on, since it seems the whole "netflix is slowing down!" hysteria happens every december.
USPS will pick them up around 11am and I'll receve the little "we receved your dvds" email with in two days and get the dvd with in another 2 days
Wow, good reason to not live in NY I guess.. mail is slow!
I live in Tucson, about 120 miles from Phoenix (the closest netflix branch). I can mail out movies on Monday, Netflix will email me Tuesday, I'll get new ones on Wednesday.
For those of us in the southwest, Netflix is awesome. I just checked my Rental Activity. So far in February, we've received 12 movies, with another 2 showing up tomorrow. That's a new movie every other day.
Seriously: Netflix ships movies for a flat monthly fee. So does Blockbuster and companies X, Y, and Z. What makes it better? Nothing?
How about the fact that Blockbuster seems to lose movies all the time? We had the free blockbuster 3 week trial. A week after we mailed back our movies we had to go to the site and click "I mailed it in". They mailed out new ones, only to have those get lost in the mail as well.
We cancelled our blockbuster subscription and switched to Netflix (blockbuster obviously has some serious problems because when we cancelled our subscription, they offered us another *month* free).. Netflix has never lost our movies in the mail, and have always been pretty timely.
There are those people who claim netflix throttles their movies.. but those same people probably don't take holidays into account. We saw some serious lag in movie turn-around time around christmas, but that disappeared shortly after the season.
No, but a co-worker of mine uses GameFly. He swears by it. It's expensive though.
One neat thing is if you have a game checked out and you like it enough to own it, you can go back to the website and click "Keep It" and they'll charge you a used-game price for the game, and mail out the box.
The difference is that you don't need to run the ms program on a regular basis in order to build the database. The MS program will create 2 md5 databases and compare them to see if you've been infected. Although you could do that with tripwire, that really isn't what was designed for.
That's exactly what Aide does... it can even send the md5 database to another machine. It will compare the latest md5 database with the known-good one and then alert you if there are any discrepancies.
Users dont read popups. If they are prompted for root... they will type it in.
Yup. I installed TextWrangler (the free version of BBEdit) a few days ago. It asked me for my password the first time I ran it. I looked at it and said "that's weird" and then went ahead and typed it in.
but few seem to notice they're arranged like a traffic light, which is intuitive for most people. Red, yellow, and green circles--red closes the window, yellow minimizes, and green zooms.
Fuck, I always thought that Red brought the app to a screeching halt, Yellow slowed it down, and Green made it run normally.
Actually reading through it now, it looks like they are going for a combination of OSX and XP.
Neither XP nor OSX use scalable anything. Apps are layed out in Absolute coordinates, icons are bitmaps, etc.
That's one of the reasons why apple makes all of its monitors 100dpi. If they went higher than 100dpi, everything would be too small, and it's impossible to make it larger.
GTK and metacity on the other hand, use sizable widgets.. things can scale up to meet hi-res demands.
I have a complete RSVG theme. I can run at any resolution and my icons are the same size. The widgets in applications are the same size. Nothing is ever "too small".
That's untrue. You are not obligated by law to report a crime you have witnessed. At least not in the country relevant to this discussion.
That's not entirely true. Many states have Good Samaritan laws, however they only apply to crimes that affect human life.
There are two parts to the standard Good Samaritan law.
The first part is a "Duty to Assist". If you witness a crime that causes someone to be harmed, you are required to call the police.
The second part is a "Immunity from Liability". That is, if you give someone CPR and you break their ribs in the process, they can't sue you.
Again, these only affect crimes that require "emergency care". So it's pretty irrelevant to this discussion. I just wanted to point out that there are indeed laws that require you to report *certain* crimes.
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I noticed a significant decline in shipping speed in the 3rd month and have filed a complaint with my states attorney general.
I don't get it. The hackingnetflix site is more of a netflix *fan* site. In fact the guy even says he's sick of the "netflix is throttling my shipments" stuff.
Perhaps instead of filing a complaint with your attorney general you should've filed a complaint with netflix.
I don't think people realize how much mail slows down during November and December due to the holidays. Every month I mail a check to my parents (to pay off a loan), it normally gets there the next day.. during november and december it can take up to a week to get there (and it's only 2 hours away!).
I'm pretty sure that's what is going on, since it seems the whole "netflix is slowing down!" hysteria happens every december.
USPS will pick them up around 11am and I'll receve the little "we receved your dvds" email with in two days and get the dvd with in another 2 days
Wow, good reason to not live in NY I guess.. mail is slow!
I live in Tucson, about 120 miles from Phoenix (the closest netflix branch). I can mail out movies on Monday, Netflix will email me Tuesday, I'll get new ones on Wednesday.
For those of us in the southwest, Netflix is awesome. I just checked my Rental Activity. So far in February, we've received 12 movies, with another 2 showing up tomorrow. That's a new movie every other day.
How long has it been since you used a plotter?
Seriously, large-format inkjet plotters have been around for around ten years.
It literally has been 10 years since I used a plotter. I hadn't realized they'd changed. I stand corrected.
Seriously: Netflix ships movies for a flat monthly fee. So does Blockbuster and companies X, Y, and Z. What makes it better? Nothing?
How about the fact that Blockbuster seems to lose movies all the time? We had the free blockbuster 3 week trial. A week after we mailed back our movies we had to go to the site and click "I mailed it in". They mailed out new ones, only to have those get lost in the mail as well.
We cancelled our blockbuster subscription and switched to Netflix (blockbuster obviously has some serious problems because when we cancelled our subscription, they offered us another *month* free).. Netflix has never lost our movies in the mail, and have always been pretty timely.
There are those people who claim netflix throttles their movies.. but those same people probably don't take holidays into account. We saw some serious lag in movie turn-around time around christmas, but that disappeared shortly after the season.
No, but a co-worker of mine uses GameFly. He swears by it. It's expensive though.
One neat thing is if you have a game checked out and you like it enough to own it, you can go back to the website and click "Keep It" and they'll charge you a used-game price for the game, and mail out the box.
HP's explanation was that old ink cartridges could cause expensive damage to the plotter by clogging up the ink system with deteriorated ink.
Shouldn't this be modded funny? The plotters I've used didn't have an "ink system".. unless you count "markers on paper".
Lunacris is the white rapper version of ludacris
we want to do it with a piece of hardware we can get at Best Buy.
Then get the DVDTiVo. Sheesh.
Also note that the winnt.h header file is entirely too large for a single header (9170 lines), but hey, that's window's style for ya
It's also Apple's style.
Just look at mDNSResponder.
mDNS.c is 318587 bytes
mDNSClientAPI.h is 78048 bytes
At least winnt.h is for all of window's standard library. mDNS is just for rendezvous.
Think of what we can now do with Electronic porn...
Finally a way to combine the destructive power of computer viruses and biological viruses!
I heard rumours that there was a solution for "Tic-Tac-Toe" very close to being announced.
Duh, the only solution is not to play.
Sure, and now all your authentication data is passing over the network in cleartext, because you didn't bother to setup SSL/TLS. Good work!
/etc/ldap.conf
No.
$ rpm -qf
nss_ldap-232-1
Fedora uses nss_ldap. If the server supports TLS, the client will automatically use it.. no setup required on the client-side.
the state of New Jersey has said more than once that the main reason they will not allow self serve gas pumps is that it will cost people their jobs.
I've never heard that. The reason I've heard is because people are morons and spill their gas (and top off), and it was an environmental issue.
The difference is that you don't need to run the ms program on a regular basis in order to build the database. The MS program will create 2 md5 databases and compare them to see if you've been infected. Although you could do that with tripwire, that really isn't what was designed for.
That's exactly what Aide does... it can even send the md5 database to another machine. It will compare the latest md5 database with the known-good one and then alert you if there are any discrepancies.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
Users dont read popups. If they are prompted for root... they will type it in.
Yup. I installed TextWrangler (the free version of BBEdit) a few days ago. It asked me for my password the first time I ran it. I looked at it and said "that's weird" and then went ahead and typed it in.
Most mac users would do exactly the same.
Then, when then easily-detectable standardized tools ask for the checksum, the rootkit intercepts the request and feeds the tool garbage.
What? You don't "ask" the kernel for an md5 checksum. You read the file and calculate your own.
Step 1: Take you Fedora or whatever installation cd's with all the original RPM files.
/var/lib/rpm onto a cd or put it onto a usbkey. That way you can update that cd or usbkey whenever you upgrade a package.
That's assuming you haven't updated anything.
It's better to burn
Btw, you can do the same thing with GNU Aide. Which is great because GNU Aide works on solaris and bsd etc.
Only the greatest of Linux Users cann use LDAP.
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/ldap.conf
I made the following changes on my linux box:
Step 1:
Edit
add "ldap" to the passwd, shadow, and group lines.
add "nisplus" to automount line
Step 2:
Edit
Set host and base DN
Step 3:
There is no step 3!
Are these the same as http://www.howtoons.org/?
Yeah, the one about building a little motor is actually in the first issue of Make
cntrl-f2 lets u access the top menus
Thanks, didn't know that. That's helpful.
I don't know about Macs (do they have an F10 key ?)
they do have an f10 key, but it does Expose.
In fact, it occurs to me that I have no idea how to open a menu with the keyboard on OSX. As far as I can tell.. there's no way to do it.
but few seem to notice they're arranged like a traffic light, which is intuitive for most people. Red, yellow, and green circles--red closes the window, yellow minimizes, and green zooms.
Fuck, I always thought that Red brought the app to a screeching halt, Yellow slowed it down, and Green made it run normally.
Silly me.
Actually reading through it now, it looks like they are going for a combination of OSX and XP.
Neither XP nor OSX use scalable anything. Apps are layed out in Absolute coordinates, icons are bitmaps, etc.
That's one of the reasons why apple makes all of its monitors 100dpi. If they went higher than 100dpi, everything would be too small, and it's impossible to make it larger.
GTK and metacity on the other hand, use sizable widgets.. things can scale up to meet hi-res demands.
I have a complete RSVG theme. I can run at any resolution and my icons are the same size. The widgets in applications are the same size. Nothing is ever "too small".
That's untrue. You are not obligated by law to report a crime you have witnessed. At least not in the country relevant to this discussion.
That's not entirely true. Many states have Good Samaritan laws, however they only apply to crimes that affect human life.
There are two parts to the standard Good Samaritan law.
The first part is a "Duty to Assist". If you witness a crime that causes someone to be harmed, you are required to call the police.
The second part is a "Immunity from Liability". That is, if you give someone CPR and you break their ribs in the process, they can't sue you.
Again, these only affect crimes that require "emergency care". So it's pretty irrelevant to this discussion. I just wanted to point out that there are indeed laws that require you to report *certain* crimes.
Well, I'm never going to take up C#, then. I do shit like this all the time (in PHP):
if (!$db=mysql_connect(...)) {die("Couldn't connect to the database.");}
You could just do:
if (($db=mysql_connect(...))==null)