Arg. You beat me to that line. And you are absolutely correct.
We get a lot of kit in from our small business customers at the end of a hardware cycle. Instead of just dumping them, we renew them and the company gets a charitable write off.
I remember one group that was real particular about what was donated. Today, they still only have one machine in their office. They turned down a series of PIII machines in excellent shape.
Their loss.
In today's world, a light office only requires a nice linux install and open office.
At the atlanta Winxp Launch Event, they were giving away Mappoint 2002. I had owned Streets and Trips 2001 and liked it. Mappoint's COM extensions were great for integrating it into other apps.
When Streets and Trips 2004 came out, grabbed a copy of it on sale (was like $25) after rebates.
Just got my copy of Mappoint 2004 about 2 weeks ago. Really like the updated maps.
What I do think needs some work is the GPS interface. MP can track the location of your vehicle from a gps device, but it does NOT help you on your trip by telling you what turns are coming up in relation to your current location.
While there will be no recall, old bills are pulled from circulation. Only between 5-10% of the money printed each year is actually new to the system as value, the other percentage is printed for the replacement of old bills.
So, keep printing your old style counterfits. The public will begin to question their authenticity if they are in the minority. The public does that now with new redesigned bills when they are new.
And if its a used car, watch out for the $400 "processing fee". That would be the after sale fee, the one that the sales guys doesnt get a commission on, but goes straight to the dealer ship.
Couple weeks ago, the local "manager" gave me a hard time about leaving the store. Seems he was upset that I would try to walk out with the book I WALKED IN WITH without paying. I had a good laugh at his expense.
But agreed, I buy about 50% of the books I browse through.
And if I had to study and learn morse to get my license, to prove I was capable of operating the equipment, showing that I had the desire to put some real effort into it, there there is no reason that others shouldnt be required to do so as well.
This political correctness, and dropping requirements or barriers to entry to allow every tom, dick, and harry into events only ruins the events for those who truly have the desire to compete/participate.
If you are 400 lbs, I shouldn't be hogtied so you can keep up with me on the 100m dash.
If you really arent smart enough to get a unix cert, well, there is always the mcse paper pusher tests for you. (ok, that was tongue n cheek. There are some really smart MCSEs out there. They just don't brag about THOSE certs.)
To follow up on #2, a firewall at the top of your broadband connection is a great thing.
But when that moron down in dials up to AOL or his favorite ISP from his office machine, your defenses have just been breeched. His insecure windows system is now like a hooker waiting for the navy to come in. Every port open and ready.
So, yes, in addition to a strong firewall, be sure to regularly scan the internal network for problems.
Hear hear! I still use my old WP 5.1 licenses. One of my laptops has it installed under linux. runs just fine. One of the best text based word processors ever made.
Um, actually, dell commonly ships the systems with the drives in cable select mode. Winders OS seem to get confused by what drive is where for some reason.
Until Dell quit using prison workers and outsourced support to some diety forsaken asian country where the women/men who answer the phones speak Ingrish and have outdated support scripts, I'd never had a problem with dells. (servers, laptops, workstations)
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Having visited the company's website...
Having downloaded the Video and watched it...
Having downloaded the demo and played it...
All I can say is...... *yawn*
Arg. You beat me to that line.
And you are absolutely correct.
We get a lot of kit in from our small business customers at the end of a hardware cycle. Instead of just dumping them, we renew them and the company gets a charitable write off.
I remember one group that was real particular about what was donated. Today, they still only have one machine in their office. They turned down a series of PIII machines in excellent shape.
Their loss.
In today's world, a light office only requires a nice linux install and open office.
We are going to GIVE you a leg up on technology.
Beggars cannot be choosers.
If you don't like what we are offering, get stuffed.
Sometimes the truth hurts but needs to be said.
If you want something else, go ask Bill to donate something to you.
Yeah, and the Nazis were just "sanitizing" the world from Jews and Jewish though.
Sanitize is such a nasty word when bleach is not involved.
As a Georgia resident, was good to see that politicians can make proper and correct decisions.
Mine came rather quickly. Because of that promotion, have bought a number of wireless cameras to cover the backyard.
At the atlanta Winxp Launch Event, they were giving away Mappoint 2002. I had owned Streets and Trips 2001 and liked it. Mappoint's COM extensions were great for integrating it into other apps.
When Streets and Trips 2004 came out, grabbed a copy of it on sale (was like $25) after rebates.
Just got my copy of Mappoint 2004 about 2 weeks ago. Really like the updated maps.
What I do think needs some work is the GPS interface. MP can track the location of your vehicle from a gps device, but it does NOT help you on your trip by telling you what turns are coming up in relation to your current location.
This is why I randomly buy weird stuff.
The skew the demographics.
Like, just last week, I popped into a hardware store and bought 10 barrels of fertilizer.
Then the week before, bought a case of nails from Walmart.
Those crazy watchers have no idea what I'm doing. Mixing pornos and sex toys with my technology purchases.
While there will be no recall, old bills are pulled from circulation. Only between 5-10% of the money printed each year is actually new to the system as value, the other percentage is printed for the replacement of old bills.
So, keep printing your old style counterfits. The public will begin to question their authenticity if they are in the minority. The public does that now with new redesigned bills when they are new.
All our managed systems are RSODs.
Blue is too peaceful. RED scares the crap out of end users.
IT didnt run on ANY of my systems here.
Desktops nor laptops.
ATIs, nVidias, Intels, AMDs
Didnt matter.
Load "mygame",8,1
run mygame
$150?
Try $500 at most dealerships now.
And if its a used car, watch out for the $400 "processing fee". That would be the after sale fee, the one that the sales guys doesnt get a commission on, but goes straight to the dealer ship.
Add the Department of Commerce who is supposed to be overseeing both ICAAN AND Verisigns monopoly contract.
Actually, is this even legal?
Our understanding is that all resumes submitted must be not only accepted, but stored for a certain period of time.
Couple weeks ago, the local "manager" gave me a hard time about leaving the store. Seems he was upset that I would try to walk out with the book I WALKED IN WITH without paying. I had a good laugh at his expense.
But agreed, I buy about 50% of the books I browse through.
G5 - Still as sluggish as a 3 legged dog?
Not a troll, just tired of the tired apple hype.
The cost/power tradeoff just doesnt make a mac worth it, in my opnion.
And if I had to study and learn morse to get my license, to prove I was capable of operating the equipment, showing that I had the desire to put some real effort into it, there there is no reason that others shouldnt be required to do so as well.
This political correctness, and dropping requirements or barriers to entry to allow every tom, dick, and harry into events only ruins the events for those who truly have the desire to compete/participate.
If you are 400 lbs, I shouldn't be hogtied so you can keep up with me on the 100m dash.
If you really arent smart enough to get a unix cert, well, there is always the mcse paper pusher tests for you. (ok, that was tongue n cheek. There are some really smart MCSEs out there. They just don't brag about THOSE certs.)
They were worried he knew just how much of their news was faked.
To follow up on #2, a firewall at the top of your broadband connection is a great thing.
But when that moron down in dials up to AOL or his favorite ISP from his office machine, your defenses have just been breeched. His insecure windows system is now like a hooker waiting for the navy to come in. Every port open and ready.
So, yes, in addition to a strong firewall, be sure to regularly scan the internal network for problems.
"So that means if they can pull the information in, they can also send information back into those machines. "
Really.
Just because the network share or whatever had read permission, we must assume that write permissions existed as well?
Do these people actually use this malformed logic when working with clients?
Microsoft pushed 10.x.x.x in its Small business server and its proxy server configurations.
It was terribly ironic when microsoft made the default "shared internet" settings 192.168.x.x
A user starts sharing his dialup in an office on XP, and that little DHCP server starts spreading 192s around.
Another MS flaw, consistancy with their flaws..
Hear hear!
I still use my old WP 5.1 licenses.
One of my laptops has it installed under linux. runs just fine. One of the best text based word processors ever made.
Maybe it can protect you from IP infringement.
After all, thats what SCO claims our linux vendors are not offering.
But then, the MS EULA doesnt mention anything about the end user being clean of any ip infringment.
Um, actually, dell commonly ships the systems with the drives in cable select mode. Winders OS seem to get confused by what drive is where for some reason.
Until Dell quit using prison workers and outsourced support to some diety forsaken asian country where the women/men who answer the phones speak Ingrish and have outdated support scripts, I'd never had a problem with dells. (servers, laptops, workstations)