I don't have a lot of domains, but just one. Some time ago I had a provider who would not follow due process with the network solutions email transfer. I called the ISP and eventually they said they only do such things under written order.
This was silly... I had things already in place with the new provider and it was causing issues. Even discussing it with admin reached no solution. Finally, I told him I'm just going to forcibly yank control from them.
Beyond the whole faxing and charging for immediate service to have the domain moved it was basically a breeze. I went in expecting horrid things and it turned out basically alright.
I still had to go back to the old ISP a week later and inform them DNS was changed and they needed to remove their local records as it was causing email problems on their end.
Now despite the decent service I recieved from Network Solutions I won't be getting any new domains from them. That prickish business with the NXDOMAIN stuff was fairly childish.
Oddly, the business I'm with has never jumped on the "register everything we can" kick. While I want 20... 1 does the job.
There are lots of modern boards with dual bios now. Most vendors will sell you a new bios for 10 and shipping. If you have your own eeprom programmer you can sometimes flash your own.
There are a wealth of ways to go about getting around a dead bios. I've done it several times in my lifetime.
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages in using Acrobat vs. say xpdf, gpdf, ggv, or one of the other programs on linux that are already capable of reading PDF files?
Right now, I have a few documents that still don't display correctly under any of those but adobe's 5.1 (5.0.1?). Tables just don't align correctly and whatnot.
Sloppy pdf encoding? Probably... substitute font or some such oddness? Maybe again... still sometimes it's nice for things to work out of the box... especially something as uninteresting as pdf's.
However, reader 5 tends to crash or hit some race condition more often then not on my system.
So I'll try the bloatware and if it's really bad I'll be forced to get gpdf or one of the other variants to work correctly.
Also, the ability to search seems to be lacking from my favorite viewer as well.
I decided one day to see if my Master Card really would track faulty signatures and call me if something odd started showing up.
So I literally started scribbling something that might have resembled my name in the bizzaro universe.
Now, 3 years later, my CC signatures does not match my real signature and only one lady at a gas station complained. I just do it because it's funny now.
The only situation I recall any CC company actually stopping my card because of suspicion happened on a business trip (I rather like the term field work being a tech). Of course, I just swapped cards and went with one that did work.
Later, I called customer support and they said they noticed I was spending money outside of my state... gosh... the disaster. Honestly, I think it was just a mistake on their part as this wasn't the first trip out of state for me.
It's simply cost prohibitive for the little guy to locate the rights to an obscure piece of footage or film. (two examples I'm familiar with)
Say for instance, you find a nice picture you want to incorporate and maybe it looks quite old, but maybe its unclear whether copyright has expired.
It seems more to be a CYA directive and would ease some tension when using/most likely/ interesting works that have been locked away by age.
Right now, it's not even an option to use such things even if the owner or estate owner has long since been gone. Simply because you just don't know and you probably can't afford the time or investment in something like that.
This sorta implies that older copyrights would have to be protected much like trademark. You can just buy it and forget it. (Now you have to catalogue it and forget it)
So if you did the leg work and came up with nothing you would have some defense in court should an issue arrise.
For someone with not-so-unlimited resources tracking down something like that can be tough. In the end, if you are cautious about being sued, you can't use it.
I believe the idea is that if you pursue a reasonable course of action to attempt to locate the owner and find nothing then it can be classified as abandonware.
Perhaps they didn't realize it would make it to Slashdot.
If it hadn't achieved much publicity and actually managed to hit store shelves it might have had a bit more of a lengthy ride.
Who knows what they were thinking, but in the end it was probably a gamble on who will notice. Drug runs across the border are not guranteed, but occassionally they get through.
That's the gamble you take and if you are lucky it pays off.
On one hand, you could read things literally or you could really take a step back. It's really a story about someone looking to garner attention and looks like being a terrible nuissance. It seems someone/wants/ to be the voice of gnome, but really isn't.
Then of course, there is a grand hoopla and the person stirring up the pot writes about it for more attention.
Finally, the question is... does anyone really get it yet?
I tend to lean towards a yes on this one. There have been enough comments that signify everyone sees through the lame fuss. Unfortunately, drama tends to catch the eyes and thusly makes for a good article for selection. (Even if the drama was created by one voice)
Vi/Vim is a cake walk and it's not something you can avoid.
Every system you will run into usually has vi on it and the day you will run into some old sun boxen from hell. That box that has been shut away from the world for five years just lying in wait to test your soul... you will thank yourself for learning vi.
In any event, how else are you going to edit the makefile to get nano/pico to compile.
You also get the added benefit of being able to record a dvd in realtime.
I did a good bit of research on them some time ago and there are some nice models out there. Some of the units are really pricey, but you can get a smaller HD model for 600$.
Besides pricey, the real drawback to a pre-built, ready to roll-out pvr like some panasonic units is they use EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data. So your guide stream has to be sucked out of the video stream. (I'm not sure if its compatible with PSIP (Digital Television guide data protocol).
However, it's been months since I've done any investigation and I'm sure things have changed a bit. I'm sure a casual google search will reveal something for you and I do believe there are a few places selling pre-built media boxes with myth and freevo. *I've even seen shuttle controls, but no one sells them that way*
If open source isn't your thing, you can always go the windows route and try out BeyondTV. However, for all of its features, it only ships with WM9 support for mpeg4 now. (Though I wrote a python script using mencoder to work with BTV to compress using divx) (There was also something off about width/height issues if you weren't using DivX pro)
Having used BTV and MythTV extensively I can say that MythTV really does a great job competing with a commercial app such as BTV.
I like both of them a great deal, but I've currently switched to MythTV and probably will remain a mythtv user for a long time.
It supports a daughter board for controller redudancy.
Note, I don't have the daughter board and I can't test how well it works. Overall, I think the feature set was a bit understated. (It's definately in the affordable range too)
Though I would have liked a non-host based option for raid access, it was one of my more appealing choices when I had a new system come in for backups.
Not to long ago, I had a co-worker defrauded. Yeah, he wasn't a bright one and really should have consulted me when even the slightest bit of doubt surfaced.
Long story short, it didn't take place on eBay, but originated through a compromised users account. In the end, eBay was fairly useless for help because they had the option to not deal with it.
If they were serious about working hard to stop this activity they could be a bit more pro-active.
Now, I'm not damning them completely, not so long ago I had someone disappear after a transacation. It took a few weeks to get my money back, but in the end the issue was resolved.
They really need to abandon email entirely and just eliminate the elements they can't control. At the very least leave external notifications off by default.
Otherwise, an alright service, but plagued with problems any high profile commerce sight would suffer.
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I don't have a lot of domains, but just one. Some time ago I had a provider who would not follow due process with the network solutions email transfer. I called the ISP and eventually they said they only do such things under written order.
This was silly... I had things already in place with the new provider and it was causing issues. Even discussing it with admin reached no solution. Finally, I told him I'm just going to forcibly yank control from them.
Beyond the whole faxing and charging for immediate service to have the domain moved it was basically a breeze. I went in expecting horrid things and it turned out basically alright.
I still had to go back to the old ISP a week later and inform them DNS was changed and they needed to remove their local records as it was causing email problems on their end.
Now despite the decent service I recieved from Network Solutions I won't be getting any new domains from them. That prickish business with the NXDOMAIN stuff was fairly childish.
Oddly, the business I'm with has never jumped on the "register everything we can" kick. While I want 20... 1 does the job.
Don't forget, they also have offer internet access via dial-up (do they have a broadband package as well?)
It's in their interest and ours to see these things go away.
Though not quite to the point of, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Still, kudo's to Microsoft on this one.
When I initially saw the ad I thought there was going to be some grievous catch.
Being we don't have a Blockbuster anywhere near my location I didn't really need to look up the details.
That said, it was obvious the advertisement was going to be misleading. You cannot say "No Late Fees" and simply re-word how you charge someone.
It's still not a bad idea, but the wording needs to be honest. Maybe even go so far as an opt-in policy and run it as a "Try it and Buy it!" campaign.
Well, acting is acting, and I'm sure he could spin the part.
Unfortunately, Wil is getting older and may not pass for a kid anymore. (happened to me too... tried to stop it... didn't work)
Though I haven't seen an updated picture, so he might pass for 17~.
There are lots of modern boards with dual bios now. Most vendors will sell you a new bios for 10 and shipping. If you have your own eeprom programmer you can sometimes flash your own.
There are a wealth of ways to go about getting around a dead bios. I've done it several times in my lifetime.
That was a joke though :(
Need a package of a package manager....
Nevermind.
Where can I find the rpm? ;)
Out of curiosity, what are the advantages in using Acrobat vs. say xpdf, gpdf, ggv, or one of the other programs on linux that are already capable of reading PDF files?
Right now, I have a few documents that still don't display correctly under any of those but adobe's 5.1 (5.0.1?). Tables just don't align correctly and whatnot.
Sloppy pdf encoding? Probably... substitute font or some such oddness? Maybe again... still sometimes it's nice for things to work out of the box... especially something as uninteresting as pdf's.
However, reader 5 tends to crash or hit some race condition more often then not on my system.
So I'll try the bloatware and if it's really bad I'll be forced to get gpdf or one of the other variants to work correctly.
Also, the ability to search seems to be lacking from my favorite viewer as well.
Oh that's easy.
All you need is a little assembler and you'll be set.
HCF - Halt and Catch Fire
HCF
This is nothing new to me.
I decided one day to see if my Master Card really would track faulty signatures and call me if something odd started showing up.
So I literally started scribbling something that might have resembled my name in the bizzaro universe.
Now, 3 years later, my CC signatures does not match my real signature and only one lady at a gas station complained. I just do it because it's funny now.
The only situation I recall any CC company actually stopping my card because of suspicion happened on a business trip (I rather like the term field work being a tech). Of course, I just swapped cards and went with one that did work.
Later, I called customer support and they said they noticed I was spending money outside of my state... gosh... the disaster. Honestly, I think it was just a mistake on their part as this wasn't the first trip out of state for me.
CC security 0, thieves millions
I used to use a usb key for lightwave.
I'm sure they probably still do this, but it's been some time.
I don't believe that is the issue.
/most likely/ interesting works that have been locked away by age.
It's simply cost prohibitive for the little guy to locate the rights to an obscure piece of footage or film. (two examples I'm familiar with)
Say for instance, you find a nice picture you want to incorporate and maybe it looks quite old, but maybe its unclear whether copyright has expired.
It seems more to be a CYA directive and would ease some tension when using
Right now, it's not even an option to use such things even if the owner or estate owner has long since been gone. Simply because you just don't know and you probably can't afford the time or investment in something like that.
This sorta implies that older copyrights would have to be protected much like trademark. You can just buy it and forget it. (Now you have to catalogue it and forget it)
So if you did the leg work and came up with nothing you would have some defense in court should an issue arrise.
For someone with not-so-unlimited resources tracking down something like that can be tough. In the end, if you are cautious about being sued, you can't use it.
I believe the idea is that if you pursue a reasonable course of action to attempt to locate the owner and find nothing then it can be classified as abandonware.
Don't forget OEM's.
So far, every burner I've had from new egg has included some version of Nero.
I'm guessing they have a decent OEM base, but I don't have statistics to really clarify that.
Perhaps they didn't realize it would make it to Slashdot.
If it hadn't achieved much publicity and actually managed to hit store shelves it might have had a bit more of a lengthy ride.
Who knows what they were thinking, but in the end it was probably a gamble on who will notice. Drug runs across the border are not guranteed, but occassionally they get through.
That's the gamble you take and if you are lucky it pays off.
If you think about it...
/wants/ to be the voice of gnome, but really isn't.
There is a story in a story here.
On one hand, you could read things literally or you could really take a step back. It's really a story about someone looking to garner attention and looks like being a terrible nuissance. It seems someone
Then of course, there is a grand hoopla and the person stirring up the pot writes about it for more attention.
Finally, the question is... does anyone really get it yet?
I tend to lean towards a yes on this one. There have been enough comments that signify everyone sees through the lame fuss. Unfortunately, drama tends to catch the eyes and thusly makes for a good article for selection. (Even if the drama was created by one voice)
Nah,
Vi/Vim is a cake walk and it's not something you can avoid.
Every system you will run into usually has vi on it and the day you will run into some old sun boxen from hell. That box that has been shut away from the world for five years just lying in wait to test your soul... you will thank yourself for learning vi.
In any event, how else are you going to edit the makefile to get nano/pico to compile.
Just go fetch a DVD Recorder with HD built in.
They have on screen guide data and schedulers.
You also get the added benefit of being able to record a dvd in realtime.
I did a good bit of research on them some time ago and there are some nice models out there. Some of the units are really pricey, but you can get a smaller HD model for 600$.
Besides pricey, the real drawback to a pre-built, ready to roll-out pvr like some panasonic units is they use EPG (Electronic Program Guide) data. So your guide stream has to be sucked out of the video stream. (I'm not sure if its compatible with PSIP (Digital Television guide data protocol).
However, it's been months since I've done any investigation and I'm sure things have changed a bit. I'm sure a casual google search will reveal something for you and I do believe there are a few places selling pre-built media boxes with myth and freevo. *I've even seen shuttle controls, but no one sells them that way*
If open source isn't your thing, you can always go the windows route and try out BeyondTV. However, for all of its features, it only ships with WM9 support for mpeg4 now. (Though I wrote a python script using mencoder to work with BTV to compress using divx) (There was also something off about width/height issues if you weren't using DivX pro)
Having used BTV and MythTV extensively I can say that MythTV really does a great job competing with a commercial app such as BTV.
I like both of them a great deal, but I've currently switched to MythTV and probably will remain a mythtv user for a long time.
The stripped down akira isn't that good.
Basically, they cut a lot of stuff and sometimes that leads to wondering of what just happened.
I watched that one first and then watched the uncut one.
It filled in some gaps, but yeah... it was a bit too long in some respects.
They did miss a good feature of the LSI MegaRaid.
It supports a daughter board for controller redudancy.
Note, I don't have the daughter board and I can't test how well it works. Overall, I think the feature set was a bit understated. (It's definately in the affordable range too)
Though I would have liked a non-host based option for raid access, it was one of my more appealing choices when I had a new system come in for backups.
I was kinda worried that I haven't read much with dns poisoning and phishing.
It's a rather obvious way in if you think about it.
I suspect it has happened before, but what the public doesn't know won't hurt them? Up until now anywya.
What about BGP poisoning! Oh the humanity.
Even a good/popular/whatever show will not satisfy everyone.
You will never retain some viewers.
As highly rated as Friends was... I just never wanted to watch it. I do catch a syndicated episode every once in a while.
Think different, think binary....
Charmed is going away.
The season/series finale is going to be May 16.
Aye,
I remember reading about this when the challenger went up.
Maybe they changed their stance.
Not to long ago, I had a co-worker defrauded. Yeah, he wasn't a bright one and really should have consulted me when even the slightest bit of doubt surfaced.
Long story short, it didn't take place on eBay, but originated through a compromised users account. In the end, eBay was fairly useless for help because they had the option to not deal with it.
If they were serious about working hard to stop this activity they could be a bit more pro-active.
Now, I'm not damning them completely, not so long ago I had someone disappear after a transacation. It took a few weeks to get my money back, but in the end the issue was resolved.
They really need to abandon email entirely and just eliminate the elements they can't control. At the very least leave external notifications off by default.
Otherwise, an alright service, but plagued with problems any high profile commerce sight would suffer.