Once I buy a laptop, I never deal with the store that I bought it from again, I phone the manufacturer, they are the people that are providing the warranty, PC World is not.
Phone Toshiba or IBM or whoever, give them the serial number and tell them about the problem. Tell them to send a tech onsite to fix it, or otherwise tell them if you have to send it off you will be removing the HDD to ensure they don't wipe it at the service centre.
Simple, easy answer. Toshiba, IBM and HP provide next business day onsite support for their business grade laptops, if you use it a lot, this is gold.
I know this is really stating the obvious, but it comes down to this, market share. Windows has a large market share, and therefore has a large amount of developers building applications. There is also a lot of work done on WINE by CodeWeavers and Cedega, these are builds of WINE that are commecially supported for applications and gaming respectively. (Not to take anything away done by others on WINE, but these people are contributors as well)
The real reason that these companies exist, is that there isn't THAT much of a demand for Mac apps on Linux. There is a large demand for Windows apps on Linux because there are so many Windows developers and subsequently applications that run on Windows. That's why we have WINE.
It would be possible I guess to do Carbon and Cocoa on Linux, re-implement the APIs, but for the amount of applications that there are on Mac that aren't on Windows, there isn't much point.
If Apple opensourced Carbon and Cocoa (Not likely) then I guess they would get ported to Linux by someone, but till then, someone isn't going to do this as the amount of developers out there just isn't high enough. There isn't the interest.
Ummm, as the article states, one of the reasons why Firefox is increasing in marketshare is because Google is having it pre-loaded.
If people are on older PCs, and they haven't upgraded to IE7 through automatic updates, what are the chances that they are going to be downloading a lite version of Firefox and installing it?? Effectively, zero.
So could "Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE"? Nope.
Some of the bugs will be fixed, others won't. Every CPU has bugs, it's just a fact of life. These things are designed by humans, it's just going to happen. CPU errata happens with Intel (This is the Core2 link) and AMD. None of this is a major threat to most users, and they get worked around by most people pretty quickly. Microsoft have released fixes for the Core2 issue, as have Apple. I don't know whether there has been an update to the kernel for these yet, but I am sure they would get back ported by your distribution.
There is a note here and here regarding the Core 2 bugs, I think one of these might have even become a slashdot article at one point. The two links here both are referring to Linus' comment of it being "Totally insignificant", which given that he worked for Transmeta and knows a lot more about how the industry works, I would be putting a bit of faith in his statement.
As another poster said, keep up to date on your BIOS revs, as CPU microcode does have fixes for this stuff too.
I know it's a pain, but there are a few out there with flash memory cards, can't you talk your mum through copying files to a memory card?
It's the best option out there I have seen and know of a few people who have made this work with parents. You could even send her a memory card with photos on it so that she can just put the memory card in and turn it on.
I would throw in a couple of links at this point to different products, but I have no idea where you are, so giving local product is a little difficult..
1) I was working with a friend of mine, and we were setting up the graceful shutdown of the servers after getting all the UPS on the network. He manually tripped the battery low condition with the intention that the UPS would abort the shutdown when the power came good again. Nope, all the servers were triggered for shutdown (Couldn't abort on the UPS or the servers) and had to be rebooted. The best part was that the UPS sent commands to another site for servers to shutdown there. We had to phone another data centre and get them to go power on the servers after we quickly faxed through forms telling them what they had to do (Cabinet number, server name etc)
2) Another job, I had just wired up a big red button next to the door in the new data centre (Someone had forgotten to install one, so I had to do it on a weekend). Well, one of the guys who I worked with phoned me up asking me if the switch was connected. I told him it was, and that I hadn't installed the Molly Guard yet, but was going to do it after I finished all the testing when I got back from lunch. He said OK, and hung up. He got it into himself to finish the testing to save me the time. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't have been a problem, pulling apart APC UPS units wasn't a major concern to us at this point. What he assumed had happened however was that I had left the toggle switch for test on. No, I hadn't. The switch worked and was live in case it needed to be used (It was there for a reason, just because I am a block down the street getting lunch doesn't mean that it might not have a purpose as far as I am concerned). About 5 mins later, he phones me back up and asks if I can come back to the office, I say "Sure, not a problem, what's going on? The SQL server not patching?" (Something else we were doing that day) "I am in the data centre". At this point in time, I realise that normally I am asking him to walk out of the data centre cause it's too noisy. Glad it was the weekend and there wasn't much going on.
I have also had a UPS engineer blow dust into a VESDA and we had a few fire trucks turn up, but that wasn't big red button issue.
Really, you need to ensure that your public keys don't get intercepted as if you sent them via SMS or otherwise. Considering the fact that you aren't trusting the network any longer, it means that you couldn't pass keys across it either.
So if you wanted a secure key exchange, you would probably have to meet someone or another trusted person and do a key exchange that way, IR would probably workk.
The Funds' request was submitted by Patrick Doherty, The City of New York Office of the Comptroller, 1 Centre Street, New York, New York, 1007-2341
Didn't the directors suggest a no vote?
Required Vote
Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative "FOR" vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted "AGAINST" the stockholder proposal.
Recommendation
Our board of directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal.
I wonder then what they count as "Financial data" and "Sales data" versus other people. I know companies with 1000 users who have a hell of a lot more data than this.
The way that the seasons work, and what the vines do in response is quite interesting.
The different french regions because of the amount of rain fall and climate have the ability to bear fruit which can go into a wine and make it a 10, or a 0. For example, Australian wines have a good degree of consistancy, where you usually get above average wine, but because of the climate you will never get 10, its also rare to go below 5. The french might have an absolutely crap year, where you might produce a 1 or a 2, or otherwise you might not get enough fruit to bother making a large quantity of wine with at all. The following year you are producing wine which other countries only dream of.
The best wine I ever drank was a Bordeaux red.
French reds can be quite good, but I usually go for Australian or NZ white.
Some of the wines from Chile are quite good as well.
Fantastic. Get the persons account shut down, like most people these days, who have multiple domains, internet links and everything else, he will be offline for what? A couple of hours? Your just going to piss him / her off.
No, the best thing to do here is kill the whole problem. All the machines in the botnet need to be cleaned and updated so that they don't get re-infected, otherwise they will get taken over by someone else (Yes, I know most people when they infect a system DO update it so that someone else can't take over, but they leave back doors). The person running the botnet needs to see the beak (Judge). It might be that the beak decides that a slap on the wrist is the appropriate action, but I think just cutting off one point of access / control of a bot net which I am sure that they have other control over is just silly.
'Fit for purpose' is defined in Australian law, and is quite often sided on the side of the consumer and not the supplier / manufacturer.
In Aus, it's defined as part of the "Trade practices Act 1974". As the parent rightly said, it's in various consumer rights and various legislatures including the US.
I would turn around and ask for a refund citing as reference all the helpdesk cases you have logged and the fact that it is not working as advertised. I don't think however I would be asking for more. The only option if you want additional compensation I would suggest would be to start a civil suit for recovery of costs. Whether that's worth it or not probably won't be your decision.
Groklaw. Prefect example of community effort for a news site. Yes, PJ does do a heck of a lot of work, but she is not alone. There are a lot of people on Groklaw who pull apart the arguements made and explain them to people like me without any legal background. There are others who transcribe PDFs into text.
In a community news site, there will be a core few who actually do a lot of the work.
At the end of the day, yep, if there is enough there it will probably take off, but there will be a few people who do a bulk of the work, same as anything else.
OK, I am lying. I read a couple of books on it, and have a reasonable idea on what people are trying to explain by it. That took a bit of effort though.
Just wondering, doesn't AMD make a whole bunch of money on Flash memory?
I know that they spun off the division to Spansion, which was a joint venture with Fujitsu, but if memory serves me correctly they still own a good section (40% or similar) of the company and make a lot of money out of it.
Conspiracy theories'R'us I guess. It could just be that Intel turned around and said "What do you mean AMD is making a heap of cash out of something that isn't as hard to make as CPUs and we aren't?"
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Once I buy a laptop, I never deal with the store that I bought it from again, I phone the manufacturer, they are the people that are providing the warranty, PC World is not.
Phone Toshiba or IBM or whoever, give them the serial number and tell them about the problem. Tell them to send a tech onsite to fix it, or otherwise tell them if you have to send it off you will be removing the HDD to ensure they don't wipe it at the service centre.
Simple, easy answer. Toshiba, IBM and HP provide next business day onsite support for their business grade laptops, if you use it a lot, this is gold.
Berny
I know this is really stating the obvious, but it comes down to this, market share. Windows has a large market share, and therefore has a large amount of developers building applications. There is also a lot of work done on WINE by CodeWeavers and Cedega, these are builds of WINE that are commecially supported for applications and gaming respectively. (Not to take anything away done by others on WINE, but these people are contributors as well)
The real reason that these companies exist, is that there isn't THAT much of a demand for Mac apps on Linux. There is a large demand for Windows apps on Linux because there are so many Windows developers and subsequently applications that run on Windows. That's why we have WINE.
It would be possible I guess to do Carbon and Cocoa on Linux, re-implement the APIs, but for the amount of applications that there are on Mac that aren't on Windows, there isn't much point.
If Apple opensourced Carbon and Cocoa (Not likely) then I guess they would get ported to Linux by someone, but till then, someone isn't going to do this as the amount of developers out there just isn't high enough. There isn't the interest.
Ummm, as the article states, one of the reasons why Firefox is increasing in marketshare is because Google is having it pre-loaded.
If people are on older PCs, and they haven't upgraded to IE7 through automatic updates, what are the chances that they are going to be downloading a lite version of Firefox and installing it?? Effectively, zero.
So could "Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE"? Nope.
Yes and no,
Some of the bugs will be fixed, others won't. Every CPU has bugs, it's just a fact of life. These things are designed by humans, it's just going to happen. CPU errata happens with Intel (This is the Core2 link) and AMD. None of this is a major threat to most users, and they get worked around by most people pretty quickly. Microsoft have released fixes for the Core2 issue, as have Apple. I don't know whether there has been an update to the kernel for these yet, but I am sure they would get back ported by your distribution.
There is a note here and here regarding the Core 2 bugs, I think one of these might have even become a slashdot article at one point. The two links here both are referring to Linus' comment of it being "Totally insignificant", which given that he worked for Transmeta and knows a lot more about how the industry works, I would be putting a bit of faith in his statement.
As another poster said, keep up to date on your BIOS revs, as CPU microcode does have fixes for this stuff too.
Berny
I got an uninstall button
I know it's a pain, but there are a few out there with flash memory cards, can't you talk your mum through copying files to a memory card?
It's the best option out there I have seen and know of a few people who have made this work with parents. You could even send her a memory card with photos on it so that she can just put the memory card in and turn it on.
I would throw in a couple of links at this point to different products, but I have no idea where you are, so giving local product is a little difficult..
How about "Initiate graceful shutdown" or "Power off now"
the alternative is to use a red key and to start flipping switches, that works too.
1) I was working with a friend of mine, and we were setting up the graceful shutdown of the servers after getting all the UPS on the network.
He manually tripped the battery low condition with the intention that the UPS would abort the shutdown when the power came good again. Nope, all the servers were triggered for shutdown (Couldn't abort on the UPS or the servers) and had to be rebooted. The best part was that the UPS sent commands to another site for servers to shutdown there. We had to phone another data centre and get them to go power on the servers after we quickly faxed through forms telling them what they had to do (Cabinet number, server name etc)
2) Another job, I had just wired up a big red button next to the door in the new data centre (Someone had forgotten to install one, so I had to do it on a weekend). Well, one of the guys who I worked with phoned me up asking me if the switch was connected. I told him it was, and that I hadn't installed the Molly Guard yet, but was going to do it after I finished all the testing when I got back from lunch. He said OK, and hung up. He got it into himself to finish the testing to save me the time. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't have been a problem, pulling apart APC UPS units wasn't a major concern to us at this point. What he assumed had happened however was that I had left the toggle switch for test on. No, I hadn't. The switch worked and was live in case it needed to be used (It was there for a reason, just because I am a block down the street getting lunch doesn't mean that it might not have a purpose as far as I am concerned). About 5 mins later, he phones me back up and asks if I can come back to the office, I say "Sure, not a problem, what's going on? The SQL server not patching?" (Something else we were doing that day) "I am in the data centre". At this point in time, I realise that normally I am asking him to walk out of the data centre cause it's too noisy. Glad it was the weekend and there wasn't much going on.
I have also had a UPS engineer blow dust into a VESDA and we had a few fire trucks turn up, but that wasn't big red button issue.
Works fine, looks different. Differnt icons, simpler layout. More pretty.
How would you go about key exchange?
Really, you need to ensure that your public keys don't get intercepted as if you sent them via SMS or otherwise. Considering the fact that you aren't trusting the network any longer, it means that you couldn't pass keys across it either.
So if you wanted a secure key exchange, you would probably have to meet someone or another trusted person and do a key exchange that way, IR would probably workk.
I guess email could work too.
What happened to corporate headquaters in Ireland?
Why the move?
No you may not you sensitive clod
This is slashdot after all. I figure I might recycle the joke once in a while, and being a geek, I modded it.
This was raised by a shareholder, in particular:
The Funds' request was submitted by Patrick Doherty, The City of New York Office of the Comptroller, 1 Centre Street, New York, New York, 1007-2341
Didn't the directors suggest a no vote?
Required Vote
Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative "FOR" vote of a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted "AGAINST" the stockholder proposal.
Recommendation
Our board of directors recommends a vote AGAINST the stockholder proposal.
I was in discussions with a recruiter, but wasn't willing to relocate to Ireland.
I wonder then what they count as "Financial data" and "Sales data" versus other people. I know companies with 1000 users who have a hell of a lot more data than this.
This isn't news, this is embarrasing. Pull the story from the front page, please.
Also, I think they are talking about AU only. I highly doubt the US only has a 12 GB database.
Weather doesn't help their cause either.
The way that the seasons work, and what the vines do in response is quite interesting.
The different french regions because of the amount of rain fall and climate have the ability to bear fruit which can go into a wine and make it a 10, or a 0. For example, Australian wines have a good degree of consistancy, where you usually get above average wine, but because of the climate you will never get 10, its also rare to go below 5. The french might have an absolutely crap year, where you might produce a 1 or a 2, or otherwise you might not get enough fruit to bother making a large quantity of wine with at all. The following year you are producing wine which other countries only dream of.
The best wine I ever drank was a Bordeaux red.
French reds can be quite good, but I usually go for Australian or NZ white.
Some of the wines from Chile are quite good as well.
Fantastic. Get the persons account shut down, like most people these days, who have multiple domains, internet links and everything else, he will be offline for what? A couple of hours? Your just going to piss him / her off.
No, the best thing to do here is kill the whole problem. All the machines in the botnet need to be cleaned and updated so that they don't get re-infected, otherwise they will get taken over by someone else (Yes, I know most people when they infect a system DO update it so that someone else can't take over, but they leave back doors). The person running the botnet needs to see the beak (Judge). It might be that the beak decides that a slap on the wrist is the appropriate action, but I think just cutting off one point of access / control of a bot net which I am sure that they have other control over is just silly.
Yup, seconded.
If Google are reading this, I am about to head to Dublin for a year, if you want to sponsor me to stay thereafter, let me know.
Berny
'Fit for purpose' is defined in Australian law, and is quite often sided on the side of the consumer and not the supplier / manufacturer.
In Aus, it's defined as part of the "Trade practices Act 1974". As the parent rightly said, it's in various consumer rights and various legislatures including the US.
I would turn around and ask for a refund citing as reference all the helpdesk cases you have logged and the fact that it is not working as advertised. I don't think however I would be asking for more. The only option if you want additional compensation I would suggest would be to start a civil suit for recovery of costs. Whether that's worth it or not probably won't be your decision.
Berny
Groklaw. Prefect example of community effort for a news site. Yes, PJ does do a heck of a lot of work, but she is not alone. There are a lot of people on Groklaw who pull apart the arguements made and explain them to people like me without any legal background. There are others who transcribe PDFs into text.
In a community news site, there will be a core few who actually do a lot of the work.
At the end of the day, yep, if there is enough there it will probably take off, but there will be a few people who do a bulk of the work, same as anything else.
I have been called crazy before...
OK, I am lying. I read a couple of books on it, and have a reasonable idea on what people are trying to explain by it. That took a bit of effort though.
Just wondering, doesn't AMD make a whole bunch of money on Flash memory?
I know that they spun off the division to Spansion, which was a joint venture with Fujitsu, but if memory serves me correctly they still own a good section (40% or similar) of the company and make a lot of money out of it.
Conspiracy theories'R'us I guess. It could just be that Intel turned around and said "What do you mean AMD is making a heap of cash out of something that isn't as hard to make as CPUs and we aren't?"
And I just got my head around Quantum Physics... Now they are throwing this at me.
I think this might be one of those things I chose not to learn and just leave to someone else.