I do, however, disagree that Windows is alone in having traditional viruses (the classic Mac was also hit very hard in the past)
Not to be a Mac zealot, but in the years I administered MacOS 7.5 up until 9.2.1 across a base of hundreds of machines, I never saw a single virus. Not one. Even the dreaded "Graphics Accelerator Worm" of the day. I never saw one as an Apple Certified Tech. either, when I worked on the average user's unsecured PowerMac from the 6100 on up to the final Classic-supporting G4's.
I use mostly MS-based systems these days (though I also look afer some OS X boxes), but I've never seen the classic Mac have a virus issue, especially when compared with DOS/Win9x/Win2k/XP, all of which I have used and supported.
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I agree...however, I think Firefox still has some minor hurdles to overcome in this department.
Not in usability, Firefox certainly has that. However, you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows. You can't get an upgrade patch for Firefox just a whole new version (Though admittedly the download is far smaller than IE). I've also found that if you have Auto-Update on it may take several days to inform you of an update, which concerns me if 0-day exploits with the browser become a problem (I also think "Check For Updates" should be an option off the Help drop-down menu).
I think Firefox is great, and it's my browser of choice...but I think they could polish it just a little more for the average user.
Denying a user access to DHCP is not a catch-all solution. Eventually someone will be smart enough to figure out how to set up a static address for themselves, or more likely have a friend do it (seeing as anyone who knows how to set up a static address knows how to protect their system). To truely take control, you'd need the ability to turn their network port off at the switch level.
If you are not allowed the authority to do this, you might as well give up now. If you are, keep a handy CD burned with Avast! or AVG AntiVirus Free Edition, a free firewall like Sygate Personal Firewall or ZoneAlarm, and malware removal software like AdAware, Spybot S&D, or MS AntiSpyware beta around on a check-out basis for users to clean their systems. Make it a written policy that unprotected systems that are infected will lose their internet access until they are clean and are proven to be protected.
But surely a large file will not fit through such a small cable? You'd need to hammer them down first, which is an unwanted chore. Easier than making them small enough to transmit wirelessly, I guess.
That's helpful indeed, but after reading their website, I found that MR3, that is release 9.03.1000 is the latest, and it isn't available through the https: website. You still have to call them if you want MR3, whereupon they'll e-mail you a link to the FTP site containing the files, along with a login/password that is changed on a daily basis.
I was on hold for around 30-40minutes, which included being transferred from Licensing to Tech Support when Licensing couldn't find the 9.02.1000 on the https: website either.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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The Sims represents "good ol' capitalist society" and we can't have that, can we? I mean, what if you were free to do everything you wanted?
The Sims also does involve romantic relationships and such, and while you or I might not think it all that graphic, you and I aren't part of a dictatorial Communist Chinese government are we?
Sometimes it amazes me that they call themselves the "People's Republic of China". Got to be one of the bigger oxymorons I've known.
After several benchmark tests we noticed some relatively slow performance in two of our games. After turning on SLI HUD in the driver we saw that SLI was not active during these games. Even our efforts to force SLI operation through the expanded driver settings had no effect. After talking with NVIDIA we learned the cause: SLI is not available with some games. NVIDIA has so-called SLI Profiles for games that are defined in the driver. The driver recognizes the game via application detection and executes the SLI mode (split or balancing) designated for that profile. If no SLI profile exists for a game, there is no SLI rendering. It is not possible to force SLI mode or generate your own profile. According to NVIDIA however the driver already contains over 50 profiles for games running with SLI. For newer titles this therefore means that SLI system owners have to wait for a new driver. But even then there is no guarantee that SLI will be possible with a particular game.
According to NVIDIA there are games that are simply not compatible with SLI. Microsoft's Flight Simulator 9 and Novalogic's Joint Operations for example both cause problems. As of the test date we were unable to find out the precise reasons why. NVIDIA only talks about frame buffering techniques used in games of this sort that are problematic for SLI. Of the 10 games we included in this test, two of them were non-SLI-compatible.
I love when our IT guys try to tell us things like "Macs can't network", "Macs can't use the internet", and my personal favorite... "Apple is going out of business". Maybe instead of being told how to do their jobs, they should take it upon themselves to learn how to do their jobs.
Perhaps it would be helpful for us to have a site like this to LEARN how to do our jobs.
Ever have a problem with Windows? Well, even if you're a neophyte there are shelves and shelves of books galore on what to do and how to learn it.
Ever have a problem with Mac OS X Server? Go look for a book...and yes, I have. O'Reilly's first one is due out this year. I found one book that deals with Jaguar server, and it was out of print, I had to buy it used. Nothing on Panther server. Instead, to learn I had to find other people on web forums who had struggled through the same things before I did and get their help. I learned through the process, but I shouldn't have to frigging do that; better resources need to be available.
I have no problem supporting Macs...now give me the tools to do it. Apple barely gave me enough paper to wipe my arse with for OS X Server documentation.
Macs make a great standalone computer. But I find most Mac users who gripe about sysadmins' bias have never set up a MacOS X Server, Netboot, Macintosh Manager, or dealt with what goes along with it.
By my understanding, SLI needs to be supported by a particular game to work; nVidia has to give that game support. This is not like the old Voodoo2 SLI setup where if the game used appropriate API's (Glide, DirectX, OpenGL) the game would just run.
This means that some modern games like Pacific Fighters and World of Warcraft not only don't support SLI, but that they may run slower when an SLI setup is present. I can't justify spending that kind of money on a solution that isn't guaranteed to work, much less buying the Gigabyte 3D1 when you have to use a matching Gigabyte mainboard and won't save any money over two of someone else's 6600GT cards.
Most other applications you could test video cards on are already performed with satisfaction by even the most basic video cards. 2D acceleration is handled well by cards that are vintage 1998, such as your ATI Rage Fury or NVidia Riva TNT2. Scrolling in web pages? Discrete graphics cards do just fine. 2D color quality, such as in Photoshop? If you're a demanding commercial user you don't look at these reviews, you'll likely buy something specific for your needs, such as Matrox. The only thing I can think of is reviewing hardware-accelerated DVD playback, and most cards have some form of hardware-assist MPEG-2 decoding onboard, and have had so for a few years, ATI being the notable first here, but NVidia following suit. Basically, if you don't play games, just getting a basic discrete graphics card such as a Geforce 5200 will take the load off a system with an integrated graphics susbsystem that uses system memory for graphics RAM, and everything will be fine.
A human's lungs, have a surface area of approximately 100m2, due to the complexities of the alveoli that transfer oxygen from the air into the bloodstream. That's somwhere between the area of a very large living room and a tennis court. Designing an artificial structure to reliably take in air multiple times per minute, transfer the oxygen from that air into the bloodstream (while removing harmful pollution and particles from it), and then expel the unused gasses and particles back into the environment, all in an object that could fit into your chest cavity, is currently far beyond human capabilities.
I once did a lot of work with speech recognition software, having a former significant other who was disabled. I tested a number of programs, and found the biggest problem to be the wide variances in users' dialects. The programs all have to be trained initially to recognize a single users' voice. This means that a program trained for a Bostonian may not work for someone from Arkansas, Texas, or Louisiana. Also, the programs' effectiveness decreased over time if you did not use it regularly.
I don't know how possible it will be to make a program that can recognize all English users. Will someone who speaks Oxford English be recognized as well as a surfer from California? I doubt it.
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I want very much for our troops to be able to communicate with their families back home. It's good for morale both in the service and for their families. But the lack of security in a WiFi network, IMO could easily put those military forces in jeopardy. All it would take would be the wrong information packet-sniffed by the wrong person to cause danger to the soldiers there. Is it truly possible to make a WiFi network secure enough to avoid this?
This is going to be a very interesting comparison when the 6600 series comes out. Up until now, one could assume, at least in part, that a lot of the performance gains in the new NVidia 68xx series of hardware comes from the additional pipelines. I'd like very much to see how the 6600 series stack up against their older 8-pipeline brethren and ATI's 8-pipeline cards, such as the Radeon 97xx/98xx models.
Back when I worked for a computer store, I had a system that got a corrupt BIOS while flashing it to a new revision. It was a customers' system, so I had to save it. Found a dead motherboard that was kind of similar, and yanked its BIOS chip. Stuck it in the first board, powered up, and turned on "Shadow System BIOS in RAM" on. Hot-swapped the BIOS with the corrupted one (motherboard still on) and then re-flashed the corrupted BIOS. Problem fixed. Hope I never have to do it again, but it's a handy trick to know.
Bush had his shot at the White House. He could have chosen to unite the country on the wake of 9/11. He took the path of the religious right, choosing to align himself with right wing nuts like Falwell and folks like Apostolic Congress. He chose to wage a crusade, he chose to go to war over vague notions as to what a WMD is. He chose to divide this country, rather than unite it. Kerry might do a double take like Bush when he becomes President, but my perspective of him is more of a statesman, of a masterful politician, a man who chooses his words wisely, a man who did not have the Presidentship handed to him on a platter. Him, I can trust, atleast for the next 4 years. Bush, I have lost that trust.
Man, you've taken this one pretty far. I've seen quite a few statesemen and "masterful" politicians do far more damage than the Mr. Smiths of the world that go to Washington. Not that Bush is Mr. Smith, he's everybit the statesman and politician that Kerry is; I believe neither to be a good choice.
As for Kerry choosing his words wisely, I haven't seen him choose any words making for a hard stance on ANY side. I have far more respect for a person with a strong opinion I don't believe in than one with few concrete opinions at all.
P.S. Do your research on the "religious right "thing before you talk about it. It would make it look more like you had an understanding of religion, and of the "right".
You left out the 486DX-50. Unlike the 486DX2/50, which ran at a clock-doubled 25MHz, the Intel 486DX/50 ran at a straight 50MHz bus speed. It needed a serious heatsink/fan (well, serious for the day), and because of heat issues and yield, Intel moved on rather quickly to the clock-doubled 486 processors.
In situations where an operation only took one clock cycle, the 486DX-50 was actually faster than the 486DX2/66.
As others said, your base clockspeeds for Pentiums are also off.
I will be buying a car in the next year most likely, and fuel efficiency has become very important (my `94 Acura Integra GS-R gets good mileage, but on premium fuel) as well as more space. I've seriously looked at hybrids, but the jury is still out for a number of reasons, all based on total cost of ownership.
A)Insurance cost. Cars with exotic parts (aluminum body panels, electric drive systems) cost more to repair. Insurance companies take this into account, and increase insurance costs on such vehicles.
B)Maintenance cost. Out-of-warranty, a hybrid will probably cost more for routine maintenance and be serviced at a limited number of repair facilities. Parts may also take longer to obtain (I found this out with my Acura; the standard versions have easy-to-find parts, the VTEC engine on mine often means my mechanic needs an extra day to get them).
C) Battery replacement. This doesn't happen often, but will likely remain expensive.
Over the long run, a Honda Civic (especially the lean burning HX version, with an EPA rating of 36/44) may prove to be better on total cost of ownership. I want to save money on gas and be gentle on the environment...but I'm not willing to do it at the expense of higher repair and insurance costs.
Low sulfur diesel fuel will be required in the year 2006 in the US, so the mandate has already occurred. There is a lot of debate about whether older diesel-fuel cars will work well with the newer fuel, though.
Releasing new versions of OS X in the fall does very little for Apple's educational sales, other than hurt them. I have real issues buying OSX Panther this summer, only to see Tiger released in the fall. I get no time to do the testing that might have been possible were they to release updates in early or late spring. Switching an OS in the middle of the year is out of the question; moreso if only one year goes by before an update occurs. At best, we can afford a software refresh once every two.
I'm glad I don't have to worry about a lot of Macs considering this timetable...but Apple, once the head of the education market, isn't making it easy for educational sysadmins to love them.
Maybe windows will get its act together in the next service patch and stop making it so easy for the virus writers, but even then there will be a lot of computers on older versions.
Maybe Windows will get its act together?
So, you're saying maybe Microsoft will somehow invent a feature that will give a user a shock through the keyboard if they try to open an e-mail attachment?
Worms exploit OS vulnerabilities, I'll give you that. But email-borne viruses still gravitate to the lowest common denominator: the clueless home user with no antivirus software.
If you haven't owned an Acura, I don't know how much you can say about this. Especially when your experience is based on a ten-year-old event.
I've owned two of them, a `91 Integra RS, and currently a `94 Integra GS-R. Both have been solid cars. In fact, among their owners, Acuras have a reputation for being able to "drive `em like you stole `em" without them falling apart.
Acura is Honda's luxury nameplate, using similar engine, drivetrain and suspension systems to Honda. They have a great reliability record and as someone here said the other day, your post is yet another example of someone believing that the plural of "anecdote" is "data".
Oh, and my Integra will hit 150,000 miles this week. How many 10-11year old American sport compacts are at that, and still do 0-60 in 8.5 seconds and get an EPA gas mileage of 26/31?
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If you have an analog watch with glowing hands or markers, you may already have a source of tritium on your body folks. It's not that big of a deal.
Admittedly, this is a small amount of tritium, but tritium itself isn't highly radioactive.
I do, however, disagree that Windows is alone in having traditional viruses (the classic Mac was also hit very hard in the past)
Not to be a Mac zealot, but in the years I administered MacOS 7.5 up until 9.2.1 across a base of hundreds of machines, I never saw a single virus. Not one. Even the dreaded "Graphics Accelerator Worm" of the day. I never saw one as an Apple Certified Tech. either, when I worked on the average user's unsecured PowerMac from the 6100 on up to the final Classic-supporting G4's.
I use mostly MS-based systems these days (though I also look afer some OS X boxes), but I've never seen the classic Mac have a virus issue, especially when compared with DOS/Win9x/Win2k/XP, all of which I have used and supported.
I agree...however, I think Firefox still has some minor hurdles to overcome in this department.
Not in usability, Firefox certainly has that. However, you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows. You can't get an upgrade patch for Firefox just a whole new version (Though admittedly the download is far smaller than IE). I've also found that if you have Auto-Update on it may take several days to inform you of an update, which concerns me if 0-day exploits with the browser become a problem (I also think "Check For Updates" should be an option off the Help drop-down menu).
I think Firefox is great, and it's my browser of choice...but I think they could polish it just a little more for the average user.
Denying a user access to DHCP is not a catch-all solution. Eventually someone will be smart enough to figure out how to set up a static address for themselves, or more likely have a friend do it (seeing as anyone who knows how to set up a static address knows how to protect their system). To truely take control, you'd need the ability to turn their network port off at the switch level.
If you are not allowed the authority to do this, you might as well give up now. If you are, keep a handy CD burned with Avast! or AVG AntiVirus Free Edition, a free firewall like Sygate Personal Firewall or ZoneAlarm, and malware removal software like AdAware, Spybot S&D, or MS AntiSpyware beta around on a check-out basis for users to clean their systems. Make it a written policy that unprotected systems that are infected will lose their internet access until they are clean and are proven to be protected.
That's helpful indeed, but after reading their website, I found that MR3, that is release 9.03.1000 is the latest, and it isn't available through the https: website. You still have to call them if you want MR3, whereupon they'll e-mail you a link to the FTP site containing the files, along with a login/password that is changed on a daily basis.
I was on hold for around 30-40minutes, which included being transferred from Licensing to Tech Support when Licensing couldn't find the 9.02.1000 on the https: website either.
The Sims represents "good ol' capitalist society" and we can't have that, can we? I mean, what if you were free to do everything you wanted?
The Sims also does involve romantic relationships and such, and while you or I might not think it all that graphic, you and I aren't part of a dictatorial Communist Chinese government are we?
Sometimes it amazes me that they call themselves the "People's Republic of China". Got to be one of the bigger oxymorons I've known.
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After several benchmark tests we noticed some relatively slow performance in two of our games. After turning on SLI HUD in the driver we saw that SLI was not active during these games. Even our efforts to force SLI operation through the expanded driver settings had no effect. After talking with NVIDIA we learned the cause: SLI is not available with some games. NVIDIA has so-called SLI Profiles for games that are defined in the driver. The driver recognizes the game via application detection and executes the SLI mode (split or balancing) designated for that profile. If no SLI profile exists for a game, there is no SLI rendering. It is not possible to force SLI mode or generate your own profile. According to NVIDIA however the driver already contains over 50 profiles for games running with SLI. For newer titles this therefore means that SLI system owners have to wait for a new driver. But even then there is no guarantee that SLI will be possible with a particular game.
According to NVIDIA there are games that are simply not compatible with SLI. Microsoft's Flight Simulator 9 and Novalogic's Joint Operations for example both cause problems. As of the test date we were unable to find out the precise reasons why. NVIDIA only talks about frame buffering techniques used in games of this sort that are problematic for SLI. Of the 10 games we included in this test, two of them were non-SLI-compatible.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/200411
I love when our IT guys try to tell us things like "Macs can't network", "Macs can't use the internet", and my personal favorite... "Apple is going out of business".
Maybe instead of being told how to do their jobs, they should take it upon themselves to learn how to do their jobs.
Perhaps it would be helpful for us to have a site like this to LEARN how to do our jobs.
Ever have a problem with Windows? Well, even if you're a neophyte there are shelves and shelves of books galore on what to do and how to learn it.
Ever have a problem with Mac OS X Server? Go look for a book...and yes, I have. O'Reilly's first one is due out this year. I found one book that deals with Jaguar server, and it was out of print, I had to buy it used. Nothing on Panther server. Instead, to learn I had to find other people on web forums who had struggled through the same things before I did and get their help. I learned through the process, but I shouldn't have to frigging do that; better resources need to be available.
I have no problem supporting Macs...now give me the tools to do it. Apple barely gave me enough paper to wipe my arse with for OS X Server documentation.
Macs make a great standalone computer. But I find most Mac users who gripe about sysadmins' bias have never set up a MacOS X Server, Netboot, Macintosh Manager, or dealt with what goes along with it.
This means that some modern games like Pacific Fighters and World of Warcraft not only don't support SLI, but that they may run slower when an SLI setup is present. I can't justify spending that kind of money on a solution that isn't guaranteed to work, much less buying the Gigabyte 3D1 when you have to use a matching Gigabyte mainboard and won't save any money over two of someone else's 6600GT cards.
Most other applications you could test video cards on are already performed with satisfaction by even the most basic video cards. 2D acceleration is handled well by cards that are vintage 1998, such as your ATI Rage Fury or NVidia Riva TNT2. Scrolling in web pages? Discrete graphics cards do just fine. 2D color quality, such as in Photoshop? If you're a demanding commercial user you don't look at these reviews, you'll likely buy something specific for your needs, such as Matrox. The only thing I can think of is reviewing hardware-accelerated DVD playback, and most cards have some form of hardware-assist MPEG-2 decoding onboard, and have had so for a few years, ATI being the notable first here, but NVidia following suit. Basically, if you don't play games, just getting a basic discrete graphics card such as a Geforce 5200 will take the load off a system with an integrated graphics susbsystem that uses system memory for graphics RAM, and everything will be fine.
Yes, but what do you do if the George W. Bush model isn't available?
A human's lungs, have a surface area of approximately 100m2, due to the complexities of the alveoli that transfer oxygen from the air into the bloodstream. That's somwhere between the area of a very large living room and a tennis court. Designing an artificial structure to reliably take in air multiple times per minute, transfer the oxygen from that air into the bloodstream (while removing harmful pollution and particles from it), and then expel the unused gasses and particles back into the environment, all in an object that could fit into your chest cavity, is currently far beyond human capabilities.
I once did a lot of work with speech recognition software, having a former significant other who was disabled. I tested a number of programs, and found the biggest problem to be the wide variances in users' dialects. The programs all have to be trained initially to recognize a single users' voice. This means that a program trained for a Bostonian may not work for someone from Arkansas, Texas, or Louisiana. Also, the programs' effectiveness decreased over time if you did not use it regularly.
I don't know how possible it will be to make a program that can recognize all English users. Will someone who speaks Oxford English be recognized as well as a surfer from California? I doubt it.
I want very much for our troops to be able to communicate with their families back home. It's good for morale both in the service and for their families. But the lack of security in a WiFi network, IMO could easily put those military forces in jeopardy. All it would take would be the wrong information packet-sniffed by the wrong person to cause danger to the soldiers there. Is it truly possible to make a WiFi network secure enough to avoid this?
This is going to be a very interesting comparison when the 6600 series comes out. Up until now, one could assume, at least in part, that a lot of the performance gains in the new NVidia 68xx series of hardware comes from the additional pipelines. I'd like very much to see how the 6600 series stack up against their older 8-pipeline brethren and ATI's 8-pipeline cards, such as the Radeon 97xx/98xx models.
Back when I worked for a computer store, I had a system that got a corrupt BIOS while flashing it to a new revision. It was a customers' system, so I had to save it. Found a dead motherboard that was kind of similar, and yanked its BIOS chip. Stuck it in the first board, powered up, and turned on "Shadow System BIOS in RAM" on. Hot-swapped the BIOS with the corrupted one (motherboard still on) and then re-flashed the corrupted BIOS. Problem fixed. Hope I never have to do it again, but it's a handy trick to know.
Bush had his shot at the White House. He could have chosen to unite the country on the wake of 9/11. He took the path of the religious right, choosing to align himself with right wing nuts like Falwell and folks like Apostolic Congress. He chose to wage a crusade, he chose to go to war over vague notions as to what a WMD is. He chose to divide this country, rather than unite it. Kerry might do a double take like Bush when he becomes President, but my perspective of him is more of a statesman, of a masterful politician, a man who chooses his words wisely, a man who did not have the Presidentship handed to him on a platter. Him, I can trust, atleast for the next 4 years. Bush, I have lost that trust. Man, you've taken this one pretty far. I've seen quite a few statesemen and "masterful" politicians do far more damage than the Mr. Smiths of the world that go to Washington. Not that Bush is Mr. Smith, he's everybit the statesman and politician that Kerry is; I believe neither to be a good choice.
As for Kerry choosing his words wisely, I haven't seen him choose any words making for a hard stance on ANY side. I have far more respect for a person with a strong opinion I don't believe in than one with few concrete opinions at all.
P.S. Do your research on the "religious right "thing before you talk about it. It would make it look more like you had an understanding of religion, and of the "right".
You left out the 486DX-50. Unlike the 486DX2/50, which ran at a clock-doubled 25MHz, the Intel 486DX/50 ran at a straight 50MHz bus speed. It needed a serious heatsink/fan (well, serious for the day), and because of heat issues and yield, Intel moved on rather quickly to the clock-doubled 486 processors. In situations where an operation only took one clock cycle, the 486DX-50 was actually faster than the 486DX2/66. As others said, your base clockspeeds for Pentiums are also off.
I will be buying a car in the next year most likely, and fuel efficiency has become very important (my `94 Acura Integra GS-R gets good mileage, but on premium fuel) as well as more space. I've seriously looked at hybrids, but the jury is still out for a number of reasons, all based on total cost of ownership.
A)Insurance cost. Cars with exotic parts (aluminum body panels, electric drive systems) cost more to repair. Insurance companies take this into account, and increase insurance costs on such vehicles.
B)Maintenance cost. Out-of-warranty, a hybrid will probably cost more for routine maintenance and be serviced at a limited number of repair facilities. Parts may also take longer to obtain (I found this out with my Acura; the standard versions have easy-to-find parts, the VTEC engine on mine often means my mechanic needs an extra day to get them).
C) Battery replacement. This doesn't happen often, but will likely remain expensive.
Over the long run, a Honda Civic (especially the lean burning HX version, with an EPA rating of 36/44) may prove to be better on total cost of ownership. I want to save money on gas and be gentle on the environment...but I'm not willing to do it at the expense of higher repair and insurance costs.
Low sulfur diesel fuel will be required in the year 2006 in the US, so the mandate has already occurred. There is a lot of debate about whether older diesel-fuel cars will work well with the newer fuel, though.
Releasing new versions of OS X in the fall does very little for Apple's educational sales, other than hurt them. I have real issues buying OSX Panther this summer, only to see Tiger released in the fall. I get no time to do the testing that might have been possible were they to release updates in early or late spring. Switching an OS in the middle of the year is out of the question; moreso if only one year goes by before an update occurs. At best, we can afford a software refresh once every two. I'm glad I don't have to worry about a lot of Macs considering this timetable...but Apple, once the head of the education market, isn't making it easy for educational sysadmins to love them.
Odd thing is that CNN is running this story too...Then again, they ARE using Google's site search engine...
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/31/googl
If you haven't owned an Acura, I don't know how much you can say about this. Especially when your experience is based on a ten-year-old event. I've owned two of them, a `91 Integra RS, and currently a `94 Integra GS-R. Both have been solid cars. In fact, among their owners, Acuras have a reputation for being able to "drive `em like you stole `em" without them falling apart. Acura is Honda's luxury nameplate, using similar engine, drivetrain and suspension systems to Honda. They have a great reliability record and as someone here said the other day, your post is yet another example of someone believing that the plural of "anecdote" is "data". Oh, and my Integra will hit 150,000 miles this week. How many 10-11year old American sport compacts are at that, and still do 0-60 in 8.5 seconds and get an EPA gas mileage of 26/31?