" From the article: "Sony BMG officials insist that they acted as quickly as they could, and that they expected to be able to go public and offer a software patch at the same time. However, Russinovich posted his blog item first, forcing Sony BMG to scramble to contain the crisis. It recalled millions of CDs recorded by 52 artists, including Van Zant, Celine Dion, and Neil Diamond. Plus, it offered exchanges to customers."
How were they going to issue the software patch? An improved rootkit in the next CD!
Most ads are not written to sell products to the consumer, they are written to sell to the people that buy ads. These are the real deep pockets. How many ads have you seen that didn't make any sense and you couldn't remember who the sponsor was 5 seconds latter.
Imagine a corporate board meeting with everyone forced to watch prospective ads at the rate of thousands of dollars per minute. Imagine the corporate CEO forcing his family to endure watching the company's new ad, while going through the mental masterbation of how clever he was to sign on to this great new thing.
The worst thing about this new form of advetising is that there is nothing useful you can do with it. Since it doesn't play until fully loaded. At least with four or more minutes of TV ads running together, I have plenty of time to get a beer or make a cup of coffee or take a piss and not miss the return of featured show.
Junk mail is my most favored form of advertising during the winter, because it heats my home. Just save it for the wood stove. I only wish they would quit using that expensive glossy clay coated papers and spend more money in researching a paper that was completly combustable. Hauling those ashes out is a pain in the ass. Maybe if they would just soak all that suff in fuel oil before sending it to me, it would be more useful.
Our hardware store in the country (FL) frequently losses power during summer thunder storms. Even though everything is on UPS's, it is a mad scramble to shut things down befor the batteries go down. I also don't know how long the power will be off and sometimes I just get things down, when the power comes back on. It's a real pain to get computers booted and network reestablished. I am bulding a 12vdc POS system and have meet most of my needs with COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) equipment. I have assembled two of my three stations using VIA EPIA-5000 mini-ITX motherboards. They have 500mhz very low power processors. The neat thing is that the cases I am using is by Morex (imported by casetronic) have a built in 55w switching PS that is feed by a 12vdc wall wart. My aim is to power all computers, displays, network switcher and receipt printer from a couple of large 12 volt gell cell batteries. The batteries will be charged by a solar panel. I plan on trying for a 20hr runtime on battery alone. The only display I have so far for this system is a KDS Rad-5c which I just purchased. It also uses a 12vdc wall wart.
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" From the article: "Sony BMG officials insist that they acted as quickly as they could, and that they expected to be able to go public and offer a software patch at the same time. However, Russinovich posted his blog item first, forcing Sony BMG to scramble to contain the crisis. It recalled millions of CDs recorded by 52 artists, including Van Zant, Celine Dion, and Neil Diamond. Plus, it offered exchanges to customers." How were they going to issue the software patch? An improved rootkit in the next CD!
Most ads are not written to sell products to the consumer, they are written to sell to the people that buy ads. These are the real deep pockets. How many ads have you seen that didn't make any sense and you couldn't remember who the sponsor was 5 seconds latter.
Imagine a corporate board meeting with everyone forced to watch prospective ads at the rate of thousands of dollars per minute. Imagine the corporate CEO forcing his family to endure watching the company's new ad, while going through the mental masterbation of how clever he was to sign on to this great new thing.
The worst thing about this new form of advetising is that there is nothing useful you can do with it. Since it doesn't play until fully loaded. At least with four or more minutes of TV ads running together, I have plenty of time to get a beer or make a cup of coffee or take a piss and not miss the return of featured show.
Junk mail is my most favored form of advertising during the winter, because it heats my home. Just save it for the wood stove. I only wish they would quit using that expensive glossy clay coated papers and spend more money in researching a paper that was completly combustable. Hauling those ashes out is a pain in the ass. Maybe if they would just soak all that suff in fuel oil before sending it to me, it would be more useful.
IMHO the columnist Bill Wyman might be wise to use the disclaimer: "The Real Bill Wyman"
Our hardware store in the country (FL) frequently losses power during summer thunder storms. Even though everything is on UPS's, it is a mad scramble to shut things down befor the batteries go down. I also don't know how long the power will be off and sometimes I just get things down, when the power comes back on. It's a real pain to get computers booted and network reestablished.
I am bulding a 12vdc POS system and have meet most of my needs with COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) equipment. I have assembled two of my three stations using VIA EPIA-5000 mini-ITX motherboards. They have 500mhz very low power processors. The neat thing is that the cases I am using is by Morex (imported by casetronic) have a built in 55w switching PS that is feed by a 12vdc wall wart.
My aim is to power all computers, displays, network switcher and receipt printer from a couple of large 12 volt gell cell batteries. The batteries will be charged by a solar panel. I plan on trying for a 20hr runtime on battery alone. The only display I have so far for this system is a KDS Rad-5c which I just purchased. It also uses a 12vdc wall wart.