A friend with a couple of businesses had a fax spam problem and had requested that the worst (by far) offender please stop wasting their time and his by sending any more faxed offers. He made several more polite voice and faxed requests when they persisted in sending the faxes.
Finally, he printed out a couple of pages with large letters asking to please remove his business from their list, giving his name, fax and phone numbers. He then taped the pages together into an endless loop and faxed his request to be removed. I think he said that his fax log showed that it sent for about two hours before cutting off. Amazingly, he got no more junk faxes from that particular spammer.:)
works for some products, but not everything. Your coke/pepsi/generic cola example is about a cheap and quickly consumed product. If they don't really like the generic,it will only last a short while and is cheap enough that they can toss it out if it is truly horrible.
Where windows/linux is concerned, let me relate a recent experience. My nephew just moved out of his parents house and out from behind the router and firewall I had configured. He got dsl and hooked it up to straight from the modem and into his computer. Guess what? Within three days he couldn't run either IE or firefox, they would just crash when launched. Before, he hadn't really appreciated the delicate nature of windows or the importance of a good firewall.
I installed the newly released Ubuntu 7.04 and he is tickled. He can do everything that he needs with totally free (in every respect) software. I showed him some windows games running under wine on my laptop and he was interested, but since he is now working and going to school, games are not as important. We haven't even bothered fixing his winxp install yet. His roommate was watching me setup Beryl and was asking a lot of questions about this linux thing, completely surprised at the maturity and features of the new Ubuntu. Brand awareness of Windows and Microsoft is very high with both of those guys, but seeing the differences in action has greatly tempered any effects of that awareness.
Sweet OS indeed, late model Linux. But, whether we are talking about linux, winxp or vista, keep in mind that the OSs do not rely on the BIOS to initialize much hardware. Indeed, they will ignore most of the bios hardware preconfiguration and configure according to published specs. My new laptop, for instance, notifies me that the Pheonix bios contains PCI bios bug #81. Not a problem, since the kernel enumerates PCI devices itself.
This is one of the main things that made linuxbios possible! The amount of nondependant hardware initialization code in the linux kernel. Calling old world bios interrupt based functions can be more than a little tedious after you have jumped to 32 or even 64bit protected mode. Plans to do away with the old style bios have been underway for many years.
Huh? IDE's IDE. Doesn't matter whether it's part of the chipset or not, the OS will probe the standard range of ports for the controller (0x1F0 - 0x1F7, 0x170 - 0x177) and if it is there, it will find it.
No, not in all cases. The most common chip attaches to the usb bus. It is not configured by standard port I/O, thus the whole problem of not being able to boot PATA devices.
Motherboards based on the intel 965 chipset do not have ide (pata) ports unless the mb maker adds a discrete chip. It then becomes a matter of cost to add simple ide support or a full blown ide host akin to a full scsi type host that supports booting.
As most boards are configured, the bios could boot off of an ide based DVD drive, but when the modern OS gets control, it will not see the ide ports since it isn't part of the chipset. Just like scsi needs drivers (or modules) loaded, the new ide will need these too. Ultimately, intel made the decision to use the pins needed for 2 separate ide ports for many more sata ports.
I shouldn't reply to your trolling comment, but you may be half serious. To get this important security patch, I only had to click a button called Install Updates. Yup, that took me away from important duties for quite some time.
Humorous, but if someone wants a quick and painless route, check out Ubuntu. I running 7.04 beta on my laptop and wifi works well with my two very different APs in WPA(psk) mode. Installed and working, no tweaking, no manual compiling, no config file fiddling required. After running Linux for 12+ years I am quite happy with the state of Ubuntu.
Wireless support was one of my main requirements when picking my newest laptop. Good support for Atheros cards and as we know, they get patched quickly when flaws are found.
And absolutely nothing to do with the fact that, in England anyway, it is currently hotter now, in mid April, than the normal maximum temperature in July, and that 2007 is shaping up to be by far the hottest year ever, much hotter than the current holder of the record, which was last year.
According to the BBC, the weather is nice in London for the next 5 days (26/12,23/11,18/5,19/11,18/4). Wow, 26c is ~79f, I may save up airfare and spend my summer in London if that is above the normal July high temp.
A ploit is what happens when you type exploit with a wireless keyboard at the edge of radio range. And then neglect to carefully proofread. Shit, I forgot this is/. and only English majors are allowed, sorry for damaging your retinas.
With exploits as old as this one, it makes me wonder just how many high level hackers/crackers have used this in silence over the years. It could pay very well to keep ploits such as this one silent for as long as possible.
A medium sized company I used to work for sold PCs and parts. If you did not want to pay for Windows, then they wanted to sell you parts so you could build the PC. This became policy after they got real cozy with MS and their service reps came to visit. They went from being a Red Hat partner ( in Raleigh NC) to no naked PCs/ no linux sold, installed or serviced.
Generally though, if someone really wants a naked pc, they are probably capable of building it from parts. MS just seems to try to make sure that building it yourself is the most common option.
My generalization comes from being pounced on several times by/.ers for not being a vocal atheist. I have also read many well thought out and insightful posts from both points of view here too.
My larger point in all of my ramblings in this thread are that I know why I believe what I believe, having tested and prodded the foundations and found them to be solid. I do not confuse this with having either a perfect foundation nor a perfect or complete understanding of myself. It is enough to base serious discussion with others upon and to have intelligent and coherent answers for their questions.
I agree, just because some test says you are in the 98th percentile doesn't make you automatically right just arrogant for trying to use it in place of evidence or rationale.
Then you understand part of my reason for including that info. It was a large part of my rationale, as a younger man, for thinking everyone that was religious was a nutcase. Being smart doesn't automatically bestow capability or omniscience. In fact, it seems that being smart tends to encourage one to lean towards the mindset that they are their own personal god.
Over the last ten years, my study of ancient Hebrew and Greek have been very enlightening; some would think that I have been putting my capabilities to poor use.
I am probably much like most of the rest of you slashdotters; smarter than most of the population (at the 98th percentile), technically adept and grew up an atheist in a home where we did not regularly attend church. The people around me that were religious seemed only to be mental midgets that needed psychological crutches to help them hobble through the day.
That was my view for my first 25 years of life, the next 15 have been quite a bit different. If we have a genetic disposition to need God, why is atheism more common among the young people that I have known and still know?
The main problem I have seen with Vista since the first RCs is the monotonous regularity that these messages pop up with during regular system use. The old adage that practice makes perfect is incorrect; Practice makes permanent is the real outcome and microsoft is basically forcing their customers to practice hitting that continue button while still trying to concentrate on the tasks at hand.
I have found myself clicking continue at the same time my thought registers to *not* click because of something not looking quite right. Since I am no longer developing software for a living, the only OS on my system is Ubuntu! Thank God for Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, et al. for their tremendous efforts to give everyone a reasonable alternative; whether we choose to use it is certainly a choice, but we do have the choice.
She has been a great guide into the odd world of courts and lawyers so far. It's great to know that my paypal donations haven't just been beer money for IBM lawyers...:)
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A friend with a couple of businesses had a fax spam problem and had requested that the worst (by far) offender please stop wasting their time and his by sending any more faxed offers. He made several more polite voice and faxed requests when they persisted in sending the faxes.
:)
Finally, he printed out a couple of pages with large letters asking to please remove his business from their list, giving his name, fax and phone numbers. He then taped the pages together into an endless loop and faxed his request to be removed. I think he said that his fax log showed that it sent for about two hours before cutting off. Amazingly, he got no more junk faxes from that particular spammer.
works for some products, but not everything. Your coke/pepsi/generic cola example is about a cheap and quickly consumed product. If they don't really like the generic,it will only last a short while and is cheap enough that they can toss it out if it is truly horrible.
Where windows/linux is concerned, let me relate a recent experience. My nephew just moved out of his parents house and out from behind the router and firewall I had configured. He got dsl and hooked it up to straight from the modem and into his computer. Guess what? Within three days he couldn't run either IE or firefox, they would just crash when launched. Before, he hadn't really appreciated the delicate nature of windows or the importance of a good firewall.
I installed the newly released Ubuntu 7.04 and he is tickled. He can do everything that he needs with totally free (in every respect) software. I showed him some windows games running under wine on my laptop and he was interested, but since he is now working and going to school, games are not as important. We haven't even bothered fixing his winxp install yet. His roommate was watching me setup Beryl and was asking a lot of questions about this linux thing, completely surprised at the maturity and features of the new Ubuntu. Brand awareness of Windows and Microsoft is very high with both of those guys, but seeing the differences in action has greatly tempered any effects of that awareness.
Sweet OS indeed, late model Linux. But, whether we are talking about linux, winxp or vista, keep in mind that the OSs do not rely on the BIOS to initialize much hardware. Indeed, they will ignore most of the bios hardware preconfiguration and configure according to published specs. My new laptop, for instance, notifies me that the Pheonix bios contains PCI bios bug #81. Not a problem, since the kernel enumerates PCI devices itself.
This is one of the main things that made linuxbios possible! The amount of nondependant hardware initialization code in the linux kernel. Calling old world bios interrupt based functions can be more than a little tedious after you have jumped to 32 or even 64bit protected mode. Plans to do away with the old style bios have been underway for many years.
No, not in all cases. The most common chip attaches to the usb bus. It is not configured by standard port I/O, thus the whole problem of not being able to boot PATA devices.
SATA optical drives have been around for a while, newegg has 15 different drives listed. Burners starting about $35US.
Motherboards based on the intel 965 chipset do not have ide (pata) ports unless the mb maker adds a discrete chip. It then becomes a matter of cost to add simple ide support or a full blown ide host akin to a full scsi type host that supports booting.
As most boards are configured, the bios could boot off of an ide based DVD drive, but when the modern OS gets control, it will not see the ide ports since it isn't part of the chipset. Just like scsi needs drivers (or modules) loaded, the new ide will need these too. Ultimately, intel made the decision to use the pins needed for 2 separate ide ports for many more sata ports.
I shouldn't reply to your trolling comment, but you may be half serious. To get this important security patch, I only had to click a button called Install Updates. Yup, that took me away from important duties for quite some time.
Humorous, but if someone wants a quick and painless route, check out Ubuntu. I running 7.04 beta on my laptop and wifi works well with my two very different APs in WPA(psk) mode. Installed and working, no tweaking, no manual compiling, no config file fiddling required. After running Linux for 12+ years I am quite happy with the state of Ubuntu.
Wireless support was one of my main requirements when picking my newest laptop. Good support for Atheros cards and as we know, they get patched quickly when flaws are found.
Already been patched, read TFA. My laptop has been patched for a while already, so have most people that actually pay attention to security posts.
According to the BBC, the weather is nice in London for the next 5 days (26/12,23/11,18/5,19/11,18/4). Wow, 26c is ~79f, I may save up airfare and spend my summer in London if that is above the normal July high temp.
In Soviet Russia, the gulag throws you!
I haven heard of any opensource Easter eggs, well besides about:mozilla. Is there anything in Gnome, KDE, Openoffice or even less(1)?
A ploit is what happens when you type exploit with a wireless keyboard at the edge of radio range. And then neglect to carefully proofread. Shit, I forgot this is
With exploits as old as this one, it makes me wonder just how many high level hackers/crackers have used this in silence over the years. It could pay very well to keep ploits such as this one silent for as long as possible.
Obviously the government wont hand out security clearances to Anonymous Cowards. Duh.
Prison!? That is too harsh, just make it a stiff fine, but payable to the person wrongly reported or surveiled.
How many of us /.ers are going to find out we are so uninteresting that we dont have anything on file?
A medium sized company I used to work for sold PCs and parts. If you did not want to pay for Windows, then they wanted to sell you parts so you could build the PC. This became policy after they got real cozy with MS and their service reps came to visit. They went from being a Red Hat partner ( in Raleigh NC) to no naked PCs/ no linux sold, installed or serviced.
Generally though, if someone really wants a naked pc, they are probably capable of building it from parts. MS just seems to try to make sure that building it yourself is the most common option.
My generalization comes from being pounced on several times by /.ers for not being a vocal atheist. I have also read many well thought out and insightful posts from both points of view here too.
My larger point in all of my ramblings in this thread are that I know why I believe what I believe, having tested and prodded the foundations and found them to be solid. I do not confuse this with having either a perfect foundation nor a perfect or complete understanding of myself. It is enough to base serious discussion with others upon and to have intelligent and coherent answers for their questions.
Then you understand part of my reason for including that info. It was a large part of my rationale, as a younger man, for thinking everyone that was religious was a nutcase. Being smart doesn't automatically bestow capability or omniscience. In fact, it seems that being smart tends to encourage one to lean towards the mindset that they are their own personal god.
Over the last ten years, my study of ancient Hebrew and Greek have been very enlightening; some would think that I have been putting my capabilities to poor use.
I am probably much like most of the rest of you slashdotters; smarter than most of the population (at the 98th percentile), technically adept and grew up an atheist in a home where we did not regularly attend church. The people around me that were religious seemed only to be mental midgets that needed psychological crutches to help them hobble through the day.
That was my view for my first 25 years of life, the next 15 have been quite a bit different. If we have a genetic disposition to need God, why is atheism more common among the young people that I have known and still know?
The main problem I have seen with Vista since the first RCs is the monotonous regularity that these messages pop up with during regular system use. The old adage that practice makes perfect is incorrect; Practice makes permanent is the real outcome and microsoft is basically forcing their customers to practice hitting that continue button while still trying to concentrate on the tasks at hand.
I have found myself clicking continue at the same time my thought registers to *not* click because of something not looking quite right. Since I am no longer developing software for a living, the only OS on my system is Ubuntu! Thank God for Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, et al. for their tremendous efforts to give everyone a reasonable alternative; whether we choose to use it is certainly a choice, but we do have the choice.
She has been a great guide into the odd world of courts and lawyers so far. It's great to know that my paypal donations haven't just been beer money for IBM lawyers... :)
Read the first link in my OP and you won't have to take my word for anything.