If nothing else just report the spammers to irritate your ISP. If enough of us eat up our ISP's time complaining, those spammer clients of their's will seem less valuable. Also as was said before, please for the love of god report them to the block lists.
Virtualizing terminal servers is a very interesting idea. My client is an accounting firm and they receive their client's.qbw files (etc.) and clean them up, balance them, do payroll taxes etc. based on the information in those files. Then they give the cleaned up files back to their clients for them to use. They have to keep ancient accounting software around so they can support some of their tiny, old clients. I literally have at least 5 different versions of quickbooks on each computer, 3 versions of Peachtree, 1 version of EZ accounting, 1 Champion and the new replacement whose name escapes me at the moment. 2 years of CCH tax software but CCH only lets you run 2 years so I have a few machines that have the 2 previous years so they can go back in time and re-file taxes from 2003. Some of the people use PPClib for audits, some have a special not-profit version of quickbooks 2 different years. Some need CCH State for the minor state tax forms.
As you can see it's major problem esecially for me. I suspect that this accounting firm is taking the concept of good service too far and should be forcing their clients to upgrade but that's their decision not mine. It is getting better... more of th research stuff is moving online and that helps me a bit.
One of my clients is a small accounting firm... 15 windows workstations, 4 windows laptops and 1 samba file server. I have roaming windows profiles in place and they are trained to save their work to the server. However only a handful of the employees use quickbooks and they have to keep many dif versions of quickbooks installed. Same with other, much more expensive pieces of software.
If I could virtualize the machines and install only 5 seats of quickbooks, etc they'd save thousands every year. But since I can't be sure who will be stationed where or using x piece of software, I have to install all their software on all their workstations and they have to pay for all those seats. I'm not ready to roll out vmware yet but I am interested in decent answers to his question.
You're all discounting this guy's question as being a stupid one but it isn't. And as far as hiring a pro... who the hell would be a pro at something like this? If he calls Vmware do you think they're going to tell him about the downside?
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Of course it could be because Amazon has patented the rather obvious idea of one-click shopping. That's why I don't buy from Amazon but that's probably not the case here.
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It's just like everything else in today's society
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What percentage of drivers could change a tire or their oil. How many kids can cook? Why bother... there are drive thru fast food all over and drive thru oil change places.
My first computer, a C-64... no tape drive.... if I wanted to play a game *god I loved telengard) I had to type it in from a magazine... then I got bored with the handful of games and started hacking them. Now If I want to pay a game, I shell out 50 bucks and pop it in. If my car broke down I bought a repair manual and figured out what was wrong and replaced the part... it's not that way so much anymore.
I've made both of my kids change their own brake pads and their own oil the first few times, just so they can learn a little bit about how their cars work and save a few bucks.
I've read/watched numberous sci-fi stories about a big machine that runs everything and begins to break down and no one knows how to fix it. That seems not only possible, but likely.
I never thought terrorists would be so diligent to pay off their credit cards before committing acts of terror. Stupidest thing I've heard in a few hours.
The kid signed up for the city's newsletter and was almost immediately sent spam from the mayor's campaign people. Translated, the mayor (whose name I'll not put up in lights) has free access to the city's mailing list and uses it for personal gain. I think he decided to see if get a copy of the list himself and was denied.
Why should the mayor be allowed to use this list for personal gain but the kid can't? That's why he sued for the info and I expect it's his hope that legislation will get passed to protect that list just like the snailmail addresses are protected by a law that needs to be updated to include email addresses. The kid has a definite past with the mayor. The taxpayers in Kokomo basically paid to make it legal for the mayor to use the city's newsletter list to send everyone on the list spam.
You're correct... floating ice does not make the water level rise. However, melting ice that was supported by a land mass that is not floating in the water will indeed make the water level rise.
If you hadn't have forgotten you Personal ID Number number you might not have lost so much time at the automated teller machine machine. I just sold a car and had to go out and find the vehicle identification number number. It was cold out so I warmed my hands up by using host water from the hot water heater.
It's difficult sometimes... getting a new client is always rough but I have enough now (been doing this for about 11 years) so I don't have to work as hard as I used since I've gotten my clients pretty well trained. I tell them they (and their employees) can install whatever the hell they want but they should be prepared for some pretty big bills while I spend many hours cleaning their messes up. I gennerally grin and rub my hands together when I'm saying this to drive the point home. I have about 20 networks that I take care of and I gennerally try to train my clients to be as self sufficient as possible) make sure virus definitions are updated, run spybot, reboot the computer before calling me, etc.
I only have a few that pay me a regular retainer and it gets kinda slow/scary in the summer but if I have to have a slow time I want it to be in the summer.
If they dazzle you with buzzwords and all their certificates then I'd look elsewhere. Once they have your root/admin passsword you might as well just give them a key so they can come in and work without interupting your business. If you do this make sure to remember that even though you haven't seen your computer guy for awhile, if your stuff is working then you should just be happy to pay his bill. I don't advertise, don't have business cards, don't give out my cell phone number (except for my exisitng clients) and my home phone is unlisted. I can't take on any more clients and still be able to have quick response times.
My point is, you're probably not going to find a good part-time admin by looking the in yellow pages. Ask around.
Well yeah that's what they found but it wasn't really relevant. Is the guy strong enough to hang from a piece of plywood? I would certainly hope so.... he's fairly fit so I'm just sure he could. He could surely do a pullup or chinup. Perhaps the 4' span of the plywood was too far for the dude but a taller guy with a longer reach might be able to hold on better.
Could he hold onto the plywood while being strapped to the back of a pickup going down the road? No he could not, which means nothing. The wind was exterting forces on the plywwod that weren't all directed at liftng him.
Had he been lying down on a flatbed trailer a ways away from the truck holding onto a piece of plywaood that was perpendicular to the wind then the forces exterted would have been applied more to lifting him or in this case stretching him. If you set up a piece of plywwod hooked to a really big fish scale on the back of a trailer how much force would be applied to the scale at X speed? That would have been a better test.
I'm not really one for coding standards, just make each person maintain a certain level of consistantcy and make damn sure they make good comments. You might want to institute some common variable naming scheme. Here are a few rules I've come up with over the years.
1) Thou shalt NOT make the user re-enter data 2) Waste not clicks for they are precious 3) Thou shall not design a screen that hath no purpose 4) Move not your bits about the screen like a drunken stripper 5) Gulp not your data but merely sip... as it makes reguritation less lumpy 6) That which the user doeth the most, shall not be obscurred by that which he doeth least 7) Dress not your screens with vain and lustful colors that are without purpose 8) The user is the one true god and thou shall hold no gods before the user 9) The user is a friggin idiot 10) An image that measures 16 pixels across and 16 pixels along it's length is rarely worth one word
The republicans haven't outlawed stem cell research, they've simply said that the gov isn't going to fund embryonic stem cell research. I personally don't think the gov has any busines funding businessess who patent the results and then rape us for their drugs and wish they'd stop handing over money to drug companies or to universities so the drug companies and universities can get more rich.
However keep sending those thankyou cards for all the other bullshit they've been pulling.
I don't remember the author but I do remember the storyline. The story was set in the far-flung future (probably 2001 ish).
Due to the trend of intelligent hardworking people having fewer offspring than stereotypical trailer trash who were breeding like rabbits, there were only a handful of people left on the planet intelligent enough to keep things running.
This small group of intelligent people were busting their collective asses to make sure the idiots got fed and they were getting pretty tired of it and couldn't keep up. So they decided they'd have to cull the heard a bit.
They started running commercials (during I Love Lucy re-runs which were all the rage in the trailer parks) showing happy people vacationing on Venus. Eventually they started a lottery for free rides to Venus in a series of "rocket ships". Turns out the rocket ships were simply ovens and anyone stupid enough to try to vacation on Venus was incinerated.
This scenario seems really cold and hard but it also seems almost inevitable to me. I expect that more subtle measures will be taken before things get as bad as in that story though.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone remember the author's name or title of that story?
Evolution requires survival of the fittest.... Once you get to the point when you stop dying before you procreate, you are simply randomly mutating.
I agree... the market for rollable paper is indeed huge, however, one-hitters and bongs are quickly gaining marketshare. PAPERS! we don't need no stinkin' papers:)
Sorry.. you made an interesting and serious post but I just couldn't resist.
Mine's out in the pole barn... it was my fileserver for years and years but when we moved I retired it because I didn't want o carry it down the stairs to the basement and it only had 10meg/sec nics.
Scotty being a really nice guy, didn't want to make LaForge look bad, so he told that little white lie to Laforge in an attemp to make LaForge feel good about himself. Feel better now:)
He probably only cut one joist and he probably put in 2 short joists between the adjacent joists and attached the ends of the joist he cut to these little joists. This spread the load from the joist he cut to the adjacent joists. Not a perfect soltuion but it's done all time. To use the terminlogy around here 10 years ago... He boxed it in. I used to do remodeling for a living.
Really... me too... that's the point I was trying to make about the sleep in the server room comments and the hire another admin, no one is that important comments. I don't have problems very often so I can't justify paying a backup admin. But I would really like to have a 100% reliable way I can be reached no matter what. That would let me relax more when I'm vacation.
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If nothing else just report the spammers to irritate your ISP. If enough of us eat up our ISP's time complaining, those spammer clients of their's will seem less valuable. Also as was said before, please for the love of god report them to the block lists.
Virtualizing terminal servers is a very interesting idea. My client is an accounting firm and they receive their client's .qbw files (etc.) and clean them up, balance them, do payroll taxes etc. based on the information in those files. Then they give the cleaned up files back to their clients for them to use. They have to keep ancient accounting software around so they can support some of their tiny, old clients. I literally have at least 5 different versions of quickbooks on each computer, 3 versions of Peachtree, 1 version of EZ accounting, 1 Champion and the new replacement whose name escapes me at the moment. 2 years of CCH tax software but CCH only lets you run 2 years so I have a few machines that have the 2 previous years so they can go back in time and re-file taxes from 2003. Some of the people use PPClib for audits, some have a special not-profit version of quickbooks 2 different years. Some need CCH State for the minor state tax forms.
As you can see it's major problem esecially for me. I suspect that this accounting firm is taking the concept of good service too far and should be forcing their clients to upgrade but that's their decision not mine. It is getting better... more of th research stuff is moving online and that helps me a bit.
Accounting software is just pathetic.
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One of my clients is a small accounting firm... 15 windows workstations, 4 windows laptops and 1 samba file server. I have roaming windows profiles in place and they are trained to save their work to the server. However only a handful of the employees use quickbooks and they have to keep many dif versions of quickbooks installed. Same with other, much more expensive pieces of software.
If I could virtualize the machines and install only 5 seats of quickbooks, etc they'd save thousands every year. But since I can't be sure who will be stationed where or using x piece of software, I have to install all their software on all their workstations and they have to pay for all those seats. I'm not ready to roll out vmware yet but I am interested in decent answers to his question.
You're all discounting this guy's question as being a stupid one but it isn't. And as far as
hiring a pro... who the hell would be a pro at something like this? If he calls Vmware do you think they're going to tell him about the downside?
G
Of course it could be because Amazon has patented the rather obvious idea of one-click shopping. That's why I don't buy from Amazon but that's probably not the case here.
G
What percentage of drivers could change a tire or their oil. How many kids can cook? Why bother... there are drive thru fast food all over and drive thru oil change places.
My first computer, a C-64... no tape drive.... if I wanted to play a game *god I loved telengard) I had to type it in from a magazine... then I got bored with the handful of games and started hacking them. Now If I want to pay a game, I shell out 50 bucks and pop it in. If my car broke down I bought a repair manual and figured out what was wrong and replaced the part... it's not that way so much anymore.
I've made both of my kids change their own brake pads and their own oil the first few times, just so they can learn a little bit about how their cars work and save a few bucks.
I've read/watched numberous sci-fi stories about a big machine that runs everything and begins to break down and no one knows how to fix it. That seems not only possible, but likely.
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I never thought terrorists would be so diligent to pay off their credit cards before committing acts of terror. Stupidest thing I've heard in a few hours.
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Why was this modded as flamebait? Which part isn't true or overstated?
The kid signed up for the city's newsletter and was almost immediately sent spam from the mayor's campaign people. Translated, the mayor (whose name I'll not put up in lights) has free access to the city's mailing list and uses it for personal gain. I think he decided to see if get a copy of the list himself and was denied.
Why should the mayor be allowed to use this list for personal gain but the kid can't? That's why he sued for the info and I expect it's his hope that legislation will get passed to protect that list just like the snailmail addresses are protected by a law that needs to be updated to include email addresses. The kid has a definite past with the mayor. The taxpayers in Kokomo basically paid to make it legal for the mayor to use the city's newsletter list to send everyone on the list spam.
You're correct... floating ice does not make the water level rise. However, melting ice that was supported by a land mass that is not floating in the water will indeed make the water level rise.
If you hadn't have forgotten you Personal ID Number number you might not have lost so much time at the automated teller machine machine. I just sold a car and had to go out and find the vehicle identification number number. It was cold out so I warmed my hands up by using host water from the hot water heater.
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It's difficult sometimes... getting a new client is always rough but I have enough now (been doing this for about 11 years) so I don't have to work as hard as I used since I've gotten my clients pretty well trained. I tell them they (and their employees) can install whatever the hell they want but they should be prepared for some pretty big bills while I spend many hours cleaning their messes up. I gennerally grin and rub my hands together when I'm saying this to drive the point home. I have about 20 networks that I take care of and I gennerally try to train my clients to be as self sufficient as possible) make sure virus definitions are updated, run spybot, reboot the computer before calling me, etc.
I only have a few that pay me a regular retainer and it gets kinda slow/scary in the summer but if I have to have a slow time I want it to be in the summer.
If they dazzle you with buzzwords and all their certificates then I'd look elsewhere. Once they have your root/admin passsword you might as well just give them a key so they can come in and work without interupting your business. If you do this make sure to remember that even though you haven't seen your computer guy for awhile, if your stuff is working then you should just be happy to pay his bill. I don't advertise, don't have business cards, don't give out my cell phone number (except for my exisitng clients) and my home phone is unlisted. I can't take on any more clients and still be able to have quick response times.
My point is, you're probably not going to find a good part-time admin by looking the in yellow pages. Ask around.
G
Well yeah that's what they found but it wasn't really relevant. Is the guy strong enough to hang from a piece of plywood? I would certainly hope so.... he's fairly fit so I'm just sure he could. He could surely do a pullup or chinup. Perhaps the 4' span of the plywood was too far for the dude but a taller guy with a longer reach might be able to hold on better.
Could he hold onto the plywood while being strapped to the back of a pickup going down the road? No he could not, which means nothing. The wind was exterting forces on the plywwod that weren't all directed at liftng him.
Had he been lying down on a flatbed trailer a ways away from the truck holding onto a piece of plywaood that was perpendicular to the wind then the forces exterted would have been applied more to lifting him or in this case stretching him. If you set up a piece of plywwod hooked to a really big fish scale on the back of a trailer how much force would be applied to the scale at X speed? That would have been a better test.
G
Never ever put the screws back in the case and you'll never have to work on that computer again,
I'm not really one for coding standards, just make each person maintain a certain level of consistantcy and make damn sure they make good comments. You might want to institute some common variable naming scheme. Here are a few rules I've come up with over the years.
1) Thou shalt NOT make the user re-enter data
2) Waste not clicks for they are precious
3) Thou shall not design a screen that hath no purpose
4) Move not your bits about the screen like a drunken stripper
5) Gulp not your data but merely sip... as it makes reguritation less lumpy
6) That which the user doeth the most, shall not be obscurred by that which he doeth least
7) Dress not your screens with vain and lustful colors that are without purpose
8) The user is the one true god and thou shall hold no gods before the user
9) The user is a friggin idiot
10) An image that measures 16 pixels across and 16 pixels along it's length is rarely worth one word
G
Well there was this one time at band camp... :)
The republicans haven't outlawed stem cell research, they've simply said that the gov isn't going to fund embryonic stem cell research. I personally don't think the gov has any busines funding businessess who patent the results and then rape us for their drugs and wish they'd stop handing over money to drug companies or to universities so the drug companies and universities can get more rich.
However keep sending those thankyou cards for all the other bullshit they've been pulling.
G
I don't remember the author but I do remember the storyline. The story was set in the far-flung future (probably 2001 ish).
Due to the trend of intelligent hardworking people having fewer offspring than stereotypical trailer trash who were breeding like rabbits, there were only a handful of people left on the planet intelligent enough to keep things running.
This small group of intelligent people were busting their collective asses to make sure the idiots got fed and they were getting pretty tired of it and couldn't keep up. So they decided they'd have to cull the heard a bit.
They started running commercials (during I Love Lucy re-runs which were all the rage in the trailer parks) showing happy people vacationing on Venus. Eventually they started a lottery for free rides to Venus in a series of "rocket ships". Turns out the rocket ships were simply ovens and anyone stupid enough to try to vacation on Venus was incinerated.
This scenario seems really cold and hard but it also seems almost inevitable to me. I expect that more subtle measures will be taken before things get as bad as in that story though.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone remember the author's name or title of that story?
Evolution requires survival of the fittest.... Once you get to the point when you stop dying before you procreate, you are simply randomly mutating.
G
I agree... the market for rollable paper is indeed huge, however, one-hitters and bongs are quickly gaining marketshare. PAPERS! we don't need no stinkin' papers :)
Sorry.. you made an interesting and serious post but I just couldn't resist.
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Mine's out in the pole barn... it was my fileserver for years and years but when we moved I retired it because I didn't want o carry it down the stairs to the basement and it only had 10meg/sec nics.
Scotty being a really nice guy, didn't want to make LaForge look bad, so he told that little white lie to Laforge in an attemp to make LaForge feel good about himself. Feel better now :)
He probably only cut one joist and he probably put in 2 short joists between the adjacent joists and attached the ends of the joist he cut to these little joists. This spread the load from the joist he cut to the adjacent joists. Not a perfect soltuion but it's done all time. To use the terminlogy around here 10 years ago... He boxed it in. I used to do remodeling for a living.
Ok... I was making a joke about that stupid board game called the game of life. it was just a joke for old people.
I mean does anyone's game of life spinner still work?
Really... me too... that's the point I was trying to make about the sleep in the server room comments and the hire another admin, no one is that important comments. I don't have problems very often so I can't justify paying a backup admin. But I would really like to have a 100% reliable way I can be reached no matter what. That would let me relax more when I'm vacation.