Will this work if the thief wipes the drive & re-installs the OS? On my new laptop, I did notice a BIOS setting for some type of tracking system (which I enabled - I'm sure the powers-that-be would have other means of tracking me if they really wanted).
That's why I open the box & check the model number *before* I leave the store to verify my purchase (and not just for electronics - once at an auto parts store I found out someone had switched a cheaper oil filter for the more expensive one I had paid for). Doesn't everyone do this?
Have any of the the patent-bashers on here stopped to think that maybe *some* patents are valid (especially hardware)? After all, this is a company making actual physical products, not a patent troll or someone patenting software or a business product.
So why not build/buy a machine with parts that are known to work with Linux? Or alternatively, replace what doesn't work with Linux in your system with parts that do.
You do realize that it's possible to purchase a fake SWAT outfit (along with a fake badge), right? At 2 am in the morning, it's difficult to think straight after someone kicks in your door & points a gun at you.
Damn, I did tech support at Erols Internet 1996-97, right before my first sysadmin (NT) job. Talk about old-school memories. I remember walking past the UNIX admins, seeing a screen of what looked like gibberish & thinking, "there's NO way I'd ever be able to do that".:)
If you don't like the US-centrism of this site, you're free to stop using this site and/or create your own site that focuses on whatever locality you desire. The same way I either don't visit IE-only sites, or I change my referrer.
How many programs for Windows have existed almost unchanged for as long as Windows has existed.
Up until Vista, I'd say Freecell (what's up with allowing undo all the way to the beginning of the game? That takes the fun out of seeing how long you can go without losing).
Something a lot of people on here don't seem to understand about patents - it *is* possible to use them if the patent-holder grants the rights (generally either by accepting payment/royalties, or a cross-licensing deal).
We (the UNIX sysadmin team where I work) were treated to
Mongolian barbeque for lunch. (In keeping harmony with the irony of the day, it's neither Mongolian nor barbeque - nevertheless, it's good eating). Between this & the Simpsons movie premiering, it's turning out to be a good day!
(Note: I left after a year in October 2006, after things really started going downhill).
Basically, there's not one bigreason SunRocket went under, but rather a few smaller reasons that added up. The main one being that there was too much focus on bringing in management from the outside (mostly from AOL) instead of promoting from within. Also, employee retention was a big problem. When you start seeing early employees of the company quitting or getting fired, it's very demoralizing to those still there.
I ended up leaving after I was involuntarily transferred to another department (which was supposed to be temporary, but my requests to go back to my previous department were ignored), I had a director-level non-techie jerk that had been hired from outside SunRocket placed as my immediate supervisor, and they decided to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on network monitoring software when we in the process of doing the same thing with
Nagios and/or
OpenNMS & saved big money.
To all of the former customers of SunRocket, as well as anyone considering hiring a former SunRocket employee: just about all of the non-management folks (especially the support personnel based in the US, & the technical groups) were the most competent group of people I have ever worked with, and the majority of them did care about providing the best VOIP service possible.
Personally, I think they're raising speeds in certain areas due to competition from FIOS. When I lived in Loudoun County VA last year, I got 16/2 from Adelphia/Comcast at the same time Verizon was rolling out fiber cables. Now that I'm in PG County MD & I'm seeing orange-colored fiber cables around my neighborhood, I'm hoping for a speed increase here.
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You don't see the link at the top of the Gmail page that says "Older version"?
Why not simply charge the employee for a replacement card?
Could the fact that the home video market was almost non-existent in 1978 have been a factor in that decision?
Will this work if the thief wipes the drive & re-installs the OS? On my new laptop, I did notice a BIOS setting for some type of tracking system (which I enabled - I'm sure the powers-that-be would have other means of tracking me if they really wanted).
That's why I open the box & check the model number *before* I leave the store to verify my purchase (and not just for electronics - once at an auto parts store I found out someone had switched a cheaper oil filter for the more expensive one I had paid for). Doesn't everyone do this?
s/product/process
Have any of the the patent-bashers on here stopped to think that maybe *some* patents are valid (especially hardware)? After all, this is a company making actual physical products, not a patent troll or someone patenting software or a business product.
See the subject - why would NASA care about commercial air travel? (Can't RTFA yet, still at work).
So why not build/buy a machine with parts that are known to work with Linux? Or alternatively, replace what doesn't work with Linux in your system with parts that do.
You do realize that it's possible to purchase a fake SWAT outfit (along with a fake badge), right? At 2 am in the morning, it's difficult to think straight after someone kicks in your door & points a gun at you.
Damn, I did tech support at Erols Internet 1996-97, right before my first sysadmin (NT) job. Talk about old-school memories. I remember walking past the UNIX admins, seeing a screen of what looked like gibberish & thinking, "there's NO way I'd ever be able to do that". :)
FTW (well, almost....)
Anyone here ever met CmdrTaco? *raises hand*
Back in 2000 at ALS (Atlanta Linux Showcase). I *think* I bought him a drink, but that evening is kind of a blur.
Hola!
Unless you drive a Toyota or a Honda, that may not be applicable.
Because somebody has to print out the spreadsheet. Isn't that obvious?
If you don't like the US-centrism of this site, you're free to stop using this site and/or create your own site that focuses on whatever locality you desire. The same way I either don't visit IE-only sites, or I change my referrer.
Up until Vista, I'd say Freecell (what's up with allowing undo all the way to the beginning of the game? That takes the fun out of seeing how long you can go without losing).
Something a lot of people on here don't seem to understand about patents - it *is* possible to use them if the patent-holder grants the rights (generally either by accepting payment/royalties, or a cross-licensing deal).
Pot/kettle/black
You do realize that Cygwin has rsync & ssh available for Windows, right?
We (the UNIX sysadmin team where I work) were treated to Mongolian barbeque for lunch. (In keeping harmony with the irony of the day, it's neither Mongolian nor barbeque - nevertheless, it's good eating). Between this & the Simpsons movie premiering, it's turning out to be a good day!
Basically, there's not one bigreason SunRocket went under, but rather a few smaller reasons that added up. The main one being that there was too much focus on bringing in management from the outside (mostly from AOL) instead of promoting from within. Also, employee retention was a big problem. When you start seeing early employees of the company quitting or getting fired, it's very demoralizing to those still there.
I ended up leaving after I was involuntarily transferred to another department (which was supposed to be temporary, but my requests to go back to my previous department were ignored), I had a director-level non-techie jerk that had been hired from outside SunRocket placed as my immediate supervisor, and they decided to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on network monitoring software when we in the process of doing the same thing with Nagios and/or OpenNMS & saved big money.
To all of the former customers of SunRocket, as well as anyone considering hiring a former SunRocket employee: just about all of the non-management folks (especially the support personnel based in the US, & the technical groups) were the most competent group of people I have ever worked with, and the majority of them did care about providing the best VOIP service possible.
Personally, I think they're raising speeds in certain areas due to competition from FIOS. When I lived in Loudoun County VA last year, I got 16/2 from Adelphia/Comcast at the same time Verizon was rolling out fiber cables. Now that I'm in PG County MD & I'm seeing orange-colored fiber cables around my neighborhood, I'm hoping for a speed increase here.
Any reason why Springfield VA wasn't nominated? The mall there has the www.springfieldmall.com website, & in the mall there's 2 movie theaters.
It creates a CD (or DVD, if you want) of updates.