He claims he can't do what he needs to do without it. Our AV software, NOD32, flags it as spyware, blocks, and tries to delete it. Because he's such a whiny little bitch and he already has enough crapware on his laptop that makes it unresponsive for at least 5 minutes after logon, not exaggerating here, we went ahead and made an exclusion on his install. I don't know exactly what he uses it for; the best I've been able to decipher from his "George W.ing" description is he uses it to look up information. I refuse to install it on my computer and really haven't gotten around to setting up a test system to figure out what vital, apocalyptic-preventing information it gives him. We've told him it's spyware, but he just ignores us like the peons he thinks we are. Funny thing is he gets a stern talking to from his bosses whenever he's a real ass since my boss is the NetOps Director and his boss is the CTO, C-level beats president. One of these days he's really going to fuck up and we'll standing with log files in hand with grins ear to ear, which might be too soon with him doing to non-PCI compliant crap right after we have an audit.
I'm on Charter and I use to get 3-12 VOD that others were watching. Then one day they just switched it off. I guess they figured it out and stopped streaming it in the clear.
Exactly. The point is to make you turn on/install only what you need. You're responsible for getting that running and making sure it's secure. If I'm going to be building a firewall, there's no need for httpd or anything else besides pf and sshd. I'll admit Theo can come off as a bit kooky in interviews and his code seem over paranoid, but that paranoia leeds to a more secure OS out of the box.
I'd much rather spend my time installing only the software I need and making sure it's all buttoned up than building my own kernel and/or having to check around to make sure I don't have any unnecessary software running on top of installing the software I need. I've got better things to do than patch up an OS and remove unnecessary software; it's bad enough I have to do it with Windows.
I have to disagree. In Europe and Japan there is 100mbps+ for cheaper that what's in the US and there are ISPs that don't cap. So WhyTF so we have such crappy connections in most places. Faster internet is available here, but for much more expensive or in very select locations. It's not my fault the ISPs didn't get their heads out of their asses and plan ahead with better and scalable infrastructure.
As a Network Admin I always try and plan to scale my infrastructure as if the company was going to grow quite a bit. I choose the best technology that is economical, yet allows us to grow and allows for upgrades with minimal downtime and cost. For the new office one of our locations moved into, I required two CAT6 drops to each cube. This will allow us to upgrade to 1Gb Ethernet and also support an physically separate network. By the time we will have a need for 10Gb Ethernet, we will have moved to another location.
If I were a LEC, I would have whored FTTP like no tomorrow. IMHO.
I stream music just fine off of it and that is a violation of their lame TOS. I do keep it under their "Unlimited" 5GB/month limit, so I do not stream music every time I get into the car which is one of the reasons why I got it. I'll probably be switching back to Sprint when they roll out WiMAX in Atlanta if they keep the same usage policies as their EVDO service.
Just because there's porn on my HDDs than anything else, doesn't mean I spend all my time watching porn. It just means I have a large selection to choose from and wont tire easily from my collection. In the amount of hours in a week, I spend the majority of them at work and second to that would be resting.
Am I the only one that initially read that as laptops powered by an all Macromedia Flash UI? Must be me dreaming about a carputer with a Flash UI running on BSD again.
Back on topic: I wonder if Apple plans on bringing any other changes for the new laptops besides hybrid HDDs and OS X.V. I'm still holding out for them to do a docking station and maybe a proper Delete key (no I don't think I should hit two keys to get the Delete function).
Personally I have to chalk it up to curing the actual problem is not as profitable as treating the symptoms. I honestly believe that a cure for cancer has been found, but it has been quited due to the loss of profit and jobs something like this would create. I know of an elderly individual in the south east US that has claimed to find a cure for cancer out of a mixture of herbs. This person was giving the cure away for free and many benefited. IIRC, the FDA came to their house, burned their crops and sterilized the soil so nothing would grow. Nothing else was done about it in the public eye because they didn't want this to be publicized. No lawsuit, no media, no word.
The sad thing is the US isn't the place of freedom it use to be. There is so much shit that goes on the average Joe doesn't hear about. Some of it is good and some of it is bad.
Sounds a little familiar for my company. Our Data Enrry department decided they needed a time clock for their hourly employees. Instead of coming to IT, they decided to find some cheap package with a fingerprint reader. Then they proceed to install their crap software on the slowest, least amount of memory, oldest, and most abused computer in the department which someone also uses everyday. IT didn't know they had it until it broke a month and a half later. They came crying to IT for us to fix it eventhough it wasn't an approved piece of software that went through proper testing.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission I suppose.
You're best bet would to go with something that has a 3watt Luxeon LED in it that's designated "Warm White" which has a color temperature of 3400K. Check out either MR16-WLX1 or MR16-WLX3 on their Commerce site. I don't know about the number of lumens they put out. It will probably be a bit less than incandescent, but should work with a dimmer as intended. I'm waiting on some red 3watt Luxeon LEDs for an automotive application and they're rated for about 150 lumens IIRC.
Granted, there are some stupid articles that make their way through the approval process, but this one takes the cake. Many people before this guy, including myself, have done something similar to get some air moving with parts laying around and not have to make a trip to WallyWorld (WalMart) to buy a fan. However up to this point, no one has had the audacity to post up something this stupid.
It shouldn't cost all that much if you grow your own. Even if you don't have the time and land to do it yourself, $2.50/gallon is a bargain since it will take you twice as far. Hell, my performance car can't do 0-60 in 4 seconds even if I stripped the interior bare; I'd have to go forced induction to achieve that.
One of my ideas for retirement is to get a farm to live off of the land and additionally grow canola beans to make biodiesel. Making biodiesel is a pretty simple process: extract the oil, add the appropriate mix of lye, and you end up with biodiesel on the top and glycerine on the bottom. You can use the glycerine for a number of things from makeing soap to explosives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine
I have to agree with this assessment. I've noticed most people aren't all that concerned if it's good enough. Not to mention most people don't generally get to see the difference in quality the higher end stuff can produce. Ignorance is bliss I suppose. Videophiles and audiophiles are the ones striving for the best that technology can offer and a good portion have the funds to do it.
Also, most people aren't offered a good demo of the better technology. Going down to the local BestBuy to check out what the hubbub is over these HDTVs isn't going to be a good demo. The video they show is a bit degraded from the splitter used and they're showing original 4:3 content stretched on a 16:9 screen. Some places will do it right and will show you the difference between the old analogue broadcast and the HDTV broadcast.
Also like the parent said, I don't feel that people are going to go for something better if what they have now is good enough. My current TV produces a superior picture quality in comparison to most of the TVs in its day and today. People that come over to my house won't notice the difference unless you really point it out or do a side by side comparison. I don't even notice the difference when watching on another TV unless I actually think about it. There just isn't enough noticeable difference for the average joe to make someone want to strive for that better TV with the ______ technology in it.
This happened at my last job all the time. Four story building with no stair access going up (stairs were only accessible if you were going down). Coming back from lunch, the elevator would stop on the 2nd floor either because someone hit the up button or someone would be getting of. Then everyone crowds into the elevator only to find out that the elevator was going up to drop me off at the 4th floor. Had they paid attention to the damn up light and bell and have waited 15 more seconds for the other elevator, they wouldn't be wasting their bloody time.
All the damn time did I see the doors open for the 4th floor with people in the elevator and no one getting off. It's a good thing they laid me off (it's not related), I would have started to insult their intelligence. Mind you, it's not a big building and there aren't a lot of people there. A sizable portion of the bottom end of the gene pool worked in the building.
Months? My money is on 48hours. If things are difficult, maybe a week or two. I would laugh my butt off if information/code on the DRM scheme is leaked by some means to the cracker community.
Personally I will not tollerate any DRM that limits my ability to seamlessly and fairly play the media on any device, medium, OS, or media player. So far no DRM falls into this category IMHO.
This case is being made out to be a leap in technology. Yippie skippy, it's a BTX case. The same thing could be achieved in the ATX formfactor. Could someone enlighten me why this is such a special case? Quiet low power rackmounts have been done before.
I've been using Trillian since the 0.5x days and have continued till this day. I've used GAIM before, but Trillian works best. I don't see a need to upgrade to the Pro version for what I use it for, but I suggest looking at GAIM, Trillian Basic (free!), and Trillian Pro to see what fits you best.
Pluses (Some have already been listed above) - Free version has a lot of great features - Great for consolidating your IMs - Pretty much all of the features that you would find in any of the standard standalone IM clients - It allows you to use more than one screen name per network (i.e. two AIM accounts) - Can do accounts/profiles for different users (i.e. family members with their individual IM account sets) - Conversation logging with date and time stamps (good for ass saving or ass kicking) - Available conversation encryption between another Trillian client/user - Some keyboard shortcuts can be customized - Quick configuration option finding - IM network plugins (i.e. modular design) - Hot update on plugins - Easy connect, disconnect, away, here, etc. between one or all IM accounts - XML Skinnable with complete UI customization - Has an IRC client as well (what it started out as)
Minuses - Difficulty with transferring files (I haven't gotten it to work, but I could be doing something wrong)
I am currently using the Basic version to connect a MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and two AIM accounts. The logging feature is great and quite handy. I highly recommend you try it.
Have they fixed the memory leak yet? This is the biggest thing that's turned me off to FireFox. I reboot my computer about once every two months and in that time FireFox stays open. After a while I noticed FireFox is not properly releasing the memory it uses. 400MB of RAM was used above normal and FireFox was only claiming 120MB of it; closing down FireFox released all 400MBs of RAM. This is a normal thing and IMHO is not acceptible. FireFox's FAQ lists some 3rd party utility that keeps track of windows and tabs and restores them when the program is started up again. Another forum member suggested reducing the allowable cache size; this hasn't worked either.
I was hoping this bug that's been around for a long time would have been resolved earlier on. I don't have a lot of motivation to try out this new version to see if it's been resolved.
I previously worked for STI Knowledge. Alcoa outsourced their first level support to STI in Atlanta since their internal desk wasn't up to par. They got a good group of Helpdesk people and an excellent group of Sys Admins in Atlanta. They lucked out with our group and we were able to turn things around into a nice running well oiled machine. In an effort to lower costs and pass the savings on to the customer, they opened a facility in East Bumblefuck, GA...I mean Americus, GA which is a small town with a bunch of farms.
Over the course of a year my company started moving their helpdesks down their. Pretty much just laying off the people that didn't want to move, which was no one, and hiring new staff in Americus. I was given the offer to move down at my current pay rate and bonus with the possibility of my bonus being removed at a later date (my bonus made up 1/3 of my annual income). I proposed a larger salary due to the increased living expenses if they were interested in keeping me on board.
At the time I was living very cheaply with two other roommates in Atlanta. I'm very selective with my rommates for obvious reasons and moving to Americus would require that I rent a single bedroom apartment for more than the current living situation. Other things to consider: my car payments, insurance rates, phone costs, credit card rates, cable internet rates, and gas rates all would not go down. Not to mention the cost of regular drives to Atlanta to see family and friends and go clubbing or the movies. It made no sense for me or any of my colleagues to make the sacrifice to move down for a company that not kept their word and stabbed us in the back on more than one occasion.
The helpdesk doesn't take much to do and they can get away with moving it to Americus. However, the Sys Admin portion required real skill and they cannot find real skill in Americus. Last I heared, one of my predicessors shut down one of the production UNIX servers then later quit, my other predicessors doesn't know what he's doing, the other admins don't know what they're doing, and they've brought some people from India to "help" with the workload.
I'm all for on-shore outsourcing, but I feel that some companies don't know how to execute it properly. Some companies will save money. The last company I worked for is having to spend more money in labor to move it to Americus (i.e. hire four people to replace me). Out of ~32 helpdesk people, only 3 moved to Americus. Out of 8 Sys Admins, no one went and a large portion of knowledge was lost.
Palm wasn't the first. IIRC Toshiba's Zaurus SL-C3000 was the first PDA with an internal HDD. IMHO, for either the SL-C3000 or the LifeDrive, it is too little too late. They just don't have enough storage copacity for what the people I've read here want.
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He claims he can't do what he needs to do without it. Our AV software, NOD32, flags it as spyware, blocks, and tries to delete it. Because he's such a whiny little bitch and he already has enough crapware on his laptop that makes it unresponsive for at least 5 minutes after logon, not exaggerating here, we went ahead and made an exclusion on his install. I don't know exactly what he uses it for; the best I've been able to decipher from his "George W.ing" description is he uses it to look up information. I refuse to install it on my computer and really haven't gotten around to setting up a test system to figure out what vital, apocalyptic-preventing information it gives him. We've told him it's spyware, but he just ignores us like the peons he thinks we are. Funny thing is he gets a stern talking to from his bosses whenever he's a real ass since my boss is the NetOps Director and his boss is the CTO, C-level beats president. One of these days he's really going to fuck up and we'll standing with log files in hand with grins ear to ear, which might be too soon with him doing to non-PCI compliant crap right after we have an audit.
I'm on Charter and I use to get 3-12 VOD that others were watching. Then one day they just switched it off. I guess they figured it out and stopped streaming it in the clear.
I have four. Being the admin over the phone system, I can have much more if needed.
Exactly. The point is to make you turn on/install only what you need. You're responsible for getting that running and making sure it's secure. If I'm going to be building a firewall, there's no need for httpd or anything else besides pf and sshd. I'll admit Theo can come off as a bit kooky in interviews and his code seem over paranoid, but that paranoia leeds to a more secure OS out of the box.
I'd much rather spend my time installing only the software I need and making sure it's all buttoned up than building my own kernel and/or having to check around to make sure I don't have any unnecessary software running on top of installing the software I need. I've got better things to do than patch up an OS and remove unnecessary software; it's bad enough I have to do it with Windows.
I have to disagree. In Europe and Japan there is 100mbps+ for cheaper that what's in the US and there are ISPs that don't cap. So WhyTF so we have such crappy connections in most places. Faster internet is available here, but for much more expensive or in very select locations. It's not my fault the ISPs didn't get their heads out of their asses and plan ahead with better and scalable infrastructure.
As a Network Admin I always try and plan to scale my infrastructure as if the company was going to grow quite a bit. I choose the best technology that is economical, yet allows us to grow and allows for upgrades with minimal downtime and cost. For the new office one of our locations moved into, I required two CAT6 drops to each cube. This will allow us to upgrade to 1Gb Ethernet and also support an physically separate network. By the time we will have a need for 10Gb Ethernet, we will have moved to another location.
If I were a LEC, I would have whored FTTP like no tomorrow. IMHO.
I stream music just fine off of it and that is a violation of their lame TOS. I do keep it under their "Unlimited" 5GB/month limit, so I do not stream music every time I get into the car which is one of the reasons why I got it. I'll probably be switching back to Sprint when they roll out WiMAX in Atlanta if they keep the same usage policies as their EVDO service.
Just because there's porn on my HDDs than anything else, doesn't mean I spend all my time watching porn. It just means I have a large selection to choose from and wont tire easily from my collection. In the amount of hours in a week, I spend the majority of them at work and second to that would be resting.
Am I the only one that initially read that as laptops powered by an all Macromedia Flash UI? Must be me dreaming about a carputer with a Flash UI running on BSD again.
Back on topic: I wonder if Apple plans on bringing any other changes for the new laptops besides hybrid HDDs and OS X.V. I'm still holding out for them to do a docking station and maybe a proper Delete key (no I don't think I should hit two keys to get the Delete function).
The command works on our FreeBSD systems as well.
Personally I have to chalk it up to curing the actual problem is not as profitable as treating the symptoms. I honestly believe that a cure for cancer has been found, but it has been quited due to the loss of profit and jobs something like this would create. I know of an elderly individual in the south east US that has claimed to find a cure for cancer out of a mixture of herbs. This person was giving the cure away for free and many benefited. IIRC, the FDA came to their house, burned their crops and sterilized the soil so nothing would grow. Nothing else was done about it in the public eye because they didn't want this to be publicized. No lawsuit, no media, no word.
The sad thing is the US isn't the place of freedom it use to be. There is so much shit that goes on the average Joe doesn't hear about. Some of it is good and some of it is bad.
Sounds a little familiar for my company. Our Data Enrry department decided they needed a time clock for their hourly employees. Instead of coming to IT, they decided to find some cheap package with a fingerprint reader. Then they proceed to install their crap software on the slowest, least amount of memory, oldest, and most abused computer in the department which someone also uses everyday. IT didn't know they had it until it broke a month and a half later. They came crying to IT for us to fix it eventhough it wasn't an approved piece of software that went through proper testing.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission I suppose.
I've done some searching, but not a whole lot, and the best in selection I've seen is SuperBrightLEDs.com: https://www.superbrightleds.com/edison.html and http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/comme rce.cgi?product=MR16
You're best bet would to go with something that has a 3watt Luxeon LED in it that's designated "Warm White" which has a color temperature of 3400K. Check out either MR16-WLX1 or MR16-WLX3 on their Commerce site. I don't know about the number of lumens they put out. It will probably be a bit less than incandescent, but should work with a dimmer as intended. I'm waiting on some red 3watt Luxeon LEDs for an automotive application and they're rated for about 150 lumens IIRC.
Or Megan Morone! She was hot.
Granted, there are some stupid articles that make their way through the approval process, but this one takes the cake. Many people before this guy, including myself, have done something similar to get some air moving with parts laying around and not have to make a trip to WallyWorld (WalMart) to buy a fan. However up to this point, no one has had the audacity to post up something this stupid.
Damn it. I want my click back.
It shouldn't cost all that much if you grow your own. Even if you don't have the time and land to do it yourself, $2.50/gallon is a bargain since it will take you twice as far. Hell, my performance car can't do 0-60 in 4 seconds even if I stripped the interior bare; I'd have to go forced induction to achieve that.
One of my ideas for retirement is to get a farm to live off of the land and additionally grow canola beans to make biodiesel. Making biodiesel is a pretty simple process: extract the oil, add the appropriate mix of lye, and you end up with biodiesel on the top and glycerine on the bottom. You can use the glycerine for a number of things from makeing soap to explosives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerine
About 2/3rds of all statistics are made up on the spot.
:p
I have to agree with this assessment. I've noticed most people aren't all that concerned if it's good enough. Not to mention most people don't generally get to see the difference in quality the higher end stuff can produce. Ignorance is bliss I suppose. Videophiles and audiophiles are the ones striving for the best that technology can offer and a good portion have the funds to do it.
Also, most people aren't offered a good demo of the better technology. Going down to the local BestBuy to check out what the hubbub is over these HDTVs isn't going to be a good demo. The video they show is a bit degraded from the splitter used and they're showing original 4:3 content stretched on a 16:9 screen. Some places will do it right and will show you the difference between the old analogue broadcast and the HDTV broadcast.
Also like the parent said, I don't feel that people are going to go for something better if what they have now is good enough. My current TV produces a superior picture quality in comparison to most of the TVs in its day and today. People that come over to my house won't notice the difference unless you really point it out or do a side by side comparison. I don't even notice the difference when watching on another TV unless I actually think about it. There just isn't enough noticeable difference for the average joe to make someone want to strive for that better TV with the ______ technology in it.
This happened at my last job all the time. Four story building with no stair access going up (stairs were only accessible if you were going down). Coming back from lunch, the elevator would stop on the 2nd floor either because someone hit the up button or someone would be getting of. Then everyone crowds into the elevator only to find out that the elevator was going up to drop me off at the 4th floor. Had they paid attention to the damn up light and bell and have waited 15 more seconds for the other elevator, they wouldn't be wasting their bloody time.
All the damn time did I see the doors open for the 4th floor with people in the elevator and no one getting off. It's a good thing they laid me off (it's not related), I would have started to insult their intelligence. Mind you, it's not a big building and there aren't a lot of people there. A sizable portion of the bottom end of the gene pool worked in the building.
http://www.thetechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/?m=show&i d=479
If it hasn't already been posted.
Months? My money is on 48hours. If things are difficult, maybe a week or two. I would laugh my butt off if information/code on the DRM scheme is leaked by some means to the cracker community.
Personally I will not tollerate any DRM that limits my ability to seamlessly and fairly play the media on any device, medium, OS, or media player. So far no DRM falls into this category IMHO.
This case is being made out to be a leap in technology. Yippie skippy, it's a BTX case. The same thing could be achieved in the ATX formfactor. Could someone enlighten me why this is such a special case? Quiet low power rackmounts have been done before.
I've been using Trillian since the 0.5x days and have continued till this day. I've used GAIM before, but Trillian works best. I don't see a need to upgrade to the Pro version for what I use it for, but I suggest looking at GAIM, Trillian Basic (free!), and Trillian Pro to see what fits you best.
Pluses (Some have already been listed above)
- Free version has a lot of great features
- Great for consolidating your IMs
- Pretty much all of the features that you would find in any of the standard standalone IM clients
- It allows you to use more than one screen name per network (i.e. two AIM accounts)
- Can do accounts/profiles for different users (i.e. family members with their individual IM account sets)
- Conversation logging with date and time stamps (good for ass saving or ass kicking)
- Available conversation encryption between another Trillian client/user
- Some keyboard shortcuts can be customized
- Quick configuration option finding
- IM network plugins (i.e. modular design)
- Hot update on plugins
- Easy connect, disconnect, away, here, etc. between one or all IM accounts
- XML Skinnable with complete UI customization
- Has an IRC client as well (what it started out as)
Minuses
- Difficulty with transferring files (I haven't gotten it to work, but I could be doing something wrong)
I am currently using the Basic version to connect a MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and two AIM accounts. The logging feature is great and quite handy. I highly recommend you try it.
Have they fixed the memory leak yet? This is the biggest thing that's turned me off to FireFox. I reboot my computer about once every two months and in that time FireFox stays open. After a while I noticed FireFox is not properly releasing the memory it uses. 400MB of RAM was used above normal and FireFox was only claiming 120MB of it; closing down FireFox released all 400MBs of RAM. This is a normal thing and IMHO is not acceptible. FireFox's FAQ lists some 3rd party utility that keeps track of windows and tabs and restores them when the program is started up again. Another forum member suggested reducing the allowable cache size; this hasn't worked either.
I was hoping this bug that's been around for a long time would have been resolved earlier on. I don't have a lot of motivation to try out this new version to see if it's been resolved.
I previously worked for STI Knowledge. Alcoa outsourced their first level support to STI in Atlanta since their internal desk wasn't up to par. They got a good group of Helpdesk people and an excellent group of Sys Admins in Atlanta. They lucked out with our group and we were able to turn things around into a nice running well oiled machine. In an effort to lower costs and pass the savings on to the customer, they opened a facility in East Bumblefuck, GA...I mean Americus, GA which is a small town with a bunch of farms.
Over the course of a year my company started moving their helpdesks down their. Pretty much just laying off the people that didn't want to move, which was no one, and hiring new staff in Americus. I was given the offer to move down at my current pay rate and bonus with the possibility of my bonus being removed at a later date (my bonus made up 1/3 of my annual income). I proposed a larger salary due to the increased living expenses if they were interested in keeping me on board.
At the time I was living very cheaply with two other roommates in Atlanta. I'm very selective with my rommates for obvious reasons and moving to Americus would require that I rent a single bedroom apartment for more than the current living situation. Other things to consider: my car payments, insurance rates, phone costs, credit card rates, cable internet rates, and gas rates all would not go down. Not to mention the cost of regular drives to Atlanta to see family and friends and go clubbing or the movies. It made no sense for me or any of my colleagues to make the sacrifice to move down for a company that not kept their word and stabbed us in the back on more than one occasion.
The helpdesk doesn't take much to do and they can get away with moving it to Americus. However, the Sys Admin portion required real skill and they cannot find real skill in Americus. Last I heared, one of my predicessors shut down one of the production UNIX servers then later quit, my other predicessors doesn't know what he's doing, the other admins don't know what they're doing, and they've brought some people from India to "help" with the workload.
I'm all for on-shore outsourcing, but I feel that some companies don't know how to execute it properly. Some companies will save money. The last company I worked for is having to spend more money in labor to move it to Americus (i.e. hire four people to replace me). Out of ~32 helpdesk people, only 3 moved to Americus. Out of 8 Sys Admins, no one went and a large portion of knowledge was lost.
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Yeah I'm not bitter.
Palm wasn't the first. IIRC Toshiba's Zaurus SL-C3000 was the first PDA with an internal HDD. IMHO, for either the SL-C3000 or the LifeDrive, it is too little too late. They just don't have enough storage copacity for what the people I've read here want.