What I want to know is why have they been a bunch of slackers? If you know you're going to host the farking Olympics and have some serious pollution issues, get a move on cleaning it up and reducing the causes of it shortly after you know you're going to host it.
Sadly, I do own three. The main one I use I bought for $5 at the local thrift store and it still has 5-- in crayon on it next to the IBM logo. My colleagues rue the day I brought this noise-baby in. The brand new membrane one I was issued didn't last even a year.
I'm proud of the fact that my keyboard is older than my wife. Keyboard 1984, Wife 1986, Me 1981.
The company I work for has all of its servers in a secure colo. The place offers secured cabinets, secured cages with racks, and even does walled off areas of the datacenter floor with a secured door for high paying customers like Google. The facility is manned 24/7 with cameras all over outside and in. The rear of the facility is fenced and gated.
If you're on the roster for your company with floor access this is the process you have to go through to even get to your server: -If it's at night, you have to use your RFID badge to get in the front door -Check in with security and sign out for your key if the door is not a combo lock -Security needs to buzz you through the first door -RFID badge and finger print through two or three doors -Iris scan in the man-trap to get to the datacenter floor -Combo or the checked-out key to get in to the cabinet or cage
On regular intervals they check the people on the floor to make sure that you're suppose to be there.
I'm not saying this place is a fortified facility that can handle a team of insurgents. However, I'd feel that my equipment is safe from the theft I've been hearing about at some datacenters. For a cabinet with a 1Mbps commit data rate with an actual 10Mbps internet connection and IPs, it's about the same cost of having a T1 to the office.
For those that want to know who we use, it's Quality Tech.
No offense to you, but much offense intended towards all telcos, they shouldn't have squandered the $200,000,000,000 they made from the 1996 Telecommunications Act that was intended to bring FTTH. Be livid; Google one of the following: "$200 billion" telecommunications scandal "$200 billion" telecommunications rip-off
I switched to Vista because I know I will need to learn it to support it. There are a couple of new feature of Vista that I like, but they're not enough to keep me. Due to Vista's lack of complete support of Windows administration and RSAT isn't anywhere in site. Today was the last straw when Vista became useless for about 30min including reboot attempts.
My company will not be moving to Vista. In fact, the issue with not being able to get a copy of it will be solved by moving the userbase on to thinclients until Microsoft gets Vista's act together. It's still not stable enough, there are no admin tools, it's severely bloated and the learning curve is too high for the users right now. I have never seen a base OEM install of an OS banging away at the swap file for no apparent reason with 4GB of RAM.
I can't say that I'd make a good president, I hope I would though. Here's my list: 1. FairTax and repeal the 16th Amendment
In no particular order: 2. Get rid of the Patriot Act and the DMCA 3. Either get rid of or heavily reform the No Child Left Behind 4. Gold Standard 5. Find out WTF all the damn tax money is going, especially finding out where goods and services are being overcharged. 6. Work on appropriately getting out of this damn war 7. Get Congress to follow the wills of the people than the lobbyists, companies, or anyone else with a fat bank account 8. Reduce this police state nonsense 9. Get back on better terms with foreign policy 10. Reduce our reliance on imports and be able to be more self sufficient 11. Reduce 12. Push for alternative forms power like solar, but not encourage ethanol production to the point that food production makes a negative impact. 13. Make English the official language. Anyone that can't speak it needs to STUF and GTFO.:p (I probably wouldn't be that harsh, but we do need a damn official language) 14. Take a tour of Area 51, then take a tour of where they moved all of Area 51's secret operations too.
I have to disagree. I run two 19" monitors with 1440x900, the same combined resolution as Alienware's, and find it quite adequate height wise for gaming. My only complaint is the "seam" in the middle for the bezels and doesn't work to well for FPS games. This curved monitor would eliminate that. I'm not to keen that it uses four DLP projectors to get the job done though. It would be nice to have a curved film OLED display like this. The movie Red Planet comes to mind.
GA isn't/wasn't. Look up Genarlow Wilson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_v._State_of_Georgia. Dude was 17 and received oral from a 15 y/o. He was handed a harsher sentence than he would have if they just engaged in vaginal intercourse. Screwed up. I know they have changed the law since his conviction, but they didn't make it retroactive. Wilson did get released finally this year based off of the punishment being cruel and unusual, but I don't know if he still has to register as a sex offender because a 15 y/o went down on him instead of riding him.
I didn't RTFA since it looked like something most people already know. Within the past few months the antics of one idividual has forced us remind the userbase that the corporate network is owned by the company and anything that is done is logged. One of the last things this sales rep did caused the CTO to fly up to the sales office to have a chit chat with all of the staff. This sales rep was using Craigslist to solicit sex, among other things, and using his corporate e-mail to do it. Supposedly he was posing as a female prostitue as a joke and forwarding some of the jucier replies to one of his colleagues he was hazing.
I.E. Documentation. At my last job I archived all of my e-mail to cover my ass. It saved the company, colleagues, and me many times over. I'd dig out an e-mail 2+ years old where a policy was agreed upon by the dimwit trying to get around said policy.
Personally I would not pay. IMO it is Fair Use for me to make a backup copy of the DVD movies I purchase. I'm no lawyer, but it seems that the DMCA does allow for copies made for fair use. I'm referring to Sec.1201(c)(1). It seems like there may have been a case that ruled in favor of DVD ripping for personal use considered fair use, but I may be confusing that with the contrary. Regardless of the way it is, I feel that it is fair use for me to rip my legally purchased DVDs for personal uses only. I'm in the process of ripping all my DVDs to my server so I can watch it on demand from my TV or one of the computers. Once I'm done with ripping them, I'll be putting them into storage for safe keeping and freeing up much needed shelf space.
Whoa! Who at VZW have you been dealing with. For me the privledge of being their customer costs a premium over their competitors (e.g. Sprint), they'll cancel my ass for going over 5Gb of usage on my Unlimited plan, cripple their phones, and find new ways of charging for doing stuff that wasn't charged before. I should have stayed with Sprint; their CS sucks ass, but their more reasonable with their services IMO. Meh, all mobile phone companies just suck big hairy donkey dick.
(2) Verizon changes their network over to GSM nationwide.
(2) isn't going to happen. Not necessarily. Verizon has stated that it intends to move towards LTE.
LTE is essentailly 4G GSM. I guess they caved to the wills of their 45% stake owner, VodaPhone.
I don't know how the hell VZW is going to migrate their customer base. I suppose they'll allot a certain amount of spectrum for LTE with the according devices, then scale back the spectrum allotment for CDMA as customers upgrade away from their broken phones to the new shiny. Mind you, I am not that intimately familiar with CDMA, GSM, or VZW's spectrum and equipment to know if that's feasible, so don't quote me.
Sony and Nintendo are the problem in this scenario. I have to disagree. If they want to loose potential revenue because of an AO rating for whatever reason, that's their prerogative. The real issue here are the damn elected senators, whom are suppose to be representing their constituents' interest and being paid by your and my tax money, screwing around on a stupid game. There are more important issues to worry about than a game.
Senators,
Get your lazy asses back in to those seats. Stop listening to corporations. Start listening to your constituents. And GET SOME DAMN SHIT DONE!
Probably the same amount of time they spend on reviewing the Patriot Act, DMCA, etc. before voting on it. I wish they'd do the same for the FairTax bill and repeal the 16th Amendment.
This whole Manhunt 2 issue sounds like Wacko Jacko Thompson ass-hattery. These senators need to spend more time on the bigger issues than a damn game. The game is rated M for Mature; it's very similar to movie R ratings. If it's not already law, the stores should make it a policy to not sell M rated games and R rated movies to minors. Beyond that, it's the parent's responsibility to police their children's entertainment intake.
Don't like ESRB's rating criteria? Start your own game rating system. Too lazy to do that, but still want to bitch about their rating system? Go to the MPAA and have a good look at their past rating (ex. Top Gun, Ace Ventura); take action against them first, then go after the MSRB.
English is my native tongue, but I had to read over it a few times before I thought I got it. So here goes:
"If you've been on one of her escorts and had to be plane guard for an aircraft carrier, you know her for a fickle wench out chasing a breeze."
If one were to be the captain of a ship that's providing escort for the Kitty Hawk and given the duty of guarding her planes, one would know that it is a difficult job since the aircraft carrier is constantly changing heading and speed to help the pilots with safe take offs and landings.
"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer." Going up against an 84,000 tone US aircraft carrier, which is a persuasive deterrent against battles in it's own right, that's moving at full speed is not a good idea since it would probably result in death.
"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]"
If the theory that the Chinese sub surfaced out of fear of crashing into something because of unfamiliarity with the area were true, this still does not remove any embarrassment from the individual in charge of providing escort and supposed to be keeping non-US Navy vessels outside of the perimeter in the first place.
I do admit I didn't RTFA; I not that interested in sorting through it to get my question answered. Sorry. Does Balmer just throw out comments like this to the news media or do these goofballs (i.e. news media) ring his phone to ask dumb questions about what he thinks of the latest from his competition? If it's the former, he needs to shut his Google-whining-ass up. If it's the later, they need to quit bugging people like this everyday on something dumb about the thoughts of their respective competitors. If it was a once in a while interview, I can tolerate it. However, this frequent troll hunting is dumb.
That's kind of what Service Merchandise did and they bombed in 2002. Personally I didn't like having to wait for them to go hunting through the warehouse to find what I bought; sometimes it was a 20min wait. I only shopped there a couple of times and decided my time was worth more than little I was saving. Toys R Us did this with their video game stuff and some of their expensive stuff in the past.
For the sake of argument I will say this is sort of what's going on with Internet purchases. However, rarely can I find a better deal in a B&M store than on the Internet. Buying from a B&M, I expect to pay extra due to the extra overhead, supposed better personal service, and the ability to have it in my hands new. Personally I'm a little annoyed sometimes by being treated like a criminal every time I've bought something from their establishment.
Perhaps I will end up in the same situation one day because I had enough of the searching for being a paying customer. Everyplace I've walked out of without buying something, I have never been searched. That's a bit off kilter to search a paying customer, but not search someone that didn't buy anything. Personally I wouldn't do what the author from TFA if it were to inconvenience a friend or family member; I would have done it while alone and I had the time available. A part of me says that's a bit shameful to be ok with standing up for my rights only when it were convenient. I applaud the author of TFA for standing up for his rights when so many are unwilling to and are fine to let this wonderful country turn into a police state.
There are a lot of good suggestions here, so I'll add mine. I apologize if this has already been mentioned; wasn't interested in scanning through each and every post.
Use Thinstation. It's a stripped down distro of Linux that can be easily configured to startup FireFox. It runs quite well on old hardware and can be booted from the HDD, flash stick, CD, or PXE. The config file is pretty simple and can be inserted into the ISO for quick Live CD action.
There are other great suggestions above with using OS X or all permissions removed from a Unix box. Basically you just need something that runs as a kiosk and wont be susceptible to malicious sites.
Just e-mail the link to the article. They even get their advertising space too.
Personally I don't like it when someone copies and pastes the article and e-mails it to me; usually it's just crap. Also, the formatting gets all whacked and sometimes they don't include all the pages. Everybody wins when sending the link; they get their advertising space and the recipient can determine right off if it's crap.
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What I want to know is why have they been a bunch of slackers? If you know you're going to host the farking Olympics and have some serious pollution issues, get a move on cleaning it up and reducing the causes of it shortly after you know you're going to host it.
Sadly, I do own three. The main one I use I bought for $5 at the local thrift store and it still has 5-- in crayon on it next to the IBM logo. My colleagues rue the day I brought this noise-baby in. The brand new membrane one I was issued didn't last even a year.
I'm proud of the fact that my keyboard is older than my wife. Keyboard 1984, Wife 1986, Me 1981.
The company I work for has all of its servers in a secure colo. The place offers secured cabinets, secured cages with racks, and even does walled off areas of the datacenter floor with a secured door for high paying customers like Google. The facility is manned 24/7 with cameras all over outside and in. The rear of the facility is fenced and gated.
If you're on the roster for your company with floor access this is the process you have to go through to even get to your server:
-If it's at night, you have to use your RFID badge to get in the front door
-Check in with security and sign out for your key if the door is not a combo lock
-Security needs to buzz you through the first door
-RFID badge and finger print through two or three doors
-Iris scan in the man-trap to get to the datacenter floor
-Combo or the checked-out key to get in to the cabinet or cage
On regular intervals they check the people on the floor to make sure that you're suppose to be there.
I'm not saying this place is a fortified facility that can handle a team of insurgents. However, I'd feel that my equipment is safe from the theft I've been hearing about at some datacenters. For a cabinet with a 1Mbps commit data rate with an actual 10Mbps internet connection and IPs, it's about the same cost of having a T1 to the office.
For those that want to know who we use, it's Quality Tech.
No offense to you, but much offense intended towards all telcos, they shouldn't have squandered the $200,000,000,000 they made from the 1996 Telecommunications Act that was intended to bring FTTH. Be livid; Google one of the following:
"$200 billion" telecommunications scandal
"$200 billion" telecommunications rip-off
I switched to Vista because I know I will need to learn it to support it. There are a couple of new feature of Vista that I like, but they're not enough to keep me. Due to Vista's lack of complete support of Windows administration and RSAT isn't anywhere in site. Today was the last straw when Vista became useless for about 30min including reboot attempts.
My company will not be moving to Vista. In fact, the issue with not being able to get a copy of it will be solved by moving the userbase on to thinclients until Microsoft gets Vista's act together. It's still not stable enough, there are no admin tools, it's severely bloated and the learning curve is too high for the users right now. I have never seen a base OEM install of an OS banging away at the swap file for no apparent reason with 4GB of RAM.
I can't say that I'd make a good president, I hope I would though. Here's my list:
:p (I probably wouldn't be that harsh, but we do need a damn official language)
1. FairTax and repeal the 16th Amendment
In no particular order:
2. Get rid of the Patriot Act and the DMCA
3. Either get rid of or heavily reform the No Child Left Behind
4. Gold Standard
5. Find out WTF all the damn tax money is going, especially finding out where goods and services are being overcharged.
6. Work on appropriately getting out of this damn war
7. Get Congress to follow the wills of the people than the lobbyists, companies, or anyone else with a fat bank account
8. Reduce this police state nonsense
9. Get back on better terms with foreign policy
10. Reduce our reliance on imports and be able to be more self sufficient
11. Reduce
12. Push for alternative forms power like solar, but not encourage ethanol production to the point that food production makes a negative impact.
13. Make English the official language. Anyone that can't speak it needs to STUF and GTFO.
14. Take a tour of Area 51, then take a tour of where they moved all of Area 51's secret operations too.
I have to disagree. I run two 19" monitors with 1440x900, the same combined resolution as Alienware's, and find it quite adequate height wise for gaming. My only complaint is the "seam" in the middle for the bezels and doesn't work to well for FPS games. This curved monitor would eliminate that. I'm not to keen that it uses four DLP projectors to get the job done though. It would be nice to have a curved film OLED display like this. The movie Red Planet comes to mind.
GA isn't/wasn't. Look up Genarlow Wilson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_v._State_of_Georgia. Dude was 17 and received oral from a 15 y/o. He was handed a harsher sentence than he would have if they just engaged in vaginal intercourse. Screwed up. I know they have changed the law since his conviction, but they didn't make it retroactive. Wilson did get released finally this year based off of the punishment being cruel and unusual, but I don't know if he still has to register as a sex offender because a 15 y/o went down on him instead of riding him.
I didn't RTFA since it looked like something most people already know. Within the past few months the antics of one idividual has forced us remind the userbase that the corporate network is owned by the company and anything that is done is logged. One of the last things this sales rep did caused the CTO to fly up to the sales office to have a chit chat with all of the staff. This sales rep was using Craigslist to solicit sex, among other things, and using his corporate e-mail to do it. Supposedly he was posing as a female prostitue as a joke and forwarding some of the jucier replies to one of his colleagues he was hazing.
I.E. Documentation. At my last job I archived all of my e-mail to cover my ass. It saved the company, colleagues, and me many times over. I'd dig out an e-mail 2+ years old where a policy was agreed upon by the dimwit trying to get around said policy.
Whoa. Do you and I work at the same company? That's exactly what's going on here.
The sad thing is, the people here that do leave are generally burned out from the ever changing and crazy demands from the C-level executives.
Personally I would not pay. IMO it is Fair Use for me to make a backup copy of the DVD movies I purchase. I'm no lawyer, but it seems that the DMCA does allow for copies made for fair use. I'm referring to Sec.1201(c)(1). It seems like there may have been a case that ruled in favor of DVD ripping for personal use considered fair use, but I may be confusing that with the contrary. Regardless of the way it is, I feel that it is fair use for me to rip my legally purchased DVDs for personal uses only. I'm in the process of ripping all my DVDs to my server so I can watch it on demand from my TV or one of the computers. Once I'm done with ripping them, I'll be putting them into storage for safe keeping and freeing up much needed shelf space.
The first thing I thought of was MechWarrior. Thoughts of a Timber Wolf moving down the campus crossed my mind.
I thought you were going to stop trolling with this account: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=365035&cid=21424579
Apparently copy and pasting this whiny posting is the remains of this account.
Whoa! Who at VZW have you been dealing with. For me the privledge of being their customer costs a premium over their competitors (e.g. Sprint), they'll cancel my ass for going over 5Gb of usage on my Unlimited plan, cripple their phones, and find new ways of charging for doing stuff that wasn't charged before. I should have stayed with Sprint; their CS sucks ass, but their more reasonable with their services IMO. Meh, all mobile phone companies just suck big hairy donkey dick.
(2) isn't going to happen. Not necessarily. Verizon has stated that it intends to move towards LTE. LTE is essentailly 4G GSM. I guess they caved to the wills of their 45% stake owner, VodaPhone.
I don't know how the hell VZW is going to migrate their customer base. I suppose they'll allot a certain amount of spectrum for LTE with the according devices, then scale back the spectrum allotment for CDMA as customers upgrade away from their broken phones to the new shiny. Mind you, I am not that intimately familiar with CDMA, GSM, or VZW's spectrum and equipment to know if that's feasible, so don't quote me.
Senators,
Get your lazy asses back in to those seats. Stop listening to corporations. Start listening to your constituents. And GET SOME DAMN SHIT DONE!
Probably the same amount of time they spend on reviewing the Patriot Act, DMCA, etc. before voting on it. I wish they'd do the same for the FairTax bill and repeal the 16th Amendment.
This whole Manhunt 2 issue sounds like Wacko Jacko Thompson ass-hattery. These senators need to spend more time on the bigger issues than a damn game. The game is rated M for Mature; it's very similar to movie R ratings. If it's not already law, the stores should make it a policy to not sell M rated games and R rated movies to minors. Beyond that, it's the parent's responsibility to police their children's entertainment intake.
Don't like ESRB's rating criteria? Start your own game rating system. Too lazy to do that, but still want to bitch about their rating system? Go to the MPAA and have a good look at their past rating (ex. Top Gun, Ace Ventura); take action against them first, then go after the MSRB.
I'm getting tired of this whiny shit.
English is my native tongue, but I had to read over it a few times before I thought I got it. So here goes:
"If you've been on one of her escorts and had to be plane guard for an aircraft carrier, you know her for a fickle wench out chasing a breeze."
If one were to be the captain of a ship that's providing escort for the Kitty Hawk and given the duty of guarding her planes, one would know that it is a difficult job since the aircraft carrier is constantly changing heading and speed to help the pilots with safe take offs and landings.
"Trading paint with 84,000 tons of US diplomacy underway going full-tilt-boogy is not going to be a career enhancer."
Going up against an 84,000 tone US aircraft carrier, which is a persuasive deterrent against battles in it's own right, that's moving at full speed is not a good idea since it would probably result in death.
"Not that this wipes the egg off the face of whoever was in charge of the escort screen [...]"
If the theory that the Chinese sub surfaced out of fear of crashing into something because of unfamiliarity with the area were true, this still does not remove any embarrassment from the individual in charge of providing escort and supposed to be keeping non-US Navy vessels outside of the perimeter in the first place.
I do admit I didn't RTFA; I not that interested in sorting through it to get my question answered. Sorry. Does Balmer just throw out comments like this to the news media or do these goofballs (i.e. news media) ring his phone to ask dumb questions about what he thinks of the latest from his competition? If it's the former, he needs to shut his Google-whining-ass up. If it's the later, they need to quit bugging people like this everyday on something dumb about the thoughts of their respective competitors. If it was a once in a while interview, I can tolerate it. However, this frequent troll hunting is dumb.
He has to be smoking something seriously. Either that or he's doing this as another publicity stunt.
That's kind of what Service Merchandise did and they bombed in 2002. Personally I didn't like having to wait for them to go hunting through the warehouse to find what I bought; sometimes it was a 20min wait. I only shopped there a couple of times and decided my time was worth more than little I was saving. Toys R Us did this with their video game stuff and some of their expensive stuff in the past.
For the sake of argument I will say this is sort of what's going on with Internet purchases. However, rarely can I find a better deal in a B&M store than on the Internet. Buying from a B&M, I expect to pay extra due to the extra overhead, supposed better personal service, and the ability to have it in my hands new. Personally I'm a little annoyed sometimes by being treated like a criminal every time I've bought something from their establishment.
Perhaps I will end up in the same situation one day because I had enough of the searching for being a paying customer. Everyplace I've walked out of without buying something, I have never been searched. That's a bit off kilter to search a paying customer, but not search someone that didn't buy anything. Personally I wouldn't do what the author from TFA if it were to inconvenience a friend or family member; I would have done it while alone and I had the time available. A part of me says that's a bit shameful to be ok with standing up for my rights only when it were convenient. I applaud the author of TFA for standing up for his rights when so many are unwilling to and are fine to let this wonderful country turn into a police state.
There are a lot of good suggestions here, so I'll add mine. I apologize if this has already been mentioned; wasn't interested in scanning through each and every post.
Use Thinstation. It's a stripped down distro of Linux that can be easily configured to startup FireFox. It runs quite well on old hardware and can be booted from the HDD, flash stick, CD, or PXE. The config file is pretty simple and can be inserted into the ISO for quick Live CD action.
There are other great suggestions above with using OS X or all permissions removed from a Unix box. Basically you just need something that runs as a kiosk and wont be susceptible to malicious sites.
Just e-mail the link to the article. They even get their advertising space too.
Personally I don't like it when someone copies and pastes the article and e-mails it to me; usually it's just crap. Also, the formatting gets all whacked and sometimes they don't include all the pages. Everybody wins when sending the link; they get their advertising space and the recipient can determine right off if it's crap.
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