Jesus Christ man, do you have any idea of the importance of the HIGH SCORES LIST! Why, if the highscores were to be compromised, there'd be mass panicking! Riots! Chaos!
You should be thankful that suse got that patch out there before an exploit was released!
Reminds me of that John Candy movie (Canadian Bacon? I forget).
"So, how many times were you struck by lightening?" "s-six... s-s-six... ss-six..." "Wow, six times, eh? That's impressive!" "... s-sixty-six t-times..."
Well, did the rep you spoke with on the phone know your wireless number? Available promotions vary from state to state, day to day, and not to mention plan to plan. It's impossible to know all possible promotions without having the wireless number and checking the actual system to see what's available.
It's also possible that dealers have a different system. Us guys in the call centers don't know much about the dealers other than that they are the cause of a lot of problems;)
Firefox has an RSS-reading extension that loads RSS feeds in a sidebar... you get a two-pane sidebar, top pane lists your feeds and the bottom pane lists the headlines on the selected feed. Is that what you mean?
If you port your number away from ATTWS, the LNP system is really weird. It'll prorate your monthly service charge and your monthly minutes, but then it'll debit your MRC back so that you're paying a full MRC but getting prorated minutes. This happens to every single person who ports their number out of ATTWS. Just call us, we'll credit it back to you if you complain loudly enough.
True story: I had a guy who was on some $79.99 plan for 900 minutes IIRC, on his bill he ported out in the middle of the month so he only got 450 minutes for the month, but was still paying the $79.99 for the full month of service, and he had overage charges on the bill, too, for going over his 450 minutes, even though he was well within his 900 minutes. I offered to either credit him half his MRC so that his bill would be for half a month's service with the overage charges, or to credit him the overage charges so that he'd be paying for a full month's service. Since the MRC credit would have been $35 and the overage charges were $77, he obviously decided to pay the for full month's service and get the full month's minutes.
I work for AT&T Wireless as a customer care rep (indirectly, through a contractor)... it doesn't surprise me that we're the #2 most hated cellphone company. I would say that 90% of the calls I get are because somebody, somewhere (usually another rep, but often it's dealers too) did something really stupid.
Recently upgraded from FC1 to FC2, which was a change from gnome 2.4 and kernel 2.4 to gnome 2.6 and kernel 2.6. I've noticed nothing but speed improvements... the system is more responsive and faster to boot.
If it's so irrelevant, why do Security Council members still bother to routinely veto the resolutions that condemn their, and their client states', abuses?
That's hilarious. I'll rephrase it back at you:
"If it's so irrelevant, why are all the resolutions vetoed?"
Maybe it's irrelevant because everything gets vetoed;)
Well, the plugin is restricted to firefox, but since pagerank is now available between this plugin AND the google toolbar, you get to choose between IE and firefox, so no, you are not restricted to a browser anymore.
First, read my other post where I reply to the guy that said the exact same thing that you just did.
Windows is by far the flakiest OS I've ever used. I remember way back in the day I was experimenting with replacing explorer.exe with LiteStep, and once when I was switching back from LS to explorer.exe, I forgot to rename explorer.exe back to the right name, rebooted, and I got this error message saying that my windows installation was corrupted and that I'd have to reinstall windows. Wouldn't give me a command shell or even a popup box to choose a new explorer.exe file or anything like that, just a completely broken and useless install. I ended up booting linux and then renaming explorer.exe from within bash, then booted back into windows and everything was working fine again.
What makes you think that just because windows happens to run perl, that I would want to switch back to that hell?
Yes, I have run perl on Windows, and it is not at all the same thing.
Just because there is a windows port of perl, does that mean I have to give up linux? Why would I give up the stability, flexibility, and more importantly, the freedom just so I can get a crappy version of something I already have?
As I remember it (win95 days), there's no way to just double click on perl scripts and have them run like real applications, you have to drag & drop the perl scripts onto the perl interpreter. Linux has those fancy bang paths that let you just run the scripts like they were executables without any special compiling or anything.
I used to have big trouble with printing, sound, and cd burning back when I was starting with linux (1999), but everything I've done with FC2 has "just worked"... printing, sound card... everything is auto detected, everything just works. And it's not even FC2, every redhat distro since RH8 has been like this, and knoppix is very good, too. I haven't had as much luck with other distros, though.
After my fresh FC2 install, the only thing that I had to configure by hand from the commandline was the firewall (iptables), but that's just because I'm a purist and I don't like the huge, bloated ruleset that ships with fedora, I have my own small, effective set of rules that I prefer to use. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with FC2's default firewall, I just have a hard time trusting a ruleset with so many damn rules in it. The one I use is much simpler and (arguably) more effective. What I'm trying to say is that even though I ended up using the commandline to configure the system, it wasn't something necessary for the system to function. I think Fedora is very close to the point where you can admin the entire system without ever seeing a commandline.
You're right in that linux requires a higher degree of maintenance than windows in some respects... but it's not that simple. I constantly do things with linux that are difficult or nigh-impossible with windows. Working on the commandline and scripting things with perl mostly. When I think about all the scripts I've written to do my work for me, I shudder to think about how much work it would have been to do it all by hand in the windows GUI.
For example, there was a recent article on groklaw where PJ was thanking somebody for writing her a script to automate some HTML sanitizing that she has to do... reading through huge messy HTML files trying to pluck out bad stuff is a huge pain (I was on the web-design club at my jr. high school, and I spent a lot of time cleaning the HTML generated by MS-FrontPage in notepad). Nowadays, writing a perl script to just pull out all the bad stuff is like second nature, it makes me cringe to think of all the time PJ lost because she didn't have that script sooner...
I wouldn't give up linux for the world. It's just too powerful. Every time I use windows, I find it to be frustratingly limited in it's capabilities.
And that's the unfortunate truth. I see reports of a new worm every other week, and it scares the crap out of me. I wouldn't install windows on my own PC if my life depended on it. But, I use windows at work because there's no choice and I enjoy paying my bills (well, more than I would enjoy living on the street anyway).
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Jesus Christ man, do you have any idea of the importance of the HIGH SCORES LIST! Why, if the highscores were to be compromised, there'd be mass panicking! Riots! Chaos!
You should be thankful that suse got that patch out there before an exploit was released!
Only 31 known, unfixed IE vulnerabilities...
It's hard to say for sure, but I suspect Linux might have an edge on MS for security.
Mel, The Programmer
Definitely a worthwhile read.
Reminds me of that John Candy movie (Canadian Bacon? I forget).
"So, how many times were you struck by lightening?"
"s-six... s-s-six... ss-six..."
"Wow, six times, eh? That's impressive!"
"... s-sixty-six t-times..."
PR was sleeping, and yet sleeping.
Sounds like you might enjoy some recreational urban exploration.
Well, did the rep you spoke with on the phone know your wireless number? Available promotions vary from state to state, day to day, and not to mention plan to plan. It's impossible to know all possible promotions without having the wireless number and checking the actual system to see what's available.
;)
It's also possible that dealers have a different system. Us guys in the call centers don't know much about the dealers other than that they are the cause of a lot of problems
Firefox has an RSS-reading extension that loads RSS feeds in a sidebar... you get a two-pane sidebar, top pane lists your feeds and the bottom pane lists the headlines on the selected feed. Is that what you mean?
ATTWS will hate me... ;)
If you port your number away from ATTWS, the LNP system is really weird. It'll prorate your monthly service charge and your monthly minutes, but then it'll debit your MRC back so that you're paying a full MRC but getting prorated minutes. This happens to every single person who ports their number out of ATTWS. Just call us, we'll credit it back to you if you complain loudly enough.
True story: I had a guy who was on some $79.99 plan for 900 minutes IIRC, on his bill he ported out in the middle of the month so he only got 450 minutes for the month, but was still paying the $79.99 for the full month of service, and he had overage charges on the bill, too, for going over his 450 minutes, even though he was well within his 900 minutes. I offered to either credit him half his MRC so that his bill would be for half a month's service with the overage charges, or to credit him the overage charges so that he'd be paying for a full month's service. Since the MRC credit would have been $35 and the overage charges were $77, he obviously decided to pay the for full month's service and get the full month's minutes.
Was it within the 30 day Buyer's Remorse period? We only charge the $175 ETF if you've been under contract for 30 days or longer.
The way I understand it is, GSM is encrypted and TDMA/CDMA is not.
I work for AT&T Wireless as a customer care rep (indirectly, through a contractor)... it doesn't surprise me that we're the #2 most hated cellphone company. I would say that 90% of the calls I get are because somebody, somewhere (usually another rep, but often it's dealers too) did something really stupid.
Recently upgraded from FC1 to FC2, which was a change from gnome 2.4 and kernel 2.4 to gnome 2.6 and kernel 2.6. I've noticed nothing but speed improvements... the system is more responsive and faster to boot.
If it's so irrelevant, why do Security Council members still bother to routinely veto the resolutions that condemn their, and their client states', abuses?
;)
That's hilarious. I'll rephrase it back at you:
"If it's so irrelevant, why are all the resolutions vetoed?"
Maybe it's irrelevant because everything gets vetoed
Well, the plugin is restricted to firefox, but since pagerank is now available between this plugin AND the google toolbar, you get to choose between IE and firefox, so no, you are not restricted to a browser anymore.
I don't know about you, but I'd be too busy playing Duke Nukem Forever to notice the end of the world.
First, read my other post where I reply to the guy that said the exact same thing that you just did.
Windows is by far the flakiest OS I've ever used. I remember way back in the day I was experimenting with replacing explorer.exe with LiteStep, and once when I was switching back from LS to explorer.exe, I forgot to rename explorer.exe back to the right name, rebooted, and I got this error message saying that my windows installation was corrupted and that I'd have to reinstall windows. Wouldn't give me a command shell or even a popup box to choose a new explorer.exe file or anything like that, just a completely broken and useless install. I ended up booting linux and then renaming explorer.exe from within bash, then booted back into windows and everything was working fine again.
What makes you think that just because windows happens to run perl, that I would want to switch back to that hell?
With stories like this, do you really have to ask?
Yes, I have run perl on Windows, and it is not at all the same thing.
Just because there is a windows port of perl, does that mean I have to give up linux? Why would I give up the stability, flexibility, and more importantly, the freedom just so I can get a crappy version of something I already have?
As I remember it (win95 days), there's no way to just double click on perl scripts and have them run like real applications, you have to drag & drop the perl scripts onto the perl interpreter. Linux has those fancy bang paths that let you just run the scripts like they were executables without any special compiling or anything.
I used to have big trouble with printing, sound, and cd burning back when I was starting with linux (1999), but everything I've done with FC2 has "just worked"... printing, sound card... everything is auto detected, everything just works. And it's not even FC2, every redhat distro since RH8 has been like this, and knoppix is very good, too. I haven't had as much luck with other distros, though.
After my fresh FC2 install, the only thing that I had to configure by hand from the commandline was the firewall (iptables), but that's just because I'm a purist and I don't like the huge, bloated ruleset that ships with fedora, I have my own small, effective set of rules that I prefer to use. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with FC2's default firewall, I just have a hard time trusting a ruleset with so many damn rules in it. The one I use is much simpler and (arguably) more effective. What I'm trying to say is that even though I ended up using the commandline to configure the system, it wasn't something necessary for the system to function. I think Fedora is very close to the point where you can admin the entire system without ever seeing a commandline.
You're right in that linux requires a higher degree of maintenance than windows in some respects... but it's not that simple. I constantly do things with linux that are difficult or nigh-impossible with windows. Working on the commandline and scripting things with perl mostly. When I think about all the scripts I've written to do my work for me, I shudder to think about how much work it would have been to do it all by hand in the windows GUI.
For example, there was a recent article on groklaw where PJ was thanking somebody for writing her a script to automate some HTML sanitizing that she has to do... reading through huge messy HTML files trying to pluck out bad stuff is a huge pain (I was on the web-design club at my jr. high school, and I spent a lot of time cleaning the HTML generated by MS-FrontPage in notepad). Nowadays, writing a perl script to just pull out all the bad stuff is like second nature, it makes me cringe to think of all the time PJ lost because she didn't have that script sooner...
I wouldn't give up linux for the world. It's just too powerful. Every time I use windows, I find it to be frustratingly limited in it's capabilities.
And that's the unfortunate truth. I see reports of a new worm every other week, and it scares the crap out of me. I wouldn't install windows on my own PC if my life depended on it. But, I use windows at work because there's no choice and I enjoy paying my bills (well, more than I would enjoy living on the street anyway).
What was wrong with the acronym WPDFUOCFSO?
The "Ath" part of the name ... The "ion" part of it ...
;)
Yeah, now that I think about it, those Athions do have a pretty good name going for them