Go AOL! The key here was not just "unsolicited" but also "deceptive." As if we didn't already know that at LEAST 99.99% of all product offer spams are scams...
Look, I once had a great deal with PheonixDSL for 768/768 SDSL for $38/mo. Then they went out of business. Then I had Megapath 768/768 for $50 then they decided it was no longer worth it. So then I had Telocity SDSL 768/768 for $50. Until their back-end carrier (northpoint) went out of business. Then I had DirectvDSL ADSL 1.5/256 for $50/mo until, just the other day, they went out of business. Now my new $90/mo 1.5/384 speakeasy is on order. Know what? I will GLADLY PAY MORE if it means they can actually sustain the business model and keep the lines lit up. The sad thing is, I would have paid a bit more to ANY of them if they could have put forth a sustainable business model. I say GO SPEAKEASY! Charge what it really costs, make a buck, but STAY IN BUSINESS FOR ME!
I've been through a lot of providers in the last 2 and half years (phoenixdsl sdsl, megapath sdsl, telocity sdsl, and directvdsl most recently, all "ceasing service" for one reason or another), and have just (luckily, and by chance) signed up for speakeasy dsl to replace my directvdsl (sorry speakeasy customers, this may doom them too). So far, speakeasy has been great, even though the service was due to work as of today and does not yet. But overall, even with the bellsouth-provided hardships I had with directvdsl, I have to say their tech support people were by far the best I've ever encountered. A particular one named "Erin" was the best broadband techie individual I've ever experienced. In this day of really really really lousy tech support (bellsouth, bellsouth, bellsouth and bellsouth) they were a shining beacon of hope. Hate to see them go, even though I was about to cancel anyway (speakeasy gives me adsl with 2 static ips and better upload). Good luck to their tech support dept.
Unfortunately, it was long ago (10+ years) back when I subscribed. Too bad they have no online archives I can search, or I'd give a link. The technology isn't really new, and makes a lot of sense, really (think what the compressor/condensor cycle does in traditional cooling, then think sound waves, think sonic booms, etc... lots of similarities there...).
At 40 Billion, we've spent roughly 1/7th the amount Bush has allocated to spend THIS YEAR ALONE on defense.
Reality check... yes, 40 billion is a huge amount, but it's being spent on something CONSTRUCTIVE. How 'bout we shave 40B off our military budget and reinvest it in the space program? Then we WILL have our dual-torus artificial gravity stepping-stone-to-the-stars hotel in space in no time.
I'm in no way anti-military, but there's a reason the budget category is called "defense" and inventing hugely expensive toys to lob at people not in our political favor (who should be just left to rot in their own little happy medieval society for all I care... and strangely, it's because we won't do just that that they claim to attack us... but I digress) just doesn't seem very defensive to me at this time.
But back to the topic... mmmm... space stations...
Pheonix (the bios-maker) give some official support (funding? serverspace? hot meals?) to the Pheonix (the mozilla-based browser) project in an effort to "co-opt the brand recognition" and do BOTH the entities some good? Malice gets us nowhere.
Heheh actually, now that you mention it, I HAVE replaced pico with nano on the machines I most often use that stuff with (webserver, etc). Search/Replace was a godsend.
Well, slow motion... sometimes it's hard to imagine what they could possibly have done to Pine to enhance it over what I used to use on the old Auburn University VAX's so many years ago, but then again I can't think of any other real application that has aged so well. I first used pine MANY years ago, but most recently used it oh... well... last week probably.
But I think the best reason to love Pine has to be... PICO! Yes! Yes! Flame me! I use PICO!!!
Sorry to ask a stupid question... I've been a SuSE user for years now, after having graduated from Slackware (go figure, slack still rules tho).... but... where can I download UnitedLinux? Is my SuSE 8.1 "UnitedLinux" and if so what about the SCO and Turbo and Connectiva downloads? Are they, too? If so, the UL group has done a worthless job of branding and consumer-recognition. If not, then this "1.0" release is useless since it can't be readily downloaded. I pay for my Linux distributions (Yes, I did buy Slackware CDs years ago, and yes, I even had a SuSE "subscription" which mysteriously died a few years ago, and I still purchase every other SuSE pro release) but I certainly wouldn't purchase one I couldn't download/test first.
Am I insane here? (ok bad question) Am I out of line here?
I dunno, but for what it's worth, there's a green plastic $3 chair I got at Target that I keep out on my back deck. It's clean (plus I've cleaned it several times just in case) but for whatever reason, it has ALWAYS got ants running all over it. It's like they're attracted to the plastic or something, and it's really weird. I've always got a few ants on me after I sit in it. It's not like they're trying to set up shop there (it is, after all, a plastic molded chair and there's nowhere to hide)--- it's more like they just like to cruise around on the stuff. Weird.
Month after month, I see here on slashdot postings pointing out some thing or another in Scientific American. Just subscribe to the PRINT EDITION and get the same info weeks in ahead of the "fast electronic web version!" This was on the cover of the print edition that came to my house a month ago!
years ago, in college, i was sitting in my (nasty) car with a bottle of windex, cleaning the inside mirrors and windows. while i was there, i figured i'd try it out on the other plastic parts, too. worked great. so then i spilled some (don't lay those bottles on their side when full... they leak) on the nasty greasy (i worked in restaurants) disgusting formerly-blue floor. know what? it CAME CLEAN! i then proceeded to clean the entire floor of the car with windex. amazing. worked like a champ. so yeah, i think it can handle a little LCD screen...
spinrite! ahh what fond memories I have of letting old seaget st-251 mfm drives rumble away for days straight trying to recover data from university professor partitions scrambled by the likes of stealth_c and form....
Did you read the email? Sorry, I guess this would certainly qualify as a "company I don't want to do business with" but they plainly state that they are Comodo, and offer a supposedly better service/deal than you're getting now, etc. Shady, maybe, but you'd have to be a complete idiot (and hence maybe not the best network admin) to be fooled for even a second. It plainly states the company name "Comodo" many times. "Upgrade to Comodo's product" implies, to me, switching vendors.
Given that it's obviously a sales email from a company with whom i do not do business, I would file it immediately in the spam bin, no further thought required. But I see no fraud.
Beginning the day we all watched Office Space on the bad-ass hi-res LCD projector in the conference room (driven off a DVD player in an IBM laptop) my boss comes around and goes "mmmm... yeah,...."
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PS: Your *current* website works fine: it meets the goals that really matter: it lets you get information quickly and easily. It appears to be lynx comapatable - so blind people can use it, I imagine.
Lol, sorry and hope I don't offend anyone, but that PS amused me. How many blind people actually pursue careers as pilots? But I see your point, Lynx compatibility (along with all the rest) IS important. My amateurish gamer site even works fine in lynx!
I have the intellimouse optical... it's the smaller, less expensive microsoft optical mouse and, in my opinion, far and away the best they offer. You can get the huge grey intellimouse explorer, but I never liked the button layout, it was just TOO big (what's this fad with huge mice that you have to palm to even use?) and... well.. it died after a particularly minor amount of frustration-fed abuse.
I keep my windows pc around because I'm a rabid CS maniac and simply must have dedicated gaming hardware, and have considered changing both to that dual-optical logi AND the razer boomslang, if it will work better than my ms mouse. The only problems I have with optical (and experienced this will all ms opticals I've owned) are that sometimes I have to wiggle the mouse a bit before it "wakes up" and starts tracking properly (they light gets brighter when this happens), and I have serious problems making fast turns in my game. Basically if I jerk the mouse too fast in trying to do a 90 degree left turn to shoot some villain coming from that direction, all that really ends up happening is my character twitches and moves about 10 degrees to the right. Needless to say, I then die. Very frustrating. I've also had situations where my character suddenly is looking straight up. That's very disorienting. A friend had one that would suddenly look left. Odd.
Anyway, if there's a mouse that eliminates those problems, is optical (can't go back, I don't think, purely for the don't-have-to-clean-it benefits), and has 5 buttons that work as well as the ms intellimouse optical's, then I'll switch.
By that I mean, whenever you try to force one tool to do all things, you invariably find it coming up short in almost all areas as compared to a collection of specialty tools.
That's what the UNIX approach is all about, little tools that WORK combined intelligently by an intelligent operator to do amazing things. I think tv + tivo + dvd player + cd player + a/v receiver will always seem to work better than a computer which has been taught all of the above tricks. That's because compromises must be made in any product, and as functions are added to products, invariably so are compromises.
Now, when I can do something like "xawtv -ch 122 | pvr --buffer | grep startrek | mkisofs -" then maybe it'll work!
Yes, phone costs are split 50-50... but No, internet costs are not! You pay your ISP how much per month for that cable modem? Do you think AT&T cable should be paying for half of it? What makes you think that is right? What if I open an ISP here in the States... a big one, as big as AOL, let's say. Now, when my users send email to AOL, who's paying for the bandwidth? Well, I pay while it's on my network, they pay when it's on theirs. Not their fault that my network may tend to end at the limits of my most distant customer, yet theirs may reach halfway across the country to meet me...
Ok, all I'm saying is, all this "abuse of Africa" aside (which may or may not have historically been the case with their interations with the Europeans et al... that's not the point I'm here to comment on) this IS NORMAL. WHY SHOULD I PAY THE COST OF RUNNING CABLE to where THEY WANT IT? Yeah, we had a big strong government pay for it for us, and they have no such luck. Sorry, but there ARE BENEFITS to having a rich powerful government. It does not make it unfair or wrong.
Two channel scsi? I assume here you mean 2 channel SCSI-1. All "modern" wider scsi implementations will give you room for 15 devices. Of course, there's always relics like my old three narrow-channel adaptec (21 device total) which was sold to me BRAND new very cheaply some years ago because it was "only supported under novell." Heh. Novell and Linux, suckers...
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They simply MUST be stopped before it's too late!
Go AOL! The key here was not just "unsolicited" but also "deceptive." As if we didn't already know that at LEAST 99.99% of all product offer spams are scams...
Look, I once had a great deal with PheonixDSL for 768/768 SDSL for $38/mo. Then they went out of business. Then I had Megapath 768/768 for $50 then they decided it was no longer worth it. So then I had Telocity SDSL 768/768 for $50. Until their back-end carrier (northpoint) went out of business. Then I had DirectvDSL ADSL 1.5/256 for $50/mo until, just the other day, they went out of business. Now my new $90/mo 1.5/384 speakeasy is on order. Know what? I will GLADLY PAY MORE if it means they can actually sustain the business model and keep the lines lit up. The sad thing is, I would have paid a bit more to ANY of them if they could have put forth a sustainable business model. I say GO SPEAKEASY! Charge what it really costs, make a buck, but STAY IN BUSINESS FOR ME!
I've been through a lot of providers in the last 2 and half years (phoenixdsl sdsl, megapath sdsl, telocity sdsl, and directvdsl most recently, all "ceasing service" for one reason or another), and have just (luckily, and by chance) signed up for speakeasy dsl to replace my directvdsl (sorry speakeasy customers, this may doom them too). So far, speakeasy has been great, even though the service was due to work as of today and does not yet. But overall, even with the bellsouth-provided hardships I had with directvdsl, I have to say their tech support people were by far the best I've ever encountered. A particular one named "Erin" was the best broadband techie individual I've ever experienced. In this day of really really really lousy tech support (bellsouth, bellsouth, bellsouth and bellsouth) they were a shining beacon of hope. Hate to see them go, even though I was about to cancel anyway (speakeasy gives me adsl with 2 static ips and better upload). Good luck to their tech support dept.
Unfortunately, it was long ago (10+ years) back when I subscribed. Too bad they have no online archives I can search, or I'd give a link. The technology isn't really new, and makes a lot of sense, really (think what the compressor/condensor cycle does in traditional cooling, then think sound waves, think sonic booms, etc... lots of similarities there...).
All in all, neat stuff, though.
Reality check... yes, 40 billion is a huge amount, but it's being spent on something CONSTRUCTIVE. How 'bout we shave 40B off our military budget and reinvest it in the space program? Then we WILL have our dual-torus artificial gravity stepping-stone-to-the-stars hotel in space in no time.
I'm in no way anti-military, but there's a reason the budget category is called "defense" and inventing hugely expensive toys to lob at people not in our political favor (who should be just left to rot in their own little happy medieval society for all I care... and strangely, it's because we won't do just that that they claim to attack us... but I digress) just doesn't seem very defensive to me at this time.
But back to the topic... mmmm... space stations...
Pheonix (the bios-maker) give some official support (funding? serverspace? hot meals?) to the Pheonix (the mozilla-based browser) project in an effort to "co-opt the brand recognition" and do BOTH the entities some good? Malice gets us nowhere.
Heheh actually, now that you mention it, I HAVE replaced pico with nano on the machines I most often use that stuff with (webserver, etc). Search/Replace was a godsend.
But I think the best reason to love Pine has to be... PICO! Yes! Yes! Flame me! I use PICO!!!
Sorry to ask a stupid question... I've been a SuSE user for years now, after having graduated from Slackware (go figure, slack still rules tho).... but... where can I download UnitedLinux? Is my SuSE 8.1 "UnitedLinux" and if so what about the SCO and Turbo and Connectiva downloads? Are they, too? If so, the UL group has done a worthless job of branding and consumer-recognition. If not, then this "1.0" release is useless since it can't be readily downloaded. I pay for my Linux distributions (Yes, I did buy Slackware CDs years ago, and yes, I even had a SuSE "subscription" which mysteriously died a few years ago, and I still purchase every other SuSE pro release) but I certainly wouldn't purchase one I couldn't download/test first.
Am I insane here? (ok bad question) Am I out of line here?
cool! edible furniture! (if you're an ant)
I dunno, but for what it's worth, there's a green plastic $3 chair I got at Target that I keep out on my back deck. It's clean (plus I've cleaned it several times just in case) but for whatever reason, it has ALWAYS got ants running all over it. It's like they're attracted to the plastic or something, and it's really weird. I've always got a few ants on me after I sit in it. It's not like they're trying to set up shop there (it is, after all, a plastic molded chair and there's nowhere to hide)--- it's more like they just like to cruise around on the stuff. Weird.
Month after month, I see here on slashdot postings pointing out some thing or another in Scientific American. Just subscribe to the PRINT EDITION and get the same info weeks in ahead of the "fast electronic web version!" This was on the cover of the print edition that came to my house a month ago!
years ago, in college, i was sitting in my (nasty) car with a bottle of windex, cleaning the inside mirrors and windows. while i was there, i figured i'd try it out on the other plastic parts, too. worked great. so then i spilled some (don't lay those bottles on their side when full... they leak) on the nasty greasy (i worked in restaurants) disgusting formerly-blue floor. know what? it CAME CLEAN! i then proceeded to clean the entire floor of the car with windex. amazing. worked like a champ. so yeah, i think it can handle a little LCD screen...
spinrite! ahh what fond memories I have of letting old seaget st-251 mfm drives rumble away for days straight trying to recover data from university professor partitions scrambled by the likes of stealth_c and form....
the latest print issue of Linux Journal has an article on Bayonne...
wha? you don't subscribe? tsk...
...and it's written in Java, so you can get used to one nice graphical editor for all your java-capable os's.
http://www.jedit.org/
Did you read the email? Sorry, I guess this would certainly qualify as a "company I don't want to do business with" but they plainly state that they are Comodo, and offer a supposedly better service/deal than you're getting now, etc. Shady, maybe, but you'd have to be a complete idiot (and hence maybe not the best network admin) to be fooled for even a second. It plainly states the company name "Comodo" many times. "Upgrade to Comodo's product" implies, to me, switching vendors.
Given that it's obviously a sales email from a company with whom i do not do business, I would file it immediately in the spam bin, no further thought required. But I see no fraud.
Beginning the day we all watched Office Space on the bad-ass hi-res LCD projector in the conference room (driven off a DVD player in an IBM laptop) my boss comes around and goes "mmmm... yeah, ...."
Lol, sorry and hope I don't offend anyone, but that PS amused me. How many blind people actually pursue careers as pilots? But I see your point, Lynx compatibility (along with all the rest) IS important. My amateurish gamer site even works fine in lynx!
I have the AT we're soon going to block it so HAHA you HAVE to pay now!"
Let me rate them, 1-100:
Quality of service: 95
Tech Support (rarely needed, tho): 20
Respect Earned: 0
I have the intellimouse optical... it's the smaller, less expensive microsoft optical mouse and, in my opinion, far and away the best they offer. You can get the huge grey intellimouse explorer, but I never liked the button layout, it was just TOO big (what's this fad with huge mice that you have to palm to even use?) and... well.. it died after a particularly minor amount of frustration-fed abuse.
I keep my windows pc around because I'm a rabid CS maniac and simply must have dedicated gaming hardware, and have considered changing both to that dual-optical logi AND the razer boomslang, if it will work better than my ms mouse. The only problems I have with optical (and experienced this will all ms opticals I've owned) are that sometimes I have to wiggle the mouse a bit before it "wakes up" and starts tracking properly (they light gets brighter when this happens), and I have serious problems making fast turns in my game. Basically if I jerk the mouse too fast in trying to do a 90 degree left turn to shoot some villain coming from that direction, all that really ends up happening is my character twitches and moves about 10 degrees to the right. Needless to say, I then die. Very frustrating. I've also had situations where my character suddenly is looking straight up. That's very disorienting. A friend had one that would suddenly look left. Odd.
Anyway, if there's a mouse that eliminates those problems, is optical (can't go back, I don't think, purely for the don't-have-to-clean-it benefits), and has 5 buttons that work as well as the ms intellimouse optical's, then I'll switch.
By that I mean, whenever you try to force one tool to do all things, you invariably find it coming up short in almost all areas as compared to a collection of specialty tools.
That's what the UNIX approach is all about, little tools that WORK combined intelligently by an intelligent operator to do amazing things. I think tv + tivo + dvd player + cd player + a/v receiver will always seem to work better than a computer which has been taught all of the above tricks. That's because compromises must be made in any product, and as functions are added to products, invariably so are compromises.
Now, when I can do something like "xawtv -ch 122 | pvr --buffer | grep startrek | mkisofs -" then maybe it'll work!
Yes, phone costs are split 50-50... but No, internet costs are not! You pay your ISP how much per month for that cable modem? Do you think AT&T cable should be paying for half of it? What makes you think that is right? What if I open an ISP here in the States... a big one, as big as AOL, let's say. Now, when my users send email to AOL, who's paying for the bandwidth? Well, I pay while it's on my network, they pay when it's on theirs. Not their fault that my network may tend to end at the limits of my most distant customer, yet theirs may reach halfway across the country to meet me...
Ok, all I'm saying is, all this "abuse of Africa" aside (which may or may not have historically been the case with their interations with the Europeans et al... that's not the point I'm here to comment on) this IS NORMAL. WHY SHOULD I PAY THE COST OF RUNNING CABLE to where THEY WANT IT? Yeah, we had a big strong government pay for it for us, and they have no such luck. Sorry, but there ARE BENEFITS to having a rich powerful government. It does not make it unfair or wrong.
Two channel scsi? I assume here you mean 2 channel SCSI-1. All "modern" wider scsi implementations will give you room for 15 devices. Of course, there's always relics like my old three narrow-channel adaptec (21 device total) which was sold to me BRAND new very cheaply some years ago because it was "only supported under novell." Heh. Novell and Linux, suckers...