As many have pointed out, standard Unix backup tools aren't good on OSX.
Surprisingly, many OSX backup tools aren't either. There's an extensive comparison of many different backup programs for OSX and it has lists of exactly what the programs will backup/restore and whether or not those things tend to be important.
What I meant by 7-7 is that you have unlimited minutes between 7PM and 7AM Mon-Fri and Sat and Sun, i.e. that you only have limited minutes while roaming or weekdays between 7AM and 7PM. If I assume you meant 6-9 in the same way (unlimited starts ad 6pm, ends ad 6am), then T-Mobile gives you strictly more minutes and strictly more unlimited time than Sprint, which I'm perfectly willing to believe: they were the cheapest carrier when I evaluated them.
You haven't addressed customer service (both friendliness and ability to actually fix things), billing glitches, and service area (GP *knows* Sprint will work strictly better than VM in his area, T-Mobile is less certain). This isn't a challenge to address them, BTW: I'm just trying to mention things that GP should consider. He should evaluate them himself for T-Mobile and for Sprint. I something as picky as cell phones and contracts, I sure as hell wouldn't want to take some Slashdot poster's word for anything:-)
On the contrary, the "no apostrophes for plurals" rule goes on vacation precisely because it/is/ a single letter. See the American Heritage Dictionary:
"The superscript sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations." ("apostrophe" 1 n.)
The usage is also supported by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Whether or not you agree that it should be used is another matter entirely.
That's ironic; I find the mplayerosx interface much nicer (though I, as someone who prefers keyboard commands, certainly am not a typical user) and that it tends [1] to support more filetypes and codecs than VLC does.
What the original submitter should do is write a letter (certified mail) to Verizon notifying them of the problem. He should pay the correct amount for his bill, including a letter with the payment noting the error, and certify that too. Meanwhile, investigate the laws of his states. He could probably sue for false advertising and/or fraud, and there may be nice juicy statutory damages available.
You're wrong. The water will freeze and expand whether or not the water is shut off. Having it expand with the water shut off is a lot better than having it expand with the water on. I speak from experience.
That's not true; draining pipes isn't a requirement for shutting them off. Shutting them off decreases the damage possible, and draining them decreases it further (though having the pipes without water can cause other problems which makes draining them a doubly-edged sword.)
I've lived in a house where pipes burst when the water was turned on. As was the heat. Trust me: turning water off is a lot better than nothing, and a lot of the damage was because water wouldn't stop flowing (read: you don't get multiple feet of buildup in your basement from just stuff left in pipes.) We were lucky, too: our cleaner visited our house less than a day after the break.
Sprint has a plan for $40 which has 450 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 7-7. They'll give you a pretty nice phone (for free) if you sign up for 2 years, and their customer service is miles better than Virgin Mobile's. There was an initial glitch with my account [1], and getting it fixed wasn't actually unpleasant. You'll probably get better coverage, too, since Sprint phones can roam and most Virgin phones can't.
They also bill calls correctly; Virgin doesn't. Try making a call to your cell, letting it ring for a while, and then answering. Talk for close to a minute (e.g. 58 seconds), as measured by your phone, and you'll get billed for two minutes, contrary to the terms. Virgin usually credits you (depends on which call center you get connected to). I had a few other problems with Virgin too.
No, I don't work for Sprint.:-)
That said, however, I recommend Spring because they're actually cheaper for you (as was the case with me.) I know many people who have used VM without problems (though they've probably gotten charged a bit too much), and I do recommend it to people who talk very infrequently. ($5 extra might be worth it for better customer service, but if the difference is more than that...)
Ultimately, (to the original submitter), you need to figure out how much you talk, and figure out what the cheapest few carriers will be for you. There's no substitute for original research (because you know what you need better than we do, and because you'll need to check whatever we suggest anyway). You/should/ use these comments for finding out more info (coverage, policies, gotchas or tricks,...) about your top few providers (or about tricks which may make other providers less expensive) and making your final decision.
___ [1] A family member and I wanted to switch from Virgin to Sprint onto a family plan. She wanted a cheap (i.e. free) phone from Sprint, but I ordered a Treo from Amazon. Sprint ships the phones activated, so Sprint had to activate my Treo, change her phone to a family plan with mine, and then port both numbers to the two phones. Unfortunately, Virgin denied the first attempt at the port, and so Sprint re-created it noting our VKeys, but then the numbers ended up on the wrong phone. Sprint just had us switch the phones' programming info and switched the two lines in their system, but a free trial of Spring Vision that I'd activated didn't get moved, so I got mis-billed for around $100 of data usage. (I didn't have to pay it, of course. Spring gives you a few weeks to pay bills, and it only took a few minutes to call and get them to credit it.)
Hint: it's exactly the same thing that happens to your accounts identified by your email address when your email provider goes belly-up / switches domains / etc... .
Keep in mind that you may just have had bad luck. I bought a Juice, and both my AC input and DC output cords broke (at different times.) I don't, however, treat my eq particularly delicately, and iGo replaced both for free (including shipping) in what were the easiest warranty exchanges I've experienced.
Yeah, except that OSX support is crap. Initialization is ugly and confuses users, and it creates a file on your Desktop once per click-from-Web (in at least Safari).
Dell has an agreement with Microsoft in order to distribute Windows, and this vendor doesn't have an agreement with $copyright_owner to distribute the movies?
No, the photographer bases his time based on how much his time is worth, because you're actually paying him for time. It's only when you pay him for something other than time (e.g. per copy) that the relationship between time and that thing (i.e. the expected number of copies) becomes important.
Furthermore, even if photographers did want to price their time based on how many copies would likely exist of their photos, a smart photographer would do it based on the average number of expected copies, not the maximum.
Some people don't want their Ethernet adaptors to be bound to specific mac addresses. I, for one, would much rather control their order in other manners (module loading order) for computers with more than one NIC.
For computers with fewer than two NIC, binding NICs to Mac addresses is always a loss; it adds confusion and pain when a NIC is replaced with no benefit.... and most Ubuntu users probably have a single NIC.
The problem (according to the story) isn't with the GIS homepage or the results page, it's when you click on one of the thumbnails. So your experiences, as posted, do not, in fact, contradict the story. So, maybe you should try verifying it again.
And speaking of verification, kdawson supposedly did reproduce the behavior, and the story (if you read it carefully) never asserts that this happens to everyone, just to the author and kdawson. Note especially the question mark in the title?
Logan is still comparatively insecure. I keep a pair of scissors in my backpack as a matter of habit, and more than once I've left Boston with those scissors in my carry-on and only realized that I took them with me when they got confiscated on my return trip.
Though if the militia wanted to effectively take down the government, they'd need to storm military facilities, and those are (literally and figuratively) the military's turf...
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As many have pointed out, standard Unix backup tools aren't good on OSX.
Surprisingly, many OSX backup tools aren't either. There's an extensive comparison of many different backup programs for OSX and it has lists of exactly what the programs will backup/restore and whether or not those things tend to be important.
RAID is not a substitute for backups.
What I meant by 7-7 is that you have unlimited minutes between 7PM and 7AM Mon-Fri and Sat and Sun, i.e. that you only have limited minutes while roaming or weekdays between 7AM and 7PM. If I assume you meant 6-9 in the same way (unlimited starts ad 6pm, ends ad 6am), then T-Mobile gives you strictly more minutes and strictly more unlimited time than Sprint, which I'm perfectly willing to believe: they were the cheapest carrier when I evaluated them.
:-)
You haven't addressed customer service (both friendliness and ability to actually fix things), billing glitches, and service area (GP *knows* Sprint will work strictly better than VM in his area, T-Mobile is less certain). This isn't a challenge to address them, BTW: I'm just trying to mention things that GP should consider. He should evaluate them himself for T-Mobile and for Sprint. I something as picky as cell phones and contracts, I sure as hell wouldn't want to take some Slashdot poster's word for anything
Certainly is among prepaid carriers, which is what I was comparing Sprint to.
Whether or not you agree that it should be used is another matter entirely.
(Please forgive my grammar zealotry.)
That's ironic; I find the mplayerosx interface much nicer (though I, as someone who prefers keyboard commands, certainly am not a typical user) and that it tends [1] to support more filetypes and codecs than VLC does.
[1] with exceptions, of course
What the original submitter should do is write a letter (certified mail) to Verizon notifying them of the problem. He should pay the correct amount for his bill, including a letter with the payment noting the error, and certify that too. Meanwhile, investigate the laws of his states. He could probably sue for false advertising and/or fraud, and there may be nice juicy statutory damages available.
What about their frequently offered "one bill" services? Clearly their billing departments overlap at least a bit...
You're wrong. The water will freeze and expand whether or not the water is shut off. Having it expand with the water shut off is a lot better than having it expand with the water on. I speak from experience.
That's not true; draining pipes isn't a requirement for shutting them off. Shutting them off decreases the damage possible, and draining them decreases it further (though having the pipes without water can cause other problems which makes draining them a doubly-edged sword.)
I've lived in a house where pipes burst when the water was turned on. As was the heat. Trust me: turning water off is a lot better than nothing, and a lot of the damage was because water wouldn't stop flowing (read: you don't get multiple feet of buildup in your basement from just stuff left in pipes.) We were lucky, too: our cleaner visited our house less than a day after the break.
One might also mention that the plural of the 15th letter is spelled "O's". (Note the apostrophe.) :-P
Sprint has a plan for $40 which has 450 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 7-7. They'll give you a pretty nice phone (for free) if you sign up for 2 years, and their customer service is miles better than Virgin Mobile's. There was an initial glitch with my account [1], and getting it fixed wasn't actually unpleasant. You'll probably get better coverage, too, since Sprint phones can roam and most Virgin phones can't.
:-)
/should/ use these comments for finding out more info (coverage, policies, gotchas or tricks, ...) about your top few providers (or about tricks which may make other providers less expensive) and making your final decision.
They also bill calls correctly; Virgin doesn't. Try making a call to your cell, letting it ring for a while, and then answering. Talk for close to a minute (e.g. 58 seconds), as measured by your phone, and you'll get billed for two minutes, contrary to the terms. Virgin usually credits you (depends on which call center you get connected to). I had a few other problems with Virgin too.
No, I don't work for Sprint.
That said, however, I recommend Spring because they're actually cheaper for you (as was the case with me.) I know many people who have used VM without problems (though they've probably gotten charged a bit too much), and I do recommend it to people who talk very infrequently. ($5 extra might be worth it for better customer service, but if the difference is more than that...)
Ultimately, (to the original submitter), you need to figure out how much you talk, and figure out what the cheapest few carriers will be for you. There's no substitute for original research (because you know what you need better than we do, and because you'll need to check whatever we suggest anyway). You
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[1] A family member and I wanted to switch from Virgin to Sprint onto a family plan. She wanted a cheap (i.e. free) phone from Sprint, but I ordered a Treo from Amazon. Sprint ships the phones activated, so Sprint had to activate my Treo, change her phone to a family plan with mine, and then port both numbers to the two phones. Unfortunately, Virgin denied the first attempt at the port, and so Sprint re-created it noting our VKeys, but then the numbers ended up on the wrong phone. Sprint just had us switch the phones' programming info and switched the two lines in their system, but a free trial of Spring Vision that I'd activated didn't get moved, so I got mis-billed for around $100 of data usage. (I didn't have to pay it, of course. Spring gives you a few weeks to pay bills, and it only took a few minutes to call and get them to credit it.)
Hint: it's exactly the same thing that happens to your accounts identified by your email address when your email provider goes belly-up / switches domains / etc... .
:-)
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Keep in mind that you may just have had bad luck. I bought a Juice, and both my AC input and DC output cords broke (at different times.) I don't, however, treat my eq particularly delicately, and iGo replaced both for free (including shipping) in what were the easiest warranty exchanges I've experienced.
Yeah, except that OSX support is crap. Initialization is ugly and confuses users, and it creates a file on your Desktop once per click-from-Web (in at least Safari).
Dell has an agreement with Microsoft in order to distribute Windows, and this vendor doesn't have an agreement with $copyright_owner to distribute the movies?
Of course, you could do that with emulation solutions (vmware, VPC, ...) too.
No, the photographer bases his time based on how much his time is worth, because you're actually paying him for time. It's only when you pay him for something other than time (e.g. per copy) that the relationship between time and that thing (i.e. the expected number of copies) becomes important.
Furthermore, even if photographers did want to price their time based on how many copies would likely exist of their photos, a smart photographer would do it based on the average number of expected copies, not the maximum.
We hold it up not necessarily as a good company, but as a better company. Maybe even, if you talk to the most fanatical of us, the best company.
Some people don't want their Ethernet adaptors to be bound to specific mac addresses. I, for one, would much rather control their order in other manners (module loading order) for computers with more than one NIC.
... and most Ubuntu users probably have a single NIC.
For computers with fewer than two NIC, binding NICs to Mac addresses is always a loss; it adds confusion and pain when a NIC is replaced with no benefit.
The problem (according to the story) isn't with the GIS homepage or the results page, it's when you click on one of the thumbnails. So your experiences, as posted, do not, in fact, contradict the story. So, maybe you should try verifying it again.
And speaking of verification, kdawson supposedly did reproduce the behavior, and the story (if you read it carefully) never asserts that this happens to everyone, just to the author and kdawson. Note especially the question mark in the title?
Logan is still comparatively insecure. I keep a pair of scissors in my backpack as a matter of habit, and more than once I've left Boston with those scissors in my carry-on and only realized that I took them with me when they got confiscated on my return trip.
(The first time, they were even safety-scisors.)
Though if the militia wanted to effectively take down the government, they'd need to storm military facilities, and those are (literally and figuratively) the military's turf...
Oh, God. Scary....
I hope you're not voting for him, then. I'm in his district, and I won't be either.