I don't know that it was snooped for in the instance of the boy scout troupe leader.
But I do know something from my 5 years as a LAN Admin/desktop monkey for a company that had 75 employees that went up to 450 by the time I left.
If a desktop or laptop came back from a male employee for service (usually sales, marketing and customer service), and you did a search for *.jpg or *.gif, you'd find all sorts of interesting but legal porn nested deep within directories with ambiguous names.
Their recently accessed files list didn't have gfx files in them and were usually kept clean.
Checking and clearing the history of IE's temporary internet files doesn't involve browsing that directory and if it did, I wouldn't set it to thumbnail view because of the vast amount of data in there. Filenames are also quite ambiguous.
As I mentioned above, it took doing a search for *.jpg and *.gif files to turn up such data while I worked for a private company.
I think I can generalize and say that every male computer user surfs for porn and has a collection of favourite stuff in place of the playboys under the bed of yesteryear...
I also believe that most and especially the ones doing the illegal shit are going to be carefull about hiding pics deep within subdirectories.
The only way a computer repair shop or a tech can find it is to actually search for it. And that in my mind constitutes snooping.
But the gist was that a boy scout leader took his PC into a local computer repair shop. The shop somehow found kiddie porn on the machine and reported it to police.
I'm not into child porn but I'm also uncomfortable with what the notion that the repair shop had to go snooping to find the child porn.
If a gangster left a dead body in the back seat of a car when they left it at the dealership for an oil change and the mechanic found it and reported it to the police, fine. If the customer leaves stuff on the computer desktop, that's open game too.
But customers should have the security of knowing that the repair guy isn't going to snoop through their data.
But the bottom of the pot always burns. Anyone know?
Okay... cooking advice on/.... I never thought.
Advice, get a heavy gauge pot. Too thin and it transmits too much heat. Easy burn and doesn't keep the heat in for a slow gradual cooking.
A cheap cast iron pot, Lagostina, Paderno Kitchenaid or pay through the nose All Clad.
Once you've got that down, go with roughly a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice. I believe food geek Alton Brown http://www.altonbrown.com has specific ratios once you get beyond a certain amount of rice.
Medium heat (4 to 6 out of 10) on the dial. Wait about 10 minutes and take a peek. The water level should be just at or below the rice line. If not, wait a few more minutes and check.
Once there, turn the heat down to just above simmer. min, 2 or 3. (All this depends on your stove). Let it sit for a good 20 minutes or more. Your rice should be perfect and that burnt thing on the bottom won't be there.(though I consider it a delicacy).
Life in a metricized country.... (Canada to be specific) and with someone born in the 70s and grew up metric.
Distances when travelling are measured in metres and kilometres.
Distances when you're moving something around requiring some precision (like hanging a picture) are done in feet, centimetres and in rare very precise instance, millimetres.
You go to the convenience store to buy a 350 mil (ml), 750, 1 or 2 litre pop (as in fizzy sugary drink... soda being simply carbonated water). Likewise, milk comes in millilitres or litres.
You go to a bar or pub and still order a pint or a half pint of beer. Wine is served in a metric decanter but on menus, it's done by the oz.
Overall, I'd guess it's part tradition and whatever unit of measurement you can get away with using the smallest number infront of it.
I always thought it should start with a flashing blue light, a view of the main screen showing a klingon ship firing, and then cut to the captain who says "Oh boy!"
Peter Davison had great stories. Seemingly less sci-fi but more drama.
Colin Baker and the technicolour dream coat had flakey scripts. Actually, he was too much of a flake altogether.
Sly McCoy was a crazy artsy hippy in Vision On but got way too dark and all knowing as the Doctor. His assistant Mel was an irritating Bernadette Peters wannabe. Later, if I were Ace, I would've kicked his ass out of the Tardis.
Would've been interesting to see Paul McGann develop. Minus all those bits about being half human of course.
Corporate masters who have no competency in the field of understanding the product which their company produces is typical.
Disney sees lucrative results in all their 3D films so far and not much in their 2D so the coporate decision is to dump 2D.
If they got beyond the numbers and looked at the content produced and actually stuck their heads up and looked at ALL their competitors, they'd find a few more interesting things.
The one that comes to mind is that the Japanese animation studios have produced legions of fans among children all using 2D animation.
Most of the Saturday morning lineup is all done in 2D. Merchandising lineups spawned from those are bountifull and I'd guess that unlike Disney's overpriced offerings, they make up for in sheer quantity sold. Every Christmas for nearly the last 5 years, what are the hottest toys?
I've been pondering just who Disney is for these days. Aging boomers and other adults? I think a child would get more out of a trip to Japan and seeign the likes of Yu Gi Oh, Pokeman, Sailor Moon and etc more than seeing mutant mice, ducks and whatever that dog thing is.
Disney's time was. Now they are fading into the past with new studios and ideas to take its place.
Something that bugs the crap out of me is the cell phone companies in Canada don't reward you for being a long time customer. I assume it's the same state side.
Sign up for a 1 or 2 year plan, get a free phone. Once that 1 or 2 years are up, they only offer you either 3 months unlimited calling or a $75 CAD credit towards a new phone at practically full rate.
If you didn't care and cancelled your service, you could go ahead and get that new phone with a new number.
But it's annoying as hell to get someone else's old number and all their calls to you for the next six months.
My contract came up and I love my Nokia 6160. Only complaint is the battery life is shorte. I asked if they could give me the $75 credit towards a new battery, they told me no. Only a new phone would work.
Needless to say, I went with the upgrade to a 6360 to maintain compatability with most of my accessories.
When Rogers was selling the Amigo phone as the entry level consumer phone and before.
You had to buy a General Radio Station License at a cost of $45/year on signup as well as filling out some sort of form that went to the CRTC or whatever our version of the FCC is.
It used to be the same license you had to buy when you bought a radio set for your RC airplane.
But then they removed RC sets from requiring a GRS license in the mid 90s and around then, the cell providers started charging about $4/month for the license fee rather than a $50 fee on the anniversary date.
It's like complaining that the levels of sex in porn movies are harming our children. The populous needs to understand that there are more adult gamers than kids. I don't think there is anything wrong with providing games with more 'adult' content, since we make up a huge part of the market.
I or any kid can walk into a Best Buy, Electronics Boutique or Radio Shack and buy GTA3.
Adult video stores have windows that are painted over and signs on the door that block minors from entering.
Even the lowly convenience store places its skin mags up on the highest rack away from hands and eyes of youngsters.
Then you've got gaming mags and TV commercials that advertise such games on Saturday mornings.
The game may not have been designed for kids, but it's being marketed and given full access to them.
This is going to be an off topic rant here... and one that probably doesn't make much sense to those that don't understand the Canadian post secondary system.
I once ranted at how the IT field is no longer the domain of us geeks and nerds and is becoming the replacement for the blue collar jobs.
Every freaking kid who's not sales and marketing oriented that might be technically inclined or not wants to go after the big money of the 90s in IT.
Today's rant....
In Canada (and likely elsewhere), universities were once places of higher learning that broadened the mind in many disciplines to produce a worldly thinker. Colleges were places that teach a particular skill.
I get the impression stateside that the difference is best approximated between state colleges and ivy league colleges.
Back here, universities cost an arm and a leg to go to while colleges are far less expensive.
So what happened that universities sold their souls to become automaton monkey incubators for this latest incarnation of Henry Ford's assembly line (IT/CS)?
From following a few old high school buddies, it would appear that the ones who went to university took on giant debt loads. They became Dilberts. The college grads ended up doing alot of hands-on work which has taken them to interesting places with far more fullfilling lives.
For the original poster, if computers and programming is your passion, don't put your eggs in the university basket.
Go look for problems in the world and solve them. I'd bet the majority of the contributors to many of the OS projects aren't IT grads! The world will find you as you make a name for yourself.
The beauty of the capitalist system is, of course, that if you don't like something you can opt not to purchase it, and let the market work out what is and is not acceptable rather than a handful of fringe groups with political agendas. Nowhere in any town, state or national ordinances that I'm aware of is it enumerated that one is legally required to purchase and play this game.
Maybe a slippery slide of logic here but here goes...
GTA Vice city is a consumer product meant to entertain and part money from one's wallet and over to Rockstar entertainment.
GTA has the side effect of raising the ire of visible minority groups, groups of people who are concerned about the moral fabric of society and what children are exposed to.
Such groups believe there is a moral cost that we pay for the acceptance of such games and that they should be banned. It is contested by their opponents as an individual responsibility to manage it.
First ammendment advocates, geekdom and others cite the opposition of those groups as something that amounts to communist bastards.
On another coin....
Penis pumps, sex toys, porn and other stuff that gets peddaled through e-mail are consumer products meant to entertain and part money from one's wallet and over to the creators and distributors of such products.
Spam for this and other products has raised the ire of many geeks, IT managers and probably the same people who are against the banning of GTA.
The above mentioned believe there is a time and money cost associated with the transmission and dealing with unsolicited commercial emails for those products. The spammers cite free speach and the pursuit of the American dream in their defence....
C'mon people, this ain't Burger King. We can't have it any way and our way....
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>>I'm surprised Slashdot readers don't
>> support tech voting solutions.
The fresh faced college kids are all ra-ra for technology ("Technology for all! Arn't computers great? We'll change the world!") while us old hands are simply looking at yet another project that is surely going to fail in oh-so-many predictable ways.
It only takes a handfull number of years for half to get wise about technology's merits and look for more usefull solutions.
The other half are happy to keep on running in the hamster that goes nowhere but get fat paycheques out of it.
It's digital vs. analog - even if you have people marking a piece of paper a la the Canucks, what if the voter has marks in two places? You've still got a "hanging chad situation."
I believe the name for this is a "spoiled ballot". These are tossed out and not counted.
Good way to say you participated in the democratic process but either 1> didn't like any of the candidates or 2> Too inept to vote but had done so.
Federal election - Show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. The vote card is about half the size of a postcard. Mark an X in the circle beside the desired candidate. Stuff ballot into box that's watched over by a returning officer.
Provincial election - Show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. The vote card is about the size of a postcard. Broken arrows point to each candidate. Fill in the body of the arrow to make your choice. Stuff ballot into box that's watched over by a returning officer.
Municipal election - In the "canadian capital" of Toronto, show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. Tell them whether or not you're a catholic school or public school supporter. Get an 8.5x11 sheet with 40 candidates for mayor, 4 or 5 candidates for councillor, 6 or 7 for a school trustee. Fill in the circle for your choices. Walk up to the return officer, he/she tells you to feed your sheet into the HP Scanjet. It sucks your sheet in and you're done.
No idea how the process works with the electronics and paper ballots in the municipal election, but results were in within an hour after poll close. Impressive IMO.
Canadian sentencing is concurrent. If you get 10 years for stealing an internet signal and 15 years for child porn. You go for 15 years.
Any Canadian Law students out there that can answer when he would be eligible for parole? I know it's 3/4 of the term served but which 3/4? 2/4 of 10 years or 15 years?
And that folks, is the way it should be. All in harmony. The arguements about costs are a totally different topic.
Put your flavour of *NIX outside and make it the firewall/mail relay/VPN/etc.... Your MS boxes are on the inside and they do the job they're designed to do - which is to be the simplest interface for the wordprocessing, scheduling, email, web browsing and etc. user.
Hack the *nix box, and the admins will know quickly enough before too much damage is done on the inside.
The relationship of M$ with *nix doesn't get any simpler or more eloquent than that!
County Prescott-Russel is indeed in the backwaters of the Ottawa Valley. I'll add Lanark, Perth and other places in the Ottawa valley to that list.
It's rural living and cottage country.
I don't know Ottawa and its bedroom communities nor what part of Prescott-Russel the original poster is from but like Steeles Ave at Toronto's northermost boundary street, I can kinda see ricers using alot of the new expanded roads out of Ottawa to drag.
I have friends out in Port Elmsley (county Lanark) who tried to use dialup 56k but the modem can only manage 28.8 at best. It was only last year 2002 that cable got out to their place and they're on high speed now.
Beyond silk screening the labels, commercial CDs are stamped (not burned) and the material is inorganic and thus lasts forever and then some.
CD-R/Ws have an organic layer (IIRC) and all things organic do have a signifcantly shorter shelf life than the half life of an inorganic material.
At one end of the spectrum, you've got Greenpeace, various environmentalists like ex-biologist turned enironmental crusader, David Suzuki who cries environmental foulness when big business wants to do something.
At the other end, you've got the National Post, Albertans (like Texans) who might as well claim they've debunked global warming, business plans should go full steam ahead while a minimalist study (if any) is done to monitor impact.
Given the track record of big business and our world, I'm leaning more towards the side of the crazy tree huggers.
I'm going to sound like a parrot since I posted this link already but testing with this approach has been around since the mid 90s.
If you can find (or still find) the "Gary White" mentioned in the above article, you can see what he's up to since the late 90s when he went on the treatment (or if he's 6 feet under by now).
I don't know if anything's changed since the late 90s, but at the time, this treatment turned cancer into a chronic ailment rather than a terminal disease.
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I don't know that it was snooped for in the instance of the boy scout troupe leader.
But I do know something from my 5 years as a LAN Admin/desktop monkey for a company that had 75 employees that went up to 450 by the time I left.
If a desktop or laptop came back from a male employee for service (usually sales, marketing and customer service), and you did a search for *.jpg or *.gif, you'd find all sorts of interesting but legal porn nested deep within directories with ambiguous names.
Their recently accessed files list didn't have gfx files in them and were usually kept clean.
Checking and clearing the history of IE's temporary internet files doesn't involve browsing that directory and if it did, I wouldn't set it to thumbnail view because of the vast amount of data in there. Filenames are also quite ambiguous.
As I mentioned above, it took doing a search for *.jpg and *.gif files to turn up such data while I worked for a private company.
I think I can generalize and say that every male computer user surfs for porn and has a collection of favourite stuff in place of the playboys under the bed of yesteryear...
I also believe that most and especially the ones doing the illegal shit are going to be carefull about hiding pics deep within subdirectories.
The only way a computer repair shop or a tech can find it is to actually search for it. And that in my mind constitutes snooping.
I posted a week or two back but got rejected.
But the gist was that a boy scout leader took his PC into a local computer repair shop. The shop somehow found kiddie porn on the machine and reported it to police.
I'm not into child porn but I'm also uncomfortable with what the notion that the repair shop had to go snooping to find the child porn.
If a gangster left a dead body in the back seat of a car when they left it at the dealership for an oil change and the mechanic found it and reported it to the police, fine. If the customer leaves stuff on the computer desktop, that's open game too.
But customers should have the security of knowing that the repair guy isn't going to snoop through their data.
What they really need to win in a race like this is a black mid 80s Pontiac Trans Am.
They also needed to widen that front sensor and put some HID LEDs in a chaser for effect.
Then hire William Daniels to replace all the chime codes with his voice.
But the bottom of the pot always burns. Anyone know?
/.... I never thought.
Okay... cooking advice on
Advice, get a heavy gauge pot. Too thin and it transmits too much heat. Easy burn and doesn't keep the heat in for a slow gradual cooking.
A cheap cast iron pot, Lagostina, Paderno Kitchenaid or pay through the nose All Clad.
Once you've got that down, go with roughly a 2 to 1 ratio of water to rice. I believe food geek Alton Brown http://www.altonbrown.com has specific ratios once you get beyond a certain amount of rice.
Medium heat (4 to 6 out of 10) on the dial. Wait about 10 minutes and take a peek. The water level should be just at or below the rice line. If not, wait a few more minutes and check.
Once there, turn the heat down to just above simmer. min, 2 or 3. (All this depends on your stove). Let it sit for a good 20 minutes or more. Your rice should be perfect and that burnt thing on the bottom won't be there.(though I consider it a delicacy).
Life in a metricized country.... (Canada to be specific) and with someone born in the 70s and grew up metric.
Distances when travelling are measured in metres and kilometres.
Distances when you're moving something around requiring some precision (like hanging a picture) are done in feet, centimetres and in rare very precise instance, millimetres.
You go to the convenience store to buy a 350 mil (ml), 750, 1 or 2 litre pop (as in fizzy sugary drink... soda being simply carbonated water). Likewise, milk comes in millilitres or litres.
You go to a bar or pub and still order a pint or a half pint of beer. Wine is served in a metric decanter but on menus, it's done by the oz.
Overall, I'd guess it's part tradition and whatever unit of measurement you can get away with using the smallest number infront of it.
I always thought it should start with a flashing blue light, a view of the main screen showing a klingon ship firing, and then cut to the captain who says "Oh boy!"
Dammit! No more mod points.... 8(
You're thinking John Nathan Turner.
Peter Davison had great stories. Seemingly less sci-fi but more drama.
Colin Baker and the technicolour dream coat had flakey scripts. Actually, he was too much of a flake altogether.
Sly McCoy was a crazy artsy hippy in Vision On but got way too dark and all knowing as the Doctor. His assistant Mel was an irritating Bernadette Peters wannabe. Later, if I were Ace, I would've kicked his ass out of the Tardis.
Would've been interesting to see Paul McGann develop. Minus all those bits about being half human of course.
Corporate masters who have no competency in the field of understanding the product which their company produces is typical.
Disney sees lucrative results in all their 3D films so far and not much in their 2D so the coporate decision is to dump 2D.
If they got beyond the numbers and looked at the content produced and actually stuck their heads up and looked at ALL their competitors, they'd find a few more interesting things.
The one that comes to mind is that the Japanese animation studios have produced legions of fans among children all using 2D animation.
Most of the Saturday morning lineup is all done in 2D. Merchandising lineups spawned from those are bountifull and I'd guess that unlike Disney's overpriced offerings, they make up for in sheer quantity sold. Every Christmas for nearly the last 5 years, what are the hottest toys?
I've been pondering just who Disney is for these days. Aging boomers and other adults? I think a child would get more out of a trip to Japan and seeign the likes of Yu Gi Oh, Pokeman, Sailor Moon and etc more than seeing mutant mice, ducks and whatever that dog thing is.
Disney's time was. Now they are fading into the past with new studios and ideas to take its place.
Something that bugs the crap out of me is the cell phone companies in Canada don't reward you for being a long time customer. I assume it's the same state side.
Sign up for a 1 or 2 year plan, get a free phone. Once that 1 or 2 years are up, they only offer you either 3 months unlimited calling or a $75 CAD credit towards a new phone at practically full rate.
If you didn't care and cancelled your service, you could go ahead and get that new phone with a new number.
But it's annoying as hell to get someone else's old number and all their calls to you for the next six months.
My contract came up and I love my Nokia 6160. Only complaint is the battery life is shorte. I asked if they could give me the $75 credit towards a new battery, they told me no. Only a new phone would work.
Needless to say, I went with the upgrade to a 6360 to maintain compatability with most of my accessories.
Way back in the days of cell phone infancy.....
When Rogers was selling the Amigo phone as the entry level consumer phone and before.
You had to buy a General Radio Station License at a cost of $45/year on signup as well as filling out some sort of form that went to the CRTC or whatever our version of the FCC is.
It used to be the same license you had to buy when you bought a radio set for your RC airplane.
But then they removed RC sets from requiring a GRS license in the mid 90s and around then, the cell providers started charging about $4/month for the license fee rather than a $50 fee on the anniversary date.
FYI, Canada has the same system (i.e. phones only work on the carrier you bought them from). So that's not it.
Kinda true kinda not true.
Bell uses CDMA. Rogers AT&T uses TDMA. Hence phones are inompatable.
Also, isn't GSM is still reliant on CDMA or TDMA technologies? So there would still be incompatabilities?
It's like complaining that the levels of sex in porn movies are harming our children. The populous needs to understand that there are more adult gamers than kids. I don't think there is anything wrong with providing games with more 'adult' content, since we make up a huge part of the market.
I or any kid can walk into a Best Buy, Electronics Boutique or Radio Shack and buy GTA3.
Adult video stores have windows that are painted over and signs on the door that block minors from entering.
Even the lowly convenience store places its skin mags up on the highest rack away from hands and eyes of youngsters.
Then you've got gaming mags and TV commercials that advertise such games on Saturday mornings.
The game may not have been designed for kids, but it's being marketed and given full access to them.
This is going to be an off topic rant here... and one that probably doesn't make much sense to those that don't understand the Canadian post secondary system.
I once ranted at how the IT field is no longer the domain of us geeks and nerds and is becoming the replacement for the blue collar jobs.
Every freaking kid who's not sales and marketing oriented that might be technically inclined or not wants to go after the big money of the 90s in IT.
Today's rant....
In Canada (and likely elsewhere), universities were once places of higher learning that broadened the mind in many disciplines to produce a worldly thinker. Colleges were places that teach a particular skill.
I get the impression stateside that the difference is best approximated between state colleges and ivy league colleges.
Back here, universities cost an arm and a leg to go to while colleges are far less expensive.
So what happened that universities sold their souls to become automaton monkey incubators for this latest incarnation of Henry Ford's assembly line (IT/CS)?
From following a few old high school buddies, it would appear that the ones who went to university took on giant debt loads. They became Dilberts. The college grads ended up doing alot of hands-on work which has taken them to interesting places with far more fullfilling lives.
For the original poster, if computers and programming is your passion, don't put your eggs in the university basket.
Go look for problems in the world and solve them. I'd bet the majority of the contributors to many of the OS projects aren't IT grads! The world will find you as you make a name for yourself.
The beauty of the capitalist system is, of course, that if you don't like something you can opt not to purchase it, and let the market work out what is and is not acceptable rather than a handful of fringe groups with political agendas. Nowhere in any town, state or national ordinances that I'm aware of is it enumerated that one is legally required to purchase and play this game.
Maybe a slippery slide of logic here but here goes...
GTA Vice city is a consumer product meant to entertain and part money from one's wallet and over to Rockstar entertainment.
GTA has the side effect of raising the ire of visible minority groups, groups of people who are concerned about the moral fabric of society and what children are exposed to.
Such groups believe there is a moral cost that we pay for the acceptance of such games and that they should be banned. It is contested by their opponents as an individual responsibility to manage it.
First ammendment advocates, geekdom and others cite the opposition of those groups as something that amounts to communist bastards.
On another coin....
Penis pumps, sex toys, porn and other stuff that gets peddaled through e-mail are consumer products meant to entertain and part money from one's wallet and over to the creators and distributors of such products.
Spam for this and other products has raised the ire of many geeks, IT managers and probably the same people who are against the banning of GTA.
The above mentioned believe there is a time and money cost associated with the transmission and dealing with unsolicited commercial emails for those products. The spammers cite free speach and the pursuit of the American dream in their defence....
C'mon people, this ain't Burger King. We can't have it any way and our way....
Was it a low article submission day or something?
>>I'm surprised Slashdot readers don't
>> support tech voting solutions.
The fresh faced college kids are all ra-ra for technology ("Technology for all! Arn't computers great? We'll change the world!") while us old hands are simply looking at yet another project that is surely going to fail in oh-so-many predictable ways.
It only takes a handfull number of years for half to get wise about technology's merits and look for more usefull solutions.
The other half are happy to keep on running in the hamster that goes nowhere but get fat paycheques out of it.
It's digital vs. analog - even if you have people marking a piece of paper a la the Canucks, what if the voter has marks in two places? You've still got a "hanging chad situation."
I believe the name for this is a "spoiled ballot". These are tossed out and not counted.
Good way to say you participated in the democratic process but either 1> didn't like any of the candidates or 2> Too inept to vote but had done so.
Federal election - Show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. The vote card is about half the size of a postcard. Mark an X in the circle beside the desired candidate. Stuff ballot into box that's watched over by a returning officer.
Provincial election - Show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. The vote card is about the size of a postcard. Broken arrows point to each candidate. Fill in the body of the arrow to make your choice. Stuff ballot into box that's watched over by a returning officer.
Municipal election - In the "canadian capital" of Toronto, show up with your voter return card or 1 piece of ID and recent mail. Tell them whether or not you're a catholic school or public school supporter. Get an 8.5x11 sheet with 40 candidates for mayor, 4 or 5 candidates for councillor, 6 or 7 for a school trustee. Fill in the circle for your choices. Walk up to the return officer, he/she tells you to feed your sheet into the HP Scanjet. It sucks your sheet in and you're done.
No idea how the process works with the electronics and paper ballots in the municipal election, but results were in within an hour after poll close. Impressive IMO.
Canadian sentencing is concurrent. If you get 10 years for stealing an internet signal and 15 years for child porn. You go for 15 years.
Any Canadian Law students out there that can answer when he would be eligible for parole? I know it's 3/4 of the term served but which 3/4? 2/4 of 10 years or 15 years?
And that folks, is the way it should be. All in harmony. The arguements about costs are a totally different topic.
Put your flavour of *NIX outside and make it the firewall/mail relay/VPN/etc.... Your MS boxes are on the inside and they do the job they're designed to do - which is to be the simplest interface for the wordprocessing, scheduling, email, web browsing and etc. user.
Hack the *nix box, and the admins will know quickly enough before too much damage is done on the inside.
The relationship of M$ with *nix doesn't get any simpler or more eloquent than that!
County Prescott-Russel is indeed in the backwaters of the Ottawa Valley. I'll add Lanark, Perth and other places in the Ottawa valley to that list.
It's rural living and cottage country.
I don't know Ottawa and its bedroom communities nor what part of Prescott-Russel the original poster is from but like Steeles Ave at Toronto's northermost boundary street, I can kinda see ricers using alot of the new expanded roads out of Ottawa to drag.
I have friends out in Port Elmsley (county Lanark) who tried to use dialup 56k but the modem can only manage 28.8 at best. It was only last year 2002 that cable got out to their place and they're on high speed now.
Beyond silk screening the labels, commercial CDs are stamped (not burned) and the material is inorganic and thus lasts forever and then some. CD-R/Ws have an organic layer (IIRC) and all things organic do have a signifcantly shorter shelf life than the half life of an inorganic material.
At one end of the spectrum, you've got Greenpeace, various environmentalists like ex-biologist turned enironmental crusader, David Suzuki who cries environmental foulness when big business wants to do something.
At the other end, you've got the National Post, Albertans (like Texans) who might as well claim they've debunked global warming, business plans should go full steam ahead while a minimalist study (if any) is done to monitor impact.
Given the track record of big business and our world, I'm leaning more towards the side of the crazy tree huggers.
http://www.americansovereign.com/newsarchive/commo ncold.htm
I'm going to sound like a parrot since I posted this link already but testing with this approach has been around since the mid 90s.
If you can find (or still find) the "Gary White" mentioned in the above article, you can see what he's up to since the late 90s when he went on the treatment (or if he's 6 feet under by now).
http://www.americansovereign.com/newsarchive/commo ncold.htm
I don't know if anything's changed since the late 90s, but at the time, this treatment turned cancer into a chronic ailment rather than a terminal disease.