I detest XP. The look, the feel, the dummied-down, child-like interface. Stability seems to be a myth, as every XP box I have worked on has given me BSODs or freeze ups (Would you like to send an error report?)...
This W2K box is the last Windows machine I will own. When it becomes outdated or unsecure due to MS patching restrictions, I will move completely to Linux.
No, they don't really intend for users to read it. That's why it's important that you start making a habit of it. I have found gotchas hidden in many EULA's. Did you know Windows DRM is installed with such programs as Nero and W2K SP4?
Most EULAs are pretty standard and after a short while, the non-standard stuff stands out.
As for firewalls, computers coming with XP SP2 will have them on, and most are friendly enough, saying something like "This program X has tried to access the internet, do you want to allow it?"
From what I've read, the firewall in XP only blocks certain types of *inbound* traffic, not programs on your machine trying to phone home. This is not surprising, as Word seems to try to access the net everytime I use it.
Your best first line of defense is not allowing users Administrator access for day to day use. My 12 year old daughter managed to hose her user account, with all the protections you mentioned. However, the rest of the computer was fine.
"My admministration is now well along in implementing a comprehensive climate-change strategy to advance the science, expand the use of transformational energy and carbon sequestration technologies, and mitigate the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States and in partnership with other nations."
I know the candidates have professionals to write the responses to these types of inquires, but did anyone else get the feeling that some of the 'Bush Responses' consisted of words I cannot imagine our Prez could pronounce, let alone understand?
Here's an easy one: Bush/Cheney secretly re-wrote the countries energy policy to allow the type of manipulation of California's energy supplies which resulted in the fake energy crisis of '01. Bush & Company have personally ripped me off for hundreds of dollars during that time. So far, no one has been charged with any crimes relating to the Calif rip off and no money has been re
turned to the state.
Now, the only way to stop this trend is to actually go and fight these bastards where they live. These guys are nothing but power hungry madmen. There is no reasoning with them. There is no capitulation with them. Just as it was meaningless to try to appease Hilter, its just as meaningless now to appease these madmen. Its time to go after them.
I agree, regarding the crazies that attacked us from Afghanistan....So WTF are we doing in Iraq?
And remember, when Clinton went after Al Queda he was roundly criitcized by Republicans and in the press for trying to divert attention from Monica. Too bad the right-wingers were more obsessed with bringing down Clinton than they were concerned about the gathering threat of Al Queda.
There seems to be a difference in the types of fraud committed by Repubs and Dems. It seems that the Repub version of fraud is massive...ie. stealing billions of dollars from California during the fake energy crisis, manipulating the stock market, changing the rules for the lumber companies to once again allow the raping of the forests in the western US and call it the 'Forest Protection Act.' Invading other countries to enrich select industries and companies....Making deals with the pharmacutical companies to protect their profits and selling it as 'Medicare reform' and pretending it will help seniors. And on and on.
Democrat fraud seems to be on a much smaller scale. Local thievery and dirty deals to increase their personal wealth or power.
You hit the nail on the head. The secret to the Republican sucess is their ability to wrap themselves in God and Patriotism. Still, I cannot fathom how even good Republicans can continue to support Bush. He has ballooned the deficit and the size of government. He has made us more insecure and a bigger target while destroying sympathy for our cause overseas. He dragged us into a war which no one wanted but his inner circle, and has cost the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Please, Bush supporters explain why you trust this man to lead the US. Name something which is better today than when he took office.
I also would not buy a computer without a floppy drive. Why should I burn a 600 mb cd for a 50k file? I know there are re-writable cds, but I don't have one and neither do many of machines I work on.
I use floppy drives often. From reinstalling my sisters Win98 to downloading a modem driver for a friend at work. Newer technologies may be better for some things, but for now, floppies are simple, universal and more practical for small files.
Great point. Wish I could mod you up. I long ago took the attitude that if a company wants me to advertise for them, they should be paying me or at least giving the items away for free.
I don't understand how they can trademark a commonly used word. It seems to me that Microsoft fought this fight over the word 'windows' and was slapped down. How can a corporation claim rights to a word that has been in use, in many different ways, for centuries?
If you mean the Olympics as we have come to know it will cease without mega-corporate funding (that is, a made-for-tv spectacle, rampant with curruption and greed) then, I agree with you. I'm not sure that would be a bad thing.
If you mean the Olympics as they were meant to be, an international athletic competition, then I think they would do just fine.
Huh? You take a picture of yourself, it's yours. This is pure threatening bullshit just said to try to scare them. They don't have a leg to stand on if some athlete, with their own camera, took photos of themselves at the game and then 6 months later they put them up on the web to say "look what I did with MY camera taking pictures of MY person".
My guess is the athletes probably signed a pile of papers before they were allowed to compete. Buried in that pile were little goodies like giving away all rights to stories or images of the games to the broadcasters. So yes, I'm sure the IOC covered their arses on this one. Unethical, yes. Illegal, probably not.
Yes, but they still can't post their own pictures. Only those, with permission, from 'accredited journalists'. In other words, you will only be allowed to show pictures that NBC or whatever has already shown. And what if yours is not a popular event and NBC didn't take any pictures of you? Guess you and your blog are just SOL.
This is just the latest black eye for the IOC. I'm enjoying watching the Olympics, but I'm starting to feel like I'm supporting a large money making machine, instead of the athletes. With the judging scandal at the last games and now it looks like another one in the men's gymnastic event this year, the bribery and schnanigans in the awarding of the host cities, now the absurdity of restricting the free speech of players:
The IOC's rationale for the restrictions is that athletes and their coaches should not serve as journalists -- and that the interests of broadcast rightsholders and accredited media come first.
anyway it's certainly loosing its charm. Reminds me of the war in Iraq, where I try to support the troops without supporting the policy that put them there.
Please don't compare the current incompetent American Administration with Thomas Jefferson. I am sure he is rolling over in his grave at the state of American rights and liberties today.
Besides living a numberless life, he reports in a separate study prepared for publication, the Piraha are the only people known to have no distinct words for colours.
They have no written language, and no collective memory going back more than two generations. They don't sleep for more than two hours at a time during the night or day.
Even when food is available, they frequently starve themselves and their children, Prof. Everett reports.
They communicate almost as much by singing, whistling and humming as by normal speech.
They frequently change their names, because they believe spirits regularly take them over and intrinsically change who they are.
They do not believe that outsiders understand their language even after they have just carried on conversations with them.
They have no creation myths, tell no fictional stories and have no art. All of their pronouns appear to be borrowed from a neighbouring language.
Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it."
I disagree. Explain the color 'Red' to someone who has never seen. Or explain the 'Sound of a Harp' to someone who has never heard. There needs to be a common frame of reference for both speakers. Without that, words can be pretty empty.
The difference between George Washington and the crazy Islamists today is that G. Washington didn't have his friends in other countries blowing up buildings and killing innocent people far from the fighting. I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'
You cannot make this comparison logically. The war we are fighing now is against people who are obsessed with destroying our way of life. It is not a war for 'independence' or 'freedom.'
By the way, the last thing the Palistinians want is peace. Their entire political and social system is built on hate for the Israelis the and goal of destruction of the State of Israel. There is something truely perverse about sending your children out to blow themselves up. Good try, but nothing about this is like George Wahshington and his 'goons'.
I was forced to take typing in High School. Before computers, when women were never expected to be anything but secretaries. I took the class under protest, hated it and barely passed with a 'D'. The only thing I learned was where the keys were without looking.
Fast forward 25 years and I work on computers all day. It turned out that that stupid typing class was probably the most useful thing I learned in High School.
The word 'bible' means 'a collection of books'. These books were written and edited by humans. The bible is a good glimpse into the way men thought thousands of years ago. Not every word should be taken literally. A few examples:
It's ok to keep slaves if you release them after 7 years. Non-virgin brides should be taken to the city gates and stoned to death. Women are property of men, like cattle and sheep. If you eat pork, you will go to hell. The earth is the center of the universe. Natural disasters are caused by bad people pissing off God.
In other words, if the bible were written today it would reflect the attitudes, predjuces and superstitions of today. Just cause it says it in the bible, doesn't make it true. Sorry, the Bible is not proof of anything, in and of itself.
Carl Segan believed that there was definately other life out there, but that the odds of finding eachother was incredibly small. The vastness of both space and time may make it unlikely.
Imagine two random grains of sand on the beach. Imagine those two grains could exist at any time in the history of the beach. What would the odds be that these two grains would be near enough to eachother in both space and time to find eachother?
Why do these posts always begin this way, and then go on to bore us with their crap.
Does the spelling of 'tongue' really interfere with a reasonable persons ability to understand the posters point? Why disrupt the conversation with Offtopic "I'm so smart and you're so dumb" comments like these? Save your spelling/grammar corrections for those who will be impressed. Like your sixth grade teacher. The rest of us are discussing SCO.
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I detest XP. The look, the feel, the dummied-down, child-like interface. Stability seems to be a myth, as every XP box I have worked on has given me BSODs or freeze ups (Would you like to send an error report?)...
This W2K box is the last Windows machine I will own. When it becomes outdated or unsecure due to MS patching restrictions, I will move completely to Linux.
No, they don't really intend for users to read it. That's why it's important that you start making a habit of it. I have found gotchas hidden in many EULA's. Did you know Windows DRM is installed with such programs as Nero and W2K SP4?
Most EULAs are pretty standard and after a short while, the non-standard stuff stands out.
As for firewalls, computers coming with XP SP2 will have them on, and most are friendly enough, saying something like "This program X has tried to access the internet, do you want to allow it?"
From what I've read, the firewall in XP only blocks certain types of *inbound* traffic, not programs on your machine trying to phone home. This is not surprising, as Word seems to try to access the net everytime I use it.
Your best first line of defense is not allowing users Administrator access for day to day use. My 12 year old daughter managed to hose her user account, with all the protections you mentioned. However, the rest of the computer was fine.
"My admministration is now well along in implementing a comprehensive climate-change strategy to advance the science, expand the use of transformational energy and carbon sequestration technologies, and mitigate the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States and in partnership with other nations."
I know the candidates have professionals to write the responses to these types of inquires, but did anyone else get the feeling that some of the 'Bush Responses' consisted of words I cannot imagine our Prez could pronounce, let alone understand?
How did you get fucked by Bush?
please, do share.
Cause I think you're full of shit.
Here's an easy one: Bush/Cheney secretly re-wrote the countries energy policy to allow the type of manipulation of California's energy supplies which resulted in the fake energy crisis of '01. Bush & Company have personally ripped me off for hundreds of dollars during that time. So far, no one has been charged with any crimes relating to the Calif rip off and no money has been re turned to the state.
Now, the only way to stop this trend is to actually go and fight these bastards where they live. These guys are nothing but power hungry madmen. There is no reasoning with them. There is no capitulation with them. Just as it was meaningless to try to appease Hilter, its just as meaningless now to appease these madmen. Its time to go after them.
I agree, regarding the crazies that attacked us from Afghanistan....So WTF are we doing in Iraq?
And remember, when Clinton went after Al Queda he was roundly criitcized by Republicans and in the press for trying to divert attention from Monica. Too bad the right-wingers were more obsessed with bringing down Clinton than they were concerned about the gathering threat of Al Queda.
There seems to be a difference in the types of fraud committed by Repubs and Dems. It seems that the Repub version of fraud is massive...ie. stealing billions of dollars from California during the fake energy crisis, manipulating the stock market, changing the rules for the lumber companies to once again allow the raping of the forests in the western US and call it the 'Forest Protection Act.' Invading other countries to enrich select industries and companies....Making deals with the pharmacutical companies to protect their profits and selling it as 'Medicare reform' and pretending it will help seniors. And on and on.
Democrat fraud seems to be on a much smaller scale. Local thievery and dirty deals to increase their personal wealth or power.
You hit the nail on the head. The secret to the Republican sucess is their ability to wrap themselves in God and Patriotism. Still, I cannot fathom how even good Republicans can continue to support Bush. He has ballooned the deficit and the size of government. He has made us more insecure and a bigger target while destroying sympathy for our cause overseas. He dragged us into a war which no one wanted but his inner circle, and has cost the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Please, Bush supporters explain why you trust this man to lead the US. Name something which is better today than when he took office.
I also would not buy a computer without a floppy drive. Why should I burn a 600 mb cd for a 50k file? I know there are re-writable cds, but I don't have one and neither do many of machines I work on.
I use floppy drives often. From reinstalling my sisters Win98 to downloading a modem driver for a friend at work. Newer technologies may be better for some things, but for now, floppies are simple, universal and more practical for small files.
Great point. Wish I could mod you up. I long ago took the attitude that if a company wants me to advertise for them, they should be paying me or at least giving the items away for free.
I don't understand how they can trademark a commonly used word. It seems to me that Microsoft fought this fight over the word 'windows' and was slapped down. How can a corporation claim rights to a word that has been in use, in many different ways, for centuries?
If you mean the Olympics as we have come to know it will cease without mega-corporate funding (that is, a made-for-tv spectacle, rampant with curruption and greed) then, I agree with you. I'm not sure that would be a bad thing.
If you mean the Olympics as they were meant to be, an international athletic competition, then I think they would do just fine.
Huh? You take a picture of yourself, it's yours. This is pure threatening bullshit just said to try to scare them. They don't have a leg to stand on if some athlete, with their own camera, took photos of themselves at the game and then 6 months later they put them up on the web to say "look what I did with MY camera taking pictures of MY person".
My guess is the athletes probably signed a pile of papers before they were allowed to compete. Buried in that pile were little goodies like giving away all rights to stories or images of the games to the broadcasters. So yes, I'm sure the IOC covered their arses on this one. Unethical, yes. Illegal, probably not.
Yes, but they still can't post their own pictures. Only those, with permission, from 'accredited journalists'. In other words, you will only be allowed to show pictures that NBC or whatever has already shown. And what if yours is not a popular event and NBC didn't take any pictures of you? Guess you and your blog are just SOL.
This is just the latest black eye for the IOC. I'm enjoying watching the Olympics, but I'm starting to feel like I'm supporting a large money making machine, instead of the athletes. With the judging scandal at the last games and now it looks like another one in the men's gymnastic event this year, the bribery and schnanigans in the awarding of the host cities, now the absurdity of restricting the free speech of players:
The IOC's rationale for the restrictions is that athletes and their coaches should not serve as journalists -- and that the interests of broadcast rightsholders and accredited media come first.
anyway it's certainly loosing its charm. Reminds me of the war in Iraq, where I try to support the troops without supporting the policy that put them there.
Please don't compare the current incompetent American Administration with Thomas Jefferson. I am sure he is rolling over in his grave at the state of American rights and liberties today.
More details on this can be found here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews /TPStory/LAC/20040820/NUMBERS20/TPScience/
interesting quote:
Besides living a numberless life, he reports in a separate study prepared for publication, the Piraha are the only people known to have no distinct words for colours.
They have no written language, and no collective memory going back more than two generations. They don't sleep for more than two hours at a time during the night or day.
Even when food is available, they frequently starve themselves and their children, Prof. Everett reports.
They communicate almost as much by singing, whistling and humming as by normal speech.
They frequently change their names, because they believe spirits regularly take them over and intrinsically change who they are.
They do not believe that outsiders understand their language even after they have just carried on conversations with them.
They have no creation myths, tell no fictional stories and have no art. All of their pronouns appear to be borrowed from a neighbouring language.
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Whenever someone says, "I understand it, I just can't articulate it," what they really mean is, "I don't understand it."
I disagree. Explain the color 'Red' to someone who has never seen. Or explain the 'Sound of a Harp' to someone who has never heard. There needs to be a common frame of reference for both speakers. Without that, words can be pretty empty.
The difference between George Washington and the crazy Islamists today is that G. Washington didn't have his friends in other countries blowing up buildings and killing innocent people far from the fighting. I don't rememember Thomas Jefferson saying it was ok to take the war to the civilians back in Britan or France or kidnap Britsh merchants and cut thier heads off as a 'message to others.'
You cannot make this comparison logically. The war we are fighing now is against people who are obsessed with destroying our way of life. It is not a war for 'independence' or 'freedom.'
By the way, the last thing the Palistinians want is peace. Their entire political and social system is built on hate for the Israelis the and goal of destruction of the State of Israel.
There is something truely perverse about sending your children out to blow themselves up.
Good try, but nothing about this is like George Wahshington and his 'goons'.
I was forced to take typing in High School. Before computers, when women were never expected to be anything but secretaries. I took the class under protest, hated it and barely passed with a 'D'. The only thing I learned was where the keys were without looking.
Fast forward 25 years and I work on computers all day. It turned out that that stupid typing class was probably the most useful thing I learned in High School.
Add to the list of annoying people those who feel the need to correct others grammar and spelling on message boards.
I hate conservatives. If you are a conservative, please go get your head examined.
I'm going to say the un-sayable, karma be damned:
The word 'bible' means 'a collection of books'. These books were written and edited by humans. The bible is a good glimpse into the way men thought thousands of years ago. Not every word should be taken literally. A few examples:
It's ok to keep slaves if you release them after 7 years.
Non-virgin brides should be taken to the city gates and stoned to death.
Women are property of men, like cattle and sheep.
If you eat pork, you will go to hell.
The earth is the center of the universe.
Natural disasters are caused by bad people pissing off God.
In other words, if the bible were written today it would reflect the attitudes, predjuces and superstitions of today. Just cause it says it in the bible, doesn't make it true. Sorry, the Bible is not proof of anything, in and of itself.
Carl Segan believed that there was definately other life out there, but that the odds of finding eachother was incredibly small. The vastness of both space and time may make it unlikely.
Imagine two random grains of sand on the beach. Imagine those two grains could exist at any time in the history of the beach. What would the odds be that these two grains would be near enough to eachother in both space and time to find eachother?
Re:Sorry to be a spelling nazi, but...
Why do these posts always begin this way, and then go on to bore us with their crap.
Does the spelling of 'tongue' really interfere with a reasonable persons ability to understand the posters point? Why disrupt the conversation with Offtopic "I'm so smart and you're so dumb" comments like these? Save your spelling/grammar corrections for those who will be impressed. Like your sixth grade teacher. The rest of us are discussing SCO.
Well said.