Daytime TV doesn't suck. I stayed home sick last week and got to watch Macgyver and A-Team all day. What's better than that?
Not being sick and getting to stay home to watch Macgyver and Murdock & the A-Team gang kick some ass... and getting paid for it... to bad all my PTO sick days are loooong gone.
We apologize for any confusion this may have caused you and wish to assure you that the executives who sacked the directors of the firm hired to continue the outsourcing after the other people had been sacked have just been sacked.
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while the mice provided with the wacom tablets still click, you can avoid that by using the pressure-sensitive stylus. you click by tapping the stylus on the pad.
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Actually, the "blank called, they want their blankety-blank" is thoroughly covered in "Rapier Wit: A Guide to Sarcasm & Other Forms of Negative Reenforcement" By Sean Crespo (of National Lampoon). Take this excerpt:
STRUCTURE #2
Hey, ----- called, it wants its ----- back.
Many people seem to be out of touch with what is really going on out there - not you, of course - so it's sometimes helpful to wake them up. For example, if you were to pay witness to another human being, fully sentient, no concern over his possibly being descended from a race of man-ape hybrids, not just wearing but in fact showing off a new set of bell-bottom corduroy trousers, a loud pastel shirt unbuttoned down to the navel, and anything resembling platform shoes, it is your god-given right, nay, duty, to inform that person "Hey, the Smithsonian Museum of American History called, they want their Studio 54 exhibit back."
Actually I was just being a jackass and throwing in the obligatory "shell script comment"... but you do bring up some interesting thoughts about an rm replacement script.
... to write a script where on a network connection the computer attempts to access a server and basic security info about itself (i.e. IP address, CPU name, etc.). As the usage of AOL seems to indicate a lack of common sense in the first place, I would assume the thief wouldn't check for such a thing.
Uhm, ethics? Morals? Etc? By DDoSing them, we are no better than they are... Oh wait, we're talking about *spammers*??? Nevermind that ethics crap, bring on the pain!
here's the stupid response from the stupid "Director of Customer Support" of New.net about the whole Ad-Aware labeling their "product" aas spyware thing. Funny thing is that he locked the forum so no one would have the chance to respond...and last time I checked, browser hijacking is spy/ad/malware.
For all concerned,
Lavasoft's Ad Aware has decided to target our software for removal based on information that they are unwilling to provide to the public. They used this same smear tactic 2 years ago and failed and they are failing again today. Two years ago, they were incapable of removing our software properly which resulted in hundreds, if not thousands, of users losing network access. Today, they are still incapable of removing our software properly and still continue to cause lost network access. Both today and 2 years ago, it was proven that our software was not spyware and that Lavasoft's Ad Aware was targeting our software unjustifiably.
For anyone interested in an objective review of our software, please visit the following link:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikon board.cgi?s=3e54fbb860c0ffff;act=ST;f=8;t=1634
As stated in Eagle1's synopsis, a full review will be published shortly.
The discussion of our software being spyware ends now and I will not tolerate any member of Lavasoft or it's users posting on this message board with the intent to discredit New.net or its software.
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Leonard Amabile
Director of Customer Support
New.net, Inc.
OK, I love iTunes and have since installing version 2 on my iMac. However the windows version has a couple glitches for me. 1. Streaming - I seem to be having latency issues with the "Radio" function. Even with the buffer set to Large, music streams are choppy and garbled. I dont know if it's my hardware (Toshiba Sattelite Pro 6100, Windows XP, Orinoco 802.11b WiFi card, Netgear Wireless router) or what but I can't seem to hold an ungarbled stream for longer than 2 seconds. I've tried disabling my firewall, reinstalling iTunes, etc. But it's just not working. 2. Visualizer stalls in full screen mode - Now, it worked for a while, mind you, but I can't seem to get the visualizer to run in full screen mode. I click the button, the screen goes black for about 3 seconds, then voila! Goes back to my desktop... aside from those errors, I love iTunes and was giddy to hear that it came out for windows. Now my laptop recieves as much love as my iMac! Hopefully there's a linux version in the works?
Agreed, and the Windows zealots took it upon themselves to infer that one man's ignorance with the Macintosh platform somehow equals Macs being difficult to integrate into a Windows network. Here are the points one poster in particular raised:
1) Doesn't work well be default on a network. Never had a problem integrating on our Win2k network, right out of the box. On the first run, you let it know that you'll be connecting via a LAN and using DHCP and bingo -internet connectivity-.
2) Requires the user to do "a lot of reading" to connect to the corporate LAN If you consider "Hit 'command-k' while in the Finder to bring up a list of any computer reachable on the network and the protocol used to connect to it (afp, smb, etc.)" to be "a lot of reading" then sure.
3) Doesn't work reliably with DHCP and other network standards. It does if you select "Using DHCP" from either the Network System Preferences menu or during first run. Just like a Windows machine, you have to configure a Macintosh. iTelepathy is still in beta, sorry. 4) Doesn't have a full featured e-mail client. Full featured meaning...? Mail.app seems to have all the features I need, however Microsoft offers Entourage, you can run Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, Mozilla Mail, hell, get crazy and compile Pine on that sucker if you want. There are tons of options, however if by "full featured" you mean IncrediMail, then I'm sorry, you seem to be out of luck. You'll have to find another source for you animated smileys... 5) Requires users to manually connect all network drives and printers. Sure, if by "required" you mean "has the option to". I find that using "Add Printer..." from the Print Center seems to locate all networked printers, and 'command-k' brings up the servers/network drives.
The big problem is not so much exchange, but older versions of exchange in particular. Exchange 2000 and up work more or less flawlessly however Exchange 5 (which we run at work) has issues, which is why all our OS X Macs run Outlook 2001 (Classic) as their primary email client (at least until the 24th:) ) . IMAP & POP3 work flawlessly and I'm looking forward to the "improved Exchange support" in Panther.
"that is why card companies recruit on college campuses. the less one reads of those terms, the more it hurts later."
and God knows no one reads on college campuses... actually, i think it's more of a "lot of people desperate for money that they don't have at the moment" factor than ignorance of fine print. Having the ability to buy something a little tastier than Top Ramen and not have to pay for it now sounds real good sometimes. And as a matter of fact, a majority of those cards that they hock on campuses dont have the annual fees, membership fees, etc. Those are typically found on the "SuperPremiumPlatinumExclusiveVIPTravellersPlusPro Business" accounts and cards for people with shite credit. What they do have is exorbitant intrerest rates that come back and haunt you later. They count on suckers (like me) to get a card when they are 18 (16% APR - No Fees - B of A card with a $700 limit), max it out, have the first late payment, coupled with interest, send you over your limit then pile drive you with overlimit fees and penalty interest (mine was 26%) until there's no possible way to catch up or put your account under the limit with your $6.75/hour pizza delivery job and next thing you know you're $1600 in debt, 19 years old and living in your car... holy crap... sorry about the bitterness there... i just hate credit cards...
My fiancee's mom is currently studying for her masters degree in Library Sciences, and we had a similar discussion just last week. She seemed offended that I had not been in a library for god-knows-how-long and instead relied, for the most part, solely on the internet for my research. True, the internet lacks some of a libraries "old timey" charm, but it also lacks the musty book smell, lines, the dewey decimal system and late fees. Plus with my good friends Google and Yahoo! pretty much any information I want, from a homeopathic cure for eczema to "why does Brian (the chubby guy) from 'the Joe Schmo Show' have a mosaic across his nipples when he's not wearing a shirt on camera [can you not show man-boobs on TV?]" is acessible from my couch in a matter of seconds. There are certain things I still kill trees for, like computer reference manuals, my programming books and the occasional novel or magazine, but for the most part I feel libraries are slowly becoming obsolete.
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Unfortunately this will not happen until the IT industry gets off its high horse, realizes it is still a "skilled trade" and unionizes.
Not being sick and getting to stay home to watch Macgyver and Murdock & the A-Team gang kick some ass... and getting paid for it... to bad all my PTO sick days are loooong gone.
We apologize for any confusion this may have caused you and wish to assure you that the executives who sacked the directors of the firm hired to continue the outsourcing after the other people had been sacked have just been sacked.
Disclaimer: (before you get all crazy moderating this "offtopic" or "redundant" you need to brush up on your Python knowledge...)
How'd you get those statistics Mr. Random Q. Fakestats?
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Actually I was just being a jackass and throwing in the obligatory "shell script comment"... but you do bring up some interesting thoughts about an rm replacement script.
...or you could script it. Anything on God's green Earth can be created with a shell script. I'm serious.
Not like Novell just bought SuSE or anything...
... to write a script where on a network connection the computer attempts to access a server and basic security info about itself (i.e. IP address, CPU name, etc.). As the usage of AOL seems to indicate a lack of common sense in the first place, I would assume the thief wouldn't check for such a thing.
Uhm, ethics? Morals? Etc? By DDoSing them, we are no better than they are...
Oh wait, we're talking about *spammers*??? Nevermind that ethics crap, bring on the pain!
the answer is an abacus, a chisel and a stone tablet.
OK, I love iTunes and have since installing version 2 on my iMac. However the windows version has a couple glitches for me.
1. Streaming - I seem to be having latency issues with the "Radio" function. Even with the buffer set to Large, music streams are choppy and garbled. I dont know if it's my hardware (Toshiba Sattelite Pro 6100, Windows XP, Orinoco 802.11b WiFi card, Netgear Wireless router) or what but I can't seem to hold an ungarbled stream for longer than 2 seconds. I've tried disabling my firewall, reinstalling iTunes, etc. But it's just not working.
2. Visualizer stalls in full screen mode - Now, it worked for a while, mind you, but I can't seem to get the visualizer to run in full screen mode. I click the button, the screen goes black for about 3 seconds, then voila! Goes back to my desktop...
aside from those errors, I love iTunes and was giddy to hear that it came out for windows. Now my laptop recieves as much love as my iMac! Hopefully there's a linux version in the works?
is anyone planning a port of Ximian to OS X any time soon? :)
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Which will be fixed in 11 days... Via Apple.com: "With SSL/TLS encryption for SMTP, POP and IMAP, Mac OS X Server can encrypt the data sent between the server and the mail client. This allows secure and confidential transport of mail messages and attachments within a network. For maximum security, SSL can be required for communication on any protocol, including SMTP, POP and IMAP. With easy administrative control over authentication levels and support for a variety of strong cryptographic authentication services, Mac OS X Server gives you the flexibility to fit authentication methods to the needs of your organization. It supports CRAM-MD5 and APOP; and Kerberos can be used for SMTP, IMAP and POP services. "
...or you could go with a PowerMac G4... You can use it with any Apple, DVI or VGA display.
Agreed, and the Windows zealots took it upon themselves to infer that one man's ignorance with the Macintosh platform somehow equals Macs being difficult to integrate into a Windows network. Here are the points one poster in particular raised:
1) Doesn't work well be default on a network.
Never had a problem integrating on our Win2k network, right out of the box. On the first run, you let it know that you'll be connecting via a LAN and using DHCP and bingo -internet connectivity-.
2) Requires the user to do "a lot of reading" to connect to the corporate LAN
If you consider "Hit 'command-k' while in the Finder to bring up a list of any computer reachable on the network and the protocol used to connect to it (afp, smb, etc.)" to be "a lot of reading" then sure.
3) Doesn't work reliably with DHCP and other network standards.
It does if you select "Using DHCP" from either the Network System Preferences menu or during first run. Just like a Windows machine, you have to configure a Macintosh. iTelepathy is still in beta, sorry.
4) Doesn't have a full featured e-mail client.
Full featured meaning...? Mail.app seems to have all the features I need, however Microsoft offers Entourage, you can run Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, Mozilla Mail, hell, get crazy and compile Pine on that sucker if you want. There are tons of options, however if by "full featured" you mean IncrediMail, then I'm sorry, you seem to be out of luck. You'll have to find another source for you animated smileys...
5) Requires users to manually connect all network drives and printers.
Sure, if by "required" you mean "has the option to". I find that using "Add Printer..." from the Print Center seems to locate all networked printers, and 'command-k' brings up the servers/network drives.
The big problem is not so much exchange, but older versions of exchange in particular. Exchange 2000 and up work more or less flawlessly however Exchange 5 (which we run at work) has issues, which is why all our OS X Macs run Outlook 2001 (Classic) as their primary email client (at least until the 24th :) ) . IMAP & POP3 work flawlessly and I'm looking forward to the "improved Exchange support" in Panther.
and God knows no one reads on college campuses... actually, i think it's more of a "lot of people desperate for money that they don't have at the moment" factor than ignorance of fine print. Having the ability to buy something a little tastier than Top Ramen and not have to pay for it now sounds real good sometimes. And as a matter of fact, a majority of those cards that they hock on campuses dont have the annual fees, membership fees, etc. Those are typically found on the "SuperPremiumPlatinumExclusiveVIPTravellersPlusPr
holy crap... sorry about the bitterness there... i just hate credit cards...
My fiancee's mom is currently studying for her masters degree in Library Sciences, and we had a similar discussion just last week. She seemed offended that I had not been in a library for god-knows-how-long and instead relied, for the most part, solely on the internet for my research. True, the internet lacks some of a libraries "old timey" charm, but it also lacks the musty book smell, lines, the dewey decimal system and late fees. Plus with my good friends Google and Yahoo! pretty much any information I want, from a homeopathic cure for eczema to "why does Brian (the chubby guy) from 'the Joe Schmo Show' have a mosaic across his nipples when he's not wearing a shirt on camera [can you not show man-boobs on TV?]" is acessible from my couch in a matter of seconds. There are certain things I still kill trees for, like computer reference manuals, my programming books and the occasional novel or magazine, but for the most part I feel libraries are slowly becoming obsolete.
Hey, what about the guy who invented the any key? Doesn't THAT get more use?
we used to do this back when faxes used that really expensive thermal paper.... "mobius faxes" we called them...