I know you were being funny, but I just ran into this recently. The IE install on the system was so broken that I had to go to cmd and start an ftp session to ftp.mozilla.org. That told me to use releases.mozilla.org, which had the latest version ready to fetch. Downloading firefox that way worked fine.
Translation: "Most people who download this software aren't pros who would pay for our software anyway. In spite of this, I'm so angry I forgot my apostrophe."
I almost ruined my keyboard when I read this. Thanks for the laugh.
I just have to reply to this. The product known as "VMWare Server" used to be known as "VMWare GSX Server".
It was approx. $1500 US for a 2-cpu license. IBM, HP, Dell and other OEMs sold it packaged with their servers. It definitely was not meant only for testing.
Since renaming the product and making it free, VMWare has exclusively pushed their VI3 (ESX) product and acted like GSX never was a sold product.
Yeah, because regulation of the telcos has been so wonderful.
The facility where I work still can't get DSL because the CO here doesn't have any DSLAMs and nobody is going to be installing one anytime soon. Full T1 or Frame is all you can get.
If the market were more open to competition, somebody could set one up DSL here and make a killing.
I couldn't agree more. That is the best suggestion I have seen in this entire discussion.
If your goal is pagerank or pagehits, then IMHO slashdot would be better off without you here.
I have to agree. The IT in our company is going to be screwed if/when they discontinue that line. We have a few hundred T41's and T42's, and the only ones we've had trouble with are the ones that have been abused by the end user.
If the new ThinkPads suck as much as everything else out there, we're going to have users fighting over the T series machines because even they know how badly everything else sucks. (We used to have Gateways).
I also used to use the my yahoo services, but like many other peope I know I left it as soon as all of those hideous large animated ads showed up. It became totally unusable on dialup. You have to draw the line somewhere.
It does indeed power up the PC remotely with the "magic packet". If you are going to post a comment, stick to what you actually know. And mods, how did this get modded up?
I switched to debian on all my servers. Honestly, it took some time to adjust to the differences. But once I got to the point where everything was running, I was blown away by how easy it was to just do the occassional upgrade with apt. It just works.
And I know it's a holy war, but I started using icewm when I switched and I will never go back to gnome or kde. The difference in performance was staggering.
Oh, and to answer your last question, there is absolutely no way I would even consider switching back. Even if debian were to disappear (very unlikely) I would still use anything but Red Hat.
It seems every time the trilogy is mentioned lately, somebody gripes about the "originals" being unavailable. So just a reminder, if you look for it you can find a torrent of the "original" trilogy ripped from laserdisc to a DVD format. One DVD per movie. They have menus and everything.
And yes, I know you can't actually BUY them that way. I'll leave the piracy flamewars to other folks.
I have been waiting for SP2 because I need to reload all of the PCs at my facility with a customized corp install of XP. So far, the SP2 RC's have worked well when slipstreamed in. I just need to have a final SP2 so that we can have a solid baseline.
I just hope that when they do finally release it, it works smoothly.
And there is no stinkin' way I am going to actually UPGRADE to sp2 on a machine. Fresh reloads for everyone!
It looks like the people who were buying into this whole traveshamockery are starting to wake up. If this keeps up, it looks like SCOX will be in the toilet by the end of the year. The sooner this is all over the better.
I'd like to add that I also run my own domain, and have done no such anti-spam advocacy, but I still get the dictionary attack spamming attempts quite frequently. BTW, I have done quite a bit of anti-spam work. It's just face-to-face and not on the net where it would be visible.
So far, google has given me no reason to distrust them. Microsoft on the other hand... No thanks. I gave up on MS years ago. I'm sure I am not the only./'er who feels that way.
Directly from the article: "If purchasers provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that they did not use their devices for signal theft, DirecTV will dismiss their cases. EFF and CIS will monitor reports of this process to confirm that innocent device purchasers are having their cases dismissed." So you are STILL guilty until proven innocent. This saga is not over yet.
I set up my own mail server just so I wouldn't have to deal with all of the crap coming to my inboxes from foreign countries. (I am in USA). A simple iptables drop rule on countries overseas made my spam slow from 100+ per day down to around 10 a day. Additional filtering whittles that down much more.
And yes, I know that means people in China can't email me, but I only correspond with US folk right now because I don't know anybody over there...
There is an installer, it's just not exactly the same as it used to be. It is now found at/usr/sbin/knoppix-installer.
I am very impressed by how snappy the whole thing feels now when you use the new kernel. On a fast enough computer, most users wouldn't know they were running from a CD. (I tested it on a P4 2.4GHz with 256MB of RDRAM)
Just yesterday, I installed a server with 2 3Com gigabit NICs that use the tg3 driver. I hope this is more tested by the time I need to upgrade the kernel again.
I guess it's time to set up a test server, or maybe start buying a gigabit NIC that uses a different driver.
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I know you were being funny, but I just ran into this recently.
The IE install on the system was so broken that I had to go to cmd and start an ftp session to ftp.mozilla.org. That told me to use releases.mozilla.org, which had the latest version ready to fetch. Downloading firefox that way worked fine.
So if you are in the 10% that doesn't get detected you're SOL? I hope they can increase the accuracy of this.
I'm not going to get into why having automatic updates on is generally a bad idea, that subject has already been beaten to death here.
/quiet /norestart
WindowsXP-KB972260-x86-ENU.exe
That is the one for XP with IE6, the filenames are different for the other flavors. The list of all of the different patches is at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-034.mspx/
Translation: "Most people who download this software aren't pros who would pay for our software anyway. In spite of this, I'm so angry I forgot my apostrophe."
I almost ruined my keyboard when I read this. Thanks for the laugh.
I just have to reply to this. The product known as "VMWare Server" used to be known as "VMWare GSX Server".
It was approx. $1500 US for a 2-cpu license. IBM, HP, Dell and other OEMs sold it packaged with their servers. It definitely was not meant only for testing.
Since renaming the product and making it free, VMWare has exclusively pushed their VI3 (ESX) product and acted like GSX never was a sold product.
What could possibly go wrong?
"If MS starts suing over their patents instead only using them to defend themselves, they will also go on my list of scum sucking corporations."
You haven't been here very long, have you?
Are any of you still buying RIAA label cd's? If you are, you are supporting this crap.
This has to stop.
Yeah, because regulation of the telcos has been so wonderful.
The facility where I work still can't get DSL because the CO here doesn't have any DSLAMs and nobody is going to be installing one anytime soon. Full T1 or Frame is all you can get.
If the market were more open to competition, somebody could set one up DSL here and make a killing.
I couldn't agree more. That is the best suggestion I have seen in this entire discussion.
If your goal is pagerank or pagehits, then IMHO slashdot would be better off without you here.
I have to agree. The IT in our company is going to be screwed if/when they discontinue that line.
We have a few hundred T41's and T42's, and the only ones we've had trouble with are the ones that have been abused by the end user.
If the new ThinkPads suck as much as everything else out there, we're going to have users fighting over the T series machines because even they know how badly everything else sucks. (We used to have Gateways).
Holy crap that is horrible. Is there a way to drag it where it belongs, like you can with icon toolbars in office apps?
I also used to use the my yahoo services, but like many other peope I know I left it as soon as all of those hideous large animated ads showed up. It became totally unusable on dialup.
You have to draw the line somewhere.
It does indeed power up the PC remotely with the "magic packet". If you are going to post a comment, stick to what you actually know. And mods, how did this get modded up?
I switched to debian on all my servers.
Honestly, it took some time to adjust to the differences. But once I got to the point where everything was running, I was blown away by how easy it was to just do the occassional upgrade with apt. It just works.
And I know it's a holy war, but I started using icewm when I switched and I will never go back to gnome or kde. The difference in performance was staggering.
Oh, and to answer your last question, there is absolutely no way I would even consider switching back. Even if debian were to disappear (very unlikely) I would still use anything but Red Hat.
Regarding the reminder nagging, I did this in a .REG file for the scripted install where I work:
;DISABLE SECURITY CENTER NOTIFICATION
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
"AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
"AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001
"FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
"UpdatesDisableNotify"=dword:00000001
It seems every time the trilogy is mentioned lately, somebody gripes about the "originals" being unavailable.
So just a reminder, if you look for it you can find a torrent of the "original" trilogy ripped from laserdisc to a DVD format. One DVD per movie. They have menus and everything.
And yes, I know you can't actually BUY them that way. I'll leave the piracy flamewars to other folks.
I have been waiting for SP2 because I need to reload all of the PCs at my facility with a customized corp install of XP. So far, the SP2 RC's have worked well when slipstreamed in. I just need to have a final SP2 so that we can have a solid baseline.
I just hope that when they do finally release it, it works smoothly.
And there is no stinkin' way I am going to actually UPGRADE to sp2 on a machine. Fresh reloads for everyone!
It looks like the people who were buying into this whole traveshamockery are starting to wake up. If this keeps up, it looks like SCOX will be in the toilet by the end of the year. The sooner this is all over the better.
I'd like to add that I also run my own domain, and have done no such anti-spam advocacy, but I still get the dictionary attack spamming attempts quite frequently.
BTW, I have done quite a bit of anti-spam work. It's just face-to-face and not on the net where it would be visible.
So far, google has given me no reason to distrust them. Microsoft on the other hand... No thanks. I gave up on MS years ago. I'm sure I am not the only ./'er who feels that way.
Directly from the article:
"If purchasers provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that they did not use their devices for signal theft, DirecTV will dismiss their cases. EFF and CIS will monitor reports of this process to confirm that innocent device purchasers are having their cases dismissed."
So you are STILL guilty until proven innocent. This saga is not over yet.
I set up my own mail server just so I wouldn't have to deal with all of the crap coming to my inboxes from foreign countries. (I am in USA). A simple iptables drop rule on countries overseas made my spam slow from 100+ per day down to around 10 a day. Additional filtering whittles that down much more.
And yes, I know that means people in China can't email me, but I only correspond with US folk right now because I don't know anybody over there...
There is an installer, it's just not exactly the same as it used to be. It is now found at /usr/sbin/knoppix-installer.
I am very impressed by how snappy the whole thing feels now when you use the new kernel. On a fast enough computer, most users wouldn't know they were running from a CD. (I tested it on a P4 2.4GHz with 256MB of RDRAM)
Darn it all to heck!
Just yesterday, I installed a server with 2 3Com gigabit NICs that use the tg3 driver. I hope this is more tested by the time I need to upgrade the kernel again.
I guess it's time to set up a test server, or maybe start buying a gigabit NIC that uses a different driver.