Why not hack the i-opener? Linux-Hacker is the first link on Google for hacking i-openers.
There are generally a few on eBay that are sold as hacked if you don't want to go through it yourself. Buy a hacked one, sell the old one for someone else to hack.
I use to support these things while working for Earthlink/MindSpring. They're not that bad after you put Linux on them. I've thought of buying one myself just to throw in the corner for a stats setup for my network, computers and hosting servers - just don't have the time.
I'm seriously considering a Carputer with a decent wifi antenna. I can't even imagine whats going to go through their minds when they see a directional antenna mounted up underneath the rear of the car (I always back into my spot at home) with wires coming out of it.
I'd do it just for the hell of it to see what happens the first time, but I'm almost afraid of the bill they'll hand me for shutting down the gate and calling the bomb squad. People that don't understand what it is can cause all kinds of problems.
Sorry, but we're working with rent-a-cops. They, unfortunately, bend the rules. They will tell you that they search every 5 to 7 cars, but that isn't the case.
On one post, I'll get searched almost every day while others I work with never get searched. These guards know my name, I get searched so often. On another post, I barely get searched, but a guy I work with started getting searched every day after he got into an argument with one of the rent-a-cops. I understand a little harassment, but every day for a month is a bit much. It finally got bad enough for the guy to complain to the MP's about the issue.
As for my car, I know the DRL's annoy the hell out of some of the guards. Its pretty funny when I roll in at 0430 and turn my lights off as I'm getting up to them (making sure they see I'm turning my lights down) and them still comment about my lights - so I turn the regular lights on and its "oh...sorry" then I hit the high-beams, which are Xenon's. Then its "Ok, OK, we believe you!"
My father-in-law gets nailed everytime he flies. I've been standing next to him with a laptop, earphones in, etc and he got nailed. Some pastey, white haired guy with glasses, over me. I still don't get it. Its even funnier when he talks about the times he's pulled into an office to talk about why he has an industrial packet scanner and other "security" type tools when he gets on the airplane. They're "far too advanced for his age..."
On a side note, my wife is in the military and we have to go through "random" security screenings for our cars. Somehow my Saturn gets nailed 10 to 1 over my wife's car every month. There are times when I just want to run the damn guards over.
I'm not a lawyer and will never be one. But, in my warped mind, if they put together the image to help others possibly break copyright, thats accessory. Originally, Napster didn't break copyright, its users did. We all saw what happened after that three ringed circus. I think this company is just being a little too careful.
Unfortunately, he died working on Bindy's project. I feel sorry for her now because that will come back to haunt her in a few years when she starts to think about it.
It was mandatory when I worked for them to offer up to 3 months credit to keep customers. Wouldn't be suprised if they're still doing this. Almost glad I got fired after they took over mindspring.
I worked for an insurance company that had a call center that was down for a week due to a car accident. When they moved buildings, they made sure to pull double everything. Double water, power, phones, etc... Spent millions on the extras. They claimed it was the most up-to-date call center in the city. 3 days later, the whole thing was down again. This time: A car ran into the _1_ pole that ran the power, cable and telco lines into the building - some people are just stupid.
I've also found that if you email them, or put them up on a site for users to look at, people forget that these are mockups and bitch about the things that don't work yet.
Ha!, this is so damn true. I've all but stopped handing out mockups to people because of this. I even tried printing one out recently for the folks I work with and they still complained about certain things on it. "This info is wrong, it should be this...", "Why are you using this picture. You need to change it before we get in trouble from XXXX"...
Its odd, I've been looking over editors for Linux over the last couple of weeks.
I can agree with Dreamweaver, I personally like it. I've only had a few cases where it messed with my code but its not like FrontPage where it forces you to do what it wants - we've all done REALLY stupid things in our past... Now, Fireworks tosses code right out the door and creates a jumbled mess. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver really doesn't function on Linux very well...
I've used Nvu a little, didn't like it too much before, but it looks like its changed enough for me to try it again.
Bluefish tends to crash every once in awhile for me but is otherwise pretty decent. The main thing that I don't like, other than crashes, is that Bluefish doesn't offer an option to FTP to inside the program.
Now, I started a trial of phpED a few days ago and while I like a lot of the built in features its got a lot of problems. A small list is (again, Linux version):
Cutting & Pasting Problems (doesn't view clipboard after opening) GUI can be a pain to wonder around in. Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason for certain features. Won't exit properly after its been open for several hours - you have to kill the damn thing with -9.
In researching editors for Linux over the last few days, I've seen a fair share of complaints about Zend Studio as well. So many, in fact, that I'm not really inclined to try it.
I went 7 months with no paycheck, lost my apartment, most of what I owned. I packed up what I had left and my dog and moved back home with my parents. I was homeless for a little over 2 weeks. One of the most humbling things of my life. (oddly, that sounded a bit like a country song...)
No one at Verizon will do anything other than possibly flag the account with a personal note.
When I worked at an ISP, we would talk to police all the time and time and again, the answer was "Sorry, you must get with our legal dept" and nothing else was given out or said. On the account, we put a note to verify ALL account info before talking to the person.
I recently bought WinXP for gaming and pretty much said it would be the last MSFT OS I would buy.
Yesterday, my wife had to use my computer and asked "What theme is this? My computer doesn't have a theme where I can make the start bar have all that neat stuff..." My response: "Your laptop doesn't have Linux on it either..."
When she's normally around, I'm SSH'd into a webserver somewhere in the US and she just sees the terminal open. She thought that when I checked mail and stuff, I was in windows, but never paid attention.
It really matters what the people are doing as to what they get.
If they're doing Customer Service, sure, throw them on a Ray. Technical Support will work too, but I hope you have enough virtual applications or people that know your software pretty well. If done right, TS works fine (just keep a few windows boxes around for weird testing issues)
If they're programmers - you should really be asking them for a wishlist of what they want and then filter it out from there. Personally, I think Rays don't work too well for some programming situations due to tools required and load on the computer. Heck, I know a C++ programmer that works better on a Mac than anything else. If his productivity goes through the roof on a Mac, give the man a Mac.
I worked at a national ISP where a guy complained so much that he worked his way all the way to the VP. VP put a stop to it right there, sent an email to him that was very similar and instructed us to watch for him to check his mail. As soon as we saw that he grabbed his mail and logged off, we canceled his account. Within 5 minutes, he was trying to sign on again with no luck.
I think that was the best case of customer service I have ever served out.
Pretty much the same thing happened to me with my parents. I built a computer for them, they constantly complained it was the computer, but everytime I looked at it, it was them downloading something, clicking "Yes" to some popup window, etc. After the last fix (Firefox and a spyware program), I told them that if they failed to use those programs as they where told and the problem came about again, I'd walk away.
Needless to say, 2 days after I gave them Firefox, they fired up IE and once again, infected themselves. They refused to use the spyware software claiming it was what caused all the problems because "its spyware...". I refused to fix the computer and told them to look at any notes they had taken. They got fed up and ordered 2 Dells off eBay. Well, once again, the problems occur and they're blaiming the guy they bought the computers from... I refuse to fix any of the 3 and now they claim they're expensive paper weights.
I really hate stupid people. The main point is, some people don't like change and don't want to learn. If you've ever worked Technical Support or Customer Service, you know the feeling you get when a customer starts with: "You guys/You people...."
There are normally laws about how far after the sign you can be flagged for speeding. Look that up then figure out where he was. Go to traffic court and be nice to the judge and he'll probably throw the charge out. At the same time, if the cop doesn't show up, that normally helps your case too.
The US government actually uses automated lawn mowers. The things are about $8k a piece and they keep needing to replace them because they keep doing stupid stuff like running over a sprinkler head (sprinkler and lawn mower don't communicate), running over baseballs or softballs, etc. They've even managed to have one at my local base fry itself by somehow locking on the charger the wrong way. Every time something happens to these things, the company that designs them comes out, does a 2 week study to figure out what went wrong and then decides if its enough to warrent changing the robotic design.
Oh yea, and the grounds crew keeps killing the thing because of the cable burried 2 inches below the grass - the automated "fence"...
About 6 or so years ago, I was all for learning new technologies. I went with PHP back then and was about to hop into ASP but then decided that Microsoft's run was about to be up and people would start worrying about the security aspect of their products.
Needless to say, I was right and wrong. Security became a big issue, but ASP seems to be much popular with larger companies than ASP.
While I still focus on PHP, I'm starting to learn.Net, but will start with the newest version coming out. Just be very careful about what you lock yourself into.
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Why not hack the i-opener? Linux-Hacker is the first link on Google for hacking i-openers.
There are generally a few on eBay that are sold as hacked if you don't want to go through it yourself. Buy a hacked one, sell the old one for someone else to hack.
I use to support these things while working for Earthlink/MindSpring. They're not that bad after you put Linux on them. I've thought of buying one myself just to throw in the corner for a stats setup for my network, computers and hosting servers - just don't have the time.
I'm seriously considering a Carputer with a decent wifi antenna. I can't even imagine whats going to go through their minds when they see a directional antenna mounted up underneath the rear of the car (I always back into my spot at home) with wires coming out of it.
I'd do it just for the hell of it to see what happens the first time, but I'm almost afraid of the bill they'll hand me for shutting down the gate and calling the bomb squad. People that don't understand what it is can cause all kinds of problems.
Sorry, but we're working with rent-a-cops. They, unfortunately, bend the rules. They will tell you that they search every 5 to 7 cars, but that isn't the case.
On one post, I'll get searched almost every day while others I work with never get searched. These guards know my name, I get searched so often. On another post, I barely get searched, but a guy I work with started getting searched every day after he got into an argument with one of the rent-a-cops. I understand a little harassment, but every day for a month is a bit much. It finally got bad enough for the guy to complain to the MP's about the issue.
As for my car, I know the DRL's annoy the hell out of some of the guards. Its pretty funny when I roll in at 0430 and turn my lights off as I'm getting up to them (making sure they see I'm turning my lights down) and them still comment about my lights - so I turn the regular lights on and its "oh...sorry" then I hit the high-beams, which are Xenon's. Then its "Ok, OK, we believe you!"
My father-in-law gets nailed everytime he flies. I've been standing next to him with a laptop, earphones in, etc and he got nailed. Some pastey, white haired guy with glasses, over me. I still don't get it. Its even funnier when he talks about the times he's pulled into an office to talk about why he has an industrial packet scanner and other "security" type tools when he gets on the airplane. They're "far too advanced for his age..."
On a side note, my wife is in the military and we have to go through "random" security screenings for our cars. Somehow my Saturn gets nailed 10 to 1 over my wife's car every month. There are times when I just want to run the damn guards over.
I have no problems with PVR's like MythTV, etc. I was mearly trying to guess at their reason for not including it. To me, its a shitty reason.
So all a teenager needs to do, to find porn now days, is to sit naked in front of the computer and the ads will pop out at him..........
sorry..had to
I'm not a lawyer and will never be one. But, in my warped mind, if they put together the image to help others possibly break copyright, thats accessory. Originally, Napster didn't break copyright, its users did. We all saw what happened after that three ringed circus. I think this company is just being a little too careful.
Unfortunately, he died working on Bindy's project. I feel sorry for her now because that will come back to haunt her in a few years when she starts to think about it.
It was mandatory when I worked for them to offer up to 3 months credit to keep customers. Wouldn't be suprised if they're still doing this. Almost glad I got fired after they took over mindspring.
While I agree with you, the article did state that they didn't include MythTV due to possible issues with Copyright.
For the same reason they keep shipping drivers on 3.5inch floppies.
Because they can.
I worked for an insurance company that had a call center that was down for a week due to a car accident. When they moved buildings, they made sure to pull double everything. Double water, power, phones, etc... Spent millions on the extras. They claimed it was the most up-to-date call center in the city. 3 days later, the whole thing was down again. This time: A car ran into the _1_ pole that ran the power, cable and telco lines into the building - some people are just stupid.
I've also found that if you email them, or put them up on a site for users to look at, people forget that these are mockups and bitch about the things that don't work yet.
Ha!, this is so damn true. I've all but stopped handing out mockups to people because of this. I even tried printing one out recently for the folks I work with and they still complained about certain things on it. "This info is wrong, it should be this...", "Why are you using this picture. You need to change it before we get in trouble from XXXX"...
Its odd, I've been looking over editors for Linux over the last couple of weeks.
I can agree with Dreamweaver, I personally like it. I've only had a few cases where it messed with my code but its not like FrontPage where it forces you to do what it wants - we've all done REALLY stupid things in our past... Now, Fireworks tosses code right out the door and creates a jumbled mess. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver really doesn't function on Linux very well...
I've used Nvu a little, didn't like it too much before, but it looks like its changed enough for me to try it again.
Bluefish tends to crash every once in awhile for me but is otherwise pretty decent. The main thing that I don't like, other than crashes, is that Bluefish doesn't offer an option to FTP to inside the program.
Now, I started a trial of phpED a few days ago and while I like a lot of the built in features its got a lot of problems. A small list is (again, Linux version):
Cutting & Pasting Problems (doesn't view clipboard after opening)
GUI can be a pain to wonder around in. Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason for certain features.
Won't exit properly after its been open for several hours - you have to kill the damn thing with -9.
In researching editors for Linux over the last few days, I've seen a fair share of complaints about Zend Studio as well. So many, in fact, that I'm not really inclined to try it.
I went 7 months with no paycheck, lost my apartment, most of what I owned. I packed up what I had left and my dog and moved back home with my parents. I was homeless for a little over 2 weeks. One of the most humbling things of my life. (oddly, that sounded a bit like a country song...)
No one at Verizon will do anything other than possibly flag the account with a personal note.
When I worked at an ISP, we would talk to police all the time and time and again, the answer was "Sorry, you must get with our legal dept" and nothing else was given out or said. On the account, we put a note to verify ALL account info before talking to the person.
I recently bought WinXP for gaming and pretty much said it would be the last MSFT OS I would buy.
Yesterday, my wife had to use my computer and asked "What theme is this? My computer doesn't have a theme where I can make the start bar have all that neat stuff..." My response: "Your laptop doesn't have Linux on it either..."
When she's normally around, I'm SSH'd into a webserver somewhere in the US and she just sees the terminal open. She thought that when I checked mail and stuff, I was in windows, but never paid attention.
Couldn't agree with you more.
It really matters what the people are doing as to what they get.
If they're doing Customer Service, sure, throw them on a Ray. Technical Support will work too, but I hope you have enough virtual applications or people that know your software pretty well. If done right, TS works fine (just keep a few windows boxes around for weird testing issues)
If they're programmers - you should really be asking them for a wishlist of what they want and then filter it out from there. Personally, I think Rays don't work too well for some programming situations due to tools required and load on the computer. Heck, I know a C++ programmer that works better on a Mac than anything else. If his productivity goes through the roof on a Mac, give the man a Mac.
The funny part is, the guy that invented this tool, is the same guy that invented the damn packaging.
I worked at a national ISP where a guy complained so much that he worked his way all the way to the VP. VP put a stop to it right there, sent an email to him that was very similar and instructed us to watch for him to check his mail. As soon as we saw that he grabbed his mail and logged off, we canceled his account. Within 5 minutes, he was trying to sign on again with no luck.
I think that was the best case of customer service I have ever served out.
Pretty much the same thing happened to me with my parents. I built a computer for them, they constantly complained it was the computer, but everytime I looked at it, it was them downloading something, clicking "Yes" to some popup window, etc. After the last fix (Firefox and a spyware program), I told them that if they failed to use those programs as they where told and the problem came about again, I'd walk away.
Needless to say, 2 days after I gave them Firefox, they fired up IE and once again, infected themselves. They refused to use the spyware software claiming it was what caused all the problems because "its spyware...". I refused to fix the computer and told them to look at any notes they had taken. They got fed up and ordered 2 Dells off eBay. Well, once again, the problems occur and they're blaiming the guy they bought the computers from... I refuse to fix any of the 3 and now they claim they're expensive paper weights.
I really hate stupid people. The main point is, some people don't like change and don't want to learn. If you've ever worked Technical Support or Customer Service, you know the feeling you get when a customer starts with: "You guys/You people...."
There are normally laws about how far after the sign you can be flagged for speeding. Look that up then figure out where he was. Go to traffic court and be nice to the judge and he'll probably throw the charge out. At the same time, if the cop doesn't show up, that normally helps your case too.
The US government actually uses automated lawn mowers. The things are about $8k a piece and they keep needing to replace them because they keep doing stupid stuff like running over a sprinkler head (sprinkler and lawn mower don't communicate), running over baseballs or softballs, etc. They've even managed to have one at my local base fry itself by somehow locking on the charger the wrong way. Every time something happens to these things, the company that designs them comes out, does a 2 week study to figure out what went wrong and then decides if its enough to warrent changing the robotic design.
Oh yea, and the grounds crew keeps killing the thing because of the cable burried 2 inches below the grass - the automated "fence"...
About 6 or so years ago, I was all for learning new technologies. I went with PHP back then and was about to hop into ASP but then decided that Microsoft's run was about to be up and people would start worrying about the security aspect of their products.
.Net, but will start with the newest version coming out. Just be very careful about what you lock yourself into.
Needless to say, I was right and wrong. Security became a big issue, but ASP seems to be much popular with larger companies than ASP.
While I still focus on PHP, I'm starting to learn
But Brain, if WTF is really What The Fu... Wait! I can't Say that! I'm a Cartoon!