Anyway to block this off at the gateway? then claim that your computer doesn't have internet access and thus shouldn't be disabled if they do disable it? I just don't like the idea of having ANYTHING "phone home" regularly behind my back
Was the most absolutely beautiful night in my life, until the moon came up anyway. I can't number how many friends looked up at the sky for the first time and realized the beauty that was always hidden away.
Really rather wish they didn't fix it so damn fast. Should make these blackouts a yearly thing, Earth hour is nothing in comparison.
Seriously, why is this listed as a fault these days? Optical discs are big, slow, have lots of DRM and are easily damaged. Give me something that I can plug a big ESATA drive or USB key into and play movies directly off of and I'm happy. I don't want to waste space and battery life on an optical drive.
True road warriors really ought not be carrying a 17" laptop around anyway. Airport waiting areas and airline seats barely have room for your elbows as it is, you want to fill up what little space you have with a gigantic 17" laptop? yikes.
I recently set up a computer for an aunt who'd never owned a computer. She'd used them at public kiosks and work, but that's it. Her primary use was just web browsing, email and occasional letter typing. I was originally going to put Windows on it, but then thought I'd try an experiment.
So instead I installed Ubuntu (Intrepid) on an old machine (Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB RAM), set up my admin account and her limited account, and set up SSH on it so I could remotely administer it if I needed to. Total installation, updates and configuration took maybe 2 hours
So far it's been a month and I've never even had to go help her with...well, anything! She's been using it daily, and I've not had to fix anything.
I saved time from having to install antivirus/spyware-scans, installing updates and service packs (I only have a slipstreamed copy of SP2, I haven't had a reason to bother slipstreaming SP3 yet), it's nice and snappy even with just 1GB RAM (certainly helps to not have to run an on-access virus scanner!) and it literally does everything she needs.
Forget Windows. Seriously, what's the point for someone who just wants to go online? Letting the "average user" go online with Windows is walking into a high-school with a kick-me sign on their back.
Rogers Cable high-speed internet has been doing that for the past couple months now too. URL typos get redirected to their own search.rogers.yahoo.com or something like that, disabling toolbar search functions in browsers.
The kicker is that I also think they're actively blocking access to other search engines periodically in order to increase usage of their own. www.Google.com will sometimes time-out while trying to load, but works fine when accessed through Dogpile meta-search.
Since I've moved off of Rogers already, I can't do more experiments to test, but if anyone else is on it, I suggest you keep an eye out.
You can use Unison over SSH, make the user's home directory encrypted using EncFS, and you'll have both secure transfer and secure storage. I've written a couple scripts that do something similar. Unison is nice because it works like rsync yet is more easily available for all platforms.
Vigilantism can be a dangerous thing, but I think in this case they did it as correctly as they could have. At no point did they actually confront the perp, and basically left all confrontations to the police. All they did was help track him down and then let the proper official channels handle him from there.
At the very worst, they might have been called out for harassing the guy by hiding outside his house etc. But then again, if the perp really was innocent, he could have called the police himself for possible harassment and stalking charges against the groups that sat outside his house, but he didn't.
I think these guys deserve some credit for doing this as "properly" as vigilantes possibly could. Well done.
What an ingenious solution! No wonder Microsoft is the leading innovator in IT!
That's SO innovative it makes me sick. It's hard enough trying to explain to customers why they shouldn't waste their money on 4GB of memory and a 1GB video card only to lose a quarter of it in real life, now the OS is trying actively trying to make me look like a liar too.
No, I'm afraid you're wrong. Columbia was lost about a third of it's tiles during delivery from Palmdale to KSC. That was probably the only time there was such severe tile LOSS.
During it's first flight Columbia came back from STS-1 with a large number of tiles missing, blown off due to shockwaves during launch, there are fairly famous pictures of large sections of tile missing on the OMS pods taken from within the orbiter while it was in space.
The most significant tile damage was on an Atlantis DOD flight, I forget the flight number, there were entire tiles missing and a huge number were damaged, visible pitting from the chase plane, so far far more severe than the current Endeavour damage.
Enterprise didn't even have tiles, it was all mockup panels.
I've been running parallels on my mbp since I got it in December. Every version, and every beta up until they finally released build 3188. I've had occasional problems with grey screens, but definetly not "a couple times a week", more like once a month, tops. I don't see how you can call it "avoid like the plague".
should be on the list.
WTF is F*&$ing PARIS HILTON doing there?? gah!!!
on the other hand, if you count how many geeks have copies of her phonebook/"private" videos/pictures, then MAYBE.
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It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
Only to realize they had forgot they were solar powered.
the fourth is that if you complain, you're branded as being unpatriotic, a quack, and at worst, a TERRORIST!! Because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, right???
And you thought that movie "Enemy of the State" was just a movie.
no. Enterprise hardly had any parts that were useful to the real shuttles. Endeavour was built from a brand new set of spares that NASA wanted built "just in case". They were entirely new parts, not reused ones from Enterprise.
I wouldn't call hte first 25 flights free of failure. From the very first Columbia flight, tiles were lost due to improper sound suppression on the launch pad, SSME sensors shutdown 1 and then almost a second engine during launch of Challenger once, causing them to have to Abort to Orbit. There was an APU fire during landing that wasn't caught until after the shuttle had landed. Many flights before Challenger experienced burn of the O-Rings, just they weren't bad enough to fail.
It was fortunate that the shuttle was engineered to the point that it was able to absorb all of these failures without loss of the crew. It had so much safety margin that everyone started to see that margin as "normal operational deviance", when it was really supposed to be just an emergency buffer.
Had to use it for a course one year....nothing is properly linked to each other, each "module" is so completely separate I might as well be looking at a different website. The profs don't know how to use it effectively either, and it seems to just be used as an excuse for the bad profs to avoid seeing students face to face. Haven't seen a SINGLE effective use of WebCT in my entire time at school. And this is the leading university in Canada. Bleh.
in yet other news, the RIAA is now sueing every woman for every cycle for which she is ovulating but not conceiving. The RIAA argues that it results in lost revenue due to the mother's negligence in producing a possible music buying child.
This program coincides with their recent lawsuits against men who masturbate, as men who commit such acts are likely to have lax parenting practices that would cause their potential offspring to steal music and thus rob the RIAA of potential profits.
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Anyway to block this off at the gateway? then claim that your computer doesn't have internet access and thus shouldn't be disabled if they do disable it? I just don't like the idea of having ANYTHING "phone home" regularly behind my back
Was the most absolutely beautiful night in my life, until the moon came up anyway. I can't number how many friends looked up at the sky for the first time and realized the beauty that was always hidden away.
Really rather wish they didn't fix it so damn fast. Should make these blackouts a yearly thing, Earth hour is nothing in comparison.
Seriously, why is this listed as a fault these days? Optical discs are big, slow, have lots of DRM and are easily damaged. Give me something that I can plug a big ESATA drive or USB key into and play movies directly off of and I'm happy. I don't want to waste space and battery life on an optical drive.
True road warriors really ought not be carrying a 17" laptop around anyway. Airport waiting areas and airline seats barely have room for your elbows as it is, you want to fill up what little space you have with a gigantic 17" laptop? yikes.
I recently set up a computer for an aunt who'd never owned a computer. She'd used them at public kiosks and work, but that's it. Her primary use was just web browsing, email and occasional letter typing. I was originally going to put Windows on it, but then thought I'd try an experiment.
So instead I installed Ubuntu (Intrepid) on an old machine (Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB RAM), set up my admin account and her limited account, and set up SSH on it so I could remotely administer it if I needed to. Total installation, updates and configuration took maybe 2 hours
So far it's been a month and I've never even had to go help her with...well, anything! She's been using it daily, and I've not had to fix anything.
I saved time from having to install antivirus/spyware-scans, installing updates and service packs (I only have a slipstreamed copy of SP2, I haven't had a reason to bother slipstreaming SP3 yet), it's nice and snappy even with just 1GB RAM (certainly helps to not have to run an on-access virus scanner!) and it literally does everything she needs.
Forget Windows. Seriously, what's the point for someone who just wants to go online? Letting the "average user" go online with Windows is walking into a high-school with a kick-me sign on their back.
Rogers Cable high-speed internet has been doing that for the past couple months now too. URL typos get redirected to their own search.rogers.yahoo.com or something like that, disabling toolbar search functions in browsers.
The kicker is that I also think they're actively blocking access to other search engines periodically in order to increase usage of their own. www.Google.com will sometimes time-out while trying to load, but works fine when accessed through Dogpile meta-search.
Since I've moved off of Rogers already, I can't do more experiments to test, but if anyone else is on it, I suggest you keep an eye out.
You can use Unison over SSH, make the user's home directory encrypted using EncFS, and you'll have both secure transfer and secure storage. I've written a couple scripts that do something similar. Unison is nice because it works like rsync yet is more easily available for all platforms.
This Oyster card seems like a bad rip off of Hong Kong's Octopus card system. Why didn't they just use that anyway? NIH syndrome?
Vigilantism can be a dangerous thing, but I think in this case they did it as correctly as they could have. At no point did they actually confront the perp, and basically left all confrontations to the police. All they did was help track him down and then let the proper official channels handle him from there. At the very worst, they might have been called out for harassing the guy by hiding outside his house etc. But then again, if the perp really was innocent, he could have called the police himself for possible harassment and stalking charges against the groups that sat outside his house, but he didn't. I think these guys deserve some credit for doing this as "properly" as vigilantes possibly could. Well done.
What an ingenious solution! No wonder Microsoft is the leading innovator in IT! That's SO innovative it makes me sick. It's hard enough trying to explain to customers why they shouldn't waste their money on 4GB of memory and a 1GB video card only to lose a quarter of it in real life, now the OS is trying actively trying to make me look like a liar too.
more like Skynet....Storm hasn't gotten to any nuclear missile control systems yet has it??
No, I'm afraid you're wrong. Columbia was lost about a third of it's tiles during delivery from Palmdale to KSC. That was probably the only time there was such severe tile LOSS.
During it's first flight Columbia came back from STS-1 with a large number of tiles missing, blown off due to shockwaves during launch, there are fairly famous pictures of large sections of tile missing on the OMS pods taken from within the orbiter while it was in space.
The most significant tile damage was on an Atlantis DOD flight, I forget the flight number, there were entire tiles missing and a huge number were damaged, visible pitting from the chase plane, so far far more severe than the current Endeavour damage.
Enterprise didn't even have tiles, it was all mockup panels.
I think you need to give hime your geek card =D
I've been running parallels on my mbp since I got it in December. Every version, and every beta up until they finally released build 3188. I've had occasional problems with grey screens, but definetly not "a couple times a week", more like once a month, tops. I don't see how you can call it "avoid like the plague".
Try http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/ WONDERFUL tool. And if you have money, go buy Apple Remote Desktop, even better.
Thank you for that. I'd been using Witch to select between windows, didn't know that there was somethign built in already.
should be on the list. WTF is F*&$ing PARIS HILTON doing there?? gah!!! on the other hand, if you count how many geeks have copies of her phonebook/"private" videos/pictures, then MAYBE.
It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug...
Only to realize they had forgot they were solar powered.
hence why we scorched the sky
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the fourth is that if you complain, you're branded as being unpatriotic, a quack, and at worst, a TERRORIST!! Because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, right???
And you thought that movie "Enemy of the State" was just a movie.
here's something simpler:
yum update
and unless the kernel was updated (mine wasn't), that's all you need to do!
no.
Enterprise hardly had any parts that were useful to the real shuttles. Endeavour was built from a brand new set of spares that NASA wanted built "just in case". They were entirely new parts, not reused ones from Enterprise.
I wouldn't call hte first 25 flights free of failure. From the very first Columbia flight, tiles were lost due to improper sound suppression on the launch pad, SSME sensors shutdown 1 and then almost a second engine during launch of Challenger once, causing them to have to Abort to Orbit. There was an APU fire during landing that wasn't caught until after the shuttle had landed. Many flights before Challenger experienced burn of the O-Rings, just they weren't bad enough to fail.
It was fortunate that the shuttle was engineered to the point that it was able to absorb all of these failures without loss of the crew. It had so much safety margin that everyone started to see that margin as "normal operational deviance", when it was really supposed to be just an emergency buffer.
Had to use it for a course one year....nothing is properly linked to each other, each "module" is so completely separate I might as well be looking at a different website. The profs don't know how to use it effectively either, and it seems to just be used as an excuse for the bad profs to avoid seeing students face to face. Haven't seen a SINGLE effective use of WebCT in my entire time at school. And this is the leading university in Canada. Bleh.
in yet other news, the RIAA is now sueing every woman for every cycle for which she is ovulating but not conceiving. The RIAA argues that it results in lost revenue due to the mother's negligence in producing a possible music buying child.
This program coincides with their recent lawsuits against men who masturbate, as men who commit such acts are likely to have lax parenting practices that would cause their potential offspring to steal music and thus rob the RIAA of potential profits.
Mac OS up to OS 9 was a Co-operative multitasking OS....OS X is fully preemptive