I had the same problem with one of my ViewSonic VP171b. After you have done the requisite trouble shooting (jiggling/swapping cables, swapping vid cards) you can call ViewSonic for help. I mailed mine to them, they fixed it for me, and they mailed it back to me. Took all of two weeks. I think I paid for shipping to them, but they paid for the return shipping.
HFSLIP is highly recommended. It is a windows batch file so everything it does is transparent and it can be considered an open solution. It supports 2k/XP/2003.
The batch file calls standard windows programs in order to integrate hotfixes, codecs, drivers, and lots of other neat stuff into a fresh ISO (automatically). Really quite easy, and the support is excellent.
The new version doesn't seem to automatically post a link to the directory that a site fits into. I found this to be a great feature and used it all the time.
You can still search in the directory, but I miss the convenience of having the directory link automatically posted for my lazy ass.
2/20/2004 - WASHINGTON -- Air Force people who have received a promotional copy of a popular office productivity software suite, are instructed to return it to the sender.
The Microsoft Corporation sent promotional copies of its popular "Office" software to a half million customers -- some in the Air Force. The commercial value of those software packages, more than $500 each, exceeds Joint Ethics Regulation limits for personal gifts, said John Gilligan, Air Force chief information officer.
"Our ethical regulations govern the acceptance of gifts from those who do business with us," Mr. Gilligan said. "The value of those packages is well in excess of what Air Force members can accept, in particular since we are customers of Microsoft. In the public sector we are not allowed to accept that type of gift."
Mr. Gilligan said Air Force members who received the promotional software are obligated to return it to Microsoft.
People may return the software by re-sealing the packaging, marking it "refused delivery -- return to sender" and taking it to the post office. Mr. Gilligan said if the post office refuses to take the packages, they can be turned in to local communications squadrons.
"Our installation communications squadrons will be collecting the packages and mailing them back as a group," Mr. Gilligan said.
The policies regarding acceptance of gifts are in place to protect the Air Force from undue influence by organizations it does business with. Mr. Gilligan said the principal desktop productivity suite used in the Air Force comes from Microsoft. He also said the service is in negotiations with the company for additional product licenses.
While it is unethical for employees of the public sector to accept gifts, Mr. Gilligan said the Air Force does not believe Microsoft had any ill intent.
"This was simply a marketing campaign that Microsoft undertook where they failed to understand the impact of sending free sample software to government employees," Mr. Gilligan said. "I think it was just an oversight by not realizing the ethical restrictions we are under."
Nobody has mentioned the Elric saga! I personally, as well as a few other people I have known, have read this series of books more than once. Perhaps by nobody nominating Moorcock I should realize that he isn't as popular as I thought. If anyone decides to check out his work, I recommend the books of his youth. His more recent stories have become more theoretical and convoluted. The stories he wrote when he was younger are much more exciting.
I was in a similar situation a while back. While working on the terminal of our proprietary system at my job I accidentally found a backdoor that gave me access to a shell. I notified the Sysadmin, a good friend of mine, immediately. He told me mess around with the backdoor and see how far I could get with it. He wanted me to test the severity of the exploit before he reported it to the vendor. I ended up getting quite far and giving myself access to manager's functions. I told the sysadmin of my success and he thanked me for my help. I left it at that. It is a military system on the base LAN so I had no desire to use the system for personal gain. It would have been suicide to do so.
So time went on and one day our Lieutentant was playing around with the system and saw my profile was setup with manager access. He changed it back to it's proper access levels and told me "it's taken care of". Later that day the facility manager returned. She is an older lady of the sort that fears technology, change, and progress. He told her of my actions and she went through the roof. She documented my actions as though I had committed a crime. She contacted my Commander and tried to get me demoted. I was in quite a bit of trouble.
I was fired and moved to a different facility (This is common practice in the military). I was put on a bad shift with a notoriously gruff supervisor. Life sucked.
My only revenge is the knowledge that when the time came to write my annual performance review, I ensured that the incident was documented as a positive occurrence. The review notes that my actions increased the overall security of the proprietary system. Due to the nature of the information the system contained, this is quite significant.
Isn't it sad what closed-minded people can do when they refuse open their eyes to new ideas?
i did some moderating, and the following was the result. notice the sequence of numbers that designate which posts i moderated. december 28?
Moderating 99/12/28/1622239
+1 (Informative) Servers are down where I work. (99/12/28/1622239-22, 3 points left) +1 (Informative) Site going down for 1.75 days (99/12/28/1622239-25, 2 points left) +1 (Informative) ebay (99/12/28/1622239-34, 1 points left) +1 (Informative) kepp it up (99/12/28/1622239-37, 0 points left) You don't have any moderator points.
"Bringing E-Com Sites Down for Y2K?" | Preferences | 89 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: Save: The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say. ( Beta is only a state of mind ) If your site is down, you need a new IS manager (Score:5, Insightful) by Bruce Perens (bruce@perens.com) on Friday December 31, @10:44 AHS (#26) (User Info) http://TECHNOCRAT.NET/
I,too, am very happy with my Belkin OMNICube. (F1D094) I don't use the keyboard commands to switch consoles, so I cant verify the problems that Mole has, but I do use the buttons on the face and they work great. The only problem i've had with mine is that the faceplate kcomes off on the right-hand side. If i had the energy to get off my ass and glue it on it'd probably be fine, but that isnt the point:)
also the ps/2 ports (this is a ps/2 only KVM, do NOT try to use a ps/2-serial adapter, it WILL NOT WORK) seem to be kind of loose...they dont hold teh plugs in as tightly as most components. so take care when moving the switch around as they will come out and then you get to fish through all your wiring to get it back.
the ps/2 console ports on the front are very handy. i know i'm not supposed to do it, but i hot-swap components on the front ports with no trouble at all. very handy.
i bought one of these bad boys a while back for a trip to saudi arabia. i knew nothing less would survive the ordeal. for various reasons i never actually went to saudi, so now i have this nice expensive laptop that cant possible live up to its potential.
thats ok though...it is currently a linux server running mandrake 6.0 with an uptime well over 30 days.
I have seem a number of ISPs that are already doing things similar to this. Off the top of my head the only one i can think of is the Canadian ISP bconnected.net. They assign NIC MAC address to the hostnames of their cable modem subscribers. so an IP of 209.53.*.* may resolve to the hostname 00-4c-ec-2b-2d-00.bconnected.net.
Luckily my ISP doesn't do this, I would immediately find a new provider.
Good ol Bob Cringely has a few thoughts about the whole Jane's event:
"Maybe this was in the minds of the folks at Jane's, the British publisher of defense information, who this week threw their cyber terrorism research at the nerds who read Slashdot, hoping for some inexpensive proofreading to keep Jane's from making their own big mistakes. This is an interesting idea but ultimately flawed, I think. The only way to write the news is to write the news. You have to do it the best that you can then take the heat, because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship. That's why newspapers make corrections."
Obviously he wasn't aware that Jane decided to publish the/. posts when he wrote this article, and I'm just dying to hear what he has to say about it.
Censorship? Nobody told Jane's they *couldn't* post that crap, we simply informed them of it being such a bad idea:)
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I had the same problem with one of my ViewSonic VP171b. After you have done the requisite trouble shooting (jiggling/swapping cables, swapping vid cards) you can call ViewSonic for help. I mailed mine to them, they fixed it for me, and they mailed it back to me. Took all of two weeks. I think I paid for shipping to them, but they paid for the return shipping.
Good luck.
The definitive source: http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/ There is tons of info there along with a database of proven configurations.
Personally, I recommend a Matrox Parhelia with three flat screens. UT2004 looks great and runs smoothly across all three screens.
HFSLIP is highly recommended. It is a windows batch file so everything it does is transparent and it can be considered an open solution. It supports 2k/XP/2003.
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The batch file calls standard windows programs in order to integrate hotfixes, codecs, drivers, and lots of other neat stuff into a fresh ISO (automatically). Really quite easy, and the support is excellent.
The community is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=828e7ef495f
And a full description is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=576
More info on the Foxhole Radio is here.
Didn't the South Koreans also report a huge North Korean explosion and mushroom cloud that made everyone whisper "nukes"?
I think the South Koreans are a great bunch of people but I wouldn't believe all of their news without double-checking the accuracy.
The new version doesn't seem to automatically post a link to the directory that a site fits into. I found this to be a great feature and used it all the time.
You can still search in the directory, but I miss the convenience of having the directory link automatically posted for my lazy ass.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007021
Free software must be returned
by Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez
Air Force Print News
2/20/2004 - WASHINGTON -- Air Force people who have received a promotional copy of a popular office productivity software suite, are instructed to return it to the sender.
The Microsoft Corporation sent promotional copies of its popular "Office" software to a half million customers -- some in the Air Force. The commercial value of those software packages, more than $500 each, exceeds Joint Ethics Regulation limits for personal gifts, said John Gilligan, Air Force chief information officer.
"Our ethical regulations govern the acceptance of gifts from those who do business with us," Mr. Gilligan said. "The value of those packages is well in excess of what Air Force members can accept, in particular since we are customers of Microsoft. In the public sector we are not allowed to accept that type of gift."
Mr. Gilligan said Air Force members who received the promotional software are obligated to return it to Microsoft.
People may return the software by re-sealing the packaging, marking it "refused delivery -- return to sender" and taking it to the post office. Mr. Gilligan said if the post office refuses to take the packages, they can be turned in to local communications squadrons.
"Our installation communications squadrons will be collecting the packages and mailing them back as a group," Mr. Gilligan said.
The policies regarding acceptance of gifts are in place to protect the Air Force from undue influence by organizations it does business with. Mr. Gilligan said the principal desktop productivity suite used in the Air Force comes from Microsoft. He also said the service is in negotiations with the company for additional product licenses.
While it is unethical for employees of the public sector to accept gifts, Mr. Gilligan said the Air Force does not believe Microsoft had any ill intent.
"This was simply a marketing campaign that Microsoft undertook where they failed to understand the impact of sending free sample software to government employees," Mr. Gilligan said. "I think it was just an oversight by not realizing the ethical restrictions we are under."
Nobody has mentioned the Elric saga! I personally, as well as a few other people I have known, have read this series of books more than once. Perhaps by nobody nominating Moorcock I should realize that he isn't as popular as I thought. If anyone decides to check out his work, I recommend the books of his youth. His more recent stories have become more theoretical and convoluted. The stories he wrote when he was younger are much more exciting.
I was in a similar situation a while back. While working on the terminal of our proprietary system at my job I accidentally found a backdoor that gave me access to a shell. I notified the Sysadmin, a good friend of mine, immediately. He told me mess around with the backdoor and see how far I could get with it. He wanted me to test the severity of the exploit before he reported it to the vendor. I ended up getting quite far and giving myself access to manager's functions. I told the sysadmin of my success and he thanked me for my help. I left it at that. It is a military system on the base LAN so I had no desire to use the system for personal gain. It would have been suicide to do so.
So time went on and one day our Lieutentant was playing around with the system and saw my profile was setup with manager access. He changed it back to it's proper access levels and told me "it's taken care of". Later that day the facility manager returned. She is an older lady of the sort that fears technology, change, and progress. He told her of my actions and she went through the roof. She documented my actions as though I had committed a crime. She contacted my Commander and tried to get me demoted. I was in quite a bit of trouble.
I was fired and moved to a different facility (This is common practice in the military). I was put on a bad shift with a notoriously gruff supervisor. Life sucked.
My only revenge is the knowledge that when the time came to write my annual performance review, I ensured that the incident was documented as a positive occurrence. The review notes that my actions increased the overall security of the proprietary system. Due to the nature of the information the system contained, this is quite significant.
Isn't it sad what closed-minded people can do when they refuse open their eyes to new ideas?
i did some moderating, and the following was the result. notice the sequence of numbers that designate which posts i moderated. december 28?
Moderating 99/12/28/1622239
+1 (Informative) Servers are down where I work. (99/12/28/1622239-22, 3 points left)
+1 (Informative) Site going down for 1.75 days (99/12/28/1622239-25, 2 points left)
+1 (Informative) ebay (99/12/28/1622239-34, 1 points left)
+1 (Informative) kepp it up (99/12/28/1622239-37, 0 points left) You don't have any moderator points.
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by Bruce Perens (bruce@perens.com) on Friday December 31, @10:44 AHS (#26)
(User Info) http://TECHNOCRAT.NET/
I,too, am very happy with my Belkin OMNICube. (F1D094) I don't use the keyboard commands to switch consoles, so I cant verify the problems that Mole has, but I do use the buttons on the face and they work great. The only problem i've had with mine is that the faceplate kcomes off on the right-hand side. If i had the energy to get off my ass and glue it on it'd probably be fine, but that isnt the point :)
also the ps/2 ports (this is a ps/2 only KVM, do NOT try to use a ps/2-serial adapter, it WILL NOT WORK) seem to be kind of loose...they dont hold teh plugs in as tightly as most components. so take care when moving the switch around as they will come out and then you get to fish through all your wiring to get it back.
the ps/2 console ports on the front are very handy. i know i'm not supposed to do it, but i hot-swap components on the front ports with no trouble at all. very handy.
i bought one of these bad boys a while back for a trip to saudi arabia. i knew nothing less would survive the ordeal. for various reasons i never actually went to saudi, so now i have this nice expensive laptop that cant possible live up to its potential.
thats ok though...it is currently a linux server running mandrake 6.0 with an uptime well over 30 days.
i love this box. get one. now.
I have seem a number of ISPs that are already doing things similar to this. Off the top of my head the only one i can think of is the Canadian ISP bconnected.net. They assign NIC MAC address to the hostnames of their cable modem subscribers. so an IP of 209.53.*.* may resolve to the hostname 00-4c-ec-2b-2d-00.bconnected.net.
Luckily my ISP doesn't do this, I would immediately find a new provider.
It's all downhill from here
Good ol Bob Cringely has a few thoughts about the whole Jane's event:
/. posts when he wrote this article, and I'm just dying to hear what he has to say about it.
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"Maybe this was in the minds of the folks at Jane's, the British publisher of defense information, who this week threw their cyber terrorism research at the nerds who read Slashdot, hoping for some inexpensive proofreading to keep Jane's from making their own big mistakes. This is an interesting idea but ultimately flawed, I think. The only way to write the news is to write the news. You have to do it the best that you can then take the heat, because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship. That's why newspapers make corrections."
Obviously he wasn't aware that Jane decided to publish the
Censorship? Nobody told Jane's they *couldn't* post that crap, we simply informed them of it being such a bad idea
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit199910
Reminds me of a really evil but kinda neat site www.cat-scan.com
:)
Yes its bad i know, but i can't help but share