I've been a customer of Bell$outh, $BC and a few others.
It is my opinion that Bell$outh is actually worse than $BC, which is hard to believe.
I try my darnest to Not do business with either one of them (home & work). I actually prefer to pay more from a different provider just to incite competition and avoid those clowns.
There is No innovation from these Bozos. Missed the boat on VOIP. I mean look at Verizon they're working on fiber to the curb. Any how long are we going to have to pay a surchare for touch tone service? What a joke and rip-off.
I hate their support (1st level outsource). Here's a little secret when calling either one of these guys, if you select that it is a new install for DSLs (even though it is not) you always get US based personnel. T's, Frames, etc are not outsourced in my experience. But last time I had a Frame problem, it took hours to find anyone who even knew what Frame Relay was at $BC (actually I never did find anyone at $BC, pathetic).
Hate to say it, but I long for the day when both of these companies are out of business.
Last I checked, RIS used uni-cast to send a PC image. Whereas Norton Ghost Corp uses multi-cast. For anything more than a handful of PCs, RIS could seriously impact network throughput. I doubt anyone actually uses it outside of a certification mill.
For some strange reason I'm not comforted by the fact that the people doing the investigating have historically been fabulously inept. Actually that is even more scary.
The whole point of DMA (most modern HDs) is that the HD interacts with the chipset and not the CPU. Thus Direct Memory Access (DMA) vs. Programmed Input Output (PIO) where the HD interupts the CPU to handle IO requests.
Reality isn't quite as clear cut, but for the user's view on things. You are wrong.
AC said, "Fact is that they are NOT charging more than once for the infrastructure."
Last time I had a phone bill (cut the landline long time ago). I was still being billed extra for having touch tone service. Yes that's right! Look at your bill. It actually costs SBC more to support the very very few people who still have pulse dial (my grandma is the only one I can recall seeing). The change over to tone has been nearly 100% complete for 10 years now.
Most phones have a switch that changes them between tone and pulse. I suggest everyone flip the switch to pulse, call SBC and have that tone TAX eliminated. Let's see if they have enough tone equipment still functional to support it.
Why not address the source of the problem rather than try to restrict the potential victims.
There have been many instances here in CA of child molesters being arrested by the police who posed as underage children in chat rooms.
I understand this costs $, but isn't it better to interdict the perps before they commit a crime? It's not like the perps cannot find other sources of victims. Isn't it easier to catch perps while sitting at your desk and drinking coffee rather than looking for missing children, interviewing past victims, etc.
I have vonage with a motorolla router/VOIP unit. It stits behind my router with ports mapped (not needed actually). After I cut the landline I just plugged the POTS output from the Vonage modem into a standard phone jack at the wall. I have regular POTS phones plugged in just like I don't have VOIP and a cordless phone (standard POTS). Works great. No PC need be on (only the router/VOIP unit depending on your configuration). $25/mo unlimited local and long distance US & Canada.
I used to pay $11/mo for metered local and $25/mo for Qwest business long distance (something like 300 minute the 5.* cents per minute after that).
I will try my best to never buy another sony product. To the best of my knowledge I haven't given them a thin dime in 5+ years. I would rather give philips more $$ than I would have given to $ony even if sony products are better.
The only sony product in my home is a Sun Microsystems monitor with a sony tube which I bought at an auction several years ago, so even then they didn't get a dime from me.
Bottom Line: If you're gonna talk the talk, walk the walk. Vote with your $$
How about give it away for free for students, hobyists, personal use, etc. In order to build a user base and charge for commercial versions (to be used in businesses for businesses)?
IIRC Intel used to have an AV product namely Intel LanDesk manager. Then they sold it to Symantec which became NAVCE (Norton Anti Virus Corporate Edition) and now SAVCE.
Personally I don't give a crap about music. I barely listen to am radio when I'm driving.
I think we need to reform the role of corporations. and the legal system. When Disney can "buy" absurd copywrong laws, everything is patented and the only the way to win in the legal system is to settle (unless you have at your disposal assets equivalent to a large mega corp), something is terribly wrong.
I don't think this is what are founding fathers envisioned when they created this country. Corporations didn't exist then. IIRC that entity was created in the 30's.
Now to venture off-topic:
The one thing I think that would be a step in the right direction is if corporations were no longer legally recognized as a separate entity but the product of actions by the CEO, Board of directors, etc and they are held liable for the criminal and civil misdeeds of the corporation.
>Impatience with the slowness of the legislative >and judicial systems is a tenuous argument for >breaking the law, particularly when we're not >exactly talking about stealing a loaf of bread >for your starving family.
I can just see people telling this to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement.
BTW I don't download music either legally or by infringing copyright. But I am sick to death of mega corps and mega corp associations extorting money from people, buying legislation which is patently absurd and generally abusing the legal system.
launching from the notify (basically shell, even present at safe mode command prompt). Randomly renamed and recreated on shutdown & reboot.
files didn't exist while running.
some kinda of api hijack as a file (tcptrace.exe, iirc) wasn't viewable (dir, attrib, etc). Some kind of ADS (alternative data stream) thus wouldn't service pack?
Was the pst larger than 2 gb? If so use the pst trimmer from MS. The try the pst repair tool. I'd use a copy of the pst and keep the original. Perhaps you already did this?
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I've been a customer of Bell$outh, $BC and a few others.
It is my opinion that Bell$outh is actually worse than $BC, which is hard to believe.
I try my darnest to Not do business with either one of them (home & work). I actually prefer to pay more from a different provider just to incite competition and avoid those clowns.
There is No innovation from these Bozos. Missed the boat on VOIP. I mean look at Verizon they're working on fiber to the curb. Any how long are we going to have to pay a surchare for touch tone service? What a joke and rip-off.
I hate their support (1st level outsource). Here's a little secret when calling either one of these guys, if you select that it is a new install for DSLs (even though it is not) you always get US based personnel. T's, Frames, etc are not outsourced in my experience. But last time I had a Frame problem, it took hours to find anyone who even knew what Frame Relay was at $BC (actually I never did find anyone at $BC, pathetic).
Hate to say it, but I long for the day when both of these companies are out of business.
Just say No!
to proprietary, closed, non-standards based bastardizations.
It also caused a firefox crash on Fedora Core 4 x86_64 fully patched.
to proprietary, close, non-standards based bastardizations.
Last I checked, RIS used uni-cast to send a PC image. Whereas Norton Ghost Corp uses multi-cast. For anything more than a handful of PCs, RIS could seriously impact network throughput. I doubt anyone actually uses it outside of a certification mill.
For some strange reason I'm not comforted by the fact that the people doing the investigating have historically been fabulously inept. Actually that is even more scary.
Ah. No. Not really.
The whole point of DMA (most modern HDs) is that the HD interacts with the chipset and not the CPU. Thus Direct Memory Access (DMA) vs. Programmed Input Output (PIO) where the HD interupts the CPU to handle IO requests.
Reality isn't quite as clear cut, but for the user's view on things. You are wrong.
It would be great if it supported firefox on Linux, that way I could see what these windows viruses I see in email do. 8^()
looks like baystar has been dumping stock for the last year+. Guess they have to get back some money before bankruptcy and de-listing.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=SCOX
AC said, "Fact is that they are NOT charging more than once for the infrastructure."
Last time I had a phone bill (cut the landline long time ago). I was still being billed extra for having touch tone service. Yes that's right! Look at your bill. It actually costs SBC more to support the very very few people who still have pulse dial (my grandma is the only one I can recall seeing). The change over to tone has been nearly 100% complete for 10 years now.
Most phones have a switch that changes them between tone and pulse. I suggest everyone flip the switch to pulse, call SBC and have that tone TAX eliminated. Let's see if they have enough tone equipment still functional to support it.
We're not paying more than once. I call BS.
Why not address the source of the problem rather than try to restrict the potential victims.
There have been many instances here in CA of child molesters being arrested by the police who posed as underage children in chat rooms.
I understand this costs $, but isn't it better to interdict the perps before they commit a crime? It's not like the perps cannot find other sources of victims. Isn't it easier to catch perps while sitting at your desk and drinking coffee rather than looking for missing children, interviewing past victims, etc.
I have vonage with a motorolla router/VOIP unit. It stits behind my router with ports mapped (not needed actually). After I cut the landline I just plugged the POTS output from the Vonage modem into a standard phone jack at the wall. I have regular POTS phones plugged in just like I don't have VOIP and a cordless phone (standard POTS). Works great. No PC need be on (only the router/VOIP unit depending on your configuration). $25/mo unlimited local and long distance US & Canada.
I used to pay $11/mo for metered local and $25/mo for Qwest business long distance (something like 300 minute the 5.* cents per minute after that).
I will try my best to never buy another sony product. To the best of my knowledge I haven't given them a thin dime in 5+ years. I would rather give philips more $$ than I would have given to $ony even if sony products are better.
The only sony product in my home is a Sun Microsystems monitor with a sony tube which I bought at an auction several years ago, so even then they didn't get a dime from me.
Bottom Line: If you're gonna talk the talk, walk the walk. Vote with your $$
Back when I worked in pharmaceuticals, marketing was the most expensive line item not R&D.
How about give it away for free for students, hobyists, personal use, etc. In order to build a user base and charge for commercial versions (to be used in businesses for businesses)?
IIRC Intel used to have an AV product namely Intel LanDesk manager. Then they sold it to Symantec which became NAVCE (Norton Anti Virus Corporate Edition) and now SAVCE.
Personally I don't give a crap about music. I barely listen to am radio when I'm driving.
I think we need to reform the role of corporations. and the legal system. When Disney can "buy" absurd copywrong laws, everything is patented and the only the way to win in the legal system is to settle (unless you have at your disposal assets equivalent to a large mega corp), something is terribly wrong.
I don't think this is what are founding fathers envisioned when they created this country. Corporations didn't exist then. IIRC that entity was created in the 30's.
Now to venture off-topic:
The one thing I think that would be a step in the right direction is if corporations were no longer legally recognized as a separate entity but the product of actions by the CEO, Board of directors, etc and they are held liable for the criminal and civil misdeeds of the corporation.
>Impatience with the slowness of the legislative >and judicial systems is a tenuous argument for >breaking the law, particularly when we're not >exactly talking about stealing a loaf of bread >for your starving family.
I can just see people telling this to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement.
BTW I don't download music either legally or by infringing copyright. But I am sick to death of mega corps and mega corp associations extorting money from people, buying legislation which is patently absurd and generally abusing the legal system.
I ahem.... cough cough "saw" a therminte reaction once.
Ignited with some strips of magnesium. IIRC powdered rusted iron and aluminum powder. I suspect it could be electrically initiated.
It lit up the area like it was daylight and burned into the ground about a foot.
Very impressive.
I've told people for the last 8+ years that the only way to cancel AOL is to call your credit card company and report the card lost.
AOL canceled.
Didn't einstein reject quantum physis? What was his famous quote? God doesn't play dice.
I think I saw something like this a while back.
launching from the notify (basically shell, even present at safe mode command prompt). Randomly renamed and recreated on shutdown & reboot.
files didn't exist while running.
some kinda of api hijack as a file (tcptrace.exe, iirc) wasn't viewable (dir, attrib, etc). Some kind of ADS (alternative data stream) thus wouldn't service pack?
I'd never seen anything like it before. Nasty.
Was the pst larger than 2 gb? If so use the pst trimmer from MS. The try the pst repair tool. I'd use a copy of the pst and keep the original. Perhaps you already did this?
It will be missed. But in these times I'm sure publishing something such as this is viewed with suspicion. So much for freedom os speach.
What about, "Last week, researchers at Red Database Security took Oracle to task for waiting more than two years to fix vulnerabilities"?
Is 2 years a reasonable amount of time to wait? What about 20 years?
I thinks SANS' guidelines are in the 3-6 months as you reference earlier in your post.