>I mean, there's a theory that the Sphinx was built about 10,000 >years earlier than was previously thought, by an entirely >different civilization. It's not widely believed, but the guy >does have some evidence.
It's actually very compelling evidence - essentially lots of evidence of water erosion in the enclosure, which could only have happened when the climate was much wetter than when the pyramids were built. Closer to the end of the last Ice Age, and nothing like the erosion around the pyramids themselves. The guy is a geologist and came at it from a completely objective perspective.
It could also be explained by the following theory:
On the back of the Sphinx is where ceremonies were held. After the end of each ceremony , the Sphinx was washed and the water forced off the sides, With a mop, broom, whatever. Do this a every day for several hundred years and you'll get wear patterns that are remarkable simliar to falling rain.
The story I heard was that Microsoft lied to WordPerfect about its long term Windows strategy. This was supposed to have caused WordPerfect to spend its efforts developing for a version of Windows that never happened.
According to Almost Perfect Windows was considered technologically inferior to just about every other alternative out there and not much effort was put into the Windows version. By the time that they had decieded that Windows was more then a glorified DOS multitasker, Word was gaining momentum, and the awful release that was WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows could do nothing to stop the switch*. Coupled with the fact that at the same time as all this was happening, the company was being invaded by the venture capitalists and the VC's were more interested in IPO'ing then developing, that was all that Microsoft needed to take the lead, even without OEM bundling deals.
*The changes made in WP6 for Windows (Mostly changing the keyboard shortcuts), combined with the lack of productivity gains (and in some cases, losses because WP6.0 was not a stable product), made users decide: "If I have to learn a new interface anyway, it might as well be on a platform that is superior (or at least is more stable) then this" (Hmm, never thought I'd describe an MS product as superior). This is ironic because it is the exact same reason WP came into dominance over Wordstar. Read the book, 'tis very informative.
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I don't know about Voom, but with DISH, if you get their PVR you either have it plugged into a phone line, or you pay an extra $5 a month for a "Rental" fee.
No, as opposed to some thing. As in the Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 feet, where William Shatner played a guy who got a window seat on a plane and saw some thing messing around on the wing, presumable to trying to make the plane crash.
Connect the broadband, start downloading the service pack (to get patched up) and you get infected before you've finished the download, much less than the install. Of course, the proper way to prevent this is to turn on the XP firewall before connecting the ethernet,
No, the proper way to prevent this is to not have the PC plugged into the ethernet when windows is installed. Then install the latest service pack and patches from CD. Then install the anti-virus software. Then install the latest anti-virus updates from CD, reboot once more for good measure and THEN plug the PC into the ethernet and go run Windows Update.
That may be to much for a casual end-user to grok, but if your knowledgeable enough to install Windows from an "real" CD (as opposed to a "rescue" CD), and go get the updates, then you should at least know better to install an insecure OS onto a PC with a live network connection. (On a LAN with no hardware firewall to boot)
Or you're running through a proxy. I don't get the error in in Konqueror, Safari, or Firefox when I connect via my squid proxy. I do get the hijacked screen when I do not.
Don't do it for less then $25/hour. Unless you don't have a job (at all) then it really isn't worth your time, as you got to account for the "hidden" costs of doing business. Like: Creating CD's with the latest and greatest spyware/virus removal tools, the latest Service packs, etc). Your time to learn to use the tools (ie: what they'll remove and what they miss), your time to get to their residence, your time getting back from the residence, the time that your taking off from doing personal activities, the time it takes to find the client in the first place, etc.
I live in a college town, people gladly pay $50/hour to have their computer usable. It might take them a while, but when finals are near, and they can't print or do research, or email, or whatever they need to do, they start looking. It doesn't hurt that my competition is charging $70-$120/hour, just for pc repair. $50 is very reasonable.
Is there any reason that it HAS to be webDAV? I am assuming that you don't want to use FTP because it is perceived as difficult to use. However I am going to suggest just that. Set up an FTP site, with a username/login for each client. Have them install Novell's Netdrive and talk them through the very simple configuration page. After Netdrive is configured, it will make the ftp site look and act just like a ny other local or network drive. (Pay no attention to the iFolder refrence on the Novell site. It will use it, but it works just fine with FTP services.)
One solution that I've used that works well is to setup a netscreen box at the main office, and then use a snapgear at the remote sites. Both the netscreen and the snapgear run Linux underneath, so technically they are both as capable, but the netscreen tends to be versital (and slightly more complex to set up) then the snapgear. Making it the more logical choice for the main office.
I haven't tried this, but Linksys does make a VPN router or you could build your own using a Soekris Net4511 and M0n0wall. M0n0wall is a FreeBSD based VPN configured via the web with an interface that is very similiar to a SnapGear. (The netscreen is also setup via the web, but significantly different then the other two) If you used one, you'll feel right at home with the other (I have no idea if this is intentional or not. And the screens are not layed out the same, they just are catagorized the same, with a similiar layout)
Anyway, all the above solutions will let you set up a VPN, either with IPSEC (complete with your choice of SHA, DES, 3DES etc encryption), or the older, less secure Microsoft Point-to-Point tunneling protocal (which I can't think of the proper name of right off hand, heck maybe P2PTP was it), and once set up they run pretty much error and maintence free (Except maybe the linksys, I've used the others though, and they all work as advertised.)
I don't know what you mean by "third party automatic package updates for Windows"
ZENWorks, is a third party option. And if your running a Novell network, it is practically mandatory. Sure it costs a lot (last time I looked, it was $70/seat), but if you have a VLA it becomes practically free. Anyway, whatever the cost, with the proper deployment it will save at least an FTE, and free up the guys admining the network to do something else in there free time. Why can it free up so much time? Simple there is:
Automatic application deployment. Can be assigned to users, workstations or users in a context, or workstations in a context. If the fix is something simple like a registry change, or a new dll, then a force run object can be created to push the change. Otherwise, the application, or an update can be installed by the user.
How many times have you had to deal with a problem that the only solution was to re-install? (Someone deleted all the Word templates on there machine, for example). With NAL, the user can right-click the application and choose "Verify", thus forcing the application to be re-installed.
Group policys: You can create and enforce group policies within ConsoleOne easier then you can with Microsoft's domain tools, and just as easy as with their Active Directory tools.
Users no longer need administrative rights to their computer. Got an application that needs admin rights to install? No problem, as the NAL runs as a service, the install will work. Need the application to run as an supervisor? Not a problem, the NAL runs as a service and can launch the application with supervisory rights if need be.
Easy printer management: Department got a new printer? Not a problem, push out the printer drivers through ZEN. Again, you can associate printers to users, workstations (indiviuals, or groups or contexts) so that you can always have your finance people print to the printer in accounting (for instance), no matter what computer they log into.
Computer imaging services. Have a machine that needs to be backed up periodically? (Might be a computer that has an app that no one has the install disks for anymore, for instance?) Not a problem. Set up the imaging service to make a backup of the machine once a month (or whenever), restore is just a simple checkmark in ConsoleOne.
There are a few more features, but those are the ones I use the most. ZEN, along with salvage(aka: undelete on Network shares), and the ACL's on the Directory and filesystems make managing Windows networks tolerable, almost enjoyable.
It's illegal simply because the person who puts a copy of the show that he recorded at home does not have the broadcast rights. The broadcasting companies have paid for those rights, not the individual receiving those signals.
If you believe in Newton, sure free will doesn't exist. If you do not, then a good argument can be made for free will using various non-newtonian physics.
Novels, inventions, music, art all becomes public domain the day you die.
Which is pretty short sighted.
Take the situation where someone writes the great american novel, and their spouse takes care of them financially.
Now assume that the author is finished with the book and is in negotiations with a publishing house, unfortionatly, before a contract could be signed, the author drops dead from a heart attack.
According to you, the publishing company is in the clear to go ahead and publish the book, and make millions, while the spouse of the author gets nothing, even though they sacrificed much time and money to support their spouse. Why should the spouse be screwed out of their fair share of the profits of their spouses work?
Depends on where you're at. Some states have laws that say only 1 party needs to know that the conversation was being recorded. If you go with this route, check with your lawyer.
On the other hand, even if the evidence isn't admissible in court, having a recording of the conversation may be enough leverage to have a nice severance package. Or it could be a one way ticket the slammer. IANAL. Your results may vary, past performance does not guarantee future earnings, etc.
Got a link for that? And as I recall, watching some of those classic "This Old House" episodes, he rarely, if ever did any work. He was the supervisor who knew enough to know that he needed to outsource just about everything.
And why should I pay someone to learn all that I've developed, while s/he grows as a programmer (for instance) so they can turn around and use that intellectual capital against me. That would hardly be fair, wouldn't you agree?
Why wouldn't it be fair? Do your employees not have the opportunity to observe and say "hey this could be better done this way?". If not, it isn't suprising if some would want to leave and start off on their own.
More to the point: Have you ever worked for anybody yourself? Have you used the experience that you gained at your former employers (even unpaid internship would count) in your current business? Then why is it fair for you to work with the knowledge that you've gained from others, but your employees can not?
Of course, having an employee steal your customer list (for example) sucks, so I can see this from the employers point of view as well. The answer appears to be a judgement call, on both the employees and the employers part.
Compose your table in a text editor with a monospaced font, past it into the comment box. Select the post as "code" option and you'll end up with a post like this one:
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With Ryzom you'll have the code for the server side and can freely redistribute the artwork. With planeshift, you only get the code for the client.
It could also be explained by the following theory:
On the back of the Sphinx is where ceremonies were held. After the end of each ceremony , the Sphinx was washed and the water forced off the sides, With a mop, broom, whatever. Do this a every day for several hundred years and you'll get wear patterns that are remarkable simliar to falling rain.
According to Almost Perfect Windows was considered technologically inferior to just about every other alternative out there and not much effort was put into the Windows version. By the time that they had decieded that Windows was more then a glorified DOS multitasker, Word was gaining momentum, and the awful release that was WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows could do nothing to stop the switch*. Coupled with the fact that at the same time as all this was happening, the company was being invaded by the venture capitalists and the VC's were more interested in IPO'ing then developing, that was all that Microsoft needed to take the lead, even without OEM bundling deals.
*The changes made in WP6 for Windows (Mostly changing the keyboard shortcuts), combined with the lack of productivity gains (and in some cases, losses because WP6.0 was not a stable product), made users decide: "If I have to learn a new interface anyway, it might as well be on a platform that is superior (or at least is more stable) then this" (Hmm, never thought I'd describe an MS product as superior). This is ironic because it is the exact same reason WP came into dominance over Wordstar. Read the book, 'tis very informative.
I don't know about Voom, but with DISH, if you get their PVR you either have it plugged into a phone line, or you pay an extra $5 a month for a "Rental" fee.
Well, according to their cryptographic functions page, they are using SHA-256 and Whirlpool-512 hashing.
No, as opposed to some thing. As in the Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 feet, where William Shatner played a guy who got a window seat on a plane and saw some thing messing around on the wing, presumable to trying to make the plane crash.
No, the proper way to prevent this is to not have the PC plugged into the ethernet when windows is installed. Then install the latest service pack and patches from CD. Then install the anti-virus software. Then install the latest anti-virus updates from CD, reboot once more for good measure and THEN plug the PC into the ethernet and go run Windows Update.
That may be to much for a casual end-user to grok, but if your knowledgeable enough to install Windows from an "real" CD (as opposed to a "rescue" CD), and go get the updates, then you should at least know better to install an insecure OS onto a PC with a live network connection. (On a LAN with no hardware firewall to boot)
Or you're running through a proxy. I don't get the error in in Konqueror, Safari, or Firefox when I connect via my squid proxy. I do get the hijacked screen when I do not.
Don't do it for less then $25/hour. Unless you don't have a job (at all) then it really isn't worth your time, as you got to account for the "hidden" costs of doing business. Like: Creating CD's with the latest and greatest spyware/virus removal tools, the latest Service packs, etc). Your time to learn to use the tools (ie: what they'll remove and what they miss), your time to get to their residence, your time getting back from the residence, the time that your taking off from doing personal activities, the time it takes to find the client in the first place, etc.
I live in a college town, people gladly pay $50/hour to have their computer usable. It might take them a while, but when finals are near, and they can't print or do research, or email, or whatever they need to do, they start looking. It doesn't hurt that my competition is charging $70-$120/hour, just for pc repair. $50 is very reasonable.
Is there any reason that it HAS to be webDAV? I am assuming that you don't want to use FTP because it is perceived as difficult to use. However I am going to suggest just that. Set up an FTP site, with a username/login for each client. Have them install Novell's Netdrive and talk them through the very simple configuration page. After Netdrive is configured, it will make the ftp site look and act just like a ny other local or network drive. (Pay no attention to the iFolder refrence on the Novell site. It will use it, but it works just fine with FTP services.)
One solution that I've used that works well is to setup a netscreen box at the main office, and then use a snapgear at the remote sites. Both the netscreen and the snapgear run Linux underneath, so technically they are both as capable, but the netscreen tends to be versital (and slightly more complex to set up) then the snapgear. Making it the more logical choice for the main office.
I haven't tried this, but Linksys does make a VPN router or you could build your own using a Soekris Net4511 and M0n0wall. M0n0wall is a FreeBSD based VPN configured via the web with an interface that is very similiar to a SnapGear. (The netscreen is also setup via the web, but significantly different then the other two) If you used one, you'll feel right at home with the other (I have no idea if this is intentional or not. And the screens are not layed out the same, they just are catagorized the same, with a similiar layout)
Anyway, all the above solutions will let you set up a VPN, either with IPSEC (complete with your choice of SHA, DES, 3DES etc encryption), or the older, less secure Microsoft Point-to-Point tunneling protocal (which I can't think of the proper name of right off hand, heck maybe P2PTP was it), and once set up they run pretty much error and maintence free (Except maybe the linksys, I've used the others though, and they all work as advertised.)
ZENWorks, is a third party option. And if your running a Novell network, it is practically mandatory. Sure it costs a lot (last time I looked, it was $70/seat), but if you have a VLA it becomes practically free. Anyway, whatever the cost, with the proper deployment it will save at least an FTE, and free up the guys admining the network to do something else in there free time. Why can it free up so much time? Simple there is:
There are a few more features, but those are the ones I use the most. ZEN, along with salvage(aka: undelete on Network shares), and the ACL's on the Directory and filesystems make managing Windows networks tolerable, almost enjoyable.
It's illegal simply because the person who puts a copy of the show that he recorded at home does not have the broadcast rights. The broadcasting companies have paid for those rights, not the individual receiving those signals.
If you believe in Newton, sure free will doesn't exist. If you do not, then a good argument can be made for free will using various non-newtonian physics.
Which is pretty short sighted.
Take the situation where someone writes the great american novel, and their spouse takes care of them financially.
Now assume that the author is finished with the book and is in negotiations with a publishing house, unfortionatly, before a contract could be signed, the author drops dead from a heart attack.
According to you, the publishing company is in the clear to go ahead and publish the book, and make millions, while the spouse of the author gets nothing, even though they sacrificed much time and money to support their spouse. Why should the spouse be screwed out of their fair share of the profits of their spouses work?
Depends on where you're at. Some states have laws that say only 1 party needs to know that the conversation was being recorded. If you go with this route, check with your lawyer.
On the other hand, even if the evidence isn't admissible in court, having a recording of the conversation may be enough leverage to have a nice severance package. Or it could be a one way ticket the slammer. IANAL. Your results may vary, past performance does not guarantee future earnings, etc.
Got a link for that? And as I recall, watching some of those classic "This Old House" episodes, he rarely, if ever did any work. He was the supervisor who knew enough to know that he needed to outsource just about everything.
Only if you want to know why science fiction isn't living up to the reviewers expectation.
Why wouldn't it be fair? Do your employees not have the opportunity to observe and say "hey this could be better done this way?". If not, it isn't suprising if some would want to leave and start off on their own.
More to the point: Have you ever worked for anybody yourself? Have you used the experience that you gained at your former employers (even unpaid internship would count) in your current business? Then why is it fair for you to work with the knowledge that you've gained from others, but your employees can not?
Of course, having an employee steal your customer list (for example) sucks, so I can see this from the employers point of view as well. The answer appears to be a judgement call, on both the employees and the employers part.
VMWare costs $300 for the workstation edition.
Compose your table in a text editor with a monospaced font, past it into the comment box. Select the post as "code" option and you'll end up with a post like this one:
Apple iPod Mini 4.00 3.60 1.11
Creative MuVo2 4.00 5.41 0.74
Rio Nitrus 4.00 4.32 0.93
iRiver iGP-100 1.50 8.65 0.17
Rio Nitrus 1.50 4.32 0.35
Sony NW-MS70D 0.256 2.40 0.11
iRiver iFP-195T 0.512 4.03 0.13
Creative Muvo TX 0.512 2.44 0.21
DigitalWay MPIO FY-200 0.512 2.45 0.21
Rio Chiba 0.256 5.18 0.05
iRock! iRock! 860 0.256 3.24 0.08
I always do a "sudo bash" to get root access. Does the same thing, as long as you have your .profile set up correctly.
And for the really paranoid, one could encrypt everything on the hard drive, including swap. This thread tells you how.
If you're using an ergonomical keyboard, such as the MS Natural keyboard, keycap positions are not interchangable.