I used to work tech support for a large software company that develops OSes (who could that be?) and I learned customers are VERY concerned about security. They often asked questions like 'Should I be installing security updates? / Can someone get into my computer? / etc.' This same company had 1000 tech support calls queued the day MSBlaster hit. If one product is sporting a Certification sticker and another is not, the one sporting the sticker will have a bit more weight with the consumer.
This is even more true if they are one of the many thousands who had to call tech support to find out what the hell was wrong with their system.
This poses a GREAT problem for those who trade bootlegged concert music on CDR.
To a lot of traders it is out of the question to Exact Audio Copy their collection over and over for time/money/quality of extraction reasons every few years. Some refuse to even write on CDRs with sharpies fearing the ink may seep in and damage the recording over time.
I didn't see the first one but this sounds similar to the alternate ending of T2 which was shown on a TLC movie show...
Linda Hamilton's character is older, sitting in a park with someone else (I forget who it is, may have been an older John). Everything is bright and happy. Then things get real bright and a blast reveals the skeletal remains of someone in the park, who I believe was holding onto a fence.
It was interesting to see what was cut, it's mood didnt fit in with the rest of the movie. It would have been disappointing to have it included.
Yep, I agree. I made it to the end of the article where I was expecting to see a Page 2 link. But this was it...Someone saying they had installed a Linux distro and they had liked it...Where's the beef?
I gave up on the Linux desktop a few months ago. Actually, there's no Linux on my HD anymore and there's a few reasons for that which I won't delve into (The distros I had interest in either didn't work or wouldn't dual boot with XP, and I NEEDED XP.)
I began using Redhat in 98. It became my primary OS by version 7. I even used it as my primary OS at home while I worked MS XP tech support. I always dual booted with XP, and used XP for gaming and OS research, testing, etc...
I stayed with RedHat until version 9. Actually, I used 7.3 up until version 9. I made the mistake of formatting 7.3 and installing v9. I quickly formatted that, then tried some other distros which I couldn't get working right with XP dual boot (XP makes it difficult, but I could do it fine in RH7 with GRUB) or my video card wouldn't work with their X11, etc. And I wasn't about to go through the bullshit of grabbing src and compiling it to find out it may not work, downloading and compiling in drivers, etc. etc.
Before totally messing with my Linux-based OS installs I had been using XP a lot more frequently. I had purchased a new 9700 Pro video card and started playing a lot more games. I gained nothing from this card in Redhat.
XP works fine for me. I can do perl programming with ActiveState's perl interpreter. If I need a Unix command-line I use VMWARE to run FreeBSD 5. I use VisStudio 2002 and.Net for development. I (*gasp*) began using and learning the Office products after realizing no one used the 'free' office software packages in buisness enviroments around here. When I want to pirate some music I fire up Kazaa Lite and begin downloading. I do my gfx editing in Paint Shop Pro 7, although GIMP has served useful.
You can post a list of alternatives to these products but I've tried them or care not to switch from the Windows counterpart.
I hope someone does make a decent Linux based desktop someday, there may be some out there now but I don't see any allowing me to be as productive as I am now.
If Apple would take OS X to the PC I would love to give that a whirl.
If Conan O'Brien saw this coming...
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This bit was scrapped last minute...
Conan O'Brien, "In The Year 2000"
"In the year 2003, SCO will claim that Linux kernel developers have copied fragments of SCO's own IP into the Linux kernel. Amazon.com will follow suit by claiming that the Linux kernel also implements proprietary One-click shopping code derived from cookies found in a web client's Stored Cookie Folder. True story. Yeah. *nods big head*"
Heh, I believe we had a similar discussion the other day. I'm just reiterating for the readers who may have missed it because it pertains to the discussion.
That's what I did...Did I get another job right afterwards? Nope. Do I regret leaving the company I worked for...Hell no.
People who work for the company I recently left hate the place, but they all have 'pays the bills' syndrome, and in Eastern canada unless you are in a specialized field you are lucky to get a good paying job...Even if you are specialized, you probably will have to move away to make more money. I dont have children, I have a PlayStation 2 and a television. So me quitting really isn't going to hurt anyone. Older adults with families can't get up and quit like I did. Often I would hear them growl 'its life, live with it. someday you'll learn...'
The company I worked for provided tech support for MS. One month they would congratulate us on our great performance, they would give us more responsibility and then the next month they would send us out an email telling us we were slacking and then would take us into a meeting where we were told to keep our mouths closed and to listen. They would proceed to tell us how the job should be done and what the client (MS) expects. If numbers were down that month it probably was because of them cutting our between call time below half of what it was which we use to document the case and ready our stations (and heads) for the next call. That pissed us off royally...
I felt mistreated, I felt like a child. After a while the joke became: "If they put watermelon in the lunch room we were going to loose a privlidge or a freedom."
So I quit one morning and decided to go to school.
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Nova Scotia, way on the other side of this great country. I will be taking the two year networking course at the NSCC / Nova Scotia Community College.
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I am going into Networking and then maybe buisness when that's complete (and hopefully bring them together sometime in the future)...
But who knows with me, like when it comes to programming I really can get lazy =p I'm not lazy at the moment because of all this free time I have (not working) so I've been reading a lot more tech books getting ready for the future (In this cut-throat tech industry where only the best survive).
I'm going off topic here but I would like to comment on the reason I am going to school: Microsoft tech support. While I have no gripes about MS, the company they hired to employ us really doesn't deserve the talent they have. We are in Eastern Canada and that's why they are here. Cheap labor and they are subsidized by our government. A lot of people here have very expensive educations and have a hard time paying back their Student Loans, and the sad reality is that that job is the best tech job around here money wise (starting at $10.50 CDN).
I was tired of being tech cattle so I quit in March and went school shopping two days later. I did consider not going back into a tech field but I've been doing this for too long and I could enjoy it within the right company or on my own terms...
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I used to work Windows XP tech support. I became fed up with the company Microsoft outsourced their Operating System support to. So I saved my money, quit and am going to school in the fall. Presently unemployed and am enjoying the summer. www.convergyssucks.com to learn more.
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I'm 21 and am lazy as fuck. I write a Perl script every six months. Don't hire me. I hope by the time that I'm 30 I'll be writing code much more frequently. But for now stay away and let me mature.
True. If Kazaa doesn't change their protocol so that pay participant's packets can be recognized the only way your ISP would know that youre doing this is if:
1: They have access to your bank account
2: They forbid Kazaa sharing in the first place...Which may lead to more ISPs forbidding their subscribers from using it.
One method they could use is give each user an ID (including those who do not use this service) and track them that way. Accumulate points for this user because s/he is sharing "GatorIsGreat.exe" and have each user communicate back to homebase and filter out the users who don't participate
I'm just speculating.
You'd still be breaking the ISPs rules though, obviously.
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Darrell McBride, we know thats you...Quit it.
I used to work tech support for a large software company that develops OSes (who could that be?) and I learned customers are VERY concerned about security. They often asked questions like 'Should I be installing security updates? / Can someone get into my computer? / etc.' This same company had 1000 tech support calls queued the day MSBlaster hit. If one product is sporting a Certification sticker and another is not, the one sporting the sticker will have a bit more weight with the consumer.
This is even more true if they are one of the many thousands who had to call tech support to find out what the hell was wrong with their system.
take a look at yr_mom.jpg in the \sheman folder.
No, that's why people are not getting busted for scanning ports.
If you crawled in through the doggy door and took a look at the porn collection in my bathroom I would be pissed.
Yoda: No! Best you can do very not. Fix ailing platform. Or do not. There is no "very best we will do".
Note: I dislike Star Wars references as much as the next guy. The dead horse asked to be beat.
How many times are we going to slashdot that poor site!
You can still use them. We'll never run out of idiots.
This poses a GREAT problem for those who trade bootlegged concert music on CDR. To a lot of traders it is out of the question to Exact Audio Copy their collection over and over for time/money/quality of extraction reasons every few years. Some refuse to even write on CDRs with sharpies fearing the ink may seep in and damage the recording over time.
She doesn't know how to say 'no' either.
I don't think the mod got the joke.
I didn't see the first one but this sounds similar to the alternate ending of T2 which was shown on a TLC movie show...
Linda Hamilton's character is older, sitting in a park with someone else (I forget who it is, may have been an older John). Everything is bright and happy. Then things get real bright and a blast reveals the skeletal remains of someone in the park, who I believe was holding onto a fence.
It was interesting to see what was cut, it's mood didnt fit in with the rest of the movie. It would have been disappointing to have it included.
Tell me about it. I wish someone would slashdot slashdot for once.
Yep, I agree. I made it to the end of the article where I was expecting to see a Page 2 link. But this was it...Someone saying they had installed a Linux distro and they had liked it...Where's the beef?
Troll doesn't sound so bad now does it?
I gave up on the Linux desktop a few months ago. Actually, there's no Linux on my HD anymore and there's a few reasons for that which I won't delve into (The distros I had interest in either didn't work or wouldn't dual boot with XP, and I NEEDED XP.)
I began using Redhat in 98. It became my primary OS by version 7. I even used it as my primary OS at home while I worked MS XP tech support. I always dual booted with XP, and used XP for gaming and OS research, testing, etc...
I stayed with RedHat until version 9. Actually, I used 7.3 up until version 9. I made the mistake of formatting 7.3 and installing v9. I quickly formatted that, then tried some other distros which I couldn't get working right with XP dual boot (XP makes it difficult, but I could do it fine in RH7 with GRUB) or my video card wouldn't work with their X11, etc. And I wasn't about to go through the bullshit of grabbing src and compiling it to find out it may not work, downloading and compiling in drivers, etc. etc.
Before totally messing with my Linux-based OS installs I had been using XP a lot more frequently. I had purchased a new 9700 Pro video card and started playing a lot more games. I gained nothing from this card in Redhat.
XP works fine for me. I can do perl programming with ActiveState's perl interpreter. If I need a Unix command-line I use VMWARE to run FreeBSD 5. I use VisStudio 2002 and .Net for development. I (*gasp*) began using and learning the Office products after realizing no one used the 'free' office software packages in buisness enviroments around here. When I want to pirate some music I fire up Kazaa Lite and begin downloading. I do my gfx editing in Paint Shop Pro 7, although GIMP has served useful.
You can post a list of alternatives to these products but I've tried them or care not to switch from the Windows counterpart.
I hope someone does make a decent Linux based desktop someday, there may be some out there now but I don't see any allowing me to be as productive as I am now.
If Apple would take OS X to the PC I would love to give that a whirl.
Conan O'Brien, "In The Year 2000"
"In the year 2003, SCO will claim that Linux kernel developers have copied fragments of SCO's own IP into the Linux kernel. Amazon.com will follow suit by claiming that the Linux kernel also implements proprietary One-click shopping code derived from cookies found in a web client's Stored Cookie Folder. True story. Yeah. *nods big head*"
They would have my support if they supported tools to add sex or violence though.
When did MS get into hard core porn?
Or in a press release.
That's what I did...Did I get another job right afterwards? Nope. Do I regret leaving the company I worked for...Hell no.
People who work for the company I recently left hate the place, but they all have 'pays the bills' syndrome, and in Eastern canada unless you are in a specialized field you are lucky to get a good paying job...Even if you are specialized, you probably will have to move away to make more money. I dont have children, I have a PlayStation 2 and a television. So me quitting really isn't going to hurt anyone. Older adults with families can't get up and quit like I did. Often I would hear them growl 'its life, live with it. someday you'll learn...'
The company I worked for provided tech support for MS. One month they would congratulate us on our great performance, they would give us more responsibility and then the next month they would send us out an email telling us we were slacking and then would take us into a meeting where we were told to keep our mouths closed and to listen. They would proceed to tell us how the job should be done and what the client (MS) expects. If numbers were down that month it probably was because of them cutting our between call time below half of what it was which we use to document the case and ready our stations (and heads) for the next call. That pissed us off royally...
I felt mistreated, I felt like a child. After a while the joke became: "If they put watermelon in the lunch room we were going to loose a privlidge or a freedom."
So I quit one morning and decided to go to school.
Nova Scotia, way on the other side of this great country. I will be taking the two year networking course at the NSCC / Nova Scotia Community College.
But who knows with me, like when it comes to programming I really can get lazy =p I'm not lazy at the moment because of all this free time I have (not working) so I've been reading a lot more tech books getting ready for the future (In this cut-throat tech industry where only the best survive).
I'm going off topic here but I would like to comment on the reason I am going to school: Microsoft tech support. While I have no gripes about MS, the company they hired to employ us really doesn't deserve the talent they have. We are in Eastern Canada and that's why they are here. Cheap labor and they are subsidized by our government. A lot of people here have very expensive educations and have a hard time paying back their Student Loans, and the sad reality is that that job is the best tech job around here money wise (starting at $10.50 CDN).
I was tired of being tech cattle so I quit in March and went school shopping two days later. I did consider not going back into a tech field but I've been doing this for too long and I could enjoy it within the right company or on my own terms...
I used to work Windows XP tech support. I became fed up with the company Microsoft outsourced their Operating System support to. So I saved my money, quit and am going to school in the fall. Presently unemployed and am enjoying the summer. www.convergyssucks.com to learn more.
I'm 21 and am lazy as fuck. I write a Perl script every six months. Don't hire me. I hope by the time that I'm 30 I'll be writing code much more frequently. But for now stay away and let me mature.
1: They have access to your bank account
2: They forbid Kazaa sharing in the first place...Which may lead to more ISPs forbidding their subscribers from using it.
One method they could use is give each user an ID (including those who do not use this service) and track them that way. Accumulate points for this user because s/he is sharing "GatorIsGreat.exe" and have each user communicate back to homebase and filter out the users who don't participate
I'm just speculating.
You'd still be breaking the ISPs rules though, obviously.