I can attest, this person does have far too much time. He came into my office yelling first post, first post, first post!!!! Being that I am his boss, I think this is unacceptable. Anonymously, what a coward!
Funny thing.... We picked up a few servers off dovebid.com when homegrocer.com/webvan.com went out of business. We were stoked when the machines finally arrived. To my amazement, one of the dl380's was not formatted and had a fully functional nt terminal server running on it. After a few attempts at the password, got in with a blank admin password. Turns out the machine was their ADP payroll machine. If anyone has worked with ADP, I am sure you will know how easy it would have been to get into their system. It contains bank account information, payroll information, social security numbers..... I contacted Dovebid to let them know what had happened and they merely brushed me off.
i am a bit new to slashdot, please excuse me. if i weren't so new i would tell you to suckem nuts but i won't. i actually did not hear about al gore's statement until a few months ago. i am a little behind times.
later and suckem nuts.
If I used her machine I would dual boot. I am at the point where I am so frustrated with Microsoft I can barely stand using their products. Presently I don't have any spare time. If I did, something would have to be done about it.
So with the money you save by not upgrading, buy another box.
You actually have to pay for upgrades? Uh oh, I think I might be in trouble.
I have 6 computers at home already. 3 of them are windows. One for my wife, my son and my work laptop. Out of all my machines, my p200mmx running redhat 8 & firestarter runs so much better. It stayed online longer than any of my other machines. I need no convincing. In time, I will move em all over.
my wife, she wigged on me when I went linux. she could not use microsoft money. I need to find another alternative to everything she uses then she cannot object to it.
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no, but this is big for everyone. I use Microsoft goods at home and I cannot stand it. I am tired of the issues at home. I am tired of fixing my friends computers because the latest worm hit them. The point is you use what is familiar to you. We are working to implement linux as our sole solution here at the office. We have run into minor problems because of our financial system. Other than that, we are almost ready to plung into it. If I had no idea about computers but had some sort of logic, I would go for Linux because it is free and throw openoffice on top of that. It's beautiful. I would like to see Ford put out another release for openoffice assuming they use it.
If I remember it correctly, any Islamic that dies in the presence of swine will result in them going straight to hell. If that is the case, put a pig on each airplane. That would keep the terrorists of the planes.
I received the same notice last week both at work, home and my in-laws. I am so close to their CO that I get killer speeds. We just moved from our house and they said it would take 2 weeks. Being that I was in contract with them for a year term I had to move it. Their "move" is considered a cancellation with the signup of a new annual contract which it did not state that anywhere. Oh well, I am moving in 2 months so that agreement will be void anyhow. I would also prefer not to have the internet if I had to go cable at my house. AT&T used to be our provider before they sold to Comcast. In my dealings with them my wife and I decided we both hate doing business with them and will never do so again.
I will admit they have weak areas. The stuff that pisses me off is the long time you have to wait for install/transfer & the software they ship. I installed it once and ran it for about 2 weeks then installed a linux firewall behind the dsl. Never had any problems since then. Ran for almost a year without going down.
AOL is pushing what.... $25 per month now? If that's the case, is it not worth an additional $15ish per month not to have to wait, deal with their crap tech support & the extra phone line so you can still talk while online.
Can't live w/o broadband. Dialup is painfully slow. I would rather not use the internet than using dialup.
My wife knows if she can have SoapNet, I get my dsl. We would give up all our premium channels before I gave up my dsl.
This is a little confusing to me. I read yesterday that they (M$) will probably keep you from opening previous version files also keeping you from having cross platform compatability. If this is all true..... Wouldn't one be screwed if they upgrade, remain on the current version or migrate to OpenOffice? For us this could be devastating if we are unable to transfer files amongst our clients. It would suck a fat one if we had to correspond via pdf if Microsoft does go this route. Plans are already forming on our end trying to figure out what the best decision would be for the company. I find it hard to believe they would take it this far.
I understand both sides of this and can speak from experience. For the past 2 years we have been outsourcing all our development to India because we could not afford what we wanted. We usually refer to this in-house as brotha on a budget. With the unemployment where it is at, I decided it would be beneficial if we helped others out in the US before we lined our developers pockets in India. For the time being we now have a portion of our design work outsourced locally.
I recall hearing that it is a violation for those bastards to call cell phones. I added mine to the do not call registry hoping they will stop calling it. Anyhow, a little googling provided additional information.
http://www.cm.nu/~shane/lists/comp.dcom.telecom.te ch/2003-01/0037.html
"It is a violation of Federal Statute 47 USC 227"
Statute 47 USC 227:
Information Taken From: http://www.ornocall.com/ced73709.html
(1) Prohibitions - It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -
(iii) to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
Hope this helps
Sure activation can be a good thing. If I were the developer of software where I actually charged someone for it yet 3.6 million copies are distributed illegally each year I would be a little pissed. However, have a look at Intuit. They implemented product activation on Turbo Tax this past year (should I say attempted). This is by far more of a pain in the ass than Microsoft's activation. At least Microsoft gives you a phone number to call to activate it. With Intuit you have to hop on their website, chat with a technician to get a case # and then have the opportunity to speak with someone. Your case expires in 24 hours too which sucks. They take you through a bogus process to register the software which is a hastle in itself. Did I mention their software is not able to read prior year(s) data. You have to keep your software installed on the machine in order to make changes. Now I have gone off the topic and started to bash another company. My apologies. The point here was there are appropriate ways to implement this. I would suggest they look at Intuit and do the complete opposite!
How about all us sys admins and anyone else that runs a mail server start blocking all traffic from AOL then? Would that make those bastards open their eyes and see this is friggin lame......? We have the ability here to block based on many many different sources which include black list, keyword blah blah blah. The list goes on. The fact is we do not. We have considered it but opted not to. It is quite irresponsible for them to handle it in this matter. If I were to block mails, it could prove to be a bad business move. Due to the nature of the business the company is in that I work for, it could be devastating to us. You want to handle spam, deal with the spammers, not the innocent consumers. Did I ever ask for the crap they send me? Hell No! Do I spam out any of our mail servers, No.... never. Who the hell is Bell South (from a previous post) to block my friggin range because someone with a completely different ip spammed them? They are no better than AOL. In my eyes they all suck.
A couple months ago we were bouncing from bell south. After numerous phone calls, emails and abut a week of harassing them they were able to tell us they had blocked our entire range of ip's. Their excuse was that someone had been spamming. Our question was where is it coming from because you blocked the entire range which was not cool at all. We finally reached someone competent that was able to pursue this from their end. WTF, is this necessary? I think that is taking it a bit too far. The fact of the matter is that AOL sucks a fat one. I would be happy to see those bastards go out of business.
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I can attest, this person does have far too much time. He came into my office yelling first post, first post, first post!!!! Being that I am his boss, I think this is unacceptable. Anonymously, what a coward!
Funny thing.... We picked up a few servers off dovebid.com when homegrocer.com/webvan.com went out of business. We were stoked when the machines finally arrived. To my amazement, one of the dl380's was not formatted and had a fully functional nt terminal server running on it. After a few attempts at the password, got in with a blank admin password. Turns out the machine was their ADP payroll machine. If anyone has worked with ADP, I am sure you will know how easy it would have been to get into their system. It contains bank account information, payroll information, social security numbers..... I contacted Dovebid to let them know what had happened and they merely brushed me off.
i am a bit new to slashdot, please excuse me. if i weren't so new i would tell you to suckem nuts but i won't. i actually did not hear about al gore's statement until a few months ago. i am a little behind times.
later and suckem nuts.
I am glad to see it was not the inventor of the internet.... Mr. Al Gore
If I used her machine I would dual boot. I am at the point where I am so frustrated with Microsoft I can barely stand using their products. Presently I don't have any spare time. If I did, something would have to be done about it.
So with the money you save by not upgrading, buy another box.
You actually have to pay for upgrades? Uh oh, I think I might be in trouble.
I have 6 computers at home already. 3 of them are windows. One for my wife, my son and my work laptop. Out of all my machines, my p200mmx running redhat 8 & firestarter runs so much better. It stayed online longer than any of my other machines. I need no convincing. In time, I will move em all over.
my wife, she wigged on me when I went linux. she could not use microsoft money. I need to find another alternative to everything she uses then she cannot object to it.
no, but this is big for everyone. I use Microsoft goods at home and I cannot stand it. I am tired of the issues at home. I am tired of fixing my friends computers because the latest worm hit them. The point is you use what is familiar to you. We are working to implement linux as our sole solution here at the office. We have run into minor problems because of our financial system. Other than that, we are almost ready to plung into it. If I had no idea about computers but had some sort of logic, I would go for Linux because it is free and throw openoffice on top of that. It's beautiful. I would like to see Ford put out another release for openoffice assuming they use it.
If I remember it correctly, any Islamic that dies in the presence of swine will result in them going straight to hell. If that is the case, put a pig on each airplane. That would keep the terrorists of the planes.
I received the same notice last week both at work, home and my in-laws. I am so close to their CO that I get killer speeds. We just moved from our house and they said it would take 2 weeks. Being that I was in contract with them for a year term I had to move it. Their "move" is considered a cancellation with the signup of a new annual contract which it did not state that anywhere. Oh well, I am moving in 2 months so that agreement will be void anyhow. I would also prefer not to have the internet if I had to go cable at my house. AT&T used to be our provider before they sold to Comcast. In my dealings with them my wife and I decided we both hate doing business with them and will never do so again.
I will admit they have weak areas. The stuff that pisses me off is the long time you have to wait for install/transfer & the software they ship. I installed it once and ran it for about 2 weeks then installed a linux firewall behind the dsl. Never had any problems since then. Ran for almost a year without going down.
AOL is pushing what.... $25 per month now? If that's the case, is it not worth an additional $15ish per month not to have to wait, deal with their crap tech support & the extra phone line so you can still talk while online.
that's because Time Warner sucks. Switch to sbc. Web hog, logoff.
Can't live w/o broadband. Dialup is painfully slow. I would rather not use the internet than using dialup.
My wife knows if she can have SoapNet, I get my dsl. We would give up all our premium channels before I gave up my dsl.
This is a little confusing to me. I read yesterday that they (M$) will probably keep you from opening previous version files also keeping you from having cross platform compatability. If this is all true..... Wouldn't one be screwed if they upgrade, remain on the current version or migrate to OpenOffice? For us this could be devastating if we are unable to transfer files amongst our clients. It would suck a fat one if we had to correspond via pdf if Microsoft does go this route. Plans are already forming on our end trying to figure out what the best decision would be for the company. I find it hard to believe they would take it this far.
can't beat the $.5 beer in the Philippines. It might be worth moving out there just for that.
I understand both sides of this and can speak from experience. For the past 2 years we have been outsourcing all our development to India because we could not afford what we wanted. We usually refer to this in-house as brotha on a budget. With the unemployment where it is at, I decided it would be beneficial if we helped others out in the US before we lined our developers pockets in India. For the time being we now have a portion of our design work outsourced locally.
I recall hearing that it is a violation for those bastards to call cell phones. I added mine to the do not call registry hoping they will stop calling it. Anyhow, a little googling provided additional information.e ch/2003-01/0037.html
http://www.cm.nu/~shane/lists/comp.dcom.telecom.t
"It is a violation of Federal Statute 47 USC 227"
Statute 47 USC 227:
Information Taken From: http://www.ornocall.com/ced73709.html
(1) Prohibitions - It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -
(iii) to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
Hope this helps
Sure activation can be a good thing. If I were the developer of software where I actually charged someone for it yet 3.6 million copies are distributed illegally each year I would be a little pissed. However, have a look at Intuit. They implemented product activation on Turbo Tax this past year (should I say attempted). This is by far more of a pain in the ass than Microsoft's activation. At least Microsoft gives you a phone number to call to activate it. With Intuit you have to hop on their website, chat with a technician to get a case # and then have the opportunity to speak with someone. Your case expires in 24 hours too which sucks. They take you through a bogus process to register the software which is a hastle in itself. Did I mention their software is not able to read prior year(s) data. You have to keep your software installed on the machine in order to make changes. Now I have gone off the topic and started to bash another company. My apologies. The point here was there are appropriate ways to implement this. I would suggest they look at Intuit and do the complete opposite!
Found another that appears to be similar to openlindows..... http://www.lycoris.com/
In soviet russia, we saying phucking retards.
This sounds too much like the beginning of Demolition Man. Soon they will be telling you the only way to have sex is virtually.
How about all us sys admins and anyone else that runs a mail server start blocking all traffic from AOL then? Would that make those bastards open their eyes and see this is friggin lame......? We have the ability here to block based on many many different sources which include black list, keyword blah blah blah. The list goes on. The fact is we do not. We have considered it but opted not to. It is quite irresponsible for them to handle it in this matter. If I were to block mails, it could prove to be a bad business move. Due to the nature of the business the company is in that I work for, it could be devastating to us. You want to handle spam, deal with the spammers, not the innocent consumers. Did I ever ask for the crap they send me? Hell No! Do I spam out any of our mail servers, No.... never. Who the hell is Bell South (from a previous post) to block my friggin range because someone with a completely different ip spammed them? They are no better than AOL. In my eyes they all suck.
A couple months ago we were bouncing from bell south. After numerous phone calls, emails and abut a week of harassing them they were able to tell us they had blocked our entire range of ip's. Their excuse was that someone had been spamming. Our question was where is it coming from because you blocked the entire range which was not cool at all. We finally reached someone competent that was able to pursue this from their end. WTF, is this necessary? I think that is taking it a bit too far. The fact of the matter is that AOL sucks a fat one. I would be happy to see those bastards go out of business.
Man you are smokin crack. Albeit the second was not as good as the first, but it was worth the money.