Just to give you a picture of what its like over here... I service a pretty large area ranging from Indianapolis, IN; Downtown Chicago, IL; and South Bend IN.
In my area, from what I've seen, are only capable of 768Kb, the only cable provider is comcast, and the only DSL provider is Verizon. There are still a few ISP's who provide the internet connection but verizon has made it near imposable by making their ISP price as little as 3$ a month on top of the line fee and sometimes will wave it completely if you bitch and moan enough. The typical DSL cost is $39 $59/mo. DSL providers (where you can get DSL) are just now getting 3Mb to most locations, though where I am 768Kb is the max. Comcast has continually impressed me with its speeds of 6Mb or 8Mb with a burst up to 12Mb; Costs range from $33 - $89mo. Both cable and DSL charge around $10 more for business accounts and 5$ a month per static IP, sometimes you can work out better deal with the salesperson if their having a good day or just plain need to make a sale. Forty miles south we have embarq DSL, they also cannot keep a T1 up longer then a week at a time, and generally have trouble configuring new circuits. No ports are blocked in my area on any provider.
Most television comes from the satellite or cable, most people who have cable television have cable internet and then an analog phone line for most families. Families with satellite will generally have DSL internet (if available), otherwise cable and an analog phone line, and several cell phones. Families with cable TV also have cable internet, an analog phone line, and several cell phones. Singles will almost always have cable TV and internet and a cell phone. (Tons of waste if you ask me but since most of the things technological in our country suck they are prone to outages nearly constantly so not having all of the above can seriously hinder you if theres a long term (days or more, hours for some) outage on the technology you do use.)
I think that telecommunications and how they are viewed and regulated are a joke in the US. The people who decide how to regulate and control it have no clue what they are doing and shouldn't be regulating the bylaws in their retirement community let alone the entire country.
I've had the same experience. Most are saying its the best upgrade to office they've seen. The ribbon is well laid out. They can find the features their looking for easier. They also say it seems a little slower and the real advanced options have all been moved . They say the speed they can live with as its not that much slower but wish they advanced stuff was as well layed out at the main controls. But overall its been very positive to say the least.
I spend a lot of time writing documentation and viso diagramming and have to say I'm really impressed with 2007.
I went in for an OPTICAL audio cable the other day and they guy was convinced the ones with gold plated connectors would do a better job then the non-gold plated ones. I firmly believe it was not just an attempt at an up sale either, he honestly believed the gold would somehow help with an optical medium.
>>he Monster connection kit for $150-200 so he gets all of the cables he could possi
never! The guy will be selling you these HDMI cables.. and better yet, TWO of the MFs! Then you need the surge protector. Anything major should definitely be protected but for that price one could do much better.
No way are they selling a all in one kit for $200 when they can hook you with this. Sit and watch what else people end up buying when they go in ill prepared.
It's very hard for me to describe the HD-DVD version of this feature but here goes nothing. HD-DVD's allow you to use the menu while watching the main movie, browse through the chapters with clips playing while the movie is still playing. Some discs have a "pop-up video" style feature you can activate. This can allow a button to pop up at any time and when you click on it will continue to play the movie, but also start a second video (picture in picture style) and then overlay the audio over top the existing audio.
Like I said, it's hard to describe but appears to be the up the same ally as providing more interactive content.
Well, since it seems you have to allow users to use their flash drives so disabling USB ports is not the answer. Could you make a policy to not allow the installer to run? This article describes how to prevent executables from running based on various merits such as the hash value for the executable, certs, paths, or by zone.
Seems like a decent course of action. If people start complaining let them know the problem and that the drive if perfectly fine but you cannot allow the software to install it self on your institutions computers. Let them know where they can get a USB drive that works with the PC's without the message. If someone manages to defeat your attempts it should be easy to track down the user and warn them that their access to USB ports is coming close to being removed for circumventing your networks security.
I don't expect to call Microsoft if my ASUS motherboad takes a crap
heh, thats odd, whenever I replace any parts or reinstall the OS this is my greatest fear and I always expect it, it's always a relief when windows dosen't make me call microsoft when it can't be activated automaticly over the Internet. Having to take the time out to punch in 8 groups of 5 digit numbers into the phone then having to type in another long string is such a waste of time... even worse when you have to go through the 20 questions of why your re-activating when it fails.
I'm not too familiar with the unreal engine, but is there a way for the end-user to integrate the mods and graphics packages into the Linux unreal engine? Is there some code in the mod that is not cross-platform? How much liberty was taken with the engine? Will the developers for the R6 game (RedStorm?) answer your question?
I have no idea. But it just seems to me that working with an engine thats already cross platform would require very very little effort to make your game also cross platform. Was just wondering if anyone had any logical ideas, other then because of cost, because there shouldn't be any extra cost when your lisencing an engine that already supports the two platforms.
Hmm... looking at things from that way makes a lot of sense. I would then simply ask anyone playing with an emulator (wrapper) to at least write one email a week to the publishers asking that games be written in such a way, and eventually givin native ports as not everything reports home and says "Hey this guy is running the game in linux using an emulator" to provide statistical evidence of not using windows.
Maybe one of you can answer this slightly off-topic question I've had for quite some time.
Games like R6:3 Raven Shield use the unreal engine, and should basicly just be some mods and graphic packages. Why are game like this with an engine that is fully supported not being "ported". I used "ported" because it wouldn't seem a real port is needed since the major component of the game is already available. Graphics wouldn't cause cross-platform issues, and the engine should be taking care of loading the mods. So why aren't these types of games automaticly native to both windows and linux? It seems like the publishers of such games would have to go out of their way to make it non-functional outside of windows.
If you knew what games that were available why the hell did you ask? You seem to be in the same boat I am, except for the small issue of thinking there is nothing wrong with supporting these "emulation/wrapper" projects. I on the other hand see a big problem with them. Mostly in the "why should we if they will be happy running our product at a performance loss and without support " area of game publishing.
Perhaps if you want the publishers to realize they ARE infact loosing sales by not supporting an entire OS then yes you should give up on them. Unless you want the publishers to contiune thinking, "Why should we make a native port, they can just run it in a wrapper, then we wont have to provide support to them either." that is. I hate civilization all together, and am majorly bummed by there not being any good real times available as well, but I'm not about to pay a company to flat out ignore my operating system of choice either.
Lets see, every unreal tournamant has had a native client. Doom 3 was much more smoother in linux than windows. Neverwinter Nights also has a native client. Of course your against Loki for some reason... so I guess I shouldn't mention Simcity 3000, or any of the other games they have ported.
None and all... dont suport these half assed attempts at "emulation" to play your games. Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games. Why should they when your happy with 70% preformance and major instabilities? But any (major) distro will play the native games just as well as any of the others.
Either play fully supported Linux native games, hold on to windows, or duel-boot. But whatever you do DO NOT SUPPORT the efforts of these emulators! They are not for the greater good, as far as gamming goes. Using them to run old unsupported software is another story.
I figured someone who WAS in the position to need to order 300 machines would realize the difference here.
The business machines he was wanting to sell you would have all had the exact same chipsets, video, sound and network cards.
The machines you wanted may have come with 200 mboards with a via chipset, 100 with an intel chipset, 100 Intel Video Chipsets, 50 ATI, 150 nvidia, 100 creative sound cards, 100 via, 100 cmedia, 50 linksys (model a) 25 linksys (model b which wont use the same driver as model a) 200 intel 25 dlink.
The home machines can be hell as far as driver support goes, ecspecially in the network and sound areas.
The problem seem to come from the ability to make domain names have one or two charecters from a different language set.
For example (from an example I saw in a post here):
www.p using the enligsh alphabet a using a different set that looks similar ypal.com using the original charecter set
Why not require that the URLS must be of all one set or another? Someone may not notice the A isn't quite the same, but if the whole URL were also in the seperate set it would be a lot easier to notice. If one char is a different set, the entire string should be using that set. Any reason why it shouldnt be "all or nothing"?
Also if this is considered a browser exploit then using
For the lazy a few snippits: Section 8d. reads, "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel." My flag touched the ground. Do I need to destroy it? No. You should, of course, try to avoid having the flag touch the ground. But if it does, you should correct the situation immediately. If the flag has been dirtied, you should clean it by hand with a mild soap solution and dry it well before returning it to use. My flag is old and ready to be retired. What should I do? Section 8k of the Flag Code (see below) states, "The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." We recommend that you contact your local VFW Chapter and ask them for help properly disposing of your flag. And be sure to consider providing a small donation to them for their assistance. Or you can contact your local Elks Lodge (who created the idea of Flag Day, established officially by President Truman, himself a member of the Elks) or the American Legion. Some Boy Scout and Girl Scout troups also can provide this service.
Yeah, if you already know the ins and outs of configuring without the GUI tools then your not gonna learn much. However, if your in the "next-next-finish-yay-I've-installed-linux" group when the littlest thing goes wrong, like say needed to change something in fstab most GUI installers are like.. "what is that?". Where as a person who has successfully gotten through a gentoo installation is more like, "oh yeah, I remember that file from when I installed, I'm still not sure what EVERYTHING means, but I know it has to do with drive mounting and options for mounting".
Theres a reason users of other distros have come to our forums looking for help and end up getting their help from someone just completing their first linux installation ever. lol, Just because it's their Nth attempt and have finally gotten it right means nothing.;)
To be honest if I ever have to re-install I'll probably move away from gentoo, I feel like I've learned enough to be able deal with most problems on fluffier distros. Before gentoo I tried various flavors of linux a couple of times, Red Hat most often and fell into the "something went wrong and I can't find a solution or even figure out where to start" trap. Now I at least know the various things to look for simply through the tedious installations steps.
Also, I don't really buy the idea that Gentoo makes people understand how an OS works. Just because it is a PITA, doesn't mean someone is learning. Most new Gentoo users just follow the receipes for getting stuff done. What is to learn?
No, it doesn't really teach you how an operating system works, but it goes a long way in teaching the basics of running a linux box. I honestly find it rather silly that people think you wouldn't actually pick up much more knowledge about configuration and what parts of the system do what then a next-next-next-finish installer.
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Just to give you a picture of what its like over here... I service a pretty large area ranging from Indianapolis, IN; Downtown Chicago, IL; and South Bend IN.
In my area, from what I've seen, are only capable of 768Kb, the only cable provider is comcast, and the only DSL provider is Verizon. There are still a few ISP's who provide the internet connection but verizon has made it near imposable by making their ISP price as little as 3$ a month on top of the line fee and sometimes will wave it completely if you bitch and moan enough. The typical DSL cost is $39 $59/mo. DSL providers (where you can get DSL) are just now getting 3Mb to most locations, though where I am 768Kb is the max. Comcast has continually impressed me with its speeds of 6Mb or 8Mb with a burst up to 12Mb; Costs range from $33 - $89mo. Both cable and DSL charge around $10 more for business accounts and 5$ a month per static IP, sometimes you can work out better deal with the salesperson if their having a good day or just plain need to make a sale. Forty miles south we have embarq DSL, they also cannot keep a T1 up longer then a week at a time, and generally have trouble configuring new circuits. No ports are blocked in my area on any provider.
Most television comes from the satellite or cable, most people who have cable television have cable internet and then an analog phone line for most families. Families with satellite will generally have DSL internet (if available), otherwise cable and an analog phone line, and several cell phones. Families with cable TV also have cable internet, an analog phone line, and several cell phones. Singles will almost always have cable TV and internet and a cell phone. (Tons of waste if you ask me but since most of the things technological in our country suck they are prone to outages nearly constantly so not having all of the above can seriously hinder you if theres a long term (days or more, hours for some) outage on the technology you do use.)
I think that telecommunications and how they are viewed and regulated are a joke in the US. The people who decide how to regulate and control it have no clue what they are doing and shouldn't be regulating the bylaws in their retirement community let alone the entire country.
>> An Israeli startup has squeezed a complete hardware firewall into a USB key.
Oh my God! With only 16 GIGABYTES of space how could they possibly ever SQUEEZE a customized version of Linux onto a USB key!
As if any full blown Linux distro would take anywhere near that much space with a basic install, let alone a stripped down custom install.
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One of the side effects is headache. Care to play another round of the intrawebs?
I've had the same experience. Most are saying its the best upgrade to office they've seen. The ribbon is well laid out. They can find the features their looking for easier. They also say it seems a little slower and the real advanced options have all been moved . They say the speed they can live with as its not that much slower but wish they advanced stuff was as well layed out at the main controls. But overall its been very positive to say the least.
I spend a lot of time writing documentation and viso diagramming and have to say I'm really impressed with 2007.
I went in for an OPTICAL audio cable the other day and they guy was convinced the ones with gold plated connectors would do a better job then the non-gold plated ones. I firmly believe it was not just an attempt at an up sale either, he honestly believed the gold would somehow help with an optical medium.
>>he Monster connection kit for $150-200 so he gets all of the cables he could possi
never! The guy will be selling you these HDMI cables.. and better yet, TWO of the MFs! Then you need the surge protector. Anything major should definitely be protected but for that price one could do much better.
No way are they selling a all in one kit for $200 when they can hook you with this. Sit and watch what else people end up buying when they go in ill prepared.
HD-DVD has something similar.
It's very hard for me to describe the HD-DVD version of this feature but here goes nothing. HD-DVD's allow you to use the menu while watching the main movie, browse through the chapters with clips playing while the movie is still playing. Some discs have a "pop-up video" style feature you can activate. This can allow a button to pop up at any time and when you click on it will continue to play the movie, but also start a second video (picture in picture style) and then overlay the audio over top the existing audio.
Like I said, it's hard to describe but appears to be the up the same ally as providing more interactive content.
Well, since it seems you have to allow users to use their flash drives so disabling USB ports is not the answer. Could you make a policy to not allow the installer to run? This article describes how to prevent executables from running based on various merits such as the hash value for the executable, certs, paths, or by zone.
Seems like a decent course of action. If people start complaining let them know the problem and that the drive if perfectly fine but you cannot allow the software to install it self on your institutions computers. Let them know where they can get a USB drive that works with the PC's without the message. If someone manages to defeat your attempts it should be easy to track down the user and warn them that their access to USB ports is coming close to being removed for circumventing your networks security.
Which isn't that bad a deal considering after the resulting lawsuit you will likely not have to work anymore anyway!
2) Foley was responsible for pushing that law through Congress.
So he knew the details of that law.
Probably not.
You're a dumbass.
I don't expect to call Microsoft if my ASUS motherboad takes a crap
heh, thats odd, whenever I replace any parts or reinstall the OS this is my greatest fear and I always expect it, it's always a relief when windows dosen't make me call microsoft when it can't be activated automaticly over the Internet. Having to take the time out to punch in 8 groups of 5 digit numbers into the phone then having to type in another long string is such a waste of time... even worse when you have to go through the 20 questions of why your re-activating when it fails.
Yeah, since when is half a million monthly subscribers to something considered "underwhelming"?
I'm not too familiar with the unreal engine, but is there a way for the end-user to integrate the mods and graphics packages into the Linux unreal engine? Is there some code in the mod that is not cross-platform? How much liberty was taken with the engine? Will the developers for the R6 game (RedStorm?) answer your question?
I have no idea. But it just seems to me that working with an engine thats already cross platform would require very very little effort to make your game also cross platform. Was just wondering if anyone had any logical ideas, other then because of cost, because there shouldn't be any extra cost when your lisencing an engine that already supports the two platforms.
Hmm... looking at things from that way makes a lot of sense. I would then simply ask anyone playing with an emulator (wrapper) to at least write one email a week to the publishers asking that games be written in such a way, and eventually givin native ports as not everything reports home and says "Hey this guy is running the game in linux using an emulator" to provide statistical evidence of not using windows.
Maybe one of you can answer this slightly off-topic question I've had for quite some time.
Games like R6:3 Raven Shield use the unreal engine, and should basicly just be some mods and graphic packages. Why are game like this with an engine that is fully supported not being "ported". I used "ported" because it wouldn't seem a real port is needed since the major component of the game is already available. Graphics wouldn't cause cross-platform issues, and the engine should be taking care of loading the mods. So why aren't these types of games automaticly native to both windows and linux? It seems like the publishers of such games would have to go out of their way to make it non-functional outside of windows.
If you knew what games that were available why the hell did you ask? You seem to be in the same boat I am, except for the small issue of thinking there is nothing wrong with supporting these "emulation/wrapper" projects. I on the other hand see a big problem with them. Mostly in the "why should we if they will be happy running our product at a performance loss and without support " area of game publishing.
Perhaps if you want the publishers to realize they ARE infact loosing sales by not supporting an entire OS then yes you should give up on them. Unless you want the publishers to contiune thinking, "Why should we make a native port, they can just run it in a wrapper, then we wont have to provide support to them either." that is. I hate civilization all together, and am majorly bummed by there not being any good real times available as well, but I'm not about to pay a company to flat out ignore my operating system of choice either.
Lets see, every unreal tournamant has had a native client. Doom 3 was much more smoother in linux than windows. Neverwinter Nights also has a native client. Of course your against Loki for some reason... so I guess I shouldn't mention Simcity 3000, or any of the other games they have ported.
No problem.
None and all... dont suport these half assed attempts at "emulation" to play your games. Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games. Why should they when your happy with 70% preformance and major instabilities? But any (major) distro will play the native games just as well as any of the others.
Either play fully supported Linux native games, hold on to windows, or duel-boot. But whatever you do DO NOT SUPPORT the efforts of these emulators! They are not for the greater good, as far as gamming goes. Using them to run old unsupported software is another story.
I figured someone who WAS in the position to need to order 300 machines would realize the difference here.
The business machines he was wanting to sell you would have all had the exact same chipsets, video, sound and network cards.
The machines you wanted may have come with 200 mboards with a via chipset, 100 with an intel chipset, 100 Intel Video Chipsets, 50 ATI, 150 nvidia, 100 creative sound cards, 100 via, 100 cmedia, 50 linksys (model a) 25 linksys (model b which wont use the same driver as model a) 200 intel 25 dlink.
The home machines can be hell as far as driver support goes, ecspecially in the network and sound areas.
exchange it for absolutely any reason, including something superficial like a scratch on the mount.
Because its unreasonable to expect your new equipment to come looking like new? Sorry, but thats the way your posts makes it sound.
The problem seem to come from the ability to make domain names have one or two charecters from a different language set.
For example (from an example I saw in a post here):
www.p using the enligsh alphabet
a using a different set that looks similar
ypal.com using the original charecter set
Why not require that the URLS must be of all one set or another? Someone may not notice the A isn't quite the same, but if the whole URL were also in the seperate set it would be a lot easier to notice. If one char is a different set, the entire string should be using that set. Any reason why it shouldnt be "all or nothing"?
Also if this is considered a browser exploit then using should also be listed as a browser exploit.
I recall reading somewhere that when the flag has become old and worn should be burnt on flag day.
The touching the ground issue is simply not true, however wearing it in itself is a big no no.
Full list of hanging, displaying, and disposal guidelines are here: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html
For the lazy a few snippits:
Section 8d. reads, "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel."
My flag touched the ground. Do I need to destroy it?
No. You should, of course, try to avoid having the flag touch the ground. But if it does, you should correct the situation immediately. If the flag has been dirtied, you should clean it by hand with a mild soap solution and dry it well before returning it to use.
My flag is old and ready to be retired. What should I do?
Section 8k of the Flag Code (see below) states, "The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." We recommend that you contact your local VFW Chapter and ask them for help properly disposing of your flag. And be sure to consider providing a small donation to them for their assistance. Or you can contact your local Elks Lodge (who created the idea of Flag Day, established officially by President Truman, himself a member of the Elks) or the American Legion. Some Boy Scout and Girl Scout troups also can provide this service.
Yeah, if you already know the ins and outs of configuring without the GUI tools then your not gonna learn much. However, if your in the "next-next-finish-yay-I've-installed-linux" group when the littlest thing goes wrong, like say needed to change something in fstab most GUI installers are like.. "what is that?". Where as a person who has successfully gotten through a gentoo installation is more like, "oh yeah, I remember that file from when I installed, I'm still not sure what EVERYTHING means, but I know it has to do with drive mounting and options for mounting".
;)
Theres a reason users of other distros have come to our forums looking for help and end up getting their help from someone just completing their first linux installation ever. lol, Just because it's their Nth attempt and have finally gotten it right means nothing.
To be honest if I ever have to re-install I'll probably move away from gentoo, I feel like I've learned enough to be able deal with most problems on fluffier distros. Before gentoo I tried various flavors of linux a couple of times, Red Hat most often and fell into the "something went wrong and I can't find a solution or even figure out where to start" trap. Now I at least know the various things to look for simply through the tedious installations steps.
Also, I don't really buy the idea that Gentoo makes people understand how an OS works. Just because it is a PITA, doesn't mean someone is learning. Most new Gentoo users just follow the receipes for getting stuff done. What is to learn?
No, it doesn't really teach you how an operating system works, but it goes a long way in teaching the basics of running a linux box. I honestly find it rather silly that people think you wouldn't actually pick up much more knowledge about configuration and what parts of the system do what then a next-next-next-finish installer.