I'm looking at it and I see a web portal. Does anyon else see the same thing? It doesn't make me think I'm there to purchase, but rather just window shop. Maybe that's Windows shop. I bet Service Pack 2 breaks the store.
What if I don't want people knowing where I am at all times? Unless this is something you can turn off, I don't see people climbing on board too readily. Think about all those people that are unfaithful within their social circle. It would be kind of strange to know your significant other is always within a couple miles of someone else in your social circle. If nothing is going on, I bet you still find people that get jealous off of this "evidence." Too much technology is a bad thing sometimes. I know. I just read it. I can't believe I said it either.
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You forgot $z. Everyone get's an Etch-A-Sketch! Congratulations. You've just saved the company millions of dollars. Now, as a consultant, get the hell out of there before they realize what you've done.
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IBM is the safe choice. It's kind of like choosing Microsoft unfortunately. You went with a big company. Not only do you not get fired, you make more money selling stuff like MS SQL Server . =)
These are all good and well, when you are targeting a whole country/region for marketing, but there have to some instances in which Microsoft just laughs and continues business. I mean, I bet someone is mad that you can't set a time zone by his specific city. I can just see it now. "How come Los Angeles isn't on the city selection? It's a huge city. Tijuana? That's not even in the United States!" I'd be really curious to see how Microsoft would reply to a person like this.
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The problem arises with this when a website has multiple domains to cover their content. That can confuse users. Multiple domains shouldn't be used just to serve media from another server, but I've seen it done. Also, what happens when you are drawing content from other domains? Will Spoofstick list all the domains?
From what you and I probably see, yes. Phishing begins with an email, because we probably don't browse shady sites regularly. I don't know what the average user sees in their regular browsing. I can't even figure out where people get all the spyware from in the first place. As far as phishing emails, I know I get one email regularly that looks like a CitiBank email, but it is a.jpg file embedded. The URL has citi in it, but if you look closer, it's obviously not the right sight. I'd report it, but Citi Bank's online reporting sucks.
With the amount of worms and viruses out there, even a clean format/install won't last more than a minute. I put a system up without a firewall and it got pounded by the Sasser Worm immediately. Even with Windows Update auto resume download it took me twelve tries, each time before forced to reboot by the worm, to get just that one small patch installed. After that patch, I patched like crazy, because there's so much more out there.
It's okay. People aren't going to open ports for every application. They're just going to disable the firewall, making everything better. It will be Windows XP SP2-1. It's funny, but it's true. Turning off the firewall is the first thing I'm going to do, when I get up enough courage to install the damn thing. Maybe I'll just test on some of my nicer clients.
If I tried to bill a client 10.5 hours, I'd be fired so fast. It's best when to know when to cut your losses, slave the drive to backup data, reformat, and reinstall. There's no way fixing a computer should take longer than 4 hours. If it can't be fixed fast, wiping it is probably best. I mean, it costs almost as much to fix it as to get a new computer at 6 hours.
Who keeps up with current prices? No your average person, that's for sure. Coming out of an era when the last computers purchased were $3000, convincing someone to pay $1200 for a Dell is not too difficult.
Prices are high for really new stuff and really old stuff. That's not just for initial cost. That is for maintenance too. The idea is to keep your hardware in the middle, probably upgrading between 2-5 years. It saves money. I mean, think about how many hours it takes to troubleshoot a DOS program now. Who knows the stuff anymore? This is an idea a colleague of mine and I are trying to get studied by an economics professor I used to work with back in college.
I just see another device that doesn't need to be combined with a phone. I just want my phone to make calls and maybe sync contacts with my computer. Phone battery life barely lasts long enough for some days, even without all the fancy gadgets. Putting two good things together doesn't always make a better product. It's like the one Simpsons where Homer is eating out of a can and it says, "Gum and Nuts: Together at Last."
That way you know where the phone is when you get messages or calls. It's always funny to me when the phone rings and someone yells, "Phone!" That's why it rings in the first place.
What I'd like to see is someone use Windows while having the head band on vs. someone using Linux and having the headband on, and have them do the same task. See who has to think harder to get it done. This would be great for designing intuitive "no brain necessary" software.
You can't watch something that small all the time. They'll get stolen. Plus, college kids are irresponsible. I was one not too long ago. They'll get left everywhere. There will be lines at the lost and found for iPods and confusion as to which iPod belongs to whom.
I just tell my parents, don't believe anything you read in an email or online. There's no credibility. I tell them to just wait until it comes onto three different news stations before they should start to believe it. In most cases, if it's that important, someone will tell the proper people with credentials.
I can never get TapeWare to work properly. Five or six different tape drives have failed on us. We went completely to RAID mirroring and external hard drives. Does anyone have any recommendations for other tape drives/software?
We can see more nerds line up in front of theaters all over the world! Then after it hit theaters, New Line can release a new DVD with scenes from outside the theaters of the last theater release. That's got to be another 2 discs or so, and that's another $50 New Line can take out of the pockets of nerds everywhere.
I'm sure we all know someone that insists on keeping all his music in.ogg or perhaps someone that ripped all their CDs again when iTunes and iPod started supporting.m4a files. Does it really make a difference when you're toting 15GB or more around? Probably not, but everyone has their own desires. It's similar to people switching cell phones all the time. Apparently, there is a market for it...just not a cheap ass like me.
People seem to understand that iPod got it right with their circular controls, but all the other MP3 plays I've seen implement it ths far shrink it so much. I'm no giant of a man, but my fingers are still fat enough to mash a few buttons at once. Smaller is not always better.
I never understood the benefit of OGG either. Could someone explain that? When I have 15GB does it really matter how great my compression is on the songs?
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I'm looking at it and I see a web portal. Does anyon else see the same thing? It doesn't make me think I'm there to purchase, but rather just window shop. Maybe that's Windows shop. I bet Service Pack 2 breaks the store.
Soon we will be back to the 80's brick cell phone.
What if I don't want people knowing where I am at all times? Unless this is something you can turn off, I don't see people climbing on board too readily. Think about all those people that are unfaithful within their social circle. It would be kind of strange to know your significant other is always within a couple miles of someone else in your social circle. If nothing is going on, I bet you still find people that get jealous off of this "evidence." Too much technology is a bad thing sometimes. I know. I just read it. I can't believe I said it either.
You forgot $z. Everyone get's an Etch-A-Sketch! Congratulations. You've just saved the company millions of dollars. Now, as a consultant, get the hell out of there before they realize what you've done.
IBM is the safe choice. It's kind of like choosing Microsoft unfortunately. You went with a big company. Not only do you not get fired, you make more money selling stuff like MS SQL Server . =)
These are all good and well, when you are targeting a whole country/region for marketing, but there have to some instances in which Microsoft just laughs and continues business. I mean, I bet someone is mad that you can't set a time zone by his specific city. I can just see it now. "How come Los Angeles isn't on the city selection? It's a huge city. Tijuana? That's not even in the United States!" I'd be really curious to see how Microsoft would reply to a person like this.
The problem arises with this when a website has multiple domains to cover their content. That can confuse users. Multiple domains shouldn't be used just to serve media from another server, but I've seen it done. Also, what happens when you are drawing content from other domains? Will Spoofstick list all the domains?
From what you and I probably see, yes. Phishing begins with an email, because we probably don't browse shady sites regularly. I don't know what the average user sees in their regular browsing. I can't even figure out where people get all the spyware from in the first place. As far as phishing emails, I know I get one email regularly that looks like a CitiBank email, but it is a .jpg file embedded. The URL has citi in it, but if you look closer, it's obviously not the right sight. I'd report it, but Citi Bank's online reporting sucks.
With the amount of worms and viruses out there, even a clean format/install won't last more than a minute. I put a system up without a firewall and it got pounded by the Sasser Worm immediately. Even with Windows Update auto resume download it took me twelve tries, each time before forced to reboot by the worm, to get just that one small patch installed. After that patch, I patched like crazy, because there's so much more out there.
It's okay. People aren't going to open ports for every application. They're just going to disable the firewall, making everything better. It will be Windows XP SP2-1. It's funny, but it's true. Turning off the firewall is the first thing I'm going to do, when I get up enough courage to install the damn thing. Maybe I'll just test on some of my nicer clients.
If I tried to bill a client 10.5 hours, I'd be fired so fast. It's best when to know when to cut your losses, slave the drive to backup data, reformat, and reinstall. There's no way fixing a computer should take longer than 4 hours. If it can't be fixed fast, wiping it is probably best. I mean, it costs almost as much to fix it as to get a new computer at 6 hours.
Also, it will allow users to prove that Windows is causing all the crashing, rather than just the numerous applications.
I'd like to say I'm proud, but so far we make spam and ugly cars.
Who keeps up with current prices? No your average person, that's for sure. Coming out of an era when the last computers purchased were $3000, convincing someone to pay $1200 for a Dell is not too difficult.
Prices are high for really new stuff and really old stuff. That's not just for initial cost. That is for maintenance too. The idea is to keep your hardware in the middle, probably upgrading between 2-5 years. It saves money. I mean, think about how many hours it takes to troubleshoot a DOS program now. Who knows the stuff anymore? This is an idea a colleague of mine and I are trying to get studied by an economics professor I used to work with back in college.
I just see another device that doesn't need to be combined with a phone. I just want my phone to make calls and maybe sync contacts with my computer. Phone battery life barely lasts long enough for some days, even without all the fancy gadgets. Putting two good things together doesn't always make a better product. It's like the one Simpsons where Homer is eating out of a can and it says, "Gum and Nuts: Together at Last."
That way you know where the phone is when you get messages or calls. It's always funny to me when the phone rings and someone yells, "Phone!" That's why it rings in the first place.
What I'd like to see is someone use Windows while having the head band on vs. someone using Linux and having the headband on, and have them do the same task. See who has to think harder to get it done. This would be great for designing intuitive "no brain necessary" software.
You can't watch something that small all the time. They'll get stolen. Plus, college kids are irresponsible. I was one not too long ago. They'll get left everywhere. There will be lines at the lost and found for iPods and confusion as to which iPod belongs to whom.
I just tell my parents, don't believe anything you read in an email or online. There's no credibility. I tell them to just wait until it comes onto three different news stations before they should start to believe it. In most cases, if it's that important, someone will tell the proper people with credentials.
I can never get TapeWare to work properly. Five or six different tape drives have failed on us. We went completely to RAID mirroring and external hard drives. Does anyone have any recommendations for other tape drives/software?
We can see more nerds line up in front of theaters all over the world! Then after it hit theaters, New Line can release a new DVD with scenes from outside the theaters of the last theater release. That's got to be another 2 discs or so, and that's another $50 New Line can take out of the pockets of nerds everywhere.
I'm sure we all know someone that insists on keeping all his music in .ogg or perhaps someone that ripped all their CDs again when iTunes and iPod started supporting .m4a files. Does it really make a difference when you're toting 15GB or more around? Probably not, but everyone has their own desires. It's similar to people switching cell phones all the time. Apparently, there is a market for it...just not a cheap ass like me.
People seem to understand that iPod got it right with their circular controls, but all the other MP3 plays I've seen implement it ths far shrink it so much. I'm no giant of a man, but my fingers are still fat enough to mash a few buttons at once. Smaller is not always better. I never understood the benefit of OGG either. Could someone explain that? When I have 15GB does it really matter how great my compression is on the songs?
His hair isn't gray. It's gone. Supporting Windows also causes baldness.