Remember when you needed to be able to make a modem work and set up some fairly complex software in order to get online? The "average" person you found online back then was considerably more reasonable, well-behaved, and plain old intelligent than you run into online today. Sounds to me like he's suggesting a return to those days - and I could seriously get behind that idea!
I agree that many bosses are out of touch, but in my experience they seem to be out of touch in the opposite direction! With the economy in it's current shape, I'll accept almost any position - I program in 4 languages, I'm fluent in 3 versions of Windows and 3 major linux distros. I can do break/fix on almost any PC or printer..., network design and installation, etc... 30+ years experience. I've been reduced to taking deployment contracts for temp agencies, a week at a time, for $17.00 an hour, when I can get anything at all.
I had an online scammer send me a forged money order, which I promptly delivered to the local police; Their response? "What should I do with this?" (AFTER I explained that it was a forged money order, as verified by the originating bank...
Everyone who wasn't expecting Microsoft to drop XP as soon as they thought they could, raise your hands. Let's be serious for a second - Ignore for the moment where the bugs came from, just look at the bottom line, like a MS beancounter would. MS is in business to make money, and it costs them a bomb to keep the XP team patching bugs.
Personally, I'm waiting for the day that MS stops allowing activations of XP. I've stockpiled activation codes and hacks, to say nothing of patches and 3rd party security kit - I have no plans to purchase Vista. but I'm kind of stuck needing to run a few games. Linux does everything else for me.
When they fail... With Maxtors, generally that's warranty period + 1 week. Seagates and Western Digitals, generally warranty + 1 year. Of the 3 brands, Maxtor has the worst chance of not making it to warranty - I don't use them anymore.
I'd love to move my family to Canada. From what I can tell from watching the news, Canada is much more civilized than America, and America is becoming worse every day. The only thing stopping me is employment for my wife and myself. If I could be assured of finding work, I'd leave tomorrow.
Seagate can't integrate Maxtor into something like quality control soon enough for me. I stopped using them a few years back after setting a new record for warranty replacements - 24 in 12 months,in fewer than 12 computers. I haven't seen them smoke out, but I'm not particularly surprised - they run hot enough to be used to light cigarettes, usually just before the bearings seize.
I tried to find a way to send this privately, but no-go. Just wanted to thank you for mentioning the Ataris " Boys of Summer". I'd never heard that version before, but the Henly version is one of my fave tracks. You've just scored another Ataris convert - purchased the album a few minutes ago. No, the RIAA must be correct - music downloads don't have any impact on music purchases...;-)>
Of couse upgrades aren't always a good idea for the end user! Programs changing EULA terms, adding DRM, adding adware, adding 'phone home' features, introducing 'features' simply to break compatability with other programs... The list of reasons NOT to upgrade is quite extensive. My personal guesstimate is that less than half of the time is an upgrade worth installing (depending on vendor - some is much worse!). I recommend to everyone that I know that they keep their old software on file and carefully evaluate upgrades before tossing the older stuff. Even 'real' new features sometimes aren't worth the learning curve, and they happen more rarely than most people think.
So, what software have you written? Let's see the website and mailing list. If you're going to shoot your stupid mouth off, you'd better have plenty of ammo. I've been using shorewall for a few years, and it has the best documentation of any FOSS code I've seen. It's also the best firewall code for linux out there, and I've looked. I can understand why he's burned out - Shorewall is a hell of a product and he's done more work on the docs than some corporate products I've seen.
Hell will freeze over before I'd trust a Miscrosoft robot with my son. I don't even let him run Windows! Can you imagine the EULA for the robot? In the event the thing crashes and hurts the kid, Microsoft isn't responsible for anything over $5.00. Oh yeah, I'll buy one. NOT.
Nonsense. If that were the case, when I tried to upgrade from RH9 to FC1, it wouldn't have had major problems with the hardware that had been working perfectly. And it wouldn't have been about as stable as Charles Manson when I _DID_ finally get it installed. The Fedora series was a major step backwards, and the way Redhat dropped customers who had been using and supporting the distro was nothing short of telling us to go to hell. (Yes I'm angry - I purchased 6 support contracts the month before they dropped the distro. I don't have that kind of money to waste.) I switched myself and all of my clients to SuSE. It's my turn to tell Redhat to go to hell.
I predict this is another nail in the coffin of the WMA format. DRM, sneaking weblinks into an mpeg, and now this. A number of people I know who use p2p networks are filtering WMA files - they don't even bother looking at WMA's in search results.
Interesting... I just tried it with Mozilla 1.7.2.
The window was hijacked when I tried it with my proxy setup disabled. When I enabled my privoxy/squid setup, the window was NOT hijacked. Note that when I tried the "with pop-up blocker" link, I was told that I didn't have a pop-up blocker - whether the proxies were enabled or not.
I can guarantee that there's prior art - ZDCS, FWKCS, exztest, and more that I don't recall. Dating from 1986 or so. They all used hashes or similar to identify a file uniquely. Very common problem on BBSs - detecting duplicate uploads irrelevant of filename.
A unique identifier and your IP address, as well as a list of all your hardware and software. Looks like I won't be using Microsoft update again. Thanks to the OP for the heads up.
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I used to run sendmail, now I run postfix. My system runs twice as fast under a heavier load. You can talk about benchmarks all week, I know what I see. That was my only complaint about sendmail.
At least 8 years - I bought a pair of cell phones when my wife was expecting. More than once, it was faster to just drive where I was trying to call rather than wait for a circuit. I live along the major 'drive trunk' (Route 80, 50 miles west of NYC, more or less) - you'd think they'd have sprung for some capacity THERE, but nope. When the contract expired I switched to a company that actually had some equipment. AT&T called me once to try to convince me to switch back - I laughed at them. I wondered how long they'd last with that level of "service". Now we know.
Anyone not using privoxy, mozilla, or similar to filter pop-up/unders get what they deserve. If you don't vote, you don't get to complain. Vote "NO" to pop-ups/unders!
You called it exactly right. Send a manned mission to Mars, Broadband Internet for everyone, Legalize polygamy, 0% unemployment, free automobiles and gasoline... just as long as you vote for me!
The sad thing is that so many morons are going to believe him and vote accordingly. Personally, if I haven't already emigrated to another country to try and find a job by the election, if he DOES get reelected, I'm out of here!
I got into it for the air conditioning. I hate hot humid weather, and I live in New Jersey, USA - capitol of the Hot & humid. They HAVE to baby the machines, and I get to piggy-back. Of course, since shrub sank the economy, I'm looking for a McJob.
Was anyone gullible enough to believe that Shrubs 'plan' to get back in space was anything but a cheap attempt to buy votes in the upcoming election? He's run the deficit up so far we'll all be lucky if the government can affort to keep printing money. Let's be real here. The only way we're going to get back into space is dumb luck - The government isn't going to do anything big money doesn't pay them to do.
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Remember when you needed to be able to make a modem work and set up some fairly complex software in order to get online? The "average" person you found online back then was considerably more reasonable, well-behaved, and plain old intelligent than you run into online today. Sounds to me like he's suggesting a return to those days - and I could seriously get behind that idea!
I agree that many bosses are out of touch, but in my experience they seem to be out of touch in the opposite direction! With the economy in it's current shape, I'll accept almost any position - I program in 4 languages, I'm fluent in 3 versions of Windows and 3 major linux distros. I can do break/fix on almost any PC or printer..., network design and installation, etc... 30+ years experience. I've been reduced to taking deployment contracts for temp agencies, a week at a time, for $17.00 an hour, when I can get anything at all.
I had an online scammer send me a forged money order, which I promptly delivered to the local police; Their response? "What should I do with this?" (AFTER I explained that it was a forged money order, as verified by the originating bank...
Everyone who wasn't expecting Microsoft to drop XP as soon as they thought they could, raise your hands. Let's be serious for a second - Ignore for the moment where the bugs came from, just look at the bottom line, like a MS beancounter would. MS is in business to make money, and it costs them a bomb to keep the XP team patching bugs.
Personally, I'm waiting for the day that MS stops allowing activations of XP. I've stockpiled activation codes and hacks, to say nothing of patches and 3rd party security kit - I have no plans to purchase Vista. but I'm kind of stuck needing to run a few games. Linux does everything else for me.
When they fail... With Maxtors, generally that's warranty period + 1 week. Seagates and Western Digitals, generally warranty + 1 year. Of the 3 brands, Maxtor has the worst chance of not making it to warranty - I don't use them anymore.
I'd love to move my family to Canada. From what I can tell from watching the news, Canada is much more civilized than America, and America is becoming worse every day. The only thing stopping me is employment for my wife and myself. If I could be assured of finding work, I'd leave tomorrow.
Seagate can't integrate Maxtor into something like quality control soon enough for me. I stopped using them a few years back after setting a new record for warranty replacements - 24 in 12 months,in fewer than 12 computers. I haven't seen them smoke out, but I'm not particularly surprised - they run hot enough to be used to light cigarettes, usually just before the bearings seize.
I tried to find a way to send this privately, but no-go. Just wanted to thank you for mentioning the Ataris " Boys of Summer". I'd never heard that version before, but the Henly version is one of my fave tracks. You've just scored another Ataris convert - purchased the album a few minutes ago. No, the RIAA must be correct - music downloads don't have any impact on music purchases... ;-)>
Of couse upgrades aren't always a good idea for the end user! Programs changing EULA terms, adding DRM, adding adware, adding 'phone home' features, introducing 'features' simply to break compatability with other programs... The list of reasons NOT to upgrade is quite extensive. My personal guesstimate is that less than half of the time is an upgrade worth installing (depending on vendor - some is much worse!). I recommend to everyone that I know that they keep their old software on file and carefully evaluate upgrades before tossing the older stuff. Even 'real' new features sometimes aren't worth the learning curve, and they happen more rarely than most people think.
So, what software have you written? Let's see the website and mailing list. If you're going to shoot your stupid mouth off, you'd better have plenty of ammo. I've been using shorewall for a few years, and it has the best documentation of any FOSS code I've seen. It's also the best firewall code for linux out there, and I've looked. I can understand why he's burned out - Shorewall is a hell of a product and he's done more work on the docs than some corporate products I've seen.
We file freedom of information act papers for the weather forecasts? If we all do it, we should be able to bury the government in even more paperwork.
Hell will freeze over before I'd trust a Miscrosoft robot with my son. I don't even let him run Windows! Can you imagine the EULA for the robot? In the event the thing crashes and hurts the kid, Microsoft isn't responsible for anything over $5.00. Oh yeah, I'll buy one. NOT.
Nonsense. If that were the case, when I tried to upgrade from RH9 to FC1, it wouldn't have had major problems with the hardware that had been working perfectly. And it wouldn't have been about as stable as Charles Manson when I _DID_ finally get it installed. The Fedora series was a major step backwards, and the way Redhat dropped customers who had been using and supporting the distro was nothing short of telling us to go to hell. (Yes I'm angry - I purchased 6 support contracts the month before they dropped the distro. I don't have that kind of money to waste.) I switched myself and all of my clients to SuSE. It's my turn to tell Redhat to go to hell.
Now you know why my web site is www.catherders.com
I predict this is another nail in the coffin of the WMA format. DRM, sneaking weblinks into an mpeg, and now this. A number of people I know who use p2p networks are filtering WMA files - they don't even bother looking at WMA's in search results.
Interesting... I just tried it with Mozilla 1.7.2. The window was hijacked when I tried it with my proxy setup disabled. When I enabled my privoxy/squid setup, the window was NOT hijacked. Note that when I tried the "with pop-up blocker" link, I was told that I didn't have a pop-up blocker - whether the proxies were enabled or not.
I can guarantee that there's prior art - ZDCS, FWKCS, exztest, and more that I don't recall. Dating from 1986 or so. They all used hashes or similar to identify a file uniquely. Very common problem on BBSs - detecting duplicate uploads irrelevant of filename.
A unique identifier and your IP address, as well as a list of all your hardware and software. Looks like I won't be using Microsoft update again. Thanks to the OP for the heads up.
I used to run sendmail, now I run postfix. My system runs twice as fast under a heavier load. You can talk about benchmarks all week, I know what I see. That was my only complaint about sendmail.
At least 8 years - I bought a pair of cell phones when my wife was expecting. More than once, it was faster to just drive where I was trying to call rather than wait for a circuit. I live along the major 'drive trunk' (Route 80, 50 miles west of NYC, more or less) - you'd think they'd have sprung for some capacity THERE, but nope. When the contract expired I switched to a company that actually had some equipment. AT&T called me once to try to convince me to switch back - I laughed at them. I wondered how long they'd last with that level of "service". Now we know.
Anyone not using privoxy, mozilla, or similar to filter pop-up/unders get what they deserve. If you don't vote, you don't get to complain. Vote "NO" to pop-ups/unders!
You called it exactly right. Send a manned mission to Mars, Broadband Internet for everyone, Legalize polygamy, 0% unemployment, free automobiles and gasoline... just as long as you vote for me!
The sad thing is that so many morons are going to believe him and vote accordingly. Personally, if I haven't already emigrated to another country to try and find a job by the election, if he DOES get reelected, I'm out of here!
I got into it for the air conditioning. I hate hot humid weather, and I live in New Jersey, USA - capitol of the Hot & humid. They HAVE to baby the machines, and I get to piggy-back. Of course, since shrub sank the economy, I'm looking for a McJob.
Was anyone gullible enough to believe that Shrubs 'plan' to get back in space was anything but a cheap attempt to buy votes in the upcoming election? He's run the deficit up so far we'll all be lucky if the government can affort to keep printing money. Let's be real here. The only way we're going to get back into space is dumb luck - The government isn't going to do anything big money doesn't pay them to do.
I dunno about that - I wouldn't hire a computer illiterate boob as an accountant.