Only a couple of days late responding to this...
The "c" refers to compact - meaning a total pain in the ass to upgrade, almost everything is proprietary or you need a low profile card.
The problem I had was a bum CD burner. Dell wouldn't fix it (no sir, the drive is fine. You just need to insert your restore disk and it will work...), and since it was a laptop drive, I couldn't easily pick one up.
Excuse me sir, please stand by that wall over there. Yes, the one that everybody is pointing their rifles at. Would you like a cigarrette? Don't smoke, eh? Well, it's not like it's going to kill you...
Check the Dell Outlet - refurb computers. Picked up a 4600c (never EVER buy anything that ends in a "c") 2.4ghz for around $400 last year, though it did have on-board video with shared memory. They hide the link on their front page, but it's there somewhere.
Is it just me, or is that a violation of my patent on "Redundancy, or Saying the Same Thing Twice (US PAT# 384015367)?"
I mean, have you ever heard of a male heroine? (remember, mail heroin is a different matter.)
Hey editors, you owe me some money to license that patent.
Don't worry - if the government runs it, you'll still get charged out the ass for it, only they'll charge everybody out the ass, not just those who use it.
Since I live out in the country, and probably fall into the 10% who won't receive coverage, I'll get to pay out the ass for a service that I use, but I'll also get taxed out the ass for a service that I don't use! What a bargain! C'mon, I really don't want to fund yet another program that I won't get to receive benefits from, like Social Security.
Or you could stop smoking. As a result of this seemingly obvious course of action, you pay even less (nothing actually), live longer, stop annoying people around you, stop fueling an immoral industry, and stop contributing in your own small way to why our species is still largely primitive as a whole.
You make it sound so easy. You actually sound like someone who has never been addicted to nicotine.
In case you are not aware, Nicotine is as addictive as heroin. http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html Not many people tell a heroin addict to just quit - they get him treatment. Nicotine works by activitating the pleasure centers of your brain, the reward centers. It increases the level of dopamine in your brain, making you feel good, relaxed, just like heroin. Take the drug away, and the addict begins to crave it. True, we don't lay in our vomit doing the herky-jerky like heroin addicts do, but it does feel like crap. Try this little experiment - breathe out all the way. Now don't breathe back in. See how long you go without breathing in. That's what it's like when you try to quit, except you know that if you give in and take a "breath," you've lost.
"Immoral industry" - wow. You do realize, of course, that without the "sin taxes" placed on tobacco, federal and state governments will have to raise taxes across the board to recoup that loss, right? Would you rather I pay those taxes for you, or do you want to chip in (if you want to help out on my sin taxes, send you check to...)? I don't have numbers, but I'm going to guess that the tobacco industry employs at least a couple thousand people. Where do their jobs go when we stop feuling this immoral industry? After we kill the immoral tobacco industry, who are we going after next? The immoral alcohol industry? The immoral oil companies? The immoral porn industry? The immoral gun industry? Give me a break.
By the way, I don't think you speak for all of us when you talk of how primitive we are. I, for one, have this newfangled invention called "fire" in my cave. Come over sometime, I'll show it to you. We can talk about my collection of cave art, too.
I've personally only seen Diebold ATMs running two OS's: XP Embedded (newer models) and OS2-Warp4 (older models). We have 5 Diebolds in our lab here, and all but one of them runs OS2. The newest one is XP Embedded, and it blue screens nicely.
I don't have the relevant article, but Bank of America had a large portion of its ATM network infected earlier this year when a Diebold tech hooked his infected laptop up to one of their machines.
I perform certification testing for a large transaction processor, so I have seen most of the ATMs that are in use in the US today. The first Windows based ATM that we saw arrived in 2000, and ran Win98. You had to reboot it every 3 days or it would lock up. Had cool videos running on it, though:D
Since then, about half the ATMs we have coming through the lab are running some version of Windows, mainly XP Embedded. The other half run proprietary software. Among the legacy ATMs, you'll find OS2 (Diebold and NCR), NT4, Win98, Win2K. There are rumors of Linux based ATMs, but they haven't made it to the market yet.
Now, for one of those things you think of, but never would do: someone needs to write a virus that will specifically target some of these Win-based ATMs. It spreads as a normal virus, but once it recognizes that it's on an ATM, it delays for ~24 hours, then kicks the cash dispenser into high gear, until the machine is empty...
Actually, a better comparison would be the M-14 "toe-popper" vs the M-16 "bouncing Betty" landmines. The M-16 pretty much kills the person who tripped it and maybe a couple of unfortunate souls who were tailgating him), while the M-14, as its nickname suggests, just removes part of your foot.
I don't recall there being anything in the Constitution giving you the right to wireless access. Schools don't allow people to smoke inside anymore, does that violate smoker's "rights"? No. It's their building, they can do what they want with it - that's THEIR right. You don't like it, move off campus.
I picked up an old laptop (PII class) and went to rebuilding it. Wouldn't you know that it couldn't read my burned CD's, so I couldn't transfer data that way, had no ehternet adapter, and wouldn't recognize my pen drive. Time to break out the floppies and span the USB driver across 4 of them bad boys. Nope, I don't miss the days of floppies, but I really hate wasting an entire CDR (yep, ain't upgraded to CDRW yet) just to move a small text file.
Except that they don't actually look at the files, so you're wasting your disk space and bandwidth. Just use some simple text files with garbage in them and give them enticing names.
The only thing I see in favor of plaintiffs is that this article was published in what I assume to be a newspaper. CNN does not mention where in the paper it was published, but my assumption is that it did not appear in the editorial or opinion section of the paper. People read a paper for news - truth (or something closely resembling that, depending on the bent of the staff). If you publish a story in the paper, I should be able to assume that it is true. Fiction and opinion (sometimes one and the same) belong in the editorial or opinion pages, or need a big, bold, ugly byline stating "*** FICTION ***", otherwise the paper is insinuating that the story is true.
So, if they slapped this story in the middle of the paper, with no disclaimer, outside of the editorial or opinion pages, then my impression is that they mislead their readership by implying the story was factual.
I'm going to buy some extra fire extinguishers and an asbestos suit now.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Lucas pass out NDAs at 31 Flavors last night.
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Only a couple of days late responding to this...
The "c" refers to compact - meaning a total pain in the ass to upgrade, almost everything is proprietary or you need a low profile card.
The problem I had was a bum CD burner. Dell wouldn't fix it (no sir, the drive is fine. You just need to insert your restore disk and it will work...), and since it was a laptop drive, I couldn't easily pick one up.
Excuse me sir, please stand by that wall over there. Yes, the one that everybody is pointing their rifles at. Would you like a cigarrette? Don't smoke, eh? Well, it's not like it's going to kill you...
Check the Dell Outlet - refurb computers. Picked up a 4600c (never EVER buy anything that ends in a "c") 2.4ghz for around $400 last year, though it did have on-board video with shared memory. They hide the link on their front page, but it's there somewhere.
Wait a minute - *10* magic beans? The most I ever got was 5! I'm gonna write my Congressman and complain about that cheap-ass PE teacher!
Just get Microsoft to rewrite the standard and say that June has 31 days. No biggie.
female heroine
Is it just me, or is that a violation of my patent on "Redundancy, or Saying the Same Thing Twice (US PAT# 384015367)?"
I mean, have you ever heard of a male heroine? (remember, mail heroin is a different matter.)
Hey editors, you owe me some money to license that patent.
You're right. Time for another Big Mac(tm), 12-piece MacNugget(tm), Super-sized Fry(tm), and a small Diet Pepsi(tm)...
Gotta keep workin' on those abs, whatever the heck they are...
Oh, and can someone help me off this couch? It seems to have become attached to my ass...
Are you Sure(tm)?
Did they find out the result before they did the experiment?
There's gotta be a Bill & Ted quote in there somewhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_eas t/4288633.stm
So, thats like 50% legal then? :D
Nah, it's 100% legal - you're simply a small part of someone's distributed offsite backup and archive model.
Don't worry - if the government runs it, you'll still get charged out the ass for it, only they'll charge everybody out the ass, not just those who use it.
Since I live out in the country, and probably fall into the 10% who won't receive coverage, I'll get to pay out the ass for a service that I use, but I'll also get taxed out the ass for a service that I don't use! What a bargain! C'mon, I really don't want to fund yet another program that I won't get to receive benefits from, like Social Security.
Got some sitting in my desk at home. Do you need 72-pin or whatever the thirty something pin was?
Hell, send me a SASE and I'll mail ya some.
DAV
They're getting revenge on the on the states that voted for Bush. "You voted for Bush? Well then, you can't use our crappy service anymore! Pfffft!"
Or you could stop smoking. As a result of this seemingly obvious course of action, you pay even less (nothing actually), live longer, stop annoying people around you, stop fueling an immoral industry, and stop contributing in your own small way to why our species is still largely primitive as a whole.
You make it sound so easy. You actually sound like someone who has never been addicted to nicotine.
In case you are not aware, Nicotine is as addictive as heroin. http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html Not many people tell a heroin addict to just quit - they get him treatment. Nicotine works by activitating the pleasure centers of your brain, the reward centers. It increases the level of dopamine in your brain, making you feel good, relaxed, just like heroin. Take the drug away, and the addict begins to crave it. True, we don't lay in our vomit doing the herky-jerky like heroin addicts do, but it does feel like crap. Try this little experiment - breathe out all the way. Now don't breathe back in. See how long you go without breathing in. That's what it's like when you try to quit, except you know that if you give in and take a "breath," you've lost.
"Immoral industry" - wow. You do realize, of course, that without the "sin taxes" placed on tobacco, federal and state governments will have to raise taxes across the board to recoup that loss, right? Would you rather I pay those taxes for you, or do you want to chip in (if you want to help out on my sin taxes, send you check to...)? I don't have numbers, but I'm going to guess that the tobacco industry employs at least a couple thousand people. Where do their jobs go when we stop feuling this immoral industry? After we kill the immoral tobacco industry, who are we going after next? The immoral alcohol industry? The immoral oil companies? The immoral porn industry? The immoral gun industry? Give me a break.
By the way, I don't think you speak for all of us when you talk of how primitive we are. I, for one, have this newfangled invention called "fire" in my cave. Come over sometime, I'll show it to you. We can talk about my collection of cave art, too.
I've personally only seen Diebold ATMs running two OS's: XP Embedded (newer models) and OS2-Warp4 (older models). We have 5 Diebolds in our lab here, and all but one of them runs OS2. The newest one is XP Embedded, and it blue screens nicely.
I don't have the relevant article, but Bank of America had a large portion of its ATM network infected earlier this year when a Diebold tech hooked his infected laptop up to one of their machines. :D
I perform certification testing for a large transaction processor, so I have seen most of the ATMs that are in use in the US today. The first Windows based ATM that we saw arrived in 2000, and ran Win98. You had to reboot it every 3 days or it would lock up. Had cool videos running on it, though
Since then, about half the ATMs we have coming through the lab are running some version of Windows, mainly XP Embedded. The other half run proprietary software. Among the legacy ATMs, you'll find OS2 (Diebold and NCR), NT4, Win98, Win2K. There are rumors of Linux based ATMs, but they haven't made it to the market yet.
Now, for one of those things you think of, but never would do: someone needs to write a virus that will specifically target some of these Win-based ATMs. It spreads as a normal virus, but once it recognizes that it's on an ATM, it delays for ~24 hours, then kicks the cash dispenser into high gear, until the machine is empty...
Correction - The bomb needs 23 space shuttles to deliver it...
Actually, a better comparison would be the M-14 "toe-popper" vs the M-16 "bouncing Betty" landmines. The M-16 pretty much kills the person who tripped it and maybe a couple of unfortunate souls who were tailgating him), while the M-14, as its nickname suggests, just removes part of your foot.
1) Backup data
2) Insert Windows CD and reboot
3) Delete existing partition and create a new one.
4) Format C:
5) Reinstall Windows
6) Restore data
Alternative: 1) Backup data
2) Install Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, whatever
3) Restore data
I don't recall there being anything in the Constitution giving you the right to wireless access. Schools don't allow people to smoke inside anymore, does that violate smoker's "rights"? No. It's their building, they can do what they want with it - that's THEIR right. You don't like it, move off campus.
I picked up an old laptop (PII class) and went to rebuilding it. Wouldn't you know that it couldn't read my burned CD's, so I couldn't transfer data that way, had no ehternet adapter, and wouldn't recognize my pen drive. Time to break out the floppies and span the USB driver across 4 of them bad boys. Nope, I don't miss the days of floppies, but I really hate wasting an entire CDR (yep, ain't upgraded to CDRW yet) just to move a small text file.
Except that they don't actually look at the files, so you're wasting your disk space and bandwidth. Just use some simple text files with garbage in them and give them enticing names.
The only thing I see in favor of plaintiffs is that this article was published in what I assume to be a newspaper. CNN does not mention where in the paper it was published, but my assumption is that it did not appear in the editorial or opinion section of the paper. People read a paper for news - truth (or something closely resembling that, depending on the bent of the staff). If you publish a story in the paper, I should be able to assume that it is true. Fiction and opinion (sometimes one and the same) belong in the editorial or opinion pages, or need a big, bold, ugly byline stating "*** FICTION ***", otherwise the paper is insinuating that the story is true.
So, if they slapped this story in the middle of the paper, with no disclaimer, outside of the editorial or opinion pages, then my impression is that they mislead their readership by implying the story was factual.
I'm going to buy some extra fire extinguishers and an asbestos suit now.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Lucas pass out NDAs at 31 Flavors last night.
So what does that make me?
Absolutely nothing.