in the IT business for 13 years...countless amounts of user data...not following basic best practice principles to have an off-site back up and subsequent redundant tape or NAS...priceless Sorry to all those who lost their data and to Avsim but this is a perfect example of IT administration FAIL, I suspect the IT manager lost his/her job pronto
What IT manager? It was some guy running a hobby site. You make it sound like he's part of some big corporation with funds to throw at everything, not a guy who may not be a very computer literate person who has a hobby in flight sims and so he made a website about it.
Still. Thirteen years worth of data, and they didn't have a single tape, a single external drive, a single... anything, not even a fucking burned CD that might help them. No, I respectfully disagree, SECURITY can only do so much. (However, for the avsim.com admin I seriously have zero respect.)
Because obviously he's a fully qualified network administrator with proper experience getting paid by some big corporation to do this.
Ever considered the fact that he might just be a average Joe guy who spends a bit of time on his hobby site?
Whenever people refer to Microsoft as "Redmond" it sounds so condescending and ignorant.
In my opinion - I don't see it that way.
Interesting tidbit: I believe this started when Microsoft went after people who referenced things like "Windows", "Excel" and "Microsoft" in competing products. These competing products then had these labels changed to say "Redmond" instead.
Since then I learned more about computers and don't quite think it is possible to accomplish this feat, although would like to ask my fellow slashdotters: Is this possible, for a software to destroy the computer hardware?
There was a virus for the Amiga that executed the HCF instruction (jokingly dubbed 'halt and catch fire') which could cause the amiga to overheat and fry - This did not have a 100% success rate.
There was also another old virus, being for Windows that told the system to turn of the CPU fan, which caused older AMD processors to fry almost a minute after.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the names of either viruses. But! I know of CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller which did have a tendency to corrupt the BIOS on some effected systems, bricking them.
What is wrong with you? First you admit that you have to pay just to get your app on your phone. And then you turn around again and talk about "comercially deploy". It has absolutely nothing to do with any comercial interests beside that of Apple. It is just about deploying. As soon as you want to deploy your app to any phone you have to pay, even if it is your only own. You just can't even get it on your own phone without paying, and that can't possibly be called a "comercial deploy".
I am personally not judging people very fast but I can't help but think that you are one of the first obvious astroturfers I see here. What other reason could a person have to use that sneaky language and try to weasel around the facts?
Quoting so this valuable comment doesn't get lost to some because of the zero karma ACs have.
This sounds like most (not all, but most) of the cell phones on the market. My wife can't install whatever she wants on her Nokia 2600.
That is only the case if you buy it from a phone service provider. If you buy it from the manufacturer (or non-service provider dealers), you will get the phone unlocked etc.
They do now. My point was that they weren't added by the setup routine.
Ah, right. Well the reason why it was done that way (desktop environment's GUI mounting the device automatically when you try to open it, rather than setup setting up the partition) was because the states of Windows partitions and attached devices changed, so Ubuntu's philosophy is only to have mounting information for things that is only involved directly with the OS. That way anything is freely added/removed without an issue and the user shouldn't have to jump through loops to get access to data if the device name is changed or something else - since all (s)he'd need to do is double click the device icon in nautils/dolphin.
A more experienced user can obviously set permanent mounts in/etc/fstab and it wouldn't conflict (unlike with Xandros, where it has a automount that conflicts with/etc/fstab). I think if you use the 'custom' partitioner, you can also set/etc/fstab mount points in advanced that way too.
Saving space doesn't work as an argument, either; a bare Linux From Scratch install (which *does* include the toolchain) is around 100Mb. I don't know of anyone who using a hard disk smaller than 40 Gb or so these days.
It's to do with fitting it all on a regular CD and also useful defaults for the less experienced users. More experienced users can install packages manually, and if they wanted the sources, they can download the DVD image and install the packages - I personally think it's a acceptable compromise. I mean, it's not really going to effect the more experienced users who need to use those tools.
You don't need to remind us, everybody here knows UK is a police state.
What are you talking about? I've been in police state nations, there are no check points here (although I did see quite a few in the USA), there is no police patrolling the streets with machine guns (although, I did see quite a few of those in the USA too), I've never seen police in the UK randomly stop people asking them for their papers.
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My £100 netbook can play TF2. Cheaper than a console.
I don't own a TV and with the scare practices they do on TVs, I'm not really interested in getting one either.
PS3 version is handled by EA. Ask EA about that.
No problem, just remove Microsoft's costly certification process and forced payment requirements.
1) Buy server ...
2) Don't plug it in
3) Unhackable server!
4)
5) Profit!
What IT manager? It was some guy running a hobby site. You make it sound like he's part of some big corporation with funds to throw at everything, not a guy who may not be a very computer literate person who has a hobby in flight sims and so he made a website about it.
Because obviously he's a fully qualified network administrator with proper experience getting paid by some big corporation to do this.
Ever considered the fact that he might just be a average Joe guy who spends a bit of time on his hobby site?
This isn't really relevant. Everyone knows consoles are computers - even in their simplest forms. However, they're just not PCs.
Subject was computers not game consoles.
Not really, PCs had disk drives for many more years. It was only when DVD writers became standards did it stop appearing in models.
Also, what other PC manufacturers even use PPC?
I find privoxy very difficult to configure. Adding exceptions and adding blocking I find is a lot more difficult than via noscript and/or Adblock Plus
Abandoned technology, it is the Apple way.
EA is a publisher, not a developer. Even the titles they hold full development rights to are developed by game studios, not EA.
In my opinion - I don't see it that way.
Interesting tidbit: I believe this started when Microsoft went after people who referenced things like "Windows", "Excel" and "Microsoft" in competing products. These competing products then had these labels changed to say "Redmond" instead.
There was a virus for the Amiga that executed the HCF instruction (jokingly dubbed 'halt and catch fire') which could cause the amiga to overheat and fry - This did not have a 100% success rate.
There was also another old virus, being for Windows that told the system to turn of the CPU fan, which caused older AMD processors to fry almost a minute after.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the names of either viruses. But! I know of CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller which did have a tendency to corrupt the BIOS on some effected systems, bricking them.
Quoting so this valuable comment doesn't get lost to some because of the zero karma ACs have.
That is only the case if you buy it from a phone service provider. If you buy it from the manufacturer (or non-service provider dealers), you will get the phone unlocked etc.
iPhone on the other hand...
Ah, right. Well the reason why it was done that way (desktop environment's GUI mounting the device automatically when you try to open it, rather than setup setting up the partition) was because the states of Windows partitions and attached devices changed, so Ubuntu's philosophy is only to have mounting information for things that is only involved directly with the OS. That way anything is freely added/removed without an issue and the user shouldn't have to jump through loops to get access to data if the device name is changed or something else - since all (s)he'd need to do is double click the device icon in nautils/dolphin.
A more experienced user can obviously set permanent mounts in /etc/fstab and it wouldn't conflict (unlike with Xandros, where it has a automount that conflicts with /etc/fstab). I think if you use the 'custom' partitioner, you can also set /etc/fstab mount points in advanced that way too.
It's to do with fitting it all on a regular CD and also useful defaults for the less experienced users. More experienced users can install packages manually, and if they wanted the sources, they can download the DVD image and install the packages - I personally think it's a acceptable compromise. I mean, it's not really going to effect the more experienced users who need to use those tools.
Because this is news for nerds and this is a site that has news for nerds.
France is not Europe.
I am pretty sure Europe had a lot to do with the "IP" part of TCP/IP.
What are you talking about? I've been in police state nations, there are no check points here (although I did see quite a few in the USA), there is no police patrolling the streets with machine guns (although, I did see quite a few of those in the USA too), I've never seen police in the UK randomly stop people asking them for their papers.
Only thing that I can think of that remotely connects the UK to a police state is the cameras and the internet censorship that is prevalent throughout most of the world.
Sorry, that should be any casting, not peer casting.
The root name servers use peer casting, pretty much almost every nation has their own root name servers - So, your statement is incorrect.
His link directs to:
http://goldenfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/finlandbeafraid.jpg
It is a motivational poster, SFW.