It not Daemon Tools Doom doesn't dislike as much as Clone CD. I had a problem after installing Daemon Tools and Clone CD. Searching Activision's support articles reveals the way to fix the problem. Simply open the Clone CD tray icon and uncheck that "hide drive" option (or whatever its called) and Doom works fine. Still an incredibly annoying and useless "protection" scheme.
Locking them in a fireproof safe does little good with plastic tapes. The Safe may be fireproof but that doesn't mean the heat inside them doesn't go up. Your 80GB tape is going to be a pile of goo, but on the plus side it wont be cinders.
Best Buy, like most stores that offer rebates, print and gives you an additional copy of the receipt for just that purpose. As for the UPC, Best Buy will accept photocopies of them. I found this out when I bought a HD form them and it had 2 rebates, one from the manufacturer and one from them. I called customer support for Best Buy and they said they accept photocopies in that case. Unfortunately I have still had the problem of the rebate check from Best Buy being $10 or so dollars short of what it was supposed to be though.....
Lovely troll. I'm sure the thousands of programmers who worked many countles nights and weekends to make sure that "nothing happened" appreciate you writing their work off so lightly. Ever stop to the that the reason nothing happened is because of these people, not despite them?
No kidding, a year or so back my mother's boyfriend asked me if I could come over to one of his friends house to fix a problem he was having with his computer. It was about 8 or 9 on a Sunday evening , my only day off I might add, but I said "sure". After hearing a description of the problem I determined it was Blaster so I loaded up my trusty pen drive with the removal tool and Ad-aware. After spending 45 minutes removing blaster, patching, removing around 300 bits of spyware (according to Ad-aware),and defragmenting I figured the guy was going to hand me a twenty or possibly even a fifty (he owned a used car dealership) for doing all that work and making it to where his computer was usable again. What was my grand reward for taking over an hour and a half (this includes driving time) of my time on a Sunday night? A yummy bottle of Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. The sad part is that if I had killed him I would be considered the criminal.....
According to Zdnet those being laid off are mostly in the engineering, marketing, and sales depatments. This is very telling for a so-called "tech" company to lay-off those responsible for creating and selling your core product. Of course we all know that SCO is a litigation company and has no need for engineers to improve a product, no marketers to hype the non-existant product, and no salesmen to.... well you get the idea.
At first glance everyone may cry heretics! but this is an interesting approach to making a commercial Linux. The core may be free but tack on a few proprietary extras and charge for it. The only thing keeping Linux from the mainstream is the lack of applications that "just work" like everyone expects. Don't want to pay for all that extra stuff? Download the "lite" version (a.k.a. the all-GPL and compatible licenses version) without all the extras and continue as normal.
Now, some distros, such as SuSe may have tried this to a limited extent before but the only thing you got from the boxed set was a proprietary installer, not exactly thrilling. I would love to pay for a Linux distro that included useful applications that weren't just carbon copies of existing apps, only open source. Yeah, it might not be fasionable to use proprietary apps but dammit, I want something that is compatible with closed standards that FOSS hasn't been able to reverse engineer yet, if that means paying for it then so be it.
I for one think this is a great idea, after all, the whole concept of Linux is that you can have it any way you want.
Hey... lets combine the two! See, heres the idea, you want to download something but instead of the search bar you literally have to go out and search for what you want. Perhaps you can bribe the drunk at the bar for some information as to the wereabouts of that song you wanted. Sercheth thou for pr0n? You ust first complete the task given to you by the local flower girl and she will present you with many naughty pictures of her and her sister (who she claims is 18). Watch out though, along the way you must fight many foul creatures such as leechers, corrupt files, viruses, and RIAA lawyers.
About 3 days out of the week I have mod points, unfortunately today isn't one of them.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, most people that complain about no IT jobs are in some major market like New York, Silicon Valley or some other high-profile market. Believe it or not the "IT industry" is alive and well.
There are really only two jobs being outsourced in the tech industy, tech support and coding. Tech support is an entry level job that requires no skills. Alot of people will hire tech support workers that have NEVER used a computer. Why? Because most first level tech support is never intended to actually solve any major problem, its their job to run through a script and if that doesn't work transfer you to someone else. Why are people complaining, or even suprised, that this work is being outsourced? It's the IT equivalent to burger flipping.
The other type being outsourced is coding. During the dot-com boom everyone wanted to break in to this industry. Most of those people, not knowing much about computers, entered the part of the field that sounded good, programming. These people were incapable of turning a computer on but all they had ever heard were words like "hard drive" "RAM" and of course... "programming". So they all went to some school or another and told them they want to "program computers". 1-4 years later they are unleashed on the dot-com booming world and they get a nice cushy job doing either:
(a) nothing
or
(b) the most God awful coding the world has ever seen
After the ole' bubble burst alot of coders were left jobbless. Now, you may think thats good these hapless n00bs got canned but the problem is companies tossed the good with the bad. There are some awesome coders out there, but unfortunately after the bubble burst they were lumped in with the rejects. Now, one would think that with all these coders out of work the price to hire a domestic one would be peanuts right? Well, not quite. The legitimately good coders still want, and rightfully so, a decent amount for their valuble skills. However the bad ones that are still around still think they are a valuble resource and want a high price too, simply because thats what they were payed during the days of milk and honey. Unfortunately all the companies see are these bad ones and they get a bad taste in their mouths when they hear "coder". Soloution, Habib gets your coding job because a few idiots have to ruin a wonderful profession by giving it a bad name. I think this part of the outsourcing will gradually shift back to the US but never again to the point it was.
Now, back to the original point, the IT industry is not dead. A couple segments are seeing bad times but others are still very lucrative. hardware maintainance, network administration, troubleshooting, network deployment, network planning, etc. are all still in demand. They may not be in your area but try looking in less crowded areas. Specifically look at growing ares! I live near Charlotte, NC one of the smaller "big cities" in the US but it is growing quite rapidly. Just about every Network Administration student at my school has an almost guranteed job with Arrendale Associates, a medical transcription service company near here. They hire 2-3 people a month from my school and they get all kinds of training, mostly in Oracle. Family Dollar is another company that can't hire pre-graduates fast enough around here, and no, not for cash register jobs, real honest to God IT jobs. They have a lot of stores that need to be networked to gether and their corporate offices are local.
Yeah, that was a long rant so heres the executive summary.
1. Most IT jobs are still here to stay, Tech Support and Coding are not the only IT jobs.
2. If you can't get a job in your area then try another. I don't care if your emotionally attached to the city you live in, if you really want a job you need to go to where they are, not wait for them to come to you. With modern technology the need to have your bussiness in a dense urban setting is not required, most of the growing ones are out in places you may never have heard of.
The good thing about Gator going public is that their Financial Statements will tell us what advertisers are funding them. Makes for a nice boycott list.
Screwed by hackers? If not for hackers my AC friend, IT professionals would barely exist as you would only need 2-3 IT people in a large company. And their only job would be installation of software and setting up hardaware. As much as we all bitch about hackers we should also realise we wouldn't have jobs without them.
Of course it would work. How do you think Microsoft became so rich? Not because people wanted to shell out cash for Windows, but because they were tricked. Most people don't even know they're paying money for Windows, they think it's given to them free just for buying a computer. Try telling someone they're actually paying around $99-$150 for their OS and they're eyes go all googly. Pretty fun to tell them actually....
Those PCs are availible online only. You won't find them in any brick and mortar Wal-Mart. Kindly remove the hat and step AWAY fromt he tin-foil sir.....
How is it any different from a real life Turf War? Gangs fight over patches of concrete they don't own and hackers fight over computers they don't own.
And thanks to that mentality we will ALWAYS have a 2 party system in the US, which is little better than an Oligarcy.
It is my personal belief that If all Americans voted for the candiate they truly want in office elections would turn out much differently. Unfortunately the media has brainwashed us all into believing that only the Dems and Reps matter.
How often do you see any Newspaper or news show interview anyone from a non Dem/Rep party? And I'm not talking about Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, or Jesse Ventura, the only reason they were given media attention was because of their fame and their novelty, not because anyone cared to see them elected (and when the Ventura thing backfired and he DID get elected look how they treated him).
People simply MUST start voting whats in their hearts and more importantly, LEAVE THE FUCKING HOUSE AND VOTE. As a Libertarian I see some problems with mandatory voting but its looking like the only way to get a real change here at home.
Not to mention, both TTT and ROTK conveys the impression to the mainstream that sieges were fought in hours not weeks or months.
Typical seiges yes, but the armies of Mordor had no intention of starving out the inhabitants in either seige. The basic stratagey was to rush and overwhelm with numbers and destroy the enemy as soon as possible beofre they could muster more forces, and thats exactly what they attempted. All things considered we were show exactly that. If you decide to storm a stronghold the battle is over in a day or 2. Besides, are you going to tell 50k orcs to just have a seat and do nothing for 5 months?
Believe it or not this may not be far from the truth. If you noticed, the letter said Upon arrest and conviction. By the time the culprit moves through our wonderful justice system the IBM lawsuit will be over, and SCO will be gone.
All this is is a nice PR move by SCO so they look like heros trying to stamp out malicious hackers.
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It not Daemon Tools Doom doesn't dislike as much as Clone CD. I had a problem after installing Daemon Tools and Clone CD. Searching Activision's support articles reveals the way to fix the problem. Simply open the Clone CD tray icon and uncheck that "hide drive" option (or whatever its called) and Doom works fine. Still an incredibly annoying and useless "protection" scheme.
Locking them in a fireproof safe does little good with plastic tapes. The Safe may be fireproof but that doesn't mean the heat inside them doesn't go up. Your 80GB tape is going to be a pile of goo, but on the plus side it wont be cinders.
Best Buy, like most stores that offer rebates, print and gives you an additional copy of the receipt for just that purpose. As for the UPC, Best Buy will accept photocopies of them. I found this out when I bought a HD form them and it had 2 rebates, one from the manufacturer and one from them. I called customer support for Best Buy and they said they accept photocopies in that case. Unfortunately I have still had the problem of the rebate check from Best Buy being $10 or so dollars short of what it was supposed to be though.....
Close, but it was actually one of the trolls from accounting whose head exploded when Dogbert placed his ball cap on backwards.
Lovely troll. I'm sure the thousands of programmers who worked many countles nights and weekends to make sure that "nothing happened" appreciate you writing their work off so lightly. Ever stop to the that the reason nothing happened is because of these people, not despite them?
No kidding, a year or so back my mother's boyfriend asked me if I could come over to one of his friends house to fix a problem he was having with his computer. It was about 8 or 9 on a Sunday evening , my only day off I might add, but I said "sure". After hearing a description of the problem I determined it was Blaster so I loaded up my trusty pen drive with the removal tool and Ad-aware. After spending 45 minutes removing blaster, patching, removing around 300 bits of spyware (according to Ad-aware),and defragmenting I figured the guy was going to hand me a twenty or possibly even a fifty (he owned a used car dealership) for doing all that work and making it to where his computer was usable again. What was my grand reward for taking over an hour and a half (this includes driving time) of my time on a Sunday night? A yummy bottle of Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. The sad part is that if I had killed him I would be considered the criminal.....
According to Zdnet those being laid off are mostly in the engineering, marketing, and sales depatments. This is very telling for a so-called "tech" company to lay-off those responsible for creating and selling your core product. Of course we all know that SCO is a litigation company and has no need for engineers to improve a product, no marketers to hype the non-existant product, and no salesmen to.... well you get the idea.
But can it run Lin...... oh..... nevermind....
At first glance everyone may cry heretics! but this is an interesting approach to making a commercial Linux. The core may be free but tack on a few proprietary extras and charge for it. The only thing keeping Linux from the mainstream is the lack of applications that "just work" like everyone expects. Don't want to pay for all that extra stuff? Download the "lite" version (a.k.a. the all-GPL and compatible licenses version) without all the extras and continue as normal.
Now, some distros, such as SuSe may have tried this to a limited extent before but the only thing you got from the boxed set was a proprietary installer, not exactly thrilling. I would love to pay for a Linux distro that included useful applications that weren't just carbon copies of existing apps, only open source. Yeah, it might not be fasionable to use proprietary apps but dammit, I want something that is compatible with closed standards that FOSS hasn't been able to reverse engineer yet, if that means paying for it then so be it.
I for one think this is a great idea, after all, the whole concept of Linux is that you can have it any way you want.
Hey... lets combine the two! See, heres the idea, you want to download something but instead of the search bar you literally have to go out and search for what you want. Perhaps you can bribe the drunk at the bar for some information as to the wereabouts of that song you wanted. Sercheth thou for pr0n? You ust first complete the task given to you by the local flower girl and she will present you with many naughty pictures of her and her sister (who she claims is 18). Watch out though, along the way you must fight many foul creatures such as leechers, corrupt files, viruses, and RIAA lawyers.
About 3 days out of the week I have mod points, unfortunately today isn't one of them.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, most people that complain about no IT jobs are in some major market like New York, Silicon Valley or some other high-profile market. Believe it or not the "IT industry" is alive and well.
There are really only two jobs being outsourced in the tech industy, tech support and coding. Tech support is an entry level job that requires no skills. Alot of people will hire tech support workers that have NEVER used a computer. Why? Because most first level tech support is never intended to actually solve any major problem, its their job to run through a script and if that doesn't work transfer you to someone else. Why are people complaining, or even suprised, that this work is being outsourced? It's the IT equivalent to burger flipping.
The other type being outsourced is coding. During the dot-com boom everyone wanted to break in to this industry. Most of those people, not knowing much about computers, entered the part of the field that sounded good, programming. These people were incapable of turning a computer on but all they had ever heard were words like "hard drive" "RAM" and of course... "programming". So they all went to some school or another and told them they want to "program computers". 1-4 years later they are unleashed on the dot-com booming world and they get a nice cushy job doing either:
(a) nothing
or
(b) the most God awful coding the world has ever seen
After the ole' bubble burst alot of coders were left jobbless. Now, you may think thats good these hapless n00bs got canned but the problem is companies tossed the good with the bad. There are some awesome coders out there, but unfortunately after the bubble burst they were lumped in with the rejects. Now, one would think that with all these coders out of work the price to hire a domestic one would be peanuts right? Well, not quite. The legitimately good coders still want, and rightfully so, a decent amount for their valuble skills. However the bad ones that are still around still think they are a valuble resource and want a high price too, simply because thats what they were payed during the days of milk and honey. Unfortunately all the companies see are these bad ones and they get a bad taste in their mouths when they hear "coder". Soloution, Habib gets your coding job because a few idiots have to ruin a wonderful profession by giving it a bad name. I think this part of the outsourcing will gradually shift back to the US but never again to the point it was.
Now, back to the original point, the IT industry is not dead. A couple segments are seeing bad times but others are still very lucrative. hardware maintainance, network administration, troubleshooting, network deployment, network planning, etc. are all still in demand. They may not be in your area but try looking in less crowded areas. Specifically look at growing ares! I live near Charlotte, NC one of the smaller "big cities" in the US but it is growing quite rapidly. Just about every Network Administration student at my school has an almost guranteed job with Arrendale Associates, a medical transcription service company near here. They hire 2-3 people a month from my school and they get all kinds of training, mostly in Oracle. Family Dollar is another company that can't hire pre-graduates fast enough around here, and no, not for cash register jobs, real honest to God IT jobs. They have a lot of stores that need to be networked to gether and their corporate offices are local.
Yeah, that was a long rant so heres the executive summary.
1. Most IT jobs are still here to stay, Tech Support and Coding are not the only IT jobs.
2. If you can't get a job in your area then try another. I don't care if your emotionally attached to the city you live in, if you really want a job you need to go to where they are, not wait for them to come to you. With modern technology the need to have your bussiness in a dense urban setting is not required, most of the growing ones are out in places you may never have heard of.
The good thing about Gator going public is that their Financial Statements will tell us what advertisers are funding them. Makes for a nice boycott list.
.....an Oscilliscope. Read the bits off the wire. You'd be suprised what an Oscilliscope in the hands of a VERY well trained person can accomplish.
Nice troll, but IBM has many Open Source Developers on the payroll. IBM isn't just along for the free ride, they're actually chipping in gas money.
Screwed by hackers? If not for hackers my AC friend, IT professionals would barely exist as you would only need 2-3 IT people in a large company. And their only job would be installation of software and setting up hardaware. As much as we all bitch about hackers we should also realise we wouldn't have jobs without them.
Of course it would work. How do you think Microsoft became so rich? Not because people wanted to shell out cash for Windows, but because they were tricked. Most people don't even know they're paying money for Windows, they think it's given to them free just for buying a computer. Try telling someone they're actually paying around $99-$150 for their OS and they're eyes go all googly. Pretty fun to tell them actually....
Apparently when you cluster about 7 of these up a big dragon appears and starts granting wishes.....
Those PCs are availible online only. You won't find them in any brick and mortar Wal-Mart. Kindly remove the hat and step AWAY fromt he tin-foil sir.....
How is it any different from a real life Turf War? Gangs fight over patches of concrete they don't own and hackers fight over computers they don't own.
And thanks to that mentality we will ALWAYS have a 2 party system in the US, which is little better than an Oligarcy. It is my personal belief that If all Americans voted for the candiate they truly want in office elections would turn out much differently. Unfortunately the media has brainwashed us all into believing that only the Dems and Reps matter. How often do you see any Newspaper or news show interview anyone from a non Dem/Rep party? And I'm not talking about Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, or Jesse Ventura, the only reason they were given media attention was because of their fame and their novelty, not because anyone cared to see them elected (and when the Ventura thing backfired and he DID get elected look how they treated him). People simply MUST start voting whats in their hearts and more importantly, LEAVE THE FUCKING HOUSE AND VOTE. As a Libertarian I see some problems with mandatory voting but its looking like the only way to get a real change here at home.
Damn right it does, burns like idodine on an open cut.
Now where's that Post Anonymously button.....
Object-Oriented Religion?
Not to mention, both TTT and ROTK conveys the impression to the mainstream that sieges were fought in hours not weeks or months.
Typical seiges yes, but the armies of Mordor had no intention of starving out the inhabitants in either seige. The basic stratagey was to rush and overwhelm with numbers and destroy the enemy as soon as possible beofre they could muster more forces, and thats exactly what they attempted. All things considered we were show exactly that. If you decide to storm a stronghold the battle is over in a day or 2. Besides, are you going to tell 50k orcs to just have a seat and do nothing for 5 months?
Believe it or not this may not be far from the truth. If you noticed, the letter said Upon arrest and conviction . By the time the culprit moves through our wonderful justice system the IBM lawsuit will be over, and SCO will be gone.
All this is is a nice PR move by SCO so they look like heros trying to stamp out malicious hackers.
The real question is who's going to plant the flowers? Seems like the gardener will discover landmines well before the flowers have a chance.....