Is that they have all this built up like it's a novel new invention.... THE SANDWICH. Well if it was a novel product(meat, cheese, cheese, meat, bread on the outsides) we wouldn't have the name sandwich for it... and if it was a new way of making a sandwich(place bread on the inside, hold the meat with your hands) I might be more sympathetic. Every PB and J mom out there is prior art to this. They haven't even made an attempt to cut the crusts off here, or put a RFID tag in it... just describing out the process by which all fast food is made, has been made, and by which will be made for some time.
Only sandwich that isn't prior art here is the Heavy Weapons guy's sammich.... which just materializes out of thin air. Every other sandwich would owe royalties in this case.
The company is always changing, something I haven't minded while working there. H.I.P.P.A compliance is something they take very seriously.. and the company is working towards being at the top of the game when it comes to customer privacy, and having great tools that take worry out of the equation for both the customer and the employee are always loved when they come through the chain.
As far as that goes, we have mule PC's to transfer all data at precincts... and we can't open or view files, and it's logged who copies what to where.... and is deleted automatically from the machine after 30 days...
I know it's the big joke, but honestly.. a few people give a whole company a bad name... and that had to change..
-So they did.
At GeekSquad*dodges many books thrown* we have a MRI that does specifically that, boots it's own PE environment, and then runs scans against both your hard drive, and a redirected remote registry scans against your hard drives registry. If you boot your own OS, you don't have to worry about rootkits.
They have more suck ass, non-used features than any other O.S...
and require a sweet ass gaming machine to run decently.
Plus, I don't know how in the hell they jacked up their windows installer service,
but I see more issues from crap not getting installed or uninstalled correctly that
require complete reinstallation. New machines too.
It's enough to make me really not like computers that much anymore.
They changed the admin password. I set these up all day, the admin is accessible by wifi... just you didn't have the right password. I meta-moderated you correctly, but you are incorrect. WAN config is disabled by default, which is configuring remotely from the internet side to the public facing IP address of the router.
You're missing the larger issue he's upset with. They promised throughout development that user created content would be easily available to make. Game ships... and that's not possible. Because they never spent the time to get the licensing done beforehand... there isn't user created content available for the PS3. Also, because they are in the process of "Negotiation" does not mean it will come to light. User created content and mods could still be balked at by Sony and killed.
I know a guy who is Kaspersky happy, and installs it on everything he touches. All of the machines he touched were affected by this bug. I think it's more than a handful.
I am honestly bummed that it's not a better product.
I first thought that all the bad press was the same as all the bad press when XP came out.
Then I realized when fixing a win2k machine the other day, "Wow... This is really nice and simple."
I don't think the bad press will get better with SP1..
There seems to be some fundamental issues that I'm assuming won't be addressed.
Maybe incorrectly.
Yep... I used to say, "There is a crowd of people that hate Microsoft just to hate Microsoft"
Which to some extent is true... but then I became apple certified... and actually was trained
in how to fix, maintain, and repair macs... and I said, "Wow. This is really easy."
Most of the training we had people ask the questions, "Why isn't done this way like Microsoft?"
To which most of the apple support crew replied, "We thought it was easier our way."
And eventually you stop asking those questions because you begin to "get it."
I still held Vista as a really cool operating system... I just really don't find the features given
that much of a plus... and I find that most features touted, most consumers never used.
I can think of only one time that I used the switch window button to flip through the windows. It lost it's
novelty after that. I just alt tab like i've always done... and grandma is point and click on what she wants to use.
I originally believed that UAC was a great improvement as well... Until I noticed that my user base had installed Spyware and Adware specifically because Vista trained them to always click continue. When you have a user prompt to install flash that says, "Do you want to install {8aabd38485-a7asdasd7-asdkjasdflk} it defeats the purpose of giving them the informational popup.
I first thought that a lot of great features of vista were really really wonderful... but less so over time.
I do like however that their user folder has become simplified. Having one stop shop to backup their files is wonderful. I do like the backup and restore center.... also it's a shame it's not placed on the desktop by default.
Turning off a lot of the graphics options *does* improve vista's speed, but it's not easy in a way that most users would know how to do. The wireless utility has gotten a lot better...
But I even have had simple issues like taking a brand new machine, putting it through the windows update process... and the first update that updates windows update(I know.) didn't apply correctly, and made a hybrid that now installs automatic updates, but doesn't check for updates because "It needs to apply an update to windows update" That will never apply. That was a reformat and reinstall.
I also understand that a lot of these problems stem from developers not creating their software properly for windows. This was pretty horrendous when vista came out. Programs requiring UAC at startup would popup, and I would get callbacks from users wondering why their antivirus was needing permission. That has gotten better over time.
I've also found that backwards compatibility is not as horrendous as people think... just that windows 98 programs should not be running on vista. I agree with the reasoning behind that.
It's just gotten to the point though, where I'm saying to myself, "I don't really think this is a great improvement." and have honestly thought a few times about maybe migrating my beastly machine back to XP.
It's even frustrating when Halflife 2 products always crash on close...
I just chalk it up to "I'll deal with it." and say that my next laptop will probably be a mac.
I understand that 2 gigs of Ram is preferred... The point I'm making is that is ran... and it ran very well... Even with SP2 and all patches applied, it ran faster and smoother than most PC's I work with.
Yeah you say that, but I have to service and setup HP's, Compaq's, and Gateway's all day that run, act, and are shit right out of the box... So many issues RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.
It's really sad when you see how much power is truly lost on vista. I setup a Mac the other day for a client, and it was also running XP through parallels. It ran both just fine with only one gig of ram. A virtual machine, and two entire operating systems... and most PC's out there that are not quad cores with two gigs of ram run like shit.
I used to be a microsoft fanboy...
-But sadly the tides are changing.
It's amazing what dirt google can find on me:
1)The one submission i've ever made to slashdot that made the front page.
2)The pot growing forums where I became a guru... Hell I needed a hobby.
3)My livejournal(Even scarier)
4)Profit!
I did this yesterday and failed....
Gem County Vs. Hoye....
Needless to say... Cops analog radar and visual estimate beats multiple satellites.
-Bummer for me.
The reason why stores offer this service is that manufacturer's no longer include these disks if the machine comes with a recovery partition. People are too lazy to create them, so stores offer to do this, in the event that the machines hard drive tanks.
Many people still bitch and moan that even though the machine prompted them to create those disks every two weeks... that they neglected to... and had to order recovery disks from the manufacturer. We even had people complain, "You don't have these!"
No lady... The vendors will not let us have the master disks for every system(Except HP which seems to be pretty nice of them.)
People here assume that every person will take the proper time to make these.. which on the most part... they don't. Stores don't offer it on machines that come with them. People bitch that the store came up with the idea to not include them.
Which they didn't. It's a great thing that machines come with recovery partitions.. it's for those that lose disks... or never care to keep original equipment together. Plus, when you want to donate the machine, you can recover it without having to track down the disks. But if that hard drive fails... you need some way to prep a new one without having to buy a new copy of windows.
Hence, make the backup recovery disks. Most people never care to do this though, so why not offer a service to take the responsibility of the hassle off your time, and on our time.
So don't whine conspiracy. Make them yourself, or convince others to do so for themselves as well. -Just stop acting like it's a crime against humanity that they offer a service for you.
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Is that they have all this built up like it's a novel new invention.... THE SANDWICH. Well if it was a novel product(meat, cheese, cheese, meat, bread on the outsides) we wouldn't have the name sandwich for it... and if it was a new way of making a sandwich(place bread on the inside, hold the meat with your hands) I might be more sympathetic. Every PB and J mom out there is prior art to this. They haven't even made an attempt to cut the crusts off here, or put a RFID tag in it... just describing out the process by which all fast food is made, has been made, and by which will be made for some time. Only sandwich that isn't prior art here is the Heavy Weapons guy's sammich.... which just materializes out of thin air. Every other sandwich would owe royalties in this case.
The company is always changing, something I haven't minded while working there. H.I.P.P.A compliance is something they take very seriously.. and the company is working towards being at the top of the game when it comes to customer privacy, and having great tools that take worry out of the equation for both the customer and the employee are always loved when they come through the chain.
As far as that goes, we have mule PC's to transfer all data at precincts... and we can't open or view files, and it's logged who copies what to where.... and is deleted automatically from the machine after 30 days... I know it's the big joke, but honestly.. a few people give a whole company a bad name... and that had to change.. -So they did.
At GeekSquad*dodges many books thrown* we have a MRI that does specifically that, boots it's own PE environment, and then runs scans against both your hard drive, and a redirected remote registry scans against your hard drives registry. If you boot your own OS, you don't have to worry about rootkits.
You, the "Back Door" and "sorely" all together in one comment. The snickers just write themselves.
They have more suck ass, non-used features than any other O.S... and require a sweet ass gaming machine to run decently. Plus, I don't know how in the hell they jacked up their windows installer service, but I see more issues from crap not getting installed or uninstalled correctly that require complete reinstallation. New machines too. It's enough to make me really not like computers that much anymore.
They changed the admin password. I set these up all day, the admin is accessible by wifi... just you didn't have the right password. I meta-moderated you correctly, but you are incorrect. WAN config is disabled by default, which is configuring remotely from the internet side to the public facing IP address of the router.
and then slowly the virus changed. People became more aggressive, and less tolerant of light. But I can find the cure, I am.... -I AM LEGEND!
You're missing the larger issue he's upset with. They promised throughout development that user created content would be easily available to make. Game ships... and that's not possible. Because they never spent the time to get the licensing done beforehand... there isn't user created content available for the PS3. Also, because they are in the process of "Negotiation" does not mean it will come to light. User created content and mods could still be balked at by Sony and killed.
I know a guy who is Kaspersky happy, and installs it on everything he touches. All of the machines he touched were affected by this bug. I think it's more than a handful.
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I am honestly bummed that it's not a better product. I first thought that all the bad press was the same as all the bad press when XP came out. Then I realized when fixing a win2k machine the other day, "Wow... This is really nice and simple." I don't think the bad press will get better with SP1.. There seems to be some fundamental issues that I'm assuming won't be addressed. Maybe incorrectly.
Yep... I used to say, "There is a crowd of people that hate Microsoft just to hate Microsoft" Which to some extent is true... but then I became apple certified... and actually was trained in how to fix, maintain, and repair macs... and I said, "Wow. This is really easy." Most of the training we had people ask the questions, "Why isn't done this way like Microsoft?" To which most of the apple support crew replied, "We thought it was easier our way." And eventually you stop asking those questions because you begin to "get it." I still held Vista as a really cool operating system... I just really don't find the features given that much of a plus... and I find that most features touted, most consumers never used. I can think of only one time that I used the switch window button to flip through the windows. It lost it's novelty after that. I just alt tab like i've always done... and grandma is point and click on what she wants to use.
I originally believed that UAC was a great improvement as well... Until I noticed that my user base had installed Spyware and Adware specifically because Vista trained them to always click continue. When you have a user prompt to install flash that says, "Do you want to install {8aabd38485-a7asdasd7-asdkjasdflk} it defeats the purpose of giving them the informational popup. I first thought that a lot of great features of vista were really really wonderful... but less so over time. I do like however that their user folder has become simplified. Having one stop shop to backup their files is wonderful. I do like the backup and restore center.... also it's a shame it's not placed on the desktop by default. Turning off a lot of the graphics options *does* improve vista's speed, but it's not easy in a way that most users would know how to do. The wireless utility has gotten a lot better... But I even have had simple issues like taking a brand new machine, putting it through the windows update process... and the first update that updates windows update(I know.) didn't apply correctly, and made a hybrid that now installs automatic updates, but doesn't check for updates because "It needs to apply an update to windows update" That will never apply. That was a reformat and reinstall. I also understand that a lot of these problems stem from developers not creating their software properly for windows. This was pretty horrendous when vista came out. Programs requiring UAC at startup would popup, and I would get callbacks from users wondering why their antivirus was needing permission. That has gotten better over time. I've also found that backwards compatibility is not as horrendous as people think... just that windows 98 programs should not be running on vista. I agree with the reasoning behind that. It's just gotten to the point though, where I'm saying to myself, "I don't really think this is a great improvement." and have honestly thought a few times about maybe migrating my beastly machine back to XP. It's even frustrating when Halflife 2 products always crash on close... I just chalk it up to "I'll deal with it." and say that my next laptop will probably be a mac.
I understand that 2 gigs of Ram is preferred... The point I'm making is that is ran... and it ran very well... Even with SP2 and all patches applied, it ran faster and smoother than most PC's I work with.
Yeah you say that, but I have to service and setup HP's, Compaq's, and Gateway's all day that run, act, and are shit right out of the box... So many issues RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.
It's really sad when you see how much power is truly lost on vista. I setup a Mac the other day for a client, and it was also running XP through parallels. It ran both just fine with only one gig of ram. A virtual machine, and two entire operating systems... and most PC's out there that are not quad cores with two gigs of ram run like shit. I used to be a microsoft fanboy... -But sadly the tides are changing.
It's the same scam as hot dogs come in packages of ten, and buns in packages of eight.
It's amazing what dirt google can find on me: 1)The one submission i've ever made to slashdot that made the front page. 2)The pot growing forums where I became a guru... Hell I needed a hobby. 3)My livejournal(Even scarier) 4)Profit!
I did this yesterday and failed.... Gem County Vs. Hoye.... Needless to say... Cops analog radar and visual estimate beats multiple satellites. -Bummer for me.
The reason why stores offer this service is that manufacturer's no longer include these disks if the machine comes with a recovery partition. People are too lazy to create them, so stores offer to do this, in the event that the machines hard drive tanks.
Many people still bitch and moan that even though the machine prompted them to create those disks every two weeks... that they neglected to... and had to order recovery disks from the manufacturer. We even had people complain, "You don't have these!"
No lady... The vendors will not let us have the master disks for every system(Except HP which seems to be pretty nice of them.)
People here assume that every person will take the proper time to make these.. which on the most part... they don't.
Stores don't offer it on machines that come with them. People bitch that the store came up with the idea to not include them.
Which they didn't. It's a great thing that machines come with recovery partitions.. it's for those that lose disks... or never care to keep original equipment together. Plus, when you want to donate the machine, you can recover it without having to track down the disks. But if that hard drive fails... you need some way to prep a new one without having to buy a new copy of windows.
Hence, make the backup recovery disks. Most people never care to do this though, so why not offer a service to take the responsibility of the hassle off your time, and on our time.
So don't whine conspiracy. Make them yourself, or convince others to do so for themselves as well.
-Just stop acting like it's a crime against humanity that they offer a service for you.
This man is straight babbling incoherently, please ignore.
Sue all they want, under U.S. law, internet providers are not held accountable for the content of their servers. -IANAL