Pff. If my computer were that well built/organized/customized by myself, it's sure not going in to some "repair facility" for some minimum wage hack to mess with it. I'd be doing the repairs myself. Then again, I understand the level of incompetence in most tech shops and trust my work much more highly. That doesn't even take into account the possibility of them cruising thru the hard drive looking for stuff to copy for their use.
I have my own personal Blackberry. My immediate supervisor got my number and e-mail address from one of my co-workers and started calling and e-mailing me at home to ask stupid questions. I have him blocked now and personally "explained" to him that if he ever called me again at home, he better be ready to sign two hours overtime pay at a minimum. He knows it's either do it my way or find another body to replace me, because I'm already drawing one retirement check.;) It's good to be able to do that, but some of you obviously cannot take that chance.
Just before Christmas 2006, I got the RC1 version from MS and installed it for testing purposes on my dual Opteron 244 system as a clean install. Both drives were wiped clean, a verified good burned Vista disk was used for the install and all went well, but very slowly. A bit of history - this system was running Windows 2000 Server for over a year with no high profile issues and worked well. I made sure all the latest Vista drivers were available to me for the fresh install. After a two hour install process, the machine booted into Vista. All the necessary drivers were installed at this point, but it still wouldn't run the Aero interface! The machine rated a 4.7 on the MS Vista rating scale with very current hardware. We ran thru several of the tests to determine why it wouldn't do Aero and it turns out the ATI Catalyst drivers are just not ready for primetime. No big deal, it's only eyecandy. I ran the system for two days for useability in my daily job. I am not impressed with it. Everything ran very slow and sometimes came to a virtual standstill. At this point, it was an easy decision. I've used MS Windows for many years, in many iterations and had some small annoyances with it, but kept on plugging. Yesterday, I installed Linux in 20 minutes on the same box. It found all my hardware, booted into Beryl and all is good. Sad to say, but I am not looking back. It truly feels like a significant upgrade on this system. YMMV, but I'm not paying the price to regress with Vista. With nearly 30 years of PC experience under my belt, I have to thank Microsoft for this latest release. They finally did the unthinkable - they made the decision to switch easy.
So, Canadian Slashdotters, what's your government's take on national IDs? It's getting nearer time to get out of this place before the stuff hits the fan. The company I work for does business in your country and a transfer is eminently possible.
Thank Gawd fer them neo-whatevers in our gubmint.
Advertising dollars do not make a good processor, which is Intel's market plan. Having used AMD since 1993/4 or so, Intel is not even in my new purchases options list. I've used Intel boxes at work and they are vastly over-rated, IMHO. If I hadn't gotten such a deal on my home server off Ebay, it'd be an AMD box also. It's hard to pass on a quad Pentium Pro 200 box with a gig of RAM for $50.
She can ask sonny who built the computer for her and forgot to set up the auto update for the antivirus to fix it for her. I really don't care how she gets it fixed, as long as it quits scanning my ports, relaying me spam and spreading the simplest to clean virii. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some of the crud under semi-control if this happens to the offenders.
Oh, Comcast will send you notice that you are infected and to patch your machine to the latest update. I got one myself while running a test copy of Windows 2000 Server. They noticed it very shortly after install and let me know there were several updates to be had and I should take care of it ASAP.
They do provide access to the McAfee firewall for free. Also, they point out where free AV programs can be downloaded. So, it's fair for the Comcast folks who just ignore all this to have their syphilitic infected systems cut from public access. Think of it as a public service from Comcast.
It's the home of the University of Michigan and is quite a nice small city. I find it surprising that the town is not wired on speed, as it is a fairly yuppyish place. I live about 30 minutes north of town, have highspeed and am a whole lot more rural than him.
As an aside, this is where they have the annual Hash Bash, if you're into that.;-)
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Pff. If my computer were that well built/organized/customized by myself, it's sure not going in to some "repair facility" for some minimum wage hack to mess with it. I'd be doing the repairs myself. Then again, I understand the level of incompetence in most tech shops and trust my work much more highly. That doesn't even take into account the possibility of them cruising thru the hard drive looking for stuff to copy for their use.
I have my own personal Blackberry. My immediate supervisor got my number and e-mail address from one of my co-workers and started calling and e-mailing me at home to ask stupid questions. I have him blocked now and personally "explained" to him that if he ever called me again at home, he better be ready to sign two hours overtime pay at a minimum. He knows it's either do it my way or find another body to replace me, because I'm already drawing one retirement check. ;) It's good to be able to do that, but some of you obviously cannot take that chance.
Just before Christmas 2006, I got the RC1 version from MS and installed it for testing purposes on my dual Opteron 244 system as a clean install. Both drives were wiped clean, a verified good burned Vista disk was used for the install and all went well, but very slowly. A bit of history - this system was running Windows 2000 Server for over a year with no high profile issues and worked well. I made sure all the latest Vista drivers were available to me for the fresh install. After a two hour install process, the machine booted into Vista. All the necessary drivers were installed at this point, but it still wouldn't run the Aero interface! The machine rated a 4.7 on the MS Vista rating scale with very current hardware. We ran thru several of the tests to determine why it wouldn't do Aero and it turns out the ATI Catalyst drivers are just not ready for primetime. No big deal, it's only eyecandy. I ran the system for two days for useability in my daily job. I am not impressed with it. Everything ran very slow and sometimes came to a virtual standstill. At this point, it was an easy decision. I've used MS Windows for many years, in many iterations and had some small annoyances with it, but kept on plugging. Yesterday, I installed Linux in 20 minutes on the same box. It found all my hardware, booted into Beryl and all is good. Sad to say, but I am not looking back. It truly feels like a significant upgrade on this system. YMMV, but I'm not paying the price to regress with Vista. With nearly 30 years of PC experience under my belt, I have to thank Microsoft for this latest release. They finally did the unthinkable - they made the decision to switch easy.
So, Canadian Slashdotters, what's your government's take on national IDs? It's getting nearer time to get out of this place before the stuff hits the fan. The company I work for does business in your country and a transfer is eminently possible. Thank Gawd fer them neo-whatevers in our gubmint.
Seems unlikely you'd be able to ram a prosecutor through. You misspelt persecutor. Shame on you. ;)
Heh, I'm at roughly 50% downloaded and it's rockin' along at 3Mbps. I can live with that. Another half hour to go......
Yup: War on Stupidity War on Unemployment Got an inkling of an idea here for us Amurkins... How about we declare war on rampant excessive gubmint?
Advertising dollars do not make a good processor, which is Intel's market plan. Having used AMD since 1993/4 or so, Intel is not even in my new purchases options list. I've used Intel boxes at work and they are vastly over-rated, IMHO. If I hadn't gotten such a deal on my home server off Ebay, it'd be an AMD box also. It's hard to pass on a quad Pentium Pro 200 box with a gig of RAM for $50.
I upgraded my OS from Windows 2000 a couple weeks ago - to SUSE 9.1. Life is really good now. ;^)
What's this Windows update thing of which you speak? When I updated my windows, I used Anderson because I couldn't afford Pella. ;)
She can ask sonny who built the computer for her and forgot to set up the auto update for the antivirus to fix it for her. I really don't care how she gets it fixed, as long as it quits scanning my ports, relaying me spam and spreading the simplest to clean virii. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some of the crud under semi-control if this happens to the offenders. Oh, Comcast will send you notice that you are infected and to patch your machine to the latest update. I got one myself while running a test copy of Windows 2000 Server. They noticed it very shortly after install and let me know there were several updates to be had and I should take care of it ASAP.
They do provide access to the McAfee firewall for free. Also, they point out where free AV programs can be downloaded. So, it's fair for the Comcast folks who just ignore all this to have their syphilitic infected systems cut from public access. Think of it as a public service from Comcast.
THe Barsoomians are demanding we leave NOW! http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Carter.htm
It's the home of the University of Michigan and is quite a nice small city. I find it surprising that the town is not wired on speed, as it is a fairly yuppyish place. I live about 30 minutes north of town, have highspeed and am a whole lot more rural than him. As an aside, this is where they have the annual Hash Bash, if you're into that. ;-)
I suggest code medication to stop the spread to uninfected software. Gehsunheit!
Works just like Gaim or Trillian. Decent app.