I noticed that the cover says "free e-book download" in the upper right. this is slightly off-topic (of Nagios), and somewhat on-topic (Syngress). if you buy these books with the understanding that you will get a free PDF copy to have around, this is no longer true since they were bought by elsevier. The old web site where you could register the books and get free downloads is gone and there is a new service on the elsevier web site, but no way to register your recently purchased books. there is a faq that tells you how to "register" your book, but this requires a "redemption code" that is not in the book. i've written to them to get a redemption code and they haven't responded. buyer beware.
did you go to the web site? the only SSNs that were exposed were from public documents of legislators who can fix the system. what better incentive to get them to do their job of protecting the public trust ?
a good place to start is probably the ZFS Best Practices page. the google text cache of that page is here. beyond that, try to google "zfs ram requirements".
I've tried using eBay's new payment system (that talks to Paypal) as well as going into Paypal to pay for an eBay item (by talking to eBay) and neither of them works on a PowerPC 5 iMac. This only started failing within the last month -- presumably when they rolled out their new "payment system" -- it worked just fine before then. It just hangs at the final step where you confirm the payment. I doubt that it's traffic-related since I can pop over to an XP laptop and do it with no problems.
I'm thinking that this is just eBay/Paypal's way of hiding the problem with their payment system by telling you not to use the browsers that their system now fails on. I've only tried this once on Firefox on the iMac and it also failed, but that was only once -- not working with Safari has failed many times.
Does anybody have any insight into the internals of eBay/Paypal's new payment system that can shed some light on this? Maybe they're locked into I386 machines and only new Macs will work or they're locked into Windows?
My point exactly. How does anyone know which copy was the one that was signed. Assuming of course that the individual even bothered to kept a copy themselves. Most people probably don't even bother to keep copies of stuff like that. I've seen paperwork where the signature page just happens to be alone (or nearly alone) on a separate page. Talk about opportunities for mischief.
and if its multi-page, what stops them from replacing a page with strikeouts with a copy of the original page without strikeouts. or a different page altogether.
I haven't noticed anything happening with the indexer -- i shut mine down from the "computer management" console and even went so far as to delete the catalog and its never come back.
But, try removing the Outlook icon from your quick launch bar (or even just changing its name). update will put it right back (it might be the office part of update since the updater here at work updates windows and office at the same time). i changed the name of the outlook icon to "Email", but after every major update event, i get a new outlook icon with the long name in my quick launch bar. i guess they really want to you to use outlook...
Right. I used TurboTax for FREE this year by doing exactly that - clicking through from the IRS web site. They want you to pay for the state return, but when you get to that part, you just say that you'll do your state tax return yourself and... no charge. Then (in Virginia), I file online with the state (also for free).
You can also go through the state tax part to see what your total due/refund should be (so you know if you did it right) and then when TurboTax asks for $$, just edit the return and delete the state return. No charge.
If you want to see what Gates has to say as he writes it (you can't fight what you don't know), go here to sign up or to read them online -- http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/
I didn't see it anywhere in the article or in these comments, but here are some places to find the original report if you don't want to pay for a copy (or just prefer electronic versions to dead-tree versions):
Acrobat Reader 5.1 is all that you need to fill-in the PDF IRS forms (starting this year).
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98121,0 0.html
"To view, complete and print IRS fill-in PDF forms you'll need the freely available Adobe Reader software installed on your computer. Beginning October 25, 2004, new fill-in forms will be enabled with "document rights" which will allow you to save what you have filled in on your PC. Version 5.1 or later of Adobe Reader is required."
Windows users can get Reader 6.0.1 from Adobe for Windows 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, 2000 SP1 (or Reader 7.0 for Win 2000 SP2 or XP). Mac users can get Reader 5.1 for Mac OS 9.1 to 10.2.7 (or Reader 7 for OS 10.2.8 and up). Unfortunately, the Linux Acrobat Reader is stuck at 5.0.10 (as is Solaris, AIX & HP-UX) - there are copies of the next version (7.0 beta) around though... if you can find someone who got a copy before Adobe discontinued the beta early-release program (sorry, i'm not one of the lucky few, so don't ask)...
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.ht ml
"Linux Beta: Thank you for your interest in the pre-release program for Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux. Due to the overwhelming response received from customers, we have closed the pre-release program."
this has happened to me (when i was still using IE). the file you are downloading is still in your cache. the next time this happens, go to your cache, reverse sort by file size so it floats to the top, copy it yourself and then rename it (it usually has some "extra" chars in the filename). you may have to try in several of the cache directories until you find it though... but its much faster than re-downloading it.
i keep this on my desk - much easier to solve just the one face for today's date than solving the whole thing - but co-workers are still amazed that it can be done. too bad you can't find it anywhere anymore.
I work for one of the companies on the list and I agree with the other posters that the list is misleading. To give you one example,... we do contracts for British customers through our UK office and those contracts specify that we use British nationals whenever possible. We aren't outsourcing American jobs, we're complying with the British customers requests not to outsource their UK jobs to the US. Of course, finding this out would take too much time and it wouldn't be as splashy a story for CNN... what ever happenned to real journalism ?
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I noticed that the cover says "free e-book download" in the upper right. this is slightly off-topic (of Nagios), and somewhat on-topic (Syngress). if you buy these books with the understanding that you will get a free PDF copy to have around, this is no longer true since they were bought by elsevier. The old web site where you could register the books and get free downloads is gone and there is a new service on the elsevier web site, but no way to register your recently purchased books. there is a faq that tells you how to "register" your book, but this requires a "redemption code" that is not in the book. i've written to them to get a redemption code and they haven't responded. buyer beware.
can anyone answer why i can't get a pdf writer that renders a web page reasonably? two recent examples (which have different problems) from the front page of slashdot are:
http://www.expatica.com/be/articles/news/European-Patent-Office-staff-on-strike.html
and
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector-is-showing-p.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001015070054/http://www.qnx.com/~glen/deadbeef/2764.html
did you go to the web site? the only SSNs that were exposed were from public documents of legislators who can fix the system. what better incentive to get them to do their job of protecting the public trust ?
and this reference in Oct 99
You can get Recaro auto seats as office chairs many places including here -- pricier than Aerons though.
a good place to start is probably the ZFS Best Practices page. the google text cache of that page is here. beyond that, try to google "zfs ram requirements".
I've tried using eBay's new payment system (that talks to Paypal) as well as going into Paypal to pay for an eBay item (by talking to eBay) and neither of them works on a PowerPC 5 iMac. This only started failing within the last month -- presumably when they rolled out their new "payment system" -- it worked just fine before then. It just hangs at the final step where you confirm the payment. I doubt that it's traffic-related since I can pop over to an XP laptop and do it with no problems.
I'm thinking that this is just eBay/Paypal's way of hiding the problem with their payment system by telling you not to use the browsers that their system now fails on. I've only tried this once on Firefox on the iMac and it also failed, but that was only once -- not working with Safari has failed many times. Does anybody have any insight into the internals of eBay/Paypal's new payment system that can shed some light on this? Maybe they're locked into I386 machines and only new Macs will work or they're locked into Windows?
they do - try this link to the VAIO FZ-290 laptop - http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SYCTOProcess?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&LBomId=8198552921665234522 . there are other laptops on their site too.
My point exactly. How does anyone know which copy was the one that was signed. Assuming of course that the individual even bothered to kept a copy themselves. Most people probably don't even bother to keep copies of stuff like that. I've seen paperwork where the signature page just happens to be alone (or nearly alone) on a separate page. Talk about opportunities for mischief.
and if its multi-page, what stops them from replacing a page with strikeouts with a copy of the original page without strikeouts. or a different page altogether.
I haven't noticed anything happening with the indexer -- i shut mine down from the "computer management" console and even went so far as to delete the catalog and its never come back.
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But, try removing the Outlook icon from your quick launch bar (or even just changing its name). update will put it right back (it might be the office part of update since the updater here at work updates windows and office at the same time). i changed the name of the outlook icon to "Email", but after every major update event, i get a new outlook icon with the long name in my quick launch bar. i guess they really want to you to use outlook
You can also go through the state tax part to see what your total due/refund should be (so you know if you did it right) and then when TurboTax asks for $$, just edit the return and delete the state return. No charge.
If you want to see what Gates has to say as he writes it (you can't fight what you don't know), go here to sign up or to read them online -- http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/
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http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=98121,0 0.html
"To view, complete and print IRS fill-in PDF forms you'll need the freely available Adobe Reader software installed on your computer. Beginning October 25, 2004, new fill-in forms will be enabled with "document rights" which will allow you to save what you have filled in on your PC. Version 5.1 or later of Adobe Reader is required."
Windows users can get Reader 6.0.1 from Adobe for Windows 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, 2000 SP1 (or Reader 7.0 for Win 2000 SP2 or XP). Mac users can get Reader 5.1 for Mac OS 9.1 to 10.2.7 (or Reader 7 for OS 10.2.8 and up). Unfortunately, the Linux Acrobat Reader is stuck at 5.0.10 (as is Solaris, AIX & HP-UX) - there are copies of the next version (7.0 beta) around though ... if you can find someone who got a copy before Adobe discontinued the beta early-release program (sorry, i'm not one of the lucky few, so don't ask) ...
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.ht ml
"Linux Beta: Thank you for your interest in the pre-release program for Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux. Due to the overwhelming response received from customers, we have closed the pre-release program."
this has happened to me (when i was still using IE). the file you are downloading is still in your cache. the next time this happens, go to your cache, reverse sort by file size so it floats to the top, copy it yourself and then rename it (it usually has some "extra" chars in the filename). you may have to try in several of the cache directories until you find it though ... but its much faster than re-downloading it.
i keep this on my desk - much easier to solve just the one face for today's date than solving the whole thing - but co-workers are still amazed that it can be done. too bad you can't find it anywhere anymore.
I work for one of the companies on the list and I agree with the other posters that the list is misleading. To give you one example, ... we do contracts for British customers through our UK office and those contracts specify that we use British nationals whenever possible. We aren't outsourcing American jobs, we're complying with the British customers requests not to outsource their UK jobs to the US. Of course, finding this out would take too much time and it wouldn't be as splashy a story for CNN ... what ever happenned to real journalism ?