I purchased both of my Razer gaming mice from woot.com. I think they were both about $25 after shipping. A worthwhile purchase in my opinion (there's no reason my thumb and ring finger need to remain lazy).
Right now, at Walmart and Newegg.com (and probably many other places), you can buy a family 3-pack of Windows 7 Home Premium licenses for essentially 50%.
Oh, wait, that's the upgrade version (and it does check for a dirty system beforehand, ie WinXP is installed). Yeah, Windows regular install disks are flippin' expensive.
Actually, Comodo is a certificates company. Their free firewall and, later, AV product was always just an afterthought for them. It wasn't until just the past couple of years that Comodo has allocated resources (with subscription service) for users of their Internet security software.
I agree, headphones can give you some quality sound, but can they give you surround sound? There are some games that accurately let you know when someone is coming up behind you or something is happening behind you by using the 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 sound systems. And there are some who do use their computers as a media center as well as a gaming machine.
That reminds me of the episode in "The IT Crowd" where Roy almost gets to do a calendar shoot of the hot girls at Reynholm industries, but ends up getting quite the different type of subject for the calendar.
The problem humans have, in general, is understanding large numbers. The inverse is also true, humans have, in general, a difficult time understanding small numbers. Comprehending that 1.3 million earths fit in the sun is really mind-blowing (and the sun, itself, is incredibly small compared to some stars). But so is understanding a particle is one billion times smaller than a millimeter.
It's enough for most of us to abstract that out. There is one AU of distance between the Earth and the Sun, mm is larger than a nm is larger than a um.
Flippin' heck! That was it. Updated BIOS and all was good. The only reason I hadn't tried that before is because I didn't have windows at the time so I didn't have the online updater. And I didn't want to mess with a boot up disk. Besides, I just got the board brand new, it should have had the latest version... right? (facepalm to forehead)
Another point of the parent's was that the card "has 50% the performance as if you were running Windows." Which I have unfortunately found to be the case. Even my nVidia 8800GT, which is 5 years old now(?), does not supply the full capabilities in Linux as it does in Windows. For instance, getting WoW up and running on Linux was easy, but my config would not allow me to get the same graphics settings as I got in Windows XP. What's the deal there? Getting Half-Life to run properly was a pain and the settings reset every time I stopped the game. Team Fortress 2 was only a small problem, but I didn't go tweaking the graphics settings. I was just happy to get it up and running.
System - eVGA nf610, Intel e6600 (3.0GHz dual core), 4GB RAM, nVidia 8800GT with proprietary drivers, Ubuntu 10.10 x64, with the latest version of Wine installed.
I wish that were the case, at least on Ubuntu 10.10. My recently purchased GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 (AMD processor) with nVidia 8800GT just will not load Ubuntu 10.10 with the proprietary drivers. Everything I've tried, from ripping out the open source drivers to preventing them from loading at boot has failed. Everytime it gets past the loading screen to display the login screen, my monitor goes black (then displays the "lost connection" dialog).
Oh, sure, in Fedora it seems to work fine, but it turns out I don't like Fedora's package manager and other things about it. And, okay, it's not necessarily a kernel thing, but an Ubuntu thing... but anyway - where was I going with this?
I've never paid them, but I am annoyed at having to scroll through pages of links to get to the answer. No, the answers are not obscured for me, either. Try using NoScript (which I don't use, but I've heard will do the trick in some cases.)
Certainly, easily done. I claimed that I was in Sweden, yet here I am. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated I would pay with the pot of gold I procurred from my leprechaun. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated that my unicorn gave the company scathing criticisms. The letter's statement is a lie. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume the entire letter was a lie, including the bit where it stated that I confessed to sharing files.
Ok, this makes more sense. Getting the $15k by going after the easiest target makes more sense than going after the easiest target to win said target. I mean, why would I want to use a machine that is easy to "pwn"? Unless, of course, it is to dump it for some extra cash.
Anecdotal evidence: I have been able to recover data from a dieing HDD. Of course, when the magnetic head is scratching the surface of the drive, there's not much to be done about it except to open it up for the free magnet and new potentialclock
Good post, and I agree. It now comes down to requested features. In my case, extensions are a great thing. AdBlock Pro, No Scipt, Tab Mix Plus, and Slimsearch are all great extensions that are a must have. Others may have differing views / needs.
Oh heck, may as well burn the only mod point I've used in this discussion.
Why shouldn't the government be researching 0 days, rootkits, and other exploits? I believe they should, because in order to know thy enemy you must know thy weakness. (Art of War and all that) It is also a weapon to be used in protection of your own systems (take down theirs before they take down ours.) Years ago (late 1990's or early 2000's) there were articles about how the US government was practicing destroying a country's economy by hacking the country's banks and other data communications. This would create havoc among the populace and hopefully turn them against their politicians (regimes) and should be ousted forthwith.
Where any of us are correct to object is if they turn this weapon on their own populace or our international "friends" (I'm currently unsure of who our friends are - since gifts have been returned to England and Israel and Dalai Lama was escorted out the back door via the trash cans). Then our politicians will be as bad as the regimes we are fighting. (Judiciously, of course.)
Does it matter that the government were purchasing this knowledge from a private company. Perhaps. I would prefer they work on this stuff in house, but even then not everything would be caught. That this private company was selling without morals certainly does need to be investigated for potentially treasonous acts (ie. selling weapons to enemies - again who are our enemies?)
Finally, so boohoo, the unions are being investigated. They darn well should be. If Republicans represent a Corporatocracy then the Democrats represent Union Bosses. Just because Democrats yell "special interest" when business sends in their lobbyists, doesn't mean that the unions and Democrats don't have their own special interest and lobbyists. And, no, the unions are no longer for the working person. They were once a necessity, but when they injected themselves in government, We the People have no way to protect our interests and tax expenditures when the Unions make a demand and the politicians fall in lock-step because of Union donations. This theft has been going on as long as the banks and Wall Street (1920s and on).
Crazy thing: Our company head got word that Firefox got a zero day (which was patched in 48 hours) so Firefox was banned from all computers. Anyone found to have it installed would be reported. Fortunately, there is Firefox Portable and I can feel safe browsing again.
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup. I don't know if Chrome suffers from the same issue.
If I were running a business, I would have Linux desktops on all the machines. It seems to me that user security is tighter in that situation and people aren't so familiar with it so they will be less likely to screw something up. (I have heard / seen that Windows 7 is more granular with its permissions than Linux is.) If I couldn't have Linux, I would mandate Firefox on all computers with ad-block and no-script installed. To me, that seems a better security measure than running IE7+.
Even with standard compliant web-sites, the way the different browsers render those standards can be different. Take a look at html5 and how all browsers don't include the tags or handle the tags differently.
Not as simple as you'd like to think. You're asking to budget time (=money) and resources to maintaining different browsers in a corporate environment. I've never really tried, but is it possible to use both IE6 and IE7 / IE8 on the same computer without the underlying OS components losing its stomach?
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I purchased both of my Razer gaming mice from woot.com. I think they were both about $25 after shipping. A worthwhile purchase in my opinion (there's no reason my thumb and ring finger need to remain lazy).
Right now, at Walmart and Newegg.com (and probably many other places), you can buy a family 3-pack of Windows 7 Home Premium licenses for essentially 50%.
Oh, wait, that's the upgrade version (and it does check for a dirty system beforehand, ie WinXP is installed). Yeah, Windows regular install disks are flippin' expensive.
Actually, Comodo is a certificates company. Their free firewall and, later, AV product was always just an afterthought for them. It wasn't until just the past couple of years that Comodo has allocated resources (with subscription service) for users of their Internet security software.
I agree, headphones can give you some quality sound, but can they give you surround sound? There are some games that accurately let you know when someone is coming up behind you or something is happening behind you by using the 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 sound systems. And there are some who do use their computers as a media center as well as a gaming machine.
Why would the kill their golden calf?
haha! good, easy catch. I was typing too fast, apparently.
That reminds me of the episode in "The IT Crowd" where Roy almost gets to do a calendar shoot of the hot girls at Reynholm industries, but ends up getting quite the different type of subject for the calendar.
The problem humans have, in general, is understanding large numbers. The inverse is also true, humans have, in general, a difficult time understanding small numbers. Comprehending that 1.3 million earths fit in the sun is really mind-blowing (and the sun, itself, is incredibly small compared to some stars). But so is understanding a particle is one billion times smaller than a millimeter.
It's enough for most of us to abstract that out. There is one AU of distance between the Earth and the Sun, mm is larger than a nm is larger than a um.
Flippin' heck! That was it. Updated BIOS and all was good. The only reason I hadn't tried that before is because I didn't have windows at the time so I didn't have the online updater. And I didn't want to mess with a boot up disk. Besides, I just got the board brand new, it should have had the latest version... right? (facepalm to forehead)
Thanks!
Another point of the parent's was that the card "has 50% the performance as if you were running Windows." Which I have unfortunately found to be the case. Even my nVidia 8800GT, which is 5 years old now(?), does not supply the full capabilities in Linux as it does in Windows. For instance, getting WoW up and running on Linux was easy, but my config would not allow me to get the same graphics settings as I got in Windows XP. What's the deal there? Getting Half-Life to run properly was a pain and the settings reset every time I stopped the game. Team Fortress 2 was only a small problem, but I didn't go tweaking the graphics settings. I was just happy to get it up and running.
System - eVGA nf610, Intel e6600 (3.0GHz dual core), 4GB RAM, nVidia 8800GT with proprietary drivers, Ubuntu 10.10 x64, with the latest version of Wine installed.
I wish that were the case, at least on Ubuntu 10.10. My recently purchased GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 (AMD processor) with nVidia 8800GT just will not load Ubuntu 10.10 with the proprietary drivers. Everything I've tried, from ripping out the open source drivers to preventing them from loading at boot has failed. Everytime it gets past the loading screen to display the login screen, my monitor goes black (then displays the "lost connection" dialog).
Oh, sure, in Fedora it seems to work fine, but it turns out I don't like Fedora's package manager and other things about it. And, okay, it's not necessarily a kernel thing, but an Ubuntu thing... but anyway - where was I going with this?
I don't know if I've ever written google about this desired feature, but I'm glad they now have it!
I've never paid them, but I am annoyed at having to scroll through pages of links to get to the answer. No, the answers are not obscured for me, either. Try using NoScript (which I don't use, but I've heard will do the trick in some cases.)
Can you explain that for us, please?
Certainly, easily done. I claimed that I was in Sweden, yet here I am. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated I would pay with the pot of gold I procurred from my leprechaun. The letter's statement is a lie. It also stated that my unicorn gave the company scathing criticisms. The letter's statement is a lie. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume the entire letter was a lie, including the bit where it stated that I confessed to sharing files.
Ok, this makes more sense. Getting the $15k by going after the easiest target makes more sense than going after the easiest target to win said target. I mean, why would I want to use a machine that is easy to "pwn"? Unless, of course, it is to dump it for some extra cash.
Anecdotal evidence: I have been able to recover data from a dieing HDD. Of course, when the magnetic head is scratching the surface of the drive, there's not much to be done about it except to open it up for the free magnet and new potential clock
Good post, and I agree. It now comes down to requested features. In my case, extensions are a great thing. AdBlock Pro, No Scipt, Tab Mix Plus, and Slimsearch are all great extensions that are a must have. Others may have differing views / needs.
Oh, come on, give Safari some credit. IE6 is the William Hung of today. Safari is probably that "Pants on the floor" guy.
No, law enforcement is hampered by the law and Constitution.
Anonymous aren't shackled by laws.
At least not yet.
Oh heck, may as well burn the only mod point I've used in this discussion.
Why shouldn't the government be researching 0 days, rootkits, and other exploits? I believe they should, because in order to know thy enemy you must know thy weakness. (Art of War and all that) It is also a weapon to be used in protection of your own systems (take down theirs before they take down ours.) Years ago (late 1990's or early 2000's) there were articles about how the US government was practicing destroying a country's economy by hacking the country's banks and other data communications. This would create havoc among the populace and hopefully turn them against their politicians (regimes) and should be ousted forthwith.
Where any of us are correct to object is if they turn this weapon on their own populace or our international "friends" (I'm currently unsure of who our friends are - since gifts have been returned to England and Israel and Dalai Lama was escorted out the back door via the trash cans). Then our politicians will be as bad as the regimes we are fighting. (Judiciously, of course.)
Does it matter that the government were purchasing this knowledge from a private company. Perhaps. I would prefer they work on this stuff in house, but even then not everything would be caught. That this private company was selling without morals certainly does need to be investigated for potentially treasonous acts (ie. selling weapons to enemies - again who are our enemies?)
Finally, so boohoo, the unions are being investigated. They darn well should be. If Republicans represent a Corporatocracy then the Democrats represent Union Bosses. Just because Democrats yell "special interest" when business sends in their lobbyists, doesn't mean that the unions and Democrats don't have their own special interest and lobbyists. And, no, the unions are no longer for the working person. They were once a necessity, but when they injected themselves in government, We the People have no way to protect our interests and tax expenditures when the Unions make a demand and the politicians fall in lock-step because of Union donations. This theft has been going on as long as the banks and Wall Street (1920s and on).
Crazy thing: Our company head got word that Firefox got a zero day (which was patched in 48 hours) so Firefox was banned from all computers. Anyone found to have it installed would be reported. Fortunately, there is Firefox Portable and I can feel safe browsing again.
One of the complaints I've heard about Firefox is that there is no way to do an installation similar to how msi files are setup. I don't know if Chrome suffers from the same issue.
If I were running a business, I would have Linux desktops on all the machines. It seems to me that user security is tighter in that situation and people aren't so familiar with it so they will be less likely to screw something up. (I have heard / seen that Windows 7 is more granular with its permissions than Linux is.) If I couldn't have Linux, I would mandate Firefox on all computers with ad-block and no-script installed. To me, that seems a better security measure than running IE7+.
Even with standard compliant web-sites, the way the different browsers render those standards can be different. Take a look at html5 and how all browsers don't include the tags or handle the tags differently.
But you have to admit, it was kind of cool that he tried and reported on it.
Not as simple as you'd like to think. You're asking to budget time (=money) and resources to maintaining different browsers in a corporate environment. I've never really tried, but is it possible to use both IE6 and IE7 / IE8 on the same computer without the underlying OS components losing its stomach?