First of all I find it outrageous, but let's get to the point:
OK, so was this in the Warranty ?
Yes: Make an image of your Linux install and save it. Put Vista on the machine, and make them prove you ever had anything else on it.
No: Sue them, post it all over, blog it out, or try an other repair center
Do not forget to put some over-voltage carefully on all possible ports, then shorting the battery while fully charged. Hey you could also do it in your car which you will set on fire, and sue the company, the laptop maker for all the damages..... yes the manager too, he should have seen that the crack was heat induced, and that it would lead to your house burning down.....
OK, so how is it going to be? He wants to block "how to make a bomb" or "how bombs work"? Not very successful, if you are interested you already know at least 1-2 components, and then search on them.
But wait, let's block everything related to a bomb. So first we have to block the whole periodic table, as most of the elements probably are contained in a bomb at the end.
Then can continue with keywords that will most likely be mentioned in the simplest instruction to do anything with any project as well:
Oh wait, seems like the whole dictionary could be blocked then, so why not just have a keylogger on everyones computer, and put little animated bomb squad and police officers on the pages of google, wikipedia, how stuff works, or any page containing these dangerous terms that lead our society of blowing someone up. Do not forget your favourite paintball and airsoft (maybe include all water pistol makers too - the first step to shoot a man is to play violent games, such as shooting each other with waterpistols).
If they are so worried then just watch traffic. Oh wait they already do. Whole Europe is full of their black boxes sniffing at backbones. So just look for the searches.
You know what. Reading stupidity like this just makes people worried. The sad thing is that it only limits people who are innocently interested in stuff, and it won't stop someone from finding out if they really need to blow someone up.
Oh yeah that stupidity won't stop anyone from putting up a proxy abroad and make searches through it. It will just encourage them to access it through an encrypted tunnel, so even the black boxes won't help. Quite a task for someone who wants to go as far as plotting an attack, building a bomb, and maybe even blow himself up.... that will stop them definitely....... morons
If your site is getting revenue from expressions, maybe you have a point, but then again, if you can make money on just expressions, then you run something big anyway.
If your site gets revenue after clicks or "per action" (signup, purchase) then you are not losing anything on these guys anyway:
Why ? Because they block your ad not to see it. If they block it, they would not click on it in the first place, thus you would not make a revenue wether the ad is displayed or not.
+ you save bandwidth for yourself and the ad network serving the usually large and annoying flash ads.
Just for the record : i do not use ad blocking, but some ads on sites my wife visits drive me crazy. Her unattended browser would constantly pull large images from sites even when the browser is idle..... just plain stupid..... honestly i am not sure if the ads or the site content does that all the time, but I saw ads do that. Also the constant pinging of browsers with timed ajax req-s can have the same effect when you have 10+ sitting in tabs....
Even my old GSM provider in eastern Europe (I used to live in Hungary) warned its customers with detailed information on how to turn their voice mail box off in case they leave the country, explaining in detail, that the call would go abriad, and then come back, thus causing a double charge.
AT&T should have a similar warning. On the other hand the iPhone should not do ANYTHING while off. Not beep, not wake up, not chek mail. NOTHING. The only thing I expect from a phone when it is off, to serve as an alarm clock as normal phones do.
I would advise iPhone users to pull the battery, but then you say..... the battery cannot be pulled. It sucks, and unless the documentation in the Apple manual clearly states that the iPhone does update mail when off, I would be on my way to a lawyer and have apple pay my bill to their one and only partner.
I have a hangover, a terrible one. I read both articles and have no clue what the bug is. Really. I run a linux based network and have a vista machine accessing the net just fine, with transparent proxym dhcp, nat and everything coming from a linux sever.
I prefer apt-get too, however I use ports (darwinports), so it is almost the same
port install nmap -> would install nmap just fine. Sorry if you know that, many people I know and own macs have never heard about that.
What pisses me off about OSX is how you cannot drag windows unless you drag the top, and same with the resizing thing. Also "desktopmanager" is a bit dumb compared to linux pagers.
But there is expose and all the good stuff. I just wish dial monitor support was better supported by all the apps (like not having a window's menu on an other physical display, nor popping that search box up 1 mouse-mile away on the other screen...... maybe Leopard answers these....
Hi, I know.... I tried ubuntu on a toshiba, a few weeks ago (laptop runs Debian now, and is only used to run a browser to display a nagios screen and flash operator for asterisk)...... I booted an ubuntu live because I was wondering about that backlight issue, and actually Ubuntu refuses to turn it off as well..... Screensaver starts, then monitor goes blank, but light stays on. It works with the XP that came with the Laptop.....
It is a minor issue, but then again, if it is your primary laptop and you hit a bump like this, you are screwed:)
Anyway I take your point. It's just that I run multiple linux servers and I do not think I need a linux laptop right now after getting a mac :
Just at home : I use a Linux gateway and for my VOIP needs (asterisk), I have a Linux desktop setup (dev machine) (Linux (1 or 2 screens) - synergy - Macbook (2 screens) - synergy - windows XP (1 screen) - synergy - linux laptop (1 screen)..... + various vmplayer images with Linuxes, BSD, Solaris, XP to test stuff:)
It is definitely not my reason for owning a macbook, but I heard that several times:
".... and it can also run Windows if I really need it for something....."
I think the Intel switch and the option to run Windows is a huge selling point for many.
For me on the other hand is that it is the only laptop that actually runs UNIX out of the box with a functional desktop, without constant headaches for drivers and all.
I respect, love and use Linux every day, but when you face all the little quirks of a laptop when trying to put Linux on it (especially a new one) you know what I am talking about. And when you think you solved it all, you realize that your battery dies a lot faster, or your backlight just does not go out when the screen saver starts.
I myself own a Macbook, and while I have seen many OSes, touched and owned many hardware devices, I have to say that this was my best ever computer/OS selection. I admin servers and develop mostly for LAMP web, if you wondered, and yes I also enjoy having a decent DVD player program with a remote under UNIX (yes mplayer + lirc + whatever - but i mean out of the box, not after 3 days of hacking)
1. changes (as in ITIL changes, to any configuration item) 2. Uptime 3. Downtime 4. Tickets and their resolution times (customer opened tickets) 5. Incidents and their resolution times (any system generated ticket about a service)
Now on the exact calculation:
A. most MORONS want the admins to work 8hours straight on something and be proactive, so you get as many systems as you CAN NOT manage if an incident occurs
B. Most sysadmins know, that you are most productive when there is absolutely nothing to do, and you can polish that script, or experiment with "cool" technology.
I think the latter. I think you are the most productive, when you do not have to fix anything. Then you did your work right. But group A (Morons) do not agree with that. Probably that is why I am back in freelancing as a programmer after spending a year at a Fortune 50 company, with an hosting department ran by corrupt lying MORONS.
Agreed, I NEVER had to restart an apache because it was hung, only for scheduled maintenance. I worked in a 1000+ server infrastructure till now, and the only pain came from IIS and JAVA servers. Note: yes I know they are apache tomcats at the end (Jboss, WL, WS), but it is a completely different story.
While many times I do stuff just because I can (installing linux where ever for example), I kind of question why you would really do that.
Do not get me wrong, I have a Linux laptop, a Macbook, an XP box, a linux box, an asterisk linux server, and a minimac, and I have Solaris and BSD in Vmware players for testing....
But I got a mac for the nice hardware and the unix it is tunning with a kickass GUI. I run OSX and X apps on that machine, and leave the Linux stuff for linux, and the windows stuff for windows.
I mean if you want to run win apps on a mac, you have parallels, dual boot, and Vmware. You can run linux apps (Well X apps, BSD apps, anything that compiles).
I have no answer for your question, because for me it does not make sense at all. Why not leave the mac alone and get some minipc and run Linux on it?
Belongs to the truth: I use linux as my main desktop for 10 years at least (KDE, Gnome, tried E, Wmaker and many more) and recently I came to the point of wanting to get something that works perfectly as a laptop OS and gui.... Since I found that OSX on a mac is a perfect alternative, I am really shocked seeing someone who wants to put linux on a mac, then tries to find a way to run mac apps on it.
But then again, I am just wondering, and you probably know why it makes sense for you, so do not take my curiosity in a bad way.
I personally own one of those "on the road" chargers. 1 end 110v, other end USB. I wonder how that would be authenticated by any ipod, as it has no software, just 5V on the USB port.
I think the idea is good though, although I really do not want to start itunes, active sync, nokia pc suite every sindle times I want to charge a stuoid device.
Not that I had too much expectation towards Vista as I am a linux user for 12+ years, but I was curious.
I am tired of my 5x upgraded Debian is crashing on me (just Xorg), and faced Vista running on a relative's brand new Compaq laptop like NT did on a 386 (LIKE CRAP),,,...
So I realized, that I need a Unix machine and I want something that works without compiling every single thing and with strong commercial support... + a compact size but full featured laptop....
So I got a macbook, and since OS/2 this is my best computer (HW+SW) I got....
And you know what ? A lot of my tech friends go that way, and the ones that do not, replace Vista with XP after a few weeks....
SO whereever the data comes from, it does not count tech people, or is just bogus.
I haven't met one single person who liked Vista for any reason.... just haven't met anyone.....
And whe even my wife (osc user, linux user for 3 years) says huhh, that is slow, then you know what I mean.
think the real problem is that people don't know whether or not they can handle a cell phone and driving at the same time. Totally agreed, I think that is what it boils down to. We can although agree, is that no one should hold a phone and converse while driving, the only way is a hadsfree solution.
ps: I really dislike people in my car regarding responsiveness and weight.... I would go as far as not using airco, and only half-tanking my car to have the extra advantage. {rpbab;y is not a matter in an SUV, but I am driving a 1.8l sedan, and I drive semi-aggressive, and really feel the extra meat in the car:)
I talk on the phone using my headset (wireless/bluetooth) while driving and I do not feel a problem about it.
Dialing, checking email, etc. can be a problem, but talking on a headset that does not even have a cord dangling around?
Please explain me this: how is talking to my wife sitting next to me safer than talking to her on the phone through a headset?
I mean, having a person in your car IS more dangerous:
1. you see less (how many times do you have to tell your passenger that YOU have to see not him/her what is on the right?) 2. they make your car less responsive, and add more dead weight 3. they maybe talk to each other (more people)
All that is not there when you talk on the phone, and if you are in a risky intersection, or taking over you can alwasy say :
"Just a sec, have to concentrate on traffic" - I do it all the time...
So no flame, but I think a headset makes it all good if you can multitask well enough....
Shooting at colorful monsters in a space environment with guns that look like water-blasters, is the real danger for our youth.
I personally dislike Halo, and opt for tactiacal FPS games, but I prefer seeing kids play Halo 100 times more, than seeing them play GTA, Saint's row, or even most of street fighter-like figting games.
Hey, that guy is a real moron, and the rest of the world should be protected from people like him. I hope they take it to court, and he pays for MS' $$$$$ lawyers.
At least I do not have to apply the DST changes on 5 different java versions from different vendors to all those hundreds of Unix machines:)
I read somewhere, that the idea was based on a 30 year old study, which based evening and morning household use on toasters and TVs, and other appliances, that have little to do with today's machines' consumption, and I am sure it did not calculate with 1-2 pcs and 2-5 chargers on every desk at the workplace. Most importantly they did not look at the fact how lighting changed and how many companies use nowadays motion sensors and fluorescent lighting, and build with more glass, that reduces ligh use even at darker hours....
but hey... at least the patches are done:) IT made money on giving support on that. The world did not become a better place, but IT had $$ for a few extra beers...
"waste of food that would otherwise feed 3 billion people who will die of hunger"
Whoever said that probably did not calculate in the amount of people who die because of the greenhouse gas effects enhanced/caused by petrol based fuel engines. Just to mention pollution, or the growing of deserted areas near the equator.
But hey, in the western world it is always a popular move to say something bad about Castro. Protecting the oil industry and throwing other stuff away is also not a paid interest. Right
The good thing is: now you can use that kidney damaging GM corn for something!!!
That is the other story I can read here and there, you might be right on that, I am nost sure at this point.
Auth codes are now available on the contact info settings page of your domain. However if they expired because of them, this info is not visible and they do not give it out.
Shared delivery means, you are working on several client accounts. When you hear this: RUN. Whether you are 1st, 2nd Deep TS, shared delivery means, that your butt will be dragged where the fires are burning, and you will never ever have a decent relaxed day.
I remember at other places, when we completed a project and deployed everything to be deployed (after fixing problems), we always had a few easy days. Go home early, take long lunches, play games and so on....
Shared delivery means you go dead every day.
Oh well, it also means that you are sold several times to clients, but get only 1 salary.
Many companies are starting to do this, and it is the recipe for crappy service, and leaving employees.
I would in fact like the idea - no robots.txt - no crawling. You create one, that means you want to talk to "robots" (crawlers) and instruct them what to do.
So all this nonsense would stop. If you are technically not able - do not run a web site. If you are - use robots.txt. Of course it does not work because of morons. So just flip the rule around.
Announce it, give 2 months of grace period, then stop crawling sites with no robots.txt. SOOOOO EASY!
Thanks for the info. To be honest, I would go relatively far to take legal revenge on this pile-of-trash company. They caused me so much trouble in the last 4-5 weeks, and causing everywhere from 10-90 minutes of extra work every day (transfers, email checking, try to change data in the defunct backend, support calling, whois lookups, changes after transfers.....
It is at the point when it is interfering with my 9-5 job, and adds a stable extra layer of stress on top of my not-so-relaxing admin 9-5 and private coding 5-9:)...
1. unlock it: "domain lock" on the right unlocks it 2. get auth code: domain contact information -> see bottom 2. make sure email is yours. If you used domain privacy, it points to support@registerfly.com, thye never answer mails or approve requests
I used Joker and successfully xfered 2 of my most important domains, 30 more to go.... I lost a few it seems as they are unchangeable and not renewable.
So Joker works, but keep in mind: you pay even if the xfer fails, so make sure your domain is unlocked, you are the contact, and you have the right auth code.
WARNING: auth codes are not domain codes you get from regfly when a renewal fails !!!!!
2 owners got into power struggle. One locked the other out, the other locked everyone out.
Effect: 1. you cannot renew domains, 2. Support cannot help (just promise) 3. You do not have auth codes to move your domains away 4. Finance system does not work 5. domains are changing data randomly -> dns settings
For me: my domains were to expire, so I deposited money. Renewal failed, money disappeared, domains expired. I spent hours on the phone, they promised to renew manually. Now whois shows it is renewed, Regfly shows it is not. Info changed back to their nameservers and "expirefly".
So some of my domains I renewed and I paid for are making pay-per-click for them, losing ranking and customers, and I cannot even change the nameservers or transfer them, because they show up as "expired" in their system.
Just make a search for "registerfly" and you will see all kinds of horror stories.
I am looking at spending over $400 for unnecessary renewals, and who knows what in revenue. I am in the process of finding a good lawyer and see what I can do about this mess:(.
I fear though, that for the time a lawsuit would go through they would declare bankruptcy and retract to their Miami Beach villas (yes one owner lives there).
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First of all I find it outrageous, but let's get to the point:
..... yes the manager too, he should have seen that the crack was heat induced, and that it would lead to your house burning down .....
OK, so was this in the Warranty ?
Yes: Make an image of your Linux install and save it. Put Vista on the machine, and make them prove you ever had anything else on it.
No: Sue them, post it all over, blog it out, or try an other repair center
Do not forget to put some over-voltage carefully on all possible ports, then shorting the battery while fully charged. Hey you could also do it in your car which you will set on fire, and sue the company, the laptop maker for all the damages
OK, so how is it going to be?
....
....... morons
He wants to block "how to make a bomb" or "how bombs work"? Not very successful, if you are interested you already know at least 1-2 components, and then search on them.
But wait, let's block everything related to a bomb. So first we have to block the whole periodic table, as most of the elements probably are contained in a bomb at the end.
Then can continue with keywords that will most likely be mentioned in the simplest instruction to do anything with any project as well:
container, metal, powder, wire, cable, liquid, chemicals, transport, cell phone, ignition, battery, timer, clock, remote
Oh wait, seems like the whole dictionary could be blocked then, so why not just have a keylogger on everyones computer, and put little animated bomb squad and police officers on the pages of google, wikipedia, how stuff works, or any page containing these dangerous terms that lead our society of blowing someone up. Do not forget your favourite paintball and airsoft (maybe include all water pistol makers too - the first step to shoot a man is to play violent games, such as shooting each other with waterpistols).
If they are so worried then just watch traffic. Oh wait they already do. Whole Europe is full of their black boxes sniffing at backbones. So just look for the searches.
You know what. Reading stupidity like this just makes people worried. The sad thing is that it only limits people who are innocently interested in stuff, and it won't stop someone from finding out if they really need to blow someone up.
Oh yeah that stupidity won't stop anyone from putting up a proxy abroad and make searches through it. It will just encourage them to access it through an encrypted tunnel, so even the black boxes won't help. Quite a task for someone who wants to go as far as plotting an attack, building a bomb, and maybe even blow himself up.... that will stop them definitely
OK, this is really over-hyped IMO too.
..... just plain stupid ..... honestly i am not sure if the ads or the site content does that all the time, but I saw ads do that. Also the constant pinging of browsers with timed ajax req-s can have the same effect when you have 10+ sitting in tabs....
If your site is getting revenue from expressions, maybe you have a point, but then again, if you can make money on just expressions, then you run something big anyway.
If your site gets revenue after clicks or "per action" (signup, purchase) then you are not losing anything on these guys anyway:
Why ? Because they block your ad not to see it. If they block it, they would not click on it in the first place, thus you would not make a revenue wether the ad is displayed or not.
+ you save bandwidth for yourself and the ad network serving the usually large and annoying flash ads.
Just for the record : i do not use ad blocking, but some ads on sites my wife visits drive me crazy. Her unattended browser would constantly pull large images from sites even when the browser is idle
just my 2c
Even my old GSM provider in eastern Europe (I used to live in Hungary) warned its customers with detailed information on how to turn their voice mail box off in case they leave the country, explaining in detail, that the call would go abriad, and then come back, thus causing a double charge.
AT&T should have a similar warning. On the other hand the iPhone should not do ANYTHING while off. Not beep, not wake up, not chek mail. NOTHING.
The only thing I expect from a phone when it is off, to serve as an alarm clock as normal phones do.
I would advise iPhone users to pull the battery, but then you say..... the battery cannot be pulled. It sucks, and unless the documentation in the Apple manual clearly states that the iPhone does update mail when off, I would be on my way to a lawyer and have apple pay my bill to their one and only partner.
I have a hangover, a terrible one. I read both articles and have no clue what the bug is. Really.
I run a linux based network and have a vista machine accessing the net just fine, with transparent proxym dhcp, nat and everything coming from a linux sever.
I prefer apt-get too, however I use ports (darwinports), so it is almost the same
....
port install nmap -> would install nmap just fine. Sorry if you know that, many people I know and own macs have never heard about that.
What pisses me off about OSX is how you cannot drag windows unless you drag the top, and same with the resizing thing. Also "desktopmanager" is a bit dumb compared to linux pagers.
But there is expose and all the good stuff. I just wish dial monitor support was better supported by all the apps (like not having a window's menu on an other physical display, nor popping that search box up 1 mouse-mile away on the other screen...... maybe Leopard answers these
cheers
Hi, I know .... I tried ubuntu on a toshiba, a few weeks ago (laptop runs Debian now, and is only used to run a browser to display a nagios screen and flash operator for asterisk)...... I booted an ubuntu live because I was wondering about that backlight issue, and actually Ubuntu refuses to turn it off as well..... Screensaver starts, then monitor goes blank, but light stays on. It works with the XP that came with the Laptop.....
:)
:)
It is a minor issue, but then again, if it is your primary laptop and you hit a bump like this, you are screwed
Anyway I take your point. It's just that I run multiple linux servers and I do not think I need a linux laptop right now after getting a mac :
Just at home : I use a Linux gateway and for my VOIP needs (asterisk), I have a Linux desktop setup (dev machine) (Linux (1 or 2 screens) - synergy - Macbook (2 screens) - synergy - windows XP (1 screen) - synergy - linux laptop (1 screen)..... + various vmplayer images with Linuxes, BSD, Solaris, XP to test stuff
It is definitely not my reason for owning a macbook, but I heard that several times:
....."
".... and it can also run Windows if I really need it for something
I think the Intel switch and the option to run Windows is a huge selling point for many.
For me on the other hand is that it is the only laptop that actually runs UNIX out of the box with a functional desktop, without constant headaches for drivers and all.
I respect, love and use Linux every day, but when you face all the little quirks of a laptop when trying to put Linux on it (especially a new one) you know what I am talking about. And when you think you solved it all, you realize that your battery dies a lot faster, or your backlight just does not go out when the screen saver starts.
I myself own a Macbook, and while I have seen many OSes, touched and owned many hardware devices, I have to say that this was my best ever computer/OS selection. I admin servers and develop mostly for LAMP web, if you wondered, and yes I also enjoy having a decent DVD player program with a remote under UNIX (yes mplayer + lirc + whatever - but i mean out of the box, not after 3 days of hacking)
I would say a mixed calculation of :
1. changes (as in ITIL changes, to any configuration item)
2. Uptime
3. Downtime
4. Tickets and their resolution times (customer opened tickets)
5. Incidents and their resolution times (any system generated ticket about a service)
Now on the exact calculation:
A. most MORONS want the admins to work 8hours straight on something and be proactive, so you get as many systems as you CAN NOT manage if an incident occurs
B. Most sysadmins know, that you are most productive when there is absolutely nothing to do, and you can polish that script, or experiment with "cool" technology.
I think the latter. I think you are the most productive, when you do not have to fix anything. Then you did your work right. But group A (Morons) do not agree with that. Probably that is why I am back in freelancing as a programmer after spending a year at a Fortune 50 company, with an hosting department ran by corrupt lying MORONS.
Just my 2c's
Agreed, I NEVER had to restart an apache because it was hung, only for scheduled maintenance. I worked in a 1000+ server infrastructure till now, and the only pain came from IIS and JAVA servers. Note: yes I know they are apache tomcats at the end (Jboss, WL, WS), but it is a completely different story.
That is what came to my mind immediately!
... uhhmmm .... legs ?
You forgot
1. pimples
2. inflamed red dots caused by fresh shaving of the
While many times I do stuff just because I can (installing linux where ever for example), I kind of question why you would really do that.
Do not get me wrong, I have a Linux laptop, a Macbook, an XP box, a linux box, an asterisk linux server, and a minimac, and I have Solaris and BSD in Vmware players for testing....
But I got a mac for the nice hardware and the unix it is tunning with a kickass GUI. I run OSX and X apps on that machine, and leave the Linux stuff for linux, and the windows stuff for windows.
I mean if you want to run win apps on a mac, you have parallels, dual boot, and Vmware. You can run linux apps (Well X apps, BSD apps, anything that compiles).
I have no answer for your question, because for me it does not make sense at all. Why not leave the mac alone and get some minipc and run Linux on it?
Belongs to the truth: I use linux as my main desktop for 10 years at least (KDE, Gnome, tried E, Wmaker and many more) and recently I came to the point of wanting to get something that works perfectly as a laptop OS and gui.... Since I found that OSX on a mac is a perfect alternative, I am really shocked seeing someone who wants to put linux on a mac, then tries to find a way to run mac apps on it.
But then again, I am just wondering, and you probably know why it makes sense for you, so do not take my curiosity in a bad way.
I personally own one of those "on the road" chargers. 1 end 110v, other end USB. I wonder how that would be authenticated by any ipod, as it has no software, just 5V on the USB port.
I think the idea is good though, although I really do not want to start itunes, active sync, nokia pc suite every sindle times I want to charge a stuoid device.
Not that I had too much expectation towards Vista as I am a linux user for 12+ years, but I was curious.
,,,...
....
I am tired of my 5x upgraded Debian is crashing on me (just Xorg), and faced Vista running on a relative's brand new Compaq laptop like NT did on a 386 (LIKE CRAP)
So I realized, that I need a Unix machine and I want something that works without compiling every single thing and with strong commercial support... + a compact size but full featured laptop
So I got a macbook, and since OS/2 this is my best computer (HW+SW) I got....
And you know what ? A lot of my tech friends go that way, and the ones that do not, replace Vista with XP after a few weeks....
SO whereever the data comes from, it does not count tech people, or is just bogus.
I haven't met one single person who liked Vista for any reason.... just haven't met anyone.....
And whe even my wife (osc user, linux user for 3 years) says huhh, that is slow, then you know what I mean.
ps: I really dislike people in my car regarding responsiveness and weight
I talk on the phone using my headset (wireless/bluetooth) while driving and I do not feel a problem about it.
...
....
Dialing, checking email, etc. can be a problem, but talking on a headset that does not even have a cord dangling around?
Please explain me this: how is talking to my wife sitting next to me safer than talking to her on the phone through a headset?
I mean, having a person in your car IS more dangerous:
1. you see less (how many times do you have to tell your passenger that YOU have to see not him/her what is on the right?)
2. they make your car less responsive, and add more dead weight
3. they maybe talk to each other (more people)
All that is not there when you talk on the phone, and if you are in a risky intersection, or taking over you can alwasy say :
"Just a sec, have to concentrate on traffic" - I do it all the time
So no flame, but I think a headset makes it all good if you can multitask well enough
Shooting at colorful monsters in a space environment with guns that look like water-blasters, is the real danger for our youth.
I personally dislike Halo, and opt for tactiacal FPS games, but I prefer seeing kids play Halo 100 times more, than seeing them play GTA, Saint's row, or even most of street fighter-like figting games.
Hey, that guy is a real moron, and the rest of the world should be protected from people like him. I hope they take it to court, and he pays for MS' $$$$$ lawyers.
At least I do not have to apply the DST changes on 5 different java versions from different vendors to all those hundreds of Unix machines :)
....
... at least the patches are done :) IT made money on giving support on that. The world did not become a better place, but IT had $$ for a few extra beers ...
I read somewhere, that the idea was based on a 30 year old study, which based evening and morning household use on toasters and TVs, and other appliances, that have little to do with today's machines' consumption, and I am sure it did not calculate with 1-2 pcs and 2-5 chargers on every desk at the workplace.
Most importantly they did not look at the fact how lighting changed and how many companies use nowadays motion sensors and fluorescent lighting, and build with more glass, that reduces ligh use even at darker hours
but hey
"waste of food that would otherwise feed 3 billion people who will die of hunger"
/caused by petrol based fuel engines. Just to mention pollution, or the growing of deserted areas near the equator.
Whoever said that probably did not calculate in the amount of people who die because of the greenhouse gas effects enhanced
But hey, in the western world it is always a popular move to say something bad about Castro.
Protecting the oil industry and throwing other stuff away is also not a paid interest. Right
The good thing is: now you can use that kidney damaging GM corn for something!!!
That is the other story I can read here and there, you might be right on that, I am nost sure at this point.
Auth codes are now available on the contact info settings page of your domain. However if they expired because of them, this info is not visible and they do not give it out.
Shared delivery means, you are working on several client accounts. When you hear this: RUN.
Whether you are 1st, 2nd Deep TS, shared delivery means, that your butt will be dragged where the fires are burning, and you will never ever have a decent relaxed day.
I remember at other places, when we completed a project and deployed everything to be deployed (after fixing problems), we always had a few easy days. Go home early, take long lunches, play games and so on....
Shared delivery means you go dead every day.
Oh well, it also means that you are sold several times to clients, but get only 1 salary.
Many companies are starting to do this, and it is the recipe for crappy service, and leaving employees.
- not the way the web is with search engines.
I would in fact like the idea - no robots.txt - no crawling. You create one, that means you want to talk to "robots" (crawlers)
and instruct them what to do.
So all this nonsense would stop. If you are technically not able - do not run a web site. If you are - use robots.txt.
Of course it does not work because of morons. So just flip the rule around.
Announce it, give 2 months of grace period, then stop crawling sites with no robots.txt. SOOOOO EASY!
Thanks for the info. To be honest, I would go relatively far to take legal revenge on this pile-of-trash company. They caused me so much trouble in the last 4-5 weeks, and causing everywhere from 10-90 minutes of extra work every day (transfers, email checking, try to change data in the defunct backend, support calling, whois lookups, changes after transfers.....
:) ...
It is at the point when it is interfering with my 9-5 job, and adds a stable extra layer of stress on top of my not-so-relaxing admin 9-5 and private coding 5-9
If it is expired, you are screwed, if not:
go to "manage domains" -> click domain ->
1. unlock it: "domain lock" on the right unlocks it
2. get auth code: domain contact information -> see bottom
2. make sure email is yours. If you used domain privacy, it points to support@registerfly.com, thye never answer mails or approve requests
I used Joker and successfully xfered 2 of my most important domains, 30 more to go.... I lost a few it seems as they are unchangeable and not renewable.
So Joker works, but keep in mind: you pay even if the xfer fails, so make sure your domain is unlocked, you are the contact, and you have the right auth code.
WARNING: auth codes are not domain codes you get from regfly when a renewal fails !!!!!
Short:
:(.
2 owners got into power struggle. One locked the other out, the other locked everyone out.
Effect:
1. you cannot renew domains,
2. Support cannot help (just promise)
3. You do not have auth codes to move your domains away
4. Finance system does not work
5. domains are changing data randomly -> dns settings
For me: my domains were to expire, so I deposited money. Renewal failed, money disappeared, domains expired.
I spent hours on the phone, they promised to renew manually. Now whois shows it is renewed, Regfly shows it is not. Info changed back to their nameservers and "expirefly".
So some of my domains I renewed and I paid for are making pay-per-click for them, losing ranking and customers, and I cannot even change the nameservers or transfer them, because they show up as "expired" in their system.
Just make a search for "registerfly" and you will see all kinds of horror stories.
I am looking at spending over $400 for unnecessary renewals, and who knows what in revenue. I am in the process of finding a good lawyer and see what I can do about this mess
I fear though, that for the time a lawsuit would go through they would declare bankruptcy and retract to their Miami Beach villas (yes one owner lives there).