Fair enough, and I applaud you if it's true - but I have no way to verify. So I always assume people will do what it takes to make money and lots of it while still attempting to do "the right thing". But in the end, money most always wins.
Oh, while I have your ear (eye?) - opendns is a great service, kudos to you and your company.
What they also fail to mention is that with this purchase you have:
A telephone number to call for support of your Linux OS without additional charge and hardware driver support to ensure all parts of your PC work out of the box.
Now with that being said, open up the floodgates of Dell technical support bashing. Come on, you know you want to hit that reply button and post your favorite bashing...
OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly labeled advertisements alongside organic search results when the domain entered is not valid and not a typo we can fix. OpenDNS will provide additional services on top of its enhanced DNS service, and some of them may cost money. Speedy, reliable DNS will always be free.
Now, to be fair I use OpenDNS at home, but I find it hard to take this kind of warning from a person who makes money the same way.
There are only two satellite radio systems and there will soon only be one.
There are other sat-radio companies around the world, but the U.S. wouldn't license them to broadcast, even though they had the equipment and bandwidth. Instead, the country was two years behind the rest of the world while a pair of hillbilly sat radio companies tried to catch up to the rest of the world.
And now, if you're a subscriber - you're at the mercy of their choices.
Some US Banks offer a temp number - but I think it depends on what debit card company the bank uses, and what services they opt into. My bank doesn't - but they also don't nickel and dime me on every transaction, so it's a good trade off. I did find an alternative though:
PayPal offers a Mastercard "debit" card. I only put money in the paypal account when I plan on buying something online that don't specifically take PayPal. It's a credit card to the company accepting it, it's a debit card without ties to a critical bank account to me.
They give you the option of attaching a "backup source of funds" for the card with a daily maximum. For me, I opted out of that feature to protect my real bank account.
If someone tries to use your PayPal debit card without enough funds (like when you didn't expect it) - you'll see the attempt and deny - and they get nothing. I've already caught one unscrupulous company trying to charge me a monthly charge for a service I canceled months before. It was enjoyable calling them out on it and I didn't have to worry about my "real" bank account getting slowly tapped while I wasn't watching or fighting for a refund, charge back, or fill out any crappy paperwork.
Too right, audiophiles and tuners... a market of suckers.
Oh, and I just bought my oxygen free gold dipped hand braided carbon fiber triple analog 186.2 bit digital monster extreme seat covers with pleather inlay...
I've noticed that Lenovo dropped ATI chips in favor for Nvidia... could it be a coincidence that they also support Linux on their laptops? No... they fielded many calls from pissed off linux users who rely on Lenovo to leverage their purchasing power to get some better video drivers.
Instead of waiting until ATI gets around to it - they just switched suppliers for some of their laptops to give their customers a choice.
Instead of giving me a stupid toaster or some jumper cables in a plastic box or a crappy lawn chair... give me a damn fob from RSA that rotates a six digit code that only the bank knows.
Who was criticizing? All I'm saying is offer to do something for the community, not ask the community to do something for you.
Okay, maybe that's tough to wrap your head around it...here, let me break it down for you.
0. If there isn't a perfect open source clone for software xyz that runs on linux, I would be interested in helping.
1. Visit me at work, I'll show you what our current system looks like, how it works, and what we use it for. Maybe then we can hammer out some details.
2. Here's a list of features that would really kick ass, and I sketched up a GUI that would make it easy for our current users to pick it up easy.
3. I like package XYZ, but it's missing feature ABC and KFJ. And it's tough to use because...
I dunno, maybe it's just me - but I see an awful lot of asking for software from the OS community, but not a lot of asking to help.
Writefax or similar software on a PC will accept any faxes - then you can view them from any workstation, delete the junk and print the good ones. It doesn't even have to be a modern PC... any old Pentium 3 with a relative small amount of ram and storage will trump any modern fax machine.
And even a bonus, this gives you a digital copy for easy archival to network backup, tape, optical media, or removable thumb drive.
Seriously a fax machine is really only useful for sending faxes now a days.
We've been getting our balls busted by customers to become PCI compliant so they can maintain their status with the Credit Card industry... where the hell are they when this crap goes down? Four years running a weak wep protected network and nobody bothered to question them on it?
I know that the thinkpad power manager drivers were very beta when Vista was released. This lead to extremely short battery lives - like %50 that of a properly configured XP machine.
The OS has an enormous amount of control over power consumption - from cpu, gpu, and memory speeds to hard drive caching, lcd refresh and brightness. If these drivers suck - then so will the power consumption.
As updates trickle out from Lenovo, it's improved greatly, but not close to XP. With more intensive GPU requirements of Aero (if you so wish to run it while unplugged) I don't see where you'll be able to meet XP's power consumption when running in basic theme with all the GUI features disabled.
Tis true. When my R52 lease is up, a new T6x will be replacing it. I found the R5x series to be a run of the mill ThinkPad - it was by far more classy and rugged than the high end Dell laptops I've been given to use (some may argue that's an oxymoron... ).
The T series does shed some weight and bring a little more omph to the table or lap, as the case may be. And the available WAN connection is just plain sexy.
For the benefit of those of us who aren't Americans, why not say what an HMO is?
If only there was a way for someone to find information on the internet. Like a centralized tool or website that indexes other websites and allows people to search for it when they don't understand.
Or wait, even better - how about an encyclopedia like website that could contain vast amounts of knowledge.
While maybe he thought he was doing a great thing by bringing a wild injustice to light... there isn't a chance in hell I'd hire him for anything remotely considered a computer or communication device - I bet many others won't either.
"And all the big PC vendors have completely retooled and are not selling XPs anymore."
That's not true at all. Dell, IBM/Lenovo, HP, and all the rest still sell XP / XP Pro units. They'd be damn drooling retarded not to... if corporate networks aren't using Vista - but they're buying new computers, the first one to stop selling XP will loose their shirt.
There isn't a single reason (from I.T. point of view) to upgrade to Vista until Microsoft pulls the plug on XP support... which is a real long time.
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Fair enough, and I applaud you if it's true - but I have no way to verify. So I always assume people will do what it takes to make money and lots of it while still attempting to do "the right thing". But in the end, money most always wins.
Oh, while I have your ear (eye?) - opendns is a great service, kudos to you and your company.
You may correct the user's misspelling and send them merrily on their way - you still get the data.
You get a LOT of data on users DNS usage which would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people. You may or may not be using it - but it's there.
I'm not much of a Google fanboy but this criticism is hypocritical.
What they also fail to mention is that with this purchase you have:
A telephone number to call for support of your Linux OS without additional charge and hardware driver support to ensure all parts of your PC work out of the box.
Now with that being said, open up the floodgates of Dell technical support bashing. Come on, you know you want to hit that reply button and post your favorite bashing...
http://www.toppctechs.com/images/tech1.swf
Using OpenDNS redirects mistyped URLs to their own site.
_ money
http://www.opendns.com/faq/#how_does_opendns_make
How does OpenDNS make money?
OpenDNS makes money by offering clearly labeled advertisements alongside organic search results when the domain entered is not valid and not a typo we can fix. OpenDNS will provide additional services on top of its enhanced DNS service, and some of them may cost money. Speedy, reliable DNS will always be free.
Now, to be fair I use OpenDNS at home, but I find it hard to take this kind of warning from a person who makes money the same way.
Try searching google for "\\.\"
You Windows driver programmers should know what it is about.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%5C%5C.%5C%22
Brings up nothing, but I'm interested to read what you find.
There are only two satellite radio systems and there will soon only be one.
There are other sat-radio companies around the world, but the U.S. wouldn't license them to broadcast, even though they had the equipment and bandwidth. Instead, the country was two years behind the rest of the world while a pair of hillbilly sat radio companies tried to catch up to the rest of the world.
And now, if you're a subscriber - you're at the mercy of their choices.
Some US Banks offer a temp number - but I think it depends on what debit card company the bank uses, and what services they opt into. My bank doesn't - but they also don't nickel and dime me on every transaction, so it's a good trade off. I did find an alternative though:
PayPal offers a Mastercard "debit" card. I only put money in the paypal account when I plan on buying something online that don't specifically take PayPal. It's a credit card to the company accepting it, it's a debit card without ties to a critical bank account to me.
They give you the option of attaching a "backup source of funds" for the card with a daily maximum. For me, I opted out of that feature to protect my real bank account.
If someone tries to use your PayPal debit card without enough funds (like when you didn't expect it) - you'll see the attempt and deny - and they get nothing. I've already caught one unscrupulous company trying to charge me a monthly charge for a service I canceled months before. It was enjoyable calling them out on it and I didn't have to worry about my "real" bank account getting slowly tapped while I wasn't watching or fighting for a refund, charge back, or fill out any crappy paperwork.
This is slashdot... grammar is just a speed bump to the submit button.
Too right, audiophiles and tuners... a market of suckers.
Oh, and I just bought my oxygen free gold dipped hand braided carbon fiber triple analog 186.2 bit digital monster extreme seat covers with pleather inlay...
they added 50hp and 20dB to my civic.
I've noticed that Lenovo dropped ATI chips in favor for Nvidia... could it be a coincidence that they also support Linux on their laptops? No... they fielded many calls from pissed off linux users who rely on Lenovo to leverage their purchasing power to get some better video drivers.
Instead of waiting until ATI gets around to it - they just switched suppliers for some of their laptops to give their customers a choice.
the phisher will have to react in less than 20 seconds... they can't just sit on a OTP - they have to use it before the password changes.
And even then, a site could enforce a secondary check - like what's your birthday - then ask for the next OTP.
One Time Passwords...
Instead of giving me a stupid toaster or some jumper cables in a plastic box or a crappy lawn chair... give me a damn fob from RSA that rotates a six digit code that only the bank knows.
How freakin' hard is it?
I was quoting U.S. law, sorry. I should have been more clear.
And certainly faxes can be spoofed, but so can handwritten letters or typed documents.
Who was criticizing? All I'm saying is offer to do something for the community, not ask the community to do something for you.
Okay, maybe that's tough to wrap your head around it...here, let me break it down for you.
0. If there isn't a perfect open source clone for software xyz that runs on linux, I would be interested in helping.
1. Visit me at work, I'll show you what our current system looks like, how it works, and what we use it for. Maybe then we can hammer out some details.
2. Here's a list of features that would really kick ass, and I sketched up a GUI that would make it easy for our current users to pick it up easy.
3. I like package XYZ, but it's missing feature ABC and KFJ. And it's tough to use because...
I dunno, maybe it's just me - but I see an awful lot of asking for software from the OS community, but not a lot of asking to help.
"Ask not what the open source community can do for you. Ask what YOU can do for the open source community."
Watcha gonna do, watcha gonna do
when they come for you
Well, he's going to make a comic about it... duh.
Writefax or similar software on a PC will accept any faxes - then you can view them from any workstation, delete the junk and print the good ones. It doesn't even have to be a modern PC... any old Pentium 3 with a relative small amount of ram and storage will trump any modern fax machine.
And even a bonus, this gives you a digital copy for easy archival to network backup, tape, optical media, or removable thumb drive.
Seriously a fax machine is really only useful for sending faxes now a days.
Faxes are official legal copies of documents. Email attachments are not.
Anyone who has to send a signed or legal documents quickly - a fax is the only option unless you send it via courier.
We've been getting our balls busted by customers to become PCI compliant so they can maintain their status with the Credit Card industry... where the hell are they when this crap goes down? Four years running a weak wep protected network and nobody bothered to question them on it?
I know that the thinkpad power manager drivers were very beta when Vista was released. This lead to extremely short battery lives - like %50 that of a properly configured XP machine.
The OS has an enormous amount of control over power consumption - from cpu, gpu, and memory speeds to hard drive caching, lcd refresh and brightness. If these drivers suck - then so will the power consumption.
As updates trickle out from Lenovo, it's improved greatly, but not close to XP. With more intensive GPU requirements of Aero (if you so wish to run it while unplugged) I don't see where you'll be able to meet XP's power consumption when running in basic theme with all the GUI features disabled.
Tis true. When my R52 lease is up, a new T6x will be replacing it. I found the R5x series to be a run of the mill ThinkPad - it was by far more classy and rugged than the high end Dell laptops I've been given to use (some may argue that's an oxymoron... ).
The T series does shed some weight and bring a little more omph to the table or lap, as the case may be. And the available WAN connection is just plain sexy.
For the benefit of those of us who aren't Americans, why not say what an HMO is?
If only there was a way for someone to find information on the internet. Like a centralized tool or website that indexes other websites and allows people to search for it when they don't understand.
Or wait, even better - how about an encyclopedia like website that could contain vast amounts of knowledge.
Ah, that would be grand.
While maybe he thought he was doing a great thing by bringing a wild injustice to light... there isn't a chance in hell I'd hire him for anything remotely considered a computer or communication device - I bet many others won't either.
Repeat after me: sir, can you spare some change?
That'll be a useful skill for you.
Nuff said... Gaim - get your voice on!
"And all the big PC vendors have completely retooled and are not selling XPs anymore."
That's not true at all. Dell, IBM/Lenovo, HP, and all the rest still sell XP / XP Pro units. They'd be damn drooling retarded not to... if corporate networks aren't using Vista - but they're buying new computers, the first one to stop selling XP will loose their shirt.
There isn't a single reason (from I.T. point of view) to upgrade to Vista until Microsoft pulls the plug on XP support... which is a real long time.